The World - News from Oct. 24, 1986
Panama’s President Eric A. Delvalle, inviting a possible showdown with his nation’s powerful military chief, said he has no intention of bowing to pressures for a shake-up in his year-old government. Delvalle made his position known less than 24 hours after the military leader, Gen. Manuel A. Noriega, said publicly that the president should name a new Cabinet. Noriega’s remarks coincided with a call from the military-backed Democratic Revolutionary Party for its members in top government jobs to quit. Delvalle countered that the resignations are “unnecessary” and that he alone will determine when and if a Cabinet shake-up is needed.
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