Word: canals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Also transported into Panama will be some 200 support vehicles, including armored personnel carriers and mortar carriers. At the same time, hundreds of military dependents in Panama evacuated their homes and moved to the safety of the ten U.S. military bases that bestride the 50-mile- long Panama Canal...
True, the blatancy of the fraud was more pronounced this time around, but the greater change was the startling shift in the U.S. response. Then, as now, the continued security of the Panama Canal was the centerpiece of relations between the U.S. and Panama. Yet in 1984 the Reagan Administration did not regard U.S. interests as threatened by the challenge to Panamanian democracy. So why is Washington so obsessed now about democracy in a country barely larger than West Virginia? And why is it apoplectic about the ouster of a dictator whom it comfortably did business with for many years...
...decades, the operation of the Panama Canal has dominated relations between Panama and the U.S. However, strategically and economically, the canal is no longer the vital crossroad it once was. Since World War II, the U.S. has developed fleets in both the Atlantic and Pacific as well as major ports on both coasts. Today U.S. military vessels make only about 30 trips a year through the canal; the Navy's largest carriers are too big for the locks. "It's only useful now to do some rearranging of the fleet in preparation for war," says Ambler Moss, a former...
...months ago, it was accusations of Noriega's involvement with drugrunning that supposedly fueled the State Department's economic sanctions. Now, the election frauds are an excuse for potentially delaying or even cancelling the transfer of Canal rights to their rightful owners. Already, U.S. Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) has decried the treaty's promise to return the Canal to "a madman like Noriega...
...decision to abrogate the Panama Canal treaty would not only outrage all of Latin America, but also remove any lingering doubts about our rightful presence in the Canal. Panama's election fraud will be used as a justification for the breaking of our own laws...