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Show 7 , if liuiGf QppGaeonGtf tinues to seek to appease the Soviet Union. "On the other hand," he said, "if he tries to devise and conduct con-duct a foreign policy Teased on the interests of this nation na-tion and in support of freedom free-dom around the world, I am inclined to think that failure of the treaties will help him ." "Certainly, it will demonstrate demon-strate to the world that the Senate of the United States has some sense of proper foreign policy and is not in accord with what has gone on to date in the Carter Administration," Ad-ministration," he said. Gam noted that Carter once said that the United States need "not jump every time the Kremlin sneezes." "Unfortunately, he appears ap-pears to have forgotten that," the Utahn said. "Now, whenever when-ever the Kremlin sneezes, Mr. Carter takes pneumonia, and the State Department retires to Florida to recover re-cover from severe upper respiratory ailments." As an example, Garn scored scor-ed the Administration's "appalling "ap-palling performance" surrounding sur-rounding the Rhodesian negotiations. nego-tiations. "It is incredible to me that the United States refuses to give its support to those who have come willingly wil-lingly and peacefully to the negotiating table, working for a compromise which will solve a difficult situation," he pointed out. "In stead, we stand carping carp-ing on the sidelines, entertaining enter-taining those whose avowed goal is to overturn any negotiated ne-gotiated agreement, apparently ap-parently in favor of a settlement set-tlement negotiated by a bayonet," bay-onet," he said. Garn said that the Soviet Union and Cuba will benefit bene-fit from continuing warfare war-fare in Rhodesia. "Apparently, "Appar-ently, we are willing to per- In a major address on the floor of the Senate, U.S. Senator Jake Garn last week charged that the Carter Administration's Ad-ministration's only foreign policy "is to avoid offending offend-ing the Soviet Union." Pointing to recent U.S. actions ac-tions in Rhodesia, the Middle East, the Horn of Africa, and the Belgrade Conference, Utah's senior senator decried de-cried "a foreign policy constructed con-structed exclusively as a reaction to the opinion of the Soviet Union." Gam's remarks were prompted by a suggestion that Senate failure to ratify the proposed Panama Canal treaties would destroy President Carter's ability to conduct foreign policy and put an end to U.S. influence in the world. Garn said that situation might result if Carter con- ' m it the outbreak of a broad -based, Soviet-financed civil War in Rhodesia rather than attempt some form of dip-limatic dip-limatic isolation of the nation na-tion most interested In spreading terror and bloodshed blood-shed across the world: The Soviet Union," he charged. Gam said there should be some "linkage" between Soviet adventurism in Africa Af-rica and around the world and continued US participation participa-tion in SALT negotiations and dentente. "We could close our recently opened mission in Havana. We could tell Castro that we will not deal with a country whose number num-ber one export is no longer 'sugar, but revolution. We could employ the international internation-al forums available to us to point out to the world the actual impact of the actions of the Soviet Union. For once in our lives, we could use 'world opinion' for us instead in-stead of against us,"he said. Turning to Middle East, Garn criticized the Carter Administration's efforts last year to involve the Soviets in any comprehensive settlement. set-tlement. "The majority of the Arab nations recognizes, even if our own State Department doesn't that the interests of the Soviet Union in the Mideast Mid-east will not be served by an amicable agreement, and that giving the Soviet Union a veto over any settlement is to guarantee continued conflict," con-flict," he said. Garn also knocked the fact that the final declaration of the recently concluded Belgrade Bel-grade Conference on European Euro-pean Security and Cooperation Coopera-tion "does not so much as mention 'human rights' because be-cause of fears that the Soviet So-viet Union would refuse to approve the document. "Jimmy Carter's pronouncements pro-nouncements on the subject (of human rights) are too well known. . . Our refusal to offend of-fend the Soviet Union by forcing forc-ing it to veto a strong statement state-ment on human rights contrasts con-trasts strangely with the rhetoric which was heard from the White House at the beginning of the Carter Administration," Ad-ministration," he said. Garn concluded that the US "will have no foregin policy pol-icy of our own until our leaders lead-ers develop some ideas of where we are going and why and the courage to lead us there." |
