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...Senate's approval of the Panama Canal neutrality treaty was, in spite of the "reservations," a step in the right direction [March 27]. Arguments both for and against the treaties are sound. However, it merely requires simple logic to ascertain that while ratification of these treaties will not necessarily guarantee perpetual euphoria, failure to do so can only induce grim repercussions. Panama is a time bomb that the Senate must defuse with caution, by approving the resolution of ratification...
Congratulations to Senator Edward Zorinsky [March 27] for doing his job: representing the people of Nebraska who elected him. I hope his constituents appreciate how he respected their wishes, despite the pressure from President Carter to vote for the Panama Canal treaty...
...friendly port, so did the Israelis--for different reasons. Seeing Nasser commit 70,000 men into what is now the Democratic anti-monarchists, fearing the further spread of Arab influence and ever aware of the importance of maintaining an open seaway from the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, the Israelis sent police-military advisers to Ethiopia to combat the Moslem independence group in Eritrea. At the same time the rebel Eritreans received support from Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The backward empire of Iran. however, susceptible to Soviet influence and a possible overthrow by insurgent Marxists, established...
...Shimon Peres, and talked with Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan over dinner at the Israel Museum. Then they flew deep into the Sinai desert to hear Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman during a luncheon at a forward airbase. Next day, after going on to Egypt, the group crossed the Suez Canal as a guest of the Egyptian Second Army, saw the wrecked Bar-Lev line and toured Egyptian fortifications...
...part, Carter and his host, President Carlos Andrés Pérez, smoothed over their differences. But at the airport, and during private talks at the presidential residence, surrounded by orchids, roses and tamarind trees, Pérez made a pitch for speedy Senate passage of the Panama Canal treaty. He warned that "each word pronounced" in the rancorous debate in the U.S. over the treaty "will have a very deep impact on Latin America." During dinner that night, Pérez, who heads one of South America's two democracies (the other: Colombia), praised Carter...