Volume 36, Number 10 · June 15, 1989
Why Noriega Wins
By Murray Kempton
His advisers report that President George Bush's response to General Manuel Antonio Noriega's successive effronteries has been to examine his options. This is an endeavor hopeless for engagements with Noriega, who is one of those farseeing statesmen who understand that to weigh any variety of options is to risk being intruded upon by thoughts of what might be best for persons other than themselves, and perhaps even to risk being distracted by considerations of morality.
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