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George Bush has overthrown two foreign governments since becoming President. Toppling the dictatorial regime of Panama in December required 24,000 U.S. troops. Sending Israel's overwrought democracy into a nervous breakdown last month took only four words from Bush's lips...
...color photographs and eight-minute video of the delta-winged F-117A did not make the case for new technology. For one thing, the Pentagon admitted that when two of the fighters were used during the Panama invasion, their precision bombs missed their targets by several hundred yards. Moreover, an Air Force report released last week indicated that the life-span of the older B-52 bombers will extend well into the next century, reinforcing growing support in Congress for a drastic cut in the B-2 program -- or even killing it altogether...
What's worse, unless George Bush changes course and breathes life into his free-trade rhetoric by assaulting the U.S.'s insane sugar program, Latin America's economy will deteriorate even further -- and the $800 million assistance package the President plans for Nicaragua and Panama will have little or no long-term benefit...
...West wins, and vice versa. These days the Soviet Union is losing Eastern Europe and digging in hard to keep from losing one of its own republics. The U.S. is not only winning, many senior Soviet commanders feel, but gloating about the Soviet decline. "The American invasion of Panama was a gift for the generals in Moscow," Ogonyok's Korotich said last week, because they can use it as evidence that the Soviet Union must not lower its guard...
...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 has not yet been traced...