European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes tuesday june 17,1986 toll free hot line for reporting fraud to Pentagon now available in Germany by Cunt Swift Washington Bureau Washington a toll free hoi line to the states opened thursday in Germany for reporting waste fraud and mismanagement to the defense department inspector general. Persons who want 10 report fraud now can Call commercially through a new business service recently begun in Germany by american Telephone and Tele graph co., said Den Simon head of the in s hot line office. Tic phone number is 0-130-9962. Previously persons who wanted to make hoi line reports had to write the in s hoi line office in Alexan Dria va., or Book an Auto on Call to the states. There was no confidentiality in booking a Call Simon said this Way Here is Simon said inc hot line phone is staffed Here from & . To 5 . Eastern time that gives people in Germany a pretty Good win Dow he said. They could Start trying o reach us at 3 or 4 . And Call us any time up to 10 or 11 at  Simon said he Telephone does t change an Essen tial Clement of the fraud reporting program. I is not a substitute for going through channels to the local com Mander the inspector general or criminal investigation authorities when Hose officials Are not involved in he complaint. The toll free Telephone line is an Experiment Simon said. The goal is to find out whether easier Access will turn up More reports of fraud or Wasie. If it s not Cost effective Well Lake it out again he said. If tic Experiment proves a Success in Germany it could be extended to another High density troop area such As Korea Simon said. He said the Telephone serv ice needed is already offered there. The Experiment will last at least Sis months he said. He said the to line office receives reports from overseas but nol at anywhere near the rate they come in from the states. The in i latest report to Congress showed the hoi line office received a total of 4,311 Calls and letters during inc firs six months of fiscal 1986. Of Hose plus a Small number of Calls to the Genera account ing office hoi lineii3 were referred elsewhere for More information 2,588 were Send Forward for administrative action 781 went to investigators for audits or inspections and 980 were not substantive enough for More action. One allegation claimed a senior officer was taking personal trips using frequent flyer certificates he had earned through government sponsored travel. The offi cer was died Lor larceny making a false claim and conduct unbecoming an officer. He was retired in tie of a court martial a caller challenged the Price of a Fastener on a Navy plane and the contractor agreed to refund 137,000 id the government and reduce the Price of the contract. Another Call suggested a Dod Agency was wasting Money by mailing unclassified pamphlets by registered first class mail. The Agency was following policy but inc i no castigation led to a new policy of mailing unc last find material the cheapest Way. It will save the Agency More than $50,000 a year the report said. Many firms adopting smoking oreo policies Washington a despite opposition from both management and labor groups to Laws requiring restrictions on workplace smoking More and More businesses arc adopting policies spelling out when and where employees can Light up a Survey of 662 employers nationwide Hal a released monday showed that 36 percent of them have established poli cies on employee smoking and 2 percent said they plan o implement such restrictions before inc end of this year. Moreover an additional 21 percent of the private companies and organizations surveyed by the National Bureau of affairs and the american society for personnel administration said they have smoking policies under consideration. While the majority of employers in the United slates have nol yet restricted employee smoking. The growth of work place smoking policies is unmistakable the two groups said in a report accompanying the Survey. Of the 239 companies with smoking policies 85 percent said they had been introduced within the past five years and 60 percent said their policies were less than two years old. Among the scores of major Corpora Lions with smoking policies general motors Ford Texas instruments Aetna life insurance Campbell soup Levi Straus Boeing co., Bank of America Merck & co., Hewlett Packard co., ism and Proctor &. Gamble. Only 2 percent of the personnel administrators responding to the Survey said their organisations had banned All smoking and Only 15 percent said they had banned it in open work areas. Much More common were measures such As dividing work areas into smoking and non smoking sections or permitting smoking unless a problem  local and state ordinances requiring workplace smoking policies were the most common reasons cited by person Nel administrators for implementing restrictions. Ten states Alaska. Connecticut Florida Maine Minnesota Montana Nebraska new Hampshire new Jersey and Utah have Laws regulating smok ing at private workplaces and at least 73 cities and counties in California have local ordinances. More than one third of the companies with smoking restrictions cited those Laws and ordinances As a reason for developing their policies and 28 percent said it was the primary reason. While Union and corporate opposition to smoking controls is not unanimous the Bureau of National affairs said in a 140-Page report accompanying the sur vey that most local slate and National business and labor groups have opposed legislation requiring them. The army staling that its Goat is to make non smoking the Norm last week announced a policy prohibiting smoking by its 781,000 soldiers and 450,000 civilian employees except for designated  it s in the cards a photo Ron Reagan son of president Reagan holds up in american express credit curd during the filming or Commer Cial aboard a jetliner in new York. The advertising Campaign is scheduled for airing on nationwide television next month. The nun silting beside Reagan is not identified. Working women face Many inequities poll finds new York a should a woman do most of the housework when Boih she and her husband work a majority of americans say no although the woman is often left with most of the housework anyway according to a Media general associated press poll. Women who comprised one third of the work Force in 1958, today make up 44 percent of All workers. Their increasing numbers in the workplace was seen As a positive trend by nearly half the 1,473 adult Ameri cans called while Only ont Quarter thought it was harmful. The changing role of women in the workplace How Ever has led to several inequities according to the poll s respondents. For example a Man was thought to have a belter Chance of winning promotion than a women of equal skill according to 55 percent of the respondents. Only one third thought men and women had equal chances of being promoted. A Man was thought to have a better Chance of being hired than a woman according to 44 percent of the respondents while 37 percent thought men and women had equal opportunities. Twelve percent said the woman would Nave an advantage and the rest were unsure. Ninety three percent of the respondents said spouses should share household cleaning equally when both work full time outside the Home. Yet in 57 per cent of the households where both partners worked women did most of he cleaning. An equal percentage of men and women said it was Good that More women were working outside the Home but women were far More Likely than men to say that men held an advantage in hiring and promotions. Nearly two thirds of the women said that a Man had a but scr Chance than a woman of being promoted when All else was equal. Less than half the men Felt the same Way. In hiring. 51 percent of women and Only 37 percent of men said a Man had an advantage Over a woman of equal skill. The poll also found that Only 22 percent of the respondents would prefer to work for a Man. Nearly Ihrcke quarters of the respondents said the sex of their Bass was unimportant to them. Nol surprisingly Young people who May not re member the Days when Mother stayed at Home were More Likely than older people 10 accept women in the workplace. While 60 percent of 18 to 34-year-Olds said the increasing number of working women is a Good trend Only 36 percent of 55 to 64-year-Olds Felt that Way. Only 28 percent of those Over 65 Yean old thought it was a Good trend. Amajor Iliyof respondents 58 percent also said that women should have an equal Chance to do any Job men could do. Thirty nine percent said there Are cer Tain Job women should t do with heavy labor and construction police and fire services mining combat or working with chemicals and explosives cited most often