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...Congressmen, at which he pushed his case for the package sale of airplanes to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel. Congress can block the plane sales if both chambers agree to do so, but the White House claims confidence that this will not happen. No vote is expected until the Panama Canal issue is resolved next month...
Zorinsky went off to meet a group of 200 Nebraska farmers, who were in Washington with many others to pressure Congress for higher farm prices. Many of them urged him to make a deal: higher prices in exchange for the Panama treaties. Zorinsky balked. Said he: "Once I do that, that will establish what I am, and only leave the price to be negotiated. I don't want to be seen by the White House or anyone else as a Senator who has his price...
...world surely changed a bit with the Panama Canal vote last week, and so did Jimmy Carter, his White House and Government. Carter shed some more of that evangelical sheen, orchestrating millions of dollars for a few votes, just like an oldtime pol. There are no cases of his grabbing a man by the lapels and demanding his vote, but at last he abandoned his "I understand your problems" approach to a wavering legislator. He kept up the pressure, in the language of the cloakroom-"I need your vote...
...there was another side to the story. Along with a wistful new look at Carter, there were new questions about Congress. Norman Ornstein, an authority on Congress, marveled throughout the Panama debate at the intensity of the struggle for a treaty plainly necessary for America in the modern world. Why should the national interest be so hard for the Senate to discern? he wondered. He offered part of an answer. Those highly educated and staffed members of the 95th Congress, so renowned for their independence, are too often more concerned about gaining political popularity by defying the President than they...
...know whether to start this piece with an American battleship dashing round the Horn in wartime, a biologist slicing the salivary gland of a female mosquito, a volcanic eruption killing 30,000 people . . . or the vote of the United States Senate last week on the Panama Canal...