Word: amado
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Shortly after a U.S.-suggested visit from Vicky Amado, the general's 35- year-old mistress, Noriega told Laboa he would leave the embassy and give himself up to American forces. He asked permission to telephone his wife, who had sought refuge in the Cuban embassy with their three daughters and who, the U.S. had told Laboa, would be allowed to fly to exile in the Dominican Republic. Proud to the end, Noriega wanted to wear his general's uniform and surrender only to a general officer. Laboa, who had outwitted his adversary, said that would be fine...
Noriega began his legal counterattack the day he arrived in Florida by refusing to enter a plea at his arraignment in U.S. district court. Dressed in a fresh uniform that was sent to him at the Vatican embassy by his mistress Vicky Amado, the general used headphones to follow the proceedings in Spanish. Defense attorney Frank A. Rubino argued that his client was immune from prosecution because he was a political prisoner who had been brought to the U.S illegally...
...homes ranging from multibedroom houses to bug-ridden shacks, and supposedly spent part of one night on the 17th floor of the Holiday Inn. On Sunday, the fifth day of the invasion, U.S. troops reportedly burst into the luxurious home of the mother of Noriega's mistress, Vicky Amado, but missed the dictator possibly by only half an hour. The Wall Street Journal stated that the Americans had been told of Noriega's whereabouts by a telephone call from Amado's teenage daughter. Amado's mother denied that U.S. troops raided her house...