The World - News from April 21, 1989
The United States said Panama has sharply curbed visits by Americans in order to obstruct monitoring of the May 7 presidential election. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the move by the regime of Gen. Manuel A. Noriega “is an effort to insulate Panama’s electoral process from any credible degree of public scrutiny.” The department also said that Panama is printing false voter lists, changing data in voting registries, providing insufficient ballots for opposition candidates and using military personnel to campaign illegally.
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