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Page 16 — Griffin Daily News Friday, July 22, 1977 Lance denies connection between deposit and loan WASHINGTON (AP) - The bank formerly headed by Budg et Director Bert Lance depos ited >200,000 in a Chicago bank a month before the Chicago in stitution loaned Lance $3.4 mil lion, a Lance spokesman said Thursday. But the spokesman, Robert W. Dietsch, said there was no connection between the deposit and the personal loan. The loan helped Lance purchase 200,000 shares of stock in his former bank, an investment that has given him an embarrassing fi nancial headache. Dietsch, in a telephone inter view, said the $200,000 deposited by the National Bank of Georgia in the First National Bank of Brown to discuss withdrawal WASHINGTON (AP) - De fense Secretary Harold Brown is flying to South Korea to dis cuss the withdrawal of Amer ica’s 33,000 ground combat troops and to negotiate transfer of U.S. weapons and equipment to the Seoul government. 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President Carter has an nounced plans to pull out all U. S. ground troops stationed in Korea over the next four to five years, while reinforcing the Asian nation’s ability to defend itself. He has promised to keep U.S. air power in Korea in definitely. The administration reaffirm ed its decision to withdraw the troops after an unarmed U.S. Army helicopter was shot down last week over North Korean olas Poulos, a spokesman for the Chicago bank, appeared to indicate there was a connection between Lance’s loan and the “correspondent” banking rela tionship. Poulos said officials of Lance’s bank asked the Chicago bank’s officials if they would be interested in bidding on the loan to Lance. Lance’s main money problem concerns his bank stock, which he promised during his con firmation hearing to sell by year’s end. President Carter has asked the Senate Govern mental Affairs Committee to relieve Lance of the pledge, be cause Lance would lose $1.6 million if forced to sell at to day’s prices. territory. Three U.S. soldiers were killed and a fourth captured in the incident. The North Koreans have returned the bodies of the three men killed and released the survivor. A Pentagon task force has concluded that South Korea will need up to $8 billion worth of additional equipment to offset the withdrawal. According to the task force, Korea probably will need about 250 jet fighters, including Fl6s, plus hundreds of helicopters and observation planes, missiles and guns. One of the topics in Brown’s talks will be how much equip ment the Koreans will have to buy and how much will be pro vided free. A warning earlier this year that the withdrawal would lead to war cost Army Gen. John K. Singlaub his job as the third ranking U.S. officer in Korea. Carter will not veto Russell dam CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - President Carter says he will not veto the Richard Russell Dam project, according to one of his oldest South Carolina supporters, Charles D. “Pug” Ravenel. Ravenel said he and the President discussed Carter’s “arrangement with Congress” on the dam and other water projects when they rode in a motorcade into Charleston on Thursday. Reports ealier this week said Carter had reached an agree ment that he would not veto some of the dam projects, in cluding Russell Dam, in the $10.2 billion public works bill now in Congress. Ravenel said Carter “said he had talked with (U.S. Rep.) Butler Derrick about his recent workout arrangement with Con gress.” Derrick, D-S.C., announced in May that he was opposed to the dam on the grounds that it would be obsolete before it was completed. Derrick said earlier this week that he hoped the re- ‘Bargain’ tickets no bargain ATLANTA (AP) - If the “bargain” ticket you bought to Six Flags Over Georgia, an amusement park near Atlanta, has a hole in the middle, you may not get past the gates. A spokesman for the lark said Thursday 10,000 tickets fell from a delivery truck in down town Atlanta and only about half were recovered. “People scrambled all over the place for them,” said the spokesman, who added the driver was not aware the tickets had fallen from the vehicle. The tickets were being taken from a bank, where a computer had punched a hole in each one, making them void. Visitor released ATLANTA (AP) - A British visitor who suffered a heart at tack July 12 is getting more southern hospitality than he bargained for when he joined the Friendship Force exchange program. Foster Stobbart, 56, of New castle upon Tyne, England, was released Thursday from Grady Memorial Hospital. He and his wife are staying in an apartment furnished free by a hotel firm for two weeks while he recuperates, a Friendship Force spokesman said. Some Atlantans who went to Newcastle as part of the pro gram are providing meals for the couple, the spokesman added. Stobbart had suffered a pre vious heart attack before leav ing July 4 for the flight to Georgia with 380 other New castle residents. Stobbart is a director of a vending machine company in Newcastle. ports that Carter would not veto the project were not true. Ravenel quoted Carter as saying he was “very proud of Butler Derrick” for his position on the dam. Ravenel added, “I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to tell you what he said in response to my urging that we not build it. “If I tell you what he said,” Ravenel told reporters during the President’s visit, “it may injure his relations with Con gress.” Carter spent about two hours in Charleston, where he re ceived the reception as warm as the dry, 100-degree weather the city had on Thursday. Carter spoke briefly to about 5,000 persons who stood in the heat at Gaillard Municipal Au ditorium to hear him on his first business trip to the South since his inauguration. “It’s very nice to be back down South where I belong,” Carter said. Nearby seven or eight youngsters nearly col lapsed a small Magnolia tree as they climbed it to get a better view. The President praised the “great progress in the last few years” in the South. He said co operation by the rich and the poor, black and white had made the region “a true inspiration to the rest of the world.” Carter then spoke to the Southern Legislative Confer ence, delivering a major ad dress on his administration’s relations with the Soviet Union. Carter’s visit provided a po litical boost for Ravenel and former state Sen. Richard W. Riley Jr., the President’s 1976 campaign manager in South Carolina. Riley and Ravenel were at the front of a group of officials welcoming Carter at the air port, even though neither of them holds public office. Ravenel rode in the car with Carter to the auditorium, and both men rode back to the air port with the President. Riley is running for governor. Ravenel is scheduled to an nounce Monday that he will run for governor or for the U.S. Senate seat held by Strom Thurmond, R-S.C. 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