Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army you deploy, you cannot win against a hostile population and terrain?which in Panama means taking on a population of 2 million and 50 miles of jungle plus 1,000 miles of semitropical hell." Adds a senior British diplomat: "A U.S. strategy of holding on to the Canal Zone by force would be tantamount to following a strategy devised in Moscow...
...Senate switched to Panama on June 19, 1902. Soon afterward, Roosevelt and Secretary of State John Hay began to press Colombia to agree to a treaty. Their offer: $10 million in gold, plus an annual rent of $250,000. Colombia would retain sovereignty over a six-mile-wide Canal zone, but the U.S. would have the right to enforce its own regulations there. The U.S. Senate approved the treaty, but Bogota rejected...
...says the sign in front of the three-bedroom house for which Leigh DuPré pays the Panama Canal Co. $169 a month. A clerk in the company's rate office, DuPre, 40, is going home with his wife and four children after nine years in the Canal Zone. "We don't want to live where there is no U.S. jurisdiction," he explains simply. Janet DuPree (no kin), 33, a kindergarten teacher in the zone and granddaughter of one of the workers who helped dig the big ditch, betrays the festering bitterness of many...
...zone has long offered an almost idyllic playground-comfortable, secure living isolated from the social traumas afflicting either the U.S. or Latin America. "If away you long to steal/ to a real/ Shangrila/ If your heart you wish to heal/ visit Panama," runs a song in Panama Hattie, a Cole Porter musical of a generation ago. For 3,500 American employees of the Government-owned Panama Canal Co., 9,000 G.I.s and 21,100 other family members, Uncle Sugar provides everything from commissary-and post-exchange privileges to bowling alleys and movie houses, swimming pools and tennis courts...
...current and probably last of the Canal Zone's 17 American Governors, Major General Harold R. Parfitt, 56, spends much of his time trying to persuade canal employees to stay on. He objects to the term "exodus," but admits there has been "an increase and a trend" in resignations, even though most of the people could remain for the next 23 years under the agreement, working for the new "entity" that would replace the canal company until Panama gains full control. Says Pilot Marshall Irwin: "I don't intend to work for a dictator...