European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday May 6, 1977 administration senators working on Energy Accord Washington i api a possible com Promise to limit the Powers of the Secre tary of a new department of Energy to set Oil and natural Gas prices is being forged with White House help. Sen. Abraham ,d Conn said thursday Ribicoff who chairs the Senate govern mental affairs committee said the com Promise would give the president the ultimate Power to resolve pricing disputes Between the Energy Secretary and a pro posed Energy regulatory Board. He said he discussed the general out lines of such a Compromise in a Telephone conversation with White House Neiti adviser James h. Sch Losinger. The move was an apparent Effort to Case friction building Between the White House and Hibi Colf s committee Over a proposed major modification to president Carter s proposal for a new Energy and a number of other senior members of the committee oppose the president s proposal to give the new Energy Secretary expected to be Schle Singer the final say on Oil and natural Gas , they have proposed creation of an Independent three member Energy regulatory Board within the new depart ment with the Power to set Oil and natural Gas prices a proposal the administration has vigorously the proposed Compromise suggested by sen. Charles h. Percy r-i1i, both the Energy Secretary and the Board would have a say in pricing matters with the president serving As referee in cases of , House speaker Thomas p. Tip o Neill said that Many members of Congress Don t realize the severity of the nation s Energy crisis. There is most definitely a crisis we have got to show these facts to members of Congress and urge them to get behind the program he said. De Brett s will explore american family Trees new York Debrull s. Which for Viri thin Iwu Hundred years has re searched and advised on the British nobility is opening a Manhattan office to help american commoners search for their ancestral in part by interest stirred up by Alex Haley s in Brett s will unc Tion on both sides of the Atlantic tracing genealogies or anyone willing to pay at least $175 or the search. Since feb. 7. When be Bretl s announce that it would do genealogical searches for non Nobles its British office it said has been swamped with requests about 35 per cent of which were from americans. At the Knickerbocker club where he met recently with a group of genealogists h. B. Brooks Baker managing director of to Bretl s. Explained that demand in the United states for american genealogies has grown too great for us to ignore any emphasized that de Brett s has not changed in any Way we Are merely expanding and diversifying our its office will be at 1675 York Avenue at 88th Street. In Bretl s peerage. Baronetage. Knight age and a 3.200 . $95 guide to the British aristocracy is distributed in the United states by Arco inc. Of new Hunting is not new. There Are a number of quarterly genealogical Maga Zines mostly of a regional concern published in the United states. For the equivalent of $175. The search can go Back As far As nine generations or a few As three depending on the difficulty of the Case. Research is conducted in phases and re ports arc issued on prospects for further discoveries at completion of the line. Tic Brett s will draw up on Parchment a family tree for $35."roots grow in strange directions. Brooks Baker said with a chuckle. For example in Alex Haley s Book his Irish ancestry is lightly touched on but in fact there is a direct descendant of a distinguished family named Jackson who moved from Ireland to Alabama from whom Haley is a descendant. Debrell s has information tracing the Jackson family Back to the 14th Century or earlier and could pre sent Haley with a detailed account of his Irish forebears. Pay no heed the state department of transportation is testing the legibility of in signs along a Section of route 9h outside Hudson . Painted Brown with yellow letters they say things like pop. 22 or the above. If the new Colo prove to effective and Cal helically acceptable the department will introduce ii m into the Adirondack state Park. No mistake about that. A photo columnist discloses antics Cia s comic opera of spying told Washington up1 Cia operation mud Hen the trailing of columnist Jack Anderson had elements of a comic opera with some pretty Poten tial Anderson said wednesday. Anderson said he obtained under the Freedom of information act documents which detail How 18 Cia agents followed turn and his staff. Anderson plans to use the file in a $22 million civil suit against former president Richard m. Nixon another past and present government offi was called Brandy his Secretary and assistants got names like Sherry eggnog and there were maps of their Homes and notes that assistant Les Whitten ate lunch at a Park like Square near the office. There were pictures of a lbs camera Crew taking pictures of Anderson. And there was the mysterious nighttime opening and closing of an electric garage door at the Home of Anderson s neighbor dentist. It had All the elements of a comic opera but was All pretty Anderson said. Adding a. Howard Hunt and g. Gordon Carter picks intelligence overseers Washington pull president or tar thursday appointed Thomas , once a Central intelligence Agency Man As chairman of the Intelli gence oversight Board and named former . Ambassador William Scranton and former sen. Albert Gore d-tenn., to serve As members this Board reports directly and exclusively to me Carter said in a statement. It is empowered to receive information directly from individual members of the intelligence Community and receives Peri Odic reports from the inspectors general and general counsels of the Farmer was a Cia agent 1951-54. Gen eral counsel of the Agency for International development and president Lyndon b Johnson s special counsel for Southeast asian economic development 1964-67 Andis now a Washington attorney. Gore was Defeated for re election in 1970. Scranton also served As Pennsylva Nia governor. Liddy in March 1972 asked a Cia physician for some exotic poisons to use against me " Anderson said he turned my nine kids Loose and they had a Ball when he discovered the Cia activities. One hilarious Anderson said detailed in solemn language with sketch position nos. 1. 2 and 3." exactly How an unidentified woman his daughter Lune. About 16 years old at the time snuck up on Cia agents and took a picture of them. Anderson said Nixon orchestrated the investigations starting with publication of an August 1971 column that Howard lushes delivered $100.000 in Cash to Nixon s Friend Bebe Robozo. Nixon was extremely sensitive about the Nixon Hughes connection which gave trouble in other elections and was afraid it would come up again in his Cam pair ii for reelection Anderson said. While he detects a certain hostility on the part of the Fri and Anderson said the Ford and Carter White houses Are not a party to any kind of intimidation and
