Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Signing the Panama Canal pact was easy; selling...
...state descended on Washington at once. Nineteen national leaders, along with top officials of eight other Western Hemisphere nations-from Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to Argentina's President Jorge Rafael Videla-were in town with full, glittering retinues. The occasion: the signing of a Panama Canal treaty that was initialed last month after 13 years of on-and-off efforts through the Administrations of four U.S. Presidents...
...relish and trimmings that Jimmy Carter could concoct. In the pillared, chandeliered, flag-draped Hall of the Americas in the Pan American Union building, Carter and Panamanian Strongman General Omar Torrijos Herrera signed two treaties (TIME cover, Aug. 22). The first gradually cedes control of the canal to Panama by the year 2000. The second guarantees permanent U.S. protection of the canal. "This opens a new chapter in our relationship with all the nations of this hemisphere," Carter told an audience of 1,500. He made a point of adding that if a new, sea-level canal is built...
...Middle East, in the Far East and in the SALT talks. He also wants to emphasize that he is not solely preoccupied with East-West problems, but gives considerable weight to the crucial relationship between developed North and the underdeveloped southern portion of the globe. The Panama Canal treaty, he feels, is the key to establishing better relations with the South. As Costa Rican President Daniel Oduber told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, "Carter has raised much hope. He has rediscovered what has been there all along: we like you norteamericanos. He is giving us a chance to prove that...
Privately, some Latin Americans have expressed uneasiness that Panama will be gaining control of the canal; much of their trade depends on the waterway which they do not want to see shut down because of political instability or mismanagement. Despite the Latin leaders' public messages of unwavering, unambiguous support of the canal pacts, one visiting foreign minister fretted: "I hope that Jeemy Carter has not gotten himself to far out on a limb on our behalf...