Draft card bounces back
WASHINGTON (AP) — The draft
card is back.
Burned by the thousands in
anti-Vietnam War protests, the
cards are being reintroduced after
an absence of eight years from the
American scene.
The new draft cards are printed
at the bottom of registration let
ters sent to young men who sign
up with Selective Service. They
can be clipped out and carried in a
wallet.
Unlike the earlier cards, the new
ones do not have to be carried at
all times.
Draft cards had been issued un
til 1975, when registration was
discontinued.
The requirement that draft
eligible men carry the cards
helped focus attention on the
cards during the Vietnam protest
movement, and many young men
sought to show their defiance by
burning the cards.
When registration was resumed
in 1980, officials decided not to
issue cards in the hope of
avoiding similar protests. Instead,
letters were sent acknowledging
that men had signed up.
Selective Service spokesman
Wil Ebel said Tuesday that a deci
sion to offer the cards as a conve
nience was made last summer.
Now, about 5,000 of the cards are
being sent out daily.
Now that youths have to prove
they are registered with the Selec
tive Service to be eligible under
the law for federal student aid and
some jobs programs, Ebel said,
the wallet-size cards will prove
more convenient than the larger
acknowledgement letters.
He said 10,888,000 young men,
%.5 percent of those eligible, are
registered with the Selective Ser
vice. There is no draft under way,
but men are required to sign up
within 30 days of their 18th birth
day or risk a maximum penalty of
five years in prison and a $10,000
fine.
Registration has spurted in re
cent weeks, Ebel said, but he was
uncertain why. Students applying
for college loans might be part of
the reason, he said, as well as the
new registration requirement for
the jobs program and reaction to
the Soviet shooting down of a
Korean airliner.
Computers used in bullion theft
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The chair
man of Bullion Reserve of North
America, who committed suicide
two weeks ago, used computers
to cover up the disappearance of
up to $60 million of investors'
funds, a newspaper reported
today.
The Los Angeles Times quoted
"knowledgeable sources" as say
ing Alan David Saxon altered a
computerized inventory of
precious metal deposits in an ap
parent effort to conceal the miss
ing funds.
Saxon, 39, was found dead in his
Marina Del Rey condominium on
Sept. 28. The coroner's office said
he committed suicide by carbon
monoxide poisoning.
Bullion Reserve, a company that
bought gold, silver and other
precious metals for investors, was
under investigation by New York
State Attorney General Robert
Abrams at the time of Saxon's
death.
Since then, the Los Angeles
District Attorney's office has
begun an investigation into possi
ble theft involving Bullion
Reserve.
The day after Saxon died, the
company's computer staffers told
a staff meeting that there should
have been $57 million worth of
metals stored for up to 35,000
Bullion Reserve customers at
Perpetual Storage Inc. in Utah, a
source who attended the meeting
told the Times.
But less than $1 million worth of
bullion was in the vault, attorneys
for Bullion Reserve have said.
The Times reported earlier that
Saxon may have lost the missing
money by speculating on interna
tional precious metals markets.
The Times' sources said Saxon
in late July had his staff run an
altered inventory of customer
deliveries to the Utah vault, ap
parently to soothe members of
the financial community who
were becoming suspicious.
The inventory indicated only $3
million in bullion was needed to
cover all the company accounts,
the Times' sources said.
15 charged with embezzlement
KANSAS CITY (AP) — Fifteen men, including
several reputed organized crime bosses, were
charged in an indictment unsealed in federal
court Tuesday with skimming nearly $2 million
from Las Vegas casinos.
Justice Department officials said the indictment
was one of the most far-reaching ever returned
linking groups in numerous cities to hidden
ownership of Las Vegas casinos. One federal law
enforcement source said it reads like a "who's
who of organized crime in the Midwest."
The indictment, originally returned Sept. 30,
concludes a five-year FBI investigation code
named "Strawman." The probe included exten
sive telephone wiretaps in several cities, and
already has resulted in the conviction of five men
on charges they skimmed gambling revenue from
the Tropicana Hotel.
Skimming is the practice of taking casino
gambling proceeds before it is counted for state
and federal tax purposes.
Several of the defendants had been arrested,
said FBI Director William H. Webster.
The indiciment alleged that the defendants con
spired the past nine years to establish and main
tain hidden interest in gambling operations in Las
Vegas casinos owned by the Argent Corp., a
Nevada holding company headed by Allen Glick
of Lajolla, Calif. Argent has controlled at various
times the Stardust and Fremont hotel-casinos, and
the Hacienda and Marina casinos.
Glick was not indicted and a spokesman for
him, John Scanlin of Lajolla, said Glick was not a
willing partner with the defendants.
The government said that the hidden interest
violated Nevada state law requiring casino owners
and operators to be licensed or found suitable for
licensing and that only one of the defendants —
Carl Thomas — had obtained a license from the
Nevada Gaming Commission.
Supreme Court permits appeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The 9th Circuit Court of Ap
peals will consider the appeal of the dismissal of in
dictments against American Indian Movement leader
Dennis Banks and three others.
The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to prohibit
the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals from considering
the appeal.
Banks, his wife, KaMook, Kenneth Moses Loud
Hawk and Russ James Redner were charged with il
legal possession of firearms and dynamite under the
indictments. They were stopped in Eastern Oregon in
November 1975 and weapons and dynamite were
found when police searched the vehicles in Banks
and the three others were riding.
The case has gone back and forth between the U.S.
District Court in Portland and the 9th Circuit court of
Appeals in San Francisco three times, but has never
gone to trial.
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