Word: noriega
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...fury on one miscreant, the U.S. has sometimes overlooked or even pampered another, potentially greater source of trouble in the same region. The American obsession with Cuba as the Soviet cat's-paw in the Western Hemisphere was one factor that led Washington to support Panama's Manuel Noriega. As an anticommunist, Noriega qualified, in Franklin Roosevelt's famous phrase, as "our son of a bitch." Not until the cold war faded and the war on drugs escalated did Noriega earn his place on the CIA's dart boards and a one-way trip to Miami, where he now sits...
...life-size photograph of Bush, the kind that tourists in Washington pay $5 to pose with. But Bush's version, a Christmas gift from the U.S. Army, is framed and has a dozen-odd bullet holes in its head. It was retrieved from the private pistol range of Manuel Noriega. Nearby are the original police mug shots of Noriega, face front and silhouette. Does the President enshrine these images as prehistoric men wore totems from which to derive strength? Or is this the beginning of a Terrorist Trophy Room, where the President, who often trains a double-barreled shotgun...
...meeting his wife at Dulles Airport in Washington. Before the plane lands, however, terrorists take control of the airport and threaten to kill a lot of people if the authorities don't help a shady Latin American general--who, of course, bears no resemblence to former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega--escape extradition and trial...
...Marilyn Quayle, furious because George dumped Dan in '92, is over in Libya conspiring with Gaddafi. Gorby gave the U.S.S.R. his best shot, but it didn't work, so he defected, took a publishing job in Manhattan, and is dating Susan Sarandon. Noriega beat his drug rap, as we all knew he would, and is back in power in Panama. At the White House, President Clementine Fox is brooding about sending troops to dislodge him, and her peacenik husband Guy, the First Hubby, sourly tells her, "Have yourself a merry little isthmus." Got all that? Oh, yes, and Clementine became...
...demonstration of the trust that blossomed from their friendship occurred during a London meeting last August. Panama's Manuel Noriega wanted diplomatic , relations with Moscow. Pavlov asked Aronson's advice, which was predictably negative, and the Soviets passed. In the Reagan years, it is unlikely that Moscow would have forgone such an advantageous diplomatic move simply because of U.S. sensibilities. Like many such small gestures, that one too registered on Bush's calculus of Washington's stake in Gorbachev's success...