Word: panamanians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peru became No. 6 after a raid by five anti-Castro exiles on Cuba's Lima embassy turned up documents proving that the Cuban ambassador was donating $20,000 a month to enemies of the government. The same kind of subversion in Panama brought the recall of the Panamanian ambassador to Cuba last week...
Panama. Anti-U.S. riots a year ago looked like real trouble. Lately the outlook has improved with the inauguration of enlightened Oligarch Roberto Chiari as President, plus a friendship drive by U.S. officials, and a U.S. decision to let the Panamanian flag fly beside the Stars and Stripes on Canal Zone soil...
...flag raising will not end all friction. Even at last week's ceremony, 30 Panamanian high school students waved signs and chanted: "Our aspirations have been mocked." Panama will certainly soon renew demands for a larger cut of canal revenues...
Some U.S. citizens, especially colonial-minded oldtime civilian employees of the Panama Canal Co., were as dissatisfied as the Panamanian demonstrators. "The sight of a representative of the U.S. handing our capitulation notice to another country made me want to puke," said one. Yet a quiet movement toward international friendship is afoot on the isthmus, and its patron is a powerful one: the commanding officer of the U.S. Army Caribbean, Major General Theodore F. Bogart, 55. Lanky General Bogart got to know and like Panama when he was stationed there as a lieutenant...
Intransigence on both sides could bring new riots on Nov. 3, Panamanian Independence Day. But General Bogart has already proved that behind angry faces there is a big reservoir of ordinary human friendship on the isthmus...