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1 977. Tho Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use tor republication of all local news printed In this paper. All other rights reserved. GAMIER THAN FICTION? People who tuned into the televised Senate hearings on Budget Director Bert Lance's banking career must have wondered if they were being fed a daytime version of "Washington: Behind Closed Doors" by mistake. ABC-TV's fictionalized drama about Watergate focused on sleazy doings, moral corruption and high-level power abuses.

What the Senate featured, behind open doors, was testimony by Deputy Controller of the Currency Robert Bloom that he hid details of Lance's dubious banking practices so as to curry favor with the incoming administration. Bloom put it bluntly: "It la not my job as a career employe JKHitra buraEU iKwna. ssaBSS. Robert Bloom THE PEOPLE Litter. Wt will withhold both on nousst, THE QUESTION Can President Carter convince you that a Panama Canal treaty is in the best interest of the U.S.

THE ANSWERS Is! Villani DeAngelis Frank Villani, liquor retailer: "No way. Americans in the Canal Zone have established their own independence. A friend of mine spent 13 years there, but returned recently because of the harassment of Americans by Panama. The treaty would only benefit us diplomatically." Mrs. Fiorinda DeAngelis, personnel clerk: "He can if he gives me enough valid reasons that we don't need the canal any longer.

I'm leaning in that direction. Today, supertankers and our largest aircraft carriers are too big to use the canal, so it is less important." Timbol Hector Aubert, bank ad jus-tor: "I'm already convinced. I've been to Panama several times. Panama has been exploited long enough and the treaty will correct this wrong. Since the canal remains open to all and we retain the right to defend it, the treaty makes sense." Franco Timbol, banker: "No.

I can't see how any treaty that gives up the Panama Canal is in our interest. We built it and we own it. To give it to Panama without even having them pay for it makes no sense to me at all." Mason Mrs. Rosa Mason, payroll clerk: "What I don't like is the idea that even if we give the canal away, we are still commit-ed to defend it. I don't like that.

President Carter would have to convince me that we ought to retain the right to defend the canal." Robert Bechtold, wire lather: "Absolutely not. The canal was built by our sweat and blood. We conquered yellow fever and malaria and raised the level of health there. The treaty doesn't satisfy me one iota and I'm hoping the Senate rejects it." The News will pay $10 for mtch question accepted for this column. Today's award goes to D.

Bryan, 263 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. i jM Aubert Bechtold to shoot down presidential appointees." That speaks volumes about the civil service mem-tality. Don't rock the boat; don't stick your neck out. More significant is the fact that Bloom, faced with the choice of perhaps offending an incoming President or misleading Congress about the qualifications of an important presidential nominee, unhesitatingly decided to make brownie points with the White House. Bloom's confession of gutlessness was not the only queer twist in the Lance case.

It now turns out that THREE PRESIDENTIAL AIDES had full knowledge of a scorching report on Lance's overdrafts and whatnot, but withheld the information from President Carter at the same time Bloom was concealing it from Congress. Press Secretary Jody Powell, one of the trio in the know, casually remarked that the decision not to apprise Mr. Carter of the damaging data was "open to some comment at least." That is putting it mildly. Their action is certainly-open to the interpretation that games of power and politics are being played much the same in the Carter White House as they were in the Nixon White House. Everyone, it would appear, has taken to heart "the lessons of Watergate" except federal bureaucrats and White House staffers.

DIAL FOR INCREASE An examiner for the Public Service Commission has tossed a very hot potato into the full commission's lap by recommending a S245.2 million rate increase for The New York Telephone Co. Included is a hike to 20 cents in the cost of a coin call. The dime pay phone Is one of the last old-fashioned bargains left, and consumers are bound to boil at the threat of losing it. But Administrative Law Judge Vincent Furlong said a home phone customer subsidizes coin phones to the tune of more than 50 cents a month on his bill, and he wants to stop that. The full PSC should examine Furlong's figures and findings with microscopic care.

Is such a heavy boost Justified, particularly in view of the $1 billion-plus in rate boosts since 1970? Will the home customer really get a break on his monthly bill if the 20-cent coin call is approved Unless the answers are yes, the PSC should tell the phone company it has a wrong number. AN UPBEAT NOTE The Anchor Savings Bank's pledge to allot $25 million for property loans in three Brooklyn communities is a lift to civic morale in Bush wick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Bushwick's need is especially dire. The once solid, stable neighborhood has declined horribly, the victim of massive neglect. Anchor denies that it has contributed to the downfall of Bushwick and other areas by refusing to grant mortgages and home-improvement loans.

Whatever the truth, the bank's new commitment is timely and heartening. THIS IS BREVITY? Joseph A. Califano secretary of health, education and welfare, wants his agency to lead the way in carrying out President Carter's campaign promise for shorter, simpler federal regulations. And Califano has so directed HEW employes in a statement, a memorandum and a directive totaling 86 pages. VOICE OF PIsom nam and aidrtu with PHONY TICKETS Ocean, N.J.: How can New York City get away with harassing out-of-state drivers with parking tickets that are not placed on cars? The result is that a car owner subsequently receives a summons plus penalty.

Also, when one requests a copy of the ticket, as offered on the back of the penalty notice, it is ignored. I would have thought my case was an isolated instance of a ticket blowing away had I not read about this nuisance In both a New York newspaper and my local paper. SALLY G. BASSOFF APPLE POLISHER Manhattan: I em tired of people knocking New York. I am from a small town in Texas, and I've lived here quite a few years.

I have always been treated well by New Yorkers, although some of them are difficult to please. Let them go live in a small town where there is no subway, a poor bus system, no Broadway shows and poor restaurants. I am a Yankee fan and like Mayor Beame. But most of all I like the chance to meet people from all over. There is no more crime here than in any other city, just more people and more opportunities! TEDDY LANIER PUBLIC ENEMY Manhattan: After all we have seen with Agnew, Nixon, Mandell, the Korean connection, Beame, Lance, Carey, when will the public realize that politicians cannot be trusted? Government is not a friend of the people, but rather it is the people's enemy.

Government is organized crime. KENNETH W. KALCHEIM STUNNED Brooklyn: I couldn't believe It! I actually saw a uniformed cop on the corner cf 44th St. and Third Ave. in Manhattan the other day.

He must have lost his car. JIMMY DUFFY KOWTOWING Brooklyn: I don't blame Prime Minister Begin for putting Israel's self-interest above that of other nations. It's his job. But I do condemn American "leaders" who kowtow to Tel Aviv in order to get Jewish votes and campaign contributions here at home, permit the Arabs to wrap their tentacles around our economy and waste our tax dollars on Third World Marxists. Was our war for independence fought In vain? J.

M. McC. WASTE OF TIME Manhattan: I am astounded that federal judges would spend their time deciding whether or not a student has the right to conduct a sex survey and publish the results in his high school newspaper. When I attended high school, the principal would have been the final arbiter in such a matter and, I'm sure, would have made short shrift of such impertinence. CATO ALWAYS LOVED Queens: The Voicer who belittled Elvis was a coward for not signing his name.

Elvis may not have been a man of erudition or taste to that Voicer, but he had a generous heart. He will be remembered by millions with love and affection for the happiness his music brought us. We all mourn the loss of a kind and giving man. BARBARA BERTORELLI FAVORITISM Bronx: Your story about Gov. Carey's veto of a bill which would have allowed kids under 14 Into boxing and wrestling matches shows the hypocrisy of government.

I was denied admission to the Ali-Frazier fight at the Garden in 1974 when I was 13. Yet John F. Kennedy who is my age, sat at ringside watching the same bout. Let the State Athletic Commission explain that. I B.

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