Word: deconcini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spokesman for Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), the sponsor of the Senate bill, said yesterday, "We're doing everything we can to get this bill passed this year...
...that had been cast for the first treaty last month, an equally damaging and more substantive division arose. Half a dozen Democratic Senators-notably Edward Kennedy, George McGovern and Patrick Moynihan-agreed with Panama's protest against a reservation added to the first treaty by Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini, which seemed to imply that the U.S. was free to intervene militarily in Panamanian affairs whenever it chose. They warned that they would vote against the treaty unless a "noninterventionist" clarification was added. But DeConcini and several allies were just as insistent that his reservation not be repudiated...
Lewis turned to an old friend, William Rogers, 50, a lawyer and former State Department official who had served as President Kennedy's expert on Latin America. Rogers flew to Panama, where Torrijos told him that Panama would not accept the DeConcini reservation, and some new "statement of political and legal dignity" must be added to the second treaty. Rogers offered himself as an intermediary...
...before the first Senate vote, Carter met with DeConcini and tried to get him to modify the provision a bit. DeConcini would not budge, so the President, who needed all the votes he could get, gave in. With White House support, the reservation was approved by the Senate. On the face of it, the reservation did not seem to change significantly the original treaty and subsequent "understanding" between Carter and Panamanian Chief of Government Omar Torrijos that provided for the American defense of the canal if it was endangered. But by gratuitously spelling out the right...
...Kissinger, denounced the reservation as "immoral because the strong once again are trying to wield excessive power over the weak." Said a U.S. official in Panama: "Idi Amin couldn't live with this reservation and survive." Aware that his leadership could be at stake, Torrijos complained: "Listening to DeConcini, I ask myself the question: Have we by any chance lost a war? The U.S. didn't demand as much from Japan...