The World - News from Feb. 15, 1988

Larry Lamotte, a reporter for Cable News Network, was expelled from Panama after the government said his coverage of the political situation there lacked objectivity. A report in La Prensa newspaper said an official of the Panama Defense Forces appeared at Lamotte’s hotel room during the night to tell him he was being expelled. CNN spokesman Bennett Owen said that Lamotte, who had been in Panama about a week and filed several stories, returned safely to the United States. La Prensa quoted a government statement as saying Lamotte was expelled because “his reports lacked objectivity.”