Word: chiari
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediate appeal for order by President Roberto F. Chiari, 58, Panama's usually sensible businessman-President, might have helped the situation. But Panama's national election is May 10, and though Chiari cannot run again, anything temperate regarding the Canal would ruin his party's chances. In his presidential palace, Chiari fired off angry cables. He charged the U.S. with "unprovoked armed attack." In a wire to the Organization of American States, he announced that he was breaking diplomatic relations with the U.S., demanded an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, where Panama's representative...
...ordered all secret papers burned. He then sent a seven-man mission, headed by Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, and Cyrus Vance, the new Deputy Secretary of Defense, racing down to Panama by jet. Finally, he put in a personal call to President Chiari, urging calm and arguing that "there had to be a stop to the violence" before any canal dispute could be discussed...
...last, Chiari took to the radio pleading for order and telling Panamanians not to listen "to demagogic incitement by certain agitators." He contacted General O'Meara, asking him to suspend the U.S. anti-sniper fire, promising that Panamanian troops would deal with the snipers. Three U.S. G.I.s had already been killed, 85 wounded; the Panamanians claimed about 300 casualties, including 20 dead-and blamed the U.S. for them...
...Just Indemnification." When the U.S. mission headed by Tom Mann arrived in Panama, along with an O.A.S. mediation commission, Chiari was demanding "just indemnification" for damages and assurances that the U.S. "will never again unloose similar actions of aggression against a weak and innocent people." He denounced the 1903 treaty and all subsequent pacts under which the U.S. has "perpetual" rights to the Canal Zone. Nothing less than "complete revision" of the entire operation would lead Panama to resume diplomatic relations...
...then, the U.S. has offered higher wages for Panamanian workers and half a dozen other concessions-along with twin flags as evidence of Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the Zone. But that satisfied neither Panama nor oldline U.S. residents, who feared that it would undercut their privileged position. Chiari has not yet spelled out his precise demands. But he surely will ask for greater control over the Zone and a vastly increased share of the revenues-he once mentioned $10 million a year...