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(;aml.v<v- CK] bulk rate u.s. postage Monday, March 20,1978 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Volume LXIV, No. 37 Columbia, sc. - permit no. 2131 1 Hi ini uuiir?? 1?rwrwin i bi inn iiiiinii iuwii iijwi jiiMiMMTTr nnnw i iihb itwiw mam ?niwwwiinii w i wiihiim iwii ubjiiiii llj ^ vyy|^y||^ ^ jf Gerald ] By JANE SHEALY News Editor "I'm here on this occasion for nor that doesn't mean that I am ru presidential candidate in 1980," president of the United States, si members of the press Thursday in the Wade Hampton Hotel. The press conference was the distinguished guest had on his thr respond to questions on national prepared statements. t ora viewea tne t>s to 32 senate i Panama Canal neutrality treaties a: work of three former presidents administration. 4 |L l;:M m. ;: ;>ls -A BBr. '/^^^^K^B^B^^H^.-v^-^x^HBRbwHHBL JB& ?|99NB^HBKS3|p . 'v^^SP' * F ord spe; "The Ca have been the four pr i-political purposes, but share in tilling myself out as a administra Gerald R. Ford, 38th getting the lid at a meeting with THE FA the Congaree Room of democrats the stand Y only opportunity the administra ee-day visit in S C. to Accordin issues not relating to Carter tel< treaties lei /ote which ratified two received th s the culmination of the strong opp i and the current Turning said, "Th< tN^=j^Hlj ISli aks on nat |rter administration finalized the treaties a the principal proponents of the treaties. I thi esidents (Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson) have le achievement of the two treaties. The Car tion had the obligation and the responsibility - ratification through the senate." kCT that the treaties were supported by b< and republicans was justification, Ford said, ic took in support of U.S. neutrality early in ition. ig to The State newspaper. President Jimi ;phoned his thanks to Ford for his help in I ss than 30 minutes after the ratification. Ft le call in the office of Gov. James B. Edwards onent of the treaties. his attention to the Middle East conflict Fc ; new administration made a very serk IR--' .^^^^^rh^nW^MBBBilK Ty' iii'i 1 008$^ J&338&S?x: i|||pj mm J ional issu nc* mistake some months ago when ink Union back into the negotiating pr 1 to We had worked very hard during n ter the Soviet Union out of the negc of Israel on the one hand and the other." oth for FORD CONTINUED that beca his Carter administration had made f ora saia mat naa it not been for Tiy response of Begin, the situation in the even more serious than at presei >rd Ford said he deeply regretted a , a last week in which Palestinian; proximately 30 Israelis. He callc >rd move." HIS I nc UMfYlC\.VJV.IV ies they brought the Soviet ocess in the Middle East, ny administration to keep >t.iating process between Arab neighbors on the HCO uov ui niai iiiiMdKc me ; "very little progress." Sadat's actions and the the Middle East would be it. ictions taken by the PLO 5 took the lives of ap;d it a "very ill-advised See FORI), page <1