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By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Zenith moving key operations CHICAGO (AP) - Zenith Ra dio Corp., which claims to rely on American parts and labor more than any other major television maker, is moving key operations to Mexico and Tai wan and eventually eliminating one-fourth of its U.S. workforce. Chairman John Nevin said Tuesday the firm was forced to take the action because of for eign competition. The announcement comes a week after Youngstown Steel Co. announced the layoff of 5,- 11 ''Wr sl ”’) A iv r 3 i KT /I / Braces for horse KISSIMMEE, Fla. — “Deck” a 9-year-old hone, doesn’t know how lucky he is. Injured in a freak accident, which might have resulted in having to be shot. He is now the first horse to be fitted with braces. Sherwood Brown, father of the veterinarian, and a welder is shown here with “Deck” and the braces that Sherwood designed and helped to make for the hone. (AP) newsj McDonald case closed ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Atty. William Harper says allegations that Rep. Larry McDonald violated federal gun law are not “prosecutable,” and that means the case is closed. McDonald, a politically conservative Marietta urologist, came under federal scrutiny last April when he was accused of using the signatures of patients on federal firearms forms in order to amass a collection of automatic weapons and explosives. On Tuesday, Harper announced that his office had made a “thorough and complete investigation” and had “determined that the case was not prosecutable.” Gainesville buys buses GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — The Gainesville City Commission has voted to buy five new buses and to hire seven additional employes in an effort to improve its overtaxed city school bus system. The system has been strained to accomodate an ad ditional 30,000 students since 1975, according to Georgia Mountains Area Planning and Development Commission director Dr. Sam Dayton. Officials estimate that the additional buses and em ployes will tost the city between $60,000 and $90,000 for the remainder of the school year. City Manager Ray Keith said the cost will be absorbed by a $200,000 grant for urban renewal. Gay, Ga. mayor quits GAY, Ga. (AP) — “If you can’t lick ’em and you can’t join ’em, you just have to walk away,” Edith Buchanan observed after announcing she was quitting as mayor of this middle Georgia town. Mrs. Buchanan decided to call it quits Tuesday after the city council, over her objections, voted to ignore a munici pal ordinance that called for a sl-a-day fine for businesses failing to meet a Sept. 1 deadline for the purchase of business licenses. “If you’ve got an ordinance, you’ve got to enforce it,” Mrs. Buchanan insisted. But after one businessman refused to pay the fine, the council waived the penalty and decided to refund fines to several other businesses that had already paid. Carter counterattacks canal treaty foes Carter administration’s mili tary and diplomatic forces are mounting a united, point-by- 000 workers in Ohio, in part be cause of competition from over seas manufacturers. Nevin said he believed Zenith “has tried longer and has tried harder than others to protect the jobs of its U.S. employes. “It is now clear, however, that competitive manufacturers are obtaining increasingly sig nificant cost advantages from production activities in lower labor cost areas of the world.” Nevin said the firm would point counterattack against a well-organized campaign to scuttle the Panama Canal transfer much of its television module board and chassis as sembly operations to plants in Mexico and Taiwan. The move is expected to cost 3,500 Ameri can jobs by next year. Another 1,500 would be eliminated through the purchase of im ported stereo products. 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Conservative opponents of the treaty have argued that the treaty does not guarantee the U.S. right to defend the canal after it is turned over to Pan ama in the year 2000. But in Senate testimony Tues day, Defense Secretary Harold Brown and Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the mili tary Joint Chiefs of Staff, stressed that there will be a far more dangerous military threat to the security of the canal if the treaty is rejected than if it is ratified. Meanwhile, retired Adm. Thomas Moorer, one of four former chiefs of naval oper ations on record as opposing ratification of the treaty, was called before the House Inter national Relations Committee today. In his testimony Tuesday be- Page 5 fore the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Defense Secretary Brown said: “The canal was built for shipping, not slogans. The treaties you are examining provide real security, not paper claims. They offer the most practical guarantee obtainable that the canal will remain oper ational, secure and available to the United States.” And Gen. Brown indicated the nation would have to be prepared for a long period of military action in Latin Amer ica if the Senate refuses to rati fy the treaty. He said a guerrilla warfare campaign from inside Panama would require three divisions or about 100,000 men to assure an adequate force to protect the canal. He said even a U.S. mili tary force of that size could not stop saboteurs or commandos from causing enough damage to force the canal to close down for short periods. And Secretary Brown said ef forts to operate in such a hostile Griffin Daily News Wednesday, September 28, 1977 environment would mean repeated shutdowns that would require the United States to re spond with military force “over and over again.” Asked to respond to critics who say that making the canal a neutral zone would open it to enemy shipping in time of war, Secretary Brown said the treaty does give the ships of all nations access to the canal — but it does not guarantee them safe passage to reach it. Adm. James L. Holloway 111, chief of naval operations, told the Senate panel in a written statement that approving the treaty would contribute to “a friendly and cooperative atti tude” toward the United States by Latin American countries. Meanwhile, a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Com mittee subpoenaed a recently discharged Army sergeant who allegedly passed to the Pan amanian government evidence that U.S. intelligence agents bugged Panama’s treaty nego- tiating team. The Senate intelligence com mittee, the State Department, the Defense Department and the two chief U.S. negotiators have said the alleged incident in no way affected the outcome of the negotiations. CBS News reported Tuesday night that a second American soldier was involved in selling intelligence information to Pan amanian officials. The service man reportedly was involved in U.S. intelligence operations dealing with Panama. CBS said the man was not prosecuted be cause U.S. officials did not want to have to disclose details of their intelligence operations in Panama. CBS said the American was granted immunity from prose cution in exchange for revealing what he had given the Pan amanians. CBS, quoting Senate sources, said the American was given an honorable discharge and that U.S. officials do not know where he is now.
