Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour session during which Villalba stoutly refused to commit U.R.D. assembly members against a boycott until after a party convention in January, secret police seized the six men at the minister's door, held them incommunicado overnight, and next morning shipped them by government plane to Panama. Handed their passports in mid-air by the pilot, the U.R.D. leaders were dumped at Panama without money, a change of clothes or even their toothbrushes. Protesting this "fascist stratagem," Villalba bitterly refused to predict that U.R.D. assembly members left in Venezuela would dare stand...
...trip from Callao to Balboa, Panama, through the Canal to Colon proved eventless. The Carribean, then in the middle of the September hurrican season, was placid. The boat's first stop was Key West, then Miami. Here they had their first run-in with two American institutions: the press and tumbling bureacracy...
...stubby 45-foot ketch, the Miru, Davis, his wife, two sons, and two crewmen sailed 10,000 miles from Wellington, New Zealand, to Peru, through the Panama Canal, and along the eastern seaboard to Boston...
Since crossing the Panama Canal the Miru has been making its way up the east coast. Before its arrival at Wilmington yesterday the Coast Guard had last reported the craft at St. Simon's Island, Ga., on the 17th of this month. Spaulding said the Miru will probably dock at Boston in a week's time if the weather permits navigation...
Davis reached the Peru coastline after 68 days out of Wellington, New Zealand, and at registration-time, be sailed through the Panama Canal and began the last leg of his 10,000 mile journey to Boston...