Word: panama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only Americans even close to the field are the three five-man Green Beret "small unit training teams," which conduct two-and three-week training programs for Salvadoran infantry companies. They are members of the 7th Special Forces Battalion based in Panama. All are fluent in Spanish, and most have previously served on similar training teams in other Central or South American countries. TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, who conducted the only interviews given by these officers, found them determined to approach their assignment with cool professionalism. "The only change for us is that there is a shooting war going...
...hijackers demanding the release of 15 leftists imprisoned in Honduras. In a complicated deal, the Honduran government agreed to free the prisoners if the plane's 50 passengers and six crew members were released into the custody of Panamanian authorities, acting as intermediaries. The plane was flown to Panama, where the passengers were released, and three days later a Panamanian Air Force jet was dispatched to Honduras to pick up ten leftist prisoners. The released prisoners, along with the hijackers, were to be flown to an unspecified sanctuary...
...looking for the last relics of a fading comanticism, an institutionalized laziness, and above all, palm trees, or if Spain means flamenco to you, then breeze through Toledo and maybe Segovia, dash through Madrid, and head for Seville. Bring a panama...
...guerrillas still possessed a large cache of weapons and that the poorly trained, shoddily equipped army could not suppress the resistance entirely. A spectrum of options for helping the regime was considered, ranging from a proposal to provide massive American training for thousands of Salvadoran troops at camps in Panama or the U.S., to a plan for sending in as many as 100 advisers, who would train Salvadoran troops within the country and even accompany them on combat missions. Coordinating this review was a task force headed by James Cheek, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs...
Though 150 Salvadoran soldiers will still undergo three weeks of training this year at an army school in Panama, the task force rejected the proposal to train larger numbers of troops outside the country. The move would take too many soldiers off active duty when they were sorely needed. Sending U.S. advisers into the field was considered very risky; the death of an American soldier in a skirmish with the guerrillas would clearly escalate protests that the US was getting mired in another Viet...