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...GEORGE BUSH ponders new ways to remind Americans of his two favorite wars, as Pentagon hawks try vainly to parley "successes" into bigger appropriations for high tech weapons, Saddam Hussein remains in power; Kuwait's democratic elite enslaves Filipino servants; Manuel Noriega gets ready for his acquittal; and America's domestic problems go unchecked, too big, too complicated and too politically explosive for the President who brought us Just Cause and Desert Storm to manage...
Abedi made connections with power elites worldwide, from corporations like BankAmerica to officials like former President Jimmy Carter, whose charitable foundations received $10 million in donations. On its darker side, B.C.C.I. provided services for Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, the Medellin cocaine cartel and terrorist organizations around the world. The most nefarious aspect of B.C.C.I. was its "black network," which engaged in terrorism, intimidation and paramilitary actions...
...help the law by exposing the painstaking accumulation of facts required to prove guilt. It is a dispiriting truth, however, that viewers fail to demand fuller coverage of proceedings that don't involve Kennedys and panty hose -- like the trials of Manuel Noriega or S&L bandit Charles Keating Jr. But showmanship still counts. Would it be any surprise if the cameras tempted lawyers, witnesses and judges to posture a bit more than they already would for the jury? Maybe these matters were better understood back in 1962, when Raymond Burr, the star of Perry Mason, sought a meeting with...
Carlos Lehder Rivas, one of the founders of the Medellin drug cartel, was % supposed to be the U.S. government's star witness in the Miami trial of Panama's General Manuel Noriega, who is charged with drug trafficking and money laundering. But the prosecution's plans were turned upside down last week when Lehder, 42, claimed that the cartel gave $10 million to the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan contras...
...Baltasar Bustos, Manuel Varela and Xavier Dorrego frequent the cafes of Buenos Aires. They're in love with Rousseau, Diderot, clocks and, like all selfrespecting romantics, the prospect of Latin American democracy. In Carlos Fuentes' The Campaign, Varela reminisces 10 years later...