Word: panama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Islamic group called Followers of God claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed at least 45 people on Monday. Argentine President Carlos Saul Menem said Israel's intelligence service, Mossad, disclosed the southern Lebanese group's claim. Meanwhile, Jewish leaders in Panama allege that terrorists caused the crash of a commuter plane in which 21 people--including 12 Jews--died this week.Post to World Affairs "Terrorism...
...decision to make space in his country for 10,000 refugees. After the plane landed in Naples, Clinton stayed on board to wait for one more call from Vice President Al Gore while members of the reception committee made small talk on the tarmac. The news was bad: Panama had backed...
...President and his advisers tried to downplay the blow. While "sharply disappointed," his aides said, Clinton was not angry. Other Caribbean countries, they promised, would be found to replace Panama; Grenada, for instance, had agreed "in principle" to provide a haven for at least some of the refugees. But the sudden change of heart by Panama only deepened the impression that the Administration was practicing a kind of voodoo diplomacy toward Haiti, lurching from headline to headline and hoping that somehow the country's leaders would magically change their ways or disappear...
...invasion of Haiti: staging a mock attack on an isolated airfield at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and "capturing" a port along the Gulf coast. The exercise, which one military expert described as a "final rehearsal," was similar to maneuvers conducted just before the U.S. invaded Panama in December of 1989 to overthrow Manuel Noriega...
...increased the urgency for some sort of action to end the oppressive military rule in Haiti, and there is a sense that the Administration is backing into an invasion almost out of desperation. "No doubt about it," said one senior Pentagon official, "the stakes have gone up because of Panama's decision. We need to get ourselves into position." On Friday, Clinton issued another veiled warning to the military clique that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in September 1991. "I think the conduct of the military leaders will have more than anything else to do with what options are considered...