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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rather than fearing that the crisis in California will drain resources they need for their own recovery, some of Hugo's victims seem to have drawn renewed courage from the calamity on the West Coast. The realization that there are even worse disasters than the one they suffered has reinforced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Hugo | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Some days recently the real President (named Bush) has been crowded out of the news by the antics of the has-beens. Ronald Reagan was on display in Japan for a reported $2 million (or 284 million yen) from the Fujisankei Communications Group. Jimmy Carter was in Nashville instructing listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency The Yen to Stay Onstage | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

In the continuing exchange of recriminations about the failed coup against Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, the Bush Administration last week loudly accused Congress of trying to micromanage intelligence matters. At the same time, however, a National Security Council review indicates that if anyone was micromanaging, it was the President, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stovepipe Problem | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

As chief spymaster, Bush learned to compartmentalize information, drawing on many sources but sharing little of what he knew or how he was leaning. As President, he continues the practice; much undigested and conflicting intelligence from Panama was "stovepiped" straight to the Chief Executive and his top aides, bypassing lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stovepipe Problem | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Before Bush flew to Central America to join regional leaders in Costa Rica on Friday, new details emerged about covert U.S. plans aimed at overthrowing Noriega in July and October 1988. These plans, the Administration noted, were blocked by some of the same Senators who last month criticized Bush as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stovepipe Problem | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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