Wednesday, May 18, 1983/The Battalion/Page 9
arped
by Scott McCullar
Extortion deal
holds up trial
\come disclosures out
House leadership not rich
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HOUSTON — A judge has
agreed to delay the trial of a Col
orado woman charged with
attempting to exort $15 million
from Gulf Oil Chemical Co. un
til a federal appeals court de
cides whether her indictment
was legal.
Jill Renee Bird, 37, of Duran
go, Colo., one of five people
charged in the extortion
attempt, had contended she
should not be prosecuted be
cause of an agreement struck
with a Colorado prosecutor arid
John McBride, Bird’s common-
law husband.
Bird was indicted in April
along with four Colorado men,
but U.S. District judge Gabrielle
McDonald ruled Monday Bird’s
trial should be delayed until her
appeal is decided.
McBride, 46, the alleged mas
termind in the extortion plot last
September, agreed to give offi
cials information on five bombs
he said he planted at the Gulf
facility near Baytown if Bird re
ceived immunity.
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= dou tto«SHINGTON _ FeW) if
icm. y House leaders are mil-
icemos i, a j res , financial disclosure
‘ "wniWnents revealed Tuesday,
penaltj x| ie millionaires in the “peo-
;’s body,” as the House some-
icticalhips is called, hold minor posi-
ns or are not part of the
d intlieS|’d|rship.
s statements of personal
and m
latobW 1 an< ^ iucome for 1982
:re released Tuesday for most
f heh P USt: members. Other mem-
itingl rs statements were to be re-
® »lTuesday, and, in the cases
alew who won filing exten-
hat reali?. on J une 1-
.The statements reveal gener-
jaa!" °f holdings ancl exact
j- hjjjBds of fees for speeches and
t say Itirg. But for the most part it
into|jB >ossible to corn P ute
.-...“'r’S exact personal wea
and retain an additional $23,737
in outside incor*e from speeches
and writing. He went close to the
maximum, retaining $22,500,
including $2,000 in fees from
such groups as the Outdoor
Advertising Association.
Rep. Gillis Long, D-La., chair
man of the Democratic Caucus,
has assets of $1.02 million, most
of it stock, but owes $510,000,
making his net worth far less
than $ 1 million.
Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-
Texas, chairman of the Agricul
ture Committee, received the
standard House annual pay of
$60,662.50, earned $10,500 by
giving speeches and took a few
trips at the expense of farm
groups.
groups to whom he spoke. But
he has less than $100,000 in the
bank, earning less than $16,000
in interest.
By contrast, one of the richer
members of Congress is Richard
Ottinger, D-N.Y., a subcommit
tee chairman. He has stocks and
bonds valued at well over $2 mil
lion, with the largest shares in
Xerox, Weyerhaeuser and IBM.
Last year, he earned dividends
of more than $60,000 from his
stocks.
said died
a mem-
personal wealth.
ouse Speaker Thomas
Neill, D-Mass., the most pow-
F aboutr.® ma n in the House, has
haractei lings worth less than
“We’re Boo and owes at least
^odowij^OO to financial institutions,
didn’thl’^eill, who is paid $79,125
let part speaker, was allowed to earn
Beyond that, he had no out
side income. He owns no stock
or real estate, and bought and
sold nothing.
Another influential member
is Rep. James Howard, D-N.J.,
chairman of the Public Works
Committee, who took the max
imum permissible $18,197 in
honoria. He also accepted travel
expenses from a number of
And Rep. James Broyhill, R-
N.C., has assets of at least $2.7
million spread among stocks,
mutual funds, partnerships and
other investments. He has liabi
lities of at least $150,000.
Rep. Frank Guarini, D-N.J.,
has assets of more than $1.6 mil
lion in property and stocks and
owes more than $150,000. He
holds no committee or subcom
mittee chairmanship.
Democratic leader Jim
Wright of Texas has assets of at
least $380,000 and owes at least
$115,000. He earned from in
vestments more than $25,000.
Republican leader Robert
Michel of Illinois has at least
$150,000 in assets and owes at
least $50,000, the statement
showed. Michel earned $35,000
in speaking fees but gave much
to charity, retaining only the
allowable amount of $20,575.
Many members enjoy golf
and the lists showed many had
gifts or lodging for golf tourna
ments.
Michel went to the Bob Hope
Classic, where he received clo
thing and shoes. His expenses to
the Elizabeth Arden Golf Tour
nament in Florida were paid.
O’Neill received travel and
lodging to the Danny Thomas
Charity Golf Tournament.
Expenses to several golf tour
naments also were paid for Ways
and Means Committee Chair
man Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill.,
who kept $17,500 in speaking
fees and earned another
$34,398 that he gave to charity.
Like many others, he received
$2,000 for speaking to the Out
door Advertising Association.
Rostenkowsi, the disclosure
statement revealed, has hold
ings of at least $120,000 and no
liabilities.
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10USTON — Three diabe-
ihave been selected to under-
■oneering pancreas trans-
pijs that could free them from
felong dependence on insulin
&tions.
The procedure, which is new
the United States, has been
rfbrmed at the University of
I in France 37 times since
1, and doctors there say ab-
half the recipients are doing
Dr Barry Kahan of the Uni-
rsity of Texas Medical School
Houston said Monday the
ee patients who will undergo
first transplants in his prog-
probably within a few
weeks, all suffer from juvenile-
onset diabetes and have already
received new kidneys. Other pa
tients are being evaluated.
Crucial to Kahan’s plan was
the recent approval by the fed
eral government of his applica
tion to use the anti-rejection
drug Cyclosporine, to which
doctors in Lyon attribute much
of their success.
Kahan said the donor pan
creas must be transplanted into
the diabetic’s body alongside the
patient’s own organ. The origin
al pancreas will continue to pro
duce digestive enzymes, while
the new one will generate the
insulin hormone.
Diabetes is caused when a
pancreas secretes an insufficient
amount of insulin, which means
the body cannot metabolize
sugar. Conversely, too much in
sulin causes hypoglycemia.
Kahan, who has been using
Cyclosporine for the past two
years and has completed 150
kidney operations with an 80
percent success rate, said the
pancreas transplant is a more
difficult operation.
“It is a bifunctional organ and
the operation will only be per
formed on diabetics,” Kahan
said.
The Swiss-manufactured
drug, which has revolutionized
organ transplants, has already
been used in heart, heart-lung,
kidney and liver transplant
operations. Doctors said the
drug reduces the chances of the
body rejecting the new organ.
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