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...session. In a ten-minute gathering attended by 38 of the body's 67 lawmakers, members voted unanimously to dismiss Delvalle, hitherto regarded as a Noriega puppet, and Vice President Roderick Esquivel. Though Delvalle insisted that he still held office, Education Minister Manuel Solis Palma, 71, was sworn in as President before dawn. Panama's military leaders left no doubt as to where they stood. Colonel Marcos Justines, whom Delvalle had named to succeed Noriega as chief of the Panamanian Defense Forces, flatly refused the job. "None of us wants to be commander," said a top officer. "Our commander...
...even this moderate, judicious plan is already in jeopardy. Republican leaders in the House, miffed at losing the vote for military aid, have already sworn to sink the package. Meanwhile, Ortega pledged in a speech the day after the vote that Nicaragua would oppose any form of nonmilitary aid to the contras and made the outrageous claim that "we now have full democracy and full freedom of expression in this country." Tell that to the 9 000 political prisoners in Nicaragua and the still heavily-censored editors of La Prensa, the Nicaraguan opposition newspaper...
Kennedy, a 1961 graduate of Harvard Law School, will become the 104th justice to sit on the nation's highest court. He is now an appellate judge in California. He will be sworn in February...
...Manigat is finally declared the winner, he will be sworn in as President on Feb. 7. For Haiti's junta, meanwhile, it was business as usual. Police arrested Opposition Leader Louis Dejoie at Port-au-Prince airport as he returned from criticizing the government on a trip abroad and charged him with fomenting civil war. Dejoie was released two days later after hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the National Penitentiary, where he was being held...
...addressing the central standing committee of the ruling Kuomintang (Nationalist Party). Speaking in somber, measured tones, he announced that President Chiang Ching-kuo, 77, son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had died of heart failure in Taipei, the capital. A few minutes later, Vice President Lee Teng-hui, already sworn in as Chiang's successor, called on his fellow citizens to "unite together and fulfill the mission that Mr. Chiang was unable to finish...