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Show DESEP.ET 0A Wednesday, July 16, 1 969 NEWS, I Suits filed fraud Drug - The WASHINGTON (AP) Nixon Administration, trying to lower spiraling drug prices antitrust vigorous through has charged enforcement, seven major drug firms with using a fraudulent patent to monopolize sales of a leading antibiotic. . in a government, civil suit, also demanded at least $25 million in damages probably much from two of the commore panies, Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc. and American Cyanamid Co. The three-cou- nt jHearing Set (UPI) - A former mental patient and drug user will appear in Jus- I I c e Court here July 28 on a charge he stabbed his father In their plush home. Reno Blake Speers Jr., 20, was tetracycline, the nations largest selling broad spectrum antibiotic. Broad spectrum antibiotics are popularly known as wonder drugs for their ability to counteract and cure a broad - WASHINGTON (AP) The Nixon Administration has sued Bobby Baker for part of the money the government claims he obtained peddling influence while secretary to Senate Democrats. The dvil damage claim was filed in U.S. District Court here Tuesday, only two days before expiration of the limitation on government action against one Baker consix-ye- arraigned on murder $h charge Tuesday. He is also the chief suspect in the death of his mother who was killed with at least 10 stab wounds in her body. It was one of the most chilling murders in Reno in recent years. I Blake Speers Sr., 50, a tax consultant, was found stabbed several times in the hallway of his home. The mothers body ; in the more competition industry. In Tuesday's suit, filed in federal court here, Pfizer was accused of obtaining a fraudulent patent in 1955 on the drug of illnesses and diseas- department claimed Pfizer got the tetracycline patent by withholding inforfalse mation and making and misleading statements to the U.S. Patent Office. In doing so, the suit alleged, Pfizer gained support from Cyanamid, holder of a patent to aureomycin, the first wonder drug marketed in this country. The government said made deceptive Cyanamid statements to back Pfizers patent claim in exchange for a licensing arrangement that allowed die two firms to maintain holds on antibiotic sales. In addition to Pfizer and Cyanamid, five other leading Bristol-Myer- s drug producers Co., Corp., Squibb Beech-NInc., E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., and die Upjohn Co. were charged with conspiracy to monopolize the tet- Chemical ut racycline trade. That count stemmed, the government said, from licensing agreements under which Pfizer, Cyanamid and Bristol-Meyewould manufacture the drug and all seven firms could sell it in dosage form. rs 2 Face Runoff In Close Race By Administration Of Parents RENO, NEV. Department antitrust enforcers moved against drag patents in a concerted drive for range es. The Bobby Baker Sued iln Slaying I The action marked the second time in a week Justice was bound In the kitchen. Both were lying in their own pools of blood. The younger Speers had been admitted to the state hospital on five separate occasions within die last two years and was discharged in March to return home with his parents. A hospital spokesman in Sparks said Speers was considered safe both to himself and his parents then. tract. The Justice Department also asked that Baker, now free while appealing a year prison oontence, be forced to give a full accounting of his net worth. Accusing the forme- - South Carolina farm boy of conflict 1-- 3 Help For Whom? NICE, FRANCE. (UPI) raffic officer Gilbert of Interest, the complaint asked for Baker to show how his net worth increased from $11,000 to about $1.7 million during eight years in the Sen- ate post Baker served as majority secretary while former President Lyndon B. Johnson was Senate Democratic leader. He resigned under fire in 1963 after being charged in a dvil suit with influence peddling. Indicted in 1965, he was brought to trial two years later and convicted on two counts of tax evasion, two counts of theft and one of fraud. His latest appeal, now before the U.S. Circuit Court here, alleges evidence against him was obtained through illegal wiretaps. TT one-tw- bernatorial primary Tuesday and will meet in a runoff election Aug. 19. 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