Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PANAMA CITY, Panama--Security forces arrested three members of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's general staff and about 35 other soldiers after a failed coup, according to a "war communique" read over national radio yesterday...
Panamanian officials also said rebel troops held Noriega for several hours during the attempted coup Tuesday but that the coup's leader was killed during the fighting...
...members of the High Command were implicated in the coup, however, it would mean the plotting against Noriega extended much higher than the lowerlevel officers involved in the rebellion...
...United States has been trying to oust Noriega, the Defense Forces chief who controls the government, for nearly two years. However, officials in Washington said they were not responsible for the attempted coup and U.S. troops were not involved...
Panama's provisional president, Francisco Rodriguez, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, said an attempted coup against his government had been crushed...