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...fluctuating group of Republican legislators to whom Carter owes his main successes in Congress. The importance of G.O.P. support is most obvious in foreign affairs. Led by Minority Leader Howard Baker, 16 Republican Senators helped provide the one-vote margin that ensured passage of the Panama Canal treaties. Republican Senators voted 26 to 11 to authorize the sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia, whereas Democrats opposed...
...been elected two years ago, Ford goes on, he would have kept the B-l bomber moving, gone ahead with the neutron bomb and the M-X missile. He also would have had less trouble than that fellow now in the White House in getting a Panama Canal treaty approved, in ending the Turkish arms embargo and in selling planes to Saudi Arabia...
Last week President Carter confronted the problem by naming a 20-member Commission on World Hunger. Said he: "We cannot have a peaceful and prosperous world if a large part of the world's people are at the edge of hunger." Chaired by former Panama Canal Negotiator Sol Linowitz, 64, the commission has a $3 million budget and a daunting task: to review existing studies on global food shortages, consult with international experts and recommend steps by mid-1979 that the U.S. and perhaps other nations can take to combat the problem...
...specialists at tailoring their positions to rightwing fashions. Thurmond may perform octogenerian calisthetics, and Helms may run off his mouth in seemingly candid ways, but the iconoclasm is a put-on. Both are skilled professionals when it comes to pushing the panic buttons on issues like the Panama Canal, gun control and the ERA. And both know that while race as a campaign issue has had its day, there are other issues that play on the hopes and fears of working class whites...
...frustration over the then deadlocked peace discussions. This week, at the end of the two-day Jewish New Year celebrations, Israeli negotiators will fly to Cairo to discuss where, when and how the negotiations will be carried out. The Egyptians want to hold them at Ismailia, the Suez Canal town where Begin paid a call on Sadat last December, following Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem. But the Israelis will insist that some of the discussions be held in Beersheba, capital of the Negev...