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President Carter's accomplishments in foreign affairs are striking: he led the nation in returning the Panama Canal, re-establishing relations with China, and in achieving a landmark peace treaty in the Middle East. More recently, he has demonstrated firmness and resolve in dealing with Iran and the Soviet Union, yet his firmness has always been tempered by restraint...
...share many of the same positions; but their public statements, as Roy Reed wrote in the Times magazine, are very different. Reagan's position on the Panama Canal: "We built it. We paid for it. It's ours." Says Bush: "I understand trying to break out of colonialism. I understand that you don't go out and cut a swath through another guy's country to build a canal. But I think it's of overriding importance that the United States keep its commitments, and that's the reason I oppose the treaty." On paper it may sound like...
...deck of 4 by 6 prompting cards, printed neatly with parables and short quips. When cornered to speak on the issues, his answers are hard to distinguish from the one liners. Blockade Cuba. Give business a free hand. Forget about making deals with the Russians, Hang on to the Panama Canal. "We built it. We paid for it. It's ours and we are going to keep...
Third, I am dismayed by the sort of naivete or ideological partisanship which determines "guilt" of an international development adviser by the regime with which he "associates." In my career in the Agency for International Development (AID), I have worked with such motley regimes as those of Torrijos in Panama, Velasco in Peru, Banzer in Bolivia, Burnham in Guyana and Somoza in Nicaragua. Like most Third World countries, none of them were models of participative democracy. However, they were all serious about development; and in each of them there were people with whom I and our AID mission could work...
ARNOLD C. HARBERGER made a name for himself doing cost-benefit analyses of development projects in such far-flung places as Chile and Columbia, Uruguay and Bolivia, Panama and Mexico. He has written dozens of articles and a book, Project Evaluation, which explain how to calculate rationally the pluses and minuses of development projects...