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Pact signing to be event for officials
By GEORGE GEDDA
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - What is shaping up as the biggest diplomatic extravaganza of the Carter administration thus far will take place next week when top leaders of 25 Latin American nations come here for the signing of the Panama Canal treaties.
As of yesterday, 18 heads of government were planning to attend the Sept. 7 ceremony in State Department Building III said the final figure may be 20 or more.
Although the focus of attention will be on Panama, the President Jimmy Carter is expected to use the occasion to demonstrate once again his regard for human rights in the hemisphere. He will do this in separate meetings with each head of government.
"These new instruments constitute a just and enduring basis for harmony in the Western Hemisphere, and we support their ratification by the Senate," the labor group's executive council said in a resolution.
IN LATIN THE canal is regarded less as an economic asset than as a symbol of U.S. political attitudes toward the region, and because it is the site in his attempt to win support for the treaties.
The AFL-CIO yesterday allied to this U.S. organization to support the first large U.S. organization to the
The signing of the treaties next Wednesday in the presence of Latin American dignitaries represents a high point for the United States in its relations with the region.
Although some leaders from the more conservative Latin countries have privately expressed reservations about Panama's eventual takeover of the canal, all have forcefully backed Panama's position in their public pronouncements.
THE ACTION DID not come as a surprise since AFL-CIO President George Meaney announced his support Monday after a personal appeal from Carter.
Carter and Panamanian head of government Omar Torrijos decided last week to hold the festivities at the Washington University in Washington, the U.S.ization of American States, a neutral site.
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WHITE HOUSE officials initially weighed the possibility of a Carter visit to Panama for the ceremony but this was ruled out for public relations reasons.
The ceremony will be meaningless unless the U.S. Senate ratifies the treaties and Panamanian voters approve the pacts in a plebiscite. If that occurs, another formal signing ceremony would be staged to put the treaties into effect.
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Hanafi leader faces life term
A jury convicted the 12 Hanafi sect members on multiple charges last month after an eight-week trial. The second degree murder and kidnapping carries a penalty ranging from five years in prison to life.
In a six page memorandum to U.S. Superior Court Judge Juthie Nunzio, marketing prosecutors Martin J. Linsky and Mark H. Tuhoe II heyed that Khaails' co-defendants be given sentences ranging from 45 to 90 years in the penitentiary.
Court case to test affirmative action
WASHINGTON (UP1) - A Supreme Court case known as "Bakke" is looming as ominously for many civil rights activists as the 19th century Pleasy v. Ferguson decision that legitimated the but equal" doctrine in race relations.
Others hope the case, involving college admission policies for minorities, will be a precedent-shattering as the famous 1964 court decision that in 1954 threw out the separate but equal doctrine and led to the court-ordered desegregation of the nation's school system.
Nunzio is to sentence the Hanafis next Tuesday.
THE CASE HAS divided the usual liberal coalition that gathers in support of nearly all civil rights issues.
And some others hope Bakke will be the critical test case that answers the constitutional questions raised by such arguments and its persuasive action and reverse discrimination.
"This case is deeply significant and may be the most important case for civil rights since Brown," according to Sen. Edward Brooke, R-Mass.
The Carter administration -under fire from civil rights groups for its alleged failure to live up to promise promises in a landmark conservative debate, decided to get into the case.
The Justice Department is preparing a brief which is expected to support affirmative action programs against the Bakke case in termination at issue in the Bakke case.
There is some fear among civil rights advocates in the Carter administration that an adverse ruling in the case could undermine their ability to set goals in hiring minorities and women.
THE CASE REVOLVES around a challenge to a special admissions program by Allan Bake, a white, who was rejected by the University of
California's medical school at Davis. The Davis program sets aside 18 of 100 places in the school for members of minority groups.
Bakke, contending he was excluded because of his race, is challenging the program on the basis of the equal protection clause of the 18th amendment. Institutional prejudice intended to guarantee the rights of blacks.
The California Supreme Court upheld Baker's challenge. The university has appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court where arguments are expected to be heard early in the court's fall term beginning in October.
"UNQUESTIONABLY, Bakke ... opens up the anti-affirmative action Pandaera's box," the National Urban League said in a report to its constituency on enforcement of federal equal opportunity mandates.
"The increasing anxiety within the civil rights community and those committed to securing equal opportunity and equitable treatment for all Americans is reaching phenomenal proportions," the Leauce said.
the division in the usual liberal coalition is seen by the unusually large number of groups filing friend-of-the court briefs on opposing sides of the
A large number of Jewish and ethnic groups have filed in support of Bakke, opposing the University's admission's system.
One, filed jointly by the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress and six ethnic groups, argued that "our system of constitutional liberties would be gravely undermined if the law were to give sanction to the use of race in the decision-making process of governmental agencies."
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Work on urban policy stepped up
By JONATHAN WOLMAN Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)—Working in the glare of public complaints that the administration has ignored the plight of the nation's poor and $t2 cities, President Jimmy Cain is stepping up his efforts to national urban policy, sources said yesterday.
An official in the Department of housing and Urban Development said a national urban strategy should be completed early this year, he added. Carter's January state-of-the-union address.
Several sources said there is likely to be no dramatic initiative in the program, in the words of one White House aide, "certainly nothing comparable to the Great Society."
TREASURY DEPARTMENT officials are expected to recommend some version of a domestic development bank that would provide low-interest loans to private companies doing business in the struggling economy, has said he would consider such a proposal.
The President was angered last month by criticism from civil rights leaders that he had neglected the problems of the nation's race relations, the citizens who are poor, and of the cities in general.
At a meeting of black civil rights leaders Monday in New York City, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told reporters, "We put President Obama to test and we will not suffer from callous neglect."
White House Press Secretary Jody Powell reported Carter's request and told reporters: "We can't expect to have everyone pleased with what we do but we will do our work."
A spokesman for HUD said Carter's urban and regional development task force has been having daily work sessions for two days, preparing staff work on the urban strategy.
The task force is a cabinet-level group headed by HUD Secretary Harris Pattis
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Along these lines, Congress is considering Carter's request for $400 million for economic development through HUD, and the Commerce Department is lobbying within the administration to triple its $320 million economic development budget
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