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...climactic point-when the House Un-American Activities Committee was seeking documentary evidence from Whittaker Chambers to revive the flagging case against Hiss-Nixon and his wife left Washington for a cruise to Panama. "I don't think he's got a damned thing," he told Robert Stripling, who was HUAC's chief investigator. Writes Weinstein: "If Chambers' bombshell fizzled, or if it exploded in Stripling's face, Nixon would be in Panama, far from the scene of carnage. He might be embarrassed but not discredited." The day Nixon left the country, Chambers turned over...
WASHINGTON--The Senate opened debate yesterday on the Carter administration's proposed Panama Canal treaty...
...Panama City, Fla., 1971: Carrying a hefty attaché case, U.S. Air Force Sergeant Walter T. Perkins walks to a commercial jet destined for Mexico City, where he plans to rendezvous with an agent of the KGB, the Soviet intelligence service. In the attaché case are top-secret U.S. plans for defense against a Soviet air attack. Air Force security men arrest Perkins as he boards, and his KGB contact, Oleg Shevchenko, flees Mexico for Cuba...
Suddenly everyone was headed somewhere to talk about the Panama Canal treaties. With the pacts expected to be brought to a vote in the full Senate some time in March, seven members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee led by Chairman John Sparkman were in Panama last week to assess the situation there. So was the Duke himself, Actor John Wayne, a conservative on most issues but a supporter of the treaties ceding the canal to Panama. Meanwhile, a "Panama Canal truth squad," including several members of Congress and a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was visiting...
...Panama, meanwhile, the Sparkman group was being treated to what is becoming the traditional package tour for visiting U.S. Senators, including a quick trip to the canal, talks with Panamanian officials and lunch with Torrijos. The Panamanian leader's guest of honor, seated at his right, was John Wayne; Committee Chairman Sparkman had to settle for the seat to Torrijos' left. Said the Duke, who started investing in Panamanian exports after World War II and scoffs at claims by conservatives that Panama's economy is a disaster zone: "I've come to see what this...