Word: still
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...Christ on the sounds of Brazil and Africa. Brazil's influence is also acknowledged by Roberta Flack on her late- 1988 album Oasis. "Under a warm Rio night/ We danced on the edge," she coos in a number dedicated to Brazilian singer-composer Djavan. "And my heart stood still/ Oh, Brazil, Oh, Brazil...
Bush and his deputies replied, with considerable justification, that it would have been irresponsible to implicate the U.S. fully in a fuzzy coup scheme that would have riled much of Latin America. Still, their tangled and tentative reaction to the uprising raised disturbing questions about the Administration's ability to respond to a crisis. In the three days leading up to and during the coup, the U.S. was hobbled by a breakdown of communications, a distressing lack of reliable intelligence and an obvious dearth of contingency plans should the call for a revolt against Noriega finally be answered...
...reasons that are still unclear, Bush was not told of this for almost an hour. At that point, Washington passed word to the rebel officers that the U.S. "was prepared to lift this burden from their hands." The rebels refused. "They were clearly not of a mind to turn ((Noriega)) over to us," Defense Secretary Richard Cheney said later. "They were not willing to have him extradited to the U.S." Soon after, word arrived in Washington that the coup attempt had collapsed...
...Still, Bush's forceful calls for Noriega's ouster have created expectations in some quarters that the U.S. would intervene at some critical juncture to assist a coup attempt. The President's unwillingness to back tough talk with forceful action did not go unnoticed on Capitol Hill. No sooner had the shooting stopped in Panama than the shouting began in congressional chambers, resulting in some of the oddest political couplings in recent memory...
...agents, instructing them to treat differently applications from "single males without dependents that are engaged in occupations that do not require physical exertion." These applicants were usually denied insurance. While such major insurers as Blue Cross/Blue Shield and the Travelers deny discriminating on the basis of AIDS, others still use information about living arrangements, residences and Zip Codes to try to identify gay or bisexual men at risk for the disease. Testing applicants for the AIDS virus gives companies additional protection against insuring infected individuals who will have high medical costs. As a result, a number of jurisdictions, including Washington...