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...administration apparently has been frustrated with a lack of cooperation from U.S. businesses with operations in Panama. Invoking the emergency economic powers law would allow the government to forcibly withhold tax payments that American businesses make to the Panamanian government...
...reinforcements were sent after reports that U.S. citizens were harassed by Panamanian soldiers and the brief arrests of several American reporters during a police raid on opposition headquarters in a Panama City hotel...
...primary task of all U.S. personnel in Panama is to safeguard the canal until it is handed over by treaty to the Panamanian government...
...Monday night, Panamanian security agents surrounded the home of Ricardo Arias Calderon, president of the Christian Democratic Party and one of Noriega's chief opponents. They remained there yesterday...
...State Department prefers to play down such concerns. "At some point, this has to become an entirely Panamanian matter," one diplomat says. "We keep stressing that Panama should return to democracy, but it really is their responsibility to decide on details." Yet Washington cannot simply walk away from Panama once Noriega goes. Having brought the general to his knees, the U.S. will have to help the country return to normal...