And yet, when Noriega was finally indicted in Miami in 1988, all the charges except one were related to activities that dated back before 1984, when he was our boy, helping with the U.S. war against Nicaragua. ... For example, in 1984, Arnulfo Arias had won the Panamanian presidential election. ... Noriega used less violence than in 1984. ... The fact was that at exactly the moment it invaded Panama because of its outrage over Noriega's abuses of human rights, the Bush administration announced new high-technology sales to China, noting that $300 million in business for US firms was at st...

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More general reviews are also analyzed of third-party history by Steven Rosenstone, Roy Behr, and Edward Lazarus (1984), John Bibby and Sandy Maisel (1998) and David Gillepsie (1993). Lastly, dissertations by Joan Bryce (1996) and Jimmie McClellan (1984) that categorize the barriers for American third parties are combined with the literature on individual roadblocks and an overview by Theodore Lowi (1998) to present an overall picture of the barriers facing third parties in the United States. ... Ware generally accepts the institutionalist approach to explaining party systems but notes that ...

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