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Rockefeller ups estimate
By CLAY F. RICHARDS
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Vice
presidential nominee Nelson A.
Rockefeller is drawing up new
figures that show he is worth
substantially more than the $33
million figure he originally filed
with congressional committees.
Rockefeller will make the
new data public when confirma
tion hearings on his nomination
open before the Senate Rules
Committee Monday.
The new figures, however,
are not expected to reveal the
full extent of the Rockefeller
family fortune, which was
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Rockefeller discussed the
financial figures with both
Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield and Republican
Leader Hugh Scott this week.
“He has voluntarily decided
to revise the figures,” Scott
said.
Mansfield made no public
statement, but a source report
ed that he questioned Rockefell
er about the $33 million figure.
“Well, that didn’t include my
trusts; that’s another area,”
Rockefeller was quoted as
telling Mansfield.
Scott in a Senate speech
accused the House of “sloth,
inactivity or apathy” for
delaying its action on Rockefell
er until after election day. He
suggested the delay was to
prevent Rockefeller from cam
paigning for Republicans.
But Rep. Don Edwards, El-
Calif., a ranking member of the
House Judiciary Committee,
said the time was needed for
some 20 auditors to investigate
the Rockefeller finances.
Atlanta man accepts
Ford amnesty offer
ATLANTA ( UPl)—Jimmy Lee
Bennatt, a deserter from the
Navy for seven years, said Tues
day he’s accepting President
Ford’s offer of conditional am
nesty so he can “get back into
American life.”
Bennatt, 26, of Moselle, Miss.,
told assistant U. S. Atttomey
Stanley Baum he would turn
himself in Thursday afternoon.
He refused to say where he lives
but told his story to an Atlanta
Constitution reporter in a res
taurant.
Bennatt, who has been work
ing as a salesman and has a
wife and two children, said he
reached his decision after the
President’s amnesty announce
ment Monday.
“I’m just happy they’re giving
me the chance to get back into
American life,” he said. “To me,
that’s a godsend.”
Bennatt said he joined the
Navy when he was 17 to escape
the beatings of a stepfather who
forced him to work in a “beer
joint” 14 to 16 hours a day. He
deserted two years later at Mav-
RULES RELAXED
NEW DELHI (UPI) -
Foreign tourists traveling to the
mountain resort city of Darjeel
ing in eastern India now can
stay up to 14 days without
special permission from the
government, says the Indian
Department of Tourism.
Previously a seven-day stay
was permitted on the basis of
authorization by Indian au
thorities. The agency said a
similar relaxation has been
made for visitors to Shillong,
capital of Assam, also in
eastern India.
port, Fla., he said, when he
learned his ship, the destroyer
USS Allen, was destined for
Vienam.
“I just couldn’t see myself go
ing. I’d already lost a cousin
over there...and I’d also had
seven or eight good friends kill
ed over there,” he said.
He married and had two chil
dren during his desertion and
traveled around the country,
even going to Canada for awhile.
Bennatt said that after the
birth of his first cpild, a girl
who has cerebral palsy, he decid
ed to turn himself in at the Pen
sacola, Fla., Naval base.
“But so help me God, a legal
officer there said why didn’t I
just turn myself in at some other
place so they wouldn’t have to
be bothered with me,” he said.
He surrendered to Naval auth
orities at Corpus Christi, Tex.,
but later escaped when his fam
ily had to go on welfare, he
said. He was arrested by the
FBI last year, he said, and re
turned to the Corpus Christi
brig, but he escaped again.
He came to Atlanta, he said,
because of the excellent medical
facilities for his afflicted daugh
ter, and he said he would like
to pay his public service debt
by working with handicapped
children.
Bennatt said he was relieved
his fugitive life is coming to a
close.
“Every day for the last seven
years, I guess it has flashed
through my mind that I was
wanted by the law. I can’t say
how many times after my wife
and children have gone to sleep,
I’ve stayed awake wondering
what was going to happen.”
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No rush
to accept
offer
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
There were only a smattering
of calls from draft evaders and
military deserters of the
Vietnam War in the first 24
hours after President Ford
offered them conditional am
nesty.
A draft evader the govern
ment didn’t even know about
surrendered in San Francisco.
But another one, given the
chance to leave jail early
refused the government offer,
saying he would accept no
conditions.
The military services said
Tuesday they got about 40 calls
from deserters or friends and
relatives asking for more
information on amnesty. The
Justice Department reported 63
calls from resisters and deser
ters. But there was no rush by
an estimated 4,000 fugitives to
turn themselves in.
The President’s plan was
announced Monday and de
nounced Tuesday by many
resisters who said it was too
tough, and by several conserva
tive politicians who said it was
too lenient.
It did, however, mean im
mediate freedom for up to 95
men serving prison terms for
draft resistance.
Os the 141 men in federal
prison, 46 were already out on
appeal or various writs, when
Attorney General William B.
Saxbe furloughed them Tuesday
for 30 days.
One government source said, :
“I doubt that any will ever go :
back to prison again.”
Bureau of Prisons spokesman :
Michael Aun said the final tally :
of those released from the :
minimum security prisons was •:
not complete and that “about■:
one out of five are going to be ■:
kept” in jail because of other
charges.
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By United Press International
Hijackers on way
S ADEN, South Yemen (UPI) - A French airliner with
j:;: three Japanese guerrillas aboard took off from Aden this
❖: morning after a brief refueling stop. Its destination was
g unknown, but Israeli monitors said it was headed for Hie
S Sudan. The Boeing 707 arrived in Yemen from The Hague
S where the guerrillas released the last of 11 hostages they
S had seized on Friday. They also received $300,000 ransom
and the release of a comrade who had been held in a Paris
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Last known prisoner out
VIENTIANE (UPI) — Emmett Kay, the last known
American war prisoner in Southeast Asia, is free.
Kay looked relaxed and healthy when he was freed by
Laotian Communists today. He walked into the arms of
his wife, Flora, who had gone to Vientianne to meet him.
Kay said he knows of no more American POWs held in
Laos. :■
Kay was captured when his light plane was forced down ■:
behind Communist lines 16 months ago. •:
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Food prices climbing
A UPI survey indicates that consumers are already
beginning to feel the impact of spring floods and summer $
| droughts that hit the nation’s farm belt. The general S
consensus among food store operators is that prices may *
| reach new heights within the next six months.
Rockefeller ups figures
$ WASHINGTON (UPI) - Aides to Vice Presidentrdesig- •:
nate Nelson Rockefeller say they are drafting new figures :•
•: that will show he is richer than the $33 million previously :•
indicated. But they add that even the new figure will be a
fraction of his total fortune.
Magnuson is winner
• The latest election returns from UPI show that Sen.
• Warren Magnuson, 69, easily won renomination to a sixth
: term in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Washington.
: He will face Republican State Sen. Jack Metcalf in
November. In Oklahoma, David Boren, a young
: university professor, won a Democratic runoff primary
: against cowboy congressman Clem Rogers McSpadden.
: Boren will face GOP candidate Jim Inhofe in the 3
November election.