European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Budweiser is charged with fraud Washington up the securities and Exchange commission thursday charged Anheuser Busch the nations largest brewery with securities fraud in connection with the payment of b.7 million to entice restaurants and wholesalers Tostock its Beer. Anh Cusco Busch. With Headquarters inst. Louis brews and distributes its Beer under the Brand names of Budweiser Michelob and Busch bavarian. Budweiser is the most popular Beer in the country. The Sec said the company violated an Lif Raud provisions of the Federal securities Laws beginning in 1971. According to the company spokesman. Anheuser Busch voluntarily discontinued such practices for All practical purposes in a consent decree which enjoins the firm from making any additional payments was agreed upon by the Sec and Anheuser Busch and signed thursday by . District judge june Green in Washington. The Sec said the alleged violations of the securities Laws fell into four categories. According to the Sec the company paid out $19 million to wholesalers to Reim Burse Money the wholesalers paid in improper allowances to retailers. It also paid $600,000 to firms which run Concession stands and restaurants at sports stadiums and other locations. The firm according to the Sec. Also paid $120.000 to indirect third parties and $28,000 to agents of  the Sec said none of the payments had been previously disclosed in official state ments filed with the Sec or to company stockholders. A company spokesman said in St. Louis Anh Cusco Busch admitted to the Sec in september 1976 that it had been involved in questionable Trade practices which were prevalent in the brewing  spokesman said Anheuser Busch has already taken the affirmative Steps recited in the consent decree and is under taking to ensure that its code of business ethics is strictly followed by All its employ  company has nevertheless the spokesman said agreed to enter the con sent decree in order to avoid prolonged Liti gation and con Rovery with the  2 orphans enriched by find Athens up two 14-year-old greek orphan boys found a briefcase con Taining $40,650 on a bus in Salonica and handed it to  greek Law. The boys Nikos Sakel Larides and tassos Kanakis Are entitled to a $4.065 Reward 10 per cent of the sum they found. Saturday May 21, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 standing in for Betty Ford Susan Ford background right poses with Margot Fonteyn Rudolf Nureyev and Martha Graham in new York where she received the first annual Martha Graham dance behalf of her Mother. Award on a risk of heart attack great smokers warned to ovoid the Pill Boston a two Harvard univer sity experts say the risk of heart attack is so great that women Over 40 and younger women who smoke or have High blood pressure should not take birth control pills. Or. Brian Macmahon and or. Charles Hennekens issued the warning in thurs Day s Issue of the new England journal of Medicine. Theirs is yet another opinion in a Widen ing debate Over the use of Oral contraceptives. The food and drug administration has proposed a revised Labelling of Oral contraceptives warning that use is not recommended in women Over 40 because of the increased risk of heart attacks. However in March a research analyst for the population Council suggested that the risks for the general female population Over 40 Are less than was feared As Long As they Don t smoke. This is not a widely held opinion Hennekens said of his new warning in an inter View. It is based on our research in the Field and other people s research it is our own  said a pattern of dangerous Side effects had begun to emerge from studies compiled on women who take the Pill. For women Over 40, whatever the risks or Lack of risks that May come out later the evidence is enough for us to recommend that they not use the  Henne kens said. Women under 40 should use it Only in the absence of other risk factors such As smoking a series of studies conducted by differ ent researchers shows that women who take birth control pills Are three to five times More Likely to die from heart attack than other women the doctors wrote. In a study of women Between 40 and 44. There were 45 heart attack deaths attributed to the Pill among every 100.000 women each year they  data seem sufficient even in the absence of other risks to discourage use of Oral contraceptives in older women the doctors wrote. The of time bus design must Aid handicapped Washington i up i reversing a past policy. Transportation Secretary Brock Adams said thursday All new Public buses bought with Federal funds after september 1979 must be designed for easy Access by elderly and handicapped  announcement at a news Confer ence Drew cheers and cries of thank god from several persons seated in wheelchairs in the Back of the room. Adams said he decided to adopt a mandatory requirement because he is con Vinced bus manufacturers will not act  requirement Calls for bus floors to be no More than 22 inches above the ground for buses to be Able to Kneel to an 18-Inch floor height and for buses to be equipped with a ramp for boarding. Adams said he is convinced from experience that simply encouraging Tran bus May not result in its introduction now or in the  he said prototype buses were developed and tested but Are not being manufactured. Even after this department invested about $27 million in the Tran bus pro Gram All serious efforts toward producing Tran bus stopped when the Urban mass transportation administration announced in july 1976 that it would not be Man  said there Are three major us bus manufacturers general motors. Am general and the flexible co., a subsidiary of Rohr  said pm and flexible have produced advanced buses with larger win Dows wider doors and improved suspension but that their new buses have floor Heights of 29 to 32 inches rather than the 22 inches of the Tran bus. Adams disputed opponents claims that a Low floor ramped bus cannot be built efficiently and operated safely."1 believe it is my responsibility to insure to the extent feasible that no Seg ment of our population is needlessly denied Access to Public  he said. It is now within our technological capability to assure that elderly and handicapped persons Are accorded Access to Urban mass transit  until the new buses Are available he said manufacturers will be required to offer optional wheelchair lifts for existing buses local transit authorities must either Purchase lifts or provide alternative special services. May 21,1947 in a major statement on soviet atomic policy the chief russian Delegate to the United nations Andrei Gro Myko. Told the world that Russia cannot submit to a unlimited inspection of its atomic resources or to International control of us peaceful production of atomic Energy. May Al 1957 evangelist Billy Graham told a record audience of 19,000 per ois that the world was coming to an end this time by  i have not Only god s word for it that the end of the world is in sight but i have the word of the scientists Graham said. May 21, 1967 As tensions increased Between Israel and the Arab countries in toe Mideast military experts from Brit Ain s Institute for strategic studies give the israeli forces though outnumbered i to 1, a 2 to 1 fighting superiority. The reasons for the fighting Edge were attributed to better training and morale and consider ably better maintenance