Word: panama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter has had little cause for complaint about press coverage. His fresh style, his often puzzling but engaging personality, his numerous initiatives-from energy to the Panama Canal treaty-have been massively and on the whole favorably reported. The first major negative story about the Carter Administration has been Bert Lance. At first not only members of the White House but other Americans felt that the press might be too hard on the embattled director of the Office of Management and Budget. But by now, congressional and Government investigators, following the reporters, are demonstrating the seriousness of the case...
Boston Reporter Johanna McGeary, who filed on the America's Cup races for our SPORT story written by Associate Editor Frederic Golden, had only one previous run-in with sailing. While in the Peace Corps in Panama, she sailed with San Blas Indians in a wooden dugout canoe equipped with a flour-sack sail. Arriving in Newport not knowing a boom from a bilge pump, she quickly picked up enough expertise to follow the final trials. Says McGeary: "I decided to pass up the chance to sail in the America's Cup press regatta scheduled for the first...
...reference to Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Panama Canal always brings to my mind the palindrome: a man, a plan, a canal, Panama...
...expected to see Berkowitz's picture on the front of TIME magazine, but was pleasantly surprised when I saw Uncle Sam sitting in the Panama Canal...
...Senate barons who control the important committees owe nothing to Carter, and in some cases are hostile. Where the President needs the most strength, he is the weakest. John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is 77 and too exhausted to lead the forces for the Panama Canal Treaty, which would relinquish control of the waterway to Panama by the year 2000. Other members of the committee may also not have the stomach for the fight...