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: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
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*-- 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.
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"Since the record contains
no such evidence, the trial
judge erred in failing to direct
a verdict of not guilty and to
set aside the jury's verdict,"
he said.
Edelin, 37, an obstetrician
at Boston City Hospital, was
convicted Feb. 15, 1975, and
sentenced to one year's
probation. He was accused of
killing a 20- to 24-week old
male fetus that he aborted in
1973. .
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,
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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.
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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
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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
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