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- <text id=90TT0116>
- <title>
- Jan. 15, 1990: Cashing A Check
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 15, 1990 Antarctica
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 28
- Cashing a Check
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Payless paydays hardly help a government win the loyalty of
- its citizens--or employees. A cash squeeze was in fact one
- element in the pressure that Washington put on Manuel Noriega
- by freezing Panama's bank accounts in the U.S. But at year's
- end the Bush Administration had to throw that process into
- reverse, when the U.S.-installed administration of President
- Guillermo Endara was due to pay out $50 million in government
- salaries and had no money in the till.
- </p>
- <p> Panama found $50 million in an unfrozen account in the U.S.,
- and Washington permitted its withdrawal. Then a snag developed.
- "Did you ever try to get $50 million in $20 and $50 bills?"
- asked an American participant in the money roundup. After much
- scrambling, the Federal Reserve Bank in San Antonio accumulated
- the cash. The Pentagon supplied a C-130 transport, which was
- loaded from armored personnel carriers hauling the cash; other
- APCs awaited the plane in Panama. Deadline met--barely.
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- </body>
- </article>
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