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...concerns that U.S.-Panama relations are at their lowest ebb ever. This is not true. In 1964, we broke relations with the U.S. As far as I know, President Delvalle's government has no intention of doing that. What is true is that no Panamanian accepts external interference in his own affairs and that the 1977 canal treaty has to be implemented. We also believe the American people will not support military intervention that certain people in Washington are seeking...
...future of U.S. bases in Panama. This is the central issue of the problem, but the answer is not mine to give. This decision belongs exclusively to the Panamanian people...
...Diaz spoke out against Noriega, former President Nicolas Ardito Barletta publicly charged that Noriega had forced him from office in 1985. Barletta claimed his ouster had been engineered by Noriega after Barletta had pressed for an investigation into the killing of Dr. Hugo Spadafora, a leading critic of the Panamanian military. Diaz has gone further, charging Noriega with masterminding Spadafora's murder...
...most prominent of Ollie's operatives was Richard Secord, the retired Air Force major general who had helped to create several private companies, including Lake Resources Inc., a Panamanian shell corporation with a Swiss bank account. Through Secord's companies, North was able to move Iranian arms money, buy planes, charter ships and perform myriad tasks that seemed beyond the abilities of the Government bureaucracies. Says Livingstone: "Ollie was in a white rage all the time over the help the CIA gave him." In a computer note to National Security Adviser John Poindexter, North wondered, "Why Dick can do something...
Meanwhile, about 2,000 people attacked the U.S. embassy, denouncing a recent U.S. Senate resolution that called on Noriega to step down. The State Department charged that Panamanian officials orchestrated the mob attack. Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams called on Panama's military leaders to "remove their institution from politics" and keep the politics more democratic...