4 Page 2-Thursday, January 20, 1983-The Michigan Daily Abscam attorneys say feds lied, NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Two federal attorneys who worked on Abscam say Justice Department officials deceived them throughout the undercover operation by telling them targets made incriminating statements when they haq not, newly released documents show. Other materials obtained by The Associated Press in a Freedom of In- formation Act suit detail claims that key. Abscam officials gave "demon- strably false statements" at a court hearing in Washington. Among those targeted, at least in part, because of the misrepresentations were Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione; former Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr. (D-N.J.), and Kenneth MacDonald, former vice chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Com- mission, the two attorneys asserted in previously secret debriefings with superiors in 1981. Guccione was never charged in Ab- scam, but Williams and six House members were convicted of bribery- conspiracy charges. MacDonald main- tained his innocence until he died of cancer a month before his trial. Robert Weir and Edward Plaza, two assistant U.S. attorneys from New Jer- sey, told superiors that in Abscam's early stages they often found that other working on the probe had overstated evidence. In many cases, the two attorneys said, taped conversations they checked did not back claims that potential targets had been caught in corrupt acts or incriminating statements.. Other times, they said, tapes of supposedly key conversations were inaudible. "These were the operative facts very early on in Abscam - that all of these things had taken place, all of these dif- ferent people had committed these dif- ferent corrupt acts," Plaza told Justice Department superiors in 1981. "You'd read a transcript and there'd be a discussin about 'When I saw you yesterday' . . . We'd say 'Can we get that particular tape? . . . later on, you'd hear that there wasn't any tape," ac- cording to Plaza. Plaza, now in private legal practice, and Weir, still a government prosecutor, contended Thomas Puccio, chief prosecutor at four Abscam trials in Brookly, and two of his assistants were among those who misled them. Plaza and Weir also accused Abscam operative Mel Weinberg; Irv Nathan, a private attorney who was deputy chief of the Justice Department's criminal divisin during Abscam; and FBI agent John Goode, who supervised Weinberg of making false statements before a hearing for former Rep. John Jenrette, D-S.C. Plaza and Weir said Nathan and Goode had erred in court testimony by saying that Weinberg was carefully supervised, that only minor conver- sations were not recorded and that allegations Weinberg extracted gifts from targets were fully investigated. Nathan, Goode and Weinberg denied in testimony before congressional hearings that they made false statements in court. The most serious allegations of misinformation involved the Mac- Donald case, according to the documents and testimony previously made public during trials and court hearings. City tries to keep transients from parks Y You'ire Needed All Over the World. Ask Peace Corps volunteers why their ingenuity and flexibility are as vital as their degrees. They'll tell you they are helping the world's poorest peoples attain self sufficiency in the areas of food production, energy conservation, education, economic development and health services. And they'll tell you about the rewords of hands on career experience overseas. They'll tell you it's the toughest job you'll ever love. January 18th,19th and 20th. Interviews at Career Placement & Planning. Sign up today. Detroit Office: 1-226-7928 .PEACE CORPS By CHERYL BAACKE On almost any day of the week there are a couple of people "camping out" in Liberty Plaza park on the corner of Liberty and Division streets. Vern Har- tenburg doesn't like that. In fact, Hartenburg thinks these "street people" filling the Liberty Plaza and other city parks are keeping NOON LUNCHEON Homemade Soup & Sandwich $1.00 Friday, January 21 RICHARD CLEAVER, Secrefary for Peace Education, A.F.S.C., Michigan Area: "WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS: A PRESSING ISSUE" Guild House, 802 Monroe (662-5189) 764-0558 764-0558 other citizens away from Ann Arbor's public areas. Hartenburg, the city's superintendent of parks, believes more should be done to eliminate this "un- desirable activity" in Ann Arbor parks. THE PARKS Advisory Commission agrees: Tuesday night the commission passed an ordinance calling on City Council to post more prohibitive signs in the problem park areas. Council will probably discuss the matter next month and the issue will most certainly be con- troversial. Councilmember Joyce Chesbrough (R-Fifth Ward) said children have been chased from the parks and that "street people" should not be allowed to stay at the expense of others. "There are ac- cepted rules of behavior that people must obey," she said. Chesbrough added, however, that she does not know if the proposal will make a difference in people's behavior. "I think we have to take the word of the people enforcing our laws." BUT OTHER councilmembers say they are against stricter enforcement of the park laws. "I think the regulation is attempting to cover people and not activities," said Leslie Morris (D-Second Ward). "We can't make rules against people sitting on park benches." The Ann Arbor Police Department brought the sign recommendation to the commission to make it easier to en- force the law. The parks officially close at midnight and people should be kept out after that time, Ann Arbor Police Department Major Robert Whitaker said.. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Reagan promises to reduce deficit with 1984 budget plan WASHINGTON -President Reagan neared completion of a 1984 budget plan yesterday as his treasury secretary promised deficits of under $200 billion for the next three years and another senior aide vowed a return to black ink by the end of the decade. Other administration officials said next year's deficit will approximate $190 billion, a record budget gap. With pressure building among business leaders and congressional Republicans for major deficit reductions, adminstration officials said the president was expected to approve a long-range budget course showing a path of declining red ink that would fall below $1 billion by 1988. That would be Reagan's last year in office should he seek and win a second term. White House counselor Edwin Meese said Reagan would propose in his State of the Union message to Congress next week "a series of measures" that will produce a balanced budget by the end of the 1980s. Reagan had once promised to produce a balanced budget by this year. Arms control chief vows U.S. will risk nuclear war WASHINGTON -. President Reagan's new arms control chief has declared that American strategic policy must convince the Soviet Union that "the United States would indeed risk nuclear escalation" to counter aggression against European allies or PersianGulf interests. "In other words, U.S. strategic forces do not exist solely to deter a Soviet nuclear attack or an attack against the United States itself," Kenneth Adelman wrote in a 1981 article. "Rather, they are intended to support a range of U.S. foreign policy goals, including the commitment to preserve Western Europe and even parts of the Persian Gulf against overt aggression," he said. Adelman, named to succeed the ousted Eugene V. Rostow as head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, called for new and better offensive nuclear weapons and outlined a strategy that would target Soviet command centers and the bunkers where Moscow's leaders would take refuge. He advocated improved U.S. spy satellites and other kinds of intelligence- gathering systems as well as a lew ground-based American missile, such as the MX now under development, and new strategic bombers and nuclear submarines. League favors abortion rights WASHINGTON - The national League of Women Voters, after years of avoiding a stance on the issue of abortion, announced yesterday it officially supports American women's right to have the operation ending pregnancy. "The League of Women Voters believes that public policy in a pluralistic society must affirm Lhe constitutional right of the individual to make reproductive choices," a league statement said. League president Dorothy S. Ridings said the league is not endorsing abor- tion itself. "This is not a statement that implies moral approval or disap- proval of the procedure of abortion," she said in an interview. Instead, she said, the league believes that the government should leave the question of abortion and other matters dealing with reproduction to the con- science of each person. League officials said the organization's board adopted the position at a meeting Tuesday, almost 10 years after the U.S. Supreme Court returned its decision legalizing abortion in most situations. High Court OKs tough gun law WASHINGTON - Use of a gun or other deadly weapon while committing a crime can be treated as a separate offense and punished with extra time in prison, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. By a 7-2 vote, the justices reinstated a Missouri "armed criminal action" law imposing separate prison sentences of at least three years on those who use deadly weapons in their crimes. Many state legislators have enacted similar laws, viewed by some as a form of gun control. Missouri courts had struck down the state's law, ruling that it violates the Constitution's protection against double jeopardy. But the nation's highest court disagreed. "Where, as here, a legislature specifically authorizes cumulative punish- ment under two statutes, regardless of whether those two statutes proscribe' the same conduct ..'. the trial court or jury may impose cumulative punish- ment," Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote for the court. Because yesterday's opinion is based on a constitutional interpretation, it applies to both state and federal prosecutions as long as some law specifically provides for tacked-on sentences. Doctors blast courtroom shrinks WASHINGTON - Reacting to the uproar after John Hinckley's acquittal on ground of insanity, the American Psychiatric Association said yesterday that courts should stop asking psychiatrists to testify whether a defendant was sane or insane, responsible or not responsible. It also recommended that when psychiatry can do no more for people found innocent by reason of insanity - people who might be dangerous still - they "should be transferred to the most appropriate non-hospital facility," rather than being released. Conflicting testimony dominated the trial of Hinckley, who did not deny that he shot President Reagan and three other men in March of 1981. Many people were shocked at the Hinckley verdict. There were calls for abolishing the insanity defense and the APA decided to study the issue. 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