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...Public Forces. And though the Americans are screening former P.D.F. members against "black, gray and white" lists (black representing the deepest degree of involvement with Noriega), they have nonetheless named a former Noriega henchman to command the new militia. He is Roberto Armijo, who helped Noriega squelch a coup last October and participated in the fight against the U.S. invasion...
...fame (coverage in The Crimson, anyway) and then stayed on stage for more. A bite-size article in the Wall Street Journal was next, followed by a feature in the New York Times, a wire story by the Associated Press, interviews with radio stations around the country and the coup de grace, last month's interview on CBS Morning News...
...through two Administrations built Noriega into a menacing monster -- instead of what he was, the tin-pot dictator of a not very important country -- and put its credibility on the line in declaring that he had to go. But everything Washington tried -- propaganda, economic sanctions, attempts to foment a coup -- failed. The Pentagon prepared fresh contingency plans for an invasion at least as early as last spring; they were the subject of one of the first briefings Defense Secretary Cheney received when he took over. The plans were updated in the summer, and much more intensively by Joint Chiefs Chairman...
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...
...Maxwell Thurman last Oct. 1 brought a marked change in mood. Unlike his predecessor, General Frederick Woerner, Thurman saw Noriega as primarily a military rather than a political problem. According to Pentagon sources, Thurman had been bristling for a fight since American troops stood helplessly by while the October coup was crushed...