Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 252, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 June 1979 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, June 29,1979

Accepts House censure

Diggs admits rule violation

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Charles Diggs admitted today that he violated a House rule, agreed to repay some $40,000 he improperly collected from the House of Representatives and to accept censure from House members. The House ethics committee agreed to accept his statement by a vote of 11-0. The action ended the committee’s investigation of the Michigan Democrat. Diggs told the House committee that he violated a House rule when he increased the salary of one of his employees and then accepted money from the employee to help him pay his personal debts. He also admitted that he benefitted from pay increases given other employees, but he said he did not willfully violate the House rule by those actions. Diggs, a 12-term House veteran, apologized to the committee for his actions, agreed to repay $40,031.66 to the U.S. Treasury by use of a promissory note and said he would accept censure by the full House. Diggs told reporters after the brief session that he made the arrangement to prevent a prolonged and embarrassing proceeding for the House and for his family. “I have volunteered to repay to the House approximately $40,000 ...in order to finally put to rest any doubts about my

Five additional murder counts filed

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Roger Dale Stafford will be arraigned Monday on five additional first-degree murder counts in the worst mass murder in Oklahoma history. The five murder counts were filed Thursday against Stafford, who’s now charged with killing all six Oklahoma City Sirloin Stockade steakhouse workers slain during a $1,500 robbery last July 16. Oklahoma County District Attorney Andrew Coats said if he is unable to reach agreement with Stafford attorney Garvin Isaacs to hold a preliminary hearing in mid July, he will ask

Somoza meets with U.S. ambassador

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) The Sandinista rebels gave up the Managua slums after two weeks of fighting but said they Were withdrawing to regroup for more combat. President Anastasio Somoza failed to muster a quorum for a session of Congress and met with the new U.S. ambassador, Lawrence Pezzullo, amid reports

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a judge Monday to order Stafford’s preliminary hearing to begin in July. Coats said he wants the case to go to trial in September. Stafford was charged March 11 with the murder of one of the steakhouse workers, Terri M. Horst, 15. After a nationwide manhunt, he was arrested without resistance March 13 at a Chicago YMCA. Coats filed the additional murder counts against the 27-year-old Alabama drifter after the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals turned down a request Thursday by Stafford attorneys to rehear their request for ac-

the envoy asked him to resign. The New York Times report-ed-Somoza told U.S. officials he would step down if his national guard and ruling Liberal Nationalist Party were given a role in a transitional government. U.S. Embassy political officer Jack Martin called the report “pure speculation,” and Somoza’s private secretary,

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past use of clerk hire allowance,” he said. Diggs said the arrangement will support his appeal of a federal conviction of the payroll misuse. He said this is so because he admitted he misused the payroll for personal expenses but the committee dropped all charges of misusing it for congressional expenses. He said that continuing the proceeding would “prolong the uncertainty under which my family, my staff and I have lived for the past several months.” There was no immediate word on when the censure motion would be brought to the House floor for a vote. Censure is the strongest punishment the House can mete out short of expulsion. It normally requires the member to stand in front of the full House while the speaker of the house reads the censure pronouncement. The ethics committee had formally opened and then indefinitely postponed public hearings on allegations against Diggs only four days ago without hearing any evidence. Although the 18 allegations filed against Diggs by the committee basically paralleled the counts on which he was convicted in federal court, the House investigation is completely separate from the earlier court action. Diggs is appealing his federal conviction on charges of mail fraud and of making false statements.

cess to certain prosecution evidence. The attorneys had sought access to evidence that might tend to show Stafford is innocent or might reduce his punishment, and to investigative data they contended were not protected by provisions of state law. The appeals court earlier refused to give the defense access to the evidence. By refusing to rehear arguments in the matter, the court let its earlier decision stand. Coats said he had been waiting for the appeals court decision before filing the additional murder counts.

Max Kelly, called it “absolutely false.” Somoza told the Colombian newspaper La Republica: “If the Congress asks me to resign, I will dissolve it.” Only 28 of the 70 congressmen showed up for the session Somoza called Thursday, eight short of a quorum.

Forty tornadoes spotted in lowa

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He said Stafford was charged with all six killings so “a jury can get a full picture of what went on.” Investigators have said repeatedly they believe Stafford and his late brother, Harold, 29, were responsible for all six murders at the Sirloin Stockade restaurant almost exactly a year ago. The charges filed Thurrsday charge Stafford with first-de-gree murder in the deaths of steakhouse employees Anthony Tew, 17; David Salsman, 15; David Lindsey, 17; Isaac Freeman, 56; and Louis Zacarias, 43.

“We’re going to Masaya,” one of the guerrillas shouted to reporters as he and hundreds of others streamed out of the slums on foot and in captured national guard trucks toward .the rebel-held city 20 miles south of Managua. They were armed with automatic assault rifles, rocket grenades and heavy machine guns.

of its 125th anniversary Saturday. Tornadoes also were reported Thursday in Minnesota, North Dakota, Colorado and Arkansas. Some damage was reported in those states but no deaths or serious injuries. Four people were killed and about two dozen injured in Manson, officials said. Some 24 businesses and 100 homes were reported destroyed or heavily damaged. Police Officer John Ewing said no homes were left in the area from downtown to the southeast edge of town. “It’s just gone, clear out to the edge of town,” Ewing said. “The houses are gone.”

Carter arrives in South Korea SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - President Carter arrived in South Korea this evening to spend the night with U.S. troops 10 miles from the demilitarized zone. The president left Tokyo today at the end of an economic summit of the seven major industrial democracies. After landing in Seoul, Carter was to head by helicopter to Camp Casey, where American Gls block one route that North Korean troops would presumably take in any invasion of the South. An elaborate welcome prepared by the Korean government awaited the president, including flag-decorated streets and a four-story poster ,of Carter and South Korean President Park Chung-hee. A ticker tape parade was planned for Saturday and officials said they expected tens of thousands of citizens to turn out. Though most South Koreans seemed pleased with prospect of the visit, anti-government dissident groups have issued statements saying it should have been canceled to protest the government’s suppression of human rights. Two issues promise to dominate Carter’s visit to Korea: his now-frozen pullout of U.S. troops and the Korean government’s suppression of political opposition.

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Summit nations set quotas

U.S. oil imports frozen at current levels

TOKYO (AP) President Carter, claiming the economic summit “equaled our highest expectations,” announced today the seven participants agreed to set specific individual oil import quotas through 1985. Speaking to reporters, Carter said the United States would freeze its imports at the current level of 8.5 million barrels a day. The U.S. president said individual quotas for European nations would be fixed at the next meeting of the European Economic Community in Dublin next fall. Carter prepared to fly to South Korea for a state visit shortly after the summit concluded. He said Japan and Canada havf agreed to limit their oil imports but did not disclose the figures involved. Later, joining the other summit participants at a joint news conference, Carter said “we de-

plore the decision” of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to raise prices by a further 21.5 percent. Carter said OPEC’s action Thursday raising the average price to $20.90 a barrel would “lead to worldwide inflation, less growth, more unemployment and endanger the stability of the economic system of the world.” At his earlier meeting with reporters, the president said the summit’s most difficult problem was persuading some of the European nations to opt for individual national import ceilings for 1979 and 1980 and through 1985. Just a half hour before the two-day summit ended, Carter said, one unidentified participant proposed to amend the communique to adopt a collective quota for Western Europe rather than individual, country-by-country ceilings. “I think the results of the

Windfall profits tax watered down on House floor

WASHINGTON (AP) - The “windfall profits” tax, weakened on the House floor, is headed to the Senate where influential oil-state lawmakers are expected to try to reduce its bite on oil companies even more. The House watered down the tax Thursday, agreeing with arguments that U.S. oil production could best be increased by leaving oil companies a bigger share of the profits from the decontrol of domestic oil prices. “The telling argument was energy production,” declared Rep. W. Henson Moore, R-La., one of the sponsors of the amendment to weaken the tax bite on oil companies. The House Ways and Means Committee and the Democratic leadership had favored a tax that would have reclaimed about $44 billion of the oil companies’ decontrol-related revenues between 1980 and 1984. Moore argued that by cutting the tax by about $6 billion over that five-year period, U.S. oil production would be increased by 800,000 barrels a day, compared to 350,000 new barrels a day expected under the committee’s tax. “Congressmen can go home now for July Fourth and tell their constituents, ‘I voted for a tax that will keep you from being ripped off, but it will get you more energy,’” Moore said after the vote. The Moore substitute is still tougher than the tax President Carter originally proposed and

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economic summit were superb,” Carter declared. “They equaled our highest ex: pectations.” Earlier, Carter had decried the “extraordinary increases” imposed by OPEC and had pre : dieted the summit leaders, would “act aggressively” to r§ : strain petroleum imports. The objective was to reduce .1 oil imports by 2 million barrels a day, the estimated gap between supply and demand. Talking to reporters as the last day of the summit began, Carter cited a 60 percent increase in oil prices since December and declared, “There is no one on earth who will fail to suffer from these extraordinary increases.” Carter said he was convinced that summit participants from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Canada “will act aggressively and without precedence to cut OPEC oil.’

then challenged Congress to toughen. The Senate Finance Com- . mittee, the bill’s next stop, is’ slated to consider the tax next* month. The panel, chaired by oil industry ally Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., is expected to recommend a tax lower than the House measure. But in a letter read to the House during Thursday’s debate, Long expressed concern that the Senate might toughen the House bill. “There is nothing in the history of the Senate to demonstrate that it is less subject to over-reacting to the frustration and emotion of the moment than is the House of Representatives,” Long said. In other energy developments Thursday: —The Carter administration’s chief inflation fighter, Alfred Kahn, said that “as a private citizen” he suspects gasoline retailers are engaging in price gouging. He also said the administration “ought to consider (gasoline) rationing.” —Two major fuel suppliers said consumers should hope for a mild winter because home heating oil prices will be approaching $1 a gallon. —The Energy Department is considering spending SSO mil* lion on radio, television. news : paper and magazine ads to encourage American householdsto conserve energy.