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Show c DAILY UTAH THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1978 B5ll(D)inidlDe by bomb JOHN MURRAY ry "In Hattclhi 1974, received $4,000 coirotiiroIbiuitfDOin) by KEVIN Wednesday. Marion Clark, who was my editor, took the train from New York to Washington," Maxa said. "She was depressed because her fiance had just ended their relationship, so she had a full bottle of wine to drown her sorrow. When a paint factory exploded, delaying the train for several hours between Baltimore and Washington, Clark talked with the two passengers remaining in her car. One was Elizabeth Ray. As the wine bottle emptied, they discussed men. '"Men. I can tell you about men," Liz said, and told Marion she slept with a powerful government official, but then she didn't say any more. Marion suggested that I call her for my column. I'm always looking for stories about the seamy side of Washington," Maxa said. Ray broke several lunch appointments with Maxa and went to Hollywood to take acting lessons before "dropping the dirty dime" almost two years later. She finally told Maxa Rudy Maxa Chronicle staff During his successful 1976 Senatorial campaign, Sen. Orrin Hatch received about $4,000 from the Adolph Coors brewing company. A portion of the Coors' money was received directly by Hatch's campaign committee, the rest was received via a Washington D.C. based conservative group called the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress (CFSFC). Hatch is Utah's ranking member on the Senate Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Subcommittee. Hatch said that the Coors donations would have no influence on his decisions while serving on that committee. Hatch, a Mormon, said, "I am personally opposed, in my personal life, to the consumption of beer. But I don't impose those beliefs on others." During a recent Senate subcommittee hearing, Hatch the nation's largest brewery, attacked an Anheuser-Busch- , introduction of Chelsea, a "Baby Beer," which contains only .5 percent alcohol. Hatch called it "an openly disgraceful attempt to encourage the consumption of beer." According to Federal Election Committee records, on October 1, 1976, Joseph Coors contributed $1,000 to the Orrin G. Hatch for Senate Committee. On October 7, the Coors Employees Political Action Committee also contributed $1,000 to the Hatch campaign. On Aug. 9, 1976, Lowell C. Sund, senior vice president of Coors, contributed $1,000 to the CFSFC. Ten days later, on August 19, Peter H. Coors also gave $1,000 to the CFSFC. Then on August 25, CFSFC gave $2,000 to the Hatch campaign. In a telephone interview with the Chronicle, Hatch said, "Let me tell you, I would be offended if anybody thought that -- so-call- camrnpaigmi she was employed by Rep. Wayne I laves but never went to the office. She said he provided sex. "We didn't believe it," Maxa said. "We knew she was jealous because Hayes married his Ohio mistress and didn't invite her to the wedding reception. There were only two ways we could think of to prov e what she told us: that she did not work in the office, and that she and I laves were having an affair," he said. Although Ray's immediate supervisor said the office couldn't get along without her. he twice guessed incorrectly about which of three office buildings she worked in. and Maxa discovered that her office contained only a backgammon set, an unplugged typewriter ("she didn't know how to turn it on") and the bcxk. Fear of Flying. "It was tacky to follow them around," Maxa said, recalling his and Clark's fumbling efforts to see Hayes and Ray together socially. "Marion borrowed a friend's car, but she couldn't figure out how to dim the brights, so she gave up." Maxa trailed Hayesalone. "He was a really slowdriverand w hen he pulled to a stop sign, he just sat there. I couldn't go anywhere. I couldn't just stop in the middle of nowhere right behind him and wait for him to move again, so I kept creeping up until I was across from him. I looked over, and I think he looked over at me. I felt like there was a neon sign above my head 'Washington Post ieorter following you.' I was so shook I turned right and he turned left, and I lost While Maxa and Clark were at Ray's apartment, however, Hayes called and made comments indicating that he knew any amount of money would influence me one way or the other." When asked about the Coors contributions to the CFSFC, Hatch said, "Well, Coors is a heavy sponsor of the CFSFC, so what?" As to having prior knowledge of the Coors contributions by Joseph Coors, Hatch responded, "Heavens no, I didn't even know that he had donated, when Sen. Moss brought up that I had received $1,000 from Joe Coors. I didn't even know who Joe Coors was." Hatch, who has since met Coors, said, "I think he is one of the finest men I've met in the country." "Joseph Coors contributes to many conservative causes," Hatch added. "Anybody w ho knows Joe Coors, knows that is the way he deals." The Chronicle also asked Hatch about the unsuccessful AFL-CIattempts to organize the Coors brewery. Additionally he was questioned about his own outspoken position against recent labor reform laws and the crucial role he played in the filibuster of the recent labor bill in the 95th Congress. "If I thought anybody was supporting me for the sole purpose of influencing my approach to legislative proposals, I wouldn't accept the money. It's just that simple," Hatch said. As to whether Hatch would accept further campaign contributions from beer makers, he said, "I am personally opposed to the use of alcoholic beverages. But I would certainly accept a contribution from Joe Coors, who has never asked me for anything to begin with and who frankly is a very fine man. "But he has to know, as I told him then, that I am against alcoholic beverages personally and I don't use them. Coors said, 'Don't even talk about that, it has nothing to do with it (the donations),'" he added. O divestiture debate to uncover complexities of apartheid issue Ray wasn't working. "Liz had phones in her kitchen, bedroom and bathroom, and we all picked them up at the same time. It was legal, because you can listen in if you hav e the permission of one of the parties," he said. After "chit-cha- t of a crude, explicit nature," Hayes warned Ray that the Washington Post was on his trail. Bob Woodward was looking into Hayes' finances, Maxa explained. "'That Woodward's been prowling around here. If he finds out about you. . . ' His voice trailed off," Maxa said. "It was a pretty good indication to us that he knew. I said, 'Hold onl I'm not Joe Reporter if this isn't a story!'" Maxa said when he first wrote the story, he thought it would be of interest only in Hayes' home district in Ohio, and for a day of gossip in Washington. But he has a theory about why Elizabeth Ray became a household name in two days. "We as Americans hold certain myths dear to our hearts," he said. "We think General Elec trie has a lightbulb that will burn 40 years, General Motors has an engine that gets 200 miles to the gallon, and that congressmen have blonde bimbos on their payrolls." "But to actually have that myth smacked in your face a blonde on the front page of the Post saying, 'Yeah, I gel paid to have sex' it's a psychic shock," Maxa said. "Elizabeth Ray was just a metaphor for a greater sort of darkness. I think it touched a nerve." He said he was able to write the story because he did not cover the House regularly, and did not have to worry about alienating sources. He criticized rejxH ters who adhere to the "old boy technique," becoming pals with their subjec ts and sources. Evans Novak and Joseph Kraft turn out "homoKenied crap," he said. He said he favored an adversary relationship between government and the press, because the press is the only entity with the resources to watch politicians. "There is only one corps of people who are paid to be obnoxious in Washington, and that's the press," he said. U Divestment of University funds held by corporations in racially troubled South Africa is the topic of a panel discussion to be held today at noon in the Union Ballroom. The discussion will feature spokespersons from both sides of the divestiture question, an issue that has received considerable attention at the University and at other colleges nationwide in the last few months. On October 9, the University Institutional Council decided to follow President David P. Gardner's recommendation not to divest n the University's nearly dollars held by American corporations operating in apartheid South Africa. The council had been urged to divest by several student groups on campus, including the Young Socialist Alliance, the Student Coalition Against Racism and the Utah Committee for University Divestment (UCUD). Since that decision, members of these groups have been distributing petitions favoring divestment. "It will be very interesting to see how these gentlemen (the antidivestment panel half-a-millio- . members) will attempt to defend an indefensible position," said Leon Brown, a spokesman for the UCUD, and a pro-divestme- nt panelist. Calvin Gaddis, a local private investment counselor, and one of the speakers against divestment, agreed with Brown that the system of apartheid is indefensible. "But, there might be other, possibly more effective weapons (than divestment) to use against it," he said. Joining Gaddis in speaking against divestment will be Anthony Morgan, an executive assistant to President Gardner, and Rick Thornton, a third-yea- r law student at the University. Speaking for divestment, in addition to Brown, will be Michael Clark, director of the University's Institute for Black Studies, and Joseph Navarro, an assistant professor of political science at the University. The discussion, which is being sponsored by the Chronicle and ASUU, is free to the public and questions will be taken from the audience following panelists' opening remarks. NO. 60 him." f conn Cooes in '76 race TROUT HOLDSWORTH Wt. inniyftlh mio mytilh) Chronicle staff the Maxa, Washington Post columnist who Rudy uncovered the Wayne HayesElizabeth Ray scandal, and described explained the bizarre the in nation's journalism capital during a Challenge (I x VOLUME 3 Numbers for basketball tickets an be picked up at the Special Events Center 'p.m. c (581-6641- ). 9 a.m. Red Cross bloodmobile, Health Sciences Center. 9:55 a.m. Hinckley Institute of Politics' Coffee and Politics, What's Ahead with a Republican Legislature, Gov. Scott Matheson, OSH 255. a.m. Mining seminar, Coal Mining Today and Yesterday, Shirl C. McArthur, Social Work Building 134. 11 a.m. Organic seminar, Cu Induced Oxygenolysis of Catechols and Phenols. 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