European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Baker s Art stripes Magazine d Randy Barnett s car Corner Page 13 g Al wins All Star game Page 17 d today s Dollar buys 2,14 Marks Page 23 the stars and stripes vol 45, no. 90 uhf oiled unofficial  Fob the  Tameo thursday. July 17, 1986 i , 0 8693 a . Soldiers will join in bolivian drug raids la  Bolivia api about 160u.s. Army troops along with helicopters and transport planes have begun univ ing in it Alivia. Loaid inc country s drug agents in n Campaign to wipe out dozens of Clandestine Jungle based cocaine labs officials said. . Olt Licals said inc narcotics raids will be staged with the help of sin . Army Blackhawk Dauault copters which were air lifted with Thor pilots to Santa Cruz about 20i Miles Irwi of la a on monday. The operation is being conducted at the invitation of the bolivian govern ment wild Mark Jacobs press attache for the . Embassy. He confirmed talc tuesday the arrival of inc . Helicopters four transport planes and an unspecified number of support  a . Embassy source said that about 160 american military personnel scheduled to provide support in the anti drug Campaign have been provided with diplomatic immunity and Ali n the opera lion has been aut Inri cd by Vire presi Dent George Bush. The raids will be coordinated by the . Drug t forc Cmunt administration. The Aniu i in officials said. About 15 idea officers arc in Bolivia and they arc expected to ily aboard the copters to co ordinate the actions of bolivian drug agents once the raids begin. The operation comes one month after see raids an Page 24 Litton admits padding Bills to Pentagon Philadelphia not Litton industries agreed tuesday to plead guilty to 32s counts of fraud for Over toiling the Pentagon by $6.3 million inc larg est Case yet of false Billing by a military contractor Litton systems inc. Also agreed to  the govern ment a 5 million in fines penalties interest and restitution company and Federal officials said. Lillon obtained Blank receipts from subcontractors and filled in whatever amount they thought he Audi tors would  said an assistant . Attorney. He said the company charged the Pentagon up to four times the True Price for electronic components under 45 contracts Between 1975 and 1984. Officials at Lillon systems wholly owned subsidiary Clifton precision of Springfield pa., routinely referred to the Adas Chicken  prosecutors said. Clifton precision s special devices division manufactured the components. The agreement to plead guilty was announced with inc indictment which charged Litton systems Clifton precision and two former Cliflon executives with defrauding inc defense department Michael j. Millspaugh 34. Clifton s former vice president of finance and administration was charged with one count of racketeering 20 counts of mail fraud and one count of making false statements. Joseph Diliberto 68, Clifton s former purchasing manager was charged with one count of conspiracy tomake false statements and one count of making false statements. If convicted he could be sentenced to 10 years in jail and fined $15,000. Fountain of youth a Phulo eight year old Chris Edgar Mif he be a Little squirt but he s no Small Fry when it conies la beating the heat in Springfield mass. The Viiu Nissler has decided that his place in the Sun during the heat Wate affecting much of the Eastern United slates is atop a Fountain in inc Civ s Center related Story Page 24, fighter Jet defect is safety threat legislator says Washington up hundreds off is and f 16 jews flown worldwide by the air Force and 11 . Allies May have defective engine fan Blades thai could fail rip through the engine and destroy the fighters rep. John Dinell. Ij-mich., said tuesday. An air Force spokesman denied the problem poses any safely threat. Dingell cited air Force less thai found defects in up to 30 percent of the Blades that had been repaired after they were scavenged from a scrapyard at Kelly fab in san Antonio Texas. In a letter to defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Dingell said the air Force is planning a worldwide recall of the repaired Blades for inc f-100 engine used in both  House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on investigations and oversight which Dingell Heads has evidence shut defective Blades have caused the failure of some Foo engines a Dingell aide said. He said the panel is investigating these incidents further. The aide also said Dingell is perplexed As to Why parts Are pulled out of the air Force base s junkyard and put into our front line Fighier  in the letter released tuesday Dingell wrote until the general accounting office had some of the Blades tested maintenance people at Kelly and throughout the world were routinely installing these defective Blades into Foo  the air Force admits there could be a catastrophic failure of the Blades with the Blades ripping through the engine threatening the life of the Pilot and undoubtedly resulting in the destruction of the �30 Mil lion aircraft Dinge i wrote. Air Force it col. Edwin Cooke spokesman at the Kelly base said every indication has been there is no safety Issue associated with the repair of inc Blades. Manula Elured by the general dynamics corn., there Are 1,572 single engine Fiss in service world wide. A company spokesman said the . Air Force has 1,000, the balance Are used by Belgium Denmark the Netherlands Norway Israel Egypt. Pakistan South Korea and Venezuela. The Are 941 twinn engine f-l5s, manufactured by Mcdonnell Douglas in use 88 Are used by Japan Sau Dia Arabia and Israel and the balance by the air Force a Mcdonnell Douglas spokesman said. The f-100 engines Are produced by Prait & Whit Ney u division of United technologies corp