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While Schultz was placing laurels on the heads of committed anti-drug Bolivians, the situation in Panama--where Gen. Manuel Noriega, a suspected cocaine dealer, still holds power--has not changed. The Reagan Administration has talked endlessly about ousting Noriega for his actions. But the drug dealer is still around...
...This incident proves you can't tell Congress anything without it leaking," said a senior White House aide last week, after the Washington Post reported that President Reagan had authorized unspecified covert action to help oust Panamanian Leader Manuel Antonio Noriega. Not so, said both Democrat David Boren, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and ranking Republican William Cohen. The two Senators got questions from reporters even before the committee was briefed on the finding. That, they charged, meant the Administration had divulged the information to "set up" the committee as being unable to keep secrets...
...long- delayed final tabulation of the July 6 presidential ballot. As expected, the victor was Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), with 50.36% of the 19 million votes cast. Cardenas, the leftist opponent, finished with 31.12%, and the challenger on the right, Manuel Clouthier, received 17.07%. Two minor candidates accounted for the rest of the total. Final returns in voting for the Chamber of Deputies gave the P.R.I. 260 of the 500 seats, well short of the two-thirds plurality required to make constitutional changes. In the Senate, Cardenas' forces captured four...
...every delegate should "drop a dog at the Varsity." This sprawling landmark is where the pillars of society line up with hoi polloi for chili-topped hot dogs, cayenne-zapped onion rings and a cool, thick orange frosted. And to see local journalists at play, conventioneers can go to Manuel's Tavern, the spot for cold beer, spicy Buffalo chicken wings, lusty chili and burgers...
...does the swaggering alternative. Unilateral assertions of U.S. pressure have proved more likely to foster resentment about Yankee imperialism than to promote lasting influence. Nor does Washington always know best: its friends in Latin America have generally proved more adroit at dealing with troublesome neighbors such as Panama's Manuel Noriega and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega...