CBS Evening News - 1989-12-31
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[0:00] News Channel 5
[0:08] >> This is the CBS Evening News. Connie
[0:10] Chung reporting.
[0:13] Good evening. Intense negotiations
[0:15] continue tonight between Panama, the
[0:17] Vatican, and the US over the fate of
[0:19] General Manuel Noriega with his release
[0:22] appearing at times imminent. But Doug
[0:24] Tunnell reports that part of the problem
[0:26] is a serious conflict inside the new
[0:28] Panamanian government.
[0:30] >> Seven days after Manuel Noriega sought
[0:33] refuge behind these walls, there are
[0:35] signs that negotiations on his fate have
[0:37] intensified dramatically. A senior
[0:40] church official is quoted as expressing
[0:42] hopes today that an agreement on turning
[0:44] Noriega over could come very soon,
[0:47] perhaps even tonight. Senior US military
[0:50] officers and diplomats were seen
[0:52] arriving in buildings adjacent to the
[0:54] Vatican Embassy compound today. The US
[0:57] crisis management team has been using a
[0:59] school office at the Embassy as one of
[1:01] its headquarters. Church officials
[1:03] described the contacts as intense. One
[1:06] possible snag over the talks on Noriega,
[1:09] a dispute within the new Panamanian
[1:11] government over how to handle the
[1:13] affair.
[1:13] >> A juicio de Manuel Antonio Noriega
[1:16] >> Panama's Attorney General announced
[1:18] today that he would file charges against
[1:20] Noriega within the next two days along
[1:22] with the demand that the Vatican turn
[1:24] Noriega over for trial here. The
[1:27] announcement is especially significant
[1:28] because the Vatican has said from the
[1:30] outset that legally it could only turn
[1:32] Noriega over to Panamanian, not US
[1:35] authorities. But there is a catch. While
[1:38] the Attorney General was b