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...most potentially sticky platform planks involved foreign policy. Reagan had sharply assailed Ford during the long campaign on such issues as the Administration's policy of detente with the Soviet Union, its rapprochement with Communist China at the probable expense of Taiwan and its negotiations with Panama to relinquish gradually total U.S. control over the Panama Canal. The platform committee took up the canal issue first, rejecting Reagan language banning treaty modifications that would "in any degree impair or relinquish U.S. sovereign rights and control over the Canal Zone." Ford backers instead accepted vague wording under which the G.O.P...
...Africans' case was so flaccid that it could not be sustained, even given the strong bias against Israel and the industrial countries that prevails in almost all U.N. bodies. When Panama said it would abstain from the balloting (probably because it did not want to anger Washington, with which it is negotiating the future status of the Panama Canal), it became apparent that the resolution would fall one short of the nine votes required for passage in the 15-member Council. The U.S. and Britain and possibly Italy, Japan and Sweden would have opposed it; France would also have...
...main didn't understand. "But I support busing," he cried. When that didn't work, he tried another tune. "The Panama Canal will always be ours," he declared. Still the boos came...
Deep in the Darien jungle of Panama last week, a long, pink cayuco (dugout canoe), propelled by an outboard motor, skimmed over the 150-ft.-deep waters of the newly formed lake. Spotting a floating tree trunk ahead, Tomas Perez, a Panamanian Indian, gave the motor full throttle, then lifted the propeller out of the water. The canoe slid easily over the log, hardly disturbing its other occupants, TIME correspondent Bernard Diederich and an odd assortment of caged animals. Following closely behind were two more cayucos manned by other Panamanians and a fiberglass boat carrying the project leader, U.S. Biologist...
...bicentennial hijinks a sinister amnesia seems to dominate American's thoughts about politics. None of our prospective presidents opposed the war against Viet Nam, while two of them backed it enthusiastically from start to finish. Political discussion this year is revolving mainly around fantasy issues: can we hold the Panama Canal? Who will do the most to trim bureaucratic fat? And the raising of the "personal honesty" issue by candidates trying to avoid making substantive proposals...