Thursday, February 12, 1976 THE MICHiCAN DAILY Page hree TH.MC.G NDALY -. 1e Lockheed payofffs in Sweden, Buy-Centennial Bad Taste Germany, Japan. investigated contest slams commerciali APPLICATIONS are now being taken for residency in the i sm Medieval and Renaissance (AP)- The backlash from Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s pay- ment of bribes to win foreign sales was being felt yesterday in Washington and some fore- ign capitals. It reportedly also has cost the firm a $1.3 billion contract. Japanese governmenttofficials say they decided not to place with Lockheed a $1.3 billion or- der for antisubmarine planes as a result of the payoffs, the New York Times reported yesterday. Japanese Deputy Prime Min- ister Takeo Fukuda said in Tokyo that Japan will ask the UL.S. government if it has the names of Japanese government officials who allegedly received THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volume LXXXVI, No 114 Thursday, February 12, 1976 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. News phone 764-0562. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Published d a i1 y Tuesday through Sunday morning during the Univer- sity year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Subscription rates: $12 Sept. thru April (2 semes- ters); $13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tues- day through Saturday morning. Subscription rates: $6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7.50 by mail outside Ann Arbor. o Tell Someone You Love Them 0 0 With A Daily Vlte Valentine °! about $2 million out of $12.6 mil- ion that Lockheed says it paid in Japan for sale4 promotion purposes. U.S. SEN. Frank Church, (D- Idaho) the chairmai t of the Sen- ate subcommittee where the Lockheed payment were re- ported, told seven viiiting mem- bers of the Japanesei parliament Tuesday in Washington that he did not know the n, Imes of the Japanese governmeit officials} involved. In another d evelopment, Church said yesterday that de- spite the impressian given in a part of a teleigram read into testimony before his com- mittee last week, there was "nothing improper" In the re- lationship between Lockheed and a Swedish airle. Some senators had interpreted the portion of the telegram, be- tween two Lockheed employes, as a sign that a Swedish air force general who sat on the board of Swedair was sharing in commissions paid by Lock- heed. A portion of the telegram said the general's "hat is turn- ed the right way and, as long as the commissions are not too much or too little, he should be satisfied." MEANWHILE IN Washington, spokesmen for the Ford Admin- istration condemned the bribes and said the president is look- ing at what can be done to stop the practice. The average adult has enough iron in his body to make a two-inch nail. i} I LUCKENBACH, Tex. (UPI)- and decreed that "no man, of commercial abuse of the Bi- So many entries are coming woman, child or animal is per- centennial, even though we have into the National Buy-Centennial mitted to walk through the seen examples of bad taste that Bad Taste contest that Mayor streets dressed in an Uncle boggle our minds," Harmon Hondo Crouch thinks his city Sam suit; no red, white and said. (pop. 3) may even get its post blue souvenirs made in China, "Two weeks ago I would have office back. Taiwan or Uganda are sold; no sworn I never would have seen The once-active post office has federal funding is spent on any- anything worse than a Buy-Cen- received stacks of letters from thing." tennial toilet seat," he added. throughout the nation with sug- Judging from early nomina- "Nothing will surprise me gestions for the most flagrant tions it may be tough to de- now." commercialtabuse of the bi- cide on a Buy-Centennial Bad: centennial theme. Taste Award. Suggestions include the inven-I NEW YORK (UPI) - The AWARDS FOR THE best sug- tors of red, white and blue de- 1975 Rockefeller Center Christ- gestions will be given during a vices, Christmas trees, beer mas tree has been chipped for Leap Year Day National Non- cans, cigar boxes, caskets and use as ground cover and for Bicentennial celebration sched- other objects too personal for other horticultural purposes. uled for Feb. 29. public mention, Harmon said. The 55 foot balsam fir, the fifth Luckenbach proclaimed itself I to be recycled, was expected to the nation's first National Non- "WE ARE CONFIDENT we provide about two tons of Bicentennial City last August have not yet plumbed the depths mulch. f ' 1 E i CoICleg ium House (N-ENTRYWAY, LAW QUAD) Students interested in applying may obtain application forms and furher in- formation in MARC Office, N-12, N- Entryway, Law Quad (Tel: 763-2066), Mon.-Fri. 9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon. 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