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...CAMPAIGN LITERATURE Tower is portrayed as the fearless defender of "our fellow Texans against the forces moving to destroy America's economic, social and moral values": the "Eastern Labor Bosses," the big government spenders, the supporters of the Panama Canal treaties and busing, and the opponents of a constitutional amendment to allow prayer in public schools. Here at least Tower is truthful. In his 17 years in the Senate, he has spoken as the obstructionist, the perennial naysayer. He has never authored any major piece of legislation...
...Somoza, a fervent capitalist who, like his son, never hesitated to use the state apparatus to augment his personal fortune, was logically enough fervently anti-communist. Given Somoza's anti-communism, Nicaragua's strategic position in the heart of Central America, and the possibility of building a second transisthmian canal through Nicaraguan territory, the U.S. was more than happy to prop up the Somoza regime both militarily and economically...
...Panama Canal. The Administration negotiated two treaties that will give sovereignty over the canal and Canal...
...that the U.S. also has a formal proposal-an eight-page document, spelling out in detail the main issues to be negotiated. The chief areas of discussion: 1) normalization of relations between Israel and Egypt, including the opening of borders, exchange of ambassadors, freedom of navigation through the Suez Canal, tourism and cultural and journalistic exchanges; 2) a timetable for Israeli withdrawals from the Sinai, including the turnover of Israeli settlements and airfields in the Sinai to the Egyptians, and the establishment of demilitarized zones and specified areas for U.N. troops; and 3) future economic relations between the two countries...
...perfect control of this resource to avoid massive and perhaps final disaster. Nuclear power advocates will admit that the chance of nuclear meltdown exists, though it is a very, very slim possibility. Are nuclear power plants as safe as Hooker Chemical Company believed its disposal methods at the Love Canal were in 1962? No one can know. In this sense, man's ignorance may seal a fate he has shaped...