European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Standoff continues on Lance by Michael do a Washington a budget director Bert Lance has come out of Senate hear Ings determined to remain in office while the committee that questioned him investigates its own staff s earlier knowledge of Lance s financial Days of testimony by Lance left the Senate governmental affairs commit tee deeply divided Over the embattled budget director s past behaviour and his suitability for future service. I think the committee is divided an not along partisan lines Seri. William v. Roth jr., r-del., said sunday. Roth said head very serious reservations about contrast sen. Thomas Eagleton d mo., said he believed Lance s testimony had largely disposed of the allegations against him. I find nothing in that Testi Mony that makes me believe he should be fired or removed Eagleton two made their statements in an a. Pear Arice on the lbs television program face the their division mirrored a general Dis agreement among committee members. President Carter said on Friday that he believed Lance s testimony had certainly the Sims and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 36, no. 154 monday september 19,1977 i daily and sunday if 21855 a Drivers did some double takes As they saw a wooly Mammoth moving along the Highway in Utah. The state division monster on the Highway of Parks and recreation is moving a col Lection of 14 fibreglass and polyester dinosaurs to Vernal. They la be housed at Dinosaur land near the site of sever Al excavations of the remains of prehistoric animals. Up photo cloak and Dagger flights enhanced his he chose not to discuss Lance with reporters on sunday As he left Church services in , the focus of the hearing shifted from Lance s banking activities to what he told committee staffers and what information the staffers passed on to the panel before it confirmed him. The committee maintained it did no know about Lance s overdrawn checking accounts and other banking problem before it confirmed him. But Lance Testi fied he told the committee staff about the six Days before his original hearings. Sen Abraham Ribicoff d-conn., chair Man of the committee ordered staff Mem Bers who met with Lance to testify monday about the meeting. Then committee Mem Bers May decide whether to Call More wit Nesses. Ultimately Eagleton predicted the Only official action taken by the committee will be a decision on Lance s request that he be Given a waiver on his Promise to sell his Stock in the National Bank of Georgia by dec. 31. The value of the Stock has dropped ended 20 hours of questioning by declaring saturday night that the hearings had been a personal ordeal. But he de continued on Page 28, col. 1 rites held for Biko in s. Africa Johannesburg South Africa a thousands mainly Blacks across South Africa sunday attended memorial services for Black consciousness Leader Steve Biko who died a week ago in police detention. By sunday evening there were no re ports of any incidents or violence despite the nationwide anger As Well As sorrow and dismay which followed the much re Vered Man s death. Biko 30, is widely regarded As the founder of the Black consciousness move ment bpm in White ruled South Africa. He died late last monday in a Pretoria prison cell three weeks after being picked up by Security police under wide ranging Laws allowing indefinite detention without trial. Mourners attended services at churches in Black and White areas throughout the country including the Black township of Soweto Central Johannesburg Pretoria the Eastern Cape and the Northern trans Vaal. During Many of the services Church and civic leaders made further demands for an impartial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Biko s death while also offer ing prayers for the other detainees who continued on Page 28, col. 4 Day an shows up in . New York up israeli foreign minister Moshe Dayan was whisked unseen into the United states sunday Fol lowing a cloak and Dagger series of flights around Europe triggering speculation about new developments in Middle East peace Tel Aviv sunday prime minister me Nahem begin said a mysterious visit by Dayan to Paris this weekend produced in formation that justified his abrupt return to Israel on the eve of talks in the . Authorities at Kennedy Airport said Dayan arrived around 3 25 p.m., but be cause of a request by the state depart ment no interviews were allowed with the israeli reporters in fact saw the minister arrive although there was speculation he had been whisked from the plane into limousine somewhere on the Airfield. Re porters saw Only an 11-car motorcade including the Standard secret service station Wagon drive out of John f. Kennedy Airport. Dayan whose destination in new Yorkis unknown was scheduled to meet with president Carter and Secretary of state Cyrus Vance in Washington monday. He escaped reporters in Europe twice Over the weekend. Sunday he made a sur prise switch in his travel plans flying from Tel Aviv to Zurich to catch a connect ing flight to new York instead of taking direct Al Al flight from Tel Aviv. Dayan vanished from a new York bound plane in Brussels at midday Friday and surfaced saturday morning in Paris where he caught a flight for Tel Aviv and rushed to report to begin in Jerusalem. Begin said Dayan s trip had nothing Todo with the fighting in Southern Lebanon and other officials said there was nothing to speculation about the state of the pre Mier s that israeli officials gave no hint about Dayan s activities during a Stop ostensibly devoted to meetings with jewish leaders israeli ambassadors Bel Gian officials and Gen. Alexander m. Haig jr., supreme Allied commander sources speculated that Dayan May have talked with a High ranking Arbor african Leader or with soviet foreign minister Andrei his return to Israel from Paris Dayan declined to say where he had been. Too Many hands lose the Luggage London up when Derek Mayhew boarded his British air ways flight in Bahrein a whole corps of baggage handlers turned out to handle his single suitcase. Mayhew was the Only passenger on the plane. When he landed in London after a flight in which the entire stewardess Crew was devoted to him alone Mayhew went to collect his suitcase the sole solitary piece of Luggage the plane carried. It was missing. Baggage goes astray for various reasons at the Airport an embarrassed airline official said Friday. This Case turned up by itself three Days
