Word: canalizes
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...weeks, a hapless OAS committee had tried to mediate the squabble between Panama and the U.S. But both sides were adamant. Panama refused to resume diplomatic relations until the U.S. promised to renegotiate the 61-year-old canal treaty; the U.S. would not consider renegotiations until relations were restored. Then, early last week, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
...Mann and Miguel J. Moreno Jr., Panamanian ambassador to the OAS, finally agreed to accept the committee's delicately worded formula for restoring relations. Next day, however, President Johnson abruptly rejected the agreement, leaving the U.S.-Panamanian impasse exactly where it was eleven weeks ago, after the bloody Canal Zone riots...
...shot. The U.S. command pilot wings on his right chest deflected the bullet, and Barrientos was not seriously wounded. Instead, the assassination attempt made him a hero. Sniffing the wind, Paz persuaded Fortún to resign from the ticket. When Barrientos returns soon to La Paz from a Canal Zone hospital, it will be as the M.N.R.'s vice-presidential nominee...
...construction and operation of the new Canal were directed by the OAS, the waterway would serve as more than a boon to shipping and a means of ending the persistent hassles caused by the Panama Canal. The United States would have to bear most of the costs, and would deserve most of the revenues. Provisions for military security might be hard to arrange, but would also be much less critical than they are at the Panama Canal, where a few sticks of dynamite could knock a lock out of operation for months...
...United States would sacrifice very little, economically or militarily, by making a sea-level canal an OAS project. The OAS would gain new authority and prestige. And a United States proposal for an OAS canal would help repair the damage done by last week's indications from Washington that democracy in this hemisphere is negotiable, while a sixty-year-old treaty...