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When Elvis Presley died within two continued on Page 28, col. 4 Lance Bank planes politics use reported Washington up investigators have discovered that air planes operated by Bert Lance s Georgia Bank made hundreds of unexplained trips in 1975 and1976, Many believed to have been for Politi Cal purposes sources said  spokesman for Lance s office of management and budget said he was told at least two trips were made on Bank aircraft to last year s democratic National convention. But he disputed the hundreds  could not be determined if the nation Al Bank of Georgia was reimbursed for the unexplained flights or whether they were paid for from Bank  Lance and his Banks facing investigations this week by three congressional committees it also was Learned that internal Revenue service investigators have been told Lance visited the comptroller of the currency s office in Washington several times last year before he was confirmed As budget director but the investigators could not pin Down what was discussed during the meetings with top officials. Comptroller Robert Bloom later gave Lance a favourable recommendation to the Senate. When Lance was a candidate for Georgia governor in 1974, his Campaign committee took out a Large loan from a Ringgold ga., Bank in which he was stockholder. Abc television reported the Campaign committee passed the loan Money directly to Lance so he could use it to pay off a loan in his own  Secretary Ray Marshall inter viewed sunday on the lbs to face the nation program said of the growing in Quiry into Lance s personal finances it obvious he cannot devote his full attention to that Job while he s worried about these other charges that he s got to be concerned  americans for democratic action issued a statement calling for Lance s res ignation. The Ada said that if president Carter retains him it is to perpetuate the continued on Page 28, col. I authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 36, no. 140 1sc daily Ond Sandav monday september 5,1977 if 21855 a ., soviets will allow 1972 Salt treaty to expire Washington up the unite states and the soviet Union will let the 1972 strategic arms limitation treaty expire in october with no formal attempt to extend it in the absence of a successor Salt ii pact a White House spokesman said saturday. The spokesman confirmed As substantially Correct news reports the two nations have decided to let the original Salt treaty expire oct. 3, its official termination Date and simply continue efforts to con clude a replacement Accord. The implication is that each Side will count on the other to Honor the original lapsed agreement voluntarily while follow up negotiations Are in Progress and not take advantage of the lapse by scrambling to expand nuclear arsenals once the prohibition has  attempt to extend Salt i formally might have required congressional approval which in turn would raise prospects of a bitter debate on the Issue. The news report quoted an unidentified senior administration official As saying Carter administration officials wanted to avoid such a conflict in the midst of Salt ii treaty negotiations and the already controversial Effort to ensure Senate ratification of the new Panama canal treaty. The original Salt Accord signed by president Richard Nixon in Moscow in 1972 and hailed As the Cornerstone of .-soviet detente was a two part affair that restricted deployment of defensive Anibal Listic missile systems and attempted to freeze offensive strategic weapons arsenals at the Levels then in existence. The More important agreement on offensive weapons was described As an interim Accord designed to slow Down the nuclear arms race until the two superpowers could conclude a much More detailed agreement on the exact numbers of Strate Gic armaments to be allowed under Long term ceilings. They gave themselves five years leeway to achieve that by writing the expiration Date into Salt  ii negotiations however have used up that period and still remain stalled Over several areas of dispute chiefly the soviet insistence that . Cruise missile must be counted within strategic weapons continued on Page 28, col. 1 Tell apart to shirts Michael and Steven Davis 5-year-Oldtwins, make a Point As to who s who. Competing in the look alike twins con test at the Michigan state fair in de troit the twins from Royal Oak won an honorable mention. A photo Carter aides deny it anti Connolly file noted Washington up the carte White House has compiled a file including an allegation of Campaign dirt tricks on Democrat turned Republican John Connally that could be used to Blu this National political ambitions sources told reporters  heart of the file is an aug. 10, 1976, letter from rep. Paul Findley r-i11., to then president Gerald Ford cautioning against letting Connally get on the National Republican ticket the sources said. Up obtained a copy of the  it Findley said Connally s democrats for Nixon Effort in behalf of Richard Nixon in the 1972 Campaign included disseminating a letter that contended demo cratic candidate George Mcgovern was using a greek communist journalist As his spokesman on greek  reference was to Elias Demetracos Poulos one of the leading opponents of the military leaders of Greece at the  also pointed out Connally was investigated for Campaign donations from milk producing interests. Referring to the letter about Demetracos Poulos Findley told Ford John Connally s association with this episode and its link with the dirty tricks uncovered by the Senate watergate committee make Hima liability for any position in your adminis  for president Carter who is spending the weekend in his Camp David Retreat said they know nothing of the letter. They also denied that Carter is com piling a file that could be used to Hurt con daily or republicans for whom Connall campaigns. Washington Post columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak said saturday that White House aides have been digging into an alleged dirty tricks operation con continued on Page 28, col. 1