Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fuel for their case," than Mississippi's Senator James Eastland arrived for more of the same. At week's end, some 2,000 American Zonians, mainly employees of the Panama Canal Company and members of their families, staged an anti-treaty rally in Balboa Stadium, but Strongman Omar Torrijos Herrera had robbed them of much of their thunder at a meeting of Panama's toothless legislature earlier in the day. Torrijos praised Carter and exhorted voters to turn out in the national plebiscite on the canal agreements...
Jerry Hannifin, who flew to Panama for an interview with Strongman Omar Torrijos Herrera, is also an old hemisphere hand. Says he of the canal: "In its time, it was the engineering equivalent of the U.S. landing men on the moon...
...Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos Herrera, had predicted that satisfying all parties would be about as difficult as pleasing the "princess who had big feet and asked a shoemaker to find her a shoe small on the outside and large inside." But the negotiators kept hammering away until the shoe seemed to fit. The treaty will be formally signed later this month or in early September. Torrijos has invited all Latin American heads of state, as well as President Carter, to Panama City for the event, and Carter has indicated that he is willing to go. After the signing...
Soon after canal negotiators reached agreement last week, Panama's strongman, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, lunched at his Pacific Coast hideaway known as Farallon (meaning "small rocky island in the sea ") with TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin. Following a meal of sancocho (Panama's national soup) and hot chili sauce, Torrijos offered the following comments...
Publicly, Egypt insisted that its bitter four-day mini-war with Libya (TIME, Aug. 1) had been no more than a minor border skirmish. A series of frontier infiltrations and espionage attempts had forced Cairo to teach Libya's erratic strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, a lesson in good manners. Rather like a stern uncle rebuking a wayward nephew, President Anwar Sadat described Gaddafi as "a second Napoleon" and "just a child"-inspiring Tripoli spokesmen to dismiss the Egyptian President as "a Zionist tool...