Word: panama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PANAMA...
...missionaries used ploys similar to highschool bake sales to attract audiences. Petersen -- whose mission took him to Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and the Honduras--organized Bible study groups, cleanup campaigns, and bike-fixing clinics...
...broaden its base. "How many niggers you got in Vermont?" a man shouts out. I peer over at the only black face in the room--that of a young security guard. He remains impassive. A burly, slightly drunk Ohioan goes to the microphone to make his contribution. "The Panama Canal is as much ours as Alaska or the Louisiana Purchase... We should make it the 51st state...
...target," says one Ford counselor. "He promises everybody." The question among the staff is whether Ford has the finesse to bring off such an exercise. "Ford is not a hard attacker," says Stu Spencer, the President's deputy campaign manager. "He went after Reagan in Texas on the Panama Canal and wound up shooting himself in the leg. He's a soft attacker." But ever since his scrappy acceptance speech in Kansas City, Ford seems to have a new enthusiasm about himself. He has pored over Carter's statements for the past several years and memorized...
...PANAMA CANAL. Stung by Reagan's accusation last spring that Ford was "giving away" the canal, the President promised, during a campaign visit to Texas, that the U.S. "will never give up its defense rights . . . and operational rights." That was a flat contradiction of instructions that Ford had given to U.S. diplomats, including Ambassador-at-Large Ellsworth Bunker, who was negotiating with the Panamanians. Later the White House was forced to issue a "clarification" that amounted to a retraction of Ford's remarks in Texas...