Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army vehemently denied that its bullets had caused anything like 300 casualties. Many of the injured seemed victims of their own rioting. Of 13 confirmed Panamanian dead, five died in a burning building; two were killed by Molotov cocktails. Zone police had engaged in a blazing gunfight-to prevent mobs from overrunning a U.S. housing project inside the Zone. But the Army insisted that only nine rounds in all had been fired by regular troops at snipers during the first night-and the G.I.s were now using blanks, hoping to scare them...
...O.A.S. mediation commission, Chiari was demanding "just indemnification" for damages and assurances that the U.S. "will never again unloose similar actions of aggression against a weak and innocent people." He denounced the 1903 treaty and all subsequent pacts under which the U.S. has "perpetual" rights to the Canal Zone. Nothing less than "complete revision" of the entire operation would lead Panama to resume diplomatic relations...
Twice in 1959, fierce riots broke out over Panama's demands for greater benefits. Since then, the U.S. has offered higher wages for Panamanian workers and half a dozen other concessions-along with twin flags as evidence of Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the Zone. But that satisfied neither Panama nor oldline U.S. residents, who feared that it would undercut their privileged position. Chiari has not yet spelled out his precise demands. But he surely will ask for greater control over the Zone and a vastly increased share of the revenues-he once mentioned $10 million a year...
...attack, the Bruins just do what comes naturally-zip downcourt and shoot. Even the defense is quicksilver. Wooden spent all fall developing a new "zone press"-an attacking defense something like pro football's "red-dog." Wooden's defenders begin harassing enemy guards as soon as they reach midcourt, trying to force wild throws, lob passes or bounce passes that can be intercepted. Two weeks ago, the Bruins were trailing Washington State 15-14 when Wooden ordered them into the press. U.C.L.A. opened up a 61-28 half-time bulge, and went on to a 121-77 victory...
Died. Julius Raab, 72, Chancellor of Austria from 1953 to 1961, chief architect of its postwar independence, a lumbering, folksy engineer-turned-politician who in 1955 talked the Soviets into withdrawing troops from their zone of the partitioned country in return for a promise of neutrality, thereafter cut income taxes, stabilized the schilling, turned thriving Austria into a highly persuasive advertisement for capitalism; of a lung embolism; in Vienna...