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while House Senate Cost of canal Transfer May be million by Jeremiah Fleary Washington is the Carter administration has acknowledged in a letter to All 100 members of the Senate that trans Fer of the Anarna canal to Panama could Cost the Treasury nearly the Tetter was sent jointly to the Capitol Friday by Secretary of stale Cyna Secretary of defense Harold Brown and Secretary of the army Clifford l Al expander it was in response to an outcry a week before by senators who began pressing expert witnesses for the first Lime on the precise Cost of the treaties now being de bated in the and a Daylong heeled meeting Between Senate staffers and administration lobbyists the administration Tetter was in the form of questions and answers about the financial of the treaties and used Plain language to acknowledge that the and the la payers will be of in abort toe administration has aban some earner oversimplified Mata Narr of treaty proponents that the treaties will not cat of taxpayers a the administration latter got woe alien Tion since it was delivered to Ian in the Caput Mil straightforward answers to financial and Cost the financial viability of the canal under panamanian jurisdiction was raised by canal zone Parfit and comp troller general Slaats the Day before the staffer met with the some veterans say this was probably the first Lime most senators became aware thai the Panama canal dolls were nut going to take care of All the costs of the Transi Brown and Alexander apparently attempted to soften the Impact of Emu in their letter by in the last Analy Security and commercial inter ests these new treaties were designed to serve cannot to measured in we feel the associated with operation of the canal Between now and the year 2000 will be More than offset by the benefits derived during an orderly and Coffi transition to panamanian manage ment and from the continued maintenance of troops and facilities in Panama for the next 22 the administration has never claimed the Transfer of the canal would be saying instead that studies Are not there is tue doubt thai the Carter administration played Down the Cost left town but the Many senators had already scientist von Wagener Dies he letter was duly entered the letter after the verbal teas of when More than half the Senate i representatives to demand new a Ger Trade Van a Pioneer in the Field of reproductive endocrinology and an authority on the use of monkeys to study human died study cites dangers of staff cuts Washington up comptroller general Elmer Staats told Congress Satur Day that wholesale cutbacks in govern ment personnel can hamstring important be As wasteful As overstating and even result in criminal Slaats sent congressional leaders a Gen Era accounting office report citing almost 100 Gao investigations that had turned up problems caused by staff shortages in at least 20 Federal in a covering steals said much emphasis had been placed in recent years on trying to reduce the number of govern ment but Slaats warned against across the Board cutbacks and arbitrary personnel ceilings Hal do not take into consideration the special needs of some right number needed for a government to be its programs and activities must be effectively Staats sound implementation can be weakened by too Many resulting in costly non or by Loo resulting in an unmanageable we fully support the goal of an of streamlined work we believe the Congress must carefully examine the Impact of future personnel reductions on specific programs and the comptroller general said studies by the an Arm of had shown could be responsible for work the failure to carry out legislative excessive costly use of outside and Crim Inal among examples cited by slants was a 1975 Gao investigation thai turned up serious criminal abuses in the Grain inspection the he had gone unchecked because the agriculture department lacked the staff to do the other study cited Staats also cited a 1977 Gao study that said Congress had never provided the army corps of engineers with the Money needed to carry out dam safety inspections authorized under a 1972 the corps1 proposal to hire 200 More persons to help inspect dams was rejected by the office of management and the comptroller general stasis also died unsuccessful efforts by the office of education to collect on unpaid student saying officials blamed Lack of staff As the main reason for the he said the Gao is reviewing a veterans administration program for determining the Validity of educational benefits to vet the review has shown thai the a does not have enough trained personnel to make required Slaats As a he there were overpayment of about c4 billion As of april he said the figure could be reduced if he required checks Are one or our proposals is thai a acquire additional staff to carry out the required he film Fly who More wan twi we Anuw win m Musj oui Muu sail to carry out me acc to demand human died he Estes pair must pay irs million inn Federal Texas was called a financial since he Wai released from prison in is to Enrri until  l d thai Esles owes r in 196 he was convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy 10 but served Only six years of his 15year prison the decision by judge Brewster came Ai a Federal grand jury prepared in recon Vene 27in Wichita Falls to investigate charges Estes has defrauded investors who claims he is a janitor and Ruck dispatcher for a West Texas has been barred by the terms of his parole from self employment or any promotional business but the the Wichita palls Federal jury and the Texas attorney generals office Are currently investigating allegations that Eiles has secretly companies through silent