Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Abadia told a news conference earlier in the day that exercises begun over the weekend by the U.S. Southern Command were "acts of arrogance that are intolerable" and that Panama was "suffering the aggression of a foreign colossus...
...spokeswoman for the Southern Command, speaking on condition of anonymity, denied any hostile intent in the five-week-long maneuvers, saying they were regularly scheduled annual exercises. They involve about 680 soldiers from U.S. military installations in Panama and U.S. National Guard members...
...Washington the Reagan Administration firmly backed the failed effort to oust Noriega. "We want to reiterate our unqualified support for civilian constitutional rule in Panama," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. With 10,000 troops at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Panama, Washington is sensitive to charges that it seeks to bully its neighbor. Yet Vice President George Bush talked tough while campaigning in South Carolina for the Republican presidential nomination. "We're not going to be pushed around about the defense of the Panama Canal," Bush said. "We will do whatever is necessary to protect American interests...
...began to feel as though the Titanic were sinking. Witt, conversely, had held tough, her Carmen enticing and flirting shamelessly. Radiant in a red costume, Witt thrived on audience adulation, tossing provocative smiles. Though she substituted a double jump for one of her five triples, Witt was firmly in command. Her beauty and charisma dominated, even as she lay outstretched on the ice in a pose of death. In the end, Witt's was indisputably the Carmen of choice. By taking the gold, Witt became the second woman ever to secure consecutive Olympic figure-skating titles...
...communique telephoned to The Associated Press office in west Beirut, Fatah said its military command "instructed the Limassol martyrs group to park a bomb-laden car in front of the Hilton Hotel in Jerusalem targeting Shultz, the messenger of imperialism...