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While I by no means condone the actions of the Panamanians, I must confess to a wry amusement that the U.S. tenure of the Panama Canal Zone is being challenged by the locals [Dec. 7]. The Egyptians, on doing the same not long since, were stoutly supported by the albeit unseen Sixth Fleet. Should the U.K. and France not rush to the aid of the oppressed Panamanians, if only to let John Doe know how it feels...
...heaven now and don't know about it? Jamambi, jamambi, jamambi, jamac." After that, the plot thins, but it is the flavor that matters. On the floor, walls, ceiling are "toothbrush cockroaches, coffee cockroaches, peanut butter cockroaches," and "the Empire State has fallen into the Gowanus Canal...
...eyes glinting hatred, a young Panamanian pointed a finger at the U.S. soldier in front of him on the border between the Canal Zone and Panama City. "I am going to kill that one," he shouted. "That one right there." Bombarded with hate-U.S. propaganda from radio stations and newspapers for three weeks since their last flag-planting invasion of the Canal Zone, students and slum dwellers were lusting for violence. Despite last-minute attempts by the wealthy clique that runs the country to turn off the hatred, the rioters' target was again the U.S. and its canal...
...occasion was the 138th anniversary of Panama's independence from Spain, and cooler heads tried to confine it to a university-sponsored sovereignty rally in a plaza eight blocks from the Canal Zone. But even before the first moderate speaker could finish, 200 well-organized rioters took over. They drowned out the speaker with screams of "Viva Russia!" "Viva Fidel Castro!" and "To the Zone!", charged out of the square. Outflanking Panamanian National Guardsmen, they rushed across Fourth of July Avenue (the zone border) and rammed a flagstaff into soft Canal Zone earth. "All right, now," said...
...greater hatred for the U.S. after the Nov. 3 riots. Easily swaying the ignorant, ragged masses of the lower classes, the "oligarchy" (in the Panamanian expression) set out to force concessions from the U.S., chiefly greater purchases of zone supplies from Panamanian merchants, a bigger rental for the Canal Zone...