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■ The New World Order paid another small dividend when Manuel Noriega announced from his prison cell that he’s become a born-again Christian.

■ Now that the war is over, the Democrats and the press have started blaming the President for winning it. They have been aided by Jim Baker’s State Department, which continues to send out much the same sort of confusing signals to America that April Glaspie sent to Saddam Hussein in their now infamous meeting a week before he went into Kuwait. In the old days, such a gross miscalculation probably would have led to the resignation of Miss Glaspie’s boss, Mr. Baker, but times have changed, and even critics must concede the Secretary of State wiped the slate clean by putting together the formidable coalition. White House sources tell us that Miss Glaspie’s own cable account of the meeting—which has not been released—does not differ substantively from the account released by Baghdad a few months back, the implication being that she did more or less give the Iraqi strongman the green light. All of which confirms our suspicion that the folks in the Bush Administration are better at executing a policy than at coming up with one.

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■ The New World Order paid another small dividend when Manuel Noriega announced from his prison cell that he’s become a born-again Christian.

■ Now that the war is over, the Democrats and the press have started blaming the President for winning it. They have been aided by Jim Baker’s State Department, which continues to send out much the same sort of confusing signals to America that April Glaspie sent to Saddam Hussein in their now infamous meeting a week before he went into Kuwait. In the old days, such a gross miscalculation probably would have led to the resignation of Miss Glaspie’s boss, Mr. Baker, but times have changed, and even critics must concede the Secretary of State wiped the slate clean by putting together the formidable coalition. White House sources tell us that Miss Glaspie’s own cable account of the meeting—which has not been released—does not differ substantively from the account released by Baghdad a few months back, the implication being that she did more or less give the Iraqi strongman the green light. All of which confirms our suspicion that the folks in the Bush Administration are better at executing a policy than at coming up with one.