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American soldiers were back on the streets of Panama last week, called in by President Guillermo Endara to quell a rebellion led by the former chief of Panama's national police. The U.S. troops quickly ended the revolt and turned its leader, Colonel Eduardo Herrera Hassan, over to local authorities. Yet this time there was none of the euphoria that followed the U.S. Army's ouster of General Manuel Noriega almost exactly one year ago. And the incident raised doubts about U.S. efforts to nurture a democratic government capable of coping without American help...
...largely ceremonial position. And the Vatican appointed Cahal Daly, a fierce critic of the Irish Republican Army, as Primate of All-Ireland. The Belfast-based bishop's elevation pleased politicians and religious leaders in Ulster and London, where there is hope that his outspoken condemnations of violence might help quell sectarian terrorism...
Even President Bush allowed that Israeli forces "need to act with greater restraint." At the U.N. Security Council, the U.S., which frequently uses its veto there to shield Israel from criticism, found itself in the odd position of sponsoring a resolution castigating its ally for using excessive force to quell the Palestinians, who were throwing rocks at Jewish worshipers gathered at Judaism's sacred Western Wall...
Virtually nothing deters members from attending meetings. In 1975, when Korea University was closed and occupied by soldiers trying to quell demonstrations, the club stayed open by moving its operations to a nearby tearoom. "The only time we stop reading TIME is during middle-term and final examinations," says faculty adviser Kang Sung Hack. Last month members even slogged through severe floods in Seoul in order to get together...
...will the motives and the means to quell Iraq's hegemonic aims prove enough? Saddam was certainly in no mood for capitulation last week. "We would rather die than be humiliated," the Iraqi President thundered. "We will pluck out the eyes of those who attack the Arab nation." Baghdad cut off its only easy out when it dissolved the five-day-old provisional government it had established in Kuwait and announced an "eternal merger" of the country with Iraq. This left Iraq no way to retreat from Kuwait without a serious loss of face, something the megalomaniacal Saddam...