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...recent Gallup poll indicated that the more Americans know about the treaties, the more likely they are to favor ratification. Hoping that grass-roots approval will be reflected in Washington, the Administration has sent Negotiators Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz on the road to drum up support for the treaties. The Panamanians have said si, but for the U.S. Senators it's still wait...
...Ellsworth Bunker, 83, who also supports mandatory retirement, retired as director of the National Sugar Refining Co. at 56, and since then he has devoted himself to public service as an ambassador to various trouble spots, including Viet...
...undertake special missions for the President like him. Clark Clifford, adviser to Presidents since Truman's day, says unequivocally, "Jimmy Carter has the best mind of any President I have known." Yet those like Clifford, and Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz, who negotiated the Panama Canal treaty, have come from the Oval Office sometimes not quite sure they know Carter...
Carter is indeed out on a limb. The fact is the canal has a constituency and the treaty has no constituency," says Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, who along with Sol Linowitz negotiated the accord. By one nose count, only 35 Senators now favor the treaty, 22 are opposed and 43 are undecided-far short of the two-thirds vote needed for approval. But the undecided count may be deceptive. A vote on the treaty is not likely to occur until early next year and, as one Republican Senator asks, "Why shouldI make my position known now? I'd just...
...Administration almost certainly will have to abandon all hope of winning Senate approval this year. In suburban Washington, domestic opponents of the treaty are preparing a massive mailing of 5 million anti-treaty broadsides. In New York, only hours after he was briefed on the treaty by U.S. Negotiators Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz, California Republican Ronald Reagan informed a convention of the Young Americans for Freedom: "I told the ambassadors not to get their hopes too high. I do not believe we should ratify this treaty." Also distressing was the decision of Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd...