Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have particularly wanted to impress was President Ernesto de la Guardia of Panama, currently pondering a U.S. request for Nike antiaircraft missile sites in his country. So far he has asked for more concessions (primarily, a greatly increased share of Canal receipts) than the U.S. is willing to pay. De la Guardia beamed at the smooth-running exercises last week and assured a press conference that continued U.S. operation of the Canal was "not even an issue here." But he said nothing about lowering his price on the Nike bases...
...Rejected as propaganda a Soviet complaint of discrimination against three Russian ships which recently used the Panama Canal...
...reported as early as 1948 that the Arevalo regime was Communist-infiltrated, he arrived on the scene only hours before Castillo Armas' successful uprising broke out in 1954. New York-born Dubois speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese, travels 100,000 miles a year from his base in Panama as a roving reporter and Hemisphere drumbeater for the Trib. His reporting is sometimes ponderous in the Gothic provincial style approved by the late Colonel Bertie Mc-Cormick (who discovered Dubois when he was working oh the Panama Star & Herald), but it is always authoritative and accurate. And among newsmen, Dubois...
Rupert ("Kontiki") Allen, Panama's calypso king, went on to give his customers a rhymed rundown on the latest theories about Pilot Murphy's mysterious disappearance in the Dominican Republic (TIME, Feb. 25). Kontiki was staying on top of his profession last week by wryly relating the vagaries and outrages of Caribbean power politics...
...politics rather than other topical matters, praising democrats and making fun of strongmen. During the 1952 Panamanian elections he made his professional breakthrough with a glowing ditty about a democrat of sorts, the late President Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remon. The lyrics, shunning excess modesty, called Remon "the saviour of Panama"; Remon used it as a campaign jingle, and after he won the election sent Kontiki a check for $250. For any rising young calypso singer, the next step was clear. Then only 16, Kontiki strolled into a local ginmill one night and, in one of the haphazard contests that decide...