Word: panama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exiled editor of Panama's last independent newspaper yesterday attacked the Reagan Administration for failing to generate enough world opposition to force ruling Gen. Manuel Noriega to step down...
Roberto Eisenman, the editor of La Prensa, a newspaper closed by Noriega nine months ago, said because relations with Panama are formed by many different U.S. agencies, there has not been one effective anti-Noriega plan. Eisenman spoke to an audience of approximately 200 at the Kennedy School...
Noriega is compelled to remain in Panama because the drug suppliers will not allow their operative to leave his stronghold alive, Eisenman said. This is because these suppliers anticipate that Noriega would cooperate with authorities upon his departure in an attempt to gain leniency, he said...
Administration officials now fear that what they expected to be a textbook study in swiftly dislodging a tyrant will turn into a bloody, drawn-out struggle. "The assumption was that despite all his defects, he cared about the welfare of Panama," says a State Department official. "Well, Noriega cares exclusively about Noriega, and he will use every means at his disposal to hold...
Though Noriega quelled a mutiny within the 16,000-member Panama Defense Forces last month, U.S. policymakers wistfully hope that some of the general's comrades will try again. "Only Noriega's guys can quickly put things right," says a U.S. official. Waiting for another coup, however, may prove to be just as frustrating as waiting for those April showers...