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Beirne has long offered two grounds for supporting
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S. in
inclusion of the full faith and credit of the U.
the Compact:
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Across the board budget slashes or other
meat-ax fiscal measures might sometime in
the future unwittingly cause less than the
fully authorized Compact amounts to be appropriated unless the full faith and credit of
the U. S. had been pledged in the Compact.
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If the U. S. did fail to appropriate the
Compact amounts,
inclusion of the full faith
nesians a remedy
(resort to U.
and credit provision would give the MicroS. courts)
other than direct retaliatory action against
our defense interests.
Beirne's views were reflected in comments by the Senators
at both
the hearing and at
the June 12 conference,
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At the June 13 Lunch Beirne suggested full faith
and credit to Copaken as a possible trade-off against
permanent denial.
Copaken evidently added a demand
for elimination of the Section 453(b) provision which
guarantees the Micronesian no
more than 50% of the
Compact assistant levels in the event they unilaterally
terminate free association during the first 15 years
of the relationship.
Copaken told Beirne that this
kind of a trade-off seemed attractive and saleable
and Beirne agreed to take it up with the Senators.
Senator Johnston was out of town, but later that afternoon
Senators Jackson and McClure concurred, with the
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latter suggesting that Senator Hatfield be consulted
to insure concurrence of the appropriations subcommittee.
Senator Hatfield, too, approved.
Beirne invited Copaken
up to the Hill for a little gentle handling by Senators
Jackson,
Johnston and McClure on Monday,
June 16,
suggested he bring with him draft Compact language
and
incorporating this arrangement,
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On Monday Copaken's writing was approved by the
Senators with some small changes and they also laid
on him the obligation of securing the concurrence of
the other Micronesian entities.
They suggested that
proposal to the Administration.
Copaken agreed and
the whole package would look better as a Marshallese
left for the Marshalls on a pre-arranged visit the next
day.