Pensioners protest
CAROL MORELLO
NZPA-KRN Panama City
Thousands of furious old age pensioners, clutching social] security checks no-one would cash, streamed into the streets of Panama City yesterday and denounced their Government as | one of "thieves" that had stolen their money. ]
The pensioners, many of them with swollen
ankles and carrying walking canes and parasols to ward off the sun. erected barricades in the city’s main arteries, snarling traffic for the" entire day.
They openly taunted soldiers young enough to be their grandchildren, calling them “toads.” and pounded on police cars demanding their money until the police retreated. And. in a remarkable
scene ]for Latin America, hundreds of Panamanianscrowded around American reporters to beg the United States to invade the country and get rid of its niilitary strongman, Manuel Antonio Noriega.
But I more public employee paydays are coming up tomorrow and Fri'day, and it is not known whether the Government will have enough money to meet those payrolls.
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