European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars an d stripes monday january to 1396 beneath $640 toilet seat there s a $300 pot Washington up1 tie air porec. Sung ins year by revelations Ifni it paid s640 each for toilet seals Iima has been cited for spending More than 1300 each on plastic toilet pots Thill could be bought at a hardware store for Sld. Ren. John Dingell l mieh., Laid Congre Axial incs i Ujj Milors also found that air Fri acc officials bought fv7 of the toilet pots from Lockheed corp. After the latrine system for inc plane Tinl would use them the Cia irn Sporl was redesigned to eliminate them. In a idler to pm Csc Secretary Casper Weinberger Din cell said inc general accounting office had discovered n number of new procurement abuses by the air Force. The letter Dacid thursday was released during the weekend by the House Energy and Commerce sub com i lice on oversight and investigations which reviewed charges for the toilet pots compared by a staff investigator to n simple roasting pan Dingell is chairman of the this year the subcommittee looked beneath the s640 a Allyl Seal and what did we find1" Dingell asked Wein Berger in the letter. We found a $317.79 toilet ran far the c-5a transport purchased by the air farce from were told that this same one Pound thin plastic pot could be purchased at your local hardware store for less than 110," Dingell wrote. Pentagon spokesman Jack Powers said Weinberger had received to Cleller Hugh Burns a Lockheed spokesman in Washington said the company was aware of a Gao report but had not be received it and would not comment until it had Dingell said an air Force Engineer in a written report to the subcommittee said the toll cd pals were poorly de signed n and the Price was out of but Afler the air plane s latrine system was redesigned the air Force purchased 67 More pass from Lockheed on to separate occasions since he decision was made to move to Iho new design. Dingell suggested that much of the problem is d result of defense Denau Actu officials abusing rate agreement negotiated with contractors. Under the Rule agreement system the Pentagon agrees to pay he contractor an hour Dingell said the recently completed Cao investigation found air Fores officials at the san Anionio air logistic Center paid about s240 each for 79 assemblies to hold the toilet pots after the latrine system had been redesigned. Paid ji6.400 for the left Side Assembly of a c-5a engine mount and less Ihan s5.000 for the right when both pieces Ore virtually identical. Ordered two fibreglass panels for the underside of the transport s wings but investigators found two that had been in storage since 1913. Air Force officials were unable to Slop the order because it was too near delivery. Nuclear from Pago 1 sj7c ships wrote Peter Jbrown a civilian defense analyst in a recent opinion for the 1 the Goat is a Short. Inion it Miff if be Joni to and operational paralysis. The Chu Nikul Moefu rations is Rente human stress and Navy spokesmen said the service has Sev eral agencies looking at inc potential threat. It is not something we take lightly said la. Cmdr. Rob Donovan. Scientists at the naval surface weapons can Kcf White Oak Laboratory in Silver Spring my. Are head ing inc research Effort Donovan said As an example of what to expect surface warfare analysts Point to the july 25,1946 on ration Crossroads lest it the Bikini atoll in the Marshall islands. There the Navy detonated a relatively Small " Kiloton device 90 feet beneath the surf the resulting blast produced a mated Millon Lon hollow column Tenter 2,000 feet in diameter. The Al Rose to a height of More than Ajha above Bikini Lagoon before fallin reek in a Man made storm of Waves sup stand Ocean debris. One 90-Ragfjmave ripped off the super Structure aircraft Carrier anchored near the a fsr test purposes. Turc Aist advantage of using High sea rail Only Funne of d by Thatcher newspapers report London a the planned under sea lint Between Britain and France is to be a Railroad Tunnel and not combined Road and rail project London s sunday newspapers reported. The observer and the sunday Telegraph said that prime minister Margaret Thatcher who dislikes railway had lost her argument for a Road rail Tunnel. The reports said that the Rait Only solution will be the one announced on monday when Thatcher meets French president Francois Mitterrand in the French City of Lille. A Tunnel bared under the 21-mile water Way which the British Call the English Channel and the French la Monehe the sleeve has been discussed Ai least since the time of the French emperor Napoleon f in the Early i9lh Century. Slates As a weapon is that the enemy would Noi have to penetrate a Carrier group s formidable defensive system to employ it. Drown suggested that inc warheads could be launched from land and Mode to appear to Fly erratically toward the target before dropping into the Sta. The by of the Waves produced would de Pend on the configuration of the sea floor the currents and the Jepth at which the warheads were detonated. Brown estimated that Devira Range would produce tout Kahover it targeted area As much As the largest wave ev.,. De was spotted in the mid a Crete 1938 by deck officers of to Jwj Tanker ram Apo. . An officer sighted the wave and calculated i uhf of
