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Prosperous and calm, Panama has long been an anchor of stability in turbulent Central America. But despite the placid facade, resentment has been building against a corrupt and authoritarian government. Last week that anger burst to the surface in some of the worst violence to hit Panama in a decade. The unrest was prompted by a serious allegation, that General Manuel Antonio Noriega, 48, commander of the Panama Defense Forces and the country's most powerful figure, helped arrange the 1981 air-crash death of his predecessor, General Omar Torrijos Herrera...
...retired two weeks ago as second in command of the Defense Forces. According to Diaz, Noriega conspired with the Central Intelligence Agency and a high-ranking U.S. Army officer to plant a bomb aboard Torrijos' aircraft. Diaz identified the officer as General Wallace Nutting, retired commander of the Panama-based Southern Command, which directs U.S. military operations throughout Central and South America. Both the CIA and Nutting denied the charges...
Pisces started small, when DEA agents posing as money launderers infiltrated the U.S. branch of the Colombian drug-smuggling cartel. Over time, the undercover cops won the confidence of higher-ups through efficient, discreet service. And they obtained unprecedented cooperation from authorities in Panama, where many of the drug Mafia's ill-gotten gains were traced. Besides netting hordes of drug traffickers, the coolly efficient agents showed a profit. Operation Pisces made $4.3 million in money-laundering commissions before the DEA wrapped up the operation...
Attorney General Edwin Meese had earlier sought to send Linnas anywhere but the Soviet Union. Two weeks ago Meese appeared to have found an alternative when Linnas' family said Panama was willing to accept him. But after the World Jewish Congress decried the deal as tantamount to sanctuary for a war criminal, Panama reneged on the agreement. With no country willing to accept him, and his legal maneuvers to stay in the U.S. exhausted, Linnas had no alternative but to return...
...like to fight for him in 1960!" Eisenhower said. Anderson, who had also served as Eisenhower's Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Secretary of Defense, never ran for office. He became a businessman, an unofficial diplomatic envoy for President Johnson and chief negotiator of the Panama Canal treaty for President Nixon. Last week Anderson, 76, was again in the limelight, but for a different reason. He pleaded guilty to felony charges of tax evasion and illegal banking operations...