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...committee found that the flag-raising march on Balboa High School by some 200 Panamanian students "appears to have been very carefully prepared and not a spontaneous movement," that Panama's President Roberto F. Chiari may well have known about it in advance and that, in any event, the Panamanian government did absolutely nothing to stop the subsequent rioting. For four days, from Jan. 9 to 13, said the committee, Panama's peace-keeping National Guard was curiously disarmed and "purposely kept away" from the trouble spots. Said the committee: "There was no evidence before us that...
Long, Hot Wait. As for the U.S., American students at Balboa acted badly, and Canal Zone police were less than gentle with the crowds in the early stages. Nevertheless, U.S. G.I.s withstood heavy gunfire along the border of Panama City for one hour before firing back, first with shotguns, then with rifles. In Cristobal, at the other end of the canal, U.S. troops were under fire for nearly two days before retaliating-with shotguns only. "By then, three U.S. soldiers had been killed and twelve had been wounded...
Hanson was 24 and an ex-shortstop for the Los Angeles Angels when he decided he was in the wrong game, and with 500 borrowed dollars he set up shop designing peasant skirts, blouses and slacks in Balboa, Calif. He could not afford newspaper ads, so his salesgirls modeled the pants in -he store windows. It was unique promotion, and it caught on. The second store, in Beverly Hills, was an instant smash, brought big money and the big time. Jack married his favorite salesgirl, Sally (size 8), and settled down to count his blessings...
...recalls Author James Baldwin, "I began to be bugged by the teaching of American history, because it seemed that that history had been taught without cognizance of my presence." Baldwin's figurative forebears go back at least to 1513, when 30 Negroes sailed to the New World with Balboa. Yet the most widely used eighth-grade history text in the country today mentions only two Negroes by name as having lived since the Civil War, brushes off the Emancipation Proclamation in two sentences. Belatedly, educators are coming to see that it is high time to desegregate the teaching...
...professor explained that he was able to observe much of the rioting from his hotel, which overlooked Panama City. However, when aniper fire became too intense, he and the other occupants of the hotel were evacuated to Balboa...