Word: dispatcher
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Nearly three months have passed since drug indictments were brought against General Manuel Antonio Noriega in Florida and the Administration signaled its determination to unseat the strongman. Noriega remains firmly in control, despite opposition strikes, U.S. economic sanctions, and the dispatch of 1,300 additional U.S. troops to Panama. The economic noose intended to yank Noriega from power is instead choking Panama's banking, construction, retail and tourism industries. Says a young businessman in Panama City: "Noriega has made fools of the Americans, and we are the ones who have suffered...
...tensions mounted, White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater implied that the U.S. was reviewing its military options to oust Noriega. Washington announced it would dispatch 1,300 additional troops to Panama this week to bolster security for American facilities and citizens along the Panama Canal. The force will complement a 10,000-troop garrison stationed at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Panama. But Wayne Smith, a U.S. diplomat in Latin America from 1979 to 1982 and now a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, warned against using U.S. force to topple the general. Said...
...decision to dispatch more than 3000 American troops to a Honduran air base came in response to confirmed Sandinista incursions into Honduras in pursuit of contra rebels. Even though the Sandinistas have reportedly withdrawn from Honduras and are negotiating a cease-fire with the contras, the United States still plans to keep its force in Honduras. But the troops may do more than what the Administration claims is their mission--to keep the Sandinistas from wiping out the contras...
...reverberated around the country, a Soviet government spokesman admitted to "certain injuries" and even "several" deaths in the southwestern city of Sumgait. The full extent of the carnage was only revealed at week's end, when an anchorman of the national television newscast Vremya read a four-paragraph TASS dispatch in a somber voice. "Criminal elements committed violent actions and engaged in robberies," he reported. "They killed 31 people, among them members of various nationalities, old men and women...
...Noriega played a role in the Iran-contra arms deal as well. Jose Blandon, until recently Panama's consul general in New York City and a close political adviser to Noriega, disclosed that the general had conspired with Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, the former National Security Council aide, to dispatch, then intercept, a shipment of East German arms to El Salvador's leftist guerrillas. The motive: to blame Nicaragua for supplying the weapons, thereby supporting the charge that the Sandinistas are exporting their revolution...