Word: canals
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...President Marco Aurelio Robles, 58, had only to look around to see what he is up against. Across the street from the Legislative Palace, where he took the oath of office, stood the burned-out husk of the Pan American Airways Building, destroyed in last January's Canal Zone riots. On rooftops around the palace, troops with rifles at the ready guarded against a rumored assassination attempt. Inside, a handful of opposition Congressmen managed to delay the inauguration two hours with a noisy parliamentary argument. Yet Robles brimmed with confidence. "I have never in my life felt stronger...
...reforms if he can keep them up, President Robles hopes to rebuild U.S. confidence in Panama and encourage the aid he needs to press on with Alianza programs expanding agriculture, building more schools, homes and roads. The first step in regaining U.S. confidence would be to settle the current canal treaty differences and agree on a plan for a new, sea-level canal to replace the 50-year-old lock system. Both sides privately describe the discussions as "excellent...
...first suggested more than 40 years ago by British Obstetrician Grantly Dick Read, who taught that bearing children is not necessarily painful, that pain comes only because of fear, which may interfere with contractions of uterine muscles that open the womb and push the child out through the birth canal. Pavlovian psychologists in Soviet Russia took Dick Read's idea one step farther. Both fear and pain, they reasoned, could be overcome by conditioning. During the 1940s, Soviet doctors began educating mothers to be unafraid of childbirth, and by 1951 hospitals in Moscow, Kharkov and Leningrad all used...
Miller used material gathered by former House Un-American Activities Committee Researcher Fulton Lewis III to intimate that Humphrey personally favors every position ever taken by A.D.A., such as recognition of Red China, readmission of Cuba to the Organization of American States, "total abandonment of, the Panama Canal," and turning Berlin over to the United Nations...
...suggests. Quaife tried too much, too fast, too young. He advanced his policy (which Snow clearly thinks is good and has in fact been urging publicly for years) a decade too early for a party still reluctant to accept the meaning and the political consequences of the 1956 Suez Canal crisis. There was a hint of scandal over a mistress. He was sandbagged by civil servants, deserted by a key Tory supporter grown jealous of his success. But in the end, Narrator Eliot makes clear, there was no one reason for his defeat...