THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Despair, violence mar
Hearst food program
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THOMAS MAHER, (left) special agent in charge of the St. Louis Drug Enforcement Administration
office, and an assistant carry cocain, marijuana, hashish and amphetamines which they said were
seized during a seven-month investigation of drug traffic in the East St. Louis/Illinois area. The
drugs, valued at more than $1 million, were introduced as exhibits at the trial of ten narcotics
agents on civil rights charges. The charges grew out of raids last year by narcotics agents based on
erroneous addresses.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Or-
ganizers of a $2 million food
giveaway to help free kidnaped
heiress Patricia Hearst an-
nounced yesterday they are out
of food, out of money and tem-
porarily out of business.
But Ludlow Kramer and Peg-
gy Maze, directors of the People
in Need program, said the pro-
gram would resume in some
form if Miss Hearst is freed and
the Hearst Corp. pays the $4
million it promised on her safe
release.
PROBABLY THE worst part of
the whole operation was the total
violence that was around the op-
eration," Kramer said. "We ob-
viously made some mistakes but
we have fed the people we said
we would."
Asked later to elaborate about
the atmosphere of violence, he
said: "The constant yelling, day
in and day out, the constant
threats on our lives, the constant
ripping off of Mr. Hearst."
Asked at a news conference
howhefelt the program affected
Ms Hearst's chance for release,
Kramer said: "I feel we're kind
of back to zero."
KRAMER SAID THE pro-
gram had distributed 150,000
packages of food since it was or-
ganized Feb. 22 in response to a
demand by the Symbionese Lib-
eration Army, the terrorist group
that has claimed it is holding Ms
Hearst as a "prisoner of war."
About 35,000 cartons of grocer-
ies were distributed Monday in
the final giveaway, estimated to
' be worth $1,225 million whole-
sale.
Kramer, Washington's secre-
tary of state, said he and Maze
are returning to their home state
this afternoon but said they
would remain in existence as a
legal entity.
THE VICTIM'S father, news-
p a p e r executive Randolph
Hearst, funded the program with
$500,000 of his own money. The
remaining $1.5 million came
from the Hearst Foundation.
Hearst was in New York today
to meet with directors of the
Hearst Corp. A spokesman told
reporters that Hearst will make
no statement to the press until
he and his wife return to San
Francisco, either Wednesday or
Thursday.
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Wednesday, March 27, 1974
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WASHINGTON (P) - An in-
ternal audit shows that Asso-
ciated Milk Producers Inc., (A-
MPI) paid at least $91,691 in cor-
porate money to support Hubert
Humphrey's 1968 presidential
campaign, and $34,500 to his
1970 senatorial campaign.
The audit and a lawyers' re-'
port, obtained from court re-
cords,.show that the giant dairy
co-operative retained its ties to
Democrats as it switched its
main support to President Nixon
after his 1968 victory.
The 1968 Humphrey money'
went to pay the $15,000 nine-
month salary of a campaign
worker, to reimburse him for
$11,641 in campaign travel ex-
penses, to reimburse at least
$54,000 in campaign donations by
a number of individuals, and to
pay miscellaneous expenses of a
campaign rally, a dinner and a
parade, the audit shows.
FEDERAL LAW prohibits cor-
porate contributions to political
campaigns. Two former officials
of the milk producers pleaded
guilty last January to conspiring
to donate $$22,000 to the Hum-
phrey campaign, and former
general manager Harold Nel-
son was indicted earlier this
month for perjury because he
denied knowledge of that dona-
tion. The $22,000 is included in
the total $91,691.
Through a spokesperson, Hum-
phrey said, "I have no knowl-
edge of these transactions .
an organization as large as AM-
PI should have had the kind of
legal counsel that would have
prevented these types of trans-
actions."
The auditing firm, Haskins &
Sells of San Antonio, Texas, said
its accounting may not be com-
plete because some cancelled
checks from 1967 and 1968 cannot
be found.
THE AUDIT IS attached to .a
report for the cooperative's
board of directors by attorney
Edward Wright, a former presi-
dent of the American Bar Asso-
ciation. The board commissioned
Wright to investigate illegal po-
litical contributions and other
payments by past officials of the
dairy group.
After Humphrey's defeat, gen-
eral. manager Nelson decided to
"make peace" with the Republi-
cans, according to two officials
quoted in the report. In August
1969, the co-op shipped $100,000
in cash to Nixon's lawyer fund-
raiser Herbert Kalmbach.
The milk producers recently
said the $100,000 was an illegal
corporate donation. The coopera-
tive asked Nixon campaign of-
ficials for return of the money,
but have as yet received no-
reply.
TO COVER the $100,000 dona-
tion and some other expendi-
tures, the milk producers used a
system of bank loans, transfers,
payments and reimbursements
that involved a nuniber of Dem-
ocrats, according to the Wright
report.
Generally, the milk producers
made payments for admittedly
phony lawyer's fees or public
relations fees to persons who
later passed on part of the mon-
ey to repay bank loans covering
the $10,000 donation.
April 1974
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