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DAI NEWS Daily Since 1872 Secret CIA pay under review WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter has begun a sweeping review of e U.S. intelligence operations amid re ports that more than half a dozen past and present foreign leaders received secret payments from the CIA. • King Hussein of Jordan, Willy Brandt of West Germany, Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam, Jomo Kenyatta of « Kenya, Joseph Mobuto of Zaire and Forbes Burnham of Guyana are identified in a still-secret manuscript as recipients of CIA funds, according to sources who have seen the manuscript. Cypriot Archbishop Makarios and the Tibetian Dalai Lama also have • received secret payments, according to the Washington Post. The CIA several years ago went to , court to block former intelligence of ficials Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks from revealing the names of foreign leaders who have received secret payments in their 1974 book “The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence.” Agency lawyers claimed that • publication of the names would “result in grave and irreparable injury to the interests of the United States.” , The White House and State Depart ment declined to comment Friday on a report that the CIA secretly paid millions of dollars to Hussein over a ’ two-year period. Instead, Press Secretary Jody Powell announced that the administration has begun an “in- • tensive and comprehensive review” of all foreign intelligence operations. Carter reportedly ordered the secret , payments to Hussein stopped when he learned of them. One former intelligence official defended the payments as essential to ' preserving Hussein as a stabilizing influence in the Middle East. Marchetti, former executive w assistant to the deputy director of the CIA, and Marks, former assistant to the State Department’s director of in telligence, are still prohibited by a court order from discussing the con tents of the deleted portions of their book. • However, Marchetti said he had previously identified Kenyatta and Brandt as recipients of CIA funds. , The payments to the former West German chancellor were used to strengthen the Social Democratic party, Marchetti said. Brandt, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is still the party’s leader. But Kenyatta, still president of « Kenya, diverted much of the money to his personal use, Marchetti said. “We had to double Kenyatta’s stipend be , cause he was using it all up himself,” he said. Sources who have seen the deleted portions of Marchetti’s book said ’ Brandt, Kenyatta and Hussein were cited along with Thieu, Mobutu and ''' '''' ' W 1 -< *•*' \. ■ ’ * ’ - 904 3E * r r*^r"“ > >xlZ x ;«? ’; ■ J ■ " -' . , ' > - ,;J . — 48^-..- ' r - $:. &X - ■ - *y>* IL-j* — ___ EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.—A 747 jumbo jet (bottom) carries the space shuttle Tpcf “Enterprise” piggyback fashion in the first test Hight Friday. The flight lasted two hours 1 CO I and reached speeds of about 300 miles per hour. The crafts went as high as 16,000 feet above the California desert. (AP) GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, February 19,1977 Bumham as examples of “cases in which the ClA’s relationship with the local head of state was so special that the American ambassador was not informed of any of the details.” Mobutu is still president of Zaire and Bumham is still prime minister in the South American nation of Guyana. Thieu was president of South Vietnam until it was overrun by the North Vietnamese in 1975. People ...and things School lunchroom official having sandwich for lunch at quick food restaurant. Sleepy-eyed Kiwanis workers reporting to work at 5 a.m. to begin annual pancake day. Dog owner waiting in vets office, stroking pet as if it were an only child. A record Balloon man feels super—a little tired FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — “I feel super but just a little tired,” hot-air balloonist Karl Thomas says of his coast-to-coast trip from California in a record 18 days. Thomas, 28, touched down at 2:30 p.m. EST Friday on an Atlantic beach near here, according to Dave Severson, spokesman for the flight sponsor. The Troy, Mich., man, who began his journey at Arcadia, Calif., was seen about a half hour earlier over down town Jacksonville, south of his landing point. “I was losing altitute then,” he recalled. “I almost ate the Prudential Puerto Rican group claims N.Y. explosion NEW YORK (AP) - A militant Puerto Rican group early today claimed responsibility for two bomb blasts at the Gulf & Western and Chrysler buildings that turned windows A study in concentration U Tim Burke (1) whipped through 4 games of chess Friday afternoon in about 40 ’ . , minutes at his home with fellow Griffin High student Michael Corley. It was _ , near the end of what was a busy week for Burke. He was named STAR student and will represent the G-S System in the district competition. Burke scored 800 out of a possible 800 in the math SAT test and made an extraordinarily high to the to vl make a perfect math score. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Burke, 1657 Piedmont drive. relaxation he plays chess, a game he has enjoyed some ■■■ or years. He usually wins. Tim wants to be a medical doctor. I building. I smiled to myself because I got to thinking about life insurance.” Severson said Thomas pulled a cord to collapse the orange, 90-foot-high “Limited Edition Sail” when it finally reached the beach. Thomas then walked to the ocean and splashed water in his face. Thomas landed about 100 miles from his target, Daytona Beach. His arrival there was timed for the annual Speed Weeks at Daytona International Speedway. Prevailing winds forced his balloon northeastward instead of southeastward, the direction he hoped for early Friday when he took off after into glass missiles, blew a taxi driver out of his cab and were heard blocks away. One passerby was treated for minor injuries and another refused treatment, Vol. 105 No. 42 a stopover near Blountstown in Florida’s Panhandle. “We came very close to target but you just can’t beat mother nature,” he said. His flight surpassed publisher Macolm Forbes’ 34-day crosscountry balloon trip by 16 days, Severson said. Forbes made his trip in 1973. “People over emphasized the record aspect,” Thomas said. “The record is just something to keep you going when things get tough. “What we all got out of it all was a great adventure and a chance to learn about ourselves,” he said, praising his 18-man ground crew. police said. A man who claimed to represent the Puerto Rican group known as FALN (Armed Forces of National Liberation), called the Daily News and WCBS radio here and said the FALN had set off the explosions shortly before midnight Friday. He directed the news organizations to a teiphone booth in the downtown area of Greenwich Village where he said the FALN had placed a note explaining the action. Police said the one-page note bearing the FALN name and symbol called for independence for Puerto Rico and the destruction of the “capitalist system.” Neither Gulf & Western nor Texaco oil company, whose tourist center office in the Chrysler Building was damaged by the blast there, were mentioned in the letter, authorities said. The FALN has claimed responsibility for several explosions at banks and buildings in Manhattan over the past few years, including the blast that killed four persons more than two years ago at historic Fraunces Tavern in the Wall Street area. No one has been arrested for that bombing. Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 65, low today 46, high yesterday 66, low yesterday 37, high tomorrow in low 50s, low tonight in mid 30s. FORECAST: Increasing cloudiness tonight with a chance of rain. Clearing windy and colder Sunday. I’A r Thomas’ odyssey took him into Mexico and as far north as Montana. He originally planned to fly across the southern half of the United States, but weak winds forced a change in plans. After waiting in Pheonix, Ariz., for three days, Thomas had his craft transported to Clinton, Mont. He completed the rest of the trip in eight days. Thomas crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 1976 while trying to fly a helium balloon to Europe. He suffered two broken ribs and floated in the water for several days before being rescued by a Russian ship. Talmadge divorce granted MCDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) — U. S. Sen. Herman Talmadge and his second wife, Betty, were granted a divorce Friday under Georgia’s “no fault” di vorce law, a Henry County Superior Court clerk said. A property settlement is to come later, the clerk said. The 63-year-old Talmadge had been married to his second wife 35 years. In 1937, Talmadge married Kathryn Wil liams, a professional model, but that marriage ended in divorce three years later. Superior Court Judge Sam Whitmire signed the divorce decree Friday, the day after lawyers for the senator and his second wife appeared in court. Mrs. Talmadge’s lawyer said she did not feel her marriage was “irretrievably broken” as Talmadge claimed and charged the state’s “no fault” divorce law is unconstitutional. The Country Parson by Frank Clark ra J 1 rani waraj “Doctors are in the business of giving folks more future to worry about” Fishing report The Department of Natural Resources fishing forecast for the week of Feb. 20-26 includes: HIGH FALLS: Normal, clear. No activity. JACKSON: LOW, CLEAR. No activity. SINCLAIR: Down, stained. Fair for crappie, catfish, striped bass and white bass. Slow for largemouth bass. Chemical polluting Ohio River CINCINNATI (AP) - A 75-mile-long spill of a toxic chemical, believed discharged in West Virginia, is flowing down the Ohio River and threatening water supplies as far south as Louisville, Ky. Public officials urged people to boil all drinking water. Joseph Harrison, chief of water supply at Chicago’s Environmental Protection Agency branch, said the chemical — carbon tetrachloride — can damage the liver and has caused cancer in laboratory animals. “If you drink it, you probably won’t be acutely affected right away. There is a risk, it could cause cancer eventually. It’s a high risk,” Harrison said. “We have a good idea at this point what company is the source,” said James Manwaring, EPA director in Philadelphia, but he declined to identify the firm. He said that carbon tetrachloride was found in three discharge pipes of the FMC Corp, plant in South Charleston, W.Va., one of four producers of the chemical in that area. FMC was the only one of the four plants that refused to allow EPA in spectors to make tests Feb. 8. FMC did agree to testing Friday during a federal district court hearing at Parkersburg, W.Va., Manwaring said. The other three plants — Diamond Shamrock, Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Allied Chemical Co. — all agreed to dis charge tests after the chemical began showing up downstream in drinking water at Huntington, W.Va., Man waring said. He said tests at the three plants showed no discharge of the toxic chemical. FMC spokesman Bill Currey said: “Reports linking FMC’s South Charleston operation to carbon tetrachloride problems in the Ohio River have not been confirmed by FMC plant officials in South Charleston. No major spill of carbon tetrachloride has been recorded at the plant.” Manwaring said tests on the Kanawa River, a tributary of the Ohio, up stream from the four plants showed no trace of the chemical. “However, downstream we found 150 parts per billion last Friday, Feb. 11. That is up from 10 parts per billion from two days before,” he said. “We have not confronted any firm with the evidence because the testing is not complete,” Manwaring said. “We thought it was more important right now to warn the communities down stream.” The 70-ton spill is traveling 12 miles a day. EPA officials estimated Friday it might take four days to reach Cin cinnati, the next major city in the path of the chemical.
