Word: panama
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After supporting Panama's General Manuel Noriega for nearly five years, the Reagan Administration turned against him last February, when the swaggering strongman was indicted on drug-smuggling charges by two Florida grand juries. Since then Washington has tried and failed to force Noriega out with economic sanctions and to shift power to a civilian government headed by ousted President Eric Arturo Delvalle. Now, it seems, the State Department is focusing on a different man and a different strategy. The man: Lieut. Colonel Eduardo Herrera Hassan, a 20-year veteran of the Panamanian Defense Forces and a former Ambassador...
Bopping down Wilshire Boulevard in his Reebok tennis shoes, black Lycra biking shorts, a clean T shirt, red wristbands, sunglasses and a Panama hat, big Tim Brown doesn't look like a typical Santa Monica, Calif., beggar. And he's not: at 6 ft. 3 in., the former Golden Gloves boxer and current alcoholic is an intimidating presence as he accosts pedestrians and dashes into traffic to knock on car windows. "You have to make them scared enough so they'll give you what they have in their pockets," says Brown, explaining the activist panhandling philosophy that he says...
While Schultz was placing laurels on the heads of committed anti-drug Bolivians, the situation in Panama--where Gen. Manuel Noriega, a suspected cocaine dealer, still holds power--has not changed. The Reagan Administration has talked endlessly about ousting Noriega for his actions. But the drug dealer is still around...
...Panama then just an exception? Or can it be that, as with the rest of the Reagan Administration's Latin American policy, the U.S. has no clearly-defined goals for the region...
...denounces drugs in Bolivia, but ignores Noriega in Panama. It praises democracy in Costa Rica, but does nothing to change the situation in Chile, to say nothing of El Salvador or Paraguay. The U.S. calls for peace all over Latin America, but still funds the contras in Nicaragua...