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...House, a more dramatic faux village finished two years ago in the high Sonoran Desert near Phoenix. It is more determinedly "spiritual," portentous, even sci-fi. "I like haunted, charged spaces," Predock explains. Inside is a polished black granite fountain from which water runs in a narrow, razor-straight canal outdoors, across a plaza and into a circular pool. There is a pavilion for watching sunrises at the east end, another for staring at sunsets in the west. The study is a stepped pyramid of volcanic stone, topped with a skylight. Yet for all the house's risky paradox...
...United States, in the wake of Noriega's ouster of Delvalle in late February, slapped several sanctions against Panama. These included freezing that country's assets in the United States and withholding millions of dollars in payments the United States makes to the Panama Canal Commission...
...buildup, ordered last week to counter what the Pentagon called Noriega's "heavy-handed tactics," will raise U.S. troop strength along the 50-mile-long Panama Canal to 11,800 officers and men. Noriega commands the 15,000 member Defense Forces...
...primary task of all U.S. personnel in Panama is to safeguard the canal until it is handed over by treaty to the Panamanian government...
About 13,000 military dependents also live in Panama, along with 1300 U.S. employees of the Panama Canal Commission and their 2600 dependants...