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David B. Baglien Balboa Heights...
...called "an overdose of fuel for their case," than Mississippi's Senator James Eastland arrived for more of the same. At week's end, some 2,000 American Zonians, mainly employees of the Panama Canal Company and members of their families, staged an anti-treaty rally in Balboa Stadium, but Strongman Omar Torrijos Herrera had robbed them of much of their thunder at a meeting of Panama's toothless legislature earlier in the day. Torrijos praised Carter and exhorted voters to turn out in the national plebiscite on the canal agreements...
...Zonians' basic objections to the new treaty range from chauvinistic to sentimental to mercenary. "There is no Panama C,anal," says the message on the bulletin board of the Panama Pilots Association in downtown Balboa. "There is an American Canal in Panama...
Haldeman, who lives quietly in Los Angeles, and has been seen lunching at Orange County's plush Balboa Yacht Club, also has huge legal bills. After the court's action last week, he called a press conference on his front lawn and said: "For the past three weeks I have been watching the Nixon-Frost interviews. I've avoided comment because I had the hope they would clear up many of the questions that remained. Unfortunately, they did not. I feel now that I have to challenge President Nixon's explanation of the cover...
...ground begins to rise: a hill. We sprint up it. Suddenly we see a tree and the red-and-white flag that signifies we have reached the checkpoint. We throw ourselves down on the ground giggling with relief. We were dead on target. Suddenly I know how Balboa felt when he first sighted the Pacific Ocean...