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...while serving as Vice President dogged his campaign. Some cynics believe the Administration will cut a secret deal with Noriega to avoid explosive disclosures at a trial that is likely to drag on into the 1992 presidential campaign. Others, like former Panamanian President Ricardo de la Espriella, disagree. "I don't think Noriega has anything on Bush," he says. "It's a bluff. It will be Noriega's word against Bush's. ((Noriega)) is destroyed...
...official statement last week announced that Panamanian Vice President Jorge Illueca, 65, had been sworn in as President. In a televised address an hour later, Illueca delivered a speech intended to assure the citizens he would make no changes in government policy. Yet why had President Ricardo de la Espriella, 48, resigned? Mysteriously, official newspapers later made no mention of the resignation...
...Espriella, a respected former banker, tried to continue the course toward elections and democratic rule set in motion by Torrijos. But in fact, the pending election may have been what caused his departure. According to close friends, the former President was being pressured by the National Defense Forces to reorganize his Cabinet to include supporters of an official candidate. He may have stepped down rather than see the election become unfairly slanted...
...indeed De la Espriella was driven out by the National Defense Forces, it could be an indication of how relunctant the military is to relinquish the considerable influence it now enjoys over Panamanian politics. Nonetheless, Illueca has declared a "sacred commitment" to hold elections as planned, and to maintain the present course of Panama's policy, especially its support of the Contadora process, which seeks to resolve the Central American crisis. The U.S., with a military force of approximately 10,000 stationed in Panama, and responsibility for operation of the strategically vulnerable canal, can only hope that Panama itself...
...offing. Officials said they would guarantee the safety of all foreign nationals, including U.S. embassy personnel. Such assurances were presumably aimed at preventing invaders from justifying an assault on the grounds of rescuing citizens. During a visit to Panama for talks with President Ricardo de la Espriella, Nicaraguan Junta Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra laid out a number of possible scenarios for an invasion, including an incursion by rebels based in Honduras or Costa Rica...