Volume 37, Number 8 · May 17, 1990

New Trouble in Panama

By Michael Massing

BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE

Our Man in Panama: How General Noriega Used the United States and Made Millions in Drugs and Arms
by John Dinges

Random House, 402 pp., $21.95

Divorcing the Dictator: America's Bungled Affair with Noriega
by Frederick Kempe

Putnam, 469 pp., $24.95

'CALL TO THE CITIZENRY' was the headline over the box on the front page of La Estrella de Panamá, one of Panama's five daily newspapers, on March 4. The statement urged Panamanians



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