Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nuclear firepower than the U.S. for earth moving and other engineering purposes, could be gaining valuable military expertise in the process. Certainly the Soviets have shown interest in harnessing such detonations to a wide range of projects; their known tests have included the excavation of a half-mile-long canal trench in northern Russia in 1971, and the sealing of a gas well in Central Asia five years earlier...
That impression has been strengthened still more by the fact that the lawmakers have pushed into 1978?an election year for all Congressmen and 33 Senators?some of the rougher fights: Panama Canal treaty ratification, welfare reform, tax reform. Says Massachusetts Democrat Gerry Studds: "We don't really have a great deal to show so far. The big issues have either not been addressed or are unresolved...
...Congress failed to face up to some other heavy challenges, it was not always to blame. Senator Byrd did the President a favor in postponing Senate action on ratifying the Panama Canal treaties, since the required two-thirds majority was not yet in sight. Welfare reform got bogged down in the long debate over energy. With Carter's assent, tax reform too was put off until at least next year...
...know there could be no public answers on television until the next day: to set up cameras and process and edit film took too long to make the evening news. But new technology has made instant response a fact. Carter can make a statement on energy or the Panama Canal, and by nightfall be outshouted by his critics...
...Panama seemed to be in a holiday mood last week, and indeed the country was celebrating a festival of sorts. For the more than 700,000 Panamanians who voted in a plebiscite to ratify the new canal treaties with the U.S., it was the first chance to go to the polls on any national issue since General Omar Torrijos seized power in 1968 and outlawed political parties four months later. Torrijos had encouraged political debate on the treaties in order to counter suspicions in the U.S. that the plebiscite was rigged, and he got a bit more than he bargained...