Word: beene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three homicide detectives have been assigned to the case, in contrast to the squads of officers working on the Stuart shooting.
"Some members who were panicked by pro-abortion propaganda in the last few weeks are going to be surprised, because the final tale hasn't been told on how this issue is cutting across the countryside," he said. "We're now beginning to see some victories on our side of...
IN retrospect, the coup could have had three outcomes. If Bush had actively supported the coup, the plotters might have succeeded. But the improvement for the people of Panama would have been marginal at best; replace despot Manuel Noriega with would-be despot Moises Giroldi, a career military man with...
On top of all this, the legality of military intervention would have been tenuous at best. A 1976 executive order forbids the U.S. armed forces to participate in assassination attempts or any operation which could result in assassination.
The actual result, in the absence of U.S. intervention, was not surprising--a debilitating purge of the Panamanian military (at least 1/10th of whom are said to have been involved in the uprising) and the promulgation of harsh contingency measures. These "emergency war laws" broaden the already expansive jurisdiction of...