Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PANAMA, all efforts to find a com promise on the revision of the 1903 Canal Treaty failed. On a wave of bombast, Panama sailed into an emergency meeting of the OAS Council, charging the U.S. with "unprovoked attack...
...rioting and killing are over temporarily, at least, and the United States still stands astride the Panama Canal like a colossus, but the Panamanians have refused to peep about below in search of dishonorable graves. Unless a last-minute agreement intervenes, the Organization of American States will meet this afternoon to consider Panama's charge of armed agression by the United States on January...
...agreement will require a compromise between the Panamanian demand for renegotiation of the 1903 canal treaty and the United States' offer to "review and reconsider" all points of controversy. It may be true that the United States has already compromised more from its original position than Panama has, but this should not mean that the additional concessions necessary must come from Panama. President Johnson can grant further concessions more easily than Panama's President Chiari can, and Johnson also has a greater need to end the public controversy quickly...
...suspension of diplomatic relations, and risks of political suicide. The current dispute has been festering almost from the time that this country prodded inhabitants of the Isthmus into breaking away from Colombia and then presented the weak, young government with a treaty exchanging American protection and money for a canal zone in which America could act as if sovereign...
...keep an OAS debate and vote from reopening all issues and settling none of them, the United States might offer to negotiate some of the more onerous clauses and consequences of the treaty; the status of the Zonians, American citizens who have colonized the Canal Zone; rent and revenues; flag flying; and the provision which grants Canal Zone rights to the United States "in perpetuity." Without an agreement on renegotiation, the 1903 treaty and the 1964 crisis will remain sources of further crisis, a grim warning to any Central American nation the United States might approach about...