Panama S High Profile Proconsul
After four decades in the Foreign Service, Hinton is America’s closest approximation to the Roman Empire’s troubleshooting proconsuls. The 67-year-old envoy served in Chile during the Allende regime. He was ambassador to Zaire. (President Mobutu Sese Seko declared him persona non “rata for an alleged assassination plot. “Total nonsense,” Hinton once said. “If I’d been out to get him, he’d have been dead.”) He headed the El Salvador mission in 1981-83 and served in Pakistan at the height of support for the Afghan rebels....