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...election in 2003. The Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors had failed to prove that he and his brother-in-law were involved in a conspiracy to smuggle 6,500 tons of arms to Croatia and Ecuador between 1991 and 1995. Menem insisted the arms sales, officially bound for Panama and Venezuela, were legal, but a corruption inquiry into possible profiteering continues...
...book does Morris introduce himself into a subplot of the action. On the mid-September day in 1901 when Vice President Roosevelt gets word that President William McKinley has succumbed to an assassin's bullet, Morris isn't the messenger who brings the telegram. When Teddy plots to uncouple Panama from Colombia--so that the U.S. could have a freer hand to build its great canal across the isthmus--Morris is not bending to the presidential lunch table to serve the soup and listen in. When T.R. holds forth at some White House reception, Morris doesn't flutter past...
...havens are one of the world's great growth industries. There are more of them than ever, from Liechtenstein to Panama to Vanuatu, a tiny rock sticking out of the Pacific, well-wired into the world financial system. And the amount of money they harbor around the globe is staggering--as much as $5 trillion, according to the U.S. State Department. The Cayman Islands (pop. 35,000) has more than $800 billion on deposit--fully one-fifth as much as the entire U.S. banking system. And those Cayman deposits are swelling by an estimated $120 billion a year...
...general, Downing led U.S. special forces in the 1989 invasion of Panama, then Delta Force commandos who hunted for Iraqi Scud missiles during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. But he became disenchanted with the appointment last week after discovering he probably would not get the $10 million budget or the staff of 30 he thought he had been promised. Senior White House aides believe they can talk him into taking...
...everywhere from the hills of Uzbekistan to the deserts of Sudan. And if the White House has little choice but to go after bin Laden, it also knows that the chances of finding him are not great. Says one former U.S. counterintelligence official: "The entire U.S. Army was in Panama, and it was really hard to find Manuel Noriega. The U.S. Army knew Panama really well. Even if you have troops on the ground, you need to have spectacularly good intelligence and know exactly where you are going. You have to be vectored right on to the viper's nest...