European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse March 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 House panel to audit arms contractors dynamics Heads list of 7 firms Washington not the House armed services committee said on Friday that it would audit seven arms producers As part of an investigation of Pentagon con the seven which according to a committee statement were chosen Only because they represent an Industry Cross Are the general dynamics the Sperry the Newport news ship building and dry Dock a subsidiary of Tenn eco Bell helicopter text Ron a subsidiary of text Ron the Mcdon Nell Douglas the Rockwell International and the Boeing in another matter involving government scrutiny of the weapons an air Force spokesman confirmed on Friday that it intends to notify the general electric that its suspension thursday from bidding on new Pentagon contracts will extend throughout the executive Branch of the gov including the general services which manages govern ment procurement the auditing project is expected to take about 45 fourteen auditors from the pentagons defense contract audit Agency and the general accounting the investigative Arm of have been As signed to the their focus will be overhead costs billed to the a subject of intense interest on Capitol Hill since evidence arose last year of improper Billings for entertainment and personal travel by general dynamics last general dynamics announced that it would voluntarily withdraw million out of million in overhead charges questioned by Pentagon auditors for the period 1979 to the company billed the government for million in such expenses during that although the House committees stated purpose is a Survey of Industry any evidence of wrongdoing at the Compa Nies will be turned Over to the Justice de earlier this a staff member of the House panels sea Power subcommittee trav eled to Greece to interview Takis Velio former manager of the general dynamics electric boat shipyard in who has lived in Athens since 1983 As a fugitive from Federal Kickback has discussed sweeping charges of fraudulent Billing and other misconduct at Gener Al dynamics for More than a year with Federal on the Issue of Ges Federal procurement regulations provide for gov Erna entwine Gas officials said a Blanket suspension was not that about companies were named in the latest government list of sus and ineligible in the Case of some agencies could still use its such As Light that Are sup plied by Independent a be official acknowledged on Friday that the Temporo Rary suspension could affect not Only the company ability to com Pete for new work but also existing because the company cannot bid for continuations on those but Larry a spokesman for the fourth ranking Pentagon said backlogs in major projects would Cushion the Overall effect and that there would be no immediate he in aircraft engines be had a billion Back log at the end of 1984 that would carry the company through the next five the backlog was up from billion the year he in the 1983 fiscal be held More than billion Worth of contracts from the defense employing of the company Pentagon officials were unable on Friday to name specific projects that might be affected by the which was announced on thursday by air Force Secre tary Verne an air Force officer familiar with the company work suggested that be would feel some pressure if the suspension continued toward bidding this fall on an advanced fighter engine Wolfgang Demisch of the first bos ton called the suspension a significant negative from an investor perspective it Marks a further Advance of the adverbial relationship evolving Between the Pentagon and military contractors and suggests that the Industry As a whole is in for a lengthy period of nit the Stock of be was Down on Friday in Early but rebounded to close at unchanged for the besides suspending Orr requested that be and Pratt a division of the United technologies that is a major supplier of aircraft give Back million in what he called excess profits gained on engine spare parts contracts from 1978 to officials at both companies maintain that the profits were fair and within the Bounds of their they said representatives of the companies would meet soon with Pentagon officials to try to resolve the aryan Warrior gets 25 years on weapons violation Idaho a r avowed White supremacist Gary Lee who said he was a frontline aryan was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday for 11 weapons District judge Harold Ryan also sentenced Yar to five years probation for assaulting Federal officers and imposed a i dont want to go Down into the cesspool with this Yarbrough told Ryan in an impassioned explanation of his political views before the sentence was in i cant conform to a system that is totally anti in Security had been tight around the Federal courthouse All Day during the appearance by the former Security chief of the aryan nations White supremacist group based in the Idaho Yarbrough pleaded guilty to the weapons violations last a week he was convicted of assaulting Fri agents who had his Northern Idaho Home under surveil Lance during the he has also been linked to but not charged with the murder of jewish talk show Host Alan Berg in he has said he will Appeal his assault he faced a maximum penalty of 71 years in prison and in fines on All Yarbrought arrest in november after a Motel shootout came Early in a string of arrests involving members of the a splinter group of the Neo nazi aryan nations based in Hayden the order has been linked to Arm Redcar robberies in California and washing ton last and to the june killing of a photo egging them on workers at a Candy Plant in give top priority to the production of chocolate eggs for the upcoming easter Candy lovers Are expected to spend More than million on sweets of All kinds this Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago March 1945 Danzig fell to the red army while some of marshal Tol Bukhina forces launched a new offensive toward 30 years ago March 1955 the communist East German government imposed drastically increased tolls for use of the highways Between West Berlin and West 20 years ago today March 1965 terrorists set off an estimated 250 pounds of explosives in a parked car beside the embassy in South killing at least 17 persons and wounding 70 years ago today March 1975 communist flags flew Over South Vietnam second largest a on easter Sun while american ships Lay collecting soldiers and civilians who had fled the captured City in anything that would Reagan nominates negotiator Washington a president Reagan said Fri Day he will nominate foreign service officer Robert Dean Blackwill As the United states representative in talks with the soviet Union on reducing the size of ground forces in has been on leave since 1983 to serve As associate Dean of the John Kennedy school of government at Harvard new Jersey Szuc fens launch Moon show at soviets Atlantic up about 350 students of geopolitics Friday bared their backsides in the general direction of the soviet Union to express their Dis pleasure with the soviets killing of an american service Man in East the protest was organized by disc jockey Ian Case at we Jyom in nearby Long at the Sugges Tion of one of his Case said he got the idea during a Callin segment on his show wednesday morning from a girl who said she was a senior at red Bank Catholic High even Case was surprised by the turnout for the held at the Gateway National recreation area on Sandy we were really pleased by the Case this ought to show the russians there was a sizeable segment of students from red Bank Catholic despite a warning on the schools Public address system thursday that any students who participated would be one of the red Bank who gave her name Only As said she was not embarrassed at All by the we just wanted to show them the soviet Union a Side of America Treyve never seen she a red Bank we just wanted to turn the other Cheek to there were actually two mooning with the second being directed toward nearby new York Kathy from Ocean said she was in favor of both in mad because they shot that officer Arthur Nicholson she i also think its really Crappy that new York dumps its garbage and it ends up on our a classmate of who also bared her Karen said she was not against the russian just the russian 1 also did this for my russian Harris not All the demonstrators were True cold John of Long said he came to see a Little female but in the end the coast guard proved to be the cheesiest of right As the demonstration was a Small patrol boat pulled up near the Beach and seven crewmen on the rear deck dropped their slickers at the
