'Saturday,- September15, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three '~ SaturdaySeptember 15, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY i-'age Three Md. politician pleads innocent to wrongdoing DELI COFFEE HOUSE SUNDAY, SEPT. 16 DELI-6 P.M. COFFEE HOUSE-7 P.M. FOLK SINGERS-FOOD-FUN at HILLEL-1429 Hill AP Photo John Love, director of the White House Energy Policy Office, listens to a question Thursday during his appearance before the Senate Government Operations subcommittee in Washington. The subcommittee is holding hearings on the energy crisis. ENDS DECADES OF WAR: Pathet Lao, Laotian government sign peace pact following lengthy negotiations BALTIMORE UP) - Dale An- derson, the first Maryland of- ficial indicted .in a political cor- ruption probe that has spread to Vice President Spiro Agnew, pleaded innocent yesterday to charges of bribery, extortion and conspiracy. Anderson, who succeeded Ag- new in 1966 as the chief elected executive of suburban Baltimore County and still holds that post, was released on personal recog- nizance by U. S. Dist. Court Judge Joseph Young pending trial Jan. 7. NORMAN RAMSEY, attorney for the 46-year-old official, told Young Anderson wanted "a prompt trial." A 39-count federal indictment returned Aug. 28 accused Ander- son, one of Maryland's most pow- erful Democrats, of extorting $46,420 from eight engineering and architectural firms doing work for Baltimore County. Agnew has been informed by federal prosecutors that he is under inevestigation for similar G allegations of wrongdoing. Ag- new has denied all allegations, Iand federal officials say that no evidence involving him has been presented to the special grand jury that has been working since January. MEANWHILE, Agnew aides in Washington were reported to be furious over news reports stat- ing that since his rise to pro- Sminence Agnew received gifts of food, wine and liquor from friends and a liberal "celebrity discount" during his 4 -year stay at Washington's Sheraton- Park Hotel. CBS News reported that Agnew received the discount before moving to a suburban Maryland home last June. Ahotel spokes- Sman said that such discounts are regularly given to prominent tenants. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported Friday that for several years Agnew regularly received free groceries 'from Joseph H. Rash, a Baltimore executive of the Food Fair supermarket chain. Rash was quoted by the Times as saying that he and Agnew were close friends and that the two men regularly- exchanged gifts. The Journal reported that the vice president received cash gifts totaling $15,000 from Mary- land's industrialist Harry A. Dundore and alcoholic beverages from J. Walter Jones, an Anna- polis, Md., banker who is one of Agnew's closest associates. THE MICHIGAN DAILY Project Communitfy 2210 Michigan Union 763-3548 Become inyolved in your community for course credit * Child care and development program * Innovative Tutorial Experience " Inmate Project * Project Community Course r - - VIENTIANE (Reuter) - The Laotian government and the pro- communist Pathet Lao today op- ened the way to peace in Laos by signing an agreement determining the Indochina kingdom's political; and military future. The signing of the 28-article agreement, in the presence of Prime Minister Souvana Phouma, was the final act in lengthy efforts to end more than two decades of factional war in the country. IT IS THE FIRST full peace set- tlement signed between opposing factions in any of the three war- ravaged Indochina countries. Senior negotiators Pheng Phong- savan and Ngon Sananikone signed for the Laotian government at the ceremony, which was attended by members of the diplomatic corps. Top Pathet Lao representatives Phoumi Vongvichit and Phoune Sipraseuth signed for the pro- communist side. The agreement climaxes almost seven months of tough bargaining since the February 21 ceasefire accord which formally ended fight- ing in Laos. It also puts the seal on Prince Souvanna Phouma's efforts to bring unity to the landlocked country, known as "the kingdom of a million elephants." DURING RECENT weeks of ten- sion it seemed that all progress in negotiations had been put at, risk by the abortive coup Aug. 20 by former Laotian military offic-; ers living in exile in neighboring+ Thailand. Loyal government forces quickly crushed the revolt. But it alarmed both Pathet Lao and Laotian mili- tary leaders to the point where contact between the two sides came to a virtual halt. Each side accused the other of taking an un- acceptable position. But Prime Minister Souvanna, recognized as a unifying force even by the Pathet Lao, apparently; managed to work out a compro- mise. THE PEACE agreement, which takes the form of protocols to the February vid sc fnr ceasefire accord, pro- the formati n of a new coalition government before Oct.' 10 and establishment of a political consultative council which will, among other things, organize na- tional elections at a date to be fixed. Prince Souvanna will remain prime minister with two deputy premiers of equal rank - one from each side. Cabinet portofolios will be, di- vided between the present govern- ment, the Pathet Lao and neu-, tralists. The two main parties will each have five ministries and the neutralists two. THOSE HELD by the present government will include the de-1 fense, finance and interior minis-I tries while foreign affairs and the economy portofolios will be among those held by the Pathet Lao.. The Ministry of Posts and Tele- graphs, and the Justice Ministry will be headed by neutralists. The agreement covers demarca- tion of territory and terms for the neutralization of Vientiane, the ad- ministrative capital, and Luang, Prabang, the royal Capital. IT PROVIDES for a battalion of troops from each side to be sta- tioned in Vientiane and for a mixed 1000-man police force made up, from each side. Pathet Lao forces will take part in maintaining security, immigra- tion, and the defense of airports,j supply depots and food stores - one of the main stumbling blocks in latter stages of negotiations the1 government had wanted Pathet Lao troops restricted to acting as security guards for their own min- isters and officials in the two capi- tals. At a press conference after they signing at his office here, Prince; Souvana Phouma said he hoped that other countries would help Laos in its post-war reconstruction; and establishment of peace. THE 73-YEAR-OLD leader, smil-; ing and looking very happy after the signing, said there would be! many difficulties in the days ahead. Both sides had many tasks USUALLY RELIABLE sources to undertake to put the protocols said that in the coalition govern- into operation and also to under- ment the Pathet Lao leader Prince stand each other, he said. Souphanouvong - half-brother to He denied the agreement had Prince Souvanna - would become been brought about by any foreign minister and chief pressure but said the two sides had foreign niter gand i Vien- been helped by the spirit of inter- tiane negotiator Ngon Sananikone national detente. would be defense minister. France ends nuclear test series in Pacific trade bars TOKYO (Reuter) - One hun- dred and two countries yesterday formally pledged themselves to embark on negotiations aimed at dramatically reducing the bar- riers to international trade. - A declaration officially de- claring the trade talks open and laying down the guidelines for the negotiators was unanimously approved at the end of a three- day ministerial conference of the general agreement on tariffs and trade. A NEGOTIATING committee comprising all the countries that want to take part on the bargain- ing will hold its first meeting in Geneva Oct. 24. The talks are then expected to last at least two years before a final agreement can be reach- ed. The declaration said the minis- ters intended the negotiations to be concluded in 1975, but most delegates regarded the deadline as unlikely to be met. 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I S Weekdays 2 p.m. to 4 a.m. PARIS (Reuter) - France gave notice yesterday that it has ended the 1973nuclear test ser- ies in the South Pacific which raised a storm of protest around the world. After five small explosions in the atmosphere, the government said it was lifting a ban on ship- ping in the nuclear test zone around Mururoa Atoll from mid- night GMT tonight. DESPITE THE STRICT secre- cy that surrounded the tests, other nations reported that the five blasts took place between July 21 and Aug. 29. Their low yield - one was so weak that New Zealand navy monitors thought it was a dud - indicated that the tests were de- signed to perfect a hydrogen bomb trigger device rather than the bomb itself. A Defense Ministry spokesper- son said President Pompidou would. probably make the first formal French comment on the controversial explosions at a press conference here Sept. 27. IN THE WORLD out- cry against France Peru broke off diplomatic ties and Australia and New Zealand won a world court injunction ordering the French to call off the series. France ignored the injunction, declaring that it did not recog- nize the competence of the Hague InternationaldCourt in matters of national defense. French warships arrested pro- test boats which sailed to Muru- roa, but they did not interfere with New Zealand Navy vessels which cruised near the test zones to symbolize the indignation of nations bordering the Pacific. The French government has al- ready hinted that it will continue testing in the atmosphere next year, partly because it has so far failed to find a suitable spot for underground tests. DEFENSE MINISTER Robert Galley, who watched the final explosion while scouting poten- tial underground sites in the area, told a press conference he certainly could not promise that France would not pursue its tests above ground in 1974. 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