THE WASHINGTON POST Thursday. June 29.1978
David Gartner defended, his controversial appointment to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission yesterday before a Senate committee that was more critical of the White HouseÛªs handling of the affair than of GartnerÛªs possible conflicts of interest.</br></br>Several members of the Senate Agriculture Committee said they would not approve Gartner for the $50,000-a-year post if they had it to do over again. But as Chairman Herman Tab madge (D-Ga.) noted, ÛÏthis committee can do nothingÛ now that Gartner has been confirmed.</br></br>Gartner continued to defy President CarterÛªs demand for his resignation, telling the committee, ÛÏIf he (the president) called me right after this committee meeting I would have to tell him I wonÛªt quit.Û .ÐÊ The Treasury Department said yesterday that it has made a preliminary determination that the European Community illegally subsidized shipments of 50,009 tons of sugar to the United States over the last week.</br></br>ÛÏTile Treasury action comes as U.S. and EC negotiators are trying to reach an agreement on a code for government subsidies of exports, but U.S. trade officials said the quick countervailing duty investigation of the sugar imports was not an attempt to put pressure on the EC.</br></br>At stake in the case is the European CommunityÛªs so-called common agricultural policy that sets high internal prices in Europe for domestic farm