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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, November 13,1975
Judge Sirica grants immunity
in Gulf Oil investigation
By LEN CURRY
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Judge John J. Sirica has
granted immunity from prose
cution to three former em
ployes of Gulf Oil Corp, to
testify about the company’s
alleged illegal contributions to
congressional candidates since
1960.
Investigative sources said the
Watergate special prosecutor’s
office was presenting evidence
to a grand jury on alleged
criminal and fraud violations
by Gulf officials.
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It is against the law for
corporations to donate to
federal candidates.
Sirica granted immunity
Wednesday to Arthur V. Harris
to give a sworn statement to
federal authorities probing
Gulf’s 110.3 million slush fund,
which allegedly was used to
pay foreign government offi
cials and to make illegal
campaign contributions in the
United States.
Sirica earlier gave immunity
to Frederick Myers and Wil
liam C. Viglia to talk to the
Watergate special prosecutor
and the Securities and Ex
change Commission, U.S. Dis
trict Court records showed.
Myers and Harris worked
with former Gulf vice president
Claude Wild Jr., who was
convicted with the corporation
on civil charges of making
illegal contributions in the 1972
presidential campaign. Viglia
was comptroller of a Gulf
subsidiary in the Bahamas
where the company allegedly
converted corporate funds into
cash.
Myers, who retired in June
after 47 years with Gulf, told
government investigators about
delivering sealed envelopes
allegedly containing cash to at
least 15 members of Congress
between 1960 and 1972.
Sens. Howard Baker, R-
Tenn., and Vance Hartke, D-
Ind., and three former Republi
can senators mentioned in
Myers’ statement filed with the
court denied any wrongdoing.
Baker released a copy of a
May, 1974, letter from Wild that
said a $5,000 contribution to
Baker’s 1972 campaign “came
from a company employe fund
and had no relationship to the
other contributions which re
ceived such notoriety.”
Edwin L. Mechem, now a
federal judge in Albuquerque,
Won Ton Ton was star of party
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - Pro
ducer Adolph Zukor, 102, and
ageless Mae West were there.
So were Zsa Zsa Gabor,
Rhonda Fleming, Jackie Coo
gan, Cesar Romero, Jack
Carter, Hugh O’Brian, Rory
Calhoun and other stars who
appear in the upcoming movie.
But the star of the end of the
production party on the Para
mount Studios sound stage was
the star of the film — Won Ton
Ton himself.
Won Ton Ton, a male
said he had been contacted
about the Gulf investigation. “If
someone did receive an en
velope, there’s nothing illegal
about it unless they knew it
was an illegal contribution,” he
said.
German Shephard, sat on a
throne for much of the party
for the cast of his first film,
“Won Ton Ton: The Dog That
Saved Hollywood.” During the
affair Zukor, Miss West and
most the stars came up to the
throne to pay him homage.
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Hollywood, tells the classic tale
of a dog who becomes a big
star, then starts to drink and
hits Skid Row, but is saved in
the end by a girl who loves
him.
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Indo oil
supplies
W. coast
By EDWARD NEILAN
Copley News Service
The largest quantities of
foreign oil used along the
West Coast and in Hawaii are
from Indonesia.
That nation's Minister of
Mines Mohammed Sadli,
would like to increase even
further the market share
which the Indonesian oil com
pany, Pertamina, has in the
western United States, in
cluding Hawaii.
Indonesia is a sort of
maverick member of OPEC
(Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries).
Over a sumptuous break
fast of sausage, eggs, toast,
marmalade and steaming
coffee (from Sumatra, of
course) at the Indonesian
Embassy, Sadli talked about
Indonesian oil and OPEC.
“We increased our price by
less than 2 per cent for crude
oil mainly because of compe
tition from (mainland) Chi
na,” Sadli said. “The other
OPEC nations hiked oil prices
by 10 per cent.
“We had to increase the
price by some amount,” Sadli
said, breaking into a grin.
"After all, we have to give the
appearance of being a good
OPEC member.”
While Indonesia was rais
ing its price to $12.80 a barrel,
China was dropping its price
to $12.10 a barrel. However,
he explained, there are some
problems with the Chinese
oil, which has a heavy paraf
fin content affecting its boil
ing point and thus its adapta
bility to most refineries.
Indonesia sells 70 per cent
of its oil to Japan, comprising
15 per cent of the Japanese
import market. The United
States — specifically Hawaii
and the western states — is
Indonesia’s second largest
market.
Sadli said that despite some
internal squabbling, OPEC
would remain strong so long
as the three largest pro
ducers — Saudi Arabia, Iran
and Venezuela — can remain
on good terms. He noted a
trend in OPEC now for
growth through oil companies
and for less use of oil as a po
litical weapon.
Indonesia’s capacity for
crude oil production today is
1.5 million barrels a day, with
actual production running at
1.4 million barrels. Refinery
capacity is 450,000 barrels a
day, with an added 100,000
barrels of capacity now under
construction. Indonesian con
sumption is level at slightly
under 200,000 barrels a day
with light fuels, notably kero
sene, the main products.
“We want to sell more
crude oil and residual oil to
the United States,” he said.
“We were talking in Los An
geles recently on that very
point.”
He said Indonesia stood
ready to meet any natural
gas shortages which Califor
nia might experience, al
though natural gas sales to
the United States are hung up
on Federal Power Commis
sion regulations, at least tem
porarily.
Lt. Gen. Ali Moertopo,
though less fluent in English
than the witty and animated
Sadli, is one of the most pow
erful men in Indonesia be
cause of his position as Presi
dent Suharto’s political ad
viser.
The bottom line impression
gleaned from two of Indone
sia’s top officials: Jakarta-
Washington relations have
never been better.