Thursday, October 10, 1974
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Mills identified in park frolic
From the Associated Press
Associated Press
WASHINGTON—U.S. park police said yesterday they had no doubt that Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, D-AKA, scratched and bleeding and his breath alcohol, was one of the people involved in a bizarre incident during the early hours Monday morning at the foot of the Jefferson Memorial.
"We can assume it was Rep. Mills" of Franklin A. Arbor, a Republican.
Mills, chairman of the tax-writing House means that Mean Committee, couldn't reached.
His administrative assistant, Oscar Gene Goss, said early yesterday that Mills told him he wasn't in the car involved in the crash. "I didn't think I could not refuse what the dark police say."
Arthur said one of the persons involved was a 38-year-old woman who jumped into the tidal basin at the foot of the memorial and was rescued by police.
The incident occurred at 2 a.m., when police stopped a late model Lincoln Continental described as traveling at "an unreasonable speed with its lights off."
Arthur told the news conference that one of them identified himself as Mills.
"I think the officers would recognize Congress Millman," Arthur said.
The assistant chief said he wasn't certain
what sort of identification the man offered
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pence. Arthur said the police report described Mills as intoxicated. He said the officers based that report on the smell of his breath.
Mills hasn't been seen in public since then.
Police said that when the car stopped, Annabella Battistaille of suburban Arlington, Va., jumped out, crying and shouting, "I can't go anywhere and party in Spain." She lay on the ground and was police began questioning the other occupants, she got up, ran to a bridge and
jumped into the tidal basin, which ranges
depth from three to six feet.
Arthur said the woman was "obviously intoxicated."
Mills, who is 65 and has two children, is facing an unexpected stiff challenge this year in his campaign for re-election to a 19th term in the House.
The car's other occupants were identified as a行李厢 Kissie Washington, and Glenn Lester Arlington.
Arthur said there was evidence there had been a quarrel in the car, which bore Arkansas license plates DOT-003 and was registered in Mills' name. The congressman had facial scratches and a bloody nose, the policeman said.
Arthur said the incident is considered
advised. As far as am I were concerned, the
instruction was clear.
No charges were filed.
WILBUR D. MILLS
Cuba to free 4 prisoners in gesture to senators
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—The Cuban government has decided to release four Americans jailed on the island as a gesture of goodwill and respect for the people visited Cuba. It was discharged yesterday.
The announcement was made by the office of Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I. who spent three days in Cuba last month with Sen. Jack K. Javits, R-N.V.
A Pell saint said a message sent by the Cuban government through the Czechoslovak embassy here discussed that the release of the prisoners was being made as a "gesture of good will toward the two United States" to guard the government of the United States."
The identities of the prisoners weren't disclosed immediately.
Pell and Javis undertook the trip in their capacity as Senate Foreign Relations
Committee members to determine whether there was any basis for a start toward normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba.
Yesterday, the House Affairs Committee rejected, 22 to 4, an amendment to lift legislative barriers to a normalization of relations with Cuba.
The chief provisions of the amendment, introduced by Rep. Michael Harrington, D-Mass, would have enabled prohibitions on aid to and trade with Cuba.
U. S. citizens are forbidden from trading with Cuba both by federal statute and by collective agreement with other members of the Organization of American States.
The committee consensus was that it would be premature to adopt the amendment in light of the meeting of OAS foreign ministers set for next month in Ecuador.
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