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Care for a used dictator, courtesy of the Vatican? Not if he is Manuel Antonio Noriega, replied leaders of Spain, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and perhaps other nations last week. None wanted any part of the busted Panamanian strongman, accused drug dealer and alleged black-magic practitioner. Only Cuba showed even a grudging interest in enabling Noriega to leave the Vatican embassy in Panama City, where he had taken refuge from invading U.S. troops on Christmas Eve. "We wouldn't do it for Noriega the man," said a Cuban diplomat. "This would be our way of standing up for nonintervention...
...however, if the U.S. is unable to bring home quickly the 11,000 extra troops it dispatched for the invasion (13,000 were already on hand at permanent bases in Panama). After the far smaller invasion of Grenada, U.S. forces remained for six weeks; the Marines who invaded the Dominican Republic to thwart a leftist coup in 1965 were not completely withdrawn for 18 months...
Frederic assaulted the Bahamas, Alabama and Mississippi just two weeks after Hurricane David killed 1,200 people in the Dominican Republic, then spread destruction from Florida to Canada. Hugo was the fiercest storm to strike the U.S. East Coast since then. Last year, almost to the week, Gilbert, a maximum Category 5 hurricane with 175-m.p.h. winds, had howled along a more westerly course, pounding Jamaica before stomping into Mexico and the U.S. Gulf Coast...
Eastern Airlines spokesperson Karen Ceremsak in Miami said the carrier flew a special Boeing 727 charter to the Dominican resort of Puerto Plata yesterday and returned to Miami with about 135 vacationers...
...woman in a San Juan high-rise told a radio station she watched sections of the city darken as the first high winds and heavy rains hit San Juan. Widespread power outages also were reported in the Dominican Republic...