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Thursday, February 9, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Senate opens canal treaty debate
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate opened debate yesterday on the future of the Panama Canal—a subject one lawmaker called the most intensive foreign policy issue for the United States since the Vietnam war.
That judgment was offered by Sen. Clifford Case, R-N.J., as he joined others in backing the motion to turn the 64-year-old waterway over to Panama by the year 2000.
The politically-charged issue reached the Senate floor for an expected month or more of debate, both backers and opponents of the agreement still were looking for decisive votes. Neither side appeared to have the votes to swing the outcome their
KEYNOTING THE DEBATE was Sen.
John Sparkman, D-Ala., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who urged approval of the agreement after the insertion of certain leadership-backed amendments clarifying future U.S. defense and canal access rights.
It will take a two-thirds vote in the Senate to pass the two treaties, one that would gradually turn control of the canal over to Panama during a 22-year period and another that would guarantee the neutrality of the canal and U.S. access and defense rights to the waterway after Panama assumes full control in the year 2000.
SEN. JAMES ALLEN, D-Ala., a treaty officer who is widely regarded as a wizard in parliamentary strategy, and on each of the two treaties that form the canal agreement. But
he was rebuffed in seeking to have them vote on article by article. Monday said the treaties would be considered that way, with only one vote on the final document.
Allen, who said he did not intend to filibuster the treaties but wanted them voted up or down, promised that the debate would not be tied up with delaying tactics. But he said there were literally dozens of amendments that must be considered.
SENATE LEADERS and the Carter administration oppose those amendments on grounds they could cripple the treaties by forcing them to be renegotiated or submitted to another national referendum in Panama.
The opponents of the treaties, who according to most polls are about three votes
short of the 34 needed to block ratification, to激怒 to bolster their position by asking Vice President Walter F. Mondale called in procedure, for rulings on a list of procedural
Mondale replied that through long-established institutions, the English language was taught before the French.
Allen also asked whether the Spanish as well as English texts of the proposals were before the Senate, observing wryly that "we've had some trouble with the English wording, especially in the context of Mr. Torrijos (the Panamaniac leader) agrees with our interpretation."
Alen said that when debate began in earnest after the 10-day Lincoln Day recess, he was considering a move to have the debate over which it is considering the two treaties.
Reagan criticizes Carter's plans for Panama
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WASHINGTON (AP)—Ronald Reagan, in a point-by-point assault last night on President Jimmy Carter's plan to give up control of the Panama Canal, said the cost of such a move "may one day be our own freedom."
Reagan, a former California governor who raised the Panama Canal issue in his unsuccessful nomination, has been nominated, in nomination, the nation to "preserve our basic rights. We must not
shrink from it, for the ultimate price we pay may one day be our own freedom.
"The new treaties would, in a single stroke, eliminate the foundation on which our right and our ability-to permanently build our nation would be for more than six decades," said Reagan.
Reagan was given broadcast time on CBS to reply to President Carter's "fresheed chat" last week in which the chief executive implemented for public support for the canal proposals.
negotiators was the permanent right to use the canal.
In his speech, Regan quickly took issue with a number of statements Carter made in
"We have that permanent right—right now—but will we effectively have it if the Carter Torrjos treaties are ratified?" "I have very serious doubts that we will."
Reagan went on to say that Carter "left the mistaken impression that we acquired the Canal Zone by some underhanded means; that the canal was somehow forced on Panama. Nothing could be further from the truth."
`What we have—and this is very important to us—are the rights of sovereignty`
vanama exercise sovereignty in the Canal Zone.
Reagan also disputed Carter's statement that the transfer of control of the canal to Panama would not cost U.S. taxpayers anything.
The 1903 treaty makes it clear that the United States and not the Republic of
"The value of we are proposing to give away is estimated to be as high as $8 billion to $10 billion," he said. "We'll also pay a considerable amount to the government of Panama for taking it off our hands."
The former governor quoted Carter as saving that the goal of the U.S. treaty
He was interviewed in Washington as he prepared for his retirement next Wednesday. He is 65.
"I want to do what I can for Kansas City," he said. "Kansas City has been good to me. I would like to be mayor, but I just can't say that yet. I haven't yet turned it over. I don't know yet."
KANAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Retiring FBI Director Clarence Lilley is seriously considering running next year for mayor of Kansas City, the Kansas City Star reported yesterday.
"Some Kansas City friends have told me I have a really good chance, that I am popular and I would get good support," Kelley said.
FBI director considering spot in race for mayor of KC, Mo.
Federal court says policemen violated rights
HOUSTON (AP)—A federal court jury found three former Houston policemen guilty yesterday on two counts of violating the civil rights law that has been upheld by the cops who drove him or wore in their custody.
One of the counts is punishable by life in prison, the other by one year in jail and a fine.
The jury of seven men and five women was in its third day of deliberations after a trial conducted by U.S. District Judge Ross Sterling.
Defendants W. D. Wenson, 27, Stephen Orlando, 22, and Joseph Janish, 22, were accused of violating the right to vote for Tori Woodruff who was arrested during a disturbance at a tavern.
Denson was accused of pushing Torres off a 16-foot high wall into the bayou after he and other officers slapped and kicked the young Mexican-American at an isolated area near police headquarters. Torres' body was found in the bayou three days later.
Denson had claimed Tornes was not pushed, but either fell or jumped into the basement.
It was the second trial for Denson and Orlando. A state court jury rejected a murder complaint against them last year in connection with negligent homicide, a misdemeanor.
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