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Vol.L AAA I1, No O I->
Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, August 22, 1973
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VICE PRESIOENT AGNEW reads a statement yesterday in the Executive Of-
fice Building. He expressed outrage at information leaks concerning the probe
of his alleged involvement in Maryland political payoffs.
Media confused
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LANSING (UPI) - It sounded like the
ultimate sacrilege - eating wolverines,
the Michigan state symbol, as a sub-
stitute for beef.
It began in Ann Arbor, where the Uni-
versity of Michigan student newspaper
even quoted a state wildlife department
spokesman on how wolverines taste.
MICHIGAN IS CALLED the "wolverine
state," giving many persons the idea that
state is in fact inhabited by that member
of the weasal family.
Not true. Michigan got that nickname
long ago because of the number of wol-
verines furs shipped south by eighteenth
century trappers in the Hudson Bay
area.
WASHINGTON ?P) - In a tersely
worded statement delivered to the
news media yesterday, Vice Presi-
dent Spiro Agnew severely criticized
un-named Justice Department of-
ficials for leaking information con-
cerning a grand jury probe into his
activities.
Agnew made the attack at a press
conference he called to take the of-
fensive again in a politically charged
investigation of alleged Maryland
payoffs and kick-backs during his
term as the state's governor.
DEVIATING FROM the tone set at his
Aug. 8 news conference, Agnew did not
strenuously deny the original allegations
nor did he allow reporters to ask ques-
tions about the affair.
Claiming certain Justice Department of-
ficials "have decided to indict me in the
press," Agnew called on Atty. Gen. Elliot
Richardson to investigate the leaks.
The investigation concerns allegations
made by three Maryland consulting engi-
neers who say they know of payoffs made
to Agnew while he served as governor and
after he became vice president in January
1969.
THE CHARGES involving the Vice Presi-
dent grew out of a probe into alleged kick-
backs in Baltimore County, where Agnew
once was county executive.
Agnew slammed U. S. Attorney George
Beall, who is heading up the investigation,
for "wanting to hear only one side of the
story." Agnew claimed Beall had express-
ed doubts as to whether he will question.
'the Vice President.
"I will say only that it seems to me a
very strange way to run an investigation,"
Agnew added.
FOLLOWING AGNEW'S speech Beall
said, "The prosecutors have not in any
way been the source of any information
reported by the media concerning this in-
vestigation."
Beall also termed as "not true" state-
ments that his office does not want to
meet with the Vice President. He added,
however, "The whole investigation con-
tinues under active study, including the
possibility of an interview."
Beall expressed "grave concern" about
possible leaks surrounding the investiga-
tion.
A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT spokes-
man said immediately after Agnew's
statement that the attorney general would
respond shortly to the request that the
so-called leaks come under investigation.
In ' a related development the Anne
Arundel County, Md., grand jury indicted
one person on four counts of conspiracy
yesterday in connection with last year's
See PROBE, Page 10
Nixon gave
file to
prosecutor
WASHINGTON UP) - The White House
has given Watergate special prosecutor
Archibald Cox an International Telephone
,Corp. (ITT) file he asked for a month
ago, it was learned yesterday.
A spokesman for the prosecutor's office
confirmed that the file had been received
recently. He refused to be more specific
and declined further comment.
DISCLOSURE OF receipt of the file,
which Cox had described as of the utmost
importance to his investigation of the ITT
antitrust settlement, was made on the eve
of the courtroom debate on Cox's demand
for White House tapes of presidential con-
versations about Watergate.
The President refused to obey a subpoe-
na Cox issued demanding the tapes.
The ITT case, which was a major issue
at the Senate confirmation hearings on the
nomination of Richard Kleindienst to be
attorney general, cropped up again at the
Senate Watergate committee hearings with
release of a White House memorandum
which said documents existed which could
link President Nixon to the settlement.
THE WHITE HOUSE declined comment
on the memo other than to say "policy de-
cisions" may have been sent to the Justice
Department from the President and that
such action would have been "entirely
within the proper application of the anti-
trust laws."
See COX, Page 10
"PEOPLE ON FARMS have been eat-
ing them for years," the official reportedly "If anyone finds a wolverine," Stuwer
said. "The meat is a little stringy, but said, "I sure hope he tells me before eat-
with hamburger at $1.50 a pound, who ing the evidence."
can afford to get choosey?"
That touched off a mild flap, and a lot
of confusion, at the wildlife department.
Relax, everyone. Alas, we must admit our story about
"THERE HAS NEVER been, as far as- ' wolverines was indeed a hoax. The
anyone knows, a wolverine in the state names, dates and 90 per cent of the facts
of Michigan," said Fred Stuwer, senior were fabricated.
biologist at the department. But judging by a number of calls we've
"And if there were wolverines," he said, received as well as Mr. Stuwer's descrip-
"there probably isn't a man, woman, or tion of the UPI correspondent handling the
child in the country who could stand to story, we wonder how many people were
eat one. They would taste about as bad aware of the joke.
as anything you can imagine." Hopefully, no one has spent the last
What made the story plausible to many week looking for wolverines as a result
persons was the great beef scare and the of our story. And for those who genuinely
publicity given to shoppers sampling need a beef substitute, Well, you'll just
horsemeat and other substitutes. have to stick to armadillo.