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- THE WEEK, Page 22NATIONGo Directly to Jail
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- Noriega faces up to 120 years on eight drug counts
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- In the long and perverse annals of crime, few felons have
- matched the dizzying fall of Manuel Noriega: from Panamanian
- dictator to convicted drug dealer. He was still the ruler of his
- country when an American grand jury indicted him in February
- 1988 for narcotics trafficking. The following year the U.S.
- invasion of Panama led to his arrest.
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- Noriega's trial on drug and racketeering charges began in
- Miami last September and finally ended last week. The jurors
- pondered for four days, then declared themselves deadlocked,
- with one adamantly for acquittal. The judge ordered them to try
- again. Next day, surprisingly, they agreed: Noriega was guilty
- on eight of the 10 counts, which carry a possible sentence of
- 120 years in prison.
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