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- WORLD, Page 33World NotesPANAMAFact and Fiction
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- Gone though he may be, Manuel Antonio Noriega continues to
- provide work for the new government's auditors. One of the
- juicier tidbits they claim to have found is that Noriega had
- a computer wired directly into the national treasury account,
- into which he could dip at will. He also allegedly supplemented
- his $8,000 monthly salary and expenses by drawing on the
- $10,000 generated daily by the country's lottery. Panamanian
- officials claim that two days before the U.S. invasion, Noriega
- transferred some $10 million of his own funds from Panama
- probably to Hong Kong. That money has not yet been traced.
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- On the other hand, no one has yet proved that Noriega was
- the coke-sniffing degenerate portrayed by U.S. officials during
- the invasion. And there are allegations that both the picture
- of Hitler and the sex manual discovered in his house and office
- were planted by, yes, the U.S.
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