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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz did not say how this could be done. Nor is it likely, on the evidence of the past year, that he knows. Since the U.S. drive to oust Noriega began last summer, Washington has once again demonstrated how the Law of Unintended Consequences can lead to a foreign-policy disaster. Through bureaucratic backbiting, uninformed bluster and gross miscalculation, the Administration did not merely fail to depose Noriega. It also managed to cripple Panama's economy, weaken the local democratic opposition, undermine pro-American attitudes, damage U.S. prestige in Latin America and exacerbate concerns about the stability of the Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Hubris to Humiliation | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...Again!, Vice Versa and Like Father, Like Son were more frantic than comic, and it remains for Big, the last out of the gate, to show that this season's gimmick was, by golly, also a good idea, one that should make Big one of the hits of the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Boy Lost and Found BIG | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...boats, temperature gauges screwed into the hull guide anglers to cool underground springs in ponds and lakes where fish like to congregate on hot summer days. Similarly, pH meters dragged at various depths help locate acidity "clines," or layers, where fish are apt to feed. Lake Systems Division's $630 Multi-C-Lector, in addition to measuring temperature and pH, also detects water clarity clines, using an underwater light meter. It then suggests which color lures are most likely to catch a fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Fish Don't Stand a Chance | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...entered its third phase, bigger, badder, radder and more streetwise than ever. For proof, drop by the Fallbrook, Calif., backyard of Tobin White, 15, and check out the ramp: 32 ft. wide and 12 1/2 ft. high, the Fallbrook ramp is a commanding curve of wood built last summer by Tobin and his father. It has turned into a challenging arena where amateurs like Tobin can mix it up with seasoned veterans, all of them working up thrombosis- teasing speed as they turn the course and leave the ground, grabbing glorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Irresistible Lure Of Grabbing Air | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...with the "sleaze factor" in the Reagan Administration, find the potential for a so's-your-old-man response a small price to pay for throwing a cloud over the man who is the highest-ranking Democrat in the country and who will be banging the gavel at this summer's Democratic Convention. At midweek Vice President George Bush played this game when he turned questions about the ethics of Attorney General Edwin Meese into a call for an independent counsel to investigate Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Speaker's Wrong Stuff | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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