Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miguel J. Moreno Jr., Panamanian ambassador to the OAS, finally agreed to accept the committee's delicately worded formula for restoring relations. Next day, however, President Johnson abruptly rejected the agreement, leaving the U.S.-Panamanian impasse exactly where it was eleven weeks ago, after the bloody Canal Zone riots...
...level canal, blasted by buried atomic devices, may be feasible. It certainly is desirable for commercial and military reasons. Neither the larger merchant and passenger ships, nor the U.S. Navy's nuclear carriers will fit through the Panama Canal. Washington could offer to relinquish its sovereignty over the Canal Zone at the completion of a new canal or to renegotiate the 1903 Panama Canal Treaty, should a new canal not be operating within some agreed number of years--perhaps ten. This formula would permit Panama to say that it had won either renogotiation or the Canal itself and would protect...
...UCLA rallied behind forward Keith Erickson to grin out a 90-84 victory over Kansas State The UCLA Bruins, No. 1 in the nation were trailing 75-70 with only five minutes to go, when Coach John Wooden ordered a slow down game to break up the Kansas State zone defense. The Wildcat were forced into a man-to-man defense and fell apart. The Bruins will now meet Duke for the NCAA Championship to night...
Died. Colonel John Charles Nickerson Jr., 48, U.S. Army missileer who publicly attacked a 1956 Pentagon decision to limit the Army to short-range missiles, for which he earned a court-martial and a tour of duty in the Canal Zone, but vindication when an Army Jupiter put the first U.S. satellite into orbit; in an auto accident; near Alamogordo...
Although the Tiger ace was four inches taller than the Crimson guard, Scully hounded him for the first half, yielding only four field goats. Bradley's scoring picked up when Harvard shifted to a zone in the second half, but Scully's 11 points helped Harvard...