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ues Moines Register PaaeZ Mar. 4, 1972 PEOPLE in the NEWS The Challenger and the Challenged Briefly Chess Warning Dr. Max Euwe, president of ihe International Chess Federation, said that world Private Meeting Author Clifford Irving met privately in New York City with federal prosecutors for six hours la yJI I i tvlr i fm- Mfi h-Sh RULING IS NOT GLASS ACTION HISS- Continued jrom Page One Communist, of slipping secrets to a Communist spy ring. After Hiss was released from the Lewisburg, penitentary, a law was passed which became known as the Hiss Act denying federal annuities to persons convicted of certain offenses, including perjury in cases involving national over the Howard Hughes "a tobiogra-p controversy, but none of the participa would say hat was champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union must forfeit his title if he refuses to accept the sites set for his match with A rican Robert Fischer. After ROBERT FISCHER CLIFFORD IRVING i ssed.

Sources said 'csr Hope Eastman, another representing Hiss in the suit, said the law was made Spassky and Fischer failed to agree on a site for the match. Euwe ruled that the 24 games would be divided equally between Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and Reykjavik, Iceland. Spassky protested saying the climate of Belgrade was too hot. the meeting was regarded as a possible preliminary to Ir-ving's appearance before a federal grand jury investigating possible mail fraud and other charges in the case. retroactive to include those con-1 victed prior to its passage in 1954.

The ACLU filed suit in 1970 on behalf of Hiss and Richard Strasburger, a former Postal Service employe who was denied an annuity in a separate case. The Civil Service Commission members, defendants in the suit, denied Strasburger an annuity because it said he made a false statement concerning Communist Party membership on employment records. Not Class Action Judge Roger Robb of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and District Court Judges John L. Smith and William Bryant ruled Friday that the retroactive application of the WIREPHOTOS (AP) Kleindienst nibbles on a pencil Friday during the second day of hearings into his role in the Justice Department's settlement of the antitrust suit involving a merger of ITT. Kleindienst, who formerly was deputy attorney general, again told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had no knowledge of an ITT subsidiary's pledge of up to $400,000 in funds for the Republican convention until well after the settlement was made.

The appointment of Kleindienst, who was nominated by President Nixon to succeed John Mitchell as attorney general, still must be confirmed by the Senate. U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy Mass.) is shown during Friday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing at which he challenged testimony by acting Atty. Gen. Richard Kleindienst.

Kennedy challenged Kleindienst's statement that he had no knowledge until about six months afterward of a charge that settlement of antitrust suits against International Telephone Telegraph Corp. (ITT) was related to an ITT donation to the Republican National Convention. law in those two cases was un KLEINDIENST- Continued jrom Page One ell is helping us, but cannot let it be known." In Sacramento, Rei- absence was "in direct violation of a commitment she made to the company to keep it informed of her whereabouts so she 'would be available in the event her presence would be required." The ITT statement also reiter Mysterious Mrs. Beard: Hard-Cussing Mother of 5 By Robert L. Jackson 1972 Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON, D.C.

Mrs. Dita Beard, veteran lobbyist for the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. (ITT), is a salty party-loving mother of five with a wide acquaintanceship fell i necke said Friday that the Re ated "that the contribution of on Capitol Hill. The 53-year-old divorcee has now works for the Republican Nat'ional Committee on finances. A frequent traveler, Mrs.

a reputation for bluntness and political savy. Her friends say remember the letter and that he probably just passed it along to the Antitrust Division for an answer. He also said that he probably discussed the letter with McLaren, but added that he did not recall what was said in the conversation. "Senator, I get letters by the pound," Kleindienst said. "I don't have the time to read them all." Kennedy also produced a reply, dated Sept.

22, to Robertson from McLaren. In it McLaren is quoted as saying: "There is no relationship whatsoever between the settlement of the ITT-Hartford litigation and any financial support which ITT may have offered to the city of San Diego." The letter also said the Antitrust Division developed the terms of the settlement, that they were approved by Kleindienst, and that Kleindienst and he had no contacts with Wilson. McLaren said he could not have answered the letter with the Sheraton Corp. of America (an ITT subsidiary) to the San Diego Convention Bureau was in no sense a political payment. "It was a hotel company contribution to a community" civic group whose mission is to attract convention business to the city of San Diego," ITT said.

Recess Hearings Until Tuesday she can curse a congressman to his face in a way that is constitutional. They declined to consider the case a class action as the ACLU had sought. But Miss Eastman said, "My opinion is that anyone who falls in the same category will not have much difficulty now getting their claims rectified." She said a great many government workers fired for al-1 Communist activity during the early 1950s may have been denied annuities and may now revive their appeals. Retroactive payments to Hiss would total about $3,660 plus interest, with payments to continue at the rate of $61 a month, according to the court order. The government was ordered to pay Strasburger $122 a month and make payments retroactive to Sept.

14. 1964, his ond birthday. beard enjoys attending national and regional meetings of governors and other politicians. She usually presides at an ITT publican Party should reject I $400,000 contribution pledge. "You have got to play it super-clean and super-safe and just say, 'Thanks, but no the lieutenant governor told newsmen.

He said the GOP and San Diego convention organizers "would be ill-advised to accept this money now not that there's anything wrong with it, but because of the propensity of the public to believe any accusatory story like this." Look in Denver Meanwhile, the FBI continued Friday to look for Mrs. Beard, who has been subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The com Actress Susan Hayward, shown with Susan's Back actor James Stacev in a scene from charming and inoffensive. "She's a hard-drinking, a d-cussing, free-swinging woman tough as nails," says one admirer. Mrs.

Beard is a central fig "hospitality suite." She also has arranged for "Heat of Anger," returned to Hollywood to appear in the television movie that was aired Friday night. "Both of my sons are now grown and married. The best thing for me to do is to go back to work," said Miss Hayward. congressional staff members to Hearings on the ITT troversy were recessed Tuesday by Judiciary mittee Chairman James con-until Corn-East- ure in an ITT case under scrutiny by a Senate committee." A memo she reportedly wrote her boss last June links settlement of a government antitrust case Wins Custody Judge Peter S. Solito ruled in Houston that Yoko Ono Lennon, wife of former Beatle John Lennon, land Friday after the second day of testimony by Kleindienst and U.S.

District Court Judge Dead Dr. Herbert Feis, 78, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, after a long illness, in Winter Park, Fla. mittee has been hearing testi Richard McLaren. out having asked Kleindienst if he had contacted Wilson. Otherwise, he said, he wrote the reply from his personal knowledge.

Surprise Witnesses President Nixon's nomination against ITT with a subsidiary company's pledge of financial support for the upcoming Republican National Convention at San Diego, Calif. The FBI is trying to locate Mrs. Beard to serve her a subpoena to testify before the Senate. Gets Along "Primarily she knows Republicans in Congress," said a former associate. "But she gets received Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for writing "Between War and Peace: Potsdam." His other books include "The Road to Pearl Har may li a tempo rary custody of her daughter, Kyoko, 8, by a prev i a i age.

However, the child and her father, Anthony D. Cox, a Houston fly to political meetings in a company aircraft. A lover of the outdoors, Mrs. Beard drives snowmobiles and is an inveterate camper. A friend recalls that during a winter meeting in Wyoming she strolled barefoot down the street at midnight.

Not Fussy She is not fussy about her appearance. "She'll string cigarette ashes all over a $200 dress," one friend said. Associates say Mrs. Beard, divorced for several years, has devotedly raised five children, now grown. The family home is in nearby Arlington, Va.

Mrs. Beard, who has been ITT's registered lobbyist for 11 years, is regarded as one of Washington's most highly paid women. She reportedly earns over $50,000 a year although the company will not disclose her salary. i 11 rr- 4 YOKO ONO LENNON ot Kleindienst as attorney gen Oppenheimer Case In the- telephone interview, Hiss observed that "Judge Robb is an appointee of President Nixon I'm not chuckling but he is the man who was the prosecutor of Robert Oppenheimer." Hiss said Robb, in the Op-penheimer case, was "a brilliant man who believed he was doing the will of God." Oppenheimer, a noted nuclear physicist, lost his security clearance in the early 1950s on government's contention that he was a security risk. "On assuming the robes, people change," Hiss said.

mony on the ITT controversy in regard to Kleindienst's nomination as attorney general. The search for Mrs. Beard reportedly is concentrated in Denver, Colo. Sources close to the committee said they had been informed that Mrs. Beard, 53, has a heart ailment, and telephoned from Denver to her doctor here to get a prescription.

Columnist Anderson has charged that ITT, on learning the Beard memorandum had been made public, ordered Mrs. Beard out ot town. But ITT said Friday that her ik '3 HERBERT FEIS eral was approved by the com Senator Edward M. Kennedy Mass.) produced two letters Friday intended to show that Kleindienst knew of ITT's commitment to the convention at least two months earlier than he says he did. Kleindienst and McLaren, former head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, had testified they were unaware of the commitment until it appeared in the newspapers near the end of November or early December.

Kennedy questioned the two men about a letter written Sept. 21 by Reuben Robertson III, an associate of consumer advocate Ralph Nader. along well with members of both parties." In a city where grace and obeisance are hallmarks of film maker, have not been seen since last December when Cox was released from jail after refusing to allow Mrs. Lennon to visit Kvoko. many lobbyists, Mrs.

Beard has capitalized on aggressiveness often to the point of coarseness, mittee 13 to 0 last week and initially had been expected to be affirmed by a wide margin in the Senate. After the testimony is heard, the committee is expected to decide whether the new information merits a second vote on the nomination. Chairman Eastland told newsmen after he recessed the hearings that he does not think "anything has been turned up" against Kleindienst. Eastland said again that he intends to call next week Anderson, Mitchell, William Mer-riam, head of ITT's Washington office, Mrs. Beard and three surprise witnesses whose names, he said, were supplied Enemy Fires on 2 American Planes Over North Vietnam friends say and treats members of Congress as her co-equals.

A large, gregarious woman, her presence is noted almost daily at the Capitol Hill Republican Club in the Congressional Hotel, a block from the Capitol. She worked in President Nixon's 1968 pre-convention campaign. A daughter, Lane, Robertson asked Kleindienst in the letter to disclose the relationship between the settlement of the ITT antitrust suits and the giant conglomerate's alleged $400,000 contribution. Asked Name Robertson also asked the ALASKAN JOB KEY BISCAYNE, FLA. (AP) The Florida White House announced Friday President Nixon's selection of Jack O.

Hor-ton, 34, an Interior Department official, to join the Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska. SAIGON. SOUTH VIETNAM upset any enemy plans for an with emphasis on the highlands and the northern provinces. (AP) Enemy antiaircraft de-; offensive. The saturation bombing has by ITT.

helped to set back the enemy's plans, the sources added. Four Wounded name ot the Justice Department official who made the decision to settle rather than prosecute, and what contacts bor," "The Diplomacy Dollar." "The China Tangle," "Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy" and "Characters in Crisis." Rabbi Morris Silverman, 77, author, editor and civil rights leader, while aboard a cruise ship at Acapulco, Mexico. He had been rabbi emeritus of Emanuel Synagogue in West Hartford, since 1961. He was chairman of the National Conference of State and City Commissions Against Discrimination and of Civil Rights in 1958 and 1959. In 1952 and 1953 he received a Freedoms Foundation medal and prize.

Sam Browne, 73. one of Britain's top pop singers of the 1930s, in London. His top hits included "Body and Soul" and "When Day Is Done." Manslaughter Alfred J. Erdns, 47. former American charge d'affaires in Equatorial Guinea, was found guilty of manslaughter bv a federal jury in Alexandria.

in the Aug. 30 slaying of his aide, Donald J. Leahy, 47, in the vault of the embassy in Santa Isabel. Judge Oren R. Lewis sentenced Erdos to 10 years in prison.

opened fire on two; The South Vietnamese air American reconnaissance force claimed its bombers planes and threatened other knocked out two enemy tanks jwarplanes. triggering a new in the region where the fron-I round of U.S. air strikes in 'tiers of South Vietnam, Cam i North Vietnam Friday, the U.S. bodia and Laos meet, about 300 Four Americans of the 3rd! WOLFS Peking Satellite In Orbit a Year WEST BERLIN, GERMANY (AP) Peking's earth satellite China II marked a in orbit Friday. Harro Zimner, director of the Wilhelm Voarster Observatory here, said the 396-pound satellite has circled the earth about 5.000 tines since Mar.

3. 1971. D0WWT0WM MERLE HAY WmTI Command said. miles north of Saigon. The Command reported three Tne target the sweep in "protective reaction" strikes i the centra highlands is a North against antiaircraft artillerv Kleindienst had with Representative Robert Wilson Calif.) during negotiations.

Wilson is the congressman who represents San Diego and is chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee. He also is mentioned in the Beard memo as knowing about the alleged ITT "deal." Brigade, 1st Air Cavalry Division, were wounded Friday in a boob y-trap explosion. They were on a reconnaissance patrol near Firebase Fiddler's Green, 20 miles northeast of Saigon. There were few other reports of significant ground action. U.S.

Navy bombers in raids on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos averted being hit by two surface-to-air missiles west of batteries and an air-defense Vietnamese ounaup reporcea i radar site at points 40. 85, and! along the western border, but 1 120 miles north of the demili- field reports mentioned only zone (DMZ). It said re- scattered contacts. mm Kleindienst said he did not suits were not known and there zone, the In support of the drive, B52 bombers pounded the central highlands in the fifth consecutive day of saturation raids. the demilitarized Command said.

was no damage to U.S. air-; craft. S. Viet Sweep In the ground war, about: 1 10.000 South Vietnamese troops i through the western reaches of South Vietnam's cen- tral highlands in an effort to Senior U.S. military sources; said heavy American air strikes are expected to continue Founded in 1M published every weekday morning by DES V.OINES REGISTER AND TRIBUNE COVPANY TIJ-Locust St.

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