Word: panamanians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government chose to bring General Noriega to trial and they shall have their trial," said Frank Rubino, one of several attorneys defending the former Panamanian ruler against U.S. indictments in Miami...
...violating its pledge under the charter of the Organization of American States not to invade a neighbor. In most ways, of course, the downfall of Panama's General Manuel Noriega had little in common with Ceausescu's overthrow. The Rumanian was driven out by his own people, the Panamanian by an outside army. The Rumanian ran and was caught; the Panamanian found sanctuary in the Vatican nunciature in Panama City and may yet escape punishment. What the two episodes had in common was the simple fact that they rid the world of two dictators...
MIAMI--Fallen Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega told a federal judge yesterday that he is a political prisoner and refused to enter a plea to charges he took $4.6 million to turn his nation into a way station for the cocaine trade...
...move appeared to lay the groundwork for the mission to release Noriega him to the Panamanian government...
...lose some of its sheen. As the Pentagon boasted, immense force was speedily dispatched to Panama, the canal was quickly protected, key P.D.F. installations were overrun or neutralized, and Noriega was removed from any effective power. The cost, however, may have been a distressingly high loss of life among Panamanian civilians. An unofficial check of hospitals showed that more than 200 noncombatants had died. A drawn-out struggle with rising American casualties also loomed. At week's end, as 2,000 more troops were sent into Panama, the Pentagon conceded that it might take more than a week for Operation...