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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A few months ago, it was accusations of Noriega's involvement with drugrunning that supposedly fueled the State Department's economic sanctions. Now, the election frauds are an excuse for potentially delaying or even cancelling the transfer of Canal rights to their rightful owners. Already, U.S. Sen. Connie Mack (R...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Fraud and U.S. Foreign Policy | 5/12/1989 | See Source »

A decision to abrogate the Panama Canal treaty would not only outrage all of Latin America, but also remove any lingering doubts about our rightful presence in the Canal. Panama's election fraud will be used as a justification for the breaking of our own laws.

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Fraud and U.S. Foreign Policy | 5/12/1989 | See Source »

Upon returning to Moscow in 1944 after a seven-year absence, the American diplomat George Kennan was struck by the enigma of an empire both yearning for its rightful place in the modern world and clinging to the enfeebling insularity of its past. "The Anglo-Saxon instinct is to attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Union: A Long, Mighty Struggle | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

The piano in Doaker Charles' living room is a family heirloom, and like most heirlooms it is prized more than used, its value measured less in money than in memories. For this piano, the Charles family was torn asunder in slavery times: to acquire it, the white man who owned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Ghostly Past, in Ragtime | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

With Matador (1986) and Law of Desire (1987), Almodovar displayed his brazen assurance of style and vaulted from comic realism to soap-operatic mannerism. Matador is a contemporary vampire story: an ex-bullfighter and a woman lawyer, believing that death is the ultimate climax, impale each victim on the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pedro on The Verge of a Nervy Breakthrough | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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