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...domestic problems mounting. The steel industry has suffered large layoffs and is pressing the Administration for help against low-priced foreign competition. Farmers are upset about falling prices and want bigger subsidies. The President is also struggling to convince two-thirds of the Senate that the Panama Canal treaties should be ratified. A meeting with Panama's Omar Torrijos Herrera successfully clarified differing U.S. and Panamanian interpretations of key treaty provisions-notably the U.S. right to defend the canal...
Carter has asked all of his Cabinet members to "go get 'em" too. In addition, he is considering another fireside TV speech on energy, possibly combined with an appeal for the Panama Canal treaties. Also under consideration: another televised phone-in on his energy proposals...
...other." So said Panama's General Omar Torrijos Herrera last week, soon after he emerged from a 105-minute session with Jimmy Carter in the White House. It was no idle remark. Just how the two leaders under stood the meaning of certain key elements of the Panama Canal treaties had become a crucial question in Carter's struggle to sell the pacts to the Senate and a still skeptical U.S. public. By week's end, with the aid of a three-paragraph "statement of understanding," Carter seemed to have dealt deftly with the dispute - and perhaps...
...crisis of understanding swirled largely around the issue of U.S. rights, including defense rights, when Panama takes full control of the canal after...
Because the word intervention is abhor rent to Panamanians, who will be asked to approve the canal pacts in a referendum on Oct. 23, it does not appear at all in the text. Instead, the U.S. right to defend the canal against attack is cloaked in the seemingly ambiguous phrase, "The United States of America and the Republic of Panama agree to maintain the regime of neutrality established in this treaty...