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Murkier Waters. Though Johnson likes domestic politics best, there were times during the year when he found himself totally immersed in the less familiar and murkier waters of foreign policy. Less than two months after he took over, he had to cope with rioting in Panama over U.S. management of the Canal Zone, and in the weeks
...sites -all of them publicly discussed on earlier occasions-for a sea-level canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific without need of locks. One is a 95-mile route in northwest Colombia, another a 168-mile route slicing through Costa Rica and Nicaragua: the remaining two are in Panama itself-one running 60 miles through the southern Darien wilderness and the other, the present 51-mile waterway, which would need considerable widening and deepening to eliminate the locks. Johnson gave no hint as to which route the U.S. preferred, saying only, "I have asked the Secretary of State...
...underway. If possible, the U.S. would like to use nuclear explosives to dig the trench. Nukes are faster than dynamite, run one-tenth the cost, and would hold the price for the Colombia canal to $1.2 billion, the Nicaragua-Costa Rica canal to $1.24 billion, or the southern Panama route to $500 million...
...Time to Negotiate. The sticking point, of course, is what kind of a treaty the U.S. can write for control, operation and defense of a new canal. The Panama Canal made Panama a nation. Yet for years Panamanians have railed against the 1903 treaty, which gives the U.S. "sovereignty in perpetuity" over the ten-mile-wide Canal Zone, demanding a bigger share of the revenues, and more control of both the canal and the zone. Last January's anti-Yankee riots, which left 26 dead (including three U.S. G.l.s) showed how deep the passions go. The U.S., as Johnson...
...those negotiations go may well determine the shape of the treaties for a new canal-and whether or not the U.S. decides to build in Panama. Both Costa Rica and Colombia reacted enthusiastically to the prospect of a canal on their territory. No one seems to understand that better than Panama's recently inaugurated President Marcos Robles. On TV last week, he told his people of President Johnson's "transcendental" announcement and "the happy prospects on this historic day for our nation...