Word: panama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What crossover vote [May 17]? Did anyone ever think that people voted for Ronald Reagan to protest Gerald Ford and the pardon he gave to former President Nixon? Reagan had the issues: foreign policy, national security, the post offices and the Panama Canal giveaway...
...anyone back a candidate (Reagan) who supports the idea of having the United States become a warfare state? What we certainly don't need is another senseless military conflict (over the Panama Canal...
Reporter Bernard Diederich's article regarding la dolce vita in the Panama Canal Zone [May 17] adds nothing new to an already overworked stereotype. Most rational people living here, including the military and civilian employees, realize that the canal issue is a question of when, not if. To drag out the same cliches about the Zonians' insular existence simply adds fuel to an overly explosive situation...
...property taxes on a plot of land which, courtesy of that same Harvard, is a private garden where some 20 or 30 of the sons of alumni who made large donations (let them donate their own goddamn garden!), can drink martinis while they decide whether the Panama Canal will be safer under Ford or Reagan; when I see that all of this occurs with the approval of a majority of Harvard students who are either stupid enough to be misled or unprincipled enough to be apathetic about these and similar issues, I am glad that at least The Crimson continues...
Probably. There are analysts who argue that Henry Kissinger's sound African policy might have cost Ford some votes and that there are people who are taking the phony Panama issue seriously. Yet the polls show that voters, over all, are not that impressed by foreign policy issues, which suggests that everybody might just as well relax...