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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes sunday september 18,1977 sen. Javits won t let Lance off Hook Washington up sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., said saturday the Case against Bert Lance never would stand up in court but sen. Jacob javits r-., maintained the Lance allegations include big things. Involving violations of  Nunn s lawyerly defense and javits Sharp questioning highlighted the third Day of Lance s testimony before the Senate governmental operations committee another standoff in which Lance refused to concede wrongdoing in his private banking transactions and republicans refused to let him off the Hook. The unusual saturday hearing before a full House Public gallery ran on Well into the afternoon. It appeared Likely the panel would have to summon the budget director for More testimony monday. If this were a court of Law and i were the attorney for the defense. Then i would make a motion for dismissal of charges based on the evidence so far before this committee Nunn Lance staunches defender on the panel said near the close of the morning session. In a 16-minute, Point by Point Summa Tion of the evidence placed before the com Mittee Nunn said Only two charges appeared serious enough even to warrant civil As opposed to criminal penal , he said involved Lance s use of the same Stock collateral to secure two Dif Ferent Loans which might bring a civil breach of contract ruling and the per Sonal use of an air plane owned by the National Bank of Georgia which might Lead at worst to a civil tax  Hugo Bendel holds his rescued daughter Gudrun. Army photo Rudi Williams . Army fire fighters Avert town catastrophe continued from Page 1 fire. Several houses had to be evacuated. Neither Hall or Reynolds were burned. Hall injured his left hand climbing out of the overturned vehicle through the Passen Ger window. He then helped Reynolds escape. Both of them helped fight the Blaze and kept spectators from the burning fuel which shot flames nearly 200feet High. The fire truck was accompanying two 5,000 gallon tankers in a six vehicle Convoy through the town. The fuel spilled out of the Manhold on top of the truck and was ignited by Sparks Hall said. I was trying to go around the curve up the Hill and my knee hit the steering  tried to Brake but my foot slipped off the  we heard a bang and saw a mushroom Cloud of smoke anal we knew what had a happened said spec. 4 Kevin m. Johnson 20, from Washington d.c., who was in the fire fighting truck. The German fire fighters arrive about 10 minutes after the Accident but they could t get close to the flames be cause they did t have protective suits. So we fought the fire for a while and then gave them our  the German and american fire fighters switched the suits Back and Forth until the fire was out. The other two members of the army fire fighting team Are spec. 4 David l. Hodgden 24, of Wisconsin rapids wis., and pfc. Donald e. Woodard 19,-of . Members of the 1st engr from it. Riley kan., started cleanup operations at5 . The mayor had new direction signs up by 7 . Rudi Williams is photojournalist assigned to the Usa eur he Public affairs off ice Nunn noted the Justice department is investigating the plane Issue and will make the final decision whether Lance should be prosecuted. Javits however already had questioned Lance at length about the overdrafts he his family and his gubernatorial Campaign committee ran up at the Georgia Banks he headed his multimillion Dollar personal Loans and whether he had made a clean breast of his affairs to the committee before it confirmed him As director of the office of management and budget in Janu Ary. Javits disagreed with Lance s claim that before his confirmation he had briefed committee investigators on the major allegations now under review. This was t an Ordinary situation in which you re just another Southern Bank that had problems with the comptroller of the currency javits said. There were big things happening Here involving violations of Law and some of a very serious kind. You did t Tell us me about  javits also challenged your claim that everything came out Okay on the Over draft Issue because All the Money was repaid. I Don t think it s Okay because what we Are judging Are your ethics and your competence javits said. We re not judging whether you re Lucky he also noted Lance is still Hung up with a $5 million loan referring to the total of All his outstanding debts and said As the head of bomb you have a lot to do with what happens to Banks and interest rates. And nobody ought to have you on the hip for a sick  Lance seemed stung by javits question ing of his banking ethics. I m considered to be a Man of ethics and Good reputation he replied in a booming baritone. Sometimes i fall Short but that does t mean every time i stumble and fall i Don t get up  retorted javits any Man in High Public office would feel that Way. It might not necessarily be  Lance scored a technical Point when sen. Abraham Ribicoff the committee chairman stated for the record the panel would take no further interest in the allegations of convicted Georgia Bank embezzler Billy Lee Campbell that Lance was an accomplice in his crime. Or. Campbell Ribicoff said is a completely discredited person in any affairs involving or.  Lance also gave some technical ground agreeing through his attorney to let the panel use Justice department information regarding his use the Georgia Bank air Craft. Sports in Brief Newport  up courageous Defeated Australia saturday to take an almost insurmountable 3-0 Lead in the Best of seven series for the America s cup. Earlier Story on Page 17. Rome a Victor Galindez of Argentina won a disputed 15-round decision Over american challenger Alvaro Lopez and retained his world boxing association Light heavyweight Crown Here saturday night. Saturday s baseball american league new York 202 022 0109 17 0 Detroit 000200011-4 80 Tidrow Lyle 8 and Munson Hendricks 9 Crawford Ruhle 4glynn 6 and May. A Tidrow 11-4. A Craw Ford 7-7. Or new York Munson 16kingman 3jackson 2 29 Nettles 35. Detroit staub 21thompson 28. Boston 000 000 200 2 10 2 Baltimore 201 053 oox11 14 0 Asa. Continued from Page 1 gaining position was damaged As a result Are being investigated by the Senate intelligence committee. The committee questioned . Negotiator Ellsworth Bunker Friday and plans to question Cia director Stansfield Turner for two Days this week. Some details of the incident became known following reports Friday that the Cia had bugged the panamanian negotiating team and had been discovered. The reports promptly denied by the . An Panama said the panamanians Black mailed the . Negotiators to get a treaty More favourable to Panama. What actually happened Scripps Howard reported is that As a part of its routine monitoring of electronic transmissions in foreign countries the Asa Learned intimate details of Torrijos private life in 1974. As a result an intelligence Agency apparently the Cia compiled a dossier. The american army sergeant involved allegedly turned it Over to Torrijos apparently As part of a bribe but exact details Are not Clear. Trie intelligence committee the source indicated is probing Why the army ser Geant never was disciplined by  authorities and whether the abrupt resignation of a Bunker aide about two weeks ago was connected with the affair. The report said after the intelligence committee Learned of the Torrijos Inci Dent it briefed president Carter former president Gerald Ford and former Secre tary of state Henry Kissinger. Lee Stanley 5willoughby 5burton 6 and Fisk Diaz 7 d. Martinez and Skaggs. We. Martinez 14-7. A Lee 8-4. 1st game Toronto 100 000 002 390 Cleveland 201 111 Fox 6 13 0 Byrd Johnson 4 and Ashby Eckersley Monge 8dobson 9 and Kendall. A Eckersley 14-12. A Byrd 2 11. H a Toronto a. Woods 6. National league 1st game Chicago 300 000 100 482 new York 001 001 003 580 lamp Hernandez 6p. Reuschel 7 and Swisher Zachry Myrick 7apodaca 9 and Hodges. Napoda Ca,4-6. Up. Reuschel,4-6. Or Chicago Biittner 11. Philadelphia 402 110 0008 10 3 St. Louis 030 010 000-4 7 2 Christensen Reed 7 and Boone Underwood Sutton 3metzger 6hrabosky 8 and Rader. A Christen sen 16-6. A Underwood 8 11 College football Albany . 18, s. Connecticut 3 Albion 3, mount Union 0 Albright 16, lycoming6 army 27, Vii 14 capital 21, Wilmington 0 cent. Connecticut 12, Springfield 10 clcmson7, Georgia 6 coast guard 29, r p115 Colgate 33, Lafayette 12 . Post 10, northeastern 10, tie Dartmouth 14, Princeton 11 Frnklin & Marshll 21, Gettysburg 0 Harvard 21, Columbia 7 Hofstra 20, Brockport St. 6 Iowa 12, Iowa St. 10 Illinois 11, Missouri 7 Indiana a. 23, Wilkes 19 Ithaca 17, St. Lawrence 14 Kings Point 31, n. Y. Tech. 13 Marshall 38, Morehead St. 26 Massachusetts 28, maine0 Michigan 21, Duke 9 Navy 38, Connecticut 0 Nebraska 31, Alabama 24 new Hampshire 26, Boston u. 14 n. Carolina St. 38, Syracuse 0 Penn. St. 31, Houston 14 presbyterian 28, Guilford 6 Rhode Island 24, holy cross0 St. Paul s 18, . 0 Shepherd 25, Randolph Macon 22 s. Mississippi 24, Auburn 13 Temple 42, Drake 0 Texas am 27, Virginia tech 6 Texas Arlington 17, w. Michigan 10 villanova38, Ball St. 16 Virginia St. 31, Elizabeth City St. 12 Washington St. 23, Michigan St. 21 Wayne Mich. 13, Nort Hwd Mich. 0westmnstr, a. 33, Juniata  24, Maryland 16 Wittenberg 17, e. Kentucky 14 Yale 10, Brown 9 soviet geographer Dies Moscow a Stanislav Vikenty Vich Kalesnik president of the soviet Geo graphical society died Here at 76. Europe partly to mostly Cloudy sunday. Partly Cloudy and continued Cool monday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 58, Low 41. Sunset sunday 6 34 . Sunrise monday 6 07 . Temperatures recorded saturday get 4am 4pm 4am 4pm 72 82  48 55 Frankfurt cd 70 75 Athens p 50 57 London cd 63 64. Aviano cd 59 88 Madrid cd 43 54 Berlin p 39 50 Munich cd 45 59 Brussels p so 59 Paris cd 45 52 Copenhagen p 66 75 Rome it cd Cloudy p partly Cloudy. Det 25,31st weather so  
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