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...RUBEN BLADES: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (Elektra). The Panamanian-born singer- songwriter's first album in English: definitive proof that great music has no language problem...
...indicate whether he will keep pursuing military support for the Nicaraguan contras or try more diplomatic approaches to influence the Sandinista regime. Other big items: developing a strategy for fighting Latin drug lords, bolstering the feeble governments of El Salvador and Honduras, and figuring out how to deal with Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega, who remains under indictment...
Among the 21% who considered drugs the most important campaign issue, the vote split evenly, despite Dukakis' efforts to tie Bush to the "drug-running Panamanian dictator" Manuel Noriega. The environment should have been a "gimme" for Dukakis, Gallup found, but Bush stole it by pointing to Boston's polluted harbor. Although Bush has a poor environmental record, he won 48% of the vote among the 72% who believed more money should be spent on the environment; at the same time, Bush won two-thirds of the voters who opposed new environmental spending...
...late 1987 Moro had introduced the agents to a Panamanian branch of BCCI for their laundering operation. The agents collected cash from Medellin dealers in the U.S. and deposited it at domestic banks, then wired the money to the account of a newly created shell corporation in the BCCI branch in Panama. The agents then provided the Colombian traffickers with signed blank checks that could be cashed at most banks...
...York City institutions as unwitting intermediaries. Once the funds were overseas, BCCI allegedly used them to buy certificates of deposit at banks in France, Britain, Luxembourg, Uruguay, Panama and the Bahamas. Using the CDs as collateral, BCCI then issued phony loans for slightly smaller amounts to the agents' Panamanian account. Once again, the agents gave the Colombians signed blank checks drawn against the account. BCCI collected the CDs as "payment" for the loans, pocketing the difference in the amounts as a commission...