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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, September 28, 1978

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 28, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 Carter lifts arms embargo on Turkey Washington up president car Ter tuesday lifted the . Arms embargo against Turkey saying the action was in the Best interests of the United states and its allies in  tuesday signed the $2.8-billion International Security assistance act which authorized him to end the embargo and then issued a memorandum to the Secretary of state ordering the resumption. The Bill also transfers . Military equipment to South Korea in conjunction with the withdrawal of american forces. Farber wins last minute jail reprieve Washington a new York times reporter Myron a. Farber won a last minute reprieve tuesday from his scheduled return to a new Jersey jail for refusing to reveal his confidential files. Supreme court Justice Potter Stewart ordered new Jersey authorities to allow Farber to remain free until they hear fur ther from him or the full court. Farber was to have been returned to a Hackensack n.j., jail cell at 4 . Edt. Stewart s order was announced at 3 20 .Farber already has spent 27 Days in jail and the times has paid $130,000 in fines for refusing to surrender confidential information to a new Jersey judge presiding Over a murder Case. Fines against times deferred tuesday s order also postponed resumption of $5,000 daily fines against the times until Stewart or the full court the order did not specify studies More closely the emergency  and the times want to postpone All penalties against them while the supreme court considers their formal a  53-Page Appeal also was filed tues Day but it is not Likely the court will decide for at least several weeks whether to Grant it full  emergency Appeal was forwarded to Stewart after Justice William j. Brennanjr. Excused himself without explanation from considering it. Files demanded judge William Arnold ordered Farber and the times to hand Over All files com piled in Farber s investigation of a series of patient deaths in the mid-1960s at an Oradell n.j.,  said he would Survey the information and determine whether any of it was needed at  s 1975 articles led authorities to renew their investigation of the deaths. Or. Mario Jas Calevich identified Only As or. A in Farber s initial articles is charged with murder in connection with three of the deaths. It also set conditions for limiting eco nomic sanctions against Rhodesia and pro Hibits . Aid to programs that Spray harmful herbicides such As paraquat on marijuana unless a Dye is used to warn a potential  issued a statement on the lifting of the arms embargo saying the nation is Well served by the authorization Given by  ban on the Sale of equipment was applied shortly after Turkey violated an agreement and used american arms Dur ing fighting on Cyprus. The White House released a copy of car Ter s memo to Secretary of state Cyrus Vance in which the president said the re sumption is in the National interest of the United states and in the interest of the North Atlantic treaty  he also expressed belief that Turkey is acting in Good Faith to achieve a just and peaceful settlement of the Cyprus prob Lem the Early peaceable return of Refu gees to their Homes and properties and continued removal of turkish military brother says Shaf Ruby never me Oswald Washington up Jack Ruby never met Lee Harvey Oswald before gunning him Down in front of television cameras two Days after the assassination of John f. Kennedy Ruby s brother testified tues Day. Earl Ruby 63, Jack s younger brother told the House assassinations committee he does not believe Jack was involved in any conspiracy. I asked him Point Blank if he had known Oswald before Earl said of his brother. " absolutely not. What Are you nuts were his  asked if Jack would have told him of any involvement Earl replied Well he knew he was going to die when he had cancer. If he had known anything he would have told , a Stocky Man with grading hair testified in a nervous husky voice before the committee investigating the nov. 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy. Ruby said he had a secret he was asked to comment on a bbl interview in which Jack said he had a secret and no one will Ever learn the True facts about Why he shot Oswald. I m the Only person who knows the truth Ruby said in the interview which was shown on a screen set up in the House caucus  Adelson a Detroit attorney who said he know Jack better than anyone in the United states broke in then and said Oswald s murderer had become Para  got the feeling All jews were being taken to Dallas to be disposed of in his Par Antic state Adelson  testified that his brother was a very sensitive Man Quick to take impulsive action. He said he once asked his brother Why he shot  was quoted As saying he was moved to kill Oswald when i saw him come through the door with that Smirk on his face looking so Happy he killed the  said his brother frequently prac tired with his revolver and May not have intended to kill Oswald because he aimed Earl Ruby at his stomach rather than at his Chest or  said he had loaned his brother a total of $15,000 Over the years and never got a Penny Back. Yet he said he remained on Friendly terms with his brother. Earl said he did not know of Ruby s alleged underworld friends but recalled one of his brother s Good friends was Lewis Mcwillie described As a Las vegas nev., Gambler. He said Jack visited Mcwillie in Cuba in 1959 on a vacation business trip. But Earl said Jack never told him any details of the trip. Earl denied making a Telephone Call from his Detroit Plant to Cuba in 1962 de spite phone records confirming the Call. He said he told the Warren commission the same thing and had expected the panel to Check out his Story. I did t think anything More about it he said and thought they would Check it out. Since i did t Send it i had no reason to Check it  troops from  the main purpose of the Bill is to provide funding for Grant military assistance Mili tary education and training military sales credits economic support International narcotics control and International peace keeping efforts. The embargo was imposed three years ago in Hopes of forcing a Resolution of the Cyprus Issue Between Turkey and Greece. Carter has said that it instead drove a wedge Between Turk leaders and their Nat allies. Tobacco firm denies cancer link admitted Durham . A Liggett & my ers tobacco company tuesday denied a claim by a health researcher that the firm had acknowledged a link Between tobacco and cancer in an application for a Patent on a new  & Myers applied for the Patent in october citing evidence that mice painted with untreated tobacco developed skin to mors More frequently than those painted with tobacco which had been mixed with certain chemical additives. The additives were contained in the proposed filter. In their conclusions pm researchers wrote that untreated tobacco produced the earliest and highest incidence of to mors on the skins of mice in the experiments. Wording called a first or. Dietrich Hoffman a biochemist and researcher for the american health foun Dation said that the wording was a significant first for a tobacco  called it the first time Experiment ers working directly for a tobacco company have acknowledged such a relationship Between tobacco and cancer. They have never made such an admission  help control substances but pm spokesman Dan Provost insisted tuesday that the company had not admitted anything not even that the new filter would be of any health Benefit to smokers. All the new filter will do. Provost indicated is help control substances in to Bacco which appear to cause skin tutors on  they be done is design a filter that would eliminate that problem if it is a problem he said. No responsible person in the scientific Community has Ever said you could interpolate from the skin of mice to the lungs of  Provost said pm still does not concede that filter cigarettes Are safer than non file or cigarettes. The Ianco rep. Burke guilty in nude go go Case is of time fort Lauderdale Fla. Up rep. J. Herbert Burke r-Fla., pleaded guilty tuesday to two Misdemeanour charges and no contest to a charge of tampering with a witness to his arrest at a nude go go  county judge Peter Shahood fined the Veteran congressman a. Total of $150 for the guilty pleas to charges of disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest with out violence. He sentenced him to three months of non reporting probation for the no contest plea to witness tampering. Burke must also pay the $1,437.70 Cost of the police investigation of his Case. Burke was subdued in court and told Sha Hood i regret this matter. I be been in Public office 26 years and this is the first time i be been in court As a  Burke who is facing a Tough re election Campaign for his 12th District seat said he decided to change his original plea of inno cent because of massive publicity about his  be been under a great Deal of pres sure Burke  was arrested May 26 in the parking lot of the Centrefold bar a night club that features topless and bottomless go go danc ers. Employees said police were called to the club when Burke pinched a dancer and got into an argument with another Patron. Burke said he followed two men to the night club to gather evidence about drug dealing in his capacity As a member of a House subcommittee investigating narcotics traffic in the  witness tampering charge stemmed from an alleged attempt to persuade the Centrefold club s manager to change his account of the incident. Assistant state attorney Ralph Ray said Burke had wanted to plead no contest to All three charges but he held out for guilty pleas to the two Misdemeanour charges. Ray said he agreed to a no contest plea to the witness tampering charge because there is a serious question of criminal intent to interfere with a police  Shahood said the fines he levied against Burke were Normal for the Misdemeanour charges. I will not treat j. Herbert Burke any Dif Ferent from anyone else he said. Sept. 28, 1948 the leftist inspired first inter american Oil Congress decided to refuse to Send Oil to America and eng land in the event of another world . 28, 1958 Ted Williams won his sixth american league batting Champion ship with two hits in tour trips the last Day of the season. Williams had a .328 batting . 28, 1%8 president Charles de Gaulle of France faced up to West German leaders Only hours after rejecting their lat est move to bring Britain closer to the european common Market  
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