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Beyond that, patience may be the soundest tactic. Noriega's intransigence is not the only problem. The Panamanian people, though exercised last week by Noriega's outright contempt for popular opinion, cannot be counted on to remain in the streets. They have mounted sizable protests twice before over the past two years, only to retreat back into their comfortable homes. "What we need here is 20 good Korean students," a U.S. official wryly notes. "The people ((in Panama)) seldom put it on the line." Frustrated as they may be, middle-class Panamanians have not suffered the misery that galvanized Filipinos...
While the New York and Chicago probes are being handled by two different collaborations of Government agencies, the groups are looking for many of the same kinds of illicit trading techniques. One tactic believed to be under investigation is "front running," in which traders assure profits by executing trades for their own accounts before they carry out their customers' orders...
Perhaps his most effective tactic, however, is to paint the mujahedin as pawns of a foreign power. Afghans abhor foreign invaders, and now that the Soviet army has gone, Najibullah has begun harping on how much the rebels are run by Pakistan and the U.S. His case has been helped by recent news accounts that Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had ordered Lieut. General Hamid Gul, head of Pakistan's military intelligence organization (ISI) to launch the bloody Jalalabad assault. Gul and the ISI are unmistakably doing their best to direct the mujahedin operations, but it seems likely that...
Susman put to his own purposes a tactic of the antiabortion forces, who argue that scientific advances will invalidate Roe by making the fetus viable earlier in pregnancy. Susman pressed the notion that scientific progress had made the right to abortion impossible to disentangle from the right to practice contraception. He maintained that certain forms of birth control such as intrauterine devices act after the sperm and the egg have joined, a description that some medical experts dispute. But if accurate, then such devices in effect abort what the Missouri statute would define as a living being...
...artfully over Hollywood's phony tinsel, an art industry glammed up as an elegant Deco dream. There is a sanitizing genius to the Disney parks, with their canny nostalgia for an America that may have existed only in the lace-valentine heart of a young Walt Disney. And the tactic works best when applying a cartoonist's paintbrush to a world that is fiction, on- and offscreen. Disney-MGM Studios marries movies to theme parks with the astuteness of Hollywood's hottest studio and the spell of a professional dream weaver. Here the men are strong and the women beautiful...