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...News detailed charges that the military strongman is involved in smuggling drugs and weapons, laundering money and selling U.S. intelligence secrets to Cuba. Most damning, Noriega, who as commander of Panama's armed forces essentially runs the country, was linked to the September 1985 murder of Dr. Hugo Spadafora, a leading critic of the Panamanian army. It is widely believed that Noriega forced Panamanian President Nicolas Ardito Barletta to resign after Barletta signaled his intention to investigate Spadafora's murder. Barletta's successor, Eric Arturo Delvalle, quickly came to Noriega's defense. Delvalle told reporters that all charges against...
...received some unexpected backing. Shortly after 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...
...Noriega." He hopes he can foment a rebellion that will bring down the general. In addition to his accusations concerning Torrijos, Diaz charged that Noriega helped rig the 1984 presidential elections and that the Defense Forces masterminded the 1985 torture-murder of a Noriega opponent, Dr. Hugo Spadafora...
EVER SINCE the Cambridge City Council adopted Rent Control last September City Manager John Corcoran and Interim Rent Control Administrator Philip M. Cronin have delayed implementation of the law. Corcoran has never appointed a full-time administrator, and he fired Joseph A. Spadafora, a young lawyer hired as Executive Director, after only one week on the job, Cronin began his administration by temporarily adjusting all rents to the current level, a move of questionable legal status, and now that the rollback provision has finally been implemented, he has come up with a formula to determine rent adjustments that will mean...
...however, he does not seem to be very near doing so. Of the three candidates originally recommended to him for consideration by the "Blue Ribbon" committee of citizens appointed to the Council to screen applicants, two have already been eliminated. One has accepted another job and the other was Spadafora. Corcoran says he has talked several time; with Eugene Underwood-an administrator for New York City rent control and the committee's first choice-but that there are still other people under consideration. Corcoran has not been open about how he is going to make this important appointment...