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...will reach a high point this week when the treaty is signed at the Pan American Union building in Washington. On hand will be 15 heads of state from Latin America, the largest gathering of its kind in the hemisphere since 1967. Whether this televised inter-American consensus will prove effective is another matter. White House mail is running 8 to 1 against the treaty. Administration head counters claim that 58 Senators are already willing to vote in favor of the pact; only nine more would give Carter the two-thirds approval he needs, but they may prove hard...
Lance may survive the criticism-if there are no more bombshells. That could prove a big if. Some critics charge that his confirmation testimony before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee may have been misleading; in addition, it was learned last week that Lance pledged the same stock as collateral for two different loans-a violation of his loan contracts. Investigations by three congressional committees are scheduled to begin next month. A probe by the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, headed by Senator William Proxmire (the only Senator to oppose Lance's confirmation last January), will...
...summer, the Koreagate investigation suddenly lurched forward last week. Former Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, 71, who was appointed counsel to the House ethics committee in July, held his first meeting with the panel and declared bluntly, "I advise those who may believe that the investigation will blow over or prove fruitless to take a closer look." Then, threatening a contempt citation, he got close-mouthed Girl-About-Town Suzi...
Smith is not expected to run into any real trouble in capturing a majority. Despite the general apathy, the polls gave his Rhodesian Front party 61% of the vote, compared with less than 4% for the far-right Rhodesian Action Party. Whether Smith's likely victory will prove to be a new lease on power or only a last gasp remains to be seen. But barring a stunning surprise, of which he is certainly capable, Smith was expected to turn humbs down on the U.S.-British proposal -thus buying a little more time, if not a solution...
Agatha Christie said that if she had ever imagined, as a young woman, that she would spend 50 years writing thrillers, she would never have made Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple so old. Perhaps, but several of the elderly detectives prove to be the hardiest. The latest ancient to carry a series on his frail back is an Amsterdam police commissioner, or commissaris. He wears waistcoats and a watch chain; he has rheumatism, unfailing gaiety and humor, but no name. The Japanese Corpse is the fifth mystery he has appeared in, and he gives every promise of providing an annuity...