THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1979
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Herman
adge, testifying for the first
a huge fir If’ n P u bli c under oath, told the
e l a t e jgjJJte Ethics Committee Wednes-
Xmvicted i ii 11 ' not heep a cash hoard in
st Texas £ Socket of an old overcoat,
s on non-esB e Geor g ia Democrat, facing fl-
1 sentenced'W a ' m ' sconc l uct charges before
Was paroled* 11116 '’ accuse< ^ ^is former wife,
y, and his former top aide,
el Minchew, of lying to the
dhen Minchew says I au-
;ed or directed the opening of
iecret Riggs (bank) account, he
^BWhen Minchew says that I or-
the diversion of Senate and
| OCT mpaign funds into that account.
When Minchew says he
HHme funds from that account or
benefitted from it in any way,
w-ere reluctajlli s again,” Talmadge declared,
vn against :;. Talmadge also attacked the tes-
|ny of his former wife who
ed she went into the cash stuf-
|overcoat when she needed
ehold money. Mrs.Talmadge
|fied she found as much as
in the coat,
i forgetab talmadge, however, said the
j^Hunt of money in the coat “at no
xponse: ■ approached the huge amount
t ask Mrs. Talmadge. He
fit*he has been burglarized three
ifachiringtbf 1 during his 23 y ears in the Se "
a six-vearst *l an d, I thus do not and did not
> ear |y [9^ K large sums of money at home. ”
had been z'* n0 hnre did I maintain a cash
lined toelal-P'* ‘ n t ' le P ot d<ct of an overcoat or
Bwere else, Talmadge said. “In
hesttofcirr| lwore overc °at apparently
have forgot: ; ' e ^ to by Mrs. Talmadge from
n t mind ” B *° bme in 1973 and 1974
^He said he did not know the
W.W. of the 77 SKX) bills turned
t a long tir |e! to the ethics committee by
Talmadge even though she tes-
d the money came from the
■rs. Talmadge has testified she
lid as much as $45,000 in cash
led in the old overcoat owned by
|nadge and that she dipped into
hen she needed petty cash,
almadge, who initially refused to
ify before the committee, said
now is a “willing witness” and
ir to Haw iiMnds “to establish once and for
her of visito why all five financial misconduct
sday. fg es against him should be drop-
f of the
said RicH again claimed that two minor
cs charges involving reporting
prson candidate declarations and
ate financial disclosure forms
[e unintentional and the result of
hdvertance and confusion,
lalmadge said two major charges
Postal Service starting, mail
by satellite for overseas letters
Traveler’s checks left
home without them
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Postal
Service, in its biggest step into the
electronic age, is inaugurating a
mail-via-satellite network that pho
tographs letters and transmits them
from Washington or New York to
London in less than a minute. The
new computerized INTELPOST
began a month-long demonstration
stage this week between the United
States and England. The Postal
Service then plans a one-year field
test in which actual mail will be sent
between the United States and
seven countries.
England, Argentina, Belgium,
West Germany, France, Iran and
the Netherlands have purchased
computer equipment to join in the
project in August.
The cost of mailing a letter to
Britain will be $5-a-page — the
rates may be reduced if the system
proves profitable — plus additional
postage for hand delivery if the sen
der desires.
The Postal Service, contending
the rate is far cheaper than Telex
fees, hopes the system will someday
be a big moneymaker and timesaver
for the public.
INTELPOST has headquarters at
newly remodeled, computer-filled
rooms in the Postal Service s Wash
ington offices and at the World
Trade Center in New York.
The satellite system works like
this:
A person bearing a letter arrives
at the post office and fills out a brief
form stating his address and the ad
dress of the intended recipient.
The postal clerk glances at the let
ter to make certain the print is dark
enough to photocopy. (“We don’t
want to read the letter,” says Jack
Funderburk, director of the Postal
Service’s new Office of International
Electronic Message Systems, stres
sing the importance of protecting
individual privacy.)
The clerk adjusts the computer
coding and inserts the letter in a
scanning machine, which photo
graphs it in black and white and
transmits it in digital form to receiv
ing equipment in England.
Within a minute or two, a post
office in London receives copies of
both the letter and the address form
and promptly folds them into a
window-envelope that displays the
address of the recipient.
Depending on the sender’s in
structions, the clerk will either hold
the mail for the recipient to pick up,
drop it into the normal mail stream,
or have it delivered as special ex
press mail with an extra charge of a
couple of dollars.
The same procedures will occur
for mail sent from London to the
United States, with the rates
slightly different at 2 pounds (about
$4.30) a page.
While the Postal Service guaran
tees no delivery time, it says letters
transmitted from London by 4:30
a.m. should be in the morning mail.
Funderburk said contact with
some 70 companies has brought a
“remarkable” response. If those
businesses apply the system during
the field test, INTELPOST soon
may be transmitting close to its
maximum of 4,000 letters a day.
United Press International
OMAHA, Neb. — Karl Malden
might have trouble believing this
story.
Sandra L. Rock of Grand Island
reported $500 in traveler’s checks
stolen from her purse July 1. She
and her husband, who live in Grand
Island, were visiting their daughter.
Kimberly, a cashier at an Omaha
supermarket.
On Tuesday, Miss Rock said a
woman entered her store, showed
two pieces of identification and
presented a traveler’s check to be
cashed. The cash bore her mother’s
signature.
identified i 1
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Insurance council denies
charges against life policies
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The govern
ment says Americans are losing bil
lions of dollars a year in interest by
investing in “whole life insurance
policies instead of simply putting
their money in bonds or savings ac
counts.
But the American Council of Life
Insurance says the government
doesn’t know what it’s talking about.
Whole life policies are those in
which the owners’ investment ac
mes, can be borrowed against, and
is paid off in the form of dividends or
retirement income, as opposed to
simple term policies from which
death benefits are the only repay
ment.
A report issued Tuesday by the
Federal Trade Commission said
“whole life” insurance policies earn
only 1 to 2 percent on the average,
compared to 5 to 514 percent inter
est on the lowest-paying savings and
loan accounts.
It said the reason whole life insur
ance is so popular in the United
States is that consumers simply
don’t realize how little they’re earn
ing.
A spokesman for the American
Council of life Insurance said the
report is based on “inaccurate
analysis.”
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false Senate expense claims and
conversion of campaign con-
lutions to his personal use — are
mue.
At no time,” Talmadge said, “did
receive cash from campaign con-
utions nor did he benefit from a
ret bank account opened by
tichew to launder $34,000 in
paign money and bogus expense
ng to dis me nts.
almadge said the expense over-
ewbulletssl! ments were made without his
vernsands? )w todge or involvement and he
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