Word: nationalizes
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...canal as a humiliating relic of the colonial era. It also assured continued U.S. control over a long transitional period; there is to be no radical, overnight shift of authority. Said Escobar: "Getting control of the Canal Zone and the canal is one of Panama's oldest national desires. To generation after generation of Panamanians, the canal has symbolized the country's national patrimony?in the hands of foreigners. We developed a kind of national religion over the canal." Linowitz told TIME, "In the world as a whole, Panama is regarded as a colonial enclave. The treaty sets...
...reasons for the intense commitment of many Americans to the canal may be more implied than stated. It remains a point of pride in a period of national disillusionment and setbacks. It also recalls a bygone era when a more confident U.S. could act with a free hand in Latin America. Says David McCullough, author of The Path Between the Seas, a history of the canal: "It is the physical expression of a boundless confidence, one which believed tomorrow will be better. If an archaeologist were to come across only the locks and the cuts in that jungle, his conclusion...
...innumerable technological fronts?last week's space shuttle test, for one example?it does not really have to prove its mettle by maintaining "in perpetuity" an achievement of the steam age. Moreover, in adjusting to a changing situation and sharing its accomplishments with the rest of the world, the nation demonstrates skills and ingenuity of a different but no less vital sort. In that sense, the Panama Canal will always be American...
...wrote Hay. Earlier that summer the New York lawyer for the French company, William Cromwell, left a meeting in Washington with the President to issue a press release stating that the province of Panama might secede from Colombia, in which case the U.S. would recognize Panama as an independent nation and conclude a treaty with the new state. This scheme seemed to violate an 1846 U.S. agreement to guarantee the sovereignty of Colombia in the isthmus. Violation or not, the plot was shortly put into effect...
...since John F. Kennedy launched the Alliance for Progress in 1961 had Latin Americans seen anything quite like the attention they were getting from Washington last week. Even as representatives of the U.S. and Panama were striking an agreement for a new Canal treaty (see THE NATION), the Carter Administration was busy trying to patch up frayed relations and win new friends elsewhere south of the border...