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Fewer Strings. The Israeli penetration of Africa is primarily economic, but it has political overtones too: in busily cultivating the new African nations, Israel naturally hopes for their support in the U.N. against Arab boycotts of Israeli products and Nasser's denial of the Suez Canal to Israeli cargoes...
Panama's Foreign Minister Miguel Moreno stood on the banks of Egypt's Suez Canal one day last week and gazed with admiration so undisguised that it was almost a declaration of policy. Later, before a formal call on Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Moreno put his thoughts into words: "The ties between Panama and the United Arab Republic are ancient. You have the Suez Canal, and we have the Panama Canal.'' In Panama City, visitors to the Cuban embassy could pick up a copy of the slick magazine, INRA, and read the same thought...
Before dawn one day last week, a company of Panamanian soldiers hopped into landing craft and hit the beach on the Pacific coast of the U.S. Canal Zone. Just after sunup, a company of Brazilian paratroopers tumbled out of U.S. Air Force turboprop transports over the zone after a 500-mile flight from Bogotá, Colombia. Next came 1,175 men of the crack U.S. 82nd Airborne and a planeload of Colombian soldiers. Chilean and Peruvian F-80 jets joined U.S. F-100 Super Sabres to provide air support. For the first time, in "Exercise Banyan Tree II," Latin nations...
Designed to test the concept of a "remote" defense of the Canal Zone, under which outside troops are rushed in to counter surprise attack, the maneuver showed that Latin America has used its $493 million in U.S. military aid since 1950 to train and equip at least the beginnings of a tough, expert force that can move fast. The performance of the Latin soldiers and flyers was uniformly good, and the Brazilians were so impressive that 82nd Airborne officers talked of picking up some of their techniques. This week, the U.S. will top off Operation Banyan with "Operation Big Slam...
When Panama's Constitution Day fell on the final day of pre-Lenten Carnival last week, U.S. Canal Zone authorities braced for another invasion by Panamanians determined to plant their flag on zone soil. Then the Canal Company's public information officer, William Griffin Arey Jr., had an inspiration. For $14.85 he bought 60 tiny U.S. and Panamanian flags to decorate lamp posts on the zone side of the border. Next day Panama's surprised Foreign Ministry viewed "with much pleasure what has happened." Even Panama's rabble-rousing politicos were dazzled. "An intelligent and conciliatory...