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Panama’s deposed president still hiding from Gen. Noriega I
PANAMA CITY, Panama —
Deposed president Eric Arturo Del
valle stayed in hiding Sunday and
defied Gen. Manuel Antonio Nori
ega, the military strongman who
ousted him and ordered him out of the
country.
The ex-president’s whereabouts
were a closely guarded secret, but
family members said he was in a
“safe and secure place” in Panama, in
“good spirits” and determined to
regain his job.
“I am going to stay here (and) stick
it out,” Delvalle told ABC television
in a telephone interview. “I’m going
to fight it all the way.”
Delvalle did not reveal his hiding
place.
Roderick Esquivel, Delvalle’s
vice president, was also in hiding.
Both men were ousted early Fri
day in an action by the National
Legislative Assembly orchestrated
by Noriega, the Defense Forces
Justice changes account of Meese’s role in case
WASHINGTON — For nine months, the Justice Department has
* given the impression Attorney General Edwin Meese removed himself j
from the Pollard spy case. B ut now it acknowledges he was briefed twice
about the case and says he never was excluded.
In what chief department spokesman Terry Eastland called a correc
i tion, he said Meese is only excluded from the espionage case against the
Israeli Air Force officer who recruited counterterrorism analyst Jon
athan Pollard as a spy.
Elephants kill one man, hippo wounds another
NAIROBI, Kenya—Rampaging elephants trampled a man to death
in southeastern Kenya, and a hippopotamus emerged from a sewage
i pond and attacked a bicyclist on the capital’s outskirt, a newspaper said
I Sunday. j
The elephants rampaged through Vuria village near the Tsavo
National Park in southeastern Kenya, crushing to death 60-year-old
John Mwakise the Daily Nation said. It did not say how many elephants
? were in the Friday attack.
In Embakasi, on the capital’s eastern edge near Nairobi National
Park, a 35-year-old man riding by a sewage plant was bitten on the head,
j buttocks and thigh Thursday by a hippopotamus that emerged from the
; waste water, the paper said.
The man was reportedly hospitalized in serious condition.
Death toll in rockslide climbs to 52
FEZ, Morocco — The death toll from a rockslide that demolished a
] squatter’s camp climbed to 52 on Sunday, and rescue workers were
searching for more victims beneath the debris, officials said.
At least six people were injured, one seriously, when a rock wall
overhanging the camp collapsed Saturday after a week of heavy rains.
Officials said the victims, asleep at the time of the disaster, included
'S 27 males and 25 females. They did not specify how many of the dead
\ were children.
The camp is in an old quarry outside Fez, which is about 125 miles
east of the capital, ItapaL
Several hundred inhabitants of the squatters’ camp were evacuated
to emergency centers around the city.
Congress faces new battle on Contra aid
WASHINGTON — Congress faces a confusing choice this week
i between two rival versions of a plan to help the Nicaraguan rebels.
A vote is scheduled for Thursday to decide whether the U.S. -backed
Contras will get an aid package drafted by House Democrats, a similar
l one drawn up by House Republicans, or nothing at all.
Current authority to aid the Contras expires at midnight Monday, and
the rebels are said to be rapidly running out of items like food, clothing
and medicine that the new aid plans would provide.
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chief.
Delvalle ignited the latest crisis in
eight months of continuing civil
unrest in Panama on Thursday when
he tried to fire Noriega, who is
charged in Florida with corruption
and narcotics trafficking. The United
States also has urged Noriega to step
down as military chief.
On Friday, Delvalle returned to
his home in an upper-class neighbor
hood. Police surrounded the house
Friday evening and Delvalle’s tele
phones were cut, leaving him incom
municado and under an undeclared
house arrest.
Sometime that night, he report
edly climbed over a patio wall at the
rear of the house and escaped through
a neighbor’s yard, avoiding the po
licemen who had been posted on the
street in front of his home.
Raul Diaz, a brother-in-law, and
other family members said military
officials had warned Delvalle that il
he didn’t leave the country voluntar
ily, he would be arrested and forcibly
deported.
The Panamanian government
Sunday claimed U.S. officials were
hiding Delvalle at an American mili
tary installation in Panama.
Delvalles’s hopes of regaining the
presidency suffered a setback Satur
day night when the Permanent Coun
cil of the Organizations of American
States, meeting in Washington, de- f
dined to take any action on Panama. I
U.N. in session to condemn U.b. move I
UNITED NATIONS — The
United States, its U.N. prestige and
influence already at an all-time low,
faces a showdown Monday when the
General Assembly convenes an
emergency session to condemn U.S.
efforts to close the PLO mission.
Some Arab leaders say they want
to shift the next General Assembly
meeting to Geneva to punish the
United Slates for iarassing the Pales
tine Liberation Organization, which
the United Nations recognizes.
The entire U.N. operation here,
including the General Assembly,
funnels $400 million to $700 million
a year into the u.b. ann incw ioik
economics, according to the U.S.
mission.
One reaffirms the PLO’s right to
operate and calls on the United Slates
to honor its treaty obligations, the
other calls for a ruling by the Interna
tional Court of Justice.
The move to shut l he PLO mission
comes as Secretary of State George
P. Shultz is on a critical Middle East
visit aimed at initialing Middle East
peace talks and ending the 11 -week
Palestinian uprising in Israel’s occu
pied territories.
State Department and United
rsaiions lawyers say congress new !
anti-lcrrorist legislations, which
would close the PLO’s U.N. observer
mission, is illegal and violates the
1947 Headquarters Agreement.
Former Attorney General Ramsey
Clark, legal adviser to the PLO, told
the Associated Press Saturday, “We
assume he United Stales doesn’t
want to be an international outlaw
and will, therefore, honor its obliga
tions.”
PLO Ambassador Zcndi Labib
Tcrzi told the AP that the U.S. action
against the PLO mission is harming
Shultz’ chances in the Middle East.
Swaggart thanks many ror support I
BATON ROUGE, La. — Televi
sion evangelist Jimmy Swaggart,
who stepped down from his pulpit
after allegations of immoral conduct
with a prostitute erupted, thanked
members of all religions Sunday for
their support during “the darkest
week” he has experienced.
During a brief appearance before
his congregation at the Jimmy Swag
gart World Ministries center, Swag
gart thanked about 4,000 worshipers
for their backing.
I’ll never have the words to ex
press to you how much that I care. If
it hadn’t been for you, we would not
have made it. It’s just that plain and
simple,” said Swaggart.
Swaggart, who last week con
fessed to unspecified sins, reportedly
paid a prostitute to pose naked and
tried to make a deal with a minister
who confronted him about it.
Although Swaggart again did not
specify his sin, he said he had re
ceived the love and prayers of mem
bers of various denominations and
religious groups.
“That is what is so beautiful about
it... not only Pentecostal, but Bap
tists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lu
therans and Catholic. . . . Even my
Moslem friends, I’m serious, have
called and said ‘we love you, we pray
for you,’” Swaggart said.
Swaggart, who on Saturday re
ceived support and sympathy from
presidential candidate Pat Robertson,
a former television evangelist, said
his worldwide ministry would con
tinue.
Making only brief reference to
action the Assemblies of God de
nomination has taken against him,
Swaggart said he would spend the
next three months away from the
pulpit receiving “some meat of the
word.”
Athletes look for help after Olympics
CALGARY, Alberta — In the
wake of one of the United States’
worst Winter Olympics, American
athletes are looking dubiously at
George Steinbrcnncr’s plans to fix
the mess.
The New York Yankees boss
won’t find it as easy as firing a man
ager or swinging a trade, they say,
and he might even have his priorities
backward.
One area where he may be able to
help, everyone agrees, is in finance.
Money can’t buy love, happiness or
Italy’s Alberto Tomba, but a lot more
hard cash can go a long way to ending
America’s Olympic woes.
Officials and athletes say it will
take millions and a wholly revamped
training program to put U.S. Olympic
athletes on the same level with their
top rivals.
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There is considerable debate,
though, about how the money can be
raised, how it should be spent and
whether the United States ought to
put as much emphasis on winning in
the Olympics as the leading medal
ists — the Soviet Union and East
Germany.
However, by any measure the
U.S. team had a feeble showing this
year and everyone feels the time has
come to act.
No American team in the Winter
Olympics ever won fewer medals
relative to the total number awarded.
Steinbrenner, named by the U.S.
Olympic Committee to head a panel
to find ways of improving American
fortunes in the Summer and Winter
Games, said “the bottom line” is the
medal count.
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