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Private contractors
claim can implicate
10 GSA employees
WASHINGTON ( UPI ) Three
private contractors who pleaded guilty
to charges of bribing General Services
Administration employers and a fourth
who has agreed to plead guilty can
implicate "about 10" GSA officials.
sources said yesterday.
The four contractors all confessed to
working with unnamed GSA employees
to set up padded or phony contracts from
1974 to 1977. Three of them pleaded
guilty yesterday in federal court to
charges they passed more than $300,000
in bribes to GSA employees.
The fourth contractor. Robert Wear,
45. Fairway Hills. Md., is scheduled to
plead guilty early next month to charges
he divided $310,000 with GSA employees
w hile cluing only $60.000 in legitimate
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Assistant U S. attorney William Block
said all lour are cooperating with in
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thte of the contractors. David Smith of
Adelphi. Md.. told the court contractors
had to provide money or services if they
%%anted to do business with the GM. lie
said some contractors even set up
charge accounts at stores so the GSA
of 1 icials could buy what they wanted.
Block said the contractors eventually
"got more and more greedy," and the
contracts were inflated to cover the
costs of kickbacks. By 1977. he said,
some "totally phoo," contracts were set
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REEDVILLE. Va. c UPI) . — Navy and
Coast Guard divers yesterday pulled the
bodies of four crewmen from the sunken
'Coast Guard cutter Cuyahoga, which
collided with an Argentine freighter
Friday night.
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aged hull of the Argentine freighter. the 'Santa Cruz II." hoga' off Smith Point in the Chesapeake Bay late Friday.
The ship was brought to Baltimore for repairs after it
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so GSA employees could get even larger
gratuities.
U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch
accepted the guilty pleas to a single
count of conspiracy. He set no date for
sentencing.
The conspiracy 'charges are
punishable by up to five years in prison
and a $lO,OOO fine.
The pleas brought to 20 the number of
GSA employees and contractors in the
Baltimore-Washington area who have
pleaded guilty in a nationwide in
vestigation of corruption within the GSA.
the giant government procurement
agency and landlord of federal
buildings.
Sources said four other Washington
area contractors soon will be charged
and they also are cooperating with
federal investigators. The sources said
more than 60 indictments are now ex
pected to result from Justice Depart
ment and GSA investigations in the
Washington-Baltimore area alone.
Smith. 54. is alleged to have done
$650.000 in legitimate work for the
government and to have divided another
$210.000 with GSA officials.
The other two who pleaded guilty
yesterday are James Wheatley. 32, of
Herndon. Va., and Thomas Jenkins, 31,
Arlington. Va.. who together did about
$120,000 in legitimate work for the
government and split another $30,000
with GSA ol I icials.
The bodies of six of 11 missing
crewmen had been recovered by the
time search operations were suspended
at dusk Monday. The bodies of two
crewmen were found Sunday.
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Animal handlers and Pawtucket policemen haul Frosty the polar bear into a
flat bed truck after he was subdued by a tranquilizer dart in the hindquarters
and captured early yesterday in Slater Park Zoo. The bear wandered out of its
scheduled to arrive about dawn Tuesday
to begin to raise the 125-foot wreck 57
feet below the surface, four miles north
of Smith Point, Va. The Argentine
vessel, Santa Cruz 11, sustained minor
damage.
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the latest victims as Seaman Apprentice
David McDowell, 22, of North Chili,
N.Y.; Officer Candidate Bruce Wood, 31,
of Belflower, Calif.; Officer Candidate
John Heistand, 33, of Forked River, N.J.,
and Seaman Apprentice Michael
Atkinson, 18, of Spencerport, N.Y.
Those found Sunday were identified as
Officer Candidate James Clark, 25, of
Clovis, N.M., and fireman's apprentice
James Hellyer, 20, of New Castle, Pa.
Coast Guard officials said it could take
several days before all of the missing
men are found because a two-knot
current near the mouth of the Potomac
River could have scattered their bodies.
Catholic-communist dialogue seen
VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope John
Paul II endorsed the Roman Catholic
Church's policy of accommodation with
communist nations yesterday, saying
dialogue is the only way to ease
problems.
"There cannot be true human
progress for lasting peace without the
courageous, loyal and disinterested
search for cooperation and an increasing
unity among peoples," the pope said in
an address to representatives from some
125 nations and world organizations.
"For this, this church encourages all
the initiatives that can be taken, all the
steps that can be accomplished for the
bilateral and multilateral plan."
The former cardinal from communist
Poland did not mention any country or a
specific policy but his meaning was
clear when he said, "The principles
which guided my predecessors and
especially the mourned Pope Paul VI
will continue to inspire the action of the
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cage during the night after vandals broke three locks. A Pawtucket fireman
discovered the loose bear during a sunrise jog, which quickly turned into a brisk
sprint. Police said the bear was "safe - and happy."
The Coast Guard would not officially
declare the crew members still missing
dead and said underwater, air and
surface searches would continue until all
were accounted for.
"They're searching and they hope."
said Coast Guard spokesman Jonathan
Smith.
Memorial services for the victims will
be held tomorrow at the Coast Guard
Reserve Training Center in Yorktown,
Va.
Coast Guard Commandant John B.
Hayes ordered flags at all Coast Guard
stations be flown at half-mast until
sunset tomorrow to honor the 11 men.
Eighteen Coast Guardsmen, four of
Holy See."
The church's policy of reconciliation
with the Soviet bloc was initiated by
Pope John XXIII and was pursued
vigorously by his successor, Pope Paul.
The anti-communist trend in the church
reached a peak with Pope Pius Xll's 1950
decree excommunicating "atheistic
communists."
Many in the church believe having a
pope from Poland a man who spent
almost his entire priestly career under
communism and understands its
workings will accelerate this process
of detente.
Cuba and Yugoslavia are the only
communist nations that have diplomatic
relations with the Vatican. An estimated
60 million Catholics live in communist
countries.
The reconciliation effort is aimed at
securing more freedom for clergymen,
more opportunities for religious in
struction and less state interference in
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whom were injured, survived Friday's
collision, which took place while the
Cuyahoga was on a training mission.
The injured were reported in good
condition, a Coast Guard official said.
A board of inquiry, including members
of the National Transportation Safety
Board and Coast Guard officials. was
scheduled to begin hearings on the ac
cident yesterday at the Customs House
in Baltimore.
The Cuyahoga. built in the 1920 s for
use as high-seas hunter of rum-runners.
sank within three minutes of the collision
with the 521-foot Santa Cruz IL which
struck the cutter on its right side. The
Cuyahoga had a crew of 29.
church activities in communist
governed lands.
At his inaugural Mass Sunday. Pope
John Paul II appealed to different
economic and political systems to "open
wide the doors to Christ."
In his address Monday to the foreign
dignitaries, the new pontiff said the
Vatican's endeavors on the world stage
have "no other goal hut to serve." ,
John Paul 11, who until his election last
week was archbishop of Krakow.
Poland, is known to have taken a firm
but business-like stance in dealing with
the government in Warsaw. Ile spoke out
often from his pulpit on human rights but
was careful not to criticize the com-
Munist leadership directly
The pope received in separate
audiences 16 chiefs of state and other
dignitaries, among them President
Henryk Jablonski of Poland and King
Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain.
All had attended his installation Sunday.