Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About the timetable, at least, there were few arguments: at 8 a.m. last Tuesday, a line of jeeps and canvas-covered military trucks roared up Avenue A in Panama City and disgorged armed troops at the headquarters of the Panama Defense Forces. The soldiers joined 200 others stationed there, and...
At the least, the Administration was caught in embarrassing contradictions about its role. Two hours after the coup collapsed, Noriega offered his version of events. "This is part of the continuing aggression and penetration of the P.D.F. by the U.S.," he charged on national television. As evidence, the general's...
An aborted coup attempt in Panama raises disturbing questions about the Bush Administration's ability to respond to a crisis. -- After a series of concessions to the Democrats, Bush is wooing the right. -- Congress takes an expensive step toward a national family policy.
A Texas case reignites a national debate over inequities in funding. -- New Jersey seizes control of a failing city school system.
Despite the substantial costs (average lifetime care for a person with AIDS: about $83,000), a fifth of those infected with the AIDS virus have no insurance at all. Increasingly, these people are flooding into overburdened public hospitals, raising fears of bankruptcies. In August the National Public Health and Hospital...