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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday september 29, 1985 probe reportedly pinpoints faults in Navy Supply system los Angeles up a 3w-month Navy investigation of the aircraft Carrier Kitty Hawk has revealed that the Navy s Supply system is so dependent on outdated computers that Crews cannot account for thousands of weapons equipment and spare parts it was reported saturday. The investigation has found no Evi Jence of widespread fraud waste or mis management aboard the san Diego based Carrier but confirms other Allega ions by former Petty officer 2.c. Robert Jackson 26, whose earlier charges Trig gered the extensive probe the los an Geles times said. Jackson who was honorable Dis charged aug. 30, submitted a 26-Page statement to Congress in july and 1,500 pages of supporting documents charging widespread theft fraud kickbacks and bribes aboard the Kitty Hawk. The Navy is expected to release the report at a congressional hearing tues Day the newspaper said. The times quoting Navy sources said investigators found that sailors tossed valuable materials overboard rather than fill out paper Worktop return them As surplus supplies. Navy funds were taken out of the Reserve account of capt. Phillip r. Wood the Carrier s commanding officer to Purchase personal items including Flower arrangements and the Book Joy of  an officer in the Kitty Hawk s sup ply department forged the signature of a lieutenant commander on Navy Survey forms. Auditors still cannot account for s4million of the $14 million in supplies and parts that could not be found in Kitt Hawk storerooms. Kitty Sloppy bookkeeping and poor re cords maintenance led to numerous accounting errors throughout the Carrier s Supply departments. The investigation concluded thit the Navy s Supply system is in chaos and acknowledges that its computers were no designed to detect penetration by thieves or foreign agents. A Kitty Hawk storekeeper was one of seven people arrested this summer in connection with a smuggling ring that ship Ped stolen aircraft parts to Iran. The full investigative report is expected to be made Public tuesday at a meeting of the House armed services sea Power subcommittee the newspaper said. The Navy plans to use the results of the investigation to support the Purchase of a s2 billion computer system to run the Supply system. Fishing Nefs kill thousands of porpoises report says Anchorage Alaska up Federal report says thousands of porpoises and seabirds Are dying in Ameri can Waters when they become caught in 9-Milc-Long japanese fishing nets. Oceanographer Linda Jones program manager for the National Marine Fisher ies service cetacean research program said in her report Japan admitted its fish Ermen accidentally killed about 4,000 Dall s porpoises this season but . Re searchers place the total closer to 7,000. Seven to 10 percent of the porpoise population May die each year in foreign Salmon and squid fishing the oceanographer Laid. Puffins sometimes referred to As sea parrots also lose about 10 percent of their Breeding population yearly. The animals Are killed in the 9-mile Oklahoma educator Dies Tulsa okla. A de Cadenhead head of the University of Tulsa s history department has died at 61. Cadenhead was an editor of a Small Alabama newspaper and wrote books about Theodore Roosevelt and Benilo Juarez. In 1966, Cadenhead was an unsuccessful candidate for con Gress. He began his career at the University of Tuliair 1950. Long nets Laid Down by Japan s High seas Salmon Fleet Jones said. More animals die in Japan s squid fishing operation but because there Are no . Observers on those vessels numbers can Only be estimated. Her data was Given Friday to the . Section of the International North Pacific fisheries commission meeting in Ancho rage. Taiwan and South Korea also kill porpoises in their fishing operations but the . Has been unable to obtain reliable data from those two nations because they Are not members of the commission. A Federal permit allows Japan to kill up to 5,500 porpoises in . Waters. The permit was issued in 1981, extended in1984 and expires in 1987. It was granted before the squid fishery began contributing to the porpoise kill Jones said. The Dall s porpoise is found Only in the Pacific and is often seen leaping out of the water in the Wake of boats. Jones said Japan is trying to scare porpoises away from the fishing nets by using sound generators. She said he1 Agency will have to consider the total kill of porpoises by All three asian countries and determine if the porpoise population can withstand this death rate before Japan gets its permit renewed. Tiring tryout fifth grader Touy Koopman 10, works to develop in appreciation for music As be tries out a tuba. The Madison school in Hinsdale Iii., Gate Koopman and us classmates their first Chance to make music Friday. Couple turns Down Aid that could save their farm Hollandale wis. Up faced with the foreclosure of the family farm the couple whose letter to the band Alabama received National attention at the farm Aid con Cert will not accept the Aid offered to them. A letter by Kenneth and sue Massey was used As part of the nationally televised Benefit in Champaign Iii. Since then the family has received individual donations ranging from is to in the hundreds and an outpouring of prayers and sympathy sue Massey said. She told the Milwaukee journal that the letter was not meant As a personal Appeal and said her family had decided it would not be right to accept contributions. Instead Massey has written a second let Ter to members of Alabama. By saving our land our Home we be not touched the Root of the problem for All so please with no hard feelings intended Send your contribution to farm Aid. Or Call or write your congressman she wrote. As much As we d love to save our farm we realize it s such a widespread problem. There arc so Many others out there who have just As Many problems As we do. We have food and we have each other and we have jobs and if we have that we have Italy she said. Massey said she intends to write Persona letters to All contributors encouraging them to make direct donations to farm Aid. The masses and their five children us on a 325-acre farm 50 Miles Southwest of Madison that has been in their family forbore than 70 years. Thev encountered financial problems when falling prices Hurt their egg business. A judge is expected to set a foreclosure Sale Date nov. 14. Excia worker pleads guilty to revealing data Alexandria a. A a former Cia employee in Ghana has pleaded guilty to one charge of revealing classified information in a Pica bargaining arrangement in which the government dropped 15 espionage related  m. Scranage 29, earlier pleaded guilty to two violations of a Law Banning disclosure of the identities of persons working for the Cia. At that time she admitted she told her former ghanaian Boyfriend the names of two Covert Cia  Federal court in Alexandria Friday Scranage s attorney Brian Gettings said i think the government concluded that this was not espionage that this girl was put upon by her former Boyfriend and literally All the stuff was dragged out of her in the most extreme  he added one thing we would never do was admit to espionage or conspiracy because she did t do , a native of Rural Northern Virginia could be sentenced to a maximum of 30 years in prison and fined up to is 10,000 for the three violations. Sentencing was set for oct. 15. Scranage worked As a clerk for the Cia in Ghana from May 1983 to May 1985. Her sex Boyfriend Michael a. Soussounis will be tried oct. 15 on charges of espionage conspiracy to commit espionage receiving classified information and conspiracy to receive classified information. Prosecutors say Scranage who worked As an operations support assistant at the Cia office in Accra copied information from classified cables and gave it to Soussounis  
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