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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...
Praising President Johnson's action in the crisis, Figueres said that the situation was in the "good hands" of assistant secretary of state Thomas Mann and Panamanian president Roberto Chiari. Whom he called a "serene and responsible...
...Second Canal. During his talks with Kennedy, Chiari repeated his theme that "Panama will always insist it has sovereignty over all of our territory, and this is something we shall never surrender." But as an accomplished bargainer who knows more or less what to expect before he sits down, he was prepared...
Returning home after a visit to New York where he was welcomed in a blizzard of ticker tape ("What a wonderful, remarkable thing"), Chiari could report good news on a project that would mean much more to Panama than any haggling over current fees and tolls. When the present canal reaches its capacity sometime between 1980 and the year 2000, the U.S. intends to build another one, and it will probably be in Panama. Of all possible new routes (see map), the two most favored are in eastern Panama above the Colombian border. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, which...