European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 20, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 grand Ury Gas probes indictments due in nov. Washington a the first indict ments from two grand jury investigations of fraud within the general services administration could be handed Down in about eight weeks a top Justice depart ment official said  a second department official said that the most advanced cases involve relatively Low level , a congressional watchdog Agency said fraud and related White Collar crimes against the government Are not limited to the Gas and that such illegal activities Cost taxpayers Between $2.5 billion and $25 billion a year. But officials of that Agency the general accounting office said the estimate is at Best a wild  no one knows the magnitude of fraud against the government said Gao comp troller general Elmer b. Staats. Fraud is happening without anyone knowing about Progress report the testimony came As a Senate govern ment affairs subcommittee chaired by sen. Lawton Chiles d-fla., held a hearing to learn How various government investigations of the Gas were progressing. Chiles subcommittee on Federal spending practices and open government was to hear from Gas officials tuesday. Deputy attorney general Benjamin Civiletti told the subcommittee the Carter administration has agreed to set up an inter gency strike Force to coordinate the various investigations. He said investigators Are looking into allegations ranging Over six or seven  Civiletti said investigations in Baltimore and Washington were proceeding Well and predicted that fruits of the investigation will begin to be produced in november. An investigation in Boston is not so far along other Justice department officials  Baltimore grand jury is looking into alleged fraud at Gas self service stores and in use of government credit cards. The Washington grand jury has been investigating alleged bribery and fraud in contracting for repairs and alterations to fed eral buildings in the Washington area. Civiletti gave no details of the investigation but in response to a question by Chiles Deputy assistant attorney general John c. Keeney indicated that the first indictments Likely would involve lower level government employees. Assistant attorney general Philip hey Mann told the subcommittee that the strike Force would work Well. He said there was no need for the appointment of a special prosecutor to handle the investigation. Heymann also said Charles Kirbo the Friend of president Carter who has been named by the president to assist in the proceedings will not be involved in any part of the criminal investigation. He should not and he will not work on the criminal investigation Side Heymann said. He said Kirbo would be involved Only in getting the Gas Back on an even keel. The attorney also said no one will get in the Way of my prosecuting anyone on this matter. If it leads to the White House staff the House or the Senate we will pro  vip trainee iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi hashes hands gripped on a camera As he tries to photograph the thunderbird the crack . Air Force precision flying team at Reese air Force base near Lubbock Texas. The son of the Shah is currently enrolled in flight training at the base. A photo talks resume in Cleveland fall River teachers defy court order by Mcoder United press International teachers in fall River mass., set up picket lines monday in Defiance of a judge s Back to work order some Dayton Ohio bus Drivers joined the teachers strike and tedious negotiations resumed in Penny parched Cleveland. With More than half of september ready for the history books the formal learning process was suspended for 400,000 students in 13 states from California to new England As teachers battled school boards for better pay and benefits. In key developments across the nation attorneys for the Seattle and Everett school districts in Washington state planned to go to court in an Effort to end crippling strikes. Some Progress was reported in negotiations Between teachers and the school Board in Bridgeport conn., where 135 teachers were spending their extended Holiday in jail. Fall River teachers entered the second week of their strike by setting up usual picket lines. Teachers Union president Joseph Quinn warned members who were slapped with an anti strike court order Friday they could be arrested if they continued their Boycott against the District s 14, 000 students. Dayton school bus Drivers had threat ened to halt makeshift classes manned by supervisory workers and substitute teach ers. But Only 62 Drivers joined the strike by the system s 2,200 teachers and non Aca Demic employees while 132 remained on the Job. Classes continued on a staggered basis. For 101,000 students at Cleveland where teachers and other employees have not received a raise for two years it was the second full week of unscheduled vacation. Negotiators met again monday after bar gaining 3l/2 hours saturday to end the impasse in the nation s largest remaining striking school District. Cuya hoga county common pleas judge former president Ford Calls for slower spending san Francisco a former pres ident Gerald Ford has called for reduced growth in Federal spending and a tax Cut Large enough to provide americans with More Money to spend. Ford also told the International investors forum Here there would be an in crease in spendable income for individual taxpayers and More funds available to up Grade . Competitiveness in the world markets by modernization and expansion of our Industrial  Harry a Hanna who last Friday adjourned a hearing on a request by the school Board for a Back to work order ordered the latest round of negotiations. He said he would resume the hearing if talks became mired. In Washington state nearly 100,000 Stu dents were affected by teachers strikes in Seattle Everett and Tacoma. No Date was set for resumption of talks in Seattle where 55,000 students got extended vacations but negotiators for both sides met sunday night with City fiscal experts in an Effort to assess the school District s financial situation. Higher education also was hit by strikes. Administrative and clerical workers at Wayne state University in Detroit went on strike monday but University officials promised registration would be held for the 35,000 students. Classes were to begin thursday. About 18,000 students at Eastern Michi Gan University in Ypsilanti were forced to sit out classes. And officials at the City col Leges of Chicago warned the semester would be cancelled for the nine College sys tem s 110,000 students if the three week teachers strike is not settled by sept. 25. Elementary and secondary school teach ers also waged strikes in California Penn Sylvania Missouri Michigan new York Illinois Minnesota new Jersey and Indi Ana. Sex Leader Calls Core a mafia Washington up the National director of the Congress of racial Equality has turned the group into a Black mafia Complete with hit men and mercenaries onetime Core Leader James Farmer said , who helped found the group 30 years ago made his remarks on America s Black forum a syndicated television interview program. The former Core director is leading a fight to remove Roy Innes from the Leader ship of the divided organization and Farmer is planning a november Conven Tion of dissatisfied Core members to at tempt to vote Innes out of office. Innes who called the proposed Conven Tion illegitimate is to appear on the inter View show next weekend to address the  helped finance and Lead Freedom rides in the South during the Early 1960s. Farmer who left Core in 1966, said there have been no conventions held in the 10 years since Innes became director. In nes appoints members of the Board of directors and fires them at will he said. Farmer also accused Innes of trans forming the organization from a civil rights organization to a kind of Black mafia in which there has been much talk of hit men and contracts let out on Core staff  said some of Innes former body guards told los Angeles authorities they beat up a Core member who had joined push another civil rights group on or Ders from  also said a Washington d.c., Man was shot by someone under Innes or  said however the charges do not originate from , myself do not make the claims be cause i have it from hearsay. But the per sons who do make the claims in Many cases were themselves involved he said. The Only activities Core has been involved in recently were a few adventures in foreign affairs when or. Innes sought to recruit Black professionals and technicians to go to Uganda to serve under Idi Amin to Shore up his regime and then later when he sought to recruit Black Viet Nam veterans to go to Angola As Mercena Ries Farmer said. Somali president returns Mogadishu a somali president Mohamed said Barre has returned Home after official visits to Holland Belgium and Italy lasting nearly two weeks Mogadishu radio reported. Of time sept. 20, 1948 radio Moscow reported that Russia has decided to withdraw All its occupation troops from North Korea. The evacuation of soviet troops is to begin no later than the second half of october 1948 and be completed by Jan. 1,1949.sept. 20, 1958 the Cost of living dipped two tenths of 1 percent last month according to a government report. The a gust drop was the first in two . 20, 1968 William Mcchesney Martin jr., chairman of the Federal re serve Board said that recent government monetary restrictions had effectively applied the brakes to runaway inflation