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 Spokesmen for the Panamista, Liberal and Christian Demoratic parties and the "Mlovement of Independent Lawyers" said that should they come to power they would immediately renounce the treaties. At the same time they acknowledged they had little hope that a second plebiscite would be called. Geenal Torrijos had told reporters that no plebiscite was needed in Panama because the
 treaties "are a triumph -and we can live with them."
April 20-Pentagon officials, dismissing General Torrijos' remarks
 as political rhetoric, stated that U.S. intelligence had no evidence of Panamanian plans to attack the Canal Zone if the Senate rejected the Treaty.
April 21-C'olumnnist Jamies Rleston reported in the New York Times
 that the Carter administration was ready with a series of contingency plans to minimize the damage in Panama and Latin America
 in case the Senate failed to approve the Panama Canal Treaty.
April 24-The Federal Times reported that Panama Canal employees
 were in a "mutinous" mood and might resort to a job action if the implementing legislation on the canal treaties were not modiafied to protect their job rights, according to L. J. Fattorosi, president of the Canal Zone Central Labor Union and Metal Trades Council of
 the AFL-CIO.
April 25-At a press conference, Pep. George Hansen, spokesman for
 a group of treaty opponents in theI-louse, said that the group has pledged to continue fighting against the treaties when the House takes up the implementing legislation to transfer Canal Zone property to Panama. 1Hansen said, "Th-e battle over the Panamia Canal treaties has ended in the Senate but Round Two is coming up-a constitutional flight of serious proportions."
April 25-The Panamanian Foreign Ministry issued a lengthy communique establishing its official position on the treaties and their amendments, reservations and understandings. The document inludes an analysis of each of the amendments and an interpretation
 from the Panamanian viewpoint.
April 28-'The White House announced that President Carter will
 visi t Panama June 16 and 17 to exchange instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties, even though the ratification could not become effective until Congress passes implementing legyislation under the Brooke reservations. Senator Brooke released a letter in which he urged President Carter to make it clear that the ceremonial exchange should not be given a formal, binding status. April 30-The Washington Star reported that General Torrijos sent
 messages to Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Minority Leader Howard Baker praising their courage for supporting the Panama Canal Treaties and explaining that his bellicose outburst immediately after the final Senate vote was an outgrowth of an almost
 steady stream of criticism from some Senators.

 MAY 1978
May 1-Senator Robert Byrd conveyed to the Senate, General Torni]os' "profound thanks on behalf of my entire people" for the Senate approval of the Panama Canal treaties. "I believe," the Panamanian leaders' letter continued, "that we have entered on an entirely new