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Friday, April 4, 1975
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Milk gift allegedly requested
WASHINGTON -Mulk-fund lawyer Jake Jacoben testified Thursday that he gave John B. Connally $10,000 while he was secretary of the treasury after Connally asked, "Why don't they (milk producers) raise money for me?"
Jacobsen, the government's star witness at Connally's bribery trial,
was asked how he decided on $10,000 as a payment.
"I didn't want it to be too small because I didn't want it to seem we were unappreciative, "jacobson said. "I didn't want it to be too big. It would have been a lot smaller."
Earlier in the third day of the trial the jury had heard a tape recording of a meeting March 23 in former President Richard M. Nixon's Oval Office at which Connally urged the President to raise the milk support prices.
prices.
The government charges in the trial, which was adjourned until Monday, that Connally took two illegal gratuities of $5,000 each from Jacobsen for influencing the milk support rise decision.
CIA gets faculty data
ST. LOUIS-Faculty information supplied to the Central Intelligence Agency and Washington University's medical school community appropriately obtained, faculty is not required.
The committee criticized news director Daniel Gashier for supplying data to the CTA on faculty who planned to take foreign trips or attend conferences.
The faculty committee said that the news bureau's function was to gather information to benefit Washington University, but that Gasher's "business" was not.
'Domestic passport' rejected
WASHINGTON—Atty. Gen. Edward H. Lewi has reversed a Justice Department request to provide legal residence when applying for a U.S. American beverage to protect legal residence when applying for a U.S. American beverage.
Levi said Thursday that the so-called "domestic passport" proposal, conceived as a deterrent to illegal immigration, "would come close to a ban on all foreign travel."
Levi said also he was unethusiastic about the department's pledge to step up efforts to deport illegal immigrants already in the country. But he said he wouldn't interfere with the enforcement campaign because it wasn't a discretionary matter on his part.
Road probe to be federal
TOPEKA-State officials appeared generally content Thursday to let the state investigate allegations in the probing allegations of political influence in the state's road building industry.
Legislative leaders were lukewarm to the idea of having a legislative investigation as long as the federal probe progressed satisfactorily.
Aty. Gen. Curt Schneider said he would continue to look into the allegations himself, but indicated he would rely heavily on the federal investigation.
SAN DIEGO (AP)—The deteriorating situation in Indochina is a great tragedy that could have been avoided, President Ford said Thursday, but he doesn't at the moment anticipate the fall of South Vietnam.
Ford spent the largest portion of a 40-minute nationally broadcast news conference dealing with South Vietnam and Cambodia. He described himself as an optimist, but he constantly talked of the events in Southeast Asia as a tragedy.
Speaking of the congressional moves over the past three years which have limited the use of American military force and restricted the amount of aid to Indochina, the House voted to limit the role by the actions of Congress . . . by the limitations placed on the chief executive."
The President wouldn't blame Congress specifically for the near loss of Cambodia and the increasingly poor situation in South Vietnam.
"I think it's up to the American people to pass judgment on who was to blame and why," he said.
Without being specific, then pointed to what he said were commitments made by the United States when the Paris peace agreements were signed in 1973.
The U.S. government didn't carry out all its responsibilities for giving the aid allowed under the accords to South Vietnam, Ford said.
In mid-1973 Congress banned the use of any American military force, direct or indirect, in Indochina, an action Ford said would have "deterrent to North Vietnamese aggression."
Over the last two years, Congress has cut back on administration requests for military aid. It also has refused to date to release a statement from the million appropriated for this fiscal year.
While questions concerning the Southeast Asian war dominated the news conference, Ford was also pushed on his economic planning. He said the country could expect an economic recovery to begin as early as July.
Recent indicators show the nation's deep recession is slowing down, with the inflation rate cut nearly in half from last year's
Men nabbed in plot against Thieu
SAIGON (AP)—The South Vietnamese government said today it had arrested several military officers for allegedly overthrow President Nguyen Van Thien.
Calls for Theu's downfall have swept Caigna as South Vietnam's military situation worsened. With 50,000 Commissariated troops massed only 45 to 35 miles away from Saigon, Theu's government issued orders to maintain security in the capital.
Three-fourths of South Vietnam's
vice-president, much of it without a fight.
An Interior Ministry communique said, The plotters have been arrested and the insurgent group is under investigation.
Ford says Viet plight not yet fatal
An Interior Ministry spokesman didn't give the ranks of the officers, the number arrested or whether they were on active duty or retired.
Wholesale prices continue to drop
WASHINGTON (AP)—Wholesale prices in March fell six-tenths of one per cent, resulting in the sharpest four-month price increase. The Department of Labor reported Thursday.
The report gave further evidence that inflation is moderating even though the wholesale price declines haven't been fully passed to consumers at the retail level.
Farm and food prices fell 2.5 per cent to lead the over-all decline in wholesale prices last month. Industrial goods rose two-tenths of one per cent.
Analysts with the Bureau of Labor Statistics said it was the first time since early 1963 that wholesale prices dropped four months in a row. The two per cent drop in the last four months also marked the sharpest decline in any four-month period since prices fell 3.3 per cent in mid-1951 during the Korean War.
The over-all Wholesale Price Index in March stood at 170.4, meaning that it cost $170.40 to buy at wholesale goods that cost $100 in 1967.
Despite the recent declines, wholesale prices last month were still 12.5 per cent higher than a year ago. This is because of the big increases late last year.
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It was the second such round of alleged cop plotters in a week. One week ago, the Interior Ministry said eight persons were arrested for plotting against the president.
In San Diego, Calif., President Ford said Thieu had ordered an "improper and unnecessary withdrawal" of his troops from the central provinces. Ford made the comment at a private meeting with news media, saying, but word leaked to newsmen outside.
Meanwhile, the Viet Cong said they had taken the district town of Chong Thon, 45 miles north of Saigon, after weeks of heavy fighting with the army to take in "punish disharmed commanders" in Tuy Ha, the capital of coastal Phu Yen Province that fell Wednesday. No details of the attack have been released but the broadcast indicated some aspects of the takeover of Tuy Hoa were bloody.
"The unilateral military decision to with-
draw created a chaotic situation in Vietnam
that appears to have brought about bureaucratic organization, Ford was reported as saying:
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Ford also pledged a strong American effort to help the South Vietnamese in their fight against North Vietnam, in each of all available naval ships to Indochina and appeal to the United Nations and North
Vietnam and an order to the embassy in Saigon to cut red tape slowing the evacuation of orphans to the United States. Funds totaling $2 million will be diverted from the Navy to fy 2,000 orphans to the West Coast on Air Force planes, the President said.
On a larger scale, Ford said he was examining the question of allowing Vietnamese refugees to enter the United States under a waiver of immigration restrictions.
"I can assure you," he said, "that that authority is being examined and if it will be helpful, I certainly will approve."
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