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...services as mediators. So did the ambassadors of Costa Rica and Panama. They quickly reported back with the guerrillas' demands: 1) the release of 59 political prisoners; 2) $10 million; 3) repeated broadcasts over government radio of an almost two-hour-long Sandinista communiqué; and 4) Venezuelan, Mexican or Panamanian planes to escort them from the country...
When the tourists arrive, head the other way. That is the motto of British Author Graham Greene, who flees his home in Antibes, France, each summer for less crowded haunts. On his third trip to Panama, a favorite spot, Greene visited Panamanian Chief of State Omar Torrijos. "I have not even concluded whether I have done good or bad," Torrijos told his guest. "It's like going to the gas station. You pay and the pump returns to zero. Every time I awake I am back to zero...
Immediately after the address, the President flew to Panama City to exchange the instruments of ratification of the Panama Canal treaties with General Torrijos. The city was tense and under tight security as Carter arrived. Sentiment against the treaties among anti-Torrijos Panamanians had been increased early in the week by the dramatic return from exile in Miami of former Panamanian President Arnulfo Arias, a fervid opponent of the pacts. Two nights before Carter's arrival, students who opposed the treaties had fought for several hours with treaty supporters at the University of Panama. Two people were killed...
...more substantive division arose. Half a dozen Democratic Senators-notably Edward Kennedy, George McGovern and Patrick Moynihan-agreed with Panama's protest against a reservation added to the first treaty by Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini, which seemed to imply that the U.S. was free to intervene militarily in Panamanian affairs whenever it chose. They warned that they would vote against the treaty unless a "noninterventionist" clarification was added. But DeConcini and several allies were just as insistent that his reservation not be repudiated...
...Senate for acceptance of the treaties. The role of Rogers meshed with the needs of the prime treaty strategists in the Senate, including Democratic Leader Robert Byrd, Republican Leader Howard Baker, Democratic Whip Alan Cranston and the treaty floor manager, Frank Church, who wanted firsthand information on Panamanian feelings...