Word: panama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wish for the best, to recoil from the prospect of massive cost and suffering. In this instance, optimism was further fueled by vivid memories of the two-month war in the Falklands, the nine-day conquest of Grenada and the 14-day ousting of Manuel Noriega as dictator of Panama. While repeatedly reminding audiences that Iraq is a better entrenched and more highly armed opponent than the loser in any of those conflicts, President Bush also recurrently promised that any battle against Iraq would in no way resemble the "protracted, drawn-out war" in Vietnam...
...enthusiasm. They want cooperation from military officials, without which any war on this difficult terrain would be almost impossible to cover. And they are eager not to be accused of being so skeptical that they are unpatriotic -- a charge that was widely leveled during Vietnam, arose in Grenada and Panama and is surfacing again...
...more cynical prediction is that those deaths, like so many other violent and untimely ones, could eventually lose their impact on the American psyche. Tiananmen Square, Panama, Lithuania all captured the nation's attention and held it briefly before they smeared into background noise. Since the fighting began, many more people have died on America's highways or by gunfire in its cities than in the sands of the gulf -- but at the moment, the soldiers' deaths matter more, since right now they loom larger than life. The perverse calculus of morbid fascination holds that once the soldiers have become...
...were successful foreign distributors when they launched Carolco in 1976. They hit pay dirt with Rambo's debut in 1982 and eventually took the studio public at $9 a share. In 1989 Vajna sold most of his 36% stake to Kassar in a complex deal involving shell companies in Panama and the Netherlands Antilles. Last October Kassar resold some of his shares to Carolco for $13 each, or 60% higher than the market price. That brought him $11 million, or 80% of the studio's 1989 net income, which prompted angry shareholders to file a class action. In December state...
...WEANED on the horrors of Vietnam, sickened by the jingoism of Grenada, appalled by the silence of the Panama invasion. There were "proxy wars"--Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola, Afghanistan, Morocco, Mozambique. And times when the U.S. did nothing in Haiti and Burma, Somalia and Liberia...