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...swept presidential suite of Panama City's Holiday Inn, overlooking a bay speckled with shrimp boats, the mood was clearly jubilant. Chief Panamanian Negotiator Romulo Escobar Bethancourt jumped to his feet and reached across the table to grasp the outstretched hands of U.S. Negotiators Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz. With a smile that seemed as broad as the canal over which they had been arguing for many months, Escobar proclaimed: "This is good. Here are the people...
...Said Escobar: "Getting control of the Canal Zone and the canal is one of Panama's oldest national desires. To generation after generation of Panamanians, the canal has symbolized the country's national patrimony?in the hands of foreigners. We developed a kind of national religion over the canal." Linowitz told TIME, "In the world as a whole, Panama is regarded as a colonial enclave. The treaty sets off a whole new relationship between the U.S. and Latin America. We can prove how a great nation can deal magnanimously with a small nation at a time when Third World...
...American negotiators-voluble, persuasive Lawyer Sol Linowitz, 63, former Ambassador to the Organization of American States, and icy-calm Ellsworth Bunker, at 83 a veteran of crises from the Dominican Republic to Viet Nam-admit they are temporarily stymied on the question of money...
...brother of Sol Linowitz, a former chairman of Xerox Corp. and now chief U.S. negotiator for a new Panama Canal treaty...
...agenda of the National Security Council, although in the presidential campaign he had pledged "never to give up complete control or practical control" of the waterway. Vance subsequently held a wellpublicized, two-hour meeting with then Panamanian Foreign Minister Aquilino Boyd. To give the talks a boost, Sol Linowitz, 53, the skilled former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, was added to the American negotiating team. The aim was to make him head of the effort, but he insisted on deferring to Veteran Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, 82, who views the treaty as the culmination of a career...