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WASHINGTON (AP)-Ernest
Lefever, the administration's prospec-
tive point man on human rights, faced
new questions yesterday after it was
learned that the Nestle Corporation
bankrolled a mailing list which he used
to distribute an article favoring the sale
of infant formula to poor nations.
Richard Edelman, an executive of
Nestle's public relaitons firm, said
Nestle, a leading infant formula
producer, paid for the list. Lefever's
private policy center used it to mail out
an attack upon critics of formula sales
in the Third World, Edelman said.
LEFEVER,. president of the
Washington-based Ethics and Public
Policy Center, refused comment on
Edelman's disclosure. But last
week-in sworn Senate testimony-he
said: "It is the policy of the center not
to accept contributions for specific
projects in which a donor has a direct or
indirect financial interest."
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Edelman, senior vice president of
Daniel Edelman Inc. of New York, told
The Associated Press on Tuesday that a
mailing list containing names of
"opinion leaders" was compiled last
July at the request of Nestle, one of his
firm's clients.
He said the cost of the list was
charged to the giant Swiss-based food
manufacturer, but was sent directly to
Lefever for the mailing of the article.
EDELMAN declined to say how
much the list cost or how many names
were on it, and he added, "Nestle's
supplying of the list is in no way a con-
tribution to the center."
However, Rod Young, an Internal
Revenue Service spokesman, said such
a gift to a non-profit organization like
the policy center would qualify as a tax-
deductible donation under federal law.
AND IN Federal Election Com-
mission regulations, the giving of a
mailing list is cited as an example of an
"in-kind" contribution if supplied to a
political candidate.
Nestle and other infant formula
manufacturers have been criticized for
marketing milk substitutes in poor
countries. Opponents say formula is of-
ten mixed with contaminated water and
contributes to the mortality rate of in-
fants.
Calm settles
over state
prisons as
inmates are
locked up
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Michigan Corrections Organization,
criticized prison officials for not putting
more guards on duty after being war-
ned of the plans Monday night.
"In an environment like this, you
always have rumors, and it's a problem
to figure which are significant," said
Jack Willsey, director of education at
Jackson.
At Ionia, where the high school and
food service area were severely
damaged during last Friday's out-
break, prison officials met with their
state legislators to discuss materials
and funds needed for repairs.
Sen. Robert VanderLaan of Grand
Rapids toured the facility and said the
Legislature will be forced to spend
about $1 million to replace broken win-
dows, pay overtime for correctional of-
ficers and provide new classrooms for
inmates.
VanderLaan said Warden Dale Foltz
suggested the state purchase modular
housing for use as interim classrooms.
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In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
Hinckley attempts an overdose
BUTNER, N.C. - John Hinckley Jr., the man accused of trying to assas-
sinate President Reagan, took an overdose of Tylenol in an apparent "at-
tempt to harm himself" yesterday but was treated at a prison infirmary and
has recovered, a federal official said.
Tom DeCair, a spokesman for U.S. JusticeDepartment in Washington.
said Hinckley took an undetermined amount of the aspirin substitute, which
he had requested and had been saving up in his quarters at the Butner
Correctional Facility.
Hinckley had "been depressed lately and apparently tried to harm him-
self," DeCair said.
He said Hinckley was given an antidote and was later returned to his
quarters after tests were run to check the degree of toxicity in his system.
"He is not ina life-threatenin situation," DeCair said.
South Africa s Republic Day
spurs bombing, demonstration
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A bomb exploded outside a recruit-
ing office in Durban today and riot police broke up demonstrations in two
other cities as protests mounted over white-ruled South Africa's 20th an-
niversary asa republic.
Police dispersed 300 demonstrators on a Johannesburg campus and
arrested 48 in Cape Town.
Black consciousness organizations, university students, clergymen and
white liberals have urged a boycott of the Republic Day celebrations on
grounds that the 23 million non-whites have nothing to celebrate.
Chicago transit faces shutdown
CHICAGO - Mayor Jane Byrne, facing the grim prospect of a mass
transit shutdown that could send 2.4 million riders scrambling, yesterday
charged the Legislature is withholding funds to "blackmail" the city.
Two suburban bus systems - one serving 22 suburbs - already were
shut down or had severely cut back service because subsidies normally fun-
neled through the Regional Transportation Authority had stopped.
Byrne vowed to keep city buses and subways, which are included in the
six-county RTA running even if new taxes on city-based industries were
needed.
Mrs. Byrne said she was considering removal of the Chicago Transit
Authority - the major link in area mass transit - from the RTA system
coupled with a tax on industries doing business in the city.
Legislative initiative to save Chicago transit was preferable, she said,
but the city's home rule powers could be used to impose the tax, every penny
of which would be kept by Chicago.
Despite the threat of other suburban bus and commuter railroad shut-
downs by June 1, the RTA board on Tuesday ruled out a 12.5 percent fare in-
crease and elimination of weekend services.
Coal talks resume
with stipulations
WASHINGTON - Leaders of the United Mine Workers union and the
soft coal industry resumed talks yesterday under a short-fuse time-
table calling for major progress soon on ending the 62-day strike or a halt to
negotiations.
Union President Sam Church Jr. threatened to break off the talks unless
there are major developments soon.
Church met with his 39-member bargaining council yesterday morning
to explain his rejection Tuesday of a contract package presented by the
Bituminous Coal Operators Association, despite general agreement on a
crucial subcontracting provision.
A key factor may still be a clause involving a special royalty fee that
coal operators must pay for any non-union coal processed by their facilities.
Although the walkout has cut into coal exports and placed miners
throughout Appalachia on unemployment and food stamp lines, the overall
economic effect to the nation has been minimal, since about half the coal
produced in the United States comes from non-union mines.
Early control of diabetes
may reduce birth defects
BOSTON - By controlling their disease in the early weeks of pregnancy,
women with diabetes may be able to greatly reduce the numbers of birth
defects that are a major complication of their condition, a study shows.
The report found that 22 percent of the women who had high levels of
blood sugar during the first month or two of pregnancy delivered deformed
children. But only three percent of the babies of women who kept their blood
sugar under control during these first weeks had defects.
Often women with diabetes are advised by their doctors to avoid
pregnancy because of the risk to the child. Overall, six percent to nine per-
cent of the babies delivered by diabetic women have birth defects.
Dr. John Hare, who directed the latest study, said the report shows that
relat troublefree pregnancies are possible for many women wit.
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