Word: panama
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...West Virginia; Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff, chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee; and Charles Percy of Illinois, the committee's top Republican. They argued that prolonging Lance's travail not only would be futile, but could seriously impair the President's ability to promote such Administration priorities as the Panama Canal treaty and the energy program. Before the week was out, all three had called for Lance's resignation. The climactic events unfolded this...
...those implausible hours that are both its curse and its exhilaration. In the White House the leaders of Latin America and the U.S. dined on lobster and roast veal and hoisted scores of glasses of Blanc de Blancs champagne in warm tribute to the spirit of the new Panama Canal treaty signed earlier...
Signing the Panama Canal pact was easy; selling...
...state descended on Washington at once. Nineteen national leaders, along with top officials of eight other Western Hemisphere nations-from Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to Argentina's President Jorge Rafael Videla-were in town with full, glittering retinues. The occasion: the signing of a Panama Canal treaty that was initialed last month after 13 years of on-and-off efforts through the Administrations of four U.S. Presidents...
...relish and trimmings that Jimmy Carter could concoct. In the pillared, chandeliered, flag-draped Hall of the Americas in the Pan American Union building, Carter and Panamanian Strongman General Omar Torrijos Herrera signed two treaties (TIME cover, Aug. 22). The first gradually cedes control of the canal to Panama by the year 2000. The second guarantees permanent U.S. protection of the canal. "This opens a new chapter in our relationship with all the nations of this hemisphere," Carter told an audience of 1,500. He made a point of adding that if a new, sea-level canal is built...