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...confrontations scarcely matched the anger that exploded after the coup attempt. Emboldened by rumors that Noriega had been toppled, some Panamanians went on a protest spree that degenerated into sporadic rioting. While some neighborhoods stayed calm in Panama City, streets and alleys in others were thick with smoke from burning mounds of garbage, tires and trees. Looters set fire to shops and a department store near Noriega's headquarters. Striking utility workers deepened the gloom. Power-company employees cut electric service; telephone lines went dead...
Officially Baker is neutral in this race. Actually he is on the phone constantly with the Vice President, his friend of 30 years. "The best thing I can do for now is stay right here," he tells inquiring pols, pointing down at his thick beige carpet. A light pink shirt may sit puckishly against his somber Treasury pinstripes, or an Hermes tie may softly signal his worldly strides...
...thick brush that borders the track another agent has pinned to the ground a second member of the gang, this one unarmed. Around the prisoner are nearly a dozen 30-lb. sacks of marijuana abandoned by his fellow "mules." The total load will weigh out at 317 lbs., worth about $250,000 in South Texas and much more elsewhere in the U.S. If they hadn't been busted, the mules, who earn $200 a trip, would have carried the marijuana up to the highway and loaded it into a waiting...
...cartel, operating through a wide network of associates, controls a tightly organized enterprise. Coca leaves are grown mostly in Peru and Bolivia, where they are turned into a thick paste. The paste is shipped to processing laboratories, most of them in Colombia, where it is converted into the powder that drug users, especially in the U.S., consume. Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama and the Bahamas are among the favored transshipment points. Profits are usually laundered in Panama and invested...
Unlike its predecessors, the thick document did not spark explosions of anger or snorts of derision as it landed on Capitol Hill last week. When Ronald Reagan submitted to Congress his eighth budget, a $1.09 trillion spending package for fiscal 1989, not even the Democrats pronounced it D.O.A., as they have in years past...