Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panama were still at arm's length over the Canal Zone, though both sides seemed to be wearying of the six-week dispute. A new formula called for the two countries to resume diplomatic relations and then appoint negotiators with "full plenipotentiary powers" to discuss the 1903 treaty under which the U.S. operates the Panama Canal. The phraseology was intended to satisfy Panamanian demands for changes in the treaty, while not committing the U.S. in advance. By week's end Secretary of State Dean Rusk could only say: "There has not been an agreement...
Then came the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots, reviving with new urgency the need for alternative canal proposals. Of all the potential sites, five sea-level routes drew closest attention as the least expensive and easiest to dig. Each route has been studied for possible excavation by either conventional or nuclear methods. By using nuclear explosives (TIME, Jan. 31), the U.S. could build any one of them for only a fraction of the cost of a conventional canal...
...pull an upset, the Crimson will have to capitalize on its superior rebounding, get some good outside shooting to permeate the Yale zone, and use a tough zone defense themselves--Yale is murder against...
After eight days on the scene in Panama, a five-nation OAS investigation team (Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay) flew back to Washington last week, unwilling to side either with Panama or the U.S. on the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots. Officially the investigators kept a diplomatic silence pending a formal report to the OAS Council. Unofficially they said they found no real proof of U.S. charges that Castroites had instigated the first riots - though pictures of later fighting did show Communist troublemakers in the forefront. The diplomats also concluded that U.S. troops along the Canal Zone border were...
...always that way. Before World War II, when Berlin was center of Germany's culture and commerce, Munich was something of a backwater looked on with disdain by German sophisticates. Then came the Communists to surround the old capital in what became occupied Germany's Soviet Zone...