The World - News from Oct. 11, 1985
More than 50,000 Panamanians marched in Panama City to demand an independent investigation into the slaying of Hugo Spadafora, an adventurer whose family asserts that he was killed on orders from the military. It was the largest demonstration since a mass protest against alleged election fraud last year. The decapitated body of Spadafora, a critic of the military, was found three weeks ago in Costa Rica near the Panama border.
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