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This week Jack Hood Vaughn, 44, current U.S. Ambassador to Panama, moves into the heavyweight class as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, succeeding Thomas C. Mann. As such, he will coordinate and direct all Alianza aid programs in Latin America, oversee the State Department's Latin American section, and generally act as President Johnson's top policymaker, adviser and troubleshooter for that area. The assignment promises to be quite a workout, but Vaughn seems in shape...
...defense, went on to win the state Golden Gloves title as a 124-lb. feather weight (and have his nose broken three times, his jaw once). Picking up his master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1947, he spent ten years in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Panama as a United States Information Service officer and as a coordinator of U.S. aid projects. In 1961 he went to Washington as director of the Peace Corps' sprawling Latin American operation. President Johnson soon tagged him as a comer, and last year, after the bloody Canal Zone riots, picked...
...large, an amorphous position that the White House defined as "handling specific high-level assignments in the department and abroad." To take Mann's place at State, but not as a White House assistant, Johnson picked Jack Hood Vaughn, 44, who is currently the U.S. Ambassador to Panama and has spent most of the last 16 years in Latin American jobs...
...Juliet. The love story backstage was more poignant than Shakespeare's tale. In the wings, from his stretcher, Fonteyn's husband, Panamanian Politician Roberto Arias, 46, watched, still paralyzed from the chest down by the bullets pumped into his spine by a frustrated office seeker in Panama last June...
...anxious to get on with the project. The old canal will be swamped by traffic within 35 years, and a new route must be chosen soon. Out side of Panama, there are two possible routes under consideration: one through Costa Rica and Nicaragua; the other through Colombia. In the preliminary talks, the top men in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, as well as Colombia's Guillermo Leon Valencia, were anxious to negotiate. The U.S. is not presenting Panama with any ultimatums, but it hopes that the country will soon decide where its true interests...