Word: panama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stars and Stripes were unfurled at Balboa (see map). Before long, a crowd of 150 Panamanian high school students appeared carrying Panama's national emblem. At that point, say U.S. officials, "there was no more trouble than you'd expect at a Yale-Princeton football game." The students were told to go home and headed peacefully back across the line. But there a mob was ready and waiting -older men, this time, including Castroites and ultranationalists, and armed with guns and Molotov cocktails. A cry went up that the Panamanian flag had been trampled by Americans...
...commander of the U.S. Southern Command, sent Army troops to the border. Snipers from the Panamanian side started picking off the G.I.s. Six soldiers near the Tivoli Guest House were seriously wounded before U.S. sharpshooters silenced the snipers. At no time, said the Army, did U.S. troops move into Panama territory...
...immediate appeal for order by President Roberto F. Chiari, 58, Panama's usually sensible businessman-President, might have helped the situation. But Panama's national election is May 10, and though Chiari cannot run again, anything temperate regarding the Canal would ruin his party's chances. In his presidential palace, Chiari fired off angry cables. He charged the U.S. with "unprovoked armed attack." In a wire to the Organization of American States, he announced that he was breaking diplomatic relations with the U.S., demanded an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, where Panama's representative...
...efforts on their behalf. Washington had not yet bothered to replace him. Now, at the White House, President Johnson called an emergency early morning conference of top State Department, defense and intelligence advisers. While it was going on, a frantic telephone call from the U.S. charge in Panama informed him that the embassy might be overrun; Johnson personally ordered all secret papers burned. He then sent a seven-man mission, headed by Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, and Cyrus Vance, the new Deputy Secretary of Defense, racing down to Panama by jet. Finally...
...Just Indemnification." When the U.S. mission headed by Tom Mann arrived in Panama, along with an O.A.S. mediation commission, Chiari was demanding "just indemnification" for damages and assurances that the U.S. "will never again unloose similar actions of aggression against a weak and innocent people." He denounced the 1903 treaty and all subsequent pacts under which the U.S. has "perpetual" rights to the Canal Zone. Nothing less than "complete revision" of the entire operation would lead Panama to resume diplomatic relations...