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...Jimmy Carter sold the handover treaty to Congress, there was much whining about turning the canal into little more than an expensive toll road. The latest version of this anxiety adds a national security tweak: fear of China. In 1997, the Panamanian government finalized a rich deal with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., based in Hong Kong, to run two ports near the entrances to the canal. American-owned Bechtel lost out to Hutchison under a less than transparent bidding process...
...former Canal Zone, meanwhile, another diplomatic tiff concerned Panama's decision to award a contract to run the ports of Cristobal and Balboa to Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. in a deal that Ambassdor Hughes said was unfair to American bidders. And in a confused transaction that gives potential investors little confidence, the government leased land to Hutchison that was also needed by the Panama Railroad and the local airport authority. The resulting legal mess was only recently resolved...
Died. Chen Yi, 71, Chinese Foreign Minister since 1958 and longtime intimate of Mao Tse-tung; of intestinal cancer; in Peking. Like Chiang Kaishek. Chen honed his formidable military talents at Canton's Whampoa Military Academy. He then joined Chiang's famed 1926 Northern Expedition to defeat the warlords and reunify China. After the split between the Kuomintang and the Communists the following year, Chen excelled as Mao's kuai-tsu-shou (hatchet man). He led Mao's rear guard during the Long March, and commanded the New Fourth Army in its fight against the Japanese...
Born in Hupei province, Lin has the middle-class background common to many Chinese Communist leaders. The son of a small textile-mill operator, he received a fair elementary education and, choosing a military career, enrolled at Canton's Whampoa Military Academy-where his headmaster was an officer named Chiang Kaishek. His rise was swift; he took command of an army corps at 22. Lin was a leader of the Long March of 1934-35, in which the Communist army escaped destruction in southern China at the hands of Chiang Kais-hek's Kuomintang forces by fighting...
...Whampoa, he changed his name from Yu-Yung (Fostering Demeanor) to Piao (Tiger Cat). With that, he sprang into the field, and by the late 1920s, he was a regimental commander for the puritanical Communist General Chu Teh, whose political officer was a plump, moonfaced youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order...