Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When President Johnson announced last December that the U.S. would dig a new sea-level canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific, the obvious location seemed to be Panama, probably 125 miles southeast of the old canal...
Last week a U.S. delegation led by Assistant Secretary of State Thomas C. Mann returned from preliminary talks with the Panamanians, and the report was discouraging. As one U.S. spokesman put it: "Our Government will never build the new canal where it would mean 50 more years of conflict...
...came boiling down Panama City's Avenida Central last week, howling anti-Yanqui slogans on its way to the U.S. Canal Zone. It was the anniversary of the violent riots that killed 21 Panamanians and four U.S. soldiers in January 1964. But this time 100 troopers of Panama's tough Guardia Nacional stood near the zone border. When the riot-minded students and professional leftists came into range, the guardsmen laid down a tear-gas barrage, then expertly dispersed the crowd. Within 45 minutes it was all over, and Panama had passed a milestone of sorts...
Justice, but Quietly. Mindful that Washington was hardly likely to build a new sea-level canal in Panama if further riots erupted, President Robles took the play into his own hands as the January anniversary approached. After long sessions with his advisers and Guardia Colonel Bolívar Vallarino, he paid solemn homage to the "heroic sacrifice" of the 21 Panamanian "martyrs" (while neglecting to mention that at least nine were killed accidentally by other Panamanians), publicly promised a completely new treaty to replace the hated 1903 pact that gives the U.S. sovereign ty over the Canal Zone. He allowed...
...lump sum of $3,000,000, a 1914 treaty granted the U.S. perpetual, exclusive rights to build a canal through Nicaragua...