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...roughly 35 miles from the Shah's rented home in exile on Contadora Island. At week's end the monarch moved into a suite of six rooms and a solarium in the modernistic, whitewashed hospital, which offers a breathtaking view of the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Gorgas Hospital, still operated by the U.S. military in the former Canal Zone, is one of the best-equipped medical facilities in Central America. But the Shah had not requested to be admitted there for surgery, nor had he asked to return to the U.S. for treatment. He understood well...
...games, except by accident, but they are not exactly fun either. Every effort is made to duplicate the real thing: actual forces clash by day and night, and umpires determine who would have killed whom. It is a natural subject for the cinema verite technique of Frederick Wiseman (Canal Zone, Titicut Follies), and the only thing lacking in Manoeuvre is the smell of commingled sweat and exhaust...
...Soviet Union will back down in any confrontation with the U.S. One passage that never fails to win loud applause: "The President said we must ratify the SALT H treaty because no one will like us if we don't. He said he should give away the Panama Canal because no one would like us if he didn't. It is time to tell the President, 'We don't care if they like us or not. We intend to be respected throughout the world...
...Trudeau still cuts a trim, athletic figure, bounding up the marble steps to his office in the Parliament buildings or skating with his boys on the Rideau Canal (though younger members of his staff have taken to referring to him -in private, anyway-as "the old man"). While there was no rekindling of the flames of "Trudeaumania" during the campaign, he racked up an impressive personal victory in his home district of Mount Royal in Montreal. He won a total of nearly 36,000, or 82% of the vote. Even before election day, his hapless Tory opponent, Harry Bloomfield, conceded...
President Carter's accomplishments in foreign affairs are striking: he led the nation in returning the Panama Canal, re-establishing relations with China, and in achieving a landmark peace treaty in the Middle East. More recently, he has demonstrated firmness and resolve in dealing with Iran and the Soviet Union, yet his firmness has always been tempered by restraint...