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Show ft A The Salt lake Tribune, Sariirdy. February Cii?n Smith 1980 Bs Flood Held Competent for Retrial Djxe Gerard Breadth of Powers T An IYTDCC P OTtlt VJIA1 VOO ,nlif iV1 On New CIA Charter - A proposed WASHINGTON (UPIi rew charter for the CIA was presented on Capitol Hill Friday, hut Congress and the White House disagree on how broad the agency's power should he to conduct covert operations Sens Walter Huddleston, D Ky , and Charles McC. Malhias. d , who headed a congressional group which drafted the first ll.b. Intelligence charter in 33 years, released the charter as the 123 page National Intelligence Act of 1980 President Carter dispatched a letter to Huddleston saying he supports the charter and in an indirect way of out pointing remaining differences the majority of its provisions " Carter ;Liar Hatch Tells Conservatives WASHINGTON "Only a comprehensive charter will give the American intelligence community the kind of endorsement if needs and deserves from the American people." Carter said Prior Notification The White House and the bipartisan charter group failed to agree on the issue of prior notification to Conerpss m (meil admits at id at ulial point former intelligence agents should be riminally prosecuted for disclosing considered secret namps of agents information The administration wants to punish anybody disclosing agents names But. thus far. we have felt there are First Amendment considerations here and we should concentrate our efforts on those who have ahused their trust. Huddleston said There also was disagreement on the which Congress proposed prohibition supports, the White House does not to be placed on the intelligence agencies to use journalists, members of religious Peace Corps volunteers or cultural exchange program participants as covers for Sen. Orrrn. intelligence operations. (AP) ."! ?Air Collision - onO fundaHuddleston said the mental disagreement involved prior notification and approval by Congress of covert operations. Although the numbers of congressional committees that have to be notified was cut from eight to two in the charter. Huddleston said Carter has only agreed to advising those two committees of any covert operations without seeking their approval CIA Limitations Under the new charter, the CIA will also be less hampered by limitations imposed upon it by the Freedom of Information Act. The hill assumes that Americans will not be investigated unless they are acting on behalf of a foreign power or engaged in espionage activities. But when a U.S. citizen has information the president believes to be essential to national security, he may approve covert techniques" against such a person. Over L. A. Kills 3 LOS ANGELES OJPI) Two light planes collided Friday over suburban t, Los Angeles near International killing theree persons and scattering burning debns less than 30 feet hotel. from a Police .said several construction wbrkers on the ground were burned by wreckage from the aircraft. Initial reports indicated at least three persons dead at the scene and five others injured, at least one seriously. Federal aviation Administration Apr-pOr- 650-roo- m cross-examine- "At least In this country, if you are defeated for public office, they don't take you out and execute you!" "The state of a defendant's memory is one of the most important considerations But a defendant need not recall all the facts, for een defendants suffering from amnesia have been found competent to stand trial " Gasch ruled a Democrat who represented the Wilkes-Barre- . Pa area for 25 years. ' has demonstrated the ability to recognize those aspects of the testimony which differ from the facts as he understands them." Casch wrote Flood , The judge said that while Flood had trouble of the case remembering many of the specifics of the because court believes that, against him. The of Mr Flood, to which his mental ability exceptional he long and outstanding career bears witness assist his able counsel in can and will effectively ' making a defense ... he took more than Since his first trial on cha-gpayoffs from 1971 to 197H ended a year ago Flood has been hospitalized repeatedly, undergoing two operations and suffering from multiple ailments es $50,000 in ' professions, academicians. Hatch told a gathering of fellow conservatives Friday night that President Carter is a liar and an incompetent whose presidency is dead in the water. But the Carter administration won't turn itself out of office, he said, so republicans cannot just sit around waiting for this to happen Instead they must campaign hard ahd speak out on the issues and the sclutibns," he said m remarks prepared for delivery at a Conservative Political Action Conference banquet '.The supreme attribute of conservatism. it seems to me, is realism. the Utah Republican said. At the beginning of the 1980s it behooves us to use that realism in assessing the political situation, both for our movement and our nation. ,The United States is in a weaker economic and strategic position in relation to other powers than at any tlfne since the Second World War. he said. WASHINGTON (TJPIi Citing the exceptional mental ability" demonstrated by former Rep Daniel Flood during a quarirr century m Cor.grec a federal judge ruled Friday Flood is competent to face a bribery retrial U S District Judge Oliver Gasch rejected claims Flood, who by Flood's lawyers that the retired from Congress last week, would be unable to assist them in his defense because of a failing memory During five days of hearings on Flood's competency to stand trial last month. Flood testified at different times that the year was 1990 and that Cal in Coolidge was president in 1945. d But when by a federal prosecutor, he suddenly perked up and denied that he ever took any bribes prompting Gasch to remark later that if Flood testified with xmh "ieor" ut his retrial, he would be acquitted Flood has sufficient ability" to assist his lawy ers in preparing his defense, the judge said Friday in his decision spokesman A1 Gams said debris from one plane fell on Sepulveda Boulevard near the Hacienda Hotel. He said the wreckage from the second plane fell into a construction site at El Segundo Boulevard, about a half mile to the west. An employee of the hotel said the collision sounded like a sonic boom." She said the hotels 650 rooms were filled at the time of .the crash and several functions were in progress in meeting rooms. 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