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Griffin Daily News Friday, June 17,1977
Plaque commemorates
Watergate burglary
WASHINGTON (AP) —On the rear stairwell door of an
office on the sixth floor of the Watergate building is a
plaque commemorating a “pipsqueak” burglary that
occurred five years ago today.
The plaque is one of the few tangible reminders of the
June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National
Headquarters that eventually forced Richard Nixon out of
office and his chieftains into prison.
Now the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy
of Sciences occupies the offices. For the many curious
visitors who want to peek at the famous spot, the institute
installed the plaque and hands out pamphlets.
Although the Watergate office complex remains one of
the big attractions in a capital city that has many, the
event has become so passe to those who work there that
few could say who now occupies the offices.
“We’re not holding a celebration,” a desk clerk said
when asked Thursday night about the fifth anniversary.
Neither are H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff, or
former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, who surrender to prison
officials next Wednesday for their roles in the Watergate
cover-up, ending finally the Watergate criminal cases.
Some Watergate figures became rich. Two reporters
who tracked down the nation’s biggest political scandal
and several congressmen who picked up the ball at the
impeachment hearings became heroes. Some once
promising careers were shattered, and many new authors
were bom. A president on the brink of impeachment re
signed and was pardoned, an historical first.
Gulf contends it did nothing wrong
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Justice Department may be
asked to investigate whether
Gulf Oil Corp, violated U.S. an
titrust laws by joining an inter
national uranium price-fixing
cartel, says the chairman of a
House investigations unit.
It’s “quite possible” that the
committee will decide to turn its
evidence over to government
prosecutors, despite Gulf’s
contention that it did nothing
wrong, said Rep. John Moss, D-
Calif.
The commerce investigations
subcommittee, headed by Moss,
continues hearings on the cartel
today with testimony from for
mer and present Gulf officials
who attended meetings of the
cartel around the world.
Gulf admits participating in
the cartel through its Canadian
uranium-producing subsidiary,
but says it was compelled by the
Canadian government to join
the organization.
It contends that one of the
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witnesses scheduled to testify
today, L.T. Gregg, a former of
ficial of Gulf Minerals Canada
Ltd., participated in cartel ac
tivities at the specific request of
the Canadian government.
But subcommittee sources
say the panel has evidence that
the letter from the Canadian
government to Gulf requesting
Gregg’s participation was
drafted, at least in part, by
Gregg himself.
According to confidential Gulf
and Canadian government
documents released by the pan
el on Thursday, the cartel of
foreign government and ura
nium producers carved up the
free world uranium market, es
tablishing quotas and setting
prices.
The cartel is allegedly re
sponsible for increases in raw
uranium from around $5 a
pound in the early 1970 s to the
current world price of over S4O a
pound. The uranium is sold for
the generation of electricity in
commercial atomic power
plants.
Uranium producers in Cana
da, South Africa, France and
Australia participated in the
cartel along with Gulf officials,
Drought will test
agricultural leaders
ATLANTA (AP) — Economic
problems in the sugar Industry
and woes brought on by the
drought will test the com-
The special prosecutor’s office, which itself had a tu
multuous history, went out of business recently after
winning 61 convictions and seeing six other persons
acquitted of criminal charges.
Counting Haldeman and Mitchell, 25 will have been
locked up.
John Ehrlichman, the third major lieutenant of the
Nixon administration, already is behind bars. The three
kingpins drew Wi to 8 year terms after their convictions
for conspiring to impede a grand jury investigation into
the break-in.
Besides Ehrlichman, only G. Gordon Liddy, one of the
actual burglars, is spending the fifth anniversary of
Watergate in jail. Liddy, who masterminded the White
House “plumbers” unit, has refused to make any public
statement about the scandal.
Four other men, all from Miami, were arrested with
Liddy inside the Watergate offices of the Democratic
National Committee. Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez,
Virgilio Gonzalez and Frank Sturgis were convicted of
conspiracy, wiretapping and burglary. They pleaded
guilty and all served more than one year in jail.
James McCord Jr. and E. Howard Hunt also were part
of the original seven Watergate defendants. Hunt, who de
manded hush money from the White House for himself
and his fellow defendants, pleaded guilty to conspiracy,
wiretapping and burglary and served 30 months In prison.
McCord, convicted of eight counts, was released after four
months.
the documents revealed.
Gulf Board Chairman Jerry
McAfee testified on Thursday
that Gulf’s role in the cartel did
not violate U.S. antitrust laws
because the U.S. uranium mar
ket was insulated from the in
ternational group’s actions.
A U.S. embargo, established
in 1964, prohibited U.S. utilities
from using imported uranium in
their nuclear reactors at the
time. The embargo, now being
lifted, will be removed entirely
by 1978.
McAfee claimed that sharp
rises in U.S. uranium prices are
the result of factors other than
the cartel’s price-setting
activities.
4 youngsters killed
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.
(AP) — Four youngsters were
killed Thursday night in a two
car collision on a wet Gwinnett
County road south of Lawrence
ville, police said.
A Gwinnett County Police De
partment spokesman identified
the victims as Ricky Martin, 16,
Joel Freal, 5, and his 2-year-old
mittment of agricultural lend
ers, a federal official said
Thursday.
“Current economic conditions
in agriculture are spotty with
some areas of the country in
reasonably good shape with
others undergoing severe hard
ships,” said C. K. Cardwell,
deputy governor of the Office of
Credit Administration in Wash
ington.
Cardwell told members of the
Farm Land Bank Association, a
group of land bank officials
from Georgia, Florida, North
and South Carolina, that live
stock operators in drought
areas are facing serious finan
cial problems, and the econom
ic plight of the sugar industry
also is serious.
“These acute financial condi
tions will test the commitment
of agricultural leaders,” Car
dwell said. “Conditions will im
prove as they always have —
and it is vital that lenders stick
with borrowers as long as there
are realistic expectations for
recovery.”
The use of credit by farmers
as measured by farm debt cur
rently exceeds SIOO billion,
twice as much as 1970, he said.
“We expect farm debt to con
tinue to increse to $l5O billion by
the end of 1980 and to rise to $225
billion by 1985,” Cardwell said.
He said he feels agricultural
lenders will be able to meet the
need in the future, “although to
do so we will require coopera
tion among lenders and extra
efforts by each of them.”
R. A. Darr, president of the
He said there was over
whelming evidence that Gulf
violated U.S. antitrust laws.
“It’s the kind of case that a jury
would spend about 30 seconds
on,” he said.
But some members of the
subcommittee disputed his con
tention that the cartel’s action
had no effect on the U.S. mar
ket.
Rep. Albert Gore Jr., DTenn.,
said a number of utilities,
including the Tennessee Valley
Authority, South Carolina
Power and Light and Duke
Power Co., had entered into
long-term contacts with cartel
members for uranium to be de
livered once the embargo was
lifted.
brother, Tim, all of Lawren
ceville.
The name of the fourth victim
was not immediately released.
Police said the cars apparent
ly were traveling in opposite di
rections when they collided
about one mile south of Law
renceville.
Federal Land Bank of Colum
bia, S.C., told the group farmers
should stop farming before they
retire, instead of retiring before
they stop fanning.
“If we retire on the job, we
will certainly lose our assets in
a hurry,” he said.
Lanett man killed
LaGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — A Lanette, Ala., man was
killed Thursday when a bread delivery truck overturned
in front of the West Georgia Medical Center, authorities
said.
Police said Homer Brown, 51, a passenger in the truck,
was killed and the driver, Roy Lee Cavender of near
LaGrange, was hospitalized. He was reported in good
condition late Thursday.
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Broken support
KENNER, La. — Mrs. Leroy Anderson looks at pieces of a sign that was broken at the First
Baptist Church in Kenner, La., supporting Anita Bryant’s campaign against gay rights.
Bricks were tossed through the sign just several days before Miss Bryant’s scheduled
weekend appearance at the Summer Pops Concert in nearby New Orleans. (AP)
Methodists oppose
television violence
ATLANTA (AP) — Delegates
to the North Georgia United
Methodist Annual Conference
voiced objections to growing
television violence and obscen
ity Thursday and vowed to
place pressure to end programs
that are “morally, aesthetical
ly, or religiously objection
able.”
“If the present trend in lan
guage on TV is not corrected,
we will soon have a generation
which knows profanities and
coarse language, but does not
appreciate or practice the use of
correct, precise and expressive
language,” the Rev. Garnett
Wilder warned the 1, 400
delegates.
The Rev. Mr. Wilder, head of
the conference’s Council on
Moral and Civic Concerns,
asked the group to unite and
“demand programs that do not
display obscenities, profanity or
unnecessary violence.”
He added that pornography is
already on television and grow
ing.
“No one wants to say they’re
for pornography, but por
nographic language is standard
fare on soap operas today,” he
said.
Local Methodist congrega
tions would work with state leg
islators and other churches to
end "drug promotion, crime
promotion and pornography
promotion” on television, he
added.
Delegates from the area’s 928
churches, which represent 240,-
000 Methodists in north Georgia,
adopted a 1978 budget of
$4,718,113 Thursday and ap
proved a program aimed at in
creasing attendance at small
churches.
The delegates approved the
budget which includes $100,698
for the National Methodist
Church priorities of world hun
ger, ethnic minority concerns
and evangelism.
The conference ends Friday
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Carter
supports
Corps
ATLANTA (AP) — The direc
tor of the federal agency AC
TION, which includes the Peace
Corps and VISTA, said
President Carter has asked
Congress to boost the agency’s
funding from $67 million to SB4
million.
And Sam Brown, in Atlanta on
a recruiting visit, said Carter is
supportive of the Peace Corps
“maybe because his mother
once was a Peace Corps
volunteer.”
Miss Lillian Carter served for
two years in the Peace Corps in
India.
Socialist
candidate
in race
ATLANTA (AP) - Socialists
Workers Party member Vince
Eagan, 23, who ran for governor
of Georgia in 1974, has an
nounced his candidacy for may
or of Atlanta.
Eagan, in his announcement
Thursday, criticized Mayor
Maynard Jackson’s handling of
a municipal workers strike ear
lier this year.
He also announced that
Laurie Perkus, also a member
of the party, would run for
president of the Atlanta City
Council.
The mayoral election is Oct.
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