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Soon after canal negotiators reached agreement last week, Panama's strongman, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, lunched at his Pacific Coast hideaway known as Farallon (meaning "small rocky island in the sea ") with TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin. Following a meal of sancocho (Panama's national soup) and hot chili sauce, Torrijos offered the following comments...
...waiting until the year 2000 for canal control We have two ways to go: either the slow way, over a generation, or by liberation war, which would be quicker, with a high price in blood-the lives of 50,000 young Panamanians. We prefer the treaty. If the United States does not keep its treaty pledges during the time ahead, then there surely will be trouble. The treaty must be observed. We shall observe it, and we expect the U.S. to do the same...
...possibility of a new sea-level canal That's one of the hardest points to answer, for us to give the U.S. a concession to build another canal. For sure, there would be no colonial enclave to go with such a new canal. The treaty will say that we will discuss the possibility of a new sea-level canal if it is in the joint interest of the world community to build it. But my personal opinion is that a sea-level canal is not necessary. Such a canal would be excessively costly, and you can't build...
...Panamanian diplomat was said to be so upset when he learned of the original U.S. canal treaty that he punched his country's envoy to Washington, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, in the face. Secretary of State John Hay wrote to a U.S. Senator: "You and I know very well how many points there are in this treaty to which a Panamanian patriot could object...
...Panamanian Signed, Roosevelt's Administration received inside help from Envoy Bunau-Varilla, who was not a Panamanian but a Frenchman. Bunau-Varilla, it turned out, was less interested in the well-being of the newborn country than in the realization of his years-old dream: completion of the canal...