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PAGE TWENTY - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Thurs., Aug. 3, 1978 Jaworski convinced Tongsun Park was foreign agent WASHINGTON (UPl) - Leon Kim’s testimony. Park, Jaworski said, but, "in my committee has launched disciplinary ethics panel last fall that Kim “had Korean Embassy, furnished funds to Jaworski, ending his role in the Jaworski’s remarks came just view, Tongsun Park was a foreign action against four current House made arrangements to pass large Korean influence-buying probe, says hours after he officially resigned his agent, despite his stubborn denial. Kim Dong-jo to distribute to members for taking cash gifts from sums of cash to some members of the members of Congress,” he said. The weather he is convinced South Korean post as special counsel to the House I^ovlng that recipients of monies Park and failing to report them. House.” ‘How much of this fund was in fact Cloudy and humid with showers and a few businessman Tongsun Park was a ethics committee. He headed the in from him knew that Park was a Jaworski and his staff were Sworn witnesses testified that thunderstorms likely today. Highs 80 to 85 vestigation for more than a year. foreign agent presented real distributed? How much of it was foreign agent and his gifts illegal for stalemated in their efforts to get Park and Kim were "unfriendly com returned? What amounts were around 28 C. Gradual clearing overnight. Lows members of Congress. Kim, who operated out of the obstacles, some of which involve testimony from Kim Dong-jo. The petitors,” he said, each "eager to in the mid 60s. Saturday partly sunny and less Korean Embassy, "undeniably was a legal technicalities.” retained by distributees? How much In a speech Wednesday night to the South Korean government main win the accolades of the Korean of the total sum set aside ostensibly aiirl]PBtpr iEuMting Brralft humid. Highs around 80. Probability of International Platform Association, foreign agent and every con Park, a millionaire rice merchant tained Kim was covered by hierarchy for having conducted the for this purpose was sidetracked into precipitation 70 percent today 20 percent Jaworski said the other “bagman" in gressman knew or should have and Washington social figure, diplomatic immunity and refused all A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 most effective campaign ininfluen- the pockeU of Korean officials? tonight 10 percent Saturday. Winds southerly the case was former Ambassador known this,” Jaworski said, noting testified he paid about $750,000 to U.S. approaches to get his testimony. cing certain members of Congress.” 15 to 20 mph today becoming northwqst 10 to 15 the Constitution prohibits the accep members of Congress, most of whom These are the unanswered essentials Home delivered copy 15 cents. Kim Dong-jo and the investigation The former Watergate special "I am satisfied that the Korean only Kim Dong-jo can funish,” he Vol. XCVII, No. 259 — Manchester, Conn., Friday, August 4, 1978 mph tonight and Saturday. National weather would remain incomplete without tance of gifts from foreign agents. are no longer in office. The ethics prosecutor said there was proof laid government, largely through the said. Newsstand copy 20 cents forecast map on page 15. The case was less clear about out at the public hearings in the KCIA, which operated out of the Neighborhood threatened by old ehemical landfill was filled and covered with clay, but scheduled this week, one with Health NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (UPI) - Health Commissioner Robert Her husband, Gary, a truck paying the taxes. Whelan, who will meet today with the mechanic in Buffalo, said he’d like to The state health commissioner now the chemical wastes ooze from Commissioner Whelan and another Seabrook approval The residents of the Love Canal area residents, Tuesday advised pregnant sell their house, but “they can’t af said there was “growing evidence” the ground around the homes in the with several interested lawyers, who met Tuesday night outside a house would talk about possible legal with a "Disaster Area” sign in the women and children under 2 move ford to just leave it.” He said when of increased incidence of mis neighborhood. out “as soon as possible.” they bought the house three years carriages among residents of the "Some of the people on our street recourse. front yard, to organize, comfort and actually have chemicals In the protest — some even turned in The federal Environmental Protec ago, they were never told it was built area, although “there is no tion Agency has identified 82 in over a dump of any kind. evidence” of unusual occurrence of ground in their backyards,” he said. Hooker said in a statem ent mortgage receipts. “Others are getting sludge seeping affirmed by EPA Tuesday night that it was “deeply More than 350 residents, including dustrial chemicals, 11 of them Arlene Soluri, who is five months acute allergenic, neurological, der matological or respiratory illness. through the floors of their cellars.” concerned about the problem of Love the 97 affected families, met in front suspected cancer-causing agents, as pregnant, said her husband made her WASHINGTON (UPI) - The En “I lost a baby in February,” said Heisner, who is trying to organize Canal.” the Public Service Cn. of New “ I emphasize,’’ EPA Ad of Tom Heisner’s house on 99th having oozed from the ground since move to her mother’s in a nearby vironmental Protection Agency Mrs. Mary Heeney. “I believe it was the neighborhood, said Tuesday Hampshire, prime builder of the ministrator Douglas Costle said, “as Street to talk about the health 1976. community shortly after the noon today reaffirmed approval of an open because of the chemicals.” night’s meeting was to make the However, the firm denied “it has plant, which contends the environ I did in my original decision, that my emergency the state Health Depart "I had no thought of having a news. ocean cooling system for the $2.3 The Hooker Chemical Co. plant in residents aware of the alternatives. any legal obligations or responsibili ment would not be damaged by function and that of the agency as a ment declared due to the state of the defective child until this came out,” She said they can’t sell their house billion. Seabrook, N.H., nuclear taking ocean water for its cooling said Joanne Hale, who is expecting the city used to dump chemicals into Heisner, a building contractor, ty for the situation that has evolved whole, has been solely to determine decades-old chemical landfill on because of its location, but added power plant — a major victory for ad system and returning it 39 degrees her second child in October. that her husband wants to stop the abandoned Love Canal. The canal said two other meetings were completely outside its control.” whether the proposed thermal dis which their homes were built. vocates of nuclear power. hotter. charge will assure the protection and The action, a boon to the plant’s NRC spokesman Gordon propagation of a balanced indigenous builder and state government, helps McKenney said when his company population of fish, shellfish and DOT asks court 1 / clear the way for continued construc has read the EPA decision, "we will wildlife in and on the receiving tion of the twin-unit, ocean-front apply to the NRC as soon as humanly waters and to determine whether the facility that has become a symbol of possible for reinstatement of the con intake structure reflect the best for Route 7 OK controversy over nuclear power. struction permit.” He said if the per technology available for minimizing HARTFORD (UPI) - ’The Connecticut Department of The Nuclear Regulatory Corhmis- mit were reinstated, the next day the adverse environmental impact.” ’Transportation is going to court seeking permission to sion halted construction of New company would begin hiring back the “I have not considered nor may I build an 18.5-mile limited access highway between Hampshire’s first atomic power 2,200 workers left jobless by the con consider in the context of these plant July 21 to give the EPA time to Norwalk and Danbury. struction halt. proceedings whether construction of Construction of the road, proposed as Route 7, was rule on the cooling system and to give Sen. Thomas J. McIntyre, D-N.H., the Seabrook plant is desirable from stalled in 1972 by a federal court injunction. U.S. District the commission time to look at possi said flatly the NRC "will move im Ck)urt Judge Jon 0. Newman granted the injunction at the Now, ble alternate sites. mediately to lift the ban on construc See Page Ten request of a group called Citizens for a Balanced En The decision is a major victory for tion at Seabrook.” vironment and Transportation. A spokesman for the Onnecticut Department of Transportation said the state will ask N e ^ a n to clear the^ay for construction of the $210 million road. U.S. Transportation Secretary Brock Adams MEG rejects pact; Wednesday approved the necessary paperwork that could SBM has added lead to construction of the long-delayed highway. The opposing environmental group argued the Connec ticut Department of Transportation and the Federal money not at issue Highway Administration had illegally bypassed some federal requirements, includinj one that required an en vironmental impact study. The Municipal Employees and the way some things are sup taken effect July 1. Newman ordered that an environmental impact study a Factory Group,(MEG) Thursday rejected a posed to be Carrie out.” McCarthy said he could never be made of the proposed 18.5-mile road. proposed new two-year contract, not He said the people in the union feel remember so many changes which A draft impact statement was finished in 1974 and cir because of the pay raises offered, but that "what we’ve reached so far had to be made within a union con culated for public comment.