| Show 6— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday December 20 1984 McDonnell Douglas told to hand over documents - submitted a written demand for documents to determine whether the costs were intentionally misrepresented The US District Court in St Louis upheld the subpoena in July 1983 but McDonnell Douglas took the case to the 8th Circuit A three-judg- e appellate panel ruled Wednesday the government did have subpoena power and affirmed the order that McDonnell Douglas ST LOUIS (UPI) McDonnell Douglas Corp has been ordered to produce documents that could determine whether the firm overestimated costs on an 880 million government contract to increase its profits to 42 percent The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals order that Wednesday affirmed a lower-cousaid the government had the power to subpoena the documents The Department of Defense contract was signed in 1978 for planes ultimately destined to be sold to the Republic of Korea The contract called for McDonnell Douglas to receive an 18 percent profit The General Accounting Office two years later began auditing contracts with large defense firms and found McDonnell Douglas based in St Louis overestimated its costs on rt produce the documents The court noted that the investigation began when Congress told the General Accounting Office to audit Department of Defense contracts with major defense builders The court said the documents were relevant because they may prove “whether McDonnell Douglas knew that the cost projections submitted to the Air Force were far above the actual costs it expected to incur in completing the project The comptroller general of the United States the project" Libel suit adjourned - NEW YORK (UPI) trial of The William Gen Westmoreland’s 8120 million libel suit against CBS has adk holiday journed for a two-wee- break her pet are not in the further recesses of the twilight zone however but a part of a mural painted on a wall "Come on in" a little girl appears to be saying to an Shadows unindentified pedestrian in Kansas City Mo The girl and following the first glimpse of how the network intends to counter 11 weeks of testimony supporting the retired general The trial was called off Wednesday because of a sick juror and went into a holiday recess that will last until Jan 3 George Crile who accused Westmoreland of distorting estimates of enemy troop strength during the Vietnam War that chargedbehavior He Westmoreland’s leading up to the crucial days of the Tet offensive was “an intelligence atrocity" broadcast said The Crile 39 strongly defended the documentary — “The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception” — that charged Westmoreland distorted the size of the enemy by downplaying the strength of Viet Cong home guard forces “It was akin to an intelligence atrocity" Crile said “In intelligence you start at the bottom and work up You don’t start with a total and work Westmoreland purposely kept the count of enemy troop strength below a ceiling of down” Westmoreland’s lawyers plan The CBS defense began to 300000 to back up his request for more US troops to continue to rest their case after calling emerge inof the CBS Producer winning a “war of attrition’’ three more witnesses cross-examinati- on Scientists exchange varied views on origin of life Radical theory is based on ‘protein rain’ Pacific random (UPI) latest that occurence the universe inevitable f agreed rrrr rv- rrr- HONOLULU Life is not a in but an result of chemical processes says a scientist studying the origin of life on earth “The universe is in the business of maxing life” said Cyril Ponnamperuma director of the University of Maryland’s Laboratory of Chemical Evolution Ponnamperuma spoke at a news conference Wednesday at which scientists presented their findings on the origin of life to the International Chemical Congress of Basin Societies All the evidence suggests that there is likely to be life elsewhere in the universe That however was all they agreed on Ponnamperuma strongly contested a theory by Clifford Matthews of the University of Illinois in Chicago The commonly accepted theory is that primitive organic compounds called amino acids were formed from simple chemicals in the young earth and later built up complex proteins Matthews said there was no however satisfactory way to explain how the amino acids could have formed proteins He favors a radical theory that the primitive proteins formed first “rained down from the sky" and then combined with other components of life such as sugars and DNA the material of which genes are made “We’re really saying the earth was knee-dee- p in proteins” said Matthews “With one can see how life came to be” Ponnamperuma HOLLYWOOD - (UPI) Movie and star Peter Lawford a suave Englishman who ran with the fast crowd of Frank Sinatra’s “Rat Pack” while making nearly 60 movies lies in a coma and doctors say his condition is grave Lawford 61 was treated earlier this year for alcoholism and was admitted to Cedars-SinMedical Center this week with liver disease and failing kidneys the hospital said “Peter Lawford slipped into a coma and he’s in critical condition” hospital spokesman Ron Wise said Wednesday “Hie outlook is very uncertain” It was also learned actress Elizabeth Taylor spent a couple of hours at Lawford’s bedside late Tuesday A spokeswoman for the actress said she was too upset to say anything ai A long-tim- associate Lawford e who asked not to be identified said Wednesday actor was “badly jaunthe diced” and was “mumbling incoherently” before slipping into a coma before dawn The friend who called his condition “grave” said earlier the family was “not sure he will make it this time In addition to his liver problem he is also suffering kidney failure The son of a knighted British general Lawford married Patricia Kennedy the sister of President John F Kennedy in April 1954 They divorced after 11 years of marriage which produced four children The children — Christopher Sydney Victoria and Robin — flew to Los Angeles Tuesday and were taken directly to their father's bedside The actor who also was married briefly to comedian Dan Rowan’s daughter Mary is now married to the former Patricia Seaton Among the best known of Lawford’s 57 movies include “Ocean's 11” “Mrs Miniver” “Easter Parade” Little Women” “Advise - a suitable transplant donor and relied on oxygen to breathe because of severe respiratory problems “He did ask doctors when he can ride his exercise bike and doctors say it may be a few days (Today) they’ll have him Wednesday weaned Vann Mat- sit up and dangle his legs over thews 22 from a respirator the side of the bed" Hopkins that helped him breathe follow-in- g spokeswoman Karen Helsley A BALTIMORE (UPI) man who received a new heart and lung earlier this week is breathing unaided for the first time in 18 months and wants permission to ride his exercise bike a Johns Hopkins Hospital Doctors spokeswoman says six-ho- The with Day” “Sergeants 3” “The Oscar" “Exodus” and “Buona Sera Mrs Campbell" Lawford became socially prominent on POCATELLO Idaho (UPI) -Hollywood’s party circuit and a member of Gov John Evans says he hopes Sinatra’s “Rat Pack” — which included white supremacists in northern Dean Martin Joey Bishop and Sammy Idaho will move out of the state Davis Jr The group appeared together in and take their bigotry with several pictures including “Ocean’s 11" them Evans said Wednesday during In the 1950s Lawford starred in the TV a radio interview in Pocatello series “Dear Phoebe” and later “The Thin that Aryan Nations Church on the He Man” appeared regularly leader Richard Butler was “Doris Day Show” in the early 1970s as the to describe as patriots wrong romantic interest several former members inIn 1972 Lawford underwent a four-hocluding a murder suspect who abdominal operation to remove a tumor split off to form the violent fron his pancreas and he was in poor White American Bastion health for the past decade The should never Last January Lawford entered the Betty be called patriots because they Ford Unit for Alcohol and Drug Abuse in fail to recognize that every Palm Springs Calif He was also treated individual is equal Evans said at St John's Hospital in Santa Monica for Butler on Tuesday told realcohol abuse porters in Coeur d’Alene he considered several of his Longest ur “I think it’s most unfortunate that they chose Idaho” Evans said “To me they are not patriots in any way “If they were patriots they would recognize that all of us regardless of religion race and color are Americans If they are Americans they would be supportive of the philosophy of equality” he said Federal prosecutors have said the men who formed the White American Bastion are criminals who attempted to use robberies and counterfeiting to finance the violent overthrow of the US government One of them Gary Lee Yarbrough 29 Sandpoinl is a suspect in the June slaying of a Jewish radio host in Denver Yarbrough remains in former followers citizens motivated custody in Boise on charges of by the same patriotic forces shooting at several FBI agents that led to creation of the Sons who came to his property in of Liberty in 1775 October neo-Naz- is — a disorder where blood vessels do not allow sufficient blood to pass through the lungs “Until tiie last few years there was absolutely nothing to hypertension offer them (pulmonary hypertension said Without well-intention- patients)” Trail a talk-sho- w ed transplant pulmonary hypertension patients usually die three to five years from the onset of May your mail k snoolli and your fortunes wide And those you love be at your side symptoms la Uw holiday's finest tradition extend wane wishes and sincere thank fur your oatianln( Mlh and trast arc said ur Ronald Brown of Monash University in Victoria Australia also objected to Matthews’ theory saying it did not explain other aspects of living organisms Brown told the conference that very complex molecules have been found in space and scientists are ready to speculate that amino acids may also have formed in space Evans hopes group will leave Idaho recipient wants bike ride Heart-lun- g Monday’s and Consent” “grossly exaggerated” “I can point out five ways amino acids could be brought together” he said "To put everything else aside is not fair” that view strongly disagreed Lawford’s condition worsens television Matthews’ presentation calling his statements Thomas Trail a Hopkins transplant operation The Gastonia NC native cardiologist said Matthews suwaited more than 1 v& years for ffered from pulmonary tache Honda Wishes You A MERRY CHRISTMAS STUFF YOUR FAVORITE COOKS STOCKING WITH GADGETS I k Dec 24th til 2 PM AT 'A Electric Start REFLECTIONS Hill CACHE HONDA and home accessories 10 Kail CwNf fcr 'I N Open Mon -- C & FROM THE KITCHEN SHOP LIGHTING I tfi' 753-0- 4 I 204S N Main Logan MAI MOUM V: JO I tMPM FMMV t: 1 v X X 1299 f pRisfmas CACHE VALLEY DAIRY FARM STORE SMITHFIELD UTAH i 563-533- 0 |
