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Judge asked to impose
minimum fine on Helms
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
government says national se
curity and concern for a “dis
tinguished career” were factors
in allowing former CIA Director
Richard M. Helms to plead no
contest to charges of failing to
testify fully about CIA activities
in Chile.
The Justice Department, with
President Carter’s con
currence, cited Helms' “out
standing services” Monday in
asking a federal judge to im
pose the minimum S2OO fine and
suspend any jail sentence on
two misdemeanor charges.
Helms, 64, entered the plea to
charges stemming from 1973
testimony before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
which was holding hearings on
his nomination to be U.S. am
bassador to Iran.
The nomination by then-Pres
ident Richard M. Nixon was
subsequently confirmed by the
Senate.
Assistant Attorney General
Benjamin R. Civiletti said he
expected Helms to be sentenced
soon, perhaps as early as today.
The plea bargaining arrange
ment drew an immediate pro
test from Sen. Frank Church, D-
Idaho, who presided over a
Senate subcommittee in
vestigation into clandestine
UJS. involvement in Chilean
Thief found hospitals
were very easy targets
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - Po
lice say 134 counts of credit card
theft have been brought against
a 28-year-old man charged in
connection with robberies of
hospital rooms in 16 states.
Police investigator J.W. Pless
said Monday that Ronald Ru
tan, believed to be from Wheel
ing, W. Va., was being held on
$50,000 bond in the DeKalb
County Jail.
“He said hospitals were easy
targets. He would walk in and
pose as a visitor and nobody
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“I thought there was to be an
end to the double standard of
justice for the big shots,"
Church said. “Apparently,
Helms was just too hot to
handle."
The government said, how
ever, it agreed to the no-contest
plea because “trial of this case
would involve tremendous costs
to the United States and might
jeopardize national secrets.”
Attorney General Griffin Bell
said later that Carter had been
ever questioned him,” Pless
said.
Pless said Rutan was ar
rested last week after a nurse at
Emory University Hospital told
officers she saw a suspicious
person leave a patient’s empty
room.
The investigator said Rutan
had at least 30 pocketbooks in
his possession when he was ar
rested.
“You name it, I’ve got it.
Miniature high school diplomas,
dry cleaning tags, pictures,
told of the plea bargaining be
fore the court session but was
not involved in the particulars.
A White House statement said
the president was aware of
Justice Department strategy in
the case and had approved the
final decision Monday.
“We think it is a decision
which upholds the authority of
the law and the Congress while
at the same time protecting the
national security interest of this
country,” a White House state
ment said.
During the hearings, Helms
was questioned about clandes
tine U.S. attempts to prevent
the election of Marxist Salvador
Allende as president of Chile in
1970.
Helms told the committee
that the CIA did not in any way
attempt to influence the Chilean
vote. Allende, who won the
election, was killed in a military
coup in September 1973.
But the Justice Department
said “... Helms failed to answer
those questions fully and
completely as required by law.”
No reporters were present
when Helms entered his plea in
U.S. District Court. Under the
law, a no-contest plea means a
person does not admit guilt but
says he will offer no defense. He
is subject to the same penalty as
if he pleaded guilty, however.
girlfriends’ phone number. I’ve
even got a bunch of little black
books,” Pless said.
Some of the items were taken
from Georgia Baptist Hospital
in nearby Atlanta, he said.
Pless said most of the drivers’
licenses in Rutan’s possession
were from Alabama, Louisiana
and Arkansas, but some were
from states as far away as
California.
Court denies
Pryor’s appeal
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
U.S. Supreme Court has denied
without comment the appeal of
a convicted murderer sen
tenced to die in Georgia’s elec
tric chair for the slaying of a 52-
year-old woman.
The high court’s action came
Monday in the case of Leonard
Pryor, 21, of Ocilla, Ga., who
was convicted in April 1976 and
sentenced to die for the death of
Grace Broome.
Her body was found Nov. 21,
1975, in a cornfield three miles
from her home in southern Ir
win County.
A deputy testified that Pryor
had confessed to the slaying.
INTERNSHIPS
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Three internships in health sci
ences library management for
1978-79 will be offered by the
Council on Library Resources
Inc. and the National Library
of Medicine.
The aim of the program is to
provide “opportunities for mid
career librarians to be exposed
to and participate in all facets
of health sciences library man
agement.”
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Emory researchers hope
to starve army worms
ATLANTA (AP) - Emory
University researchers are
working on chemicals which
would cause armyworms to lose
their appetite for marching
across Georgia fields, devour
ing crops and pastures in the
late summer.
Dr. David J. Goldsmith, a
chemist, is researching ways to
duplicate the chemicals — anti
feedants produced by plants —
in the laboratory and to mass
produce them at a cost low
Genealogists search
for Carter’s roots
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The
search for President Carter’s
ancestral Virginia home takes
another, down to earth, step
today as genealogists leave
their airplanes and proceed on
foot along the James River.
Representatives of the presti
gious British genealogical firm,
Debrett’s Peerage Ltd., flew
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Goldsmith said his research
specifically concerns African
armyworms, not the Georgia
variety, but he said he “would
certainly guess these insects
must be related and it certainly
would be interesting to try these
compounds on them.”
The anti-feedants were dis
covered by researchers in Af
rica and at Columbia Univer
sity, he said.
“In Africa,” Goldsmith said,
over what was once a colonial
plantation Monday. They
spotted four sites that may have
been the homestead of the man
genealogists believe was
Carter’s first American ances
tor, a company spokesman said.
Debrett’s hopes to pinpoint
the exact spot where the Carter
family seat was established
more than 300 years ago.
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Georgia news
Carlton man killed
ELBERTON, Ga. (AP) — A Carlton, Ga., man; was
killed Monday when the car he was driving left the ligh
way near this east Georgia town, hit a culvert and struck a
tree, authorities said.
The state patrol identified the victim as Emory J.
Hammond, 79.
Cotton supports
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of
Agriculture has announced that the government’s price
support loan rate for 1978 upland cotton will be 44 cents
per pound.
Officials said Monday that the announcement involves
the loan rate at average locations and is final.
The loan rate announcement is the first for upland
cotton under the new Food and Agriculture Act recentlv
signed by President Carter. The loan rate — the amount
producers can borrow from the government using their
crop as collateral — was about 42.6 cents per pound for
1977 upland cotton.
Coastal resources
ATLANTA (AP) — Robert J. Reimold, a marine
biologist, has been named the first supervisor of coastal
resource programs for the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources.
Reimold, who assumes his new duties Jan. 2, has lived
on the coast for 10 years. His appointment was confirmed
by the Board of Natural Resources last week.
Reimold is an associate professor of zoology at the
University of Georgia and vice president of the Estuarine
Research Foundation.
2 prisoners escape
LaGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — Two prisoners escaped
Monday from a Troup County work camp by climbing
over a fence, authorities said.
Officials identified the men as Carl Baxter of Atlanta,
serving five years for burglary, and Houston Henderson of
Kellyton, Ala., seving three years for motor vehicle theft.
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