European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 18, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 probes say Gas caused losses by neglecting bids stars in new York actor Warren Beatty and actress Diane Keaton Are shown at a party at the metropolitan museum in new York Given to celebrate the opening of a retrospective show of the work of photographer Rich Ard Avedon. A photo buyers will be told of substitution pm will use Pontiac engines in other cars Washington a the general services administration has caused sub Stantial financial losses by using irregular bidding practices for work done on govern ment leased buildings according to a study released saturday. The report prepared by the general accounting office an investigative Agency of Congress said the Gas permitted building owners to make alterations without competitive  report was requested by rep. Jack Brooks a Texas chairman of the House government operations committee. Indian Leader stabbed by prison inmate Sioux Falls . A jailed Indi an Leader Russell Means was stabbed superficially by a fellow inmate saturday about two hours before a rally in his sup port at the South Dakota state Penitentiary prison officials  was treated at a Hospital for a single Stab wound in the Chest and re turned to the prison authorities said. Two inmates were being questioned in the at Washington up general motors plans to install Pontiac engines in some of its 1979 Oldsmobile and bricks a pm official said Friday adding that customers will be told before they buy cars. David g. Hawkins assistant adminis Trator of the environmental Protection Agency revealed the plan Friday saying he heard of the plan when pm asked for clean air certification of 301-cubic-Inch v 8 engines built by pm s Pontiac division in Delta 88 Oldsmobile and Century Reg Al and be Sabre bricks. The same engine is used in seven Pontiac models. Hawkins alerted Albert h. Kramer director of the Federal Trade commission in a letter Friday. You May recall a similar use of Chev Rolet engines in Oldsmobile a year ago generated considerable Public outcry and court action against general motors Hawkins wrote Kramer. A pm spokesman confirmed the plans but said technically there Are no such things As Pontiac engines or Buick engines since All Bear a common pm Des ignation. Robert f. Magill a pm vice president said the practice is not Clandestine or new. Your letter implies that there might be something improper about using the pm 301 Cid v-8 engine produced by Pontiac with two barrel carburettors in 1979 Olds Mobile Delta 88 models Magill wrote Kramer. You should note that the pm passenger car diesel engine produced by Oldsmobile was used last year in some Cadillac Seville models and some Csc and Chevrolet pick up trucks Magill wrote. Dealers and the Public Are being fully advised As they were in similar instances last year Magill said. Following disclosure pm had used Chev Rolet engines in numerous Oldsmobile last year without telling buyers numerous Law suits were filed against pm. The automaker was held liable in some of the cases. That Magill said will not occur  Warden Herman Solem said Means was stabbed during an exercise break in the prison Yard. About 200 to 300 inmates were in the Yard at the  attack occurred prior to a rally by an estimated 600 persons including actor Marlon Brando and other celebrities who gathered outside the prison in support of Means who is serving a four year sen tence for , who is Active in Indian causes was escorted inside the Penitentiary apparently to visit with  William Kunstler and Singer Harry Belafonte were also reported in route to attend the two Day rally on the prison grounds. The rally was planned after Means lost the latest round in his Legal Battle Over 1974 rioting  went to prison in july but imme Deatly started a hunger strike citing religious reasons for the action. After about a month his health deteriorated to a Point where prison officials hospitalized him. They also asked a state judge to order Means to break his  judge ordered Means to Start eating and Means complied. The Gas the government s housekeeping and administrative Agency also failed to get its own Cost estimates before allow ing building alterations and sometimes negotiated renewal leases before the work was done the report said. As a result it added the Gas awarded contracts after alterations were completed paid More for alterations than buildings were Worth and faced huge rent Al increases because of its practices. The Gas is the target of multiple investigations because of a variety of examples of mismanagement that have come to Light. These investigations Are being conducted by Congress and by the Gas s own invest , rep. John l. Burton a Cal if., chairman of the government operations government activities and transportation subcommittee asked the Gao to examine whether the Federal Supply sched ule system is working properly. This sys tem allows Federal agencies to buy directly from a commercial source and it costs $1.7 billion a year. No estimate of the losses was Given. But the report cited several examples a $586,890 contract for building alterations was awarded in san Francisco on sept. 30, 1977. But most of the work had been done by that time. Extensive alterations were begun last May at a . Patent office building in suburban Arlington a. But the lease on the building was due to expire on dec. 7. The Gas s Central office told the Washington regional office to withhold information about building renovation from the building owner until after a new lease was negotiated the report said. It said the regional officials had already obtained a Cost estimate for the Job from the owner. The Patent office now faces a rent in crease of 79 percent. The Gas invested $2.5 million in a Rockville md., building occupied by the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms although the building s pre renovation appraised value was $1.5 million. Future May hold embryo adoption Washington up a British specialist says that the Success of the world s first test tube baby May Lead to women adopting embryos instead of children when they Are unable to produce their own eggs a Federal ethics advisory Board was told  Board s staff director or. Charles Mccarthy also Learned during a recent visit to England that a second British Doc Tor claims to have successfully implanted in the womb of an infertile woman an egg fertilized by sperm in the Laboratory. There were no details and the doctor was not  reported his findings to the Board on the second Day of its first substantive Public hearing into the ethical is sues of test tube Conception. He said or. Patrick Steptoe the doctor who delivered test tube baby Louise Brown july 25, declined to appear before the Board until his results Are published in a scientific journal late this year. But in talking to an unidentified English doctor who specializes in surgically repairing fallopian tubes the ducts that carry eggs from the ovaries to the uterus Mccarthy said he Learned of the embryo adoption idea. It s an interesting View to Ward adoption Mccarthy told the Board. Instead of adopting a child that s already born one adopts an embryo and raises it As one s  idea is a variation of cases in which a woman unable to have children because of her husband s sterility is artificially inseminated with sperm from an Anonymous donor. In the Case of the proposed embryo adoption the egg would be donated and then fertilized in the Laboratory by the sperm of the sterile woman s husband. The embryo then would be implanted in the sterile woman s womb for Normal development and  said that even though the child would not be genetically related to its adopted Mother she might feel closer to it. For some couples at least this might be an attractive option Mccarthy said. He feels the Day will come when the procedure will be sufficiently reliable so this could be carried out at least by experienced  of time sept. 18, 1948 Marshall m. Vance . Consul general in Frankfurt announced that immigration of austrians and germans to the . Would be resumed under prewar quotas with special provisions made for expelled groups. Sept. 18, 1958 the Navy s regulus ii missle was fired from the deck of the us Marine Graybach off the California coast. The 57-foot missle capable of carrying a nuclear warhead zoomed Overland 200 Miles to Edwards air Force base to its tar get but burned when wheels tailed to lower. Sept. 18, 15 68 Republican presiden tial candidate Richard m. Nixon proposed a program to eliminate the drug use he said is decimating a generation of Young  Nixon who called narcotics the curse of modern youth announced a five Point program of stricter enforcement and improved rehabilitation in a speech at Anaheim Calif