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STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY UITT & LOUR COLUMBIA. 0- - 65211 76th Year No. 83 Good Morning! It's Thursday, December 20, 1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents New York Times WASHINGTON - The United States an-nounced Wednesday that it would withdraw from UNESCO at the end of this month. It said the agency had largely failed to meet Ameri-can demands that it rid itself of mismanage-ment, politicization and " endemic hostility" toward a free press, free markets and individ-ual human rights. The United States, which contributed about 25 percent of this year's $ 187 million budget for the U. N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, warned the 161- count- ry, Paris- base- d group a year ago that it would pull out if changes were not made. In announcing the withdrawal Wednesday afternoon, Gregory J. Newell, assistant secre-tary of state for international organization af-fairs, said that while UNESCO had made some effort to change, " an unacceptable gap clearly remains." Newell added that the administra-tion would establish observer teams to keep an eye on UNESCO with the hope that enough changes eventually would be made to permit the United States to rejoin. In the meantime, he said, the United States will continue to support educational, scientific, cultural and communications activities through other global agencies. " The circumstances that impelled us last year to announce our plan to withdraw have not changed sufficiently this year to warrant a change in our decision," Newell said as he ex-plained the American position. " Extraneous politicization continues, as does, regrettably, an endemic hostility toward the institutions of a free society particularly those that protect a free press, free markets and, above all, indi-vidual human rights. UNESCO's mismanage-ment also continues, and approximately 80 percent of its $ 374 million biennial budget is sail spent at its Paris headquarters, leaving only 20 percent to be spent elsewhere." UNESCO was set up in 1946 to promote the exchange of educational, scientific and cultu-ral information. In recent years, in the view of American officials, particularly conservatives in the Reagan administration, and officials of some other countries, notably Britain, UNES-CO's management has been wasteful and its activities have increasingly been dominated by a coalition of Third World and Soviet- blo- c countries that seek a " new order" in economic and communication matters. Summing up such concerns at one point last year, the United States charged that UNESCO had " become involved in political issues be-yond the scope of its constitution; introduced concepts emphasizing rights of states rather than individuals into some of its programs; not properly managed its personnel, programs and financial activities." The British, who contributed 8 percent of UNESCO's budget this year, have indicated they may withdraw from the organization by the end of 1985 if sweeping changes are not made. Should Britain withdraw, some UNES-CO officials have said privately, a climate might be established that would put the organi-zation's long- ter- m survival in doubt. As an example of the politicization of UNES-CO, its critics point out that at one point the or-ganization withheld cultural aid from Israel on the ground that Israel had altered " historical features" in Jerusalem during excavations there. At another point, the critics note, UNES-CO condemmad what it described as Israel's " cultural assimilation" of Arabs in occupied territory. The critics contend that, increasingly. UN-ESCO tends to view economics from the Soviet and Third World viewpoints, in which controls, particularly in the case of the Soviets, play a much greater role than in capitalistic, free- mark- et economies. Further, say the critics, the UNESCO ap-proach to the freedom of the press and toward human rights tends, in general, to reflect un-usual Soviet and Third World influence, with controls of various types often emphasized. The critics particularly deplore UNESCO's ef-fort to set guidelines for journalists in order to promote " responsible" reporting. Harold W. Andersen, chairman of the World Press Freedom Committee, said in a statement the group will " monitor commu-nications issues at UNESCO and fight for press freedom. These issues will not be any less im-portant now." Andersen, president the Omaha- Heral- d World Co., said the committee " will be watch-ing, as will others, to see whether there will be reforms substantial enough to warrant consid-eration of the U. S. rejoining UNESCO." Gregory Newell Confirms withdrawal from UNESCO 5iBBB8B3EKBlaPHflMeaiPf! BaiBBB5 Noisy nod The volume was a little high for Florence King ( foreground), a resident of Olathe - UPlTelephoto ( Kan.) J- lor- ne, as a group of Christmas carol-ers sing during a visit to the home recently. Factory would make Chinese spice ByMikeMeQuIn Mtesourten staff writer Local businessman Yung T. Chow says by squeezing the sauce out of mid- Misso- uri soybeans, he can squeese some life into the Boone County economy. Chow, owner of the House of Chow, 2101 W. Broadway, and the Peking Garden, 219 S. Ninth St., plans to build c soy sauce factory the nation's third in Boone Coun-ty. Chow says his company, Wan Snow Pood Inc., will em-ploy 25 people. The factory is to be located at US. 63 North and Route W near PrathsrsvUle and will become fully operational by early summer. The total cost for land, equipment and construction will be 09,090. Four Taiwanese investors also are involved h the company. . ... " They are the experts of soy sauce," says Chow of his Taiwanese partners. " Mainly, my purpose is to hekj these four people getstarted." Chow says the soy sauce will be manufactured the ow-- fashioned way without chemicals. " It will take us six months to ferroentthe soy sauce," be says. " Chemicals are quicker, it makes the sauce ferment faster, but it's not as good. We want to take the time so people will like it. It's good for health." Soy sauce is a mixture of the fermented juice of soy-beans and wheat kernels, with a dash of water and pre-servatives. Chow says soy sauce originated in China as a spice and a marinade. A native of Yantai, Chow says the soy sauce will be packaged in Sve- gaUc- n drums, which he plans to sell to Missouri ' s 1 ,000 Chinese restaurants. Chow says the plant will produce 1,000 gallons of soy sauce a dayby late 1086. " We're going to suppry Chinese kitchens," he says. " Later, maybe in two or three years, we may go into the supermarkets." The Boone County Planning and Zoning Commission will consider resoning the proposed factory site from ag-ricultural to commercial at its first meeting in 1985. Weinberger: Newspaper WASHINGTON ( UPI) Reagan Administration officials Wednesday accused the Washington Post news-paper of jeopardizing national secu-rity by publishing a report that a spy satellite will be launched over the Soviet Union in a secret shuttle mis-sion next month. The Post reported Wednesday that the secret military cargo on next month's Discovery mission is a $ 300 million Air Force satellite that will orbit over the western reaches of the Soviet Union. The newspaper said it could be used to pick up radio signals from Soviet missile tests that could verify compliance with arms control agree-ments. Defense Secretary Caspar Wein-berger called the Post's reporting of the story " the height of journalistic irresponsibility." Penatagon spokesman Robert O'Brien said several news organiza-tions had been aware of the story, but abided by Pentagon requests that the information not be pub-lished. " These requests were made and responsibly honored by many net-works," O'Brien said. " The Wash- - Spy satellites' future .. Page2A ington Post felt that they simply had to run the story." Weinberger, when asked if publi-cation was a violation of national se-curity, told the Cable News Network, " I think it is. I think it is something that should not be discussed in the public prints." White House spokesman Larry Speakes, asked if President Reagan thought the disclosure damaged na-tional security, said, Tm- ure- " be does." The actual effect, he said, " remains to be seen." Because of the disclosure, the Pen-tagon and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have im-posed unprecedented restrictions on information about the shuttle mis-sion. They have banned interviews with the all- milit- ary crew and re-fused to give the launch time for the Jan. 23 mission. Ben Bradlee, executive editor of the Post, denied that the story, which he called " a careful review of what is known about the upcoming shuttle launch," had breached na-tional security. " We kept out of our story informa-tion we knew the Pentagon consid-ered sensitive," Bradlee said in a statement Wednesday. " Virtually every fact we mentioned is a matter of public record. " We take it most seriously when anyone says that a story we printed breaches national security," he sad " We think Secretary Weinberger's reaction is not justified.' The shuttle's new role as a mili-tary carrier has led to an unprece-dented secrecy over its cargo and flight plan. Project officials refuse to say how long Discovery will stay up and promise only 16 hours notice of its landing. Communications from the five as-tronauts aboard will be specially coded to black out the public and there will be no interviews or news conferences with the crew, before or after the flight The secrecy guidelines cover all military missions of the shuttle. Three such flights are planned for 1985; more than 30 military payloads are booked for shuttle missions through 1989. Reagan administrationto aim for flexibility during arms talks Soviet official issues challenge WASHINGTON ( UPI) - The White House, " encouraged" by a So-viet desire for dialogue, declared Wednesday that President Reagan has " every intention to be flexible" in talks next month aimed at a revi-- . val of arms control negotiations. " We're willing to approach these talks with an attitude of open- mindednes- s," said White House spokesman Larry Speakes. Speakes refused to attach high ex-pectations to the Jan. 7-- 8 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, between Sec-retary of State George Shultz and So-viet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro- myk- o. But he conveyed a hope by Reagan that the talks will " set the framework for future discussions" on nuclear arms and weapons in space. " We expect them to be sessions that include intense discussions, hard bargaining," Speakes said. " We don't expect to be able to solve all the hard, complicated problems that are involved in U- S.- Sov-iet rela-tions during the two- daymeetin- g." Speakes said Shultz will have in-structions from Reagan to be flexi-ble and " hear the Soviet proposals." He declined to respond directly to a challenge leveled Tuesday by Soviet Politburo member Mikhail Gorba-chev, who said in London that " it is now up to the United States to make a move" if the Geneva discussions are to lead to substantive and suc-cessful arms control talks. Without addressing Gorbachev's statement, Speakes said the White House was otherwise " encouraged that the Soviets are willing to enter a dialogue." With less than three weeks re-maining before the Geneva talks, Reagan discussed strategy Wednes-day with Edward Rowny, chief U. S. negotiator at the suspended Strateg-ic Arms Reduction Talks. Reagan was briefed on prepara-tions for the Shultz- Gromyk- o dis-cussions dealing with long- rang- e nu-clear arms. Speakes said the two agreed " that the best way to reduce the risk of nuclear war is through equitable and verifiable agreements ' to reduce nuclear weapons." Arms control negotiations between the two superpowers have been in the deep freeze for more than a year. In the past, U. S. officials from Reagan on down have argued that the United States has put forth no shortage of arms control proposals, only to see them ignored or rejected by Moscow, and that the burden of moving the process forward should rest on the Soviets. By Gregory Gordon United Press International WASHINGTON Adm. Hymsn Rickover, who built the 141- shi- p nu-clear Navy from scratch, became a darling of Congress because of his engineering genius and his tight- fiste- d negotiating stance with bud- getrbusu- ng shipbuilders. Now Navy investigators have turned up evidence that Rickover, who was forced from his Job in 1881 after 63 years in the military, culti-vated friends on Capitol Hill in other ways, too. He gave them gifts tens of thou- - sands of dollars worth of silver gob-- I lets, golden charms, butter knives, clocks, silver platters, electric tocSh-- I brushes, Italian tea warmers, desk gZeaag& sA I . IBS avWMIIBW'p surface sets, firths of liquor and even saower curtains, all footed by General Dy-namics Corp. and other defense con--' tractors. Rickover also sent commemora-tive mementoes to at least five presi-dents. As the tale of Rickover's private lobbying campaign has unraveled, law enforcement agencies have es-- tablishe- dthis bizarre twist: Rickov-er commonly demanded gifts from defense contractors who feared his wrath and went to great lengths to fulfill his requests; he then, in effect, " laundered" the corporate gifts by passing them to members of Con-gress while pushing his nuclear pro-grams. By spreadsig largess and accept-ing a few valuable items himself, the 84- year-- old retired admiral, long heralded as a Navy hero, has found himself a subject of criminal investi-gations focusing on the activities of General Dynamics, the nation's largest defense contractor. Law enforcement officials value at up to $ 250,000 the gifts he took from GD and other contractors, stressing he gave almost all of them away. " He'd try to promote the nuclear program," a source close to Rickov-er said. " It obviously worked, didn't it? He stayed in the Navy for 30 years ( beyond regular retirement time) and had a lot of friends on Ca-pitol Bill." By accepting gifts from a federal official such as Rickover, members of Congress were freed from con-gressional ethics limits requiring them to report any gifts exceeding $ 35 in value from a non- governme- nt source. Had the mementos come di-rectly from General Dynamics, many of them would fan within the reporting requirement, law enforce- mentsoarc- es said. Rickover's' defenders are legion, even among those investigating him. " There is no evidence feat Rickov-er was any less of the crusty cur-mudgeon as he was before" in deal-ing with defense contractors, said a law enforcement source familiar with a Naval Investigative Service inquiry into the gift- givin- g. " I think they ( the Navy and the company) are trying to hold Rickov-er down as a scapegoat and I resent that," Sea William Proxmire, D- Wi- s., said of the public attention fo-cused on Rickover. " Anybody who knows Admiral Rickover knows that he is not the kind of person who is greedy. " He lives a very, very simple humble life. I've been in his apart-ment It's a small apartment ... He has no interest in aggrandizement of any kind." Said Frank Duncan, an Energy Department historian, " His contri-butions to the nation have been tre-mendous. As you look at the nuclear ships and their propulsion plants, ev-ery one of them works, and they work superbly." Rickover was drawn into the con-troversy last spring when a fugitive General Dynamics executive, P. Ta- k- is Veliotis, gave federal investiga-tors company documents showing that Rickover requested jewelry from officials of the firm's Groton, Conn., shipyard in 1977. Law enforcement sources said Rickover asked for the gifts for his Seo CONGRESS, Paga 8A
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Item.Transcript | STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY UITT & LOUR COLUMBIA. 0- - 65211 76th Year No. 83 Good Morning! It's Thursday, December 20, 1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents New York Times WASHINGTON - The United States an-nounced Wednesday that it would withdraw from UNESCO at the end of this month. It said the agency had largely failed to meet Ameri-can demands that it rid itself of mismanage-ment, politicization and " endemic hostility" toward a free press, free markets and individ-ual human rights. The United States, which contributed about 25 percent of this year's $ 187 million budget for the U. N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, warned the 161- count- ry, Paris- base- d group a year ago that it would pull out if changes were not made. In announcing the withdrawal Wednesday afternoon, Gregory J. Newell, assistant secre-tary of state for international organization af-fairs, said that while UNESCO had made some effort to change, " an unacceptable gap clearly remains." Newell added that the administra-tion would establish observer teams to keep an eye on UNESCO with the hope that enough changes eventually would be made to permit the United States to rejoin. In the meantime, he said, the United States will continue to support educational, scientific, cultural and communications activities through other global agencies. " The circumstances that impelled us last year to announce our plan to withdraw have not changed sufficiently this year to warrant a change in our decision," Newell said as he ex-plained the American position. " Extraneous politicization continues, as does, regrettably, an endemic hostility toward the institutions of a free society particularly those that protect a free press, free markets and, above all, indi-vidual human rights. UNESCO's mismanage-ment also continues, and approximately 80 percent of its $ 374 million biennial budget is sail spent at its Paris headquarters, leaving only 20 percent to be spent elsewhere." UNESCO was set up in 1946 to promote the exchange of educational, scientific and cultu-ral information. In recent years, in the view of American officials, particularly conservatives in the Reagan administration, and officials of some other countries, notably Britain, UNES-CO's management has been wasteful and its activities have increasingly been dominated by a coalition of Third World and Soviet- blo- c countries that seek a " new order" in economic and communication matters. Summing up such concerns at one point last year, the United States charged that UNESCO had " become involved in political issues be-yond the scope of its constitution; introduced concepts emphasizing rights of states rather than individuals into some of its programs; not properly managed its personnel, programs and financial activities." The British, who contributed 8 percent of UNESCO's budget this year, have indicated they may withdraw from the organization by the end of 1985 if sweeping changes are not made. Should Britain withdraw, some UNES-CO officials have said privately, a climate might be established that would put the organi-zation's long- ter- m survival in doubt. As an example of the politicization of UNES-CO, its critics point out that at one point the or-ganization withheld cultural aid from Israel on the ground that Israel had altered " historical features" in Jerusalem during excavations there. At another point, the critics note, UNES-CO condemmad what it described as Israel's " cultural assimilation" of Arabs in occupied territory. The critics contend that, increasingly. UN-ESCO tends to view economics from the Soviet and Third World viewpoints, in which controls, particularly in the case of the Soviets, play a much greater role than in capitalistic, free- mark- et economies. Further, say the critics, the UNESCO ap-proach to the freedom of the press and toward human rights tends, in general, to reflect un-usual Soviet and Third World influence, with controls of various types often emphasized. The critics particularly deplore UNESCO's ef-fort to set guidelines for journalists in order to promote " responsible" reporting. Harold W. Andersen, chairman of the World Press Freedom Committee, said in a statement the group will " monitor commu-nications issues at UNESCO and fight for press freedom. These issues will not be any less im-portant now." Andersen, president the Omaha- Heral- d World Co., said the committee " will be watch-ing, as will others, to see whether there will be reforms substantial enough to warrant consid-eration of the U. S. rejoining UNESCO." Gregory Newell Confirms withdrawal from UNESCO 5iBBB8B3EKBlaPHflMeaiPf! BaiBBB5 Noisy nod The volume was a little high for Florence King ( foreground), a resident of Olathe - UPlTelephoto ( Kan.) J- lor- ne, as a group of Christmas carol-ers sing during a visit to the home recently. Factory would make Chinese spice ByMikeMeQuIn Mtesourten staff writer Local businessman Yung T. Chow says by squeezing the sauce out of mid- Misso- uri soybeans, he can squeese some life into the Boone County economy. Chow, owner of the House of Chow, 2101 W. Broadway, and the Peking Garden, 219 S. Ninth St., plans to build c soy sauce factory the nation's third in Boone Coun-ty. Chow says his company, Wan Snow Pood Inc., will em-ploy 25 people. The factory is to be located at US. 63 North and Route W near PrathsrsvUle and will become fully operational by early summer. The total cost for land, equipment and construction will be 09,090. Four Taiwanese investors also are involved h the company. . ... " They are the experts of soy sauce," says Chow of his Taiwanese partners. " Mainly, my purpose is to hekj these four people getstarted." Chow says the soy sauce will be manufactured the ow-- fashioned way without chemicals. " It will take us six months to ferroentthe soy sauce," be says. " Chemicals are quicker, it makes the sauce ferment faster, but it's not as good. We want to take the time so people will like it. It's good for health." Soy sauce is a mixture of the fermented juice of soy-beans and wheat kernels, with a dash of water and pre-servatives. Chow says soy sauce originated in China as a spice and a marinade. A native of Yantai, Chow says the soy sauce will be packaged in Sve- gaUc- n drums, which he plans to sell to Missouri ' s 1 ,000 Chinese restaurants. Chow says the plant will produce 1,000 gallons of soy sauce a dayby late 1086. " We're going to suppry Chinese kitchens," he says. " Later, maybe in two or three years, we may go into the supermarkets." The Boone County Planning and Zoning Commission will consider resoning the proposed factory site from ag-ricultural to commercial at its first meeting in 1985. Weinberger: Newspaper WASHINGTON ( UPI) Reagan Administration officials Wednesday accused the Washington Post news-paper of jeopardizing national secu-rity by publishing a report that a spy satellite will be launched over the Soviet Union in a secret shuttle mis-sion next month. The Post reported Wednesday that the secret military cargo on next month's Discovery mission is a $ 300 million Air Force satellite that will orbit over the western reaches of the Soviet Union. The newspaper said it could be used to pick up radio signals from Soviet missile tests that could verify compliance with arms control agree-ments. Defense Secretary Caspar Wein-berger called the Post's reporting of the story " the height of journalistic irresponsibility." Penatagon spokesman Robert O'Brien said several news organiza-tions had been aware of the story, but abided by Pentagon requests that the information not be pub-lished. " These requests were made and responsibly honored by many net-works," O'Brien said. " The Wash- - Spy satellites' future .. Page2A ington Post felt that they simply had to run the story." Weinberger, when asked if publi-cation was a violation of national se-curity, told the Cable News Network, " I think it is. I think it is something that should not be discussed in the public prints." White House spokesman Larry Speakes, asked if President Reagan thought the disclosure damaged na-tional security, said, Tm- ure- " be does." The actual effect, he said, " remains to be seen." Because of the disclosure, the Pen-tagon and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have im-posed unprecedented restrictions on information about the shuttle mis-sion. They have banned interviews with the all- milit- ary crew and re-fused to give the launch time for the Jan. 23 mission. Ben Bradlee, executive editor of the Post, denied that the story, which he called " a careful review of what is known about the upcoming shuttle launch," had breached na-tional security. " We kept out of our story informa-tion we knew the Pentagon consid-ered sensitive," Bradlee said in a statement Wednesday. " Virtually every fact we mentioned is a matter of public record. " We take it most seriously when anyone says that a story we printed breaches national security," he sad " We think Secretary Weinberger's reaction is not justified.' The shuttle's new role as a mili-tary carrier has led to an unprece-dented secrecy over its cargo and flight plan. Project officials refuse to say how long Discovery will stay up and promise only 16 hours notice of its landing. Communications from the five as-tronauts aboard will be specially coded to black out the public and there will be no interviews or news conferences with the crew, before or after the flight The secrecy guidelines cover all military missions of the shuttle. Three such flights are planned for 1985; more than 30 military payloads are booked for shuttle missions through 1989. Reagan administrationto aim for flexibility during arms talks Soviet official issues challenge WASHINGTON ( UPI) - The White House, " encouraged" by a So-viet desire for dialogue, declared Wednesday that President Reagan has " every intention to be flexible" in talks next month aimed at a revi-- . val of arms control negotiations. " We're willing to approach these talks with an attitude of open- mindednes- s," said White House spokesman Larry Speakes. Speakes refused to attach high ex-pectations to the Jan. 7-- 8 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, between Sec-retary of State George Shultz and So-viet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro- myk- o. But he conveyed a hope by Reagan that the talks will " set the framework for future discussions" on nuclear arms and weapons in space. " We expect them to be sessions that include intense discussions, hard bargaining," Speakes said. " We don't expect to be able to solve all the hard, complicated problems that are involved in U- S.- Sov-iet rela-tions during the two- daymeetin- g." Speakes said Shultz will have in-structions from Reagan to be flexi-ble and " hear the Soviet proposals." He declined to respond directly to a challenge leveled Tuesday by Soviet Politburo member Mikhail Gorba-chev, who said in London that " it is now up to the United States to make a move" if the Geneva discussions are to lead to substantive and suc-cessful arms control talks. Without addressing Gorbachev's statement, Speakes said the White House was otherwise " encouraged that the Soviets are willing to enter a dialogue." With less than three weeks re-maining before the Geneva talks, Reagan discussed strategy Wednes-day with Edward Rowny, chief U. S. negotiator at the suspended Strateg-ic Arms Reduction Talks. Reagan was briefed on prepara-tions for the Shultz- Gromyk- o dis-cussions dealing with long- rang- e nu-clear arms. Speakes said the two agreed " that the best way to reduce the risk of nuclear war is through equitable and verifiable agreements ' to reduce nuclear weapons." Arms control negotiations between the two superpowers have been in the deep freeze for more than a year. In the past, U. S. officials from Reagan on down have argued that the United States has put forth no shortage of arms control proposals, only to see them ignored or rejected by Moscow, and that the burden of moving the process forward should rest on the Soviets. By Gregory Gordon United Press International WASHINGTON Adm. Hymsn Rickover, who built the 141- shi- p nu-clear Navy from scratch, became a darling of Congress because of his engineering genius and his tight- fiste- d negotiating stance with bud- getrbusu- ng shipbuilders. Now Navy investigators have turned up evidence that Rickover, who was forced from his Job in 1881 after 63 years in the military, culti-vated friends on Capitol Hill in other ways, too. He gave them gifts tens of thou- - sands of dollars worth of silver gob-- I lets, golden charms, butter knives, clocks, silver platters, electric tocSh-- I brushes, Italian tea warmers, desk gZeaag& sA I . IBS avWMIIBW'p surface sets, firths of liquor and even saower curtains, all footed by General Dy-namics Corp. and other defense con--' tractors. Rickover also sent commemora-tive mementoes to at least five presi-dents. As the tale of Rickover's private lobbying campaign has unraveled, law enforcement agencies have es-- tablishe- dthis bizarre twist: Rickov-er commonly demanded gifts from defense contractors who feared his wrath and went to great lengths to fulfill his requests; he then, in effect, " laundered" the corporate gifts by passing them to members of Con-gress while pushing his nuclear pro-grams. By spreadsig largess and accept-ing a few valuable items himself, the 84- year-- old retired admiral, long heralded as a Navy hero, has found himself a subject of criminal investi-gations focusing on the activities of General Dynamics, the nation's largest defense contractor. Law enforcement officials value at up to $ 250,000 the gifts he took from GD and other contractors, stressing he gave almost all of them away. " He'd try to promote the nuclear program," a source close to Rickov-er said. " It obviously worked, didn't it? He stayed in the Navy for 30 years ( beyond regular retirement time) and had a lot of friends on Ca-pitol Bill." By accepting gifts from a federal official such as Rickover, members of Congress were freed from con-gressional ethics limits requiring them to report any gifts exceeding $ 35 in value from a non- governme- nt source. Had the mementos come di-rectly from General Dynamics, many of them would fan within the reporting requirement, law enforce- mentsoarc- es said. Rickover's' defenders are legion, even among those investigating him. " There is no evidence feat Rickov-er was any less of the crusty cur-mudgeon as he was before" in deal-ing with defense contractors, said a law enforcement source familiar with a Naval Investigative Service inquiry into the gift- givin- g. " I think they ( the Navy and the company) are trying to hold Rickov-er down as a scapegoat and I resent that," Sea William Proxmire, D- Wi- s., said of the public attention fo-cused on Rickover. " Anybody who knows Admiral Rickover knows that he is not the kind of person who is greedy. " He lives a very, very simple humble life. I've been in his apart-ment It's a small apartment ... He has no interest in aggrandizement of any kind." Said Frank Duncan, an Energy Department historian, " His contri-butions to the nation have been tre-mendous. As you look at the nuclear ships and their propulsion plants, ev-ery one of them works, and they work superbly." Rickover was drawn into the con-troversy last spring when a fugitive General Dynamics executive, P. Ta- k- is Veliotis, gave federal investiga-tors company documents showing that Rickover requested jewelry from officials of the firm's Groton, Conn., shipyard in 1977. Law enforcement sources said Rickover asked for the gifts for his Seo CONGRESS, Paga 8A |