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Filipinos celebrated the second anniversary last month of the uprising they call the People Power revolution. But little of a revolutionary nature has occurred in the two years since the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos. Even as more parkland is being cleared for the well-heeled dead, life continues to balance on stilts over the brackish waters of Happy Land, a place of aching poverty and little hope...
...nation's streets were quiet. Washington had hoped that demonstrators would respond to Delvalle's address with "people power" mass protests like those that toppled Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. Whether out of apathy or fear of confronting Noriega's soldiers, Panamanians mostly stayed at home. "Everything is going pretty much according to plan," said a U.S. observer. "But where are the Panamanian people?" By Friday night all indications were that Noriega had never been in serious danger of losing power...
...bribes are just the tip of a huge iceberg. Not since the waning days of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos has a national leader been accused of corruption on such an enormous scale. Before the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Communications, Blandon alleged that Noriega turned many of Panama's public institutions -- the customs and passport offices, the railroad, the airports -- into a huge kickback scheme. Among the beneficiaries: scores of army officers, top government officials and, above all, Noriega. By Blandon's account, Noriega is the richest man in Panama, with a dozen houses, a fleet of automobiles...
Even by the standards set by the Shah and Ferdinand Marcos, Noriega's record is infamous. The diminutive general, whose acne-scarred complexion earned him the nickname "Pineapple Face," has been accused in Panama of ordering both the decapitation of a political opponent and the murder of the son of the man he replaced as commander of the armed forces. Rising through the ranks, Noriega allegedly created a criminal organization that would be the envy of any Mafia don. The 12,000-man Panama Defense Forces are so much a part of Noriega's criminal empire that U.S. Attorney Kellner...
...formal indictment may not topple Noreiga, but it will push him into a corner, said former U.S. Ambassador to Panama Ambler Moss yesterday. He compared Noriega to the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos and Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier...