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...toll-free Government locks at Sault Ste. Marie are another disguised subsidy to the steel industry. There should be a toll at the Soo Locks similar to that imposed upon cargo passing through the Panama Canal...
...sets important visible bound aries to our ideological and political and military competition." These salvos were just a taste of what is likely to be months of impassioned national argument over the accord's merits, a potentially acrimonious fight that could make last year's Panama Canal Treaty debate seem like a tea party...
...Middle East, one event in the past decade stands out as a modern landmark in the history of the faith. On the afternoon of Oct. 6, 1973, the cry of "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great) rose from the throats of Egyptian soldiers as they stormed across the Suez Canal and overran the lightly manned Israeli strongpoints of the Bar Lev Line. Later the first Egyptian flag raised on the eastern bank of the canal was presented to the Grand Sheik of Cairo's Al Azhar Mosque...
Once close relations were established with the Carter administration, CEOs found they could often do favors for the White House. Early in 1978, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance called to elicit business pressure on Congress for the Panama Canal treaty, also during the 95th Congress another Cabinet-level official came to a Business Council meeting to request pressure in the sale of F-15 fighter planes to Saudi Arabia...
...thus help reduce dependence on foreign oil. Without the pipeline, it would be difficult to raise the North Slope output: the West Coast is already overflowing with Alaskan crude, and Sohio is having to ship some 350,000 bbls. a day of it via tanker through the Panama Canal, a process that adds up to $1 per bbl. to the cost. What is more, oil companies are barred from exporting Alaskan oil, even if the purpose is to swap it for foreign oil that can be brought more easily to East Coast ports...