Word: facto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white wall, turning the suburban street into a war zone. At 6:25, an officer picked up a megaphone and urged surrender. The message was directed at Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera, Panama's former No. 2 military man and a vociferous critic of the country's de facto leader, General Manuel Antonio Noriega. Now Diaz Herrera taunted, "Tell Noriega to come and get me." An hour later police forced Diaz Herrera and a retinue of 45 guests, relatives and bodyguards from the house. All was quiet when, just a few blocks away, Noriega calmly emerged from his house...
Only three days after the ban, thousands of Panamanians defiantly took to the streets of the capital. Their demand: dump General Noriega, who is not only the country's military commander but its de facto dictator. The government responded with determination. As helicopters monitored events from ! above, hundreds of riot police fanned out through the streets, controlling the crowds with nightsticks, tear gas and volleys of bird shot. Several people were hurt, none of them seriously. As the government digested the latest threat to its authority, concern was growing in Washington that one of the closest U.S. allies...
...again. Authorities shut down an opposing radio station, and armed men, in full view of police, torched a building owned by a prominent member of the opposition. Thousands of protesters thronged the streets of the capital, calling for the removal of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the country's de facto leader, who is accused of corruption and murder...
WHAT ROLE does Harvard have in all of this? Harvard is, like it or not, the de facto leader of the higher education community. "Where Harvard shifts, others will shift," acknowledges Secretary Bennett. It thus lies within Harvard's power to encourage higher education to refocus its efforts...
Civil libertarians, however, warned that the court's endorsement of the principle of preventive detention would change the complexion of American justice. Judges faced with potentially dangerous defendants had long practiced a de facto brand of preventive detention: setting bail so high that it could not be met. But the act legitimized what had until then been an unacknowledged purpose of many bail procedures. "This sends a dangerous message that the trial is an afterthought," said Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz last week. New York Defense Lawyer Alan Silber was reminded of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "To paraphrase...