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...rose the Senate's silver-haired Majority Leader Robert Byrd, ready to address the crowded chamber. After three months' tireless, tenacious work on behalf of the Panama Canal treaties, he was in a mood for Shakespearean rhetoric. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," he declared. "The Rubicon of decision on the treaties is now to be crossed...
...calling out the names. In just ten minutes of voting, the first of the two treaties was narrowly approved, 68 to 32-one more vote than the required two-thirds. The treaty gives the U.S. the right to defend the canal's neutrality after it is ceded to Panama by the year 2000. The second treaty, to be voted on next month, provides for the actual transfer of authority-and may provide another jarring Senate battle. But in the moment of victory last week, a great noise welled up from the Senate floor as supporters of the treaty converged...
Once the private celebration was over, Carter went to the White House press room to deliver a statement. "The people of the United States," he said, "owe a debt of thanks to the members of the U.S. Senate for their courageous action today in voting for the Panama Canal neutrality treaty. I am confident that the Senate will show the same courage and foresight when it considers the second treaty. This is a promising step toward a new era in our relationships with Panama and with all of Latin America." He singled out Byrd, Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, Gerald...
...bluster became the Republican mayor of Omaha. Two years ago, seeing an opportunity for greater things, he turned Democrat and captured a seat in the U.S. Senate. He attracted little notice, however, until last month, when it became known that he was undecided about how to vote on the Panama Canal treaties and that a handful of undecided Senators would soon decide the issue. TIME Correspondent Neil Mac Neil reports the consequences...
Next came National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who briefed Zorinsky anew, this time on the possible impact of a Panama defeat on the NATO alliance. Then Sol Linowitz, the treaty negotiator, invited him to play a game of tennis...