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Still, Marcos was unhappy, not so much over the returns but because of events surrounding them. Laban followers protested noisily about election fraud, while many others were angry over the government's claims of total victory. At a Malacañang Palace press conference with visiting foreign journalists last week, he accused reporters of egging on the Labanites. He has also charged unnamed Western organizations and the CIA with "meddling" in the 45-day campaign. Marcos even blamed himself for having relaxed martial law and restrained his police. Affecting a kind of no-more-Mr.-Nice-Guy grimness...
...South Korean rice broker and Georgetown party host, provided the details of how he gave 31 past and present Congressmen, two congressional candidates and President Nixon's re-election committee upward of $850,000 in gifts and "campaign contributions." Indicted last September on 36 counts including mail fraud, failure to register as a foreign agent and bribery, Park testified with immunity from prosecution and claimed: "What I have done in Washington constitutes an American success story, on a small scale...
...federal agency has been the butt of such angry cannonades as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The CFTC, formed in 1975 to police the trading of commodity futures following widespread charges of price fixing, fraud and manipulation of customers' accounts, deserves a lot of criticism. As a notorious example, it took the commission almost a year to discover that "James Carr," who is alleged to have bilked customers of perhaps $25 million by selling bogus option contracts, was actually an escaped convict named Alan Abrahams...
University police are currently investigating what they term a "possible mail fraud" being conducted by a group that calls itself the Student Rescue Committee...
...hopes to go back to Korea later this week. He returned to the U.S. only after protracted negotiations that included two personal-and highly persuasive-messages from President Carter to South Korean President Park Chung Hee, and he was granted immunity from prosecution on the 36 counts (mail fraud, bribery, illegal campaign gifts) that were handed down against him last September. Only if he were caught lying in his present testimony could Park be held and tried in the U.S. That alone should be enough to make him tell the truth...