Word: weres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For reasons that are still unclear, Bush was not told of this for almost an hour. At that point, Washington passed word to the rebel officers that the U.S. "was prepared to lift this burden from their hands." The rebels refused. "They were clearly not of a mind to turn...
Yet as details of the botched coup emerge, it seems clear that the rebel force had potential that Washington underestimated. Noriega's subsequent roundup of plotters showed that the effort reached deep into the dictator's circle. Among the 37 arrested were three of the general's closest and most...
As could be expected, ultra-conservative Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina lambasted the Administration's timidity, deriding Bush's entourage as the "Keystone Kops" and denouncing a "total lack of planning." More surprising were the Democrats who lined up to criticize the Administration's caution: in the past, many...
Heavily in debt, Zenith has reported losses in three of the past four years. Says Chairman Jerry Pearlman: "We are a highly leveraged company in two very tough businesses. We really felt we couldn't do either of them appropriate justice." Pearlman had tried to sell the company's TV...
Zenith had expanded into computers to reduce its reliance on TVs, a business that low-cost foreign producers were beginning to dominate. The company bought the electronics-kit maker Heath in 1979 and expanded the division to include a line of laptop computers. Zenith's machines are now among the...