Word: panama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panama City...
...South America, with increasing hatred of the U.S., though alarming, are to be expected. We did not invoke the Monroe Doctrine when Russia started arming Cuba. This, followed by the Bay of Pigs, has established an enemy armed camp in our midst. If we give up control of the Panama Canal, we will lose prestige, endanger our country, and alienate all of our friends to the south of us. Let's not have to bow our heads in shame because of another "Bay of Pigs." Russia, the greatest hater in the world, is on the march. The Panama Canal...
...Panama has been the Latin American crisis spot so far in 1964. Diplomatic relations with the U.S. were broken after riots ostensibly caused by a dispute over how Panamanian and U.S. flags should be flown in the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone. But the dispute goes much deeper than that, stems from burgeoning Panamanian nationalism and long-held resentment about the 1903 treaty that gave the U.S. rights "in perpetuity" over the canal. Panama's President Roberto Chiari insists now that the U.S. must promise to renegotiate the treaty. Tom Mann, who rushed to Panama himself right after the riots...
...trouble in Panama has repercussions that echo all the way to the Livermore, Calif., laboratories of Project Ploughshare, where the AEC is investigating the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Ploughshare scientists are bringing their calculations to a high polish, for if a new Isthmian canal is to be dug, nuclear explosives may be used. And Ploughshare men are sure that they can blast a wide sea-level canal in a couple of years at a fraction of the cost of conventional digging...
...cost of nuclear digging. If employed on a very large scale, atoms are the world's cheapest workers, and they are getting cheaper year by year. Dr. Gerald W. Johnson, scientific director of Ploughshare, believes that a sea-level canal at the Sasardi-Morti route in eastern Panama could be completed, ready for use, for $500 million, using only 170 megatons of explosive. This is hardly more than the present Panama Canal cost when it was completed 50 years...