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...Panama Defense Forces could not save his regime in the face of a U.S. military assault. Now his high-powered legal defense team claims it may not be able to defend his case in the face of U.S. legal action. In a surprise move last week, General Manuel Noriega's lawyers asked to be excused from representing him against drug-trafficking charges in Miami. Reason: uncertain fees. Because of a sweeping U.S. Government freeze on the general's assets, estimated at $20 million to $60 million, his lawyers maintained they could not be paid. Said defense attorney Steven Kollin...
...Palacios had better not hold her breath -- and neither should the Panamanians who are still living in tents four months after their homes in Panama City were destroyed by the U.S. invasion that ousted dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega. True, both House and Senate have approved $420 million for Panama and $300 million for Nicaragua, as part of an omnibus bill increasing spending for projects ranging from space research to grasshopper control. But the aid is below what George Bush wanted and well behind schedule. Bush had called for passage by April...
...alleged mastermind of this scheme was a man who knows a good business opportunity when he sees one: Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega. U.S. immigration officials suspect that the 47 aliens were ultimately headed for New York City's Chinatown and were customers of a lucrative passport-for-sale racket run for several years by Noriega and his cronies. If the deposed strongman was truly a "people-smuggling" kingpin as a sideline to his alleged drug-trafficking business, he was simply cashing in on the upper niche of an industry that is booming at every level. In March federal agents...
JAILHOUSE ROCKS. Federal prosecutors are still having trouble building their case against Manuel Noriega, but the extent to which the deposed dictator plundered Panama is becoming clearer. Edmund Pankau, a Houston private detective, has put together an inventory of Noriega's vast real estate holdings from papers found after his arrest. The list includes two office buildings in New Orleans, interests in Florida hotels, property in Tel Aviv and the south of France, an Italian villa and a house in Spain. Total value: more than $800 million...
...detonated. The Cuban American was arrested in St. Petersburg, where he had been living under his real name for at least two years. A local policewoman identified Suarez and tipped off the FBI. U.S. officials now hope that the elected government of Patricio Aylwin will extradite or prosecute Manuel Contreras and Pedro Espinoza, two high-ranking secret-police officers accused of masterminding the assassination. If so, the U.S. might resume military aid to Chile...