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...district; he rounded up the hundreds of Frenchwomen who then monopolized the Barrio Coloón and shipped them back to Europe. The only practical result was that a horde of grateful native operators moved in. Last week another Minister of the Interior, husky Lomberto Díaz, 40, was getting better results...
Until Díaz came along, hardly a night passed in the rollicking, jazzy, bawdy barrio without a drunken fight, a shooting or a knifing. Under the conniving eyes of well-bribed cops, numbers-game runners and dope peddlers did a rich trade. From the doorways, women of all shades hawked their wares to a passing throng of awed countrymen, city slickers, roistering sailors and bottle-brave tourists...
Died. Domingo Díaz Arosemena, 74, President of Panama and a leading Panamanian politico for nearly two decades; of a heart ailment; in Panama...
...accommodate out-of-office politicians accused of plotting revolution, Panama has two comfortable, specially equipped cells: one for big shots at Central Police Headquarters, the other for lesser fry in Panama City's Model Jail. Back in 1936, when Temistocles Díaz, publisher of La Nación, was arrested, he got the Class A treatment from President Harmodio Arias-the V.I.P. cell at headquarters...
Last year "Temi's" father, old Domingo Díaz, was elected President. Six weeks ago Harmodio Arias was picked up and charged with complicity in a plot to overthrow the present regime and install his brother, ex-President Arnulfo Arias. But President Díaz failed to return the courtesy Harmodio had shown his son. Harmodio got the small-fry cell at the Model Jail. Last week Harmodio, a sick man, was moved to the hospital. Four days later, Brother Arnulfo was arrested for his part in the plot. This time police had no more regard...