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...after that. Worse, the initial pool report shed almost no light on the confused military situation, leading off with the hardly titanic news that the U.S. charge d'affaires in Panama, John Bushnell, was worried about the "mischief" that deposed dictator Manuel Noriega could cause. Complains pool member Steven Komarow of the Associated Press: "We kind of missed the story...
Responsibility for that failure lies with the military -- particularly the Defense Department's Southern Command -- not with Komarow or his seven colleagues in the pool. From the time the hastily summoned reporters arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on the night of the invasion until they returned from Panama four days later, the Army kept them under such tight control that journalistic initiative was all but impossible...
...first, crucial day in Panama, the reporters were kept for several hours in a windowless room at Fort Clayton and treated to a tedious, history-laden briefing. Nor were things much better once the poolers were allowed into the sunlight. "To the extent we got any news at all," Komarow says, "it was pretty much by accident." He notes, for example, that the pool did witness looting in Panama City, but only when their military driver lost his way. Exposure to actual combat was also a matter of chance, as when Noriega forces attacked the Southern Command's headquarters, about...
Park police quickly cleared the area. Trapped inside the 555-ft.-high obelisk were eight people: six tourists and two U.S. Park Service employees. Shortly after noon, Associated Press Reporter Steve Komarow was selected as the emissary. Over the course of the next six hours, Komarow was to talk cautiously on five occasions with Mayer, whose vague but grandiose demand was that every organization in the U.S., from Kiwanis Clubs to Congress, give first priority, and the news media 51% of their total coverage, to discussing the "nuclear weapons question...