Word: panama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Panama Canal. The Administration negotiated two treaties that will give sovereignty over the canal and Canal
...been elected two years ago, Ford goes on, he would have kept the B-l bomber moving, gone ahead with the neutron bomb and the M-X missile. He also would have had less trouble than that fellow now in the White House in getting a Panama Canal treaty approved, in ending the Turkish arms embargo and in selling planes to Saudi Arabia...
Last week President Carter confronted the problem by naming a 20-member Commission on World Hunger. Said he: "We cannot have a peaceful and prosperous world if a large part of the world's people are at the edge of hunger." Chaired by former Panama Canal Negotiator Sol Linowitz, 64, the commission has a $3 million budget and a daunting task: to review existing studies on global food shortages, consult with international experts and recommend steps by mid-1979 that the U.S. and perhaps other nations can take to combat the problem...
...waging a winning write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate. Last week, 24 years later, Nelson, now a Thurmond campaign aide, slouched against the door of the National Guard armory in Greer, S.C., where, after a rousing performance by the Fairview Baptist Church Choir, Thurmond railed against the Panama Canal "giveaway" and the Labor Law Reform bill. Mused Nelson: "There's Thurmond, there's South Carolina...
...Ravenel: "The pattern of Thurmond's positions has been to resist things like integration, things like Social Security, things like Medicaid. This is a pattern I think the state of South Carolina has outgrown." Even at the cost of votes, Ravenel has come out in favor of the Panama Canal treaties and the Senate version of the Labor Law Reform bill, which is highly unpopular among most South Carolina voters because they believe it would promote unionization of the state's textile and other industries. But on fiscal matters he is more attuned to the Deep South voters...