European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 45 contractors face Pentagon probe Washington a the Pentagon is investigating 45 of the nations defense contractors including nine of the top 10 for allegations that include kickbacks and according to de sense department a list identifying 36 of the corporations was prepared by defense department in Spector general Joseph Sherick at the request of John who released the report the list includes such huge contractors As Mcdonnell Douglas Rockwell inter National Lockheed and Boeing according to a partial list published by the Washington who has said the administration should be More aggressive in prosecuting is sending along with the to other House members in Advance of House consideration of military procure ment said Nancy a spokesman for the he is sending a letter to his colleagues saying the problem is widespread and there Are a number of Reform amendments that Are going to be coming up they should consider and be sympathetic she said at a news the allegations include kick false product substitution and she Charles a Pentagon said wednesday he would not confirm the names of companies on the he said the defense department believes the information should not be disclosed be cause Many of the investigations Are done sometimes with the cooperation of company management and sometimes without their army delayed Hughes paper says Louis a the army knew about millions of dollars in accounting irregularities at Hughes helicopter for As Long As four years before it cracked Down on the defense the Louis pos dispatch said despite army statements that it sus Pended overhead payments to the company on May two Days after it Learned of the it knew much earlier about the the pos dispatch reported in a copyright the suspension came after the army on May is got a special audit report detailing alleged double overcharges and improper accounting overhead payments will not be resumed until Hughes has corrected accounting Defi rectified inappropriate charges and satisfied the army that acceptable internal controls have been the army said May Hughes is the prime contractor for the army ah64 Apache the army plans to buy 675 of the helicopters by 1988 at a Cost of everything included in the May 15 re military Roundup 9hour Rescue Mission saves Lite of injured soviet Seaman Raf England air Force Rescue Crews Are credited with saving the life of a soviet Seaman according to an air Force news the hc130 Hercules Crew from the 67th aerospace res Cue and recovery so at Raf Woodbridge and the hh53 Jolly Green giant helicopter Crew from the squadrons Del 14 at were credited with the May 19 save after a nine hour Rescue Mission Over the North according to information released june the soviet Seaman suffered a broken Back and internal injuries in an Accident on a soviet factory ship 250 Miles Southwest of the Hercules Crew located the ship with radar and guided the helicopter to the helicopter Crew was unable to see the ship because of fog and Low after several attempts to lower a Para Escheman onto the ships deck and after an air both aircraft returned to Kef Lavik to wait for better the release after an hour on the the Hercules and helicopter Crews went Back Over the North Atlantic and located the ship with still Only Oneal file the helicopter Pilot jettisoned his fuel to lighten his Craft and hovered Over the soviet ships she a Para Escheman was lowered onto the deck to prepare the Sailor for Twenty minutes the Para Escheman had the injured Man ready and they were hoisted aboard the Helicon the release the helicopter and Hercules then rendezvoused for an Aerial after the the helicopter flew the soviet Sailor to Reykjavik City Hospital in appointed chief of Allied forces Southern Europe Belgium the supreme Allied come Europe has announced the appointment of army Thomas As chief of Allied forces Southern in As of june a spokesman will succeed John his last appointment was As commandant of the army War College at Carlisle Blount has been chief of staff since july 1983 and will retire after More than 35 years of military port had been reported to the army in the course of routine audits Over the past four Walter special assistant to the director of the defense contract audit told the everything in that report would have been information the army already Funk was quoted As those deficiencies had been reported to the army contracting officer at Hughes periodically Over the last four the army action against Hughes As one of a series of recent moves by the de sense department to crack Down on improper Billing and other alleged abuses by major defense a spokesman for Mcdonnell Douglas which purchased Hughes helicopter in january said the company had known about the problems with the Arizo abased manufacturer and had taken Steps since to Correct the Hughes problem was known to us All along As a direct result of the Ducaa audit said spokesman Gerald its not something that we Learned about All at Richard the army chief of Legal said May 24 that the army had requested the Overall audit after de sense Secretary Caspar Weinberger instructed All three military services review overhead costs at major a spokesman for the Craig later corrected Whiston saying that the special report was a summary of earlier but that it had also looked More deeply into Back ground documentation from in an interview with the pos dispatch on Macnab said the army position is that the Caas report was an original not a based on a review of Hughes overhead costs that had been submitted to the government Between 1981 and he said Whiston had erred when he said the audit had been conducted in response to Weinberger in any Macnab the May 15 report brought detailed information about accounting irregularities to the attention of the army for the first Funk said the report urged the army to take stronger action against Hughes be cause the Ducaa saw no indication that Mcdonnell Douglas was taking Quick action to remedy the we knew of no substantial changes in accounting controls at Hughes since Mcdonnell Douglas took said and we had been trying to get the army to take some the Ducaa is an Independent within the it is responsible for auditing some contracts every year and is supposed to be the defense depart ments chief watchdog against overcharges by the army said May 24 that the suspension of the overhead payments to Hughes would affect about million in monthly Meyer said the company believes that it will be Able to satisfy the army in less than a month that the internal accounting controls at Hughes Are but he said it May take until september to com plete a review of questionable overhead Bills that had earlier been e Funk said the report urged the army to that had earlier been army returns Chinook helicopters to service after Fleet inspection by Norman Black Srur Tav a cart Lucman far in inn by Norman Black Washington a the saying that an april 21 Accident involving a ch47d helicopter was caused by a human lifted an order wednesday that had grounded its Fleet of the giant helicopters since May the decision Means All 61 of the Workhorse Chinook helicopters May return to flying status said Craig an army Many of the aircraft Are based at fort none is stationed in according to a spokes Man for the army in the army May 4 grounding order was prompted by an april 21 Accident in Honduras in which a transmission bearing failed on a ch47d that was taxiing on the ground to a refuelling the bearing failure caused one of the copters main rotors to Stop since the Chinook has two main they must be synchronized and mesh As they when one of the rotors on the ch47d in Honduras stopped the other began hitting and the helicopter Tore itself eight soldiers were injured in the but no one was according to an army statement issued an investigation concluded that the aft transmission on the destroyed copter failed because the bearing retainer Bolt Assembly a special Flange on the Bolt had Only been partially engaged during Assembly of the and it worked Loose during the statement Macnab said he did not know whether the error in Assembly occurred when the helicopter was manufactured or at some Point during it is Correct that there was human error in installing that he but i dont know whether that particular transmission had Ever been taken out and put Back together questions of payment or liability must still be historian Johnson Dies Honolulu a Walter a historian and former University of Hawaii has died at a Hospi Tal in he was Bruce a spokesman for the Boeing Vertol of which produces the acknowledged wednesday that to the Best of our the mistake occurred during initial he he was unaware of any discussions on the Issue of the army findings prompted army and civilian investigators from Boeing Vertol to inspect the Bolt Assem Blies on the transmissions of every other helicopter using special fiber optic Macnab those completed did not reveal any similar the decision to return the ch47ds to service follows by just one week a similar action involving the army uh60 Blackhawk that Fleet of More than 600 helicopters was grounded april 19 following two fatal the Blackhawk Are being returned to service As quickly As new Metal rods can be installed in their main Rotor Blade spindles to strengthen the ch47d is essentially a modernized version of the earlier models of the which for years has been a part of the army the army has about 400 of those earlier and plans eventually to convert All of them to the More modern d East germans holding 2 from West Germany Berlin up East German authorities Are hold ing a Man who entered East Berlin by scaling the Berlin Wall and a glider Pilot who flew into East Germany from West the official East German news Agency adn the Agency said Border guards arrested a Man who crossed Over the Berlin Wall into the divided cites Trep Tow Section and identified himself As Peter Steinbrecher of West adn said the Man lacked proper identification papers and was turned Over to state investigators to find out Why he violated the it also said a glider Pilot who identified himself As erns August Schluz of West Germany was arrested after be flew across the East German Border with lower Saxo