Word: panama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearby National Guard training center. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Managua, Miguel Obando y Bravo, and the bishops of León and Granada, who earlier in the month had demanded Somoza's resignation, immediately offered their services as mediators. So did the ambassadors of Costa Rica and Panama. They quickly reported back with the guerrillas' demands: 1) the release of 59 political prisoners; 2) $10 million; 3) repeated broadcasts over government radio of an almost two-hour-long Sandinista communiqué; and 4) Venezuelan, Mexican or Panamanian planes to escort them from the country...
...hell with Somoza!' " At the airport, the commandos, who had settled for $500,000 after winning their other demands, armed their newly released comrades with weapons taken from the Deputies' bodyguards at the National Palace. Then, along with the bishops and ambassadors who had mediated, they took off for Panama aboard two airliners. Cero, the last to enter the plane, turned and waved his rifle, and the crowd sent up a wild cheer as the planes took off. Said a youth: "They'll be back, be sure of that...
Last week's events suggested that Somoza may yet have his mind made up for him. In Panama, safe, sound and almost delirious with triumph, the Sandinistas, with their newly released comrades, were no doubt preparing for some new victories. Cero assured his captives when he bade them goodbye: "We'll be back in two months...
...member delegation to Guzmán's inauguration. Heading the group were Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. But the most important symbolic presence was that of Lieut. General Dennis McAuliffe, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Southern Command based in the Panama Canal Zone. He was dispatched to Santo Domingo as a reminder to the Dominican generals, who have little love for Guzmán, that the U.S. supported his election and expected them to do the same...
...later years; after a brief illness, in New York. Touring Europe in 1927, Stone had his first look at the stark glass and aluminum "international style" that he would use in his 1937 design for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. But years later, after his El Panama Hotel in Panama City was built in 1949, Stone denounced his austere designs as resembling "the latest model automobile, doomed to early obsolescence." Aiming at what he called the "assurance of permanence," he turned to more solid structures of concrete, brick and stone. For two decades, Stone produced variations...