European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns the stars and stripes wednesday. March 25.1987 William Safire Deaver s perjury indictment comes up Short perhaps you believe that a grand jury Ai the urging of a special prosecutor has indicted Michael a Caver for peddling influence specifically Tor breaking the ethics in government Law which restricts former government officials from immediately lobbying their sex colleagues. You arc misled. The Independent counsel Whitney North Seymour or. Who was charged by a court to investigate Deaver j lobbying failed to per Suade a Brand jury that enough evidence existed to warrant a charge that the ethics Law had been broken. Instead Seymour has served up two counts of perjury along Wilh three lesser counts of false declaration to add filler to a Jhin Gruel indictment. This Means that a Caver is being accused of lying about a crime that he is not accused of committing. If he had re fused to testify to the Congress and if he had exercised his fifth amendment rights in the grand jury room he would be Home free Back in business Selling Access. Thus at the worst moment Seymour is sending this message to ail officials under investigation Don t help the government make its Case. That message is not lost on North pol Dexter and second targets of a More special prosecutor. Consider what this appointee of an oversight less appeals court panel has failed to do. One year ago next week these three sentences appeared in this space i am told that during a trip to South Korea after leaving the White House or. A Caver called the Csc Start to arrange a meeting Between president Reagan and Kim Kiliman a Trade offi Cial president of the Llhee foundation. Or. Fix
