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...Vesco first set out to cement his control by buying out Cornfeld, who had been deposed as chairman but still held a large block of IOS stock. In early 1971, Vesco secretly bought the block for $5.5 million-$3,500,000 more than the market price-through a dummy Panamanian corporation called Linkink. Later, Vesco had International Controls buy Linkink. The SEC complaint states that Vesco chose this circuitous route because he wanted to hide his operations as thoroughly as possible. If the charge is true, Vesco bought Cornfeld's stock at an inflated price by using stock...
...months' surveillance. Angeletti, who was nude in bed when agents kicked in the door, surrendered and was extradited to France. Sarti shot it out and was killed. In his possession were ten stolen passports from four countries, which enabled him to pose at will as a Uruguayan diplomat, a Panamanian student or an Italian businessman...
...Gonzales, a baseball addict, drove into the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone to see a local game, and the feds pounced. Flown to the U.S. and tried in Dallas, Him is serving a five-year rap for narcotics conspiracy in a Texas jail. Washington has ignored the protests of Panamanian Strongman Omar Torrijos and his brother Mois?...
...radio of the Johnny Express fell silent. In a flagrant breach of freedom of the seas, the Cubans rammed and boarded the freighter, then towed it to a port on Cuba's north coast. The Coast Guard helicopter never arrived. Partly because the ship was sailing under the Panamanian flag and partly because the incident took place outside U.S. territorial waters, the Coast Guard delayed its response to the call for more than an hour...
During a weekend jaunt to Mexico City for the annual running of the "Caribbean Classic," Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos, ran into a stretch of bad luck. First, the general, who seized power in a coup 14 months ago, lost a bundle on a Panamanian nag that had the nerve to finish fifth in a field of twelve. Then, back in Panama City, a couple of colonels tried to make it a daily double by turning him out of office in a countercoup. The result, within 48 fast-moving hours, was a counter-countercoup, something that not even...