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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Law Dean named Bubar  Black a Legal Holsto rain and authority on colonial american Lui smiles in her office after being named Dean of Columbia University Law school. She is the first woman to head a lop . Law school. Be replaces Mcnno Schmidt jr., who recently was named president of Yale University. Saturday january 4, 1986 the stars and stripes Page s scrap production of new t-46 Trainer Dole asks air Force Washington a Senate a a Tyrity Leader Robert dolt urged the air farce thursday to immediately cancel fur ther production of its new t-46 Trainer say ing it is now obvious i lie planes cannot do built on schedule or within budget. Scrapping the t-46, being produced by the Fairchild Republic co. Might bring new business for the Cessna corp of Wichita kan., which a proposed to retool and refurbish inc aging t-37 air Force Trainer that Cessna originally built Dole s administrative assistant Mike Petit acknowledged thai any Dole Effort that ended the t-46 program and boosted a project beneficial la the Wichita Corpora Tion would be Good politics for the Kan Sas Republican. Yeah. 1 think you can read it Between the lines Pettil said. Cancelling Lhet-46 program would be Good for inc taxpayers and to Jusi accidentally happens to be Good politics for sen.  do., in a letter to air Force Secretary Russell a. Rourke said  while he under stands president Reagan will not ask for Money for the t-46 program in his budget Tor the 1937 fiscal year which begins Sci oct. 1, 5200 million in t-46 payments arc included in the budget for the current fiscal year it has become obvious that the contract cannot be performed on schedule or within  Dole Laid the air Force Secretary. It a essential that you ensure thai these funds Are not spent. I for one will simply not sit Idle and watch the Pentagon waste additional taxpayers Muneji on the t-46." although he did nol refer to Cessna by name. Dole told Rourke  proposals to cipher modernise Hie t-j7 Trainer Fleet or to produce new technology to7i would re sult in a savings id the taxpayer of several billion  the t-46 program pair child Republic s largest and most important defense contract has been plagued by development snags. In september the air Force announced it was slashing Fairchild s monthly contract pay ments in half to 14 million because of numerous management and production deficiencies at the firm s Plant on Long Island. Two Days later Cessna advanced an unsolicited proposal to inc air Force saying it could retool the existing Fleet of t-37s, providing new Wing structures avionics and engines and save roughly 12 billion of the projected 13.5 billion cosi of building a new meet of t-46 Trainer aircraft. Fairchild Republic was selected in july 1932 to build the t-46 As the replacement for the t-37, a Jet Trainer that first entered service in 1957. The air Force has said the t-37 remains a Good training plane but that the current Fleet of 645 will last Only another three or four years. Pentagon sources said last fall that the the air Force must begin acquiring a new Trainer by fiscal 1989 because the t-37s Are simply wearing out. And the sources expressed doubt that retooling the t-37s would prove a viable Long term solution to the training plane problem. Outlook improving Tor woman with artificial heart Minneapolis up1 Mary Lund emerged from a coma thursday sat on the Edge of her Hospital bed and was startled to learn she has an artificial heart. Doctors have upgraded her chances of survival to better than 50-50. Lund 40, the first woman to have an artificial heart received a mini Jarvik 7 device dec. 18 after a virus suddenly destroyed her heart muscle leaving her near death. Lund who lapsed into a Light coma after the surgery did not remember that doctors told her before the operation that she would receive the artificial heart until a human heart could be transplanted said or. Fred Crick Nobel spokesman for Abbott North Western Hospital. She was startled when we told her Gobol told a news conference. She opened her eyes quickly and  the doctor said she Sal up for Only five minutes and was helped while she moved her arms and legs. She still was listed in critical but stable condition. Gobel said doctors now put her survival chances at better than so so but he declined to speculate How much better her chances Are. A week ago doctors put her chances at less than 50-50. Yesterday she Shook her Hod no when asked if she was bothered by the tube in her Throat and if the incision in her Chest was bothering her Gobel said. She is still very fatigued and spends much of her time steeping but she arouses quickly at the voice of her husband and doctors he said Gobel declined to speculate when Lund would be ready for a human heart trans Plant to replace the artificial heart. He said her kidney function still was not Normal and she remained on n Respirator most of the time to help her breathe. We Hope to wean her from the Respirator soon he said she has been off tar if minutes at a time but she gels tired and is put Back  a Low Grade fever has left Gobol said and her breathing is Normal when on the Respirator. However he said there is fear she will develop pneumonia and she is gelling antibiotics for this reason. Claims for $162,000 Senf to Pentagon Fairchild chief s travel Bills challenged Washington a the Pentagon is challenging hundreds of thousands of Dol Lars in Bills submitted since 1982 by the chair Man of Fairchild industries to cover air com muting expenses from his Home near Chesapeake Bay to corporate Headquarters 100 Miles away it was disclosed thursday. Fairchild s Board chairman and chief executive officer Edward j. Uhl billed the defense department for 1162,000 in Eora Mung expenses for 1983 even though the defense contract audit Agency had disallowed s34.000 in air travel Bills submitted for he last half of 1982, said Pentagon inspector general Joseph h. Shenck. In a letter. Schrick told rep. Forney Stark d-calif., thai while an audit of 1984 Billings by Fairchild industries has not been completed similar expenses Are expected to be found in the contractor s submission and will be questioned the inspector general told Stark that in 1982 Uhl bought a Home in Easton md., on Chesapeake Bay. Fairchild corporate head quarters were then in Germa mown md., 100 Miles from Eastern. Sheri Cic said an audit of the defense con tractor s claim to the government for Over head expenses disclosed that included in the claimed aircraft expenses were daily trips for flying or Uhl Between Bis Home and  Sherick said these Bills were unallowable because the government does not pay de sense contractor for commuting expenses. But he said that even after Fairchild had agreed to the disallowance further Bills for Uhl s commuting were submitted. Representatives for Fairchild were not immediately available for comment according to the defense contractor s Washington area office. Stark said he has asked inc internal reve nue service to determine whether Uhl paid income tales on the value of what Stark called this company provided fringe  the fact anal or. Uhl submitted these disallowed costs again for 9b3 and is expected to have done so for 1984 indicates to me a blatant disrespect for the Law and a Lack of concern about the possible  Stark said. That tells me we should have tougher penalties against habitual  according to Stark Fairchild was awarded More than is 63 million in defense contracts in 19s4 and More than $500 million in contracts through june 1985. Doctors also Are concerned about the possibility of internal bleeding because of a Low platelet count but so far there is no Evi Dence of bleeding Gobel said. The brain has recovered he said we Hope All other organs including the kidneys will recover As  Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 4, 1946 rounding out the . Case against Ernst Kaltun Brunner the Tri Bunal in Nuernberg heard former members of nazi police organizations testify about liquidating opponents of the Reich wit Ness Otto Uhlendorf admitted that his unit was responsible for the deaths of about 90.000 people. 30 years ago today. Jan. 4, 1956 Howard hop along Cas Ady. Ohio state s All american half Back was named male athlete of the Vear by the associated press. 20 years ago today. Jan. 4, 1966 Gen. William c. West Moreland commander of . Forces in Vietnam was named 9os s Man of the year by thai Diiura of time Magazine. To years ago today Jan. 4. 1976 Art experts reported that they have discovered what they believe to be previously unknown frescoes by Michelangelo. The frescoes were found by work men who broke through a trap door leading to a basement in the new Sacristy of the 14th-Century Basilica rebuilt in the Isle Century with the Aid of Michelangelo  
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