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...concentrating its fury on one miscreant, the U.S. has sometimes overlooked or even pampered another, potentially greater source of trouble in the same region. The American obsession with Cuba as the Soviet cat's-paw in the Western Hemisphere was one factor that led Washington to support Panama's Manuel Noriega. As an anticommunist, Noriega qualified, in Franklin Roosevelt's famous phrase, as "our son of a bitch." Not until the cold war faded and the war on drugs escalated did Noriega earn his place on the CIA's dart boards and a one-way trip to Miami, where...
Eight months after Operation Just Cause sent U.S. troops into Panama to overthrow General Manuel Noriega, the government of President Guillermo Endara seemed to be on the verge of imploding. A wave of murders, muggings and robberies spread through Panama City last week, while the quibbling among Endara and his two Vice Presidents reached new levels...
State Department officials are concerned about the fate of the government, but right now the Bush Administration would like Panama's leaders to stop their squabbling and take aim at such pressing problems as unemployment. During the Noriega crisis, analysts said toppling the dictator would be easy compared with creating a stable government. Now they are seeing how right they were...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff COLIN POWELL had planned to take a week off at his Washington home. He had scheduled the same thing before the invasion of Panama...
...much more likely, though, that Saddam's government was accurate in warning the U.S. that taking it on would not be "like Panama and Grenada." His military arsenal is the largest in the Arab world and is capable of doing extensive damage. At sea, Saddam's modern, Soviet-built magnetic mines are difficult to detect and could be a major menace...