Show Tflhie WoicM The Utah Statesman Dcpart-me- nt absolved Richard V Allen Tuesday of any wrongdoing in his receipt of $1000 from inJapanese journalists but said it was still the about other presiquestions vestigating dent’s national security adviser Allen said he was “very happy” with the decision in which Attorney General W illiam French Smith ruled out the appointment of a special prosecutor regarding Allen's acceptance of a cash “thank-you- ” following a Japanese magazine’s Jan 2 1 interview of first lady Nancy Reagan Allen who took an administrative leave of absence over the weekend said the decision on whether he will return to his duties "will depend on my colleagues at the White House We’ll wait and see” White House spokesman David Gergen said there would be no official comment about the matter until officials had an opportunity to thoroughly review the Justice Department decision Allen was read Smith’s decision by Associate Attorney General Rudolph Giuliani shortly before it was made public At about the same time Smith formerly Ronald Reagan’s per- - 2 1981 USA Soviets bargain Justice drops Allen probe WASHINGTON (AP— The Justice Wednesday December sonal attorney called presidential counselor Edwin Meese III to inform him ‘‘When the uncontradicted facts are analyzed in the context of possibly applicable criminal laws it is clear there was no criminal violation by Allen regarding the $1000” concluded the report released by the department The money the report said “was intended as an honorarium” for Mrs Reagan in return for a brief interview she gave the Japanese journalists on Jan 21 “It was neither given nor received to benefit Allen or to influence Allen did not intend to keep him in any way the money for his personal use” The eight-pag- e report along with a two-pag- e genera statement said Smith had concluded that there was no evidence sufficient to trigger the federal law requiring him to appoint a special prosecutor in the $1000 matter But the statement added only in the last 10 days has the department learned about two wristwatches Allen received as gifts from Japanese business contacts or about the fact that his financial disclosure form incorrectly stated the date he sold his interest in his business an international business consulting firm called Potomac International Corp for arms reductions GENEVA Switzerland (AP) — American and Soviet negotiating teams talked for more than two hours Tuesday is the first full bargaining session on limiting nuclear tniwla is Europe and promptly reasserted a news blackout on the conduct of the negotiations “Everything is OK” Soviet delegation chief Yuli A said as he left the tvo-homeeting “We meet again Friday” at the Soviet mission Kvitsinsky said There were no other public indications here about the conduct of the talks which have seized the attention of Western Europeans increasingly wary about the medium-rang- e nnrfr forces of the superpowers The two sides in a move they said would encourage progress agreed to embargo virtually all information about the talks which are to be conducted Tuesdays and Fridays “We have concurred that the details of the negotiations must be kept in the negotiating room” the chief US negotiator Paul H Nitze said after conferring with Kvitsinsky on Monday on pro cedural issues Nitze described that session as “cordial and businesslike” Deputy head of the US delegation Maynard W Glum reached by The Associated Press would not discuss the atmosphere of Tuesday’s round the first meeting of the two delegations “We’ve finished for this day” said Glitmu “I’m not going to tell you anything more” y ur te full-sca- I 174 killed in plane crash The world's great air disasters AJACCIO Corsica (AP)— A chartered DC-- caught in niff winds and dense fog as it approached the Ajaccio airport smashed into a mountainside Tuesday Police said all 168 ptassengers many of them travel agents on a promotional trip and six crew members were killed Ajaccio pxjlice said there were no survivors and that the victims included three children However the Yugoslav company which owned the plane Airways was unable to say exactly how many preople were aboard It said the craft was equippred to carry a maximum of 175 passengers and as many as 172 preoprlehdd canceled out at tickets for the flight but several the last minute Officials said the plane crashed into the west side of fog h shrouded Mount San Pietro about 30 miles from the airport and near the village of Casa Casalabriva the They said it hit the ground about 597 feet from the top of 9 KLM 74 Am 747 collision Mar 27 1977 in Canary Islands claimed 581 Turkish DC 10 crashed at Ermenonville near Paris Mar 3 1974 killing 346 American Airlines DC10 crashed at O'Hare Airport Chicago May 25 1975 esulting in 275 deaths New Zealand DC10 went down in Antarctica Nov 28 1979 killing 257 Air Indian 747 exploded crashed into sea off Bombay Jan 1 1978 claiming 213 lives d DCS crashed in Sri Lanka Dec 4 1974 killing 191 Chartered DCS crashed in Sri Lanka Nov 15 1978 claiming 183 an Inex-Adr- ticket-holde- peak of Corsica was the site of flight which killed 174 9 Midwest hit by storm by The Associated Press A blizzard moved across the Midwest and toward the Great Lakes on Tuesday with winds whipping snowfalls up to a foot deep stranding travelers and shutting down schools Fourteen inches of snow fell at Can-b-y Minn and 12 inches ac50-m- ph cumulated at Marshall Minn Temperatures fell into the teens in North Dakota Control tower officials said the plane was on its final roach to the airport when it sent a distress signal and then disappeared from the tower’s radar screens They said it 9 am only seven minutes before the plane was due to land at Rescue teams located the shattered and burned remains of the plane scattered as far as 1 500 feet from the crash site pvolice said It took nearly four hours to locate the craft because of the weather Officials spseculated the heavy weather over much of the accident craggy Mediterranean island may have caused the ap-- CORSICA Briefly rs 4543-foot-hig- Dutch-chartere- Mt San Pietro on the French island Tuesday's crash of a Yugoslav charter ia At least three died during the storm in Iowa South Dakota and Nebraska Interstate 90 was closed by drifts in southeastern South Dakota and blowing snow forced snowplows to stop work on in northeastern Iowa As the storm moved toward the northeast snow fell around the Great Lakes with visibility near zero around Lake Superior Reagan to aid old WASHINGTON ( AP) — President Reagan told the White House Conference jn Aging Tuesday that the elderly have been “needlessly and cruelly frightened” about his proposals for Social Security and promis fry J awpfc Bckn4$t ed never to betray their right to the program’s benefits At 70 the nation’s oldest president ever Reagan said he is frustrated at being “pxmrayed as somehow an enemy of my own generation” largely because of his attempts to cut future Social Security benefits Wood death accident LOS ANGELES (AP)— Tipsy and evidently wanting to get away from the yacht where her husband and another actor were arguing Natalie Wood tried to step into a rubber dinghy but fell into the water drowned officials say The 4 actress had been p d wine drinking champagne and invoked "this was one of the factors in in her not being able to respond Corontr case of emergency” County after Thomas Noguchi said Monday accidental as certifying the death drowning There was a scratch on her when her body was found Sunday have w® morning such as might the on from hitting her head y“ some part of the dinghy Nogu® d“ thing “They were arguing noabout was phy in general There altercation” Wilson said He wd be Walken and Wagner both had examined and “there were no upon them” |