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Last week Panama's President Roberto Chiari, 57, a businessman with a knack for negotiating, flew into Washington to discuss the issue with President Kennedy...
After a 21-gun salute at the airport, Chiari told Kennedy: "I believe that frankness is the only way two friendly nations can attempt to solve their problems." Friendliness he found-and frankness too. Kennedy offered to settle many of those grievances that do not affect U.S. sovereignty: more employment and higher wages for Panamanians in the Canal Zone, the right to have the Panamanian flag flown next to the U.S. flag everywhere in the Canal Zone, a U.S.-enforced system to withhold the income taxes of Panamanian and non-U.S. workers in the Canal Zone. But the concessions...
Expand & Improve. The Panamanians want a substantial increase in tolls. Arguing that the charges (about $4,700 per ship on the average) are out of line with modern shipping costs, Chiari would like the U.S. to raise tolls and give Panama 20% of total revenues. The U.S. spends all of the $5,000,000 annual profit on canal expansion and improvement...
...Chiari also wanted, but did not get, an increase in the $1,930,000-a-year fee the U.S. pays for the Canal Zone. The U.S. maintains that while it may be paying a low annuity, Panama benefits in other ways. Canal Zone employees and various U.S. agencies spent well over $70 million in Panama last year, $10 million more than Panama's national budget. The figure will probably rise this year. Under Panamanian pressure, Canal Zone commissaries, which have supplied most foodstuffs needed by local residents, may soon cut back...
...basic idea, maladapted from Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol, was far from flat. The Gay Life hints at what it might have been, a reverse My Fair Lady. Where Henry Higgins is a confirmed bachelor, Anatol von Huber (Walter Chiari) is a confirmed boulevardier. It is hard to get either hero to the altar, but for opposing reasons: Higgins rejects women, Anatol collects them. My Fair Lady turns a guttersnippet into a duchess; The Gay Life turns a wealthy, well-bred girl (Barbara Cook) into a beddable wench who will fight like a fishwife for her male. Unfortunately...