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Gy~ off te J-;aaa Canpy Museusi the TrOpiC Times Vol. II, No. 23 Quarry Heights, Republic of Panama July 10, 1 Et Cetera 'U.S. should considermilitarysolutioi President B h PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) under the Torrijos-Carter Treaties of ensure democracy for this con: WASHINGTON (AP ) -The United States should consider a 1977. From the beginning I always tho President Bush set out Sunday on military solution to remove Gen. Cisneros was the Southern that Panamanians should do it, I a journey to Poland and Hungary, Manuel Antonio Noriega from Command's chief of operations until they do not, if they do not hav< saying Europe "now dreams of power in Panama, according to a two weeks ago. desire, then they deserve him." being whole and free" after four commanding general in the U.S. In that job, he had frequent "If we acted militarily," Cisr decades of division. In remarks Army's Southern Command. contact with officers of the said, "from what we know prepared for a departure "I've been thinking more and more Panamanian Defense Forces. majority of the Defense Forces ceremonythat the United States should impose "Noriega sees me as a definite not fight." Base, Bush said, "My visi a military solution that would ive threat," he said. "Before, I used to "But we would act only if ther underscores the thicountry an opportunity to have a have some serious and frank threat to U.S. interests," he said Cisr p u aII s government that isn't criminal," discussions with some of the officers "Time is on our side," changing face f Central Europe." Brig. Gen. Marc A. Cisneros said in and would tell them how Noriega said. "Things will continu was using them. I would tell them deteriorate." The Amer an interew. 'You are next." general said he saw little chance Japan-earthquake "This is my personal opinion," Cisneros often criticizes Noriega internal coup by disencha: TOKYO (AP) -Two strong Cisneros emphasized in the interview and the Defense Forces and he is in Panamanian officers. earthquakes shook the Tokyo Friday. "This is a political decision I turn attacked by the government "Some officers want us to area within a minute of each other do not make. Any U.S. military media, which claim he has betrayed militarily, but those are the same Sunday morning, swaying office action is decided by the president." his Mexican-American ancestry by probably tell Noriega they are I buildings and knocking goods off Cisneros' U.S. Army South is part becoming an Army general and to him. They know their fate dep shelves. Eleven people were of the U.S. Southern Command and leading U.S. forces in Panama. on Noriega's survival. I do no reported injured. The first, more includes Army forces charged with The removal of the Panamanian anyone there with moral court: powerfulearthquakeat11:09a.m. the defense of the Panama Canal general, Cisneros said, "would he said. registered 5.5 on the Richter scale, the Meteorological Agency said. The second quake was slightly weaker, but no Richter reading AK47 roundpenetrates Col.'s hon was immediately available. by Spec. Bob Blocher Saturday morning after a bullet The bullet left a hole the size Flight 103 entered a USARSO colonel's home. quarter in the second-story win FORT CLAYTON (USARSO then penetrated an interior ( LONDON (AP) -U.S. intel- PAO) - About 20 armored No one was injured when the bullet before dropping to the floor less ligence officials have identified personnel carriers and support pierced Col. Jorge Torres' 11-year- a foot from the boy's bed. four terrorists allegedly vehicles from the 5th Infantry old son's bedroom window. The The bullet, an AK-47 rc responsible for planting the bomb Division (Mechanized). and three colonel's son, Emilio, was sleeping in apparently came from the dire that destroyedPan AmFlight163 Task Force Hawk helicopters anotherrooi Torres commands the of the PDF compound in Cho last December, a London beefed-up Fort Amador security 1109th Signal Brigade. according to Military P newspaper reported Sunday. The investigators. weekly Sunday Telegraph quoted Emilio's older brother, J unidentified officials as saying the heard the early morning sho key figure in the attack was Hafez thought my mom had dropp Kassem el-Dalkamuni, a 43-year- glass or something. So I went ha old Palestinian from the Popular sleep," Jorge said. "After my: Front for the Liberation of woke meJ shese pointed tc window." Palestine-General Command. wk m Torres' wife, Kathleen, foun Fires threaten bullet. "I went to wake Emilio: could watch cartoons," Kat] Thousands more acres of brush said. "I walked through the and timber went up in smoke bedroom and saw a metal cart Saturday in seven states in the (bullet) on the floor. As I wi West, threatening homes in some toward the other bedroom I no places, and firefighters contended stuff all over the floor. Then I lo with wind and high temperatures. up and saw a hole in the window Fire crews were at work in Utah, thought a golfer had gotten Wyoming, Colorado, New window." Mexico, Arizona, California and "I realized the hole was too Washington. Elsewhere, four big for a golf ball. After putting tw fires .burned in interior Alaska, two together, I pickedup the I one having charred an estimated and took it to my husband. He t1 24,000 acres- from there," Kathleen added. The incident has been protest Abortion protests U.S. authorities because ofthe t of U.S. families The Supreme Court's abortion ~to the safety ruling last week did not quell children living at Fort Amador, The deployment exercise issersprotesters hoon thd both ouside sidescliniintended of the to test U.S. responsive issue who gathered outside clinics Sth InfantryDivision armoredpersonnel carriers bolster FortA mador security as well as reassure the families at across the country Saturday to Saturday after an AK-47 roundpenetrated a colonel's home atFort A mador. Amador of USARSO's abilit abortion opponents were arrested (U.S. A rmy photo by SFC Cecil Stack) protect them. Saturday in Milwaukee and Denver. Anti-abortion demon- strations in Massachusetts and Ag gentn sc fi at $1 95 of o ar Rhode Island were up-staged by KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI) - With intercepted Wednesday by the Coast search, the Customs Service saii pro-abortion-rights groups, and the permission of the Panamanian Guard cutters Shearwater and statement. some 900 people from both camps government in exile, federal agents Sitkinak about 180 miles west- Panama currently is ruled b surrounded a California clinic in a stopped a ship from Panama City southwest of Key West. regime of Gen. Manuel Noriega. protest that was described as and confiscated 3,359 pounds of An initial search did not uncover faces indictment in the United S peaceful. Protesters also gathered cocaine, the seventh largest seizure in any cocaine, but the "suspicious" for drug smuggling. in Chicago, Miami, Phoenix, U.S. history, authorities said Friday. behavior of crew members prompted "I think what's interesting is Jackson, Miss., and Vancouver, The 162-foot cement carrier the Coast Guard to seek permission the Panamanian government ga British Columbia, where the Barlovento was heading for Porto from Panama's government in exile permission to investigate," sai court's ruling does not have any Plata, Dominican Republic, from in Washington to escort the ship to Cmdr. Jeff Karonis, a Coast C effect. Tampico, Mexico, when it was Ke' West for a more thorough Continued on Page 8 Times JulyTropic 10, 1989 U.S. n ews Retired officer convicted of giving secrets to contractor DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) - A retired then-Rockwell International Army officer was convicted in federal executive Hewitt "Buck" Lovelace. court Saturday of giving military He said he believed a Rockwell secrets to a defense contractor. competitor, Martin-Marietta, The jury deliberated 30 minutes already had the 135-page document before finding retired Lt. Col and he wanted to make sure the two Kenneth Lee Landon, 47, of companies were competing on equal Enterprise guilty of both charges terms. t against him - conspiracy and "I thought it was in the best conversion of a government interest of the U.S. Army and the document. U.S. government," Landon testified. U.S. District Judge Joel Dubina He said he did not steal the document allowed Landon to remain free on and did not trade it for promises of a $20,000 unsecured bond and did not job at Rockwell. immediately set a sentencing date. Lovelace, 43, of Lawrenceville, Landon faces a maximum penalty of Ga pleaded guilty June 24 to 15 years in prison and fined $500,000. conversion of a government Landon had no comment after the document. He could be sentenced to trial, but in testimony Friday said he 10 years in prison and fined $250,000. did not feel what he did was morally wrong and, if the circumstances were He testifed Thursday that he the same, "I'd do it again." received the plan from Landon in the Landon admitted that in 1985, parking lot of the Dothan Airport on while stationed at Fort Rucker in Aug. 30, 1985, took it to his Georgia southeast Alabama, he gave the home, hid it for a week and then gave Army's Anti-Armor Master Plan to it to a Rockwell operations analyst. Aide faces father in E R WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) - A his pickup truck, veered across the rescue worker's training turned street and struck a girl on a bicycle tragic when he learned the dying man before slamming into a building.