European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday january 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 7 Dod chided for periodical purchases papers magazines Cost i 79.3 million yearly by Norman Black a military writer Washington the defense department i spending an estimated is i9.3 million annually to Pur Chase commercial newspapers and magazines says an audit report Hinl concludes the amount is excessive. While most of the Money spent on the publications can be attributed to military libraries More than one third of the total was spent for non Library missions such As office copies for ranking officers said inc Ripon by the Pentagon inspector general s office. Moreover it said Many of the out of town newspapers were purchased by contract it local bookstores at newsstand prices instead of through subscriptions. So that the newspapers could be obtained on a same Day basis non Ess Nilal publications in our opinion the number of periodicals Pur chased was beyond reasonable requirements and has resulted m the procurement of non essential publications the report said. Besides the Money spent on commercial periodicals and newspapers the military services spent $22.7 Mil lion in fiscal 1983 on internal magazines and newsletters and another s22.9 million on armed forces news papers the auditors found. The audit lauded the services for recent efforts to reduce spending on internal periodicals. The report cited a $2.3 million savings Between fiscal i9b3 and fiscal 1984. But the 47-Page report faulted the military com mands for Fulling to extend such Cost control efforts to armed forces newspapers and said inc services arc still publishing periodicals that duplicate each other in Content. The audit is dated oct. It but was not obtained until monday. It concluded in part by recommending that the assistant Secretary of defense for Public affairs Issue a policy directive governing the manage ment of commercial periodicals and newspapers it suggested one option might be to require All com Mercial periodical and newspaper purchases to be managed by each service s Library system. The auditors attributed the High spending on com Mercial newspapers and magazines to an absence of management attention spawned by the relatively Low Cost of individual we found that Many installation commanders received several daily newspapers from various cities around the country in addition to receiving news entertainment and technical magazines the auditors wrote. For example the commanding officer of a major command received six out of town and one local news paper each Day his immediate Headquarters rce Civco an additional 50 newspapers daily thai were delivered to various offices including 23 copies of the washing ton Post and six copies of the Wall Street the audit did not identify the command. Using a specially developed sampling technique and a subscription questionnaire the auditors said they questioned 350 units or bases about i heir subscriptions to commercial publications. The 350 respondents purchased a total of 16,293 copies of 4,256 titles of commercial periodicals and newspapers at a total annual Cost of $1 million the audit reported. Using those results a estimated thai Dod s an Nual Cost for commercial periodicals and newspapers is is 19.3 million 64 percent far libraries of the total projected Cost the auditors found that 64 percent could be attributed to periodicals Pur chased for military libraries. But the remaining 36 percent were for non Library missions such As office copies. Even in the Case of the Library copies the audit added the military services appear 1o be subscribing to Loo Many papers. One example Cilcy was that of the Little Rock fab Library which subscribed to 137 titles of commercial periodicals giving them one Tilc for every 100 peo ple by contrast the Public Library in Jacksonville ark., served a population of 28,000 and subscribed to 34 titles giving them a ratio of one title for every s2j people White supremacist gets life for police shooting Columbia to. A a member of the while supremacist group the order has been sentenced to life in prison for shooting a state trooper to death with a Silencer equipped machine pistol. On monday while David tale 23, of Athol Idaho was sentenced in Columbia a Federal judge in Moscow Idaho sentenced Daniel r. Bauer a founding member of the order to five years in prison on charges stemming from an armoured car robbery. Tate was convicted of first degree Mur Der on nov. 13. The jury recommended hat he be sentenced to life in prison with out possibility of parole. Boone county circuit judge Frank con icy followed the jury s recommendation and tic also denied motions for acquittal and for a new trial for tale. Tate stood motionless As Conley pronounced the sentence. Taney county prosecutor Jim Justus said Tate would be tried Jan 28 in Boone county on charges in the wounding of a second trooper. Trooper Jimmie Linegar 31, was killed and Allen Hines 35, was wounded april 15 while the two troopers manned a traffic checkpoint in Southwest Missouri. Linigar had stopped tale s Van and was shot after he ran tale s name through a crime com Puter. Indictment named 23 Tate was named in u Federal indictment which named 23 members of the order in Seattle. Ten members of the order who stood trial were convicted on racketeering charges for a series of murders and armed a photo officials escort David Tate a member of the while supremacist organization the order. Robberies. Federal prosecutors said the order s goal was to overthrow the government eliminate jews and racial minorities and establish an aryan Homeland. It is Uncertain if the Federal government will pursue the Case against tute in Light of the murder conviction in Columbia. Tale did not testify in his defense but took the stand during the penalty phase of the trial and said he was sorry for killing Linigar. I feel terrible about it he said i be cried about it. I wish it had t in his opening argument defense attorney Patrick Scalon had said there was no question Tate had fired the Shoi that killed Linigar. However Scalon said tale was in victim of his childhood and the i jilt Wijt beliefs of his parents. Special prosecutor Richard Cril Tahan urged the death penalty saying thai if it were Ever applicable in applied in if Case Callahan showed the jury a Cache of weapons including 10 firearms equipped with silencers the were found under the floorboards of the Van tale a driving when Lin car was shut lie said hand grenade and explosive also were found. Hints said he heard automatic weapons fire after Linigar had checked talc s Driver s License and had walked Back to the Van. He said he went around the rear of inc Van and Tate fired a burst at him. Pursued by hundreds Tate fled on foot and was pursued through the rugged Oark Hills by hundreds of officers and tracking dogs. He was arrested april 20 in a Park in Forsyth. . District judge Harold l. Ryan sentenced Bauer of Hayden Lake Idaho who had pleaded guilty in september to charges of receiving stolen Money ant being an necessary after the fact. The jus Tice department charged Bauer with handling 1100,000 taken in an armoured car robbery near Ukiah. Calif., in the summer of i9�4. $25.8 million contract announced Navy to buy 24 israeli reconnaissance drones Washington a Art several years of experimentation the Navy has tie cited to begin purchasing Small reconnaissance drones developed in Israel the service said Navy said it awarded a $25.8 Mil lion contract to Aal inc. For three sys Ems listing of 24 of the drones marketed at Short Range remotely piloted the Baltimore based Aai is he . Representative of a joint venture Between Israel aircraft industries and Tad Iran an israeli electronics manufacturer. The propeller driven drones weigh approximately 400 pounds can remain m the air for More than five hours and carry cameras that can transmit pictures in either Day or nighttime operations. The drones can be recovered after each Mission. They will be used aboard Small surface ships to obtain information concerning threats Over the horizon without Catling on support from Carrier or land based air Craft the Navy said. The drones will provide the tactical commander with vital intelligence information continuously at an exceedingly Low Cost per right hour with Little risk of detection and with no risk of a Povy situation should the air vehicle be shot Down the Navy added. The unmanned vehicles could also be used to provide intelligence information about enemy troop strength on a Shoreline for use by the marines the Navy said. The service said the delivery of the drones will begin in Nfay and extend through september 1991. Each system will consist of eight drones one ground control station Luo por table control stations two Remote receiver stations and associated launch and recovery systems the Navy said. The contract includes an option 10 Pur Chase up to six additional systems
