2The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, October 4, 1989 World aed Nation v. Soldiers seize Noriega headquarters From Associated Press reports PANAMA CITY, Panama Sol diers opposed to Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega seized his headquarters Tues day in an attempt to oust him as army commander and Panama's effective . ruler, but loyalists counterattacked. ' . The rebels' claim to have overthrown , Noriega could not be confirmed, and the White House said U.S. authorities, , who have tried to push him out for nearly two years, could not confirm it. Noriega's whereabouts were not known. . Jose Blandon, a Panamanian defec tor and former close aide to Noriega, xsaid in Washington a leader of the as sault told him by telephone Noriega ' . was wounded and captured. , He said officers intended to send - Noriega to the United States to face , drug charges, but that it would be diffi- cult because other officers in the De Soviet lawmakers reject Gorbachev plan From Associated Press reports MOSCOW President Mikhail Gorbachev suffered his first major policy defeat in the 4-month-old Soviet legislature Tuesday when it rejected his call for an emergency ban on work ers new right to strike. But Gorbachev told lawmakers he was satsified with a compromise that imposes a selective ban on strikes in critical industries. He said it would "help restore a normal life." Gorbachev said Monday that he wanted a ban on all strikes for the next 15 months to prevent anarchy from overwhelming the shaky Soviet econ omy. 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Franklin St. Downtown Chapel Hill fense Forces, which includes the mili tary and police, also were involved in the drug trade. There were no official reports of casualties, but residents of the neigh borhood told The Associated Press of dead and wounded following hours of shooting. Troops of the U.S. Southern Com mand were put on Delta Alert, the high est level of readiness, and U.S. soldiers in combat gear took up positions only 600 yards from the barracks. President Bush told reporters in Washington: "There were rumors around that this was some American operation and I can tell you that is not true. Nobody's sure what's happening there." " A broadcast on national radio at 1 1 :30 a.m. said Noriega had been toppled, but forces loyal to him said they were "ready to give their lives" in resistance. A for decades until Gorbachev began his effort to turn the country from a dicta torship into one ruled by law. It was only last year that workers began to succeed in pressuring for change by walking off the job. It was the first time the new Supreme Soviet legislature stood up to the gov ernment and opted for its own policy, though it had previously rejected sev eral Cabinet nominees. The legislature's display of independence was particu larly significant because it came on a package of emergency measures. The compromise resolution, adopted by a vote of 364-6, prohibits strikes in the transport, energy, raw materials and metallurgy industries, but only until the legislature passes a detailed law defin ing the right to strike. That could be as soon as Monday, I . I I I ,. I .1 I I mi. I mil .11 I 2Ji33Il3S32'i TD1EP 'of TOi Days or Weeks for your Eyeglasses? 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Moises Giraldi Vega, head of the Urraca battalion that handles security at Defense Forces headquar ters. From the U.S. Southern Command's Quarry Heights post less than a mile the next session of the full legislature. Nearly half the articles in the strike law were approved Tuesday. The more controversial sections, which have yet to face floor debate, would ban strikes that threaten human life or health, as well as any aimed at overthrow of the government or viola tion of ethnic equality. It also would ban strikes in the transportation, com munications, energy and defense in dustries, and among civil servants. The draft also requires arbitration before a strike and allows the Supreme Soviet or its ruling Presidium to halt or delay strikes. It also says those found responsible for a strike can be fired and fined up to three months' pay to help cover economic damages. It does not define responsibility, leaving open the possibility that managers who fail to Repeal of From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON House members moved toward a likely repeal vote on catastrophic health insurance Tuesday after months of criticism from elderly Americans upset with bearing the costs. Although the program, the first major expansion of Medicare in two decades, was enacted just a year ago in a rush of bipartisan fervor, its main House pro ponents acknowledged heading into Tuesday's sundown showdown that the best they hoped for was to salvage a sliver of the new benefits. As with most major legislation, however, the final resolution awaited negotiations with the Senate, which is expected to deal with the political hot potato on its own later in the week. At stake were significant new hospi tal and doctor-bill benefits for 33 mil lion elderly and disabled Americans covered by Medicare. 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Javier Licona of the cavalry and Capt. Jesus George Balma of the special forces. resolve labor disputes could be held as guilty as strike Jeaders. All of these points still await debate. The adopted emergency resolution also permits the country's ministries of interior, defense and transport to guar antee operation of the railroads in Armenia and Azerbaijan if necessary to get rail traffic moving again to Armenia. Strikers in Azerbaijan motivated by ethnic demands created a virtual eco nomic blockade of Armenia by inter fering with shipments on the main rail and road lines to the neighboring re public. Armenia and Azerbaijan are locked in a conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has also been hit by lengthy strikes. Trains ship about 80 percent of the goods Armenia receives. Medicare expansion looks likely Many of the benefits do not take effect until January. The cry for repeal came from three quarters: retirees who complained their for mer employers were already giving them additional benefits they were being forced to purchase from Medicare; upper income retirees who objected to having to pay a disproportionate share of the costs - in the form of an income tax surcharge to make up for a more modest assessment on the esti mated 56 percent of Medicare benefici aries who don't have enough money to owe any income taxes; and those who complained that the program did not address the main need of elderly Americans: insurance for nursing home and other long-term care, a benefit that many studies have said would be as much as 10 times as costly. 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Call 933-6316 Refugees try to break through West German embassy gates From Associated Press reports PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia Some East Germans were left blood spattered and unconscious at the West German Embassy Tuesday as nearly 300 of the most desperate fought police, broke through barri cades and scaled a fence in their bid for freedom. "This is pandemonium," said a Red Cross assistant helping injured refugees on the embassy grounds. Officials closed the embassy early Tuesday, leaving nearly 1,000 people stranded outside the baroque Lobkowicz Palace that houses it. Between 4,000 and 5,000 people, including some 1 ,500 children, were packed into the compound at the time, and Red Cross officials feared sanitation problems. Shortly after noon, the despera tion peaked. Witnesses saw groups of newcomers rush toward the fence of the compound, which was blocked by a police barricade. When police tried to stop them, the refugees pulled down the barri cade. Police resorted to their trun cheons. "They clubbed like mad," a Czechoslovakian eyewitness re ported. Visit focuses on trade issues WASHINGTON President Bush and Mexican President Carlos Salinas De Gortari on Tuesday pledged mutual trust and understand ing on cross-boundary issues, agree ing to conduct trade negotiations and to clean up Mexico City and Tijuana pollution. To mark Salinas' visit to Wash ington, the two governments signed seven agreements on trade, the envi ronment, investments and tourism. Bush said the agreements "are concrete examples of how our ad- less inclined to pursue even more costly programs for the elderly in the future, "Future programs are going to have to be more carefully considered," House Speaker Thomas Foley told reporters shortly before debate began on the proposal to repeal catastrophic health insurance. Earlier, he had described a "mood of frustration" as settling over House health policy leaders. Indeed, Rep. Fortney Stark, D-Calif., a major force behind the catastrophic program, said Monday, "I think they (lawmakers) feel they'd just like to get rid of this annoyance and they certainly are going to be very skeptical when I come to them in the future with a bill to help the senior citizens." He said catastrophic care supporters "lost the information battle" to groups that preyed on the fears of the elderly. "It's very easy to take very fragile, very insecure seniors who are easily confused and confuse them even further." News in Brief ministrations have worked closely together during the last 10 months. They show what can and must be done to make relations between our two great nations even closer than they are today." Salinas also cheered for a close relationship, but said his primary goal in facilitating U.S. investment in Mexico was to "open up additional sources of employment in Mexico for Mexicans." Angolan factions meet in U.S. WASHINGTON Angola's Marxist government and the U.S. armed rebels opposing it are waging their battle in Washington's public relations arena this week. The Bush administration is hold ing open house for both sides, sched uling meetings with Angolan For eign Minister Pedro van Dunem despite the absence of diplomatic relations with his government and a White House visit with President Bush for Jonas Savimbi, leader of the Angolan rebels. In addition, the administration is urging Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko to pay a quick visit to Washington this week, in hopes of arranging a reconciliation meeting with Savimbi. Mobutu, who has helped funnel U.S. arms to Savimbi's Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNJTA), appears to have shifted his allegiance in recent weeks, openly supporting Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. The U.S. diplomatic efforts are designed to head off a final collapse of Zairean-mediated truce accords reached last June. The income tax surcharge ranges up to $800 this year for Medicare-eligible people in upper income ranges. The Congressional B udget Of fice said about 6 percent of the 33 million people covered would be hit with the maxi mum. Most of the 15 million or so Ameri cans who would be subject to the sur charge at all would pay much less $15 per $150 of tax liability this year. The additional cost for the majority of those covered by Medicare: $4 per month. Both the flat monthly premium and the surtax, officially called a "sup plemental premium" would increase in future years. Whoever won the "information battle" mentioned by Stark, there was no question that House members were inundated with mail urging them to repeal the program and almost none urging them to keep it. Rep. Steve Gunderson, R-Wis., il lustrated that point in a brief speech explaining his intention to vote for repeal even before formal debate be gan. 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