Word: panama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday, Harvard students manufactured a crisis in which the president of Panama was assasinated, a riot broke out at the U.S. embassy, and the CIA was found to be involved with drug smuggling. Students on the NSC were woken up at 6:30 a.m. and summoned downstairs to deal with the situation. As the day progressed, the Harvard crisis-makers were busy manufacturing bits of information which they alternately passed on to the different groups in the NSC--the White House staff, the Defense Department, the CIA, and the State Department--who generally kept the information to themselves...
...PANAMA CITY, Panama--An opposition leader said yesterday that Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega was purging his army of suspected opponents, and doctors joined businesses in a general strike aimed at ousting the military strongman...
...spokesman for the Panama Canal Commission said anonymous telephone callers warned for the past two days that a bomb was planted in commission headquarters...
Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams raised the possibility that the United States will withhold the next payment due to Panama for tolls, fees and services for Panama Canal operations...
Noriega has accused the United States of engineering Delvalle's failed attempt to assert civilian control of Panama...