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PRESS RELEASE
(Editor's Note: The following press release by Mr. Rader was dis
tributed to news media representatives -- TV, radio, newspapers -- in
his office on Friday :norning, February 16.)
Last week I disclosed the discovery of a reporter's transcript
of an improper hearing granted by Judge Pacht in his chambers on
January 2, 1979. Present at the improper hearing were the Deputy
Attorney General, Mr. Tapper, the would-be receiver, Mr. Weisman, and
two attorneys representing the plaintiffs, Mr. Chodos and Mr. Gibson.
This hearing violated judical procedure and ethics because it
was held before any complaint had been filed and before Judge Pacht
had any jurisdiction or right to discuss the matter with anyone.
Consequently the matter has been brought to the attention of the
Commission on Judicial Performance as well as other appropriate
authorities.
However, notwithstanding the aforesaid, I have been advised by
my counsel that Judge Pacht is not the real villain of this sorrowful
episode. Rather, they urge, that Judge Pacht was as much a victim
as was the Church, the brethren of the Church, and the officials of
the Church -- because it was Mr. Chodos and Mr. Tapper, along with
Judge Weisman, who deceived, deluded, and duped Judge Pacht -- who
otherwise, in the opinion of my counsel, would not have acted as
he did.
I trust that my counsel are, indeed, correct because I would
prefer to understand that the corruption in government, that Watergate
revealed so very much recently to all of us, does not exist in the
judicial system of California and in the Los Angeles Superior Court
system in particular.
--Stanley R. Rader
ON THE WORLD SCENE
A TALE OF TWO
GERl-1.A.NYS
Perhaps nothing would be more earth-shaking,
geopolitically, than the reunification of the German nation, perhaps
within the framework of a massive realignment of borders in Europe
as a whole.
Far out (or far off)? Maybe. But it could be a lot closer
than most people, especially in America, think. Consider the facts.
West Germany's economy continues to boom along. True, the
availability of Iranian oil is a problem, but still Bonn seems to
bounce along from success to success. The rising value of the
deutsche mark has not slowed exports. West Germany during 1978 set
two records:
1) It surpassed the United States as the world's number
one exporter, and 2) Bonn's trade surplus for 1978, when measured
in dollars, was the country's greatest on record (DM 40.7 billion or
$20.3, compared with America's approximately $30 billion deficit).
Contrast these figures with the situation in the neighboring
German Democratic Republic, or East Germany. The outlook there is