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...pact. Until 2000, the U.S. will control the canal and its military bases. After that the treaty states that the U.S. and Panama shall maintain the "neutrality" of the canal, a clause that seemed alarmingly vague to many people. When it became apparent that this concern was about to sink the treaty, Panama's head of state, General Omar Torrijos Herrera, went to Washington, and he and Carter issued a joint "statement of understanding." The "correct interpretation," they said, is that each country shall defend the canal against any aggressive act or other threat to its neutrality and shall...
...oilmen, insist that they need increased incentives to boost their exploration activities. The oil industry contends it already spends 30% to 35% of its after-tax profits on exploration. But because all the easy-to-reach oilfields have been discovered, the drillers must now sink deeper and more expensive wells in more inhospitable regions, like Alaska's North Slope or the U.S. outer continental shelf. Since 1973 oil companies have increased the number of wells drilled by a dramatic 63.4% in the U.S. alone, but even at that, new finds have been disappointing, and proven reserves continue to decline...
...build a floor below which no man can sink, but no ceiling above which he cannot rise," he said...
...poor, dear, dead Martha Mitchell [Sept. 12] is to blame for Watergate. I didn't think it possible for Richard Nixon to sink lower, but he surely has hit rock bottom this time. God indeed rest and refresh the soul of this valiant and martyred lady...
...expect your heart to leap into your throat at this Dracula. More likely, it will sink into another corner of sour anatomy. You would never hear your heart pounding anyway. Even if there were an ominous moment, your heartbeat would be blared out by cliched music of the horror-movie ilk. Every potentially scary minute is ruined, and by the third or fourth refrain the music is not even campy enough to be funny...