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Noriega made a different kind of arrival last week at Homestead Air Force Base near Miami. Now he was an accused felon and his hosts -- from the Justice Department this time -- took him to jail. After landing at 2:45 a.m., the deposed dictator was sped to a Miami federal courthouse. There he was posed in a T shirt for a humiliating mug shot, then stashed in a windowless basement cell. Panama's numero uno had become federal prisoner...
Noriega surrendered Wednesday night to U.S. troops outside Panama City's Vatican Embassy 10 days after he took refuge there, and was flown into Homestead Air Force Base south of Miami under cover of night yesterday...
...Attorney Lehtinen, 43, grew up in Homestead, next to the park, and was appointed federal prosecutor for South Florida in June 1988, just when George Bush was campaigning for the White House by promising "no net loss of wetlands." An Army paratrooper who was badly wounded in the face in Viet Nam, Lehtinen was a Democratic state legislator when he married a Republican colleague, Ileana Ros; a year later, he switched to the G.O.P. Last month Ileana Ros-Lehtinen won election to Congress to fill Claude Pepper's seat. As a legislator, Lehtinen earned a reputation as a hot-tempered...
...flat broke." In fact, it is worse than broke: it faces a deficit of $1.3 billion. Roemer proposes to reduce the state's historic dependence on oil and energy revenues. Already, the tax-shy legislature has earmarked a 1 cents sales-tax increase, and may consider changing the sacred "homestead exemption," which keeps property taxes...
...unassuming village, not given to ostentation over potential Presidents -- at least not yet. "If he wins, and I don't die first, maybe we'll put up a plaque for him," wisecracks Iacovos Manolis, 81, who built his house on top of the ruins of the Dukakis homestead...