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...good start on improving U.S. relations with allies (only 10% disagree). Forty-six percent support his order removing travel restrictions on U.S. citizens to such countries as Cuba, North Korea and Viet Nam; 39% are opposed. On the other hand, the public heavily opposes (53% to 29%) giving the Panama Canal to Panama, even if the U.S. retains defense rights...
...American exports and imports pass through the waterway; if the canal was shut down, American commerce would be hurt but not disrupted in a major way. Increasingly, traffic is diverted from the canal, whose locks are too small to accommodate the growing fleet of supertankers. Since 1973, the Panama Canal has been losing money, and its deficit in the past fiscal year was $8 million...
...narrow Panama isthmus has become a potentially explosive issue between the U.S. and its neighbors to the south. Almost every Latin American nation supports Panama's demand for control of the canal. The U.S. has gradually recognized that the canal is a colonial acquisition of another age and has conceded the principle of sovereignty. During the life of the treaty, the U.S. and Panama would share control of the canal. At the expiration of the treaty, around the year 2000, Panama would take over. Within three years of signing the treaty, Panama would also acquire legal jurisdiction over...
...major remaining issue: while the U.S. is willing to turn over some of its 14 military bases to Panama and operate the others jointly with the Panamanian army, it insists on keeping some kind of residual force to protect the waterway in case of armed attack or sabotage. Panama, on the other hand, wants to entrust such a peace-keeping mission to the U.N.-a proposition that the U.S. views with skepticism...
...Americans who live in the zone continue to lobby hard in Congress to maintain the status quo. Last week nine Congressmen flew to Panama to talk to the Zonians. Two Representatives -Iowa Democrat Neal Smith and California Republican Robert Dornan -publicly expressed doubts that the Panamanians sincerely want a treaty...