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...have to talk rather plainly," said House Republican Leader John Rhodes, who will preside over the G.O.P. National Convention. "I don't relish the idea of the U.S. having the choice of Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan." He went on: "There are issues being bandied around?like the Panama Canal. It didn't help any to have the negotiations resumed three days before the Texas primary.-It didn't do any good having [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger in Africa a week before. We have to develop a new and more responsive strategy." Although Rhodes...
Reagan attacked Ford for cutting back on military bases and post offices while continuing to subsidize the United Nations. The U.S. contribution should be reduced at once, said Reagan. He also accused the President of planning to give away the Panama Canal to a "tinhorn dictator friend of Fidel Castro's. Personally, I would tell this jerk we bought it, we paid for it, and we are going to keep it." Ford replied that he had no intention of "giving away" the canal...
Deathwish (Charles Bronson) Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10; Films about the Red Flag Canal in China, Sunday at 2 p.m.; experimental films: Family Portrait Sittings by Alfred Guzzetti, Sunday...
...Colt made all men equal." Reagan may have looked small coming into the Texas primary, but he had the political equivalent of a six-shooter, only better. He persistently won applause for his attacks on Ford's defense policies, especially on the issue of American control of the Panama Canal, which for some reason hit many Texans where they live. It's hard to guess why, since most Texans have never been further south than Piedras Negras, or wanted...
Crucial to the emergence of the Canal issue was Reagan's tough-guy talk. He warned that Ford and Kissinger were planning to turn the Canal over to the government of Panama, and summed up his own position bluntly: "We bought it, we paid for it, we built it, and we're going to keep it." Though his analysis was weak, his rhetoric was strong, and an electorate only a couple of generations removed from the frontier and the justice of Judge Roy Bean responded instinctively...