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...Panama plus, but overall, there are still too many minuses...
...quite a remarkable week for James Earl Carter Jr. At its outset, the President heard that the wavering Senate might inflict a shattering blow to his prestige by rejecting the Panama Canal treaty; the next day it gave him instead a narrow but important victory. On Thursday fell the mournful first anniversary of the introduction of the energy program that Carter had once called the moral equivalent of war; the following day came news of a Senate compromise on gas deregulation and at last the possibility of a breakthrough for the energy program. On the economic front, the long grounded...
...first Panama Canal treaty turned on a handful of votes, and so it seemed would the second as the critical vote loomed last week. South Dakota Democrat James Abourezk, for example, was miffed at being cut out of White House-Congress meetings trying to resolve the question of deregulating natural gas prices. California Republican Sam Hayakawa had fired off a letter to Carter complaining about a wide variety of Administration foreign policy moves. Nevada Democrat Howard Cannon wanted to tack onto the Panama treaty a relatively minor reservation. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke was pushing some technical changes. All were threatening...
...Democratic leadership and the White House eyed those potentially fatal reversals of votes 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...
...treaty was to pass, it had to include some new reservation that could appease both factions. Tougher yet, it must also satisfy Panama's unpredictable chief of state, Omar Torrijos. The General telephoned his ambassador in Washington, Gabriel Lewis, and told him: "Gabriel, we are in the ninth inning. There are two outs and two strikes. See what...