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Tuesday, April 4, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Israelis begin Lebanese pullout
By The Associated Press
Israel announced yesterday that it had started a gradual withdrawal from southern Lebanon, occupied by Israeli forces in an attempt to prevent Palestinian marshing positions last month.
The Israeli military command said a significant thinning out of forces had begun a week ago and its soldiers were being replaced by United Nations peacekeeping
But the command gave no details of the withdrawal, saying, "The plan will be made public only after the subject has been finalized with the U.N. authorities."
IN NEW YORK, U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim said that with a planned 4,000 MW of solar power, the nation would
so tar and a total of 3,000 would be in place by next week. Israel had said earlier it would withdraw when the U.N. force was fully denounced.
Waldheim's report said 672 French troops, 195 Iranians, 224 Swedes and 690 Norwegians were so far in position between the Israelis and Palestinians.
NORWEGIAN TROOPS were arriving in Tel Aviv and gradually moving north from an Israeli army base to take up positions on the southern Lebanese border bridge across the Liam River. The river is the northern limit of the Israeli operation that began March 15, occupied 500 square miles of southern Lebanon and officially opened a road to 21 with Israel's declaration of a cease-fire.
Park says payments did not buy influence
WASHINGTON (UPI) - South Korean businessman Tongsun Park, testifying publicly for the first time yesterday, said he made payments to 30 congressmen rang from $100 to $282,000, but denied any attempt to buy influence on Capitol Hill.
Park, once one of Washington's most lavish hosts, told a House committee he gave $850,000 to past and present members solely to advance his private business.
PARK, A SOUTH Korean rice dealer, maintained two homes in Washington and operated a private club in swank Georgetown.
Park, in his opening statement, said he was a young man when he arrived in the United States.
He previously gave secret testimony to congressional committees and federal investigators probing allegations that Park was the middleman in a scheme to congressional favor for the South Korean government.
"I SURE I MADE some mistakes. I have no problem in admitting that."
"In retrospect, I wish I had not done certain things that I did," Park said.
have no problem in administration
constituted an American success story on a
few occasions.
Park consistently denied being an agent of the South Korean CIA. He said he was operating only as a private businessman trying to improve U.S.-Korean relations.
"Whattever I did this in country, I did it on my own with my own ideas," he snapped at one point when pressed to answer committee members' questions directly.
Among the largest payments Park listed under questioning by special counsel Leon
$ 282,260 to former Rep. Richard Hanna, D-Calfi, including what he called $ 66,228 in legitimate business payments. Hanna has raised a count of conservancy in the Korean scandal.
- About $247,000 to former Rep. Otto Passman, D-La., who was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on charges of receiving $213,000 in cash from Park in return for Passman's insistence that South Korea buy Louisiana rice through Park.
Row 10: he is bound to former Rep. Cornellus Gallagher, D-N.J. Park also he loaned Gallagher $250,000. Gallagher repaid about
- About $31,500 to former Rep. William Minshal, R-Rhône, Park also said he gave Minshal 'in the neighborhood of $25,000 to the local 4-H club' in 1972 presidential re-election campaign.
- About $25,000 to Louisiana Governor Edwin Dewey, a former Democrat governor of Louisiana.
Some of the Congressmen named by Park had previously disputed his testimony. In many other cases, those named by Park acknowledged receiving the money and said it was given as legal campaign contributions.
$120,000, Park said, and "the remaining
$130,000 for forgive."
OTHER PAYMENTS ranged from about $5,000 intended for Rep. John Breaux, D-La., who denied receiving it, to a $100 payment to Rep. Frank Thompson, D-N.J.
- About $10,500 in cash to former Rep.
Nick Gallifakas, D-N.C.
SUCH ACTION BY South Africa, Carter said, was one thing that could precipitate a more serious difference between the United States and South Africa.
Jaworski, interviewed on television during a recess, said he though Park appeared to be quite truthful in much of his testimony.
The United States and four other western powers are trying to negotiate a peaceful South African withdrawal from Namibia, the black nationalist name for South West Africa, where the black majority is held in power. The UK is in open defiance of the United Nations.
"THERE ARE SOME other areas where I think he is withholding some information. He does not like for a moment to admit that he wants us to believe. We all know that he was." Jaworski said.
South African Prime Minister John Vorser said in Cape Town, South Africa, that he would study the full text of Carter's speech before commenting.
Jaworski said he thought there were few cases where present congressmen might face Justice Department charges. There are some instances where people accepted money innocently and would be more discreet in the future, he said.
Carter told reporters on his flight to Monrovia that if the South Africans reject a reasonable proposal it would be a serious indication of their unwillingness to comply with the views and decisions of the world community.
U. S. REJECTION of a total economic embargo against South Africa was one of the key differences that developed during the war with Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanio.
PARK TESTIFIED that he sought Passman's help to improve his own rice business but said, "I certainly was not pleased." Passman also told the U.S. government or anybody else, "
MONOVIA, Liberia (AP)—President Jimmy Carter, winning a wild welcome yesterday at the last stop of his history-making Third world tour, warned South Africa that he could make attacks to the United States if black Namibia could mean serious trouble with the United States.
CARTER'S most enthusiastic welcome came in Liberia, where the government declared a holiday and tens of thousands cheered, saved palm fronds and danced in celebration.
Carter leaves U.S. warning in South Africa
Park's appearance before the committee came a year and a half after he left Washington before being indicted by a judge. Park is connected with the alleged income-buying.
"I think he (Osbanaj) would be much more aggressive in a total embargo against the United States."
Carter headed home from Lagos, Nigeria, with a four-hour stopover in Liberia. His trip was the first official visit by an American president to black Africa. Carter, who left Washington seven days ago, also went to Venezuela and Brazil.
A convoy of 25 truckloads of Norwegian troops also traveled south from Beirut to Tripoli.
He returned to Washington to testify after the Justice Department guaranteed him bail.
IN ROMANIA, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan discussed the Mideast situation with President Nicolae Ceausescu, who has arranged past Arab-Israeli contacts in Palestine and Palestinian security chief Yasir Arafat flies to Romania after Dayan's visit. ends
Park testified he was embarrassed by the notoriety that had engulfed him and said he
In Beirut, the newspaper An Nahar said Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was expected soon in Bucharest.
East European country, held talks with Ceaseaux and Foreign Minister Stefan Andrei. Israeli-Egyptian negotiations have reached apparent stalemate over issues of the occupied Arab lands and the future of the Palestinians.
The Romanian news agency Agperpes said Davan, who arrived Sunday night in the
bagemen whose plight brought King to Memhis in 1968.
King's widow, Coretta, will remain in Atlanta where the civil rights leaders is buried. She plans to lay a wreath on his grave this afternoon.
But a PLO spokesman said, "The trip is not certain yet."
The commemoration of the Noble Peace prize winner's death on April 4, 1968, began at 10 p.m. yesterday with a rally at the Mason Temple Church of God in Christ, where King preached his last sermon on the eve of his death.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI)--Followers who marched beside Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s and others who know him only as a legend gathered yesterday at the site of his assassination for an all-night vigil to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his death.
Several thousand others were expected to join the group today during a march sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce, which is represented by the union representing the striking gar-
King's memory honored 10 years after murder
Sunset bill approved
TOPEKA (AP) - A "sunset" bill, which sponsors is aimed at curbing the growth of state government, was passed by the Senate 103-21 yesterday and sent to his Senate.
The sunset legislation would specify expiration dates for state agencies. The agencies would be closed out automatically unless the Legislature took positive action to
THE GOVERNOR WAS described by an aide as basically in agreement with the main points of the measure. But the aide said Bennett wanted to study the bill before revealing whether he would sign it into law or not.
ONE SPONSOR SAID it is almost impossible now to get a bill to abolish an agency through the Legislature because, in many instances, one person such as a committee chairman or a legislative leader could stall consideration.
The bill passed the House carrying a sunset provision of its own. State Rep. Fred Weaver, D-Baxter Springs, added the provision that the bill if it becomes law—to expire itself in 1981.
But with the proposed measure, legislation would have to be affirmatively approved by a majority of the members of the committee. If an agency were to have its life extended.
The measure went to Bennett after the Senate voted 34-1 to concur in House amendments, avoiding further legislative hassling and reducing the number one of the Legislature's biggest headaches.
In other action, a bill revising the state's school finance formula to make it more acceptable to the courts went to Gov. Robert F. Bennett.
Legislative leaders were relieved, since they are shooting for first adjournment late
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BENNETT SIGNED into law yesterday bills prohibiting insurance companies from discriminating against the handicapped and the private college tuition grant program.
Under the measures;
- insurance companies are required to apply the same underwriting principles to severely handicapped persons as to all others they sell policies to. This means the companies must have statistical proof a handicapped person is more likely to die younger than others before charging a buffer premium.
- The maximum tuition grant a student at one of the state's 21 private four-year colleges is increased from $1,000 a year to $1,200.
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