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Torrijos' threat shocks leaders
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP)—Panamanian express astonishment yesterday at Omar Torrijos' statement that it was prepared to sabotage the Panama Canal had the treaty turning it over to Panama been rejected by the U.S. Senate.
"This is crazy, he must have been on drugs," said Guilermo Endara, a leader of the Panemania Party, one of the country's largest political groups. "His comments were irresponsible. The counsel is one of them, but I think about destroying it is incarceable."
After the Senate ratified the pact Tuesday night, Tortijos declared at a news conference that Panama's "armed forces had de-
ceded that if the treaty was not ratified, or if it were amended in an unacceptable manner, then we would not negotiate. We would have started a struggle for liberation."
He also said Panamu had the capability to destroy the canal. He said that had the treaty been rejected, "possibly by Wednesday the canal would not have been in operation."
Elaborating on the statement, Torrjes said in an interview yesterday with ABC-TV that his plan to sabotage the canal was "a secret that I kept for ten years," dismissing the idea that he had been "a totoe of those conservative men who humiliate weak countries like ours."
The United States was prepared to defend the Canal if the Panamanian military had tried to take the waterway by force, Freshwater's chief spokesman said yesterday.
"It is safe for you; to assume we would be prepared to defend American interests and the canal, as we have been," White House press secretary Jody Powell said.
Torijo's statement, issued only minutes after the Senate approved the accord with one vote to spare, 68-32, still caused repercussions in Washington yesterday.
The chief Senate strategist for anti-treaty forces, Sen. Paul Laud哭,R-Nev, said the
Changes proposed for liquor bill
TOPEKA (AP) - Legislation to authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages in Kansas restaurants appears to be unconstitutional. General Carl Schreier said yesterday.
Schneider said that amending the legislation to tie the sale of liquor to the serving of food might alleviate the most obvious constitutional problems but that there would still be questions that could only be by a Rassas Supreme Court decision.
The attorney general said he advised the director of the Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control Division against issuing any licenses under the present legislation.
The Kansas Constitution prohibits an open saloon absolutely, and also a full-service restaurant in con-
dimented in conjunction with a restaurant, or in a restaurant for that matter." Schneider
The attorney general said that at least some of the supporters of the legislation had sought to justify the sale as merely permitting the sale of alcoholic liquor in conjunction with meals in licensed food service establishments.
"Such claims grossly misrepresent the effect of the bill. Nothing in the bill would prohibit a class B restaurant licensee from building on licensed premises a room which contains alcohol, or for the sale of alcoholic beverages, independently of the sale or consumption of food."
Schneider said existing private club laws have led to dispensing alcoholic liquor by licensed bartenders.
"If we, as a people, are to deal for truthly with the question, in my judgment, the people of the state must be permitted to vote on an appropriate amendment to the Kansas Constitution," the attorney general added.
about with legal fictions and sham pretenses."
Schneider's opinion is in response to a request by Reps. Ardena Matlack, D-Clearwater, Lymn Whiteside, R-Wichita, and Lee Hamm, D-Pratt, all of whom opposed the legislation to legalize sale of liquor in restaurants.
Schneider said that while the legislation removed statutory prohibitions against the sale of liquor by licensed restaurant clubs, it would allow the licenses to engage in the sale of liquor.
GNP's decline blamed on winter
performance since last year.
Projected annual economic output fell by
0.8 percent, the Commerce Department said
yesterday.
WASHINGTON  AP)—The nation's economy slumped as the危机拍紧 the绞杀。
The 4 percent level is considered important because economists say the gross
Officials said the poor winter showing made it unlikely that the Carter administration's goal of 4.7 percent economic growth could be reached this year. But they continued to rule out any danger that another recession was imminent.
national product must grow at least that much each year to keep unemployment from getting worse. The GNP measures the value of goods and services produced by business and industry and is considered the benchmark of economic performance.
The bad weather and the long coal strike were largely blamed for the decline in the nation's gross national product from January through March. But officials said a slowdown in consumer buying also was a factor.
"There was some effect from consumers taking a 'breather'," said Commerce
Officials rummage in trash to find poisonings' cause
CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) - State health officials sifted through garbage at the city dump yesterday in search of food products that may have been poisonous to be stricken with botulism poisoning.
All but five of the cases have been traced to a potato salad served at the Colonial Park Country Club. The other cases apparently received the botulism from other food.
Health officials said they did not know if
the same ingredient was involved in all 33 cases.
State epidemiologist Jonathan Mann said officials wearing protective clothing had searched the dump for food cans that were used April 9 at the club. All the botulism victims dined at the club between April 9 and April13.
Secretary Juanita Kreps. She predicted a shift in economical activity in the current quarter.
Although administration economists had anticipated disappointing growth in the first quarter of the year, they had not expected it to be as bad as it was. The 0.6 percent decline in GNP was the steepest since a 9.6 percent drop in the first quarter of 1975, when the economy was in the depths of recession.
"We're going to a rather extreme measure to try to pin down the possible source of the problem," Mann said.
The nation's economy grew at a rate of 3.8 percent in the final quarter of 1977 and averaged 4.9 percent for the year. The country averaged a broadcast growth of 4.2 percent for 1978.
"I'm not surprised" Laxait and of the Torjonian torture a bell of a hospital shattered a gunshotarium knife.
However, Kreps said that probably was not attainable now.
"We expect growth in the 4.5 percent
range, but we don't believe a 4 percent,
he said at a news conference."
Torríos statement indicated U.S.Panamanian relations may be difficult during the 22 years before the canal is placed under Panamanian control.
But the White House and State Department shrugged off Torrijos' statement Tuesday night, as did Democratic congressional leaders.
At a White House briefing, Powell refused to acknowledge a report that U.S. forces had been placed on alert. But he said that if such an order rested on him, the com-mission chief would have ordered it.
The Pentagon said fairly that no alert had been implemented. However, Defense Department officials said officers with the Southern Command Headquarters in the Canal Zone reported late Tuesday that military patroling in the area stressed that no leaves were canceled and no U.S. troops were placed on alert.
NEW YORK (AP) - ABC News Chief Roone Almeed said yesterday he was removing Harry Reasoner as an anchorman of the ABC Evening News and would give Barbara Wallers a special visit with a regular New York anchorman.
ABC ousts anchormen
"He did not fit into the plan the way we were going," Arlidge said of reactor at a news conference. "I don't think he's made any secret of that." And I agree with
Washington, Peter Jennings will anchor the foreign news desk in London and Max Robinson the domestic news desk in Chicago.
Arledge said that Frank Reynolds would be the primary anchor based in
Barbara Walters, he said, will be a regular on the show, conducting interviews and gathering "inside information."
Of Reunioner, Arlège said that discussions on his future were being conducted and that "we will announce that we have been made, what we're going to do."
Group looking for smallpox case
UNITED NATIONS (UPI)—Wanted: one case of smallpox, anywhere in the world. Liberal reward offered.
That, in essence, is how a group of medical experts from Africa and the Middle East can get around these barriers.
most ancient of diseases, has been eliminated from the face of the earth.
The last reported case was that of a young man who became ill Oct. 22 in Merka City, Somalia. Since then, nothing has been heard about it, although history has taken millions of lives.
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