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Perhaps President Johnson is not determined to end the Canal controversy. His offer Saturday to "review" rather than "discuss" the all issues with Panama neither moderates nor clarifies the Administration's stance and does not satisfy Panama's insistence that the United States agree to "negotiate." Panama may, for some reason, accept the President's latest gambit and agree to resume diplomatic relations and begin the "review." If Panama refuses, however, the dispute will probably stalemate, since Johnson seems unwilling to concede anything more...
...unresolved quarrel over the Canal would have badly embarrassed and encumbered President Kennedy's Latin American policies, but President Johnson may have decided that the domestic political damage from concessions to Panama would outweigh the benefits for his Latin American policies. The "tough" and "pragmatic" approach, revealed last week in Johnson's speech to the OAS and in Assistant Secretary Thomas G. Mann's reported remarks to the assembled U.S. ambassadors, does not depend upon popular approval in Latin America. Neither does it attract popular approval, which the U.S. must have to champion democratic revolution as an alternative to Castro...
Coupling the Panama Canal dispute with the construction of a new Canal would offer both sides an escape from the current impasse; it could also reduce the unfortunate effects of Johnson's Latin American policies, and bolster the Organization of American States, which has suffered seriously from its unsuccessful attempts to mediate the controversy...
Lockless, Sea-Level Canal...
...lockless, sea-level canal, blasted by buried atomic devices, may be feasible. It certainly is desirable for commercial and military reasons. Neither the larger merchant and passenger ships, nor the U.S. Navy's nuclear carriers will fit through the Panama Canal. Washington could offer to relinquish its sovereignty over the Canal Zone at the completion of a new canal or to renegotiate the 1903 Panama Canal Treaty, should a new canal not be operating within some agreed number of years--perhaps ten. This formula would permit Panama to say that it had won either renogotiation or the Canal itself...