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Associated Press
Edited by Victoria Ayotte
U.S. planned to seize Noriega
Washington - use Bush
administration was preparing covert
action to seise Psnsmanian leader
Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega during
a coup attempt Hat week bdl the up
rising coUapeed before the plan could
be executed, officials said Sunday.
President George Bush made the
decision near the cad of a foiled coup
Tuesday, and the order was conveyed
to the commander of U.S. forces in
Pmansa, Gan. Maxwell Thurman,
said Secretary of State James A.
Baker IR and Brent Scoweroft, the
White House national security ad
viser. •
"The meeaige that was sent was
that if there were sn opportunity to do
this, without risking bloodshed and
significant loss of jaoaikm life, and
to do so without Open military in
vehement then he was free to 90
ahead, the commander on the ground
was free to go ahead,** Baker said on
the NBC-TV progran, “Meet the
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nwB,
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
said that at the outset of the coup he
toM Thurman to be prepared to use
peaceful means to take custody of
Noriega, but the chance never came.
“After the Panamanians had ccn
tacied us and told us... that they had
Noriega hut that they would not give
him to as, 1 made k clear that our
commander on the scene was author
ized 10 get him if he could, without
using military force, and dial he
shoukl develop an option or a plan to
use mititny force to net him,” Ch
eney said an the CBS-TV program
“Face the Nation.**
“We never nude the decision to
use miHtary force, that would have
involved going m against the rebels
and taking Noriega from them. I
never2 thought that was a very good
idea, but we told to him to be pre
paredincafle he not the order to do so.
Shortly lfW that, the coup fell
apart,” said Cheney.
The order to ready non-unifonned
U.S. forces for a covert action to grab
Noriega was first reported in Sunday
editions ofThe Washington Post
Baker, Cheney and Scowcroft said
tip presidential advisers believe they
acted correctly during the failed
coup, despite criticism from Coo*
ness that U.S. forces should have
helped the rebefc. or to intervene to
seize Noriega for trial in the United
States on difit charges.
East German police break up demonstrations
BERLIN - E&* Oman police
arrested hundreds of people during
pro-democracy protests in East Ber
lin that lastedmto early Sunday, and
also broke op huge weekend demon
strations in five other m^jor cities.
In East Berlin, citizens cheered
protesters from apartment balconies.
Hundreds of injuries were re
ported as police swinging Puncheons
repeatedly charged die demonstra
tes. Police punched, kicked, beat
and dragged the protesters away, and
mughod up Western journalists cov
ering the demonstrations in East
Berlin.
Gaston of p&ificlotiies and uni
formed security forces were stationed
dvoughcut East Berlin Sunday to
prevem father demonstrations.
The protests, coinciding with the
visit of Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev on East Germany’s 40th
anaivenary, were the largest since a
workers’ uprising was put down by
the Soviets in 1993.
Western journalises accredited to
cover the anniversary woe told Sun
day they could not extend their visas,
and some who had traveled to West
Berlin were not allowed back. *
Despite the growing unrest and the
exodus of East Germans to the West,
cast uennan leaner cncn Hcnecker
said duriag lengthy talcs with Gor
bachev Saturday that he would stic k
to his hard-line oona. _
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