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...life in many countries. One of its first achievements was to rid North Africa and Asia of their historic plagues of locusts by means of cross-border aerial patrols and insecticide raids. Since 1966 the program's various studies-such as surveys that pinpoint copper lodes in Argentina, Panama and Turkey, iron ore in Chile and Gabon, and uranium in Somalia -have helped stimulate $5 billion in follow-up private investment. More than a third of all aid has gone to Africa and more than a quarter to Asia for assistance in such basic needs as agriculture, industry...
Washington's official response was even slower. At first the State Department said only that the U.S. could make no protest since the ship was registered in Panama. Then, as the impact of Cuba's piratical act sank in. President Nixon personally intervened. As a sign of his concern, the President received Villa's wife at Key Biscayne and promised to do his best to secure the captain's immediate release. Later, the U.S. warned Cuba that it would take "all measures under international law" to protect American and other ships from further attacks...
Both sides were ready to engage in big-power politicking. A reluctant Japan was pressured into co-sponsoring the U.S. resolutions and joining the pro-Nationalist lobbying effort. Wavering countries, such as Panama, which is involved in delicate canal-treaty negotiations, were brought into line with sharp reminders of their client status. Washington stumbled badly, however, when it leaked word that Secretary of State William Rogers had been privately warning delegates that a defeat on the China vote might endanger the $200 million a year that Washington contributes to the U.N. Arm-twisting is part of the game...
...only 118 votes will be cast, making 60 enough for a majority. Thus the U.S. must win over three or four of about ten delegations that are thought to be "approachable" but currently inclined to abstain or vote for the Albanians. Among the possible swingers: Turkey, Greece, Iran, Israel, Panama and Mexico...
...Lamppost. The slight, urbane colonel, who comes from a family of landowners, trained at U.S. Army schools in Panama and the U.S. before serving as Bolivian military attaché in Washington, D.C. He has a reputation for being cool under fire. One day in 1966, when Banzer was Minister of Education in the late René Barrientos' government, an angry crowd of teachers demonstrated outside his office. "String up Banzer!" they shouted. Suddenly Banzer appeared in their midst. "I will be waiting near the lamppost to see who is the brave one who is going to hang...