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...however, named in a competing report issued by the four other members of the Agrava panel. The day after the chairman presented her document to the public, her male colleagues-Amado Dizon, Luciano Salazar, Ernesto Herrera and Dante Santos-visited Marcos to give him a copy of their version. They were coldly received. For an hour they were kept waiting in the dining room of the presidential palace. Then a grim and unsmiling Marcos saw the four "Agravatars," as members of the panel are known, just long enough to bid them a chilly thank-you. He remained seated behind...
...winter of 1976, a telegram arrived for Graham Greene in Antibes. Would he come to Panama as the guest of its leader, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera? "I thought of it as only a rather comic adventure," recalls Greene, "inspired by an invitation from a complete stranger." But the comedy was to pass through surrealism to tragedy, and the stranger was to become an intimate...
...government would have to increase its vigilance over abuses of Mexican citizens in the U.S. The reaction in the Mexican press was overwhelmingly hostile. "The insult inflicted on us by the U.S.," wrote Gonzalo Martre in the Mexico City daily El Universal, "has wounded our national honor." Gilberto Herrera, another columnist, accused the U.S. of being a bad neighbor and of forgetting how Mexican laborers came to the assistance of U.S. agriculture in World War II. Other press critics complained about Washington's refusal to ease trade restrictions while Mexico suffers its most severe economic crisis since the Depression...
...votes under the watchful" gaze of vigilantes (poll watchers) decked out in the red-white-and-blue colors of ARENA or the dark green of the Christian Democrats. Election lines moved smoothly, and most of the voting was completed well before the 6 p.m. deadline. Said José Antin Herrera, an election council official in the town of Ilobasco, 35 miles northeast of San Salvador: "We belong to different parties, but we're all Salvadorans. There are no problems here...
Such turnabouts have seemed appropriate to Panama lately. Since former Strongman General Omar Torrijos Herrera and his 13-year one-man rule were brought to an abrupt end by a plane crash in 1981, the country seems to have been playing musical executive chairs. In less than three years, Panama has had three presidents, all in office with the blessings of the military. But that could change with the presidential election scheduled for May 6, the first such election after 16 years of military-backed governments. The Reagan Administration does not view the resignation with any great alarm, encouraged that...