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Show 1 976 The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, February 26, , Nixons Personal Lawyer, Kalmbach, Pleads Guilty Cootinaed From Fife One mittee was m violation of that act, the fecial prosecutor alleged. The assistant special prosecutor Charles F. C. Ruff, told Sirica that beginning in March. 1970, "three members of tlv staff of the executive office of the President" formed the committee to -support andidates for the House and Senate. He said a fourth individual, also y unnamed, was put in charge of operations. Kalmbach raised pledges of $2 8 million to support the committee's work, Ruff said, and an additional $1 15 million unidentified was contributed by orday-to-da- also unnamed, individual, moneys phdged to the committee would be sent directly from the donors to indivjal candidates in 19 states. Ruff did not identify it as such, the description fits that of Operation Townhouse or The Public Institute." This was a group that several sources have identified as having been sot up by the late Murray Chotiner, Harry S. Dent and Charles W. Colson, who all were on the White House staff at the time. Though Gleason, another former White House aide, was in charge of the operations, and instructions on how to spend the funds were said to have come from 11. R. Haldeman, the Presidents former cluef of staff. Jack A. day-to-da- y Ob Public Records More than three years ago the Associ- ated Press identified seven United States ambassadors who were listed on public records as having sent money through Special to The Tribune Sen. WaMonllace F. Bennett, in the bill a introduced day Senate changing federal estate tax regulations for family farmr near urban areas In an effort to keep them out of the hands of real estate speculaWASHINGTON Continued From Page One land Gov. Marvin Mandel in an effort to get more gasoline for his state. In other developments Monday: Dr. James P. Gregory, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said deaths on the nation's highways were reduced 23 percent in January, the first month of the national mandatory 53 speed' limit Gregory said there were 853 fewer deaths on the road last month than in tors. He pointed out many farms near large cities are being mile-an-ho- January 1973. Rep. A1 UUman, , Some folks pride 'emselves on bein' agreeable when tier only silly. sold to speculators because of the policy of the Internal Revenue Service of assessing farmland for what it could be sold for rather than its value for agriculture. The result is that heirs of farmers are forced to sell their farmland to waiting, speculators simply to pay the inheritance taxes which could run as high as 25 percent, Sen. Bennett said. years in order to qualify for the lower assessment, Sen. Bennett explained. This bill provides that a far family who wants to continue the farming operation would have the option of assessing the land for its value for agriculture or open scenic land. The land would have to continue to be used as farm land or open space land for 10 acting chairman of th; House Ways and Means ()a Condition' Ta Candidates ItiJf said that on orders from a fifth Bennett Introduces Farm Tax Bill - Shah on Oil Claims Gleason's operation to Sen. J. Glenn Beall, R Md., who was seeking election in 1970. The ambassadors were Walter H. Annenberg, Britain; Kenneth Franzheim II, New Zealand; Shelby C. Davis, Switzerland, John 0. Humes, Austria; John D. William J. J. Moore, Ireland, Middendorf, II, then ambassador to the Netherlands and now under secretary of the Navy, and Kingdom Gould Jr., the Netherlands. The second criminal lnforcnat i against Kalmbach vas a misdemeanor. It was explained to Siric3 by the associH. ate special prosecutor, Thomas McBride, person To Aid Farmers Abe Martin Simon Refutes Committee, accused the Nixon adminis- tration of seeking to torpedo committee efforts to combine the administrations socalW windfall profits tax with a proposal to phase out the domestic oil deple- McBride said that on Sept. 16, 1970, J. Fife Symington Jr., a.ioassador to Trinidad and Tobago, offered Kalmbach 1100,000 on the condition" that he be appointed ambassador to one of five European nations instead of Tnmdad and Tobago. McBride said that Kalmbach placed a call to an unidentified member of the While House staff and "received assur- tion allowance. Experts of 12 nations met in Washington Monday to try to organize future meetings to deal with the oil crisis, in a followup to the international energy conference held In Washington two weeks ago. ances." Subsequently, he said, Symingtons' wife sent a check for $50,000 to the 1970 committee to support congressional candidates, McBride said, and the remainder to the Finance Committee to Reelect the President "or one of its satellite committees" in 1972. The U.S. delegation was headed by Under Secretary of Slate William' Donaldson, and includes Simon. Be there to win ! Friday, March 1, at 10:13 a.m. The nations represented at the meeing official than by generally lower-leve- l Donaldson and Simon were Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, West Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the United McBnde said the donation did no good, however. Symington was not nominated. Sirica deferred of sentencing Kalmbach while awaiting a report. He was freed on personal recognizance. States. Commercial Security Bank U.S. officials said the discussion was chiefly organizational and did not concern problems posed by the oil crisis itself. (Copyright) 5600 South Van Winkle Expressway Waterbury 13 Office Member FDIC Incorrect Prescriptions? Excess Drugs Under Attack Washington Post Service More WASHINGTON than half of the antibiotic drugs given to patients in hospitals are either not needed or prescribed incorrectly, a senes of studies presented Monday to the Senate health subcommittee shows. - The cost of these unneces sary prescriptions could total as much as $200 million a year for the nation, estimated Dr. James A. Visconti of Ohio State University's College of Pharmacy. In addition, he said, 14 percent of the patients suffered adverse drug reactions from the unneeded antibiotics Groups Probe Possibility Of Patrick Gray Perjury i ' By John M. Crewdson New York Times Writer WASHINGTON The special Watergate prosecutor and a Senate subcommittee are investigating the possibility that LJ Patrick Gray III reportedly perjured himself when he denied, during hearings last year on his nomination to become director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, any knowledge of FBI wiretaps on news-me- n and government officials. - After the first published reports of the wiretap effort last February, Gray told the Senate Judiciary Committee, wtuch was holding the confirmation hearings, that he had inquired and found "no reord of any such business." Advised In Advance The New York Tunes reported last December, howev-er- , that a copy of the FBI document it had obtained showed that Gray, white acting director of the FBI, had been advised in advance of his testimony of the surveillance effort, which was defunct by then but had included nearly r 20 wiretaps over a period. Both the special prosecutor's investigation and the one by a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, headed by Sen. M. are Edward Kennedy, directed at a possible eventual prosecution of Gray for having perjured himself before the Senate. who It was Kennedy pressed Gray during the confirmation hearings, at one point eliciting the answer, I really dont know what you are talking about that we are our own tapping telephones?" Disclosed Wiretaps President Nixon disclosed in May that, between May of 1969 and February of 1971, wiretaps had been placed with his approval on four newsmen and 13 government officials supected of leaking sensitive national security Information to the press. News reports disclosing the existence of the wiretaps first appeared on Feb. 16, 1971, three days before Gray first of the denied knowledge matter. But the FBI document stated that a full report of the tape had been prepared for him that day, and added that he had been informed of the secret operation before then. that forced them to stay in the hospital longer than they would have if they had not been given the drug. This "irrational prescribing of antibiotics has resulted in needless adverse reactions, unnecessary expense and, in the long run, a shift in the ecology of hospital Inflations toward infections, that are more dangerous and harder to treat than the ones that were more common in the past, said Dr. Charles C. Edwards, assistant secretary of health, education and welfare. Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Ralph Naders health research group, blamed the unnecessary prescription of drugs of the pharmaceutical industry. actor could probably prescribe drugs as rationally as the thousands of doctors whose American prescribing practices reflect drug company Indoctrination in lieu of scientific evaluation, said Wolfe. 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