Word: panama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Fulbright said that our size makes it silly to treat our dispute with Panama with courage and resolve and that we should go further than halfway in settlement. Size is not relevant. We have nothing to be ashamed of. The end result of negotiating with Panama will be the gift of the U.S.'s canal...
...Senator Fulbright said that our size makes it silly to treat our dispute with Panama with courage and resolve and that we should go further than halfway in settlement. Size is not relevant. We have nothing to be ashamed of. The end result of negotiating with Panama will be the gift of the U.S.'s canal...
...PANAMA. Three months after the Canal Zone riots, the U.S. and Panama ended their silly semantic squabble and agreed "to seek prompt elimination of the causes of conflict between the two countries without limitations or preconditions of any kind." Diplomatic relations were restored, and Johnson immediately named fellow Texan Robert B. Anderson, who was Dwight Eisenhower's second Secretary of the Treasury, as special U.S. emissary to work out "a just and fair agreement." As the new Ambassador to Panama, he named Latin American Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn, an ex-boxer and Marine captain. Said Johnson: "This...
...Distasteful Conclusions." Getting down to cases, Fulbright said that it was' "silly" for the U.S. to treat its dispute with tiny Panama as "a test of our courage and resolve." He suggested that the U.S. might be generous enough "to go a little farther than halfway in the search for a fair settlement...
...from the OAS Council did it decide to try, try again. At week's end, Johnson sent a mollifying statement to the OAS reiterating his determination to accept "any solution that is fair." If nothing comes of the gesture, the U.S. seems quite willing to wait until after Panama's May 10 elections, when passions and politics in the isthmus republic should be less heated...