Word: canals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...security. Since the October war in 1973, Jerusalem has spent $60 million fortifying nature's own impressive defenses, honeycombing the black granite with miniforts and electronic gear that can detect MIG planes preparing to take off from Egyptian fields on the other side of the Suez Canal...
...CANAL COMMUTE. The open aqueducts and flood-control canals that snake to and through many cities might be used for commuter boats. Said Le-Roy Louchart of Fair Oaks, Calif.: "I know I for one would enjoy a cruise to the office in the morning...
Panama's reason for wanting the canal and the zone is not hard to understand. The zone is a lush green enclave of middle-class prosperity surrounded by teeming poverty. Within it are seven golf courses, riding clubs, movie theaters, yacht clubs and tennis courts. Zonians buy their food and household goods at commissaries, where prices are often lower than in the U.S. Fresh oysters and other Stateside delicacies are flown into the area's genteel clubs and restaurants. It is a world of Southern comfort, and Southern mores. The chief beneficiary of all this...
...zone operates its own courts, hospital, schools and even postal service, but few of the 15,000 Panamanians who work there share in the luxury. They remain largely an underclass; of 214 Canal pilots, for example, only two are Panamanian, the rest U.S. citizens. Outside the zone, per capita income averages about $1,000 annually, dropping to $123 for the lowest fifth of the population. Inside the zone, it approximates the U.S. middle class norm. Until recently, even the zone's water fountains were segregated-some for Zonians only, others for the Panamanians...
Many Zonians seem resigned to the likelihood of bloodshed. A few have left; but most are digging in. They avoid nearby Panama City. "Even little children in some parts of the city throw stones at us when they see our Canal Zone license plates," says one Zonian housewife. "One day it could be grenades." Like the Roosevelt-minded lobby in Congress, the Zonians' stated reluctance to give up the Canal has an anachronistic-but ominous-ring...