Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only the advocates of relinquishing U.S. ownership and operation of the canal to Panama were heard last week. The committee will turn to opponents this week as the hearings continue. At stake are two treaties: one would give the canal to Panama by the end of the century; the other would enable the U.S. to guarantee the canal's neutrality-keeping it open to all the world's shipping-even after the year 2000. Both agreements require approval by the Senate...
...continued U.S. use of the canal, and American defense of it, would be much better ensured if the treaties are accepted than if they are rejected. Contended General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: "United States military interests in the Panama Canal are in its use, not its ownership. Our capability to defend the Panama Canal will be enhanced through cooperation with the government of Panama...
Until the early 1950s, some colored men who qualified because of education and property ownership could vote for white candidates in the South African Parliament. Their franchise ended in 1956; aware that coloreds tended to vote for the anti-apartheid opposition, the National Party changed the constitution to remove them from the voters' rolls. In 1964 the Colored Persons' Representative Council was established; it has no parliamentary powers but is answerable to a white Cabinet minister. Its chief function is to assist in administering housing, health and social welfare policies for coloreds...
...events are behind the bonanza. First, the rise in the price of gold from $35 an ounce to $145 since the federal ban on private ownership of the metal was lifted in 1975. Second, the development of portable dredges, some weighing only 25 lbs., that suck in gravel and sand and separate the heavier gold grains and nuggets. A dredge costs as little as $160; diligent-and lucky-prospectors can make $200 or more on a weekend...
...Peter C. Dowling of the neurology service at the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange knew that while MS is not a directly inherited disease, it often strikes two and sometimes more members of a single family. They sought out 29 such patients and examined their patterns of pet ownership and exposure. It turned out that the MS families differed from their MS-free neighbors in one relevant respect: a greater proportion of them had small dogs (defined as those weighing less than 25 lbs., or 11.4 kg.) that stayed indoors much of the time. And the MS patients were...