Word: panama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...procession of interventions, from Korea to Vietnam to Grenada. Having triumphed in its global struggle with the Soviets, the U.S. gained the opportunity to put more emphasis on its ideals than on its interests. But so far, it has mainly focused on the latter. American troops went into Panama to stem the flow of drugs and into Kuwait to protect the flow of oil -- vital national interests indeed. In both cases, President Bush stressed America's moral motivations. But James Baker made the gaffe (defined as a politician's accidentally telling the truth) of admitting that the reason for going...
WHEN HE FIRST DREW UP A PROPOSAL TO REFORM Panama's constitution and officially abolish the military, President Guillermo Endara assumed his countrymen would agree that a final break with ousted dictator General Manuel Antonio Noriega's discredited regime was in order. To his surprise, Endara found that Panamanians wanted a break from him. In a referendum, the first national vote since U.S. troops deposed Noriega and installed Endara three years ago, 63.5% of Panamanian voters said no to the package of 58 complicated items in a simple yes or no vote. The vote was tantamount to a rejection...
...matter, after Reagan's Feelgood Era, did the Republicans feel so terrible? It was morning after in America. George Bush was understandably puzzled, almost to the point of paralysis. He thought he had done everything right -- won the cold war, won a hot war, made a showy raid on Panama, brought down the yellow ribbons, brought on the victory parades. Unlike the Kennedys with Castro, Carter with Khomeini or Reagan with Gaddafi, Bush had got his man, the first tyrant to bother him -- he ran Noriega to ground in Panama's papal nunciature, tortured him with rock music and hauled...
Coolidge Corner Cinema. 390 Harvard St.,Brookline. 734-2500. Adam's Rib on Thursday, Nov.12 at 7 p.m. Laws of Gravity on Thursday, Nov. 12at 8:55 p.m. Pepi, Luci, Bom on Thursday, Nov. 12at 9:40 p.m. Memoirs of a River on Thursday, Nov.12 at 7 p.m. The Panama Deception on Thursday,Nov. 12 at 5 p.m. Poison Ivy on Thursday, Nov. 12at 5:05 p.m. Simple Men and Hooray for Underdogopen on Friday...
Coolidge Corner Theatre. 390 Harvard St., Brookline. 734-2500. Through Thursday, Nov. 5. Laws of Gravity at 9:45 p.m. Adam's Rib at 6 p.m. Feed at 7:25 p.m. Panama Deception at 5:45 p.m. Tin Peaks Fire Walk With Me at 9:10 p.m. The Blue Eyes of Yonta...