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...Christmas Eve, most of Noriega's entourage had melted away. The dictator was exhausted by the chase and depressed by the defection of one of his top lieutenants, Luis del Cid, who surrendered to U.S. forces in the western province of Chiriqui rather than organize a resistance. Noriega, accompanied by two bodyguards, drove to a Dairy Queen ice-cream store in Paitilla, a commercial neighborhood of Panama City. He dialed the nunciature's number and spoke to Monsignor Laboa. As a non-American diplomat who has been in touch with Laboa paraphrased the conversation, Noriega requested sanctuary. On what grounds...
...full Cabinet, and in other ways he is all too obviously dependent on his American protectors. In fact, Endara suffered from telling, if unintentional, slights. His first television address to the nation was preceded onscreen by a U.S. Defense Department logo. When Americans accepted the surrender of Del Cid, they flew him to the U.S. for trial on drug charges without so much as a by-your-leave to the country's new President...
...Noriega's key assistants, Lt. Col. Luisdel Cid, surrendered to U.S. troops after the Dec.20 invasion of Panama and has pleaded innocent toall charges. Prosecutors have refused to say if hewill testify against his former boss...
Also charged in the 12-count indictment were 15 others, including cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria and a top Noriega aide, Capt. Luis del Cid. Cartel leader Jorge Ochoa Vasquez is mentioned in the document, but was not indicted...
...three-block stretch of Broadway, the barkers compete hoarsely for the business of the leery and the leering. The price of admission is free, the two drinks usually required are not (tab: $6.50 each), and the "entertainment is degustibus -belly dancers at the Casbah, simulated live sex at El Cid, and female impersonators at Finocchio...