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Thursday, April 13, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Senator says treaty changes unacceptable
WASHINGTON (UP1) - Sen. Dennis DeConcien, D-Ariz., did uncover the key figure in the Panama Canal debate, said yesterday he could not accept a proposed administration formula for a controversial amendment to the first canal treaty.
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During a one-hour meeting with deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Concini said the administration suggested the Senate be allowed to enable both Panama resolution, in which the United States would promise not to intervene in Panama.
Our position is that the president's administration to the first treaty granted the United States the right to have a military presence in the Panama Canal.
running in the face of a strike or work slowdown.
Panama has interpreted the amendment as giving the United States unlimited rights to intervene in Panama's domestic affairs. Leaders have said it infringed on Panamanian sovereignty and was there unacceptable.
DeConciin is expected to meet with President Jimmy Carter to discuss his position, but an aide said no threed had been charged with him. There was chance to consider his talks with Christopher.
Despite the amendment crisis, bipartisan leaders predicted the pacts would survive and win final ratification Tuesday.
He countered administration arguments by suggesting the president might issue a letter to the Republicans.
occurred for two weeks in the city.
But Christopher said it was important to Panama to get the Senate to adopt a modification.
DeConciuti his army amendment did not use the word need, he noted the change. He also said he would next challenge.
DeConciini said administration officials had explained to him that he might go down in history as the man who killed the Panama con treaties.
"I like to think that I am a reasonable man who does not have heart," he said.
DoConcini said he would have to see some overpowering evidence for him to change
Panama refuse to abide by reservations the Senate adds to the new treaties.
Despite the uncertainties raised by the DeConcini reservations, Senate leaders said they thought the controversy was dying down.
the second treaty with his proposed amendment and let the Panamanian react to the vote.
"I don't think the treaty has been fatally wounded," said Senate Minority leader Jon Sessions.
He said he preferred the Senate to pass
Senate Majority leader Robert Byrd said,
"I note the Panamaian have cooked it. 1
Earlier yesterday, the Senate voted $5-40 to defeat an amendment calling for a ban on public paylays in city schools.
ratify the main canal treaty in the final balloting.
The main treaty would dissolve the U.S. Canal Zone and give Palmura full control over the waters.
Both predicted the Senate would vote to
In another development yesterday, three American canal pilots wanted the Senate in Washington to provide highly skilled pilots, out of a force of 206, probably would quit within a year if the treason was ratified because they doubted they could operate the waterway competently.
Soviet to leave post, U.N. spokesman says
UNITED NATIONS (**AP**) - Arkady N.
Shevchenko, top Soviet U.N. employee
has been in hiding for a week, says he will
be back next month to conditions, a
U.N. spokesman said yesterday.
Sources said he was seeking assurances that he could stay in the United States.
in the audience.
The spokesman, Frances Guiliani, said Shevchenkova indicated he would resign once he was diagnosed with cancer.
THE RUSSIAN last Wednesday disappeared from his $86,000-a year post as unsecretary general for political and Security Council affairs. His government says it wants him fired—and wants him back.
International civil servants are entitled to remain in a host country as long as they maintain their employment. Reports have shown that they receive $500,000. Shevchenko plans to seek political asylum.
The U.N. sources said he also wanted to get back the money he has paid toward a new project, which is not expected to be completed.
A U.N. statement Monday said the 47-year-old Russian left his job because of differences with his government. Shevchenko reportedly refused a Soviet order to come home and intern Emmanuel A. Gross, but he would not return to the Soviet Union.
Waldheim said in Vienna, yesterday that he also understood Shevchenko intended to
THE SOVIET U.N. mission accused American intelligence of holding Shevchenko under duress and demanded he be handed over. But Gross said Shevchenko was in voicemail, in New York, to talk with Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim on his return from Europe.
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Russians buy additional tons of U.S. grain
The sale is the first under the third year of a long-term agreement in which the Soviet Union is committed to make regular purchases of U. S. grain.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Soviet Union has bought 250,000 metric tons of U.S. corn to be delivered in 1978-79, adding to the huge amounts of American grain already scheduled for delivery this year, the Agriculture Department said yesterday.
The sale for the third year, which will begin Oct. 1, was reported to USDA by private export companies as customary and contract prices were not disclosed.
In the second year of the pact, which began last Oct. 1, Russia has bought about 12.7 million metric tons of U.S. grain, in addition to about 6.4 million corn and 3.4 million metric tons of wheat.
A metric ton is 2,205 pounds and is equal to
39.4 bushels of corn or 38.7 bushels of wheat.
The latest sale of 250,000 metric tons of corn
is equal to about 9.8 million bushels.
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Gross declined comment on that report. The lawyer had said Tuesday that his client "has no intention of defecting" and 'intends to remain a Soviet citizen."
In Washington, State Department spokesman Tom Reston yesterday repeated the U.S. rejection of the Soviet charge and said Shevchenko was not being detained
"HE IS ELE to stay here or go back to the Soviet Union or to another country." *Resston*
Waldheim was to return to New York from his native Austria on Sunday, but said his departure could be delayed for a possible trip to Greece or Cyprus for talks on the four-year-old division of Cyprus between Turkish and Greek Cyprites.
Vance seeks Rhodesian black rule
Shevchenko's wife, Leongina, and his teen-age daughter, Anya, returned last week to Moscow, where a young woman identified herself as Anya said yesterday, "My Dad wouldn't ever want to stay in the United States."
Reached by telephone by the Associated Press, she said in lightly accented English, "I am sure he will come home to us. He loves his motherland. He loves his family."
WASHINGTON (AP)—Broad-based black rule in Rhodesia and a nuclear weapons limitation treaty that could get through the US is an obstacle, said by Vance's trip to Africa and Europe.
The mission, which began last night, is open-ended. Vance said he hoped it would lead to a Rhodesian conference in Malta or Geneva, with the militant group demanding that private blacks and representatives of Prime Minister Ian D. Smith, leader of the white minority.
If Vance can set up new negotiations for black rule in Rhodesia, the administration will have fulfilled President Jimmy Carter's pledge to Black Africa earlier this month.
If Vance's effort fails—and so far Rhodesia's interim government has rejected British-American proposals for a new conference in the Third World, he would take a nose dive.
The stakes are equally high in the nuclear weapons field.
Despite intensive negotiations, the United States and the Soviet Union have been unable to agree on terms to impose ceilings on ballistic missiles and incomparable ballistic missiles.
A tentative 1974 agreement by former President Gerald R. Ford and Soviet President Leonid L. Breznev has run into a number of obstacles. Amnesty officials have tried to bury the bomb, known to the West as the "Backfire," parallel attempts by Moscow to slow down
That would limit the two superpowers to a total of 2,160 strategic nuclear weapons each. Because the Russians already have surpassed that total, they would have to dismantle some weapons in order to be on an equal footing with the United States.
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Once optimistic about a substantial cutback in weapons, the Carter administration now apparently will settle for a 10 percent reduction.
development of the low-flying U.S. cruise missile and the differences over how to make sure the two sides are following the eventual treaty.
"Vance said this week that the United States would sign a weapons agreement with the Soviet Union only if it improved Western security.
Vance will try to break the deadlock in talks with Brezhnev in Moscow beginning next Friday and lasting through the weekend.
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Proliminaries
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Finals
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