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Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 18,1974
Illness of Stans’ wife
may figure in his trial
By H. D. QUIGG
NEW YORK (UPI) - The
defense wants to present
former Commerce Secretary
Maurice H. Stans on his trial
jury as a man so distraught by
his wife’s critical illness that he
couldn’t think clearly when he
testified before the grand Jury
that indicted him.
Federal Court Judge Lee P.
Gagliardi said he would rule
today as to “the extent I’ll go”
in permitting that kind of
testimony so far as “it bears on
Mr. Stans’ state of mind.”
The matter was argued, with
the jury dismissed, after Stans,
in daylong testimony in his own
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defense Wednesday, had denied
all charges against him. He
swore that he kept financier
Robert L. Vesco’s $200,000 cash
contribution to the 1972 Nixon
campaign a secret, along with
S4O million from others, as a
matter of duty.
“Privacy is a constitutional
right, and it had been given to
him by Congress in legislation
which was in effect until April 7
(1972),” Stans said. “I was
doing my best to protect Robert
Vesco and every other con
tributor.”
Stans, who resigned as
commerce secretary to become
the 1972 finance committee
chairman, and John N. Mitch
ell, who resigned as attorney
general to head the Nixon
campaign committee, are ac
cused of trying to impede a
federal investigation of Vesco
in return for his gift and of
lying to the grand jury about it.
Stans was the last important
witness. The trial was expected
to be in the jury’s hands next
week, the 10th trial week.
The illness of Kathleen Stans
came up at the end of the day
when defense attorney Walter
J. Bonner attempted to ask
Stans about it. Prosecutor John
R. Wing objected. Judge
Gagliardi dismissed the jury
for the day to hear arguments
by Bonner.
The attorney said Stans’ wife
of 38 years, at that time, went
into the hospital in August,
1972, and remained until
December. Stans was active in
the campaign until the Novem
ber election in 1972 and testified
to the grand jury in March and
April, 1973.
“No one in his life was
dearer to him than that
woman,” Bonner said. “She
had a rare blood disease, so
rare that only 100 cases have
been diagnosed. While he was
making speeches, traveling
widely, he spent every night,
every weekend, with her.
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Federal grand jury
takes up Hearst case
By DONALD B. THACKREY
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - A
federal grand jury will attempt
to decide whether kidnaped
Patricia Hearst was a willing
member of a nine-person team
that invaded a branch bank and
made off with $10,960.
U.S. Attorney James L.
Browning Jr. said Wednesday
that the grand jury was looking
into “the voluntariness” of Miss
Hearst in Monday’s robbery
which ended with two bystand
ers suffering bullet wounds.
Meanwhile in Washington,
D.C., U.S. Attorney General
William B. Saxbe said he felt
Miss Hearst was an active
participant in the holdup and
was a “common criminal.”
Randolph A. Hearst, Pa
tricia’s father and editor and
publisher of The San Francisco
Examiner, took umbrage with
Saxbe’s comments. The news
paperman called Saxbe’s re
Simon may change
things at Treasury
By GENE CARLSON
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
staid, drab Treasury Depart
ment may be in for a change in
style as energy chief William
E. Simon takes over as
treasury secretary from George
P. Shultz,
But little change in philoso
phy is expected. Both Shultz,
who is returning to private life,
and Simon, who was nominated
by President Nixon Wednesday
to replace him, are staunch
free-marketeers. Both favor the
smallest possible government
intrusion in the economy.
Nixon named Simon’s deputy,
John C. Sawhill, to succeed him
as head of the Federal Energy
Office (FEO).
Like Shultz, Simon sees the
upward spiral in the cost of
living as the biggest economic
problem facing the nation.
“It’s going to be our No. 1
avenue of concentration,”
Simon told UPI.
But Simon, who has gained
the reputation of a hard
charging administrator with a
quick temper and penchant for
publicity, will bring a different
flavor to the job than the soft
spoken, academic Shultz.
“There are obviously going to
be differences in style,” Simon
acknowledged. “There has to
be between two people.”
The new secretary, assuming
he is confirmed by the Senate,
will inherit only a portion of
Shultz's vast duties as chief
economic policy maker. A
White House announcement
said Nixon will himself assume
chairmanship of the Council on
Economic Policy, which Shultz
headed.
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marks “speechmaking.”
“It’s Speculation...”
“Saxbe has the right to think
what he thinks, and I also have
the right,” Hearst said. “As far
as I’m concerned, it’s specula
tion at this point.”
Browning had said Miss
Hearst, abducted Feb. 4 from
her Berkeley apartment by the
Symbionese Liberation Army,
might have been coerced into
participating in the holdup to
convince authorities and the
public she was converted to the
philosophy of the revolutionary,
underground organization.
But in a Wednesday state
ment he said, “I have
consistently maintained that
evidence may show all partici
pants in that robbery were
acting freely and voluntarily.
After the grand jury has heard
all available evidence, I will
abide by their decision.”
Saxbe said he concluded Miss
Simon indicated that suits
him fine. “There was too much
on the plate of the Treasury
Department,” he said.
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Hearst “was not a reluctant
participant” in the robbery. He
explained he based his opinion
on “the way she behaved, the
number of people in the bank
who observed her behavior, the
testimony of witnesses and the
actions in the bank. ” «
Miss Hearst was one of four
women who entered the bank.
They were armed with aut<*
matic rifles. One man, identi
fied by the FBI as Donald
DeFreeze, accompanied them
inside. Investigators said fout
men waited outside the Hib
ernia Bank branch in getaway
cars.
Two Different Views
There were those who be>
lieved Miss Hearst was coerced
into participating in the crime
because rifles had been pointed
at her. But the bank managei*
and a guard said they felt she
was an active participant.
DeFreeze escaped from Sole-,
dad State Prison and was
believed to be “Cinque” identi
fied in tape recordings sent to
the Hearst family as the leader*
of the SLA. He was named in a
federal warrant in connection
with the Hibernia holdup.
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