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Griffin Daily News
Wednesday, July 19, 1967
Some Think
Panama Like
Spoiled Child
By PHIL NEWSOM
DPI Foreign News Analyst
Over a cool drink on his
backyard patio surrounded by
neatly trimmed tropical greene
ry, a disgruntled American
“Zonian” may tell you that
Panama is like a spoiled child
yelling for more candy.
A short distance away, where
avenue 4th of July skirts the
Canal Zone in the direction of
Panama’s legislative palace, a
scrawled sign angrily demands
“Yankee go home!”
Sentiments of both date back
to 1903 and an era of not too
pleasant U.S. gunboat diploma
cy which established U.S.
occupation and control of the
Canal Zone “in perpetuity” and
with authority the same as “if
It were the sovereign of the
territory.”
Last month, President John
son and President Marco Robles
of Panama announced the
successful conclusion of two and
one-half years of quiet diploma
cy conducted mainly within the
neutral confines of the United
Nations.
Recognize Sove r eignty
The new treaties recognize
Panamanian sovereignty over
the Canal Zone, give Panama a
voice in a nine-man authority to
operate the canal and presuma
bly a greater share in the
revenues. They also provide for
a continuation of U.S. bases for
defense of the canal.
A third treaty deals with
possible construction of a new
sea-level canal.
Altogether, the Johnson admi
nistration hoped it had brought
to an end the first major
foreign policy crisis to confront
It in the bloody riots of
January, 1964.
It is not, however, quite that
simple.
U.S. opponents of the treaties
profess to see in them the
possibility that some future
capricious Panamanian govern
ment could face the United
States with an action similar to
that by which Egypt’s President
Gamal Abdel Nasser took over
the Suez Canal.
Today many millions of
dollars are being lost because of
Nasser’s closure of the canal to
world shipping.
Will Be Approved
But it also is a fact of life
that, because the Canal Zone
represents a last vestige of U.S.
colonialism and gunboat diplo
macy, the treaties finally will
be approved by the U.S. Senate.
Less certain is the action of
Panamanian legislators whose
charges of “treason” against
President Robles may be
expected soon to echo through
the council chambers of the
legislative palace at the end of
4th of July Avenue. ,
Panama City is the center of
Panamanian political life. And
the center of political life is the
Panama Canal.
Through the years, Panama’s
annuity from the United States
has increased to $1,930,000 from
the canal plus wages and other
benefits amounting to close to
SIOO million.
Deceased Vets
Entitled To
Burial Benefits
ATLANTA — Deceased veter- 1
ans are entitled to four particu- j
lar burial benefits, Pete Whee-1
ler, Director of the Georgia De
partment of Veterans Service,
reports. The benefits are avail
able to all veterans who ser
ved any period during wartime
In the military or who served a
full enlistment during peace
time.
The widow or person who in
curred the burial and furneral
expenses of an eligible veteran
may be awarded $250, upon ap
plication, for such expenses.
Any eligible veteran may be bur
led in a national cemetery where '
space is available.
Headstones or grave markers
may also be secured for any
such veteran. They will be pla
ced without application when ,
burial is in a national ceme- I
tery, or may be requested for a
private grave.
A U.S. flag, to drape the cof
fin and later for presentation to
next of kin, will also be presen
ted upon request. Flags may be
secured at any first class U.S.
Post Office or at the VA Regio
nal Office in Atlanta.
The spouse of a deceased ve
teran may be buried in a natio
nal cemetery, either In the
same grave or in the site ad
jacent to the veteran, provided
such space is available. If the
wife or minor child precedes the
veteran in death, the deceased
znay be interred in a national
cemetery if the veteran presents
a statement of his desire to be
burled there at his death.
In Georgia national cemeter
ies 4e located at Andersonville
and Marietta.
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