Word: gunboat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LIKE A BIG-GAME HUNTER DISPLAYING HIS PRIZE catch, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori paraded Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman Reynoso before the people. Guzman, wearing prison pinstripes and surrounded by hooded guards, was placed in a cage aboard a gunboat and transferred from his island prison to a maximum-security windowless cell at a navy base on the mainland. Fujimori staged the media event to draw attention to the successes of his war on terrorism and to justify his "government of emergency" declared a year ago. The boasting did not go unanswered. In a violent response, Shining Path guerrillas...
...firms masks a larger problem: a shortsighted view of outside investment in the U.S. "We're in a real struggle for foreign capital, and we're going to need huge amounts of it," says Jeffrey Garten, a professor at Columbia University's business school. "If the U.S. tries the gunboat approach, we're going to put the country at a huge disadvantage...
...despair from a civilian population that has seen its collective lives, homes and loved ones laid waste by artillery and gunboat bombardments. The relentless barrages on Dubrovnik and Vukovar were only the most dramatic reminders of the human toll in this vengeful war between Europeans -- the worst on the Continent since 1945. No one had even begun to add up the economic and physical damage to the country. Was anybody with the power to stop the carnage listening...
Calls for armed intervention carried little appeal for U.S. decision makers. Gunboat diplomacy was long Washington's way of dealing with Latin America, but it is part of the past Bush now wants to overcome. "I am disinclined to use American force," he said. "We've got a big history of American force in this hemisphere, and so we've got to be very careful about that...
Purple Hearts, was commanding a gunboat in theMekong Delta while Rappaport was learning hismultiplication tables...