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¶In PANAMA, all efforts to find a com promise on the revision of the 1903 Canal Treaty failed. On a wave of bombast, Panama sailed into an emergency meeting of the OAS Council, charging the U.S. with "unprovoked attack."
The Americas, as represented by the assembled OAS ambassadors, greeted the outburst in uncomfortable silence.
Bending not at all, Panama replied that the U.S. must commit itself in advance to a revised treaty, and broke off all mediation talks. Before the OAS Council in Washington, Panama's Ambassador Miguel Moreno Jr. formally accused the U.S. of "unprovoked armed attacks." He then demanded that the...
Though many Latin American diplomats sympathize with Panama's desire for a new canal treaty, the prospect of a drawn-out OAS squabble dismays them. A U.S. official called the aggression charge "preposterous," and Panama has virtually no chance of getting the two-thirds vote necessary for any OAS...
With the May 10 presidential elections in Panama drawing ever closer, the canal is the campaign's No. 1 issue. While President Roberto F. Chiari is constitutionally prohibited from running again, he does not dare take a soft line for fear of lessening his party's chances. Ambassador...