Word: panama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year). Sherry, a professor of literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, has yet to tackle Greene's Africa service with British intelligence, his marital breakup, love affairs, involvements with the movie business, anti-Americanism and friendships with left-wing Latin American leaders Fidel Castro and Omar Torrijos of Panama. One should also expect deep penetration of the privacy that surrounds Greene's life in the south of France, where he has lived since the '60s. A genuine coup would be the identity of the Swedish Academy member who, as rumor has it, blocks Greene's path to a Nobel...
...international developments during the past year. In Latin America, the Eastern Bloc and much of Southeast Asia, people sought changes of the old order and freedom from government repression. Brutal dictatorships were defeated in popular elections during the last year in Chile, Pakistan and, for all intents and purposes, Panama, while Poles this week voted in the first openly contested elections in the Soviet bloc. And, lest we forget, democratic openings in the Soviet Union continue to unfold at an amazing pace, astounding even the most cynical of observers, and culminating, so far, in a genuine choice for Soviet voters...
...British author Salman Rushdie, forced into hiding by Iranian fundamentalists, Palestinians fighting for independence, or the many other peoples who remain oppressed by their governments or still seek independence from neo-colonial rule. And the price of rebelling against authoritarian regimes, as seen in streets of Beijing and in Panama City following Gen. Manuel Noriega's reassertion of control, is high and often bloody. Nevertheless, the highly encouraging though tenuous developments taking place in countries accustomed to repression should bring hope to men and women everywhere...
...Western hemisphere, is irrelevant. Noriega is Uncle Sam's creature as well as his nemesis. Some Administration officials made a brief, silly attempt last week to blame the Kremlin for exploiting the trouble. Their only evidence: TASS, standing the story on its head, reported out of Panama that Noriega's opponents had cheated at the polls and fomented violence. Hardly anyone would have noticed the ludicrous dispatch if the Administration hadn't publicized...
...President's most effective allies in the whole affair has been Jimmy Carter, and now it is the Noriega regime that evokes Teddy Roosevelt's memory to stir up fears that the Yanquis are coming. The Panamanian curse has yet to be lifted, both from the U.S. and from Panama itself...