Word: flags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flag-bedecked lower Broadway last week rode Sékou Touré, president of Africa's fledgling Republic of Guinea, to complete his two-week swing through the U.S. with a traditional Manhattan ticker-tape welcome. Convinced that the U.S. meant its best (TIME, Nov. 9), Touré showed no sign of offense at the fact that the red, yellow and green flags along the street were those of Africa's Ghana, not Touré's Guinea. (Embarrassed city officials explained that a flagmaker delivered the wrong flags...
Along Fourth of July Avenue, which forms the international boundary between Panama City and a residential area of the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, 2,000 demonstrators and students, angry at being turned back when they tried to plant Panamanian flags on zone soil, stoned zone policemen. Across the city, 150 taut-faced Panamanians advanced on the U.S. embassy, hauled down the U.S. flag, hoisted Panama's, ripped the flag to shreds. With bird guns, bayonets and bazookas, U.S. troops came to guard the boundary. They had pinked nine Panamanians with bayonets, wounded three with bullets, sprayed nine more with...
...giving to the U.S. "all the rights, power and authority within the zone . . . which the U.S. would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign . . . to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, powers or authority." Thus the U.S. flag flies over a strip of land that divides Panama-an emotional situation easily exploitable by politicians...
...that meant precisely, he never said, but he did not want the canal itself for Panama. Instead, he would settle for a fifty-fifty split of gross canal revenue (fiscal 1958: $83 million). Boyd touched off last week's violence by entering the Canal Zone with a Panamanian flag, a cluster of followers and photographers...
PANAMA, Nov. 3--American Army riflemen with bayonets bristling took command at the Panama Canal Zone border today after anti-U.S. Panamanians tore up an American Embassy flag, and fought for hours with U.S. canal police...