Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - September 6, 1977, Winona, Minnesota Tuesday's Perpich bargaining effort to negotiators for the steel and the United Steel workers today his at- tempt to gel bargainers to table Perpich planned to talk to Bruce Johnston a vice president of U.S Steel Corp and Lloyd president of the union Wendy poll A statewide survey commissioned by U.S Sen Wendell Anderson's campaign com- indicates Minnesotans are split over bow Anderson is doing as a senator according to the Minneapolis Tribune The Tribune attributes its report to two unnamed DFL sources The sources said 34 percent of those polled thought Anderson was doing an ex- job but a nearly equal percentage thought he was doing a air or poor job About SO percent of those interviewed had no opinion Sen Anderson Reputation tarnished State Rep Arne Carlson IR- Minneapolis says Minnesota's reputation of having clean politics has been severely tarnished by the last two DFL administrations He said DFL actions could force Minnesota return some federal funds Carlson a GOP candidate for auditor in next year's elections told conference that Gov Rudy Perpich should begin a cleanup by firing the stale commissioner of economic security Michael O'Donnell Carlson called O'Donnell the center of poor hiring practices Chinatown slaughter Residents of San Francisco's Chinatown usually un- cooperative with police are providing leads in what is being called by investigators the worst mass murder case in the city's history the slaying of five persons and the wounding of 11 others at the Golden Dragon restaurant Three masked men believed to be aiming at rival gang members fired a sub- machine gun a shotgun and a pistol in the crowded restaurant at Sunday police say They left the ornate dining room strewn with bleeding bodies but police said apparently none of the victims were gang members to probe DFL government management The Minnesota Party may hire a- private investigator and a law firm to help them develop issues and challenge the DFL and its management of state government chairman Vem said H needs to be but added It's a matter of priorities and it's a matter of funding which we have to discuss fine Johnny Weissmuller is feeling fine as he continues to recover from a stroke his agent reported today Weissmuller 73 famous for Olympic swimming feats and his movie portrayal of the fictional jungle king has been taken off a respirator unit at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Calif who won five gold medals in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics 67 records before going into the movies in 1931 was hospitalized Aug 27 In recent years he has been a at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas Johnny The inside Daily Rain Skies will be partly cloudy and Wednesday and occasional showers or thunder si orms ere forecast The extended forecast of possibility of rain iti rough Friday weather details Will Rogers says No nation in I he world was ever sitting as pretty all we have to do is to go and buy it on credit Yours for more credit and longer Signing preliminaries begin HINGTON AP Carter welcomed nn Me WASHINGTON AP Carter welcomed Panamanian hud of government Omar White House today in preparation for he historic signing of new treaty forged in years of negotiations over the future of the Panama Canal Carter strode out the Oval Office to shake hands with the Panamanian They chatted as they walked Inside flanked by Vice President Waller f Secretary of Stale Cyrus R Vance and Zbigniew the President's national security assistant Torrijos and Carter spoke in Spanish as posed for photographs at Carter's desk to the Office It's all very well Torrijos noted referring to the administration's elaborate preparations to receive more than 20 Western Hemisphere heads of state or their representatives The dignitaries will observe the ceremonies Wednesday I hope Carter replied grinning Well we must have the Panamanian replied Torrijos received a warm welcome at Andrews Air Base on his arrival and expressed gratitude to the United Stales lor its willingness to yield eventual control over Wilb a military honor guard on hand Secretary of Stale Cyrus R Vance greeted Torrijos and said will and determination enabled the two countries to reach an agreement that protects I he interests of both Vance said proposed treaties ensure the canal will remain open neutral efficiently run for all nations of the world was one of seven hemispheric leaders who arrived Monday for the Wednesday ceremony to he held at the offices of Die Organization ot American Slates Nineteen hemispheric heads of government will at- tend the ceremony lured here by the promise of a private audience with Carter In all 27 nations are expected to send delegations Hut all of pomp and ceremony will be meaningless unless Carter is able to convince two- thirds of Senate that the new treaties deserve to be ratified Recent have Indicated majority of the American still oppose trary would remove U.S control of the canal after tht war 2000 and the other would guarantee neutrality at the Canal Zone But support for the reportedly it and administration officials hope Ihli week's will provide additional moment urn On his arrival Torrijos said the treaty signing li of great historic significance and shows the United Slates recognizes the need to correct an error instead of prolonging for an eternity an injustice Torrijos said the Panamanian people mindful of the moral basis on which the United Stales was founded never lost aspirations or eventual conlrclof the waterway would be met Other traders who arrived Monday included Uruguayan President Chilean President Pinochet Ecuadoran President Alfredo Peruvian President Francisco Morales Haitian Foreign Minister Edner Brutus and Winona Daily News Resignation stand unclear was noncommittal f when asked if he nought budget director Bert Lance should resign We'll see about hat was Carter's only response to the Asked if this meant he was not ruling out a resignation Carter ignored the inquiry and returned lo his Oval Office after savin goodbye to Panama's head of government Omar Torrijos was at White House in preparation for he historic signing of a new Panama Canal agreement Meanwhile a House Banking subcommittee chairman said operated one of his Georgia banks like a family Banks are not personal toys of bankers at least they arc not supposed to be Chairman Fernand St Germain said While I do not want to prejudge the evidence I have seen o date leads me to believe that Bert Lance his family and friends regarded the Calhoun First National Bank as their playpen lo be used as they pleased A statement by St Germain a Rhode Island Democrat came as President Carter resisted efforts by two key senators to gel Lance to resign Sens Abraham A Ribicoff and Charles II Percy It- UK told Carter Monday that hey think Lance should step down while Congress investigates what they called serious allegations of illegality and Percy are ranking members of Senate Governmental Affairs Committee which confirmed Lance and which is investigating his affairs furl her this week However it was learned that Carter and will not consider resignation at this point The President reportedly still feels Lance has done nothing wrong and will be vindicated by the committee's investigation In an interview with CBS News today Lance said he doesn't administration Is losing confidence in him I haven't seen any evidence of he said Asked if he thinks he will be exonerated of the allegations made against him he said certainly lie also snid he did not believe his problems are hurting ho administration The Kouse hearing today focused on comptroller of the currency's investigation which cleared Lance before he was confirmed hy Senale as budget director Turns killer This crocodile at Miami Fla Serpentarium wss destroyed over the weekend by its owner after it crushed a six-year-old boy in its jaws and held him underwater until he drowned The boy Mark Wasson of West Palm Beach Fla had fallen off a five-foot masonry wall mud pit where the creature was on view AP Problems with pipeline fuel for opponents i WASHINGTON fAP mentalists say a series of small spills and a pumphouse explosion along the Alaska oil pipeline have confirmed the wisdom of their opposition toils construction But the opponents also say they're defeat philosophically and are awaiting tragic events that seem inevitable 1 think we're just seeing the beginning of saidI Brock Evans of the Sierra Club We're going to see major oil sp ills and the of tankers up and down the West Coast wrong but Several minor mishaps have marred smooth operation of the pipeline since it began moving oil from Slope to Valdez on June 20 But no coastal spills have been reported since began earning the crude oil south to refineries on the West Coa sL The billion pipeline one of the world's major engineering triumphs crosses last remaining expanse of wilderness in the United States a region of where a man could travel on foot I or weeks without seeing another human The pipeline breaks my heart every time I see it said Pam Rich Alaska coordinator for Friends of Earth ore of several organizations that filed suit to bjock the construction The continuity of that wilderness tract has been she said only has the pipeline brought a measure of human encroachment to the Arctic wilderness but it now locks like the caribou are shying away from she Mid Special care was taken to provide for caribou lo cross the pipeline on their migrations across the 2 arrested in industrialist kidnaping j ji COLOGNE West Germany AP Authorities said today they have arrested two persons in connection with the kidnaping of a top West German industrialist in a street ambush that killed three bodyguards and his chauffeur A deadline for the threatened execution of victim Hanns Martin passed at p.m p m CDT without reported incident Chief Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann said police have discounted the telephoned execution threat Police did not identify the two persons arrested and it was not known whether they were directly involved in I a llack a nd kidnaping Rebmann said no ransom demands were received and it was not known whether Schleyer was injured It must be assumed that this was an abduction which of course has some kind of extortionist Rebmann said Schleyer head of the national associations of in- and of employes was abducted Monday at a Cologne intersection as he was being driven home from his office in a convoy Police said he was carried off by men He called on the public lo help in the hunt for the terrorists It was the third terrorist attack on a prominent West German in five months and the second on a business sequel lo A telephone call to the Munich bureau of the hc murder of Juergen Ponto in Frankfurt on newspaper Bild Zeitung said Schleyer would be executed at p.m today p.m unless he government treed Andreas Baader the leader of the Baader-Meinhof gang of urban terrorists and his a ia les in the Sta prison in Stuttgart Two news agencies reported receiving similar calls from a terrorist group called the Red Army Faction Officials said it was not known whether calls were authentic but they were being investigated Justice Minister Hans-Jochen Vogel said a letter was found in the Volkswagen microbus used by the and then abandoned But he refused to disclose contents The bloody provocation in Cologne is directed against of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said in a special television appearance We hare to remain levelheaded Terrorism in the long run doesn't have a chance because the will of the is pitted against July 30 and assassination on April 7 of Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback who directed the successful prosecution of Baader and two associates After the slaying of a telephone call to a news agency in Bonn said more members of the ruling class will be executed unless all political prisoners of war were released Schleyer a director of the Daimler-Benz automobile company became head of the West man equivalent of the National Association of Manufacturers last year As a frequent television spokesman for business and industry he was one of the country's best known industrialists and an obvious target for terrorists Interior Minister Werner Maihofer told reporters protection for him had been increased two w ago A total of 21 persons have been killed in terrorist attacks in West Germany in years Not so close The Voyager I space craft seems to be on a collision course with an airplane as H speeds Its way to Jupiter and as part two of a space probe The craft launched Monday morning from Cape Canaveral Fla was high above the plane AP Park indicted on 36 charges WASHINGTON AP South Korean businessman Part hat been accused of M federal corruption In an indictment that lists former Rep Hichard T Hanna as an conspirator and names several other present and former members of Congrew as recipients of aliened bribes from Park Justice Department said today Ally Gen Griffin Bell said he wUt ask President Carter to contact South Korean Park in order to have Park who's a fugitive relumed to United States Bell said he w ill it up to the South Korean government to determine how Park should be taken if President Park agrees lothe request Park a Washington party giver who has been the focus of the government probe of influence buying on Capitol has been in Seoul lor about a week At n news conference declined to say whether Hanna a California Democrat and other members of Congress would be indicted The investigation is Bell said We're in the season and we'll have to see wha t harvest will bring Tim indictment of Park was returned by a federal grand jury Aug 26 and kept sealed until today when the department asked that it be unsealed Although the indictment was reported last week no details tlic charges had been available until now Park was charged with conspiracy bribers mail racketeering failure to register as a foreign agent and making political contributions which are prohibited for foreign agents According to the indictment Park Hanna and two former directors of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency conspired from about 1967 until Dec 31 1975 to bribe members of the House and Senate for their actions to promote South Korea's interests The two former directors Kim Hyung Wook who held the position ween and 1969 and Lee ffu Rak who held the job from 1970 through 1973 were also named Hanna played a key role in advising Park on which members of Congress should be bribed and how thousands of dollars should be parceled out to them the indictment said Bell said Hanna is not cooperating with investigation The indictment was filled with more than a dozen names of present and Former members of Congress who received money sometimes in the form 01 campaign contributions from Park oath set for Liddy freedom is near WILLIAMSPORT Pa AP For C Gordon Liddy the mastermind of the Watergate break-in who has kept lipped on the that toppled a president freedom is just a oath and a faced before being paroled after more than four years in prison Part of his sentence was a fine and federal authorities can release him only if he proves he has less than CO to his name counting debts To do so Liddy was to swear to the oath today before US Magistrate William Askey of sport With Askey's approval usually a routine step Liddy can be released Wednesday from the penitentiary at Danbury Conn U.S marshals said Liddy would bt brought here from Danbury and returned hereafter the hearing Liddy was sentenced to a term of six years eight months to 20 years for his rote as of break-in The maximum was reduced to eight years by President Carter in April making Liddy eligible for beginning July 9 Without the commutation he would not have been eligible until 1981 Carter's action did not change tte fine however 8 The debt is not forgiven just the im- Askey said noting Uddy would ha ve to arrange to pay the fine liter A former FBI and lawyer for White House staff of Richard M Nixon Liddy his imprisonment a tht Danbury penitentiary
