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15' RUTLAND DAILY HERALD, MONDAY MORNING. AUGUST 4, 1980 Action and Reaction Billy Carter, Libya, and Us: A Chronology received $220,000 from Libya in what he describes as loans for which there was no written agreement. July 15, 1980 Billy Carter says he has never discussed dealings with Libya with President Carter. July 17. 1980 President Carter says he discussed the matter with his brother a few days ago.

July 22, 1980 The White House issues a statement that at no time" has it had any contact with the Justice Department on the conduct of the Justice Department investigation into Billy Carters relationship with Libya. July 24, 1980 The White House confirms that the president met with Houderi on Dec. 6, 1979. (The meeting had not been mentioned in the White House statement two days earlier on Libyan affairs and Billy Carter.) In response to further inquiries, the White House discloses that President Carters wife, Rosalynn, urged her brother-in-law to arrange the Nov. 27 meeting between Brzezinski and Houderi concerning the American hostages.

(Mrs. Carters role in arranging the meeting had also not been mentioned in the White House statement two days earlier. July 25, 1980 Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti says at a news conference that he and President Carter discussed the Billy Carter investigation on June 17. (In several previous public statements, Civiletti denied any contact with the White House on the case.) The Justice Departments Office of Professional Responsibility begins an investigation of Civilettis conduct in the case. July 30, 1980 The president discloses that he has discussed with his brother the classified State Department cables on the initial trip to Libya in September 1978.

He does not say when this discussion took place. (This discussion was another of the developments omitted from the White House statement issued on July 22.) register as a foreign agent. He ignores that request and others. March 6, 1979 Billy Carter begins five weeks of treatment for alcoholism at Long Beach, Naval Hospital. April 8, 1979 The Justice Department discloses that it is investigating Billy Carters ties with Libya because he did not respond to questions in January.

April 15, 1979 Billy Carter confirms that Libya paid for his September 1978 trip to Tripoli but denies any business dealings with Col. Moammar Khadafy, the Libyan leader. Aug. 17, 1979 Billy Carter and his assistant, Coleman, take the first steps in working out arrangements for aiding the Charter Oil Co. of Jacksonville, in obtaining oil from the Libyans.

Aug. 29, 1979 Billy Carter, his wife, his son and Coleman visit Tripoli for the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Libyan revolution. He receives $9,780 from Libya for expenses. Sept. 29, 1979 The Justice Department says it has investigated the possibility of a bribery plot to secure Carter administration approval to ship the C-130s to Libya.

It says it is almost certain no bribes were taken by White House officials. (An undercover informant had reported to Justice Department investigators in February 1979 that Robert Vesco, the fugitive financier, had said Billy Carter was involved.) Nov. 4, 1979 Iranians take over the United States Embassy in Tehran. Nov. 20, 1979 Zbigniew Brzezinski, the presidents national security adviser, asks Billy Carter to arrange a meeting with Ali A.

el-Houderi, Libyas chief representative in the United States, on the possibility of Libyan assistance in securing the release of the hostages. Nov. 27, 1979 Brzezinski, Billy Carter and Houderi meet. Dec. 2, 1979 Libyans sack the United States Embassy in Tripoli.

A short time later, President Carter calls in Houderi to condemn the attack, but he also thanks the Libyan for the Libyan message to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urging the release of the hostages. Dec. 5, 1979 The United States begins withdrawing diplomats from Libya over the attack on the embassy. Dec. 31, 1979 Billy Carter deposits a check for $20,000 from the Libyan government in his account at the Columbus Bank and Trust Co.

in Columbus. Ga. Jan. 16, 1980 Joel Lisker, chief of the foreign agents registration unit in the Justice Department, questions Billy Carter about the Libyans and asks, Did they give you any money? He denies he received money from them. (Six months later, he says he received in January as the first installment of a $500,000 loan.) Billy Carter tells Justice Department investigators the president gave him copies of State Department cables describing his 1978 trip.

(President Carter, in his statement Wednesday on those cables, said he did not recall showing the texts to Billy Carter or giving him copies.) March 1980 Brzezinski informs Billy Carter that United States intelligence agencies have received reports of his deal with the Charter Oil Co. and urges him to drop it to avoid embarrassing the administration. Brzezinski later tells the president of his discussions with Billy Carter. April 15, 1980 A $200,000 check from Libya is deposited in Billy Carters account at the Peoples Bank of La Grange, Ga. June 10, 1980 Billy Carter requests meetings with the Justice Department and with Brzezinski, which take place the next day.

Brzezinski inivtes Lloyd Cutler, the White House counsel, to the meeting and Cutler suggests an attorney for Billy Carter. July 14, 1980 Carter registers with the Justice Department as a foreign agent, acknowledging he has (Timet Newt Service) Following is a chronology of the events in the relationship of Billy Carter with the government of Libya, United States government investigations into that relationship and related developments in foreign relations between the two countries Sept. 27, 1978 Billy Carter makes his initial trip to Libya with his assistant, Henry Coleman, and a group of Georgia businessmen. He says it is a private trip. The Justice Department later alleges it was part of his activities as a Libyan agent.

Before the trip, Philip Wise, the White House appointments secretary, arranges, at Billy Carters request, a briefing for him and Coleman by two Arab specialists on the ational Security Council staff. Later, United States officials in Libya are told to brief Billy Carter on possible implications for United States foreign policy. (On Wednesday, President Carter acknowledged in a statement that some time after that trip, he and his brother discussed State Department cables about it. The president said they were low classification cables from the United States Embassy in Libya indicating that the trip had gone well from the embassys point of view." Jan. 7, 1979 A Libyan delegation arrives in Georgia for a five-week tour of the United States with Billy Carter as escort.

Jan. 11, 1979 President Carter disassociates himself from his brothers actions with the touring Libyans after Billy Carter is quoted as having made anti-Semitic remarks. (In late January, the White House arranged a briefing for Coleman on why C-130 aircraft purchased by the Libyans had not been turned over to them.) Jan. 12, 1979 The Justice Department, in the first of two letters to Billy Carter, asks the presidents brother for details of his connection with the Libyans and says that if he is receiving money from them he must Letters gone, that excuse no longer remains. Do they really believe that the United States can return the Shahs fortune? This is equally absurd.

Perhaps they think they can intimidate or humiliate the United States. In this they have failed miserably; in fact, it has had just the opposite effect. The only real reason they can have is one of pure spite. These people are unmitigated hypocrites and whats more, fools. The only real question is: When will they learn? DAVID M.

SEARS Rutland Film Fare By TOM BUCKLEY Times News Service NEW YORK Although he served as a Marine in the battles of Kwajalein, Eniwetok and Saipan in World War II and was wounded in action, Lee Marvin didn't base his characterization as the laconic sergeant in The Big Red One on his own experiences but on those of his father. He was a 50-year-old first sergeant in an antiaircraft battalion that fought across Europe while I was in the South Pacific, he said the other day. I never got to be a sergeant. Hell, it took me two-and-a-half years to make private first class, and my company commander tried to take that away from me When I told him he couldnt and 1 was right he got so sore he gave me a week on bread and water. While Marvin may have been thinking of his father, Samuel Fuller, the writer-director, was relying on his own combat experience with the First Infantry Division, from whose insignia the title of the movie derives.

The Big Red One follows an infantry squad from its landing in North Africa to its return to England and then in its battles across Europe from Normandy to Czechoslovakia Except for brief footage in Ireland, Marvin said, the film was made in Israel, often with Israeli troops looking on and commenting derisively on the obsolete World War II equipment. I dont think any of the kids in the cast had ever been in the armed forces, he went on, but by the time Sam and I finished giving them their basic training, they were doing fine. In fact, a couple of them volunteered to go out with the Israelis on patrol. The Big Red One is Marvins 44th feature in a film career that began with a bit part in Youre in the Navy Now in 1951 and has included such well-regarded films as Eight Iron Men, The Big Heat," The Caine Mutiny, The Wild One, Bad Day at Black Rock, Not as a Stranger," Raintree County, The Comancheros," The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Cat Ballou, The Dirty Dozen and the film adaptation of Eugene ONeills The Iceman Cometh, in which he played Hickey, the lead role. Almost all of them except Caine Mutiny and Iceman have been action adventures, he said.

I wish I'd had a chance to do more dramatic acting, but I havent given up. Ive been trying for 15 years to do a movieVersion of Saul Bellow 's Henderson the Rain 1 think he's a lot like me. But it's the only book Bellow still owns the rights to, and he wont sell. Ive also got to admit it would be pretty hard to finance. Marvin was born in New York and spent his early years there before his father, an advertising man.

took a job in Florida and moved the family south. He didn't get interested in performing until after World War II, when he was taking it easy in his familys summer home at Woodstock, N.Y., and was recruited to play in the summer theater there. He went on to study at the American Theater Wing, landed a role in Billy Budd on Broadway and got a contract from 20th Century-Fox. If you think Lee Marvin has made a lot of pictures, consider Joseph Biroc, the director of photography of the summer's sleeper success. Airplane!" A hale and hearty 76 years old, he began as a laboratory worker at the old Pathe studio in Jersey City in 1918, worked on the "Perils of Pauline serials at Fort Lee, N.J., and was an assistant camera man on Rudolph Valentinos last film, The Son of the Sheik.

Since 1946, when he became a cinematographer, he has arranged the lighting and headed the camera crew on more than 100 theatrical films and countless television films and series episodes. Although Biroc was old enough to be- the grandfather of the three directors, the producer and the leads of Airplane! he said he got along with them all very well. "They only had made one picture, Kentucky Fried before they did But they knew what they were doing," he said I'm not just talking I'll prove it to you by telling you that they got at least a third of the shots in the picture in one take, and very few directors, even experienced ones, can do that. We shot most of it at the Culver City Studios. I worked there in 1920, when it was called the Thomas Ince Studios In the 1920s and 30s.

camera operators were generally under contract to studios, just as were performers, producers and directors I as at RKO for 20 years, Biroc said. It took me a long time to get to be a cinematographer because you could only get promoted when somebody retired or quit or something and there was a vacancy. His first film in the top job was Its a Wonderful Life" for Frank Capra, whom he had known for 20 years. Among his other credits are "The Devil at Four O'clock." "The I Story, Toys in the Attic" and The Towering Inferno," for which he shared an Academy Award with Fred J. Koenekamp I was supposed to do the movie but Steve McQueen always uses Fred, so I said, O.K..

Ill direct the action and special-effects stuff It was with me. After all these years. I don't have any ego problems. Old And New In Movies WARPED SENSE OF ISSUES In reference to the article on Republican U.S. Senate candidate Anthony Doria that appeared in your paper Tuesday, July 22, 1 would like to commend Robert Kingsley for a fine reporting job.

He has reported Mr. Doria in a most honest manner; one who cannot seriously be considered for public office on any level of government. His pot shots at the other Republican candidates along with his statement concerning homosexuals (If people are afraid that we are a country of dont know what this does to America overseas') demonstrates not only his willingness to submit to underhanded political tactics but his warped sense of the issues and reality as well. One final note; in every article concerning Mr. Doria in both your newspaper and others throughout the state of Vermont the statement is made that Doria is the founder of Vermont Law School.

While this is a hard fact I feel it is a misleading one. Doria did found VLS in 1973. The school opened its doors on July 7, 1973, on a financial shoestring, and was not very well accepted by the Vermont legal community. Specifically the then president of the Vermont Bar Association stated that the institution in South Royalton was only a corporation that called itself a law school. In March of 1974 a student at the school came across a case called Pennsylvania vs.

Doria 163 A2d 918. It was alleged Anthony Doria was charged with two counts of fraud and embezzlement, in a 1958 Philadelphia property swindle involving failure to repay a $5,000 loan taken for the purpose of buying a piece of property that did not exist. (The case was vacated in 1976 by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court). Doria also was the defendant in no fewer than 30 civil cases for nonpayment of bills totalling more than $88,000. On March 16, 1974 Anthony Doria resigned as dean of Vermont Law School under pressure from students and a decision by the board of directors.

Doria has since severed all relations with Vermont Law School. What this letter leads up to is that students at Vermont Law School, while accepting the fact that Doria did found VLS, wish to make it perfectly clear to your publication and the Vermont public that Anthony Doria has absolutely no connection with the law school and that our institution, while still growing, is a viable as well as highly respected law school. The school reflects the ideas and efforts of honest, hardworking individuals (notably current Dean Thomas Debevoise), as it strives to constantly improve the stature of Vermont Law School. Thank you very much for your time. PAUL A.

DONOHUE Royalton FAIR HAVEN VIEW I went to the Selectmens meeting with one goal in my mind, to get permission for the Chamber of Commerce to sponsor a concert in the park. I went by myself as I am a member of the Park Improvement Committee but I did not go with the group. I walked by the police door on my way in and three state policemen in uniform and a plainclothes officer followed me into the selectmans office. I asked and gained permission for the concert but wondered what drew all the attention of the police and decided to stay. What followed was really something, I felt that I was roasted! Yes, at the request of four young men I did watch the park and 1 did see what Megan Price printed but she misquoted me.

I did not say I put 100 miles on my car while following the police. I said, I spent 20 hours and put 100 miles on my car during that week, this includes nights that no one was around, trying to find out where they were, this included driving through the alley behind the stores and driving from line to line on the borders of Fair Haven. I have apologized to Andy Brown if I jeopardized his informants, this was not intentional. I feel that I am an average citizen in Fair Haven that is very concerned about the town I live in. If more concerned citizens would stand up and be counted I dont think we would have the problems that the Rutland Herald has blown out of proportion.

As far as the statement of my drinking at the Legion Carnival in the back of a trailer, my statement was that I went to this trailer for one beer per night, staying in the dark where we could not be seen unless someone looked directly into the trailer. Yes, this is probably wrong, but compare this to four or five hundred people seeing the beer drank in the park during the hours of the Farmers Market. This was in the center of town in broad day light. I regret writing this letter but feel compelled to let the citizens of Fair Haven know what went on at the selectmen's meeting. If I had to do this over again I would.

I feel this strongly about the community I grew up in and where I am raising my family and making my living. DAVID MALLORY Fair Haven GIVING CREDIT The Northwood Park and Pool facility, over $500,000 worth of capital development in the town of Rutland, was recently dedicated and in the confusion of all the ceremonies and hurrahs" some very important thank yours were omitted which do not do justice to this magnificent facility. The Recreation Commission has had seven members who have resigned for various reasons over the past four years and although they could not be with us for these ceremonies, they certainly should receive the towns deepest appreciation for their efforts in securing this facility since the project was conceived, applied for, and conceptually designed over the period of time during which these members served the town. These townspeople are Jesse Billings. Nancy Burgess, Carol Denardo, Jim Holmes.

Tom Lord, Bob Sharp and Doris Trombetta. We townspeople owe these citizens a hearty thank you (or their efforts towards recreation in general and specifically Northwood Park. For this reason. I have submitted a draft for an appropriate plaque which will properly honor these dedicated volunteer members. However, as of late this plaque has become quite a game with some members of the commission.

At a recent meeting, over my strong objections and those of Tony Flory, the rest of our members voted to remove the names of our town selectmen from the plaque, which I feel is a gross insult to the integrity of our town. As far as I am concerned, either the plaque will bear the names of the elected officials who appointed me a commissioner or there will be no plaque at all. This major development, eooceived and implemented over a five-year period, should be dedicated to the very farsighted people of the town and those elected and appointed officials who made those townspeoples desires a reality. Human decency requires this, tradition supports this, and. I believe, the people who foot the bill will demand it.

Right now pettiness on the board is preventing it and I am appealing to our citizens to rectify this injustice. DONALD CHIOFFI Rutland Town BEYOND THE BOUNDS? I do not know who Herald cartoonist Danziger favors in the race for governor of Vermont However, his obvious hatred for Gov. Snetling goes beyond the bounds of decency. From his cartoon in the My 27 Herald one would gather that OCCSA under Tom Hahn was a benign organization, rather than the fiasco which Gov. Snetling and the federal Community Services Administration found it to be.

Gov Spelling has done a superior job during his two terms CLIFFORD HARWOOD Manchester Dennis Christopher who did so well "Breaking Away," and Brooke Adams, best known for Days of Heaven and the remake of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers." will star "Don't Cry. It's Only Thunder. a drama about an Army medic who helps out at a Saigon orphanage It was written by Paul Hensler. based on his own experiences as an Army medic Filmine is scheduled lo start next month in the Philippines, which also stood in for Vietnam in "Apocalypse Now ABSURD NOTIONS Now that the hostages have been held in Ira? for nearly nine months, one wonders what possible reason the militants have for continuing their absurd policy With the Shah i.