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...Dominican Republic said Namphy and Port-au-Prince Mayor Franck Romain were granted political asylum in its embassy in Port-au-Prince. Details on the departure of Romain and 12 others still were being discussed, Herrera Cabral said. Romain was a colonel in the Presidential Guard and chief of police under Duvalier...
...juries. Since then Washington has tried and failed to force Noriega out with economic sanctions and to shift power to a civilian government headed by ousted President Eric Arturo Delvalle. Now, it seems, the State Department is focusing on a different man and a different strategy. The man: Lieut. Colonel Eduardo Herrera Hassan, a 20-year veteran of the Panamanian Defense Forces and a former Ambassador to Israel. The strategy: to encourage a coup within the Panamanian military...
With Bush creating sideshows and Dukakis muting issues, neither gains consistent support. -- Three battleground states -- Texas, Illinois and California -- hold 100 potentially decisive electoral votes. -- Despite rhetoric, the candidates fail to see inadequate schools as a national- security threat. -- The U. S. backs a cashiered Panamanian colonel seeking a coup against Noriega...
...rules at Ramstein apparently did not prohibit such maneuvers. The commanding officer of the Italian team, Lieut. Colonel Diego Raineri, said the squad had performed a test run of its act the day before the show for air-base authorities, who had approved it. U.S. officials at Ramstein declined any comment on the disaster, except to express condolences to victims and their families...
...like many of the retired Marine lieutenant colonel's tales, the allegations made by Hudson seemed inflated. Mousa Hawamda, a Jordanian American who runs a Washington travel agency, had been arrested, along with seven others, on charges of diverting funds from a Libyan student organization | to bankroll pro-Gaddafi activities. None of the eight was charged with plotting assassination. However, Hudson told U.S. Magistrate Leonie Brinkema that Hawamda was a Libyan intelligence agent. An FBI informant claimed Hawamda had received a request from Tripoli in April 1987 to gather information on "a U.S. official...