Events, Verisoph

1987 Cuban intelligence officer defects, exposing double agents ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A senior Cuban intelligence officer defected in Vienna and revealed that every Cuban agent the CIA had recruited over twenty years was a double working for Havana. Analysts confirmed it was true. ●●

1987 Gorbachev tells Warsaw Pact he won't invade ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gorbachev privately told the Warsaw Pact that the Soviets would never again invade Eastern Europe to prop up their empire. The CIA did not know it. ●●

1987 ISI teams raid Soviet Central Asia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In April 1987, three ISI-equipped teams crossed the Amu Darya into Soviet Central Asia. Teams targeted an airfield near Termez in Uzbekistan, set up ambushes along border roads, and hit a factory site with rockets over ten miles inside Soviet territory. ●●

1987 Afghan jihad operation expands to hundreds of participants rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1987, the Afghan operation had expanded dramatically. What had been managed by four or five men for several years had become an operation with hundreds of participants, as more Pentagon officers, Congress members, think tank scholars, journalists, and diplomats became involved. ●●

1987 Acting CIA chief Gates meets KGB's Kryuchkov ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On December 4, 1987, Robert Gates, acting CIA director, met with Vladimir Kryuchkov, chief of the Soviet KGB, for an unprecedented dinner at the Maison Blanche restaurant in Washington. Kryuchkov assured Gates the Soviet Union wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan. ●●

1987 CIA begins Eagle drone reconnaissance program ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The CIA began a classified project called Eagle to adapt small kit airplanes manufactured in California to carry cameras for reconnaissance. ●●

1987 On ‘Black Monday’, 19 October 1987, the Dow fell by a terrifying 23 per cent, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On ‘Black Monday’, 19 October 1987, the Dow fell by a terrifying 23 per cent, one of just four days when the index has fallen by more than 10 per cent in a single trading session. ●●

1987 The annual rate of return on the Personal Retirement Accounts has been over 10 per rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The annual rate of return on the Personal Retirement Accounts has been over 10 per cent, reflecting the soaring performance of the Chilean stock market, which has risen by a factor of 18 since 1987. ●●

1987 His book The Alchemy of Finance (1987) begins with a bold critique of the fundamental rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story His book The Alchemy of Finance (1987) begins with a bold critique of the fundamental assumptions of economics as a subject, reflecting the influence on his early intellectual development of the philosopher Karl Popper. ●●

1987 Banks wanting to protect themselves against higher volatility – for example, another 1987-style s... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Banks wanting to protect themselves against higher volatility – for example, another 1987-style stock market sell-off – were happy buyers. ●●

1987 If the models had gone back even eleven years, they would have captured the 1987 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story If the models had gone back even eleven years, they would have captured the 1987 stock market crash. ●●

1987 Ernest Saunders arrested in Guinness scandal ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Now Thatcher began to pressure Nigel Lawson, chancellor of the Exchequer, to draw more blood from the Guinness affair. In an extraordinary intervention, she reportedly told Lawson, “I want Reeves and Walsh out today, not next week or next month, b... ●●

1987 The firm’s long-time rival, Warburgs, stepped briskly over its blee... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Now Thatcher began to pressure Nigel Lawson, chancellor of the Exchequer, to draw more blood from the Guinness affair. In an extraordinary intervention, she reportedly told Lawson, “I want Reeves and Walsh out today, not next week or next month, b... ●●

1987 Black Monday stock market crash ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The merger of industry and finance had made some sense in the Baronial Age and had given some stability to the American economy. Companies were then weak and had difficulty tapping capital markets, especially abroad. Only the banker’s reputation c... ●●

1987 The Morgan houses were actually less remote from the 1987 crash tha... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The merger of industry and finance had made some sense in the Baronial Age and had given some stability to the American economy. Companies were then weak and had difficulty tapping capital markets, especially abroad. Only the banker’s reputation c... ●●

1987 First Vintage Books Edition, January 1989 Copyright © rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story First Vintage Books Edition, January 1989 Copyright © 1987 by Paul Kennedy All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random Hous ●●

1987 charges were dismissed just a few rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story charges were dismissed just a few months later, in March 1987. ●●

1987 But his real function, I think for almost all of us, was not the technical one rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But his real function, I think for almost all of us, was not the technical one.”1987 Here two texts of the postwar lecture diverge; both versions illuminate Oppenheimer’s state of mind in 1944 as he remembered it. ●●

1987 In early 1987, I had a meeting with Anatoly Dobrynin, who was then head of the International Departm rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In early 1987, I had a meeting with Anatoly Dobrynin, who was then head of the International Department of the Central Committee (more or less the equivalent of the White House National Security Adviser) in the cavernous Central Committee building in ●●

1987 The self-proclaimed “new thinking,” Gorbachev declared in November 1987, “has started to make its wa rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The self-proclaimed “new thinking,” Gorbachev declared in November 1987, “has started to make its way in world affairs, destroying the stereotypes of anti-Sovietism and suspicion toward our initiatives and actions. ●●

1987 The first time I met him, in early 1987, he was jaunty and exuded every confidence that the tinkerin rejected ai_extracted 2 cit. no story The first time I met him, in early 1987, he was jaunty and exuded every confidence that the tinkering he was undertaking would make his country fit to resume its march toward supremacy. ●●

1987 Lethal Weapon released ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Lethal Weapon, featuring Mel Gibson and directed by Shane Black, centered around a massive L.A. drug bust linked to Iran-Contra and featured the Phoenix Program. ●●

1987 1987: By 1987 the topics of its online forums, known as conference... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story for what you posted. Like the Internet itself, The WELL became a system designed by its users. By 1987 the topics of its online forums, known as conferences, ranged from the Grateful Dead (the most po ●●

1987 1987: Robert Slater, Portraits in Silicon (MIT Press, 1987), 88; B... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ory, Feb. 22, 1984, Charles Babbage Institute. 49. Robert Slater, Portraits in Silicon (MIT Press, 1987), 88; Beyer, Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age , 9. 50. Goldstine, The Compu ●●

1987 1987: f, The WELL became a system designed by its users. By 1987 the topics rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story f, The WELL became a system designed by its users. By 1987 the topics of its online forums, known as conferences, ranged from the Grateful Dead (the m ●●

1987 1987: ry, Feb. 22, 1984, Charles Babbage Institute. 49. Robert Slater, Portr rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ry, Feb. 22, 1984, Charles Babbage Institute. 49. Robert Slater, Portraits in Silicon (MIT Press, 1987), 88; Beyer, Grace Hopper and the Invention of ●●

1987 CHAPTER 5: THE MULTIPLICITY OF ASIA Until the arrival: Philip Bowring, “What Is ‘Asia’ rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ary 27, 2014. “Today we are embarking”: Address by Yitzhak Rabin to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, July 26, 1994, online archive of the Yitzhak Rabin Center. CHAPTER 5: THE MULTIPLICITY OF ASIA Until the arrival: Philip Bowring, “What Is ‘Asia ●●

1987 Information history in 1987 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story e person, he was the progenitor of the information age. Cyberspace is in part his creation; he never knew it, though he told his last interviewer, in 1987, that he was investigating the idea of mirror ●●

1987 age and Technology of Their Own.” He saw natural and artific rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story His final paper, published in 1987, was titled “Suggestions for the Starting of Numeric Evolution Processes Intended to Evolve Symbioorganisms Capable ●●

1987 rprisingly, been applied in subsequent efforts by the U.S. government to gain its ends by violence. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story rprisingly, been applied in subsequent efforts by the U.S. government to gain its ends by violence. One dramatic example was featured in the media in August 1987, when the Central American presidents confounded Washington strategy by adopting a polit ●●

1987 12. For example, in response to the Guatemala peace accords of August 1987, the United States immedi rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 12. For example, in response to the Guatemala peace accords of August 1987, the United States immediately escalated the supply flights required to keep its forces in Nicaragua in the field to the phenomenal level of two to three per day. The purpose ●●

1987 apers on Central America, said a GAO official involved in the investigation” (Rita Beamish, “Pro-con rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story apers on Central America, said a GAO official involved in the investigation” (Rita Beamish, “Pro-contra Contracts are Probed,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 22, 1987, p. 4A). 71. The NCC’s news services are concentrated in the Office of Information, b ●●

1987 the “Mothers of the Disappeared” who had herself been a victim of the atrocities of Duarte’s securit rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story the “Mothers of the Disappeared” who had herself been a victim of the atrocities of Duarte’s security forces was denied entry to the United States in March 1987, to visit several small towns where she had been invited to speak on the occasion of Inte ●●

1987 ical grounds” by the author) that all would have adopted had they been asked about the Soviet invasi rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ical grounds” by the author) that all would have adopted had they been asked about the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. 47. Philadelphia Inquirer, August 30, 1987. 48. Charles Mohr, quoting a “South Vietnamese official” (New York Times, Oct. 24, ●●

1987 The Salvadoran and Guatemalan governments could hardly do the same—the... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Salvadoran and Guatemalan governments could hardly do the same—the Salvadoran government especially had to contend with a negative nationalist reaction to obvious foreign (i.e., U.S.) domination a ●●

1987 The specific context was the massive media campaign to attribute the f... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The specific context was the massive media campaign to attribute the failures of the Guatemala City peace agreement of August 1987 to the Sandinistas, in accordance with Reagan administration prioriti ●●

1987 On December 1, 1987, the New York Times, in an editorial urging the ad... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On December 1, 1987, the New York Times, in an editorial urging the administration not to betray Haitian Democrats by “shrugging off impoverished and anarchic Haiti as a hopeless case,” states that do ●●

1987 e, a man was killed in a car rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story e, a man was killed in a car crash. He carried the gene for a degenerative disease, a form of myotonic dystrophy, and knew his father had suffered from the malady but omitted the information from his 1987 application for a $30,000 policy. His widow was denied a policy payment when Industrial Allianc ●●

1987 Miller, Reforming Bureaucracy: The Politics of Institutional Choice (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Miller, Reforming Bureaucracy: The Politics of Institutional Choice (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987), p. ●●

1987 , The Development of the Welfare States in Europe and America (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1987) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story , The Development of the Welfare States in Europe and America (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1987). ●●

1987 And Amnesty International, in 1987, concluded that Libya candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And Amnesty International, in 1987, concluded that Libya had carried out attacks on at least 37 anti-Qaddafi dissidents ●●

1987 In August 1987, a “Central American Peace Accord”, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In August 1987, a “Central American Peace Accord”, generated by President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica as a successor to th ●●

1987 Financial crisis or panic rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “How ‘Experts’ Caused the Third World Debt Crisis,” by Paul Craig Roberts, Business Week, November 2, 1987 ●●

17 April 1988 Operation Ramadan ul-Mubarak wikidata 0 cit. no story 1988 Iraqi military operation ●●

November 1988 Founding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 0 cit. no story The WMO and UNEP establish the IPCC, which holds its first session in Geneva in November 1988, to assess the science of climate change for governments. It shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. diplomacy / environment / science ●●●

15 November 1988 Declaration of the State of Palestine 0 cit. no story The Palestine Liberation Organization proclaims the State of Palestine in Algiers; it holds UN observer state status since 2012. politics ●●●

February 1988 to 12 May 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War 0 cit. no story Armenians and Azerbaijanis fight over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave as the Soviet Union collapses. Armenian forces win control of the region and surrounding districts, displacing hundreds of thousands. war ●●●

1988 Prince Charles visits Steel Valley High ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts Prince Charles's 1988 visit to Steel Valley High in Homestead, Pennsylvania, to discuss converting closed steel mills into arboretums. He uses the scene, near where Braddock fell, as a symbol of elite indifference to a dying industrial community. ●●

1988 Carlucci lectures Soviet generals in Moscow ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Reagan's defense secretary went to Moscow and told Soviet generals to publish their military budget as the Americans did. The exchange showed the Soviets that their system, built on secrecy, could not win. ●●

1988 Gorbachev announces unilateral troop cut at UN ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Days after the CIA declared Soviet defense policy unchanged, Gorbachev stood at the UN and offered to cut 500,000 troops. The agency had judged such a move unthinkable. ●●

1988 Year 1988: Mohammad Musaddiq, Champion of the Popular Movemen rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Mohammad Musaddiq, Champion of the Popular Movement of Iran and Former Prime Minister (London: Jebhe, 1988), p. ●●

1988 All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to repr... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known ... ●●

1988 Geneva Accords commit to Soviet withdrawal ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On April 14, 1988, the Geneva Accords were signed by Afghanistan's communist-led regime, Pakistan, the United States, and the Soviet Union. The accords formally committed to Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, though the Afghan rebels had no role in negotiations. ●●

1988 Soviet troops begin withdrawal from Jalalabad ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In May 1988, the first Soviet troops began rolling out of Jalalabad. Some twelve thousand men and their equipment withdrew as part of the formal Soviet pullout. CIA officers and ISI brigadiers worked to prevent rebel commanders from attacking the retreating Soviet forces. ●●

1988 Florida grand juries indict Noriega on drug charges ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then, early in 1988, two grand juries in Florida handed up criminal indictments charging Noriega and more than a dozen others, including Pablo Escobar (1988) ●●

1988 True, after his initial recommendations were accepted by the Peruvian government in 1988, there was candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story True, after his initial recommendations were accepted by the Peruvian government in 1988, there was a drastic reduction in the time it took to register a property (to just one month) and an even steeper 99 per cent cut in the costs of the transaction. ●●

1988 Then, in January 1988, Morgans became the first commercial bank to ... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The bank knew its genteel image hurt in the slash-and-burn takeover game. As Bob Engel said, “When a chairman wakes up in the middle of the night with a phone call from someone saying, ‘We want to buy your company,’ he thinks of Morgan Stanley ins... ●●

1988 In 1988, Merrill Lynch, once scorned as plebeian, led domestic unde... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX SKYSCRAPER IN 1989, Morgan Stanley, with sixty-four hundred employees, occupied seventeen floors of the Exxon Building on Sixth Avenue—more than Exxon itself. The building was now owned by a Mitsui unit. Stepping off the elevat... ●●

1988 Morgan Grenfell shuts its securities operation ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On December 6, 1988, Morgan Grenfell abruptly shut its securities operation, ending its chances of becoming an integrated global investment bank. There was a wholesale firing of 450 people, or a quarter of its entire payroll—one of the biggest sac... ●●

1988 Morgan bank borrows $400 million from Dai-Ichi Mutual ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1989, the bank had outgrown its shrine at 23 Wall. Lew Preston wanted a personal computer on every banker’s desk, and trading desks required an exotic jungle of electric wiring. To accommodate a high-tech bank, Morgans bought a new forty-seven-... ●●

1988 Parker Gilbert, comments made at Morgan Stanley Annual Meeting, May... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story NOTES PROLOGUE 1. FB, May 20, 1985; Hamilton, Financial Revolution, p. 80. ●●

1988 Ibid., March 22, 1988 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 23. Ibid., March 22, 1988. 24. ●●

1988 New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Klein, Maury. The Life and Legend of fay Gould. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. ●●

1988 The American Scholar, Summer 1988, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The American Scholar, Summer 1988, p. 449. ●●

1988 Moving in and out of Germany on business (1988) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Like Siegmund, she had an uncommon capacity for keeping secrets. Even when she published her memoirs in 1988, she toyed with disclosing the episode, b... ●●

1988 he was released in March 1988. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story he was released in March 1988. ●●

1988 Information history in 1988 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story hester is a light-sealed device called Aunt Martha (short for Aunt Martha’s coffin). Bennett and his research assistant John Smolin jury-rigged it in 1988 and 1989 with a little help from the machine ●●

1988 hat, if the managers do not themselves take action, then outsiders [in the government] will seek to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story hat, if the managers do not themselves take action, then outsiders [in the government] will seek to apply remedies of their own.”134 And, in fact, in January 1988, General Dimitri T. Yakov, the Soviet defense minister, applied Freedom House and Braes ●●

1988 ar caused the Soviet defense minister to denounce the press as unpatriotic; see Bill Keller, “Soviet rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ar caused the Soviet defense minister to denounce the press as unpatriotic; see Bill Keller, “Soviet Official Says Press Harms Army,” New York Times, January 21, 1988. 3. For an account of critiques, and the present writers’ replies, see Noam Chomsk ●●

1988 violations of the accords, but they were virtually unmentioned in the media. For a detailed review, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story violations of the accords, but they were virtually unmentioned in the media. For a detailed review, see Noam Chomsky, “Is Peace at Hand?” Z magazine (January 1988). 13. Jacques Ellul, Propaganda (New York: Knopf, 1965), pp. 58–59. 14. A careful rea ●●

1988 Herman have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Pate... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Herman have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of this work This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of ●●

1988 Thus, in its first editorial on the 1988 election that brought Carlos ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Thus, in its first editorial on the 1988 election that brought Carlos Salinas de Gortari to power, the Times noted that prior elections were corrupt (the PRI “manipulated patronage, the news media and ●●

1988 Important changes have occurred in Cambodia since 1988, including Viet... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Important changes have occurred in Cambodia since 1988, including Vietnam’s withdrawal from that country, elections held under UN auspices, and the death of Pol Pot. ●●

1988 In the years since 1988, structural changes have not been favorable to... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the years since 1988, structural changes have not been favorable to improved performance, but it remains a central truth that democratic politics requires a democratization of information sources a ●●

1988 Yellowstone fire burns nearly 800,000 acres ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The public began to take notice after the huge Yellowstone fire in 1988, which ended up burning nearly eight hundred thousand acres and took several months to control. ●●

1988 19–21; James Walston, The Mafia and Clientelism: Roads to Rome in Post-War Calabria (New York: Routl rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 19–21; James Walston, The Mafia and Clientelism: Roads to Rome in Post-War Calabria (New York: Routledge, 1988), pp. ●●

1988 On women in UNFPA, see Laskin, “Report on UNDP Governing Council Meeting,” June 6, 1988, IPPFA, s... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On women in UNFPA, see Laskin, “Report on UNDP Governing Council Meeting,” June 6, 1988, IPPFA, series B, reel 685, frames 699–703. ●●

1988 “Collaboration between religious governments in support of outlawing abortion is a fine begin- ni... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “Collaboration between religious governments in support of outlawing abortion is a fine begin- ning for the conception of collaboration in other fields.” The Vatican was not above horse-trading: Li... ●●

1988 One year after the invasion, unemployment was running rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story One year after the invasion, unemployment was running at more than 25 percent, and invasion damage, looting, and the US ●●

1988 © Oe KILLING HOPE Simpson, Blowback: America’s Recruitment rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story © Oe KILLING HOPE Simpson, Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War (New York, 1988), p ●●

1988 David Leigh, The Wilson Plot: How the Spycatchers rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story David Leigh, The Wilson Plot: How the Spycatchers and Their American Allies Tried to Overthrow the British Government (N ●●

1988 Russian Church canonizes Andrei Rublev ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Russian Orthodox Church declares Rublev a saint during millennium celebrations for conversion of Prince Vladimir. ●●

1988 Bailout or intervention rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But the 1988 thrift rescues’ most expensive flaw doesn’t appear to be the enrichment of tycoons ●●

11 December 1989 Timor Gap Treaty wikidata 0 cit. no story treaty between Australia and Indonesia ●●●

17 November 1989 to 29 December 1989 Velvet Revolution wikidata 0 cit. no story democratization process in Czechoslovakia in 1989 ●●●

15 December 1989 to 27 December 1989 Romanian Revolution (1989) wikidata 0 cit. no story 1989 popular uprising in Romania against the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu ●●●

22 September 1989 Founding of the International Paralympic Committee 0 cit. no story Disability sport organizations found the International Paralympic Committee in Düsseldorf as the single global governing body of the Paralympic Games and movement. culture / diplomacy / society ●●

24 December 1989 to 2 August 1997 First Liberian Civil War 0 cit. no story Charles Taylor's rebellion collapses Liberia into factional warfare notorious for child soldiers. Around 200,000 die before elections bring Taylor to power in 1997. war ●●●

c. 15 February 1989 to c. October 2001 Afghan Civil War of 1989-2001 0 cit. no story After the Soviet withdrawal, Afghan factions fight over the country, destroying Kabul, until the Taliban seize most of it by 1996. The Taliban's harboring of al-Qaeda leads to the US invasion of 2001. politics / war ●●●

1989 Campaign to change mathematics teaching launched ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Citing Tom Loveless, Gatto argues that in 1989 a group of math-education experts launched a campaign to change the content and teaching of mathematics, which he sees as a deliberate de-emphasis of math skills. ●●

1989 Gatto's grant to pay students, 1989 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts that in 1989 he secured a foundation grant to pay his students cash for work they had done for free, an experiment that backfired. ●●

1989 Last Soviet soldier leaves Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan ended as the last soldier withdrew. The CIA's weapons kept flowing to radical Afghan factions, seeding forces that would become al Qaeda. ●●

1989 George H. W. Bush sworn in as president ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The CIA celebrated as Bush, the only president who had run the agency, took office. He became his own director of central intelligence and demanded daily briefings from professionals. ●●

1989 U.S. invades Panama to seize Noriega ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the CIA repeatedly failed to unseat its old ally Manuel Noriega, the United States mounted its biggest military operation since the fall of Saigon. Special Forces fought through Panama City to arrest the dictator. ●●

1989 Noriega annuls Endara's election victory ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When an opposition figure, Guillermo Endara, won the presidential election held in May 1989, Noriega simply ignored the result and imposed his own can (1989) ●●

1989 Soviet Political Opening and Agricultural Reform candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Following the decisive political opening in the Soviet Union in 1989, agricultural specialists convened to consider reforms including breaking up collective farms and privatizing land to recreate the private sector that had thrived in the 1920s. ●●

1989 It also gave the Chilean economy a massive shot in the arm, since the effect rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It also gave the Chilean economy a massive shot in the arm, since the effect was significantly to increase the savings rate (to 30 per cent of GDP by 1989, the highest in Latin America). ●●

1989 (In early 1989, it was still America’s top merger adviser, c rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story (In early 1989, it was still America’s top merger adviser, claiming $60 billion in deals during the year’s first half.) In the 1980s, it gentrified junk bonds and amassed a huge two-billion-dollar war... ●●

1989 Perkins that a Morgan issue “from the desert of Sahara” woul rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Perkins that a Morgan issue “from the desert of Sahara” would find buyers.39 For its services, the syndicate took in $57.5 million in stock (nearly $1 billion in 1989 dollars). ●●

1989 By early 1989, it had begun to fire one hundred people from the for... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story If Main Street hoped that Black Monday would throw a cautionary fear into Wall Street, it was dead wrong. It only prodded the Street into more assertive, reckless behavior. Securities firms had already lost many safe, reliable businesses. ●●