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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Linowitz joined 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...
...much-sought gunman turned out to be the loner the psychologists had predicted. He had apparently abandoned the few friends acquired in his earlier years, lived alone in a sparsely furnished apartment in suburban Yonkers, got along comfortably with fellow postal workers but rarely initiated a conversation, and kept his personal feelings to himself...
...executives in their thirties who, having been schooled in '60s virtues, want more openness and disclosure in business, more debate before making decisions, more flexibility in personal and professional styles. Says Stephen McLin, 30, a vice president for the Bank of America (an outfit some incendiary radicals kept trying to burn down about seven years ago): "The impact of this generation will be felt. But the time isn't now. It's coming in about four or five years...
...ried Ochs' only child, Iphigene. Under Sulzberger, changes in the Times were subtle. He put more pictures on Page One, hired the paper's first female foreign correspondent (Anne McCormick) and quietly expanded the cultural departments. But A. Aitchess, as Sulzberger whimsically signed the light verse he sometimes wrote, kept the Times essentially Ochsian. In 1954 he sacked as picture