Word: canals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angry dock workers moved huge blockades across the entrance to their port near the Panama Canal to fight off an army takeover by troops loyal to Noriega...
...United States has applied economic pressure, including blocking the transfer of currency to Panama and witholding Panama Canal fees, in an attempt to encourage the ouster of Noriega...
...Balboa Port, about a mile outside the Panama Canal, about 300 striking dock workers moved carsized containers across the port entrance to fight off an army takeover ordered Thursday by the government...
Ports at Panama City and Colon, used primarily to receive and ship cargo, closed earlier in the week when dock workers angry about not being paid went on strike. The Panama Canal Commission said the shutdowns had no effect on its operations...
...northern slums of Manila lies a settlement called Happy Land. The name notwithstanding, Happy Land is neither happy nor on land. A collection of lean-tos patched together from plastic, cardboard, plywood and scrap metal, Happy Land is built on stilts above the black waters of a sewage canal. Flies buzz around empty tin cans and wastepaper in the water below, as Happy Landers catwalk across the planks that lead from shack to shack. Inside cramped quarters, men play cards or sleep on chairs padded with rags; women boil rice on mottled clay stoves. Everywhere children frolic, playing...