University Daily Kansan, March 7, 1984 Page 12
NATION AND WORLD
Hearings focus on Meese loan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Presidential counselor Edwin Meese paid the last debt on a $60,000 loan arranged by a California accountant in 1981 only after being nominated for attorney general, the accountant testified yesterday.
The accountant, John McKean, said that Meese叫 him Feb. 14, three weeks after President Reagan named Meese to replace Attorney General William French Smith, to say he wanted to pay $3,340 in "interest on interest!" that had accrued when he missed payments on the loan.
"I don't recall him saying somebody suggested it to him, only saying he was going to pay it," McKean testified on the fourth, and what was expected to be the last, day of hearings on Meese's nomination.
McKean said that the interest payment was made in the last several weeks.
ATTENTION HAS been focused on the $60,000 loan because Meese paid no interest for more than two years, even though McKean's accounting firm had sent notices indicating that interest was due.
McKean was named during that time to a $10,000-a-year position on the U.S. Postal Service board of governors. His term was later extended.
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-DOhio, has questioned whether Meee received special treatment and favors, in both his personal finances and in an Army promotion, that could prevent him from being independently as attorney general.
Metzenbaum requested yesterday that Meese be called back to testify about the loan and other subjects, but it did not ask to answer specific questions in writing.
specific question asked White House
Metzenbaum asked White House
counsel Fred Fielding to meet with the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday to say whether he had advised Meese to pay the interest in order to clear up any chance of controversy over the nomination.
BUT FIELDING, who handles ethics matters for White House staff, refused to appear because it would "create a wave of discontent," said Sen. Paul Rivals, R-Nev.
McKean said that he arranged the $60,000 loan for Meese, even though Meese already had more than $50,000 in mortgage payments a year and only a $60,000-a年 salary, because he was already an apprentice and he was an honorable person."
holds abe in testimony, McKean said that, at the time he was nominated to the postal service, he saw no reason to tell a Senate committee that he had arranged more than $120,000 in loans to Meese and also to White House aide Michael Deaver.
DETROIT — United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber yesterday vowed the union would give no more concessions to its "enemies," the lawmakers, and suggested General Motors Corp. officials "go to hell."
Bieber, in his keynote address to 2,500 delegates to a contract strategy session, criticized GM for trying to force him into the White House. President Donald Ephlin's credibility
By United Press International
UAW leader chastises GM officials
Bieber's address at the Special Collective Bargaining Convention bore no trace of the conciliatory tone assumed by union leaders in negotiation on goggle hacks sought by automakers to overcome a deep industry slump.
INSTEAD, THE UAW leader attacked both big business and the
Reagan administration and officials of General Motors Corp.
Bieber attacked a GM bargaining document leaked to reporters three weeks ago that showed the firm would like to enhance profit sharing in lieu of raises, reduce health care benefits and cut 80,000 jobs by 1986.
Bieber, whose public addresses generally are conservative, drew cheers from the delegates when he said the document could be “re-printed in tissue paper and then you’ll have one last lesson for using it and disposing of it.”
Beiber criticized GM for implying in the bargaining document that Ephlin was sympathetic to the automaker and criticized GM officials for trying to split their union and hurting Ephlin's credibility with members.
"A LITTLE QUIP in a lousy piece of clothing that like isn't going to be the means with which to drive wedges in this union or within our leadership."
said Bieber. "And they can go to hell as far as I’m concerned."
Bieber's speech opened a three-day convention at Cobol Hall at which delegates will decide on a platform for upcoming union negotiations. He warned them not to become too comfortable with information would be used against them by "the companies — and our other enemies."
Besides contracts at GM and Ford Motor Co., which expire Sept. 14, the union will also be negotiating new pacts with International Harvester, Mack Truck, Massey Ferguson and Rockwell International.
In 1982, the union granted concessions worth $3 billion at GM and $1 billion at Ford. Last month, GM announced a record $3.7 billion profit for 1983. Ford had record earnings of $1.86 billion.
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