Word: panama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minute speech delivered at the first session, Panama's "Leader of the Revolution," Brigadier General Omar Torrijos, assailed the U.S. in buchi, a back-country accent peculiar to Panama. "It is difficult to comprehend," he said, "how a country that has characterized itself as noncolonial insists on maintaining a colony in the heart of our country. Never will we add another star to the flag of the United States." Cuba's acerbic Foreign Affairs Minister Raúl Roa joined in with a tirade against the U.S. for "its perfidy and its claws." Communist China's Huang...
...first of a series of curbside press conferences, fledgling U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Scali countered that Torrijos was "knocking on an open door," and added that "the world knows that the United States is ready to modernize our treaty arrangements with Panama to the mutual advantage of both countries." In fact, during the nearly two years of the latest round of negotiations, U.S. officials repeatedly agreed that Panama shoudl eventually be granted jurisdiction over the Canal Zone and a much larger share of canal shipping revenues (from $20 million to $25 million annually). The one sticking point...
...apply pressure, Panama drafted a resolution calling on the U.S. to draft "without delay" a new treaty that would guarantee Panama "sovereignty over all its territory." To Scali's dismay, this move won the support of 13 of the 15 delegates (Briiain abstained). Scali, who argued that the soverignty question was a bilateral matter between the U.S. and Panama and therefore beyond the U.N.'s purview, finally raised his right hand and cast the third U.S. veto in its 27 years in the United Nations...
What now? Bilateral talks between Panama and the U.S. will probably continue. But veto or no, Panamanians felt that they had got the better of the Yanquis. Said Foreign Minister Juan Tack jubilantly: "The U.S. vetoed the resolution, but the world vetoed...
...York firms are aiming at the homosexual market, one with a series of nine-day junkets to Isla de Oro, in Panama's San Bias Islands, where the men sleep in hammocks in palm-thatched huts. A magazine aimed at homosexuals is offering a brace of two-week trips to Europe. "It's not a sexual trip," says one of the excursion's sponsors, "but a cultural one, intended for people interested in meeting those with similar interests...