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...minute speech delivered at the first session, Panama's "Leader of the Revolution," Brigadier General Omar Torrijos, assailed the U.S. in buchi, a back-country accent peculiar to Panama. "It is difficult to comprehend," he said, "how a country that has characterized itself as noncolonial insists on maintaining a colony in the heart of our country. Never will we add another star to the flag of the United States." Cuba's acerbic Foreign Affairs Minister Raúl Roa joined in with a tirade against the U.S. for "its perfidy and its claws." Communist China's Huang...
...week in Panama City. The meeting almost certainly will be used to air a variety of Latin American grievances, such as Argentina's demand for the Falkland Islands and Guatemala's demand for British Honduras. But the noisiest grievances will presumably come from the host. Panamanian Strongman Omar Torrijos calls the Canal Zone "a tumor that must go through the operating room...
...Torrijos regime. As a former member of the government put it: "The manicured lawns and flower gardens of the Zone, the 50,000 Americans with a better living, the old degradations and racial discrimination -these are the causes of this claustrophobic frustration we Panamanians suffer. I'm with Omar...
Papa was preceded, and followed, by other men of letters, including Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, James Michener, Norman Mailer and James Dickey. Winston Churchill chose LIFE to publish his memoirs, and so did Harry S. Truman, the Duke of Windsor, Charles de Gaulle and Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and Douglas MacArthur. It was with these memoirs that LIFE underlined its growing concern with the lessons of history...
Scene II: Munich, 1972. A sinewy young man of 22, who looks as if he could be Omar Sharif's younger brother, confidently strides through the Olympic Village. Surrounding him is a retinue of coaches and teammates?the entourage of an athletic eminence. At the village entrance, dozens of jock groupies strain to touch him, plead for his autograph. Inside, competitors from other countries seek his signature. "Oh, look!" cries a delighted U.S. mermaid. "There he is!" Journalists pursue him into the shower before practice. People persistently ask: Can he win seven gold medals? Yes, he answers with quiet confidence...