Word: antonios
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...first time, Bush publicly distanced himself from Reagan. In a carefully choreographed disagreement, the Vice President implied that he would not make a deal with Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega; the Administration at the time was bumbling through yet another week of negotiations with the military dictator that would involve quashing American drug-running indictments against the Panamanian strongman if he stepped down from power. Said Bush: "I won't bargain with drug dealers . . . whether they're on U.S. or foreign soil...
After hiding for more than two months behind shuttered windows and CLOSED signs, Panama's bankers were ready for a stampede of cash-starved customers when the institutions reopened last week. With good reason: it was the first time since March 3, when the government controlled by General Manuel Antonio Noriega decreed a bank holiday, that depositors at most of the country's 120 banking institutions were allowed to make limited withdrawals. Yet the queues that curled around street corners last Monday were calm and orderly. Grunted one depositor, Roy Stone, as he waited to enter a Chase Manhattan branch...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan refused to say yesterday whether he had approved the dropping of drug charges against Panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega and defended embattled Attorney General Edwin Meese III, saying his longtime friend would live "under this cloud" if he resigned...
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...reputed to have welshed on deals before. Still, the word in Washington last week was that General Manuel Antonio Noriega had reached a tentative agreement with the Reagan Administration to step down as commander of the Panama defense forces. The terms of the agreement remain fuzzy, but White House officials hinted at one major U.S. concession: Noriega might be permitted to remain in his country. "We have said we prefer him to leave Panama," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, "but the policy issue is to leave power...