Word: canalizes
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...might remark that if these things are really such glaring problems, Congress would have dealt with them long ago. But a look at U.S. foreign policy reveals many of the same serious problems that were with us during the '60s and even before. The U.S. is illegally occupying a canal in Central America. Arms negotiations are used as an excuse to set ridiculously high quotas on expensive nuclear weaponry, with nobody even considering large scale nuclear disarmaments or controls. Our government supports dictatorships around the world and our intelligence agencies employ deplorable tactics to topple others. We ignore the situation...
...flat spaces, Israeli jets can patrol not only the Strait of Tiran but also (with mid-air refueling) Bab el Mandeb at the southern end of the Red Sea. Squadrons at Eitam can guard the southern coast of the Mediterranean and the Sinai as far as the Suez Canal...
WASHINGTON--The Senate opened debate yesterday on the Carter administration's proposed Panama Canal treaty...
...course the Soviets have had their share of intelligence failures. During the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the KGB failed to detect Israeli preparations for crossing the Suez Canal, and underestimated the maneuver's importance once it was under way. In New Delhi, the resident KGB team concluded that Indira Gandhi would easily win re-election in 1977. More embarrassing was the gambit of Vladimir Rybachenko, who served in Paris as a UNESCO official. Shortly before Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Paris on a good-will visit in 1976, Rybachenko was caught receiving secret documents that described...
...poll in Baker's Tennessee gave treaty opponents a 2-to-l margin, but it also indicated that those numbers can be turned around if the White House agrees to amendments guaranteeing U.S. rights and privileges in the Canal Zone. The ultimate poll, of course, is the one that will take place on the Senate floor. Says an Administration vote counter: "We're within striking distance, and it's about a fifty-fifty ball game on the undecideds." In short, a brawl is shaping up in the Senate but with the Administration as the favorite...