University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 5, 1988
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No evidence found to fault Dole's helping to secure job
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A congressional committee chairman said yesterday that he saw nothing improper with Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole's personally calling a federal administrator to help a former aide secure a government contract.
"There's no evidence that I've been able to come up with that indicates any questionable activity on Sen. Dole's part personally," said Rep John J. LaFake, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Small Business Committee, which has been investigating the $26 million no-bid contract
to a former Dole aide.
LaFalice's comments came a day after the committee staff released a memo outlining a November 1983 call by Dole to the head of the Small Business Administration seeking help for John Palmer, a black Kansas businessman who in 1986 obtained the $26 million job through the SBA's minority set-aside program.
LaFalce had made a similar statement Tuesday, and he said that the new information about Dole's phone call didn't change his opinion.
Stalin aide's death kept from Soviets
MOSCOW — Georgi M. Malenkov died more than two weeks ago, but the death of one of Josef Stalin's main lieutenants has gone unreported in the Soviet press.
Such official silence illustrates the Kremlin's hesitance to embrace fully its policy of greater openness and knowledge the darker pages of its age.
The Associated Press
Malenko, who succeeded Stalin as prime minister in 1953, died Jan. 14
and was buried in Kuntsevskoe Cemetery in western Moscow five days later. But no Soviet newspaper or state-run broadcast reported this information, keeping silent about a man who helped shape the world's first socialist state before being consigned to the oblivion of a power plant in east Kazakhstan.
Tass said the delay in announcing his death was "connected with the wish of his relatives."
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration might decide to declassify a memo to Attorney General Edwin Meese III that mentions a payoff plan involving an Israeli political party, the independent counsel investigating Meese disclosed yesterday.
Meese memo may be declassified
The Associated Press
On Wednesday night, White House counsel Arthur Culvahouse Jr. told McKay that an interagency task force would be formed to review and reassess the classification of any information related to his investigation.
Independent counsel James McKay met January 29 with White House officials and "received assurances that every effort would be made to minimize any encumbrances" on his investigation stemming from classified information, McKay's office said in a statement.
The task force would have the authority to override an earlier State Department recommendation to McKay that the document, written in mid-1985 by longtime Meese friend E. Robert Wallach to the attorney general, be classified.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times reported and sources familiar with McKay's investigation confirmed that the payoff plan mentioned in the memo was a reference to a possible payment or contribution by Swiss oilman Bruce Rapport to the Labor Party of then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres. The sources spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Meese has refused to discuss the memo because it is classified and because it is a central part of McKay's criminal investigation of Meese.
Federal law prohibits U.S. citizens from bribing foreign officials and states that the attorney general might take legal action to stop a violation if it appears that one is about to occur.
Rappaport had hired Wallach to assist on the pipeline project.
POLYGAMIST ENTERS PLEA! Addam Swapp, who led a polygamist clan's 13 day standoff with authorities, pleaded not guilty yesterday to federal charges stemming from the bombing of a Mormon chapel. Swapp's appearance in federal court came just hours after he was released from a hospital where he spent a week recuperating from bullet wounds suffered in the standoff. The five other adult members of the clan were arraigned Jan. 28.
nymity. Noriega, who leads Panama's national guard, is considered the power behind the civilian government.
PANAMANIAN LEADER INDICETI: Panama's military strongman, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Miami on charges of aiding international cocaine traffickers. The 30-page indictment includes racketeering and other drug-related charges, the sources said on condition of ano-
AUTOMAKERS PREPARE ACTION: U.S. automakers, quietly encouraged by the Reagan administration, are trying to prepare a major trade action accusing Japanese companies of illegally selling off vehicles by maintaining prices at artificially low levels, industry and government officials said yesterday. They said the proposed challenge would contend that Japanese companies had not raised prices enough to reflect the recent increase in the yen's value against the dollar.
SOLIDARITY SUPPORTERS DISPERSED:
Police swinging clubs yesterday dispersed Solidarity supporters who protested price increases
after a Mass in Warsaw, Poland. At least 10 people were detained by police, opposition sources said. The protest was the second in Gdansk since the weekend, when the government announced price increases of 40 to 200 percent for most basic foods, fuel, alcohol, cigarettes, transportation and services.
HEPATITIS TESTS POSITIVE: Three workers at two Lawton, Okla., restaurants have tested positive for hepatitis A, and health officials were checking more food handlers and chasing down rumors about other restaurants yesterday. Six additional food handlers in Lawton restaurants were being tested, and the county health department director said test results would be made public as soon as they were known.
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