The World - News from July 13, 1988
Panama continues to cooperate in fighting drug trafficking despite the U.S. indictment of Gen. Manuel A. Noriega and efforts to force him from power, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee. John C. Lawn said that “recent political and economic turmoil seems to have caused a reduction in the use of Panama” as a money-laundering center for drug profits. Lawn added that the DEA has had a long and generally positive working relationship with the Panamanian government.
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