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...nations of the Western Hemisphere that have boycotted Fidel Castro's Cuba for the past decade have been having second thoughts. In the past two years, official ties have been forged between Cuba and Peru, Argentina, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad-Tobago.* Last week Panama was added to the list when 30 jubilant Panamanian officials flew to Havana to sign a declaration restoring diplomatic, economic and cultural links between the two nations. Next in line are Ecuador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia-and probably...
There has been as much economic activity as diplomatic. Cuba's trade with other Latin American nations may reach $100 million this year, up nearly 500% since 1969. To symbolize the importance he attaches to the recently developed trade with Cuba, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, Panama's strongman, now smokes nothing but long Havana cigars. Before his death, Argentina's President Juan Perón granted Cuba $1.2 billion in credits to buy Argentine products, such as road-building equipment, mining machinery, textiles and household appliances. In July, at a trade fair outside Havana the Argentines...
...Schwimmer's predilection for secrecy (he is a prime potential target for Arab terrorists). During Israel's 1948 war for independence, he smuggled nine war-surplus C-46s and a Constellation out of the U.S. to Israel (on the pretext of starting a civilian line in Panama), then surrendered to the FBI and was fined $10,000 for violating the U.S. arms embargo to Palestine. The smuggling helped create the Israeli Air Force, in which Schwimmer served as its first chief engineer. After the war, he set up his own aircraft servicing business in Burbank, Calif., but David...
...They distrust a woman in such a high position and question her background. Born in Argentina's impoverished La Rioja province, the daughter of a bank executive, she left home in her 20s to join a troupe of traveling folk dancers. In 1956, after finishing a performance in a Panama City cabaret, she was introduced to the exiled Per?...
...campaign funds had been used to buy the estate. That story got considerable play, but the basic allegation has never been supported. Newsweek a year ago reported that John Dean had information to the effect that some "lowlevel White House officials at one point considered assassinating the President of Panama." Neither Dean nor anyone else ever corroborated that grabber...