Panama Canal: The Endless Debate of the Carter-Torrijos Treaties
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    • The Great Debate
    • Treaty and the Public
    • Treaty and the Senators
    • Carter the Chief Diplomat
    • Victory at Last
    • Senator List
  • Consequences, Successes and Failures
    • Short Term
    • Long Term
    • Unintended Consequences
  • Conclusion
  • Political Cartoons
  • Process Paper
  • Bibliography

 Fear of Communism

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Opponents:

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"I would fear if the Canal gets in the hands of Panama, after several years it would end up in the hands of the Communits. I think that's very dangerous, we cannot take the chance. We must protect the security of the U.S. and the free world" - Republican Strom Thurmond (Source: PBS: The Mac Neil/Lehrer Report -- August 17, 1977)

"Others saw dangers of a communist take over in Central America"- (Robert A. Strong, Jimmy Carter and the Panama Canal Treaties)

"The present and potential influence of Cuba on Panama and the growing influence of the Soviet Union in the Caribbean"  -Hans G. Kausch, The World Today, Vol. 34, No. 11 (Nov., 1978).

"to abandon the waterway was to invite a communist takeover"
- The Limits of Victory, George D. Moffett




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