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During a subsequent hour-long private chat between the two Presidents, their differences over Central America remained muted. Alfonsin repeated his belief in the need for a peaceful solution in the region, along the lines suggested by the so-called Contadora group of Latin American countries--Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela--that is sponsoring regional peace talks. He did not challenge Reagan's description of the U.S.-supported contra rebels, who are warring against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, as "freedom fighters." According to U.S. officials, Alfonsin told Reagan that when pondering the Central American crisis, he took into consideration "data...
...educational leaders take on the role of guest journalists, interviewing key personalities in nations that are in the news. A Newstour in 1978 covered 8,000 miles in the Middle East and Africa; three years later the destinations were Eastern Europe and the Middle East; in 1983, Mexico and Panama. TIME has also reversed the process: in May 1981 the magazine arranged for 22 leading European and South African businessmen to meet U.S. policymakers in Washington. Last week, in a similar exercise, TIME invited the chief executives of some of Canada's largest corporations and financial institutions...
...realized that the motive of legislation like the Sedition Act was to silence the critics of those in power, and trusted that in time truth would conquer error. Occasionally, Government tested the principle anew. When the New York World and Indianapolis News alleged corruption in the development of the Panama Canal in 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered his Attorney General to sue. The courts quashed both cases before they could come to trial...
More worrisome for U.S. agents, Panama's role as a middleman has changed to that of a leading player in the drug scene. Last May, in Panama's Darien rain forest, authorities came upon an elaborate cocaine laboratory, almost identical to the complexes across the Colombian border. Some of the 22 Colombians arrested at the site claimed that they had earned the right to process cocaine by paying off a leading Panamanian official. The Colombians were sent home without being charged with a crime...
...arrested, accused of allowing the Colombians to transport the ether through the country in exchange for a $2 million bribe. Melo was never prosecuted, however, and many Panamanians assumed that he was merely a symbolic victim sacrificed to appease / Washington. "It stretches the imagination," said a Western diplomat in Panama, "to think that nobody but Melo could have been aware of the dealings...