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...military strength of both nations is proving to be their weakness, due to their misuse of it. The U.S. is overextended with questionable commitments in Panama, historical duties in Western Europe, and the burden of protecting the world's oil supply in the Middle East. As a result, defense spending accounts for a disproportionate share of the skyrocketing budget--$300 billion this year...
Does anyone deliver bad news with a more mournful mien than Secretary of State George Shultz? Last week, as President Reagan headed off to Moscow, his dispirited Secretary of State announced the collapse of U.S. efforts to force the resignation of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panama's pugnacious strongman. Shultz had delayed his own departure for the summit, believing that Noriega was about to yield. Instead, at the eleventh hour the general rejected the U.S. terms, which included a controversial offer to drop federal drug- running charges against him. With that, Shultz broke off talks and denounced Noriega...
...drive to oust Noriega began last summer, Washington has once again demonstrated how the Law of Unintended Consequences can lead to a foreign-policy disaster. Through bureaucratic backbiting, uninformed bluster and gross miscalculation, the Administration did not merely fail to depose Noriega. It also managed to cripple Panama's economy, weaken the local democratic opposition, undermine pro-American attitudes, damage U.S. prestige in Latin America and exacerbate concerns about the stability of the Panama Canal. Moreover, the fiasco could easily become a major liability to George Bush's presidential quest. Says New York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato: "What...
...first time, Bush publicly distanced himself from Reagan. In a carefully choreographed disagreement, the Vice President implied that he would not make a deal with Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega; the Administration at the time was bumbling through yet another week of negotiations with the military dictator that would involve quashing American drug-running indictments against the Panamanian strongman if he stepped down from power. Said Bush: "I won't bargain with drug dealers . . . whether they're on U.S. or foreign soil...
...Panama, where the Canal Commission maintains 24-hour bee-control teams to stop stowaway killer bees, quarantine posts are being established on roads leading out of the southern Mexico defense area to prevent swarms from hitchhiking. Whole colonies have made their way to California on board freighters, but all the known stowaways have been destroyed...