European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Auf lust the stars and stripes James Reston co no i Issue i to m us h wide if the administration is anxious Tor tarty ratification of the Panama but democratic leaders in the Senate Are recommending that the formal debate be postponed until next january or Public opinion is simply not ready Lor the majority Leader in the Robert Byrd of West mid in an in the polls indicate Lutat about 75 per cent of the american people Are opposed to giving up the end youre not going to get two4hlrds of the Senate to ratify that treaty until there la a substantial change in the timing is an important Factor to the president too he Doest want to get this canal 1977 los angelas James Kilpatrick highly emotional Issue Mike Dup Innell years congressional and there fore has been discussing the possibility of trying for settlement soon after the Senate reconvenes from summer Byrd thinks this would be a disaster and says Hes not going to be stampeded into a premature a Public opinion will undoubtedly change As people get More familiar with the but the administration needs and so do we other less important issues Are tinder discussion behind the scenes should pres Ide Tcarter go to Panama personally to sign the treaty or arrange sign it in Washington or elsewhere is it Wise for administration to press senator Ssu hard and so soon Tref of there is even a text of the treaty available should the administration Lake time to prepare a detailed White paper for wide distribution to government and no government organizations before the formal debate starts other arguments can be made for proceeding after 10 years of fiddling with the Panama question and three or four More of careful the administration has come up with a prudent which is Likely to pick up Voles when the senators study its provi and particularly when they consider the alarming the president has powerful arguments on his joint chiefs of George who is not noted for surrendering bases let alone giving away says he  defend the canal against a hostile Popula Tion with american former president Ford Secretary of slate Kissinger Are sympathetic to the principles of the Carter Barry Coldwater believes it is a Choice be tween Compromise and guerrilla and pro Duld the Best line of the Long controversy Over the canal we it fair and Square is now in favor of this canal verging on a Jungle is Vulner Able to Sabot Fjor acid even under the now Only 3 Inie coastal Trade now passe through the canal few compared to so per cent in Aal Haize of ships Well Over sow afloat Are Loo Large to get through the canal the value of Panama Between 1971 and it was used by Only 12 Small naval vessels and it is unavailable for a variety to air Craft Aid nuclear submarines i costs new exceed so the economic argument for holding on loll Hail changed dramatically in the last j the argument against the of is that the United states built paid for and has operated and main talked it to the military Security and nomic Benefit of All including the opponents also insist that by compromising under threat of Sab Mage or guerrilla the United states la negotiating under in a this latter Point is we Are negotiating under the duress of and there is Little doubt that failure to ratify the treaty now would Lead not merely to some kind of violence with the panamanians but with volunteers from nil aver latin As Tonald Reagan demonstrated in the last presidential there re Mains a substantial number of people in this country who see this Compromise As one Are symptom of declining american authority in the world and who bitterly oppose the Compromise out of sincere Trio tie this is another reason for a fair if pro to tinted the canal Issue is much Tirier than ii this try relations with All of America and with other developing nations us Well Stltt pin hmm Tvert Whf in it mid on imm of Khod Hurto into to to it the Valri Are fighting Back against Fri a Small army of Fiji ii gents played another game of last month with the Church of by apparent actual agents burst into three Church offices in they hauled away tons us stuff now Church leaders Are fighting Back speaking simply As a i would say Hooray for these scrappy they have sued the and they have just published a Large Book of documents having to do with the governments Long Campaign of harassment against Church lawyers pried the documents Loose from a reliant government by Means of the Freedom of information ail the foia Seldom has been put to More revealing if the Story were not to it would have its comic but the Story in fact is Over a period of 33 commencing in the government has thrown its whole massive weight into a malicious persecution of tills religious a dozen different agencies have participated in the millions upon millions of Tan dollars have been no statistician could com Pute the Man hours of costly tune that have been frittered away in blundering Pursuit of these for the am As sceptical of the scientologists and As tolerant of their ideas As 1 am of every other organized scientology May be a As the government persistently but this Lias never been proved As a matter of these people believe they found a path to mans peace of mind they pro fess to have founded an establishment of and if Church leaders seek Rich and milk them for Large Contri what Vise is new the Story begins in when hit United states air of All outfits launched an investigation of scientology in the urea of Lowry air Force base in Colo the usage off ice of special investigation had some notion that irm disciples were or or so began the in the secret service got into the it appears the Church had mentioned the name of re Hirid Nikon in some Public Nixon was then vice the secret service dispatched a couple of muscle men to throw their weight in the food and drug administration began an attack that would go on for Why the you May Salt a fair the scientologists use a simple skin which they Call an As an Aid in their metaphysical Healing the Fra said the Elmeter was it quack medical hence so agents of the disguised As prospective Mem began infiltrating and snooping and detecting and writing Long single spaced in the United Stales army moved up some the Book includes a photostat of one army Intelli gence if that report is a fair Sample of the intelligence of army god help the american in the air Force renewed its in the Fra and the Bureau of customs gave the Church a hard in january of two huge escorted by motorcycle rolled up to Church headquarter i in government agents seed three ions of including and 65 of the Devilish u link ten weirs of costly litigation before the Cut girls held the raid an  abuse of in inc Tabor department harassed the Church by denying work permits Lovis iting ministers from the checked the Post office its legions of postal sniffing for mail the Fri kept Surv Illing the immigration and naturalization serv ice joined the Bureau of narcotics and dangerous the Bureau of tobacco and and the National Security they must Hare fallen Over each Fili ally the having lost at threw the internal Revenue service into the the iks prepared whole pages of instruction agents dealing with special audits and in Vestiga Ionthe irs now has s3 Lineal feet of files it the and All the government has for us trouble is a series of court Rul Ings to the effect thai scientology is indeed Chur Chasel int prof who crazy t ask who nuts these meter Reading rever ends or the governments Klucs who trample the amendment tinder fool