European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday september 2, 1978 millions in payoffs linked to . Gas Supply stores Washington a As much As half the office supplies Washington area Gen eral services administration stores buy from private companies never make it to those stores apparently because of pay offs a published report quotes Federal investigators As saying. The Washington Post said in Friday s editions that investigators have uncovered corruption in 27 of 30 Washington area Gas stores finding about $37.6 million be ing paid by the Federal government each year for pencils wastebaskets and other supplies but goods Worth Only half that much showing up. The stores Are responsible for distributing the supplies to government offices in at ram Stein air base the District of Columbia Maryland Vir Ginia Pennsylvania and Delaware. The Post quoted unidentified sources As saying Gas employees were paid off with television sets vacation trips or Cash for approving vouchers for much More Money than goods they received from private con tractors were Worth. Investigators have been digging into allegations of widespread corruption in the Gas the Agency which builds and runs Federal buildings and supplies government workers. Gas administrator Jay Solomon said earlier this week at least 50 indictments Are expected and special investigator Vin cent Alto who was hired by Solomon has estimated the government May have been cheated of As much As $66 million in work or supplies paid for but never delivered. Alto said at a news conference that corruption also has been uncovered in Gas regions in most other parts of the country. The investigators say they uncovered the Supply store discrepancies by compar ing Gas documents certifying that goods had been delivered with internal records of the companies supposed to be supplying the goods. The figures did not match at 27 stores and investigators say further digging turned up evidence that employees there had received gifts from Supply firms involved. Duncan of attend forge opening by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington is Deputy de sense Secretary Charles w. Duncan or. Will participate in the official ceremonies marking the opening of the autumn forge series of nato exercises next wednesday at Ramstein air base Germany the Pentagon announced Friday. Duncan will participate in the ceremonies to Welcome the reformer and crested Cap units arriving from the states for the exercises. Reformer crested Cap is a strategic mobility deployment involving army Navy and air Force personnel in a joint Effort to transport combat units from the . To Europe. Duncan will arrive at Rhein main air Crawford goes on trial tuesday faces 8 years Moscow up american business Man f. Jay Crawford said Friday he has been ordered to face trial in Moscow City court tuesday on charges he exchanged $8,500 for 20,000 rubles and six Samovar. He could face eight years in prison if he i convicted. Crawford 37, of Mobile ala., flanked by an american specialist in soviet Law and the chief attorney for his company inter National Harvester Friday insisted he was innocent of any violation of Law during his two years in the soviet Union. Crawford said he was notified Early Fri Day that he was to appear at the office of the Moscow prosecutor at noon. At that time he and his officially appointed soviet lawyer Leonid Popov were handed an indictment that set the Date for the trial for tuesday at 9 . Base Germany about 8 . Tuesday aboard a c-5 aircraft from Mcguire fab . A Pentagon spokesman said the plane would be carrying service personnel who will participate in the nato exercises. During Duncan s visit he will meet with Gen. Alexander m. Haig jr., supreme Allied commander Europe and other senior . Military commanders. Duncan s itinerary includes a trip to West Berlin to visit with army units there. His schedule includes operational Brief Ings with various units and Exchange of views on the military drug situation. Duncan is scheduled to return to the United states on sept. 10. Me any assails business in labor Day speech Washington a Al Cio presi Dent George Meany in a stinging labor Day assault on big business charged Fri Day that greedy employers Are resurrect ing their propaganda Campaign of the Early 1900s to destroy unions because workers stand in the Way of unlimited prof its. But in a contrasting labor Day state ment of conciliation the head of the National association of manufacturers saluted the american Workingman As an indispensable partner and ally in a Pri vate Enterprise Economy. Meany in his annual labor Day Mes Sage declared then As now unions of workers were viewed by Many employers As evil because they consider anything which reduces maximum profits to be evil " the lies told at the beginning of this Century Are still being repeated today. The propaganda is Slicker but it is just As  the 84-year-old . Labor patriarch charged that the reason for Industry s anti Union revival is the same As during the tur Bulent labor conflicts of earlier decades greed to make the last Dollar of  unions those employers decided constituted a direct threat to their Power to make unlimited profit through miserable wages unsafe working conditions and the use of child labor in sweatshops he said. Meany s harsh attack on big business is the result of organized labor s outrage Over its failure to gain Senate passage this year of a Bill to revise the nation s labor Laws. A filibuster led by opponents of the Mea sure All but killed the Bill for this session of Congress. Labor had lobbied heavily for the Bill which supporters said would bet Ter protect the rights and Job Security of workers Active in Union organizing. But big business arguing that the Bill would Lead to push Button unionism countered with an equally ambitious lobby ing Campaign. In a separate labor Day message Heath Larry president of the Nam a key Industry organization which was Active in the fight to defeat the labor Law revision Bill played Down the significance or permanence of labor s feud with big business. Our common interests As bulwarks of private Enterprise Are far More important than what May Divide us in a particular bargaining or legislative dispute said Larry. Firemen end strike in Indiana City Anderson ind. Up Anderson firefighters ended their strike Friday and doused a flare up at the site of a major downtown Blaze they had refused to Battle earlier in the week. Firefighters said they had accepted an interim agreement and went Back to work under a court order imposing a $500 Fine on their Union for each Day they continued to strike. Five units were sent to the flare up in a Block Long Section of the downtown District which burned wednesday when fire fighters refused to leave picket lines. The original Blaze destroyed six buildings. Firefighters went on strike sunday and returned to work briefly that night to help Rescue persons from a theater whose roof had collapsed under the weight of heavy rain. But some firefighters refused to aban Don their picket lines wednesday on grounds that no lives were endangered in the fire. Following an All night bargaining ses Sion with City officials firefighters said they accepted an interim pay raise of ? percent the City s latest offer plus an additional $200 in clothing allowances. Union leaders said however they would continue to negotiate. Firefighters had demanded 12 percent More pay. It appeared the firefighters were spurred at least in part by Superior court judge William Clifford who thursday said he would Fine the firefighters $500 a Day As Long As they stayed off the Job. City policemen have been involved in a work slowdown but have not struck. L h 60 62 71 90 54 85 66 70 80 87 62 81 60 78 66 90 51 85 59 78 77 90 58 82 Albany Atlanta Bismarck,. Boston Charleston s. C. Chicago Clevelan Dallas Denver Detroit Honolulu Indianapolis l h71 92 59 83 65 84 75 85 58 79 75 89 63 70 81 10663 68 59 85 55 69 60 66 Jacksonville Fla. Kansas City los Angeles Miami Minneapolis new Orleans new York City Phoenix Portland Maine St. Louis san Francisco Seattle nuclear parity assessed London up the United states has a stockpile of More than twice As Many nuclear warheads As the soviet Union but the soviet warheads pack a heftier punch and their number is growing fast the authoritative International Institute for strategic studies said Friday. In its annual military balance Survey the Institute said the two superpowers unable under the 1974 Vladivostok agreement Between former president Gerald Ford and soviet president Leonid i. Brezhnev to add to their armoires of missile launchers Are concentrating on modernizing and in some areas expanding their nuclear Capa  Independent Center the Institute is an Independent International Center for information and research on problems of Security defense and control in the nuclear age. The Survey did not make any assess ment of relative nuclear strengths of the j United states and the soviet Union. The United states it said concen rated on improvements to the existing triad of intercontinental ballistic missiles sea launched ballistic missiles and bomb ers and continued to fund development programs for new systems for deployment in the 1980s." the soviet Union it said continued with Broad modernization of intercontinental ballistic missiles sea launched ballistic missiles and  11,000 warheads in actual nuclear warheads the Institute said the . Could launch More than 11,000 almost twice As Many As a decade ago. The present soviet warhead Arsenal it said is 4,500. But it said this will soar to More than 7,500 in the Early 1980s and its individual warheads have significantly higher yields than .  on the ground in Europe the Institute said the discrepancy Between communist Warsaw pact and nato strengths continued to Widen. The soviets the Institute said have added 7,000 tanks of All types during the past year to bring their total from 43,000 to 50,000 More than three times As Many As nato. The Institute said these include the lat est t-72 tanks now being built at a rate of Well Over 2,000 a year. Nato s tank strength remains fairly constant the Survey said. But it said the West has partially offset its weakness in tanks by increasing its armory of antitank missiles. The Survey said the Overall balance of Western and communist bloc forces in Europe is moving steadily against  but it said the Overall balance still appears to make military aggression  Cosmos 1029 in orbit Moscow up the soviet Union has launched another in its Cosmos series of satellites Tass news Agency reported. Tass said Cosmos 1029 is orbiting Earth every 89.6 minutes at an inclination of 62.8 degrees and distances ranging from 115.5 Miles to 219.3 Miles with All systems functioning normally. Temperatures