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Jerry Hannifin, who flew to Panama for an interview with Strongman Omar Torrijos Herrera, is also an old hemisphere hand. Says he of the canal: "In its time, it was the engineering equivalent of the U.S. landing men on the moon...
...Frederic Golden has just written a book, Colonies in Space (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $8.95), dealing with the next step the success of the Enterprise may lead to. Golden predicts the first space colony by the year 2001. An odd date, that: just one year after the new treaty gives Panama control of the canal...
...swept presidential suite of Panama City's Holiday Inn, overlooking a bay speckled with shrimp boats, the mood was clearly jubilant. Chief Panamanian Negotiator Romulo Escobar Bethancourt jumped to his feet and reached across the table to grasp the outstretched hands of U.S. Negotiators Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz. With a smile that seemed as broad as the canal over which they had been arguing for many months, Escobar proclaimed: "This is good. Here are the people...
That it was done was something of a miracle. After 13 years of often bitter negotiations, "principles of an agreement" on a Panama Canal Treaty were finally signed last week. If the treaty is formally approved?and that could prove a very big "if'?the fabled "Big Ditch," supreme symbol of American ingenuity and determination for generations, will gradually come under Panama's control...
...Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos Herrera, had predicted that satisfying all parties would be about as difficult as pleasing the "princess who had big feet and asked a shoemaker to find her a shoe small on the outside and large inside." But the negotiators kept hammering away until the shoe seemed to fit. The treaty will be formally signed later this month or in early September. Torrijos has invited all Latin American heads of state, as well as President Carter, to Panama City for the event, and Carter has indicated that he is willing to go. After the signing...