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Pjfcie 2 1HE BENTON COURIER Friday Evening. October ?8 1977Opinionmd Commentsecurity threatOne ot the most worrisome aspects olthe “energy crisis' is tin* danger to thesecurity ol the I nited States that resuit** Irom this nation’s dependence onthe Aral) nations for a great deal ol its « •Detente Secretarv Harold Brown re*emphasized this problem in a speech this week in New York to the Council for Financial Aid to Education “The present deficiency ol assured energy resources is the single surest threat that the future poses to our seen rit\ and to that ol ourallies Broun said, adding: “We now spend annually over SIoo billion on our armed forces ll we hand to others the capacity to .-strangle us and our allies by cutting off our and their oil supplies then this expenditure does no more tor us than to create a useless, encrusted modern day Maginot Line Broun pointed out the continued fail ure of the American people to realizethe seriousness of the energy problems.“Perhaps we mislead by calling thematter a crisis, he said “A crisis isvery much here today and usually gonetomorrow The energy situation is morean impending disaster than an intrusivecrisis It is not so visibly here todav: it• •will be here tomorrow The Congress is currently embroiled in a controversy over national energy policies and should take into consideration the national security aspects ot the crisis as decision* are being madeJitrn merry-go -roundbt JackEx - (iongressm a n I }n ssnt a ncould be indicted♦■a •WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has pieced together enough evidence, insiders say, to indict ex-Rep. Otto Passman, D-La., in the Korean payoff scandal. But out of compassion, government attorneys are reluctant to bring charges against the aging, ailingPassman.He was born at the turn of the century to tenant farmers, and his early memories are of meals of unseasoned corn bread and clabbered milk. In the summers in backward Washington Parish, hisfeet were bare as the table, and at 10 he was hired out to a neighboring farmer for $5 a month.The memory of his grim child hood developed in Passman a fierce attachment for even dollar that passed through his hands. Apparently, he couldn’t bring him-.self to let go of the cash that his Korean benefactors allegedly proffered.On congressional junkets, he was an almost compulsive barterer and buyer at jewelry stores from Geneva to Hong Kong. On his returnto the IlniteH SUmev he unnlHMitchell. It was whispered around Washington that Mitchell hadlearned of the double-cross and had turned balky and bitter The real truth, we’ve now learned, is that Mitchell offered himself as a sacrific ial lamb He would be willing to plead guilty to a felony, he proposed, if the special prosecutor would spare Nixon.Mitchell directed his attorney, William Hundley, to present the offer to the special prosecutor s office in 11*73. Hundley spoke to James Neal, who was then second in command under Special Prosecutor Archibald ('ox. The prosecutors. however, refused to make a deal.So far as our sources know, Mitchell never told Nixon about hisgesture.Footnote: Of course, Nixon was pardoned, and Mitchell is now serving out his sentence AttorneyWF‘Hundley, meanwhile, has made a personal appeal to Attorney General Griffin Bell to release Mitchellfor medical treatmentIn typical John Mitchell fashion wrote Handlev he down-m.I.VV* *•* :. V.• • f.. #•. • • •X%W:■'i \m -*VktsmMkmr' v*vv, I1VAA1* I*UQW RATgS roVobyetop in gTT*V'A - r, V;\Vmionsi*■i i ■ % ib yI 1 ^T B1t11Okay to stack 'em over there?Bribenlawhas loopIN WASHINGTONMartha Angle andRobert WaltersWASHINGTON NKA i - Aftei wars ol tmharrassinn disclosures about illegal pay merits of millions of dollars by American corporations to politicians and government officials in other nations. Congress is about to pass a law prohibiting the practice in the future.The legislation offered to the Senate, however, contains a little-noticed loophole that not only will allow international bribery to continue but will endow the practice with the federal government’s seal of approval.nirint til** nutil:«ri mnin iriics nBVBFielding M M ehee ill, an official of a publicgroup called tin Military Audit Project, discovtthere was no testimony during the public hearin effects or genesis, no debate b\ the otuin; recorded vote and no discussion on the Senate flc lhcveisiiOiot the hdi li died j) a subctlitailed hr U p InciI Pi k! ar it** ) ■■ receiapproved b\ the Houm ( oinmerce committee awaits action by the full House.I ckhardt s bill conta ns no exemption for inti related bribery W» never focused on that, it ji came up, says an aid • to the congressman. \ sources say Eckhardt specifically parried the int community \s efforts to write the provision into tl The Senate version is objectionable for several not the least of which is its effect of placing thgovernment m the position of a parent who forbic from doing, somethin^ because it’s wrong, tnit mit’s perfectly appropriate for mother or father to The exemption also leaves executives and empAmerican cornoratinns stationed abroad under ;i
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Fri, Oct 28, 1977
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