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They have taken down the 9-ft-high chain-link fence between Panama City's Legislative Palace and the adjacent Canal Zone-a fence that Panamanian newspapers like to compare to the Berlin Wall. In the palace itself they have built a false floor and then erected an exact replica of the U.N. Security Council conference table in New York. The only difference is that the legs are wooden instead of steel. "We don't have any steel industry here," explained the Panamanian official in charge of the affair...
...meeting almost certainly will be used to air a variety of Latin American grievances, such as Argentina's demand for the Falkland Islands and Guatemala's demand for British Honduras. But the noisiest grievances will presumably come from the host. Panamanian Strongman Omar Torrijos calls the Canal Zone "a tumor that must go through the operating room...
Indeed, after nine years of negotiations, the U.S. and Panama are still as far apart in their views on a new Canal treaty as they were at the time of the bloody anti-American riots of 1964. Torrijos is demanding a treaty that grants full and immediate jurisdiction over the Canal Zone; the U.S. proposes to grant partial or gradual jurisdiction over a period of 35 years. Panama wants the U.S. Southern Command (eleven bases, 12,000 troops) dismantled, claiming that the U.S. has no treaty right to station armed forces in the Canal Zone in peacetime. Actually, the original...
Panama is also seeking increased traffic payments in proportion to all the economic benefits that the U.S. and other nations derive from the Canal's geographic location (a saving of $8.5 billion projected for this decade, according to a recent U.N. study). Washington has agreed to increase the current $1.8 million annual payment (a bargain negotiated in 1914) to about $25 million a year. Panama rejected this offer...
...plane crossed the Suez Canal and was over Sinai before the captain sighted what he thought were Egyptian MIGs flying wingtip to wingtip with him. Actually, the planes were Israeli Phantoms alerted by radar. The Israelis were more sensitive than usual to any invasion of their air space that day, for two reasons. One was an odd rumor that Arab fedayeen were planning some sort of kamikaze raid on Israel using a disguised civilian airliner. The other was a more substantial report that a commando of trained Al-Fatah guerrillas was flying from Libya to Cairo en route to camps...