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Pentagon wants
check on Lockheed
By LEONARD CURRY
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Pentagon has asked the Justice
Department to investigate alle
gations that Lockheed Aircraft
Corp, paid cash to U.S. Air
Force officers in connection
with overseas contracts.
“Our general counsel, Mr.
(Richard A.) Wiley, has turned
the entire matter over to the
Justice Department for investi
gation," Pentagon spokesman
William E. Greener said
Tuesday.
In a related development, a
Texas businessman said the
State Department did nothing
when he complained that
Haitian President Jean Claude
“Baby Doc” Duvalier’s “pala
ce" demanded a half million
dollar tribe and half ownership
of his company in April, 1975.
William Crook said the
refusal of his firm, Translinear
Inc. of Texas, to meet the
demands last year led to the
confiscation of equipment and
cancellation of a contract to
develop the Haitian island of
Tortuga into a free port and
tourist center.
The Haitian government said
last year the contract was
canceled because Translinear
did nothing in four years to
develop the Tortuga property,
and met none of the deadlines
specified in the contract.
Crook, who was U.S. ambas
sador to Australia in the
Johnson administration, said
Translinear workmen and offi
cials were threatened with
death to keep them from the
job site.
The Pentagon spokesman
would not elaborate on the
requested investigation, saying
it might prejudice any case
that developed.
Last weekend, the Arizona
Republic daily newspaper quot
ed Ernest F. Hauser, a former
Lockheed customer relations
officer, as saying cash payoffs
of SIO,OOO to $20,000 were made
to U.S. Air Force officers in the
1960 s while Pentagon officials
looked the other way.
Hauser was questioned some
weeks ago in private sessions of
the Senate subcommittee on
multinational corporations. But
a subcommittee spokesman
said his testimony was “impea
ched" by an embezzlement
conviction in West Germany
and earlier “differences” with
Lockheed.
Lockheed has admitted mak
ing $22 million in bribes and
questionable payments to gov
ernment officials in Europe,
Leak'
probe
costly
WASHINGTON (UPI) - It
could cost more than a third of
a million dollars to find out who
leaked a secet intelligence
report to CBS newsman Daniel
Schorr.
The chairman of the House
ethics committee is asking
$350,000 to create a staff of
investigators to look into the
disclosure and publication of
the report of the House Select
Committee on Intelligence,
which subsequently was pub
lished in the weekly New York
Village Voice.
Rep. John Flynt, D-Ga., said
Tuesday the staff would be
between 15 and 40 members
and might spend 10 months on
its probe.
He said the $350,000 he
requested would provide for
“1,100 man days of investiga
tion."
“We have no idea now how
long this will take." Flynt said.
“It might be two The House
Rules Committee, meanwhile,
cleared for a floor vote a
separate resolution giving
Flynt’s ethics panel wide
subpoena power to call wit
nesses and seek any documents
it might need.
The House ordered the
inquiry after Schorr admitted
he forwarded a draft of the
report to the Village Voice.
Rep. John Anderson, R-111.,
said at the rules committee
hearing that he doubted report
ers could be forced to reveal
their sources.
“I hope that you will not use
this subpoena power to compel
people to reveal the sources of
their information,” Anderson
told Flynt.
Flynt later told reporters that
“I’m not saying that we will
subpoena Mr. Schorr or that we
won”t.”
Latin America and Japan to
stimulate overseas aircraft
sales.
Crook testified before a
congressional joint economic
subcommittee about the impact
on U.S. firms that refuse to pay
overseas bribes.
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House panel kills gun control bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
House Judiciary Committee has
killed a tough gun control bill
that would have banned cheap,
easily concealable handguns,
after what one supporter called
“one of the most blatantly
crass lobbying campaigns
ever.”
“This kills gun control
legislation for this year,”
declared Rep. Don Edwards, D-
Calif., one of the bill’s chief
supporters.
The committee unexpectedly
voted 17 to 16 Tuesday to send
the gun control measure back
to its crime subcommittee. The
motion was made by by Rep.
Thomas Railsback, R-111.
While the bill was intended to
ban the sale and manufacture
of new handguns, it would not
have affected the more than 40
million existing handguns pre
sently in circulation.
The bill’s supporters com
plained of an intense lobbying
campaign against the bill by
the National Rifle Association.
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Rep. John Seiberling, D-Ohio,
said, “This was one of the most
blatantly crass lobbying cam
paigns ever.”
Gun control supporters said
the measure would have curbed
the proliferation of the small,
cheap handguns most used by
criminals. Opponents said it
would have banned many
Griffin Daily News Wednesday, March 3,1976
handgun models used primarily
by sportsmen and made it more
difficult for law-abiding citizens
to obtain firearms for self
protection.
Other key features in the bill
included:
— Mandatory sentence for
anyone using a firearm in the
commission of a felony.
— Higher license fees and
stricter licensing procedures for
gun dealers.
— Tougher laws to prevent
illicit firearm traffic by making
it a felony to knowingly sell a
gun to a person with a criminal
record.
— Limit any person to only
one handgun purchase a month.
— Require a 21-day waiting
period for anyone wishing to
buy a handgun.