ABSTRACT
Formal jurisdiction for the Paul Warnke nomination lay with the Foreign Relations Committee, where, with a couple of exceptions, Paul Warnke got a positive reception. The committee has jurisdiction over general arms control and disarmament matters, arms sales, treaties, executive agreements, and military and economic assistance programs. Few areas of arms control policy have given people more trouble than conventional arms transfers. The committee will scrutinize any agreement for loopholes or loosely drawn provisions. The closest the committee came to overturning such a transfer was on the Airborne Warning and Control System sale to Iran, where a compromise was negotiated by the administration with the committee in the summer of 1977. The committee will scrutinize any agreement for loopholes or loosely drawn provisions. The amendment also figured in similar discussions aimed at persuading Brazil and West Germany to drop plans for a fuel-reprocessing system in their billion-dollar nuclear deal.
