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Tuesday, September 6, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Staff Photo by JOHN SHARKEY
Back home
Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry, displays some souvenirs he brought back from his recent trip to Zaire. Bricker,
representing the United States, participated in a science exposition in that central African nation.
By DERIC GILLIARD
Prof conducts exhibition in Zaire
Staff Writer
training all over the world, exhibiting scientific instruments such as lasers, holograms and vendogram generators, is used for Clark E. Bricker, professor of chemistry.
Zaire, an inland African country, formerly part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Bricker, who returned a month ago from the Fifth International Trade Fair in Kinshasa, Zaire, has managed six such exhibitions for the United States since 1972.
Bricker said he bought all of the necessary equipment, about $3,000 worth, through the KU chemistry department and has reimbursed by the information agency.
tepich of the U. S. Information Agency, a branch of the State Department.
BRICKER SAID THAT he sent all the equipment to the contractor, which was July 24.
During a typical day at the fair, he said, he demonstrated models and explained their functions. Some of the models were lasers, polarized light demonstrators, closed circuit televisions and chemical demonstrators.
Bricker said all of the instruments at the fair were innovations in technology.
"With a light beam from a modulated laser beam, for instance, a person's voice can be transmitted over a hundred yards away. Today telephone calls can be sent by laser beam instead of by wire. It's much, much faster." he said.
Bricker also spoke of the VANderGraaf, a
2 senators say Lance should go
According to the two senators, Carter replied that Lance thought he had been wronged and that he was determined to defend himself.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Senators Abraham Ribicoff and Carney Percy told President Jimmy Carter yesterday at a special meeting that "allegations illegal in the budget were denied against Budget Director Bert Lance and that he ought to resign.
In a two-sentence written statement 35 minutes later, the White House said Carter "expressed his appreciation" to the senators and hoped Senate hearings on the Lance dispute would be conducted expeditiously to "allow all parties the opportunity to present the facts to the American people."
Ribicoff, D-Conn, chairman of the Senate Government Operations Committee, and Perey, R-III, (as ranking member, and for most of his career, meeting with Carter, which lasted 45 minutes.
THE COMMITTEE opens hearings tomorrow on Lance's financial problems.
The meeting also was attended by Hamilton Jordan, Carter's top aide. Jordan listened as the two senators talked to him, but refused to speak to them himself.
"During the course of preparation for the hearings," Ribocoff told reporters outside the White House, "certain material came to our attention in which there were alleged insults against him. But felt it was our duty to bring these alleged illicitations to the attention of the President."
Ribicoff and Percy refused to disclose what the allegations were. They did, however, say committee investigators had spoken with a jail inmate who said he was involved in embroachment at the First National Bank of Gaitha, Gaon, which lance once headed.
CARTER MET with the senators shortly after returning ahead of schedule from a four-day Labor Day weekend at his retireat at Camp David, Md.
"We both felt it was important enough to call the President at Camp David and ask to meet with him." Ribicoff said. "We did talk to the President and arranged for the meeting, and conferred and gave to the President the information we had.
Percy said he and Ribicoff would see Lance's FBI files tomorrow morning. He said the committee authorized two weeks of his testimony by its staff on the allegations against Lance.
"As a result of that staff work, I have certainly strongly recommended to the President that Bert Lance resign in his own interest or step aside," Percy said, adding that he suggested a special prosecutor be appointed to handle the case.
Ribicoff said he suggested that Lance resign ouight.
'IF THERE was a resignation, perhaps these matters were handled by the prosecutor. 'Percy cried to his
As a result of the new development, she has scheduled a special session for this afterthought.
Percy said he called Lance last Wednesday and Lance told him he had no intention of resigning and intended to fight the charges. Percy said he told Lance that the strongest critics he had were country bankers.
Lance's supporters have said that the cases were typical of small-town bankers.
"I don't think Bert Lance can be an effective OMB director pending these hearings and the investigation of all the allegations," Ribicoff said.
THE PANEL had previously scheduled hearings for tomorrow and Thursday on Lance's loans and checking account overdrafts with testimony to come from Comptroller of the Currency John Heinman. The hearing will be to testify before the panel Thursday.
Ribcifiosed he and Percy would tell the Senate committee at 2 p.m. EDT today the charges the investigation has revealed the past two weeks.
Earlier Monday Lance denied a report in the Atlanta Constitution newspaper that said a former Calibour bank officer convicted of embezzling funds from the bank had implicated Lance in the embezzlement scheme.
The Constitution said Billy Lee Campbell, now serving an eight-year term in the federal prison in Atlanta, implicated Lance in a signed affidavit to Senate investigators.
RIBICOFF SAID the report in the Constitution that the committee had an affidavit was a lie. He said the committee did not have a signed statement from Campbell.
"Obviously whatever he might have said, he is a convicted person, he is serving in the army or prison. Percy said." We then would be irresponsible if we just simply repeated what he said without verification and we have no proof that Permil us even to t tape-record what he said."
Lance, speaking through a Washington spokesman about the Constitution report, said, "It's a total lie. There were certainly no allegations like that during the proceedings against Campbell. And it's ridiculous to think it's true now."
Percy said three committee investigators went to Atlanta and talked with Campbell.
He said he hadn't spoken to Lance recently but "he feels very strongly that he has been maligned, he feels very strongly that he has been maligned, he has been stated, and he wants that opportunity."
Percy said that the hearings could last several months and that there was no way to know if he would go.
**HUCOFF SAIF** that during the Senate hearings testimony of other witnesses will be presented.
"Mr. Lance is determined to make his position known publicly and wants a
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Bricobich and Percy had stayed out of the Lance controversy since the government affairs panel held a three-hour hearing July 16. The governor director about his personal finances.
The committee spent much of the hearing praising Lance for his candor. At one point, Rubio told him, "You have been smeared with a country to the other, in my opinion unjustly."
PERCY AT that time said he was "satisfied completely" with Lance's answers.
But since the committee questioned Lance six weeks ago there have been several developments damaging to Lance's case.
Last month Heitman released an extensive report on Lance's financial dealings that said the budget chief had done nothing criminally wrong.
However, the report did raise numerous questions about Lance's bank activities while he headed the Calhoun bank and the National Bank of Georgia in Atlanta.
Just three hours after Heimman's report was made public Carter flew by helicopter from Camp David to Washington to endorse a nationally televised news conference.
"My faith in the character and competence of Bert Lance has been reconvened, and I am predicting that a chance will arise at the end of He. He cladded by using," "Bert, 'I'm proud of you.'"
Lance said he believed Heimann's report would be very favorable.
But the controversy would not die.
Almost daily, newspapers uncovered new aspects of Lance's financial dealings which prompted several politicians to urge his resignation or firing.
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BRICKER'S EXHIBITION was one of 22 sponsored by the United States. It was housed in a geodesic dome, an apparatus for measuring lengths of aluminum triangles lensed together.
Bricker said that he was on TV several times during the fair, but that the highlight of the entire trip was when President Obama visited Schlubb and talked to Bricker for five minutes.
Bricker, who has worked with the agency five years, has stages similar exhibits in his studio.
While in Zaire, Bricker stayed at the U.S. embassy guesthouse, which he described as "not the Waldorf-Astoria but quite adequate."
Bricker said that the two hotels in Kinsah that Americans could live in were full of new businesses.
Commenting on Zaire, Bricker said that it was a rapidly developing country, but that its educational system was not very advanced.
"Although I enjoyed my stay, I wish I
"DUE, TO TRANSPORTATION problems, few of the kids in the rural areas can get to schools, therefore they rarely get past the sixth grade," he said.
could've seen more of the country," he said. Bricker said travel was difficult because the weather wasn't ideal.
Bricker, who went to Kinshasa by himself,
said no one traveled alone in the city at night.
"We worked 12 hours a day," he said. "hardly had time to socialize, anyway."
Police said the men entered through an unlocked door shortly after the restaurant closed and ordered the night manager to turn over the cash.
Police were called to the scene at 11:30 p.m. The manager of the restaurant would be there.
Bricker said he had two interpreters who made his toa loa easier.
"My interpreters were two native
aiweens. They were both very cooperative
and fun to work with."
two men, armed with a baseball bat and a unite, robbed McDonald's Restaurant, 90 W. 23rd. St., at an undetermined amount of cash late on Saturday night.
Bricker said although tourism wasn't really promoted in Zaire, it could be.
Robbers strike golden arches
"One thing I really wanted to do was take boat ride down the Congo, but I really wanted to go by plane."
$100 seized in KU theft
Although no security guards are stationed at the stadium, it is regularly patrolled by security personnel.
About $100 in coins was stolen from a safe at Memorial Stadium during the weekend, Capt. Mike Hill of the KU Police Department said yesterday.
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Hill said the money was taken from the concession area at the north end of the stadium between 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
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