Word: panama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Using Nicaragua as a base, the Soviets and Cubans can become the dominant power in the crucial corridor between North and South America. Established there, they will be in a position to threaten the Panama Canal, interdict our vital Caribbean sea lanes, and, ultimately, move against Mexico...
...region and an airfield photo from Nicaragua, the President charged members of the ruling Sandinista regime with selling illegal drugs to Americans, using their country as a terrorist command post and threatening the security of the Western alliance by seeking to spread revolution through Central America to the Panama Canal...
...joined the cast of the 19th century ballet in the nondancing mime role of the stately Queen. The Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet production is currently touring North and South America, and Fonteyn agreed to do two Miami performances because it was not far from her home in Panama. Her initial entrance prompted enthusiastic applause from the house, and there was awe onstage as well. In the middle of the "Rose Adagio," Sherilyn Kennedy, who danced Aurora, curtsied with fitting grace and unusual reverence, presenting the past and forever queen of dance with four pink roses...
Most shipowners around the world now avoid the steep costs of union wages and government regulations at home by registering their fleets with developing countries, notably Liberia, Cyprus and Panama. The latest popular flag belongs to a tiny South Pacific island group, Vanuatu, which charges a bargain- basement registration fee of $14,460, even lower than Liberia's $21,005. Vanuatu's fleet now numbers 100 ships...
...TRAGEDY OF the administration's position is that a policy of non-negotiation is not the only approach to the Nicaraguan situation. The Contadora group--Mexico, Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela--has recently resurfaced after a period of inactivity to offer a plausible alternative to this brutal approach. Ministers from the four Contadora nations met last month with officials from Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Uruguay to issue a joint statement calling for a negotiated settlement to the Nicaraguan...