Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The stalling of ERA is a tribute to its opponents' impassioned well-organized campaign. Some have tried to scare the public with exaggerated warnings of legalized homosexual marriages, unisex public toilets and other horrors. More restrained critics have wondered if the amendment is really necessary, since women's...
One noted columnist in The New York Times applauded the backroom resolution of the Helms case, trumpeting the Carter administration line that the no contest plea at once placed on the record the former CIA chief's criminality and also protected national security secrets from disclosure in an open federal...
A. No question has aroused more anxiety or opposition to the pact. Until 2000, the U.S. will control the canal and its military bases. After that the treaty states that the U.S. and Panama shall maintain the "neutrality" of the canal, a clause that seemed alarmingly vague to many people...
The Carter-Torrijos understanding seemed to answer the question of intervention to almost everyone's satisfaction. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who has not said how he stands on the treaty, described the understanding as "a very important diplomatic achievement and a big plus for the President and the...
When the Carter-Torrijos statement was released after the two held their meeting three days later, it contained one image-saving concession much desired by the Panamanian: it affirmed that none of the canal defense provisions should be "interpreted as a right of intervention of the United States in the...