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DAILY FACTS, Redlands, Calif. Wednesday. April 19.1972- 2 Answers Senators' questions Reinecke tells about how San Diego idea started WASHINGTON (UPI) -Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke of California testified today the idea of holding the Republican national convention in San Diego was "hatched" last spring one day after he met with a ITT lobbyist Dita D. Beard and former Attorney General John N.

Mitchell. But Reinecke said he had not discussed the convention with either person. Reinecke told the Senate Judiciary Committee he met with Mitchell in the morning on April 26, 1971, and with Mrs. Beard, the Washington lobbyist for the International Telephone Telegraph (ITT), on the afternoon of the same day. The next day, April 27, a group of San Diego representatives got together at a social reception at Republican National Headquarters here and "that was where the idea really hatched" for the San Diego convention, he said.

Reinecke denied that he discussed the convention with either Mrs. Beard or Mitchell at the April 26 meetings. He said he "obviously did because the idea did not seed until the following day." Earlier in what was expected to be one of the final sessions of the Senate hearings on the ITT controversy, it was disclosed that Peter M. Flanigan, a top presidential assistant, had agreed to answer committee questions Thursday on what he knows about the selection of San Diego as the convention site. In his testimony, Reinecke insisted that all he discussed with Mitchell was California's economic problems, including the Lockheed effort to obtain a loan guarantee from the government.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, expressed astonishment that Reinecke did not discuss the convention with Mitchell even though the idea for the convention arose the following day. Reinecke testifying "Wasn't there anything in those conversations (with Mrs. Beard and Mitchell) that helped bring this about?" Kennedy said.

"It just wasn't a matter that we discussed," Reinecke replied. In previous testimony, Mitchell has denied any connection with the effort to put the convention in San Diego and any knowledge of a pledge by ITT to underwrite San Diego's cost of hosting the convention. At immediate issue in the investigation is the nomination of Richard G. Kleindienst as attorney general. "I think Kleindienst will be confirmed," said Judiciary Committee Chairman James 0.

Eastland, D-Miss. Supreme Court rules for Diseny's Sierra project Continued from page 1) the merit of the club's complaint. Dissenting were Justices William 0. Douglas, William J. Brennan Jr.

and Harry A. Blackmun. Blackmun said. "I fear, and sadly so that the $33.3 million complex, over 10 times greater than the Forest Service's suggested minimum, will now hastily proceed to completion; that serious opposition to it will recede in discouragement: and that Mineral King, the 'area of great natural beauty nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains' will become defaced, at least in part, and, like so many other areas, will cease to be 'uncluttered by the products of He suggested that reasons, "most of them economic, for not stopping the project will have a tendency to multiply." Blackmun said the club should be permitted to amend its complaint to meet the court's specifications and go to trial. Alternatively, he said, he would permit "an imaginative expansion of our traditional concepts of standing in order to enable an organization such as the Sierra Club to litigate environmental issues." Brennan, in a brief paragraph, agreed with Blackmun's second alternative.

Douglas, an outdoorsman from boyhood, said the critical question of standing would be simplified "if we fashioned a federal rule that allowed environmental issues to be litigated before federal agencies of federal courts in the name of the inanimate object about to be despoiled, defaced or invaded by roads and bulldozers and where injury is the subject of public outrage." The Disney firm proposed to take over 80 acres in the isolated game refuge for an "Alpine village" with hotels, restaurants, a theater, swimming pools and accommodations for 14.000 skiers at one time. The Sierra Club has said that about 1,000 acres would actually be affected. The club sued both secretaries because national forests are under the jurisdiction of the Agriculture Department, while national parks come under the Interior Department. The Sierra Club contended that the Interior Department improperly authorized a 9-mile access highway across Sequoia National Park into Mineral King Valley "for a non- park purpose" and without conducting a hearing. The suit also alleged the department approved a power transmission line, despite a law requiring congressional approval.

The Agriculture Department was said to have circumvented an 80-acre limitation on long term permits for recreational use of forest land by coupling the 80-acre permit with another one for facilities occupying additional space. Agriculture was also said to have ignored the will of Congress, which had established the purposes of game refuges. These claims would have been litigated if the club had been allowed to go ahead. Blackmun and Brennan called them "substantial." The two-mile-long Mineral King Valley juts into Sequoia National Park but is not a part of it. Originally it was excluded because of the existence of old mines, now in disuse.

Bills are pending in Congress to confer standing to sue in cases like today's on citizens and groups like the Sierra Club with respect to a broad range of issues. Walt Disney chosen in 1965 to develop Mineral King By United Press International A remote wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of Central California was known in the past to relatively few people- Walt Disney was one of them. When the millionaire cartoonist and businessman first saw the majestic Mineral King he saw its recreational potential amidst a beauty he vowed should never be destroyed. In 1965, Walt Disney Enterprises bid for the construction and operation of recreational facilities at Mineral King after the U.S. Forest Service solicited proposals.

Disney's bid was accepted and the corporation was granted a preliminary permit for preparation of a master plan for the area. The project, when completed, would cost $35 million and attract more than a million visitors a year to swim, ski, fish and hike. Automobiles would be prohibited in the tiny valley where the facilities were to be located and a tram would carry visitors from peripheral parking lots to the site. Conservationists opposed the project, dubbing it an "alpine Disneyland," and in 1969 the Sierra Club filed suit to block the mammoth development. The battle over the mountain has raged since and the Disney corporation pulled back a timetable for opening up some facilities to outdoorsmen by 1973.

Disney developers have argued that the natural beauty should be for all to enjoy and not just hardy backpackers or those willing to drive the dusty summer road to the old mining area of the 1800s. Tulare County residents generally view the project as a windfall for jobs that would make the Sierra valley more valuable than it ever was in silver or gold. The Sierra Club began its opposition to the Disney project at public hearings and Anally in June, 1969, filed a law suit in federal court and was granted a preliminary injunction. U.S. District Judge William T.

Sweigert, in granting the injunction in San Francisco, said the club had raised "questions concerning possible excess statutory authority" by the Interior and Agriculture Department. The suit by the conservationist group doesn't argue that a wilderness area would be destroyed, but it alleges violation of federal law governing developments on U.S. Forest land, including the building of a modern access road with taxpayers money. The valley is the site of a once booming mining community that was abandoned near the turn of the century. Some vestiges of civilization remain, including 60 summer cabins, a store, a U.S Post Office and pack station.

For this reason, the valley was left out of Sequoia National Park which surrounds it on three sides. The Disney development would turn natural bowls in the high mountain valley into one of the largest skiing areas in the West. The winter playground would include skating rinks, restaurants and lodging facilities and could handle 8,500 skiers a day. Construction is planned for 22 lifts and gondolas to hoist them onto the slopes. The Sierra Club's first court victory was overruled by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

It said the club had no standing to sue and that the granting of the preliminary injunction was unwarranted because there was little or no likelihood that the club could prevail on the merits. The club then petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court which agreed to hear the case and upheld the preliminary injunction pending its decision. In arguing the case before the high court last October 18, Sierra Club attorneys said the development would involve 1,000 acres and "produce serious and permanent damage" in Sequoia National Park and Sequoia National game refuge. The club's complaint alleged the Secretary of the Interior improperly authorized a highway across Sequoia National Park to dead end at the new project and also ignored federal law in committing installation of a necessary power transmission line.

It also contended that an 80-acre limitation on longterm permits for recreational use of national forest lands was circumvented by the secretary of agriculture. The government's case, presented by U.S. Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold argued the club had no standing to sue. Nixon to report on Vietnam (Continued from page 1) the North Vietnamese offensive in South Vietnam.

The White House has referred up to now to Rogers and Laird's statements when asked about Nixon's reasons for the heavy U.S. bombing and presidential views of the escalated war. When Nixon does give his personal report, sources said today, he wants to do it directly to the people on a live broadcast. "He wants to explain Vietnam in his own way." the sources said. Chinese Premier Chou En- lai, in an interview broadcast today but filmed two weeks ago early in the North Vietnamese offensive and prior to the escalated U.S.

bombing said an end to "U.S. aggression" in Indochina was essential to improved U.S.­ Chinese relations. "The most outstanding issue in the Far East is U.S. aggression in Vietnam and Indochina," Chou said in an interview with a British journalist, Felix Greene. The interview was carried on the NBC-TV Today Show.

In the Senate, where a five- hour period was set aside for debate on the war, antiwar forces seeking to cut off war funds picked up a surprise supporter today in the assistant Democratic leader, Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia. Byrd consistently supported most White House Vietnam policy in both the Johnson and Nixon administrations, but announced his backing of a proposal calling for a halt in Vietnam financing as of the end of this year. Byrd told reporters that under Nixon's troop withdrawal timetable, there might not be any need for further funds anyway.

Sen. Alan Cranston. in remarks prepared for today's debate, called on Nixon to either set a date for total withdrawal or himself withdraw as a candidate for the presidency. In that way. Cranston said.

Nixon would "remove any appearance of political motivation in the further conduct of this war." "Our problem, the nation's problem, is that President Nixon still thinks he must prove America's manhood," Cranston said. "He still looks upon Vietnam as a test of America's courage and perserverance and of our willingness to live up to whatever foreign commitments our State and Defense Departments think we have made he said. Reagan favors bombing North LOS ANGELES Ronald Reagan voiced his support Tuesday for President Nixon's decision to bomb targets in North Vietnam, but told students on three campuses he recognized their right to demonstrate against it. Many students in his audience laughed, however, when Reagan suggested a "moral issue" was also involved and "a much smarter thing would be to send the President letters of support." Reagan addressed the students through a closed circuit television hookup linking UCLA. UC Berkeley and San Fernando Valley State College.

Reagan spoke from a studio in the UCLA Health Sciences Building and spent about an hour answering student questions fed to him from microphones located at sites on each of the three campuses. Reagan's location was kept secret prior to and during the program. At UCLA, some 800 students gathered near a microphone and television sets located on the Royce Hall quad. The program was produced by UCTV-LA. a student-run station.

For the most part. Reagan was met with antagonistic questions, but he appeared unruffled by the hostility. A Mexican-American student at Valley State called the governor a "racist dog" while demanding to know why the state cut its financing of the Educational Opportunities Program. Reagan responded that the state instituted the cuts only after the federal government increased its funding of the program. In another instance, a Berkeley student said the nation needs to reorder its priorities and added: "Nixon has the power, you have the power and we're going to get it." "Right on," Reagan replied.

A day earlier, Reagan addressed students at Loyola University and Marymount College. That was his first appearance on a college campus since March, 1970, when his visit to UC Riverside touched off a campus disturbance. EB and FLO By Paul Sellers Meany UO loflgeT JOT A strikes as labor tool 9JRELY YOU PONY BEUEVE IN THAT KINP0F NONSENSEf IF ITU )- Sky com ON, E5.LETS... JUST FUN Murder soliciting Husband arrested, Marine not charged WASHINGTON (UPD- AFL-CIO President George Meany said Tuesday he no longer believes strikes are good took for organized labor and has appointed a committee to find an alternative weapon to the strike. "I don't believe in strikes," he said.

"I don't believe they mean what they did years ago." Meany made the comments during an appearance before a Senate labor subcommittee which is considering a proposal from President Nixon to outlaw strikes in the transportation industry. Meany said he still opposes the administration's plan, favoring instead one that would allow strikes that would tie up only up to 40 per cent of a given transportation industry. But Meany said his general views on strikes have changed over the years, from the time when a striking union could afford to pay its workers only 60 cents an hour in strike benefits. Now, he said, even though the benefits may be a little better, they are not ficient for working people who have children in college, mortgage payments and other responsibilities. He said the day when a union was willing to call a strike over the interpretation of a contract clause has almost vanished because such disputes are now settled by arbitration.

That method could be used to avoid strikes he added. The panel he has formed to look for strike alternatives would be working on ways in which binding arbitration could be invoked with both labor and management voluntarily agreeing to submit their differences to an outside third party. Meany emphasized, however, that his comments on strikes dealt with them as as rights. He would fight to the death, he added, to protect the right to strike. "When you take away a man's right of not working you are taking not just the man's property but the man himself labor is himself, his hand, his mind," he said.

RIVERSIDE (UPI)-No charges will be filed against a Marine who said he was unable to go through with an alleged $1,500 "contract" to kill two women in Miami, authorities said Tuesday. After talking to the intended victims for five hours, Tim Boudette, 22, said he had a change of heart and handed over the knife he had intended to use. Louis Wolshin, 59, was arrested Monday on a solicitation of murder charge after the Marine told his story to authorities. Wolshin was arraigned Tuesday and held in lieu of $50,000 bail. Sheriff's deputies here and in Miami and Riverside Deputy District Attorney Sam Kahn gave the following account of the alleged plot, based on statements by the Marine and the intended victims.

Boudette, stationed at El Toro, Marine Corps Air Station in Orange County, was hitchhiking through Riverside Friday on the way to Phoenix. to see his parents. Wolshin picked him up and offered him $1,000 to kill his wife. Olga, and $500 more to kill his mother-in-law, Vera Smirnova Alexandra, 82, authorities said. Wolshin accused his wife of 22 years with having numerous extramarital affairs.

Boudette agreed, and at 2:15 a.m. Saturday he boarded a flight for Miami at Los Angeles International Airport. Boudette appeared in the backyard of Mrs. Alexandra's apartment Saturday afternoon. "I asked him what he wanted," she told the Miami Herald, "and he replied he was a friend of her son.

"Well. I was just overjoyed, and we welcomed him into the house and put on dinner. I treated him as if he were my own son." After talking with the ladies for several hours, the young Marine blurted out: "Listen, I have to level with you. Your husband sent me here to kill vou." the opening of DINNER HOUSE Yucaipa Newest Finest Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge FEATURING Choice Black Angus Beef Luncheon from 11 a.m. Dinner from 5 p.m.

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