European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 8, 1$78 the stars and stripes Page 5 san Antonio Rosalyn first lady Rosalyn Carter thanks Mem Bers of a mariachi band during her visit to san Antonio and the Southwest Craft civil suits against Fri Center there. She made a swing through three Texas cities on behalf of democratic candidates. Up Justice dept. To  for sex agents defense Washington up the Justice department has decided to  defense costs in civil suits for former Fri agents who carried out illegal break ins Deputy attorney general Benjamin Civiletti disclosed wednesday. Defense costs will also be paid for All other Federal officials implicated but not indicted in possible criminal wrongdoing he said. The decision Means that while the department is prosecuting former Fri director l. Patrick Gray and two of his top aides for approving the illegal break ins it will also hire private lawyers to defend numer Ous agents who carried out their orders. Civiletti said in an interview that top department officials have spent Long hours wrangling Over when the government should defend Federal officials in civil suits. Concerned he said assistant attorney general bar Bara Babcock head of the civil division was particularly concerned Over two kinds of cases in making her decision where an official is under indictment and faces a civil suit for conduct similar to but not the same As the actions for which he was indicted. Where the official was not indicted for various reasons but is being sued for acts similar to those leading to prosecution of another official. Barbara has said the civil division can not sit As some kind of tin god and decide whether someone is guilty or not guilty in determining whether to provide counsel in civil cases Civiletti said. As a result he said except in cases where formal charges Are brought the government will  for private defense lawyers for the employees involved. We have defended Fri agents from time to time where they have been sued civilly for wrongful conduct Civiletti said. Most of the Fri agents involved were part of the Bureau s squad 47 in new York which committed illegal break ins in a Hunt in the Early 1970s for fugitive Mem Bers of the Radical Weatherman group. Gray w. Mark Felt the former no. 3 Man at the Bureau and Edward s. Miller former head. Of Fri intelligence Are scheduled to stand trial next month on charges officiating the civil rights of rela Tives and friends of the fugitives by authorizing break ins wiretaps and mail open Ings without court warrants. Most of the agents concerned were granted immunity from prosecution in re turn for testimony against their superiors allowing them to escape prosecution. Department officials also have said they were electing to prosecute at the policy making level in the Case and not to press charges against Low Echelon employees. The department meanwhile has asked Congress to give Fri agents and depart ment lawyers immunity from civil suits and to substitute the United states As defendant in those cases. Fed s Miller Calls for delay of social Security tax hike Washington a the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board urged con Gress on wednesday to strike a big blow against inflation by delaying for one year the $8 billion social Security tax increase due to take effect Jan. 1. G. William Miller also told the Senate finance committee that cutting the tax on capital gains would not be the Best method of increasing investment. Because businesses or employers share social Security costs on a 50-50 basis with workers these businesses presumably would increase prices to offset their $4 billion share of the scheduled tax increase thus fueling inflation. Miller said deferral of the social Security increase would reduce inflation next year by half a percentage Point. But he added that any such delay should be accompanied by a thorough study that could Lead to reduced social Security benefits. Temporary Rollback Miller recommended that the temporary Rollback be included in the income tax Cut Bill that the committee will begin writing on thursday. He urged the Senate to weigh carefully the size and shape of the tax Cut. A tax Cut certainly should provide no More stimulus than is necessary to sustain moderate economic expansion anything More could jeopardize our chances of re straining inflation Miller said. He said a tax Cut in the Vicinity of $15 billion. Would be  the House voted for a $16.3 billion tax Cut for individuals and businesses an amount endorsed by the Carter administration. Miller apparently has changed his think ing about the tax Cut in recent weeks. He wrote to tvo senators on aug. 23 that a Cut of $15 billion to $20 billion would be Ideal with a third of it going to business. He said wednesday that the one Quarter business share in the House Bill seems about right. Cutting taxes beyond recommending a one year defer ral of higher social Security taxes Miller did not spell out How individual income taxes should be Cut. To head off bankruptcy of the social Security system Congress last december raised taxes starting Jan. 1, 1979. The so Cial Security tax increase next year will Range from $4 at the lowest income Levels to a maximum of $260 to be paid by those earning about $25,000 or More. Should Congress accept Miller s recommendation those increases would not take effect until 1980. In a statement that seemed to take some committee members by Surprise Miller cautioned Congress against making deep s. Africa rejects . Plan to Send peacekeeping Force United Natins up South Afri Ca wednesday rejected Secretary general Kurt Waldheim s proposal for a Large scale . Peacekeeping operation in South West Africa to guarantee free elections and a peaceful transition to Independence. In a formal note to Waldheim South african foreign minister Roelof Botha said South Africa could not accept a . Force of 7,500 men and 1,200 civilian officials. South african sources said Botha had not slammed the door to the peace plan As such but that his note represented a de Mand for changes in particular a reduction of the Force. Botha also objected to Waldheim s proposal to Send 36q civilian . Police offi cers to the country and to a postponement of the envisaged Independence Date beyond dec. 31,1978. Waldheim had suggested that elections be held within seven months after acceptance of the plan and that an Independent Namibia be created within one year which would be in late summer 1979. In his 21-Page note to Waldheim Botha complained bitterly about the continuing guerrilla War launched by the South West Africa people s organization. He emphasized that South Africa had negotiated under the impression that All hostilities would cease upon Mutual agreement be fore the plan goes into effect. Cuts in capital gains taxes at the expenses of other business tax Relief. It would be far better for Congress to use the limited amount of available reve nue to Cut business taxes in ways that would provide far greater incentive to in Vest in new Job producing plants and equipment he said. Poo victim crusades for transportation Harrisburg up polio stricken Edward Davenport finished a 110-mile ride by motorized wheelchair Over a pothole Ridden state Road from Norristown pa., to Harrisburg tuesday in his one Man Cru Sade for mass transportation to serve handicapped persons. I was t too sure i was going to make it but i did said Davenport who was Fol Lowed along the Way by supporters in a Blue station Wagon. He stopped overnight at motels equipped to serve handicapped persons. Davenport said his trip was intended to Call Public attention to a federally Man dated program that requires All new mass transit buses to be accessible by Handi capped persons. The buses Are known As trans buses. Held a Vigil Davenport said he did not represent any specific group although several supported his Endeavor and held a Vigil last week on the Pennsylvania Capitol Steps. Davenport was welcomed at the Capitol Steps after his six Day journey by gov. Mil ton Shapp s personal representative Frank Coyle who called Davenport s Effort a remarkable  you be shown that handicapped per sons Are Only As handicapped As they Are perceived by the Public said Coyle. You have shown guts and  of time sept. 8, 1948 a group of atomic scientists claimed smear methods of the House in american activities committee were Peiling government atomic research. They said if the nation were to have a Vig Orous government research program the unhealthy atmosphere that had been Cre ated must be removed. Sept. 8, 1958 two couples in nor walk calif., traded mates and were living across the Street from each other in Honey Moon Harmony. The neighbor wives obtained divorces in Las vegas and immediately married each other s former husband. Sept. 8, 1968 a hidden microphone traced to Abc recording facilities was found accidentally in a hotel room being used for a closed session of the democratic platform committee in Chicago