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After the U.S. invasion of Panama, the Bush Administration quietly passed the word that however much other Latin American nations might protest in public, their leaders were privately pleased that American troops had stepped in to oust General Manuel Antonio Noriega. A month later, with U.S. soldiers still patrolling Panama City and the U.S.-installed government struggling to assert its control, support for the invasion is beginning to fray. Today there is every indication that the invasion is doing new damage to U.S.-Latin American relations, which had only just begun to recover from the strains of the Reagan...
...Noriega rounded up dozens of officers for imprisonment or execution, deepening tensions in the barracks. In public, he sometimes appeared drunk and showed the telltale signs of cocaine abuse. Noriega supporters say that in December, in the wake of reports that Bush had authorized a new covert plan to oust him, the general sank into a deep depression. Under mounting pressure, trusting no one, he was fatalistic about his chances of surviving his confrontation with...
...under attack from within. Last month the leaders of Leningrad's Communist Party arranged an unprecedented demonstration to criticize Moscow for not defending the party against glasnost-inspired attacks. If this outburst reflects apparatchik sentiment, legalizing competitive groups would arouse not only outrage but perhaps a concerted effort to oust Gorbachev. The Leningrad protest provoked a countermarch by some 40,000 incensed citizens who proclaimed their support for Gorbachev's efforts to rejuvenate the party through open criticism...
...presidential tussle is the latest battle for a popular opposition movement that in three weeks got the Communists to oust old Stalinist hard-liners and relinquish the party's 41-year monopoly on power...
...Ladislav Adamec, 63. Over the past six months, Strougal, who is still a member of the Central Committee, and Adamec had conspired to take advantage of just such a moment. They agreed that Adamec would publicly call for reform while Strougal used his influence within the Central Committee to oust Jakes and other hard-liners in the Politburo. ) Strougal rallied a core group of 20 moderates within the Central Committee to their cause. "In the main hall, everything looked calm," says a participant. "Behind doors all around it, people were negotiating like crazy, shouting and threatening...