Word: panama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night at 8:45 in the Leverett House Old Library. Visiting Professor of Government Jose Figures will be the moderator. Facio is ambassador from Costa Rica to the O.A.S. and to the U.S. Tejera was a member of the O.A.S. peace commission which attempted to settle the current U.S.-Panama dispute...
Elso S. Barghoorn, the Botany professor who dropped out of sight during Panama's anti-American rioting has returned to Cambridge, his co-workers reported yesterday...
Barghoorn, who is curator of the University's Paleobotanical Collection, was in Panama to collect rock-core samples when violence broke out over a flag-raising incident...
...willing to negotiate, but how far it would go on the treaties was open to question. Panama owes its existence as a nation (before 1903 it was a part of Colombia) to Teddy Roosevelt's diplomacy and determination to build the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific. But the present canal is rapidly growing obsolete. The U.S. no longer considers it vital to defense in these days of missiles and two-ocean navies, is seriously considering a second canal to handle growing commercial traffic. Yet 5,600,000 tons of shipping still pass through the old locks each month...
Twice in 1959, fierce riots broke out over Panama's demands for greater benefits. Since then, the U.S. has offered higher wages for Panamanian workers and half a dozen other concessions-along with twin flags as evidence of Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the Zone. But that satisfied neither Panama nor oldline U.S. residents, who feared that it would undercut their privileged position. Chiari has not yet spelled out his precise demands. But he surely will ask for greater control over the Zone and a vastly increased share of the revenues-he once mentioned $10 million a year...