European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes South Korea bribery probe wednesday May 18, 1977 100 named in papers found in Park s trash Washington Upil the names of close to 100 House members and a few senators Are mentioned in papers retrieved from garbage next to offices of the Central figure in an alleged South korean bribery scandal congressional sources said tues Day. The Batch of about 75 documents was Given to the House ethics committee by two reporters who claim to have reassembled the papers after finding them shredded and discarded outside the corporate Headquarters of South korean Busi Nessman ton Sun Park. If the material is authentic the sources said it could produce a break in the com Mittee s Long stalled investigation. Moreover several More big bags of still shredded papers will be examined and the sources said that material might yield 500 additional documents if it can be put Back together a painstaking process bound to take time. None of the congressmen mentioned was identified by the sources on grounds the material might prove unreliable or irrelevant to the investigation into whether Park and other South korean agents sought to buy influence in Congress in the 1970s to help Seoul s military government. These Are just leads said one who saw the papers. They the members named May have done nothing wrong. But if pursued they the leads could Lead to the evidence the Justice department and Congress need to directly link Park to members of the House and  the papers Are said to include hand written notes and memos from Park travel schedules for congressmen and other documents containing the names of House members and senators. All the material was said to have been recovered from trash at Park s Pacific development corp. By free Lance reporters Lewis Perdue and Ken Cummins. They Are writing a Book about corruption in Washington and decided to surrender the Docu ments voluntarily after the ethics committee voted to subpoena , other sources said the ethics . Might possess laser weapons by the late 80s, Dod officials say Washington is the unite states expects to begin building a Proto Type of a laser beam weapon the first american death Ray directed Energy military device about 1981 and might have usable laser weapons by the late1980s. Defense department officials say. A More potent and More controversial Typo of Dirc cled Energy weapon using charged particle beams i Cpl is less cer Tain to be realized by current research and therefore is further off the officials add. Cab weapons of atomic or. Subatomic particles can deliver More Power on target than lasers which direct Strong narrow beams of Light to destroy by  of charged electrons or protons can produce More Energy in whatever they  up a target. At a Pentagon briefing monday on directed in orgy weapons a senior expert who refused to be publicly identified said there is no basis for assuming that the soviet Union is working on cab weapons. We have no knowledge of the soviet working specifically on such weapons the officials said the soviet Union has developed some of the component technology however interest in Thi subject has been aroused by statements of the former head of air Force intelligence retired maj. Gen George j. Keeganjr. Keegan has said the soviet Union is test ing a cab weapon. It could be ready to deploy such weapons within a few years to Render the . Nuclear deterrent ineffective by focusing the beams on incoming intercontinental missiles and destroying their warheads according to Keegan. While this had been repeatedly denied by . Officials since Keegan first began making the statement publicly in january the subject has aroused such interest that the Pentagon scheduled monday s Brief ing officials said that High Energy lasers Are being studied not Only for weapons applications but Alio fur Range finding in con no Cipun with other weapons and for starting nuclear fusion reactions. Some limited tests of laser weapons uses have been reported including shouting Down helicopters at close Range but officials refuse to discuss this. About f Iso million a year is being spent on laser weapons research. Cab research is getting Only about one twentieth that much the officials said. They describe the cab program a being in the exploratory development stage but making Good Progress. It i growing appropriately the officials said As if to offset criticisms that the United states has been neglecting this subject. A cab weapon prototype is Many years  one official said. A massive Effort of the Manhattan project Type would be expensive premature and potentially  he said. The soviet Union appears to be ahead in some technical Fields involved in cab weapons and is making a larger Effort than the United states in manpower Money and facilities officials said. But the United states is ahead in other related Fields and in Overall terms its cab weapons accomplishments Are about equal to soviet ones they claim. Key problems in which neither Side appears to have made a technological break through include scaling up test equipment of the atom splitting Type to the extraordinary Power requirements of weapons con trolling a particle beam the comparison is made with the irregular and unpredictable course of lightning which is a natural Energy directed weapon and aiming and tracking a particle beam. Alert teen Ager saves life of lost double amputee Omaha neb. Api alerted by a teen Ager who found the Man s Wallet and led on by a Trail that included an artificial leg police have rescued a help less double amputee who had been missing for nine  capt. George Huger said monday that Roy Roberts 16, was walking Down a dirt Road through the wooded Park area near his Home Satur Day when be saw a Wallet and a watch. The youth carried them Home and hand his father Richard Roberts took them to police  records showed that Milton Carlson 68, had been reported missing May 6 by Bis wife. Police searched the Park sunday morning but did t find Carlson. So they went Back for Roy and took him to the Park and he showed them where he d found the  the police discovered the miss ing Man s hat and tie at the Edge of a Steep Ravine. Down the embankment they found one of his artificial legs and at the Bottom they found Carlson. Carlson was suffering from exposure and hunger but he had survived by drinking rain water police said. He was in Good condition monday at a Hospital. Huger said the Man was weak and unable to give much information. He had been there several Days but it was not known whether he had spent the entire nine Days at the Bottom of the Ravine. Huger said Carlson had told police his leg bad become entangled in the Brush As he Slid Down the Bank and be Badoun Snail mrs. Carlson told police that her Hus band a retired City fire dispatcher had been despondent when he walked away from Home. Huger said the Brush and Trees were so thick around the Ravine that anyone walking on the nearby path could not see Carlson. No one would have found him Huger said. There s no doubt the boy saved his  committee headed by rep. John Flynt d ga., plans to ask its 12 members and All other congressmen to provide details of any payments gifts or favors they May have accepted from South Korea or ill  committee was expected to Pequot the information in a questionnaire not sworn statements and to keep All answer confidential while under study by us investigating  panel which was authorized to con duct its investigation in March with a $500, 000 budget has been under pressure to move faster with democrats and republicans complaining the Public is losing Faith in the inquiry. Rates go up for interstate bus travel Washington a higher fares Are now in effect for bus riders on interstate routes in the United slates. The fares increased five per cent for passengers and seven per cent for cargo on interstate and intercity routes starting sunday. The association of bus companies Origi Nally had asked for seven per cent increases for both passengers and cargo but is was rejected by the interstate Commerce commission. In rejecting that increase the inc had advised the carriers on Friday that they could file for the five per cent bile on a 24 hour notice. That notice was filed saturday and the higher fares took effect sunday an inc spokesman said. The new fares will have an immediate effect Only on the charter routes because the major bus firms offer maximum $50 fares for Long distance travel. These programs offer one Way tickets anywhere in the country for $50 and Are unaffected by the new rate hike. However unless renewed those pro Grams arc due to expire on May 31. As an example of the new rates the one Way fare Between Washington and Phila Delphia goes from $10.60 to $11.15 on Grey hound. Between new York and Washington on trailways the regular fare increase from $18.20 to $19.03. The interstate bus firms had received a six per cent fare increase in March. . State rejects Bill to decriminalize pot Albany . Up the slate As Sembly monday night rejected a Bill to decriminalize Possession of Small amounts of marijuana in a Surprise vote of 72lo70.the vote killed consideration of decriminalization in the state Senate where re publican leaders had agreed the Issue would not come up until it was acted on by the democratic dominated Assembly last minute Campaign against the Bill by the stale conservative party joined by the veterans of foreign wars the Ameri can legion and several police organizations was credited with stopping the expected Assembly  Bill would have reduced the penalty for possessing of up to 14 ounces of Mari Juana to a violation punishable by a Maxi mum Fine of $100. Second offences within three years could bring a $200 Fine and third offences could result in a $250 Fine and is Days in jail. The measure also would have lowered the penalty for the gratuitous Transfer of one marijuana cigarette Between adults to a class b Misdemeanour punishable by 90 Days in jail and a $500 Fine. It is now a class e felony punishable by up to i years in jail. Gov. Hugh Carey had supported decriminalization. Temperatures l h 31 ii i Banitt n loud Turque s to Milo 41 is a chords is at  60 As manias u Llano idly 71 11 uttm67 ii Baltimore % Fol Bill. No a w Birtir Una to 47 i b a Mark 41 s6 Boise so u Boston 7s u brownsville44 7s Buffalo n is Burl-nuton3 70 Casper 70 10 Nanti on s.c.47 in car Lytton w. To a. A n car Iota in Yemm � a Chitaro s is Oncin Nati 47 m Cleveland u 17 Columbia sc.44 u Columbus. 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