Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turkey blueprint is well drafted, but initially it is likely to accelerate the nation's hyperinflation and cause serious unemployment and widespread bankruptcies. In Sofia the communist government held its first set of talks with opposition leaders. But already the new government was faced with another challenge: a countrywide general strike and mass protests against the restoration of religious and cultural freedom to the country's minority Turks. Havel's government set out on a course of economic restructuring by devaluing the crown from a rate of nine to the dollar to 38 for tourists and 17 for commercial transactions...
...even as the war in Panama winds down, the battle in the U.S. is just shaping up. Noriega now has at his disposal an arsenal he could not call upon at home: the ample resources of a defendant in an American courtroom. The general's lawyers raised the standard defense objections about pretrial publicity and inadmissible evidence. Both objections have been given a fresh twist by Noriega's singular status as a de facto head of state tracked down by an invading army. The biggest question, however, is more a matter of politics than of legal procedure. With Noriega...
Noriega's ties to U.S. intelligence agencies date back to the 1950s, when he began to pass along information about his fellow students at a military academy. Later he went on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency, reportedly earning as much as $200,000 a year. The general can plausibly argue that U.S. Presidents stretching back to Richard Nixon were aware of his drug involvement -- no one more so than former CIA director George Bush -- but looked the other way to avoid losing a valuable source of intelligence. At a press conference on Friday, Bush sought to squelch speculation...
...Noriega probably knows more about what is in our CIA files than anyone in the Justice Department," says Richard Gregorie, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, who drew up the Miami indictment against the general. "He knows what to ask for." The asking is likely to begin early in a pretrial process that could go on for a year or more. Only documents that relate directly to the drug charges can be introduced into court, so much of the most provocative material concerning Noriega's services to the CIA may be beyond the reach of his attorneys. But if the government...
...Medellin cartel. Prosecutors claim that in return he permitted the drug lords to use Panama as a refining and transshipment point for cocaine and as a sanctuary for themselves while the profits were laundered in Panamanian banks and false- front companies, usually with a suitable cut for the general...