Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington's instigation, Panamanian agents later swooped down on a warehouse in the Colon Free Trade Zone, a busy international transshipment center. There they found 17,000 55-gal. barrels of ether, worth about $1 million and enough to process around 200,000 kilos of cocaine. Both the chemicals and the building were apparently owned by Colombia's Ochoa clan. Shortly afterward, Julian Melo, the general secretary of the Panamanian National Defense Forces High Command, was arrested, accused of allowing the Colombians to transport the ether through the country in exchange for a $2 million bribe. Melo was never prosecuted...
...seizure of Phnom Malai cemented Vietnamese control over a key part of the frontier region, which until November provided a zone of sanctuary for the coalition of 60,000 Communist and non-Communist guerrillas who are carrying on the fight against Hanoi. The Vietnamese also dealt a sharp blow to the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge's reputation for toughness. A mere 48 hours before the Vietnamese struck, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the anti-Hanoi coalition's nominal head, had paid a visit to Phnom Malai to announce support from a scattering of Third World nations. During Sihanouk's visit, Khieu Samphan...
...teams battled even for the first eight minutes. Northeastern's aggressive, man-to-man, defense forced Harvard into some bad shots, but the Crimson's zone held tight as well...
...foreign policy dispute of the second Reagan Administration bubbled to the surface last week from two improbable spots: New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, Australia. What had begun last year as a policy by New Zealand's new Labor government to establish the country as a nuclear-free zone was suddenly transformed into a threat to the 33-year-old ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, U.S.) defense pact between Washington and its longtime allies in the South Pacific...
With the Big Red up 5-4, Paul Marcov lofted the puck up into Lynah's dimly-ht wooden rafters. Crimson netminder Grant Blair seemed to lose sight of the puck. It landed in the Crimson zone, where Mark Henderson scored what later proved to be the decisive goal. Harvard Coach Bill Cleary protested vehemently that Henderson was standing in the zone before the puck fell, and was thus offside. All to no avail...