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It's so much easier to write about politicians than policies. So all this week went to Adelaide in by the Tip O'Neill field to the present with Senate candidates complained of a lack of presidential leadership for health insurance with Image Konstanz is finding her style too cramped by conforming to White House Rules. With Andrew Young's adventures in personal diplomacy but the president's problems to get Congress support for foreign policy or domestic either complicated the Carter administration suffered a series of setbacks at the hands of Congress this week both houses agreed to lift the arms ban on techie which the president calls his highest priority in foreign policy. But both attach conditions that added to administration difficulties for a settlement on Cyprus. The Senate required a report from the president every 60 days on progress in getting the Turks out of Greek Cypriot areas that they seized with American arms. Both houses voted to lift economic sanctions from Rhodesia which the administration regards as premature as removing pressure from the smith government to negotiate a
settlement with the Popular Front guerrillas. This has been a joint U.S. British policy depressed on Smith. The Senate voted to remove sanctions when the president should determine that the Smith regime was negotiating in good faith to bring the Popular Front into a new government. But the House vote makes no requirement as to the Popular Front. Sanctions would be lifted when elections scheduled for now for December 31 complete transfer of government to the black factions that are cooperating now in the transition. The administration hopes that in conference to Senate version will prevail. The House also blocked it stopping military aid to Chile and Korea defeated a motion to end such on shipments to Chile is authorized before the 1976 cutoff unless jelly extradites its security chiefs indicted this week in Washington for ordering the murder in Washington of the former Chilean ambassador. The Telia. Chile's president
Pinochet had the Chilean military chief put under house arrest but told the press he'd need proof not just the charges he called the indictment that followed intense FBI investigation. Now just to fit in a move to stop military aid to Korea until the suer government makes available to its ethics committee the testimony of a former ambassador who is charged with bribing Congressman Leon you arsk a resigned yesterday a special prosecutor for the committee and frustration at the failure to secure this testimony. He said the investigation was incomplete but everything's been done that could be done. Two former congressmen have been convicted. Two more indicted and four present members required to show cause why investigation of them should not be pressed. The day after as you arsk is resignation the Korean government agreed to make the ambassador available to answer written questions from the committee. The administration is having a setback on a key domestic program of aid to distressed
cities. When a House subcommittee put off indefinitely even consideration of the administration's top priority urban program by Sam the six the subcommittee benched the billion dollar plan to bail the cities out of their acute financial plight. This was to continue a program that expires in September. Cities counted on it to rescue them from the current threats to local property taxes. The abrupt even disdainful attitude of the committee in benching the bill suggests the difficult relations of the administration with the Congress and also of course the incredible rigidity of congressional procedure that lets seven wrote conservative members block a national program for failing cities. The leadership faces a problem to get around this snafu. The administration expected to correct the bill with amendments in committee. Opponents ridiculed the bill's formula. That included prosperous cities in the list for critical need. The test of need was based on three factors.
Less than average employment or average income or average growth. But some slow growing cities had no employment or or income problem. Their inclusion increased the number of cities eligible for the federal aid from the 17000 under the present program to 25000. The undercutting of the Rhodesian policy was sent off by a motion of Representative Richard coord Missouri Democrat whose better known interest is as chairman of the Internal Security Committee a successor to the House Un-American Activities Committee. The Rhodesian should not be forced he said to negotiate with communists. This acceptance of the Rhodesian and South African description of black resistance to racial repression was supported by two hundred twenty nine to one hundred eighty vote. This administration defeats appear to refract Congress response to a deepening conservatism in the country. As congressional elections approach the administration at last it labor reform bill to facilitate union activity and civil
service reform bill coming up in the House next week. The president calls the key to his government reorganization plans its meeting determined resistance both by veteran lobbies against limiting veteran's preference and by opposition in the bureaucracy to the changes that the president says every essential to make government more manageable. The Rhodesian sanctions issue is an amendment to the foreign aid bill which itself is reported in deep trouble. More than a billion dollars was cut from the president's request for it in the House Appropriations Committee and other amendments would cut it further United States aid to poor countries has been declining. This is now only 12 among the 17 industrial nations with aid programs. Some congressmen say foreign aid no longer has a constituency. Domestic economic difficulties overshadow it. The administration argues that strengthening the economy or developing nations builds a market for American goods expands American employment. But this
calls for economic understanding the endless internal wars in Africa of the denial of human rights in many nations the disappointment that the administration has formally expressed at the collapse of Middle East negotiations are eroding sympathy for foreign aid. It cost a congressman little or nothing to vote against it or to vote against anything that spells bureaucracy. The Senate has voted to exempt all small businesses under 10 employees from the standards of the Safety and Health Administration denial of fundamental human rights to millions of employees one supporter of the standards call it. How much a low reading the polls accord President Carter is anti-government or anti taxpayer and the bureaucracy. Poll approval of only 32 percent in June was a further slide down from 40 percent in April. Some politicians it defines Jimmy Carter as a one term president. One of the most conservative Republicans was imperiled this week to announce his presidential candidacy for
1980. Congressman Phillip Crane of a wealthy Chicago suburb is rated 0 by the liberal ADFA and a hundred percent by the right way Americans for constitutional action. He was a campaign aide to Goldwater in the next and he denies his earlier announcement. His early announcement is as a stocking horse for Ronald Reagan but two other Illinois Republicans both moderate Senator Percy and Chicago's Mayor Thompson are often mentioned as potential Republican prospects. The stalking horse there it describes an all political tactic to split potential competition with a stooge candidate. It was long a familiar tactic here of James M. Curley in Kansas a real live candidate for the Senate this November is all AF Landon's not Mrs Nancy Kassebaum which is the house where she was nominated by Republicans in a field of nine and only took 31 percent of the vote. And she says being out start to help I offered 90 years now or even a name in Kansas as a presidential
candidate in 1936 he could not carry his own state. So he was governor. He carried Maine and Vermont. But this amiable governor was the victim of his reactionary handlers who made FDR and Social Security Bill the target of the campaign. We'd all be wearing dog tags they proclaim. Justice Marshall today declined as Justice White had the New York Times appeal for a stay of the punitive sentencing of both the newspaper and its investigation reporter by a New Jersey judge for refusing to surrender the confidential notes of the reporter so the reporter goes to jail in the Times is fined five thousand a day under the contempt sentences indefinitely. Arab fury over the Palestinian issue exploded this week in Paris and karate where Palestinian terrorists attacked Iraqi diplomats killing one and a Paris policeman. Iraqi reprisals yesterday killed the chief Palestinian diplomat and his aide
in Paris. A terrorist bomb yesterday blew up a crowded television market killing one and wounding 50. The Israeli government responded within hours in an air raid on what they call a Palestinian terrorist training camp in Lebanon.
Series
WGBH Journal
Episode
Louis Lyons Only
Producing Organization
WGBH Educational Foundation
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
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WGBH Journal is a magazine featuring segments on local news and current events.
Created Date
1978-08-04
Genres
News
Magazine
Topics
News
Media type
Sound
Duration
00:09:59
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Production Unit: Radio
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Identifier: 78-0160-08-04-001 (WGBH Item ID)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
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Chicago: “WGBH Journal; Louis Lyons Only,” 1978-08-04, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 29, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-59c5bbxj.
MLA: “WGBH Journal; Louis Lyons Only.” 1978-08-04. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. March 29, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-59c5bbxj>.
APA: WGBH Journal; Louis Lyons Only. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-59c5bbxj