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...evidence leading to his indictments. The State Department was split between a get-Noriega faction and diplomats who were nervous about the potential loss of intelligence assets in Panama. By the time of the indictments, though, it was obvious that Noriega had gone out of U.S. control. Investigators assert that the millions he was by then receiving from the Medellin drug cartel dwarfed his CIA payoffs...
Panamanians hailed the American invaders as liberators, even in El Chorrillo, a burned-out section of Panama City where many were left homeless. Residents of the down-at-the-heels area were quick to assert that the fires were not caused by U.S. military action but were deliberately set by Noriega's paramilitary Dignity Battalions. Eulalia Sanchez paused while burning garbage in a vacant lot in front of her damaged El Chorrillo home to declare, "We are very happy with the gringos. They freed us from the tyranny of Noriega...
Even before the Ceausescus were executed, civilians had moved to assert authority over the army as well as the country. Television, which once beamed | out only the glory of Ceausescu, then helped topple him, became the heart and voice of the new government. The National Salvation Front gathered at the studio to announce that the revolution had triumphed -- and set about trying to steer it into calmer channels. The Front ordered all those who had seized or been issued firearms to turn them in and instructed revolutionary committees that had sprung up around the country to be "immediately subordinated...
...many countries crushed into some semblance of historical and ideological unity under communism are at long last beginning to assert their claims to separate identities. These countries are claiming their right to be themselves...
...President, at minimum, seems to have decided that it is better to be criticized for action than for dithering. His growing self-confidence has been helped along, aides assert, by his well-developed personal relations with other world leaders, whom he incessantly writes and telephones. (Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle were busy until 3 o'clock the night of the Panama invasion, calling foreign leaders to inform them of the President's decision.) These contacts, aides say, have given Bush a feel for how the world will react to any particular U.S. move -- or, in other words, for what...