Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opposition supporters handed out leaflets urging people to stage similar displays during a 24-hour general strike Wednesday to protest election fraud and violence by supporters of military ruler Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega...
...Panamanian government, which has issued few statements all week, had no reaction to Bush's call Saturday for Panamanians and the nation's 15,000-member Defense Forces to oust the general. As head of the Defense Forces, Noriega is the country's de facto ruler...
...THESE people are absolutely shameless!" exclaimed Gerald Ford on Monday, denouncing Panama's election fraud. General Noriega's security forces have publicly torn ballots, closed voting areas and even beaten opposition candidates...
While opposition candidates claimed true victory and protested vigorously against General Noriega's brutal campaign, they have objected, just as vigorously, to the possiblity of an American military intervention, a possibility that George Bush has refused to rule...
Deployment of North American military forces could succeed in ousting General Noriega. It would also diminish chances for an autonomous Panamanian democracy and inevitably reinforce Panamanian and all Latin American resentment and mistrust of the United States...