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Jerry Hannifin, who flew to Panama for an interview with Strongman Omar Torrijos Herrera, is also an old hemisphere hand. Says he of the canal: "In its time, it was the engineering equivalent of the U.S. landing men on the moon...
Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos Herrera, had predicted that satisfying all parties would be about as difficult as pleasing the "princess who had big feet and asked a shoemaker to find her a shoe small on the outside and large inside." But the negotiators kept hammering away until the shoe seemed to fit. The treaty will be formally signed later this month or in early September. Torrijos has invited all Latin American heads of state, as well as President Carter, to Panama City for the event, and Carter has indicated that he is willing to go. After the signing...
...that there were as many as 4,700 military detainees.) He has also promised to phase out the military tribunals created by martial law and to replace them with civil courts. He has ordered the arrest and trial of two military officers accused of torturing Civil Rights Leader Trinidad Herrera, who, after being visited by U.S. diplomats in Manila, was finally released from jail...
...number of Latino families is increasing at four times the median U.S. rate, and if the trend continues Latinos will become the country's largest ethnic group by the year 2030. As important, perhaps, are their reserves of creativity. Says the magazine's other managing editor, Philip Herrera:* "Nuestro will provide an outlet and showcase for the tremendous talent in the Latino community, the bulk of which has never been tapped...
...Both Ferrer and Herrera were formerly associate editors at TIME...