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...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 the Western Hemisphere." Even Noriega's staunchest supporters in Washington suspected that Helms was on to something. Says one Reagan Administration official: "Noriega gets a cut of every kind of illicit business down there...
Quincy House Superintendent Ronald Levesque said he was working in his office when he heard smoke detectors buzzing and saw a large fire in the room's window. Grabbing fire extinguishers as he ran, Levesque climbed the stairs and was joined by maintenance crew chief Manuel DaSilva...
...sons. He spent the next three years rubbing shoulders with the muralist Diego Rivera, dodging the postrevolutionary turmoil and making pictures under the Mexican sun that specifies every object it falls upon. Among them were a series of vivid head shots, like his startling portrait of Manuel Hernandez Galvan, 1924, that use the subjects' plain vitality to confound the impassivity one expects from monumental figures. The Mexican portraits show that Weston had absorbed the principles delivered to him by Alfred Stieglitz, words that Weston later summarized as a "maximum of detail with a maximum of simplification...
When Reagan appointees gained a majority on the seven-member Federal Reserve board of governors last February, predictions abounded that the central bank would adopt a more stimulative monetary policy in an effort to pump up the economy. After all, the Reaganite faction would be led by Manuel Johnson, the current Fed vice chairman, who is a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, certified supply sider and onetime critic of the Reserve Board for being too tightfisted in its fight against inflation. So far, the new lineup seems to have done its job. Since last March the Fed has steadily...
Buchanan has several admirers among members of the Reagan Administration. James Miller III, director of the Office of Management and Budget, was a doctoral student of Buchanan's in the 1960s. Another Buchanan supporter: Manuel Johnson, a former George Mason professor who is now vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board...