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...came to the issue of Central America, the most stubborn bone of contention in previous meetings, De la Madrid tried to strike a tone at once understanding and independent. He conceded that little success had been met by the Contadora Group, in which Mexico joins Colombia, Venezuela and Panama to work for a negotiated settlement of the region's conflicts. But in a pointed criticism of Washington's support of the contras in Nicaragua, he stressed that "violence will not take care of the problems...
...more space shuttle will not meet the challenge. For the moment, America has lost its nerve and its vision from the top down. What we do in space now is just as important as the Panama Canal, the atom bomb, the cure for polio, the trip to the moon. The most frightening deficit is in boldness...
...tranquil cattle-farming community of Trinidad (pop. 40,000), capital of Bolivia's northeastern Beni region, has not been the same. "Our humble town," complains Alvarez, "is becoming internationally known as a cocaine center." Trinidad has, willy- nilly, become home to the U.S. 193rd Infantry Brigade. Transported from Panama two weeks ago, the G.I.s are embarked on an earnest mission: to help the Bolivian drug-enforcement unit, known as the Leopards, wipe out cocaine- processing factories. But "Operation Blast Furnace," which has flooded Trinidad with more than 170 soldiers, a dozen or so agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration...
...traffickers would be out of the country before the forces arrived. Said Bolivian Ambassador to the U.S. Fernando Illanes: "With all the advance advice, I think everybody is scampering." At the outset, the mission had a comicopera quality to it. The planned arrival from the U.S. Southern Command in Panama of the C-5A transport ferrying the helicopters, to be followed by C-130 troop planes, had to be delayed three days because a wildcat gasoline strike prevented refueling at Santa Cruz airport. While the huge C-5A sat at the airport in full view of TV cameras, reporters...
Though not exactly Marx, Madonna has sparked a global revolution. From Moscow to Peking, the Material Girl has put a new spin on dialectical materialism. Nothing, however, can compare with her reception in Panama, where people have gone mad over La Donna. For almost two years, 23-year-old Wanna Be's have been curling their hair and donning lace. Both a soft-drink company and a chewing-gum firm have produced ads copying her from-bed-to- verse videos. "Even Michael Jackson did not produce such a frenzy," marvels Jim Truch Gomez, manager of the country...