Word: favorable
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...Citizens' Public Meeting" (see following story) and then, the next day, he was lifted by helicopter to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, where he donned red coveralls and a white hard hat with "President Jimmy Carter" painted on in green-and pronounced himself in favor of further offshore exploration all along the Atlantic Coast. In fact, he said on returning to New Orleans, the U.S. should seriously consider building a new sea-level canal through Panama just to handle the Atlantic-Pacific oil trade. By the year 2000, the President reckoned, such a canal just "might...
...kind of reception he will get in the Arab world. Said one U.S. official: "The problem with all this is how the Arabs will feel about it. Frankly, I think they will have a tough time accepting it." Although Egyptian sources expressed satisfaction that both the U.S. and Israel favor a Geneva Conference in October, a P.L.O. spokesman in Beirut rather ominously warned that Begin's plan was a program for war, not peace...
Carter, who at first had been in favor of the Cyber 76 deal, began to have second thoughts, and they were soon passed along to Commerce. Result: export license denied...
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...
...Eritreans today are also supported by most of the other Arab states-Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and Kuwait. The Arabs have always tended to favor the Eritreans over the Ethiopians because they wanted the region to be Arab-oriented. Today the Arab states support Eritrea for an additional reason: the Soviets support Eritrea's enemy, Ethiopia. The Arabs are anxious that the Horn of Africa should not become a Russian zone of influence...