Word: canals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter has had little cause for complaint about press coverage. His fresh style, his often puzzling but engaging personality, his numerous initiatives-from energy to the Panama Canal treaty-have been massively and on the whole favorably reported. The first major negative story about the Carter Administration has been Bert Lance. At first not only members of the White House but other Americans felt that the press might be too hard on the embattled director of the Office of Management and Budget. But by now, congressional and Government investigators, following the reporters, are demonstrating the seriousness of the case...
...Virginia; Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff, chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee; and Charles Percy of Illinois, the committee's top Republican. They argued that prolonging Lance's travail not only would be futile, but could seriously impair the President's ability to promote such Administration priorities as the Panama Canal treaty and the energy program. Before the week was out, all three had called for Lance's resignation. The climactic events unfolded this...
...those implausible hours that are both its curse and its exhilaration. In the White House the leaders of Latin America and the U.S. dined on lobster and roast veal and hoisted scores of glasses of Blanc de Blancs champagne in warm tribute to the spirit of the new Panama Canal treaty signed earlier...
Carter has lined up some impressive artillery. The usually hawkish AFL-CIO President George Meany was persuaded to support the treaty after Carter guaranteed job rights for Canal Zone workers. Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned that rejection of the agreement could lead to bloodshed and the commitment of U.S. troops. General George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, summoned 75 retired generals and admirals to a meeting to drum up support for the treaty. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss, about to depart for trade talks in Tokyo, was rerouted to Capitol Hill, where...
Heavy concentration on the canal has overshadowed other matters, notably the SALT talks originally scheduled for this week in Vienna. They have now been postponed until the end of the month, when Secretary of State Cyrus Vance will sit down with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Washington and later in New York. Vance, just back from his none-too-fruitful meetings in China, was in no mood to rush off to another exhausting, frustrating round of negotiations. The Administration wants congressional backing to extend the expiration date of SALT I beyond Oct. 3, keeping alive what Rusk calls "history...