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...canal in East Cambridge...
...fundamental challenge to Chamorro, and the most urgent claim on the U.S., remains Nicaragua's economy. "The country needs to be completely rehabilitated," says Sol Linowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States and co-negotiator of the 1977 Panama Canal treaty. According to a 1986 World Bank study, the Nicaraguan economy will need $1.3 billion a year for the next ten years just to keep ahead of the country's growing population. The U.N.O. has called for at least $2 billion in U.S. aid -- $200 million immediately and $600 million annually for the next three years. Oklahoma...
True, the ostensible reasons for the invasion were mostly phony: there was no danger to the canal; the White House itself had originally laughed off Noriega's "declaration of war"; Bush's flowery defense of American womanhood, based on a single murky episode of rude remarks, belongs in an operetta. True, Noriega's thuggery and drug connections didn't much bother anyone in the White House until Michael Dukakis (remember him?) decided to make an issue of them in 1988. True, the invasion will have no impact on the drug war anyway. True, there were less bloody ways to remove...
...Vice Presidents, is known to believe Panama should follow the example of Costa Rica, which does not have a substantial military force; yet Calderon has been prevailed on to say the opposite in recent interviews. The U.S. insists that a professional military is needed to protect the Panama Canal and it must, regrettably, be headed in part by Noriega's followers because hardly any uncorrupted and democratic Panamanian officers with military experience are available. "The danger," says Ambler Moss, a former U.S. Ambassador to Panama, "is that the price of stability is to reestablish the P.D.F. under a different name...
...Maxwell Thurman, commanding general ofU.S. forces in Panama, said Noriega's surrender"completes the fourth of our four objectives" ininvading Panama in Operation Just Cause. Theothers, he said, were to protect American lives,safeguard the Panama Canal treaties and restoredemocracy to Panama...