Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learning. Ninth-grader Vanessa Bryan, one of only 700 residents on Ocracoke Island, N.C., could not have taken Spanish if her school had not tapped into the TI-IN Network. Now she and "classmates" in 18 schools across the country receive instruction from a teacher based in a San Antonio studio. They accept TV tutelage as routine. Says Vanessa: "It's a good course...
...suddenly appeared carrying wooden clubs and metal pipes. With grotesque inappropriateness, they styled themselves the Dignity Battalion. As troops of the Panama Defense Force nonchalantly looked on, the thugs closed in on the victorious trio who three days earlier had easily defeated the handpicked candidates of Panamanian General Manuel Antonio Noriega for the posts of President and First and Second Vice Presidents. Suddenly the thugs grabbed the bodyguard of Guillermo Ford, the candidate for Second Vice President, shoved him against a car, thrust a gun into his mouth and fired...
...eruption in Panama's streets last week, Central America bureau chief John Moody had a powerful sense of deja vu. He had spent ten weeks in Panama last year reporting on the riots that accompanied the Reagan Administration's efforts to bring down the country's dictator, General Manuel Antonio Noriega. On both occasions, Moody felt a shiver of physical danger. Last year Moody was chased by several of Noriega's riot police, called the Dobermans. "When they finally cornered me, I figured my time had come," he recalls. "I was more than a bit surprised when the head...
...sham. Tabulation sheets vanished, vote counting was suspiciously slow, and when citizens stormed the streets in protest, soldiers fired on the crowds with rifles. Through it all, the U.S. remained silent. Five months later, as protesters chanted, "Fraud! Fraud!," Panama inaugurated Nicolas Ardito Barletta, the candidate favored by Manuel Antonio Noriega -- and the man, many Panamanians charged, handpicked by then U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz...
...Matthews, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Eleanor Taylor Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Cynthia Johnson, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Steve Liss, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...