Word: panamanians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against low-priced foreign competition. Farmers are upset about falling prices and want bigger subsidies. The President is also struggling to convince two-thirds of the Senate that the Panama Canal treaties should be ratified. A meeting with Panama's Omar Torrijos Herrera successfully clarified differing U.S. and Panamanian interpretations of key treaty provisions-notably the U.S. right to defend the canal...
...York, Carter reached Washington in time to see a Senate committee chew a few more morsels out of his energy program and add to his griefs over the Panama Canal treaties. Kansas Republican Robert Dole raised a modest storm by disclosing a confidential State Department cable quoting a Panamanian diplomat as saying that Panama could not "agree to the right of the U.S. to intervene" militarily after 1999. What's more, the diplomat vowed, U.S. warships could not "go to the head of the line" to transit the canal in case of an emergency. The cable, from...
...minute address, Carter touched on many of the code words and phrases most cherished by both sides in the Middle East debate (see box). He supported legitimate Palestinian "rights" ?which Carter, in a slip of the tongue that drew a chuckle from even the somber Dayan, first called "Panamanian" rights. (One Latin American delegate observed, "He's hung up on the canal, and rightly...
...most pointed questions from the committee, which seemed generally favorable to the agreement, centered on whether the Panamanians and the Administration interpret the treaty provisions in the same way. Several Senators noted that Romulo Escobar Bethancourt, the chief Panamanian treaty negotiator, recently told his countrymen that the U.S. could not unilaterally intervene under the accords to protect the canal after the year 2000. But Brown pointed out that General Omar Torrijos Herrera, the country's military dictator, is the leader who "instructs his negotiator, and not vice versa." Torrijos said approvingly at the treaty signing in Washington last month...
Allen's early mischievous tactics are aimed at embarrassing the Administration. His Senate Judiciary subcommittee has launched an investigation into allegations that unnamed U.S. intelligence agents in 1975 and 1976 intercepted telephone communications among Panamanian officials and that an Army sergeant sold transcripts of them to their government. Although U.S. intelligence officials emphatically deny that treaty negotiations were in any way involved in the intercepted conversations, Allen has subpoenaed eight witnesses to find out just what the murky affair was all about. So far, there is no evidence in Panama of any official concern about the incident...