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...oldest rule in the exercise of power is that if a nation tells the world it wants to get rid of a corrupt government, as the U.S. did in Panama, that nation had better have the means and the will to carry it through once an opportunity develops." So spoke old cold warrior Richard Helms, former director of the CIA, last week...
...facts seem stacked against Bush. But he has not had his day in public, and his command process is more secretive than that of any recent President. We know that young Panamanian officers responded to U.S. pressure to rid their country of Manuel Noriega, that we were aware of the plot, involved to some undetermined degree and that a few yards away were some of the 12,000 trained and armed American troops stationed in Panama. Does opportunity ever knock so hard...
Where's My Mahon?: In the fourth quarter of the Lehigh game, Perry got caught in a squeeze and had to get rid of the ball fast. As the WHIR announcer reported to his listeners, the pass was "incomplete, intended for...well, the closest Crimson man to that pass was Gerald Mahon...
...arms-control fever. First, Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze ended their tete-a-tete in the Tetons by announcing plans for a spring summit. A few days later, George Bush and Shevardnadze were at the United Nations competing to see who could get rid of chemical weapons faster...
...release of three French hostages held in Lebanon. The French government denies making any deal to free the hostages beyond agreeing to restore diplomatic relations with Iran. At week's end an unknown group calling itself the Secret Chadian Resistance claimed responsibility, as part of a campaign to rid Africa of "all military colonial forces...