Word: panama
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...Viet Nam truce negotiations, was named Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. John Crimmins, a former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, was posted to Brazil; John Jova, a former Ambassador to the Organization of American States, was assigned to Mexico. Earlier this month, Kissinger flew to Panama to initial an agreement that promised to remove one of the most emotionally charged irritants in hemisphere relations-continued U.S. control of the Panama Canal...
...Died. Raymond A. Wheeler, 88, former U.S. Army Chief of Engineers; in Washington, D.C. A West Point graduate, Wheeler began his career during construction of the Panama Canal in 1911, and in the next four decades became one of the U.S. Army's most decorated military engineers. During World War II he supervised construction of the famed Ledo Road, a military supply lane stretching through 478 miles of Asian mountains, jungles and swampland, thereby opening an overland link between India and China. Though officially retired, Wheeler was recalled to service by the U.N. following the 1956 Israeli-Egyptian...
Next day, hundreds of thousands of Cubans attended a mass rally in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion. In deference to Castro, who was wearing his inevitable fatigues, the Soviet Party Chief, 67, abandoned his customary dark business suit for a casual tunic jacket and a white Panama hat. Anxious to impress the shirt-sleeved masses with his own blue-collar credentials, Brezhnev told the rally that he, his father and brother had all worked in a steel mill...
...lower. Both Kuwait and Abu Dhabi recently refused to see Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco when Kissinger proposed sending him to give a briefing on the Egyptian-Israeli talks. But Kissinger, for the next month at least, is booked for Western Hemisphere consultations, including discussions with Panama on the status of the Panama Canal, a meeting with Western Hemisphere foreign ministers in Mexico City to discuss mutual problems and talks on oil in Ottawa with Canadian officials. It will be difficult for the Secretary to return to Middle East matters until early March, by which time the thing...