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Carter, Torrljos agree U.S. can defend canal WASHINGTON (AP) The Carter administration is claiming a generally favorable Senate reaction to a new effort by President Carter and Panama's Omar Torrijos to defuse controversy over the Panama Canal treaty. Carter and the Panamanian leader agreed Friday, largely for the benefit of skeptical senators, that the pact would allow the United States to defend the waterway against any threat. In an unsigned "statement of understanding," they also agreed U.S. warships would pass through the canal ahead of others in any crisis.

Carter said he thought the statement resolved "the major differences on interpretation" that has threatened Senate ratification of the treaty. His negotiator, Ambassador Sol Linowitz, told reporters the statement to Senate leaders and "the reaction was very favorable He indicated this assessment applied to Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd and the Republican leader, Howard Baker, neither of whom has said how he'll vote on the treaty. Byrd was described as "certainly pleased." Linowitz reported it would be fair to say Baker "regarded this as a significant step forward." The senators themselves have not commented on how they viewed the statement. Following the early morning Carter-Torrijos meeting Friday, the White House delayed release of the statement for more than six hours while Linowitz reviewed it with Byrd, Baker and all available members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Later, former secretaries of state Dean Rusk and Henry Kissinger told the Senate committee the treaty adequately guarantees U.S.

rights. Although Linowitz said neither Carter nor Torrijos signed the joint statement, he noted it becomes part of the legislative history of the treaty and is on the record "so there can be no mistaking what both parties intended by the language that was used." On the light side Garbage is glittering TINTON FALLS, N.J. (AP) A garbage collector can be a girl's best friend. Workers at the Monmouth County Reclamation Center spent more than an hour last week rummaging through garbage before they found a $5,000 diamond ring belonging to Barbara Makris of Ocean Township. Mrs.

Makris called the center after she thought her ring may have been lost in a shopping bag full of trash that had been picked up by a sanitation crew. Workers sorted through an eight-foot high pile of trash that had just been dumped off the garbage truck before locating the shopping bag with the diamond. Cookie heist crumbles DETROIT (AP) A would-be bandit walked into an east side bakery with his hand inside his jacket, pulled down the shade on the door and announced: "This is a stickup. I have a gun. Give me all your cookies." The two women on duty at Stahal Bakery just stared.

The "hold-up man" was a 12-year-old boy. According to police, the boy demanded that the women fill a large bag with cookies. They refused. He then tried to grab a cake. But one of the women grabbed it right back.

The young bandit fled and was apprehended a few minutes later by police, who "gave him a good talking to" before turning him over to his parents Thursday. The "gun" turned out to be a screwdriver. TV viewers found Oswald 'guilty 9 NEW YORK (AP) Viewers of a television program that staged an imaginary trial of Lee Harvey Oswald for the murder of President John F. Kennedy returned an overwhelming verdict of guilty, ABC-TV announced Friday. A majority of those who returned mail ballots also believed Oswald acted not alone, but as part of conspiracy, ABC said.

Of 52,000 viewers who responded in the write-in poll, 17 per cent voted Oswald innocent and 83 per cent called him guilty. Of those voting for guilty, 21 per cent said they thought Oswald was a lone assassin and 79 per cent thought he was part of a conspiracy, the network said. The program was shown in two episodes, on Sept. 30 and Oct. 2.

Linowitz said he assured members of the Foreign Relations Committee that the reference in the statement to Panama's "territorial integrity" would not bar the United States from landing troops to protect the canal should that be necessary. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell said Linowitz also assured the senators that if internal Panamanian actions constitute a threat to the canal, the United States could act to safeguard the canal. To reassure Panamanians critical of the accord, the two government heads also emphasized in their statement there would be no U.S. intervention "in the internal affairs of Panama" or any move against that country's "territorial integrity or political Independence." While Senate consideration of the treaty is expected to extend into 1978, Panamanians will adopt or reject the agreement in a plebescite Oct. 23.

As Torrijos left for Panama, he told reporters through an interpreter: "If a great power attacks the canal or puts in danger the canal it is the right of the United States (to) go and defend the canal." However, he added: "The United States has no right to intervene or interfere in the internal affairs of Panama." TIMES-REPORTER OCT. 15,1977 A-5 DOVER-NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO PRESIDENT CARTER AND GEN. TORRIJOS They hoped to lay to rest controversy on treaty Vietnam not responding to U.S. request on missing American yacht BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) A U.S. Embassy spokesman says a new request has been made to Vietnam for information on a missing yacht with three Americans aboard who radioed that they were being towed to Saigon.

The spokesman said today that there had been no response to the approach made by the State Department through Vietnam's mission in Paris. "More than one message," had been received from the 39-foot yacht, Brillig, indicating its owner, Cornelia Dellenbaugh, and the two other Americans were safe, the spokesman said. Also aboard were Leeland Dickerman of Flagstaff, and Charles Affel of Philadelphia. Miss Dellenbaugh's father, Frederick Dellenbaugh of Vero Beach, said Friday he spoke- with a ham radio operator in Bangkok who had been in radio contact with his daughter. "He said they were all well," Dellenbaugh said.

From wire reports 600 workers evacuated ST. MARYS, Kan. Toxic fumes possibly released by sabotage forced the evacuation of 600 construction workers from a giant electrical generating plant Friday. More than 120 workers were taken to a hospital and six were admitted. Source of the fumes was not known but a spokesman for Kansas Power Light Co.

said there was "a strong suspicion" of sabotage at the company's Jeffrey Energy Center. Against SS move WASHINGTON The House Post Office and Civil Service Committee voted unanimously Thursday to oppose an attempt to abolish the current federal retirement system and place all government workers under Social Security. The 24 to 0 vote came after several committee members denounced the House Ways and Means Committee, which recently voted to include the 2.5 million federal workers under Social Security in 1982 as part of its plan to shore up the ailing system. DBCP causes cancer, EPA says WASHINGTON The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday persons who eat vegetables treated with a common pesticide run a risk of developing cancer. The pesticide dibromochloropropane, commonly known as DBCP, also could cause sterlity or reduce sperm counts in men, EPA findings disclose.

DBCP residues on food eaten in average amounts over a two-year period could cause up to 21 cancer cases per million persons, EPA said. Mixed marriages approved WINDHOEK, Namibia Legislation prohibiting racially mixed marriages and sexual relations between people of different races the Immorality Act was abrogated here Friday for Namibia (South-West Africa). It is the first time since apartheid was introduced in South Africa and other territories administered by Pretoria that any of the fundamental laws aimed at segregating the white, black, colored (mixed race) and Asian communities, has been abolished. Cornelia Dallenbaugh Wrong driver shot Bus hijacked Montgomery Ward Remembered Mamie Eisenhower lays her hand on the arm of a statue of her late husband Dwight D. Eisenhower during a commemorative ceremony of the former president's 87th birthday in Gettysburg Friday.

The statue is on the campus of Gettysburg College. (AP Laserphoto) NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) At least two masked men believed armed with a shotgun and dynamite hijacked a commuter bus today and were holding about 16 passengers and the driver hostage, police said. The men described themselves as The Aso Red Army Commando. It was not known if the group had any connection with the radical Japanese Red Army, a terrorist band with a record of aircraft hijacking. Aso is the name of a Japanese volcano.

Former Mormon missionary excommunicated from church sued for selling Tris-treated apparel LOS ANGELES (AP) The federal government has filed suit against Montgomery Ward alleging the retailer has been selling clothing coated with a flame-retardant chemical suspected of causing cancer. The suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on behalf of the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission, says Ward's has failed to remove Tris-treated children's apparel. The suit asked U.S. District Court Judge Robert J.

Kelleher to order an immediate halt to the sales. The commission, acting last April under the federal Hazardous Substance Act, ordered a ban on sales and a recall of all Tris-treated clothing that had not been washed. Tris is a suspected cancer-causing agent. A hearing on a temporary restraining order against Ward's, one of the nation's largest chain department stores, is expected next week. BELFAST Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) gunmen shot dead a young school bus driver by mistake on Wednesday because the man he was replacing took a day off for the first time in 14 years.

The target was a 49-year-old sergeant in the Ulster Defense Regiment, a part- time British security force, who normally drove the school bus. Serving Our Flag Spec. Four Larry Williamson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merl Williamson of 125 S.

6th Dennison; is participating with other American and allied troops in "Exercise Reforger "77." The exercise is conducted by NATO's Allied Command in Europe. Williamson is assigned as a wheeled vehicle mechanic with the 159th Medical Detachment in Nurnberg, Germany. His wife, Beth, is with him. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A former Mormon missionary who publicly criticized his church's denial of priesthood to blacks says he has been excommunicated and fired from his job as chapel janitor. Byron Marchant, 35, Salt Lake City, cast the first vote in modern history against a Mormon leader at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints (Mormon) conference earlier this month.

Marchant, a church elder, had been called to a church court three days before the conference after he called for a demonstration against the church's policy. Marchant said he was excommunicated the most severe penalty imposed by the church in a closed-door trial which lasted until 4 a.m. Friday. He said he was informed of the verdict and the termination of his job as ward (parish) custodian later in the day by Stake (diocese) President Narvel Scherzinger. President Scherzinger declined to discuss the matter.

Jerry Cahill of the church's public information office said his office had not been in- formed of any excommunication and normally would not be. He said each stake has the right to excommunicate its own members without consulting church General Authorities. Marchant said he was excommunicated because of "open opposition" to church authority. "My behavior was embarrassing to the church." Marchant was a church missionary in France for two years in the 1960s. He comes from a Mormon family of 15 children.

Several years ago, Marchant was scoutmaster of a troop which included two black non-Mormon scouts on whose behalf the NAACP brought a suit involving the church's priesthood denial. The suit challenged a policy which made it impossible for blacks to hold scout leadership positions by linking them to priesthood office. The case was dismissed after the church changed its position. Marchant said he would appeal the action to governing bodies of the church. PRESCRIPTION SHOP FREE I BLOOD PRESSURE TEST' iWhen: Oct.

19 1 Shop 110W. Third St. Oom.Ohn 343-8861 Oct. 19 10A.M.-6 P.M. 6 measures signed into law by Rhodes COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A bill to guarantee confidentiality between rape victims and counselors was signed into law Friday by Gov.

James A. Rhodes. The legislation, sponsors by Sen. Marigene Valiquette, D-ll Toledo, takes effect Jan. 13, along with five other measures given final approval by the governor.

Miss Valiquette's bill gives those who counsel victims of rape or other sexual assaults the right to refuse to disclose information regarding a felony crime, which may surface during the course of the interview. It is intended to provide an exemption similar to that which exists for doctors and their patients and lawyers and their clients. Rhodes also affixed his signature to legislation broadening the authority of trustee boards at technical colleges. The trustees will no longer need board of regents approval to buy, lease or sell property, accept gifts or grants for their institution, make administrative and teaching appointments, or develop programs and grant associated degrees. Other measures signed by the governor: Revise employer funding procedures for the Ohio Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund.

insurance companies to file their certificates of authority with county recorders. membership composition of county data processing boards. the surviving spouse to receive one automobile from the other spouse's estate, not subject to administration of the estate. Doctors liable in ineffective vasectomy ST. PAUL, Minn.

(AP) Parents can recover damages from doctors when an ineffective vasectomy results in the birth of an unwanted child, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Friday. In a 5-2 decision, the court majority said the damages can include "reasonable costs of rearing the unplanned child" but said this must be offset by the value of the child's aid and comfort to the family. The court said parents also can recover medical expenses, damages for the mother's pain and suffering and damages for the couple's loss of consortium during pregnancy. The court called its decision "at best a mortal attempt to do justice in an imperfect world," and warned parents and attorneys in future cases to "give serious reflection to the silent interests of the child." The court made several references to potential emotional damage to children who might find themselves labeled as "unwanted" because of lawsuits. Chief Justice Robert Sheran said in a a dissent that the "worth of a healthy child to his parents" will always exceed the cost of rearing the child.

Sheran called such "wrongful conception" suits contrary to public policy. "We should not permit the courts to be used for this purpose," he said. The suit was brought by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Sherlock of Afton, against the Stillwater Clinic and Dr.

Jon Stratte, who performed a vasectomy on Sherlock after the birth of the couple's seventh child in 1970. Mrs. Sherlock gave birth to a healthy eighth child in 1972. The case was returned to Washington County District Court for a new trial to determine damages. A jury had awarded the Sherlocks $19,500, PENNEY'S IN THE MIRACLE LANE PLAZA OPEN SUNDAYS 12-5 OPEN EVERY DAY 9:30 -9 P.M.

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