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...Races. Jowly President Remón was his tiny (pop. 800,000) country's No. 1 horse lover; only a state crisis could keep him from his Sunday afternoon in the presidential box at the finish line of Panama City's suburban Juan Franco race track. If the Remón stables had a winner, Chichi usually called for a mild celebration (his favorite drink: champagne on the rocks). So when his Valley Star copped the tenth race last week, the President and his guests stayed on in the emptying clubhouse...
...German-made Schmeisser burp-guns cradled in their arms, and crawled behind a hedge that ran only 20 feet from where the President sat. At 7:20 a string of firecrackers exploded somewhere in the neighborhood. "They are celebrating a birthday over there," a member of the Remón party remarked. Two minutes later bursts of machine-gun fire sprayed the box. Two men died instantly; Remón's heavy frame slumped to the floor, blood darkening his pleated white sport shirt. "That was no firecracker," he gasped...
From safety in outer darkness, the gunmen kept Remón's bodyguards pinned down for several minutes, then made their getaway in the Dodge. At Santo Tomas hospital doctors gave the President five transfusions−but it was likely that the bullet which pierced his aorta killed Remón even before he reached the operating table. Next day a throng of 40,000 followed his bier, borne on a firetruck to Panama City's old downtown cemetery...
...Work. In office, Chichi Remón had paid up the government's bills, enforced income-tax collections, outlawed the Communist Party, negotiated a favorable overhaul of treaty relations with the U.S. over the great canal that bisects Panama. Who wanted to assassinate him? If the Communists had engineered it, the job must have been carefully organized from outside; Panama's local Reds were not up to such a slick, professional gang-style killing...
Secret Police detectives immediately arrested ex-President Arnulfo Arias, a spellbinding surgeon with a sizable personal following. He and Remón were old political enemies. In 1949 Police Chief Remón put Arnulfo into the presidency in the hope that his popularity would bring stability-and threw him out when Arnulfo tried to extend the term illegally. But there was no public evidence to tie either Arnulfo or the Reds to the killing, and there was no move to seize power...