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Gift of the Pan Iapa Canal Musegf *-the Tropic imes Vol. II, No. 2 Quarry Heights, Republic of Panama Feb. 13, 1989 Et cetera PDF steps up harassment of U.S. forces U.S. Libya closer The Panama Defense Forces have Although the patient's arrival at freedom of movement guaranteed to the 1977 CAIRO, Egypt - Libya's chief apparently stepped up their strategy Gorgas Army Hospital was delayed U.S. military members in representative to the United of harassment of U.S. forces. On by nearly an hour, a hospital Panama Canal Treaty. Nationssaidinremarkspublished Feb. 10, a U.S. Army ambulance spokesman said the patient was out Most cases included detaining last week there are encouraging responding to an emergency was of danger. U.S. servicemembers outside U.S. signs concerning U.S.-Libyan delayed 50 minutes by the Transito The PDF has increasingly military installations without relations and that Tripoli is ready (PDF traffic police). attempted to interfere with the U.S. charges. to restore "balanced" ties with On Feb. 9, seven separate U.S. forces freedom of movement rights Another recent incident occurred Washington. In an interview with government vehicles were detained guaranteed by the treaty. when the PDF refused to issue 1989 the Saudi newspaper Asharo Al- for nine hours while enroute from "Stopping an ambulance vehicle registration decals to U.S. Awsat, Ali Treiki also praised Colon to Panama City. responding to an apparent life-or- citizens with privately-owned, duty- Secretary of State James Baker, Despite numerous protests by the death situation is stooping to a new free cars as stipulated in the treaty. saying his "position . has been U.S. government, the Panama low," said a spokesman for This move prevented U.S. residents clear in opposing imposition of Defense Forces continue -to Headquarters, U.S. Southern in Panama from obtaining 1989 economicsanctionsagainstLibya implement an apparently coordi- Command. "What the PDF did license plates. After vigorous or boycotting it." nated strategy of harassment today could have meant someone's protests by U.S. officials, the PDF violating the 1977 Panama Canal needless death." finally relented and began issuing pay big bucks Treaty. Another freedom-of-movement stickers Feb. 9. Fans In Friday's incident, the action occurred Feb. 9 when the Repeated protests to the POMPANO BEACH, Fla. ambulance crew, stopped about 150 PDF began stopping U.S. military Panamanian government have (AP) -- Fans of Orson Welles and yards from the Curundu-joint use vehicles at the Chagres River Bridge brought no response in the other the curious lined up to pay $180 area, explained their emergency on the Atlantic side at about 4:15 cases, only in the auto registration for a postcard with his picture and mission to the traffic policemen, who p.m. Finally blockading seven issue. signature on it and $3,500 for a informed them they were "tired of vehicles, the PDF held- them until Officials in the Headquarters, U.S. sculpture that once belonged to U.S. ambulances running around after midnight, insisting all return to Southern Command say the PDF- the late actor-director. with sirens and red lights and were their bases. related incidents are all aimed at "I'm going to get something," going to put a stop to it." After nine hovrs of negotiation, limiting U.S. operations and said Ellen Hart, 70, who cowered Dispatch of a second ambulance they allowed three to proceed to U.S. movement. The officials said the in a Pennsylvania farmhouse in was delayed as U.S. officials tried to installations on the Atlantic side and 1977 Panama Canal Treaty not only 1938 as the "aliens" in Welles' find out why the PQF had stopped forced four to return to the Pacific makes the U.S. the primary protector frightenly realistic radio play the first, a Gorgas Army Hospital side of the isthmus. of the canal until 1999, but also "War of the Worlds" drew closer. spokesman said, to avoid having the Thirty-nine times since Jan. I guarantees freedom of movement to "I want a piece of a man who gave second one stopped also. Panamanian forces have violated the U.S. forces in Panama. us so many memories." Innocent man killed Woman in coma FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) h a t Two men have been convicted in ion 71 the 1987 slaying of a teenager who MANHASSET, N.Y. (AP) they mistakenly accused of raping Doctors Saturday completed an the 80-year-old grandmother of abortion on a comatose wife whose one of the men. husband had battled anti-abortion A Tarrant County jury activists to the U.S. Supreme Court deliberated less than 40 minutes to become her guardian. Friday before convicting Norris Wayne Hicks and Boyd Ballard of "The procedure has been murder in the Nov. 27, 1987, completed," announced Carol shooting of Jeffery Donnelle, who Hauptman, a spokeswoman for died eight days later. North Short University Hospital, "It's a shame, because he where Nancy Klein has been since a (Donelle) wasn't guilty," said Dec. 13 car accident that left her Terri Moore in closing arguments. comatose. "This 17-year-old kid absolutely "Mr. Klein is very happy that the died for nothing." procedure is completed. He has other After Donnelle's death police things to do with his life," said a determined his blood type did not spokesman for Martin Klein, an match the blood type of the Upper Brookville man who sought person who raped the elderly guardianship of his 32-year-old wife. woman. No one has been charged He later thanked people who had In the rape. supported his efforts. About a half- 'American Music Showcase' dozen pro-choice activists carried February 17 thru 26 placards outside the hospital. opens Nancy, 32, was 18 weeks pregnant. FORT CLAYTON (USARSO Her husband Jan. 26 sought to be MWR) - A musical review, declared guardian of his brain- "American Music Showcase," a damaged wife so he could authorize Pacific Theatre Arts Center the abortion that doctors said might - production to mark February as save her life. A judge granted his American Music Month, will request. open Friday, Feb. 17 and run But the activists blocked the through Feb. 26 on Friday, abortion at each court level until LOOKING FOR A SAFE HA VEN-Afghan citizens travel Saturday and Sunday evenings. U.S. Supreme Court Justice dangerously on top of a bus along the risky Salang highway in Kabul, A cast of 20 singers, dancers Thurgood Marshall Friday turned Afghanistan where much fighting has recently occured between and entertainers will bring down their request for a stay of the Afghan government troops andAfghan guerrillas. (APLaserphoto) country, rock, gospel, Broadway lower court ruling declaring Martin show tunes,jazz, pop and more to his wife's guardian. Court Justice Antonin Scalia to She said it was unclear what effect anaudienceinanightclub-cabaret "Tough battle but we won it," intervene because "they are the abortion would have had on theatre style setting with Martin said by telephone from his criminally assaulting her and killing Nancy. waitresses serving drinks and home in Upper Brookville on Long her child." snacks throughout the show. Island. "We can now turn our Around 6 p.m. Friday, doctors "In her condition, puncturing a As space is limited, make attention to trying to help Nancy." gave Nancy medication that is pimple is dangerous," Hauptman reservations early. Cal 286-3814 John Short, a Farmingdale anti- routinely administered about 12 said. She's in guarded condition and or 286-3152 or stop by the Pacific abortion activist who had helped hours before a second trimester the status of her life neurologically is Theatre Arts Centre, Building block Martin's guardianship, also abortion is performed, Hauptman very precarious. It's terrible, really 2060, Curundu. had asked conservative Supreme said. really tragic." 2 Tropic Times Feb. 13, 1989 world roundup Officials cancel Tibetan holiday festival BEIJING (UPI) - Authorities in leader in China and an important inhabitants still resent Chinese rule Cering expressed concern over the Tibet, fearing new violence after 16 mediator between Beijing and restive and long for the return of the Dalai festival, noting last year's rioting. But months of anti-Chinese unrest, Tibetans. Lama. Chinese authorities have been he maintained the government would warned last week against calls for Writing in the latest edition of the accused of human rights violations permit the festival if local leaders independence in the region and Chinese C o mm u n is t P arty and repressions of Tibetan culture. wanted it. announced the cancellation of a theoretical journal "Seeking Truth," Anti-Chinese rioting erupted in During the colorful festival, festival marking Tibetan Buddhism's Raidi, the deputy Communist Party October, 1987, in Lhasa for the first revived in the early 1980s after being most important holiday. secretary in Tibet, issued a thinly time since 1959. A focus for the banned for decades, Tibetan lamas The admonition in a magazine veiled warning against calls for continued protests has been Tibet's sound trumpets and chant ancient article by a senior Tibetan official independence in the Himalayan many monasteries and temples, scriptures as the faithful fervently and the potentially, explosive region. where Buddhist monks have led a hurl good-wish letters tied in silk scrubbing of the religious festival "To maintain social stability and movement demanding independence. greeting scarves to a presiding holy reflected government worries over keep the economy prospering, it is Mindful of this, authorities also man. persistent protests led by Tibetan imperative to adhere to the announced the cancellation of the The main celebration is held at the monks against Chinese Communist leadership of the Communist Party Grand Summons Ceremony, Jokhang Temple in the center of rule.