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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Together with small tankers operating out of Venezuela and Panama, which do not observe the embargo, the armada of smugglers have managed to deliver so much contraband fuel that hucksters have set up a bustling business along "gasoline alley" in Port-au-Prince. Out-of-work vendors vie frantically for customers among the wealthy in Land Rovers. Businessmen can even get gas delivered to their door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: To Have and To Have Not | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...recent and well-publicized practice invasion of Haition the island of Great Inagua temporarily drew the nation's attention away from peace in South Africa and war in Bosnia. Rumors have been circulating about another Panama- (or Grenada-) style strike to remove the despotic military leadership and allow economic sanctions to be lifted...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Still Stuck In Practice | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

Ruby Lee Gissing (Ashley Judd) is a high-school graduate who leaves her native Tennessee town--a place she claims she was lucky to escape without getting beat up or pregnant--to start a new life in Panama Beach City, Florida. She quickly finds a job selling souvenirs at Chamber's Beach Emporium and has a quick fling with the manager's heartthrob, fast-lane-living son Ricky. Ruby senses immediately that he is just the sort of guy she left Tennessee to escape and quickly regroups to examine her priorities. The film is narrated with excerpts from Ruby...

Author: By Deborah E. Kopald, | Title: 'Ruby' Almost a Gem | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...type A-Beijing strain, along with the A-Texas and the B-Panama strains, are the three influenza viruses against which this year's vaccine has been formulated to protect...

Author: By Carrie L. Zinaman, | Title: Hospitals Overrun by Flu Vaccine Requests | 11/2/1993 | See Source »

...interview at the Panama conference, Charles said he was concerned that his 40 years of work for the Episcopalian ministry would be overlooked in light of his announcement...

Author: By Dov P. Grossman, | Title: Former Dean Says He's Gay | 10/13/1993 | See Source »

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