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Gartner insists he won't resign
WASHINGTON (AP)-David Gartner, continuing to
defy President Carter, said emphatically yesterday he "If I resigned, it would look to the public as an ad- Vice President Walter Mondale, a longtime personal
will not quit as a member of the Commodity Futures mission of wrongdoing. I am not guilty of a friend of Gartner, made a similar resignation request
Trading Commission despite a presidential call for his wrongdoing," said Gartner, his wife and three of his on Tuesday.
resignation, four children seated behind him in the crowded com- GARTNER TOLD THE committee the public
Even if the President calls him personally with a mittee room, requests followed two private suggestions from top
request that he step down, Gartner told the Senate And when Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.) asked him aides to Carter and Mondale that he step aside.
Agriculture Committee, "I would have to tell him I whether it is fair to refuse a request from Carter, who Last Thursday, he said, Mondale's chief of staff,
can't quit." appointed him in the first place, Gartner said, "I Richard Mos, asked him to quit. The following mor-
THE PANEL CALLED Gartner for questioning think if there is any unfairness, it's directed towards ning, he said, Moe and top presidential aide Hamilton
about $72,000 in gifts in grain company stock his me." Jordan madea similar request.
children recieved, and about concerns that the gift THE GIFT HAS become an embarrassment to the Hut Gartner, once a key aide to the late Sen. Hubert
presents a potential conflict of interest. Carter administration, since the stock was in Archer umphrey (D-Minn.) said repeatedly that he told the
Gartner reminded the panel that he told the White Daniels-Midland Co., a $2 billion-a-year company Whlite House and Congress all about his family's finan-
House and Congress all about his family's financial whose activities are partially regulated by the com- cial holdings, including the gift, several montha ago,
holdings several months ago. modities trading commission, and noproblems were raised.
He said he has not violated any legal or moral stan- Meanwhile, a White House source said yesterday
dard, and has found no conflict of interest in his $50,000- Carter, speaking at a nationally televised news con- that staff personnel handling the matter concluded
a-year job. ference on .Monday, called for Gartner's resignation. there was no reason to inform the president of the gift
GARTNER REPEATED his intention to disqualify "The image of impropriety resulting from the accep- because Gartner had not yet been nominated.
himself should any future conflict arise. He said the tance by his children of a substantial gift leads me to The Senate Agriculture Committee has no authority
stock which has caused the controversy, and had been think it would be better if he did resign," Carter said to remove Gartner from his post as the independent
held in trust for his children's education, has been sold although he noted that Gartner has committed n' regulatory agency, and Carter apparently lacks such
at his suggestion authority as well.
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(AP) - Two American authorities. All three still face trial. The correspondents said City Court that it probably also had the aim of
respondents accused of President L. E Almazov told them to harassing and intimidating other
the honor and dignity" of THE CORRESPONDENTS, in a 15- return tomorrow with written respon- American correspondents here.
sion appeared in court as minute closed-door session with the ses to the charge, under Article 7 of the According to the accusation, brought
esterday and a judge president of the Moscow city court, said Russian Republic's civil code, which by Viktor Pavlov, acting director of the
hey hire lawyers before they were handed an indictment about provides for a possible fine and court- Vremya television news program, the
ing scheduled July 5. articles they wrote on Zviad Gam- ordered retraction. There is no mention taping of Gamsakhurdia's confession
sakhurdia, a dissident from Soviet of possible detention or imprisonment. was carried out under "professional
he first time American Georgia. norms and procedures."
nts have been ordered to The charge, brought by the state WHITNEY SAID Almazov told them The accusation said the correspon-
)urt on charges stemming Committee of Radio and Television, they have a right to hire Soviet lawyers dent's stories, published May 25,
ork. asked that the two correspondents "be or seek legal assistance from the U.S. suggested the confession had been
held answerable for the publication of consulate, and that they will be allowed fabricated from a montage of film clips
HITNEY of The New York slanderous information denigrating the to call witnesses, and that what they wrote amounted to
Harold Piper of the honor and dignity" of Soviet television Piper said he saw the case against "the spreading of slanderous infor-
un were accused of civil "and that they be caused to publish a him as an attempt to clear the name of mation."
slander.
In the United States, executives of
both newspapers expressed serious
concern about the Soviet action.
In another case involving an
American, Francis Crawford yesterday
said he is innocent of charges that he
smuggled currency. He was tem-
porarily freed from prison on Tuesday
in exchange for the release in the
United States of two alleged Russian
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2 missionaries shot in Rhodesia
SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP)-Three
black nationalist guerrillas shot and
killed two Roman Catholic missionaries
at a remote mission hospital in central
Rhodesia, the military command
reported yesterday.
The incident occurred Tuesday night,
just four days after 12 British
missionaries and children were clubbed'
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Rhodesia's eastern border.
THE REV. GREGOR Richert, 48, and
Bernhard Lisson, 69, both German
Jesuits, were killed Tuesday lnight at
the St. Rupert's mission, said Mon-
signor Helmut Reckter, spokesman for
the Jesuits in Rhodesia.
The three gunmen talked to the
mission's 12 black staff members
before shooting the missionaries in the
face, Reckter said. The staff members
did not witness the shooting but heard
gunfire. Reckter said the gunmen
returned after killing the men and said:
"We have shot the two whites."
The German Jesuits run 16 missions
across a vast stretch of central and nor-
thern Rhodesia. Reckter said all the
missions have white personnel and
there are no plans to withdraw them.
"WE ARE DETERMINED to carry
on," he said. "I don't understand it. It is
a very hateful business, of course."
The handlful of patients in the 40-bed
St. Rupert's hospital asked to leave
yesterday, Recktersaid.
"The black staff are still there and we
will keep it open, but I think patients
will be too scared to come,"he said.
LISSON HAD WORKED in Rhodesia
for more than 40 years. Richert had
been in the country for 15 years.
Officials said the area around St.
Rupert's-90 miles west of here-is
heavily infiltrated by guerrillas of
Joehua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African,
People's Union.. The military claimed
Nkomo's men killed the German
misonaries.
The British missionaries died in an
area where Robert Mugabe's Zimbab-
we African National Union guerrillas
operate. Black members of the staff
and pupils at the British mission said
the guerrillas in that raid identified
themselves as members of Mugabe's
organization. Mugabe denied the
charge and accused black Rhodesian
security forces of commmitting the
murders. Nkomo and Mugabe's forces
form the Patriotic Front guerrilla
alliance.
A MILITARY communique said the
Germans were killed by Nkomo's
guerrillas who showed up at the
hospital and demanded to see the priest
in charge.
"Both victims were then forced to
return to Father Richert's house, which
they entered together with terrorists.
Their servant was told to leave. Shortly
afterwards, a single shot was heard,
then three shots followed by a burst of
automatic fire," the military statement
said.
St. Rupert's is located about 20 miles
from the Sanyati mission where an
American Southern Baptist was
bayonetted to death June 16.
Only a few hours before the military
announced the Tuesday night killings,
21 relatives and friends of the British
based Elim Pentacoastal Church
arrived in Salisbury for the funerals of
the 12 people killed last Friday night.
Florence Evans, who lost a son,
daughter in law and grandchild in the
massacre, yesterday said God had a
reason to take them and that the killers
shoul dbe forgive.