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MIAMI--Fallen Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega told a federal judge yesterday that he is a political prisoner and refused to enter a plea to charges he took $4.6 million to turn his nation into a way station for the cocaine trade...
...Endara said Monday that Panama does not have a prison secure enough to hold Noriega. He acknowledged that once outside the embassy, the general would be captured by U.S. troops surrounding the mission...
Endara, elected last May in balloting nullified by Noriega, is still in the early stages of establishing a government...
Archbishop Marcos McGrath said Noriega would have a fair trial and greater personal security if he went to the United States, but said, "He will have to leave by his own decision...
...will have to weigh his choices and come up with that which is the least disagreeable," McGrath said in an interview. Vatican officials have said they were urging Noriega to leave of his own accord...