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...PANAMA CANAL TREATY was the first major target on Viguerie's hit-list. While the Republican Party waffled on the treaty in 1978, the New Right organized. It enlisted conservative groups, raised money through direct mail, and flew a "Truth Squad"--including Senators Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) and Jake Garn (R-Utah)--around the U.S. to denounce the giveaway treaty. While it lost the Senate vote, the New Right had raised and spent $3 million during the campaign and brought "countless members of the Silent Majority into the conservative movement." Viguerie claims the popular swell also put new conservatives...
...State in 1977, he lured Christopher back to Washington as his top deputy. "The two were like bookends," says one former colleague. Under Vance, Christopher handled more than his share of delicate diplomatic assignments, some of them at home. He was charged with rallying Senate support for the Panama Canal Treaties, for the sale of F-15 advanced jet fighters to Saudi Arabia and for the lifting of the embargo on arms to Turkey. He was also dispatched to Europe to explain Carter's decision not to deploy the neutron bomb, and last year's Olympic boycott over...
Meanwhile, the Shah, recuperating in Panama (Mexico had refused to readmit him), was beyond U.S. jurisdiction. In Paris, a nephew of the Shah was assassinated on orders of Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, the revolution's hanging judge. In Iran and in the U.S., people were digging in for a long haul...
Iranian process servers demanded that Panama deport the gaunt and wasted Shah, who flew to Egypt at the invitation of President Anwar Sadat. In the U.S. at the beginning of April, President Carter called a dawn press conference to say that he saw progress in the hostage crisis-undetected by anyone else-and won the Kansas and Wisconsin primaries that day with a boost from his TV announcement. A week later, Carter ordered the remaining Iranian diplomats out of Washington and five other U.S. cities, imposed an economic embargo on Iran, and said that claims of U.S. firms against Iran...
...beliefs underpin the conservatives' long-term confidence in themselves. First, they agree that the liberal leadership is feeble, if not deceased. Viguerie describes them as "totally out of synch with the people; you try raising money to give away another Panama Canal." He predicts it will take the Democrats four to seven years to regain consciousness after the knockout of 1980, and adds that by then, Republicans will have a collective headlock on the opposition, while the New Right continues to rabbit punch in close...