Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 209, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 May 1989 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC May 10,1989

Bush keeps all Panamanian options open, but reticent about military use

WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush is asking democratic allies to join him in condemning Panama’s Manuel Antonio Noriega, while former President Carter urges against military or treaty-breaking moves that could play into the general’s hands. The president and his advisers kept alive the prospect of military

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intervention Tuesday by saying all options are being considered, but administration officials privately said a unilateral military confrontation was unlikely. BUSH WOULD NOT say what actions he was considering in the wake of what he called a fraudulent election that nonetheless was won by anti-Noriega forces. “The Panamanian people have spoken, and I call on General Noriega to respect the voice of the

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people, and I call on all foreign leaders to urge General Noriega to honor the clear results of the election,” the president told reporters. Bush was briefed Tuesday by two election observer groups including one headed by Carter, just back from Central America after monitoring Sunday’s elections. THE OBSERVERS SAID there was rampant fraud in voting and ballot counting. Bush embraced the conclusions of the observers and the Catholic Church in Panama that the Noriega opposition won a 3-1 victory. “Despite massive irregularities at the polls, the opposition has won a clear-cut overwhelming victory, ” Bush told reporters in a brief Oval Office session. “There has been a statement for democracy so loud and so clear that perhaps even General Noriega will listen to it.” The president said that Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez was encouraging neighboring countries to issue a joint statement “against the fraud that is taking place and calling on Noriega to honor the results of this election.” THE VOTE WAS considered a referendum on Noriega, chief of the 15,000-member Defense Forces, whom the United States has been trying to depose for more than a year. Bush said he would not discuss what he might do until after the official vote results were announced. The Noriega-led government claimed that partial returns showed that its candidate, Carlos Duque, had defeated opposition candidate Guillermo Endara. While White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Bush was considering options ranging from military force to economic sanctions against Panama, other officials minimized the military angle. They said the United States could decide to beef up U.S. forces to protect Americans living in Panama or help to move them out. MORE STRINGENT economic sanctions also were a possibility. The United States has been withholding operating fees for the Panama Canal from thc^

Man kills wife, steals plane, dive bombs Boston

BOSTON (AP) A gunman who killed his estranged wife was captured at Logan International Airport today after commandeering a plane, firing shots from the air and “dive-bombing” the Post Office where he worked, authorities said. The man shot his wife to death Tuesday night in her home in Danvers. as their 5-year-old son watched, said state Trooper Mark Lynch. THE MAN, APPARENTLY armed with an assault rifle, flew the small plane for more than three hours up and down the Massachusetts coastline from Danvers to Duxbury, touching down briefly at Logan but taking off again, Boston police spokeswoman Jill Reilly

Wright lashes out at Phelan; more charges considered

WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker Jim Wright is escalating his fight to clear himself of ethics charges by launching a harsh personal attack on the professionalism and accuracy of the outside counsel who investigated him. At the same time, Wright’s new eight-lawyer defense team is filing a series of legal motions aimed at combating the 69 formal charges against the Texas Democrat, and the House ethics committee is considering whether to expand its case against the speaker.

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Panamanian government, and has barred U.S. firms from paying any taxes or fees to the Panamanian government. Fitzwater said U.S. military personnel in Panama had been harassed and were on a “very high state of alert.” Talking to reporters outside the White House, Carter cautioned against U.S. abrogation of the Panama Canal treaties, signed under his administration, and against military confrontation. “ANY SORT OF military involvement down there would immediately alienate the Panamanian people who respect their nation’s sovereignty as do we,” Carter said. The Panama Canal treaties, under which the United States is to turn over the canal to Panamanian control at the end of this century, are a “sacred issue” with the Panamanians, Carter said. Breaking them would “play right into the hands of Noriega” and “alienate every other nation in this hemisphere.” One member of Bush’s official observer team, Democratic Sen. Boh Graham of Florida, urged Bush to withdraw U.S. military dependents and citizens from Panama while beefing up the number of combatants among the TOSOD lX£froops there. *

said. Alfred James Hunter 111, 42, was captured shortly after 1 a.m. when he landed it at the airport, police said. The Cessna 152 Trainer had only five minutes worth of fuel left when it landed, said Lynch. No weapons were recovered. During the flight, Hunter buzzed the South Postal Annex in Boston several times, police said. Hunter, a licensed pilot, worked there, said Trooper Paul Perry. “HE KEPT DIVE-bombing it there,” said Richard Serino, a deputy superintendent of Boston Emergency Medical Services. “The people were saying it looked like he was going to crash then he pulled up and did a couple of turns.” The trouble began in Danvers,

WRIGHT ON TUESDAY said his legal team has been “profoundly shocked by the lack of professionalism and the prevalence of distortion and inaccuracy” in the report by the ethics committee’s outside counsel, Chicago lawyer Richard J. Phelan. And Wright told reporters the committee had been “totally dependent on Mr. Phelan’s interpretation and his summary of the investigation” in charging him with wrongdoing. On allegations that his wife

U.S. welcomes signs of Noriega’s rejection

WASHINGTON (AP) After long periods in which the only significant opposition to Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega seemed to come from the U.S. government, American officials are encouraged by the throngs of anti-Noriega demonstrators in Panama the past few days. When Noriega dumped inde-pendent-minded Panamanian presidents in 1985 and 1988, the streets of Panama City were quiet. Nary a voice was raised in protest even though both presidents could claim at least a modicum of democratic legitimacy. THERE WAS concern here that an attempt by Noriega to steal last Sunday’s election would be greeted with apathy once again by a people who often do not expect much from their political leaders. But the streets of Panama City have been alive with protest over the past few days, suggesting that Noriega could be weaker now than he has been at any time since becoming Defense Forces commander almost six years ago. The Bush administration strategy has been clear. Early on, officials saw the election as a major opportunity for political change even though there was little reason to believe that Noriega would tolerate an honest process. THE ADMINISTRATION reasoned that the Panamanian opposition needed a catalyst around which it could rally, and the election provided it. U.S. officials had predicted that Noriega would respond in one of two ways to evidence of broadbased opposition: He would either cancel the elections or try to rig the outcome. Either way he would be weakened politically, a highpriority U.S. objective. Noriega decided to go ahead with the election, thinking all along he would be able to manipulate the results, a time-honored practice in Panama, according to many who claim to have seen it

about 30 miles north of Boston, when Hunter shot his estranged wife, Elvira, three times with an automatic rifle, said Danvers Police Sgt. Richard Landers. Earlier in the day, the couple had been involved in a court case, the nature of which was not immediately available, authorities said. After the shooting, Hunter stole a car at gunpoint, comandeecred the plane from an employee at the Beverly Municipal Airport and took off sometime before 10:30 p.m., said Landers. AIRPORTS ACROSS Massachusetts and in New Hampshire had been alerted during the flight, said Trooper Byron Rizos. Federal Aviation Administration

didn’t work for her SIB,OOO-a-year salary on the payroll of Fort Worth developer George Mallick, Wright said the report was “a lie, a falsehood, a distortion and a misrepresentation of the testimony.” ETHICS PANEL members, however, dismissed the harsh attack as a defense gambit. “I’m glad you recognize that is the strategy,” chairman Julian Dixon, D-Calif., said when asked about the defense attacks. Dixon and other committee members said Wright’s complaint

firsthand. IF THERE WERE protests, Noriega believed he could ride them out. After all, he may have felt, with some reason, invulnerable to pressure. He was able to survive street protests two years ago after a one-time ally turned against him. He was also emboldened by his ability to withstand U.S. economic and political pressures. In addition, Noriega was able to reduce to irrelevance Panamanian leaders who dared challenge his authority. In 1985, President Nicolas Ardito Barletta was ousted with lightning swiftness after calling for an investigation into the death of a Noriega critic who witnesses said was killed by Noriega’s agents. Fourteen months ago, after President Eric Arturo Delvalle tried to fire Noriega, it took Noriega’s allies in the National Assembly precisely 10 minutes to remove Delvalle from office. NORIEGA ALSO WAS able to shrug off U.S. criminal indictments stemming from his alleged involvement in drug smuggling. An attempt by dissident officers to oust Noriega a year ago was put down within hours. But now Noriega appears on the defensive, the election seeming to demonstrate that his base of support is perilously thin. The Bush administration is now attempting to devise a strategy that will push him over the edge and thus restore a degree of normality to the U.S.Panamanian relationship for the first time in years. Now the administration is groping for new ways to make Noriega wonder whether he would be better off elsewhere. The Reagan administration thought for sure Noriega was on his way out well over a year ago and it miscalculated badly. The Bush administration is hoping that it is Noriega who has miscalculated this time.

officials at Logan refused to comment about whether flights were disrupted. A park security guard in Salem reported shots being fired from the plane, Salem Police Lt. Larry Sullivan said. In Boston, a man showed police a shell casing he said had fallen from the sky and struck him. One other casing was found nearby. , “There’s no question it’s from the plane,” said Robert Hayden, deputy police superintendent. Tests to determine if they were fired from an assault rifle had not been performed. No injuries were reported from the shots fired from the plane. Hunter’s wife was believed to be in her mid-30s.

was unfounded because they had thoroughly read transcripts of the panel’s witness interviews and examined underlying evidence in reaching their conclusions. “I think the committee has done its homework very well,” said Rep. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, a panel member. The ethics committee was meeting today to consider whether to file additional charges against Wright stemming from a lucrative 1988 Texas gas drilling venture.

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