Word: chiari
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Panamanian and U.S. flags should be flown in the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone. But the dispute goes much deeper than that, stems from burgeoning Panamanian nationalism and long-held resentment about the 1903 treaty that gave the U.S. rights "in perpetuity" over the canal. Panama's President Roberto Chiari insists now that the U.S. must promise to renegotiate the treaty. Tom Mann, who rushed to Panama himself right after the riots, along with then-Army Secretary Cyrus Vance, says the U.S. will be happy to discuss the situation, but that it will accept no "preconditions" to the meeting-such...
From the balcony of his presidential palace, Panama's Roberto F. Chiari addressed a milling crowd of 3,000 demonstrators. There will be no diplomatic relations with the U.S., he cried, until the Americans promise to negotiate a new Panama Canal treaty. "I will not deviate one instant from that position." In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk assured U.S. Senators that there would be no negotiations with Panama ''under pressure or threat of violence." Through the tense and confused week, neither side budged; an OAS mediation team could do little more than keep an uneasy peace...
...sounded like an encouraging agreement. Under the arrangement, Panama would resume diplomatic relations with the U.S. "as quickly as possible," then within 30 days both countries would sit down to review "all existing matters" of conflict. But not long after the communique was broadcast, everything came unstuck. Claiming victory, Chiari announced that the U.S. was committed to renegotiate the original 1903 treaty. The U.S. vehemently denied this, held that the agreement was for "discussions" only, with nothing promised in advance...
...Washington, there was dismay-and growing anger. President Johnson refused to back down. Annoyed U.S. officials raised the possibility that Chiari might not have intended to let the crisis simmer down, that the so-called "agreement" was merely a maneuver to put the U.S. in a bad light and bolster the Chiari party's chances in the May 10 elections...