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Grenada and Panama, mere incidents, were over too soon to be judged. The U.S. military's redemption had to wait until the Gulf War in 1991--at last, another good war. National interests--oil and gas--were at stake, and so were values. Again, the enemy was a mustache-wearing dictator who had invaded his neighbor. A fair number of Americans were hesitant, but the morale-boosting triumph came quickly, with few casualties among the troops--all of whom were tough, highly trained professionals...
...millions listened to the warm young voices, the sonorous old voices. Billions of words about it were printed, and closely read. In Accra, where the equatorial sun beats down on the white church steeples (relics of a vanished Danish empire), parties were held in celebration. Paris noted it, and Panama. In heedless Manhattan, thousands got out of bed at 6 a.m. to hang over radios. Shanghai and Hankow had never seen so many weddings; Chinese brides deemed it lucky to be married on the day that Elizabeth, heiress to Britain's throne, became the wife of Philip Mountbatten...
...PANAMA LOOKS AHEAD
...Rush by boat who gave this hat its name. This was the final question that Harvard Medical School first-year Wes Ulm missed in his fifth Jeopardy! match in June of this year. But fellow contestant Arthur M. Phillips '90 came up with the right question: "What is a Panama...
...reverted areas represent a broad swath of the national territory, and their development could transform Panama. But there are more skeptics than optimists. Panama's dream is to become another Singapore--a prosperous banking, transportation and tourism hub exploiting to the fullest its ownership of one of the world's most important waterways. The alternate, nightmare vision, unfortunately, is of a nation handed a great resource that it then wastes through corruption and mismanagement...