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Thus began an eleven-day test of wills as the Spanish-born papal nuncio used psychological pressure and logic to convince his guest that Noriega's best, indeed only, option was to give himself up. Upholding the Vatican tradition of granting sanctuary to anyone fleeing persecution, Laboa would not kick the general out. But he had no intention of allowing him to prolong his stay indefinitely...
...Antarctic component of the IGY worked so well that after the project ended, President Dwight Eisenhower invited the eleven other nations that had built bases to join the U.S. in an agreement that would govern all activities on and around the frozen continent. The resulting Antarctic Treaty, ratified in 1961, forbids military activity, bans nuclear explosions and radioactive- waste disposal, and mandates international cooperation and freedom of scientific inquiry. Moreover, those participating countries that claimed chunks of Antarctica as their own agreed not to press those claims while the treaty remained in force. Over the years, 13 other countries have...
Elsewhere, a boat filled with Noriega gunmen landed at one of the San Blas islands off Panama's Caribbean coast and took hostage eleven people working at a Smithsonian Institutions marine-research project. The group, including five Americans, was taken to the mainland and forced to march into the jungle. Next day, they were abandoned without food and finally rescued. At the international airport two terrified American women were threatened with death by a group of 30 P.D.F. soldiers, who used them as a shield against U.S. paratroopers surrounding the terminal. The two were freed just before dawn after...
...heading off bloodshed. Visiting East Berlin on Oct. 7, the 40th anniversary of the communist state, Gorbachev cautioned the leaders that they could not count on Soviet support if they used force to crack down, and advised them to launch their own perestroika: "Life itself punishes those who delay." Eleven days later, Honecker was forced out and replaced by Krenz, who immediately sought to appease the marching crowds and the demands from his party for faster reform. His tenure was brief but memorable, if only because he ordered the opening of the Berlin Wall, the ultimate symbol of the Iron...
...playwright Vaclav Havel, the often imprisoned leader of dissent, who has conjured up what may be the new nemesis of world communism: "the power of the powerless." On Dec. 10 what Havel called the "velvet revolution" swept away the government. In a new Cabinet of 21, there are now eleven noncommunists. The formation of rival parties has been legalized and Civic Forum, the noncommunist coalition, has decided to join in free elections likely to be held...