Word: canals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the fighting flared in Lebanon, TIME'S congressional correspondent, Neil MacNeil, was using his own experience and contacts to cover an equally historic, if quite different, event: the Senate's vote on the first of two Panama Canal treaties. In the tense days that preceded the vote, MacNeil spent much of his time walking the corridors and working the back rooms of the Senate, dogging key figures he has known over the years and listening to their speculations. MacNeil also had access to the head counts of both sides, and constantly compared them with...
...rose the Senate's silver-haired Majority Leader Robert Byrd, ready to address the crowded chamber. After three months' tireless, tenacious work on behalf of the Panama Canal treaties, he was in a mood for Shakespearean rhetoric. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," he declared. "The Rubicon of decision on the treaties is now to be crossed...
Cape Cod is at the southern end of Route 3, a natural peninsula turned into a large island: the Cape Cod Canal separates the Cape from the rest of southeastern Massachusetts. Two bridges connect the rest of the world to us. Cape Cod is shaped like an arm flexing its bicep, and the bridges connect where the shoulder would be. There are 13 towns on the Cape. One highway, Route 6, runs the length from Bourne (the shoulder) to Provincetown (the fist); 6A runs parallel from the shoulder to the crook of the elbow. Route 28 runs south from...
Crossing the canal on the Sagamore Bridge (the northern one), take route 6A east. The vicinity of 6A is an historic district--John Adams could still recognize it. Sandwich, which has a quaint village center, as do most of the towns, is the first town on 6A. The Heritage Plantation, a museum for antique cars, many of which are used in movies, is worth a visit...
...otherwise, you threatened, you'd do it yourself provided the Pentagon didn't stand against you-do you know what sort of plan the Pentagon laid down at the time? We planned to land in your country, in Sinai, if the Russians landed west of the Canal, to finish you off. Our aim was to show you that the Russians were unreliable, and so we'd have dealt you a blow that actually hit the Russians! We're in the same situation today. If you attempt to liquidate the Israeli pocket, the Pentagon will strike...