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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principal national security staff, and said, "I saw on TV last night those pictures of Billy Ford ((Panama's opposition vice-presidential candidate, beaten by Noriega's goons)). They had tremendous impact, seeing him standing up to those beatings." Few things are as sacred to Bush as the free election process. Seeing it violated so savagely hit him particularly hard...
...political revenge at its most brutal, the latest and most vicious reminder yet of Noriega's arrogant lawlessness. For more than a year, Noriega has ignored two U.S. indictments accusing him of complicity in the international drug trade. He has jailed or deported opponents, destroyed the sprigs of a free press, and watched his country slide into economic ruin rather than give up the whips of power. Nonetheless, Noriega outdid himself last week by stealing an election so brazenly that, in the words of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, it amounted to "a coup d'etat...
This is never an easy question (autobiographies frequently contain more fancy than novels), but so far as one needs a guide to the free state of Theroux's imagination, it is this: like the author, the novel's hero, Andrew (sometimes Andre) Parent, was born and reared in Massachusetts, spent a good part of the '60s teaching and traveling in the Third World, and eventually made his mark as a London-based writer...
...reported that U.S. retail sales climbed a meager 0.4% in April, far below the 1%-to-2% gain many economists had expected. The feeble growth would have been weaker but for a jump in car sales that reflected the most generous incentives ever offered by Detroit, including interest-free loans...
More important, Bush offered to work with Congress for a "temporary waiver" of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which sharply restricts U.S.-Soviet trade unless the Kremlin allows free emigration of Soviet Jews and other citizens. The condition: the Kremlin must write into Soviet law liberalized definitions of who can leave the Soviet Union...