Word: rem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday afternoon, with dusk coming on, Panama's mild-mannered President Daniel Chanis screwed up his courage to summon Colonel Jos´ ("Chichi") Remón, chief of national police, for a painful interview. The press had been pounding hard with charges of police grafting in the control of slaughterhouse and bus-line operations. After the latest blast in the Panama American, Chanis had made his decision: Remón must...
Just how ailing, uncertain President Chanis expected to bring the trick off was something of a mystery. Remón, the strong man and orderkeeper for every Panama administration since 1946, was in effect chief of staff of the nation's only armed force, the highly trained 2,000-man police corps. He and a staff of fanatically loyal aides had absolute control of the modern police headquarters, a combination fortress, arsenal, barracks, radio communications center and model jail (known locally as the Hotel Remón). By contrast, the only force directly at the President's disposal...
Lucky Day. Possibly Chanis felt lucky: he had already prepared to celebrate his 58th birthday at the palace on Sunday. Possibly he counted on the fact that Remón, too, has been seriously ill with liver trouble in recent months. For a little while it seemed that his plan might go off without a hitch. Remón arrived at the palace, and was confronted with a demand for his resignation along with that of his two chief subordinates. The chubby, softspoken chief refused, was placed under arrest...
...Josef Scharl's simple, powerful Gethsemane. A head-on study of the Agony in the Garden, it had the human impact and the somber, Protestant force (but not the masterful painting) of a Christ by Rem brandt...