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...learned to compartmentalize information, drawing on many sources but sharing little of what he knew or how he was leaning. As President, he continues the practice; much undigested and conflicting intelligence from Panama was "stovepiped" straight to the Chief Executive and his top aides, bypassing lower-level experts who would normally sort it out. Some Bush aides now admit privately that this practice confused the U.S. response to the Panamanian coup. The compartmentalization of information, says one senior Administration official, is "a destructive trait in any President. The information the President has is not shared with enough people to allow...
...Administration is using the furor over Panama to seek more leeway to assist a coup that, while not intended to kill Noriega or another foreign leader, might wind up doing just that. At the same time, Bush last week assured the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that he would give it "timely notice" of covert actions, at least within a matter of days (in contrast to the ten months that Ronald Reagan once took...
...wasn't it just two weeks ago that East German President Egon Krenz said he would not include opposition groups in a national dialogue? Last week a member of the East German Politburo met with the largest reform group to hear its ideas...
...Europe, the sort of protests that plague many of the Soviet republics. East Europeans are far less concerned about a Moscow-initiated crackdown than about a heavy-handed backlash from within the bloc. So is Mikhail Gorbachev. If Czechoslovakia were to launch an anti-opposition campaign, warns Bromke, "it would undermine Gorbachev's prestige at home and in the bloc and make it more difficult for him internationally...
...West, have begun to explore bilateral trade arrangements. Budapest, in particular, nurtures hopes of eventually joining the European Community. That remains years away, but a halfway step might be membership in the European Free Trade Association, which has special tariff agreements with the European Community. Such moves would come at the expense of traditional Comecon commitments. Given the glue that binds Eastern Europe -- including everything from heavily subsidized Soviet energy supplies and raw materials to inefficient plants unable to compete in world markets -- the dissolution of Comecon is certain to be a slow, clumsy affair...