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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quiet Urging. The second agreement provides for defending the permanent neutrality of the canal-that is, some U.S. military guarantee that the Big Ditch will be open to ships from any nation. A number of the Latin American governments most openly in favor of turning the zone over to Panama have quietly urged the U.S. to insist on this guarantee. Otherwise, ask representatives from such heavy canal users as Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Peru, how could they be certain that some future Panamanian ruler might not shut off the canal to their ships in a totally unforeseeable squabble? Largely because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: New Deals for the Big Ditch | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...system (see diagram), which has now been completed along roughly one-sixth of the frontier, the first fence has been eliminated, while a deep, concrete-lined ditch has been added. It is intended to thwart would-be escapees trying to crash the border in cars or trucks. West of the ditch is a minefield, then a new close-meshed wire fence that begins 3 ft. underground (to prevent tunneling) and rises 10 ft. above the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: G.I. Watch on a Deadly Border | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...strictly a last-ditch effort by a desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1977 | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...almost any tactic it wants to employ within the confines of a convoluted statute, Steiner probably is right. Given Harvard's tremendous resources, in terms of manpower as well as money, Sullivan too is probably right in marking District 65's eventual defeat down to the University's last-ditch anti-union publicity blitz...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: After the Med Area Election | 7/8/1977 | See Source »

...audience. He saves the day of course, hitting the heavily protected weak link in the planet-fortress of the Empire that reduces the forces of evil to a pyrotechnic starburst signalling the end of the dark days in the universe. While the dogfight that leads into the last-ditch attack is a mite drawn out, the denouement amply compensates for any peccadillos of self-indulgence that Lucas commins as he films the dueling spacecraft...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Star Escape | 6/1/1977 | See Source »

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