*- — ,tu Oail> Collegian Tuesday, November 11, 1975 //< V npp/7 handling IRS appropriations. ** 1 Alexander has drawn f /nWor nr/lflO Criticism for suspending IRS Under UfUUcZ Operation Trade Winds- Haven, an investigation into nl/ CD J Bahamian tax havens used by ‘ * Americans, and for curtailing WASHINGTON (UPI) because he said some tactics Internal Revenue Com- used could violate the rights missioner Donald C. of suspects. Alexander, a subject of There have also been several congressional and allegations Alexander con government inquiries, now is tinued to advise his former under investigation by the legal client, Procter and FBI, a spokesman said Gamble, after taking over his yesterday. tax post. Published reports have The commissioner has alleged Alexander blocked an denied any wrongdoing, audit of tax returns of Sen. An FBI spokesman said Joseph Montoya, D-N.M.,' yesterday, “We are con wno chairs a subcommittee firming that at the request of Rocky open to '76 bid AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) Vice President Rockefeller said, and then pausing to correct Nelson A. Rockefeller said last night that he himself he continued, “that possibility of a will not rule out a 1976 presidential bid deadlock” at the convention, because “nobody knows what might hap- Rockefeller made his I comments to pen " reporters aboard Air Force' Two enroute to Rockefeller said he fully expects President Austin for the third of six Domestic Council Ford to win nomination at the Republican forums designed to gather iocal opinions on National Convention next summer but he the nation’s problems and priorities for the refused to say that he would not get involved Ford Administration. in the race if Ford faltered seriously in the “I think Mr. Connally has anticipated that GOP primary. situation a deadlock in his statements about Rockefeller said' it was not so much a Reagan’s growing strength,” Rockefeller question of "keeping my options open" as it said. i was that he was “just not freezing a Rockefeller said that as of now, “I expect position ” President Ford to be nominated ... he is my “I do not foresee that opportunity,’’ candidate and lam supporting him.” ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ * * £ If you make up a couple, I.E. 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Bates, trie IRS assistant commissioner for inspection. • The Los Angeles Times reported that it was Simon who referred the matter to the Justice Department. Treasury officials refused to comment. Illegal Gulf donations admitted WASHINGTON (UPI) A former Gulf Oil official acknowledges making allegedly illegal campaign contributions to at least 15 senators and congressmen, including cash paid in a hotel men’s room and behind a barn, it was learned yesterday. Gulf was convicted in 1973 of making illegal contributions to the 1972 presidential campaign of Richard M. Nixon and the campaigns of Rep. Wilbur Mills, D-Ark., and Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash. But UPI learned the list of alleged recipients has been expanded to at least nine present and former senators including presidential hopeful Fred Harris, six present and former representatives, former Kansas Gov. William Avery and Pennsylvania’s “Mr. Republican” George Bloom. The allegations were made in an Oct. 30 statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission by Frederick Myers, who retired in June as Gulf’s legislative coordinator in Washington. Myers worked for Gulf 47 years, the last 16 in Washington. Gulf had no immediate comment. Senate passes ABM defense site treaty WASHINGTON (UPI) will maintain similar anti- Republican Sens. Barry The Senate yesterday ratified missile defenses around Goldwater, Ariz., John a treaty negotiated by Moscow. Tower, Tex., and’ James President Richard M. Nixon Both sides can give notice Buckley, N.Y. in Moscow in 1974 im- to the other in 1977-1978 that _. mediately before his they would like to switch the , e tr ® at y approved resignation limiting the arrangements, with the y ester day by the Senate is a United States and Soviet United States constructing a protocol or an addition to Union to a single anti-ballistic single ABM defense around 1! ? 72 . .'^ oVlet Ant *‘ missile defense site. Washington and the Soviet Ballistic Missile. Treaty. This The Senate approved the Union building and a similar * as on , e . ke y accords of accord by a vote of 65 to 15, defense around one of its Niixon s first summit con easily obtaining the required strategic missile fields. ference in Moscow and two-thirds majority of those Among those voting against P er . mlt . ted both sides to present and voting. the treaty was Sen. William maintain two ABM sites. Under the agreement, the L. Scott, R-Va., who said it Both superpowers found the United States will be limited was “untenable” for the cost of erecting these anti to a single ABM field at United States to limit its missile defenses so high they Grand Forks Air Force Base, defense against nuclear at- decided against building the N.D., while the Soviet Union tack. Also voting no were optional second site. The Sigma Kappa would like to welcome their new initiates: Tim Sigfried Raymond Dion Craig Wilson J m* begi W earn i '• Christi “Seasons m you hav( C disordei •» donatioi •fetjf foryo. ■ ' S D ‘ "in. i ; Brothers of John Nicholson Stephen Courter William Armes John Peffer Howard Schillinger Christopher Goff Myers said he delivered sealed envelopes “maybe four or five or six times a year” to the Capitol Hill offices of senators and represen tatives between 1960 and 1972 when the Watergate prosecutor began to probe Gulf’s campaign activities. Myers said he made 20 trips outside Washington to deliver sealed envelopes that were addressed with one person’s name, usually the elected official or a campaign aide. In these trips, Myers said he usually went to a hotel or campaign office, delivered the envelope and returned to Washington. Sometimes he was met at the airport, he said. Myers said he gave one sealed envelope to Sen. Edwin Mechem, R-N.M., “behind the barn”'of a New Mexico ranch in 1964. Mechem lost his bid for re-election to Democrat Joseph Montoya. He said he delivered another to former Rep. Richard Roudebush, R-Ind., in a hotel men’s room in Indianapolis. Myers said he never mentioned Gulf’s name but told each recipient the sealed envelope was from “Mr. Wild.” Claude Wild, who resigned last year as Gulf’s top official in Washington, was co-defendant with Gulf in the 1973 conviction for illicit cam paign activities. Wild took the Fifth Amend ment, refusing to testify against himself, when he met with SEC investigators Oct. 29. Wild pleaded guilty Nov. 13. 1973, to violating the federal law prohibiting corporate political gifts and was fined $l,OOO. Gulf the same day also entered a guilty plea and was fined $5,000 in each case, the maximum provided by law. Other members of Congress named by Myers included Sens. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., Howard Cannon, D-Nev., Vance Hartke, D-Ind.. former Sens. Marlow Cook, R-Ky., Edward Gurney, R- Fla., Wallace Bennett, R-Utah, Norris Cotton, R- N.H., Reps Herman Schneebeli, R-Pa., James Burke, D-Mass., and former Reps Julia Hansen, D-Wash., Page Belcher, R-Okla., and James Fulton, R-Pa. Myers said he saw the sealed envelopes opened only twice. Both times the envelope was filled with cash, he said. Myers said he did not know how much money was given to the candidates, but $lO,OOO was paid in cash to a Republican fund-raising dinner Nixon’s final summit devastated Hiroshima in 1945. conference in Moscow in 1974 The Arms Control and also produced a second Disarmament Agency said treaty, which critics called this accord has not been “cosmetic,” limiting un- forwarded to the Senate derground tests to nuclear Foreign Relations Committee weapons whose yield is 150 pending the completion of p kilotons or less. companion agreement with The maximum blast would the Soviet Union controlling be about seven times the nuclear explosions for force of the A-bomb which peaceful uses. Conferees ban floor for oil price limits WASHINGTON (UPI) Congressional conferees on energy agreed yesterday to prohibit the President from setting any minimum price for oil or its products. The ban on a “price floor” is part of a comprehensive energy bill the joint House-Senate conference committee is working to complete before Nov. 15, the expiration date for oil price controls the legislation would replace. Republicans had considered offering a substitute for the price section conferees agreed upon last week, but the con ferees quit yesterday without taking up the price matter without taking up the price matter. That substitute, Sen. Paul Fannin, R-Ariz., said, w’ould bring oil prices down somewhat at the start, but would exempt some high-cost oil such as from Alaska, and would allow greater flexibility than the plan the conferees adopted. To get the new idea before the conferees would take a formal reconsideration vote. In yesterday's session, the conferees agreed on language in the House version of the bill that the President be banned from any action “to establish minimum prices for crude oil, residual fuel oil, or any refined petroleum product.”