Word: noriega
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...However, Noriega's usefulness as an intelligence source always appeared to overshadow the suspected drug dealing and no action was taken until the recent indictments...
Rubino said he would argue the case should be dismissed on grounds that Noriega could not get a fair trial in the United States...
Rubino said he also would argue that the case should be dismissed because Noriega was "maximum leader" of Panama when he was seized and therefore should be immune from U.S. prosecution as a head of state in a foreign country...
...Stealth technology from the congressional budget ax. At a time of diminishing Pentagon budgets, both the B-2 Stealth bomber and the proposed Advance Tactical Fighter, which will also incorporate Stealth technology, are catching heavy flak in Congress. The Air Force unleashed its F-117As not to scare Manuel Noriega but to build a case that high-tech aircraft have a role even in a low-tech...
...bloodshed as well. Unpleasantly ironic because while the Soviets stood by and did nothing in Rumania, the U.S. was violating its pledge under the charter of the Organization of American States not to invade a neighbor. In most ways, of course, the downfall of Panama's General Manuel Noriega had little in common with Ceausescu's overthrow. The Rumanian was driven out by his own people, the Panamanian by an outside army. The Rumanian ran and was caught; the Panamanian found sanctuary in the Vatican nunciature in Panama City and may yet escape punishment. What the two episodes...