European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 28, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 paramilitary group planning strategy Memphis Tenn. Up the paramilitary group civilian Materiel assistance thai earned National at Tention by giving unsolicited Aid to inc contras and the . Border patrol began a convention Friday aimed at dosing ranks and perfecting its grass roots War on communism. About 200 delegates from a num Ber of slates including Florida Wyoming and Alaska discussed a variety of Issue not the least of which is Thelma s Media image. Tom Posey 40, said he a Liard of seeing his group portrayed As trigger Happy mercenaries because of its assistance to the rebel soldiers of Nicaragua. We re people that take off work and go Down there for two weeks and help out where we can. We give them contras supplies sweat and Devotion said Posey who runs a produce company in Decatur Ala. Look at us said Posey pointing to a group of me dressed in camouflage outfits in a hotel lobby. We re Middle aged people. The organization first Drew attention after two of its members were killed in 1984 when a helicopter they had flown across the Honduras Border was shot Down by Nicaragua soldiers. Most recently in a Remote town on the Arizona Mexico Border Cha members stopped and detained 15 illegal aliens until . Bor Der patrol agents arrived. This weekend the Cha will discuss a Border patrol made up of civilians with aide arms. He said the groups interested Only in observation documentation and reporting of drug smugglers who Are financing communism in Central America. If you mop the drug Trade you re hurting the communists he said. Bill Luckett 57, a bearded alaskan who joined Thelma last year said inc fight is not against illegal aliens i Bear them no malice at All. I consider Mexico my second country cause i be spent a lot of time there Luckett said. The line has to be drawn against communism. No More equivocation no More backing  since the july 5 Border incident Many officials including Arizona gov Bruce Babbitt have condemned the Cha forgoing inc work of Law enforcers. But Posey said the incident was a Fluke and that the aliens gave themselves up forcing the Cha to detain them. The Cha intends to break no Laws with it Border patrol Only 10 assist Law enforcement agents when asked he said. Texas authorities Don t intend to ask. If they Are armed an they were in Arizona we believe they would pose a danger to our citizens and Law enforcement said Elna Christopher a spokeswoman for Texas attorney general Jim maalox. Wodon i want people running around with machine  defense audit Agency two years behind schedule critics say Philadelphia not when Andrew Harkey an aide to military contractors want to close their books on a project they have Roget in line sometimes waiting two or More  defense contract audit Agency a Liny Federal Agency that is Sun posed to audit Bills and contracts is facing a mushrooming backlog of unaudited Bills that is expected to retch $111 billion by next  say the Agency is so Over worked and understaffed that its audits Are at Best cursory and often fail to detect even obvious  critic rep. Jim courier r no has introduced a Bill to abolish the Agency and have individual serv ices conduct their own  said military contractors Are burdened by excessive oversight that delays construction and procure ment and drives up  Don t have enough manpower to do the Job said Phil e. Rogers the Agency s executive officer. They re under the gun out  re trying to produce More and More with less and  attempts to keep up he said the backlog of unaudited Bill shas grown to More than $70 billion. Some vendors have to wait More than two years to close their books. The delays often Cost taxpayer Money since the government does not collect any refunds due in a timely fashion thereby giving contractors what amounts to interest free  said the Agency which has 3.400 auditors plans to hire 1,607more next year. The defense contract audit Agency Wai created in 1965 and has in effect become the government i accountant auditing contracts for 28 Federal agencies and , according to a Gary a. Fossedal a fellow at Stanford University s Hoover institution it is Only one of a series of auditors. Contractors face at least six other government auditors both within and outside the defense department be said making the Agency part of the stifling bureaucracy. In the last 20 years the Agency workload has increased to where it is now supposed to audit 110,000 Bill Sand proposals Worth $311 billion a year compared with 33,000 contract Worth $19.7 billion in 1968. During that period its staff has grown by Only 18 percent to 4,600 from 3,900. Andre  f. Hartnitt r-s.c., a Mem Ber of the House armed service committee said Many people say let s do away with it and Start Over again. But we d like to see what the new auditors can  officials Point with Pandelo several recent cases of fraud uncovered by their auditors. These include extensive Over timing by general elec tric and by Clifton precision special devices division a subsidiary of lit ton industries. But they acknowledge that they rein Many ways titling at windmills. If a contractor is hellbent on com mitting fraud and he s smart enough he s going to get away with  said John Stanton the director of the Agency s Philadelphia  noted that the Agency s audits Are not designed to detect fraud. In Stead they Are intended to make sure that prices arc reasonable and that contractors comply with Pentagon regulations and generally accepted accounting methods. That is Why numerous audits failed to uncover Clifton s fraud he said. Auditors had no Way of knowing the whole situation would be comic were it not so  rep. Jim courier that the division had forged documents and Price quotations to justify its expenses he said they were a bit smarter than we were Stanton added. But the fact i that we uncovered it. The fact we re finding fraud is proof that our audits Are Quality  but some critics say the Agency should not be blamed for its prob lems. In an attempt to improve efficiency and eliminate fraud inc Penta gon and Congress have created bureaucratic quagmire that Aggra Vates inefficiency and abuse the contend. The result has Only been More auditors auditing the auditors and paradoxically fewer weapons of Lowe Quality reaching the troops in the Field. Courier wrote in a recent Arti Cle for the Christian science Monitor the whole situation would be comic were it not so  some colleges falsifying Revenue data audit says Washington up Small Pri vate colleges have purchased building Sand made payments on Long term debts to Banks and insurance companies while defaulting on Low interest government backed Loans education department auditors have found. An audit by the department s inspector general s office disclosed that 70 universities May have tide reported Mil Lions of dollars in revenues to the government while defaulting on federally funded housing Loans. By painting an Overly Bleak financial picture some of the schools May have hoped to renegotiate their loan repay ment schedules the report and depart ment officials said. Defaulted Loans now total 188.7 Mil lion in the mull billion Dollar Colleg housing loan program which provides Long term financing at 3 percent interest for construction of student and faculty housing student centers dining Halls and health centers an official in the of fice of Post secondary education said. The report estimated financing Cost to the government at $2 million annually on the overdue housing Loans for the 70 schools. While criticizing the departments image of leniency in its collection policy auditors recommended the govern ment initiate foreclosure proceedings against institutions with Loans Delin quent More than a year. They also urged withholding student Aid to induce the schools to begin timely payments. One education department official who requested anonymity said colleges sometimes falsify data because they face financial problems stemming from fall ing enrolments unpopular curricula or poor management. Suspect in 72 hijacking returned to . By France new York apr Willie Roger Holder wanted for hijacking a plane 14 years ago to demand the release of Black activist Angela Davis was extradited saturday to the United states from France where he had been arrested on other charges. Holder and Catherine Marie Kerkow Are accused of the june 2, 1972, Hijack ing of Western airlines flight 701 from los Angeles to Seattle with 105 people aboard and demanding 5500,000 and the release of Davis from prison. Led a prosecutor paralysed and four dead was jailed for 16 months before being acquitted of murder and Kidnap Ping chaises the hijacking did not win her release. The plane s passengers were allowed la leave and the hijackers were Given 5500,000 before the Jet flew to Algeria where the Crew was released. Fri spokesman Neil Herman refused to discuss Holder s whereabouts since he was arrested when the plane landed in Algeria. Holder and Kerkow who remains n fugitive were indicted in june 1972 on charges of air piracy and kidnapping. Sands of term in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. July 28, 1946 darn. . Blandy commander of the atom bomb Force cruised through the radioactive area in the heart of the target Fleet making the tint close inspection of the results of the underwater explosion detonated at Bikini la Goon july 25. 30 years ago today. July 28, 1956 the steel strike was settled in new York with agreement on Athree year no strike contract giving workers an increase of 45.6 cents per hour 20 years ago today. July 28, 1966 . Warplanes hammered at North Vietnam while ground fighting remained at a Low ebb. 7 0 years ago today july 28, 1976 a . Embassy sponsored evacuation by sea of about 400 americans and other foreigner went off without a hitch As a new blueprint Lor settlement of Lebanon s civil War was disclosed