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PANAMA CITY, Panama--Security forces arrested three members of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's general staff and about 35 other soldiers after a failed coup, according to a "war communique" read over national radio yesterday...
...rebels' claimed in a broadcast around noon that they had overthrown Noriega and retired top officers, but that communique was not repeated. Loyalist forces later said the general was at an undisclosed location controlling the operations against the insurgents...
White House spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater said yesterday afternoon in Washington that officials had heard "rumblings" of the uprising. He said later it appeared that Noriega's forces "are back in control...
...communique by loyalists, read over Channel 2 television, said, "The nationalist officers of all ranks and in all the barracks country-wide have confirmed their loyalty to the fatherland...and to our Commander-in-Chief Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega...
Jose Blandon, a Panamanian defector and former close aide to Noriega, said in Washington a leader of the assault told him by telephone Noriega was wounded and captured...