Word: panama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that a momentous new phase of the war on the drug lords could be at hand, the reality is probably otherwise. For all the bold talk of hammering out a coordinated antidrug assault by the U.S., Bolivia, Colombia and Peru, not much is likely to happen until the post-Panama cooling of Washington's relationship with many Latin nations is reversed...
...angered by the Panama invasion was Peru's lame-duck President Alan Garcia Perez that he recalled his Ambassador to Washington and vowed not to attend the summit "as long as North American troops are illegally in Panama." After an appeal from Colombia's President Virgilio Barco Vargas, Garcia had a change of heart, and he now plans to be on hand in Cartagena. But tensions were further inflamed when in the heady days after Noriega's fall, the Pentagon clumsily leaked word of its plan to station an aircraft-carrier task force in international waters off Colombia's Caribbean...
...Somewhat more deliberate responses, but with greater force, to more complex situations like Panama...
...yourself back in the room," Safire passionately insists, referring to both the Lincoln and Bush White Houses. "Say, I'm ((National Security Adviser)) Brent Scowcroft; I've just been told that there is a coup in Panama. And what happens? I place myself there as Scowcroft, and I'd call the Situation Room, I'd call the Joint Chiefs. Or say, I'm Abraham Lincoln, and a crisis arises. What happened in the room? I can take the diaries of ((Lincoln's Treasury Secretary)) Salmon P. Chase or ((Secretary of War)) Edwin Stanton...
...news | organizations, but it is especially acute for CNN. The network's instant worldwide reach (it is beamed officially to 89 countries and watched by many world leaders) has made CNN a conduit for governments and individuals who want to spread news -- or plant leaks. When the U.S. invaded Panama in December, the first Soviet protest was delivered not to the U.S. embassy but to a CNN crew. This role makes it essential that CNN be especially alert to the possibility of being manipulated. "We are well aware of our responsibilities," says Turner, "and we became more aware...