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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1978
Influence-buying scandal
ends quietly with questions
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Korean
influence-buying scandal — once
rumored to engulf 115 congressmen
and more than a dozen senators —
has ended quietly, but with ques
tions raised on both sides of Con
gress about what to do the next time
a scandal breaks.
The Senate Ethics Committee,
created in an atmosphere of
“post-Watergate morality,” officially
ended its first major assignment
Monday with a report on Korean
influence-buying that made no rec
ommendation for discipline against
any current senator.
Although the panel raised suspi
cions concerning Sen. Birch Bayh,
D-Ind., by forwarding evidence in
his case to the Justice Department
to determine if he or an aide vio
lated the law by accepting a cam
paign contribution in a federal
building, the harshest findings were
reserved for three dead senators.
The report, leaked to the press
last week, said the late Sen. John
McClellan, D-Ark., failed to report
a $1,000 cash contribution from
South Korean businessman Tongsun
Park; and the 1972 presidential
campaign of the late Sen. Hubert
Humphrey, D-Minn., failed to re
port a $5,000 cash contribution from
Park.
knew or reasonably shoidd have
known Park was an agent of the
Korean government.
The House panel recommended
discipline against only three sitting
members. The House upheld the
committee’s recommendation for a
reprimand of Reps. John McFall,
D-Calif., and Charles Wilson,
D-Calif., for their dealings with
Park, but overrode a unanimous
recommendation of censure for
The late Sen. Joseph Montoya,
D-N.M., was found to have re
ceived contributions from Park
while frequently consulting with
him on legislative issues and con
tinuing the association at a time “he
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Rep. Edward Roybal, D-Calif., and
simply reprimanded him too.
Besides failing to report a $1,000
Park contribution and converting it
to his personal use, Roybal was
found to have repeatedly lied to the
committee under oath about the
money. It was the ,lies that
By softening Roybal s punish
ment, the House raised doubts
about how seriously it really takes
recommendations from the panel it
entrusted with the unpleasant task
of monitoring congressional mis
conduct.
But perhaps more important, it
raises the question of how seriously
individual members will take the
ethics committee if they are called
to task for misconduct in the future.
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Alcohol use increases risk of cancer
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Depart
ment of Health, Education and Wel
fare reported Tuesday that 10 mil
lion Americans are now problem
drinkers and that heavy alcohol con
sumption is “indisputably involved”
in causing cancer.
“Excessive consumption of al
cohol takes a terrible toll on the
health, safety and happiness of mil
lions of Americans,” said HEW Sec
retary Joseph Califano in sending
the special report to Congress.
The 138-page volume — the third
such HEW document since 1971 —
provided some startling statistics:
—Some 10 million (7 percent) of
adult Americans are problem drin
kers.
—More than 3 million (19 per
cent) of young people aged 14 to 19
have some problems related to al
cohol consumption.
—More than 200,000 deaths each
year may be associated with the
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misuse of alcohol, including half of
traffic fatalities, half of homicides
and one third of the suicides.
—Findings now conclude that
heavy drinking is connected with
cancer as well as other health prob
lems.
“Alcohol is indisputably involved
in the causation of cancer and its
consumption is one of the few types
of exposure known to increase the
risk of cancer at various sites in the
human body,” Califano said in a re
lease accompanying the report.
“In comparison to the general
population, heavy consumers of al
cohol always show a marked excess
of mortality from cancers of the
mouth and pharynx, larynx,
esophagus, liver and lung,” he said.
The HEW report also noted that
alcohol is the third leading cause of
birth defects involving mental re
tardation.
In financial terms, Califano said
the economic toll from alcohol prob
lems was estimated at $43 billion
1975, including some $20 billion
lost production and nearly $13 Ij
lion in medical costs.
Califano told Congress HEW
currently developing goals and
itiatives for a national plan to cm
alcohol abuse.
“In the meantime, this repi
documents the scope of the need
action,” he said.
Use wood, not Arab oil
State provides forests
United Press International
MONTPELIER, Vt. — With the
chill of fall comes the whine of
chainsaws.
Vermont residents are heading
for the forests, to slice up cords of
firewood for the coming winter.
They have been doing so for four
years under a popular state program
that grew out of the Arab oil em
bargo. Vermont opened up its
forests to meet the challenge and al
lowed state residents, for a minimal
fee, to cut firewood on state-owned
forest land.
“It was a nickel-dime operation at
first,” recalled Conrad Modica of
the Forests and Parks Department.
“Maybe 300 or 400 cords a year.”
Then, as oil prices skyrocketed,
more and more Vermonters started
burning wood. More and more resi
dents took advantage of the offer.
The state treasury gained a windfall.
But the demand for cheap, acces
sible firewood has now begun to ex
ceed the supply. The popular pro
gram’s days may be numbered, a
victim of its own success.
“This is not a forever thing,”
Monica said.
This year, Modica said, the har
vest will be about 10,000 cords from
state lands. State records show that
since the program began, more than
8,200 persons have cut 44,000 cords
of firewood on about 6,300 acres of
state land.
Under the program, the land is
marked off into individual wood
lots. Each tree to be cut is sprayed
with paint by a forester.
The wood lots, each containing
between five to 10 cords of
hardwood or more, are assigned on
a first come, first served basis.
Those who sign up for the program,
and there are always long waiting
lists, can accept or reject the lot of
fered them.
Then the cutting begins and the
racket of chainsaws is heard
throughout the once silent forests.
There is a lot of work between the
wood lot and the fireplace, but the
benefits can be ample. A cord of
wood that is cut, split and delivered
generally costs $55 to $60 or more in
Vermont.
The state charges $4 a cord for the
standing trees. Of that, $1 stays with
the Forests and Parks Department
to run the program; $3 goes to the
state General Fund. The legislature
has given back $50,000 for road
building in the forests during each
of the past two years.
A major side benefit has been the
clearing of worthless “cull” wood
from state forests. Experts compare
it to weeding a garden.
According to Modica, 70 percent
of the stands on state property b
been improved. He said a need fa
similar forest management progej
exists on private land, which coi
prises more than 80 percent ofll
state’s forests.
As the popularity of the prograi
increased, so did the problem
Gone are the days when
weekend woodcutter could drii
the family station wagon up to
woodlot and haul away his k
Most of the lots now are far back
the woods, high on mountainside
and accessible only by rough loggi
roads, which Modica said costtl
state $3 a foot to build.
In central Vermont, where
program is most widely used, an
able forest land now will pror
only a limited supply of cut-yot
own firewood, he said.
“The individual woodcutter w
be finished after five years, he sail
After that, it won’t be ea)
nomically feasible for the state
build roads to the lots, which will
accessible only to contractors id
the proper equipment.
He urged the public to prepa
for that day by forming woodcut
cooperatives and buying equip*
such as bulldozers.
“Were afraid of making thisas
taining program because we fa
there are limits,” Modica said,
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