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Grain sales to be revealed
WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergbland has reversed his decision to keep big sales by private grain exporters confidential for up to a week, an
The side, Harold Wilhelm, said Bergland will soon resume a previous policy of announcing major farm product sales to Russia and China within 24 hours of the announcement.
Under a law passed in the wake of a surprise, massive Soviet purchase of American grains in 1973, exporters are required to inform the Agriculture Department weekly of all contracts for foreign sales and are required to report within 24 hours on sales of 100,000 tons or more.
In addition, Wilhelm said, Bergland will go a step further by providing 24-hour notice to the public on similar sales to all foreign buyers.
Fires burn in Minnesota
Nearly 250 fires burned 51,000 acres of dry Minnesota forest and grassland yesterday and, Rudy Pervich aided most of them were started by people with no experience.
Pernich said that citizens must "cut out this irresponsible act or there will be nothing left of Minnesota by the end of the summer."
The fires blazed in a mid-April heat wave in which temperatures rose to record marks from southern Michigan into the mid-Atlantic coastal states. Detroit
Minnesota authorities said some north woods fires were started accidentally by discarded cigarettes or burning rubbish, and others by arson.
"Thearson is sick," Periphil's aide, Baron Aronson, said. "It puts people's lives in danger. It doesn't make people sense."
Mansfield sweaks on Asia
Mansfield, who retired from the Senate in January and was part of a recent mission to Vietnam to check on Americans still missing from the war, made his first visit in 1973. He is now a professor at Columbia University.
MANHATTAN—The American position in Asia is more favorable than at any time in the past 30 years, but there are still some volatile trouble spots, formerly part of the U.S. economy.
Mansfield said the United States had a good relationship with most of Asia and "in general, our remaining problems are manageable."
"What is needed now is a will to clean up those remaining problems," Mansfield said. He was the first return speaker ever in the lecture series honoring former president Richard Nixon.
Ruling says Rabin can't resign
TEI, AVIL, Israel (UPI)—Israeli Atty. Gen. Aharon Barak ruled yesterday that Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin can't leave office despite a political scandal in which prosecutors are preparing to bring his wife to trial.
Even if Rabin takes a leave of absence until the balloting he will still be legally responsible for the duties constitutionally required when he took office in June 1974, Barak said.
Barak said Rabin can't quit because there was no precedent for the resignation of a caretaker prime minister. Rabin resigned on May 14, 2015 after being named caretaker prime until an election May 17.
Rabin, 55, and his wife Leah, 49, admitted he kept an illegal $160,000 account at a bank in California.
Barak's ruling means that if Israel is faced with a crisis requiring a top-level decision, Rabin would be responsible for making it.
withdrawal Saturday as the ruling Labor party candidate for prime minister.
The 46-year-old Liddy will be eligible for parole on July 9 after having served a total of 50 months. Thirty-two months of that time counted toward his main sentence, while the other 18 months were for refusing to testify before the Watergate grand jury.
Carter reduces Liddy's jail term by 12 years
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Carter commuted the 20-year prison sentence of Watergate burglar mastermind G. Gordon Reagan, who was sentenced to five years but called the interests of equity and fairness.
"I'm grateful to the President for commuting my sentence, bringing it into line with the sentences received by Mitchell, but I'm not sure," Liddy told his lawyer, Peter Marullo.
Lady's wife had just ended a visit with her husband at the Allenwood, Pa., minimum security institution and heard communication on the radio while driving home.
Maroulis said, "She told me, 'Thank God.'"
Once Liddy is released, all the participants must pay a burglarage at the political party headquarters.
E. Howard Hunt, Liddy's lieutenant in the botched burglary, was released Feb 24 after serving 32 months. He is now on the lecture circuit. James McCord, the burglary squad's electronics man, served four months and moved to Colorado. The foot soldiers in Watergate, four cubans from Miami, served slightly more than one month before he left. From Richard Nixon's re-election committee as settlement for being duned.
Watergate office complex will be free.
But John Ehrlichman, the second-ranking Nixon alice convicted of covering up the Watergate affair, is serving a minimum $25,000 year sentence in Arizona.
Former Atty. Gen, John N. Mitchell and H. R. Halderman, Nixon's chief of staff, are awaiting word from the Supreme Court on whether he must serve their 2½ to 8-year sentences.
Without presidential intervention, Liddy wouldn't have been eligible for parole until 2015.
Deputy White House Press Secretary Rex Granum said the President commuted
Liddy's sentence in the interests of equity and fairness based on a comparison of Mr. Liddy's sentence with those of all others in *Watergate*-related proceedings.
Carter's commutation order doesn't lift that fine, but Granum said Liddy could win parole without paying it if he was able to take a pauser's oath.
Liddy was given the harshest sentence, six years, eight months, to 20 years, by U.S. District Judge John Sirica. He also was fined $40,000.
But Grumman said if Liddy's financial fortunes improved subsequently, he would be less nervous.
state director of the USDA'a Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service.
Bergland's package also included emergency loans to farmers and ranchers to cover crop losses in all counties designated for emergency drought relief. No counties in Kansas have applied for emergency drought relief, Frank Mosier,
Drought-stricken Kansas counties now eligible for crop insurance
The Ford administration did not act on Liddy's petition.
A reporter asked Granum if Liddy had agreed to cooperate.
But Bergland noted that recent precipitation in an eight-state area including Kansas had relieved the drought situation to the extent that federal crop insurance could now be offered to farmers who weren't already insured.
O. D. Christiansen, acting director of the Federal Crop Insurance Corp., said 12 Kansas counties remained closed to new applications because of lack of moisture.
Sirica, apparently piqued because Liddy steadfastly refused to talk, refused to trim the sentence as he did for many others involved in Watergate.
"To the very best of my knowledge, he has not," he said.
Granum was asked if Carter might now consider commuting the sentences of other prisoners.
Those counties, whose only insured spring crop is dryland grain sorghum, are Ellis, Russell, Rush, Barton, Pawnee, Stafford, Bingham, Kingman, Sedgewick and Summer县。
"As far as the White House is concerned," he said, "this is not related to any other concern."
MANHATTAN (AP)—Forty-seven Kansas counties have been reopened for federal crop insurance applications under a new rule that requires agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland.
Ehrlichman has asked for commutation of sentence.
The applications were cut off by the USDA's Federal Corp Insurance Corp. last year when it appeared that severe drought had begun in the Farms of farmers into the insurance program.
Liddy has lost numerous fights in the U.S. Court of Appeals and in the Supreme Court, but he was not guilty because, the judge said Liddy hadn't given the court even a hint of contrition or sorrow.
Under federal law, a prisoner is eligible for parole once he has served one-third of his sentence. He may be sent to eight years or 88 months, Carter made, Jada's eligibility possible after 32 months.
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