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Newspaper Page Text— Griffin Daily News Monday, August 15,1977 Page 14 Washington today Administration’s foreign ploicy has changed since its beginning By GEORGE GEDDA Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Com pared with the free-wheeling, evangelical approach of its ear ly days, the Carter adminis tration now is pursuing a for eign policy that seems much more inclined toward pragmat ism and an appreciation of hard political realities. In those first few weeks, the Soviet Union and other coun tries were chastised publicly for their human rights perform ance. West Germany and Brazil were exhorted not to go through with a deal that would give Brazil the ability to make atomic weapons. And Carter promised to do something about the “almost unrestricted" arms sales policy of preceding ad ministrations. Nowadays, hardly a week goes by without Carter reas suring the Soviets he does not intend so single them out for criticism on the human rights issue. In fact, there has been almost no criticism at all of the Soviets lately. Carter appears to have ac cepted the reality that Brazil and West Germany are deter mined to go through with their nuclear transaction no matter what he says. He has reassured both long-time allies that the United States does not intend to interfere with their pre rogatives as sovereign nations. Carter’s goal of cutting back arms transfers overseas does not seem to be as easy to achieve as he once thought. Recently he has been talking about adding Somalia, Sudan and Chad to the list of arms sales recipients. A S2OO million sale of equipment is being pro posed for Egypt and the admin istration also wants to sell Iran a $1.2 billion airborne radar system despite strong objec tions from Congress. Much of Carter’s human rights campaign apparently is aimed at pleasing domestic constituencies. Carter has been under attack from blacks and liberal Democrats in general for his fiscal conservatism but he has tried to maintain their FREE Macrama Classes At The Country Cloth Shop Tuesday 10 A.M. & 7 P.M. Thursday 10 A.M. Saturday 2:30 P.M. Come on out to one of these classes and we'll teach you how to tie knots and make some beautiful things. Phone 227-6015 TAKE ONE OF THESE OFF OUR FLOOR AND WE’LLTAKE S2STO SIOO OFF OUR PRICE. xi,- \ i ,y- Jr- ■ I ■’ UT r * --• I & J_s ; a - f > ' tx -JF zUk* ' T K- 1 F We’re taking stock. Which means you get to take your pick of a whole crop of floor models and demonstrator machines at fantastic reductions. So think about it. But don’t take too long. The machine you want might take off without you. THE FLOOR MODEL/DEMONSTRATOR CLEARANCE AT InGriffin: SINOER 127 East Solomon St SEWING CENTERS ANO PARTICIPATING APPROVED DEALERS 228-8227 PfK»» optional or portK-pohngd*ol«rs 4.4.0 044/ support through his foreign pol icy initiatives. This includes a much more activist American approach in promoting a transition to black rule in southern Africa through establishment of a one-man, one-vote system. There are multiparty demo cracies in only two of Africa’s 49 nations but Carter’s ex pressions of concern about au thoritarian rule in Africa have been directed almost ex clusively at the white-ruled areas. Thus Carter probably is the most popular American presi dent ever from the point of view of black Africa even though black Africa’s human rights record is regarded as one of the worst anywhere. Southern Africa excepted, the administration generally has shied away from publicly iden tifying nations which engage in human rights abuses. This ap parently reflects the pragmatic judgment that quiet diplomacy works better than public con demnation. Without announce ment, the administration has suspended deliveries of police equipment to a dozen countries which repress dissidents. On the question of economic aid to countries which violate human rights, the adminis tration apparently has decided that aid cutoffs would be un wise. It is coming around to the conclusion that human rights include not only political but basic economic rights as well. There is the assumption that people desperately in need should not be penalized for the misdeeds of those who govern them. Early next month, the United States and Cuba will exchange Soaring insurance costs remain unexplained ATLANTA (AP) - Two at torneys disagreed at a state House committee meeting about why product liability in surance costs are soaring in Georgia, but both agreed cur rent laws need to be changed. A public hearing was held be fore the House Judiciary Com mittee on four liability insur ance bills introduced in the 1977 session of the Georgia Legisla ture. The insurance covers firms against claims of injury or damage caused by faulty merchandise. Frank Eldridge, an Atlanta attorney, said the proposed laws would duplicate measures already enacted by the legisla ture and suggested that insur ance rates may be rising be cause insurance companies base their premiums on the number of product liability cases won nationally, rather than on Georgia cases. But Frank Love, another at torney, said the higher rates, may be caused by requiring diplomatic “interest sections,” marking the first bilateral ties in more than 16 years. This is part of the adminis tration’s policy of seeking nor mal diplomatic relations with all countries, regardless of ideology. But there has been no break-through on most of the substantive issues which have divided the countries for so long, and no exchange of am bassadors is in prospect. There was much talk in the early days of the administration about a normalization of relations with Vietnam but that possibility seems remote now. Several meetings were held with the Vietnamese in Paris on that subject but there have been none since early June and none is scheduled. Carter is maintaining a cam paign pledge to withdraw U.S. ground troops from Korea over a five-year period. But as a concession to the Koreans, the Japanese and security-minded America he has decided to keep all but a third of these troops in Korea until the final year of his timetable. Another test of the debate be tween change vs. continuity comes up next week when Sec retary of State Cyrus R. Vance visits China for talks on closer political ties. Last fall, Carter accused the Ford administration of “fritter ing away” an opportunity for normalizing relations with Pe king. But most officials believe that caution will prevail on the Vance visit and that the existing policy of limited accom modation with China will re main intact for some time to come. companies to keep huge money reserves to pay for settlements. He said rates may decrease if companies were allowed to pay off settlements over a period of years, rather than in one sum. Eldridge said it is “virtually impossible” to win a product liability case against retailers or wholesale distributors of a product. “If that’s the case, then retai lers and wholesalers shouldn’t be paying these exhorbitant (in surance) rates,” he said. Laws already on the books should be modified to put more responsibility for product de fects on the distributors, he said. 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