Word: panamanians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Once the treaty is approved by both countries, the venerable Panama Canal Company will be replaced by a board of directors consisting of five Americans and four Panamanians. The Panamanian members will be proposed by their own country but appointed by the U.S. Until 1990 the canal administrator will be an American and his deputy a Panamanian; after that year, the positions will be reversed. Increasing numbers of Panamanians (who now make up approximately 75% of the 13,000-member canal work force) will be brought into all phases of the operation...
...number of the Latin American governments most openly in favor of turning the zone over to Panama have quietly urged the U.S. to insist on this guarantee. Otherwise, ask representatives from such heavy canal users as Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Peru, how could they be certain that some future Panamanian ruler might not shut off the canal to their ships in a totally unforeseeable squabble? Largely because of this agreement, General George Brown, Chairman .of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says he is "satisfied" with the negotiations so far and supports rapid conclusion of both treaties...
...staffers, a middle-aged English secretary and a young college graduate. At first, most investors continued to do well, and some have volunteered to testify on her behalf. But later others failed to receive their anticipated returns. Last year Adela began offering shares in a Panamanian company called Dinars Interna tional Inc. Variations of her name began to appear on her letters-Adela LaFora. Maria LaFora, Maria Holzer, Adela Sanchez Duchin...
When backers complained about delays in payments. Adela gave excuses about how banks had lost her deposits, how Indonesia had frozen her assets, or how the C.P.A. in Djakarta had died, fouling up her accounting system. But then some began checking her stories. Her Panamanian company bore a confusing relationship to her similarly named Indonesian firm. A Swedish firm with which she said she was working real estate deals in Spain was not listed in any Swedish corporate directory...