Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - June 11, 1973, Oakland, California A RESPONSIBLE METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER 100th NO. 162 JUNE 11, 1973 A MONTH Clean Air Backers in Court Win WASHINGTON An equally divided Supreme Court today handed mentalists a major victory by a national policy that bars significant ration of clean The 4-4 while not de- ciding the issue on the has the effect of affirming a decision on the issue handed down by the U.S. Circuit Court here last The circuit court ruled that federal law prohibits any sub- stantial new air pollution in regions where ihe air is still In other actions the Overturned a lower court decision and ordered a re- hearing to decide whether the state of Wisconsin can deny liquor licenses to bars which feature nude Summarily ordered an Alabama firm to pay to an employe who lost money while on a The pollution dispute began when environmentalists set out to protect those areas with air that was cleaner than that required by federal The Environmental tion Agency has established air quality standards setting limits on the permissible els of pollutants under the Clean Air Amendments of 1970. One of de- signed to protect human health must be achieved by 1975 No time limit has been set on a more gent set ol standards to tect property and the The environmentalists con- tended that the law's slated purpose to and en- air quality means air quality must not be The EPA was poised last reluctantly to issue to comply with the appeals court The high court issued a stay that froze the situation while it was under day's action gives effect to the appeals court The issue was brought to the high court by the Federal Government which argued that air quality need not be maintained at a level above that required by federal The government's un- successful appeal saw the Scc Back Col. 7 Wind gust caused landing mishap to helicopter carrying Willy Brandt on visit to Narrow Escape for Brandt World Air In Israeli Copter Incident HELPING HANDS HOLD WILLY BRANDT ERECT He was knocked to knees in helicopter U.S. Expected to Prod Saigon Over Fire Impasse By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foreign News Analyst seeking to break another has sent a new sage to Saigon on the current negotiations with North nam over the shaky cease-fire Acting Ambassador to South Vietnam Charles house today met briefly with Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam concerning the stalled Paris talks between Henry A. Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Due who may resume recessed discussions There has been no ment yet the top which is beum held up by the Saigon ment's reluctance to accept a new version of the cease-fire in Washington a Senate staff report was re- leased saying that four months after the Pans fire agreement was signed the prospect for peace in Indo- china appears The prepared for the Senate foreign relations sub- committee on security the United States thought that the leaders in Hanoi would abandon their lifelong objectives or that President Thieu would be willing to risk the tenuous security wen lor him In the United we may have miscalculated New Contract Assures Peace on Waterfront West Coast dock workers and their employers reached agreement during the end on economic terms of a new virtually the possibility of a strike for at least two The new pact was signed Saturday night by negotiators for the International and men's Union and the Pacific Maritime It was put into effect but is subject to cation by members of both The old which ex- pires June 30, was in 1972, after a 134- day strike which closed West Coast ports to all but military The possibility that the on administration or Congress will impose strict eco- nomic controls apparently spurred the negotiators to reach an early Hawaiian longshoremen are not included in the new negotiations between the and er employer group were scheduled to continue in lulu Details of the proposed new contract were not A loint statement issued by the and the PMA contract removes any work stoppage threats and sures shippers of ed economic issues have Set Back Col. 6 In Vietnam the report mated that North Vietnam could be capable of launching a major attack by the Il appears to be little prospect that peace will be restored by political given the apparent continued determination by Hanoi and the provisional revolutionary government to displace the existing structure in the South and given the South Vietnamese ment's adamant refusal to ford cither the Communists the non-Communist opposition any meaningful role in cal The picture elsewhere in. Indochina reported to bo equally scattered ing continued in South nam with hundreds of tions of the cease-fire ed on both sides And now for a Washington has said it would not allow President Thieu block a revision and clarification ol the original cease-fire deeply concerned about Kissinger's concessions to the has done exactly it appears that the present exchanges in Saigon are designed to re- move the The mam hurdles concern increased recognition of the Viet which Kissinger has and the status of of The latter involves the current grabbing by both business designed to defeat the cease-fire theory of a So the contention drones 2 Companions Slightly Hurt JERUSALEM West German Chancellor Brandt narrowly escaped a crash today when a gust of wind almost hurled his Israeli military helicopter off a 900- loot cliff to the Dead Sea desert Brandi was unhurt when he was thrown to his knees as the ramp of the Sikorsky chopper caught on a rock about 10 feet from the edge of the cliff German State Secretary Paul Frank and the Israeli ambassador to Eliashiv were slightly in the but they re- quired no medical could have been very said one armed der policeman who ran after the helicopter to stop it. The incident occurred as Brandt's armed loaded with security landed on the sun-scorched plateau of an ancient Jewish fortress overlooking the Dead The camouflaged gunship landed smoothly at the for- tress and started to roll ward the cliff as passengers were climbing from the tail A gust of wind then heaved the helicopter and the exit ramp caught on a bringing it to a lurching stop while Brandt was on the Brandt then picked himself dusted his and said Later he was asked whether he felt all right after the He laughed and Some of the 100 security men swarming around the dusty rock rums to protect Brandt grabbed the big copter to ensure it was A German spokesman said there had been a technical fault in the Brandt flew to Masada to inspect Israel's defenses of years 11 was there where Jewish defenders held a siege and committed mass suicide in 73 A.D. rather than surrender to the Roman The trip followed a fast meeting with Minister Moshe Few details of the meeting were but aides said an discussed the troubling sue of Palestinian refugees in the Mideast and under Israeli reaffirming that rael could not permit the tered Arabs to return to in Later in the day Brandl left Israel with an apology for Germany's past and a bid for Sec Back Col. 1 Quake Cracks Walls in Zagreb Yugoslavia Chimneys walls cracked and window panes shattered when an earthquake struck early today at about 4') miles north of Only a few persons were according to first re- Officials said the area's residents fled into the streets when their houses began i a Agrees to Sell Bank World Airways Inc. an- today that it has agreed in principle to sell its 99.5 per cent interest in First Western Bank to Lloyds Bank Ltd. of London for First the eighth largest bank in the state is headquartered in Los Angeles and has 95 As of March 31 First Western re- ported deposits of 161 loans of million and equity capital of At the end of 1972 Lloyds reported deposits of billion and capital and es ing World quired First Western in 1968 from Corp for In October of 1971 World reached an agreement with Welis Fargo Bank of San third largest in the to sell First Western for The comptroller of the rency approved the merger but the Justice Department filed suit in January of 1972 to halt the merger on grounds that it would lessen tion in the Last October World and Wells called off the merger rather than engage in protracted The mental which held the bank in a sub- World America tors Corp is seeking to sell the financial institution be- cause of amendments to the Bank Holding Company Act in 1970. Edward J. World decision to sell First Western complies with national policy of ing banking from commerce as laid down by the Congress in enacting the Bank Holding Company Act amendments of 1970. divestiture of First will in a substantial the ment of that policy He added that instead of reducing the eight largest banks to as would have occurred under tile merger with Wells the by will assure continuance PVst Western Bank as a Sce Back Col. 8 TV Probe Bars Agnew Safeguard Lack Cited In Speech ST. Mo. Vice President Spiro T. new today said the Senate Watergate hearings are putting the Nixon tion on trial and destroying chances that justice and truth will be achieved in the is critically as the Senate select tee does its best to ferret out the is a rigorous set of procedural new such the I am sad to can hardly hope to find the truth and can hardly fail to muddy the waters of justice beyond Agnew also said that live television coverage ed a im- to the Agnew made his remarks at the 67th annual meeting of the National Association of neys General and was given a standing ovation at the end of his 30-minute Agnew said widespread publicity and loose procedures may allow guilty persons to escape punishment and may ruin the indefatigable camera will paint both heroes and villains in lurid and indelible colors before the public's verj eves in the course of these Agnew said orderly procedures which facts are elicited and verified in a court of law are lacking each morning when Sen. Ervin's gavel comes down and the Senate's trial of Nixon administration be- fore the court of public ion Sen. Sam J. is chairman of the Senate Watergate Agnew called the hearings a Ehrlichman Burglary Denial Contradicted By BARRY KALB WASHINGTON Presidential aide John D. Ehrlichman knew of in the 1971. burglary of the office of Daniel berg's according to grand jury testimony of another House informed sources report The testimony was that of David a former ber of the special White House group commonly known as whose ers admitted carrying out the Young's statements to the grand jury directly contradict those of who told the FBI in April that he had learned of the burglary only after it had who resigned from the National Security Council April 30 in the wake of disclosures about the was granted immunity irom prosecution in and appeared before the grand jury shortly He reportedly told the grand jury that Ehrlichman knew in advance about a trip which E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon to become involved in the gate to Los Angeles around Aug. 25, to the office of Dr. Lew us then the of Pentagon Papers defendant Young also according to that Ehrlichman knew in advance of the actual which took place the weekend of Sept. 3-4. 1.971, and gave his approval for the In a statement to the FBI on April 27. made public May 2 by U.S. District Court Judge W. Matt Byrne man said he had not learned of the burglary until it did agree with this method of and when he learned about the burglary he instructed them to do this the FBI report said One Justice Department of- who has learned of Sec Back J Conspirators Got White House Aid See Back Col. 1 Chief to Wed 37 CHICAGO Avery 85-year-old former of the International Olympic will marry a 37-year-old German princess who served as a ess at the 1972 Olympic games m The bride to be is Mariann Princess a descendent of a royal family and related to most of the royal houses of Announcement of the en- gagement was made jointly today by the multimillionaire Chicago hotel owner and the mother of the future Stephanie Princess of princess and 1 common a strapping who looks half his is an excellent 1 See Back Col. -i WASHINGTON Herbert W. Kalmbach was quoted today as saying payments made to Watergate defendants and their lawyers were a House President on's former personal solicited from the nance Committee to Re-elect the President June 29.1972 for an urgent project that he said approval of high the committee said in a report to the General counting A spokesman tor the com- confirmed that this is the same money Kalmbach had previously told the GAO he included in payments to the Watergate defendants and I heir In Kalmbach solicited and paid for this but only came irom H. man of the finance The committee said it never had reported the expenditure publicly because Kalmbach told committee it was unrelated to the But the committee it was reporting this ture jlong with a great main others about which questions have been raised in recent in the interest nl lull disclosure reports have said that Kalmbach is ready to testily that he solicited the gate money on instructions ol White House ic adviser John D. On the Inside These reports said that bach said he balked at more money when asked to do so by former White of staff H. R. Tlic Nixon committee report to the GAO said that on June 29, 1972 Kalmbach had asked Stans lor possible cash to be given him for the urgent House This was less than two weeks after five men were arrested inside Democratic offices at the Watergate Hotel in the early hours of June 17. 1972. The came from cash the source of which the committee told the GAO it had previously failed to These contributions ed which Kalmbach had obtained from the com- on 3. 1972 lor but which Stans had determined Kalmbach did not need apparently had asked him to Kalmbach also was given which was contributed on June 29. 1972 from pine The committee il had at that point re- the and was trying to determine whether it a legal contribution be- cause ii came Irom The coin mil lee saul the was on to Kalmbach despite thus legal question See Back Col. I neglect needed Page 5. 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