Word: panama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the fighting flared in Lebanon, TIME'S congressional correspondent, Neil MacNeil, was using his own experience and contacts to cover an equally historic, if quite different, event: the Senate's vote on the first of two Panama Canal treaties. In the tense days that preceded the vote, MacNeil spent much of his time walking the corridors and working the back rooms of the Senate, dogging key figures he has known over the years and listening to their speculations. MacNeil also had access to the head counts of both sides, and constantly compared them with...
...rose the Senate's silver-haired Majority Leader Robert Byrd, ready to address the crowded chamber. After three months' tireless, tenacious work on behalf of the Panama Canal treaties, he was in a mood for Shakespearean rhetoric. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," he declared. "The Rubicon of decision on the treaties is now to be crossed...
Eytan compared the difficulty of getting the resolution passed to the difficulty recently encountered by President Carter in trying to get the Panama Canal treaty ratified in the United States Senate...
...Senate Committee on Finance recently passed this version of tax credit as an amendment to the wool tariff bill, and it awaits scheduling for the Senate floor. The student aid bill has been reported out of the Human Resources Committee, and as soon as the debate on the Panama Canal treaty is finished--maybe in a week or two--the student aid bill will race the tax credit to the Senate, with each side hoping to gain the advantage of getting the first vote...
...execution of "counterrevolutionary elements" in Hangchow, and the campaign continues against associates of the Gang of Four. Nor has there been any softening of the regime's insistence that the U.S. abandon Taiwan (the issue is low on the Carter Administration's agenda while Congress considers the Panama Canal treaties and prepares for SALT). But U.S. diplomats took it as no more than a standard repetition of China's policy when Chairman Hua last week told the congress that the army "must make all the preparations necessary for the liberation of Taiwan...