Word: panama
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Beefy, bustling Chichi Remón long ago erased the word mañana from his personal operations. He joined the police, Panama's only armed force, in 1931, and immediately began moving up. After wartime training in the U.S., he became police chief and his country's strong man in 1947. Since then, he has made and unmade five Presidents. When one of them tried to ease him out of his job in 1949, he fired the President in a pre-dawn coup. Prosperous (from cattle and other private interests) and powerful, Chichi was content to stay...
...word mañana will be erased from our administration," Panama's new President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón told a crowd of 20,000 Panamanians in his inaugural address last week. Taking over a government that is $40 million in debt, Chichi promised a brisk, businesslike administration, fairer and more efficient tax collections, and a realistic budget that would permit Panama to live within its means. Most of those means are derived from the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal, which bisects his tiny (pop. 805,000) isthmian country; the new President said that cordial relations with...
...main thing wrong with American newspapers is their concentration on sex and other lurid phenomena, the head of Panama's Newspaper Union said yesterday...
Jose A. Cajar Escala, editor of a Panamanian weekly, and staff reporter on Panama City's largest daily, the Panama-American, was comparing the qualities of journalism in the United States and his own country...
...America has the best journalists in the world," he continued, "but some of your papers are shocking. We would never treat sex crimes so thoroughly in Panama...