Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is the story that Kalish, 35, a convicted drug dealer, told a congressional subcommittee last week. His testimony was the most damaging public testimony so far linking the Panamanian strongman to drug-smuggling operations. Kalish testified that he gave at least $650,000 to the general and his associates to help with drug deals and money laundering. Noriega had no comment on the charges. Meanwhile, a Miami grand jury is conducting a separate inquiry into drug-trafficking allegations against Noriega...
MIAMI--Federal prosecutors yesterday unsealed an indictment accusing Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega with accepting $4.6 million to protect cocaine shipments, launder drug money and provide a safe haven in his country for top Colombian smugglers...
MIAMI--Panama's military strongman, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury here on charges of aiding international cocaine traffickers, sources said on condition of anonymity...
...press freedom the only area where the regime of General Manuel Antonio Noriega was coming under pressure. The Panamanian strongman angrily rejected a plan to get him to hand over power to a civilian government. Drafted with U.S. backing by Jose Blandon, a trusted Noriega ally, the proposal called for the general to retire by spring and for free elections to be held in 1989. Noriega responded by having Blandon fired as Panama's consul general in New York City...
...Saving the Queen), the payoff lies partly in the impudence with which Buckley rewrites cold war incidents to include his hero's exploits. This new pastiche begins in early 1963 with failed and sometimes bizarre CIA efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro. U.S. readers are sufficiently detached from the Cuban strongman to see this as comedy, perhaps. But the plot winds on to include the assassination of President Kennedy, and the novel's cheerful inventions fall flat. The old horror of November 1963 floods across the pages, and the author's paper heroics for the first time seem chattery and idle...