Word: panama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PANAMA CITY, Panama--Demonstrators protesting the strongman leadership of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega erected barricades yesterday on hundreds of streets in Panama City...
Earlier yesterday, Foreign Minister Jorge Abadia charged that U.S. military maneuvers along the Panama Canal were "a prelude to an armed invasion...
Abadia told a news conference earlier in the day that exercises begun over the weekend by the U.S. Southern Command were "acts of arrogance that are intolerable" and that Panama was "suffering the aggression of a foreign colossus...
...spokeswoman for the Southern Command, speaking on condition of anonymity, denied any hostile intent in the five-week-long maneuvers, saying they were regularly scheduled annual exercises. They involve about 680 soldiers from U.S. military installations in Panama and U.S. National Guard members...
...same can be said of attempts at interdiction. For each shipment discovered in such transit countries as Panama, Costa Rica and Honduras, several others coast through. Yet U.S. officials nonetheless believe that if drug dealers feel pressured, they may resort to riskier routes and contacts, making their organizations more vulnerable to penetration...