European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 2 the stars and stripes april 1986 probe finds inexcusable7 Bills against Dod Washington a a team of auditors has uncovered million in absolutely inexcusable claims against the Pentagon by seven giant defense the House armed services committee said the questioned Bills Range from the costs or free hair cuts for senior company executives of one company to for a Public relations Campaign by another com Pany to counteract negative publicity caused by the crash of an air plane it had the questioned Bills were found in audits of oneyear Billing periods by general dynamics Louis Sperry new York City Newport news ship building and dry Dock Bell fort Texas Mcdonnell Douglas Louis Rockwell International Pittsburgh and Boeing the auditors examined a total of billion in claims for overhead expenses by the seven corporations and con according to Bill that up to for every submitted to the government for overhead expenses is we Are finding millions of dollars of absolutely inexcusable claims filed with the said Charles he and Nichols Are the co chairmen of the the problem is broader than one and the volume of questionable Billings already found shows that the problem goes deep its not just a matter of an occasional and isolated wrong Nichols Bennett said the audit is expected to be completed by when hearings Are to be legislation is Likely to be introduced to eliminate the incentives that firms now have to charge the Pentagon for everything but the Kitchen he we Haven seen the and therefore we cant comment at this said Alvin a spokesman for general comment was not available immediately from the other the committee identified a number of questionable or unallowable Bills submitted by the seven companies to be charged to the Cost of weapons but declined to identify the firms involved in each instance the Billings include for an executive dining room where company officials were fed without for operating losses of employee cafeterias Over a two year period even though the defense acquisition regulations say the companies must operate food services with the intent of breaking to cover operating losses of a Barber shop reserved for senior to enhance the Public image1 of a firm in the Wake of a crash of a plane manufactured by that costs included those for a news the rehearsal of company officials appearing at the ing of limousine a clipping service and Library research on crashes of air planes built by compete for taxes paid a foreign government in connection with the contractors commercial for a Golf for promotional for entertainment expenses for representatives of the government of for an entertainer who performed a Les told an audience last week that defense contractors routinely Bill for such expenses be cause the incentives in the system allow these things to happen and then greed takes terrorists May stage spectacular attacks in Bonn Germany Apau thormities warned monday that left Wing terrorists May be planning spectacular at tacks during this weeks Western economic Summit in Heinrich the president of the fed eral criminal office in appealed to the Public to support police efforts to thwart the the warning came after left Wing terrorists claimed responsibility for three Peter night bomb attacks in Cologne and ones they caused extensive damage to businesses but no the revolutionary cells listed by the Bonn Interior minister As one of the most dangerous of Germany terrorist gangs said in a letter to a leftist newspaper that it planted the bombs to protest the which opens thursday in the leaders of seven Western Industrial nations will attend the May 24 including president British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and French president Francois also taking part Are the leaders of Canada and Boss said recent bombings in France and Luxembourg led authorities to fear More attacks during the Boge warned that the attacks May not be limited to he said they could affect the whole territory of Germany and neigh Boring he said targets of attacks could be per sons and objects that terrorists View As representative of the imperialist such As representatives and institutions of the North Atlantic treaty organization and Boge linked the saturday bombing of the Paris offices of the International monetary fund and the world Bank and sundays attack against a chemical company office in Luxembourg to the terrorist Campaign to disrupt the the extreme French leftist group direct in a letter received monday by a French news claimed responsibility for planting the bomb under a car outside the if the blast shattered dozens of windows and seriously damaged the front of the six Story there were no the Earl morning bombs monday in Germany went off within 10 minutes of each other at the Cologne offices of the giant chemical concern Hoechst and the metalworkers employers and a Branch of the Deutsche Bank in Duessel israelis leave last major Lebanon City As rival factions resume fighting in Beirut Beirut a Israel withdrew from the last major City it held in Lebanon one Day after lebanese moslem and druse warriors routed christians from other areas evacuated by the police said at least 65 people were killed and 75 wounded in sundays fighting in the which had been widely predicted in the Wake of israels pullback from the re Gion it occupied in june in fighting resumed monday be heu Averweg closed to Heidelberg traffic Germany City officials have announced the closing of heu Averweg to through traffic in Kirch Heim starting at several thousand German and american Drivers take heu Averweg each Day to Kirchheim in route to this has caused congestion in the narrow streets and alleys of As an alternate route into officials Are recommending known As the officials have installed new traffic lights on the mini autobahn near Patton bar where the mini autobahn Narrows to during morning Rush two lanes will Lead into Heidelberg one Lane will Lead out of the during evening Rush Only one Lane Wil Lead into Heidelberg and two lanes will Drivers Are asked to be German police will help conduct traffic in the Iran ii Tion tween the mosle druse coalition and Christian militia units across the Green line that divides the City into mostly mos Lem and Christian the moslem and druse reportedly drove the christians Back 200 Yards from the line on they claimed they killed or wounded at least 20 Christian fighters in Beirut and witnesses said bodies were heaped on a a reporter in 50 Miles South of said residents danced and Sang in the streets As two convoys of about 45 israeli armoured personnel carriers and trucks headed South from the on the military command in Tel Aviv denied an imminent it said its forces Are constantly moving sup plies and personnel out of Tyre so that when the final pullout order is the army can move Israel said it invaded its Northern neigh Bor to crush palestinian guerrilla Strong but its forces have been increasingly harassed by lebanese moslem the Tyre pullout completes the second phase of a three stage due to be completed by Early that will end israels 34month occupation of Southern the sectarian warfare heightened fears of a final partition of the country into mos Lem and Christian after a decade of bloodshed in which the government says people have moslem radios proclaimed the action of Christia held the Christian voice of Lebanon radio reported thousands of christians fleeing in buses and cars towards 15 Miles mountainous enclave is already jammed with an estimated who fled there from the coast since thurs the moslem and druse militiamen drove against the Christian coastal towns in a two pronged the moving behind syrians up plied soviet made captured the port of six Miles North of the Southern provincial capital of pinching off the last lifeline with their Northern heartland around the outnumbered christians reeled under the combined relinquishing Majd Lyoun and Sahiye on the Mezzine Road after artillery and rocket the druse members of a secret sect whose Creed is basically islamic also swept through the Khar Roub Region be tween Damour and extending the druse Homeland in the Chou mountains to the Mediterranean for the first after 16 hours of the druse and the moslem militias were reported advancing on the Mountain stronghold of far 10 Miles East of while Artil Lery Battles italian general replacing countryman at shape Belgium a Vit Torio Bernard of the italian army has been named a Deputy chief of staff at supreme Headquarters Allied Powers the nato european military Headquarters said Bernard will take Over May 6 for Biagio who is being re assigned in the italian armed police said the blasts caused More than Marks in the Federal criminal office was called into the investigation by local in the the revolutionary cells group has also been linked to attacks against interests in last a bomb exploded at the dues Meldorf Headquarters of the Siemens electronics causing Light last bombs exploded at the head quarters of the West German Coal Industry association in Essen and the Headquarters of the mining and Energy Trade Union in the revolutionary cells claimed responsibility for both blasts in letters to the Deutsche Presse a German news news update resignation sought Pittsburgh a a lutheran congregation has voted to ask for the resignation of its an outspoken supporter of militant labor the Daniel Solberg sup ports the denominational ministry which has picketed churches attended by corporate executives to dramatize the plight of the he said he would not resign As pastor of nativity lutheran Church in Allison a of the 172 members at a 105 voted to accept an investigating panels recommendation that Solberg two voted against the recon while 65 said Ray president of the congregations the regional lutheran Synod will decide if Solberg must step cancer deaths Rise Switzerland a the number of deaths annually from various forms of cancer has increased 55 percent for men and 40 percent for women in industrialized countries since the world health organization deaths from lung cancer showed the greatest jumping 200 percent for men and 116 percent for who citing preliminary results of a study conducted in 28 most of the countries surveyed were european but the study also included the United Australia and
