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...documents, reveals how close reformers came to approving a plan to ease Fidel into a Prime Minister's job and ease out socialism at the October 1991 Party Congress. His reporting is solid and engrossing, especially on the Ochoa-De La Guardia drug scandal and Cuba's involvement with Panama's now deposed Manuel Noriega. Oppenheimer claims that Cuba was set to begin running Panama's intelligence apparatus just before the 1989 U.S. invasion. He also deals with Cuba's silent issue, the black majority who are not eager to see the white exiles of Miami return. Though he adds...
...invading army. He worked harder than anyone and had fun at it besides." No other cub reporter would have played along so willingly when Binder, trying to prevent Sulzberger from going home on time and spoiling a surprise birthday party, asked him to get quote after quote about the Panama Canal treaty. "I said, 'Arthur, why don't you call Ellsworth Bunker and see what he has to say?' Arthur got a quote from Bunker a few minutes later. Then I said, 'What about Averell Harriman?' He got a quote from him. Then another elder statesmen, and another. Finally...
...Most foreign policy is reactive, the business of handling events the U.S. didn't initiate and can't necessarily control. Presidents tend to be judged less by the good deeds they set in motion than by ! how well they respond to crises. Jimmy Carter's conscientious conclusion of the Panama Canal treaties was overshadowed by his fumbling over the Tehran hostages. George Bush's adroit management of the Gulf War largely explains his reputation for statesmanship...
...Spanish for "little fly," appeared in the 16th century, along with new and nastier New World species. In the 1880s the Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps, fresh from the triumph of building the Suez Canal, was utterly vanquished in his heroic effort to dig a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, partly because thousands of the Europeans he brought with him fell victim to mosquito-borne disease...
...lives in Stinson Beach, Calif., grew up in Honolulu and has been a TIME photographer for 13 years. His TIME campaign coverage won first place in the Pictures of the Year Competition in both 1984 and 1988. In addition to his U.S. political coverage, Bentley has shot assignments in Panama, El Salvador and Haiti...