Word: tocumen
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...much of the week, government workers had been scrubbing anti-U.S. slogans (samples: CARTER GO HOME! and PANAMA SI! CARTER NO!) from walls. But by the time that Air Force One landed at Tocumen International Airport, Torrijos' troops had chased the antitreaty students into hiding, and the government had brought thousands of supporters into Panama City, including peasants from rural provinces and Indians from the San Blas Islands. Several hundred schoolchildren, wearing yellow and brown uniforms, roared, "Viva Jimmy! Viva Omar!"as Carter embraced Torrijos on a flower-strewn red carpet. Later Carter told the crowd...
...took it to the company's receivers. They in turn took the idea to New Jersey Superior Court Judge Irwin Kimmelman, who was overseeing efforts to liquidate Fairfield General. After a few discreet phone calls located the plane at Panama City's Tocumen International Airport, the judge authorized Fairfield General to advance Eisenhauer $17,500 on his claim. The pilot then headed for Panama with two colleagues...
...Tocumen, Eisenhauer finagled his way into a meeting with Panama's director of civil aviation, who turned out to be another ex-fighter pilot. Eisenhauer convinced his new-found friend that he did indeed represent the plane's owners and had come to take the plane to the U.S. for maintenance...
...style numbered bank accounts. The fact that Panama has 33 major international banks, up from only six in 1963, indicates that those accounts are in heavy demand. Until recently, as many as 20 aircraft a month would arrive in the U.S. from various South American countries via Panama's Tocumen International Airport, where they had been cleared through without any inspection. One of the cleared planes, tracked by U.S. agents to one of the 83 small airstrips that dot southern Florida, was found to have 94 Ibs. of heroin aboard...
What could the U.S. narcs do about it? Plenty, as it turned out. One evening in February 1971, the acting Tocumen transit chief, Joaquin Him Gonzales, a baseball addict, drove into the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone to see a local game, and the feds pounced. Flown to the U.S. and tried in Dallas, Him is serving a five-year rap for narcotics conspiracy in a Texas jail. Washington has ignored the protests of Panamanian Strongman Omar Torrijos and his brother Mois?...