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PANAMA CITY, Panama--An opposition leader said yesterday that Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega was purging his army of suspected opponents, and doctors joined businesses in a general strike aimed at ousting the military strongman...
Guillermo Cochez, a national legislator and vice president of the opposition Christian Democratic Party, told reporters that Noriega apparently had fired two senior colonels and two majors suspected of being disloyal...
Cochez said those ousted included Col. Marcos Justines, who as chief of staff was No. 2 in the Panamanian Defense Forces and next in line to succeed Noriega...
...second day, the strike was marked by violence in a middle-class neighborhood near the banking district. On Tuesday, security agents destroyed an opposition radio station in the neighborhood, apparently because it broadcast an appeal for anti-Noriega demonstrations...
...Washington, meanwhile, William D. Rogers, a lawyer for a Panamanian opposition group, said the State Department was taking legal action to keep Noriega's regime from withdrawing Panamanian government funds from U.S. banks. About $50 million was said to be involved...