European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Oil firms indicted on four counts Houston up a Federal grand jury Friday indicted the Continental Oil it Tad two other Petroleum firms on four Onu of violating Cost of living Council defines in the Sale of gasoline and false of Cimon of records in 1973. H was the second Federal civil action inst the companies in a week. Us. District judge Finis Cowan sitting to Galve sum. Was expected to take pleas fam the companies and assess penalties. The indictments said Conoho sold re Ted Petroleum products to the Mcva be Etta an co. And Foremost Petroleum  Jami used a false report to the Federal Energy office in november 1s73. One count said the report stated the Pur Cotese Price was 16.9 cents a gallon for Reg Ifer and u.9 cent for Premium gasoline we in proven fact As Continental Oil co. Mil knew they had understated  the second count said in August 1973omco fold 190,100 bands of gasoline to Hia Petroleum co. At a Price in excess St be Ceung Price permitted under the Tot of using Council  j. Flatt  government said that a a Petrole u maintained a false document which Tilber bought the 251,100 barrels for $1.4 Jpn when they knew the invoice Wasum Tod misstated the actual Cost of the intact bought from  b a similar count the government said Foremost Petroleum paid above the Ceil to Price to Conoho for 325,800 barrels of lined Petroleum products also. A attorney . Canales said the ant involved was about $2 million. Cole said in a separate civil suit theml Fmiller had agreed to pay $3 million to Kua Treasury. Coa oco and a a Petroleum were liable rate maximum Fine of $15,000 each and to Aeoma was liable for a maximum Fine sunday August 13, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 23 red tape delays their entry Vietnam arrivals reunited co tuesday Willard h. Bump a for As executive vice president of Conoho. We no contest to charges of Selling at artificially High prices. � was fined the maximum penalty of Exchange for Bis plea the  not to prosecute Burnap for hoc transactions Between Conoho a la few nost which were executed ibs employment at Coa oco.  api they wailed these husbands and wives fathers an children for three to seven years and an Ocean apart to be together again. And the they were left to a couple of immigration inspectors wound in their own red tape who made them wait some More. Thus it should come As no Surprise Ibsen. Edward m. Kennedy a mass. Had a few Choice if not scaring words for immigration commissioner Leonel j. Cas Tillo during their trip to Rome for Pope Paul its funeral. Simply put the immigration and naturalization service unlike the state department the red Cross Kennedy himself and a Host of other officials did t quite get with the program thursday when group of 28 weary but Joyful persons arrived from Vietnam to be reunited at last with their american families. They were the vietnamese wives Chil Dren and other close relatives of american servicemen and some civilian worker who were unable to get their loved ones out before the sudden and chaotic communist takeover in 1975. Some had been separated for up to seven  took three years of behind the scenes negotiations with the vietnamese govern ment by Kennedy s office the red Cross the United nations High commissioner on refugees the state department and sever Al Volunteer groups to win the release of those relatives. All except three officials said we reissued . Passports by the . Embassy in Bangkok with the others granted parole status. That presumably would expedite their entry into the United  flight from Bangkok via Paris actually arrived at Dulles International air port near Here Early thursday afternoon and anxious husbands and fathers tear already in their eyes stood outside the . Customs Gate. They waited approximately i z hours for the precious moment when their families would walk into the Airport lobby. And with an increasingly angry Kennedy at their Side they waited and waited and  Gerzevske e. Of Oak Park 111., Shook visibly in anticipation of greeting his wife and three children including a son he had never  the customs area. Jerry tinker the Kennedy aide who headed the Mission that won the release of the relatives and accompanied them on the flight was steaming. Later he declared we encountered the strictest. Dumbest rules i be overseen. We were treated in sheer lackadaisical fashion by two ins Guys who treated Italy As nothing but  i say this Only half jokingly. It was easier to gel those people out of to Chi Minn City than it was to get them out of Dulles Airport tinker said. Kennedy after an hour s wait made Amend run into the customs area where even his pleas for speedier service were ignored. Finally the senator grabbed one Little girl by the hand and motioned the res of the group to follow. They did with ins officials still waving forms at them an Gerzevske and others finally were re warded with the embraces they had so Long awaited. An ins spokesman Verne Jervis. Said Friday that the delay was complicated by the simultaneous arrival of three International flights and the. Fact that some of the vietnamese especially those who spoke jets condemn new Ina Japan peace pact a _ the official soviet ency saturday quickly branded a Sno japanese peace treaty As hostilewu&&r., counter to peace and de " and fraught with tremendous Dan by Japan could harm news Agency said Japan had to peking in signing the includes an anti Helgemo a soviets have strongly of it is aimed at Moscow a is Labouring under an Illume Hegemony clause Willby another article which says the signatories relations it Usu to e to maintain an ind Epen Isil u a p01 As it says h will but1 n quite Clear already now that the treaty is in conflict with the interests of peace and detente and is fraught with tremendous danger Tor that  first to be threatened by this Dan Ger Tass said Are the Peoples of Southe Astasia who have already Long been the tar get of aggressive aspirations of the peking leaders. Japan May find itself drawn into this adventure by Means of the treaty signed in  said Tass in a commentary signed by Mikhail Demchenko. The treaty which has been under Dis Cussion since 1972 when Japan and China normalized diplomatic relations has Bee constantly opposed by the soviet Union which has warned it could harm soviet japanese relations. Moscow argues the controversial Hege Mony clause is aimed at barring it from Asia while peking s influence there spreads. Little English were reluctant to turn Over their papers to immigration officials. It was t just a matter of  he insisted. Things had to be done. Ii was for their Benefit. If they Don thave your formal admission papers it would catch up with them and cause More problems in the  tinker did t buy that explanation Good god he said. It was like we had arrived unannounced. Their attitude was that it was just another routine  Kennedy who apparently thought Athirst the problem was the fault of . Cus Toms rather than immigration muttered."1 just nope i Don t have to vote on their appropriations anytime soon and on Friday another Kennedy aide. Tom Southwick. Noted with some satisfaction that Castillo will be making the trip to Rome. I rather imagine the senator willbe having a Little Chat with him somewhere along the  he laughed. $9?8-M.Ionanf�Frusf suit against ism killed san Francisco a a Federal judge decided on Friday in favor of inter National business machines in a $9l8-Mil lion antitrust suit brought against it  corp. . District court judge Samuel con to s 48-Page opinion said it was granting ism s motion for a directed verdict and finds that As a matter of Law the record in this Case cannot justify a verdict by a reasonable jury in favor of  a lengthy jury trial ended july 5 with a jury deadlocked 9-2 in favor of memo Rex. Memo Rex had filed a civil suit in 1973. Claiming ism violated antitrust Laws by trying to monopolize the electronic data processing Industry. The suit contended ism attempted to eliminate Competition by unfair leasing practices and predatory pricing in the Sale and leasing of peripheral computer equipment. The judge also found that in the event the Case is sent Back for retrial by the . Court of appeals it should not be tried by a jury As demanded by memo Rex. Frank Cary chairman of the Board of ism responded to the decision saying we Are delighted. Six Federal judges now have agreed that ism s business practices Man gets $1,000 for mouse in Coke Dubuque. Iowa up a District court judge has upheld a $1,000 award to a Sherrill Man who said he found a mouse Ina full bottle of Coke. Charles Bradley had sued the coca Colaco. In Smalt claims court and was awarded the  company appealed to District court but judge Thomas h. Nelson said Bradley was entitled to the award. Nelson said his decision implied no negligence but said manufacturers must take the responsibility for occasional and unexpected  Bradley said he bought the bottle from vending machine at his place of employ ment. He said he became sick after he drank half the bottle before discovering the rodent floating in what was left Hearst executive dead at 63 Valley Stream. . A Alberta. Rachoi president of the Hearst corporation s International circulation distributors has died Here. He was s3. Are legitimate responses to the needs of our customers and to Competition. As i be said before there ought to be a limit to the number of times we must go to trial on these same issues. This process is not Only repetitious but is wasteful of time Money and Energy ism had moved for the directed verdict on grounds no reasonable jury could find for memo Rex on any of it contentions. It said memo Rex offered no substantial Evi Dence of unlawful pricing by ism regard less of any Issue of Market Power and failed to offer non speculative evidence of alleged  noted there was considerable Evi Dence that regardless of ism s shares of the Market it lacked Power to control prices or exclude Competition in these markets. International links to Moro Kidnap probed Rome a italian court officials re turned to Rome Friday night after a three Day visit to the German police Headquarters of Wiesbaden to investigate whether former Premier Aldo Moro was kidnapped and killed by terrorists with International links and  officials were tight lipped about the results of their investigation. They Dis closed however that they planned to travel to Cairo soon to Check allegations that four european terrorists arrested there last april had contacts with italian guerrilla groups. Similarities have been underlined by some italian investigators Between the bloody attack of via fan in Rome Las March when terrorists pulled five Moro bodyguards to Kidnap the politician an the kidnapping of Hans Martin Schleyer the president of the German manufacturers organization. The arms used by the commandos in the two attacks were similar and All later proved to come from a Stock stolen i Switzerland. Recent trips of some italian magistrates to the Headquarters of the German Crimi Nal police and their interest for the Dies of terrorists belonging to the red army fac Tion Raf indicate that the track of the International plot behind Moro s assassination is being carefully pursued