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- Nov. 12, 1990: And Take A Memo:More Birdseed
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 12, 1990 Ready For War
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 23
- And Take a Memo: More Birdseed
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- <body>
- <p>By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- <p> Washington is souring on the government it helped install
- in Panama 11 months ago. The chief source of unhappiness is the
- refusal of President Guillermo Endara's administration to sign
- a treaty that would, among other things, allow American
- investigators to look into secret bank accounts. Without such
- scrutiny, U.S. officials maintain, Panama will remain what it
- was under Manuel Noriega: a prime money-laundering center for
- drug cartels. And President Endara's problems extend well beyond
- the disapproval of his American benefactors. Some of his own
- colleagues complain about the influence exerted on Endara, 54,
- by his bride of five months, Ana Mae Diaz Chen, 23. Aides say
- the President's wife walks into Cabinet meetings uninvited to
- deliver messages to her husband, then hangs around to offer
- opinions, unfailingly seconded by Endara. "He lives in a cage,"
- says one Panamanian official, "a very shapely 23-year-old cage."
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- </article>
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