Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sunny day last week, a group of American teen-agers marched up and raised a U.S. flag over their high school at Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone...
...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...
...shirts and howling Viva Fidel!, raging mobs set fire to the Braniff and Pan American Airways buildings, the Sears Roebuck store and a Goodyear Rubber plant. The USIS office was destroyed. In the city of Colón, 38 miles 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...
Elso S. Barghoorn professor of Botany and curator of Palcobotany Collections, was left stranded in Panama by last week's crisis in the Canal Zone. As of last night none of Barghoorn's colleagues in the Biological Laboratories knew of his whereabouts...
...Grahams returned to Cambridge on Wednesday, Jan. 8, the day before riots in the Canal Zone resulted in suspension of diplomatic relations between the United States and Panama. Barghoorn had planned to leave a few days later, but the disturbances forced cancellation of outbound flights...