Word: panama
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...emphasis on Latin America and what the government calls the "historic Hispanic link." Accordingly, González has paid increasing attention to strife-torn Central America, where his views diverge sharply from those of the Reagan Administration. During an eight-day tour of the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama and Mexico earlier this month, Gonzalez repeatedly criticized U.S. policy in the area for what he regards as its overly military-oriented approach...
...must have a strategy for the year 2000 or we run the grave risk of living through explosions of right-or left-wing authoritarianism. This requires that the weight of the U.S. must have a positive rather than a negative character. The Americans can say that the Panama Canal is vital to U.S. [security], and no one is going to argue with them. However, for the Panamanian or the Costa Rican in the street that does not justify the price of hegemonic domination by national oligarchies. One cannot say that what is happening in Central America is a fight between...
...American oil executive and a British-Brazilian mother, he was born and grew up amid sun-splashed privilege in Rio de Janeiro. After graduating from the Citadel military school in Charleston, S.C., Motley joined the Air Force and was posted from 1965 to 1967 in Panama-his only Central American experience-and later in Alaska. There he switched careers and founded what has since become the largest real estate firm in the state. He was, recalls Anchorage Attorney Clifford Groh, "affable, very enjoyable," but also a "take-charge sort...
...been dealing with come together now to form a circle of possible harmony: the United States has true friends in this hemisphere; these friends must negotiate the situations that the United States, while participating in them, cannot possibly negotiate for itself, and the negotiating parties--from Mexico and Venezuela, Panama and Colombia, tomorrow perhaps our great Portuguese speaking sister, Brazil, perhaps the new Spanish democracy, re-establishing the continuum of our Iberian heritage, and expanding the Contadora group--have the intimate knowledge of the underlying cultural problems...
DIED. Ernesto de la Guardia, 78, President of Panama from 1956 to 1960; in Panama City. The target of the first liberation campaign sponsored by Cuba's Fidel Castro, De la Guardia in 1959 invoked the Rio Treaty, calling on his neighbors to help repel the threat. The "invaders" turned out to be a comic-opera troupe of adventurers who had been recruited by De la Guardia's chief political rival, Roberto Arias, and his wife Ballerina Margot Fonteyn. As the coup fizzled, Arias fled, Fonteyn was arrested, and the Cubans, repudiated by Castro, were induced to surrender...