Word: canalization
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Panama, however, is a victim of the old-style, territorialist tendencies of U.S. imperialism. After Jimmy Carter signed an agreement scheduling the return of the Panama Canal to Panama in the year 2000, North Americans suddenly discovered a real stake in good relations with this tiny country...
...months ago, it was accusations of Noriega's involvement with drugrunning that supposedly fueled the State Department's economic sanctions. Now, the election frauds are an excuse for potentially delaying or even cancelling the transfer of Canal rights to their rightful owners. Already, U.S. Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) has decried the treaty's promise to return the Canal to "a madman like Noriega...
Standing in a light rain in the White House driveway, Carter cautioned against the use of U.S. military force and said the United States should not abrogate the Panama Canal treaties, which were negotiated and signed during his administration...
...Come September, the presidential term of Eric Arturo Delvalle expires. Though he was forced from office by Noriega 14 months ago, the U.S. continues to recognize the exiled Delvalle as the legitimate President, and has used that handy fiction to withhold $86.5 million in fees collected by the Panama Canal Commission. Bush must decide what to do with those funds, which are legally owed to Panama. Moreover, under the terms of the canal treaty, the American administrator of the PCC must be replaced by a Panamanian by January 1990. The U.S. Senate will have to approve the candidate...
...people are brave enough to risk a $3 haircut at the local barber college, and fewer still will opt for cut-rate root-canal work done by a student at a dental-school clinic. But a growing cadre of frugal gourmets from Montpelier to San Francisco is finding that meals in culinary-school restaurants can be very tasty deals indeed. A senior's sauce may need a soupcon of salt, or a nervous freshman waiter may tip over your water goblet, but for the most part, cooking-school eateries provide an interesting ambience and fine cuisine at half the price...