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...American Conservative Union, meanwhile, has been mobilizing grass-roots opposition. It has produced a 30-minute anti-SALT film that so far has been shown on 209 television stations. ACU plans to commit far more to fighting SALT than the $1 million it spent in vain on the Panama Canal struggle. Says one Administration official: "Compared with SALT II, passing the Panama Canal treaties was playing tiddlywinks...
...hills, broad turbulent rivers, and tens of thousands of dusty mud-walled villages. Rainfall is so irregular and water so scarce that for thousands of years peasants of these villages, armed with picks and shovels, have fought one another over rights to the flow of a tiny stream or canal. Summers bring searing heat; the harsh winds of fall and winter spread stinging particles of yellow dust from the Gobi, a desert as empty as Africa's Sahara...
...fall, Carter had run up an impressive string of victories on foreign and defense policies: ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty, sale of high-performance jet fighters to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, an end to the Turkish arms embargo, abandonment of the Navy's plans for a fifth nuclear-powered aircraft carrier...
...target date merely as a goal instead of as a fixed timetable. For another, although Sadat now wants to delay the exchange of ambassadors, all other aspects of normalization would proceed as scheduled, including trade, cultural ties and the right of Israel's ships to use the Suez Canal. Last week's Cabinet declaration did, however, leave open some hope for compromise. It stated that "the letter concerning the autonomy arrangements can be clarified and reformulated...
Jordan orchestrated the campaign for ratification of the Panama Canal treaties. Last month, as the White House was preparing to announce Stage II of the anti-inflation program, an assortment of advisers seemed unable to square away the final details. Jordan got everyone marching. Usually his fingerprints are harder to detect. "Most people don't know what I ad vise the President," Jordan boasts. "When I do a memo, I type it myself and usually don't make copies...