Deaver, Allen paid by same firm
WASHINGTON (AP)- Michael Deaver, one of
President Reagan's top three aides, has been
receiving deferred payments on the pre-inaugural
sale of a firm which bought out a similar enterprise
headed by national security adviser Richard Allen.
Senate records show that since the Reagan ad-
ministration took office, the firm, the Hannaford Co.
Inc., has quadrupled the number of domestic and
foreign groups for which it is a registered lobbyist.
DEAVER OWNED 40 percent of Hannaford, which
in January bought out a similar firm, Potomac Inter-
national Corp., headed by Allen. The national
security adviser, who just took what he called a
"leave of absence" in the wake of an inquiry into his
receipt of $1,000 from Japanese journalists, also
received deferred payments in his part of the deal.
The payments to Allen prompted questions about
possible conflicts of interest in meetings between the
national security adviser and past clients of Potomac
International Corp., which now belongs to Han-
naford.
On Sunday, Allen announced that he was taking a
leave of absence from his White House post while the
Justice Department completes a preliminary in-
vestigation of his receipt of $1,000 from two Japanese
journalists who interviewed first lady Nancy Reagan
on Jan. 21.
ALLEN, APPEARING on NBC's "Meet the Press,"
said the Hannaford Co. had "satisfied" its debt to him
in recent days. He did not provide any details, but
NSC spokesman Peter Dailey said Hannaford recen-
tly paid Allen $50,000 to terminate the debt.
Deaver, who reportedly wants Allen to resign,
could not be reached for comment yesterday on his
financial arrangement with the Hannaford Co., which
is headed by his former partner and onetime Reagan
speechwriter, Peter Hannaford. But deputy White
House press secretary Larry Speakes said Deaver
got his final payment in July for his share in the
business.
Speakes said any suggestion that Deaver is still
receiving payments from Hannaford, Inc., is "dead
wrong."
IN HIS FINANCIAL disclosure statement, filed
last February, Deaver said he sold his 40 percent in-
terest in the public relations firm to Hannaford for
between $15,000 and $50,000 in January 1981, just prior
to Reagan's swearing-in.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP)- Wizened
Fransie Geringer was up early yester-
.day, struggling to overcome his
shyness, eager to get to know the boy he
waited so long to meet. g
"At 6 a.m. he was tugging on my
sleeve to wake up. I want to see
Mickey,' " Fransie's father, Herman,
37 said. "He's in a new mood now."
FRANSIE, 8, who suffers a rare
aging disease known as progeria,
traveled thousands of miles from his
home in Orkney, South Africa, to visit
his fairy tale idol, Pinocchio, the
wooden puppet who battled to become a
real boy.
Waiting for Fransie to arrive Sunday
night was Mickey Hays, 9, of Hallsville,
Texas, 'another progeria .victim who,
like Fransie, is a bald dwarf with
fingers and toes bent like those of an
elderly man.
Yesterday, they watched cartoons
and planned a luncheon together.
BOTH BOYS believed they were the
only living cases of the disease until last
August when The Associated Press
carried a story about Fransie's plight,
mentioning his love for Pinocchio.
Mickey badgered his mother to contact
Fransie.
Americans donated funds so that
Fransie could visit Pinocchio with his
parents and brother, Paul, 10. Texans
raised money to enable Mickey to see
Fransie at Disneyland.
Fransie is scheduled to meet Pinoc-
chio, the title character of a classic
Walt Disney animated film, Wed-
nesday. While the amusement park is
closed today, the two families plan to
relax as the boys get to know each other
better.
A THIRD VICTIM of progeria, Alicia
Gowans, 11, also planned to travel from
her San Diego home and be on hand at
Disneyland tomorrow.
"I'm going to ask them how they feel,
if they are sorry or not and if they ever
had people'make fun of them," said
Alicia, who is 3 feet tall and weighs 23
pounds.
The girl, who has arthritis and wears
a wig to cover her bald head, said she
wants to meet Snow White at
Disneyland but wants to meet the boys
even more. "I didn't know that other
kids have the same disease I have," she
said. "I'm sorry, but I'm happy."
Mickey did all the talking in the boys'
first meeting at a hotel near
Disneyland, as Fransie watched silen-
tly from a rigid position next to his
mother, Magda, 31.
Fransie, who does not attend school
to avoid possible teasing by classmates,
murmured only an occasional "Thank
You," as Mickey, a fourth-grader,
presented him with an array of T-shirts
and Texas souvenirs.
The South African boy had been
looking forward to meeting his
American counterpart,
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School debt aid may be illegal
LANSING (UPI) - State School
Superintendent Phillip Runkel says
creating receiverships to run bankrup-
ted districts is not legally feasible, but a
top legislative expert insisted yester-
day it is worth a try anyway.
Earlier this fall, in the wake of the
Alpena school closing and threatened
closings in other communities, Runkel
announced he was moving at the behest
of legislative leaders and Gov. William
Milliken to draft legislation which
would create state receiverships for
destitute districts.
IN GENERAL terms officials said
the receivers would be authorized to
operate districts at a bare bones level,
and perhaps, call for imposition of a
state-levied tax on the community.
Runkel said recently, however, he
has had a change of heart on the issue
based on information provided by
education experts in the attorney
general's office.
Among the legal problems believed to
be insurmountable are those dealing
with the authority of the receiver to
abrogate existing labor contracts and
impose a tax.r
RUNKEL'S statements on the issue,
however, have caught by surprise a
man who figures to be among the key
architects of the receivership bill-
Gene Caesar of House Speaker Bobby
Crim's staff.
Caesar worked along with Senate
staffers and officials from Milliken's of-
fice and the Education Department on a
special task force established to draft
the bills.
He said group's activities had been
suspended while lawyers in the attor-
ney general's office drafted opinions on
various legal aspects of the proposal.
He said it was strange that he hadn't
been informed of their recommen-
dations if they. have already been for-
warded to Runkel.
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Jeep, a subsidiary of American
Motors Corp., signed the agreement af-
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ding a concert at the Silverdome
because he was afraid of large
crowds. But the congestion wasn't too
bad, he added, because many fans
showed up early.
"I hope the Stones do a good mix of
songs," he said before the concert.
Concert opener Iggy Pop went over
spoorly with fans and was even booed.
He °played only a half-hour, with no
encore. The second act, Santana.
received more appreciative cheers.
Tomorrow's Daily will have a
complete review of last night's
concert.
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Jeep said it feels the allegations
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ded" but that it signed the agreement to
avoid costly litigation.
The company estimated it would cost
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The television ads showed the Jeep
CJ used as an ordinary passenger car
and failed to disclose that the four-
wheel drive vehicle sometimes handles
differently from ordinary cars, the FTC
said. Sharp turns or abrupt maneuvers
on pavement may result in an accident,
the federal agency said.
The agreement calls for warning
stickers on the instrument panel or
windshield frame of new Jeep CJs. Jeep
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