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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.
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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.
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“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.
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Federal and state officials
jiuaded blame for failure to control
ai: the Mediterranean fruit fly, and a
- ""%v area east of San Francisco was
tones JN eted for spraying today.
p The widespread infestation of
the fruit-devouring pest cannot be
med on fertile flies which may
esneaked in from Peru, a U. S.
ipartment of Agriculture
kesman said Wednesday.
King Lovinger, a spokesman
for the USDA Animal and Plant
walth Inspection service, said it
was impossible that the accidental
■ease of a few fertile flies could
he “ninety-five percent responsi-
bk” for the summer infestation.
In a “white paper ” issued Tues
day, Jerry Scribner, manager of
Bdifornia’s Medfly program,
lamed the release of Peruvian
Ses for the spread of the pest and
implied that the U. S. Department
of Agriculture was responsible.
Gray Davis, an aide to Gov.
Edmund G. Brown, who is suffer
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Bedfly crisis, said the Scribner re
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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.
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