He established the first sugar mill in the Republic of Panama.

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Such self restraint would bar interventions like those in Grenada and Panama, unless the United States first gained the explicit consent of the international community acting through the Security Council or a regional organization.

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And Panama, as you all know, is the first frontier in Central America to the drug-producing countries.

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"You have to put the issue in front of the American people and get them to look at it honestly, " she told TIME last week in a late-night interview at her hotel suite in Panama City, Panama, where she spoke at a conference of First Ladies of the Americas.

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Though he has recently shown renewed interest in free-trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea, only the first seems likely to be ready for a Senate vote this year.

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