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Noriega's increasingly bombastic language and his trigger-happy troops may have been indications that events were spinning out of control in Panama, forcing him to extremes. But other evidence suggested that the dictator was losing control of himself: U.S. troops searching his various hideouts found, along with pictures of...
Following the second failed coup attempt last October, Noriega rounded up dozens of officers for imprisonment or execution, deepening tensions in the barracks. In public, he sometimes appeared drunk and showed the telltale signs of cocaine abuse. Noriega supporters say that in December, in the wake of reports that Bush...
Many American officials feel that a fitting coda to Noriega's infamous career would be his capture and extradition to the U.S. to stand trial on the 15 drug-related and money-laundering charges handed down by federal grand juries in Tampa and Miami in February 1988. But to convict...
The good news is that lots of people prospered. This was the age of financial wizards making fortunes in their 20s, and roughly 100,000 Americans became millionaires every year. Michael Milken, the junk-bond king at Drexel Burnham Lambert, set the record by earning $550 million in 1987. The...
The good news is that booming international trade is spreading wealth around the world. The bad news is that the U.S. was the world's largest creditor in 1980 but went into the red in 1985, and has become the world's largest debtor. Its trade deficit runs about $150...