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SALT II, perhaps the most crucial business before the Senate, will be subjected to stern scrutiny. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston of California has put together a bipartisan group of Senators who have been meeting with Administration officials to exchange views on SALT. Cranston acknowledges that the treaty "can't be based on trust that the Soviet Union will live up to its terms. We've got to have the ability to monitor their adherence or nonadherence." SALT opponents, who estimate that they have close to 25 solid votes against the pact (34 are needed to defeat it), have...
...them? "I'd never fool with the government," Appleton advises inflamed citizens. "Too slow. By the time they get around to solving a problem, the guy has either solved it himself or died." No exaggeration, that. Here is how the Providence Journal-Bulletin had to answer E.M. of Cranston, R.I., who had complained that the Social Security people were giving him the runaround: "Sadly, we are writing this answer to E.M.'s widow. (See story on Page...
Still, Carter's veto of the bill meant a split with his party allies on Capitol Hill: Speaker Tip O'Neill, House Majority Leader James Wright, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Majority Whip Alan Cranston. When Carter spurned them, they were resentful...
...President got able assistance from his Senate allies, especially Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Senators Henry Jackson and Alan Cranston. They labored skillfully to keep wobbling votes in line. The final tally was a bewildering blend of liberals and conservatives from both parties. The opposition, similarly, contained such strange political bedfellows as Ted Kennedy and Barry Goldwater, George McGovern and Robert Dole. Byrd eventually won approval of the bill by not exaggerating its importance. The compromise was better than nothing, he told the Senate, and it was now or never. The U.S. had to demonstrate to the world that...
...Senate. Though some 40 Senators are believed generally in favor of a new strategic arms pact along the lines that currently seem possible, at least 20 are believed resolutely against it. This raises the ominous possibility of rejection of a treaty by Congress. California's Senator Alan Cranston has gone so far as to say that failure by Congress to ratify a good agreement by the necessary two-thirds majority would be "catastrophic." SALT's foes, led by Senator Henry Jackson, contend, on the other hand, that a bad treaty would have its own catastrophic consequences...