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Bush deployed the troops following widespread reports of fraud during the May 7 presidential vote and violence against opposition candidates. The additional troops will back up the 10,000 American soldiers already in Panama...
...PANAMA CITY, Panama--Churchgoers applauded nationwide yesterday as Roman Catholic clergy read a letter condemning fraud and violence in the national elections, a message that even was broadcast on state-run television...
...pastoral letter, issued Thursday by Archbishop Marcos McGrath and other bishops of the Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference of Panama, was read byCatholic clergy nation-wide and asked the DefenseForces not to use arms against "a defenselesspeople...
...decision to abrogate the Panama Canal treaty would not only outrage all of Latin America, but also remove any lingering doubts about our rightful presence in the Canal. Panama's election fraud will be used as a justification for the breaking of our own laws...
Election fraud is cause for condemnation and potential military action in Panama, but is ignored in countries which, for our own strategic interests, continue to enjoy our military aid. In Uruguay, for example, government threats scare voters from approving investigations of human rights abuses under the military regime of the 1970s; in El Salvador, soldiers drive peasant voters to the polls at gunpoint...