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Opposition supporters handed out leaflets urging people to stage similar displays during a 24-hour general strike Wednesday to protest election fraud and violence by supporters of military ruler Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega...
Opposition leaders say their candidate, Guillermo Endaro, easily defeated Noriega's hand-picked candidate, Carlos Duque, in the presidential race. Endaro and other opposition candidates were severely beaten by Noriega supporters during protests that followed the election debacle...
...Panamanian government, which has issued few statements all week, had no reaction to Bush's call Saturday for Panamanians and the nation's 15,000-member Defense Forces to oust the general. As head of the Defense Forces, Noriega is the country's de facto ruler...
Deployment of North American military forces could succeed in ousting General Noriega. It would also diminish chances for an autonomous Panamanian democracy and inevitably reinforce Panamanian and all Latin American resentment and mistrust of the United States...
...months ago, it was accusations of Noriega's involvement with drugrunning that supposedly fueled the State Department's economic sanctions. Now, the election frauds are an excuse for potentially delaying or even cancelling the transfer of Canal rights to their rightful owners. Already, U.S. Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) has decried the treaty's promise to return the Canal to "a madman like Noriega...