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Carter has asked all of his Cabinet members to "go get 'em" too. In addition, he is considering another fireside TV speech on energy, possibly combined with an appeal for the Panama Canal treaties. Also under consideration: another televised phone-in on his energy proposals...
...understand each other." So said Panama's General Omar Torrijos Herrera last week, soon after he emerged from a 105-minute session with Jimmy Carter in the White House. It was no idle remark. Just how the two leaders under stood the meaning of certain key elements of the Panama Canal treaties had become a crucial question in Carter's struggle to sell the pacts to the Senate and a still skeptical U.S. public. By week's end, with the aid of a three-paragraph "statement of understanding," Carter seemed to have dealt deftly with the dispute...
...crisis of understanding swirled largely around the issue of U.S. rights, including defense rights, when Panama takes full control of the canal after...
...will be asked to approve the canal pacts in a referendum on Oct. 23, it does not appear at all in the text. Instead, the U.S. right to defend the canal against attack is cloaked in the seemingly ambiguous phrase, "The United States of America and the Republic of Panama agree to maintain the regime of neutrality established in this treaty...
...Senate and the Foreign Relations Committee to the White House. Over coffee and doughnuts, he showed them a draft of a proposed "statement of understanding" on defense rights and revealed that he had invited Torrijos to stop off at the White House on his way back to Panama after a trip to Europe and the Middle East...