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Despite Noriega's violent tactics, the opposition was willing to meet with the Panamanian leader. There were hints that Noriega might also be amenable to talks. One of the general's supporters, former Commerce Minister Mario Rognoni, suggested that possible intermediaries for such an undertaking might be Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, a Mexican official or a papal envoy. But precisely what would be negotiated at such a session remained unclear. Noriega may plan eventually to schedule another presidential election and find another loyalist to serve as his stand-in. Endara and his allies, for their part, are adamant...
...Mexico refused to turn over to the U.S. William Morales, a Puerto Rican nationalist convicted of illegally transporting explosives. Mexico called Morales a "political fighter for the independence of Puerto Rico" and let him flee to Cuba. The year before, West German officials refused to give up Mohammed Ali Hammadi, who was wanted for the execution of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem during a 1985 TWA hijacking. Bonn haled him instead into its own juvenile courts (Hammadi claims he was 16 at the time...
...sales pitch. After the 1987 stock-market crash shook investor confidence in securities, con artists began pushing such alternatives as rare coins, gold, oil and gas leases, and diamonds. One Tulsa-based telemarketing company cleaned up by selling shares in a "secret process" for converting volcanic sand on Costa Rican beaches into gold. A swindler who had been convicted of selling shares in a nonexistent gold mine continued to solicit new investors from a pay phone in his Wyoming prison...
...supplies until the Nicaraguan elections, which the Sandinistas promise to hold next February. "Without the contras," says a Baker aide, "there will be even less incentive for Managua to fulfill its commitment to democratize, as it said it would when it signed on to the peace plan ((of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez...
...father has never been to a hockey game. Basketball? He used to play in the Puerto Rican league. Golf? Has played ever since he was six. Swimming? Used to swim laps every day. Pool? Won the Puerto Rican championship twice in the 1960s...