Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON--The House yesterday passed and sent to President Carter a bill providing for a U.S.-controlled commission that will operate the Panama Canal until Panama assumes control...
WASHINGTON--The House of Representatives yesterday rejected a bill designed to carry out the final details of the Panama Canal treaties. The treaties are scheduled to take effect in less than two weeks...
...bill would have established a U.S.-controlled commission to operate the canal until the end of the century. Under the terms of the treaty, Panama would have gained complete control of the canal...
...fifth term, he faces a very determined, well-financed right-wing opposition, which is already barraging him on such special issues as abortion restrictions and gun control. Church is most noted for his foreign policy stands, however, and he appears particularly vulnerable because of his votes for the Panama Canal treaty and his attempts to restrict the activity of U.S. intelligence agencies. He has also not been helped by a remark he made a few years ago upon returning from a visit to Cuba: he referred to Fidel Castro as a personal friend. By raising an uproar about the Russians...
Carter had considered others for the post, including former Iowa Senator Dick Clark, former Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, Panama Canal Negotiator Sol Linowitz and Ambassador to China Leonard Woodcock. But McHenry had the advantage of being a black as well as having the support of Young. His main disadvantage was that he was not well known. Then the Soviets came to his assistance when they tried to rush Ballerina Ludmila Vlasova out of the U.S. McHenry was put in charge of the laborious negotiations with the Soviets at Kennedy Airport. Deputy White House Press Secretary Rex Granum said that...