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...leaders agreed that the question of future U.S. control over the Panama Canal was a phony issue, no more valid than the argument in the John Kennedy-Richard Nixon race in 1960 over whether the U.S. should have defended the Nationalist Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Rhodes told Ford to stop "chasing this goddam rainbow of the Panama Canal." He meant Ford should stop talking about...
Open, decent and in some ways politically courageous, Ford does not seem to deserve such treatment. He has pursued detente, an agreement on strategic nuclear weapons and the Panama Canal negotiations?all basically sound positions?in the face of Reagan's harsh attacks. Last month Ford, an advocate of free trade, refused to give special protection to the domestic shoe industry against foreign competition, despite heavy pressure from the industry's political friends on Capitol Hill...
Reagan also exploited what hardly had been a burning issue until he picked it up: U.S. control of the Panama Canal. He started blasting the fact that both the Nixon and Ford Administrations had been negotiating a new treaty with Panama on the canal and its tenmile-wide zone, which the U.S. secured under gunboat pressure in 1903. Sensibly, Ford is willing to yield outright domination of the canal, but the move would be gradual and not completed until the next century (TIME, April 26). Even then, according to the Ford-Kissinger position, the U.S. would retain passage rights, share...
Repeatedly and erroneously, Reagan has insisted that the Canal Zone is "just as much sovereign U.S. territory as Alaska." In fact, no treaty ever granted the U.S. complete sovereignty. Washington has been paying an annual user fee of $2.3 million to Panama, and that country's General Omar Torrijos Herrera, a military dictator, has been maneuvering to restrain outraged Panamanians from rioting over this vestige of Yankee imperialism. Wrong-headed as it is, Reagan's jingoism on the canal has apparently struck a nerve among parts of the electorate, arousing post-Viet Nam sentiments that the U.S. should...
Worry is growing that the party is headed for another Goldwater-like 1964 disaster, and Barry Goldwater shares that view. To the dismay of his far-right fans, he has been assailing Reagan for not being "honest" on the Panama Canal issue. Thunders Goldwater: "He's saying Ford is giving Panama away. Ford can't give anything away. It has to be the Senate and the House of Representatives." If Reagan "comes out for war" over the canal, Goldwater predicts, "he's going to defeat himself...