European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday september 11, 1967 congressman suspects Caliper of Iran Aid by Dick West Washington up it May be assumed i Hope that Ina country like Iran a sense of fairness will always  Iran Ever be attacked by Russia the iranians would defend themselves with Ameri can weapons obtained under . Military assistance pro  in the unlikely event these Ever had occasion to defend themselves against americans they would do Sopwith russian weapons. I mean the iranians surely would t be so ill mannered As to shoot americans with american guns or turn soviet arms against the soviets. It would be a violation of military  being the Case i Don t see Why rep. Otto e. Passman,d-la., should be in such a quandary. Yet Passman s perplexity was very evident at recent House subcommittee hearings on the new military assistance  bringing out that total american economic and military assistance to iranians now amounts to $1.58 billion a year Passman noted that the iranian this year Are buying $110 million Worth of military equipment fro Russia. To Passman this seemed paradoxical. I cannot reconcile wit common sense or logic the fact that we Are giving Iran military equipment so that they can defend themselves against so Viet attack and at the same time Iran is purchasing from soviet Russia $110 million Worth of military equipment bemused. Apparently he was working from the premise that Russia would not Likely be cooperating in the program to prepare Iran s defences against Russia. Vice adm. L. C. Heinz director of the assistance program sought to Assur Passman that Iran s Basic commitment to the unite states had not been significantly weakened by the Purchase of soviet equipment. But Passman remained nonplussed it is All right with you if i Donot try to understand it is it not he asked. As i indicated earlier t Donot share the congressman s mystification. It seems Clear Tome that Iran is merely trying to be  country if sufficiently foresighted will plan for eventualities that May never come. You can imagine How embarrassed the iranians would be if they suddenly found themselves at Odds with the United states and had nothing on hand for defensive measures except american , they would never live it Down. Accused of trying to curb reporter itt again under fire on merger Washington up inter National Telephone and Tele graph corp. Is under new Firefox alleged attempts to influence news coverage of its proposed merger with the american broadcasting  was accused in the latest edition of new Republic Maga Zine of ordering a background investigation on one of the Magazine s reporters who had written an article critical of the merger. Itt denied the charge which was the seventh reported Inci Dent of alleged efforts by the huge corporation to gain More favourable publicity for the big Gest communications merger in history. The charge thursday coincided with the filing of a Justice department Brief at the  of appeals to Block the $2.8 billion  Magazine reporter James Ridgeway said that on aug. 31,a Market research Man James Mackey of the army times asked the new Republic office for information about Ridgeway personal life including his drink ing habits his marital status an what restaurants he frequented. Confronted by Ridgeway Mac key said the study was being done at the request of itt an had been relayed to Mackey s publication by one of the three advertising agencies itt uses in new York. Mackey declined to 5 terrorized at witness Motel Memphis Tenn. A police say a suburban Motel oper Ator held five persons including Young boy terrorized at gun Point saturday As he sipped Bee Rand slowly pumped several bul lets into a Motel  o. C. Kroening of the Shelby county homicide Bureau said nearly an hour passed from the time the first .38-Cali-Ber Bullet Tore into the body of Larry a. Hanson 24, until thelast shot was fired. The Motel operator William , 41, was charged with Mur Der. He pleaded innocent at hearing and was ordered held without Bond for grand jury action. Terror victim Kroening said those terrorized for an hour and a half were  Burton an employee and resident of the Motel her son Jesse Burton 5 Raymond Wold a tile setter Willie Singleton an other Motel resident and Sandy Ivy a Young woman who live with the Burtons. Police said the trouble began during a poker game involving Hanson Gill and Leonard Bur ton 48, a truck Driver. Gill and Hanson accused my husband of cheating mrs. Bur ton said. A fight broke out. They both jumped on my  mrs. Burton said she called the sheriff s office but by the time deputies arrived Gill an Hanson had fled. She said the officers took her husband wit them. The squad car had t gone out of sight before Gill and Han son came Back she  said Gill rounded up the other Motel residents and herded them into a Cabin. Turns on victim Kroening said Gill turned on Hanson once they were inside the Cabin with the remark you re to blame for getting me  mrs. Burton said Gill drinking Beer beat him Hanson on the right Side of his head. Then he shot Hanson in the left ear. Then he beat Hanson on the right Side of his head again with the pistol. I could hear his Skull  she said Gill warned the horrified witnesses not to move or open their Mouths or he d blow our brains  soon As we got Back to the Motel office we heard three More shots mrs. Burton said. Police said Hanson was shot several times in the Back. Name which of the three handmade the request. Spokesmen for itt said the had no knowledge of what Mac key was doing and denied that any investigation of Ridgeway was under Way. Mackey said that he had Bee told by one of the new York and agencies handling itt accounts to find out anything everything i could about a Guy name James  the Justice department brie fused some of the strongest Lan Guage yet in attacking Federal communications commission approval of the itt Abc merger. It was particularly critical offic assurances that it could and would make sure that it did not interfere with Abc news programming particularly fro foreign countries. Itt derives nearly half of it revenues from overseas Active  Brief said the kind of Over sight the acc Assurance woul Call for was an impossibility and would amount to impossible Day to Day supervision of itt Abc activities. It is plainly absurd to thin that the acc will receive and Vance written notice before it tries to kill an Abc documentary or before Abc officials on their own Shelve subjects that could be embarrassing or Detri mental to itt the Brief said. Court hearings on the merge Case in planning and under Chal Lenge for nearly two years rescheduled for the week of oct. 16. Itt and Abc will have a Hance to reply to the latest department charges on oct. 2. Headliner somebody thought that just because Maureen Gerrity was elected miss byline in a Palisades n.j., contest she d get her Pic Ture in the papers. Up priest group asks lifting of marriage bar South Bend ind. Up group of roman Catholic priests favouring Church revision Issue Dan open Call Friday for the right of priests to marry. They urged that the National conference of Catholic Bishops carry their proposal to Pope Paul i and the newly established Synod of Bishop which meets in Rome sept. 29. The priests said they took the action with deep concern for the service of the people of god for the fostering of Christian Unity for the recruitment of the clergy now declining in num  dignity Freedom the priests members of the National association for Pas toral renewal said they acted in recognition of the dignity and Freedom of the individual priest and in Light of the principle of  Dogma that roman Catholic priests must practice celibacy was under attack throughout the three Day meet ing of the association which claims a nationwide member ship of 800 of the More than 60,000 Catholic priests in the United states. More than 210 persons attended the meeting on the Campus of notre Dame  Catholic priests have been forbidden to marry since the Middle Ages. Pope Paul last june reaffirmed the doctrine and said its abolition would not be discussed during current Vatican meetings. No transfusion for child couple s Faith conquers doctors los Angeles a Jehovah s witnesses James and Mary Alice Griffin successfully bucked the . Government and a group of Navy doctors who wanted to give a blood transfusion to their 6-Day-old  Faith May have assisted them said asst. .  d. Murray after Carol Elaine was discharged Friday from the . Naval Hospital at port  obtained a temporary court order designed to set aside the p a r e n t s objections to a transfusion for the child who weighs 8 pounds 7 ounces. The order obtained two Day before the child was born sept. 3 to the Oxnard calif., couple was based on grounds that an re blood Factor problem might cause the child to be susceptible p o g o to jaundice anaemia or heart fail ure. The parents refused Permis Sion for the transfusion even if it meant life or  we being Jehovah s witnesses Are definitely against the Tak ing of blood said Griffin 55, disabled and retired air Force master sergeant. He and his wife 35, have seven children. Their desires were accepted at least temporarily. Murray was to appear monday before . Dist. Judge Charlesh Carr to so of Extension of the court order. But Murray said after the baby s release that Hewill ask instead that the matter be taken off the court  the doctors had administered a transfusion without parental consent Murray said they could be prosecuted for assault an Battery. On the other hand he said they could have been sue for malpractice if they had failed to give the child a necessary transfusion