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...that bananas are by far the world's most popular fruit, accounting for more than 40 per cent of the world trade in fresh fruits. Their initial goal was to levy a dollar tax on every box of bananas. Ecuador, the biggest producer, dropped out first, and finally only Panama held the line. Honduras agreed to a 25-cent tax. To be sure the agreement would hold, United Fruit paid someone in the Honduran government half of a $2.5 million bribe; soon afterward, a group of young officers overthrew President Lopez Arellano. While the corruption is a classic theme...
...Independent Party's platform is rather similar to the American Party's, although it includes some more specific demands, such as full control over the Panama Canal. The AIP is anti-big government, anti-gun control, anti-social welfare programs, anti-ERA, abortion, etc. You can figure out what their position will be by taking the most conservative line possible, and then moving 15 yards to the right...
Since its inception, CORU has tried to sever Castro's growing ties with other Caribbean nations and freeze U.S.Cuban relations in a state of permanent hostility. In pursuit of that goal, the clandestine terrorists have bombed and shot up Cuban offices in Jamaica, Barbados, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Mexico; in an abortive attempt in July to snatch a Cuban consul in Yucatán, the terrorists instead killed a visiting Cuban fisheries expert. More shockingly, CORU apparently arranged the bombing-murder in Washington last month of former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier (TIME...
...rhetoric. But most importantly, we do not have a clear Carter philosophy. His record since his Georgia days does not reflect a consistent philosophy, but political opportunism. He now denies his support for George Wallace in 1972. The size of his defense cut has shrunk. His stand on the Panama Canal is a reaction to the conservative opinion Reagan mobilized and not a part of a coherent foreign policy. Yugoslavia, busing, abortion... From the first, the Carter campaign was based not on a positive program, but on a negative appeal to people disillusioned with Washington politics and its seeming corruption...
...doled out his share of misrepresentation and, in the case of aspects of his role in stopping the initial congressional study of Watergate, silence. Carter's elusiveness is indeed unsettling, as are his conservative stands on several domestic and foreign policy questions such as balanced budgets, gun control, the Panama Canal and detente...