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...Panama City last week, bearing a flag-draped coffin that was topped by a distinctive canteen, bush hat and gun holster. At the grave, a 21-cannon salute boomed as the coffin was lowered amid a torrent of flowers. Thus did Panama bid farewell to its strongman, Omar Torrijos Herrera, who was killed when his plane crashed four days earlier...
Florez faces some strong rivals, including Lieut. Colonel Rubén Dario Paredes, the deputy chief of staff and a moderate who once served as Torrijos' Agriculture Minister. Another potential rival for Florez: Lieut. Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera, Torrijos' cousin, who is considered to be a liberal...
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...
...producers. The agreement, pro viding 160,000 bbl. to the region's petroleum importers with 30% credit, was signed last week in the Costa Rican capital of San José by Mexico's President José López Portillo and Venezuela's President Luis Herrera Campins. The magnanimity was in keeping with the two countries' intensifying roles as concerned economic godfathers to Central America...
...Hanigan case began on a hot August morning in 1976, when three Mexicans set out from Agua Prieta to seek work in Arizona. The trio-Manuel Garcia, Bernabe Herrera and Eleazar Ruelas-slipped across the border and soon stopped to refill their water jug on land leased by the Hanigans. A man, later identified by the Mexicans as Thomas Hanigan, drove by in a pickup truck and yelled out, "Hey, wetbacks, where are you going? Are you going to steal or rob?" Hanigan allegedly forced the Mexicans into his truck at gunpoint and then summoned his father George...