Noriega agents arrest activists prior to rally
PANAMA CITY, Panama — The govern
ment arrested 10 people in a crackdown on
opposition activists Thursday just prior to a
Rtanned rally against Gen. Manuel Antonio
foriega, the country’s military strongman.
Panama’s attorney general, Carlos A. Villa
laz, said at a news conference that the people
arrested had been planning a three-day cam
paign of violence that he claimed may have
included tampering with two locks at the Pan
ama Canal.
Among those arrested by government secu
rity agents Thursday was Enrique Marquez,
president-elect of the Panama Canal Society of
Professional Engineers.
The society issued a statement calling the
arrest “one more proof of the constant violation
of human rights by the Defense Forces of the
Republic of Panama.”
Villalaz said other arrests were planned.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Southern Command on
Thursday urged U.S. servicemen and their
dependents in Panama to stay out of public
places where demonstrations might occur.
Noriega is the chief of the country’s defense
forces and the power behind the government
The crackdown on the apparently renewed
activism against his rule came as a U.S. State
Department official was reported to be meeting
drug-trafficking charges in the United States.
Michael Kozak, an aide to Assistant Secre
tary of State Elliott Abrams, returned to Pan
ama this week for the second time in two weeks,
said a source in Washington who spoke on
condition of anonymity.
Reagan administration officials reportedly
have been seeking more subtle ways to get
Noriega to step down after failing to dislodge
the general with sweeping economic sanctions.
The sanctions have created a severe cash short
age in Panama.
On Thursday, White House spokesman
Marlin Fitzwater suggested the Reagan ad
ministration would be satisfied if Noriega re
signs as head of the country’s military forces.
Previously, U.S. officials insisted that Noriega
leave Panama.
None of the people arrested Thursday were
leaders of the National Civic Crusade, which
has organized protests against Noriega since
June.
Villalaz had said earlier that the arrest order
applied to 35 directors of the Civic Crusade,
plus an unspecified number of neighborhood
leaders of the planned demonstration.
Villalaz said arrests were made after intelli
gence agents uncovered an opposition plan that
^constituted a movement aimed at carrying out
acts of violence” beginning Thursday.
Weapons, documents describing how to
make firebombs and documents describing the
workings of the Pedro Miguel and Miraflores
locks of the Panama Canal were found during
raids Thursday, Villalaz said.
Opposition activists want “to find a formula
through which the functioning of the Mi
raflores and Pedro Miguel locks will be af
fected,” he said.
Agents raided the offices of the Panama
Industrial Association, the Panamanian Odon
tological Association and the National Medical
Commission. All three organizations com
plained the raids were carried out without
proper warrants.
Efforts to reach opposition leaders for
comment were not immediately successful.
Many have been in hiding since their headquar
ters in a Panama city hotel was raided March 28
after a protest and more than 40 people were
arrested.
The civic Crusade has been unable to attract
enough support for a major protest since the
March rally was smashed by riot police.
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Strike closes down occupied territories
JERUSALEM — Bakers and
street vendors joined a protest strike
Thursday that virtually closed down
the occupied territories and Arab east
Jerusalem. Israeli army gunfire
wounded two Palestinians.
The strike coincided with declara
tions by Israeli authorities that the 5
month-old rebellion in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip had begun to ebb.
Underground Palestinian leaders
called the strike in a bulletin issued
last week, and it appeared to be as
widespread as dozens of others since
the 1.5 million Palestinians in the
occupied lands began what even the
Israelis now call die “intefadah” —
the uprising.
Arab reporters said bakers and
street vendors, who usually operate
during strikes, joined this one in most
areas.
In Hebron on the West Bank, about
100 young Palestinians set tires
ablaze in front of the municipal build
ing and shouted for the resignation of
Mayor Abdel Majid Zir, Arab wit
nesses said. Zir was appointed by
Israel.
A 20-year-old protestor, Raed
Shuhkee, was wounded by gunfire
when Israeli troops dispersed the
crowd with tear gas, rubber bullets
and live ammunition, the witnesses
said.
Dozens of Arabs blocked the road
to Ebween, a village near Ramallah
with rocks and burning tires, then
threw stones at Israeli soldiers who
arrived in three jeeps, a villager re
ported.
The villager, who would not give
his name, said a 23-year-old man was
shot. He spoke to a reporter at Ramal
lah Hospital, where the victim was
being treated for a gunshot wound in
the right leg.
Army spokesmen confirmed a
protester was wounded in Hebron and
another near Ramal lah, but said it was
under investigation.
Hundreds of Palestinians have
been wounded since the violence
began Dec. 8. At least 174 have been
killed, and an Israeli soldier and
Jewish settler also have been slain.
Israel radio said the army bull
dozed an orange grove outside Beth
lehem after a jeep skidded off a
nearby road on which Palestinians
had spread oil.
Soldiers followed footprints from
the road to the orange grove, the radio
said.
In‘“Visions for the Future’ confer
ence is next month,” (DN April 27)
the price of the conference was incor
rect.
The cost is $25 with lunch and $ 14
without
In “Hospice volunteers leam from
patients,” (DN April 25) Jenny
Cardwell’s quote that the Tabitha
Hospice program is not Medicare was
incorrect. She said it is not Medical
care.
The forum on women’s issues,
(DN April 28) was at First Plymouth
Congregational Church, 20th and D
streets.
Veterans group opposes Fonda visit
A group of Nebraska veterans say
they oppose a visit by Jane Fonda to
the Grand Island museum that’s home
to the house where her father was
bom.
The county veterans Service Offi
cers Association unanimously passed
a resolution at their recent meeting,
saying that Miss Fonda “betrayed her
country by visiting Hanoi’’during the
Vietnam War. The 90-some members
of the group said they opposed her
participation in any ceremony in
Nebraska.
Jack Learned, director of the Stuhr
Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in
Grand Island, said he had asked Miss
Fonda, \\ct brother Peter, and other
family members to come to the mu
seum for a “family day,” perhaps on
May 17, the late Henry Fonda’s birth
day.
However, the Fondas each have
commitments and Learned said he
doesn’t know when or if they will
come to Grand Island.
Learned said he wanted the family
members to become acquainted with
the museum and how the museum was
administering the family’s $50,000
endowment maintaining the cottage
where Fonda was bom.
Joseph Ballweg, Adams County
veterans service officer, introduced
the resolution to oppose Fonda’s visit
to the statewide organization.
“I happen to be a Vietnam veteran.
... I didn ’ t care for what she did,” he
said.
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