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Common Problems. In such hopeful words, the visitors agreed on the principles underlying their two-day meeting in Panama's capital to commemorate the first Pan-American conference, called by Simón Bolivar in 1826. Some of the Presidents, practicing strongmen at home, may have been paying lip service to the ideals of the declaration. But many of them genuinely welcomed the chance to meet and talk over common problems in face-to-face relaxation...
...went without saying that the No. 1 guest would be Eisenhower of the U.S. When he was stricken with ileitis, the meeting, originally scheduled for June 25-26 to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Simón Bolivar's first Pan-American conference, was postponed (TIME, July 2). With Ike present, the gathering promised to be harmonious; perhaps the knottiest problem to be threshed out will be the wording of a declaration of Western political ideals. And such traditional enemies as Costa Rica's liberal President José Figueres and Nicaragua's perennial Strongman Anastasio Somoza will...
...movement started, Rojas marshaled army, navy and air force men in Bogotá's broad Plaza Bolivar on the third anniversary of his seizure of power. Ranged on a platform at the foot of the statue of Liberator Simón Bolivar were a tall crucifix and eight urns containing the ashes of Colombian soldiers who fought in the Korean war and in the country's own backlands guerrilla war. Rojas then read off a solemn oath, swearing the servicemen, in the name of Jesus Christ and in the memory of Simon Bolivar, to "fight for the domination...
...last week sent an amiable invitation to a golfer named Dwight ("Ike") Eisenhower -and to the chiefs of government of the 19 other American republics. Come to Panama, said Dickie, on June 25 and 26. Occasion: the anniversary of the Congress of Panama, called in 1826 by Liberator Simon Bolivar. *Motive: nothing more than a get-acquainted meeting of the Presidents' club, with whatever dividends of good will and better understanding that might flow out of such newly made friendships...
Though he gives the credit to Bolivar, Dickie Arias himself apparently thought up the idea for the gathering, as an extra flourish to a commemorative meeting of the Council of the Organization of American States starting in Panama June 22. It was a proposal that might have aroused nervous objections; leaving 20 capitals without Presidents all at once was an idea without precedent. But the invitation got a warm reception three days after it had gone out; seven Presidents accepted. Among those who approved the idea in principle-subject to demands that may be made on him by the adjournment...