The World - News from Aug. 2, 1987
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A Reuters correspondent left Panama after being given one day to do so by the military-backed government. Tom Brown, a U.S. citizen who had been based in Panama for 18 months, was given no specific reason for the order. It followed a campaign in government-controlled newspapers against his reporting of Panama’s current political unrest. Military strongman Gen. Manuel A. Noriega on Friday labeled the foreign journalists in Panama as a “plague.”
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