Word: accords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter is indeed out on a limb. The fact is the canal has a constituency and the treaty has no constituency," says Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, who along with Sol Linowitz negotiated the accord. By one nose count, only 35 Senators now favor the treaty, 22 are opposed and 43 are undecided-far short of the two-thirds vote needed for approval. But the undecided count may be deceptive. A vote on the treaty is not likely to occur until early next year and, as one Republican Senator asks, "Why shouldI make my position known now? I'd just...
...early September. Torrijos has invited all Latin American heads of state, as well as President Carter, to Panama City for the event, and Carter has indicated that he is willing to go. After the signing ceremony comes what is likely to be the toughest part of all. The accord must be approved by a plebiscite in Panama and by a two-thirds vote in the U.S. Senate, which promises to be a bruising battle...
...treaty. An agreement was reached in 1967, but its details were leaked, and conservative U.S. Congressmen protested so vociferously that L.B.J., up to his earlobes in Viet Nam, backed off. Before the treaty revision could be concluded, Torrijos in October 1968 overthrew the existing government and immediately spurned the accord. Making a new treaty his major issue, he abolished political parties, seized control of the press, drove opponents into exile and saw his once prosperous economy falter. Latin American and indeed world pressures began to build on the U.S. In 1974 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and then Panamanian Foreign...
...real contest centered on the U.S. delegation's determination to list a review of human rights violations separately from any questions of promoting detente, thus blocking the Soviets from hiding rights cases behind a blur of rhetoric. Trouble was, the Helsinki accord lumped the two issues together in a single sentence.* Thus began what came to be called the "Battle of the Dashes...
...into hasty exile once again. But five days later (TIME, July 29, 1974) the coup precipitated a Turkish invasion. The result was a humiliating defeat for the dominant Greek Cypriots. When Makarios returned, he found a battered country that had abandoned the idea of any kind of Greco-Turkish accord...