Word: panama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot locate the Pacific Ocean, according to a 1988-89 Gallup survey commissioned by the National Geographic Society. In the same poll, American students ages 18 to 24 came in dead last among ten countries tested in geography. Half did not know that the Panama Canal cuts sailing time between New York City and San Francisco...
...countries and land masses (the northern edge of the Soviet Union is particularly nettlesome) until they get them right. Creative use of mnemonics helps. "Beware of hot gorillas eating nitrates casually, pop" is code for the Central American countries of Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Smith leavens the work load with games like geography baseball, in which a home-run problem might be: name the 15 Soviet republics. Later in the year, it would become: name each of their capitals. Slowly, the contours of the world come into focus...
RING AROUND THE MONEY. What country will replace Panama as the world's leading drug-money Laundromat? U.S. law-enforcement agencies are wondering, and so, evidently, are the cocaine cartels. Uruguay, with its stringent bank-secrecy laws, would seem a natural heir. But after Uruguayan officials extradited an accused money launderer and assured the U.S. of further cooperation, cartel financiers began scurrying for alternatives. Among the prospects being watched by investigators: Vanuatu, a Pacific island republic formerly known as the New Hebrides; the Cook Islands, a protectorate of New Zealand; and the island group of Palau, which is about...
...over in Libya conspiring with Gaddafi. Gorby gave the U.S.S.R. his best shot, but it didn't work, so he defected, took a publishing job in Manhattan, and is dating Susan Sarandon. Noriega beat his drug rap, as we all knew he would, and is back in power in Panama. At the White House, President Clementine Fox is brooding about sending troops to dislodge him, and her peacenik husband Guy, the First Hubby, sourly tells her, "Have yourself a merry little isthmus." Got all that? Oh, yes, and Clementine became President when her running mate, the victorious Democratic candidate...
...demonstration of the trust that blossomed from their friendship occurred during a London meeting last August. Panama's Manuel Noriega wanted diplomatic , relations with Moscow. Pavlov asked Aronson's advice, which was predictably negative, and the Soviets passed. In the Reagan years, it is unlikely that Moscow would have forgone such an advantageous diplomatic move simply because of U.S. sensibilities. Like many such small gestures, that one too registered on Bush's calculus of Washington's stake in Gorbachev's success...