Word: omar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...POINT during the Panama Canal treaty negotiations, Omar Toreros received unexpected advice from an unusual source, Filed Castro. The ubiquitous Cuban leader called his friend Omar--the military leader who had brought Panama's dream of ruling the canal to fruition--to urge "prudence and caution" in Panama's increasingly complicated external affairs...
...taken him to many places as confused as Central America, should have known better than to take the words of Ortega and Marcial at face value. But they are not the point of the book. While Getting To Know The General is dedicated to "the friends of my friend, Omar Torrijos," its real goal is to eulogize the Panamanian leader. To the list of the General's accomplishments, not the least of which was setting Panama on the road to becoming only the second Central American nation to form a lasting democracy, Greene adds a deeply personal, very moving look...
...winter of 1976, a telegram arrived for Graham Greene in Antibes. Would he come to Panama as the guest of its leader, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera? "I thought of it as only a rather comic adventure," recalls Greene, "inspired by an invitation from a complete stranger." But the comedy was to pass through surrealism to tragedy, and the stranger was to become an intimate...
...treaty's probable terms. According to some reports, Hassan has promised to lend Libya some 30,000 of his crack troops in the event of another Israeli war. He may also start handing back Libyan dissidents (he is said to have already returned one leading anti-Gaddafi agitator, Omar Meheishi, to almost certain imprisonment). Worst of all, in Washington's eyes, the King's handshake gives Gaddafi, a leader who has openly exported terrorism, a measure of respectability...
...missed his high school graduation to make the team. Raised in Philadelphia, a city with impeccable boxing bloodlines (Smokin' Joe Frazier, et al.), Taylor is a good-looking fighter who can slip a punch, hit hard with both hands and move well. In his semifinal bout with Venezuelan Omar Catari Peraza, Taylor floored him in Round 2 with a straight right and went on to win unanimously. Nigerian Peter Konyegwachie gave Taylor all he could handle in a hotly contested final, but Taylor, surprisingly, won a unanimous verdict. His flamboyant teammate Whitaker, who sometimes mocked opponents, fought stylishly...