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Show WESTERN Faria Is, Oni;r nt University nf Utnh pelt luk8City, ut'h t.112 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 16, NUMBER 188 Economic Periscope Miami Review SWISS BANKS have been criticized for their tradition of banking secrecy,' solely fra- reasons of profit and greed, while providing a haven for criminal money and a shield for tax evaders. Hie charge is false. - The individuals right to privacy is basic concept that democratic countries recognize. The erosion of privacy through government surveillance is resisted by the Swiss. In fact whoever divulges a secret entrusted to him in his capacity as officer, employee, authorized agent, liquidator or commissioner of a bank, as a representative of the Banking Commission, officer or employee of a recognized auditing company or who has become aware of such a secret in this capacity; and who ever tries to induce others to violate professional secrecy, shall be punished by a prison term not to exceed six months or by a fine not exceeding Swiss Francs 50,000. a bank accounts in Switzerland are secret and bankers are required to maintain silence about their clients affairs under penalty of heavy fines and even imprisonment. The law makes no distinction between those designated by name and those identified by a number. The name that goes with the number is known only to a very few senior officers of the bank. Contrary to popular belief, numbered acounts represent only a small percentage of the total accounts. The Swiss have a passion for privacy that verges on a national obsession. They want to be left alone by their government as well as by All foreigners. The Swiss have seen wars, revolutions convulse neighboring countries. They have retained their neutrality. new REALISM COMING- -A toward attitude fiscal restraint is evolving. Some states, like Massachusetts, are confronted with near financial disaster. State expenditures have increased more than four times as fast as gross state products during the past few years. welfare costs send spending skyward. This destructive cycle points up the need for fiscal restraint. The burdens of the property tax are horrendous. Continued the dollar lessens the economic power and influence of the U.S. Foreign countries like Germany and Japan, with balance of payments surpluses, should give more help in supporting military forces and accept U.S. imports without trade barriers. weakening of NIXON is bent on A period of inflation. beating deflation can be devastating in the early stages. After Nixon is reelected, he will battle inflation more vigorously. Thai the international monetary situation will force more currency upvaluations and dollar devaluations, as foreign governments lose confindence in the value PRESIDENT of Plea to Nixon - Capsules - the U.S. dollar. What does this mean for stock prices? Look for a rise in the Dow during the next few months. Then be prepared for a Break in prices by the middle of 1973 and 1974. On Car JUSTICE HENRIOD CHIDES CASES USED AS VEHICLE TO FILE IN FEDERAL COURT Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution UTAH v. KIRBY Supreme Court: Affirmed. . . . "insistence that his proven is incrime under cluded in his proven crime unand thus unpunishder 76-3able, is as inversely fatuous as it is dispositive under the plain wording of the two statutes involved and our own and other authorities anent this type of case. State counsel: Vernon B. Romney, David Young, Wm. Evans Defendant counsel: Salt Lake Legal Defenders D. Gilbert Athay 231 E. 4 South 2, 0, HABEAS CORPUS DENIALS DILLINGHAM: Grand Larceny withdrawn-- - U.S. Suit Seeking More Black Rentals The a filed has Department of Justice civil suit and a consent decree to (ACCN) rental expand apartment op- portunities for blacks in Orange County, Calif. Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst said the suit and decree involving the Covington Brothers construction and apartment management firms were filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The Fullerton companies owned or managed some 17 apartment complexes containing more than 600 units in Orange County last year. The suit charged the companies with racial discrimination in the operation of apartment buildings in Anaheim, Fullerton and Santa Ana, in violation of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The suit said refused to rent the companies apartments to blacks, required different rental and terms and conditions, misrepresented that apartments were not available. The consent decree permanently enjoins the companies from in any engaging racially discriminatory housing practice and from failing to recruit and hire employees without regard to race. In addition, the companies are required to adopt an affirmative program of compliance with the Fair Housing Act, which includes standards for the use of the approval of rental applications. The companies are also required to notify the Orange County Fair Housing Council monthly of vacancies, to spend at least 10 percent of their newspaper advertising budget in newspapers with a predominantly black circulation, non-raci- al and to include fair-housi- ng statements in signs and brochures. i - equipment with no profit to the company or its dealers, he said. The emission control equipment has hurt fuel government-mandate- d In Wealthy County WASHINGTON S. allowed any relief whatsoever during the 1973 model year, said Ford. I think it would be unthinkable for the government to take that position. If we don't get an increase, well go up the ladder to the President, if necessary. The $92 increase requested by Ford was to cover the cost of the Raymond Shuey TAVENNER: Robbery Counsel: Edward Lechtzin WASHINGTON (UPI) The Ford II Supreme Court opens its fall term, DETROIT (UPI)-He- nry says he will go up the ladder" to October 2, facing requests to conPresident Nixon if necessary to gain sider last June's historic rulings on the price increases on 1973 models army spying and the Pentagon denied by the federal price com- papers. But this time without parmission. ticipation by Justice William H. ofRehnquist. Characterizing government It is 27 years since the High ficials as not bothering to figure out how much their programs will cost, Tribunal last was asked to disqualify Ford, chairman of Ford Motor Co., a member and theres no telling how said September 13, that continued the court will respond. Chances are control of wages and prices could it simply will reject the two requests damage the competitive strength of without explanation and take no further action on either of the two the nations economy. The companys original request cases, each having been decided by for at least a $92 increase on its new a one-vot-e margin. At issue is whether the models to cover government-mandate- d safety and emission-contro- l Justice should have taken part in equipment was more than either decision in view of his justified, said Ford during a news previous actions as assistant U.S. conference. After government attorney general in the Nixon Adpressure, Ford lowered its request ministration. While serving in that to $59. post, Rehnquist testified at a Senate The increases were denied, but hearing on government surveillance Ford said his company would be and he also was involved in efforts to back before the November elections, stop publication of the classified seeking permission to again in- Pentagon history of U.S. policy in Vietnam. crease prices. We will find ourselves in a The Court ruled on both cases disastrous position if we are not shortly before it adjourned for the By Trial Court: Convicted of killing prison guard. Counsel: Prices By Charlotte Moulton Mis-Apprai- se 76-7-1- FRIDAY. SEPT. 29. 1972 High Court Term To Reconsider 2 Cases Ford Threatens Utah Supreme Court Decisions By Lee Ruwitch Runaway AMERICANA and certain safety equipment has interfered with economy styling. I think people want automobiles so badly that theyll forgive almost all those things except when you get a price so high they dont feel they can fit it into their budget, which all these things are doing driving prices up, he said. CAB Proposes Smokers Be -4 -4 identity of confidential sources of information when it is sought by a Segregated WASHINGTON (UPI)-T- he government has proposed that airlines be required to segregate smokers and Under a proposal by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the air carriers would have to designate a non-smoke- smoking area in the rear of each domestic airliner while smoking anywhere else in the passenger compartment would be banned. Many of the major airlines already segregate smokers, but there is no uniform procedure in the industry. In its notice of proposed a procedure which gives the and the industry 45 days to public comment before the board makes a final decision, the CAB said the number of seats set aside as no smoking areas must be sufficient to that all persons who prefer not to be seated in proximity to a passenger who smokes can be accommodated. The proposed rule is the outgrowth of a petition filed in 1969 by con. summer. First, it refused in a decision to find that Army spying on civilians constituted an invasion of free speech, holding that the persons bringing the suit failed to demonstrate any specific injury. Three days later, it ruled 5 to 4 that Democratic Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska could be required to testify before a Boston grand jury and reveal how he obtained the Pentagon papers before arranging to have large excerpts published by Beacon Press, Boston. The' requests for reconsideration of the two cases have come from Gravel and the American Civil Liberties Union. The Supreme Court agrees to reconsider cases by the vote of a majority, which must include at least one Justice who joined in the previous majority opinion. Some observers also had expected Rehnquist to disqualify himself from a series of cases involving freedom of the press, in which the Court ruled that newspaper again not do the right under have reporters to the 1st Amendment withhold the rule-maki- ng sumer advocate Ralph Nader, grand jury. for subpoenaing Guidelines drawn up by the were reporters Justice Department in 1970, while Rehnquist was there. But no motion to eliminate him has been filed in these cases. The only other reported instance where a party to a dispute sought disqualification of a Supreme Court Justice came in 1945. The issue then was participation by the late Justice Hugo L. Black in a case argued by his former law partner, and it sparked a feud between Black and the late Justice Robert H. Jackson.; The Court refused to Two members of the Court, speaking only for themselves, said the complaint is one which cannot properly be addressed to the Court as a whole. ' Traditionally, a Justice's conscience has been the only guide for a decision whether or not to disqualify himself and the two Justices in the 1945 case underlined that, saying: No statute prescribes grounds upon which a Justice of this Court may be disqualified in ar.y case. re-he- ar Taking the hint. Congress in 1948 enacted this law: "Any Justice or Judge of the United Stales shall disqualify himself in any case in which he has a substantial interest, has been of counsel, is or has been a material witness, or is so related to or connected with any party or his attorney as to render it improper, in his opinion, for him to sit on the trial, appeal, or other proceeding therein. But the words "in his opinion still appear to leave the moral question to the man alone. Gravel told the Court Rehnquists participation in his appeal violated the law since the government was the chief party-inrtYfthfegon &YWtnegr can be no Be npr litigant. Rehnquist' wds in charge. rifThe Justice Departnuenfcls; Tfjatict 'of legal cotmsqP whfen the department initiated' the grand jury investigation of Gravels release of the papers. the Justice not only prepared a memorandum analyzing the merits of . the governments attempt to suppress publication of the papers by the press, but also telephoned the Washington Post to ask that newspaper to refrain from further In addition, Gravel said, . . publication. Gravel said in view of this history, Rehnquists involvement in the Supreme Court decision was en- tirely unseemly and improper, particularly so in view of the crucial fifth vote supplied by him, a vote which substantially reversed the opinion of the court below. The Senator and the ACLU also cited a new code of judicial ethics prepared by the American Bar Association. Rehnquist appeared before the Senate subcommittee on constitutional rights in 1971 as assistant attorney general and discussed army surveillance in the framework of the very case the court decided. He said private citizens do not have a right to sue to stop the gathering of information by the government unless they are threatened with prosecution. The ACLU alleged that the Army had invaded the constitutional rights antiwar leaders and other ' protesters by infiltrating their of organizations and keeping a huge data bank on thousands of individuals. Anti-Abortio- n Law Voided HARTFORD necticuts (UPI) four-month-o- - ld Con- anti- struck down same three the 20, by September court judge federal panel that found a nearly identical law unconstitutional last April. abortion law was Atty. Gen. Robert K. Killian, who fought the earlier ruling on behalf of the stale, said the state would appeal to the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. The 1 decision, with Judge T. Emmet Charie dissenting as he did in the earlier ruling, left open the possiblity of abortion becoming entangled again in the legislature as an election year issue. 2-- I |