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...editor Vitali Tretyakov has written, Gorbachev has a "subtle perception of the balance of economic and political variables not only today but ((an appreciation of where)) this balance will be . . . tomorrow and what must be done to forestall a rolling back ((caused)) by too abrupt an advance." Thus, at recent party and government meetings, Gorbachev placated conservatives by fending off a challenge to the party's "leading role," at the same time soothing radicals by indicating that communist primacy is necessary only during "the present complex stage...
...issued formal condemnations of the intervention, but one did not have to read very far between the lines to detect a sigh of relief that the brutal Panamanian dictator had got his comeuppance. The 32-member Organization of American States "regretted," but did not quite condemn, the invasion. In recent months many Latin leaders had privately expressed their revulsion toward Noriega. Nonetheless, no Latin nation would immediately recognize the Endara government, and Peru recalled its Ambassador to Washington in protest. The Soviet Union denounced the invasion as a violation of international law but hastily added that it saw no reason...
...recent months the Pentagon had quietly bolstered American forces in Panama in preparation for a possible strike, adding 4,500 combat troops, as well as tanks and attack helicopters, to the 8,500 soldiers already deployed at U.S. bases. The force was so strong that Pentagon planners had briefly considered dispatching a column of U.S. troops to nab Noriega during an ill- ! fated uprising by P.D.F. officers last October. That daring plan was quickly -- and, as it turned out, wisely -- discarded as too risky and uncertain...