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...forced into hiding by Iranian fundamentalists, Palestinians fighting for independence, or the many other peoples who remain oppressed by their governments or still seek independence from neo-colonial rule. And the price of rebelling against authoritarian regimes, as seen in streets of Beijing and in Panama City following Gen. Manuel Noriega's reassertion of control, is high and often bloody. Nevertheless, the highly encouraging though tenuous developments taking place in countries accustomed to repression should bring hope to men and women everywhere...
...defusing the anti- Americanism that has been an obstacle to U.S. policy in Latin America. But he paid a heavy price at home. The "giveaway" increased Carter's vulnerability on the right and softened him up for his eventual defeat in 1980. Last year's feckless attempt to oust Manuel Antonio Noriega turned into one of the fiascoes of the Reagan Administration...
...bloody eruption in Panama's streets last week, Central America bureau chief John Moody had a powerful sense of deja vu. He had spent ten weeks in Panama last year reporting on the riots that accompanied the Reagan Administration's efforts to bring down the country's dictator, General Manuel Antonio Noriega. On both occasions, Moody felt a shiver of physical danger. Last year Moody was chased by several of Noriega's riot police, called the Dobermans. "When they finally cornered me, I figured my time had come," he recalls. "I was more than a bit surprised when the head...
...thuggish sham. Tabulation sheets vanished, vote counting was suspiciously slow, and when citizens stormed the streets in protest, soldiers fired on the crowds with rifles. Through it all, the U.S. remained silent. Five months later, as protesters chanted, "Fraud! Fraud!," Panama inaugurated Nicolas Ardito Barletta, the candidate favored by Manuel Antonio Noriega -- and the man, many Panamanians charged, handpicked by then U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz...
...fact, they wore T shirts advertising themselves as members of Batallon Dignidad, or the Dignity Battalion. It is one of at least 20 paramilitary squads, with a total membership estimated at 7,000 to 10,000, that were founded last year ostensibly to help block a Yanqui invasion that Manuel Antonio Noriega insisted was imminent. According to Bush Administration officials, the squads were created with help from a small group of Cuban advisers in Panama and modeled on similar militias formed by Fidel Castro shortly after the Cuban revolution. In addition to Dignity, there are the Christopher Columbus Battalion...