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Senate rejects House Canal input
WASHINGTON (AP)~The Senate re
jected a Panama Canal Treaty amendment
today that would have given the House a
voice in ratifying the pact.
The amendment, which would have re
quired House approval in disposing of U.S.
property in the canal zone, was rejected
58-37.
The rejection stunned treaty foes who
had hoped for as many as 47 votes. The
amendment, proposed by Sen. Orrin
Hatch, R-Utah, was presented as a con
stitutional issue.
The most votes in favor of any opposition
proposal to date was 41 on an amendment
to a treaty that dealt with neutrality of the
canal after it is turned over to Panama. That
treaty was approved last month.
The treaty being debated now would ac
tually turn the waterway over to Panama.
Among the lawmakers siding with the
anti-treaty forces on Hatch’s motion were
eight who had voted in favor of the first
treaty last month, but several others they
were counting on did not switch.
Senate sources said they may have been
reluctant to support any move that would
undercut Senate rights concerning treaties.
Senate leaders were to meet later with
treaty opponents to see if a final vote can be
taken earlier than April 26, the date agreed
upon so far.
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd,
D-W. Va., planned the meeting to reach an
agreement on ending the debate that has
occupied virtually all of the Senate’s time
since early February.
Byrd has named himself, Republican
Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee and
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. to a three-man
committee to settle on a final date and time
for the showdown vote.
Byrd and Baker support the treaty. Helms
opposes it.
Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, chairman of
the Senate GOP Policy Committee and
a treaty opponent, predicts the vote will
come sometime during the week of April 17.
Before today’s vote, treaty foes had cited
a constitutional provision that says U.S.
property can be disposed of only by the full
Congress.
"World at a glance^
From Associated Press reports
Dismissal angers Anderson
WASHINGTON — Columnist Jack Anderson says dismissal
of his damage suit against former Pres. Richard M. Nixon is “a
major setback for freedom of the press.”
U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell threw out the suit Tues
day because Anderson refused to disclose some of his sources.
The journalist sought more than $20 million from Nixon and
former top officials of his administration.
He claimed he was the target of attempts to interfere with his
work as a newsman, that his wife and children were followed, that
his income tax returns were audited, and that there was a plot to
murder him by use of poisons and another plot to inject him with
hallucinogenic drugs.
European workers walkout
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Angry over rising unemploy
ment, millions of Western European workers walked off the job,
rallied in plants or demonstrated in the street Wednesday in their
first such international labor protest.
The European Trade Union Confederation called the walk
out on the eve of a Common Market summit in Copenhagen,
blaming business employers and government leaders for the
region’s more than seven million jobless.
At least 31 trade unions representing some 40 million work
ers in 18 countries were included in "Action Day,” officials said.
‘Dead’ woman revived
REDDING, Calif. — A woman found “dead” in a field revived
more than an hour later in the morgue, Shasta County Coroner
Joe Kohn said Wednesday.
Ginger Regus, 38, who had tried suicide with alcohol and
pills, started breathing during a routine examination at the mor
gue, Kohn said.
“We started cardio-pulmonary resuscitation right away. She
was taken to the intensive care ward of Shasta General Hospital,
where the prognosis is poor,” Kohn said.
Regus, who has a husband and several children, had left a
suicide note in her home in nearby Old Shasta, Kohn said, and
drove off in her car with all the pills from the medicine cabinet and
some beer.
Sadat urges ‘flexibility’
in Begin’s peace stance
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem Begin
“should be more flexible” in peace
negotiations, Pres. Anwar Sadat
said Wednesday.
He added that Defense Minister
Ezer Weizman, seen as Begin’s
growing political rival, is welcome
to return to Cairo "whenever
there are new ideas.”
The Egyptian leader spoke to
an international group of jour
nalists and academics here for a
conference on news exchanges
with the Third World.
He was asked whether Begin
personally was regarded as re
sponsible for the current deadlock
in the Israeli-Egyptian peace pro
cess.
“Well, I don’t want to intefere in
others’ domestic problems,”
Sadat replied. “What I feel is this
— Mr. Begin should be more flexi
House reduces
S. S. tax hikes
WASHINGTON (AP) — House
Democrats voted Wednesday to
reduce Social Security tax hikes
that go into effect next year and to
use income tax revenues to save
the retirement system from bank
ruptcy.
The 150-57 vote by the caucus
is not binding on the regular legis
lative committees. But it puts
pressure on the Democrats who
control and dominate those com
mittees to push for the changes.
Democrats control the House by a
2 to 1 margin.
Congress last year voted Social
Security tax increases to bring in
an additional $227 billion over the
10 years beginning in 1979. The
increases, aimed at keeping the
system financially solvent, would
be particularly high for employees
in the upper earnings brackets
and for their employers.
The caucus vote came one day
after the House budget committee
voted to make room in its tentative
financial plan for the year begin
ning Oct. 1 for a $7.5 billion cut in
Social Security taxes.
The resolution adopted by the
Democratic caucus does not
specify any dollar amounts but
does put Democrats on record as
favoring "the use of general rev
enue funds to finance a portion of
the Social Security system with
appropriate reductions in Social
Security payroll taxes.”
ble, and I told this to Weizman
when he visited me last time. I
don’t feel like making any com
ment other than this.”
The Egyptian president also
said, as he had Sunday, that the
estimated 30,000 Israelis who
demonstrated in Tel Aviv over the
weekend for Begin to make more
concessions to the Arabs were
“wise.”
Formal talks between the two
nations were suspended more
than two months ago, although
Weizman visited Egypt last week
and met twice with Sadat. The de
fense minister is expected to re
turn next week.
Israeli spokesmen said Weiz
man brought new proposals last
week, but the Egyptians said there
had been no progress.
The stalemate centers on
Egypt’s insistence that Israel
withdraw from all occupied Arab
land and allow the Palestinians to
determine their own future. Israel
rejects the idea of total withdrawal
and Begin has offered home rule
with a continued Israeli military
presence for the Palestinians of
the Gaza Strip and West Bank of
the Jordan River.
Also, Wednesday, Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan returned to
Israel from a three-day visit to
Romania and Mideast talks with
President Nicolae Ceausescu,
which Dayan said yielded no con
crete results.
Carter to draft
inflation plug
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres.
Carter, beset by a falling dollar,
rising prices and large oil imports,
is drafting what is described as a
new, get-tough approach to con
trolling inflation.
He told congressional leaders
at a breakfast meeting Wednes
day that he wiil take a larger per
sonal role in lobbying for his
energy bill, which he said is crucial
to controlling oil imports and infla
tion, according to some who at
tended the meeting.
And he expressed what was
described as “hostility” to the
multi-billion-dollar farm subsidy
bill being considered by Con
gress, which he considers in
flationary.
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Marine Officer Selection Team
will be on campus
Date: 6 and 7 April
Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Place: EMU
Can you
shoulder it?
Command a platoon of 46 Marines?
Or pilot a four million dollar, 1400 mile
per-hour Phantom? At the age of 22 or 23,
that's a lot of weight on any pair of
shoulders. Face it—it’s more responsi
bility than most men will know in their
whole lives.
If you want to go for it, you can begin
leadership training at Quantico,
Virginia, next summer. And if the Corps
thinks you can handle the job, you’ll be
a lieutenant of Marines the day you
graduate from college.
Talk it over with the Marine officer who
visits your campus:
Ask a Marine