Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States has been trying to oust Noriega, the Defense Forces chief who controls the government, for nearly two years. However, officials in Washington said they were not responsible for the attempted coup and U.S. troops were not involved...
Rodriguez, in his midafternoon address, did not accuse the United States of complicity in the revolt but said Washington had undermined his nation with "financial terrorism, economic blackmail and political interference...
University administrators and officials at theZairian embassy in Washington could not be reachedfor comment yesterday...
...WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court, embarking on a term laced with controversial issues, said yesterday it will decide whether police nationwide may use sobriety checkpoints in trying to curb drunken drivers...
Working with the Soviet embassy in Washington and the Soviet Ministry for Agriculture, the Dulls set up a unique Soviet-American farm-exchange program. They would spend six months on the Ukraina kolkhoz (collective farm), while a Soviet farmer, Viktor Polormarchuk, worked on their spread back in Brookville. (From his letters home, Polormarchuk's wife Valentina reports that her husband is working hard, has lost several pounds and talks about doing some private farming of his own when he returns to the Soviet Union.) "Mikhail Gorbachev's new proposals ((for liberalizing the economy)) fit in exactly with what we think...