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...slipping and his domestic problems mounting. The steel industry has suffered large layoffs and is pressing the Administration for help against low-priced foreign competition. Farmers are upset about falling prices and want bigger subsidies. The President is also struggling to convince two-thirds of the Senate that the Panama Canal treaties should be ratified. A meeting with Panama's Omar Torrijos Herrera successfully clarified differing U.S. and Panamanian interpretations of key treaty provisions-notably the U.S. right to defend the canal...
...foreign affairs front, the President approved a joint statement with the Soviet Union on the Middle East -and barely managed through the week to convince Jerusalem and American Jews that he was not betraying Israel (see cover story page 25). Meanwhile, he was catching heavy flak over his proposed Panama Canal treaties, both from a Senate committee and from conservative groups that describe the agreement as a "giveaway...
Returning from New York, Carter reached Washington in time to see a Senate committee chew a few more morsels out of his energy program and add to his griefs over the Panama Canal treaties. Kansas Republican Robert Dole raised a modest storm by disclosing a confidential State Department cable quoting a Panamanian diplomat as saying that Panama could not "agree to the right of the U.S. to intervene" militarily after 1999. What's more, the diplomat vowed, U.S. warships could not "go to the head of the line" to transit the canal in case of an emergency. The cable...
...about by his frenetic search for equally dramatic events that would spotlight his skill in international affairs. In some parts of the White House' there is, indeed, the brittle atmosphere of a script shop with people designing scenarios and writing memos on public postures. The selling of the Panama Canal treaty was the President's most ambitious staging so far. World and national leaders moved through an intricate and dazzling choreography before the cameras for the public's enlightenment. But the chances for the treaty are souring now because not enough work was done in the legislative...
...both provocative political statements and innovative works of film. In Canal Zone, one of his best efforts, the director travels to an American realm that is far removed from most of our lives. The results are unexpectedly harrowing. In the sunny landscape of a distant Army enclave in Panama, Wiseman finds a nightmare vision of America itself...