Page 6-Thursday, June 29, 1978-The Michigan Daily 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. u AA 75 w &. " I . MOSCOW foreign cor "denigrating Soviet televi ordered yf suggested t another hear It was tl corresponde appear in co from their w CRAIG WI Times and Baltimore S U.S. reporters appear in Soviet court. spies who were turned over to Soviet retraction in the Soviet press." the Soviet television organization and (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 r _ " 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' WANTrED: An ARTIST Talented in the Field of GRAPHICS to Design the cover of the 1978 MICHIGAN DAILY ART FAIR SUPPLEMENT We want an attractive cover which will get people's attention. Designing this cover is an opportunity to have 15,000 pieces of your work circulated around the art fairs. You will also be paid. If interested, call Joanne or Karen at 764-0554. and hacked to death by raiders near 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.