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FOOTNOTE: *The top ten shipping nations in terms of tonnage: Liberia, Panama, Greece, Japan, Norway, U.S.S.R., United Kingdom, U.S., France, Italy. Several are so-called flags of convenience, used by shippers to hire low-paid foreign sailors...
...program, with Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel as hosts, shows how Washington's overriding policy goal of containing Communism has affected a wide array of decisions, including the Marshall Plan and the 1977 decision to hand over the Canal Zone to Panama (an example to Third World nations that the U.S., not the Soviet Union, is the better friend). By advertising in local newspapers, ABC was able to find color footage of Churchill's 1946 visit to Fulton, Mo., where he delivered his famed Iron Curtain speech, and of General Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo...
...essentially boots, uniforms, food and medical supplies. Contributions in cash and kind range up to $500,000 a month, according to Singlaub. If a donor insists on giving money for weapons purchases, Singlaub tells them to send the funds to a certain overseas bank account, believed to be in Panama. Letters of credit are then issued against it, enabling recipients to buy arms abroad...
...Though the Sandinistas are deficient in combat aircraft, they boast 36 helicopters, including at least ten Soviet-made Hind gunships. Hopes that this military machine eventually may be cut back rose a bit last week. Representatives of Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica, meeting in Panama, agreed to set up a commission to monitor the arms-reduction provisions of a regional treaty that they are trying to negotiate. But until an enforceable pact is in effect--if ever...
After visiting Reagan at the White House, Colombian President Belisario Betancur, a key figure in the Contadora group (Colombia, Venezuela, Panama and Mexico), which has been pressing for a regional settlement, called Reagan's attitude toward the Nicaragua situation "positive" and "constructive," but carefully avoided any comment on the proposal...