Word: panama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still starving--but people are starving everywhere, and this argument could expand forever. So the surprise is that our government in these past few weeks has finally recognized that it can't do everything. Our Bushera will to save a country with a military mission from God (remember Panama?) syndrome is over...
...presidents and their administrations have been hopelessly inactive in intervening to aid the Bosnians. It is incomprehensible that George Bush, the same leader who invaded Panama and fought the Gulf war, could not even order air strikes on Serbian military targets or militarily enforce the no-fly zone...
...exhibit at Dudley House concentrates on these works, most of which include unusual found objects and shards of ancient pottery. "Our Lady of the Seas" incorporates shells that the artist's daughter collected for her on a Panama beach. "Thirty Pieces of Silver," as the title suggests, highlights coins surrounding a cross, representing the sum of money for which Judas betrayed Jesus...
However, the overpowering post-Vietnam commitment "not to do anything halfway" seemed to carry the day, and half a million soldiers found themselves halfway around the world. You might remember some of the Bush and Reagan Duo's greatest executive order hits: Grenada, Panama, and Beirut...
...Vance plan would let the Bosnians do that within a largely ceremonial and insubstantial Bosnian state. Yet there is much grumbling in the U.S. about Vance. Those who worshipped him when his State Department was negotiating away American control of the Panama Canal now find him insufficiently zealous in ; defending Muslim interests in Bosnia...