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Human rights so dominated the OAS conference that the Panama Canal issue was overshadowed for the first time in years. Most of the OAS members seem satisfied that Washington is sincere in trying to work out a new treaty with...
Rejecting these measures would bring still more trouble for other Carter proposals, notably his call for a consumer protection agency and registration of voters on Election Day; passage of both seems doubtful. Farther down the road, Congress could sabotage the foreign aid bill and a Panama Canal treaty. Last week the House Ways and Means Committee sliced up Carter's much heralded program to ease the fuel crisis, and that provoked the President to publicly criticize Congress (see ENERGY...
...Path Between the Seas looks back with frank admiration on the men and machines that toiled 44 years to join the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the Isthmus of Panama. Historian David McCullough, 44, author of The Johnstown Flood and The Great Bridge, skirts such contemporary controversies as U.S. control over the Canal Zone. There is matter enough for him in history. The isthmus belonged to Colombia until 1903, when the U.S., under Teddy Roosevelt, encouraged a local revolt and sent American warships to block the landing of Colombian troops. Congressional doves objected to the gunboat diplomacy, but they were...
...isthmus became known as "De Lesseps' graveyard." A bloc in the U.S. Senate urged a new canal site in Nicaragua-a longer but healthier route. The Panama lobby won out, partly on the argument that Nicaragua had too many active volcanoes. With the payment of $10 million to Panama and $40 million to the defunct French company, the U.S. entered into the most expensive peacetime undertaking in its 128-year history. The final bill was $352 million...
...scope of McCullough's book is enormous: he illuminates the arenas of politics, finances, science, engineering and sociology. He moves through his subject like one of those 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovels that gnawed their way across Panama. Facts are turned up by the cubic yard, sorted and arranged into a smooth, efficient narrative. Statistics sometimes tend to overwhelm the reader, but there are moments when numbers become all too human. Said one West Indian laborer about the frequent dynamite accidents: "The flesh of men flew in the air like birds many days...