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...imagined enemy in these competitive wars is usually the Japanese. Their GNP is still only third largest in the world, but it is growing much faster than those of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. And in certain symbolic things Japan has already become No. 1. In 1980 six of the world's ten biggest banks were American; today eight are Japanese and only one American. In that same decade, the Tokyo stock market passed the New York Stock Exchange in total value. Average Japanese per capita income climbed past the U.S. figure. And then the Japanese bought control...
...Andrei Sinyavsky, one of the leading dissidents of the 1960s, immigrated to Paris in 1973 after almost six years in a labor camp...
Much could change, however, if the U.S. is unable to bring home quickly the 11,000 extra troops it dispatched for the invasion (13,000 were already on hand at permanent bases in Panama). After the far smaller invasion of Grenada, U.S. forces remained for six weeks; the Marines who invaded the Dominican Republic to thwart a leftist coup in 1965 were not completely withdrawn for 18 months...
...commanders have made capturing him a high priority, since as long as he remains at large, some Panamanian units might rally around him. Yet the wily dictator managed to evade the net. American troops surrounded the Cuban and Nicaraguan embassies in Panama City to prevent Noriega from seeking refuge. Six hours after the invasion began, U.S. soldiers burst into the "Witch House," a Noriega residence on the Pacific coastline. Inside, they found cigarettes still smoldering in ashtrays, suggesting that the strongman might have slipped away only moments before. Later on Wednesday, Noriega's apparently tape-recorded voice was heard...
...political system rigidly in the Stalinist mold. Inspired by their increased exposure to the outside world in general and by the example of Gorbachev's democratization in particular, the people of China appealed to their leadership for more political freedom. A demonstration by several thousand students escalated into a six-week occupation of the central square in Beijing by crowds of up to 1 million people. When the tanks rolled in on June 4, reformers in Poland suddenly had a new code word for the catastrophe they feared might still befall them: Tiananmen...