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...amazing how Gerald Ford would have managed the approval of the Panama Canal treaty more quickly, ended the Turkish arms embargo and sold planes to Saudi Arabia and, at the same time, would have moved ahead with a modest tax cut, kept the B-l bomber, gone ahead with the neutron bomb and the M-X missile and designed an energy policy to encourage new oil exploration and alternate sources without taxing them. All he needed was four more years. It seems that the poor little country boy from Plains, Ga., has managed to get some things accomplished without previous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1978 | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...CAMPAIGN LITERATURE Tower is portrayed as the fearless defender of "our fellow Texans against the forces moving to destroy America's economic, social and moral values": the "Eastern Labor Bosses," the big government spenders, the supporters of the Panama Canal treaties and busing, and the opponents of a constitutional amendment to allow prayer in public schools. Here at least Tower is truthful. In his 17 years in the Senate, he has spoken as the obstructionist, the perennial naysayer. He has never authored any major piece of legislation...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Pissants and Pablum | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

...pact between U.S.-supported right-wing Central American military dictatorships (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua) for the purpose of preventing "communist subversion" in the region. CONDECA has direct links with the CIA, and is regularly advised by the Department of Defense via the U.S. Army Southern Command in Panama...

Author: By Charles H. Roberts, | Title: U.S.-Sponsored Genocide | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

...Panama Canal. The Administration negotiated two treaties that will give sovereignty over the canal and Canal

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter vs. Congress | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Zone to Panama by the year 2000. After intense nationwide debate, the Senate narrowly approved the treaties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter vs. Congress | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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