European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday december 5,1990 be troops put at least 13 Are Buenos Aires Argentina a the military rebellion that turned parts of Buenos Aires into a Battleground was the shortest and bloodiest of Argentina a four revolts since 1987. It also May have been the least effective. Challenged immediately by the air and armoured Power of loyalist troops mondays insurrection lasted about 18 hours. At least 13 people were killed and about 60 wounded. Although earlier Barracks rebellions forced shake in the High command and bigger service budgets this time a surrender was unconditional a president Carlos Menem said monday night. Menem said that not Only will his military policy remain unchanged but rebel leaders May face the death penalty. A the military code of Justice contemplates that possibility Quot he said. Quot the full measure of Law will be applied a he said. Unlike the upheavals in april 1987 and january and december 1988,. Loyalist troops showed Little reluctance in firing on fellow soldiers. The Loyal troops used Aerial Boni Bing tanks mortars and High Caliper machine guns against rebel held installations. Just before Nightfall heavily armed troops surrounded army Headquarters the last rebel stronghold about 120 rebels gave up after air Force jets buzzed the Headquarters building in downtown Buenos Aires two blocks from government House where Menem works and from which he directed the counterattack. Hours earlier rebels at Palermo infantry base five Miles away surrendered As did rebels at a tank factory in Boulogne 16 Miles to the Northwest. In All about 450 mutinous soldiers and civilian rebels surrendered army officials said. Others who fled from Boulogne and from wrecked tank columns were Bein sought. Among the arrested was the rec Leader col. Enrique Baraldini. The insurgents final Hope had been two columns of tanks that were knocked out of commission by air Force bombing Quot the Triumph of the armed forces was absolute a Menem told a televised news conference. A Quot a v the disturbances began before Dawn when rebels whose faces were blackened commando style seized several floors at army Headquarters. Hundreds of rebel soldiers Ana armed civilians also took Over the Palermo base Boulogne factory and at least two other installations. Montevideo Uruguay up president Bush arrived in Uruguay on tuesday offering visions of a harmonious democratic future for a hemisphere that has yet to expunge the vestiges of its turbulent past after monday s rebellion by military officers in Argentina diverted some of the symbolic focus of his Mission Bush headed to Uruguay on the second Day of a 12,000-mlle Goodwill tour. It is intended to Mark a turning Point in . Relations with latin America. Bush went about his Mission of Selling latin leaders on his notion of a new order for the Western hemisphere governed by Quot Mutual respect Candor and collective will and driven by free Trade and economic development. Economic issues topped the Agenda for talks tuesday with uruguayan pres to Dent Luis Alberto Lacalle. Quot i truly believe we. Are approaching a new Dawn in the new world a Bush said monday in a speech to the brazilian Congress. Quot our thinking must be bold our will Resolute. Our Challenge now is to hew out of a wilderness of competing interests a new kind of Opportunity in the his pledge that the United states would support that transition Quot every step of the Way was backed by no new promises beyond the still evolving Trade investment and debt Relief plan he announced in Washington on june 27. The faces will change but the themes will remain the same As Bush rounds out his trip with stops in Argentina Chile and Venezuela. He is Selling his Quot Enterprise for the americas initiative As i Means to boost economic interaction at a time when the huge Western hemisphere Market must compete with the aggressive economies of Asia and a unified Europe in 1992. 4 w it reporters Are caught in the Cross fire Between rebel and Loyal troops at army Headquarters in Buenos Aires on monday. The rebels insisted their intention was not to overthrow the government but to press their demands for changes in the Toff military staff. But unlike the three insurrections that undermined the presidency of Raul Alfonsin this rebellion was strongly countered by Menem. \ he refused to negotiate and declared a state of siege later approved by Congress. Quot this is an attempted coup d eat and will be treated As such a Menem said one motivation for acting decisively was president Bush a scheduled visit during his current trip to latin nations. V a Daylong series of firefights in and near this Cap Al of 10 million was capped late in the afternoon by warplanes bombing rebel tanks on Public roads. During the revolt bullets hit vice pres ident Eduardo Duhalde a helicopter As it landed at government House just two blocks from army Headquarters Duhalde was unhurt. Government House and the economics ministry also were hit. At least seven soldiers one rebel and five civilians were killed before order was restored the government news Agency team said. The civilians were in a bus hit by a tank. _ a Idriss Deby left talks with a Ndjamena Chad apr Idriss Deby the rebel Leader who overthrew. President his Sene Habre dissolved the Chad parliament and suspended the Constitution monday a Day after his victorious entry into the capital radio Chad reported. The announcement came after a meeting of the executive committee of Debyn a popular salvation movement the group denounced the Quot economic moral and political chaos of the previous regime and Quot the abuses of a delinquent dictator a the toppled president apparently fled to Cameroon. The official libyan news Agency Jana claimed sunday that Habre had been killed. But the state radio in Cameroon Chad a Western neighbor reported monday that Habre and eight of his ministers had taken Refuge in Northern Cameroon French government officials also said they had information that Habre was alive. _ a Deby 38, was Hab res chief aide in a 1982 coup but broke with him last year and formed a rebel movement Habre claimed Libya funded Debyn a rebellion but the libyans and Deby denied it. Before dissolving the National Assem Bly Deby met with Aringue Bawa Yeu president of the body who acts As Merim president according to the Constitution which had been adopted dec 10,1989, sources close to the talks said de __1 f _ f _. A afire to Calm fears of a purge and inst a 1 it a Lebas Confidence in the future multiparty democracy earlier in the Day Deby freed 450 to in i come still a in
