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...competent administrators-most of them nonpolitical, all antiCommunist. None was more surprising than Robles' young chief tax collector, Rodrigo Núñez, 28, a University of Chicago Ph.D. in economics who started work two months ago with a novel approach: he intends to collect the taxes that Panamanians have never paid. Núñez has started auditing the books of the country's 30 biggest companies, has instituted 138 lawsuits in Panama City alone. "Most un-Panamanian, un-Latin and unbelievable," gasped one critic...
...wake of the Canal Zone riots last January, Panama accused the U.S. of violating the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This violation, Panama charged, was committed by the U.S. Army when it fired "on the defenseless Panamanian population" and denied Panamanians "the right of freedom of peaceful assembly and association." The Panamanian government asked the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, an unofficial but highly respected group of international lawyers, to investigate the case...
...committee found that the flag-raising march on Balboa High School by some 200 Panamanian students "appears to have been very carefully prepared and not a spontaneous movement," that Panama's President Roberto F. Chiari may well have known about it in advance and that, in any event, the Panamanian government did absolutely nothing to stop the subsequent rioting. For four days, from Jan. 9 to 13, said the committee, Panama's peace-keeping National Guard was curiously disarmed and "purposely kept away" from the trouble spots. Said the committee: "There was no evidence before us that...
Four weeks ago, Aquilino Boyd, Panama's fire-breathing Ambassador to the U.N. who doubles as a federal Deputy, shot and wounded a newspaper editor in revenge for an uncomplimentary story about his re-election attempt. Last week another prominent Panamanian was involved in a shooting vendetta-on the receiving end. Lying in a Panama City hospital with severe bullet wounds was Roberto ("Tito") Arias, 45, moneyed husband of British Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, nephew of just-defeated presidential candidate Arnulfo Arias, and proud possessor of a long and varied career in his own right...
...stage surrounded on two sides by water and backed by a thunderous Nagare wall. They smash one another over the head with wooden poles, shouting noises of guttural rage, bobbing, feinting, taking clever steps backward and occasionally falling by accident into the water. You can try on a Panamanian straw hat, test a Nicaraguan wooden spear, and talk to a stranger in California while you stare into his eyes on television-telephone. Alaskan Chilkat Indians will tell you how to make totem poles: start by floating the log in a lake until it steadies, then split off the upper third...