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Scenes that were part of an otherworldly mixture of triumph and fear, suspicion and hope: peasants making the V-for-victory sign outside empty shops or beside wells said to have been poisoned by the Securitate. No one confident that those brutal defenders of the old regime were really gone; no one certain what kind of a government was in charge. People ricocheting between agony and elation. And fear everywhere...
...flesh out the stereotype. "I had no intention of wearing crushed- velvet jump suits, big hats or high-heeled pumps," he says. But the changes went far beyond the cosmetic, as Freeman transformed what could have been another cliched pimp caricature into a harrowing portrait of a desperately brutal man. The performance won three major critics awards, an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and Freeman his first crack at a starring role as the bat-toting New Jersey high school principal Joe Clark in last year's commercial success Lean...
American troops and Rumanian tanks share a mission to depose two brutal dictators, but both leave behind the painful task of rebuilding a nation from the wreckage. -- Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena are summarily executed, and a self-appointed National Salvation Front takes charge of the country. But the shape of the new order is far from clear. -- In Timisoara, cradle of the revolution, people ricochet between agony and elation, fear and hope. -- Panama's strongman has fallen, but Manuel Noriega takes refuge in the papal embassy, sending Washington and the Vatican into diplomatic deadlock. -- As a military operation...
...Florida, where the freeze was most brutal, growers who normally produce about 75% of the U.S. citrus crop (worth some $3.5 billion in 1989) had tried to prepare for the worst. They banked orange, lemon and grapefruit trees with extra dirt and fired up smudge pots to raise the temperature in their groves. But the cold snap -- with wind-chill temperatures of -5 degrees F as far south as Orlando -- lasted too long for such stopgap measures. Many strawberry, orange and grapefruit crops were completely ruined. Said Ben Abbitt, general manager of the Haines City Citrus Growers Association, Florida...
Just how risky became clear as Operation Just Cause got under way. Many of Noriega's 4,000 best troops, including units that had raced to his rescue during the failed coup, were posted far outside Panama City. Another, less predictable menace was posed by the brutal Dignity Battalions: 8,000 fanatical pro-Noriega irregulars who had savagely attacked opposition leaders in the aftermath of last May's aborted election. Confronted by superior American forces, many P.D.F. soldiers slipped away, only to reappear later and launch counterattacks in Panama City...