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...insider, "how bad our intelligence has been." Soon after the indictments, Panama's mostly powerless President Eric Delvalle went to Washington for a meeting of the Organization of American States. Delvalle told Abrams he planned to announce to the OAS his intention of firing Noriega. Abrams, who continued to harbor hopes of a popular uprising in Panama, liked the idea but not the venue. "You're a Panamanian," he said. "You should do this in Panama." Delvalle took the advice, returned home and made his dramatic announcement on Panamanian television -- only to have Noriega turn the tables and fire...
...United States has forced Honduras to harbor the contra army, several new U.S. airstrips and occasional groups of paratroopers. The natives are getting restless, and if they don't quiet down, Honduras too may soon be added to the list of unstable and crumbling Central American countries...
...other extreme, On Freedom's Ground takes a look at New York harbor as it might have been before it became a beachhead of the New World. The vision is harsh, deterministic, featuring a wind "which blew/ Not as it chose, but as it had to do." The invasion of humanity is hardly the despoliation of paradise: "Where was the thought of freedom then?/ It came ashore within the minds...
...Harbor cities like San Francisco and New York once boasted intricate networks of ferries carrying thousands of passengers each day. Then came the Golden Gate Bridge and the Holland Tunnel and dozens of other highway links. By the mid-1950s, urban ferries were a vanishing species, victims of America's love affair with the automobile. But these days, with once gleaming bridges and tunnels clogged with traffic or closed for repair, ferries are making a comeback...
...Detroit River to Windsor, Ontario. To such visionaries, the possibilities of doing business on water seem limitless. John Westlake, chairman of Direct Line, one of New York's privately owned ferry lines, sums up the potential in terms that appeal to everyone who has suffered through gridlock: "The harbor is like an 80-lane highway that doesn't have anybody...