CBS Evening News - 1989-12-27
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[0:02] In Panama, tanks, talks, and
[0:04] uncertainty. President Bush insists he
[0:07] does want Noriega tried in the United
[0:09] States. And new atrocities discovered in
[0:12] Romania.
[0:14] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:17] reporting. Good evening. US troops
[0:19] beefed up their security ring around
[0:21] Manuel Noriega in Panama City tonight
[0:23] and turned up the volume in a
[0:25] psychological warfare offensive. Many
[0:28] cited negotiations about Noriega's fate
[0:30] appeared to snag. President Bush still
[0:33] insisting that he does want Noriega
[0:35] tried in the United States. The Vatican
[0:37] saying it won't turn him over. Richard
[0:39] Thrill is in Panama City. The papal
[0:42] nunios in Panama City looked as if it
[0:45] were even busier than the Vatican itself
[0:47] today. As negotiations continued about
[0:50] how to get Manuel Noriega and his
[0:52] entourage out and where they will go, US
[0:56] officials would like nothing better than
[0:57] for the Vatican to expel Noriega so they
[1:00] could arrest him on US drug charges. But
[1:02] the Vatican is resisting that.
[1:04] >> We must remember there are two sides, if
[1:06] not three sides involved here. And the
[1:08] United States is not the only one which
[1:10] decides what what is legal or right or
[1:12] or or even moral.
[1:14] >> Panamanians would like to get him too.
[1:16] CBS News has learned that all of
[1:18] Noriega's lawyers here have resigned for
[1:20] fear of their lives, and he's without
[1:23] legal representation. But for the
[1:25] moment, at least here in Panama, there's
[1:27] not even a warrant out for his arrest.
[1:29] >> He has not yet been formally charged
[1:31] with crimes in Panama simply because our
[1:35] system of justice i