Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suez Canal crisis echoed in a surge of discontent from tiny Panama (pop. 900,000). Miffed at not being invited to the London conference on Suez, the government of President Ricardo Arias issued a defiant communiqué notifying the world that "this republic will not consider herself obliged to respect any of the decisions or recommendations adopted by the conference.'' Panama should have been invited, said the communiqué, because 1) the Panama Canal "is in some respects similar to the Suez Canal," and 2) a large merchant fleet flies the Panamanian flag.* On a visit to Cairo...
...Titular Sovereign." For their country's exclusion from the Suez conference, Panamanians are angry at the U.S. rather than Britain. They are convinced that Secretary of State Dulles vetoed Panama because he wanted to keep from getting the Panama Canal even remotely mixed up with the Suez crisis. Panamanians point out that their country is the "titular sovereign" in the Canal Zone...
Relaxed in the air-conditioned VIP waiting room at Panama's Tocumen Airport, ex-Strongman Juan Perón affably thanked the Panamanian government for "eight good months" and sent his warmest regards to "the humble and suffering, and all the workers" of Panama. Upstairs, the former Argentine dictator's shapely secretary, Dancer Isabel Martínez, stopped sipping a Coke long enough to pose for photographers and describe her boss as "an extraordinary man in all respects." Then Perón, 60, and Isabel, 23, climbed aboard a plane for Venezuela...
...household was apparently changing countries on its own hook; Panamanian officials vowed that they had no complaints about Perón's behavior. Perón himself was silent on why he was moving, but one reason was probably his peeve at being asked to leave Panama during the conference of American Presidents. He might also desire to close ranks with the colony of Peronist exiles in Venezuela, some of them doing well in the booming horse-racing business. As Perón landed in Caracas, he was cheered by some 100 of these supporters with a fervor reminiscent...
Agonized at the thought that a rainy spell can drive away his customers, André hopes for the best by wearing a Panama hat wherever he goes, prepares for the worst by packing an umbrella. The more his guests lose the more André worries. Last week, as the sun stayed out and gamblers kept gambling, André was doleful indeed. As he confided to a friend: "The man who bets the heaviest in this casino is not ex-King Farouk or Jack Warner. The heaviest bettor is poor André. He bets a billion francs...