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...Perez Balladares appointment is more controversial than Ritter, who has thrived in politics despite his close association with the corrupt Noriega regime. Robert MacMillan, a New York lawyer who was a member of the Panama Canal Commission from 1989 to 1994 and its chairman for a year, says with Ritter as canal czar, "anybody who thinks that politics will be kept out of the Panama Canal is smoking pot and inhaling...
Former commissioner MacMillan contends that Panama has badly neglected the military bases, ports and other facilities that have been placed in its charge, and shows reporters photos of abandoned Panama Railroad cars overgrown with grass and tropical vines. The railroad was handed over to Panama in 1979, and after falling into disuse, is now being privatized by a Kansas City, Mo., firm...
...MacMillan dismisses the charge as "nonsense"--though the Canal Commission is now embarked on a $1 billion modernization program that encompasses most of the Corps of Engineers' recommendations...
There were four other Rhodes Scholars at Harvard this year, all of whom were undergraduates from the United States. They are: Roy E. Bahat '98, Valerie J. MacMillan '98, Julia Raiskin '98 and Owen S. Woziak...
...able to participate in the Rhodes Scholarship, do it. It's 100 percent worthwhile," MacMillan said...