Word: panamanians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...event was surrounded by all the relish and trimmings that Jimmy Carter could concoct. In the pillared, chandeliered, flag-draped Hall of the Americas in the Pan American Union building, Carter and Panamanian Strongman General Omar Torrijos Herrera signed two treaties (TIME cover, Aug. 22). The first gradually cedes control of the canal to Panama by the year 2000. The second guarantees permanent U.S. protection of the canal. "This opens a new chapter in our relationship with all the nations of this hemisphere," Carter told an audience of 1,500. He made a point of adding that...
Back in New York, Bunau-Varilla went to Macy's to purchase colored silk for a red, white and blue Panamanian flag (which his wife sewed), and he advised Amador that the U.S. would support the revolution?provided that its leaders would appoint Bunau-Varilla envoy to Washington to draft the canal treaty. Reluctantly and a bit skeptically, Amador agreed. He sailed for Panama with Bunau-Varilla's promise of $100,000 to bribe Colombian troops; he hid his new flag under his clothing, wrapped around his torso. After arriving in Panama, Amador sent a coded cable: "Fate news...
...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 of the 33,600 American Zonians. "I'm not leaving my garden to some Panamanian," she says. "Before I go, I'm going to throw all my plants and rocks into the canal...
...future. "It's been a real tropical oasis," says one old pilot, "but it's getting more like a mirage with every passing day. There is no future, and the younger pilots know it and are getting out." Most of the 202 pilots (only two are Panamanian citizens) doubt that they will be paid adequately after Panama assumes that responsibility -or that the canal will be efficiently...
...that he has struck his bargain with the Americans, Torrijos frets about convincing radical students that his leftist credentials are still valid. The question is a critical one along the Fourth of July Avenue, the boundary line between American and Panamanian control in Panama City. Panamanians ngw call the thoroughfare the Avenue of the Martyrs as a reminder of the 1964 riots, in which 21 Panamanians and four Americans were killed in several days of fighting along the line. The words BASES NO, painted on billboards and walls around the city, reflect the overwhelming sentiment among volatile students. "The treaty...