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Officials say U.S.
reserves right to
pressure Panama
WASHINGTON - The Bush
administration said Wednesday it
was not asked and did not promise to
aid in Tuesday’s failed coup against
Panamanian leader Manuel Antonio
Noriega but reserves the right to use
military force on its “own time
table.’’
Amid sharp criticism from Con
gress that the United States should
have stepped in to help topple Nori
ega, officials said the administration
was in the dark Tuesday about what
was happening in Panama.
U.S. officials, asking not to be
identified, said the rebels had Nori
ega in custody for four to five hours
but then let him go, an account sub
stantially confirmed by Noriega
aides in Panama.
In the Senate, Jesse Helms, R
N.C., proposed an amendment to an
anti-drug bill to authorize Bush to use
U.S. troops to forcefully remove
Noriega from power and bring him to
trial in the United States on the drug
charges already pending against him.
The move was seen as symbolic,
since Bush already has such powers.
Noriega blamed the uprising on
the United States, saying, ‘'The proof
is that American troops closed access
routes to the barracks, just as they
closed the Pan-American Highway.’’
Fhzwater said Wednesday, “We
did move forces in a position to se
cure the causeway and the bridge of
the Americas as a means of protect
ing U.S. citizens who were on the
base. Those are the major access
routes to our base.”
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
told reporters on Capitol Hill that it
was not clear at the time that Noriega
was being held, bui the Bush admini
stration now believes that was the
case.
“Clearly they were not of the
mind to turn him over to us,’ ’ Cheney
said.
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Coyotes found in New York suburbs
KENT, N.Y. - Apparently fol
lowing the call of the not-so-wild,
coyotes are being sighted in New
York City’snorthem suburbs, offi
cials say.
Anthony Cazzari, supervisor of
the town of Kent, said Tuesday
night that when tie walked out of
his house that morning, he found
“astrange-looking dog "staring at
him.
On a second look, he said, he
realized there was a coyote in his
yard. He ran inside to get a camera
but the animal was gone when he
came out
Coyotes are small wolves na
tive to America’s western prairies.
They are up to 4 feet long.
The supervisor said police told
him they had seen coyotes in the
Gypsy Trail and Fanners Mills
sections of town and two coyotes
were killed by cars in the past few
nights.
Cazaari said no one had been
attacked , but said residents should
be careful
Noriega captured, held during coup attempt
PANAMA CITY, Panama -
Rebel officers trying to depose Gea.
Manuel Antonio' Noriega captured
him and held him for hours but re
leased him after loyal forces warned
the rebels would “face the conse
quences” if he was harmed, a Nori
ega aide said Wednesday.
Later, thousands of people, many
of them public employees, demon
strated in front of the building to
show him support. Noriega leaned
out a second-story window, hanging
onto a grating, as he smiled and
waved.
Ll Col. Amulfo Castrejon, direc
tor for the Defense Forces Security
and Defense Committee, told report
ers that while being held Tuesday,
Noriega “had tried to calm his cap
tors ... trying to avoid bloodshed.
Lower-ranking officers attempt
ing the coup were defeated after loyal
farces surrounded Defense Forces
headquarters and counterattacked
4The surrender camrwhen the
loyal officers took command of the
combat units and gave the rebels a
last chance to release the commander
and members of his staff or face the
consequences/* Castrejon said.
“The genera] was a hostage for four
hours/’
Flag burning ban slowed
WASHINGTON - Senate Demo
crats put the brakes on a bilk to ban
flag desecration hue Wednesday,
saying a pair of Republican-spon
sored changes in the wording would
leave it vulnerable to a Supreme
Court challenge.
“The one thing we are required to
avoid doing, or giving the court an
excuse to suggest we are doing, is to
proscribe any communicative ideas
.. any speech,’’ Sen. Joseph Biden,
D-Dcl ., said as the Senate postponed
action.
He said, however, that the court
might well interpret the proposed
Salinas plans drug war
WASHINGTON - Mexican
President Carlos Satinas de Gortari
told a joint meeting of Congress on
Wednesday his nation intends “to
eradicate drag trafficking at its very
roots.”
But Salinas, who is ori a state visit
to the United States, warned that “at
the world level, we yue losing.” He
said that was unacceptable and called
for greater cooperation between gov
ernments to turn the tide.
The Mexican president also used
the speech to renew his appeal for
Kier Mexican access to u.S. mar
, saying thru while Mexico has
eliminated most non tariff harriers to
U.S. products, “we continue con
fronting them in the United States.”
Salinas described this as an “in
equitable paradox” and said Mexico
must have “greater and more secure
access to the world's greatest market,
the United Stales” to obtain the eco
nomic growth that is needed to im
prove the lot of its people.
Specifically, he said Mexico
wants greater access to U.S. textile
and steel markets.
U.S. officials disagree v/ith Sali
nas’ postrayal of the United Slates as
a protsc ttonist nation. They say two
M of Mexico’s exports come to
i
the United States and that Mexico
had a $2.7 billion surplus in its U.S.
trade last year on total two-way trade
ai about $44 billion.
While vowing an all-out effort to
curb drug trafficking. Salinas firmly
ruled out joint U.S.-Mexican military
operations to fight the traffickers.
4 ‘The responsibility for the fight in
our country is exclusively ours," he
said. "There will be no joint military
operations on our soil.
E. Germans make
last-resort effort
to emigrate West
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia - East
Germans jammed Western embas
sies, swam rivers and lined railroad
tracks in at least four Soviet bloc
nations Wednesday in a desperate bid
to catch what could be the last free
dom trains to the West.
The flood of would-be East Ger
man emigres in Czechoslovakia,
Poland, Bulgaria and East Germany
came as the beleaguered government,
in East Berlin said it would allow one
more exodus of disillusioned citi
zens.
The agreement covered an esti
mated 11,000 weary refugees who
had converged on the West German
Embassy in Prague, but there were
reports thousands of others through
out the East bloc were hoping to take
part
In Prague, the first of 15 trains
began carrying East Germans to the
West late Wednesday. Cheering ar
waving, whistling derisively, er~
refugees hurled their now-w'
East German money from tU »
dows.
A crowd of Czechoslovaks ap
plauded as the first group left the
embassy area to board buses to the
train station. Helmeted riot police
arrived and pushed the onlookers
back, stifling the cheers.
Two East Germans who boarded
the first train said they had arrived in
Prague after illegally crossing the
heavily guarded East German
Czechoslovak border.
They said they were part of a
group of six people who managed to
sneak across but were spotted by
Czechoslovak guards who opened
fire. In the confusion, the two es
caped but the other four have been
unheard of since.
East Germany, hoping to end the
embarrassing exodus of its young,
skilled citizens before the Commu
nist nation celebrates its 40th anni
versary this weekend, on Tuesday
closed its border with ally Czechoslo
vakia to keep its people home.
“We knew .it was our last
chance," one East German refugee
said about fleeing to Prague. "We
were right, now the border is closed. ’ ’
Because Czechoslovakia was the
only nation where East Germans
could travel without, receiving spe
cial permission, thousands had
streamed here to seek asylum.
The clampdown on travel also was
likely to severely curb the number of
Bpat Germans going to reform
minded Hungary. The shortest route
to Hungary from East Germany is
through Czechoslovakia.
East Germans were frantically
trying other avenues to catch what
theyreared would be their last chance
to reach West Germany, where they
are granted automatic citizenship.
In East Berlin, police Wednesday
scuffled with about 50 East Germans
trying to enter the U.S. Embassy,
witnesses said. Eighteen others made
it inside the compound Tuesday, U.S
diplomatic sources said.
"This is our last hope," said one
refugee in the group of 10 adults and
eight children. "We’re not going to
budge until we know we’ll be able to
leave."
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