Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toll at 1,000 to 2,000, but by week's end estimates were down to some 200 dead and 300 to 500 seriously injured.* The government's gravest problem was taking care of the thousands of homeless. Good neighbors pitched in; airborne supplies were dispatched from Panama (by the American Red Cross), Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico...
Most revolutions are masterminded by a strong man or a junta or a committee of the elite, but in Panama last week the people themselves pulled the revolutionary strings. Panama's official President-maker, Colonel José ("Chichi") Remón, bided his time and eventually supplied the firepower...
Chichi Remón, boss of the National Police, Panama's only armed force, does not like revolutions; he likes to keep the country quiet, so that he, his cops and his business friends can live in peace. But President Arnulfo Arias, whom Chichi restored to offi'ce 18 months ago, was not a man to let well enough alone. He built up his own secret police to cow the opposition; he made enemies by voraciously reaching for power and property...
Heading into the Panama Canal one morning last week, the skipper of the 7,517-ton American-Hawaiian line freighter Nevadan got word that his ship was due for a little ceremony. There was just time for deckhands to whip on their shirts. Off the Balboa docks, the Nevadan took aboard a launchful of officials headed by Canal Zone Acting Governor Herbert D. Vogel. After climbing over a deck cargo of lumber to get to the captain's cabin, the governor turned over a certificate stating that the Nevadan was the 150,000th major ship (more than...
...mournful plaint. Through the ruins to the East Gate Market come those who try to sell their few belongings to buy food. So, one day this week, came a stooped old man with dull eyes and a wispy beard, dressed in a soiled grey robe and a bedraggled Panama hat. Under his arm he carried a thick, paper-covered Bible, in Korean characters. He asked 3,000 won (50? at Army exchange rates) for the Bible. "I have had that Bible for ten years. I don't want to sell it," he said, "but I must sell...