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Show rrrT, i. Paee SO THE HERALD, Provo Utah, . Wednesday May company Payment s Detailed WASHINGTON - Ashland Oil :Co., one of the biggest independents in the business, has been 'accused by one of its own senior executives of having made possibly illegal payments to officials close to the Sultan of Oman. The accusations were made by Ashland executive Bill E. McKay in secret communications with several members of the company's board of directors. McKay took part in several of the dubious transactions himself . Fearing that he and other Ashland executives could be liable to criminal prosecution for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, McKay prevailed on the board to launch an internal inves- 18, 1983 Congress Nijsks- - Tx Dollars In April this year most Americans paid a little less income tax than last year because of tax relief the President cajoled Senator Pete has capitulated to Democrats on his budget committee. As things stand the traditional And the administration lacks the strong leadership in Congress necessary to stop them. July of this year you are promised another personal income tax cut of 10 percent. Don't spend it yet. budget responsibility from the White House. In the nine fiscal years since, Congress has spent $1.1 trillion more than in all of the previous 185 years of our nation's history. Congress cannot be trusted with because each memyour money ber of Congress, feeling obligated through Congress in 1981. Now the bad news: Most of the tax relief you were promised has already been wiped out by recent tax increases and Congress is presently comtemplating taxing you another 268 billion over the next five years. Republican Do-meni- ci formula with which previous administrations cheapened dollars and strangled incentive will dominate even the Republican majority in the Senate. A decade ago Congress seized not to balance hiking your taxes but simply to pay for the budget more and more spending programs we don't need and cannot to his home town voters, tends to vote more for them. And the more vocal his constituency the more he will seek hush-monfor homefolks. And with 535 members of Congress seeking something extra that adds up to a lot extra though each figures he can hijack taxpayers in other states to cover his generosity. ey afford." There is another factor working against us. Republicans have been losers for so long they don't know how to act like winners. The very idea that titular Republican Domenici acquiesced to a Democrat-designe- d tax increase while five committee members were absent epitomizes the "defective" Republican congressional leadership. it is voters are unable to hold any specific person or persons responsible for fiscal policy. What comes out of Congress is a corporate conglomeration of fat pork. As It has to be frustrating for quarterback Reagan that it's not Democrats it's Republicans intercepting every forward pass. As Senator Steve Symms says, "There are too many members of on Congress who are hell-bent Paul Harvey tigation. The law forbids bribes to foreign officials to gain advantage over competitors. My associate Indy Badhwar has obtained internal company documents that detail some of the M of items ordered SoDd regardless off Cost, loss or value, Limited Quantities, Financingi Available, no Down payment (oao Huiflearee3s Jack Anderson questionable transactions. One is a memo to the board of directors from the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, ILL which McKay retained to represent him. The memo gives these WIT specifics: Ashland invested $25 million in a Zimbabwe chromium mine after Orin Atkins, then chairman of the board, "advised the board that the purchase of this property might improve Ashland's prospects for obtaining crude (oil) from Oman." 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As I reported earlier, Ashland paid $1.35 million to Mont D'Or, a F607 half-intere- st $750,-00- Liechtenstein corporation "designated by Mr. Omar as the recipient of commissions for his purported assistance to Ashland in connection with the purchase of crude oil from Oman." The deal was rescinded after the internal inquiry began. "In February 1981," the memo stated, "Chairman Atkins agreed to sell Ashland's Falcon 50 (the corporate jet) to Mr. Omar for an unspecified price described by Mr. Atkins in a memo as approximately $3 million below the 'current market' value... This agreement lapsed in the aftermath of the Board's inquiry." Ashland invested $500,000 it another joint venture, Tradeco, a trading company. The principal 4 !F735-F75- tionable payments were made with the board's full knowledge and approval. PARTS TO SPARE: Air Force maintenance depots have been stripping down aircraft engines for spare parts that were already on their shelves or should have been. No one knows for sure, because "the entire spare parts inventory was in a state of confusion," according to House investigators. The redundant cannibalizing of transport plane engines was uncovered during a routine inspection of the San Antonio Air Logistics Center. Because neither the contractor nor the Air Force kept adequate records of spare parts during the first reclamation project, subsequent contracts were awarded to do the inspection all over again. 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