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...captured American Navy Flyer Lieut. Robert Goodman, critics accused Jackson of violating the Logan Act of 1799, which makes it a crime for any private citizen to try to influence a foreign government on issues involving a controversy with the U.S. Now, on his whirlwind six-day tour of Panama City, San Salvador, Havana and Managua, the self-assured Jackson had gratuitously injected himself into the flammable arena of Central American politics...
...outcome, however, hardly justified Jackson's risky odyssey. His blue, white and yellow chartered jet, carrying 63 reporters and cameramen and 27 Secret Service agents, flew into Panama City on Saturday, June 23. Jackson toured the Panama Canal and charged that its construction and the U.S. administration of the Canal Zone had brought "shame, hurt, pain, denial, disgrace and economic exploitation" to Panamanians. The U.S. role in Panama, said he, embodied "the worst dimension of American segregation and South African apartheid...
...there at the top where the air is thin, Rubén Blades would seem a rare, highflying creature. His songs have not only rhythms that insinuate but lyrics that can touch the conscience with humane political passion. He has been a lawyer for a bank in Panama, a mail boy working for a Latin record company in New York City and one of the main perpetrators, with Trombonist Willie Colon, of Siembra, estimated to be the bestselling salsa album in history. He currently writes short essays on art and politics for the newspaper La Estrella de Panamá; conducts...
...seems a shame, then, that Blades is going into Panama politics. He has a while yet to change his mind, which is good news for anyone who favors music with a hard edge and a hard swing. This fall Blades will move farther north, from his bachelor apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side to the cultivated wilds of Cambridge, Mass., where he will work for a master's degree in law at Harvard. "I am totally convinced that I am going to have a lot to do with the future of my country," he says...
Jackson seemed paradoxically uninterested in making a personal effort to change the rules. He indicated that he will carry on with his quixotic foreign policy ventures by leaving for Panama, Nicaragua and Cuba this Saturday, thus missing crucial meetings of the rules committee. Other black leaders will carry the case for strong platform planks on such issues as affirmative action in jobs and integration in public schools. "Jackson hasn't been talking about black issues," contends a black political scientist. "He's been talking about his issues...