European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 fays Tel tag system is ringing Success by Jeff Derringer Raf England a onco faking system to keep tabs on commercial and Auto on Tele phone Calls has been ringing up big savings for the air Force since it was installed last according to Raf Mildenhall named the system was designed by the British telecoms Telephone company at the request of base officials to help detect and eliminate Telephone mis said edouard assistant Deputy com Mander for resource management and waste and abuse Monitor for the 513th tac Airlift Wing Doty expects the system to save the base during its first Mildenhall is the Only air Force base in Europe to use such a he the first part of the system was installed last octo Ber to verify the commercial said Michael Telephone supervisor with the 2176th information systems who has overseen the installation of the so the charges tallied by Tel tag and those presented for British telecoms have been within 2 per panels probing procurement officials actions Washington up the pentagons inspector generals office and a House subcommittee Are investigating whether the defense departments top procurement regulator violated conflict interest Laws during a recent Job an aide to John said the Mary Ann did not advise her Superior and an Agency ethics officer Tor three weeks that she had offered the private consulting services of her and an aide this Spring to 14 defense the Dingell staffer in a proposed consulting she and an Navy Carl offered to represent some of the nations largest defense contractors before the govern including serving As their coordinator on procure ment matters and helping effect changes in Federal policies and four Days on june Gilleece listed another 14 firms with which she was having according to an internal eyes Only Pentagon memo made available to United press a Deputy undersecretary of defense who oversees policies covering shares a House with Frank the director of government business policy for try a firm with More than billion in Pentagon try was one of 28 firms according to the Section 208 of the Federal criminal code bars Federal officials from participating personally and substantially in matters affecting an organization with which they Are negotiating Over prospective the statute exempts officials who promptly notify their superiors of their financial ties and withdraw from involve ment where there is a potential there has been no specific allegation that Gilleece Vio lated the Law by catering to any of the companies in her official but investigators Are looking into the circumstances of her approaches to the various sources the investigators Are concerned about some recent policy decisions and lobbying efforts by her office that affect the companies the sources who Donrell aides said has refused to be inter viewed by subcommittee declined through a Pentagon spokesman to comment on the inspector Gener als the pentagons ethics Dave told investigators for Dingell House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that Gilleece phoned him on april 30 to say she was looking for a Job and wanted to know what Agency conflict of interest rules but he said he was unaware until last week that she had planned to form a consulting she first sent out a proposed under which her firm would receive on and on about May the aide flood noted that on june Gilleece withdrew All that Ream told Dingell investigators that Gilleece phoned All 28 of the companies and withdrew her proposal in the presence of a flood noted that Gilleece James who was named assistant Secretary of defense for acquisition and logistics on july said recently she has broken no Rule and that in the worst she May have used bad judgment in sending out the less than 1 percent of her work involved dealing with flood adding Wade said Gilleece could stay in her Post As Long As she wants cent of each Orourke Orourke said the system was expanded Between october and december to include Auto on monitoring and of base Calls placed on class a military while Tel tag cant keep track of each phone on base it has the ability to Check randomly into any the bases phone system handles about 2 million Calls each he the idea for the system took seed in late Doty said he had information at that time that Many of the commercial telephones on base were being since British the phone company that provides commercial service to the does not provide itemized phone it was difficult to track Down individual the base went looking for a system to record the and was offered the Tel tag system As the most cos effective of the monitoring devices looked he some of the Calls that have piqued official curiosity include a spate from the no club to the Irish re pub investigation by dots office showed that the club manager was legitimately booking his a photo these tainted wines were not stocked by class class i removes Brand of wines by Chris Estes staff writer Usa eur and Safe class i officials say that the Walter Seidel Brand wines their stores Al though not among the lots found to be tainted with toxic have been removed from shelves for close Safe class i officials said they also Stock the Seidel Brand but their stores carry none of the tainted the 1983 Wes Hofener Berg Kloster Bee Ren Auslee and 1982 he Mersheimer Sonne Nhang both from the Rhein Hessen were discovered by German authorities in Mainz to be tainted with a chemical used to disguise the taste of poo Quality wine so that it can be sold As a More expensive the United press inter National we Are removing All the wines off our said George director of the Safe class i they will be held in storerooms until we get some word from our it would be Nice to say every wine we sell is tested in the he but theres never been any need for this in the past because German standards Are so German wine Laws Are quite and this is an unusual Usa eur spokesman Mike Kinnaman said wines purchased by class i Are checked by professional the class i Agency has not sold any of the wines that have been he he said class i officials Are sometimes Noti fied through the Industry that certain wines Are but usually we find out the same Way As the rest of the world through the another one that turned out to be concerned a civilian employee who used a British telecoms commercial phone to arrange his stateside presented with the he reimbursed the said while catching misuse is of prime Doty the biggest savings have been attributed to educating the work Force about when to use the commercial phone British telecoms has the highest charges Between 9 and 1 said during those four prices nearly weve been Able to track a number of offices who have legitimate reasons for using commercial but were making a majority of Calls during the most expensive with a Little Treyve been Able to change their phone habits to save the base a lot of he according to the system has been looked at by a number of other bases in Britain and the idea has been channelled throughout Berringer is a staff writer assigned to the 513 tac Airlift Wing Public affairs enlistment ban on single parents survives Bias suit by Dwight trimmer Washington Bureau Washington a Federal court in new York has ruled that the military ban on enlisting single parents does not discriminate against judge John Curtin of the District court in Buffalo found that the military regulations do not interfere with the plaintiffs constitutional right to or not to a they simply prohibit As single from enlisting in the army and air the Niney Earold discrimination suit against the Mili tary involves seven single All women rebuffed by the the women claim that the military single Parent ban is sexually discriminatory and violates their fundamental right to a Phyllis a new York City lawyer representing the explained although the army and air Force Are the suit challenges the single Par ent recruiting ban of All the military Gelman estimated that the class action suit could affect More than women parents who were turned Down by the military from 1974 to the the military bans single parents with Young children from enlisting in the people who be come single parents once in uniform can the ban was relaxed for a while in the then in upholding the military right to ban single parents from its Curtin the question in the military context is simply whether the challenged regulations Are reasonably relevant and necessary to the National he also rejected the argument that the military sin Gle Parent ban discriminated against he noted that the military ban on enlisting single parents dates Back to 107 years before women could join its Curtins summary ruling upholding the military sin Gle Parent ban is based entirely on pretrial hearings and he decided that a trial would not be a trial would add if to the Curtin the women May still the Case began in when Carlene Mack tried to join the army from Roches the army turned her Down because she was a single Mack complained to a Legal services organization in during the next two a Hal dozen other single All joined Mack with their four of the women involved had tried to join the army two but they were later discharged under the single Parent the other three were turned Down by the air Force or air Force re in they filed their discrimination suit against the Exun Ion Leader Dies Washington a Edward presi Dent emeritus of the Sheet Metal workers Union and negotiator of the first welfare and pension plans in the construction has died at