European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes april audit contradicts Weinberger claims Washington up a Pentagon audit of spare parts buying practices contradicts glowing assertions by defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger that tremendous Progress has been made in correcting and it charges that reported savings were significantly the audit by the pentagons inspector general was dated two Days before Weinberger sent a report to two congressional committees saying he believes very strongly that the department has improved significantly the management of spare the auditors surveyed purchasing offices of the army aviation systems the naval air systems come and the aeronautical systems division of the air Force sys tems the audit showed that the parts control program was not working the Way it was the report procedures were not adequate for ensuring that the requirement for parts control review was included in applicable contracts or that con tracts where the requirement was included were monitored for the audit also showed that reported program results and Cost avoidance benefits resulting from the program were significantly in August following disclosures of horror stories that included Pentagon payment of for a hardware store Ham Weinberger directed that spare parts buying procedures be revised to Correct con tract the audit was conducted be tween november 1983 and May spare parts account for the majority of 15 million annual transactions made by the Pentagon with Wein Berger in his Weinberger said the Penta gon had saved nearly billion during fiscal year 1984 in Cost avoidance resulting from his reforms that parts were screened that parts were opened to competitive bidding that items were to be bought directly from the manufacturer instead of from the prime tremendous Progress has been made during the past year in our efforts to improve the management of spare parts in the Weinberger wrote to the House and Senate appropriations commit no Dollar total was used by the auditors to dispute Weinberger claim that Bil lion had been saved through Cost avoid for the Sample items the auditors Cost avoidance benefits reported As a result of the parts control program were overstated by about 88 As a reports submitted to the defense department and to Congress did not present a True picture of the programs they the auditors said less than 10 percent of new parts that entered the Supply system in fiscal years 1982 and 1983 had been fully 32 percent of the con tracts that should have contained parts control provisions did not have indicating a serious they the audit found that the Navy be Doggone careful writing your and Ohio up if youre placing a classified and to find a male or female you had better let possible suitors know youre not a an Ohio state University study researcher Michael who exam ined 395 classified personal ads in the no defunct living single said some of the results of his study seem to confirm the stereotypes of what men and women supposedly look for in each physical attractiveness is an important determinant when you first meet said a doctoral Candi Date in social psychology at Ohio men were More concerned with physical attractiveness than Lynn studied How Many responses each and generated and discovered what Type of ads got the most he found that especially those from received More responses if they gave some indication of the persons even those ads that admitted the per son was Only average looking did better than ads with no mention of physical at nobody says there bad Lynn but you at least have to let people know youre not a the ads that mentioned a per sons physical attractiveness received an average of replies during the first month after they those that made no mention of attractiveness received an average of ads that promised tall men or women also received More if youre placing a save your self some Money and dont put in your hair or Eye Lynn ads that mentioned such things in the study did not receive any More replies than those that he airborne at the Alamo five thousand balloons Are we few to Rise multicoloured balloons Marks the opening each year in the it features the the launching of the of a 10day Celebration that held feasting and purposely excluded shipbuilding con tracts from the parts control program be cause mechanical and electrical equip ment could be purchased offt Heshel and thus were not subject to but the auditors said the navys claim was Only partially in contacting eight the audit found that no More than 10 percent of the equipment was the remaining equipment was either built specifically for the Navy or was commercial equipment that required in the auditors found that con tractors ignored 88 percent of the recommendations made by civilian advisory groups set up to Monitor spare parts Pur for of 931 cases in which parts were the contractors abide by the recommendation in Only 114 the 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