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Neither, it seemed, did anyone else, including the U.S. Despite the halfhearted efforts of many middle-class Panamanians to oust him and the maneuverings by U.S. officials, there were no signs that General Manuel Antonio Noriega had lost control. After Noriega was indicted on drug- trafficking charges by two U.S. grand juries last month, President Eric Arturo Delvalle sacked him as head of the 16,000-member Panama Defense Forces; the general simply turned around and had the National Assembly dump Delvalle, replacing him with Education Minister Manuel Solis Palma. Now Noriega faces a stiffer test: a rapidly worsening cash...
...Four American military police officers were arrested in the capital by Panamanian authorities and held for several hours, the Pentagon said yesterday. The Panamanian newspaper Critica said the Americans were carrying handguns, maps of the capital and "military implements" when they were detained in an area "where daily activities disturbing the public order" had occurred...
...decree was based on Article 51 of the Panamanian Constitution which gives the government the power to suspend rights and liberties in cases of war or disturbances affecting public order...
...that the U.S. will soon owe Panama as a periodic payment required by the Panama Canal treaties. Delvalle has persuaded most of Panama's worldwide consulates to retain the more than $20 million in annual payments that the government reportedly receives from 11,000 merchant ships registered under the Panamanian flag. In a written response to questions from TIME last week, Delvalle declared from hiding, "All imaginable pressures, no matter how dramatic they may seem, should be taken if we want to have a democracy in Panama...
Worried about a financial collapse, depositors rushed to withdraw cash from Panamanian banks, and the Panama National Bank declared that it could not help meet the demands placed on these institutions. All banks in the country were shut down by Friday. An anti-Noriega general strike gradually picked up steam before being called off by its leaders, who were worried that an economic panic might produce widespread violence...