Word: leaders
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Twice he had told Jimmy Carter that he would not support the SALT II treaty unless it was amended. But the Carter Administration still thought that he would eventually change his mind. Last week, however, Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker Jr. seemed to slam the door on that possibility. At a packed Capitol Hill press conference, he announced bluntly: "I shall oppose the SALT treaty." It was a serious blow to the treaty's chances of being approved by the Senate...
Baker's intention to work against an unamended treaty-and the Soviet promise to accept no amendments-left the treaty's fate largely in the hands of Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, who this week will spend four days in the Soviet Union talking with Kremlin officials...
...Kremlin is well aware of Byrd's key role in this fall's treaty debate and agreed to a private meeting between him and Brezhnev, who is vacationing in the Crimea. Byrd is expected to tell the Soviet leader that any further pronouncements like Gromyko's will only harden resistance to the treaty in the Senate. Brezhnev is likely to signal his understanding that it might be better to ease off until the Senate acts. But Western diplomats warned that if Byrd intends to lobby the Soviet leader for amendments that might make the treaty more acceptable...
...estimated that South Korea has more than 200 political prisoners, including the dissident poet Kim Chi Ha, whose life sentence for some critical writings was recently commuted to 20 years. In 1973 South Korean agents abducted former Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung from a Tokyo hotel and brought him back to Seoul, an operation that seriously strained South Korea's relations with Japan. Late last year the government released Kim from jail, but it still places him under house arrest occasionally...
...choose, and even to speak their minds. In the past few weeks, Park has allowed far more public dissent than he has for years, even though some observers complain that the new liberty was mere window dressing for the two-day Carter visit. Nevertheless, Kim Young Sam, newly elected leader of the New Democratic Party, has taken advantage of the respite to demand the complete restoration of democracy, and has said that he would be willing to talk with North Korea's dictator Kim II Sung about reunification. Sums up one Washington specialist: "The oppressive machinery is still there...