Word: panama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign funds had been used to buy the estate. That story got considerable play, but the basic allegation has never been supported. Newsweek a year ago reported that John Dean had information to the effect that some "lowlevel White House officials at one point considered assassinating the President of Panama." Neither Dean nor anyone else ever corroborated that grabber...
...principal asset-Vesco's 707-and he took it to the company's receivers. They in turn took the idea to New Jersey Superior Court Judge Irwin Kimmelman, who was overseeing efforts to liquidate Fairfield General. After a few discreet phone calls located the plane at Panama City's Tocumen International Airport, the judge authorized Fairfield General to advance Eisenhauer $17,500 on his claim. The pilot then headed for Panama with two colleagues...
...Tocumen, Eisenhauer finagled his way into a meeting with Panama's director of civil aviation, who turned out to be another ex-fighter pilot. Eisenhauer convinced his new-found friend that he did indeed represent the plane's owners and had come to take the plane to the U.S. for maintenance...
...cartel, named Union de Paises Exportadores del Banano (Union of Banana Exporting Countries), was formed by Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. It proposes to slap a $1 export tax on every 40-lb. box of bananas leaving Latin America, 50 times the present 20 tax paid by major exporters. In the U.S., which is the world's top banana in imports of the yellow fruit, the tax boost could raise retail prices from the present 16%0 per Ib. to as much as 190. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
Hirschmann said that the new American policy towards Panama is indicative of the change in U.S. attitudes towards South America. The United States recently concluded a treaty with Panama which called for eventual control of the Panama Canal by Panama...