Word: panama
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...taken the U.S. almost seven decades to formulate a treaty and to realize the immense injustice and disgrace inflicted upon the Panamanians [Aug. 22]. If Americans can put behind them historic mistakes such as slavery and Nixon, why not the same with the Panama Canal? Donna Leusner Camden...
Using Ronald Reagan's arguments for the U.S. to keep control of the Panama Canal, perhaps we should lay claim to Western Europe. After all, much of postwar Europe was "bought, paid for and built" by the Marshall Plan...
Controversy over the Canal When he took office, Carter hoped to establish an activist foreign policy, but now virtually all of his diplomatic initiatives are in trouble, either at home or abroad. The proposed Panama Canal treaty, the Administration's only major breakthrough with a foreign government to date, is running into so much difficulty that the Administration almost certainly will have to abandon all hope of winning Senate approval this year. In suburban Washington, domestic opponents of the treaty are preparing a massive mailing of 5 million anti-treaty broadsides. In New York, only hours after...
...China Tangle With conservatives leading the opposition to the Panama treaty as a "giveaway," the timing could not have been worse for discussion of another prickly issue: the U.S. defense treaty with Taiwan. Yet Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's visit to mainland China last week inevitably focused attention on Peking's insistence that the U.S. abrogate the treaty and thereby abandon another long-held position. To be sure, no one knew in May, when Vance's trip was scheduled, that it would coincide with the Panama debate; moreover, the Administration had been sharply criticized by Asian...
...week are by no means uppermost in the minds of most Americans In state after state, members of Congress who returned home for the August recess found voters preoccupied by personal, local concerns rather than headline-grabbing, life-and-death issues. Occasional gusts of passion were stirred over the Panama Canal treaty and the economy, but voters mentioned the President only rarely and Bert Lance hardly at all. TIME correspondents joined five members of Congress on their recess rounds. Their reports...