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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday november 18, 1973 intended to buy sympathetic understanding1 $700,000 Dairy gift in 69 bared Washington a Money from the Dairy Industry began to flow into president Nixon s secret Campaign coffers As Early As 1969, and was intended to buy sympathetic understanding of the Dairy Industry problems according to Testi Mony of a former Dairy lawyer. Attorney Jake Jacobsen of Austin Tex., testified in a civil lawsuit that a previously undisclosed $100,000 Dairy contribution was Given in Cash to Nixon fund Raiser her Bert w. Kalmbach in August 1969. Jacobsen said the Money came from the political fund of the associated milk producers inc., a giant Texas based Dairy co operative which had backed sen. Hubert h. Humphrey against Nixon the year be fore. He said the Money was delivered by his Law partner Milton p. Semer who told him that the idea of paying Money to get a favourable administration hearing was suggested by Kalmbach after Semer had been referred to Kalmbach by then atty. Gen. John n. Mitchell. Jacobsen said Semer told him that he had talked to John Mitchell to find out How to get a More sympathetic understanding of the Dairy Industry problems within this administration and then or. Mitchell had suggested that he talk to Kalmbach. Eventually Kalmbach said he ought to make a contribution and he did make a  Semer contacted by Telephone gave a somewhat different version of the $100,000 gift and discounted Jacobsen s suggestion that the Money was intended to buy a favourable hearing. It was t As Stark As that he said. Semer said he talked to Mitchell or one of his associates by Telephone while trying to find what person in the new Republican administration was assigned to handling Dairy Industry problems. And he said the $100,000 was Given to Kalmbach with no thought of buying favors. The thought of a quid pro quo was out of the question he said. Kalmbach testified last july that in 1969 he received a $100,000 Cash contribution from a lawyer representing a Trade Assoc it s Windy at Andrews president and mrs. Nixon walk in the wind at Andrews air Force base to their Jet for a trip to key Biscayne Fla. An air Force officer keeps in step. A action but he did t name the source. A spokesman for Kalmbach confirmed on Friday that the Money came from Semer and said the transaction had been cleared by Nixon s chief of staff h. R. Haldeman. Jacobsen testified in a pre trial deposition nov. 7 in Austin in connection with consumer advocate Ralph Nader s lawsuit against the administration s 1971 increase in milk Price supports. Nader alleges the milk Price boost was a political payoff for $427,500 in Campaign contributions. Nixon denies this. Jacobsen and Semer both democrats said the milk producers received Little in the Way of favors after making the $100,000, donation. About a year and a half later in Decem Ber 1971, the milk producers promised Nixon $2 million for his 1972 re election Campaign. The lawyer who made that Promise for them was a former Republican congressman Patrick j. Hillings who had once worked As Nixon s assistant. Semer who also worked As a treasurer for democratic sen. Edmund s. Muskie s Early presidential efforts said he was dropped like a hot potato by the milk producers soon after delivering the $100, 000. Jacobsen a former aide to president Lyndon b. Johnson survived until 1972, when the administration received unfavourable publicity about Dairy contributions. He worked As a top Deputy to former trea sury Secretary John b. Connally in the democrats for Nixon Effort last year. Stateside ufos sighting reported in Washington Washington a Park police re ported Friday that three Park officers spotted what they said was an unidentified flying object Over the Lincoln memorial. Park police said the officers described the object As a Square with Brilliant red lights on each Corner. They said the object had an Over All White glow and held the same shape until it disappeared in the Trees  nearby reflecting Pool. A Park service spokesman said two Mil itary policemen on the Virginia Side of me Morial Bridge leading to the Lincoln me Morial also reported seeing the object. Officials at National Airport and an Drews air Force base said they received reports of the object but could not verify them. They said they had no air traffic in the area at the time of the reported sight ing 13 indicted for cocaine smuggling Alexandria a. A a Federal grand jury indicted 13 persons Friday on charges of smuggling $200,000 Worth of cocaine into the United states strapped to the bodies of Young women. Authorities said that at least four Young women made six trips from Lima Peru to Miami during 1972, each time with up to two pounds of uncut cocaine strapped to their bodies or concealed in their under clothing. The drug was then prepared for redistribution and flown to Washington authorities said where it has a Street value of $1,000 an ounce. No. Governor to teach at Princeton Princeton . Up new Jersey gov. William t. Cahill whose term of of fice expires Jan. 15, will join the faculty of Princeton University on a part time basis next Spring and accept a full assignment next fall it was announced Friday. Princeton president William g. Bowen said Cahill would join the Woodrow Wilson school of Public and International affairs As a senior fellow when the Spring term begins in february and undertake a major teaching assignment next fall. Cahill lost the june 5 Republican gubernatorial primary to Charles w. Sandman who in turn was beaten in the election nov. 6. Illinois miners ordered Back to work East St. Louis 111. Up almost half of the 10,500 striking Coal miners in Illinois were ordered Back to work Friday by a Federal judge who said he was not unmindful of the Energy  . District court judge James fore Man ordered United mine workers Mem Bers to end strikes at the Peabody Coal co., consolidated Coal co. And South Western Illinois Coal corp. At Peoria . District court judge Robert Morgan ordered miners at the mid land Coal co. To return to their jobs. Members of the ump began walking off the Job on wednesday in a display of sympathy with miners in Knox county who have been Laid off since oct. 6 in a land j reclamation dispute with the county Zon Jing Board. The walkout spread and by Early Friday virtually every mine in the state was shut Down. Dallas cop gets 5 years for youth s murder Austin Tex. Up a jury Friday sentenced former Dallas policeman Dar Rell l. Cain to five years in prison and said he murdered 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez with malice. The All White seven Man five woman jury found Cain guilty of murder thursday and returned to deliberate 5y2 hours Over his sentence. According to state Law they decided intent or malice in the crime at the same time. We got a step closer to True Justice said attorney Ruben Sandoval of san an Tonio who aided in the prosecution. The length of the sentence was not the Issue in this Case. The trial was it s the idea that a Man clothed in authority like this Man can be brought to trial. We Hope this will be a deterrent to other cases like this in the  Cain father of two children lowered his head and put his hand on his forehead when the sentence was read. He began crying and his wife and family members gathered about him As he left the court room. I will Appeal said defense attorney Phil Burleson. Cain is free on $20,000 Bond which May be lessened during the appeals procedure. Cain would be eligible for parole in As few As 12 months after he begins serving his sentence according to Texas Law. The appellate process could take a couple of years. If eventually jailed Cain will serve his prison term at the state s Huntsville prison where Rodriguez Mother is also serving a five year term for murder. Cain killed the mexican american youth during questioning As a burglary suspect in Dallas last july 24. The boy was hand cuffed and Cain put a pistol to his head and fired. J  
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