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...market his ideas. His forces are maneuvering to gain a majority on the Republican Platform Committee. When it meets the week before the August convention, it may well adopt Reagan-sponsored planks opposing abortion, the exchange of ambassadors with China, and further negotiations over the future of the Panama Canal. Even if Ford squeezes out the nomination, he may be stuck with a platform promising to undo some of his own policies...
...much and was hard to arrange), each fresh audience would hear it as largely new, and could smile or sneer in resignation at the snippets it already knew−Carter's longing for a Government as good as the American people, Reagan's chant that the canal is ours, Ford's conviction that a Government big enough to run things is a Government big enough to threaten us. These became applause lines just as carefully prepared and as essentially empty as Joe Penner's "Wanna buy a duck?" once was. Only occasionally did a reporter...
...hijinks a sinister amnesia seems to dominate American's thoughts about politics. None of our prospective presidents opposed the war against Viet Nam, while two of them backed it enthusiastically from start to finish. Political discussion this year is revolving mainly around fantasy issues: can we hold the Panama Canal? Who will do the most to trim bureaucratic fat? And the raising of the "personal honesty" issue by candidates trying to avoid making substantive proposals...
Most party experts are resigned to a hectic convention, with a battle over the party platform as well as the nominee. Reagan's forces are likely to insist on strong planks on defense of the Panama Canal, against abortion and against detente. Should Ford win the nomination, he could find himself running on a Reagan platform. In such a situation, his advisers say he would simply ignore the platform...
...second address, dealing with cooperation on economic development for the hemisphere, Kissinger proposed setting up a regional consultative mechanism on commodity prices. He also declared that a new treaty being negotiated on the Canal Zone would give "full regard to the aspirations of the Panamanian people...