Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which he had cut back when he took office in an effort to prepare the way for normalizing relations with Fidel Castro. Carter said he would establish a Caribbean military headquarters in Key West, which a Pentagon official said would be a largely symbolic gesture intended to "show the flag 90 miles north of Cuba." Military maneuvers would be expanded in the Caribbean (including amphibious landings of Marines on the beaches at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba). Finally, Carter gave assurances that he would speed up development of rapid deployment forces, a group of 100,000 servicemen that will...
...radio, proclamation and word of mouth to enter the zone and attend a rally at the field of Albrook Air Force Station. There were a handful of anti-American outbursts; shortly after midnight on the day of the turnover, a small band of poor Panamanians tore up an American flag...
...1960s that give this small, unpretentious volume its mass has much of a political message, but that in itself constitutes enough of a political "position" to infuriate the Soviet authorities, who kicked Voinovich out the Writers' Union in 1974. He's no fiery dissident like Solzhenitsyn, waving a flag of traditional Christian values over the atheist Soviet state. His dissatisfaction with Soviet life comes across less as an ideological jihad than as truculent skirmishing. In some ways, it's more effective for just that reason--we know Voinovich has neither icon to worship nor axe to grind...
...weekend is the one that goes up Monday morning when one group returns from a nighttime foray with 30 feet of the tempered steel. But now, the fence is only in the way, and the goals--the rusting reactor vessel and the turbine building, each flying an American flag--stand outlined in the dawn...
...demonstration is legal and peaceful and what the heck, you seem to be blocking Route 1, so the firehoses get turned on again. But people know by now not to fear the portable hoses, and there is dancing in the water. They knock down a guy holding an American flag on a branch, and every photographer in the area has his picture for the front page...