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Morley Wants Council To OK Extension
BY EVAN G. LAMBROU
Ogdensburg City Manager John
Rrol believes there is no room in
the 1990 budgst for housing developments like Andrew Morley's
White Birch Estates expansion, but
he says-city council will make the
final decision on whether to include
the project in the city's capital improvements project list.
The city council agreed during its
budget deliberations to wait until
after January 1 before deciding
what projects to undertake this
year.
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Morley wants city council to
agree>to pay for half of the water,
sewage and street extension on
White Birch Estates.
But Morley and his wife Ann,
who is also his partner* said the
city should at least consider their
proposal before making any decisions on capital improvements.
Morley submitted a request to
add 12 lots oh some 20 acres of
property he owns southwest of
Proctor Avenue, but the city staff is
recommending that he wait until
next year.
Krol said Morley has to wait for
two reasons. First, there are other
projects, like storm-sewage drainage separation, with higher priority, and second, Sperling's filed a,
request to extend some streets on
Paddock; Street before Morley's
company did.
Now Morley has two options, the
city manager added. He can go
ahead and develop his property
himself, or he can wait until the
city is able to pay for half of the
s t r e e t e x t e n s i o n Morley i s
proposing.
"We haven't said no to Andy. We
just deferred it until the city can afford to help him. We haven't even
done anything about Sperling's,
and they're ahead of him in line,"
Krol said.
Morley's wife, who is the treasurer of their company, Northern
Star Development, said she does
not understand why Northern Star
h a s t o wait in line b e h i n d
Sperling's.
"We understand- if the city has
other capital improvements to
make, but when they finish those,
why can't they do both Sperling's
and us together? The kind of property we build is for upper-income
people, and there's a demand for it
right now. We shouldn't have to
wait for the demand to pass us by,"
she said.
"We heard there is a dispute between the city and Sperling's that
stems from their agreement back in
1977. We don't know exactly what
that's all about, but We haven't given the city any problems, and'
we*re ahead of schedule in paying
them back. We should at least .be
considered right along with Sper-
ling's," she added.
"We have an ongoing agreement
with the city. The first ten lots we
opened were the first phase of that
agreement. Now we want to open
12 new lots. That's the second
phase, The whole plan was to subdivide the property with 30 lots, so
we bought the property with that in
mind. Now they're telling us we'
have to wait for Sperling's. That's
not fair," she explained.
The city manager confirmed that
the city has still not been paid back
by Sperling's for the last time the
city assisted them with a housing
development.
"But that's in the process of being resolved," Morley said.
The dispute, Krol said, is not terribly significant.
"Sperling's owes the city less
than $10,000. Exactly how much
they owe still needs to be figured
out. The reason for that is because
Sperling's contract has some ambiguity," he said.
"It was one of the first, if not the
first, agreement where the city
pays for a portion of the street extension. It's ten years old, The one
we have with Morley is more stable
because we had a chance to learn
from trial and error," he said.
The city has a 50-50 policy for
housing development, which basically pays for half the street extension on any project.
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military tribunal and executed
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Christmas Day for "genocide" and
Government television today other crimes. They were captured
showed the bodies of former Presi- Saturday, a day after a popular updent Nicolae Ceausescu and his rising forced them from power.
"We are people carried away by a
wife after they were executed by a
firing squad, and Romanians, rejo- pvery spontaneous process," fliescu
iced at word of the Communist dic- told French television. "So there
was a general demand which
tator's death.
The new provisional government pushed us to follow this process,
today appointed its leader, Ion H- first of all under the pressure of the
iescu, as chairman of the 37-mem- terrorist groups who wanted to free
ber governing council. The govern- p him."
ment also named a prime minister." *The new prime minister, Petre
The videotape showed the Ceau- Roman, told the network the trisescus' bullet-riddled bodies lying bunal sentenced Ceausescu to
against a wall after an earlier sequ- death because officials had inform
ence of the couple in captivity. A mation "concerning possible at1
close-up shpwed Ceausescu lying ' tacks on the place where he was."
By trying the couple, putting
with blood' on the right side of his
them to death swiftly and showing
head.
_
,The actual shooting by fifing the bodies, the revolutionary govsquad was not; shown, nor was its ernment apparently was trying to
persuade Ceausescu's ruthless seclocation disclosed.
Ceausescu, 7 1 , and his wife; urity troops to surrender to the
Elena,,-74.^ere: teed»bx^^sfijjreir- ;^rmX(ayJ»lojjJoing4:fei- BftSPlS M/Te^
volt. Thousands have been killed
since the revolt began 11 days ago.
The new government' blamed
Ceausescu for the deaths of 60,000
people. It did not specify whether
the deaths occurred during his
24-year tenure or during the revolution. Previous reports said as
many as 80,000 died in recent
fighting in some of the fiercest
street battles since World War II.
The military tribunal said the
Ceausescus also were convicted of
undermining the nation and its economy and attempting to flee with
more than $1 billion plundered
from the people and stashed in
foreign banks.
This morning, an uneasy calm
prevailed in Bucharest with no
snooting to be heard for the first
time in days and, according to the
radio and Romanian sources, Ceausescu loyalist forces were surrendering en masse.
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US Troops Launch Assault
a Loyalist Posts
By JOSEPH B . FRAZIER
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) —
More than 400 troops loyal to Gen.
Manuel Antonio Noriega were captured in airborne assaults and scattered combat erupted overnight
throughout parts of the capital,
U.S. military spokesmen said
today.
Noriega remained in the Vatican
Embassy after seeking asylum on
Christmas Eve. The United States
has demanded his surrender to face
U.S. drug charges, but church authorities refused. Spain has denied
political asylum, and there was no
new word about where he might go.
Army Lt. Col. Jerry Murgia said
440 Noriega loyalist troops and about the same number of weapons
were captured in airborne assaults
Monday on David, 200 miles to the
west, and La Palnia, just southwest
of Panama City.
He also said Noriega's intelliegence chief, Col. Guillermo Wong,
CHRISTMAS BABY — T h e A. Barton Hepburn Hospital Jhad just one Christmas baby born
a t the hospital C h r i s t m a s day. T r a c y DeLorenzo, B\. 1, Rensselaer Falls, gave birth to a
By VICTOR L. SIMPSON
VATICAN, CITY (AP) — The
Vatican avoided a quick decision on
what to do with Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega but said fighting in Panama would likely end now that
the ousted strongman has taken refuge in i t s embassy in Panama
City.
In the Vatican's first official
statement since Noriega sought refuge in t h e embassy on Sunday,
spokesman Joaquin Navarro said
Monday that the "concerned parties" would examine Noriega's case.
Navarro said one of the parties
was the government of Guillermo
Vatican Rules Out
Giving Us Noriega
eight-pound daughter at 12:08 p.m. Monday.
Her daughter's name is Samantha. Pictured
above DeLorenzo holds her Christmas baby.
(Mitchell Photo)
Vatican: Panama Fighting Will
Probably Stop Sooner Now
Endara, installed after the U.S. forces invaded. He declined to elaborate on the others.
• H e said it was premature to say
whether Npriega would be turned
over to the United States, where he
is wanted on drug charges, or given
passage to another country, although reports from Panama mentioned the possibility of Noriega going to Spain or Cuba.
In Madrid, Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez was quoted as saying Monday that asylum for Noriega was
the exclusive problem of the Vatican, the United States and the new
Panamanian government.
In comments to EFE, Spain's national news agency, Fernandez Ordonez was quoted a s saying, "Spain
is not the ideal country to accept
Noriega because of its extradition
agreement with the United States,
which includes drug trafficking
(cases)."
Navarro was asked by Italian
state TV, if a "simple" turnover of
Noriega to the United States was
"Well, I don't think so," said Navarro. "There isn't an extradition
treaty or anything."
By GEORGE GEDDA
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Bush administration is talking in
"tough terms" in i t s bid to convince
the Vatican to turn over deposed
Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega to face trial on drug
charges in the United States, a
source says.
But the Vatican has ruled out
simply turning oyer Noriega, who
is holed up in the Vatican Embassy
in Panama City, said spokesman
Joaquin Navarro in Rome, noting
the Holy See does not have an extradition- treaty with the United
States.
Noriega sought asylum at the
Papal Nunciature pn Sunday
afternoon.
The U.S. demand for custody of
Noriega was delivered on Monday
to the Vatican "in extraordinarily
Millions Of East European Christians
By NESHA STARCEVIC
EAST BERLIN (AP) - Millions
of Christians jammed churches in
Eastern Europe to celebrate their
first Christmas in freedom after
four decades of Communist rule,
but their thoughts also went to the
brave Romanian people.
t
In Prague, Leipzig, East Berlin
and even i n battle-ravaged Bucharest, the spirit of defiance that had
guided Eastern Europeans to their
remarkable revolutions turned into
hope for a brighter future.
The change was striking in Berlin a s people from both sides of the
technically s t i l l divided city
mingled freely, attending joint
church services for the first time
since the Berlin Wall was built 28
years ago.
East Germany on Sunday began
allowing visa^free travel by West,
Germans and thousands used the;
opportunity to cross to East Berlin
to join relatives for a Christmas
service.
.
"We had very good attendance
this year. Many people from West
Berlin came., Now we really have a
feeling of freedom," said Christiana
Winter, an East Berliner who was.
showing West Berliners around the;
surrendered Monday. Wong had
been arrested after a coup attempt
in October, but was released.
Murgia said 30,000 pounds of
emergency medical supplies had arrived in the past day and civilian
relief agencies would send workers
s t a r t i n g today to help with
redistribution.
Twenty-three American soldiers
are known to have died and
another 330 wounded, Murgia said.
The figures for the number of
wounded rose because of latearriving reports, he said. Two U.S.
dependents were killed.
Panamanian casualties were
listed as 293 killed, 123 wounded
and 4,446 captured, according to
U.S. military authorities. Panamanian doctors said more than 100 civilians were killed and hundreds
more injured.
Heavy fighting was reported
overnight near a downtown sector
where many embassies are located,
tough terms," said a State Department source.
Papal representatives have contacted several Latin American and
European countries in hopes one
will agree to accept Noriega, said
the U.S. official. He described the
situation as "a Mexican standoff."
"He has no place to go yet," the
official said. "Nobody wants him."
The Washington Post today
quoted an official, whom it did not
identify, as saying that President
Bush spoke by telephone Monday
with the papal nuncio in Panama,
Mbnsignor Juan Sebastian Laboa.
The paper did not give details on
the conversation.
Spain, Cuba and the Dominican
Republic were mentioned in the
past as possible exile sites when
Noriega's representatives were negotiating with the United States.'
Celebrate
The pope's midnight Mass was
Lutheran St* Mary's Church.
"The church gave hope during all broadcast live for the first time by
those years when there was no East German television.
hope and now we are full of hope.
In Bucharest, hundreds of faith, "This year it was important to.
speak of God's message of love so ful came to the Mitropolia Cathedthat there are no acts of revenge. ral to hear the Patriarch of the RoThe church was on the side of the manian Orthodox Church, Teocitist
weak for years and now its is im- Arapas, and Christmas carols
portant not to hate those who played on radio for the first time in
treated us unjustly," she said.
more than 40 years.
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and the building housing the Banco
General was burned. Bank officials
and U.S. soldiers said the blaze
started after American troops returned fire coming from the
building.
There also was fighting near
Sa'nto Tomas hospital close to the
American Embassy. Caches of arms
and ammunition have been found
hidden in the hospital in recent
days.
Small arms and mortar fire were
heard near the Cuban Embassy,
which was surrounded by U.S.
troops, as well as the Foreign Ministry, where the U-S.-installed govContinued On P a g e 7
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