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EXINCINI Commit titration! Nrwtpaprr NAL EDITION THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1976 PRICE 1 5c arren Commission Lacked Evidence Thursday TU" tfATT'ENOl Your Day sion to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. THE COMMITTEE outlined these leads which it said were never adequately investigated: The possibility that Cuba's Fidel Castro ordered Kennedy's assassination in retaliation for a CIA plot against his life that was in progress at the time of the November 22, 1963, slaying in Dallas: A report that on the evening of the day Kennedy was killed a Cuba-na airlines flight from Mexico City to Cuba was delayed five hours awaiting the arrival of an unidentified passenger who boarded the plane without passing through The "strange travel" of "a Cuban-American" who an FBI informant claimed was involved in the Kennedy assassination and who may have been in indirect contact with Oswald. Sen. Richard Schweiker (R-Pa), who headed the committee's investigation, said other "interesting leads" were left out of the 106-page report in order not to jeopardize further investigation. Schweiker accused the CIA and FBI of "a cover-up" and said "there is no longer any reason to have faith in (the Warren Commission's) picture of the Kennedy assassination." But committee chairman Frank Church (D-Idaho) said that "whether there was a consicous WASHINGTON (AP) The Warren Commission did not have evidence which "might have substantially affected the course of the investigation" Into whether there was a conspiracy to kill President John F.

Kennedy, the Senate Intelligence Committee said Wednesday. The committee stressed that "it has not uncovered any evidence sufficient to justify a conclusion that there was a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy." But the panel said that failure of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to pursue the possibility of a conspiracy behind the assassination "impeaches the process" which led the Warren Commis wald's activities before the assassination and Its Investigation of the killing itself, the report said. HOOVER CONCEALED from the commission the fact that 17 FBI agents had been disciplined for their failure to recognize Oswald as a security threat. The commission also was never told about the FBI's destruction of a threatening note which Oswald had delivered to bureau offices in Dallas several days before the Kennedy killing. Angered by the commission's criticism of the FBI's performance.

Hoover on two occasions "asked for all derogatory material on Warren Commission members and staff contained in the FBI files," according to the report. The report strongly criticized the CIA for failing to inform the commission of the potential significance of a 1963 plot involving an undercover agent in a plot to kill Castro. The report quoted CIA officials who knew about the plot as testifying that "they did not relate it to the President's assassination." cover-up or not has not yet been determined" and added that he Is not yet prepared to call for a full-scale reopening of the assassination investigation. THE REPORT said it did not know why "senior officials in the CIA and FBI permitted the Warren Commission to reach its conclusions without all relevant information" but added that "the possibility exists that senior officials in both agencies made conscious decisions not to disclose potentially important information." The report said that senior government officials "wanted the Investigation completed promptly and all conspiracy rumors dispelled." According to the report, within 14 hours of Kennedy's death, the FBI had narrowed the focus of its investigation to Oswald alone and within weeks issued a report concluding that Oswald was the sole assassin. FBI director J.

Edgar Hoover "perceived the Warren Commission as an adversary" which might criticize the bureau's monitoring of Os- annum jm i ynwn Teamster Fund Misuse Hinted i -w? 4 i 4 uv, Xt- -APLaserphoto A Viking's-Eyc View Of Mars, At 963 Miles Thundershowers today with a high near 80. Low tonight in the low 60s and thundershowers Friday with a high in the low 80s. Weather map, details. Page B-ll. Ronnie Milsap will present a country dance concert at Old Coney's Moonlite Pavilion today at 10 p.m.

Admission charged. Smile Son: What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? Dad. They call it golf. Metro Cincinnatians are being asked in a random telephone survey how they feel City Council should allocate the funds availaDle to it. Page B-l.

All evidence collected by police in a major marijuana raid February 10 at the Blue Ash Ramada Inn is declared inadmissible. Page B-2. Nation A New York private day school finds success replacing fixed tuition charges with a graduated family "inmme-tax." Page A-8. Jimmy Carter, the Democratic front-runner, calls for a sweeping restructuring of U.S. relations with the rest of the world, seeking a strong partnership with other democracies.

Page A-20. World The Italian Communist Party puts aside its demands for a role in the national government, but seeks a voice in formulation of public policy, as well as key leadership posts in parliament. Page A-17. Sports Indiana coach Bobby Knight addresses an audience including women here, and columnist Tom Callahan finds him lacking in class. Page C-l.

People Today Because of the full range of programs and services available, it takes more than a day, or even a week, to see and do everything offered by the Cincinnati Nature Center. A year is a more realistic figure. Page D-l. Business Stock prices slip again amid disappointment over the Dow industrials' inability to hold above the 1000 mark. The popular average closes with a loss of 1.07 at 996.56 after having dropped below the landmark point for the seventh time this year in Tuesday's session.

Page D-7. Entertainment Jane Powell kicks up her heels in Kenley's summer circuit production of "Irene." Page A-16. In Our Opinion On Page A-4: The plans for Block suggest that Cincinnati may be recapturing the momentum of the 1960s. Editorial. Robert Webb explores one idea for improving the efficiency of Congress.

INDEX Four Sections 136TH YEAR, No. 76 Action D-2 Bridge 0-6 Brock B-3 0-7-12 Classified. C-8 19 D-6 Horse Sense D-6 'Jumble D-6 People Today D-1-6 Races Riesel 8 Society D-3 Sports. TV-Radio B-4 Van Dellen 0-2 Weather II Weikel B-1 Word Came. 0-4 Columnists.

Comics. Crossword. Dear Abby. Deaths. A-5 10 D6 C-10 Editorials A-4 Enln mnt.

A-14-16 Graham A-16 Heartline D-2 local and Area Hews Pages B-1 -3 Haldeman Series on Page B-S corner is a highly degraded crater about eight miles in diameter, with a fresher, smaller crater overlapping its edge. The channel bank cuts into the margin of the larger crater. Viking I's landing is scheduled for July 4. (Related story, Page A-18.) MINUTES BEFORE it reached the lowest point in its Mars orbit Tuesday, spacecraft Viking I photographed the area around its potential landing site. Near the site Is a channel, with a slightly raised rim and floor markings, shown in the lower right corner.

In the upper left 'Sorry Sandman Says On Opinion Of Goodin (c) N. Y. Times Service WASHINGTON Labor Department investigators have found that hundreds of millions of dollars in the Teamster Union's Central States Pension Fund is unaccounted for, and the department is considering putting federal trustees In charge of the fund, sources close to the investigation said Wednesday. In addition, the investigators are amassing evidence for possible indictments against some of the 16 On Page A-2: "Tony Pro" indicted in murder. present trustees of the $1.4 billion pension fund for the way that they handled the money, although a Labor Department source said that the Indictments were six to nine months away.

The investigators, have reportedly turned up many questionable loans and procedures, Including kickbacks to pension fund trustees, the sources said. "OF THE many charges leveled against the fund," said one person in a position to know, "they have substantiated some." Trusteeship would mean removing eight union trustees and eight management trustees fr6m control of the fund and replacing them with people appointed by the Labor Department. The department, which has been conducting its Investigation along with the Justice Department since last fall, has already halted some pension fund loans as unsound, according to reports. The Labor Department has the power to impose trusteeship under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. That law gives it authority to ask a federal Judge to let it take over pension plans that It finds are improperly operated.

IT WAS not clear when the takeover might occur, but congressional sources predicted that it would not happen until after the presidential election, on the presumption that the Ford administration would be reluctant to antagonize the Teamsters before then. But several senators are attempting to put pressure on the Labor Department to get on with the Inquiry, and Sen. Robert P. Griffin R-Mich). has Introduced a resolution to create a select committee to investigate the Teamsters.

The Senate Labor Committee will hold hearings on the Labor-Justice investigation of the Central States Pension Fund. One reason for the hearings Is reportedly the praise that Secretary of Labor W. J. Usery Jr. gave the Teamsters at their convention last week In Las tool to try to understand the cause of the disease," Levy said in a telephone interview from his laboratory.

LEVY'S TEAM reported that the test can be completed In the laboratory in four hours. The Duke researcher said that results of tests that have been expanded since his team's paper was submitted for publication indicate that the test is specific for multiple sclerosis and that the test Is not affected by the duration, severity or activity of the disease. Multiple sclerosis, currently an Incurable disease, is characterized by periods of activity and remission of symptoms that affect the central nervous system. Levy said that unexpected results from experiments that a third year medical student, Paul S. Auer-bach, was doing as part of his traln- Vegas.

Usery said that his remarks would have no effect on the Investigation. AT THE convention, the Teamsters' president, Frank E. Fltzsim-mons, disclosed that he and other union officials had been subpoenaed, and sources say that the labor Investigators want to ask him about loans that the pension fund has made in the year since he became a trustee. So far, according to congressional and federal sources, the Labor Department has focused Us attention on unsecured loans, some of them to underworld enterprises, on which neither interest nor principal has been paid in several years. "At some point, these loans become gifts," said one person close to the inquiry, "and even before then they can be challenged as imprudent." "The way the audits are going now, there could be as much as $700 million missing," another source said.

The Investigators reportedly believe that more than $40 million of the $57 million lent to Rancho La Costa in Southern California, Fitz-slmmons's favorite golfing spot, has never been repaid. But the La Costa officials have said under oath that none of the loans are delinquent. In addition, they are questioning "numerous" loans to Morris Shenk-er, a teamster lawyer in St. Louis. There is "no hint that he's paid any of it back," one person said.

Albania Fears War In Balkans NEW YORK (AP) Exiled King Leka of Albania said Wednesday the Inevitable death of aged Yugoslav President Tito may precipitate another Balkan war, and he has formed a guerrilla movement to wrest his country from the Communists before lt happens. "We have done our best to study the opposition's tactics and are following the principles of our dear friend Mao Tse-tung," the 37-year-old ktng told a press luncheon at a Manhattan restaurant. The ktng predicted that with the octogenarian Tito's passing the various ethnic groups In Yugoslavia would fragment, with Sovient encouragement, and the Russians would occupy the country. Since Albania lies Just to the south, between Yugoslavia and Greece on the Adriatic, he said his country could be the next Soviet bite and the Kremlin would finally realize the "goal of Peter the Great, an outlet to the Mediterranean." ing program, led to the test's development. TESTS WERE done on 27 patients with multiple sclerosis at Duke Hospital and from a chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

The results of these tests were compared to those done on 26 patients with neurological disorders other than multiple sclerosis and 10 apparently healthy men and women who served as controls. Symptoms of the disease come and go for no apparent reason, causing slurred speech, making the person see double or forcing the eyeballs to flick back and forth or up and down or causing loss of eyesight, and locomotion difficulties. The disease usually is first diagnosed in young adults between the ages of 20 and 40. Just before the testimony from the two high-ranking Cincinnati officials, Sandman told how he and Goodin first met'when Sandman was chief of detectives in 1955 and Goodin was assigned to the detective bureau. Since then, Sandman testified, they had "gone through a whole host of relationships" as each was promoted, with Sandman becoming safety director in 1966, then made deputy city manager last year while Goodin rose to chief of police in 1971.

ASKED ABOUT Goodin's reputation, Sandman replied: "Through all our years of association, I knew him as an outstanding person as an individual and an outstanding police administrator. "Unfortunately, that Is the opinion I held until the circumstances which evolved in late November last year Immediate defense objections stopped his testimony and Judge, Bettman, prosecutors and defense attorneys went Into private session In the Judge's chambers. A short time later, the court reporter, Sandman and Castellini were summoned into the chambers. After one hour and 45 minutes, everyone returned to the courtroom and Leis was permitted to question his rebuttal witness. The legal question, Judge Bettman said later, was whether Sandman and Castellini were about to testify to their opinion of the man's character after his indictment and defense attorneys wanted to preview their testimony to be sure it was not influenced solely by indictments.

Under law, testimony from character witnesses is strictly limited and cannot be based on charges which have not yet been proved in court. applied to the everyday practice of medicine. It can be extremely difficult for a doctor to diagnose multiple sclerosis In Its earliest stages because, among other reasons, the symptoms are easily confused with other disorders and because there has been no specific confirmatory laboratory test. The new test is considered experimental because experience with the techniques necessary to do it is limited to the laboratory where it was developed at Duke In Durham, N.C. and at a few medical centers.

However, Dr. Nelson L. Levy said that the Duke team he heads is now modifying the test so that perhaps within a year it could be done routinely In any hospital. "We are using the test diagnosti-cally at Duke and also as a research By PEGGY LANE Enquirer Reporter Deputy City Manager Henry Sandman, calling his court testimony Wednesday "the most difficult thing I ever had to do in my entire life," told Jurors that suspended Cincinnati Police Chief Carl V. Goodin's character and reputation for truthfulness are questionable.

"I'm sorry to say that it's bad," Sandman, a rebuttal witness, responded to a question from Prosecutor Simon Leis Jr. about his opin- On Page B-1: Contradictory testimony ion of Goodin's character and reputation for truthfulness at the-time Goodin was indicted last December by the special grand jury investigating alleged police wrongdoing. The grand jury Indicted Goodin on charges of perjury and tampering with evidence for allegedly presenting false evidence before the special panel. SAFETY DIRECTOR Richard Castellinl, when also asked for his opinion about Goodin's character and truthfulness by First Assistant Prosecutor Fred Cartolano, replied, "I'm sorry to say it's poor." Sandman, in describing his court appearance Wednesday, told The Enquirer. "It was just extremely difficult except there are responsibilities that go with a position of authority and I had to respond to those responsibilities." Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Gilbert Bettman Wednesday told the eight women and four men Jurors that they would be sequestered today after hearing final arguments from fense and prosecution and hearing the court's instructions on the laws which should be applied to reach a verdict.

They will be weighing perjury and tampering with evidence charges against Goodin and Lt. Richard K. Beyer and a perjury charge against Police Officer James Simon. New Blood Test May Unmask MS N. Y.

Times Service NEW YORK Three Duke University scientists report in a medical journal today that they have developed an accurate blood test for multiple sclerosis, a nervous-system disease that affects hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. The experimental test promises to detect the often blinding and crippling disease at its earliest stages, even before a doctor can diagnose it from a physical examination, the scientists said In their New England Journal of Medicine report. OTHER SCIENTISTS expressed cautious optimism about the Duke report. But they urged further evaluation before the blood test Is.