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...crew got together a couple of years ago to outfit a boat which one of them had bought, and bow-man David Higgins '69 is still on his 96-foot schooner, sailing somewhere off the coast of Puerto Rico. "My wife and I plan to sail through the Panama Canal, across the South Pacific to Australia, and eventually around the world," Higgings reported last week over a static-filled ship-to-shore radio frequency...
...Norman Panama...
Part of the play's problem is that Authors Norman Panama and Jerome Chodorov cannot make up their own minds. The identity of the killer has been changed three times, requiring extensive rewriting and relearning of lines. Beyond that, Colbert is supposed to be crippled and must navigate the stage in an electric wheelchair; but the obstreperous machine just won't work right. "I'm black-and-blue from that damned thing," she complains...
...says Lieut. General Wallace H. Nutting, commander in chief of the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command, in reference to beleaguered El Salvador. Nutting has reason for his surprisingly frank-and gloomy- assessment. Yet another offensive by an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 leftist guerrillas has been under way in the Central American republic for several weeks. The insurgents are more than holding their own: they are inflicting heavy casualties on El Salvador's undertrained 10,000-man army and simultaneously dealing painful blows to the nation's economy. In the process, they are forcing U.S. military instructors...
...cartel. In the Dominican Republic, Venezuelan money is helping to finance the construction of a $64 million hydroelectric project, housing, and a $2.3 million alcohol distillery. The tiny island state of St. Lucia (pop. 120,000) has opened a $400,000 asphalt plant, courtesy of Caracas. In Panama, officials are planning to erect a $100 million bridge to span the canal-with Venezuelan backing. An estimated $100 million in Venezuelan money has flowed into embattled El Salvador to prop up the civilian-military government headed by Christian Democratic President José Napoleón Duarte, who spent seven years...