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...modernizers. Real reform means distribution of power away from the center, away from the party. I don't think those guys will accept that voluntarily." Some students of Soviet history, noting that periods of reform have typically alternated with periods of reaction, suggest that Gorbachev's policies may proceed for a while and then be followed by a retrenchment, as his party and bureaucratic opponents organize to stymie them. Yet the Soviet leader has two things going for him: a lack of alternatives to his leadership and his image among the intelligentsia as the last best hope for reform...
...answer some central questions: How much did the President know about North's secret activities to aid the contras? Did Poindexter ever tell Reagan about the diversion of Iranian arms-sale profits to the Nicaraguan guerrillas? And if not, on whose authority did Poindexter allow North to proceed...
North's persistence in declaring that "I was authorized to do everything that I did" creates obvious questions for Poindexter, who will follow him to the witness table. Did Poindexter just spike all diversion memos and let North proceed on his own? Poindexter's public testimony, predicts a congressional source who has heard his private interviews, will be "explosive...
Noriega has also shrewdly maintained cordial ties with the U.S. intelligence community based in Panama. An ingratiating host, he has allowed U.S. operations to proceed virtually unfettered. Some 10,000 military personnel are attached to the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command, Washington's military headquarters and prime listening post for Latin America. From SOUTHCOM, the U.S. can dispatch spy planes to overfly Nicaragua, monitor sensitive communications and military movements in the region and ensure the canal's smooth operation. As Panama's former intelligence chief, Noriega has ( also worked intimately with the Central Intelligence Agency. Says a State Department official...
...workers at Ford and General Motors. If bargaining breaks down this year, the U.A.W. is likely to choose Ford as its primary strike target. Reason: the company, which passed GM last year with earnings of $3.3 billion, is now Detroit's most profitable automaker. Even if those negotiations proceed smoothly, however, there are other signs that labor's restiveness is slowly increasing, despite the decline of U.S. union membership from 20.1 million in 1980 to 17 million in 1986. Last year the number of major U.S. work stoppages rose for the first time in the 1980s, to 69, from...