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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1978)
Someone is trying to “zing me” WASHINGTON (AP) — Millionaire rice dealer Tongsun Park told House inves tigators Tuesday that despite the implica tions of a report found in Park’s home, Speaker Thomas O’Neill never asked him for campaign contributions. Park angrily complained that someone is “trying to zing me,” and said, “Who knows who placed that document in my house?” He repeated assertions that while he gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions on request he never did so as an agent of the Korean government. He said he never tried to use his contributions to “twist arms” or buy in fluence. The document mentioning O’Neill’s al leged request was seized by federal agents in Park’s home last year after Park left the country for Korea. Park denies O’Neill’s requests “He never made any request to make any contribution to anyone, including himself,” Park said of O’Neill. Park did acknowledge that he paid for birthday parties for the Mas sachusetts Democrat, including one in 1974 which cost $4,000. The document found in Park’s home is hand-written in the Korean language and purports to be a report to Korean officials recommending that they take certain ac tions to increase the effectiveness of a visit to Korea of a U.S. congressional delega tion. O’Neill headed the group of visiting congressmen. The unsigned document stated that many of the congressmen on the trip had “contributed decisively” to electing O'Neill as House majority leader. "And therefore, Mr. O’Neill specifically requested us to provide those congress men with election campaign funds and their wives with necessary expenses,” the document said. “This will be an ideal opportunity to hand them the funds,” it said. “But should it be impossible,’ we recommend that you pay them in the near future.” Chief counsel John Nields asked Park: “Is that true?” Park replied: "No.” O’Neill confirmed Tuesday that commit tee investigators have questioned him about the note. "I don’t know who authored it; where it was written, where it went out or who exer cised control over it,” O’Neill said. “I do know, however, it is self-serving and a total fabrication.” O’Neill said he never requested funds from Tongsun Park or the South Korean government. “The allegation that I wish to reward a limited group that helped elect me majority leader is absurd — I had no opposition and was elected unanimously.” Park complained that the federal gov ernment violated his rights by searching his home and office and carting away docu ments. Chicago 7 judge stirring controversy in new trial CHICAGO <AP) — Nine years after he was widely criticized dur ing the Chicago 7 trial, 82-year-old Judge Julius Hoffman is again stir ring controversy — this time in the trial of Frank Walus, who could lose his citizenship if it is proven he was a World War II mass mur derer. At one point, the defense attor ney accused the judge of falling asleep in court. The judge has threatened the lawyer with con tempt citations. And on Monday — before the defense started its case — Hoff man denied a defense motion for acquittal by saying the government's case “is dear and convincing and unequivocal that the defendant did commit war crimes, was a member of the Gestapo...and concealed infor mation when he obtained U S. citizenship." That prompted the Chicago Sun-Times to report in a news story Tuesday that "Hoffman all but declared him guilty.” At another point, Hoffman ex pressed exasperation with Walus’ halting testimony in both Polish and English — prompting Jeff THERE JS A DIFFERENCE1 /our i£> 40th) -i V=£.Mf rsfs c. 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