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Ever since 1914, when U.S. engineers connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by carving a 43-mile-long canal across the Isthmus of Panama, the two ! countries have been intimately linked. So great is American influence that the U.S. dollar is legal currency in Panama. Yet Panamanians are extremely sensitive...
The object of Helms' ire was General Manuel Noriega, commander of Panama's defense force and the nation's strongman since 1983. Helms accused Noriega, a onetime intelligence chief and right-hand man of the late populist dictator Omar Torrijos, of being "head of the biggest drug-trafficking operation in...
Richard Helms, the former CIA director and Ambassador to Iran, who counseled seven Presidents over three decades, noted how, sooner or later, "they all felt like Gulliver, bound down by a thousand regulations and laws and the fear of leaks whenever they tried to do anything quickly and secretly to...
Helms contends that a President who finally is afraid to risk a Bay of Pigs, a Desert One or an Iranian arms deal will be reluctant to order a naval quarantine around Cuban missiles, recapture the hijacked ship Mayaguez, help the British in the Falklands or intercept the Achille Lauro...
I'm looking forward to watching some of the younger, liberal Democratic turks who will snag sub-committee chairmanships start raising some muck about, let's say, Reagan's Central America quagmire. And maybe now that he doesn't chair a major committee, people won't listen when Jesse Helms...