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Despite protests against the invasion of Panama and legal questions about U.S. justification, it is difficult to credit the Noriega regime with real legitimacy. Aside from the general's alleged crimes, ranging from drug dealing to murder, he simply canceled last spring's election after it had gone against him...
At dusk on Christmas Day, wearing their overcoats, he and Elena, the second most powerful figure in the country, were executed, without blindfolds, before a barracks wall at the Boteni army camp outside Bucharest. There had been 300 volunteers for the three-man firing squad, a military spokesman who had...
The ashen face of the dictator, eyes open, blood oozing from his head, leaped almost instantly onto TV screens in Rumania and around the world. Many Rumanians wept or cheered in relief. Soviet viewers saw parallels with the Bolshevik Revolution and the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family...
Governments East and West cheered the overthrow of Ceausescu, but there were murmurs of distaste at the secret trial and execution of the 71-year-old dictator and his wife. "We would have preferred it if there had been a public trial," said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. Nevertheless, like...
He is not covered by the new U.S. law allowing execution of drug kingpins, an assurance Noriega reportedly demanded before turning himself in. He also faces drug charges in Tampa.