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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...
...seemed an everyday thing to do. But in the Canal Zone, what flag to fly where is a passionate issue-and a symbol of a bitter dispute between the U.S. and the tiny Republic of Panama. So high is the feeling between Panamanians and the Zone's 36,000 U.S. residents that Canal Zone Governor Major General Robert J. Fleming Jr. decided to fly both Panamanian and U.S. flags at 17 carefully selected locations. Elsewhere-including the schools -no flags at all would...
...away, another well-coordinated riot erupted. Along the border, Zone police tried to disperse the crowds with tear gas, fired in the air, at last lowered their aim. General Andrew P. O'Meara, 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...
...last, Chiari took to the radio pleading for order and telling Panamanians not to listen "to demagogic incitement by certain agitators." He contacted General O'Meara, asking him to suspend the U.S. anti-sniper fire, promising that Panamanian troops would deal with the snipers. Three U.S. G.I.s had already been killed, 85 wounded; the Panamanians claimed about 300 casualties, including 20 dead-and blamed the U.S. for them...
Praising President Johnson's action in the crisis, Figueres said that the situation was in the "good hands" of assistant secretary of state Thomas Mann and Panamanian president Roberto Chiari. Whom he called a "serene and responsible...