European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 22, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 Fri paid 1.6 million for spying on trotskyite groups reports show a real Winner Margie Staton Sloan from Atlanta ga., smiles in Victory after being named miss wheelchair America during the pageant in Columbus Ohio. Up Washington a the Fri says it paid More than $1.6 million to informer who spied on the political and financial affairs of the socialist workers party during the past 16 years according to documents disclosed tuesday. The Cash payments were made periodically from 1960 through 1976 to 301 Volun Teer informers who joined the party or its affiliate the Young socialist Alliance to gather information about the trotskyite groups activities the documents showed. The political rights defense fund which is financing the parly s multimillion Dollar lawsuit against the Fri made the documents Public. The material shows the Fri was passing out big chunks of Cash for political dirty tricks said Sid Stapleton the defense fund s National Secretary. The defense fund noted that the Docu ments provide information Only on Fri payments of Money from 1960 to 1976 to in formers who were members of the sep or  the Fri has acknowledged having 309 informers who joined one group or the other and documents show that All but eight of them were paid. In addition the Fri has Yacknow Legrd using More than 1,000 other informers to spy on the party at various times during the 16 years although they did not join it. The Bureau has provided no information on the amount of Money paid to those spies. The documents Are the Fri replies to interrogatories from party lawyers seeking information about the informer payments in the course of the damage suit. The suit accuses the Bureau of illegal harassment and disruption of legitimate political activities. In response to court orders the Fri pre House won f junk breeders Carter nuclear reactor bid rejected Washington a the House of representatives tuesday rejected presi Dent Carter s request to junk the United states breeder nuclear reactor program raising the possibility of veto. By a vote of 246 to 162, the House Defeated a White House backed move to Cut authorized spending on the reactor to $33 million enough Only to phase out the project. Then the House rejected a Compromise to keep the project alive but on a delayed schedule by authorizing spending of $75 million. That lost by an even greater margin 277 to 129. That left the Bill As it was drafted in committee $ 150 million to keep the project on schedule with preliminary work at the Clinch River term., site to begin by this time next year. The Senate has authorized some $75 Mil lion so the difference will have to be worked out in conference. Earlier Carter administration sources had said the presi Dent was considering a veto of any plan that failed to kill the project. The president advocated killing the project on grounds there is ample time to develop other alternatives including other nuclear Power generating methods to meet National Energy needs. Also Carter said . Development of the breeder would encourage other nations to work on their own breeders presenting a danger of nuclear arms proliferation. The breeder produces weapons Grade Bonn official to visit Japan Bonn up West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher will visit Japan and Mainland China next month the foreign ministry announced. It said he will visit Japan oct. 10-12 and China oct. 12-15. Plutonium which can be converted into nuclear explosives within Days. International safeguards against plutonium theft or Covert development of weapons Are inadequate the administration  of the breeder viewed the breeder project As a National Energy insurance policy. The project at Clinch River is experimental and would be developed Only on a commercial basis if the breeder is needed. The breeder produces More plutonium fuel than it consumes while making steam to produce electricity. With breeders producing fuel As Well As Power the nation would not have to face importing uranium to drive the Light water reactors used by utilities today the opponents said. On Carter s other arguments advocates of the breeder said a comprehensive set of controls could be negotiated internationally. Piously provided limited descriptions of the informers work and the Type of mate rial collected. In both instances the Fri identified each informer by a code number in a procedure approved by the court to protect the informers identities. By Matching the code numbers in both sets of documents it is possible to determine what the Fri apparently got for its Money. For example documents show that in former no. 306 was paid $34,779 from 196h through 1976 and fed the Bureau More than 200 party letters and memos budget state ments lists of party members political strategy papers newsletters and publicly distributed leaflets. No. 505 s Best year was 1973, when he or she was paid s11,100, the most any informer on the list got in one year. By contrast informer no. 28 earned barely enough for one decent meal a single$5 payment in 1966. Proceedings for a four year old party lawsuit have forced the Fri to disclose thousands of documents describing its Effort to harass and disrupt party activities. That was one of several coun Tennelli gence programs known in Bureau Lingo As Cointe pro against several militant groups on the political left and  september the Fri ended its 38 year investigation of the party to comply with new Justice department guidelines restricting intelligence gathering against Domestic political groups. Over the 38 years the Only Federal Crim Inal charge brought against party Mem Bers As a result of party activities was the indictment of 18 party leaders in 1940 on charges of violating sections of the anti subversive Smith act which were later ruled unconstitutional. Of time sept. 22, 1947 the 16 nations of West Ern Europe formally approved their 244 Page Marshall plan report and dispatched it to Washington. The plan called for $22.44 billion to finance the recovery of non communist Europe. Sept. 22, 1957 Jean Sibelius one of the world s Best known composers who Drew on his beloved finnish landscape for some of his better known works died at his country Home near Helsinki. He was 91. Sept. 22, 1967 the United states said that the Vietnam War should be ended As soon As possible by a political situation and called for the Active participation of All . Members in such a quest for peace. Eleanor Roosevelt pleaded to die son Elliott says new York a Eleanor Roosevelt pleaded to be allowed to die in the latter stages of her painful final illness in 1962 and secretly stopped taking her Medicine her son Elliott Roosevelt writes. The widow of president Franklin d. Roosevelt suffered acutely from debilitating and incurable plastic anaemia As Early As 1960. This was combined with a Long latent and undetected tuberculosis that was diagnosed Only toward the end Roose velt writes in Mother r Eleanor Roose velt s untold Story which is excerpted in the current ladies Home journal. Roosevelt s account also contains Pas sages of bitter regret Over the failure of the Roosevelt children to be close or to provide their Mother with Comfort and support. Roosevelt said the pleas to be allowed to die led his sister Anna who took charge of her Mother s affairs to bring in specialists and push aside or. David Gurewitsch Eleanor Roosevelt s Long time personal doctor. My sister was fearful that compassion might tempt or. Gurewitsch into acceding to Mother s wish he writes continuing if no one else would Grant her desire she would have to see to it herself. Believing it was nonsensical to go on any longer she spat out the pills she was handed or held them under her Tongue. Throughout her life Roosevelt writes she had received scant Solace from her family. We had been Blind to her immense capacity for  the last time the Roosevelt children were together was five years ago when John then 56 Franklin jr., 58 Elliott 62 James 64, and Anna 66, attended the opening of their Mother s Wing at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park new York. Elliott writes that he Felt a stranger with  five not so Young Roosevelt had continued to walk our separate ways heed less of Mother s yearning to unite us As a family worthy of our name. There was no Trace of kinship. We had broken with each other As we had with her. We had lived Only in a reflection of our parents