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  2. United States invasion of Panama - Wikipedia

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    The United States invaded Panama in mid-December 1989 during the presidency of George H. W. Bush.The purpose of the invasion was to depose the de facto ruler of Panama, General Manuel Noriega, who was wanted by U.S. authorities for racketeering and drug trafficking.

  3. Linda L. Bray - Wikipedia

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    From December 1989 to April 1990 Bray was deployed to Panama for Operation Just Cause as commander of the 988th Military Police Company. [5] President Bush ordered the Panama Invasion following the murder of a U.S. Marine at a road block by soldiers of the Panama Defense Force (PDF), and the kidnapping and torture of two other US citizens ...

  4. Women in the military in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Several hundred women took part in operations in Panama in 1989, in non-combat roles. On December 20, 1989, Capt Linda L. Bray, 29, became the first woman to command American soldiers in battle, during the invasion of Panama. She was assigned to lead a force of 30 men and women MPs to capture a kennel holding guard dogs that was defended by ...

  5. List of military units involved in Operation Just Cause

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    The U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard participated in the US invasion of Panama (1989–1990, Operation Just Cause). [1] Forces that participated include: U.S. soldiers holding a U.S. flag at La Comandancia. United States Southern Command [2] [3] United States Army South (USARSO) XVIII Airborne Corps – Joint Task Force South

  6. Operation Acid Gambit - Wikipedia

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    Operation Acid Gambit took place as an opening action of the United States invasion of Panama, on 20 December 1989.It was a U.S. Delta Force operation that retrieved Kurt Muse, an American expatriate living in Panama who had been arrested for leading a plot with other Panamanians to overthrow the government of Panama, from the Cárcel Modelo, a notorious prison in Panama City.

  7. Winter of 1989: The Velvet Revolution in pictures

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    35 years on, house librarian Tizane Navea-Rogers revisits the bloodless Velvet Revolution that changed the face of a nation

  8. Battle of Paitilla Airport - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Paitilla Airport took place between members of the Panama Defense Forces and United States Navy SEALs, on 20 December 1989, in the opening hours of the United States invasion of Panama. The US force consisted of forty-eight members of SEAL Team 4 (Platoons Golf, Bravo, and Delta) under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Toohey.

  9. ARLENE M. ROBERTS, ESQ - images.huffingtonpost.com

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    Caribbean immigrants. Then I re-visited the issue of Caribbean immigrant women and domestic workers’ rights, with the aim of expanding my opinion piece into a report. The narrative of the Caribbean nanny has been framed in a fictional or semi-autobiographical context. Some time ago, at the annual Brooklyn Book Festival, I met