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Despite the day's display of high spirits, however, there is an undercurrent of restlessness in the traditionally volatile country. Unless Ardito Barletta can somehow subdue it, that sour mood could undermine his new presidency. Said General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the power ful head of Panama's 14,000-member National Defense Forces: "I see very big and dark clouds on the horizon...
...current prominence, Paredes is not likely to emerge as Panama's new strongman. Behind him is Colonel Manuel Antonio Noriega, the chief of intelligence, who is likely to become guard commander once Paredes resigns to start his election campaign. Noriega is considered a brutal militarist and ideological hard-liner who may ultimately surface as the most influential force in the country. "All the musical chairs are now in place in the National Guard," says a Western intelligence analyst. "Now they have to go through the façade of democracy...
...year ago the candidate would probably have been Odria's close friend, General Zenón Noriega. But last fall Noriega, impatient to be boss, hatched an ill-timed plot; he now lives obscurely in Argentine exile. The unrest that followed may have helped convince Odria that his successor should be a civilian. Half a dozen, all from the wealthy right, are vaguely available. Among them: ex-President Manuel Prado, fondly remembered for staging 1945's free elections, and Foreign Minister David Aguilar. But whoever runs, only one vote will really count. That is the vote of Manuel...
Thus far, however, the real rush has been to the Oil Bureau's map-lined Lima headquarters. There last week Director Noriega and his assistants pored over the rival claims, many of which overlap. Noriega hopes that his bureau can start handing out decisions by July. Then the rush to tap the new fields will really begin...
...than a month after it began to accept bids under the new oil law (TIME, March 24), Odria's Oil Bureau was swamped with some 300 claims by 15 foreign and domestic oil firms for more than 9,000,000 acres of concessions. Said Oil Bureau Director Fernando Noriega Calmet: "We have a real oil rush...