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...present anomaly remains: a small but proud nation cut in half by a huge waterway under the control of a foreign power. The arrangement may once have been economically justified, even a historical necessity, but it is a current indignity for Panamanians. As Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez told Carter: "The Panamanians feel exactly about the Canal Zone as North Americans would feel if the British owned the Mississippi River." In fact, Americans had much the same attitude as contemporary Panamanians when the Spanish and French (not the British) controlled the Mississippi...
...Albizu Campos died in San Juan in 1965. This month President Carter commuted the 25-to-75-year sentence of Andrés Figueroa Cordero, 52, one of the four terrorists who raided the House, because he is dying of cancer. The three others remain in prison, as does Oscar Collazo, who took part in the Truman attack...
Montalvo explained that he went into hiding to escape the "justice" being meted out by Franco's forces For the first few years he lived on the dirt floor his house among the chickens and rabbits. Later, assisted by his son Andrés, he constructed more livable quarters in the cellar. He amused himself by feeding bread crumbs to sparrows on the windowsill and teaching tricks to several generations of dogs in the household. He read voraciously, and claimed to be fully aware of Spain's recent advances toward democracy. His wife Josefa, dressed in widow...
...certified Third World spokesman and a leading advocate of a "new international economic order." At the same time he is an OPEC chieftain presiding over a burgeoning economy and the head of one of Latin America's few democracies. With all those credentials, Carlos Andrés Pérez, the expansive President of Venezuela, was assured warm abrazos when he arrived in Washington last week as the first South American statesman to get a come-visit invitation from Jimmy Carter...
Both translated by ANDRÉE CONRAD...