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Like the lowly garbage barge that no nation would accept, the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy last week was sailing off Pensacola, Fla., 1,500 miles short of its original destination: the coast of Colombia, where it was assigned to detect drug-running planes and boats. News leaks that the Kennedy and an accompanying task force were heading for South America triggered an outcry from Latins already upset about the U.S. invasion of Panama. After George Bush telephoned Colombian President Virgilio Barco to apologize for the "misunderstanding," the Kennedy's picket duty was aborted...
...Congress generally applauded the effort to get rid of the egregious Noriega. "At last," said Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Latin American nations issued formal condemnations of the intervention, but one did not have to read very far between the lines to detect a sigh of relief that the brutal Panamanian dictator had got his comeuppance. The 32-member Organization of American States "regretted," but did not quite condemn, the invasion. In recent months many Latin leaders had privately expressed their revulsion toward Noriega. Nonetheless, no Latin nation would immediately recognize the Endara government...
Government spokesperson Marcel Jansen said the Interior Ministry was asked yesterday to start immediate removal of "technical equipment" along parts of the Czechoslovak-Austrian border. Such equipment includes concrete pylons linked with barbed wire and some electronic wire to detect trespassers...
...back to the 13th century. Logic dictates that Poland, repeatedly divided during the 18th and 19th centuries, should sympathize with the Germanys' desire to reunite. But the thought of 78 million Germans under one flag next door is enough to give even the most zealous reformer pause. "We already detect a growth of German assertiveness," warns a leading Polish economist. Says Bromke: "The Warsaw Pact is perhaps the best guarantee of Poland's territorial integrity...
...National Association of Court Workers, which declared the strike, began months ago demanding bulletproof vests and cars, guns, weapons training, bodyguards, metal detectors for offices and even devices that detect fumes emitted by dynamite...