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...Canal v. Desert. Last week Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru flew into Karachi on his first visit in seven years. The occasion: the signing of an Indo-Pakistani water treaty largely engineered by World Bank President Eugene Black. Under the treaty, India will receive the full flow of her three rivers. Pakistan will keep the three others. So that the Pakistani areas downstream of India's rivers will not turn arid, an Indus Basin Development Fund will construct a massive system of connecting canals, bringing water for the northern rivers to fill the empty southern river beds. Six foreign...
...spectators watched and bands played, the Panamanian and U.S. flags rose last week for the first time, side by side, on newly set, identical poles over a Canal Zone plaza. Thus fulfilled was President Eisenhower's order to give evidence of Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the zone. Nationalist Rabble-Rouser Aquilino Boyd, who led last November's anti-American riots, expressed "jubilation...
...flag raising will not end all friction. Even at last week's ceremony, 30 Panamanian high school students waved signs and chanted: "Our aspirations have been mocked." Panama will certainly soon renew demands for a larger cut of canal revenues...
Some U.S. citizens, especially colonial-minded oldtime civilian employees of the Panama Canal Co., were as dissatisfied as the Panamanian demonstrators. "The sight of a representative of the U.S. handing our capitulation notice to another country made me want to puke," said one. Yet a quiet movement toward international friendship is afoot on the isthmus, and its patron is a powerful one: the commanding officer of the U.S. Army Caribbean, Major General Theodore F. Bogart, 55. Lanky General Bogart got to know and like Panama when he was stationed there as a lieutenant...
November is a touchy month for Panama's national sensibilities, because it has three blood-stirring anniversaries: independence from Colombia on the 3rd, the Canal Zone-establishing treaty with the U.S. on the 18th, liberation from Spain on the 28th. Last November Panamanian nationalists twice made bloody attempts to invade the Canal Zone and plant the Panamanian flag there. The following month President Eisenhower agreed that the flag should indeed fly as "visual evidence that Panama does have titular sovereignty" over the U.S.-occupied Zone, but the House of Representatives voted a resolution against letting the Panamanian flag...