On This Day: A historical compendium of events throughout history. Police came upon Patrick Harward-Duffy, a year-old Glaswegian, at 2. Harward-Duffy had sliced one-third of the way through the trunk of the ft 23 m pine, a present from the people of Oslo who, since , have expressed their gratitude for British liberation from the Nazis by sending a tree each year.
Rawlings has given no indication of how long his Provisional Military Council will retain power, but he did remind his fellow citizens of the fact that he voluntarily returned the government to civilian rule three months after he toppled the military government of Lieutenant-General Fred Akuffo in June The two Communist countries are at loggerheads over which of them is to blame for the recent outbreaks of intense fighting along their borders.
Much of the problem seems to have its roots in the movement of Cambodians across the frontier in the Mekong Delta soon after the fall off Saigon and before the North Vietnamese could establish full control in the area. It is being trumpeted as a major improvement on the old reception facilities at the Battery on Manhattan Island and better able to cope with massive numbers of arrivals. The island is named after Samuel Ellis, who owned it in the s. Noriega fled to the embassy on Christmas Eve to escape the clutches of the US marines sent by President Bush to arrest him.
Vatican officials tried unsuccessfully to persuade Noriega to leave of his own accord, but refused to hand over Noriega directly to the marines besieging the building.
The US lost patience: Noriega and his reluctant hosts were treated to round-the-clock rock music played at full blast from loudspeakers erected by the US forces. Noriega faces prosecution in the US on drug trafficking charges. He was His collaboration with Hart began in when the two were still at Columbia University.
