Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington' s long- standing tolerance for Strongman Manuel and the brutal drug- related slaying of a New York City policeman are symbols of a losing battle. -- Detroit, Miami and Washington illustrate how the booming trade in crack has destroyed inner- city neighborhoods. -- A day in the life of George Bush' s campaign juggernaut...
PANAMA CITY, Panama--Demonstrators protesting the strongman leadership of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega erected barricades yesterday on hundreds of streets in Panama City...
...momentarily in the troubled Latin country. At 5:30 p.m. last Thursday, President Eric Arturo Delvalle, 51, appeared on nationwide television ahead of the evening news. Reading from a script, Delvalle told stunned viewers that he had asked for the resignation of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, 50, the military strongman who has run Panama for the past five years. Delvalle said he had requested Noriega to "voluntarily step aside" while the U.S. investigated drug-trafficking charges that federal grand juries in Miami and Tampa had brought against the general in early February. His remarks completed, Delvalle bade good evening...
...latest attempt may have begun two weeks ago, when Delvalle met in Miami with Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Some sources said Abrams broached the idea of firing the strongman to remedy the political and economic crisis that has gripped Panama since anti-Noriega demonstrations took place last summer. According to one account, Abrams told Delvalle, "You know as well as I do that Mr. Noriega has to leave." Several days later Panamanian official asked Abrams whether the U.S. could withdraw the drug indictments against the general to induce him to step down. The answer...
...this," says a former Panamanian official. "Of course Noriega needs to go. But, really, to have Administration officials tell reporters this and then indict him makes it impossible for him to step aside." The ex-official adds that whatever other qualities Noriega may possess, the Panamanian strongman has no end of stubborn pride...