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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. brought into the emergency room His son John Jr., 21, a state- GLASS BALLET - Workmen stage their own ballet as they work on the was his father. certified firefighter who is studying stained glass ceiling of the Sheraton Palace Holet'sfamed Garden Court in John McCabe Sr., 53, apparently to become an emergency medical San Francisco during its S1 million restoration. Covering 8,000 squarefeet, suffered a heart attack while driving technician as well, was in the the ceiling represents one of the largest clear-spans of stained glass in the emergency room at Orlando world. (APLaserphoto) Regional Medical Center when his Trum p Princess father was brought in. McCabe Jr. was assisting a nurse Ex-paient faces murder rap gets ramm ed when paramedics wheeled in an accident victim who was not WINTHROP, Mass. (AP) - A 43- LaMonica said. At about 4:45 a.m. Fowler, who had ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) breathing and had no pulse or blood year-old man has been accused of nurses discovered had -A clam boat rammed the Trump pressure. killing his hospital roommate after been wearing an oxygen mask, beaten around the face and neck Princess, leaving a 3-foot hole in Hospital staff members worked on complaining that the man's snoring been the luxury yacht's outer hull and the man, blocking the son's view as kept disturbing his sleep. and "was bloodied up," said of LaMonica. riling its billionaire owner, he stood by to help if needed, said William Fitzmeyer is accused Donald Trump. Anba Pillay, the nurse in charge of either beating or strangling Thomas LaMonica said a cord from the The 140-foot Nantucket had the emergency room. V. Fowler Jr., 76, in the room they oxygen mask was wrapped around just unloaded a catch of clams shared. Fowler's neck. when its engine jammed and it Someone got out the man's wallet, Fowler died three days later and, Fitzmeyer apparently had not struck the Princess portside said to get identification and see if there according to Winthrop police Lt. been taking prescribed anti-seizure But Sgt. Carl Allen of the New Jersey was any medical information. When Angelo LaMonica, an autopsy medicine, LaMonica said. State Marine Police. a nurse read the name, the young showed the cause of death was "blunt hospital nurses told police that There were no injuries, he said, rescue worker put his head in his neck trauma." Fitzmeyer, an unemployed former and no damage to the inner hull of hands and cried then left the LaMonica said he was unsure maintenance worker, showed no the 282-foot vessel, which boasts a emergency room. whether Fowler died of strangu- signs of violent behavior. disco, movie theater and hand- "I followed him out because I lation, beating or a combination of Hospital administrators did not carved onyx toilets. wanted to know why he had left the both. return a phone call from The "It really was no more than a room so suddenly," Pillay said. Lt. Michael McManus said Associated Press. bump," said Bill Gifford, who "Sometimes this happens with Fitzmeyer "had complained to the Winthrop police were called and owns the marina where the clam students." nurses a couple of times about the within several hours they arrested boat unloaded, "but when you noises (Fowler) was making and the Fitzmeyer for assault with intent to a bump a $40 million yacht owned The young man said: "That's my noises he was referring to was a man murder and assault and battery on by Donald Trump, you can expect Dad." He sat on the floor as Pillay snoring." person older than 65. Because of to have problems." embraced him. Fowler's death three days later, Indeed. In a terse statement Pat McCabe, a paramedic for the . During the initial interviews of the police said they plan to seek a murder released from his New York Winter Park Fire Department, said investigation Fitzmeyer told police charge. office, Trump said: his father had encouraged John Jr.'s Fowler's snoring was preventing him Fitzmeyer was released from the "The people who did it were decision to pursue a career in from sleeping, LaMonica said. But hospital and taken to his initial totally incompetent. It never firefighting and emergency rescue. denied killing theelderly m arraignment at East Boston District should have happened." The 14-year-old bicycle rider was enie ing t y man. Court. He is being held at the Charles Trump said he will seek listed by the hospital in serious but Fitzmeyer was admitted to the Street Jail on $25,000 bail pending damages. Gifford said he expects stable condition recovering from a hospital after suffering epileptic his second arraignment. his insurance company will cover concussion and a broken shoulder seizures and placed in a room with Fowler had been living in a nursing all costs. bone. Fowler about 2 a.m. July 8, home prior to his hospital admission.

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WASHINGTON (Reuter) - A an iceberg of attitudes which class unlisted, relying on word-of-mouth flexibility concerning the entry on a homosexual scandal in Washington paid sex in the same league as recommendations rather than creditcardvoucher. "Clientsaskthat has highlighted a world where sex is expense account lunches. Part of the advertising. all the time." charged as a business expense, blame, they say, lies with an army of lobbyists act as pimps, and lobbyists who use money and sex to Most of the services advertise that The investigation into the call boy prostitutes get $150 a session - more buy influence. they accept major credit cards - and ring was certain to lead to for extras. "Treating someone in an most are prepared to provide considerable loss of revenue in parts The scandal, still unfolding, influential position to a good dinner vouchers with entries that sound of the prostitution industry, but one involves male prostitutes and clients and providing him with an escort is innocuous enough to slip past enterprising American immediately from the Washington power elite nothing unusual," said a senior corporate or government account- spotted a chance to boost his profits. Call who used credit cards to pay for sex diplomat here. "It's all oil to grease ants. "We have incoprorated the and often charged the fees to their wheels. Boy story in our program,' said Rick employters, cluding the gsoter hee are In the case now being investigated London, who runs an enterprise employers, including the govern- There are many ways to call this by U.S. authorities, " professional called Scandal Tours which ment. lives off sort of thing, corruption being just services" was a popular entry on pas seulecpdes In at least one case, a Defense one." The Washington Times named serics" wa s past sexual escapade byitheby the Department credit card paid for a high-powered lobbyist as one of the credit card vouchers. Washington high and mighty. homosexual sex, according to the key figures in the latest scandal, The Washington Times reported London's tours, at $24, take Washington Times newspaper which saying he had spent up to $20,000 a that its own assistant managing tourists past such Washington sights broke the scandal Thursday in a month to pay for male prostitutes for editor, who resigned June 20, had as the townhouse were Democratic detailed front-page story. himself and "friends." used his company's American Senator Gary Hart's hopes to be Government officials confirmed the He was so well-connected that he Express to pay for sexual services. nominated for the 1988 presidential gist of the report. managed to pass the tight security of While the escort agencies named race were shattered by an alleged It was the latest in a long series of the White House to lead a party of by the newspaper did not reply or extramarital affair with actress events which raised doubts over the six, including two male prostitutes, had their telephones disconnected Donna Rice. ethical values of the men who hold on a midnight tour of the premises after the report, others did business As Scandal Tour buses pass the levers of power in Washington. last year. as usual. Capitol Hill, the tour guide provides Corrupt practices have ranged from The "sex as a perk" mentality kickbacks on inflated defense uncovered by what is becoming "We provide very, very attractive information on sexual misconduct one who contracts to abuse of official known here as the Call Boy Scandal women in their 20s and 30s," said a by congressmen, including positions for personal gain. has led to a boom in the "Escort husky-voiced telephone operator of was caught in the toilet in the mid-70s The highest-ranking official to fall Services" industry, the euphemism one company advising "prompt solicit a page ar-oldanother nud over allegations of dubious ethics for tightly organized prostitution run and discreet service, 24 hours, major this year was House Speaker Jim by telephone dispatchers much in the credit cards accepted." dancer. Wright, number three in the U.S. same way as taxis or pizza deliveries. She added: "There are blondes and "What we have done to update the government hierachy. He was The Washington yellow pages brunettes, something for all tastes. tour," London told Reuters, "is to accused of circumventing limits on telephone directory alone lists more We can arrange for male escorts as make copies of one of the expense income from outside sources. than 50 escort services. There are well. The basic rate is $150." vouchers that figure in the Call Boy To hear Washington insiders tell more in the adjacent states of Further inquiries yielded an scandal and hand them to our clients it, the latest scandal is only the tip of Virginia and Maryland. Some are assurance that there would be as they board the bus."

Abortion ruling deals blow to Missouri poor women

WASHINGTON (Reuter) -Only other state legislatures that similar France and China. a prerequisite to seeking approval poor women in Missouri will feel an laws will be upheld as constitutional The drug, made by the Rousell- from the government for its sale here. immediate impact from the Supreme in a Supreme Court test, the experts Uclaf Company, can end a Court's landmark abortion rights said. pregnancy with the ease of taking a But the non-profit Population ruling, but the opinion will pressure "The impact will be to intensify the pill, even after the fertilized egg has Council of New York City is quietly other states to adopt restrictions drive in state legislatures to protect been implanted in the wall of the conducting limited tests of the drug similar to Missouri's, specialists in unborn children around the nation," uterus. in this country, and medical experts the field said last week. said David O'Steen of the anti- To date, anti-abortion groups predict its use in the United States is "The effect right now is that the abortion National Right to Life have prevented U.S. drug companies inevitable, whether the drug gets here poor women in Missouri have lost Committee. from testing RU-486 in this country, legally or through the black market. their right to have an abortion," said "Also, it's going to save some Morton Lebow of the American babies' lives in Missouri, and it will College of Obstetricians and save more lives when other states Gynecologists, a medical profession- adopt similar laws," O'Steen said. al group. "For the future, the court leaves "The implication for the future is women's privacy rights hanging by a that the states will have a patchwork thread and hands the scissors to state of laws on abortion that will have legislatures all across the country," nothing to do with a woman's said Kate Michelman of the pro- health," Lebow said. abortion National Abortion Rights In Missouri, "even for a private Action League, agreeing with patient with a private doctor, the O'Steen's assessment though from state can now prevent you from the opposite point of view. having an abortion if it is to take But even if other states now follow place in a public hospital," said Eve Missouri's lead, women for now will Paul of the Planned Parenthood still be able to obtain abortions if Federation of America. they choose to and have the means to "But I don't think it's going to have obtain a private doctor at a private any immediate effect except for hospital or clinic, analysts on both people in Missouri," Paul added. sides of the debate agreed. In its long-awaited ruling on a "It's more a symbolic thing controversial Missouri law, the because you now seem to have four Supreme Court Monday stopped justices who say they are prepared to short of overturning its historic 1973 reject Roe versus Wade and a fifth opinion in Roe versus Wade granting who is waivering," said Paul, noting women a constitutionally protected that the court has agreed to review right to an abortion. three new abortion cases in its new But the court upheld provisions of term beginning in October. the state law that banned public If the court ultimately rejects a funds for abortions, prohibited woman's right to an abortion, pro- abortions at public facilities and abortion forces predict a return to required doctors about to perform an black-market abortions or back- abortion to first test the fetus to alley amateur procedures that will REMEMBERING THE STONEWALL Marchers gather outside St. determine if it could survive outside lead to a deaths and injuries. Patrick's Cathedral in New York last month during the annualLesbian and the womb. Another possibility is RU-486, the Gay PrideMarch. More than 100,000 marched on FifthA venue to mark the The ruling, because it dealt only controversial morning-after pill that 20th anniversary of the Stonewall riot, considered the start of the gay rights with the Missouri law, will signal is currently legally available only in movement. (AP Laserphoto) 4 Tropic Times July 10, 1989 world roundup Phppines to get $14b to shoreup democracy bank said month to discuss debt relief. MANILA, Philippines (Reuter) - press for increased trade, investment The Philippine central wage rises, an uptrend in oil The problem now will be how to Major western governments have and help with the country's $28 this week spend the new money. given President Corazon Aquino a billion debt. prices and higher interest rates could which hit "The government, above all, has to vote of confidence with the launch of Rising interest rates, coupled with dampen economic growth, aid pipeline," the a multi-billion dollar aid plan for the power shortages, and transport and 6.7 percent last year. unclog the foreign - liberal Manila daily Malaya said in Philippines. communications bottlenecks Aquio an editorial. "There are still many old But widespread corruption, threaten to hold back economic To government critics, the loans remaining untapped for lack of government mismanagement and recover the was falling further under gern n a mmringemnt ry Manila-based Asian influence of international financial viable projects to finance." Malaya World Bank and warned the government must ensure insurgency and continued high rates selasmwneBank said in a report institutions like the Monetary Fund, money did not stick to the fingers of of population growth threaten to ited f and the International on favored officials or interests. dilute the impact of aid agreed upon It called for further economic and while failing to act decisively The Tokyo meeting made no in Tokyo, diplomats and economists banking reforms and more incentives corruption, inefficiency and debt specific pledges to Aquino's multi- said. for foreign investors to attract money relief, e Philippines won promises last io a poulato heve half the The Freedom from Debt billion dollar land reform program, by a scandal which forced week of about $3.5 billion over 12 oficlial poverto line o Coaiton ahlredftist prsu ebup tarnished months, and the prospect of aid official poverty lne. Coalition, a leftist pressure group' the minister in charge to resign. reduction of protection said the aid package would only totalling $14 billion over the next "Further The reform aims to break up large such as motor vehicles shore up "a bankrupt Philippine four years, from Western donors led to industries loans feudal estates, removing a root cause household appliances economy with more foreign by the United States and Japans and major of the communist insurgency in the efficient and investments when what is of State James Baker, would help make them more where landless peasants Secretary urgently needed is separate countryside, dollars of andenoragbroader--basedindustriza- support the who promised one billion of the prejudicial foreign have been drawn to said tion," the ADB said. settlement American help over five years, orderto ease the burden rebels. Under Aquino, who in 1986 was debt crisis in the plan would buttress the In a worrying development, by a "people power" on the most affected - the poor Philippines' fragile democracy and swept to office communist death squads have ousted ex-President Filipino majority." help underpin its economic recovery, revolt which up killings in Manila and years of Almost 30 percent of export stepped Aquino will follow up Ferdinand Marcos after 20 PesidentAledgingPresident sesion fwt a Feother urban centers this year, helping the Tokyo pledging session with a authoritarian rule, the economy has revenue goes to service overseas debt. to deter potential foreign investors perpetuating the image of a trip to West Germany, France and bounced back from a recession in The Philippines is expected to meet and Belgium starting last weekend to 1984-85. bank creditors in New York later this violent Philippines. Japwnee sex scandal wreaks havoc on political struure similar instances TOKYO (Reuter) - Japanese liability. Japanese coverage has also been of the world where said politicians, who once considered "Japanese society is now in a influenced by the U.S. and European transition to a phase where public extramarital affairs a sign of "Politiciansfromnowonwillhave figures will be required to comply media, which have given prominent manliness, are having second -to exercise prudence about their more strictly with social ethics," coverage in recent years to thoughts. with women," said political Kuniko Inoguchi, associate politicians' sex lives. relations The furor over alleged sexual matter at "With Japan being international- commentator Morita. The misconduct by Prime Minister professor of political science ized, I don't think we can continue to will be regarded an important Sosuke Uno is proving a cautionary Tokyo's Sophia University, said. measure of the quality of a tale. It started with the Recruit scandal, do like we did, isolated from the rest politician." That, combined with the growing in which the telecommunications and political power of women and the publishing conglomerate gave away internationalization of Japanese cash and cut-rate stock, allegedly in society, is changing the face of public return for political favors. life in Japan. The public outcry over that case "In talking with politicians, I have led to the resignation of Noboru noticed a strong awareness among Takeshita as prime minister early last them that the times have changed month. and that they risk losing their careers unless they discipline their private Press coverage of the Uno scandal the changing morals of lives," said political commentator has reflected Minoru Morita. Japanese society. Since taking office at the start of "We have until now rather tended last month, Uno has been battered by to overlook such affairs," said a series of allegations of extramarital Takemi Akiba, spokesman for the affairs, including one with a teenaged influential daily newspaper Asahi geisha. Shimbun. "But we will now print to a Those allegations, combined with considerable extent what we would an unpopular sales tax and the not have written in the past." Recruit bribery scandal, have report of Uno s severely damaged the popularity of The first national misconduct was the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. alleged sexual Mainichi, a "Prominent politicians, including carried by the Sunday by a some former prime ministers, have weekly magazine published had mistresses," Morita said. "They major national daily newspaper, after Uno took office. justified their affairs by saying "all days great men like women"or describing The magazine reported that Uno extra-marital relations as a sign of paid about $20,000 to keep a geisha manliness. for four months. "Those who did not have "With women's status growing in mistresses were sometimes thought Japan, we are no longer in a position FORMER GEISHA CONFESSES - MtuoNknsiMitsuko Nakanishi, 40,0 confessesofse added. to ignore politicians' extra-marital FRE ESACNESS less of," he that she had been kept as a mistress But behavior that was once affairs," said Noritoshi Ogasawara, a during an interview on Japanese television The former geisha made her first public considered acceptable for politicians news producer for a Tokyo television by Prime Minister Sosuke Uno. is increasingly becoming a political' station. appearance on the Sunday evening program. (AP Laserphoto) World Bank freezes $780m in loans earmarked for China Directors, representing the United Chinese crackdown on pro- WASHINGTON (AP) - Loans billionintheyearthatended June30, and 150 other member democracy demonstrators o Beijg. by the World Bank to Third World up from $19.2 billion the year before. States $780 dThen President Bush asked for a countries, now at a record level, are Bank Vice President Moeen governments, had approved for The United States is the largest expected to keep escalating in the Qureshi predicted the total will be million worth of loans scheduled next yearbank officials say.biggest about $1.75 billion higher in the year China in June. World Bank contributor to the World Bank. The bank is supposed to make source of aid to the Third World to come. President Barber Conable, a former decisions on economic grounds and countries, announced last week that This year's figure would have been New York state congressman, violent work on a business basis. its loans had reached a record $21.9 higher if the Board of Executive deferred the matter after the Tropic Times July 10, 1989 hemisphere Cuba's hero, Ochoa, sentenced to death

HAVANA (Reuter) - A Cuban Ochoa, a hero of the Cuban Ochoa, his aide former Capt. De la Guardia headed a top-secret military court sentenced revolution- revolution and former head of Cuban Jorge Martinez, former Col. Antonio department of Cuban intelligence ary hero former Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa military forces in Angola and de Guadn andelrmeeMaj oa and three others to death Friday for Ethiopia, was a highly-decorated de la Guardia and former Maj. entrusted with circumventing the involvement in drug trafficking. general. Amaoaron U.S. economic embargo against the After deliberating for two days, the Castro has consistently denied Ochoa's command. tribunal of three-star generals also charges by Washington of Cuban Eduardo Diaz, Antonio Sanchez Caribbean island-state. sentenced 10 other defendants, all links to drugs traffickers. and Alexis Lago, for whom the In his summary Tuesday night, army and state security officers, to The 14 defendants were dismissed prosecution had requested death prosecutor Gen. Juan Escalona said long prison terms, the state news from their respective services penalties, were sentenced to 30 years the defendants had "stuck a dagger agency AIN reported. following their arrest last month. All in prison, into the back of the nation and the The prosecutor in Cuba's biggest pleaded guilty at the four-day trial. De la Guardia's brother Patricio, people." scandal since the 1959 revolution had The head of Cuba's counter- who also had been a general, Rosa Their most serious crime, he said, requested death sentences for seven intelligence department testified that Maria Abierno, the only woman had been hostile acts against foreign of the defendants, saying that the by secretly allowing drug runners defendant, and Miguel Ruiz were nations, a reference to shipment of acc used had "challenged the into Cuba the defendants had sentenced to 25 years in jail. drugs to the United States. credibility of (Cuban leader) Fidel violated national security. Antonio Rodriguez received a 10- There was no immediate report on Castro." Those sentenced to death were year sentence. sentencing for the three others. Dodd says El Salvador could lose U.S. aid

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Salvador for the fiscal year 1989. honestly and candidly," Dodd said. squads." (UPI) --Sen. Christopher Dodd, D- Since the beginning of the decade, "I am prepared to do it and along The ARENA's founder and top Conn., warned that El Salvador's the United States has pumped $2.3 with others . I think Cristiani is a leader, Roberto d'Abuisson, has new conservative government may billion in economic and military aid decent man and that impression is been accused of heading right-wing lose U.S. aid "if there is any evidence into El Salvador, the size of shared by almost every one. So I death squads. the government backs death squads." Massachusetts, with a population of think it's a wonderful opportunity for Dodd visited Cost a Rica, Dodd, a Senate Foreign Relations about 5 million. him here to do something that was Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama Committee member making a five- The Farabundo Marti Liberation not possible in the past." prior to visiting El Salvador for just nation Central American tour, Front, known by its Spanish initials Dodd was one of the strongest seven hours. He then departed for the praised the first month of President FMLN, has waged a 9-year-old opponents of U.S. aid during 1980-82 United States. Alfredo Cristiani's administration armed struggle against the U.S. when the Salvadoran military backed killed about 800 Also Monday, police said FMLN Monday, but made it clear that U.S. backed Salvadoran government. The death squads that in aid will be terminated if human rights war has cost about 70,000 lives, most civilians a day, according to statistics rebels attacked military residences codiions beterioate. aig wr thas cis provided by human rights activists the capital with rocket-propelled conditions deteriorate, of them civilians, and organizations. grenade and machine gunfire, adding that one rebel died during the "We (Democrats and Republicans) Dodd said Cristiani is willing to "The U.S. Congress is willing to gunfire. There was minor damage to have our differences, but we do agree talk with the FMLN, "almost back El Salvador's (new) the residences. on one point: respect for human anytime and anywhere," to end the government," Dodd told reporters rights," Dodd said. "This country has Central American nation's bloody after meeting with Cristiani of the Authorities also reported that on had enough." civil strife, extreme right Nat i o n a list Sunday evening, suspected rebels attacked the new head of the Dodd also met with leftist leaders Republican Alliance, known by its The U.S. House of Representatives allied with the FM LN during his Spanish acronym as ARENA. But he Salvadoran Supreme Court, Judge last week approved the continuation visit h said the aid will be cut "ifthere is any Mauricio Gutierrez Castro, who of $95 million in military and $437 v escaped, but two people traveling in a million in economic aid to tiny El "It's very important that I speak evidence the government backs death car following his vehicle were killed. Chilean villagers suffering effects of Lonquimay volcano

LONQUIMAY, Chile (AP) )- the poisons were detected in the A confidential report by the chief report, which recommends The birds are dead or gone. Maria drinking water. regional government health official, evacuation, says: "Human and San Martin says she "would like to According to local doctors, a copy of which was obtained by The animal life in the area is seriously have wings and fly away, too." residents complain of headaches, Associated Press, seems to threatened, and the environmental But she hasn't the money to leave. stomach and back pains, itching of contradict Serre's assessment. The damage is grave." It's a plight shared by thousands in the eye and throat. this and other villages beneath "I feel terrible, I can't eat, and I feel \SC irges n ore akforLliniaiIots southern Chile's 9,400-foot totally incapacitated," Nuria NEW YORK (UPI) - A special for the Central intelligence Agency Lonquimay volcano, which rumbles Quintana, 63, said. "The government panel of the National Security which has recently initiated a counter- and spits ash and toXic gases since should take us all out of here." Council will recommend to President narcotics center, the Times said. erupting Christmas Day. Doctors in the area agree that Bush that military advisers and Joint military operations with Lonquimay, a village of 3,800 evacuation is a urgently needed, but increased economic aid be sent to other countries were "a big part of people 21 miles from the volcano, is the government in Santiago, 375 to South American countries to fight the discussions," a senior White surrounded by mountains that block the northwest, has so far refused. cocaine production in the region House aide told the Times. the winds that could bring fresh air in The subsecretary for regional The New York Times said last The aide added, however, that and blow the ash and gases out. development, Gen. Patricio Serre, weekend. such actions were known to be According to a special government maintained that the symptoms were census, 10,472 people in Lonquimay psychosomatic. Officials said that although their inherently dangerous and politically and several Indian reservations of the . intention in making the request was risky. Mapuche tribe are being affected. "People are living a psychosis not to use military personnel to track Economic assistance would be Doctors say most are suffering because of something they think down drug traffickers, they would sharply increased under the irreversible damage to the central might happen," he said during a not rule out the possibility of using proposal, to as much as a half billion nervous system. recent visit. "Air in Lonquimay is defense department personnel in dollars in fiscal year 1990, from a A strong, disagreeable sulfurous pure and fresh, probably even better future drug interdiction efforts, the current grant of $57 million, the odor pervades the area. Ash lodges in than in Santiago." Times said. newspaper said. people's teeth, their eyes itch and Santiago has a high level of smog. "We're not talking about the 82nd The countries most likely to breathing becomes difficult. Serre said the government has Airborne," one member of the task receive assistance were identified as Without birds, the dominating allocated the equivalent of $280,000 force told the newspaper. Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, while sound is the volcano's crackle and to help residents, especially those nations used as transportation sites roar, especially at night. who have lost cattle to the volcano. "What we are talking about is by traffickers, such as Mexico, ospeiay isat ," sagh Mrs. But he added that the area would not helping those countries who want to Venezuela, Brazil, and Ecuador, "Lonquimay is dead," said Mrs. be declared a catastrophe zone, deploy their military resources to would also get some aid, officials told Sar Martin, 43, the mother of four. which would make more money help fight narcotics and help them the Times. A team of 20 scientists, sent available. control insurgencies that are The newspaper said that officials recently by the government's involved in trafficking," the intheJusticeandStateDepartments National Science Commission, About 15 percent of Lonquimay's unidentified official said have expressed concern that using found that the air contained residents who had the money to go potentially toxic levels of particles elsewhere have left. Many others A draft of the proposal also calls military personnel for noncombat including silicon, iron, calcium and who must stay, including soldiers for increased use of intelligence to purposes exposes authorities to the aluminum. Fluoric, sulfuric and and police assigned to the area, have track drug dealers, which officials temptation of applying the military of force. chloric gases also were found, and sent their children away. said would create a significant role in questionable shows 6 Tropic Times July 10, 1989 military news Soviet naval problems due to poor training WASHINGTON (Reuter) -- A submarines in the Pacific. One good reason. tasks. Soviet submarine accident Monday American sub recently caught a "That leaves a minority of officers "Apparently many Soviet was the latest in a series involving tugboat towline near the California to take care of dozens of things on crewmen just don't carry their warships of both superpowers this coast and sank the tug. nuclear subs. It makes room for weight. And those who are just half- year, but experts said the incident "Two accidents in the same area at problems caused by overworked trained could be walking time po i n ted t o m aj or t r a in in g about the same time do not indicate officers and inexperienced seamen," bombs," he said. deficiencies in the Soviet Navy. the Soviet Navy is falling apart. On Polmar said. U.S. defense officials said the "Soviet ships, like all ships, can the other hand, they have a history of A senior U.S. naval officer who cause of Monday's Soviet accident break down. But their subs have submarine accidents," said Ronald asked not to be identified told was not known. But a Moscow more problems than Western subs O'Rourke, a naval specialist with the Reuters that complex submarines journal last week published a letter due to a combination of extremely Library of Congress. carry a relatively small crew of about from a nuclear submarine officer of poor crew preparation and He said Soviet sailors are simply 100menand that eachmanshould be the Soviet Northern Fleet sometimes faulty equipment," said not trusted by their navy and with able to perform a number of key complaining that crew involved with naval analyst Norman Polmar. the reactors were poorly trained. He and other experts said Soviet "It will probably surprise you if I naval conscripts are kept in the say that the nuclear installations on service only three years and, unlike our submarines are operated by Western sailors who stay in longer, people who are not sufficiently are not trained to handle many tasks trained, and some of them are not aboard the highly complex undersea trained at all," Capt. V. Ovchinnikov nuclear boats. wrote. An older Echo-2 Class nuclear- Retired U.S. Navy Adm. Eugene powered submarine was damaged in Carroll said the Soviet Navy has the Arctic off Norway Monday when made major strides in recent years, a pipe burst in its atomic reactor, especially in undersea warfare, and Soviet officials said. The crew was that the accidents should not lull the reported safe and the sub was United States into complacency. limping to base under auxiliary Carroll and John Pike, a military power. analyst with the private Federation The incident near Bear Island was of American Scientists, said the in the same area as an accident in worry should be about nuclear April when a new Mike Class Soviet contamination and not about attack sub caught fire and sank, military competence. killing 42 crew. BLACKBIRD PILOTS - U.S. Air Force Maj. Jim Greenwood (1), and "One of these days one of their It also followed an April gun turret Capt. Steven Grzebiniak doff their caps before the Lockheed SR-71 subs or ours could have a nuclear explosion aboard the U.S. battleship "Blackbird"high altitude spy plane at the Paris A ir Show last month. The contamination accident that could Iowa that killed 47 sailors and several Blackbird was on display aspart of the A merican contingent at the air show make the recent oil spill off Alaska lesser incidents involving -U.S. (AP Laserphoto) look like small potatoes," said Pike. First space test of Star Wars slatedfor next year

WASHINGTON (UPI) - The A total of 12 flight tests will be held thousands of dollars to $1 million "pebble" hovered 30 feet above the first tests in space of the "Brilliant -eight suborbital and four orbital each. The current test model cost $3 ground in a special hangar at Pebbles" Star Wars defense system -during the three-year period and million. Edwards Air Force Base in designed to track, pinpoint and blast the first production of Brilliant O'Connell said flight tests next California and, for 21 seconds, used enemy missiles out of the sky are Pebbles could occur in 1996' year will be "fully compliant" with its engines and control thrusters to scheduled for next year, the O'Connell said. the 1972 U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic change position and maintain "lock- Pentagon said last week. Under the concept, each "pebble" Missile Treaty and will not involve on" to a computer-simulated target. Army Maj. William O'Connell, a would be a 3-foot-long orbiting the destruction of dummy missiles in But tests in space that are spokesman for the Strategic Defense weapons system that would have space scheduled to begin next year are Initiative Organization, said 12 flight highly sophisticated detection and space. contingent on Congress approving tests have been scheduled from 1990 tracking ability and would be able to "We would be looking at testing the full $5.6 billion the Bush to 1993 on the Brilliant Pebbles change position to target an enemy parts of a Brilliant Pebbles concept," administration requested for the SDI technology. No firm dates have been warhead and then launch its single O'Connell said. anti-missile defense program in fiscal set. interceptor "killer" rocket on a These could include testing the 1990. He confirmed the outline of the collision course. ability of the "pebble" to monitor a "This is all contingent on the schedule first disclosed by Air Force The Pentagon envisions placing target in space and to change budget that we submitted," Lt. Gen. George Monohan, director thousands of these in space orbit. direction along with it for targeting O'Connell said of the flight tests. of the SDI program, in an interview Projected cost estimates of a purposes. "Monohan said (budget) cuts would appearing in the Chicago Tribune. "pebble" vary widely, from tens of In a successful test in April, a wreak havoc with the schedule." U.S. informs Soviet Union of 'missile destruction'

KARNACK, Texas (UPI) - A The INF Treaty between the deployed in West Germany in the SS-12s, 239 SS-23s, 149 SS-4s, six missile crew burned off the fuel and United States and the Soviet Union, 1960s under joint U.S.-German SS-5s, and 80 SSC-X-4s -- a new then destroyed the last of the Army's which took effect June 1, 1988, calls control. They were returned to the missile that was developed but never Pershing I-A missiles while a team of for elimination of 846 U.S. and 1,846 United States with the signing of the deployed. Soviet inspectors verified the Soviet ground-launched nuclear INF Treaty. The Pershing lAs had a As of Monday, the U.S. On-Site explosion to meet nuclear treaty missiles with ranges between 300 and range of 300 to 600 miles. Inspection Agency said the Soviets obligations. 3,400 miles. As of Monday, the United States had destroyed 213 SS-20s, 656 SS- The firing of two Pershing motors Of the 846 U.S. missiles affected had destroyed all but one of the 169 12s, none of their SS-23s, two SS-5s at the Longhorn Army Ammunition when the treaty was signed, 169 were Pershing lAs, 27 Pershing 2s and 130 and all 80 of the SSC-X-4s - leaving Plant in East Texas Thursday was Pershing lAs, 234 were the second- cruise missiles, leaving 521 missiles to 1,030 missiles to be eliminated. part of the agreement under the generation Pershing 2s, and 443 were be eliminated. No nuclear warheads have to be Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty ground-launched cruise missiles. The Soviet missiles to be destroyed under the INF accord, signed by both superpowers last year. The aging Pershing lAs were eliminated included 654 SS-20s, 718 only the delivery systems or missiles. "This event completed , for the Lds CoL.nbLAll of the missiles carry a single first time, the elimination of a L m e WI1 IZ layJJIA3 ibluxftJ COLUJFiil warhead except the SS-20s, which nuclear weapons system under the carry three warheads. terofwhe N yTreaty, e CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Drachlis, a space agency spokesman Under the U.S. system of warheads and Defense Department said in a - A fire that broke out in a space at the Marshall Space Flight Center destroyig missiles, electronics are removed and then the statement. Each missile is composed shuttle engine during a test-firing in Huntsville, Ala. are fired in a of two rocket motor stages. could delay the launch of Columbia The failure happened on a test rocket motors this summer, NASA said this week. stand at the Stennis Space Center in stationary mode until all fuel is spent. "Elimination of the U.S. Pershing "Engineers have to inspect the Bay St. Louis, Miss., during firing of The motor housing is then crushed in 2 missile system will continue at the engine and look at the data before a development engine that has been a vise like a beer can. U.S. Army Pueblo Depot Activity they can make a decision about ignited 23 times to test new parts for The Soviets use explosives to near Pueblo, Colo.," it said. Columbia's launch," said Dave future shuttle flights. destroy their unarmed missiles. Tropic Times m July 10, 1989 7 sports D.C. gearsupforprobasebalwih Senators

WASHINGTON (UPI) - The part of an ownership group of the "It's heavy-duty people with the September, Dalrymple said. nation's capital will have a team in a Washington franchise, said plans call proper financial backing," he said. new professional baseball league that for a pair of unidentified out-of-town Jim Dalrymple, RFK Stadium The teams will pool their money plans to begin next spring with eight investors to own 80 percent of the Manager, said he met with officials for the league's first four years, to 10 teams, a published report said team, while "two or three" additional from the league Wednesday and was purchasing players for a central Friday. local investors will share the told RFK would be an acceptable talent pool that will be distributed to The new league, unofficially remaining 20 percent interest, site, even if the stadium's left field teams by the league's office. known as the Independent Baseball The team will be called the fence were to be positioned under 300 The new league also has the League, is reportedly backed by Washington Senators, Gildenhorn feet from home plate as in recent support of the Major League billionaire developer Donald Trump said. exhibition and old-timers' games. Baseball Players Association, and and former NBC-TV vice president "At the preliminary level, I don't D sufficient finances to aggressively Mike Trager. see any problems whatsoever," Dalrymple said it was his pursue available major league Jeffrey Gildenhorn, a restaurateur Gildenhorn said. "I fully anticipate understanding that other cities in players with the remainder of its in the city, told the Washington Post baseball in RFK (Robert F. Kennedy which the league was actively players wih the madr ofaits that officials of the new league Stadium) in the spring of 1990 . pursuing franchises included Miami; fa syes oming fro major league approached him several months ago From all viable indications, this is a New Orleans; Portland, Ore.; Dalrm s ad t after his unsuccessful $80 million bid substantial, well thought-out Orlando, Fla.; Charlotte, N.C.; and rymple said. to buy the Atlanta Braves from Ted proposition that has been going on Memphis, Tenn. Washington has been without a Turner and move them to the for several years." Plans call for the new league to major league baseball team since the nation's capital. Gildenhorn said the new league complete a 156-game regular season Senators moved to Texas after the Gildenhorn, who has agreed to be venture was not "a shot in the dark." and playoffs between April and mid- 1971 season. Nolan Ryan rocks Anaheim with56th careershutout ANAHEIM, Calif. (UPI) - Nolan Thursday night from Steve Buechele from 1972-79, strolled in from the no-hitters. Ryan received a standing ovation and Ruben Sierra, who homered to bullpen before the game, the crowd Sierra's home run made it 2-0. from the fans who had not seen him lead the Texas Rangers to a 3-0 of 37,867 stood and cheered. After Willie Fraser relieved pitch in Anaheim Stadium since he victory over California. "I think the first couple of innings, McCaskill, Buechele singled and was an Angel in 1979, then went out It was the 56th career shutout for because of the reception I got, I had a came home on a double by Jeff and showed them a three-hit shutout the 42-year-old Ryan, tying him with tendency to overpitch. I don't know Kunkel. and 12 strikeouts. current Angel Bert Blyleven for 13th anybody who wouldn't be affected by The Angels never got a runner past place on the all-time list. that," said Ryan. "The fans were real second base. The only hits off Ryan Ryan got all the runs he needed When Ryan, who was an Angel special to me. It was a special feeling were Devon White's single with one to know they still have regards for out in the first inning, a single by me. What happened tonight was one Lance Parrish with one out in the of the highlights of my career." second and a leadoff single in the Ryan, 10-4, walked two and hit a ninth by Johnny Ray, which came batter in beating Kirk McCaskill, 9- after Ryan had retired 14 in a row. 5, who yielded just five hits in his "I know he beat us, and I know eight innings. The two were locked in that we lost, but you don't feel that a scoreless duel until Buechele bad losing to him," said California delivered his fifth home run of the Manager Doug Rader. "He's such a year with one out in the seventh gentleman, although you do feel inning. sorry for your hitters. He had some For Buechele, who grew up in kind of curve ball tonight, I'm sure Orange County, it was only his third that's the best he's had in a while." career home run and it ended a Ranger home run drought that Standings stretched 98 innings over the past I1 games. National League Buechele spoiled a McCaskill no- hitter three years ago with a homer. East Division "He's gotten me a few times too. W L Pet. GB He's a great pitcher," said Buechele. ontreal 48 38 .558 - "I'm sure he wants that pitch back. Chicago 46 39 .541 1 1/2 He threw me a fastball out and over New York 44 39 .530 2 1/2 the plate, and it was up too." St. Louis 43 39 .524 3 McCaskill was taken out after Pittsburgh 36 46 .439 10 yielding Sierra's 13th homer to open Philadelphia 31 52 .373 15 1/2 the ninth inning. West Division Ryan's 12 strikeouts marked the W L Pet. GB eighth time this year he has fanned 10 San Francisco 51 35 .593 - or more in a game, setting a Texas record. The major-league strikeout Houston 49 37 .570 2 leader with 148, Ryan has struck out Cincinnati 44 42 .512 7 10 or more in a game 189 times in his San Diego 41 46 .471 10 1/2 career. Los Angeles 40 46 .465 11 Ryan, selected earlier in the day to Atlanta 36 50 .419 15 Ranger right-hander Nolan Ryan pitched his 56th career shutout Thursday the American League All-Star team, Amerca n League night following a warm reception from his fans in Anaheim Stadium. Ryan has 28 career three-hitters to go along American League had not pitched in A naheim since 1979 when he pitched for the California with 19 two-hitters, 11 one-hitters East Division Angelsballclub.(APLaserphoto) and a major-league record five W L Pet. GB Baltlmre 48 36 .571 - New York 43 42 .506 5 1/2 Beo 4 . American League seeks to win 2 straight Boston 40 42 .488 7 ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - The last won 6-5. It happened again the next happen in the twilight zone. lilwaukee 41 45 .477 8 time the American League won two year, 4-3 over Stan Musial, Willie Three times this decade, the All- Toronto 41 45 .477 8 consecutive All-Star Games, there Mays, Hank Aaron and the rest of Star Game has made twilight starts Cleveland 40- 44 .476 8 were no artificial surfaces, no domed the NationaL Leaguers. on the West Coast. The NL has won Detroit 31 53 .369 17 stadiums, no designated hitters and Since then, well, everyone knows each time, and never have there been 31 53v.sio 1 no teams west of the Mississippi. the story. The AL ran into one of the AllStamore than sixsockery runs combined. Californiaoneofth WLPct. GBW DivisiGn Pete Rose wasjust 16-the number longest and strangest dry spells in All-Sta5 mockery of major-league clubs. Disneyland sports, losing 21 of the next 25. At Oakland in 1987, a year that aland 51 36 .6 1 was the only attraction in Anaheim; That drought ended last year with hitters ruled the regular season, the Oakland 51 36 .586 1 1/2 the Big A and its halo was a bunch of a 2-1 victory. On Tuesday night, in All-Stars made a mockery of offense Kansas City 48 37 .565 3 1/2 orange groves. the land where the song says it never as the NL won 2-0 in 13 innings. Texas 47 38 .553 4 1/2 rains, the AL will try to make it two That's generally how it goes. Seattle 41 44 .482 10 1/2 The slu gers in a row. Baseball's showcase is a chance to Minnesota 41 45 .477 11 That was 1957 and the AL, led by But don't bet on it. Even with a show how good pitching stops good Chicago 32 55 .368 20 1/2 Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle, DH for the first time, odds things hitting. Times 8 JulyTropic 10, 1989 Bush embarks on European journey apparent in that country. by Helen Thomas welcome is expected, led by Bush added, "In both countries, his party have UPI White House Reporter triumphant Solidarity movement we are witnessing remarkable Bush and others in supporters. changes - welcome developments no been hardly able to contain their WASHINGTON (UPI) -President Other stops on his 9,000 mile one would have thought possible excitement over the prospect of Bush embarked Sunday on ajourney excursion, his third overseas trip even a year ago. visiting Eastern Europe, at a time that crosses Eastern and Western since he became president, include "New voices are shaping the course when free elections, changes in Europe, hoping to mend old Budapest, Hungary; Paris, France of national affairs - and both government leadership and the divisions and to encourage the and the Hague in the Netherlands. countries are on the path towards fading of communist control have political freedom now sweeping the The president's visit to Poland and economic rebirth and political astounded the world. continent. Hungary in this particular period pluralism," he added. "My visit From Hungary he will fly to Paris, In remarks delivered at his dramatizes the United States'interest underscores the growing importance where he remains four days, joining departure from Andrews Air Force in promoting the growing drive for that our nation sees in the changing the French and scores of world Base under a bright Sunday morning liberty and human rights in those face of central Europe." leaders in the special celebration of sky Bush said, "This morning we Soviet bloc countries. And it follows The president's whirlwind visit to the bicentennial of Bastille Day, begin a journey that will take us to the latest proposal by Soviet leader Poland formally begins Monday which marked the beginning of the Europe -east and west - a journey Mikhail Gorbachev to make all of with a marathon schedule that French Revolution. that underscores the tremendous Europe nuclear free. includes laying a wreath at the Tomb Also in France, the president will changes, challenges and oppor- Bush told reporters, admin- of the Unknown Soldier, meetings join the leaders of six other major tunities ahead of us." istration staff members and other with General Gen. Wojciech industrialized nations at the 15th Bush and his wife Barbara, well wishers at the airport, as jet Jaruzelski, participation in a Polish annual economic summit. wearing a green suit, waved as they engines idled in the backround, that Little League event - a year-old boarded Air Force One at 7:14 a.m. he travels "first to Poland and innovation in that country - and EDT. Hungary, nations on the threshold of highlighted by a luncheon at the At the end of an 8-hour flight to a new era, nations where the spirit of home of Solidarity movement leader Warsaw, Poland a tumultuous freedom is strong." Lech Walesa. Equally dramatic will be the president's tour of the Gdansk shipyard where the Solidarity movement began, leading to the PANAMA CITY, Panama presentation of a Nobel Peace Prize (UPI) -Pamna's justice minister to Walesa. and the opposition Friday Bush is expected to offer some reaffirmed their positions in financial aid, perhaps a restructuring issuing separate calls for action to of debt payments, to Poland - which resolve the country's 2-month-old is seeking $10 billion - and possible political crisis. new trade benefits to Hungary. . oInterior and Justice Minister Bush'svisitisintendedtocontinue Rodolfo Chiari urged the the restoration of good economic opposition to participate in a relations with Poland that ended in dialogue among political parties, the years following the December apparently ignoring the 1981 attempt to crush the Solidarity opposition's call hours earlier for trade union. That crackdown led to strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio the imposition of severe economic Noriega and the military's sanctions that cut off what Poland presidential candidate, Carlos estimates is $13 billion from the Duque, to send representatives to Wet a weekend meeting with the In the past several weeks, the opposition to start a dialogue on Solidarity movement has won major resolving the political impasse. seats in the Polish Parliament and Panama has been rocked by a has become the dominant political political crisis since the May 7 CARRYING THE LOAD - Clean Harbors, Inc. worker, Dave Fisch, Much fanfare also surrounds elections were annulled three days carries bags of sausage booms at Mackeral Bay in Jamestown, R.I. last Bush's trip to Hungary where again later by the country's Electoral week inpreparationforuse in soaking up the residue ofspilled oilfrom the he will encourage the new openess Tribunal. Amid widespread tanker, WorldProdigy. (APLaserphoto) which is becoming even more claims of government fraud, the whic is coming ven ore opposition claimed victory. An Organization of American States negotiating team has Customs aerceptcocainedop visited Panama twicesince May in an attempt to -lind a peaceful by Jane Sutton then seized the boat and 1,584 but made no effort to intercept the solution to the crisis but ha pounds of cocaine when it ran drug shipment, said Pat O'Brien, failed to bring Noriegaand the MIAMI (UPI) - U.S. Customs aground off Florida Saturday. special agent in charge of the Miami opposition to a negotiating table. agents watched a small plane drop a Two Soviet-made MIG aircraft Customs office. Chiari's statement said "the load of cocaine into a waiting boat stood by to ensure the U.S. Customs "We didn't see any effort to shoot dialogue" should be held among just inside Cuban territorial waters, plane did not enter Cuban airspace, it down and they certainly weren't political parties, a claim also made going to let us fly in," O'Brien said. by Noriega who says he is a There was no indication whether h ra he military and thi is a Cocaine the MIG pilots knew what cargo the mebe p ofiia thse.mltr n hs Continued from Page 1 plane delivered, he said. apltclise surveillance by Customs and Coast The boat, a 37-foot Midnight But the opposition contends spokesman. "This is a great case. Guard aircraft for 11 hours after a Express cigarette boat registered in that since Noriega - who has been That's a heck of a lot of cocaine." Customs plane spotted the ship Florida, was about 10 miles inside indicted in the United States on Adm. Paul A. Yost, commandant Tuesday, stopped with its lights off. Cuban waters when the drop was drug trafficking charges - is the of the Coast Guard, flew from The master of the Barlovento made, he said. Customs agents real power sinPauama, any Washington to Key West to hold a allowed a Coast Guard team to come waited just outside Cuban negotiations iist pncludehimn news conference on the seizure. aboard, Karonis said. boundaries, and attempted to follow On Frid a Gopporitionr Yost congratulated Shearwater "Nothing was found on the first the boat, but were forced to turn p nal cadie duile crew members, who were lined up at sweep, but a statement of no back because they were low on fuel. F ased res a Dto dockside to greet him before he objection by the Panamanian Other Customs agents searched etosend reprda t aV boarded the Barlovento to inspect government allowed the Coast for the boat, but lost it until a private mbassy turdiscuss te for the ship. Guard to escort the vessel to Key citizen alerted Customs Saturday Ewibas> tscuss te "A great job," Yost told the crew. West for more detailed investiga- morning that it had run aground on negotation "We're all very proud of you. tion," he said. Sand Key, a tiny island south of Key akndide o e r'a . c I bring you personal congratulations At Key West, customs agents using Biscayne and inside Biscayne b ( il Dmcrtic from (Transportation) Secretary dogs found 3,359 pounds of cocaine National Park. O position is tryd Samuel Skinner and (national drug in a 5-foot by 6-foot by 10-foot The boat was abandoned. Eleven to pssrepNorg ito is tint policy director William) Bennett." compartment hidden between a fuel neatly wrapped bundles of cocaine, to pressure Noriega t ,rtkipateop The Customs Service said it was tank and a water tank, the Customs worth $10 million, were lying on the in the OAS-sponsored the seventh largest cocaine seizure in Service said. The cocaine was stored beach beside it, he said. negotiations. the United States and the sixth in 52 bags. Customs and DEA agents were Endara said. "We are tired of largest in Florida. The largest was The Colombian master of the ship still trying to trace the boat's owners tai aid. "eare trd of dialogue and we 8,012 pounds of the drug found by was arrested along with another through the registration late talking about customs agents at Port Everglades in Colombian, a Panamanian and seven Saturday. The vessel, valued at over He sai there has been no Fort Lauderdale in November, 1987. crewmen from the Dominican $150,000, was turned over to the Service. response. The Barlovento was under Republic, the Customs Service said. National Park