Word: escobar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Treasurer Frank Escobar '79 says the organization isn't plagued by old problems -- a long step from five years ago, when corporate members were punished by the Administrative Board for alleged misallocation of funds. Escobar admits that the two factions are there, "but like every organization," he explains, "you have personalities and there's going to be tension whenever a new team comes...
...Escobar says the complainers are those who wanted to be U.N. committee chairmen and were assigned as secretaries. "You're not going to please everybody," he notes
...most pointed questions from the committee, which seemed generally favorable to the agreement, centered on whether the Panamanians and the Administration interpret the treaty provisions in the same way. Several Senators noted that Romulo Escobar Bethancourt, the chief Panamanian treaty negotiator, recently told his countrymen that the U.S. could not unilaterally intervene under the accords to protect the canal after the year 2000. But Brown pointed out that General Omar Torrijos Herrera, the country's military dictator, is the leader who "instructs his negotiator, and not vice versa." Torrijos said approvingly at the treaty signing in Washington last month...
...also removes a major irritant in U.S. relations with Latin America, which regards American control of the canal as a humiliating relic of the colonial era. It also assured continued U.S. control over a long transitional period; there is to be no radical, overnight shift of authority. Said Escobar: "Getting control of the Canal Zone and the canal is one of Panama's oldest national desires. To generation after generation of Panamanians, the canal has symbolized the country's national patrimony?in the hands of foreigners. We developed a kind of national religion over the canal." Linowitz told TIME...
...Career Diplomat Bunker, 83, who had been in charge of negotiations since 1973. They made a formidable team that Latin America called "Hit 'em high, Hit 'em low." Linowitz kept pressing hard, talking fast, rarely letting up. "He works with all his heart and lungs," said his admiring adversary Escobar. More low-keyed and taciturn, Bunker was an inspired contriver of compromises. He also defused arguments by occasionally dozing off?or seeming...