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Rites of the Right [Bush has completed] a Presidential initiation rite…[joining] American lead- ers [who] since World War II have felt a need to demonstrate their willingness to shed blood to protect or advance…the national interest. New York Times December 21, 1989 There Are Good Busts And Better Busts, But There Ain’t No Bad Busts “It was a good bust.” U.S. Embassy official regarding the arrest of religious worker Jennifer Jean Casolo in El Salvador November 27, 1989 The Flavor of Defeat Shortly after [he called requesting asylum], a nunciature vehicle picked up Noriega at the Dairy Queen. Time January 8, 1990 God’s Laundry Service Isn’t What It’s Cracked Up To Be Msgr. Jose Sebastian Laboa, the Vatican diplomat playing host to Man- uel Noriega, was as blunt as he could be. “Do you want nuns washing your underwear for the rest of your life?” Wall Street Journal January 4, 1990 The Good Old Days For companies, these brand-con- scious, brand-loyal Hispanics are a blast from a happier past. These people have- n’t been Ralph Naderized. Business Week June 6, 1988 quoted in Marketing Disease by Bruce Maxwell and Michael Jacobson The New Girl Scouts It was the State Department which had primary responsibility for U.S. efforts against the communist regime in Nicaragua. Still, it is State about which people mutter “cookie pushers” and similar epithets. Elliott Abrams The National Interest Fall 1989 Talking to the Enemy The U.S. Army has no apologies. “[Surrounding the nunciature with loudspeakers blaring tunes like ‘Voo- doo Chile,’ ‘Nowhere to Run,’ and ‘Smugglers Blues’I was a very imagi- native use of psychological operations,” explains Lt. Col. Ted Sahlin of the Army’s John F. Kennedy Special War- fare Center and School at Ft. Bragg, N.C. The 24-hour-a-day serenade was provided by the 4th Psychological Operations Group of the U.S. Special Operations Command, a unit that spe- cializes in “talking to the enemy.” Their loudspeakers have also been used in Panama to imitate the sound of armored units, inspiring one group of Panamanian solders to give up. Wall Street Journal January 4, 1990 So Much for Following Orders The Government has refused to grant residency to a former Salvadoran po- liceman who has been living in the United States for eight years and is currently on a hunger strike to protest American military aid to his native country. Mr. Hurtado was informed that he was ineligible for temporary or permanent residency because “you participated in killing, rape and tor- ture.” New York Times December 10, 1989 Executive Director Susan Y. 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New York Times December 21, 1989 There Are Good Busts And Better Busts, But There Ain’t No Bad Busts “It was a good bust.” U.S. Embassy official regarding the arrest of religious worker Jennifer Jean Casolo in El Salvador November 27, 1989 The Flavor of Defeat Shortly after [he called requesting asylum], a nunciature vehicle picked up Noriega at the Dairy Queen. Time January 8, 1990 God’s Laundry Service Isn’t What It’s Cracked Up To Be Msgr. Jos6 Sebastian Laboa, the Vatican diplomat playing host to Man- uel Noriega, was as blunt as he could be. “Do you want nuns washing your underwear for the rest of your life?” Wall Street Journal January 4, 1990 The Good Old Days For companies, these brand-con- scious, brand-loyal Hispanics are a blast from a happier past. These people have- n’t been Ralph Naderized. Business Week June 6, 1988 quoted in Marketing Disease by Bruce Maxwell and Michael Jacobson The New Girl Scouts It was the State Department which had primary responsibility for U.S. efforts against the communist regime in Nicaragua. Still, it is State about which people mutter “cookie pushers” and similar epithets. Elliott Abrams The National Interest Fall 1989 Talking to the Enemy The U.S. Army has no apologies. “[Surrounding the nunciature with loudspeakers blaring tunes like ‘Voo- doo Chile,’ ‘Nowhere to Run,’ and ‘Smugglers Blues’] was a very imagi- native use of psychological operations,” explains Lt. Col. Ted Sahlin of the Army’s John F. Kennedy Special War- fare Center and School at Ft. Bragg, N.C. The 24-hour-a-day serenade was provided by the 4th Psychological Operations Group of the U.S. Special Operations Command, a unit that spe- cializes in “talking to the enemy.” Their loudspeakers have also been used in Panama to imitate the sound of armored units, inspiring one group of Panamanian solders to give up. Wall Street Journal January 4, 1990 So Much for Following Orders The Government has refused to grant residency to a former Salvadoran po- liceman who has been living in the United States for eight years and is currently on a hunger strike to protest American military aid to his native country. Mr. Hurtado was informed that he was ineligible for temporary or permanent residency because “you participated in killing, rape and tor- ture.” New York Times December 10, 1989