European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 it the stars and stripes saturday september 10, 1977 Senate passes measure officially killing the by Washington up the Senate gave routine final congressional approval Friday to a $110 billion defense Money Bill which officially kills the by bomber pro Gram. The House narrowly agreed with presi Dent Carter thursday and called a halt to production. The House vote was 202 to 199. . Atty. Testifies the Bill now goes to Carter for his Signa Ture. The Senate which already had reached the same decision earlier gave its final approval to the Bill Friday without debate and by unanimous consent with no formal vote. The House vote deleted $1.4 billion for Carter team accused of hiding Lance data from press dispatches Washington the Carter administration was accused Friday of concealing information about budget director Bert Lance from the Senate committee which recommended his confirmation and is now investigating his past financial dealings. Former . Atty. John w. Stokes said investigators for the Senate governmental affairs committee asked him last week for information which he turned Over to the Fri last fall when that Agency was con ducting an inquiry for then president elect Carter s transition team. He said the information had been Gath ered by his office during an investigation of whether Lance violated Federal Law in 1974 by Over drawing his account at the Cai Houn first National Bank while running unsuccessfully for governor of Georgia. Stokes said he found insufficient Evi Dence 10 seek an indictment against Lance and the Case was closed but the Senate committee could still have considered the facts and acted. As they i charge that officials of the Carter administration withheld and concealed the Fri background report and the information it contained from the Senate commit tee in january he said. Asked by reporters what the Fri report contained Stokes replied i consider it damaging information but not criminal in formation. It showed irregular activities in running a Aiso on Friday the White House repeated its belief that Lance deserves a Chance to reply in a Public forum to allegations some of which Are unfair inaccurate and throughout his daily news briefing White House press Secretary Powell indicated that Carter was not prepared to Consul s child was sexually molested Valencia Spain a the 4-year old daughter of Belgium s honorary Consul Veronica Carlier whose body was found thursday was sexually molested before she was killed the Cifra news Agency said Friday quoting reliable sources. The body of the Spanish orphan girl adopted More than three years ago by Consul Pierre Jean Carlier and his Span ish wife was discovered by a police dog. The body was buried in a Hole in a Forest 100 Yards away from the family s Villa. The girl had vanished monday. Cifra said the autopsy showed evidence the girl had been sexually molested. It said police Are seeking the killers among sex maniacs. Anonymous phone Calls to the Carliers and local newspapers wednesday had blamed two maoist Leninist organizations for the kidnapping of Vero Nica for Money. Police later said the Calls were phony. Make any move until Lance had an Opportunity to defend himself. Meanwhile comptroller of the currency John g. Heimann said banking regulators View overdrafts such As those allowed by one of Lance s Georgia Banks with considerable alarm because they occasionally allow Banks to collapse. At a Senate hearing into the budget director s financial affairs Heimann was asked How serious he considers the Over drafts Lance and his family ran up at the Calhoun first National Bank in Georgia. Lance who was president of the Bank from 1963 to 1974, and his family overdraw their checking accounts by As much As $450,000. Heimann said such overdrafts Are really indirect Loans to insiders who operate or Are associated with the Bank. We consider Loans to insiders very seriously. Well Over 50 per cent of the Bank failures in the country in the last five to 10 years have been the result of insider transactions he said. The proposed bomber which has been in re search and development stages for seven years. Rep. Jack Edwards r-ala., a Lead ing proponent of the Craft said nearly $3 billion already had been spent on the project. The House approved the funds june 28, but two Days later Carter ordered a halt in production a move by backers said would Idle some 15,000 workers mainly in Cali fornia. The Senate voted 59 to 36 to support him and kill the bomber. House and Senate conferees seeking a Compromise Bill could not agree on the Issue and left the final Deci Sion to the House. Rep. Joseph Addabbo d-., author of the amendment to delete the bomber funds said conservative estimates Are that the Craft would Cost $100 million each but Edwards said a More realistic guess was $65 million. Carter rejected the bomber in favor of the air plane launched cruise missile which would be less costly and More effective. Proponents said the Only major bomber left in the nation s Arsenal is the 25-year old b52, and House Republican Leader John Rhodes said launching a cruise missile from a b52 is like launching the latest sophisticated missile from a horse and in Money Bill carrying funds for the 1978 fiscal year that starts oct. 1, includes $400 million for the cruise missile and Carter has asked for another $400 million to Speed its development. Other funds in the Bill included $1.5 Bil lion for 97 f15 fighter planes $112.4 Mil lion for 12 a7e attack planes $310 million for a new class destroyer $461.6 million for m60 tanks $77.5 million for the nonnuclear Lance missile and $15 million to continue development of the seafarer submarine communication system. Bea me Abzug lose in continued from Page 1 we All Felt they would be said press Secretary Perry o Connell. Neither Cuomo nor Koch could gather the 40 per cent of the vote needed to Avert a special Runoff election. Goodman had 56 per cent of the Republican vote to Farber s 44 per cent. A Board of elections spokesman said about 750,000 democrats about 38 per cent of those registered in the City voted. Since democrats outnumber republicans 4 to 1 in new York City the demo cratic nominee automatically becomes the favorite in the november general election. Koch began his political career in 1963 by beating tammany Hall Boss Carmine Desapio for District Leader in Greenwich Village. He won five terms to Congress representing Manhattan s posh silk Stock ing District and won a reputation As a lib eral with his Early opposition to the War in Vietnam. During the mayoral Campaign he abandoned his longtime opposition to capital punishment telling residents of crime plagued new York neighbourhoods the elec tric chair served As a deterrent to crime. Cuomo is a lawyer and professor whose Only other experience in electoral Politico was an unsuccessful run for the democratic nomination for new York state Lieuten ant governor in 1974. He was appointed Secretary of state by Carey who urged him to enter the primary race after the governor and Beame Dis agreed Over the handling of the new York City financial crisis. Goodman a millionaire whose family runs the sex lax drug Empire served As director of finances to former mayor John v. Lindsay and headed the state charter Revi Sion committee that pushed through major reforms limiting the Power of the mayor of new York. Bonn ignores kidnappers ultimatum Swiss lawyer is okd As negotiator Bonn up West German authorities Friday ignored another ultimatum of the kidnappers of industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer monday and made no move to release 11 imprisoned terrorists As they demanded. But the government continued its contacts with the kidnappers Over West German radio and suggested that in the future negotiations be carried out through an intermediary Swiss lawyer Deni payot. It was the kidnappers who first brought up the name of payot president of the Swiss league for human rights in their first communication with the government. That letter was sent tuesday one Day after terrorists killed Schleyer s three police bodyguards and his Driver and seized him in an Effort to free their com rades. The kidnappers in another letter received Friday morning by the French news Agency Agency France Presse Asp demanded that the 11 jailed members of the sports in Brief Forest Hills . Up second seeded Martina Navratilova was upset 2-6,7-5, 64 Friday by 12th-seeded australian Wendy Turnbull in the semifinals . Open Tennis championships after two time defending Champion Chris Ever survived a wind blown Battle with Betty stove 6-3,7-5. Earlier Story on Page 21. Red army faction the Baader Meinhoff Urban guerrilla band be freed by noon Friday in Exchange for the 62-year-old chairman of the federation of German Industry. This deadline As an earlier one passed with the 11 still in prison. The government gave no indication it would go against German Public opinion and surrender to the terrorists. It tightened the already strict Security measures in fear of new terrorists attacks. For example barbed wire was Strung around the Bonn residence of Interior min ister Werner Maihofer. West German police in reply to the new ultimatum in the letter to the news Agency broadcast a message Over West German radio saying the letter had arrived too late for Observance of the deadline. This shows again the need of having a Contact person for receiving and transmit Ting messages the police message said. The Federal criminal police office accepts lawyer payot of Geneva a a Contact person. He has said he is ready to act in this the kidnappers in the letter they sent tuesday said payot and pastor Martin Mauritius Leader in Paris Paris up sir Seewood Sager rang Bolam prime minister of Mauritius conferred Here with French president Valer Giscard d Estwing on a wide Range of Afri can and Indian Ocean problems. Niemoeller the 85-year-old famous anti nazi evangelical lutheran Clergyman should accompany the 11 terrorists on a flight out of Germany after they Are re leased. Payot in addition to being president of the Swiss human rights organization is vice president of the Paris based International federation for human rights. Thesis a private organization that deals mainly with human rights violations in the Middle East. A lawyer in his late thirties payot is said to be pro Arab and pro palestinian. The letter to the French news Agency contained a photograph of Schleyer Wear ing an undershirt with a placard hanging from his neck Reading prisoner of the Raf stands for red army faction. The kidnappers demand the release of Andreas Baader and 10 other hard Core members of the Raf which has been held responsible for a series of Bank robberies murders bombings shootings and Kidnap Ings Over the last 10 years. Europe partly to mostly Cloudy with afternoon rain showers. Partly Cloudy sunday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 63, lows. Sunset saturday 6 52 . Sunrise Sunda 5 55 . Temperatures recorded Friday get 4am 4pm 70 86 Adana p73 86 Athens p 77 81 50 52 46 57 61 59 Aviano c Berlin p Brussels p Copenhagen p 4am 4pm 52 55 Frankfurt cl45 63 London p 61 91 Madrid p54 54 Munich p 52 63 Paris p 63 75 Rome p cd Cloudy a partly Cloudy a Clear. Del 25,31 it weather so
