Word: nam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Navy set up sea checkpoints off Colombia in an antidrug maneuver dubbed Operation Hat Trick. The operation was cut short, according to a U.S. military officer, because the results did not seem to justify the costs. Nor does the military have much of an interdiction success record: in Viet Nam it was never able to close the primitive Ho Chi Minh Trail; quarantining 88,000 miles of U.S. shoreline is at least as daunting...
...killed in violence "directly related" to the invasion -- an ominously qualified statistic. But even that number, which has been challenged, is proportionally equivalent to 22,000 Americans. Add 314 Panamanian troops, and Panama's loss in a couple of days is equivalent to America's during the entire Viet Nam War. Yet compare the American press's indifference to Panamanian deaths with its lavish emphasis on -- and, it seems, exaggeration of -- the death count in Rumania...
...Indian Ocean last summer, CNN International is seen in virtually every country on the globe, beamed to embassies in Europe, oil platforms in the North Sea and satellite dishes in the jungles of Peru. (Turner just received permission to set up a receiving dish for CNN in Viet Nam.) The network is also pursuing the youth market with CNN Newsroom, a daily 15-minute news program seen in 5,600 schools...
...Khmer Rouge, whose genocidal rule of Cambodia from 1975 to 1978 invited the invasion of Vietnamese troops, really attacked the capital, Phnom Penh? Had Prime Minister Hun Sen been forced to flee to Viet Nam? Was Battambang, the country's second largest city, truly "burning brightly," as Khmer Rouge radio claimed? Amid the welter of conflicting reports coming out of Cambodia last week, all that seemed clear was that the level of hostilities was growing. The Khmer Rouge, one of three resistance groups fighting the Hun Sen regime, did toss six grenades in downtown Phnom Penh -- though without frightening away...
...clashes may lend urgency to diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the strife. During a visit to Viet Nam and Cambodia last week, Michael Costello, deputy secretary of Australia's foreign affairs department, reportedly got a promising response to his government's proposal that the United Nations administer Cambodia until free elections are held. Also China, which backs the Khmer Rouge, last week welcomed an unspecified role...