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...affairs front, the President approved a joint statement with the Soviet Union on the Middle East -and barely managed through the week to convince Jerusalem and American Jews that he was not betraying Israel (see cover story page 25). Meanwhile, he was catching heavy flak over his proposed Panama Canal treaties, both from a Senate committee and from conservative groups that describe the agreement as a "giveaway...
Returning from New York, Carter reached Washington in time to see a Senate committee chew a few more morsels out of his energy program and add to his griefs over the Panama Canal treaties. Kansas Republican Robert Dole raised a modest storm by disclosing a confidential State Department cable quoting a Panamanian diplomat as saying that Panama could not "agree to the right of the U.S. to intervene" militarily after 1999. What's more, the diplomat vowed, U.S. warships could not "go to the head of the line" to transit the canal in case of an emergency. The cable...
...frenetic search for equally dramatic events that would spotlight his skill in international affairs. In some parts of the White House' there is, indeed, the brittle atmosphere of a script shop with people designing scenarios and writing memos on public postures. The selling of the Panama Canal treaty was the President's most ambitious staging so far. World and national leaders moved through an intricate and dazzling choreography before the cameras for the public's enlightenment. But the chances for the treaty are souring now because not enough work was done in the legislative boiler room...
...those farms belongs to Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Robert Meyer, whose family owns or leases 2,100 Imperial Valley acres. Like his neighbors, Meyer believed the valley was exempt from the 1902 law because local farmers had built their own 50-mile Alamo Canal to irrigate their fields in 1901, a year before the Government offered to help out. When a federal court disagreed last August-after an eleven-year legal battle -Meyer launched a personal lobbying campaign. Contending that he was acting as a private citizen, he urged members of Congress and White House aides to exempt the Imperial...
...cherished by both sides in the Middle East debate (see box). He supported legitimate Palestinian "rights" ?which Carter, in a slip of the tongue that drew a chuckle from even the somber Dayan, first called "Panamanian" rights. (One Latin American delegate observed, "He's hung up on the canal, and rightly...