The Michigan Daily-Thursday, February 9, 1978--Page 3 FORMER AIDE CHARGES: I r; Flood accused rYU SEE NEWS 1APPEN CALL -DA LY Postal problems Most people have trouble with bills, but it's usually the payers, not the collectors who have the biggest worries. But that's not the case in Cedar Hills, Utah where city officials are up in arms because they have plenty of bills, but no place to mail them. The problem is that the month-old community of 37 residents doesn't have any mailboxes yet. "It's a real problem," says Mayor Robert Nixon. "How can we mail out our bills or get payments without boxes?" It's just a suggestion, but perhaps they could consider reviving the Pony Express? Happenings ... bgin today with a message for writers-don't forget that today is the last day for all Hopwood manuscripts to be turned in to the Hop- Wood Room, 1006 Angell Hall ... at noon in the Pendleton Arts Infor- mation Center in the Union, Susanna Payton, of the Dance Depar- tment, will give an illustrated talk on the notation of dance ... also at noon you can see the film The Blind: An Emerging Minority in Med. Sciences II, 3rd floor ... and if you are aspiring to play the lead in The Three Faces of Eve, you can go to 5208 Angell Hall, again at noon, where Ingo Seidler will give a talk intitled "The German theatre today"... and if you want to try for a record four places at once, send one of your selves over to the Rackham W. Lecture Rm. where Vladimir Frumkin will present a video tape concert entitled "Songs of the Soviet Underground".... a scant ten minutes later it's back to the Pendleton Arts Information Center for Wystan Stevens' lecture "Historical Buildings of Ann Arbor".... after a short break for lunch you'llhave to hurry to catch Ted Slate, general editor and chief librarian of Newsweek, who will speak at 1:30 in the League. . . racing from your 2 o'clock, you'll just have time to meet at the International Center at 3 for a cross-country ski trip at Leslie Golf Course (rental $3.00, transportation free) ... and if Michigan isn't cold enough for you, head over to 1040 Samuel Trask Dana Bldg. at 3, where Hank Noldan will discuss land management in Alaska... at 3:30 in Rm. 15, Cooley Bldg., Anthony Lutkus from Exxon Production Research will speak on offshore technology ... and if you enjoyed the Alaska lecture at 3, you'll just love marie Sanderson's "Geographic Education in the Canadian North" at 4 in Rm. 4050 LSA ... anyone who understands the title of Elwyn Simons' lecture "Oligocene PRIMATE Faunas of Egypt" will undoubtedly be one of two or three persons in town who does, and should show up to hear it at 4 in Rm. 4001 C.C. Little ... and for you literary types there will be a panel discussion entitled "Yeats and the Politics of Culture" in the Pendleton rm. of the Union also at 4. if frama is more your bag, then head over to the Arena Theatre of the Frieze Bldg., where you can see two one-act plays-Hangs Over the Head and The Informer... at 4:10 ... anyone interested in sum- mer study abroad should meet at 7 in the International Center ... and if you're concerned about home health care, the Washtenaw County Comprehe sihHealth Planning council invites you to attend a talk on the subjet at3555 N. Zeeb Rd. at 7:30... and if you ca fit.it into your program, you might want to attend the Computer Club meeting also at. 7:30 in Rm. 4108 of the Union.-. at 7:30 hear a poetry reading by Richard McMullen, David Fox, and david Oleshansky, at the Guild House, 802 Monroe ... and if you still have more feee time at 7:30, you'll want to ba at Alice Lloyd Hall for a "Symposium on Criminal Justice" . . and while we're on the subject of symposiums at 7:30,. don't forget the ongoing Symposium on Human rights in the USSR AND Eastern Europe at the Rackham Amphitheatre which begins tonight at (you guessed it) 7:30, with former underground soviet poet Andrei Svetkoff speaking on "Freedom of Expression in the USSR," followed by Harry Derderian, president of the Detroit chapter of the Armenian revolutionary Federation who will talk about human rights and the denial thereof in armenia ... at 8 you can hear George Kish speak on "Regionalism in contemporary Europe" in Led. Rm. 1, MLB ... also at 8, doug Ostrom will give a lecture called "Japanese Exports: Who's Dumping on Whom?" in the Commons rm. of Lane Hall ... and if you're still alive after this wearying day, you can relax at 9 and watch the play Salt of the Earth in Rm. 126 of East Quad. On the outside If you're thinking of leaving good old ann Arbor in favor of some sunnier spot, don't bother. California and florida are being deluged with rain, and the East Coast has more snow than we do. So it looks like you'll just have to stay put and take your medicine. Today's high will be 28, and the mercury will dip to 9 tonight. WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly released State Department docu- ments show that Rep. Daniel Flood (D-Pa.), engineered a $10-million ag- ricultural aid package for the Ba- hamas over the objections of foreign- aid officials in the early 1970s. A department official says Flood's principal assistant at the time, Stephen Elko, then pressed vigorous- ly but unsuccessfully to put control of the project in the hands of a group formed by a friend of Flood, Nassau lawyer F. Nigel Bowe. One State Department memo concluded that Bowe intended to make money on the deal. "THE GENESIS of this proposal was a stay that Congressman Flood had made in the Bahamas a few months ago," said another memo dated Dec. 9, 1971, by congressional liaison officer Jean Lewis. "He became very ill and received very good care; to show his gratitude he promised to help the Bahamas attain any goal they desired." Elko has since been convicted of taking kickbacks, and allegedly is ac- cusing Flood of doing the same, which Flood denies. Flood is under federal investiga- tion in a separate matter that was being handled in part by David Mar- ston, when he was fired as U.S. attorney in Philadelphia. BOWE SAID in a telephone inter- view Tuesday that Flood did not benefit personally from the Baham- ian aid deal. Flood's Washington office. said Flood was snowbound at home and unavailable for comment. The project was nicknamed the "Bahamian Red Meat, Project" in State Department correspondence, because the original idea was to pro- mote cattle grazing on the thinly populated island of Andros in the Bahamas. The emphasis now is on goats, sheep and crops, although some cattle are still being raised. The department on Tuesday volun- tarily released an inch-thick packet of internal memoranda and copies of letters dealing with the project. They show that the idea originated with Flood and Bowe, and probably never would have gotten off the ground except for pressure from Flood and two other high-ranking members of the House. Flood, himself a high-ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, enlisted the aid of Rep. Otto Passman (D-La.), and Rep. W.R. Poage (D-Tex.). Passman then headed the subcommittee with juris- diction over foreign-aid money, and Poage was head of the Agriculture Committee, which influences over- seas food programs. The memoranda show that John Hannah, then head of the Agency for International Development, opposed the project because the- Bahamas were far more prosperous than other recipients of -U.S. foreign aid in the Caribbean, and because the islands were not yet independent of Britain. Hannah stated his objections in a letter to Poage on Feb. 22, 1972. But Flood, Passman and Poage jointly signed a letter to Hannah dated Feb. 29, 1972, in which they said they wanted "to point out and make abundantly clear" that $10 million was earmarked for the Bahamas. "And we expect an immediate ac- knowledgement," they said. An earlier memo by Jean Lewis quoted Elko as threatening that o kick-= foreign-aid appropriations "would be stymied if this project were not funded." Faced with this pressure Hannah dropped his objections and by June a team of foreign aid experts were dis- patched to the Bahamas to lay the, groundwork for the project. . The Bahamian lawyer, Bowe, was present at one of the earliest meet- ings on the Red Meat Project in 1971. State Department official David Ross wrote a memo saying he had private conversations about the pro- ject with Bdwe. "Bowe's interest was purely monetary; a confirmed capit- backs alist, he saw an opportunity to make some money and played it for all it was worth," Ross wrote. His memo was marked "confidential." Once the project was approved, the man put in charge of it for the State Department was Dr. Erven Long. Long said in an interview Tuesday that Elko repeatedly pressured him to give control of the money to a group that Bowe intended to form the Human Resources Development Council. Long said Elko's pressure contin- ued for at least 12 months, in calls and at meetings. He quoted Elko as saying, "We know the Bahamas better than you do. Mr. Flood is determined to do it this way." TOGETHERNESS VIA JOB SHARING ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The Minnesota governor's office is look- ing at the idea of allowing two employes to share a single state job, in certain cases. Gov. Rudy Perpich says the aim is to reverse government policies which he feels are unsound because they tear families apart rather than promote family togetherness. In some cases, he said, a husband and wife might share a state job, each working half .a day and each spending half a day with their. children. The first reaction of one state employes' union was cool, although neither the concept nor the response has been fully worked out. ............................... Daily Official Bulletin ... . . X.-X FREDERICK WISEMAN FESTIVAL BASIC TRAINING (at 7) 0Wiseman records the rites of passage by which boys have become soldiers. Filmed at Fort Knox, this film raises questions about racism, machismo, patriotism and the military. 1971. ESSENE (at9:05) A record of daily life in on Anglican mon- astery. The film reveals the infiltration of mod- ern problems even in on isolated society. 1972. * Wisemanwillspeak Sunday * Fri: DISNEY CARTOONS CINEMA GUILD Old Arch Aud. $1.50 Thursday. February 9, 1'978 DAILY CALENDAR Ctr. Western European Studies: Ingo Seidler, "The German Theatre Today," 5208 Angell, noon; George Kish, "Regionalism in Contemporary Europe," Lee. Rm. 1, MLB, 8 p.m. 'Natural Resources: Hank Noldan, "Land Manage- ment Constraints in Alaska," 1040 Dana, 3 p.m. Geography: Marie Sanderson, "Geographic Xiucation in the Canadian Nortp," 4050 LSA, 4 p.m. THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volume LXXXVIII. No. 108 Thursday, February 9, 1978 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. News phone 764-0562. Second class postage is paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morning during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Subscription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters); $13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Satur- day morning. Subscription rates: $650 in Ann Arbor; $750 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Geology/Mineralogy: Elwyn L. Simons, Duke-U., "Oligocence Primate Faunas of Egypt," 4001 CCL, 4 p.m. Guild House: Poetry Reading, Richard McMullen, David Fox, David Oleshansky, 802 Monroe, 7:30 p.m. SUMMER PLACEMENT 3200 SAB - Phone 763-4117 Camp Chi, Wisc. Coed: Jewish Community Cen- ters of Chicago, will interview Mon., Feb. 13 at Hillel and on Tuesday, Feb. 14 on campus from 9-5. Open- ings include waterskiing, sailing, music, senior staff, campcraft, clerks. Register in person or by phone. Camp Tamarack, MI. Coed: Will interview Wed., Feb. 15 from 9 to noon; Feb. 21 from 9 to 5. Openings cover waterfront, arts/crafts, athletics, general cabin counselors, etc. Camp Maplehurst, MI. Coed: Will interview Wed., Feb. 15 from 1 to 5. Openings - waterfront,,- ts/crafts, nature, sports, general camp openings. Register in person or by phone. Camp Becket/Chimney Corners, Mass. YM- CA/YWCA: Will interview Monday, Feb. 13 from 9 to '5. Openings include: Unit leaders, program director, waterfront, program specialist, cabin counselors. Register in person or by phone. ___m o bread in ,. In1depenidet film Series bimonthly screening of experimental local and national filmmakers. films by Second and Fourth Tuesdays at 8 p.m. (Beginning Tuesday, February 14th) CANTERURY HOUSE 218 N. Division Street-corner of Catherine HAVE A HEARTI PUT IN A CLASSIFIED AD FOR VALENTINE'S DAY CALL: 764-0557 TONIGHT #19 S nl rother Ofimncoei /e presents at Aud. A ANTONIONI'S "BLOW-UP" Thursday, February 9 (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1966) 7 & 9-AUD. 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