European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rajie ii the stars and stripes James Reston february Why cart you be More is growing bored with Mideast impasse president Sadat of Egypt left the United states in Good humor and foreign minister mosh Dayan of Israel arrived in a foul mood the following but the truth u that nothing much has changed except perhaps a growing boredom Here with both Washington is not tilling toward Cairo or toward but toward washing this capitals vital interests Are not regional but and certainly not identical with either Egypt interests or and frankly officials Here have other things to do besides refereeing a propaganda War Between begin and Secretary of stale Vance did see Sadat Tough Washington speech just before he made it Here the other and the Carter administration did consciously Lake Sadat Side on the placement of israeli settlements in disputed Carter proclaimed Sadat to be the worlds Foremost but this is not and Carter has never been especially noted for v for the last few officials Here obviously been irritated with begin 1 Dayan on the settlements and while House is hopping mod at Yans attack on Carters settlements their objective in the Sandal t was to gel him Back to the negotiating and they purposely played up the elements question so that Sadat would 1 that Washington was prepared to lean Israel when the administration Here night begin was 1 a decision was taken Here emphasize and define Washington sup of Security Council Resolution and reaffirm Carters statement to 1 at Aswan on the two key Pas i covering these Points in the White e communique follow the settlement must be based on All principles of Security Council resold i including withdrawal of israeli so forces from territories occupied in and the right of every state in the i to live in peace within secure and Roc sized Resolution 242 is a Able to All fronts of the there can be no just and lasting without Resolution of the palestinian the president Carter Reaf Ned at his meeting with president Sadat 4 there must be a Besoiu of the palestinian problem in All its As s it must recognize the legitimate to of the palestinian people and enable b palestinians to participate in the deter Ilion of their own j administration emphasizes the in f parlance of these two paragraphs because it is Basing us policy upon but Carter did not weaken in any Way the governments historic commitments to be Security of Israel and it did not change its position on or its opposition to a palestinian it merely Sang a Little louder the same tune begin and Dayan have never what has changed is the hopeful spirit of the Sandal visit to the Knesset in Jerusalem and everybody nerves seem a Little rawer now than at the turn of the both sides were talking philosophy and now they Are talking about political pressure and air planes and the balance of and the air plane Issue is Likely to get much More controversial for there is reason to believe that Carter promised planes both to Sadat and to saudi Sadat wants the american people to put pressure on Israel to give him the peace terms he Israel wants Carter to put pressure on Sadat to moderate his position on the palestinians and the israeli Settle ments on the West Bank and the both sides want the latest american air planes for themselves and oppose oar giving them to the other still there is no evidence Here that the Carter administration going to change us Middle position or give up pressing or Mutual compromises and a comprehensive Middle East it is Only the rhetoric that has though Secretary Vance not Only saw Sadat press club speech in Advance and apparently made a few suggested this is not interpreted by officials Here As approval by Vance of All Sadat Stern lec nor would the state department spokes Man be drawn into an argument Over mayans latest statement that Sadat was not president of Israel and that neither Sandal nor the United slates has the responsibility for the Security of the spokesman merely replied that the Carter administration had stated its Posi Tion and Dayan had stated his and let it go who usually lakes a harder line than seemed More moderate than his foreign lie called for patience to heat old wounds and still said there was reason to believe that the peacemaking process would go what i suggest is a Chance to negotiate perhaps Sev eral he we have just really it is known that Carter urged the same line on who is impatient Wilh the tedious and precise process of assistant Secretary of state Atherton will be serving As the mediator in this process both in Cairo and Jerusalem in the coming t new Voth rim i William Buckley a intervention Means just one of Iii Roscoe the col having listened to Ronald Reagan give the reasons for his opposition to the Panama canal treaties observes that his principal objection appears to be evaporate one can continue objecting to any of the myriad terms of the there is the master objection that we  revise the treaty at but reagans like thai of most has tended to focus less on these crochets than on the main Point is Colum co is ments there an undisputed right by the United to intervene to guarantee Access to the canal and is there an undisputed right to the United states to expeditious Pas Sage surveying the result of the bake Byrd Mission to says that in his judgment All sub Stantial doubt will have been removed by the Lime the treaties have come to a and 1 think he is but a few Points should be anticipated there is a word in latin America which is so freighted with historical odium that no country will permit its use except Nega if you can imagine Congress pass ing a Law saying that no one shall be denied the use of Public facilities not even if he is a a or a you will begin to understand what it is for a latin America country to sign a treaty that Grants any other country the right to in enter Tendon in Spanish Means Only one thing the right of another country to interfere in the internal affairs of ones own any treaty that granted the the right to intervene in Panama would be Defeated at the polls approximately a Hundred to the distinction is easier to make schematically than situation a a foreign country seeking to sabotage the canal scuttles one of its merchant ships inside the response the menu of Panama and of the Combine forces to Clear out the situation b following a military a less fanatic government takes Over in Panama and Tor whatever reason closes the response the in the course of forcing the canal resists the governments dosing u Battles the government the juridical authority of the to Clear both under the proposed trea ties that give the United states the right to keep the canal open As under the old you if situation b should then Panama is not living up to the new treaty and the situation r verts immediately to the old the situation is Best understood by the analogy of Catholic doctrine and the k the doctor is permitted u labor to save the life of the to thershe if in order to do it the fetus is lolled the revolutionary government of Panama then no moral Law is thai would appear straightforward now there Are unless the rights of the Given and As reiterated on a joint declaration by Torr pm Are written into the treaty j such a Way As to require a Panama we run what risk that a future 8 of Panama will Rule that since were integral to should not have been passed our answer lot language of the formal treaties fies the same rights that the i men redundancies and that state of every country in in has understood the treaties Way that we have in us chiefs of stale Are j the what if of Panama should then say and we Are what if the Panama should Rule that to Over the Moon if the Panama wants to Lue sometime in the easiest line to take is that dictator and that therefore taken under Torrijos can but very what then in that Reury of state would Are null and void and the i to the status quo that would have the shortest life to and the shortest life for body in panamas history is As you can get so let us get on with ii Truid in hit Utu Mih t whim a am noon b a midterm u