Volume 25, Number 4 · March 23, 1978
Rough Passage
By Ronald Steel
The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective
by Walter LaFeber
Oxford University Press, 248 pp., $10.95
The Truth about the Panama Canal
by Denison Kitchel
Arlington House, 240 pp., $8.95
Surrender in Panama: The Case Against the Treaty
by Philip M. Crane
Dale Books (New York City), 258 pp., $1.50
Recently, along with many others on the mailing lists for known 'liberals,' I received a handsome brochure enumerating various 'myths and facts' about the Panama Canal, and imploring me to 'help make the voice of reason and responsibility heard.' The treaties signed by Presidents Carter and Torrijos last September were, I was warned, imperiled by a 'gigantic, well-financed campaign' to prevent their ratification by the Senate. To assure smooth passage for the bills, I was urged to write my senators (on postcards conveniently enclosed) and to send money to an organization calling itself New Directions. This group, I was assured, is dedicated to 'forward-looking policies,' and is most definitely nonpartisan, although, alas, not deemed tax-exempt by the IRS.
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