Word: canalizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lyndon started things with a real blast. In a chilling rain at Palatka, he touched off a 150-lb. dynamite charge to break ground for the 107-mile, $158 million Cross-Florida Barge Canal. Afterward, he stopped off in Palm Beach for a 20-minute visit with Joseph P. Kennedy, ailing father of the late President. Then he headed for Miami Beach...
After eight days on the scene in Panama, a five-nation OAS investigation team (Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay) flew back to Washington last week, unwilling to side either with Panama or the U.S. on the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots. Officially the investigators kept a diplomatic silence pending a formal report to the OAS Council. Unofficially they said they found no real proof of U.S. charges that Castroites had instigated the first riots - though pictures of later fighting did show Communist troublemakers in the forefront. The diplomats also concluded that U.S. troops along the Canal Zone border were...
...bring the two nations back to the conference table. The U.S. repeatedly assured Panama of its willingness to discuss all grievances once diplomatic relations were resumed. But the Panamanians, if anything, were becoming even more rigid in their demands for an advance U.S. commitment to renegotiate the 1903 canal treaty. The continuing deadlock had many Latin American diplomats worried. Warned an OAS ambassador: "The Panamanian economy is stagnating, the people are restive and unpredictable- and the government is keeping the blame...
Under consideration are several more expensive ways out, including a 65-mile canal to divert Wellton-Mohawk's salty waters to the Gulf of California...
Precisely what remains hidden today, however, is what we should expect de Gaulle's visit next month to unearth. The General is hoping that Latin uneasiness with U.S. pressures on Panama after the Canal Zone riots and South American distaste at Johnson's "over-reaction" to minor provocation at Guantanamo will push many of the southern continent's leaders toward the French camp...