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...former First Lady says she urged her husband to postpone the Panama Canal treaties and some of the Middle East decisions until his second term. And she argued that he should delay announcing federal budget cuts that would affect New York City until after the 1980 New York primary. "My pleas always fell on deaf ears," she recalls. But through dogged persistence, she occasionally managed to get her way. "I wanted Jimmy to fire [Health, Education and Welfare Secretary] Joe Califano long before he ever did," she writes. "I felt Jimmy could find someone who would do the job just...
...campaign of military pressure on Nicaragua continued to expand last week, and so did its potential for controversy. At week's end a contingent of U.S. combat troops returned to Panama from a one-day battle exercise in Honduras, foreshadowing much larger displays of American strength that are soon to begin along Nicaragua's northern border. As part of a coordinated offensive, some 6,000 CIA-backed contras were marching from their Honduran base camps into the Nicaraguan interior. Simultaneously a 200-man contra column moved from the south to occupy a strategic hamlet on Nicaragua...
...provoking resentment in an unlikely constituency: the U.S. Army. More than 2,500 regular U.S. military personnel are now stationed in Honduras, most of them preparing the groundwork for a new U.S.-Honduran military exercise, known as Granadero I. As a preliminary to that exercise, 120 members of the Panama-based 193rd U.S. Infantry Brigade last week conducted a daylong maneuver alongside 170 Honduran troops, near the sensitive El Aguacate military base. The American soldiers involved with Granadero I are beginning to complain that CIA personnel have, in the words of one U.S. Army officer, "the run of the country...
...been a Communist state for twenty-five years. American children still aren't taught in Russian. Jebsen says El Salvador is of strategic importance, but this simply isn't the case. El Salvador itself is of no military importance; it is only important because of its proximity to the Panama Canal. Thus Jebsen argues the domino theory. But El Salvador only borders Guatemala and Honduras, two countries that already have unstable dictatorships...
...there is another tour, too extensive to be just a farewell tour, where the golfers are recognizable at a distance by a loop in a swing, a Hit in a walk, a Panama hat. They are misnamed "seniors." As the minimum age is 50, not 65, "champions" would be better. From a two-tournament, $250,000 reunion in 1980, a 27-stop, $5.8 million phenomenon has come about. For men who once shared cars and pulled trailers, rich memories are suddenly negotiable. Don January, 54, a slim Texan whose long lines are all connected at right angles, remembers when, "after...