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DIED. SOL LINOWITZ, 91, lawyer, businessman and diplomat who advised Presidents Johnson, Carter and Clinton; at his home in Washington. As an attorney, he acquired the rights to technology that built Xerox into one of the nation's largest companies. He went on to a life of diplomacy, helping negotiate the historic transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama and later representing Carter in the Middle East negotiations that followed the 1978 Camp David accords...
...fundamental challenge to Chamorro, and the most urgent claim on the U.S., remains Nicaragua's economy. "The country needs to be completely rehabilitated," says Sol Linowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States and co-negotiator of the 1977 Panama Canal treaty. According to a 1986 World Bank study, the Nicaraguan economy will need $1.3 billion a year for the next ten years just to keep ahead of the country's growing population. The U.N.O. has called for at least $2 billion in U.S. aid -- $200 million immediately and $600 million annually for the next three years. Oklahoma...
...page report that "the roots of insecurity in the hemisphere and particularly in Central America are primarily economic, social and political." The solutions, it added, "lie in economic and social development and political dialogue, not in more weapons and military advisers." The study, prepared under the direction of Sol Linowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, encouraged direct negotiations between the government and guerrillas in El Salvador. It also urged the U.S. to stop supporting the contras who are fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government...
...Administration and European allies endorse it; so do the Soviet Union, Cuba and Nicaragua's Sandinistas. Congressional and other critics of U.S. policy regularly pillory the Administration for not paying enough attention to Contadora. U.S. backing for Contadora, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States Sol Linowitz charged last week, was merely "lip service...
...Dominican Republic incident provoked an undercurrent of resentment in Latin America that helped spell the end of the Alliance for Progress. "Ever since the invasion of the Dominican Republic, we've been trying to tell other countries that the U.S. has forsworn military intervention," says Sol Linowitz, a former U.S. Ambassador to the O.A.S. who helped negotiate the Panama Canal Treaty. By far the greatest cost of the Grenada invasion, and the new assertiveness it exemplifies, may be that it resurrects in Latin America the "Yankee imperialist" stereotype that the U.S. has been struggling to shake off. "Gringos...