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...Panamanian leaders standing so inflexibly against the U.S. are not the usual run of Latin American leftists and rabid ultranationalists. President Roberto F. Chiari, his most influential ministers and all major candidates in the May 10 presidential elections are members of a deeply entrenched elite that has ruled Panama since it proclaimed independence from Colombia in 1903. They are wealthy, well educated, antiCommunist, vigorously competing among themselves for power-and finding the widely resented canal treaty an ideal target to call attention away from their own position...
...Canal Zone.) Chiari's father was one of the leaders in Panama's fight for independence from Colombia, soon after built up a fortune in cattle and sugar. When the family fell on hard times during the Depression '30s, Roberto worked on a Panama Canal ferry. But shrewd real estate deals and other investments have rebuilt the family fortune, until today the Chiaris are millionaires many times over...
...election. The second Arias group owes its prominence to the late Harmodio Arias, a poor country boy who built a successful law firm, expanded into cattle, shrimp fishing and publishing (four newspapers), then became President (1932-36). His son Gilberto, twice served as Finance Minister; Son Roberto, was Panama's Ambassador to Britain (1955-58), but is better known for other excursions. In 1959, with his wife, British Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, he was accused of smuggling arms aboard his yacht in a musical-comedy invasion of Panama from Cuba...
...know? Simple. Bruno has a sidekick during two frantic days, a callow, sallow law student named Roberto, so shy he won't call for help when accidentally locked in a public bathroom. The Playboy asks the Law student, "Why not throw yourself into life," and the Law Student cleverly counters, "I worry where I'm going to fall." The Playboy mutters to us all, "You're right, I'm the fool." Clunk...
With the May 10 presidential elections in Panama drawing ever closer, the canal is the campaign's No. 1 issue. While President Roberto F. Chiari is constitutionally prohibited from running again, he does not dare take a soft line for fear of lessening his party's chances. Ambassador Moreno is an opposition candidate himself-and his fire-breathing OAS speech drew loud cheers back home that could not be ignored by the six other candidates. As one irate Latin American diplomat put it in Washington last week: "The Panamanians are running their campaign in the halls...