European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 if it the stars and stripes May fraudulent Billing just a demos say Washington up defense contractors arc Bil Ling the government for everything from Belt buckles to haircuts because they do not stand to lose anything even if the Billings arc two congressmen said Charles chairman of the armed services sea Power and Bill d chairman of the investigations to Gether arc looking into procurement problems and sunday detailed four problem areas auditors have found in looking Over the overhead Billings of the Bennett said it is sometimes hard to determine what is and what is not an allowable or reasonable theres a Large Gray area that stems from the fact that Federal acquisition regulations Arent As precise As they could said these regulations can never be so exact As to wipe out the Gray area but we can certainly narrow it Nichols said contractors Are Billing for items clearly not such As souvenir Belt country club memberships and personal they do this because theres no penalty for submitting even the most outrageous Bill to the the Bills come in by the tens of the contractor is paid based on estimates of future although in recent weeks the Pentagon has started some new said the auditors Are flooded with work and Are years be Hind in trying to review the if a contractor gets the worst that can happen is that he must repay the funds in but Hes had use of the Money in the it s sort of a free we could cure that problem by imposing a penalty say a Fine improper Billings or a very hefty interest charge for any sum that must be he the two subcommittee chairmen also said the nature of the system for resolving questionable Billings encourages contractors to Load up the system with they government negotiators have not always supported auditors and have negotiated settlements that appear arbitrary and even in conflict with the governments own Best in Early april the House armed services committee put 14 auditors to work reviewing overhead claims submitted by seven major defense those firms whose Billings Are being examined Are Gen eral Sperry Newport news shipbuilding and dry Dock Bell Mcdonnell Douglas Rockwell International and the Boeing the review covered about billion in claims with million of that questioned by the the committee said last week it had found questionable Billings from All seven including such things As running a dining room where company officials were fed for free and charges for a Public relations firm to polish a company image after a commercial plane Small car owners beware of Honda hip a housemaids knee and Tennis Elbow May be old but a contributor to the North Carolina medical journal also has diagnosed Honda hip and Chicke packers hands As bothersome John a professor at Bowman Gray school of said Honda hip is a phenomenon never before discussed in medical a patient of enticed by japanese design and the Promise of More economical traded in his car for a new Honda his was such and his left front seat such that they didst and he developed right hip pain and stiffness after driving Short Felts said drugs didst trading in the car on something bigger was the Only Way to get he said Chicke packers hands May be a More serious condition because it affects people in the Way they make a Felts said he discovered that condition when a Middle aged woman came to him complaining of pain and stiff Ness in her a careful occupational history told the Felts she was a  worker who supervised a conveyor system transporting carcasses for a last washing before a few weeks before her symptoms a new which fed water from above As Well As had been the water was her hands stayed cold and wet and she had hand angina pain from vasoconstriction and ischaemia reduced blood Felts when she was transferred to a dry her symptoms the latest Model Terr Gator Doest even need a Driver new York not a new vehicle that has six wheels and television propels itself and needs no Driver is in the forefront of what scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Call a new generation of the called the follows the first crude robots of the 1960s and the far More sophisticated generation now widely used to perform automated tasks in the new machines blend recent advances in artificial computer science and they would have the ability not Only to collect As does the Terr Gator in sensing the environment around but to make Independent As the car must do to adjust speeds and steer around the Terr Gator uses a combination of acoustic devices that use sound to judge distances like a and stereo television with multiple cameras to scan the terrain it then tries to match the terrain with similar images in its in the straight curbs and edges that Are Normal features of roads can be and instructions for steering and Speed adjustments can be made when if the sensors confront extremely complicated the Terr Gator can communicate by radio with a nearby computer that is programmed with a wider variety of visual one organization with particular interest in such sophisticated systems is the which last summer began a million strategic computing a 10year Effort aimed at developing third generation some within five labelled machine intelligence technology by the research on this new Breed of robots directly affects the development of such military hardware As cruise mis tanks and underwater different versions of the six wheeled which looks like a squat Van and weighs from to pounds depending upon the Type of equipment car Are powered by either gasoline or were not saying the vehicle is perfect said William an engineering professor at Carnegie Mellons robotics the principal scientist on the said the Terr gators performance severely embarrassed its creators recently when they took it out for a spin in neighbor ing Schenley we aimed it Down a wooded path and it was going quite Well until the curves became sharper and it got into veering off the climbing a tree to the height of four and clawing at the Whittaker we eventually figured out that its Model of a Road better fitted the tree than the path were working to Correct Whittaker spoke enthusiastically about the possible uses of vehicles like the Why  we Send machines rather than people into hazardous places such As radioactive factories he Why not have autonomous vehicles doing the mindless Drudgery of planting and harvesting and Why not have the Ore stripped from an open pit Copper mine carried by a Terr Gator rather than a dump truck run by a totally unnecessary Man the target is Blue Whittaker but the idea of pilotless navigation will be of great practical inter est at some time because the ability of a robot to Loc Omote has value that far exceeds operations from a fixed up photo counts himself Lucky Navy James Wyatt said he was relieved to get Only a Fine and be Frozen in rank after he was found guilty of lying about his love affair with a 24yearold woman Junior the recommendation of a five member court mar tial Board now goes to a Pacific Fleet commander for Wyatt faced a maximum jail term of 16 months and a dishonourable his attorney said he will though he was not unhappy with the Dodson has second thou Grifs about lie Detector test Chicago a Gary who was imprisoned for six years for a rape his former accuser now says never is Balking at taking a lie Detector his at Torney said lawyer Warren Lupel said he and his who is free on had earlier agreed to the test after talking with an aide to James Thompson will consider Dot sons bid for clemency Dur ing a meeting thursday with the Illinois prisoner review he agreed to take but he is concerned about it after talking to family members and some other Lupel said in a Telephone but Lupel said to his Dotson has not made a final Lupel said the Thompson aide had asked that Dotson be tested by Robert a polygraph technician who examined Cathleen Crowell Webb on april 13 and concluded that she told the truth when she recanted her 1979 testimony that sent Dotson to at an april 4 circuit judge Richard Samuels allowed to be released on Bond pending a hearing on webbs but after the hearing a week who presided Over the original ordered Dotson Back to prison because he said he did not believe webbs new last the Illinois supreme court said Dotson could be released on Bond while he appeals the 1979 convict his Mother posted a Cash Bond the following Lupel said sunday that he int con Vinced either now that Dotson should take the lie Detector in not sure he May not be emotionally traumatized by the advice Hes gotten from the family and Lupel because of advice from his family and three other Dotson also has second thoughts about an examination by a Foren sic psychiatrist who would test Dotson capacity for Lupel Dotson Debbie said sunday that the family was unaware of the situation and that Dotson still refuses to talk to reporters by