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...cited in Madrid, Jan, 17, 1970) Since it leaves the people "vulnerable to Castroite propaganda" (quote from ex-president Fuentes, Alerta, May 31, 1970, p. 3) education is not stressed. And as for how they eat, the director of U.N.'s INCAP Institute of Nutrition for Central America and Panama), his this to say. "The pre-Colombian Maya ate better than the people do today." ( El Imparcial, Jan. 6, 1964, cited in Thoma and Marjorie Mellville, "Guatemala: Analogue to Vietnam," New Politics, Winter, 1969, p. 18) Such U.N. studies have been described as "Communist documents" by Guatemala's ex-president...
...conservationist lawsuits attempting to block construction of nuclear plants in the U.S. Similar concern has also nearly turned under the AEC's Project Plowshare, which proposes to use nuclear devices for such peaceful purposes as excavating deep-sea harbors, unlocking mineral and gas deposits and digging a new Panama Canal. Seaborg has championed peaceful uses of the atom for more than two decades, but he is going to need all of his conciliatory skills if he is to prevail without dividing the scientific community still further. The new activists in the A.A.A.S. will severely test his celebrated sangfroid...
...years a special presidential commission studied possible routes for an Atlantic-Pacific waterway to replace the existing Panama Canal. A route along the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican border looked appealing; so did one through Colombia. Last week, however, the commission recommended a 36-mile sea-level canal across Panama, only ten miles west of the present one. It will be able to accommodate all 150,000-ton ships as well as the U.S. Navy's 60,000-ton Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers, which are too wide for the present canal. The new canal will also have the potential...
...five-man commission, headed by former Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson, rejected the routes outside Panama because their length and terrain would have required nuclear excavation. Scientists have not been able to conduct such explosions without unacceptably high radiation. Construction by conventional means will take 14 years...
...physical problems pale alongside the political ones, which have been festering since Panama's anti-American riots of 1964. While footing an estimated $2.9 billion construction bill, the U.S. will have to meet Panama's demands for a bigger say in operating the new waterway-and a bigger share of the revenues...