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Torrijos left behind one of the most stable countries in troubled Central America. The economy was healthy, thanks largely to its canal revenues and free trade zone. In 1977 Torrijos scored his most notable triumph when he renegotiated the Panama Canal treaties with the U.S. to give his country full control over the 51-mile waterway by the year...
...always in the background is the issue of the Panama Canal treaties with the U.S. Right now the sharing of power is working well. Says Thomas O. Enders, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State: "Those treaties are settled. We have a good strong operating relationship with Panama."But some Panama officials fear that, with Torrijos gone, radicals will try to reawaken strong nationalist feelings about the canal...
Warns Fernando Manfredo Jr., a Panamanian who is deputy director of the Canal Commission: "One thing...
DIED. Omar Torrijos Herrera, 52, cigar-chewing brigadier general of Panama's National Guard and the country's de facto strongman, who negotiated the return by the U.S. of the Panama Canal Zone to his country's control; in an airplane crash; in the western jungles of Panama. Torrijos joined the National Guard in 1952, and in 1968 helped to lead a coup against President Arnulfo Arias. The next year Torrijos effectively took sole power and served an official term as chief of government from 1972 to 1978. Occasionally ironfisted with local dissenters, he showed his formidable...
Shayne's ponds are dug on the coastal flatlands, shored by timbering and fed by a canal. The square pools produce 800 lbs. per acre at each harvest, and he gets three harvests a year, a far higher yield than most of his fellow shrimp farmers, who average fewer than two harvests of approximately 300 to 400 lbs. each. In a laboratory up the coast from Shayne's ponds, experts work on secret methods for getting shrimp to produce more eggs; in another plant machines compact food similar to cattle feed so that it stays in one piece...