Word: panama
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...excerpts also include Carter's observations on three presidential achievements of which he is most proud: his emphasis on human rights as a high-priority principle of U.S. foreign policy; his politically damaging and difficult campaign to negotiate treaties yielding eventual control of the Panama Canal; and his steps to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil and seek an end to a situation in which "the greatest nation on earth was being jerked around by a few desert states...
...incumbent President as an adversary. I had a rough row to hoe from the beginning. I also did not give the Congress any goodies to take home, nothing popular, where a Congressman could go home and say: "You ought to re-elect me because I voted for the Panama Canal Treaty or because I voted to increase oil prices by deregulation...
...reasons he was not re-elected is that he addressed difficult issues; that he did not yield to political expediency; that his basic principles were sound; and that he was effective in some of the major tasks he undertook?energy, arms control, Alaska lands, the Panama Canal, the Middle East, China relations. I hope history will deal kindly with me. But I am at peace with the knowledge I did the best I could...
...desert and the 444-day ordeal that ended in freedom for the hostages. Carter also tells of those achievements for which he expects historians to give him greater credit than did the U.S. voters who rejected him in 1980: his human rights policy; the treaty yielding control of the Panama Canal; and his efforts to end U.S. dependence on foreign...
Other Latin American countries will soon find themselves repeating Mexico's experience. Brazil's debt now stands at $75 billion, and its economy experienced a 4 percent decline in gross national product last year. In 1980, Bolivia and Panama each owed amounts exceeding their gross national products. Peru recently diverted $2 billion from development funds to service its debt. Altogether, Latin America's foreign debt amounts to $240 billion...