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...that his stand on SALT had anything to do with his plans to announce his own candidacy for President, probably this fall. While public opinion seems generally to support the SALT treaty, conservative Republicans vigorously oppose it. However, they are still angry about his votes last year for the Panama Canal treaties. Said a supporter: "We are still hearing a lot about Panama. It won't go away...
Jimmy Carter's great foreign policy victory of 1978 was his successful fight to persuade a reluctant Senate to ratify the Panama Canal treaties that will give control of the vital waterway to the Panamanians in 20 years. That seemed to settle the issue once and for all, but last week conservatives in the House, just as dead set against the treaties as their colleagues in the Senate, tried to undermine the agreement-and very nearly succeeded...
...simply to prevent Congress from voting the funds that would allow the U.S. to live up to its obligations under the treaty. The Administration estimates that these requirements will cost the U.S. some $900 million over a 20-year period. Only about $85 million of this would go to Panama; the rest would be used to compensate American workers forced to leave the zone and, most important, to move U.S. defense facilities out of the area. Calling the treaties a giveaway, House conservatives argued that Panama should pay all the costs...
Pausing between the summits in Vienna and Tokyo, Carter last week again joined the lobbying effort for the bill, and claimed to have converted 15 Congressmen. He needed every one. Despite the clear danger that U.S. relations with Panama-and the treaties themselves-could be plunged into chaos by a defeat, the Administration narrowly survived a series of votes. One proposal, requiring Panama to pay $75 million a year as part of the total transfer costs, was defeated by just three votes. Final passage approving Murphy's compromise was 224 to 202. The bill now goes to the Senate...
...President Somoza, Nicaragua's uprising is nothing more than a Communist plot aimed at unseating him. "As long as the Communists in Cuba and Panama continue to supply the weapons, there will be a battle," he maintains. The Carter Administration is also concerned about Fidel Castro's influence on Nicaragua's civil war and on the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), a broadly based collection of Marxist and non-Marxist leftists held together mainly by hatred for Somoza's regime. The evidence of such influence is scant, though U.S. intelligence reports indicate that since late...