North Adams Transcript (Newspaper) - November 8, 1975, North Adams, Massachusetts NORTH ADAMS ADAMS WILLIAMSTOWN MASSACHUSETTS il YEAR No 54 SATURDAY NOVEMBERS 1975 16 PAGES CENTS Plus 16 Section Ford vows to work for detente defense criticism of changes political potshots BOSTON AP President Ford called criticism of his high-level changes domestic political and vowed Friday to a policy of detente and strong national defense He said he wanted to put to rest speculation that the dismissal of of Defense James R Schlesinger means a change of direction I want to be absolutely sure that these domestic political potshots are not heard round Ford said Our allies and our adversaries must not be confused or misled President then attacked congressional cuts in the defense that at the rate cuts are made by the year 2000 United States defense will be reduced to one soldier carrying one like the statue at Concord bridge where the American Revolution began Ford told the New England Council fliat he deplores congressional efforts cut his defense budget and called on- the full Senate to restore at least 52 billion of the billion in defense cuts proposed Thursday by its committee The President said his administration remains committed to both n policy of detente with the Soviet Union and a declaring that to make detente succeed we must have a strong defense There is not now there has never been and there will not be as long as 1 am President any softness or weakness in my administration on the subject of the national defense of the United States and its vital security interests at home and Ford said Schlesinger had strongly opposed cuts in the defense budget In a statement Friday Schlesinger said a strong military power is the un- of detente In response to a question in Springfield Ford said Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger to have tremendous influence on foreign policy but that under the reorganization other voices will also be heard energy ills soys Ford BOSTON AP Ford said Friday it has been his continuous effort to keep the unique situation of New England in mind as we endeavor to reduce our national dependence on unreliable foreign oil has a unique energy problem in your dependence on oil for heat and power It is my hope that you new look at the r recently submitted in- dependence in remarks prepared for the New said the authority especially supplementing and en- private capital investment to the region's growing energy needs Ford said New England's proposal jor an Energy Resource and Development Institute is being closely am impressed with your to alternative energy solar wind ocean thermal waves and tides urged New England to support natural gas deregulation Ford said while New England does not consume much natural gas it has much to by keeping prices ar- traditional New England in- mat TTV ut the road to Ford said I such as paper leather goods textiles electronics and are highly But the high cost of oil and electricity is steadily driving these industries out of your region The President said those industries are moving to where gas is abundant and relatively cheaper although un- controlled most economic indicators that we have already been on such statistics are small comfort to Americans who are still without work in areas of high unemployment such as New England must not allow a resurgence of Inflation which robs both the employed and the jobless I am determined to keep inflation under control by every means including my veto power over inflationary federal spending In his opening remarks Ford New demonstrate the advantage of dealing with their problems with common resources and old fashioned common sense al a regional level You a showcase of cooperation that other parts of our country can well he said Ford's national security speech camn at one of several appearances in Massachusetts That state has a March 2 presidential primary that comes just one week after the Feb 24 opener in New Hampshire and the speech ap aimed at stilling a conservative outcry against the Schlesinger dismissal The President said Friday night he definitely plans to enter the first three 1976 presidential primaries And vowed to remain in the race until he captures the Republican presidential nomination at he Kansas City Mp convention next August Speaking to a reception to raise funds for the Massachusetts Republican party Ford amounted to a campaign speech for himself He made what Deputy Press Secretary William Greener said was definite statement that he would indeed enter the New Hampshire primary the Massachusetts primary and the March 9 Florida primary against his conservative challenger Ronald Reagan Your president's going to enter the primary in to campaign and I think he is going to win in Ford said id cheers from a crowd of several hundred I am going to be in New Hampshire Florida and we're going to go right down to the wire in the convention in Kansas City and win there he added I've never been in a I didn't play last minute of the last the President said Before council Ford appeared to be trying to demonstrate his continuing commitment to defense policy to the Chinese at a lime when there has been speculation that Peking's concern over detente may be jeopardizing his planned trip there late month Before his Boston appearances which included three receptions ex- to raise for the state's Republicans Ford spoke in Springfield Mass to a meeting of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors which had been closed by the White House to all representatives of the press except society members The evening speaker to the editors was one of the nine Democrats who hopes Ford in the White House Sen Henry M Jackson DWash who renewed his criticism of Ford's national security personnel changes Jackson said he has serious reservations about whether he can vote to confirm Donald Rumsfeld as Schlesinger's replacement or George Bush as the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency Jackson said Ford wants us to have our key national security institutions run by men whose paramount concerns are their own political futures and adding that neither appointee can hold to his predecessor in terms of judgment knowledge or in- ability Jackson said he opposes the way Ford is conducting detente rather than the concept declaring that the Ford policy continues to rest on a series of unequal bargains and unilateral American concessions Concentration Former Speaker of the House John McCormack listens as President Ford a former the House addresses the New England Council yesterday in Boston AP Patricia's competent or rules SAN FRANCISCO A federal judge yesterday declared Patricia merit ally competent to stand {rial'1 oh judge said she appeared perfectly able to assist in her own defense U.S District Judge Oliver J Carlor said his studies of psychiatrists had provided a psychiatric profile of what is clearly a troubled young woman But he said that none of the four experts who examined Miss Hearst 21 had convinced him there was any evidence or any serious mental disease or defect in the defendant Carter said in his written decision that Miss Hearst had openly discussed the bank robbery charges with the psychiatrists who examined her He quoted one doctor as saying she demonstrated full understanding of the significance of the bank robbery charges legal consequences and the possible penalties if she were convicted The same psychiatrist Dr Seymour was quoted as saying the newspaper heiress still has difficulty relating the emotionally disturbing events of her 19 months with the Liberation Army But even on this subject Pollack said she Is not fatally impaired with respect to the issue of mental to stand trial The judge said he was not ruling out the possibility that Miss Hearst needs psychiatric therapy but he said he defense already is permitted to provide such aid to her in her jail cell One of Miss Hearst's attorneys Albert Johnson said I'm not prised that he found her competent ibut 1 was surprised by his ruling on psychiatric treatment I felt lhat after the judge had read He could oilier decision but o allow her psychiatric care in a private Johnson added Carter set Monday as he day for Miss Hearst to enter her plea to he bank robbery charges saying a ding of competency to sland rial requires that the proceedings go for- ward Although not mention the new federal Speedy Trial Act in his memorandum it appeared that he was seeking to comply with its provisions The act requires that a defendant be brought to trial 90 days after arraignment As interpreted by the prosecution this would mean Miss Hearst's rial would begin no Inter than Dec 27 U.S Ally James I Browning said the prosecution fully concurred with the rilling and the government would move ahead quickly wilh its case The charges against Miss Hearst stem from the April holdup of a Hibernia Bank branch which the robbers and left two passersby wounded In a taped message nine days later Aliss Hearst said she was a willing participant in he robbery She also faces counts in Los Angeles County mending armed robbery and kidnap The weather Cloudy chance of showers today and tonight Some sun tomorrow Low tonight in 40s high tomorrow in 60s Dukakis signing today Budget taxes clear legislature Nice catch A woman caught by gusting winds in with a stack of cardboard boxes finally downtown Seattle does a sidewalk ballet using her head tn corral the packages BOSTON AP Massachusetts legislature approved a record million tax program and billion budget Friday ending months of tumultuous debate over the stale fiscal crisis Gov Michael S Dukakis was to sign the measure Saturday His chief secretary David said he governor may delete some items from the budget before signing it Dukakis had threatened to veto the entire measure and objected earlier to deep cuts in social services The Senate approved the compromise 2317 after hours of debate Minutes later the House gave final approval Early Friday morning the House voted to approve the budget and tax package after hours of arm twisting by the leadership In the Senate the leadership ched several votes from an early morning session on pel 22 when a majority of members voted against a budget and tax President Kevin B Harrington forced the measure through on a voice vote that day to place the package in a conference committee Increases in the sales income and meals taxes are the major ingredients of the tax program which also includes -a provision denying unemployment compensation to persons who their jobs The higher sales taxes take effect next Wednesday while other higher levies are effective in January Legislators faced a Saturday deadline to push the appropriations measure through or suffer default on public housing notes Without a balanced budget bankers told legislators investor confidence in the Bay State would plummet and make it impossible to market bonds which would refinance the notes The budget meanwhile was the first in decades to cut state spending Since July 1 the start of fiscal 1976 the state has operated on temporary budgets Even under the compromise measure reported by a conference committee a record lax program was needed The measure would hike the sales lax from 3 to 5 per cent impose a manent 7.5 per cent income tax charge and eliminate the meals tax exemption All meals would be taxed at 8 per cent The measure also would raise the unearned income tax from 9 to 10 per cent and include the surtax raise business taxes and state fees such as auto and drop retirement income lax deduction for self-employed Inside 1 1 5 J 3 9 16 year later police still wait for Lord Lucan AP Dead or alive seventh Karl of Lucan Bunted around the world for the brutal downstairs murder of his It's been a year since only peer of the realm ever charged with murder by jury vanished in the early last Nov 8 disappeared after wife from head into a pub Help met escaped from and the paltered governess Sandra 29 was found in a U.S mailbag in the basement of Lucan's nearby home Chief Supt Roy head of Scotland Yard's murder Ms convinced he playboy carl Richard John Bingham Is dead thai he the honorable com- mitted suicide after bludgeoning he wrong victim His Chief In- spector david Herring is equally certain that Lord Lucan is alive somewhere possibly shielded and supported by a circle ol aristocratic friends who have closed ranks and remained silent to protect an old boy with faultless Eton.'Coldstream Monte Carlo in summer in winter Unlike ah underworld murder there arc few tipsters abroad In upper the Social Register But there is no shortage of reported clues and sightings from every where in the Inspector Gerring believes Lucan by power though n was blowing that night The carl was an expert yachtsman and the car he borrowed with woollen fibers similar to those Wrapped around the bloodstained murder weapon a of lead pipe was found marina in The police say Lucan developed an almost pathological of his wife of 12 years the now Veronica Lucan He twice to have to a mental institution then lost custody fight for their three children whom he loved tenderly and showered with the cards The official version of the case is lhal Lady upstairs in the watching television after putting the children to bed Sandra the nanny hired only four weeks before was downstairs KiMling her ladyship a cup of lea The tea never arrived Police say Lady Lucan went to investigate and found the kitchen stairs darkened Suddenly someone was her over the head and trying to choke her wilh a gloved hand She testified menacing voice was her husband's Police are certain she and not governess was the intended victim Lord Lucan's mother the dowager Countess of Lucan told n different slory She told police her son telephoned on the of the murder and told of interrupting a terrible fight between a man and his wife that had been badly hurl and that he would be gelling in touch wilh the police in a few hours They are still waiting
