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Bush began acting very much on his own last May, when he put together U.S. proposals for sweeping cuts in conventional forces in Europe that pleased the NATO allies and intrigued the Soviets. In July he followed up by secretly inviting Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to the summit off Malta. Bush had insisted that it would be a get-acquainted session without an agenda, but at their meeting in early December he handed Gorbachev a list of 21 American proposals that drew a generally favorable response. Simultaneously, the President authorized U.S. aircraft to go into action in the Philippines, helping...
...people in this entire building ((the Pentagon)) who knew this operation was going to happen." In retrospect, though, the invasion looks inevitable. The U.S. through two Administrations built Noriega into a menacing monster -- instead of what he was, the tin-pot dictator of a not very important country -- and put its credibility on the line in declaring that he had to go. But everything Washington tried -- propaganda, economic sanctions, attempts to foment a coup -- failed. The Pentagon prepared fresh contingency plans for an invasion at least as early as last spring; they were the subject of one of the first...
...terrorism, for example. U.S. helicopter pilots have been supporting drug-eradication efforts in Peru and Guatemala, though Peru last week called a halt to joint antidrug action in protest against the Panama invasion. The Washington Post has quoted Joint Chiefs Chairman Powell as telling colleagues that "we have to put a shingle outside our door saying SUPERPOWER LIVES HERE, no matter what the Soviets do, even if they evacuate from Eastern Europe." That may be a better summary of the reasoning behind the Panama invasion than any other...
Hundreds of thousands of Rumanians took joyously to the streets, running, jumping, riding on tanks. "The army is with us!" they shouted. "We are the people!" Crowds stormed Ceausescu's palace and rushed to the state television studio to put out the message "We won. The dictator has fallen." Ceausescu's son Nicu, party chief in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu (pop. 173,000), was captured and paraded before the cameras. His face was bruised, and his eyes flicked in terror from side to side, as if seeking a way to escape...
When George Bush ordered military action against the increasingly arrogant dictator, the Pentagon put the finishing touches on the option it preferred and had been secretly preparing to implement: a massive simultaneous assault on all P.D.F. strongholds by a combination of forces already in Panama and a huge airlift of reinforcements from bases...