European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 d the stars and stripes monday april Pentagon s purchasing criticized Washington a congressional subcommittee accused the defense department sunday of Loose and flagrantly negligent management practices in its $45-billion-a-year buying programs. The Senate House economic subcommittee on Economy in government cites testimony that a spot Check on a single aspect of defense procurement practices indicated overcharges of $130 million Over a 10-Yearperiod. Obviously this figure represents Only a fraction of the total overcharge the subcommittee says in a report based on hear Ings last november and Decem Ber. A Pentagon statement called the findings of the subcommittee inaccurate and report says the depart ment apparently refuses to re verse a trend toward awarding contracts by negotiation rather than competitive bidding. By value 86.1 per cent of defens buying during the 1951-67 period was negotiated the subcommittee reports. Largest spender the department the largest government spender by a wide margin has Only timidly used five year old act intended to insure that negotiated contracts Are based on accurate Cost data the report says moreover the depart ment s practice of furnishing property to contractors at government expense without proper scrutiny amounts to a Multi Bil lion Dollar backdoor subsidy never intended by the con stated policies to re quire contractors to provide their own machine tools and other facilities wherever Possi ble and to replace old govern ment equipment with modern privately owned machines the amount of government owned equipment used by contractors increased from $7.2 billion in1965 to $14.7 billion in 1967, the report continues. Not even asked it says investigation by the general accounting office revealed cases where the con tractors were not even asked Byrod to invest in modern tool Secretary of de sense Thomas d. Morris challenged the report in a letter to the subcommittee chairman sen. William Proxmire a wis. We simply do not agree that there has been a Long term trend away from competitive contracting Morris wrote. He contended that the Public Recor Cwill show that just the reverse is , who is in charge of installations and logistics claimed that the military departments and defense agencies have made dramatic Progress in achieving greater Economy i procurement and property management since 1962.one measure of these accomplishments Morris contended is that audited savings have to tales More than $15 billion Over those six years. Lie cited this figure As contained in Cost reduction reports to president Johnson mad Public annually. Tito visits Moscow Moscow a president Tito of Yugoslavia arrived Here by air sunday from Iran for talk with soviet leaders. New York red dried string Llie there _. De another new York department of Metal and synthetic jewel necklaces include antique maltese Crosse Laca son gods roman egyptian and Gre Cian pendants. Coats in most stores Range tilted jeweler on new York s Fyfo Avenue reported excellent sales and said the trend is Here to stay it s not a passing top Price in one jewelry store is $1,375for an 18-Karat Gold Chain three links wide. We believe in elegant an fashions for men but this does t fashions " a Var a to life my. Or " a r-1 "-V".Lpi--1- a i i human rope police and students in Copen opt after a number Oci Hagen Denmark do Battle in a tog of War Over cocktails at the America this student demonstrator during an anti broken windows the emla Merican riot saturday. Fights Between the several student Del police and pro Vietnam demonstrators broke Many More were uni to from de. Loyalty Day Renys out differences in America new York a thousands of persons of varying attitudes took part saturday in Loy Alty Day and Antiwar parades in Manhattan and fighting be Ween police and demonstrators broke out in one of them. Police said about 50 Antiwar demonstrators were seized in Greenwich Village and two 16-year-old boys were arrested for turning an american Flag. Some of the demonstrators i Washington Square carried the red and Blue Viet Cong Flag an the red and yellow Flag of North demonstrators called their gathering an anti Imperi Alist they differed with anti Vietnam War groups sponsoring an afternoon Central Park rally be cause they believe in More Mili Tant action. They also objected to the invitation to mayor John to appear As athe Central Park. Lindsay speaker at demonstrations scattered around the country Chicago an estimated 15,000 persons marched Down state Street in a 70-minute Parade Antiwar groups meanwhile a sem bled elsewhere in the City for their Francisco More than 1,000 demonstrators protesting the draft the War and racism marched from Golden Gate Park to a rally at civic Center there was a Brief confrontation Between pro and Antiwar demonstrators at the selective service Center but rain dampened tempers. About a dozen persons walked Back and for that the Center carrying signs Reading support our troops about 300 Antiwar demonstrators passed the pickets then marched to Franklin Park for arally., Pittsburgh Amor n in Parade was followed without incident by a March staged by about 1,200 Antiwar demonstrators. One Brief scuffle occurred when a Marine just Back from Vietnam grabbed an american Flag from one of the demonstrators. E recall of new Jet from Page in. -. By unders lat they knew it had Many problems when they Jota Vietnam. It s a terribjthing1 to do to try to twit the affix them in combat a it ought to be comp Lei re surveyed to find out Warong. From the be a there has been an obstinate arrogant attitude about the plane. It was engineered at he desk of the Secretary o Robert s. Mcnarmara a proved to be much of an Engineer Mcclellan air Force crewmen Are still missing in Vietnam As result of two fill a crashes another two Crew Meri Ibekwere recovered safely. The plans has a two Man Man was killed and another injured As a result three crashes of fellas in the United states. The crashes were Jan. 18. 1967, at Edwards air Force base Calif. Oct. 19, a Bowie tex., and last Jan. 2 at civilian test pilots Wert killed when a Navy version of the planef1ubcrashed last year during a testing program on Long Island . F 1 i my h 12 spaceships launched by Russia during april " Moscow up the soviet Union has announced the launching of its 12th spaceship of the month in the most concentrated flurry of satellite launching since Russia began its space Moscow radio news announcer said the launching Locos mos spaceship 219 few soviet spaceship to be launched last week was just reported to _ astronauts to ride next Saturn 5 Cape Kennedy Fla. Up space James Agency. Web recommendation Apollo leaders administrator accepted the of project saturday and began preparations to Fly Menon the next Saturn 5 Moon decision to eliminate another unmanned launching clears the Way for the initial manned Orbital flight of Anapolle Moon ship on the smaller Saturn in rocket in september and for the first manned Saturn 5 flight into orbit in Aleo i expected to save upwards of $200 million Tri Price tag set on a third unmanned test flight of the giant Moon ship launcher. Saturn 5 performed flawlessly on its Maiden test last november but the second on encountered three technical problems and one Snag caused by human error april 4. Apollo program director Samuel c. Phillips said the most serious troubles engine failure Sand launching vibrations Are being corrected. One remaining problem loss of unidentified objects from part of the rocket spacecraft is also expected to be resolved. Phillips said the decision to proceed to manned flight of the rocket could be revoked i unexpected problems develop in ground testing now under Way. Under the Mew timetable astronauts waiter Schirra Penn Estele and Walter Cunningham Ali ride a Saturn in rocket into orbit for an Apollo Shakedown run lasting up to 10 Days that Mission will be designate Dapollo 7. Astronauts James Mcdivit Fly David Scott and Russel Schweickart will be launched j the next Saturn 5 rocket � they also Are expected to a week orbit. Or 10 Days in . 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