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THE BATTALION Page 53 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1981 Executives confess fraud plot United Press International WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has agreed to drop criminal charges against four ex ecutives of McDonnell Douglas Corp. in return for guilty pleas by the St. Louis-based company, it was reported today. The Washington Post, quoting unnamed sources, said the com pany’s board of directors agreed Tuesday to the settlement calling for the firm to plead guilty and paying $55,000 in fines on 10 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and filing false statements with government agencies. In addition, the Post said, the aircraft company will pay $1.2 mil lion to settle a companion civil suit filed by the department. The newspaper said the settle ment will be formally filed in U. S. District Court within the next week. Criminal charges were filed against the company and its execu tives in 1979 for allegedly making illegal payments to overseas offi cials to insure the sale of DC-10 jetliners. The Post said charges against James S. McDonell III, vice presi dent and son of the company’s founder; John C. Brizendine, president of Douglas Aircraft; Charles M. Forsyth, executive vice president of Douglas; and Sherman Pruitt Jr., a Douglas sales manager, are being dropped as part of the agreement. However, a separate perjury count against Pruitt remains, the Post said. The efforts to reach a settle ment in the case received height ened attention in June, when it was disclosed Associate Attorney General Rudolph Giuliani, the Justice Department’s No. 3 offi cial, had met with an attorney for McDonnell Douglas without in forming the two government lawyers assigned to the case. An internal review cleared Giuliani of any impropriety. HOUSTON CHRONICLE DISCOUNT 1 / 2 PRICE 5 hmbs found under cars U.N. Soviet diplomats United Press International NEW YORK — Police defused two small bombs early Thursday that w'ere planted under cars be- ow mai lieved to belong to members of the id. “AptlBviet Union’s mission to the Un- about oi ited Nations. I A man identifying himself as a olice ptmjember of the militant Jewish i up ani Defense League said the organiza- amp.locittion had planted the devices. )uthwesl[ ; The two bottles of gasoline, with M-80 firecrackers attached, . j roill| . were discovered about 4:30 a.m. Im but ,n Plages under two cars parked ‘ near the Russian mission, police tmU said, The cars both bore diploma tic license plates. Haitian!® The area was closed to traffic as ketopr police conducted a further search heir«of the area. d conditi ml “They are parked right near our jission. I think the cars belong to members of our mission,” said S.A. Ezekhayev, the diplomat on duty at the mission. Ezekhayev nervously asked to be excused from a telephone in terview saying, “I am preoccupied by these bombs.” A man who telephoned UPI at 4:15 a.m. said: “Shalom. The mili tant wing of the Jewish Defense League has blown up two autos outside the Soviet mission.” Police said the devices did not explode. The anonymous caller said the cars had been blown up to gain the release of imprisoned Soviet Jew ish dissident Anatoly Shcharansky and a woman tentatively identi fied as Maria Tiemkin. Shcharansky, 33, perhaps the best-known of the imprisoned Soviet dissidents, was arrested in 1977 and sentenced in 1978 to three years in prison and 10 years in labor camp for treason and espionage, anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. Shcharansky is reported to be very ill and losing his eyesight. His wife Avital, now living in Israel, met with President Reagan in May to plead for help for her husband. No details were im mediately available on the woman mentioned by the caller. The call was reported to police, who then searched the area of the mission and discovered the unex ploded bottles. The devices were planted a half block from the 19th precinct stationhouse. Members of the bomb squad disconnected the devices about 6 a.m. as detectives from the Crime Scene Unit checked them for fing erprints, police said. Late last month, four people, two of whom identified them selves as members of the JDL, were arrested for cursing and banging on a bus used by em ployees of the Soviet mission. No injuries were reported in that incident. MORNING DELIVERY YOU NOW HAVE A CHOICE ON YOUR MORNING NEWS PAPER. THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE IS THE LARGEST MORNING NEWSPAPER IN BRAZOS COUNTY. GUARANTEED DELIVERY TO YOUR DORM, APART MENT OR HOME DAILY AND SUNDAY FOR THE FALL SEMESTER. 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Department of Agriculture was responsible. Gray Davis, an aide to Gov. Edmund G. Brown, who is suffer ing politically because of the Bedfly crisis, said the Scribner re port gave the state control prog ram a clean hill of health. ” PCOCOCOOOSOOOOOOOCOOC 31) ONE .in A new larvae find in Pleasan ton, Calif., 414 miles outside the existing malathion spray zone, has forced the creation of a new 16- square mile aerial spray zone. Three maggots found in a Pleasanton backyard Tuesday were confirmed as Medflies Wednesday, a Medfly project spokesman in Los Gatos said. The initial aerial spraying was scheduled for this morning. Notification of spraying was mailed Wednesday to 15,000 area residents and numerous radio broadcasts announcing the new spray zone were scheduled, offi cials said. In Southern California, 20 more Mediterranean fruit flies were found Wednesday in the San Gabriel Valley, near Los Angeles, but officials continued to express optimism the infestation could be contained. “There have been no flies found out of the one-square mile core area,” County Agricultural Com missioner Paul Engler told repor ters. “That is reassuring that we are on top of the infestation.” A total of 40 flies have been found in Los Angeles County since last week. The infestation has been confined to one neigh borhood in Baldwin Park. 693-2323 or 846-0763 Houston Chronicle We put a little extra in your day ON COLLEGE RODEO & ROUND-UP registration for our fall classes starts sept. 7th 1981 Come and see our Creative Encounters exhibit in the M S C Gallery, Aug. 19th- Sept. 13th. Come by and check us out or for more information call 845-1631 We’re open Mon - Fri 10:am - 10:pm Sat - Sun 1:pm - 6:pm MSC Craft Shop - FALL. 19&1 - Workshop Schedule MONDAY Beg. 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