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...thousands of cheering spectators crowded outside Panama City's Atlapa convention center, and dozens of dignitaries from the U.S., Western Europe and Latin America smiled approvingly inside the hall, Nicolás (Nicky) Ardito Barletta was installed as Panama's 21st President. Secretary of State George Shultz, on the second stop of his Central American tour, hailed the new leader as "a longtime and respected friend," and the swearing in as "a new opportunity for progress." That it was: Ardito Barletta's inauguration marked Panama's return to civilian government after 16 years of direct...
Already the United States' ostensible friends are edging away from their ally, laden with guns and tanks but little else. In Honduras, where most of the contras fighting the Sandinistas are based, the officers ruling the country profess unease over the U.S. military role there. Meanwhile, Panama has forced the United States to shut down its School of the Americas, training ground for thousands of Latin American soldiers. And in Costa Rica, the fragile democracy is chafing under Washington's efforts to militarize the country, and it refused a recent U.S. request to extend an airstrip near its border with...
...common theme has emerged--resentment over the Administration's misguided attempt, through backing of the contras, to topple the Sandinistas. Moreover, deft Nicaraguan diplomacy has left the United States in the unenviable position of refusing a peace treaty--that profered recently by the Contadora group of Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venzuela. Rather than budge the Nicaraguan junta, Reagan's policies have succeeded only in winning sympathy for the Sandinistas, no easy trick given the regime's lengthening track-record of repression and economic failure. The current furor over the publication of a CIA manual for political terrorism, assassination, and psychological...
...week, aimed at bringing an end, on paper at least, to strife in Central America-and intended by some of its participants to keep the Reagan Administration on the defensive. In New York City, the foreign ministers of the so-called Contadora group of countries (Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama) appeared before the United Nations General Assembly to declare their confidence that a peace treaty for the region will be ready to be signed as of Oct. 15. Their U.N. appearance followed that of Daniel Ortega Saavedra, coordinator of Nicaragua's revolutionary junta, who told the delegates that...
...winding down of American involvement, Bunker did finally see the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 1973 after four years of " Viet-namization." Sometimes known in diplomatic circles as "the Refrigerator" for his icy imperturbability, he later capped his career as chief negotiator in acrimonious but ultimately successful talks with Panama over the new canal treaties. "I'm an old-fashioned patriot," he once explained of his devotion to duty despite diplomacy's frustrations. "I have always assumed that my country was fundamentally right in its dealings with others...