Word: isthmian
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...international boundary line. With banana pickers, cops and Cabinet Ministers wandering freely around, the ceremonies were simple and unsecretive. Costa Rica offered Panama a written invitation, under informal discussion for the past few months, to join the Organization of Central American States, which already includes all the other isthmian countries between Mexico and South America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
Final Surprise. Nixon finished his isthmian tour by listening to a startling opinion and delivering two of his own. In Costa Rica and later in Panama...
...million in debt, Chichi promised a brisk, businesslike administration, fairer and more efficient tax collections, and a realistic budget that would permit Panama to live within its means. Most of those means are derived from the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal, which bisects his tiny (pop. 805,000) isthmian country; the new President said that cordial relations with the U.S. will be the keystone of his foreign policy, and pledged relentless opposition to Communist influences and propaganda...
...they must live and work in the debilitating tropics, U.S. civil servants in the Panama Canal Zone have long enjoyed certain privileges. Among them: 25% pay differential, income-tax exemption, commissary rights and "recuperative" vacations of two months a year. These features have combined to make life in the isthmian strip a kind of welfare-state Elysium. But last week Elysium looked a little more like the good old U.S.A. Before leaving for its recess, Congress had enacted a law decreeing that the Zone's Government employees, like federal workers elsewhere, must pay regular income taxes. Unkindest...
...elephants were at sea aboard the Isthmian Steamship Co.'s freighter Steel Fabricator, gifts of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to the Washington, D. C. zoo. Originally the gifts were scheduled to be flown to the U.S., but the airlines backed down when it turned out that one of the beasts weighed 1,030 Ibs., the other...