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With the May 10 presidential elections in Panama drawing ever closer, the canal is the campaign's No. 1 issue. While President Roberto F. Chiari is constitutionally prohibited from running again, he does not dare take a soft line for fear of lessening his party's chances. Ambassador Moreno is an opposition candidate himself-and his fire-breathing OAS speech drew loud cheers back home that could not be ignored by the six other candidates. As one irate Latin American diplomat put it in Washington last week: "The Panamanians are running their campaign in the halls...
...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...
President Chiari has staked his cabinet, his party's chances in this spring's elections, and perhaps his own life on extracting from the United States a commitment to re-negotiate the resented treaty. School children scuffling scuffling a flagpole do not cause violent riots, 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...
...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...
...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...