Word: panama
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...terrorists orchestrated four anti-Jewish bombings in the past 10 days, and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher agreed that the Islamic fundamentalist group Hizballah is the likely culprit. U.S. counterterrorism specialists told TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon the evidence seems to link the bombings in Buenos Aires and Panama last week, and the assault in London this week. What's more, they told her that Hizballah began planning "something fairly spectacular" after the Hebron massacre of Palestinians by American emigrant Baruch Goldstein in March. "They need to be seen as taking revenge on the West," one of the officials...
...authorities on a state of red alert. In the British capital, five people were injured this morning in a blast outside a Jewish fund-raising group's headquarters -- the city's second car-bombing in 12 hours. Fearful that the recent bombings in Britain, Argentina and Panama could lead to a wave of terrorism aimed at halting the Middle East peace process, Israel demanded tighter security worldwide. Nine U.S. cities responded promptly. In New York City, for example, police surrounded the Israeli consulate with 10 garbage trucks to prevent would-be car bombers from getting too close to the facility...
...President reversed himself, granting asylum hearings aboard U.S. ships. One month later the President announced that no boat people would be resettled in the U.S., but only in neighboring regions. The only problem was that Panama's President Endara revoked his pledge to take 10,000 new refugees, and Grenada and Antigua followed, taking their combined 4,000 beds with them. Currently the only haven for refugees is the 12,500 bed facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Of course it is already filled to capacity...
From 1915 to 1934, the U.S. occupied Haiti for strategic reasons connected with the route to the Panama Canal and attempted along the way to build up the economic and political infrastructure of Haiti...
...understood that, as astronomer Michael Hart wrote, the moon landing would "be forever remembered as one of the greatest achievements of the human race." I think Kennedy, steeped in history, saw himself beside Thomas Jefferson sending Lewis and Clark to explore the West, and with Theodore Roosevelt building the Panama Canal...