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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Oct. 11, 1985
Witness says scheme wasn't Edwards' idea
Unted Press International
NEW ORLEANS — During yesterday's testimony at the trial of Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, who has been accused by the government of trying to obtain and hospital permits illegally, a prosecutor stressed that he proposed the ideas to benefit the illegal scheme.
Department of Health and Human Resources Undersecretary Harvey Fitzgerald acknowledged, under questioning from defense attorney Edwards' order to suspend the award of hospital permits resulted from his own suggestions.
The suspension order, which Edwards coupled with an order to approve eight nursing homes and hospitals, is a key factor leading to the indictment of the governor and seven associates. Five of the eight exceptions were for friends and business associates.
Fitzgerald had said earlier in testimony for the government that he would not have approved the exceptions but for **for Edwards** direct order. The exceptions did not qualify under the existing health plan, which was to be rewritten during the suspension, he said.
Fitzgerald said he sent Edwards a letter proposing the moratorium, but the letter was written by Ronald Falgout, vice president of a hospital consulting firm and one of the defendants.
Under questioning from Neal, Fitzgerald said the idea for the moratorium was supported by many people in DHHR, and the letter written for his signature
Falgout was an accurate expression of his ideas.
Edwards cited the letter in his order to suspend the award of permits. The order was issued five months after Edwards returned to office in 1894.
Edwards and seven associates are accused of 51 counts of racketeering and fraud in the scheme in which the government said they amassed $10 million in profits. Edwards said he earned $2 million for legal services to the hospital enterprise as a private attorney between his second and third terms.
Part of the alleged conspiracy involved bribing an employee in DHHR with the promise of a promotion, secret agreements to hide the involvement of the conspirators and manipulation of guidelines for issuing hospital approvals.
Fitzgerald said he was told a month after Edwards returned to office for his third term to appoint Bruce Danner as the hearing officer to consider requests for state hospital certification permits.
Earlier, Fitzgerald told Assistant U.S. Attorney Pauline Hardin that Edwards had ordered that a man linked to one of the defendants be hired to rule on appeals of permit denials.
Danner shared office space with Philip Brock, who the government alleges was the front man in a fight to obtain and sell hospital permits.
The government contends Edwards used his influence in and out of office to steer the award of hospital permits to firms in which he secretly held stock.
OSLO, Norway — President Reagan, Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and Holocaust author Elie Wiesel were among a record number of 99 nominees for the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, a Norwegian Nobel Committee spokesman said yesterday.
Reagan is Nobel nominee
United Press International
The winner was to be announced today. The Peace Prize is the first of the Nobels to be awarded. This year, each is worth an unprecedented $225,000. Five science and literature prizes will be announced in Stockholm, Sweden, next week.
The prizes, which have been awarded since 1901, will be formally presented in Oslo and Stockholm on Dec. 10, the 89th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Norwegian Nobel Committee spokesman Jack Sverdrup said Reagan, Wiesel, Wiesental and New Zealand's anti-nuclear Prime Minister David Lange were among the 65 individuals nominated for the Peace Prize, established by Nobel, a Swedish millionaire, the inventor of dynamite.
Bob Geldof, the organizer of the Live Aid famine relief effort, was nominated too late to be considered this year. He will be considered in 1986. Sverdrup said.
Medicins sans Frontieres, or Doctors without Borders.
"This may be the broadest range of nominess we've ever had, but there was no obvious winning candidate," he added, saying the pool of candidates was the largest in Nobel history.
was one of 34 organizations nominated for the prize, Sverd
draup said.
The Norweigan Nobel Committee, appointed by Parliament, chose the winner two weeks ago but the six committee members were pledged to secrecy.
Although Sverdrup confirmed the candidacy of several nominees, he would not say why or by whom they were nominated.
Wiesel, a survivor of Nazi concentration camps in World War II, has chronicled the Holocaust. At A White House reception in his honor last April, he urged Reagan to cancel a controversial visit to a military cemetery in Bitturgh, West Germany, where 47 SS officers are buried. Despite worldwide outrage, Reagan attended the ceremony.
The Peace Prize has often stirred controversy. In 1973, the joint selection of then-U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese leader Le Duc Tho for negotiating an end to the Vietnam war prompted protests.
Terrorists among aliens last year
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Some very dangerous international terrorists were among more than a million illegal aliens from 70 countries apprehended by border patrols last year, the head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service said yesterday.
Alan Nelson, commissioner of the INS, announced at a news conference that the Border Patrol, an elite force of specially trained agents, prehended more than 1.26 million illegal aliens in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 — an 11 percent increase over the year before.
But with an accompanying increase in the numbers of illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico. Nelson said the INS had been
increasingly involved with the FBI and other agencies in the apprehension or the prevention of entry of dangerous international terrorists.
"We've been very active in apprehending a number of terrorists coming in," Nelson said.
Although declining to be specific, he said the terrorists involved were some people that people might not know by name.
"We're talking about serious international terrorism. They're from all parts of the world," he said. He also said some members of international organized crime groups have been turned back at the Texas border.
In the San Diego area alone, he said, patrols picked up people trying to gain illegal entry from seven countries in Central America, 14 countries in Asia, 15 countries in Europe, and
12 countries in South America, as well as Indians, Caribbean natives, Africans and people from six countries in the Middle East.
Buck Vrandemuehail, the head of the Border Patrol, said increases in non-Mexican nationals trying to enter the United States — last year set at more than 40,500 or 3 percent of the total number of illegal aliens — made it more difficult for agents to identify possible ties to terrorist or organized crime groups.
Vrandemuehal also said agents, although better equipped now, were seeing more violence all along the border and increasing numbers of people carrying weapons.
"Those are very difficult links to put together," he said.
Bill would shut polls uniformly
The plan would require that daylight-saving time be extended two weeks in the Pacific time zone so polls in that region would close at 7 p.m. PDT, the same as 9 p.m. standard time in the East
WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee, in a move to nullify the effects of television network vote projections, approved a bill yesterday calling for all polls in the continental United States to close at the same hour.
United Press International
The uniform poll closing time would apply in presidential elections only and not include Alaska or Hawaii.
The bill was approved by a House Administration subcommittee on a 7-1 vote. The full committee is expected to approve the measure next week.
The proposal for uniform closing times resulted from concern that election night projections based on vote results in the East, where polls close ahead of the West, influenced voters in the West.
Some critics of the projections by television networks say the reports can cause voters in the West to stay home and not vote if they think the election already has been settled
The subcommittee considered several alternative plans, including Sunday elections, 24-hour voting, closing polls in the East at 11 p.m. and embargoring election results until all pills close.
Rep. Al Swift, D-Wash., chairman of the subcommittee, said he expected favorable action on the bill by the full House.
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