Word: panama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elso S. Barghoorn professor of Botany and curator of Palcobotany Collections, was left stranded in Panama by last week's crisis in the Canal Zone. As of last night none of Barghoorn's colleagues in the Biological Laboratories knew of his whereabouts...
Barghoorn left Cambridge for Panama on Dec. 11 with Dorothy Osgood, his assistant, Alan K. Graham, a research fellow in Biology, and Graham's wife. The group intended to college rock core samples which had been taken from Lake Gatun by the Panama Canal Company as part of a geological study. Barghoorn hoped to recover fossil pollens from the rock samples...
...American-controlled Panama Canal Zone is "another Alabama where white Americans discriminate against everyone but white Americans," charged Jose Figueres; visiting professor of Government, last night...
This "colonial mentality" is not shared by the American Canal Zone authorities, However, added the former president of Costa Rica. That country borders Panama on the north...
Figueres dismissed the claim that the current agitation was due to the influence of Fidel Castro and said that there had been anti-American feeling in Panama fifty years before Castro. Such friction resulted from the identification of American interests with the Panamaian ruling class, he said, but the situation had been improved under the Alliance for Progress...