Word: panama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cabinet Officers Joe Califano and Mike Blumenthal, thwarting Ted Kennedy, and working on the release of the hostages. He gets worked up when he talks of meetings with the Shah, recalling the monarch's piercing eyes staring suspiciously at him, refusing to believe that no country except Panama would accept him. He dealt covertly for months with the Iranians, and they had their own name for this American who might break the impasse: the Cowboy...
...vice presidency, but a certain amount of opposition to him is building. While his skilled performance as Senate minority leader has won him the plaudits of G.O.P. moderates and even Democrats, he remains unacceptable to much of his party's right wing because of his support of the Panama Canal treaties and federal funding for abortions...
...obvious candidates, Bush and Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, both have drawbacks: Bush is considered a weak campaigner by some Reaganites, and Baker is vigorously opposed by fervent conservatives displeased by his votes to provide federal financing for poor women's abortions and his support of the Panama Canal treaties. Other possibilities include a host of Republican Governors and Senators and, some Reagan staffers insist, former President Gerald Ford-though that seems a very long shot indeed...
Carter hears the message to be more cautious and restrained. "Anything that produces significant change will be met with resistance," insisted the President. "Change is risky. Its outcome is impossible to predict. Substantial forces are always marshaled on both sides. Had the Panama Canal Treaty been voted down, that would have been a major blow. It was risky. We had to take a risk going against the Moscow Olympics...
...Panama Canal treaties. The Administration's knockdown, drag-out, barely successful battle for Senate ratification left political scars that have still not healed...