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Earth - Editor's Note: This-is a col from the Earth I Pie Kill Unlimited An organization in New York City called "Agents of Pie-Kill Unlimited" is offering its services as "dirty tricksters for hire." The group says that it specializes mainly in pie throwing. Anybody in New York can taked out a contract on a specified person, and the group will see to it that that person gets a pie in the face. The basic fee of the pie throwiing contract is forty bucks, with added fees for photos, and traveling expenses if outside the city. The group will also stage squirt gun attacks and seltzer bottle barrages on anyone for a fee. According to their newpaper ad, "We'll go anywhere and do almost anything." Their slogan?--"Have pie, will travel." Black Market Jets The General Accounting Office N. HId ~JU Aint0 * 0 NEW HURl: BEAUTILBmi News lection of earth news briefs Vews Service. has been asked to investigate allegations that new American fighter jets are being sold as scrap on the South Vietnamese black market. Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin. a member of the House Armed Services Com mittee and a frequent critic of over-spending by the miilitary. said that reports from South Vietnam indicated that the new American jets are being dismantled and sold to black marketeers as scrap metal. One scrap metal depot in Saigon, he said, was found to contain the wings of 15 new A-37 jets. The aircraft were given to South Vietnam just prior to the January 1973 ceasefire, The twin-engined fighters, are valued at $51xi.Ooti apiece lA Sins Exposed Former CIA agent Philip Agee, who recently completed a book about his experience as an operative in Latin America. is planning to return to the United ceen ?Mo.-,Sat 10-6 oon ENT 7 A THE ADvENTuRgs o Tow OOKI RC I // States from England as soon as his book is published. The book will be published in England by Penguin. but there's still no word on who will take on the task of publishing it in the U.S. Most publishers are apt to be reticent in view of the dif ficulties of printing anything about the CIA in this country. Agee, who served the CIA for nine years in Mexico. Uruguay, Ecuador and Venezuela. said he resigned in 1969 "because of my comprehe-ision that all the things we were d:>ing were supporting Fascist-type governments." The Alliance for Progress, said Agee. "was only rhetoric. The American secret police was preserving the rule of the wealthy minorities and attacking those who stood for change in Latin America." Agee said the book details such things as which presidents of which Latin American coun tries were on the CIA payroll, the CIA financing of the overthrow of Chilean president Salvadore Allende, and numerous "dirty tricks" campaigns against Latin America."vu 'HERS American leftists. Agee said that during meeting of certain left wing political groups in Latin America the CIA would actually scatter powder on the floor to cause coughing. itching and lack of concentration on the issues. Marijuana Busts Increase The FBI and state and local police agencies are definitely not overlooking the small-time marijuana user in their alleged push for the big-time dealers. That fact is plainly born out by the recent release of FBI figures on nationwide marijuana arrests for 1973. These figures show that marijuana arrests rose over one-third from the 1972 figure. totalling over 420.000 arrests. Over one-fifth of those arrests occurred in California. where a state Senate committee recently recommended the de criminalization of marijuana possession. Keith Stroup. director of the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws better known as NORIML--says that the FBI figures reveal a " tragic ir-ny" in the nation's marijuana policy. According to Stroup. every official group studying marijuana over the past two years has concluded that marijuana smoking should not be a criminal offense. At the same time. police arrests for marijuana are increasing at the highest rate ever. Stroup says that the reason for the discrepancy i:: at least partly due to the fact that "police are probably a few years behind the public" on the marijuana issue. Also, he says. marijuana use by the middle-class is becoming more and more visible--such as in public parks--and so arrests are increasing. Stroup explains the problem as a "conflict of values .j.'sI wn.com. 221 UN.D Rb Live Msig - Me. Our Arists. Pliny 0.n us'-No Ueek a me Mesbaierabsps $ WFtT between public morality and the law--with the police caught in the middle.' Government Nonsense Congressman John Conlan of Arizona. who a few weeks ago aroused the public with a recitation of absurd government projects. has returned with new examples of bureaucratic creativity. According to Conlan. the average cost of federal programs to every man, woman and child in the U.S. is about S1500 a year double what it was ten years ago Conlan suggests that since tax cheaters can be fined and jailed, federal bureaucrats guilty of squandering taxpayers' money should be given the same treatment. According to a report prepared for Conlan by the General Ac counting Office. taxpayers' money was being spent on the following projects: --the Interdepartmental Screw Thread Committee. supposedly established as a temporary agency during World War One. still labors to make nuts and bolts fit together at a cost of $250.000 a year. --the government's Board of Tea Testers savors its task to the tune of S117.250 per year. Those who aren't satisfied with the hoard's finding have recourse to more tea-tasting bureaucrats: the Board of Tea Appeals. --the Department of Health. Education and Welfare recently spent S19.300 to discover why children fall off tricycles. The official finding w~as "uneven performance. particularly rollover while turning." --another $68,000 went to England'sQueen Elizabeth for not planting cotton on her Mississippi plantation. RADUATS & EADUATS vs Leeuted mer & Emsweed '., Wed., Frl. & Sot. ly Mellow, Asemsti I sems - 65 Ywa tion Permii N. e1-: