Word: panama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposed Richard Nixon's first two nominees to the Supreme Court. As he rose to ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, he continually upset the right wing of his party by such positions as early opposition to Viet Nam involvement and support of the Panama Canal treaties...
...decisions to cancel the B-l bomber and shelve the neutron bomb were decisively rejected in the survey. A startling 56% of the respondents feel that any treaty with the Russians limiting nuclear weapons would be too risky. Only 32% favor a new SALT agreement. Although Carter counts the Panama Canal treaty a distinct success, the voters who were polled feel otherwise. By 50% to 33%, they consider it a mistake...
Thus, for the moment at least, Carter has adopted the hard-line stance that Brzezinski has been urging all along. Indeed, at this point even Vance is not far behind. Said a senior State Department official: "This is not a political reaction. It's not like Panama. This is a threatening situation, and it's coming from the guy [Brezhnev] who can really let us have...
DIED. James Browning Allen, 65, Alabama's junior Senator and a wily parliamentarian who recently helped lead Senate opposition to the Panama Canal treaties; of a heart attack; in Foley, Ala. After rising in state politics to become George Wallace's hand-picked Lieutenant Governor, Allen fought his way past other conservative Alabama Democrats to win a Senate seat in 1968. Proving himself a wizard of the Senate rule book, he proceeded to confound his Northern colleagues by calling for a jumble of motions, resolutions and postponements on key issues that usually wrung concessions for his vocal Southern...
...Republican, the minority leader of the Senate and a potential presidential rival in 1980, Howard Baker of Tennessee has been quite a bit of help to Jimmy Carter. He played a crucial role in getting the Panama Canal treaties passed, despite threats from the right wing of his own party to torpedo his presidential ambitions. He persuaded Senate Republicans to support Carter's proposal on plane sales to the Middle East, and outraged the powerful Jewish lobby. Last week, smarting from the blows he received over the plane deal, Howard dropped in at the White House for a chat...