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...policy for Latin America, which the U.S. Government has initiated with the shooting of defenseless Panamanians during the struggle of flag raising in the Canal Zone, can be entitled "how to make enemies and lose friends." Insecurity, arrogance, selfishness and cynicism were demonstrated by the "Zonians" in their violent action. Instead of leaving the decisions to teenagers, the Canal Zone authorities should have taken the necessary steps to execute the agreement between U.S. and Panamanian governments in relation to flag raising in the Canal Zone territory of the Republic of Panama. It is inconceivable that the greatest nation on earth...
...With the evidence of the Balboa (Panama Canal Zone) High School flag "razing," I wonder how anyone in the U.S. can now seriously favor giving 18-year-olds the vote...
From the balcony of his presidential palace, Panama's Roberto F. Chiari addressed a milling crowd of 3,000 demonstrators. There will be no diplomatic relations with the U.S., he cried, until the Americans promise to negotiate a new Panama Canal treaty. "I will not deviate one instant from that position." In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk assured U.S. Senators that there would be no negotiations with Panama ''under pressure or threat of violence." Through the tense and confused week, neither side budged; an OAS mediation team could do little more than keep an uneasy peace...
...Americans abroad lead a more comfortable life, or are more self-consciously American, or engender more bitterness in their host nation than the colony of 36,000 U.S. citizens who live and work in the 553-sq.-mi. Canal Zone. Ten thousand U.S. servicemen are stationed at seven Army bases, two airfields and a naval base. Four thousand civilians work for the U.S. Government and its Panama Canal Co., tending the locks, running the railroad and providing the many services needed by a community that includes 20,000 dependents. Military personnel come and go. But the civilians are permanent fixtures...
Even when the two researchers were found safe, their return was delayed by the cancellation of all flights from the Canal Zone to the U.S. They arrived in New York Monday by ship...