Word: coulds
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...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...
...this, the legality of military intervention would have been tenuous at best. A 1976 executive order forbids the U.S. armed forces to participate in assassination attempts or any operation which could result in assassination...
THERE was, for some U.S. officials, a third, more frightening possibility. Could the entire affair have been a trap engineered by the general himself, to ensnare disloyal officers of the Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF) and the American forces stationed in Panama...
This opponent has a slight problem with that proposition. A legacy implies a historical perspective. When he left office, Reagan was supposed to leave the limelight and enjoy profound conversations by his poolside in Bel Air. Historians could judge, and journalists could cover the new President...
...what the Verba committee set out to do and why the process was a failure, we should go back to the first meeting at which representatives of MSA expressed to Dean Spence their concern regarding Harvard's embarrassingly low number of minority faculty members. Spence said that his office could not interfere with the autonomy of the departments in hiring decisions, so he invited MSA to talk directly to the department chairs about the problem...