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...most worrisome issues is the new Panama Canal treaty, on which the Senate began hearings last week. To beat the drum for the Panama accord, Carter invited groups of Senators to breakfast-on folding chairs in a windowless White House conference room -and lectured them. Some victims of the sessions complained that other Presidents would have invited them to an official White House dining room and asked for their views, instead of preaching to them...
...Carter is learning fast. He has begun asking Senators to recommend 20 influential citizens from each state to receive flattering invitations to the White House for chats with him and senior officials about the canal treaty. Last week Carter had a group of Republican legislators over for breakfast in one of the spiffier state dining rooms, and surprised them with effusive thanks for their help in overcoming Democratic opposition to a number of White House proposals...
...week. Indeed, he has even refused to place on the Senate calendar a number of Carter proposals-including instant voter registration and the creation of a consumer protection agency-that he senses his colleagues do not want. Byrd has cautioned Carter against pressing for early adoption of the Panama Canal treaty, and he even publicly bawled out Vice President Walter Mondale for a minor breach of parliamentary courtesy while Mondale was presiding over the Senate (they later traded apologies). Having spent nearly two decades in that chamber, Byrd sometimes seems more interested in the rules and folkways of the Senate...
...formal opening of the great national debate over ratification of the Panama Canal treaty. Yet the spectator seats in the Senate's historic Caucus Room were rarely close to being filled...
Only the advocates of relinquishing U.S. ownership and operation of the canal to Panama were heard last week. The committee will turn to opponents this week as the hearings continue. At stake are two treaties: one would give the canal to Panama by the end of the century; the other would enable the U.S. to guarantee the canal's neutrality-keeping it open to all the world's shipping-even after the year 2000. Both agreements require approval by the Senate...