European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 army slashes payments to copter company by Norman Black Washington a the formally Dis closing a Federal criminal investigation and allegations of said Friday it was cutting in half monthly contract payments to Bell helicopter text Ron the announced by army Secretary John will Cut from roughly million to million the payments now being received monthly by the firm for contracts covering a number of army helicopter pro the reduction in payments will remain in effect until Bell corrects apparent accounting rectifies reported discharges and satisfies the army that accept Able internal controls have been established at Marsh said in a Bell helicopter based in fort is a wholly owned subsidiary of text Ron a conglomerate based in that in fiscal 1984 was the nations 28th largest defense Bell helicopter text Ron currently holds contracts from the army Worth a total of they in clude such major programs As the ah1 cobra attack the uh1 Iroquois Utility helicopter and the oh58 Loach Light the firm also has been selected As the prime contractor for the army helicopter improvement under which the army eventually expects to modify More than 550 oh58 copters for special observation and reconnaissance the Federal criminal disclosed in published reports in was formally acknowledged by he also said the Pentagon was launching its own investigation of the the attorney for the Northern District of Texas is pursuing a criminal investigation into these Marsh the department of defense and the army Are assisting the department of Justice in this criminal assistant attorney Ronald reached at his fort Worth office by confirmed the army Eddins said his investigation was prompted by a de sense contract audit Agency audit of Bells books and had been under Way for a to no grand jury has been he adding we feel it will be completed within six months to a the investigation was prompted by Ducaa audits that uncovered pricing Eddins the substance of the investigation concerns fraudulent Billings to the army for helicopter spare asked How much Money might be Eddins declined direct about a fort Worth Star Telegram report in May that the probe involved about the prosecutor said that a very conservative Bell helicopter spokesman Dick Tipton in fort Worth said in a prepared statement the company Lias had meetings and discussions with representatives of the army and other government agencies on solutions to the issues raised by the he said the company intends to resolve the matters As soon As practicable after agreement is reached with the White House institutes Blooper control policy Washington up the White House has taken Steps to assure that presi Dent reagans offt Decuff remarks on open microphones Are no longer heard by members of the sources said they said that a White House memo to radio and television network Bureau chiefs on july 5 decreed that effective july 8 they will be provided a feed by the White House communications instead of having a direct feed from their own microphones set up in the Oval the new restriction was ordered by White House officials who were angered Over the airing of reagans i saw rambo last now i know what to do the next time this that came just after the release of the 39 Ameri can hostages and the ending of the Beirut hijacking rambo first blood part ii is a violent movie about a Veteran who returns to Viet Nam and tears up the country in his search for missing Deputy press Secretary Larry Speakes had said that he would have to look into ways that would prevent a repetition of the broadcasts of reagans pre speech voice tests on a live he claimed the networks had breached a Reagan himself was upset with the airing last August of his remark just before a radio broadcast in which he said i have just signed legislation outlawing the bombing begins in five the remark was widely publicized and aides Felt that it had International re Percus Moscow also took note of reagans rambo updated g5b transport rolled out by Lockheed a the first of 50 planned c5b military trans port planes the largest aircraft in the world rolled off the Assembly line the c5b a modernized version of the military Workhorse was towed out of its final Assembly hangar at the lock heed Georgia Plant in this Atlanta the plane is More than 247 feet Long with a wingspan of feet and a Tail Section As tall As a six Story each c5b can carry two my four of the planes can haul a Squadron of 24 attack Crews and sup port equipment into a combat the defense department ordered 50 of the planes from Lockheed in agreeing to a fixed Price contract for taking into account anticipated because inflation was lower than the company re turned Money to the said Bard Lockheed c5b project vice Victor director of the air forces c5b said at a news conference that computerized flying equipment and a corrosion free body Are among the 96 improvements on the older the air Force has said it will move away from the huge transport plane and spend billion on 211 smaller c17 cargo jets made by Mcdonnell Douglas in students essay prompts teachers arrest a a Stu Dent essay on my most embarrassing moment led to the arrest of an elementary schoolteacher Friday on charges he sexually abused a 12yearold Robert of South farming was charged with two counts of sex abuse and one count of endangering the welfare of a said Nassau county detective Frank Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago july 1945 spearheaded by a near record Fleet of Navy and Marine airmen carried the Aerial bombardment of the japanese Mainland through its 38th straight 30 years ago july 1955 Secretary of state John Foster Dulles flew to Paris to seek Allied Unity on disarmament and other controversial East West problems in Advance of next weeks top level big four meeting at 20 years ago today july 1965 in a televised news president Johnson said the United states May face new and serious decisions concerning the War in Vietnam because of increased aggression by North 70 years ago today july 1975 thousands of portuguese catholics defied communist threats and marched through Aveiro demanding the nations military leaders give up control of the Church National radio a fifth Grade teacher at the Woodward Parkway is also a suspect in six other sex abuse cases involving Guidice though not arrested until he was suspended from his teaching Job in february when police first began investigating the girls All of the incidents being investigated allegedly occurred at co rods Home when the girls friends of his daughter were Guidice the incident came to Light after another teacher assigned students to write an essay on my most embarrassing one student wrote about being sexually abused by a which sparked a Pri vate discussion among several girls in the Guidice the 12yearold who was not identified went told her parents about her alleged encounter with Conrod and they called the youngster alleged Conrod molested her last 1 when she went to his House for a Sleepover with his divorced and the father of had been a teacher at the Woodward school for 25 according to the trashy lady wins miss dumpy 1985 Maine up Cindy Lauster spread Green lobster innards Over her tied a fish to her neck and spread her arms with Honey imbedded with Coffee despite the it was Only trashy enough to capture second place thursday in the 20th annual miss dumpy contest at which proudly professes to have the nations 1 the genuine imitation Gold Crown and the title of miss dumpy 1985 was bestowed upon Lisa who had walked out in a stunning Pink taffeta dress complimented with a string of pearls and holding a bouquet of it appeared to hardly befit the and she was announced As but without four Turba Clad terrorists sprang out of the abducted the threw her in a wheelbarrow and began a relentless assault with Pickle newspapers and the judges were what were looking for is How it smells and what it does to your five senses As it drifts said Leo the local school you just kind of know inside when it hits a Trio of Young women who wore strings of lobster shells and trash bag bikinis scooped up third Belli fifes billion i san Francisco a attorney Melvin who already has filed multiple suits Over the Poison Gas leak that killed people in said Friday he was suing for More than billion on behalf of victims and their the plaintiffs include people injured and the relatives of those killed by the leak at a Union Carbide Plant last Belli told Belli said he and his aides had contacted All the Plain tiffs in and were opening a medical office there to give physical examinations to the suit was filed in District court in san Francis but will be transferred to a new York Federal court where More than 100 other Bhopal related suits Are Pend Belli the suit seeks billion in punitive As Well As compensation for injuries and wrongful the court has not yet ruled on whether courts have jurisdiction Over the