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Word: strongman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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PANAMA CITY, Panama--An opposition leader said yesterday that Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega was purging his army of suspected opponents, and doctors joined businesses in a general strike aimed at ousting the military strongman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noriega Reportedly Purges Armed Forces | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

Diaz said the former president had slipped away on foot to avoid arrest and deportation by military strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delvalle Flees Home to Evade Military | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

PANAMA CITY, Panama--Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, under indictment in the United States on drug trafficking charges, was ordered by the president yesterday to step down as military chief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Panama Orders Noriega to Step Down | 2/26/1988 | See Source »

Agreeing to a ten- month timetable for withdrawal of his troops, Gorbachev says the next round of Geneva talks may be the last. The tanks could begin clanking homeward by May 15. -- In Austria, Waldheim resists new pressure to step down. -- A former top aide to Panamanian Strongman Noriega tells of corruption on a grand scale. -- Growing militance among West Bank settlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Feb. 22, 1988 | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...indicts Panamanian Strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega on a wide range of drug charges. -- Unrealistically low campaign- spending limits present candidates with some curious moral and logistical quandaries. -- It is no < longer this man' s Army, as the Pentagon moves to expand opportunities for servicewomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page February 15 | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

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