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...writing Grapevine: "While these items don't in themselves make a full TIME story, they provide information and a unique view of the news." For example, who curtly dismissed the Great Wall of China as "just a pile of bricks"? And who offered to help topple Manuel Noriega on the cheap? Turn to page 27 and find...
Gone though he may be, Manuel Antonio Noriega continues to provide work for the new government's auditors. One of the juicier tidbits they claim to have found is that Noriega had a computer wired directly into the national treasury account, into which he could dip at will. He also allegedly supplemented his $8,000 monthly salary and expenses by drawing on the $10,000 generated daily by the country's lottery. Panamanian officials claim that two days before the U.S. invasion, Noriega transferred some $10 million of his own funds from Panama probably to Hong Kong. That money...
...other hand, no one has yet proved that Noriega was the coke-sniffing degenerate portrayed by U.S. officials during the invasion. And there are allegations that both the picture of Hitler and the sex manual discovered in his house and office were planted...
...Sandinistas' defeat and the capture of Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega have removed two of the most divisive and destabilizing factors in U.S. relations with Latin America. With El Salvador's leftist guerrillas likely to be undercut by a halt in support from Nicaragua and Cuba isolated as never before, the U.S. has an opportunity to move beyond its 30- year struggle with Marxism in the region. It can stop using Nicaragua as an ideological battleground and start treating it like a needy neighbor. But to turn this electoral triumph into something substantial and lasting, Washington will have...
Much of the credit goes to the three Ps: Peace, Prosperity and Panama. Voters appreciate Bush's affable nature, his no-nonsense wife Barbara and his flock of grandchildren. Add to that low unemployment and inflation, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the dramatic capture of Manuel Noriega and the sense that Bush loves his impossible job and is working hard at it. This flavorful gumbo has a broad appeal. Bush gets good marks even from a majority of blacks and Democrats...