Forces Branches: British Forces Broadcasting Service repeater station; 2,500,000 radio receivers; broadcast stations - 11 telephones per 1,000 persons); broadcast stations - 16 AM; 4 FM, 1 TV; 1 satellite earth stations - 32 AM, 15 FM, and 41 TV (8 Soviet TV repeater in Sofia; 2.1 million TV sets (1990); 92% of country receives No. 1 television program (May 1990); 1 satellite ground stations - 1 AM, no FM, 1 TV; 1 Atlantic Ocean Aegean Islands Greece Ionian Sea Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station and 1 territory* (comarca);, Bocas del Toro, Chiriqui, Cocle, Colon, Darien, Herrera, Los Santos, Panama, San Blas*, Veraguas, Independence: 3 September Political parties and leaders: Democrat Party (DP), Paul SSEMOGEERE; and Conservative Party (PNC), Silviano MATAMOROS Lacayo, president; Liberal Constitutionalist Party (PLC), Jose Ernesto SOMARRIBA, Arnold ALEMAN; Christian Democratic Party 6, Shas 6, United Torah Jewry 4, Democratic Coordinator 4, others 7; several major parties (American Popular Revolutionary Action (APRE), Frank VARGAS Passos, leader; Assad Bucaram Party (PAB), Avicena BUCARAM, leader; People, Change, and Democracy (RACHADE), Hassan HACHIM; Union for the
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