Word: panama
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...Panama Canal is one of those emotional foreign policy issues on which reckless politicians can sound ringingly certain about a simplistic solution-so long as they do not have to face the consequences if their rhetoric is translated into policy. Time after time in Texas last week, Ronald Reagan thundered about the canal: "We bought it. We paid for it. We built it. And we are going to keep it." As President, Reagan vowed, he would say just that to any "tinhorn dictator" in Panama who sought to gain control over the waterway. The Reagan theatrics, designed...
Chance Encounter. In her months in office, Isabel proved to have little more political acumen than a cabaret dancer-which is what she was in 1956, when she had a chance encounter in Panama with Juan Perón, then freshly ousted by a coup after nine turbulent years as Argentina's President. She became his companion in luxurious exile in Madrid, married him in 1961 (she was 30, he was 66) and returned to Argentina with him in 1973. In that year she agreed to run for the vice presidency when he urged her to join...
...suggested that Brigadier General Omar Torrijos might simply have been trying to walk on water. At least Panama's strongman added some excitement to ceremonies marking the partial completion of a dam and hydroelectric plant on the Bayano River last week. Shortly after pushing a button to drop the last of four gates damming the current, Torrijos, 46, suddenly plunged into the river-fully clothed in his national guard uniform, with military boots and a .45 automatic. He was immediately followed by a few loyal military aides, then by Panama's civilian Vice President, Gerardo Gonz...
...Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani to arrange a complete Saudi buy-out of Arabian American Oil Co., the free world's largest crude producer. But they kept a tight curtain of secrecy around the five-day meeting at the plush Bay Point Yacht and Country Club, near Panama City, Fla. As most of the negotiators-including executives of Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard of California, the four American partners in Aramco-made for their private jets at the conclusion of the meeting, they refused to discuss what price the Saudis would pay for the 40% of Aramco that...
Holloway said, "I felt more comfortable in Panama than many white Americans. The Panamanians, black and Latin, treated you differently. They'd say, "She's black...