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...last Friday's demonstration against his rule, General Manuel Antonio Noriega sat down to respond in writing to questions submitted by TIME Correspondent John Moody. It was the first interview he had granted to a U.S. news organization since the recent outbreak of unrest. Excerpts...
...week long, while his rebellious country simmered, General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the besieged ruler of Panama, calmly went about preparing for the wedding of one of his three daughters, Sandra. In a Latin equivalent of the royal wedding, she was to marry the son of a general of the Dominican Republic at a lavish Sunday ceremony. The wedding, however, did not come off as planned. Instead, Sandra was married without fanfare at midweek, evidently to avoid the demonstrations that have become an almost daily feature of life in Panama City, the country's steamy capital...
...emergency last week, the government cracked down again. Authorities shut down an opposing radio station, and armed men, in full view of police, torched a building owned by a prominent member of the opposition. Thousands of protesters thronged the streets of the capital, calling for the removal of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the country's de facto leader, who is accused of corruption and murder...
...turbulent Central America. But despite the placid facade, resentment has been building against a corrupt and authoritarian government. Last week that anger burst to the surface in some of the worst violence to hit Panama in a decade. The unrest was prompted by a serious allegation, that General Manuel Antonio Noriega, 48, commander of the Panama Defense Forces and the country's most powerful figure, helped arrange the 1981 air-crash death of his predecessor, General Omar Torrijos Herrera...
FOOTNOTE: *The other governors: Kansas Banker Wayne Angell, 59; California Economist H. Robert Heller, 47; Manuel Johnson, 38, a former U.S. Treasury official; Houston Businessman Edward Kelley, 55; Martha Seger, 50, a former Michigan bank regulator. One board seat is currently vacant...