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...just that cocksure quality, combined with cunning and ruthlessness, that enabled Panama's leader to face down repeated U.S. challenges over the past 2 1/2 years. But in the days leading up to the U.S. invasion, Noriega seemed to slide into recklessness, as if he were deliberately trying to provoke his own doom. First his handpicked assembly declared that a "state of war" existed with the U.S. and installed Noriega as Panama's "Maximum Leader." Then he sat back while his troops shot a U.S. Marine and abducted and abused a Navy lieutenant and his wife. Noriega could not have...
Noriega's increasingly bombastic language and his trigger-happy troops may have been indications that events were spinning out of control in Panama, forcing him to extremes. But other evidence suggested that the dictator was losing control of himself: U.S. troops searching his various hideouts found, along with pictures of Adolf Hitler, collections of pornography and sophisticated weapons and more than 50 kilos of cocaine. In one Noriega guesthouse, searchers found a bucket of blood and entrails, which they said may have been used for occult rites to protect him. Was the accused drug trafficker deteriorating into a megalomaniac drug...
First, however, Noriega must be found. At week's end a State Department official said Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Kozak had traveled to Panama to advise the Endara government and try to negotiate Noriega's surrender. One of the general's American lawyers, Raymond Takiff, predicts that will never happen. "I feel unhappily secure in my belief that he will be killed," Takiff says. "He will not be captured...
...ceremony was rich with symbolism, but the circumstances were awkward, to say the least. Shortly after U.S. troops began to move, a new government was inaugurated with the aim of restoring democracy in Panama. The swearing-in took place at Fort Clayton, a U.S. military base, with only a few Panamanians present. After the new President, Guillermo Endara, and his two Vice Presidents, Guillermo Ford and Ricardo Arias Calderon, took their oath of office, they remained at the base for 36 hours...
...lawyer with little political experience before he ran for President in last May's aborted election, Endara must rebuild a society that was seriously damaged by U.S. economic sanctions, then savaged by invasion and ravaged by looters. His support comes mostly from the white business and professional classes in Panama City; he must win over the darker-skinned Panamanians of the barrios and the countryside -- those who felt emboldened and empowered by Noriega's populist anti-Yanqui tirades...