Word: panama
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After China will come the debate on SALT II, probably the most crucial item of business this session. To a considerable extent, the outcome depends on the attitude of Byrd and Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, who together engineered the victory for the Panama Canal Treaties. Baker, in particular, is a question mark because he is in trouble with his party's right wing for supporting the canal pact. Notes Nevada Senator Paul
...member American Conservative Union, meanwhile, has been mobilizing grass-roots opposition. It has produced a 30-minute anti-SALT film that so far has been shown on 209 television stations. ACU plans to commit far more to fighting SALT than the $1 million it spent in vain on the Panama Canal struggle. Says one Administration official: "Compared with SALT II, passing the Panama Canal treaties was playing tiddlywinks...
...already planning to ambush him on China when he asks for legislation to establish a budget for an embassy in Peking. They also will challenge his request for measures to alter the cultural and economic ties between the U.S. and Taiwan. In addition, Carter will reopen in part the Panama Canal debate when he requests legislation to carry out the terms of the treaties signed last year to turn control of the canal over to Panama by the year 2000. On both China and Panama, however, the Administration is confident of eventual victory...
...fall, Carter had run up an impressive string of victories on foreign and defense policies: ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty, sale of high-performance jet fighters to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, an end to the Turkish arms embargo, abandonment of the Navy's plans for a fifth nuclear-powered aircraft carrier...
Still unresolved is the question of who should get the cult's money, more than $10 million of which has been discovered in Panama alone. Jones apparently hoped to give $7 million to the Soviet Union. Three couriers say that they were sent by Jones from the mass death scene with more than $300,000 in cash and letters informing the Soviet embassy in Guyana of the bequest, but abandoned the suitcase of money in the jungle because it got too heavy. The Guyanese government recovered the cash, and the cult's accounts in Panama were frozen...