4—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, August 13,1980
Defense lawyers admit:
Abscam defendants took payoff
NEW YORK 1 (AP) Government tapes introduced
the names of two congressmen and one senator
yesterday at the initial trial growing out of the Abscam
scandal. Four defendants are accused of accepting a
$50,000 payoff from FBI agents posing as represen
tatives of an Arab sheik.
One of those named in the tapes was Rep. Michael
“Ozzie” Myers, D-Pa., one of the defendants in the
Brooklyn federal court trial that opened yesterday.
Another was Rep. Raymond Lederer, D-Pa., under
indictment in another facet of the Abscam case.
The third member of Congress named in the tapes
was Sen. Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., who is not among
those charged in the Abscam bribery-conspiracy case
involving the phony sheik’s efforts to solve a
hypothetical immigration problem.
Another of the current defendants, Angelo
Errichetti, mayor of Camden, N.J., was quoted on the
tapes as telling FBI agent Anthony Amoroso, posing as
a representative of the phony sheik, that he had suc
ceeded in “getting” Myers and was working on
"getting” Talmadge and Lederer.
When asked what Myers could do for the sHeik,
Errichetti was quoted as replying, “He’ll do anything
. . . Anything you want.”
The Camden mayor also said he was working on
“getting” two congressmen from Georgia involved and
had succeeded in setting up talks with two Florida
congressmen. None of these was named.
In a subsequent meeting, Errichetti reported Myers
was “all set” and was advised that “on the rest we’ll go
one right after another.”
In opening statements, defense attorneys told the
jury that the defendants Myers; Errichetti; Howard
Criden, a Philadelphia attorney; and Louis Johanson,
a Philadelphia city councilman, did accept the $50,000
payoff on behalf of the phony sheik, but did nothing
criminal in return for the money.
“All the defendants did was take the fat Arab’s
money,” said Criden’s lawyer, Richard Ben-Veniste.
News bi
Dogs die, but
By The Associated Press
A new, highly contagious intestinal
disease called parvovirus is killing
thousands of dogs across the United
States and the only laboratory
licensed to produce the needed
vaccine has a backlog of orders for
five million doses.
“It's like when the white- man
brought measles to the Indians,” said
Dr. Joe Smith, a veterinarian in Little
Rock, Ark. “It wiped out whole tribes
of Indians.”
While federal agencies don’t keep
statistics, outbreaks of the disease
first discovered following a collie
show in Louisville, Ky., in 1978
have been reported in growing
numbers from coast to coast this
summer.
In Arkansas, Smith estimated 1,200
dogs had died in the past two months,
though the state health board had
only officially counted 240.
The disease is primarily spread
through the feces or vomit of dogs.
Anderson files
' HARRISBURG (AP) - Cam
paigners for John Anderson filed
petitions with the Department of
State yesterday to put the in
dependent candidate for president on
the ballot in the state.
If the petitions are approved,
Pennsylvania will become the 35th
state in which Anderson has won a
ballot position for the November
election.
Campaign officials said the
petitions contained 119,000 signatures
of registered state voters, well over
the 48,000 required by state law.
Following the filing, Jane Fowler,
Anderson’s campaign coordinator in
the state, said the expected
renomination of President Carter by
the Democrats “will give us a real
boost.
“All of the polls show Carter
trailing badly. (Sen. Edward)
Kennedy’s withdrawal means we’ll
get started 72 hours earlier in looking
for supporters among the Kennedy
people,” she said.
Judge stops rape-record ban
PITTSBURGH' (AP) State
Supreme Court Judge Henry X.
O’Brien has refused to issue an
across-the-board ban on defense
attorneys who seek the records of
rape counseling centers.
The full court is expected to decide
whether to take up the issue later this
month or in September.
Until then, O’Brien said he will
decide on a case-by-case basis
whether to delay a trial when defense
attorneys seek such information.
TMI must furnish
HARRISBURG (AP) The
operators of the Three Mile Island
nuclear plant must provide computer
tapes to show whether maintenance
was improperly deferred for the
plant’s undamaged Unit 1 reactor, a
three-member federal panel ruled
yesterday.
“The hearing board of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission is interested
in whether work orders went undone
to avoid a shutdown (of Unit D,” said
Ivan Smith, panel chairman and chief
NRC administrative law judge.
“That is a serious, serious matter."
Smith said he didn’t want raw data
dumped on the board and directed the
plant operator, Metropolitan Edison
Co., to produce the maintenance
records in the most concise fashion
possible.
“They never used their offices. They never did
anything on his behalf because they never were sup
posed to.”
Defense lawyers delivered their opening statements
to the jury in a Brooklyn federal courtroom presided
over by U.S. District Judge George C. Pratt.
Earlier, the prosecution claimed that the $50,000 had
been accepted in return for a promise that Myers
would introduce a special congressional immigration
bill on behalf of the sheik, who actually was an FBI
agent.
Prosecutor Thomas Puccio, head of the federal
Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn, said six
audio and four video tapes would be offered in evidence
against the quartet of defendants.
In his opening turn before the jury, Ben-Veniste said
the entire sting operation was contrived by a
professional con man named Melvin Weinberg.
The government admits that over a three-year
period Weinberg received $93,000 as a paid informant.
Ben-Veniste gave what he characterized as Wein
berg’s eight-step sting operation, beginning with the
informant getting the government to drop a three-year
prison term against him and then commence paying
him $5,000 a month.
The second step was “to make the Arab the biggest,
fattest cat you ever did see,” Ben-Veniste continued.
“They set him up to be a billionaire.”
The third step was to tell Criden that the Arab was
interested in investing in a casino venture in Atlantic
City but that first he needed to meet some people in
high places. The job of finding these important people
was given to Criden and Errichetti, the defense lawyer
added.
The fourth step in the sting, Ben-Veniste went on,
was for Criden’s law partner, Johanson, to contact
Congressman Myers.
At that point, Ben-Veniste claimed, Weinberg told
the defendants that when they met the Arab’s
representatives they should “come on strong, promise
vaccine scarce
“People can carry the virus home
on shoes and clothes, thus exposing
their (logs,” said Pierre A. Chaloux,
deputy administrator of the USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service.
Dr. William Kay, chief of staff of
the Animal Medical Center in
Manhattan, said, “We can save 90
percent or more animals if they are
brought in right away.”
“The disease strikes rapidly and
hard,” he said. “It is characterized
by loss of appetite, vomiting, severe
diarrhea, dehydration and high
temperature.”
But vaccine for the virus is in
critically short supply.
Dr. Philip Fox of the Animal
Medical Center and others in the
field said part of the problem is
that only one laboratory has been
licensed to produce the vaccine, a
“killed virus” similar to feline
distemper vaccine.
ballot petitions
Rep. John B. Anderson
Fowler said that beginning Sept. 1,
Anderson’s state campaign expects
to spend $lO,OOO a week, not including
funds spent on television advertising.
The 2,000 campaign workers who
obtained the 119,000 petition
signatures will be the core of the
volunteer campaign staff in the state,
Fowler said.
Defense attorneys say they need to
know whether a rape victim gives
differing accounts of the assault to
police officers and rape counselors.
Counselors argue that the interviews
should remain confidential.
O'Brien, meanwhile, also decided
to delay a decision in the case of a 28-
year-old Duquesne man charged with
raping a West Mifflin woman. The
defense attorney had asked for in
terview notes taken by the Center for
Victims of Violent Crime.
information
“Get somebody down here from
your computer programming,” he
told company attorneys. “You know
what we want. Tell us how to ask for
it.”
The board said it wants to know
why the leak occurred in the cooling
system of Unit 1, why it was not
stopped sooner and what steps have
been taken to prevent a recurrence.
The Unit 1 reactor has been shut
down ever since a March ’79 accident
crippled its sister reactor, Unit 2, at
the central Pennsylvania generating
plant.
The board also said it wants more
details on a June leak that dumped
10,000 gallons of radioactive water
onto the floor of the factor's con
tainment building.
Bolivia may be cocaine haven, officials say
WASHINGTON (UPI) Ad
ministration officials yesterday said
there are established financial links
between the new Bolivian military junta
and drug traffickers and they fear the
nation could become a sanctuary for the
cultivation of cocaine.
Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz., asked
a Senate foreign relations subcommittee
to investigate possible links between the
Bolivian military government and the
international cocaine traffic.
“The cultivation of coca (the plant
which is the base of cocaine) is already
there, and has been for centuries,” the
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him everything,” realizing, however, that they would
never have to produce.
“The fifth step was to put them on television,” the
lawyer told the jury. “You’re going to see on camera
what happened, and it’s going to look terrible. But it’s
exactly what Weinberg wanted. ”
The defense lawyer said that “because Weinberg
can’t resist it, because he’s such a con man, a crook, he
hit on these men for kickbacks” the sixth step in the
sting.
For the seventh step, according to Ben-Veniste,
Weinberg got a literary agent and obtained a book
contract, then began leaking details of the FBI un
dercover probe to the news media.
The lawyer claimed that the publicity increased the
advance for the book deal and .that Weinberg had
assumed that the defendants would plead guilty and
that he would not have to testify at a trial.
Ben-Veniste said, in telling the jurors that they were
the eighth step in the sting scenario, that Weinberg
would definitely be called to the witness stand by the
defense, if need be.
“You’re going to write this last scene,” Ben-Veniste
declared. “You will decide if Mr. Weinberg and his
Abscam is the good guy or the bad guy.”
In opening remarks Plato Cacheris, Myers’ attorney,
told the jurors that in order for them to convict the
defendants the government must prove more than the
mere acceptance of money, that it must prove criminal
intent.
“Mr. Myers was never influenced and never per
formed any acts for these people,” he declared. “He
said, ‘I can do this, I can do that,’ never intending to do
any of it.”
Errichetti’s attorney, Raymond Brown, said “ab
solutely nothing was done” on behalf of the so-called
Arab.
At one point, Brown quoted Weinberg as saying,
“Just blow your horn as loud as you can, it’s all
bullshit.”
officials told United Press International.
“We were on the verge of establishing a
program of limiting its cultivation, when
the military threw the government
over.”
The officials spoke on the basis of no
further identification. They said the
military, which had actively cooperated
with the wealthy coca growers
previously, appears to have received
direct financial payments from the
narcotics traffickers.
“The country will be a sanctuary," the
officials said, “wher.e the growers will
have a freedom and license to operate."
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U.S. Rep. Michael Myers, D-Pa., leads the way into U.S. District Court in
Brooklyn, N.Y., followed by Mayor Angelo Errichetti of Camden, N.J. They are
two of four men charged with taking bribes from FBI agents posing as Arab
sheiks seeking special favors.
According to State Department
figures, the total yearly cocaine trade in
the United States amounts to $5O billion,
with an estimated 10 percent of young
people using it.
“The military revolution in Bolivia
was not ideological,” the administration
officials said. “The driving force is self
enriched greed. They are venal, and
that’s what it comes down to.
“It is well established that the military
got hundreds of thousand of dollars from
the ‘Santa Cruz Mafia’ which controls
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plants.”
The officials said that in light of the
cooperation between the cocaine traf
fickers and the Bolivian government, “It
may be that for the first time, the drug
trade has purchased itself a govern
ment.”
DeConcini said news reports since the
July 17 coup are virtually "unanimous in
characterizing the present regime as
little more than an appendage of the
criminal organizations which dominate
the flourishing international cocaine
trade.”
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economic platform victories
Continued from Page l. deeded to take up the remaining platform issues
wage-price matter in return for passage of the Wednesday.
other economic planks. /“We talked a while, we checked with our
“The mood of the house .. well, it’s Kennedy’s <ielegates and they all felt it was a good way to do
night,” White said. “Everybody wants to show Strauss said.” Good unity ... we want a good
the senator‘we love you.’ ” convention.”
Carter campaign chairman Robert Strauss Earlier, Kennedy won approval on a rollcall
said the Carter and Kennedy camps agreed to ' vote of a platform plank saying jobs would be the
hold voice votes on the four economic planks to ' “single highest domestic priority” of the next
avoid a potentially bitter floor fight. / Democratic administration. But he lost a plea
Strauss said Carter’s men told Kennedy '’ for national health insurance,
strategists they expected to defeat the wager The convention also went on record in favor of
price measure. But the Carter forces predicted cutting off party funds for candidates who op-
Kennedy would prevail on proposals calling fon pose the Equal Rights Amendment and against
$l2 billion program to provide new jobs, and <n restrictions on federal funding of abortions for
two planks that pledge Democrats will not fi;ht poor women. Both planks were victories for
inflation with steps that increase unemploymnt. feminists.
At the end of the negotiations, the conve-tion But the convention did not finish the platform
approved all three of the jobs-oriented pinks and rescheduled another session of debate on it
and turned down wage-price controls. Delgates for today
Democrats pay tribute to Humphrey
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couldn’t. I just couldn’t.” '
“There was no way,” he added. “I love his
party and I love his county too much.”
Mrs. Humphrey a pealed for party unity
recalling, as did otbrs, that the failure of
liberals to back Hurphrey cost him the 1968
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As the Minnesota delegation flashed cards
saying “Minnesota Remembers HHH,” Muskie
told the convention, “I was proud, oh how proud I
was, to be his running mate in 1968. ”
“But we lost,” continued Muskie, in a year in
which many Democrats argued “it made no
difference” who was elected. “Now we know
what a difference it would have made,” Muskie
said and added that this year the Democrats
must “remember 1968.”
Introducing Muriel Humphrey to the crowd,
Mondale said, “Muriel didn’t stand behind
Hubert, she stood next to Hubert. She was his
partner, his ally, his colleague, his confidant."
Joining Mrs. Humphrey and Mondale at the
end of the memorial, which included a film of
Humphrey’s life, was Hubert H. Humphrey 111,
their son.
Since Humphrey’s first convention in 1948,
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When it came to the jobs planks, however,
Kennedy invoked historic Democratic links to
the little man and visibly moved delegates from
both camps.
“Let us pledge that employment will be the
first priority of our economic policy,” he said.
“Let us pledge that there will be security for all
who are now at work. And let us pledge that there
will be jobs for all who are out of work.' ’
Moe said Carter’s “reservations” probably
will include language from a compromise plank
drafted by Carter aides, several black leaders
and union officials yesterday that was withheld
from the floor in a unity gesture.
The compromise makes no mention of specific
numbers of jobs or dollars but says Carter would
work on several fronts to end “unacceptably
high” unemployment.
there have been very few where he did not play a
major role.
• Humphrey, the young mayor of Minneapolis
challenging the Democrats to take the stand on
civil rights in 1948.
• Humphrey, the young senator who had lost
to John F. Kennedy in his first bid for the
presidential nomination in 1960.
• Humphrey, eagerly accepting Lyndon
Johnson’s long-awaited invitation to become the
vice presidential candidate in 1964.
• Humphrey, the victor in the most turbulent
convention of modern times in 1968.
• Humphrey, making one more attempt at
winning the nomination and relinquishing it to
old friend George McGovern in 1972.
• And Humphrey, already suffering from
cancer, discarding thoughts of another race and,
as an elder statesman, embracing Jimmy
Carter.
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