Word: canale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article "Halftime Confidence on Panama" [April 3], you label as absurd an amendment I introduced to the Panama Canal treaty...
...quite a remarkable week for James Earl Carter Jr. At its outset, the President heard that the wavering Senate might inflict a shattering blow to his prestige by rejecting the Panama Canal treaty; the next day it gave him instead a narrow but important victory. On Thursday fell the mournful first anniversary of the introduction of the energy program that Carter had once called the moral equivalent of war; the following day came news of a Senate compromise on gas deregulation and at last the possibility of a breakthrough for the energy program. On the economic front, the long grounded...
...first Panama Canal treaty turned on a handful of votes, and so it seemed would the second as the critical vote loomed last week. South Dakota Democrat James Abourezk, for example, was miffed at being cut out of White House-Congress meetings trying to resolve the question of deregulating natural gas prices. California Republican Sam Hayakawa had fired off a letter to Carter complaining about a wide variety of Administration foreign policy moves. Nevada Democrat Howard Cannon wanted to tack onto the Panama treaty a relatively minor reservation. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke was pushing some technical changes. All were threatening...
LAST WEEK'S Senate ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty marks the welcome completion of an interminably long debate over an issue whose importance has been blown more out of proportion than any in recent memory...
...probably did not turn over the canal as completely as it should have but at this point--with ratification behind us--attention should be turned to the far more important issues that have been shunted aside while the country engaged in frivolous debate about an outdated canal...