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...Panamanian nationalist. The U.S. was not above using both when they served its special purposes. Richard Nixon welcomed Ceausescu's help in negotiating the first opening to China; under Ronald Reagan, the CIA sought Noriega's assistance in aiding Nicaragua's contras. But in Ceausescu's 24 years of iron rule and Noriega's six, both eventually proved once again Lord Acton's thesis that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely...
MUCH has been said about Dan Quayle's hard-line policy toward Russia, Gorbachev and the Malta Summit. He's standing his ground, he tells us, and won't be convinced by a smiling Kremlin leader that all is fine and dandy under the Iron Curtain...
...Iron Curtain Comes Down...
...Hungary signed the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, pledging not to force fleeing foreigners to return to their own countries. In a year of turning points, that move had special importance. Hungary began dismantling the barbed wire on the Austrian border. Quite literally, the Iron Curtain had started to come down. The principal beneficiaries were East German travelers, who were suddenly able to keep right on moving westward. The fatal hemorrhaging of the German Democratic Republic had begun...
...days later, Honecker was forced out and replaced by Krenz, who immediately sought to appease the marching crowds and the demands from his party for faster reform. His tenure was brief but memorable, if only because he ordered the opening of the Berlin Wall, the ultimate symbol of the Iron Curtain...