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From: ut-emx!walt.cc.utexas.edu!cyrius@cs.utexas.edu (Juan Chen)
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From: ut-emx!walt.cc.utexas.edu!cyrius@cs.utexas.edu (Juan Chen)

  Allow me to make some final comments before letting this subject die.

>The Panamanian HQ is at Amador, which is jointly occupied by US and
>Panamanian forces.  Amador is the Southern Command Naval Headquarters.
>Most of the facilities there are US.  North of that are Corozal, Ancon,

   There is _A_ combined US/Panama HQ in Amador because of the treaties, 
given that the Pacific entrance to the Canal is there. It is NOT the
Headquarters of the Panamanian Defense Forces. That one was built many
years ago, even before the Torrijos years I'm sure. That was the one
where Noriega was at the time of the attemped coup. It is located
about 500 yrds. south of Ancon Hill in the area called Chorrillo, 
because of a creek that flowed from Ancon to that area when it was   
populated during the construction of the Canal. Amador's facilities
are indeed American built, because it WAS an American base until 1978 or 79.
Can you see Noriega sitting in Amador with US MPs outside his door?


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