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Latest update on the Panama Canal business, courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor. A Nov. 7 rundown shows 33 senators have declared their support for the Treaty; 27 are still against; forty, including both the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders (Byrd and Baker), are still undecided. . . . Sen. John Danforth (R., Mo.) who was leaning for, is now leaning against. . . . Sen. Hayakawa, who said he might break ranks and vote ratification, reports he has now received 100,000 letters against. . . . Sen. Robert Byrd, who led a delegation of seven Democrats to Panama last week, says if he decides to go against Jimmy Carter on this one it will be sotto voce (“I will cast my vote as senator from West Virginia,” i.e., not as Majority Leader).

More troubles for Jimmy Carter. Scoop Jackson, who refuses to be intimidated by charges that classified material has been leaked from his Armed Services Subcommittee, says he will continue to hold hearings on SALT II and adds: “I am not happy with the way (the negotiations] are at this point.” … In the House Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D., III.), who was spearheading the Carter program to put an automatic 9 per cent lid on hospital costs, admits that measure is dead for the year: he’ll try again next session, he says. . . . Four important Democratic committee chairmen, John Sparkman (Foreign Relations), Jennings Randolph (Environment and Public Works). Russell Long (Finance), and Abraham Ribicoff (Governmental Affairs), have joined Minority Leader Baker in urging President Carter to reappoint Arthur Burns chairman of the Federal Reserve Board as a move that would be “most reassuring” to the banking and business communities. Also signing the letter. East Coast liberal Republicans Clifford Case, Edward Brooke, Jacob Javits, and Charles Mathias. . . . Carter’s decision not to make that foreign trip has provoked a great deal of criticism abroad. The conservative Bonn Die Welt sums up much of it: the Carter foreign policy, it says, is “amateurish.”

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Latest update on the Panama Canal business, courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor. A Nov. 7 rundown shows 33 senators have declared their support for the Treaty; 27 are still against; forty, including both the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders (Byrd and Baker), are still undecided. . . . Sen. John Danforth (R., Mo.) who was leaning for, is now leaning against. . . . Sen. Hayakawa, who said he might break ranks and vote ratification, reports he has now received 100,000 letters against. . . . Sen. Robert Byrd, who led a delegation of seven Democrats to Panama last week, says if he decides to go against Jimmy Carter on this one it will be sotto voce (“I will cast my vote as senator from West Virginia,” i.e., not as Majority Leader).

More troubles for Jimmy Carter. Scoop Jackson, who refuses to be intimidated by charges that classified material has been leaked from his Armed Services Subcommittee, says he will continue to hold hearings on SALT II and adds: “I am not happy with the way (the negotiations] are at this point.” … In the House Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D., III.), who was spearheading the Carter program to put an automatic 9 per cent lid on hospital costs, admits that measure is dead for the year: he’ll try again next session, he says. . . . Four important Democratic committee chairmen, John Sparkman (Foreign Relations), Jennings Randolph (Environment and Public Works). Russell Long (Finance), and Abraham Ribicoff (Governmental Affairs), have joined Minority Leader Baker in urging President Carter to reappoint Arthur Burns chairman of the Federal Reserve Board as a move that would be “most reassuring” to the banking and business communities. Also signing the letter. East Coast liberal Republicans Clifford Case, Edward Brooke, Jacob Javits, and Charles Mathias. . . . Carter’s decision not to make that foreign trip has provoked a great deal of criticism abroad. The conservative Bonn Die Welt sums up much of it: the Carter foreign policy, it says, is “amateurish.”