The World - News from June 10, 1987
Police in Panama battled students demanding an investigation into charges that the country’s military chief was involved in the 1981 death of strongman Gen. Omar Torrijos. Col. Robert Diaz Herrera, retired military chief of staff, alleged at a news conference in that Brig. Gen. Manuel A. Noriega, commander of the Panama Defense Forces, conspired with a U.S. general, the CIA and others to plant a bomb aboard Torrijos’ aircraft. In Washington, a spokeswoman said the CIA “does not engage in assassinations.”
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