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Tuesday, April 11, 1978
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U.S. charges Israel with arms violation
WASHINGTON (UP1) - Israel broke an assurance to the United States when it used cluster bombs in southern Lebanon, and the administration is taking steps to guarantee no further violations. State Department officials said yesterday.
The classified agreement between Israel and the United States, according to the officials, limits the use of the Israel-Israeli missile drones in the scale of the 1967 and 1973 wars.
THE RESTRICTIONS were placed on the bombs—which spray large areas with either small steel darts or small explosive charges—in December, 1978, when the Israeli air force used them on Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
The United States has been selling the bombs, designed to destroy anti-aircraft missile sites, since August 1970. Former President Gerald Ford's administration denied a request for another type of area weapon, the concussion bomb, which the
Israelis had wanted for clearing minefields.
SECRETARY OF STATE Cyrus R. Vance told Congress last week that the Israelis had violated a more general restriction on the use of American arms in the invasion but that he was not recommending that Israel commit to withdrawal from Lebanon and the possible effect on the peace negotiations.
THE OFFICIAL did not specify what action the department had in mind.
The cluster bodies are covered under that general restriction, as well as the specific understanding drawn up in 1976. One State Department official said, "We are going to do something so that it doesn't happen again."
In Israel, a military spokesman said that the cluster bombs were used, but against entrenched artillery and field troops, which were killed in Israeli troops.
Ex-FBI men indicted
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Because former FBI chief L. Patrick Gray and two senior assistants are indicted, Attorney General Griffin Bell says accountability for illegal wiretaps and break-ins have been placed where they belong - at the top.
This, Bell said yesterday, means dropping all charges against John C. Kearney, retired boss of New York City's Squad 47, whose job was to track down fugitive Weatherman radicals who claimed credit for bombings in 1969.
A federal grand jury in Washington charged Gray, associate FBI director Mark Felt, and former intelligence chief Edward S. Miller with conspiring to violate the civil rights of Squad 47's break-in targets.
BELL SAID 88 other FBI agents and two
pillars of investigation would be
punished administratively.
The inducted officials were charged with 32 overt acts including writing memos, receiving reports of actual break-ins and telephone taps of friends and associates in efforts to learn where the fugitives were hiding.
The grand jury's list of overt acts in the alleged conspiracy included meetings at various locations, a talk Gray gave to a group of FBI officials and memos and reports to Washington about specific break-ins.
About Oct. 6,1972, in Quantico,Va., FBI
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT officials said tha maximum penalty was 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Gray has denied ever approving an illegal act, particularly burglaries.
Among those facing disciplinary action, Bell said, are J. Wallace LaPrade, now director of the New York City FBI office, for the investigation and during the course of the investigation.
These disciplinary actions might range from letters of censure to forced removal.
The Weathermen, who broke away from the Students for a Democratic Society, claimed responsibility for a series of violent attacks in Chicago and rampaged in Chicago in November 1969.
They also claimed responsibility for a series of bombings of public and corporate buildings between 1969 and 1972—including the Capitol, State Department and the
The inductees charged agents of Squad 47 broke into the homes of these friends or criminals, and they engaged in naughty ingress. Jemifer Dohr, Judith Clark, Susan Roth, Mortimer Bookchin, Leonard Machinger and Francis Schreibregel of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Cohen, N.J. N
Man sought by authorities hijacks driver and truck
NO CHARGES had been filed yesterday
The Missouri Highway Patrol said the man, from Humble, Texas, was arrested on Interstate 44 about 2 p.m. after he surrendered to an FBI agent who had taken the place of the truck driver. The patrol identified the man as the one Oklahoma City police officer who allegedly hit tickhichers he was on his way to Washington to kill the president.
LEBANON, Mo. (AP)—A man who was sought for alleged threatening to kill President Carter hijacked a truck and its driver at gunpoint yesterday and led a caravan of police more than 60 miles before he surrendered, police said.
Police said that yesterday morning, a man called an automobile dealership in Springfield, Mo., and asked for a tow truck. The driver also said he was the city, holding a gun to the driver's head.
The highway patrol issued an alert to city and county officers along the interstate to
lock exits from the highway so the wrecker could not leave the highway for gasoline.
At one point the wrecker stopped and an FBI agent—also unidentified—took the place of the wrecker driver. After the caravan traveled about 60 miles to a point near Lebanon and the tow truck was nearly out of gasoline, the man surrendered.
THE MAN WAS returned to Springfield yesterday afternoon, where he was being interviewed.
A nationwide alert had been issued by the U.S. Secret Service and Oklahoma law enforcement agencies after the man's alleged threat to kill Carter.
Two hitchhikers got out of the man's car in the eastern Oklahoma town of Henrytta late Sunday evening and told authorities the man was coming from Washington on his way to Washington to shoot Carter.
A Secret Service spokesman said that agency considers him to be a "dangerous man."
Butchers' strike continues
KANAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Meat cutters and wrappers begin picketing the Kansas City area Milgram Food stores yesterday, and major food chain to be struck in two days.
A contract between the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen Union Local 370 and four area grocery chains expired in May, and a contract with a group of independent stores.
DESPITE PICKETING by the meat-cutter United Airlines, the Milkman members, the Reqal Store Employee
The meat cutters struck at area United Super stores Sunday.
MILGRAM OFFICIALS and supervisory personnel were manning the meat counters,
Asked to comment about yesterday's meeting between Milgram officials and the union, an unnamed union official replied with profanities.
Union Local 782 refused to honor the picket lines and continued to work.
There were no indications of possible walkouts at Safeway or A&P, the other major
Under consideration is a proposal by Rep. Charles Vanki that will allow a tax credit of 50 percent of tuition charges with a maximum credit of $100 for elementary and secondary tuition and up to $250 for college tuition. The student loans were years initial 1978 credits of $50 to $100.
In a hearing room crammed with pressure groups—some wearing buttons saying "Stop Tuition Tax Credits" Committee debate centered on whether tax should be limited to colleges or should go to elementary and secondary schools as well.
WASHINGTON (UPD) -Tax credits for school tuition survived an initial test in the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday, despite strong last-minute opposition from the administration and private education organizations.
THERE ALSO IS A question to as whether credits for church school students would be provided.
A coalition of education, religious, urban and labor groups said yesterday that measure of the proposed tuition tax credit legislation would destroy the nation's public school system.
The Committee, holding its first drafting session on the tuition credit plan, issued 24-13 budget amendments.
Republicans on the committee are solidly behind tax credits, but Democrats are not.
Drug rehabilitation center admits former first lady
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP)—Former first lady Betty Ford was admitted to the alcohol and drug rehabilitation center of Long Beach Naval Hospital yesterday for treatment of what officials described as a "problem with medication."
ZIMBLE REFUSED to say what
Ford would be hospitalized.
Ford would be hospitalized.
Tuition tax credits survive test
"It's very premature to discuss anything
"She has developed a dependence she is trying to overcome," Dr. James Zimble, acting commanding officer of the hospital, said. For Ford, 60, was in any way addicted to drugs.
Mrs. Ford, who had suffered from several years from arthritis, said in a prepared statement, "It's an insidious thing, and it rid my idle of its damaging effects."
CLAIMING THE BACKING of 60 million members in 32 organizations, the National Coalition to Save Public Education asked the Committee to kill the proposed legislation.
"The coalition views tuition tax credits as leading to the ultimate destruction of the nation's public schools and considers the action of congress a life and death issue." Jean Dye of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers said.
IN THE WAKE of the vote for the bill, the panel voted 19-18 for an amendment by Vanki to his own bill to extend tax credits to public elementary and secondary school students and on children who choose to attend schools in a district other than their home district.
The 19-18 margin on the Vanik amendment was considered a fair test of committee sentiment for allowing tax credits for elementary and secondary education. the amendment was designed to strengthen the bill's chances of being ruled constitutional.
Mrs. Dye told a news conference the coalition was opposed to any form of tuition
COLLEGE TUITION CREDITS were all but assured Committee approval.
House consideration of tuition tax credits has been blocked in the past by House leaders and the White House, which has a substitute plan to increase funding for
but her statement," Zimbabwe said, adding that her condition was fine.
In 1974, Mrs. Ford had a cancerous breast removed, but her husband, former President Gerald Ford, said yesterday that current treatment was not related to cancer.
The decision to undergo treatment was made last week when it was thought Mrs. Ford was suffering from an acute arthritic condition, Zimbabwe said at a hospital news conference that she was later determined that Mrs. Ford's aliment was a problem with medication.
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But political sentiment for tax credits has
grown so strong that a favorable House vote seems assured this year. The Senate appears ready to pass a tax credit overwhelmingly.
Tax increases supported
WASHINGTON (UP1) — President Jimmy Carter earlier urged Congress to reject hasty moves to roll back Social Security tax and carefully reform it the entire system next year.
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He said the magnitude of the increases were not to occur for several years.
"In my view, it would be better to act on reform of social security in a more deliberate fashion next year than to risk illicit financial activity through hasty action this year," he said.
In letters to congressional party leaders and the chairmen of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees, Carter said tax increases in the 1977 legislation had saved the system from bankruptcy, protected our older citizens and ensured current workers of a sound retirement system.
"I urge you to oppose an plan you would reduce payroll taxes at the expense of our industry."
Carter said a short-term payroll tax cut was no substitute for the comprehensive tax reform and reduction proposals he presented.
Shevchenko, a Ukrainian, is undersecretary-general for political and Security Council affairs. There was an investigation might ask for asylum in the United States.
Soviet won't return home
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Arkady N. Shevchenko, the highest ranking Soviet citizen employed by the United Nations, is staying away from his job because of differences with his government, a U.N. spokesman said yesterday.
Shevchenko is a salaried employee of the U.N. Secretariat and is not a member of the Soviet government's U.N. mission.
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State Department of
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ment had been contacted by Ernest Gross, Shevchenko's New York lawyer, and Gross indicated the Soviet official would not return to the Soviet Union.
"The department is in no way trying to
restore Shevchenko's decision.
Restore."
But Reston said Shevchenko had not asked for asylum in the United States. He said Soviet officials had requested a request from Shevchenko and Gross had arranged one.
State Department officials said earlier that the question of political asylum was not expected to arise as long as Shevchenko remained on the U.N. staff.
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