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Beginning in the middle of the 1980s, relations between General Manuel Noriega, Panama’s de facto leader, and the United States…
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As Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army swept through China during the Civil War against the Nationalists in 1948 and 1949, it took…
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Stephen F. Dachi had one of the more unusual — and as it turned out, fateful — backgrounds of anyone…
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It was one of the most horrific events in U.S. diplomatic history. On August 7, 1998, between 10:30 and 10:40…