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...international shipping community prefers that the U.S. continue to play a role in running the canal. But even Panamanians who cheered the 1989 U.S. invasion that overthrew strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega consider the completed handover a point of national pride. The best those in favor of a continued U.S. presence can hope for is a successful conclusion to current talks aimed at establishing a multinational antinarcotics center at what is now Howard Air Force Base. Those talks, however, are foundering over the issue of who would control the U.S. troops that would provide logistical support for the center...
...Bigfoot"--he is 6 ft. 7 in. and no ectomorph--this Brooklynite is the institutional conscience of the criminal division and the investigation's acting chief. He has spent almost his entire career at Justice and has had a hand in virtually all the department's major international cases: Noriega, Koreagate, Jonathan Pollard and the Nazi prosecutions. After a diagnosis several years ago of esophageal cancer that some surgeons deemed inoperable, he asked his doctors to gamble on a rare medical procedure that saved him. Colleagues gave him a glass-encased cigarette to keep the nicotine urges...
...America's reluctant guest MANUEL NORIEGA spent his time since 1992 chez Miami's Metropolitan Correctional Center? Boning up on pop culture, it seems. In At Random, the in-house magazine of Random House, which is publishing his memoirs, Manny, as his co-perps call him, says he is familiar with "those all-important staples of American culture, the Wild Horse Saloon and line-dancing on TNN." His bedtime reading: the Bible and Deepak Chopra, as well as People and Men's Health...
...MANUEL NORIEGA Panama Sentenced in 1992 to 40 years in prison for racketeering and drug trafficking, he could be paroled in 2002. His three-room cell in Miami's federal prison is known as "the Dictator's Suite...
...hotel, as did a man who identified himself as "The D. Scusting." Mr. Scusting wore a black rubber boot atop his head, in addition to a leopard skin costume, and claimed he had the endorsement of Elvis, former President Richard M. Nixon, and deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega...