Word: panama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being called a wimp. As an understudy for the post of Commander in Chief, he watched as Ronald Reagan evoked applause on the home front by bombing Tripoli and invading Grenada. Last December Bush tried his own hand at such stuff. He busted a drug lord holed up in Panama. As a result, Manuel Noriega is now awaiting trial in a prison cell in the Miami Metropolitan Correctional Center...
...Rate Crusade. Operation Desert Shield, which is costing the U.S. more than $1 billion a month, is making the Panama invasion look like a weekend jaunt. That expedition, which made use of the 12,000 U.S. soldiers already based there, cost just $163.6 million, the General Accounting Office said last week...
...seem to believe that leadership is expressed, in no small part, by a willingness to cause the deaths of others. After the U.S. invasion of Panama, President Bush exulted that no one could call him "timid"; he was at last a "macho man." The press, in even more primal language, hailed him for succeeding in an "initiation rite" by demonstrating his "willingness to shed blood...
...lone fighting man, bandoliers across his naked chest, mowing down lesser men in gusts of automatic-weapon fire. Only a real war seems to revive our interest in real events. With the Iraqi crisis, the networks report, ratings for news shows rose again -- even higher than they were for Panama...
...presidential campaign, Baker labored to keep his fingerprints off the controversial Willie Horton ads, although as campaign manager he was ultimately responsible for their repeated airing. When Bush selected the callow Dan Quayle as his running mate, Baker distanced himself from the choice. When the U.S. invaded Panama last December, Baker was scarcely to be seen. When the Administration was accused of appeasing China after the Beijing massacre, Baker lied publicly about secretive U.S. contacts between high-level Chinese officials and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. In sharp contrast, George Bush, who never ducks, took the criticism...