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...OPEC ministers met in the atmosphere of an armed camp. Fearful of another foray by Carlos, the Venezuelan-born terrorist who two years ago led the kidnaping of the same oil ministers in Vienna, the Venezuelan government set armored personnel carriers to guard roads leading to the conference, while soldiers toting Uzi machine guns patrolled the black sandy beaches. Even aging patrol boats were brought out to cruise the warm Caribbean waters in case Carlos tried an amphibious assault...
...present anomaly remains: a small but proud nation cut in half by a huge waterway under the control of a foreign power. The arrangement may once have been economically justified, even a historical necessity, but it is a current indignity for Panamanians. As Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez told Carter: "The Panamanians feel exactly about the Canal Zone as North Americans would feel if the British owned the Mississippi River." In fact, Americans had much the same attitude as contemporary Panamanians when the Spanish and French (not the British) controlled the Mississippi...
...which were later blown up in the Jordanian desert. Haddad also planned the 1975 terrorist raid on OPEC headquarters in Vienna, which forced the oil-producing states to pay $25 million to ransom their ministers. The commander of that attack was Haddad's sometime deputy, the notorious Venezuelan known as Carlos (real name: Ilyich Ramírez-Sánchez). Carlos has served as the liaison man between terrorist groups in Europe and the Middle East...
...objecting to," he says, "is that someone picked a mandatory point. Age isn't a very good criterion." After reading the story, one of his former bosses offered him what might have seemed like a dream deal: a four-month consultancy at the company's Venezuelan plant. But the months were May through August, and Kuechenmeister discovered he no longer wanted a job that would deprive him of "the most beautiful time of the year in Michigan...
...happens to have made a fortune in the perfume industry, dropped out of civilization, and live on a tiny deserted island. Add a wealthy New York wife who keeps track of her husband via a Miss Mark--a photo-snapping snoop in tourist a clothing. Mix in the usual Venezuelan traffic jams and customs officials. Spice it up with a few out-of-the-ordinary difficulties--such as transporting a red gas stove across an ocean on a tiny boat--and the recipe sounds complete. But not quite...