.. • _ :Bank reports Shapp blackmail PITTSBURGH (AP) A Associated Press reporter Shapp to us." was no connection." • :'top official of Mellon Bank in a telephone interview. ' • "If it's not a form of Last week Shapp called ''-:= affirmed - a ! newspaper . The Press cpioted an blackmail, I don't know on Mellon Bank to resign as 3 z-report yesterday that Gov. unnamed Mellon source as what is," the source said. the trustee of the Penn - .=Shapp personally offered to saying Gov. Shapp asked Pete Donnelly, Shapp's sylvania Public School withhold legal action the bank in January to bail assistant press secretary, Building Authority (PP ... *-- against the bank in ex- out the financially troubled denied the report.SßA). He claimed the bank !change ford a $6l million Pennsylvania Housing "I believe exactly 'the has cost the state more -loan to the state's housing Finance Agency. opposite is true," Donnelly than $6 million through bad ' agency; ' , . The source, according to said. "The governor had investments of public I '-' 3 %Mellon 'vice president the newspaper, quoted heard that there was funds, and he joined the , v.Clirles Jarrett said the Shapp as telling a bank perhaps a connection PPSBA board in calling for vreport,- in the Sunday Pitts- official, "If you can help us between the suit and the legal action against ~' burgh-Press was correct, with the housing agency, , authority case. Mellon. -`-.• but declined to elaborate. we can forget any legal "The governor hoped Higgins claimed the "I am under specific action against the bank." that was not the case and authority was responsible instruction to make no The Press source said the he spoke to Mr. Higgins. for management of the % further comment because bank has "plenty of wit- Higgins assured him it was money, and he pledged the -we ' are ' threatened with nesses to back up the fact not so. This was before the bank would fight the at '''' litigation," Jarre,tt told an the offer was made by Gov. published report. 'There tempted ouster in court. Manslaughter conviction BOSTON (AP) Lawyers for Kenneth ,C. Edelin, the doctor convicted of killing a fetus during a legal abortion, go before the state Supreme Court today to argue that the alleged victim died before birth. This; they say, is enough reason to throw out the verdict against Edelin, who was - convicted of man slaughter 14 months ago. In a written argument filed before the appeal, Edelin's lawyer, William P. Homans Jr.; , said, "The conviction cannot lawfully be sustained unless' there is sufficient evidence . . . that the fetus was born alive outside the body" and the doctor caused its subsequent death by ac ting "wantonly or recklessly." Army LANTANA, Fla. (UPI) Army Secretary Martin R. Hoffman says a L"critical" shortage of equipment would enable only half of the U.S. combat troops to be fully equipped if war was declared, the weekly Na tional Enquirer reported yesterday. The Enquirer quoted Hoffman as saying, "If we were to go to war tomorrow, the Army could equip only 51 per cent of its 16 divisions. This is a critical situation." Hoffman said the Army has only 39 percent of , the tanks, 51 per cent of the armored personnel carriers, 71 - per cent of the attack helicopters and 78 per cent of the artillery it needs. Atik!Atillegigir Lunch' 4 THE" TRAIN STATION 7XXX;777= ROUNDHOUSE Cup of heaity onion soup au Giatin and a house salad 4 $1.65 ..• . - :1( rim THIS COUPON GOOD F • - 11111 EXP. 4/15/76 PICKUP OR D E LIVERY I 111 FREE! 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It was one of the most significant abortion cases since the U.S. Supreme Court barred states from in terfering in a woman's right to an abortion before the fetus can survive on its own. After Edelin's conviction, some doctors said they were reluctant to perform abor tions after the first three equipment shortage called Dr. Malcolm R. Currie, director of Defense Research and Engineering, was quoted as saying, "At present our defense capacity is simply not suf ficient and beyond 1977 things will get even worse. "The Soviet lead in artillery over the U.S. is now seven to one, in tanks six to one, in tactical aircraft, two to one. The momentum is now on the side of the Soviets and it is staggering. "The Soviet Union sees war as inevitable and we have every reason to believe they seek world dominance. Yet we have only the fourth largest army in the world, Large i'izza holce of any One Item months of pregnancy. In his instructions to the jury at the conclusion of The trial, Superior Court Judge James P. McGuire said, "A fetus is not a person and not the subject of an indictment for manslaughter." In order to become a person protected by law, it must be born out side its mother's body, he said. The prosecutor, Newman A. Flanagan, countered in his argument to the appellate court that Edelin tried to asphyxiate the fetus while it was still inside the mother and then failed to save it after it was born. "The defendant's action, in short, reflects not ignorance but an awareness of con sequences, not a passive observance of events taking after China, Russia and India, and our navy has shrunk to a point too low to protect our interests worldwide," Currie was quoted as saying. Army Chief of Staff Frederick C. Weyand was quoted as saying that Soviet ground forces outnumber the U.S. Army three to one and with their eastern European satellites they have "a vast advantage" over North Atlantic Treaty Organization land forces in tank, other armor and ar tillery "In - the event of a conflict, our army deployments would be too little and too late," Weyand was quoted as saying. fought their course and affecting the child but a positive, gratuitious effort to kill the child in the uterus, not good faith but half truth and concealment," Flanagan said. Homans said the judge also erred in allowing improper evidence to be shown to the jury, particularly a photo graph of the fetus. "The prosecutor's ex traordinarily inflammatory use of the photograph, capped by his plea to the jury to 'humanize' the fetus, shows the true thrust of the photo was directed to the passions and emotions surrounding the powerful yet extraneous ideological issue of the right to life of the unborn fetus," Homans said. 1 Author prints accusations Pope denies gay charges VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Paul VI declared yesterday that accusations that he is a homosexual are "horrible and slanderous insinuations." The charges were made by French author Roger Peyrefitte, a self-proclaimed homosexual, in a 3,000 word article printed by the Italian weekly magazine "Tempo." Police have seized the magazine. Without mentioning Peyrefitte by name, Pope Paul said in a brief address to a crowd of about 20,000 in St. Peter's Square: "We know that our cardinal vicar and the Italian Bishops' conference have urged you to pray for our humble person, who has been made the target of scorn and horrible and slanderous insinuatiopns by a certain press lacking dutiful regard for honesty and truth. "We thank you all for these demonstrations of faithful piety and moral sensibility," the 78-year-old pontiff added as the crowd applauded and cheered him. The cardinal vicar of Rome, Ugo Cardinal Poletti and the Italian bishops' conference had appealed to Italian Catholics to join in prayers in a "day of consolation" for the Pope yesterday. Special prayers were said for the Pope in all Italian Roman Catholic churches following the appeal and parish priests delivered sermons to defend the Pope against Peyrefitte's allegations. Police have seized "Tempo" in Florence on orders from a state attorney, and suit has been filed against the magazine editor on grounds he abused the honor of the Pope as the head of a foreign state, a crime in Italy. Twin mine disasters under study WHITESBURG, Ky. (UPI) Operating under some harsh criticism, a five-man government panel will question some 40 witnesses in hearings opening today to determine what caused the twin Scotia mine disasters which killed 26 men last month. The makeup of the panel already has drawn con siderable fire, including the suggested removal of Robert E. Barrett, the new ad- 'critical' House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Robin Beard, R-Tenn., was quoted as saying, "Witness after witness . : . has testified that the U.S. is now at its lowest ebb of military hardware production, while the Soviet Union is now at its height . . . There is no button you could push .. . that would create plants all of a sudden to start producing munitions. "The Soviet Union has a six to one advantage over us in every phase of military production except for helicopters. I'm afraid they're developing a commanding lead," Beard said. SirAtillYglif BEER LOVER'S NIGHT (in ewers lo page 4 puzzle) COMPLIMENTS OF THE PENN STATE BOOKSTORE ministrator of the federal Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration (MESA), and Harreld N. Kirkpatrick, Kentucky commissioner of mines and mineral resources, from the• panel. Barrett has been named to chair the panel. Miller said it was a "clear conflict of interest" for Barrett and Kirkpatrick to serve on the panel when they were responsible for authorizing rescue and safety liafflumbornamm.m.m... ~.--, Keep America Beautiful - "IL; igiiiiiiiliimmommit Knupp Optical is relocated at 254 E. Beaver Ave. State College 237-1382 8 - 1 AM The Daily Collegian Monday, April 5, 1976 Under the 1929 agreement between Italy and the Holy See, the Pope and Roman Catholicism are granted special protection against libel and slander. In his article, originally written for a French sex magazine, Peyrefitte wrote: "I said in my latest book with all due respect to a Pope, especially a living one, that he was a homosexual. It's well known that Paul had as a boyfriend a movie actor whose name I am not going to mention but whom I recall very well." . In the early 19505, Peyrefitte's book, "Saint Peter's Keys," was seized by police in Italian bookshops on grounds it abused religion. In 1958 Peyrefitte was expelled from Italy following a written attack against Pope Pius XII. In the latest article, Peyrefitte attacked a document issued in January in which the Vatican restated the condemnation of sexual acts outside marriage as sinful, despite urging un derstanding for homosexuals. "Tempo" made the article its main story of the week with a full front page caricature of Pope Paul. The Pope, who spoke from the window of his study to the crowd before giving his Sunday blessing, said that "this and other deplolable episodes have their origin" in the Vatican document on sexual ethics. He said it is because of this "that we urge you to give this document and all the teachings it includes attentive con sideration as well as to consider it a matter of virtuous ob servance ...gainst the licentious hedonism spread in the custom of modern world." crews to enter the mine after the first explosion, which killed 15 miners March 9. Two days later, a second explosion took the lives of 11 men, including three MESA inspectors, who had gone into toffee Auks • The Bottomless Cup $.25 PANCAKE COTTAGE 119 S. PUGH ST. the on a volunteer safety mission to test the at mosphere and repair the roof. Those 11 victims remain entombed in the mine, which the government ordered temporarily sealed for safety.
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