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Eyewitnesses who spoke by telephone with Vladimir Tismaneanu, a Rumanian specialist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, said that army units in Timisoara refused to fire on the protesters. The Securitate summarily shot three army officers for disobeying orders, then sent in troops from its Special Assignment Brigade. After a barrage of warning shots, the security forces mowed down a line of children standing in front of the crowd before shooting the adults. The scene was so bloody that witnesses compared it with Tiananmen Square in Beijing, where the Chinese army crushed pro-democracy demonstrators last June...
Elsewhere, a boat filled with Noriega gunmen landed at one of the San Blas islands off Panama's Caribbean coast and took hostage eleven people working at a Smithsonian Institutions marine-research project. The group, including five Americans, was taken to the mainland and forced to march into the jungle. Next day, they were abandoned without food and finally rescued. At the international airport two terrified American women were threatened with death by a group of 30 P.D.F. soldiers, who used them as a shield against U.S. paratroopers surrounding the terminal. The two were freed just before dawn after...