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...world has closed in on him, Bush has gone to his faithful telephone. Just 15 minutes before he was scheduled to make his statement to the nation on sending troops to Panama, Bush paused in his hurried preparations and put in a call to Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias Sanchez, the Nobel Peace laureate, even though he had spoken with him just a few hours earlier. "I'd just feel better if I know what's on his mind," the President said...
...Sununu. The President's own gleanings from his ceaseless phone calls and television viewing are cranked into the day's crisis agenda. Last week he glanced at the men around him, his principal national security staff, and said, "I saw on TV last night those pictures of Billy Ford ((Panama's opposition vice-presidential candidate, beaten by Noriega's goons)). They had tremendous impact, seeing him standing up to those beatings." Few things are as sacred to Bush as the free election process. Seeing it violated so savagely hit him particularly hard...
...scene, no matter how often it is played back in the mind, still shocks and horrifies. At the end of a rally of opposition forces protesting the blatant exercise of electoral larceny in Panama, a band of T-shirted men suddenly appeared carrying wooden clubs and metal pipes. With grotesque inappropriateness, they styled themselves the Dignity Battalion. As troops of the Panama Defense Force nonchalantly looked on, the thugs closed in on the victorious trio who three days earlier had easily defeated the handpicked candidates of Panamanian General Manuel Antonio Noriega for the posts of President and First and Second...
Concerned that Noriega's proclivity for street violence might put Americans in Panama at risk, President George Bush ordered some 2,000 troops to join the 10,300 American soldiers already stationed on Panamanian soil. He advised all U.S. Government employees and dependents living off U.S. bases to move temporarily to safer quarters, and recalled Ambassador Arthur Davis, a step just short of breaking off diplomatic relations...
...Panamanian government maintains the meetingshould focus on U.S. interference in Panama. Theopposition says the meeting should focus onelection fraud and political repression