Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are the journalists. With benefit of 20/20 hindsight, Newsweek pictured a victorious Noriega on last week's cover under the telling caption "Amateur Hour." The London Economist called the episode Bush's "Bay of Piglets." In a lonely (and uncharacteristic) defense of Bush, The New York Times said, "Mr. Bush may have had good reason to temporize his backing of the Panamanian coup plotters...
...retrospect, the coup could have had three outcomes. If Bush had actively supported the coup, the plotters might have succeeded. But the improvement for the people of Panama would have been marginal at best; replace despot Manuel Noriega with would-be despot Moises Giroldi, a career military man with no demonstrated affection for democracy...
...President George Bush...
...President George Bush...
Eastern Europe is aching, San Francisco is quaking, and George Bush is still standing in Reagan's shadow. As Bush struggles to respond to sweeping historical events that seem to pass him by, Reagan keeps creeping back into view...