Word: panama
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Fuentes has learned much from both cultures. The son of a Mexican diplomat, he was born in Panama City and spent much of his youth living in Santiago, Buenos Aires and Washington, where he developed an enduring affection for William Faulkner, Franklin Roosevelt and Hollywood musicals. Until he grew up, Mexico remained an almost mythical country, experienced mainly through the memories of his father or glimpsed during summer vacations...
Less than a week after George Bush stopped briefly in Panama to herald "the rising tide of democracy across the Americas," the House of Representatives approved a plan sponsored by Democrats to simplify voter registration across the nation -- just in time for the fall election. The so-called motor-voter bill would require states to make it possible to register by mail, at a variety of public buildings and bureaus, and when applying for a driver's permit. But the 268-to-153 vote fell well short of the two-thirds majority needed to override an all but certain presidential...
...Speaker Sam Rayburn's hideaway has been colorfully retold many times, most notably in Truman's own folksy memoirs and Robert Donovan's delightfully readable two-volume history of the Truman years. What McCullough provides -- as he did for Teddy Roosevelt in Mornings on Horseback and for the Panama Canal in The Path Between the Seas -- is a sense of historic sweep. The onset of the cold war, the Marshall Plan, the seizure of the steel mills, the Korean War and the sacking of General Douglas MacArthur all read like chapters from an epic novel, and best...
PERHAPS GEORGE BUSH SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETter than to think a brief stop in Panama on his way to an uncomfortable appearance at the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro would remind Americans of the foreign policy successes that have otherwise marked his Administration. Panama City is notoriously prone to ugly street demonstrations, and on the eve of Bush's hastily arranged visit, an American G.I. was killed and another wounded in a drive-by shooting...
...Panama was, it turned out, the wrong place to look for some upbeat coverage. As a rally for Bush -- dubbed "A Meeting of Friends" -- was getting under way, anti-American protesters edged too close to the downtown park for Panama's fledgling police force, which responded by firing their weapons into the air and lobbing tear-gas canisters nearby. Bush's Secret Service detail had no choice but to hastily surround the President and his wife, hurry them off the platform and into the armored limousine and, with guns drawn, beat a hasty retreat from the ensuing chaos...