Word: panama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tired man and I talked for awhile, and then, because I knew not a damn thing about the situation in Panama (the demonstrators wanted the US OUT OF PANAMA), I went down to listen and to ask questions. It is amazing how angry people will get if you just ask them questions, and then write down their answers. I didn't learn much from the people I talked to (other than that they wanted the US OUT OF PANAMA); they didn't even know if Panama has diplomats in our country, much less what the diplomats are doing and saying...
WHEN my brother invited me to accompany him to a White House reception for David Donald, the Charles Warren Professor of American History, I bragged to my friends I was going to give President Bush my full analysis of the Panama invasion...
President Bush scheduled the Panama invasion for December 20, the day after the Crimson editorial staff had packed up and vacated to the farthest corners of the liberal world for the holidays...
...have a theory as to why. It's 'cause nothing happened in the good ol' USA this holiday season. Sure, by invading Panama, our faithful president tried to stir up some yuletide cheer. But that just didn't cut the turkey. There was a revolution going on in Rumania! They were electing a playwright president in Czechoslovakia! They were dancing in the streets in East Germany! And it was boring as hell back home...
Facing U.S. drug charges, the deposed Panamanian leader could raise embarrassing questions: What did the President know, and when did he know it? -- How a wily papal nuncio in Panama City outwitted an unwelcome guest. -- A baffling shift in a murder case stirs racial tension in Boston...