Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggested that Brigadier General Omar Torrijos might simply have been trying to walk on water. At least Panama's strongman added some excitement to ceremonies marking the partial completion of a dam and hydroelectric plant on the Bayano River last week. Shortly after pushing a button to drop the last of four gates damming the current, Torrijos, 46, suddenly plunged into the river-fully clothed in his national guard uniform, with military boots and a .45 automatic. He was immediately followed by a few loyal military aides, then by Panama's civilian Vice President, Gerardo Gonz...
...Charlie's got a lot of guts out there," says referee John Hannon of his fellow official and sometime partner Charles H. Diehl, who is acknowledged by his whistle-toting peers as the premier ECAC strongman...
...longer negotiations continue between U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Ellsworth Bunker and Panamanian Strongman Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, the more obstacles seem to crop up. A conservative bloc led by South-Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond flatly opposes surrender of U.S. sovereignty over the canal; 34 votes in the Senate are enough to defeat a treaty embodying the terms of the Bunker negotiations, and at the moment Thurmond's bloc appears to have them. Thurmond is vocally supported on the scene by Zonians-especially the 4,500 U.S. civilians who operate the canal; some of their families have...
...West Germany, officials waited anxiously to see if the Church subcommittee will, as rumored, release documents this week indicating that Franz Josef Strauss and the Christian Social Union got Lockheed money. Strauss, the longtime right-wing strongman and leader of Bavaria's C.S.U., has been identified by Ernest F. Hauser, a former Lockheed European sales manager, as a receiver of Lockheed largesse; Strauss is suing Hauser for libel. When Strauss was Defense Minister in 1958, West Germany decided to order Starfighters?grimly known as "widow makers" in Germany because 178 of them have crashed...
...years, Zaire Strongman Mobutu Sese Seko championed the third liberation movement involved in the civil war-the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), headed by his friend Holden Roberto. Zaire poured in money and arms to the F.N.L.A. in its struggle against the Portuguese in Angola without receiving any benefit in return. But the F.N.L.A. has been roundly beaten, and Mobutu is having a change of heart. Last week, Mobutu announced that mercenaries headed for the F.N.L.A.-UNITA front would no longer be able to pass through Zaire...