Noriega, Panama's defacto leader, was in league with the US, the CIA, and the Drug Enforcement Agency until 1986. ... The National Assembly replaced the president with a supporter of Noriega. ... On October 1st 1989, the wife of Moises Giroldi, a member of Noriega's inner circle who had crushed the 1988 Macias coup attempt, informed Southcom officers that her husband was planning a nonviolent coup against Noriega and that he wanted limited U.S. help. ... Supposedly several rebel leaders, but not Giroldi, were then prepared to turn Noriega over to U.S. authorities, but in some way ...

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• Grade Level: High School

With those words, Kennedy launched a new era of space exploration in the United States. ... The astronauts that helped shape the training programs, took the beatings of primitive flight tests, and died in order to serve their country were born before World War II. ... After a few more test flights, Apollo 8, launched on December 21, 1968, was the first manned lunar orbital mission, staying in the Moon's orbit for twenty hours, making ten circles (Zimmerman, 6). ... He trained on crude machinery, before NASA came up with a set training program (20). ... With the Russian Space Program in sh...

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• Grade Level: High School