New Hampshire Daily; New Hampshire Daily Episode from 1/26/1990

Major funding for fresh air is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support comes from the listeners of W h y y in Philadelphia where fresh air is produced. This is NPR National Public Radio and this is member supported New Hampshire Public Radio eighty nine point one eighty nine point one in Concord Manchester operating on translator w 2 1 2 A F in Nashua at ninety point three. Programming on New Hampshire Public Radio is made possible in part by a grant from Merrimack County Savings Bank downtown Concord New Hampshire. Stay tuned for New Hampshire daily hosted tonight by Leslie Bennett and 5:30 it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from National Public Radio. Carwash Nabi will be in at 7:00 with classical music and then later jazz. Here's a look at the weather for tonight we'll have snow up in the north country one to three inches mixed rain snow changing to snow with a light cumulation. Elsewhere in the state then clearing skies most 23 to 30 up north 18 to 23 in other parts of the state. Saturday mostly sunny highs 30 to 35

in the north country 35 to 40. Elsewhere except along the coast of only be going to be around 40 degrees along the coast Saturday night mostly clear lows in the teens 18 to 23 degrees along the coast. And on Sunday a 30 percent chance of morning flurries up north and partly sunny and windy highs in the 30s elsewhere mostly sunny and windy. Highs 40 to 45 degrees. Extended forecast Fairweather Monday through Wednesday for New Hampshire. Saturday and Sunday nights we have folk music here on WVO I hope you'll join us for that. From 8 to 12 Saturday and 10 to 12 on Sunday. For New Hampshire Public Radio this is New Hampshire daily for Friday January 26 1990. I'm Leslie Bennett. On today's program I'll talk with the North Country's John Harrigan arts producer Philip Bragg

in reviews a show at the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. And Margaret landsman reports Claes surprisingly enough is alive. We choose to define life. Based on what we see now. And we don't have the imagination to extend those criterion back to things that are much much simpler. For example. Everybody admits I don't know if I'm solo or a human I want to like. First the news. From National Public Radio News in Washington I'm Frank stay show. Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of a Colombian jetliner which crashed into a suburban hillside near New York killing at least 66 people aboard. There was no explosion when the Avianca Airlines flight 52 from Bogota crashed last night in heavy fog on its second approach to New York's Kennedy Airport. At least 85 people survived. NTSB investigator Lee Dickinson viewed the crash scene from a helicopter to get a better perspective when wrapped in a helicopter and there are a lot of large shelters in the area and we were a

little surprised that none of the other houses were really damaged. It didn't look like that there's any damage to the houses and it did come down and one of these. He will do is get a better understanding of hitting the final how it finally came down to just the gentleness part of the analysis the investigation is is it unfolds as we do more work because there was no fire it appears the plane was out of fuel when it went down but it's not clear whether the plane ran dry or whether the pilot jettison the fuel when he realized he was going to crash. A federal judge in Miami has denied bond for ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega. We get details from John Paris of W I N Z in Miami. Court was in session for less than an hour. This because Noriega's defense attorneys essentially refused to participate in the hearing. They're invoking the Geneva Convention to claim that Noriega is a prisoner of war during some oral arguments presented to a federal judge William Hoover. They referred numerous times to prisoner of war Manual Noriega. They did not take part in the bond hearing during which the U.S. government outlined the reasons it believes Noriega should be held without bond.

When it came time for Noriega defense attorney Frank Rubino to respond to the government's allegations he merely responded with Noriega's name rank and serial number. With that the judge said he had little decision to make other than to hold Noriega without bond or National Public Radio. I'm John Paris. Five European countries today assess the damage caused by yesterday's hurricane force winds that left more than 80 people dead. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports. Twenty five people were killed and after counting when. Then lashing rain tore off roofs knocked down scaffolding and fast windows the storm overturned cars and trucks and numerous that were caused by falling tree limbs. It is true clung to one another to keep from falling at London's Heathrow Airport. An empty 747 jumbo jet was blown off the runway in France and people were reported killed by the storm. The problem well nuclear power plant was immediately shut down after the 60 foot reactor chimney was blown off. In Holland the killer winds or across the flat low lands killing

33 people and causing billions of dollars in damage. Sylvia Poggioli reporting the United States said today lifting the state of emergency in Haiti would be only a first step toward repairing the political damage caused by a six day crackdown on the opposition. On Wall Street the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell almost two points to close at twenty five fifty nine twenty three. This is NPR News. More world and national news later on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. This is New Hampshire daily Good afternoon. I'm Leslie Bennett. It's after five o'clock and the House Appropriations Committee is still working on completing its budget proposal for the state. The committee had said today at 5 o'clock as a deadline in order to expedient the process of the state's budget for the next two years. And in order to allow printing of the budget so lawmakers can review it before next Thursday session even though the committee worked until nearly midnight last night trying to balance the budget. It appears as if the state will still be in the red when the proposal is completed. Some committee members say the budget could be short by as

much as 80 million dollars next Monday the House Ways and Means Committee will begin working on proposed taxes on beer cigarettes and telephone bills. New Hampshire Savings Bank Corporation the state's fourth largest bank holding company has announced losses of nearly 55 million dollars for one thousand eighty nine. The Corporation says it had a net loss of nearly 19 million dollars in the last quarter of last year. It attributes the slide to attempts during the year to offset losses at its lead bank. New Hampshire Savings Bank Michael Ketchum Vice President of Investor Relations says the average bank customer won't be affected by the losses. However he acknowledged that the corporation is going through some tough times to curb losses the company says it will consolidate its two New Hampshire savings bank branches in Portsmouth and shrink its assets by paying off some of its debts. Last year the bank reduced its workforce by about 70 people. New Hampshire Savings Bank Corp. with assets of 1.4 billion dollars is headquartered in

Concord. Its affiliates include Rockingham County Trust Company Seeburg Bank and Trust Company in New Hampshire savings bank south. The man who oversees the State employee pension fund says New Hampshire's banking commissioner is unfairly criticizing the system and doesn't know what he's talking about. Charles Baldwin chairman of the Board of Trustees of the 1.3 billion dollar retirement system said Roland Robur just charges are false. Baldwin said Robert is distorting the facts in pursuit of some private and unspecified agenda. Roberts claims an audit shows the system's 48 million dollar real estate investment portfolio lost a total of nine point four million dollars. However David told him and president of the company that manages the portfolio says the loss was five hundred and seventy four thousand dollars. Governor Judd Gregg said this week that an investigation by his office found nothing wrong in the 43000 member fund. A talk with a north country connection. John Harrigan.

That's next on New Hampshire daily programming on New Hampshire Public Radio was made possible in part by a grant from Capital Bank serving central New Hampshire since 1860. Every week we take a moment to look up to the North Country and check in with the editor of the co-op's County Democrat John Harrigan. Thanks for joining us this afternoon. Hey Leslie how come I think it's a week off and you and I don't well I know John he didn't pick a good weekend to go away remember that. OK. It's raining outside. WE SHOULD I think we still got a better deal here. Yeah I have I am invited also. Is again shooting a game of Porto and not crowd tonight we've got a state legislator and a fish and game day a biologist and a couple of guys from a printing friend and a couple of guys from the paper mills and the nice thing about a pool table is that everybody's the same. Everybody's the same except for those that can play. Right right. Getting to the paper I noticed on the top of this week's edition a rhyme that goes just when the winter is comfortably seated

rain melt snow and we all feel cheated. How is the rain out there is it causing any major problems. It is with me I've got a well white fluffy variety and it is coming down hard enough to cause problems for other people. I think we talked earlier about the fact that Lancaster was trying to put in a temporary bridge to get traffic around the reconstruction of its only bridge downtown and it's used to be called a Bailey Bridge it comes up sort of like an erector set of much of tinker toy pieces and you have to put a pad in the middle of another and then set the thing up and they get all set to do that when the rain began to fall and I think they decided not to get the piece the pieces of the bridge back out of a bad it's a good thing. So now all you've got is a bunch of pieces of bridge lying around and no one to put them up. Yeah that's for sure. It's probably not going back a couple of weeks. But you know rant this time of year is a disaster for ski areas. Even the ones that have made a lot of snow really feel it's swallows all things so some people say some weather is good and some is bad while it's always bad to somebody and that somebody else.

What is the rain good for up there is it good for anybody. I think I don't really think so it's going to run off because the ground frozen solid isn't really going to be saved up for next year. It's just this is not the time yet to get rain it really depresses everybody. Taking a look at the paper this week the editorial and letters page of the Democrat touches on a few issues that are important there one in particular is familiar to the people down here as well that is Frank in the famous old man in the mountain. What about it is controversial. Well it's a kind of a pet peeve up here that we spent 70 million dollars to quote improve a nice rug and now we can go can't go as fast on it is we used to be able to speak. Used to be 50 I was 55 and I think it was 50 and now it's posted at a very. Congress stayed respectful reverence for the environment forty five. Wow. That's OK if you're some a terrorist and you're not there to look at the oh man the first time in your life but the people that you really need to use the notches. It's really ridiculous and the road is designed it would be easily be a 55 or 60. So I kind of have a little fun with the CEO this week and said you know

why spend 7 million bucks for a slow route. But most people would just wonder why it makes a law breaker out of everybody. Nobody really adheres to 45 miles an hour you feel like you can a guy in can is there any possibility of changing that speed limit anybody any activist organizations that are getting involved now just just your typical loud mouth attitude. That's me. I popped off about it on the editorial page and I sent copy down a lolly Stickney and I read Brighton and my friend just and we had a little fun with it and see if maybe we can get it. Just That's the nice thing about this. The society you can you can make a little noise and once a lot somebody will do something maybe they won't this time. They usually don't they don't listen to newspaper editors anyway so I will say an editorial on the same page but a little bit further down and to the left talks about snowmobilers making it makes a pretty strong statement about a few individuals. It's that age old few bad apples in the barrel seem to be causing some major problems for what's been a popular and well organized sport. From what I understand for the last 30 years

what is going on up there with the snowmobilers two main problems. Well Leslie first of all a lot of kids somebody just made a good shot here that was the yelling a lot of kids get some ideas from parents who buy them just for a babysitting toy and I never instruct them in any sort of ethics or respect for the neighbors our safety so you have that element running around town getting off the trails and taking the mufflers off and really making life miserable for neighbors and that gives some building a bad name and all the nice snowmobiling really hates that kind of thing to happen to see it happen. And the on the other on the flip side you have a lot of people in in the Nashua Manchester Concord and to be sure Boston area who have just discovered in quotes the sport of snowmobiling and they sunk an amazing amount of money into full drive rigs with trailers and for five a famously expensive snowmachines annex. Going up and running all over the countryside not having been in and dealing with any of the rules or the sextet the organized style of dealers work so had to set up a scant 10 to

15 years ago and between the two of those factions you really are starting to generate some very negative thoughts about snowmobiling and spits very unfair because it's a heck of a good bunch of people it's just too bad that this is happening. Their last summer is a perfect example of a lot of jet ski bands that came into effect a lot a lot of talk about that do you see that possibly happening. I don't think so Leslie because snowmobilers I very organized in the 99 percent of the net that I real good neighbors can see the danger that they're really worried about it so they don't do anything. An air power to the crowd. These renegade people that are that are giving the sport a black eye. A jet ski is just an organized and it's a new thing a sort of like a T these were 10 years ago. And in fact the TV people did finally get organized and have started to clean their act up. So I think Justin is going to take it on the chin until until something like that happens. Now for those people heading up 93 at this moment you have an opportunity to mention a

few nice words of wisdom that you can pass along. What would they be the people. Yeah for those that have got their jet skis in the back and four wheel drive vehicles on the snowmobile. Yes I guess maybe that's the best thing I could I could tell him or ask him to do was to stay on the trail. Get off an established trail because you're going to cause problems. And secondly join a club because that's the best way to keep the sport healthy and keep it going and avoid having it stepped on by society which ultimately will step on it if the Renegades I've gotten into the fold. Last week you and Martin spoke about the legalization of drugs editorial that you wrote in the paper and this week you published a few responses to your letter some on the positive and some on the negative one that said it really stinks do you have any rebuttal for that I don't know if you have rebuttals in your paper or if you're allowed to do that but you can do it here. Well I try to avoid rebutting letters to the editor because then you know the people who write the letters will say well you know the editor always has the last say. So we just run home and you know I think if

we sick actions out of the week and I I get my say and I'm going to give the letter writer his say and that's what makes it so much fun. One of them said I guess what do you call ME an idiot. Whatever he called me. That's fine at least he cares enough to write and cares enough about the issues so you know it's going to make sure I was putting a paper out Leslie to have a good to write me letters exchange and that's that's great what that's what the country's all about. Well we'll be looking for next week's exchange John. Thanks a lot. OK see you then. OK. A report on clay as living matter. That's next on New Hampshire daily. Mud generally not a highly regarded material. Yet it may be the stuff from which life is made. A Dartmouth College professor will explain more and talk at the museum in early February. Margaret landsman has this preview. Mike may conjure up images of wet muck but change its name to clay

which is what mud is and to a scientist you've got a whole nother ball game. Robert Reynolds a professor of earth sciences at Dartmouth College says Clay is a lot more complex than most people dream. Everybody when they look at mud they don't think it's very fascinating when you look at this material through a microscope you see that it's actually beautifully crystalline But unlike a lot of the crystals that we're used to seeing and loving in museums that are pretty with nice sharp faces. Clay minerals are filled with mistakes that is to say the regular atomic arrangement that we come to recognize as the true Crystal is botched up. And sometimes these mistakes occur in patterns. And the pattern of those mistakes tells us something about the history that the clay mineral went through before it gets in the state that we see it when it's in our laboratory. Those mistakes allow someone like Reynolds who has a specialty in clay mineralogy to read the geological history of primitive earth. There are hundreds of different kinds. Some are bright green red yellow white and they're formed when water and rocks interact in a

certain temperature in our says Reynolds continuously remade as the environment changes. We know that sediment started out on the floor of the ocean and they get buried deeply and sometimes are uplifted for mountain ranges. Well during that passage the clay is moved from the bottom of the ocean to a burial depth of maybe five miles and then it's been uplifted and exposed to the elements on the side of a Himalayan peak and the clays change each time they go through these different environments so the character of the clay is in a sense an index of all of the environments it's passed through as well as. It's starting materials that made it. What kind of water what kind of rocks. What are the temperatures on this says Reynolds researchers agree. They also agree that clays can serve as catalysts for chemical reactions. About 20 years ago a Scottish molecular geneticist named Graham Cairns-Smith and Hyman Hartmann his American colleague from MIT developed a revolutionary theory about those crystalline

patterns in the clays that influence a given clays ability to catalyze. The idea is just beginning to gain water acceptance. The theory Reynolds explains says the patterns represent information a lot like the DNA and RNA genetic codes and life forms that we know. The scientists argue that a clay crystal can grow and replicate in a very simple form like a human cell passing on to the next generation of clay Crystal its unique abilities. For example its ability to catalyze organic matter into petroleum. Reynolds says acceptance of this theory means acceptance of clay is something a lot of. If you think if you start thinking about a clay as something that's alive as long as it's suspended in the water column and absorbing nutrients or in this case nutrients or silicon oxygen elements growing that way as long as it's in the water column it's alive because it's replicating. It's passing on any talents that it actually has to its progeny if it falls to the sea floor. It's buried in high temperature

rechristen Eliza's it and destroys the genetic message this idea. I think the hard problem I'm having here is the idea that Clay is is living matter. So I have to say it sounds crazy but the problem there is that we choose to define life based on what we see now. And we don't have the imagination to extend those criterion back to things that are much much simpler. For example everybody admits that an elephant is alive or a human. How about a lichen growing on a rock. It takes of an abstraction of faith to say that things alive because it's so much different from you. You see what I mean. Then the question is Fessor Ronald's what defines life. That's a good question and that's why people argue endlessly about that. Well I don't surly don't know the answer all you can't really define life or you can say is that that living things share certain status certain structures and or processes.

What makes this theory important says Reynolds is it helps explain how the first living cell was made. How the components of that first cell got organized something no one has explained scientifically until Karen Smith came along. He points out that if you look at a single cell. Contains many many complements every one of which depends on the other. So how can this happen naturally. You can't put the ten story on a building before the first is built. You see what I mean. And that's the organizing force that we're talking about so he says what we need is is a much simpler system that works like life. That served as a scaffolding and served as an AS A. It's hard to think of the right word serve as a way for the evolution of life until. The complications of DNA RNA cell machinery had been achieved sufficiently so that this primitive life form was obsolete and vestigial and disappeared

at that point we have Life As We Know It. The theory also suggests that where there are rocks water and certain temperatures on a given planet there's the potential for life. It's hard to prove. Like Darwinian evolution says Ronald's Cairns-Smith can't sit in a laboratory and start a valving clay. Karen Smith's idea believes the Dartmouth professor will one day be remembered the same way as Darwin's his lecture scheduled for Tuesday night Feb. 6 at the munch our museum in Norwich Vermont for news. I'm Margaret landsman. The medium of pastel comes of age in the works of New Hampshire artist Elizabeth Johansen producer Philip Bragg and has this review of Johnson's work at the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. Artists Excel for different reasons. Each successful artist must be competent in all the elements design composition line format cetera even an abstract artist must be able to draw the human form accurately and competently. In the case of Elizabeth Johansen the

artist excels in the balanced use of light and color are clearly executed still lifes in pastel and pencil speak of her love and understanding of shape and form and their manipulation by light in color. Her careful knitting together of these elements testifies to her excitement and enthusiasm for the visual experience. Through the 3rd of March the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences will present an exhibition of drawings and pastels by Johansen as an instalment in their three part women artists of New Hampshire series. A stroll through the exhibition which is very nicely displayed in the recently renovated gallery space at the art center reveals a dramatic aspect of the show. And that's just how much an artist can grow in a short space of time. Johnson's work has maturity at an astonishing rate in the last five years from technically well-executed still lives in rather clunky settings to lively thoroughly integrated rhythmic creations that exude a sense of mood. Spending emotions from for volatility to quiet reflection all with the use of objects says Monday in his

tea pots and cardboard boxes. It is Joe Hansen's business to take objects of no intrinsic emotional value or character and transform them through art into compositions with deep surges of fervent energy. Although Johanson works in an almost hyper realistic idiom her pieces stand out as abstract art. The objects are exciting for their shape and form and depth and not necessarily for their literal meaning Johannsen sense of color is outstanding especially when you consider her medium. The Pastel crayon has become very sophisticated in recent years. No longer is pastel synonymous with floral hues and sentimental shades the pastel can be as bright and piercing as the thickest layer of oil paint and in the hands of Johanson the shades of color awakened into sharp and Crystal intense that defy not just the texture of the object but the position of the shape in the overall composition. A fine example of Johanson is mastery of our technique is one from a couple of years ago called zigzag rock and roll. This is a lively ruckus. Still Life with no one object

dominating viewed from the edge of the table at eye level against a pale yellow backdrop. The artist has placed various objects on a black cloth cascading over the table's edge some brightly colored cardboard boxes a pewter teapot a pink rubber ball with white stars some blue marbles lots of brightly striped surfaces and a comical strand of ribbon springing to and fro in amongst the colors the colors the lightness the shapes and the textures all identify this painting as a light hearted statement one that seems to have grown out of our youthful amusement in one's own self discoveries into Henson's more recent pieces ones done within the last year. There's a somewhat more mature and reserved quality rather than brightly wrapped packages rubber balls and ribbons. We find the objects of an adult's world teapots European coffee makers cups saucers and no ribbons at all the hues are more interior evening colors obscure mysterious backgrounds with incandescent brightness coming forth out of the darkness in the form of a peeled orange or red tablecloth. In still life with French coffee pot

blue and black cloth comes tumbling out of the darkness of the background reflecting itself in one of those cylindrical glass and silver coffee pots with the plungers. Dull blue mug mimics the darkness and depth of the cloth while stunning white mugs reflect the glass and silver pot as a buffer between the two or some peeled and unpeeled oranges placed strategically in neutral ground. And these are all set off by reading Green Ribbon lounging over the surface of the table. The exhibition also includes several black and white pencil drawings of still lives as well as a stunning self portrait although these drawings are well thought out interesting compositions they pale by comparison to the colorful pastel pieces and I mean that in a literal sense. This is an exciting show for several reasons the artist has obviously just come through an extremely fertile period in her artistic life and it's everywhere evident in this exhibition. These are also some of the best still lifes I've seen in New Hampshire. Catch this one while you can. The artist is going places pretty fast drawings and pastels by Elizabeth Johansen will remain on view

at the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences through the 3rd of March. Reporting for WEO This is Philip Bragg in arts reports by Philip Bragg dinner made possible by grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Business news is next on New Hampshire daily. Good evening this is Stephen McRae reporting from the offices of PaineWebber in Concord. The stock market kept its worst week since last October's many crash with a volatile session during which prices rallied and then plunged before closing with modest losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average which swung between a twenty two point gain and a thirty eight point loss as the day progressed went down one point eight one to two thousand five hundred fifty nine point twenty three. There were five hundred fifty issues advancing 948 declining and Fortran 67 unchanged volume total totals 198 million shares compared with one hundred seventy two million million shares yesterday. Look at stocks of local interest American

Telephone thirty nine and one eighth down to digital seventy six and one eighth also down to IBM ninety six and seven eighths up one and nine x eighty one in three eights down one eighth and summary the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at two thousand five hundred fifty nine down two points on a volume of one hundred ninety eight million shares. This is Steven McRae reporting from PaineWebber in Concord. Have a nice evening. This weather report is made possible in part by a grant from Johnson and its fuel core suppliers a burrito petroleum products throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. Rain continued across all of the Granite State during the afternoon and additional rainfall up to one half of an inch was reported. So far the snow pack has been able to absorb all rainfall with very little runoff into rivers and small streams. A cold front will continue to move east and out into the Atlantic by this evening. Rainfall will be ending from west to east with a few spots experiencing snow flurries. Some of the higher elevations will receive one

to three inches of snow before clearing by midnight. Improving weather is in store for tonight. Showers will change to flurries as colder weather works its way into New Hampshire and skies will partially clear overnight. High pressure is forecast to build over new to build over new hang New England which will give us a mostly sunny day on Saturday. Looking ahead to Sunday mostly sunny expected along with brisk winds the extended forecast a fair weather Monday through Wednesday. Daily highs in the lower to middle 30s overnight lows in the single numbers north to the teens south that's New Hampshire daily for Friday January 26 1990. I'm Leslie Bennett the music for New Hampshire daily was created by war Delmore the engineer for today's program Paul Jimerson. Programming on New Hampshire Public Radio is made possible in part by a grant from attorneys Carolyn Baldwin and Richard to say practicing in the areas of zoning land use and environmental law in their offices at the

market place in Concord and by craft appraisal associates with offices in Bedford in Portsmouth New Hampshire providing real estate valuations market analyses and feasibility studies. And by New Hampshire College committed to providing career opportunities in business for over 50 years. All things considered is next. It's 29 minutes after five o'clock. I'm Scott Simon. Tomorrow on NPR's WEEKEND EDITION we'll visit the Board of Trade. There's concern that stricter federal regulations could change the way in which they do business there. Dr. Jeffrey Martin is the retired keeper of records for the United Kingdom will talk about the Doomsday Book the first ever take in its world. All of that tomorrow on NPR's WEEKEND EDITION. That's tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. All things considered is funded by WEO and other NPR member stations and by contributors to the

NPR news and information fund including the European community 12 democracies working to build a united Europe the William Bingham foundation crafts General Foods corporation providing food and beverage products around the world. And Jennifer and Ted Stanley. Day two now for all things considered it's 5:30. The opposition in East Germany offers a deal in this half hour of All Things Considered. If the cabinet of communist prime minister Hans Moto agrees to renounce party membership the opposition will join a coalition continuing ethnic problems in cost of a province of Yugoslavia a former Romanian intelligence officer says the secret police there is still in place and would

help bring a communist government to power and audience opens in Washington D.C. The playwright is the president of Czechoslovakia heat the religious ideas in between the lines so you cannot directly say hey listen guys it is against you. So you have to listen very kind of fully you know you have to get the message first a news update from National Public Radio News in Washington I'm Bill Bradley. Manuel Noriega has claimed status as a prisoner of war under the Geneva Convention and he is asking to be moved to a neutral third country to avoid facing federal drug charges in Miami. The claim was mailed to President Bush a copy of the letter was contained in a motion filed in federal court by the former Panamanian dictator's lawyer Frank Rubino Rubino filed a motion to get Noriega out of the United States. Moments before a scheduled pretrial detention hearing more yoga was taken out of January.