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Friday, October 7, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Treaty wording examined
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The State Department announced yesterday that the United States and Panama were trying to work out a joint statement on the meaning of the canal treaties and the disputed issue of U.S. intervention rights.
The announcement followed the leak of a classified State Department cable that cast doubt on U.S. claims to defense rights in the waterway between New Orleans and Shenandoah Senate districts to the treaties.
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kans., a leader of the antitheatre forces, accused the administration yesterday of trying to intimidate him for releasing that cable and challenge his funny Carter to rubbish any other secret documents on the semal negotiations.
Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker backed Dole in what seemed to be the start of a political brawl over whether there has been a coverup of weak spots in the treaty.
Ambassador Gabriel Lewia Gaindo to clarify "points of interpretation" in the
Other department officials confirmed that the major "points of interpretation" were those raised by the leaked cable Dole gave the Senate Wednesday. They were:
- Whether the pacts guarantee U.S. rights to intervene militarily, if necessary, in order to keep the canal open and operating, as U.S. officials have claimed; or whether they guarantee no such things, as some Panamanian officials argue.
- And whether U.S. warships will have priority passage rights in the waterway during times of emergency. U.S. officials savvez. Panamanians say no.
BROWN SAID the envoys "are assessing the effects of the debates and discussions which are going on in the two countries about the treaties."
He said he expected the results of the talks to be published. . .
Dole, meanwhile, alleged in a Senate statement that the administration had raised a threat of political reprisal against him because of the leaked cable issue.
Possible Panama violence questioned by observers
"Yesterday, State Department sources
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BY WILLIAM RINGLE
Gonnett News Service
PANAMA CITY—What is in store if the U.S. senate rejects the Panama Canal
While outsiders seem to be trying to outdo one another in their predictions of violence, those who live here—Pamanianis and Americans—aren't so sure.
U. B. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, who negotiated the treaty, said that rejection certainly would produce unrest in Panama and that it could be a cause of unrest in Latin America was possible.
VENEZUELEAN PRESIDENT Carlos Andres Perez said the Senate's rejection without question would lead to such rage that U.S. troops would be forced to occupy
And President Jimmy Carter vowed to defend the canal, should the Senate reject the treaty, even if it took 100,000 troops, according to congressman who met with
"It will depend upon 'Panamanian head of state Brig. Gen. Omart' Tirojis' political condition at the moment," a veteran American observer of Panamanian affairs said. "There would be demonstrations of course, but I think he'd be able to control the
"But if economic conditions do not improve and he is weak, he isn't going to do anything that would alienate the students—because they want students in the bead so they could toplet him.
"But I don't think he wants to do that at all. Only as a last resort . . . in a letter he has said he would have to look for other peaceful means to deal with the situation."
"this is wrong," he said. "I don't think a
basket should be negotiated on that basis."
"IF IT WERE rejected so overwhelmingly that it looked as if there isn't any hope, he might turn the rabble loose on the Canal Zone, the way they did in 1964.
One U.S. businessman, who has lived in Panama 35 years and is in favor of the treaty, that because violence had been brought to him, he was sure there would be accidents.
A YOUNG Panamanian law student who doesn't belong to any of the left groups at Panama University said, "There will be a lot of work and we will not government will not do anything openly. There will be small groups to harass the canal. or a few students could do it against the government's wishes. The failure to get the job will hurt the Americans who live in the Canal Zone."1)
A well-to-do businessman who supports the government said, "I don't think any more will happen then the government will permit—and they'll permit some. Unauthorized individuals taking uncertainty and anxiety in this country in which no one will invest a dime.
"I can see a lot of people thinking about emigrating. But having lived with the present treaty for 70 years, we probably could live with it a few more years. It definitely means a continuance of recession here, it seems to me."
A member of a group of Panama University Lwas School young socialists who oppose the treaty siad. "There are students at the university who get aid from the university and who respond to its call. They want validation of this treaty by the United States. This group might react against the U.S., because they would follow Panama's orders. But we can't be sure what would be done."
DIGIENES AROSEMENA, one of a group of lawyers who has been speaking out against the treaty in the newspapers, at public meetings and on television, said:
"If the government gives arms to the people, we may have violence. But if the government keeps control of the situation, as the government is controlling the situation now, we won't have violence. I hope the police will be able to protect Praymanus if the hope the treaty is rejected by the United States. After that I hope we can continue negotiating."
Every morning at 7 a.m. a small group of U.S. businessmen, who live in the Republic of Panama, gather for coffee at the Hotel El Carmen, much as their counterparts in the U.S. might.
One notes that the Americans over in the canal Zone had been buying guns as an alternative to the British.
"They don't have much faith in our government," he said. "Here we are over here in the republic without any guns. There is a lot of gun control. I believe it would be a mass, organized thing."
Rebates . . .
After comparing it to the food expenditures, she said she found that the hall had understated its food budget and that residents should receive $15 to $20 each. Karlin said the hall's figures had been checked by other officers and the housing office had made an error.
contacted the Senate Ethics Committee staff to inquire as to whether my action in releasing the cable might have violated some Senate rule or ethic," he said.
She said one problem in budgeting food costs for the coming year was predicting food price inflation. The housing office has the warehouse figures for future food costs, but they are not disclosed to the halls until after the budgets are made, Karlin said.
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BEULAH HARDING, resident director of Pearson Hall, said she tried to stay within the budget; she made sure the food budgets were 'handled very constructively" by the housing, accounting and deans' offices. The housing office's rebate accounted for each Pearson resident was accurate, she said.
Susan Goering, resident director of Sellars Hall, said she was surprised that her hall was the only one that the housing department could receive higher rebates than expected.
"I resent and reject that clear effort at intimidation."
Resident directors from Douthart, battlefield and Grace Pearson said they are confident.
At the State Department, Brown denied the intimidation charge.
"WE ARE NOT pursuing or even suggesting that action be pursued against Sen. Dole," Brown said. "We have no intention to intimidate him."
He said the department had contacted the ethics committee merely to get information on Senate rules governing release of classified information.
"Whatatever became the open government that our President promised during the last few years, it will challenge the Carter administration to lay all its cards on the table and let the American people judge for themselves. Our canal treaties are worthy of their support."
Dole alleged the leaked cable had been classified only "for narrow, short-term political advantage", and its release would not endanger U.S. national security.
Joe demanded that the Senate get copies of "all documents, memorandums and cables exchanged between our two countries during the negotiations."
He said the failure to provide such information so far amounted to a coverup.
The treaties have no legal affect in the United States until the Senate ratifies them.
EDITOR'S NOTE—A cease-fire signed last Christmas Eve was supposed to have ended four years of Moslem rebellion in the southern Philippines, a predominantly Christian country. But a war-like atmosphere prevails in the jungle islands.
JOLO. The Philippines (AP)-Howitzers rumble in the surrounding hills. A shell occasionally bursts near the airport. Army trucks loaded with government soldiers maneuver through streets thick with bicycle rickshaws.
Revolt continues in Philippines
In spite of the nine-month-old cease-fire, Jolo is a town under the gun as Moslem guerrillas seeking autonomy continue their war against the Philippines army.
One day recently, a chartered airplane landed at the municipal airport with medical supplies for Joel's two hospitals. Then it took off again with wounded soldiers and returned to the city. The remains of two soldiers who had been hacked to death with machetes.
"TO YOU WHO come to Jolo once in a while, you might say the situation is very tense, but we who have been here for a long time have learned to live with it," said the Rev. François Faastine, Roman Catholic priest (which overlived Catholic Mosem town of 40,000.
Living with the revolt includes paying twice preceilment prices for smuggled goods.
João, 560 miles south of Manila, was the birthplace of the Moro National Liberation
Front, the Moslem-led secessionist group non技術ically at peace with the Philippine
A FOUR-YEAR reebollation supposedly was terminated last Dec. 24 by a cease-fire signed in Libya. But since then, according to records at Sulu Provincial hospital, 107 civilians have been admitted with wounds received in military action.
"Those are just the ones who didn't die."
Gian Mauianni, director of the 100-bed hospital.
A Philippine army commander said there
was a coup in Sulu Province,
guarded by 4000 soldiers.
pine army checkpoints outside Jolo, but the Moro National Liberation Front also has checkpoints. They collect from travelers and Internal Revenue men collecting taxes."
Yet Maj. Gene Tulawie, assistant provincial commander of the Philippine Constabulary, said Jolo, the capital, was the main island controlled by the military.
"ALL TOWNS OUTSIDE Joane are in rebel hands," Tulawai said. "Joane are Philip
Residents of Jolo said they must get permission from the liberation front if they wish to travel outside the capital and must obtain a permit. Drivers of private vehicles pay $12 a month.
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The cease-fire agreement gives the liberation front the right to maintain its position but the enemy, by levying taxes is done with impunity here and in Basilian, the province to the northeast where a military operation against the guerrillas began early last
THERE IS ALMOST daily military action on Jolo Island, but Tulayke said the activity is a police action allowable under the truce and not a forbidden military offensive.
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