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Thursday, February 13, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Demos investigated
WASHINGTON - The Watergate Special Prosecution Force has subpoenaed finance reports of the Democratic party from 1970 and 1971 for a grand jury investigation into possible violation of a campaign reporting law. The subpoenaed reports cover the period in which Democratic chairman Robert F. Kennedy, accompanied by a gift from Ashland Oil Inc. the oil company alleged last year that the money was an illegal corporate donation.
No further prosecution can be brought for the illegal $50,000 gift itself because the statute of limitations on the contribution has expired. However, any violation of the reporting requirements of the Corrupt Practices Act may still be prosecuted if it occurred within the last five years. Conviction of violating the reporting requirements with a maximum sentence of one year in jail and $1,000 fine.
Malagasy turmoil
TANANARIVE, Malagasy—Fighting raged Tuesday between army units and rebel troops and police after the military government accused dissident police forces of assassinating president Richard Ratsimandra.
Mortar and machine gun fire could be heard throughout the capital as civil war threatened Malagasy. Malagasy is a large island southeast of the African continent. In Paris, the French government ordered the aircraft carrier Clementeau and other units of its Indian Ocean fleet to Malagasy with orders to stand by in case the estimated 50,000 French residents have to be evacuated.
Market rallies
NEW YORK—The stock market resumed its two-month-long rally Wednesday and volume soared despite a snowstorm that cut short trading by an hour and a half. The Dow Jones average of 30 industries, down more than two points in the opening hour, recovered to close 7.43 points higher at 715.03. Gainers on the New York Stock Exchange outstripped those on the S2 margin, with low-downtown glamor issues leading the way.
Big Board volume was a surprisingly strong 19.79 million shares, considering the early close at 2:30 p.m. EST, and in light of the Lincoln's Birthday holiday and Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. The American Stock Exchange also closed at 2:30 p.m.
Pen guns classified
WASHINGTON - The government said Wednesday that the small tear gas device used to repulse attackers were also being used to disarm and would be used to neutralize them.
The decision subjects the tear gas pens, their owners and manufacturers to local, state and federal gun laws effective June 1. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms announced the decision. Rex D. Davis, director of the bureau, said many models of the weapons, known as pen guns, are easily converted to firing small bullets, from 22 to 32 caliber, with an effective range of up to 25 feet.
Rebates reconsidered
DETROIT-General Motors said it may extend its rebate program beyond the FEB 28, deadline, but Ford would it end its rebate program on schedule and substitute a new program. Since mid-January GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors have offered cash rebates of from $200 to $600 on selected new models in an effort to boost sales. Wall Street expects the automakers to pay out the rebates because they were operating on thin profits. Ford, Chrysler and American Motors will lose money in the current quarter, while GM is expected to break even or report a small profit, the analysts said.
TOPEKA (AP)-Gov. Robert F. Bennett is summoning members of the Kansas Corporation Commission (KC) to a meeting to discuss "questions of propriety" surrounding a trip the commission took to last fall at a utility company's expense.
KCC Las Vegas trip questioned
The latest disclosure involving members of the commission came in a copyrighted file at www.verizon.com.
Dale E. Saffalls, KCZ chairman, said he had spilled much of the information but beamed much of the information.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, which arranged last Oct. 8-10 to fly the three commission members to Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Washington, a company that called the story a "cheap shot."
Saffels said he regretted the one night spent in Las Vegas on the three-day trip. But he defended the rest of the trip as necessary to the commission's work. He said he had watched an enbeded a show in Las Vegas and had dinner, but he said he didn't ramble while there.
Bennett already had been looking into a case in Chennai holding a man from Southwestern.
Bennett had his news conference Wednesday he had decided what action to take in the credit card case, but said he wasn't ready to publicly reveal that decision.
Bell's expense. The commissioners turned those cards in before a new state conflict of interest was established.
Safelis said there had been no discussion or resignations, and said he had no intention
2 of the present commission members, Saffels and Vernon Stroberg, were involved in both incidents. The third member, James Wells, was the KCC general counsel until he was replaced by Docking last November to replace Jules Doty, who resigned from the commission.
Wells wasn't a member of the commission at the time of the Las Vegas trip. He never had a free telephone card from Southwestern Bell. Wells has said.
Disclosure of the Las Vegas trip came from examination of the flight records of a Southwestern Bell jet aircraft during a Commission hearing in Jefferson City.
The plane's log showed the Kansas commissioners were flown to Phoenix, Las
Saffels said the trip's purpose was to inspect plants operated in Phoenix and Denver by Western Electric Co., the manufacturing arm of the giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which also owns the Bell system.
Saffels said that in 1974 southwestern Bell bought some $20 million worth of equipment from Western Electric and that it was the commission's duty by law to check on all aspects of utility operations because it determined those utilities' rates in Kansas.
been more by way of an understanding rather than a hard and fast rule." Clemow
Conservation leader has club in quandry
Vegas and Denver last October.
For the first time in history, the party is
women's only. Mrs. Kerry, 49,
who was elected to the post Tuesday,
"We are certainly faced with a difficult problem," said John Clemow, secretary of the 143-year-old Carlton Club, which owns a golf course that members to join if the arm aren't already members.
On whether Mrs. Thatcher will be asked to join, he said, "That will be a matter for the club committee to decide. This whole membership thing is unprecedented.
LONDON (AP)—London's exclusive gentlemen's clubs, bastions of the Tory male elite, were thrown into a dither Wednesday over whether the new head of the Conservative party should be welcome as a member.
"Every leader of the Tories has been a member of the Carlton Club, but this has
Saffres said that Southwestern Bell had been granted only one increase in its rates since he joined the commission in 1967. That was a $5 million increase in 1972. Saffres and the Bell officials hit $14.7 million hike, and the Bell officials were "dismagged" with the $5 million raise.
Southwestern Bell currently has a $2.45 million increase request pending. It is the largest single utility like ever sought in the state. Saffres said he had hoped to have that ability to help save money but the massive volume of evidence being assembled may delay the hearing.
private business, and nobody on the commission could have been influenced by the
Saffels said he regretted taking the side trip to Las Vegas because of the notoriety it had caused. However, he said, such trips have been common for years in public and
"Of course, Mrs. Thatcher would be welcome here if she came along with a
Women considered it a break-through in 1883 when they were first allowed into the Army.
A White House press spokesman said after the 12-2 Finance Committee vote, "The President just believes Congress is wasting time trying to delay action" and should be working instead on Ford's economic and energy legislation.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Legislation to block the first part of President Gerald R. Ford's energy program won Senate committee approval Wednesday. But it appears that the bill passes, the Senate may have trouble overriding Ford's expected veto.
through 54 of the 100 senators sponsor
bill to override 87 votes would be required
to overwrite
Energy plan resisted
The bill, already passed by the House, would suspend for 90 days Ford's special tax of $3 a barrel on imported oil, giving Congress time to write its own energy program. Ford's plan is intended to discourage energy use by driving up prices.
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Schlesinger speaks up for contract
Chairman John C. Stennis, D-Miss, of the Senate Armed Services Committee has announced his intention to "get the facts" on a $76.9 million Defense Department contract, using Saudi Arabian money, with Vinnor Corporation of Los Angeles to train the Saudi National Guard for security tasks, including the protection of oil wells.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger denied Wednesday that there was improperly involved in a government contract with a private corporation to provide training to internal security forces in Saudi Arabia.
Schlesinger told reporters he didn't accuse him of convincing Congress of improper conduct.
He said it "in fulfillment of the basic objectives of U.S. foreign policy to improve relations with nations of the Middle East and see that their security is enhanced."
Schelsinger told reporters "the procedure is not novel." He said there had been arrangements with other countries in which he had been used for military training.
He said the Vinnell contract, for which the firm was recruiting former U.S. soldiers, is one of several consultative security agreements to do in security, energy and technical areas.
In the case of training of helicopter pilots in Iran by former U.S. army aviators recruited by Bell Helicopter International, the company agreed to deal directly with the contractor.
Meanwhile, Pentagon spokesman William Beecher said there was little basic difference in whether U.S. military training in weapons was provided to foreign forces by Americans in uniform or by civilian contract specialists.
Sarah Arabia, he said, preferred to use the Defense Department as an agent.
He emphasized that Saudi Arabia was paying for the contract training services. Schlesinger spoke to newsmen at the capitol after testifying in a closed session of the Senate Defense Appropriations subcommittee at the start of hearings on the Pentagon's $22.8 billion budget for fiscal 1976.
Beecher said the Defense Department didn't regard the former U.S. military men bired by Vinnell to train the Saudi Arabians as mercenaries.
"They're not involved in any fighting or potential fighting in any of these countries,"
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