European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday May 14,1986 y repairs May Cost army $2.4 by Norman Black a my Pitary writer Washington the army has decided it must repair the transmissions on its new Bradley fighting vehicle because of failures and Tia Lily Eoa Lrol problems that accompanied the Start of production officials say. The decision comes Al a time when the Bradley inc army s newest personnel Carrier sounder fire on Capitol Kil because of doubts about its ability to protect soldiers. A spokesman for the general electric co., which builds the Bradley a jism Jjon snid monday the army was purchasing 2,750 special modification kits to upgrade the transmission units of Bradley either already delivered or soon to be delivered. According to it col Craig Macnab an army spokes Man More Hart 2,00 brat Llcy had already been delivered to inc army by last january out of tie total 6,882 the service Hopes to buy. Each Bradley costs roughly 11.5 million. Mcnab said the army will Bear the Cost of repairing the transmissions estimated by Trade re polls to total More than $1.4 million. The be spokesman said inc transmissions were made before the company began providing the army a one year warranty on the units in 1984. Be hits already incorporated improvements to inc transmissions on its production line and tests on the newer units have shown hey will exceed specified standards Mann snid. According to Mcnab and the be spokesman who asked not to be identified the final decision to order re pirs was prompted by the unexpected failure of 56 Brad Leys during training exercises in Texas and Germany last july and october respectively. During ice or discs in Germany 36 out of 162 Brand Icys suffered transmission related failures. During i he ear Lier exercises Al fort Hood. Texas 20 out of Iso vehicles broke Down the be spokesman said most of the problems were traced to the be production line and appeared to have been caused by parts made by subcontractors that did t meet Quality specified i ions. General electric buys about 800 parts from vendors for this and makes Only about six major components themselves Macnab said. When full scale production began in arc were problems with same parts thai Weron l caught the be spokesman confirmed Machaby statements and said the company had worked closely Wilh the army to develop the modification kit. The kit includes five special pans designed to replace original components he two spokesmen said. Each kit will Cost $326, and the army has estimated labor costs at 1640 per vehicle he two aim Sci. Mcnab stressed monday it was not unusual for Trie army to order improvements or modifications to weapon components after experience in inc Field. He also noted the army has already announced it will break out inc trans Mission production work and seek a second producer to compete against be for future awards -. I nonetheless the transmission repair Effort Cornea Al Al i time when congressional critics have singled out the Brad i i Ley and vowed to pursue an end to production Tor the current version of the vehicle. ,. The Bradley built by the fac corp., is intended to carry troops into Battle. It runs on treads like a Ink at speeds up to 45 Mph and is a Rcd Wilh a 15mm Cannon missiles and machine guns. Reps. Charius Bennett d-fla., and Denny Smtih r Ore contend the weapon is highly vulnerable id Alnemy fire that cow touch off internal explosions of ammunition stored inside the Bradley they also assert that live fire tests on the Bradley were rigged to hide the weapon s problems. The army has dismissed that claim saying it would. Never Rig any tests that dealt with the safety of its soldiers. I the service has already begun mapping plans however to i improve the existing Bradley with such things As Addi Ilion Al armoured Protection. Deaver from Page 1 his involvement in the acid rain Issue on. Canada s behalf. As president Reagan s Deputy chief of staff a Caver held no least 15 discussions on acid Nikiti in the Manlus preceding a Summit in mid March ids. He also pushed for the appointment of a special us. Envoy to focus on the problem the Gao fold the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations. A Caver said he could support the appointment of either Drew Lewis or William Clark As special envoy according to the two Gao officials who testified before the sub correction did Spain is a seven Lite protest March from the Spanish Capi Tal to Torrejon a was without incident a base spokeswoman said. Participants in sunday s March demanded thai Ifie four . Bases in Spain be dismantled. Although the associated press reported that 65,000 demonstrators turned out the spokeswoman estimated the crowd at 5,000 people. Committee. Lewis got the Job and a Caver who re signed his White House Job May 10, 1985, represented the Candia government at an oct. 25 meeting with Lewis and others on the acid rain Issue. The Gao investigators concluded that Denver s participation in thai oct. 25 meet ing May have constituted violation of four conflict of interest provisions because he discussed inc release of a pending acid rain report during the session. Lewis and his Canadian counterpart re leased the report which recommended inc implementation a five year $5 billion . Program to clean up acid rain on Jan b. Reagan later endorsed the report and the program effectively reversing his earlier position that the acid rain Issue needed More study before a control plan was devised. Or. Deaver i participation in the determination to appoint the special envoy appears to have been personal and there is precedent for regarding his input As sub Stantial participation said the 20-Page. J to report to the House panel Given or. Dcavcr1 endorsement of inc special envoy approach his discussion concerning potential appointees and his Posi Tion of influence Al inc while House or. Denver s participation in this particular matter appears to have been significant and thus substantial within the meaning or cd Mil conflict of interest Laws. It added. I after the hearing Deaver said try Al statement that inc Gay report was pre pared and presented publicly without inter viewing me or any of my associates and fails 10 that i have violated any Federal Laws the report was based principally on the recollections of three individuals including David Stockman and merely repeals Var ious allegations and rumours that have been circulating in the press for weeks Denver s statement added a Caver said he looks Forward to responding in detail to the report the Oao re leased when he testifies before the subcommittee in a closed session Friday. The Gao was unable to substantiate re mors thai Deaver was discussing employment with the Canadian government while he was still at the White House said James of Hinch Man the Gao s Deputy general counsel. Hone Man said those rumours came from Stockman the former director of the office of management and budget and if True could place Denver in another conflict of interest situation. The Canadian government has acknowledged in a letter a Canadian official did make a Light hearted conversational remark to Deaver White he Wai at the White House about How much Canada could use a Good Man like Deaver. Subcommittee chairman John Dingell d-mich., said that Many judgments have been made concerning the legality and the propriety of these Caver s Dingell said he would not make any Deci radiation from Page 1 party newspaper were any malefactors singled out by name. A report in pravda described a. Siena Renko an Engineer and Oca party official from Pri pyal and another parly official a. Shapoval As ignoring their duties during tie evacuation of 200 employees and their families from the area near the stricken reactor. Shapoval said to have displayed total indifference to he Fries of people who found themselves in a difficult situation was stripped of his party membership by he Pri pyal party committee. Is Charonko had a severe reprimand entered on Bis party card. Such actions mean disgrace for the offi Cial involved probably foreshadowing the loss of their jobs. The pravda report did not indicate whether a criminal proceeding might be initiated against the pair. A third official identified As a Gubsky Secretary of the local construction Organiza Tion was Given an unspecified punishment for failing to give a timely principled As ses Smenton what had on May 9, Hans Blix head of the inter National atomic Energy Agency reported that "204 persons including nuclear Power Slation personnel and firefighters were affected by radiation from the first degree to the fourth Lii said that until chernobyl no one was known to have died of radiation from a nuclear Power Plant deaths have been reported previously in accidents involving nuclear materials including accidents at research reactors and a plutonium production Plant but not previously from radiation exposure at an operational Power Plant. In 1957 a fire Al the winds Alc plutonium production reactor in England spread radioactive material in the Region. In i9b3, the British government estimated that 39 people have probably since died of cancer As u result. Also in 1957 a chemical explosion in Kali .s.r., in nuclear waste tanks spread radioactive material Over an area the size of Manhattan and forced a major evacuation. Despite rumours of deaths none has been made Public by soviet authorities. In 1961 three american technicians were killed when an experimental reactor at Idaho Falls Idaho went out of control. One of the workers was said to Hare been impaled by a reactor control Rod. An Accident at a research reactor near Buenos Aires Argentina in 1983 claimed the life of one technician 47 hours after he suffered severe radiation. In january 1986, a worker died at a Kerr Mcgee Plant at Gore okla., after an explosion in an overheated Cylinder con Taining nuclear material but the death was apparently caused by exposure to to in chemicals Only Small Levels of radiation were found in and around the plan. The government newspaper Izvestia re ported tint the number or evacuees As a result of the Accident was 92,000 the last previous figure was 84,000. While the soviet Public was Given Mare and More news about the attempts to con lain Ibe chernobyl Accident including Tele Vised pictures of helicopters practising the dropping of Sandy mixtures of metals from a 300-foot rope the foreign ministry continued to lash out against Western reaction to the disaster. Sions on the propriety of Caver s business until the panel s inquiry is finished. The provisions of Law cited by the Gao As possibly being violated by Caver were one that sets up a lifetime prohibition on All former Federal employees represent ing any person before the government on a matter in which the sex employee participated personally and substantially. One thai imposes a two year restriction on the same Type of activity if the Mai Ler was pending within a year before he Federal employee left the government. One that prohibits former senior Feder Al employees like Denver from representing any person before the Federal government for two years on any Issue in which they participated substantially. One Hal imposes a no Contact ban for one year on appearing before the employ i dec s former Agency. I the Oao investigators said hat Lewis could be regarded As an employee of the i White House although his expenses were paid by the stale department. Eno Ratunil Nellc cry Buh Burll s. Sch Leteir w. I chid go i. Dvar Houlon Rall shame. 51. 73 . 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