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...musically. The arrangements are complex and calculatedly anarchic, an improvement over the straightforward but unchallenging arrangements of the first album. Friedman has introduced an extensive and highly skilled use of horns and strings, combining them with excellent background vocals. His band, which includes such colorful figures as Snakebite Jacobs, Panama Red, and Little Jewford Shelby, is a model of easy precision and subtlety, rivalling the best in country music. It deserves most of the credit for any value the album has. But the technical proficiency of Friedman and his band cannot rescue this record from the morass of bad taste...
...American States as "the whorehouse of imperialism." His acerbic judgment was presumably reinforced by the diplomatic and trade quarantine imposed on Cuba by the OAS three years later. Now, though, Castro may well be in a mind to revise his opinion. Last week OAS members- notably Peru, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia-were lobbying for an end to the economic and political isolation of Cuba. When the foreign ministers of the organization meet in Quito this week, it is virtually certain that the required two-thirds majority of the 23 voting members will agree to drop the sanctions...
...commission's report is equally trenchant on other Latin American matters. It contends that U.S. insistence on perpetual control of the Panama Canal jeopardizes its interests more than it protects them. It also urges formulation of foreign investment codes that would at once protect underdeveloped countries from exploitation and shield investors from arbitrary expropriation. In matters involving the OAS, the study recommends that "the U.S. should be guided primarily by Latin American initiatives," which is precisely the role that the U.S. will be playing in Quito...
Help was quick in coming. The U.S. flew in four HU1 helicopters from the Panama Canal Zone, which surveyed the rubble, and airlifted to safety hundreds clustered on hill tops. In one rescue operation, 34 refugees desperately crowded aboard an HU1 that normally carries 15 people. In the Aguan valley, pilots reported that flood victims battled each other with machetes for food packages delivered in airdrops...
...resolution was originally proposed by Venezuela in protest against a militant program by Castro and his Minister of Industry, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, of exporting Communist revolution throughout Latin America. Cuban arms and Cuban-trained guerrillas turned up in the 1960s in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Haiti, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Bolivia. But after 1967, when Guevara was killed in Bolivia, Castro muted his once proclaimed role as the "Líder de las Americas. " Today few hemisphere leaders worry that the Cuban dictator will try to interfere in their internal affairs...