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PANAMA PRESIDENT DENOUNCES PLAN TO DERAIL CANAL HANDOVER
(Shipping Times)
September 12, 1997
[PANAMA CITY]
President Ernesto Perez Balladares denounced what he called a plan to trip up the handover of the Panama Canal by the US in 2000.
"We must warn that there are foreign elements that want to frustrate the will of Panamanians to take on control (of the canal)," Mr Perez Balladares said in a radio address.
He did not say, however, who ...... Read more on Shipping Times
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