Wednesday, May 18, 1983/The Battalion/Page 9 arped by Scott McCullar Extortion deal holds up trial \come disclosures out House leadership not rich United Press Internationa] 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. Be United Press International = 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. The Magic of Mexico. IMPORTED & BOTTLED BY TEOlflLA JALISCO S e doesn’t! defmitelil ened up lat'sthe ouston doctor set to perform st U.S. pancreas transplants I United Press International 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. 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