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Eytan compared the difficulty of getting the resolution passed to the difficulty recently encountered by President Carter in trying to get the Panama Canal treaty ratified in the United States Senate...
...Senate Committee on Finance recently passed this version of tax credit as an amendment to the wool tariff bill, and it awaits scheduling for the Senate floor. The student aid bill has been reported out of the Human Resources Committee, and as soon as the debate on the Panama Canal treaty is finished--maybe in a week or two--the student aid bill will race the tax credit to the Senate, with each side hoping to gain the advantage of getting the first vote...
...public affairs, at least as a tactful witness if not as a commentator, has often been good and sometimes distinguished. The networks have risen to large occasions - the McCarthy hearings, assassinations, moon shots. Perhaps a prefigurement can be seen in the radio broadcasts of the Senate's Panama Canal debates. The broadcast of the debates has raised the tone and self-awareness of the speakers. If the networks established a pool system and followed certain rules of discretion laid down by the House management, the system would surely produce something better than the somewhat stolid and formal self-portrait...
...counterrevolutionary elements" in Hangchow, and the campaign continues against associates of the Gang of Four. Nor has there been any softening of the regime's insistence that the U.S. abandon Taiwan (the issue is low on the Carter Administration's agenda while Congress considers the Panama Canal treaties and prepares for SALT). But U.S. diplomats took it as no more than a standard repetition of China's policy when Chairman Hua last week told the congress that the army "must make all the preparations necessary for the liberation of Taiwan...
...were to endorse the treaties after well-publicized visits to Panama; then they were to bring the treaties to the Senate floor, where individual Senators would be allowed to appease critics at home by amending the pact with an "understanding" clarifying the U.S. right to intervene to protect the canal's neutrality after 2000. But as of last week the pro-treaty forces remained short of the 67 votes (two-thirds of the Senate) needed to pass the pact...