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Show Saturday, January 1, 20U0. THE DAILY HI.RALD, (w.herldextni-eom)- WORLD Pamamnia Panamanians Russia (AP) GROZNY, tsA 7 gw- tin-- ' marched again Friday during the ceremony to raise the flag over a now empty Balboa High, where classes ended last June. Some of the students chant- colonialism. "It divided Panama into two separate territories (and) gave the United States a level of sovereignty reminiscent of a colonial era more appropriate to the 19th century than to the 20th," Caldera said. "It was ed slogans. The road of the Canal Zone was marked by hundreds of small crosses with the names of Panamanians killed in 1964 or during the 1989 U.S. invasion to oust Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega. "This is the culmination of a said account," pending Alcibiades Picota, a student marching with a anti-America- inconsistent with the principles that the United States came to stand for in the 20th century." Relations between Panama and the United States were strained at times over the issue of sovereignty. In January 1964, students from the National Institute, a public high school, tried to enter the Canal Zone to raise the Panamanian flag over the 'U.S. Defense Department's Balboa High School. U.S. troops opened fire on the marchers and 23 were killed. Panama v alongside the U.S. flag at all canal installations, but that no flags should be displayed at the schools. Students of the Institute without comment. The 147,000 square miles of the Canal Zone, filled with U.S. military and civilian installations, cut across Panama and was often seen as a remnant of n 1 LA U 7 S f 1 Panamanian flag. 'This is the achievement of complete sover- eignty." The Canal Panama U.S. a Commission, government agency, on Friday became the Panama Canal Authority, an . 7 . f7. autonomous corporation with its own budget that will administer the canal. Nearly 1,400 ships pass through every year, bringing more than $600 mil- temporarily broke relations with the United States. At the time, the U.S. government had ruled that the Panamanian .,flag should fly AssoculiJ Press ot the Canal countdown: Panamanians celebrate as a Panama Canal Administration Building counts down the last second before the canal transfers to Panamanian control on Friday. clock in front lion in tolls. Russia keeps up attack on capital ussian tanks Page A5 celebirates aral takeover say to draw 7 attention from a handover unpopular with conservatives in the United States handed over the strategic American military officials on waterway it built nearly a cen- Thursday quietly lowered the stars and stripes from the canal tury ago. For many Panamanians, it headquarters, where it had waved since 1914 when the felt like Independence Day. , The canal is ours. May God canal was inaugurated. The handover was the culmibless it," President Mireya Moscoso shouted to cheering nation of a process that started thousands gathered in front of 22 years ago, when military the old Canal Commission strongman Gen. Omar Torrijos building. Minutes later, at the and U.S. President Jimmy stroke of noon, 6he raised the Carter signed the treaties that Panamanian flag as onlookers set the transition period and transfer date of the canal, a jumped in joy. "I tell the meh, women and marvel of early century engichildren of my country that neering, and the surrounding there will be no more fences, no Canal Zone. In Washington, Supreme more signs blocking our entrance. This territory is ours Court Justice Sandra Day again," Moscoso said, speaking O'Connor refused Friday to block transfer of the canal. under a heavy rain. Louis Caldera, secretary of Judicial Watch, a conservative the Army and head of the U.S. legal foundation, had applied delegation, signed the papers for a court order that would formalizing the transfer with have temporarily restrained little pomp and circumstance. the turnover. The restraining order was "Panama, our friend, the United States of America denied by lower U.S. courts earsalutes you," he said. "May God lier this week and was taken to the Supreme Court on Friday bless you." In an attempt to avoid anti-U.morning. A court official said and O'Connor issued the denial demonstrations PANAMA CITY, Panama The Panama Canal (AP) became Panama's canal on Friday as the United States Provo, Utah , 030 0357 -R- in hills on the edge of Chechnya's capital blasted rapid-firbarrages into the city Friday, working to drive out rebels as Russian ground forces gingerly tried to advance toward the city center. 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