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Government will pay
when FBI is wrong
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
government will pay for proper
ty damages if FBI or federal
narcotics agents raid the wrong
house by mistake, Attorney
General Edward Levi says.
“It is my view that these
costs should be generally borne
by the federal government
rather than by innocent in
dividuals,” Levi said in a letter
to Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-111.
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ment Administration and the
FBI “are now consistent with
this view,” he said.
Percy made Levi’s letter
public Monday, and called the
attorney general’s statement a
“significant Justice Department
policy change.”
Previously, the victim of an
erroneous raid had to prove
that he was innocent and
deserved reimbursement for
any property damage, the
senator said.
Percy said he had been less
successful in convincing the
Treasury Department to adopt
the same policy.
However, a Treasury spokes
man told UPI the department
planned to respond to Percy’s
request today and fall in line
with the Justice Department
position.
“The letter will say our
policy is substantially the same
as Justice’s,” he said.
The Customs Service, the
Internal Revenue Service, the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, and the Secret
Service all are under Treasury
jurisdiction.
MARTA tunnel
under Peachtree
ATLANTA (UPI) - In a
reversal of an earlier decision,
directors of the Metropolitan
Atlanta Rapid Transit System
decided Monday they would
tunnel under Peachtree Street
for part of the MARTA rapid
rail system.
The board had earlier fa
vored the “open ditch” type of
construction which was strongly
opposed by downtown mer
chants fearful of losing busi
ness.
A report by MARTA engi
neers which said final studies
indicated tunneling would be
much cheaper than thought two
months ago was accepted “in
principle” by the board.
The report said tunneling
would cost $2 million more than
the open ditch method and sll
million less than the “cut and
cover” technique. Two months
ago, the engineers estimated it
would cost about $23 million to
change from open ditch to cut
and-cover and $36 million to go
from open ditch to tunneling.
The total cost for a 2,760-foot
section of subway line and
station was estimated at s6l
million.
Plane crashes
ARCHIE, Mo. (UPI) - A 58-
year-old man who had never
flown an airplane before, took
off in a small plane he had
purchased for his son and
crashed a few minutes later.
The man, James Julian McCa
neles Sr., was killed.
The highway patrol said
McCanles had tried to land in a
field on his Bates County farm.
The man’s son, James
McCanles Jr., said he saw his
father circle the field for about
10 minutes, then the engine
sputtered and died. The plane
nosedived into a plowed field.
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DWIGHT, Ill.—Firemen attempt to stop leak as toxic
bromine gas from exploding capsules inside a parked
truck is wafted across a field toward Dwight, forcing the
evacuation of 3,800 residents. The only reported injury
Carter charges other Demos
candidates ‘ganging up’ on him
ATLANTA (UPI) — Former
Gov. Jimmy Carter said today
other Democratic candidates
are “ganging up” against him
to slow his campaign for the
presidential nomination.
At a news conference prior to
opening his Georgia headquar
ters, Carter also said the loss of
federal matching funds will
hurt all candidates equally and
might help Sen. Hubert Hum
phrey. He also said he expects
to campaign only one day in
Alabama, and that he and Gov.
George Wallace will probably
carry their own states in joint
May 4 primaries.
In Pennsylvania, where Cart
er faces a vital primary April
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27, he said many voters
consider Sen. Henry Jackson,
D-Wash., a “stalking horse for
Sen. Humphrey.” He said he
does not expect Humphrey to
get personally involved in the
campaign but that many city
bosses and state Democratic
party leaders openly admit
their support of Jackson is
transferable to Humphrey.
Carter was to take part later
in a downtown park rally which
the Rev. Hosea Williams, a
state legislator and civil rights
activist, had promised to picket
because of a controversial
remark made in recent cam
paigning by Carter.
“I don’t see any possibility of
was the truck driver who was overcome by the fumes.
Patients from a targe nursing home and retarded children
from a state institution were also evacuated. (UPI)
Jackson withdrawing, he’s a
very tenacious person,” said
Carter. “They are all kind of
ganging up and trying to stop
Jimmy Carter.”
Carter said he considers it “a
kind of tribute to my cam
paign” that others would be out
to stop him.’
“This is a Jimmy Carter
versus-everybody-else thing in
Pennsylvania,” he said. “I
don’t feel hurt, I don’t feel
paranoid about it.”
He said in some lowa
districts, candidates personally
conspired to help each other
against him when polls began
showing him gaining strength
in delegate caucuses. He
refused to identify the candi
dates and dismissed the matter
Georgian challenges
Tenn, divorce laws
JACKSON, Tenn. (UPI) - An
Athens, Ga. psychiatrist filed
suit Monday in U.S. District
Court Monday challenging Ten
nessee’s divorce laws as
unconstitutional because they
discriminate against men.
Dr. R. Robertson Kenner,
formerly of Jackson, contended
the laws are “flagrantly and
patently violative” of equal
protection under the U.S.
Constitution. The divorce and
alimony laws, he maintained in
the suit, are “unconstitutional
on their face ... as discrimina
tory against members of the
male sex.”
Kenner, who is being sued for
divorce by his wife of 16 years,
charged that Tennessee courts
“show an unwarrantable pref
erence towards members of the
female sex” in awarding
temporary and permanent sup
port or alimony and custody of
children and in dividing proper
ty.
“In Tennessee, men who are
able to earn a living but
voluntarily decline to do so are
jailed,” he said in the suit.
The plaintiff asked the U.S.
District Court here to convene
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as “just part of politics.”
Carter also said his reference
to “ethnic purity” last week
will not hurt him in Pennsyl
vania. He said a poll last
weekend indicated strong black
support for his candidacy.
Carter said it was “a
travesty” that federal matching
funds had been cut off because
Congress had failed to reform
the Federal Election Commis
sion. He said his campaign is
due about $250,000 in matching
funds when the FEC is revived.
When asked how the lack of
funding would affect his cam
paign, Carter said, “It would
affect it in the same proportion
that it affects other candidates.
It might help a non-candidate.”
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35 killed
in explosion
HELSINKI, Finland (UPI) -
An explosion destroyed an
ammunition factory in western
Finland today killing more than
35 persons, most of them
women, and injuring more than
30 others in the nation’s worst
industrial accident.
The defense department said
37 persons were known dead,
mostly women. The Seinjaki
Central Hospital said it admit
ted 31 patients and was treating
25 for serious injuries.
Authorities feared the death
toll may rise.
The blast ripped through a
cartridge loading area in the
plant at Lapua, shattering
windows within a one-mile
area. Most of the victims were
badly burned.
Head nurse Raili Makota
said, “We have 21 women
injured, but the situation is
calm. The operations have
begun, mostly for broken
bones.”
Lapua chief constable Armas
Holma said, “The factory
windows were all blown out and
many other buildings in the
complex have structural dama
ge. People living near the
factory have left their homes
since they cannot live there
without windows.”
A defense department spokes
man said, “We have no idea
what started the explosion.
There will be a five-man board
arriving this afternoon to
investigate.”
He said more than 100
soldiers were sent to the scene
for emergency duty.
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