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This is not a man who has grasped the concept of dead oceans. American Perot-nistas bear a superficial resemblance to the Argentine variety. What we have here is a strongman, a right-wing populist: no party, no program -- just a cult of personality. All he needs now is an Evita...
Miami has indeed proved to be a trial for Booth. Actually, two trials: the sensational rape proceeding against William Kennedy Smith, which produced TIME's "Date Rape" cover story, and the drug case starring fallen Panama strongman Manuel Noriega. She is thinking of more than climate when she boasts, "Miami is the hottest assignment around." Outside the courtrooms, Booth reported a cover story on Orlando and finagled 1992's great correspondent coup, a Business lead story on the booming cruise industry. Naturally, duty required Cathy to sample a Bahamas cruise. The bureau also covers the Caribbean, and she has reported...
...been much like L.A. Law, has it?" joked Jon May, one of General Manuel Antonio Noriega's defense lawyers, to the 12 jurors sitting in the ornate main courtroom of Miami's federal courthouse. May had a point. The drug-trafficking and racketeering trial against the former Panamanian strongman, now in its fourth month, has droned on in near obscurity, with convicted smugglers and tainted tattletales spinning stories of cocaine smuggling, sly banking maneuvers and French dancing girls...
Sightings of that bumper sticker in California and New Hampshire probably go farther than any deep-think analysis to unravel a Washington mystery. Why is the Bush Administration starting to leak hints of a new scheme to dethrone the Iraqi strongman, despite the derision of virtually everyone who knows anything about the Middle East...
Bush wanted to make every effort at a peaceful solution but was determined to line up enough force to win a war if it came to that. He focused his argument on the Iraqi strongman: "I tried to make very clear from the beginning that it was not a battle with the people, but with this dictator." As the Jan. 15 deadline approached, Bush concluded that Saddam had badly misjudged the situation. "Somewhere along the line," the President recalls, "I realized that he felt we were bluffing, and that he also felt another thing where he was just as wrong...