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Nonetheless, the Army's top command -- particularly Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer and Vice Chief General John Vessey -- had become committed to secret operations. When the Reagan Administration took office, the generals made the new ad hoc groups permanent. In early 1981 Colonel James Longhofer, who had worked on Honey Badger, was assigned to head an expanded office of special operations to oversee various types of unconventional missions. One of its field units was Seaspray, jointly commanded by the Army and the CIA, which took over the special helicopters developed for the Iran rescue mission. The Pentagon dutifully briefed...
...Colonel Muammar Gaddafi suffered the worst defeat of his 18-year rule of Libya five months ago when his troops were driven out of northern Chad. Last week Chadian President Hissene Habre sought to double the Libyans' humiliation by sending his army to capture the Aouzou Strip, a disputed border region. Though the foray did not produce the "total defeat" of Libyan forces claimed by Chad, it resulted in the fall of the town of Aouzou, the strip's administrative center...
...government also announced that Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera -- who kicked off the cycle of protest on June 7 when he accused Noriega of corruption, electoral fraud and murder -- had signed two depositions withdrawing his allegations. Diaz has been in jail since a Panamanian army raid on his house on July 27. Speculation was that Diaz signed the documents as the price for exile in Venezuela...
...issue of aid to the contras. When aid was indeed denied, I had the exhilarating sense that I had effectively contributed to our democratic system. My faith in this process has been shaken by the revelations of the Iran-contra affair. Despite the sincerity and eloquence of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, I agree with Indiana Representative Lee Hamilton's assessment that our own democratic principles have been subverted in the effort to secure a democracy in Nicaragua...
Bullets flew from both sides of the white wall, turning the suburban street into a war zone. At 6:25, an officer picked up a megaphone and urged surrender. The message was directed at Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera, Panama's former No. 2 military man and a vociferous critic of the country's de facto leader, General Manuel Antonio Noriega. Now Diaz Herrera taunted, "Tell Noriega to come and get me." An hour later police forced Diaz Herrera and a retinue of 45 guests, relatives and bodyguards from the house. All was quiet when, just a few blocks away, Noriega...