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Show k'v 1 ' 4 The Salt Lake Tribune, Wednesday, September 5, 1973 Richardson Mulls Agnew Case By Joseph Volz and William Sherman New York News Writers - WASHINGTON Attn. Gen. Elliot L. Richardson returned from vacation Tuesday with the prospect likely that he will decide this week The Justice Department reportedly expects Apews attorneys to go into court if the vice president is indicted and move to quash the indictment. more to ojscuss allegations that Agnew took kickbacks Meanwhile, sources close L the investigation said that although Apew has requested a meeting with United States AUn. while governor of Maryland to influence the awarding of engineering contracts, no session has been scheduid. George Beall of Balti- - By Toest The Lockhoms Agnew still has not been of specific told charges against him, despite a meetthree ing with Richardson weeks ago, sources close to the investigation said. In another development, the U S. Civil Service Commission has started a probe into charges that political influence was used in filling top jobs in the Region 3 area os the General Services Adminis- whether to submit bribery allegations against Vice President Spiro T. Agnew to a federal grand jury in Baltimore. Asked at the White House if President Nixon will play any role in the probe of Agnew, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren said: The President looks to the attorney general to handle this matter and thats where it stands. Nixon and Agnew discussed the charges against the vice president for two hours at the White House last Saturday, but Warren declined to reveal tration, the federal Echoes Nixon's Stance matter. Region 3 includes Maryland, where key campaign supporters of boih Agnew and Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel, a Democrat, have won most of the federal leases. GSA Administrator Arthur Sampson has conceded that Agnews office did call on several occasions about the awarding of government contracts. But neither Sampson nor Agnew's press spokesman, HEW Plans to Cut Deduction on Tax create a double standard for the attorney general if you ask him to decide the hazy constitutional ,.estion, the source said. You are ask-irhim to be both a judge and a Jury. This is a matter for the courts to decide." You g 'No Probe Of Spiro, Aide Says WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Senate Watergate has not turned up evidence to warrant an investigaCam-mitt- - The proposal to do away with the deductions has been submitted to Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and has been reviewed by the Treasury. But it has not been submitted to the White House. Elimination of the deductions would have to be approved by Congress, and chances of such action were considered nil unless accompanied by some form of national health Insurance. an administration Under proposal expected to be presented to Congress later this year, the $7 billion in extra revenues could be used to finance a national health insurance program. Some Options tion of Vice President Spiro T. But the administration proAgnew, chief counsel Sam posal, published in the May 22 Dash said Tuesday. Conpessional Record, provid.We are not planning cur ed these options: own investigation at this Require employers to time, Dash said. He reached provide workers with minithe conclusiod after talking mum levels of health insur-'ancwith U.S. Attorney George to supplemented by Beall of Baltimore, who is in- federally financed coverage vestigating the Maryland kick-bac- k for the cost of catastrophic illcase to which Agnew has nesses. been linked. Provide health cards that 1 talked with Beall last individuals and families could week, Dash said in an inter- use to buy medical and health view. There is nothtng that services in the same way they has come uo that fits within might use credit cards, with the scope of our resolution. the government and card holder sharing the bilL During Campaign e, t We are drafting stuff to The Senate resolution authorizing the committee hearings send to the W'hite House right . permits only investigation of now, a HEW health aide told activities during the 1972 cam- UPI. All we have at this considerations. The paign. Agnew has oeen wined poim are in the Baltimore probe with staff work isnt complete yet. alleged kickbacks from conKennedy Memo tractors while he was goverSen. Edward M. Kennedy. nor of Maryland and previouswho has proposed ly Baltimore county executive, and possibly when he first be- creation of a national health insurance plan, published in came vice president the Congressional Record May President Nixon, meantime, 22 an e memo he obts looking to Attn. Gen. Elliot tained from HEW sources that L. Richardson to oversee the disclosed consideration was Agnew investigation and feels being given to eliminating the the White House should not medical deductions. comment deputy press secreThat memo called the meditary Gerald L. Warren said cal deductions highly regresTuesday. sive, benefitting as they do Warren, meeting with re- primarily income higher porters after a morning chat groups. with Nixon, said: The PresiWeinbergers aide said the dent looks to the attorney genmemo had been revised initial this matter and eral to handle where it stands. 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EPA Lists Chemical Pollutants (AP) Environmental Protection The WASHINGTON Agency has formally listed a dozen chemicals, used in manufacturing or as insecticidns, as toxic pollutants whose discharge Into waterways must be restricted. An EPA spokesman said Tuesday the list was signed by acting administrator John R. Quarles late last Friday, just in time to meet its deadline under a courtroom agreement Establish Standards By Dec. 3, under the same consent decree, EPA must establish effluent starvrds w frl ilfV iri k gov- erning the discharge of these toxic substances. I irpf.m A EPAs list covers the pestAldnn, Dieldnn, DDT and its derivatives DDE and DDD, and a pesticide component called icides En-dn- n, Toxa-phen- ' i - u I- - ;4 j y v . ' MtPUv-l'- w 1; fn 7f e. tv Also included were the elements cadmium and mercury, the compound cyanide, and the industrial chemicals J&22L v yy Ben- is' ' y;i - zidine and PCB. The substances listed as toxic were iuhsiucivu capable of causing death, disease, cancer or genetic malfunctions in any organism with which they come in contact. '' : 3 VV 'JGv - r ' mf 1. V . 1 1IV s & Complex Steps The action was one cf a number of complex steps to implement federal water pollution legislation. A env ironment citizens group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, had sued EPA, charging it was not ;1'4 , v . 1 wV s, r'f i-i- ' Aft V ' r- - f , . a ; y' , , ; JfM, ' frv ' n J fa. w moving quickly enough against water pollution. Last June 19 WASHINGTON (UPI) -e The U.S. Public Health (PHS) Tuesday was investigating the countrys first suspected case of cholera since 1911, but officials discounted any link to the cholera outbreak in Italy. Ser-vic- the case was settled when EPA agreed to a timetable comply with drawn up , by U S. District Judge Thomas Flannery. Both of the lab workers recov- ered. cases deaths, resulted among immigrants who amved m Boston and New York from Cholera-infesteItalian ports. Coincidentally, 22 16 d A hospitalized the in 1911, includuig When yon heat water with GAS everybody benefits. -- Texan Recovers The Texas man, no further identified, has recovered from illness. An organism isolated from the man appears similar to the one that causes cholera but does not appear to be of the same strain detected in Italy. No other similar illnesses have been reported m the Texas community. Persons returning to the Ended States from Italy are only the routine receiving internationhealth alert to al travelers. It advises them to contact a phrfieian if they develop diarrhvi; fever or chills. You and your family enjey an almost unlimited supply of hot water because a gas water heater heats water so fast. 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Except for two cholera , Apew met with the Fresi-- cases which developed in 1965 dunt - for two tours at the at Walter Reed Army Medical bite- - House Saturday. Center here as a result of a Liboratory accident, no other Spokesmen for both men . afterward that there cases Fave been reported in was. iio fcsctssioa cf an the Umted States since 1911, Sencer said in an interview. . New Estimates The federal government returned $3.8 billion to tax- Enjoy the luxury of an authentic Finnish Units feels it would be very inappropriate for me to .discuss this nutter." 'Richardson returned Tuesday from a New England vacation and a Justice De- -' said: partment spokesman Everything in the Agnew case is exactly as it was w'hen Mr. Richardson left on vacation last week. There are no new decisions from our office what you hear. , despite ' Final Decision I1.' Richardson has made clear be will make a final decision on whether any evidence developed involving Apew will be submitted to a grand juy if it in Baltimore and whether the comes to that vice president would be Indictable while still in office. -- tion remained the same. 3, Built-i- n Enjoy the feeling of sheer abandonment that engulfs you os you sink into a tub of swirling warm water with a Jacuzzi Whirlpool Bath! Just lie back, and relax as forceful streams of derated wafer purposefully massage every part of your body. Warm water massage helps soothe sore, nelps to ease tensions stiff muscles and joints helps firm and tone like feel makes you smiling again! Federal Leases Richardson also must decide i the Justice Department can WASHINGTON (UPI) -indict a vice president or The government is considering whether he must be imp- a plan to eliminate Income tax eached and removed from of- deductions for medical expensfice first es, federal officials said Tuesday. The estimated $7 billion One source close to the inindicated that in extra revenue could be used vestigation Richardson may duck that to help finance a national issue and let the courts health insurance program. decide WNIRLPOOLMTM lord agency. specifics. Warren said Nixon told him he feels it Tuesday that would be very inappropriate me for to discuss tins Portable or governland- ments housekeeping and m 4. 1 r |