Panama celebrates hand-over
NZPA-Reuter Panama City A Government Minister has .led a crowd that tore down fences as Panamanians began celebrating before the United States hand-over of the Panama Canal zone. | The Public Works Minister (Mr Julio Mock) helped the crowd pull down the wire fences separating the zone from Panama City. But in contrast to previous antiAmerican demonstrations, it was a good-humoured affair. Alcohol flowed as freely; as the tears of joy whiles residents prepared for Panama to assume sovereignty over all its territory for the first time since it became an independent State 76 years ago. New treaties, replacing a .1903 accord which gave the United States jurisdiction over the zone and the SOkm canal, are in effect today. I They provide for the immediate hand-over of the zone, and the transfer of the waterway itself by December 31, 1999.' A number of Latin-Ameri-can leaders and the United States Vice-President (Mr Walter Mondale) gathered for the hand-over ceremony, which features the unfurling of a huge Panamanian flag on Cerro Ancon Mountain in the canal zone overlooking the city.
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