European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. October 29, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 7 . Claims defense firm inflated costs new York a the government tuesday asked a judge for permission to increase its claims from 17 million to si6s million in a lawsuit claiming that general dynamics corp. Falsely inflated its prices Tor ships. The proposed amended complaint which must be approved by . District judge Edward win fold of Manhattan accuses he defense contractor of provid ing fraudulent figures an Cost and profit projections tar inc construction of two vessels designed to carry liquified natural Gas. General dynamics prepared two different sets of projections one for the . Maritime administration to calculate government subsidies and one for internal general dynamics use he complaint said. The two sets of data allegedly differed by about $55 million. Under inc false claims Aci he government is seek ing treble damages of ii 6i million plus interest. Win fold has scheduled a nov. 10 hearing on the govern ment s request. The proposed amended complaint also sought re turn of More than 179.s million in Federal subsidies paid to general dynamics. The . Attorney s office in Manhattan added Gen eral dynamics in april to a multimillion Dollar civil lawsuit seeking Ai least s7 million plus interest. Rescue workers help Beth Schifter 68, from her ear after she drove it through he Back will of her garage in part Huron mich., tuesday. She said she had App Bolo oops intended to Back up but Mil Kenly shifted the car into drive. She suffered minor injuries. A Crane was needed to remove the car. Nuke Plant inspectors suspended Koch announces major cutbacks in City spending Augusta a. A three Security inspectors at the Savannah River Plant were suspended for a week last Winter for playing games on a computer in the Plant s reactor according to a published report. According to a letter of suspension obtained by the Augusta chronicle and the Augusta Herald inc inspectors wrongfully entered a secured room for the Pur pose of playing games on a  Carl Nandrasy a spokesman for Wackenhut services inc., which employs the inspectors said no classified material was destroyed the newspapers reported in wednes Day editions. He also said the computer was not used for Security or operating the Plant s nuclear reactor. The . Department of Energy owns the nuclear materials producing facility in Aikin county . Across the Savannah River from Augusta and Wacken Hul provides Security for to c 300-Square-mitc Plant. Nandrasy said All three inspectors were suspended in january for seven Riis without pay and were not allowed to receive overtime for 14 Days. In addition he said their performance was monitored for 90 Days. Department of Energy spokesman Carl Webb said his department had been notified of the incident. Doe did not Lake any action because one of the things we Don t do is involve ourselves in the person Nel practices of our conductors Webb said. Poll finds demo Lead Cut sharply new York a republicans have almost eliminated a democratic Lead in voter preference in the 1988 presidential election according to a lbs new York times poll. Thirty six percent of the registered Volcks inter viewed said they probably would Vole for the demo cratic candidate1. 33 percent said they probably would vote Republican 22 percent said they would have to  who won the nominations before answering and 9 percent had no opinion would t answer or said they did l plan to vote. Allowing for a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage Points the results put the parties at a Vir Tual tic. The democrats have had about a id Point Lead in recent months. Forty three percent of the democratic respondents said they want the party to nominate someone who is not now running while 36 percent favor the Nomi nation of a current candidate. Most of he Likely democratic primary voters said they had not heard enough to form opinions on five democratic candidates and 40 percent said they had an unfavourable opinion of he sixth Jesse Jackson. Two Republican candidates were Well known vice president George Bush and Kansas sen. Bob Dole. Bush led among Likely Republican primary Vot ers 43 percent to Dole s 22 percent. Other republicans were less Well known and one pal Robertson had an unfavourable rating of 48 per cent. New York not mayor Edward i. Koch announced a major retrenchment in municipal hiring salary increases and pension contributions for new York cily caused by concern Over the plunge of the Slock Market and fears of a recession. Koch appearing unusually gloomy at a cily Hall news conference said he had ordered a 90-Day freeze on hiring for 5,200 jobs suspended a 5 percent pay raise for 4.000 management level employees and with drawn a j6j million contribution that the City had planned to enhance municipal pension benefits. The mayor said the collapse of inc Stock Market and intensified fears of a recession which could reduce new York City s revenues had prompted him to impose the measures. If the Economy and new York City s finances urn out to be better off than is now feared the mayor said the City could resume its planned course " am concerned for new York City Koch said at the news conference which was attended by representatives of several municipal agencies eager for the de tails of his plans. City services will suffer the mayor said. Inevitably these fiscal actions will have a negative effect on he delivery of City services he said. Give indians More say in affairs official urges Washington a the govern ment s top Indian affairs official told by a House subcommittee chairman to Lay his prepared testimony aside and answer the panel s questions said indians should be Given a greater say in How fed eral Aid is spent on their behalf. Ross swimmer assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian affairs testified tuesday that indians can do a lot More for themselves with the Money now being spent on them by the government. Swimmer old the House appropriations subcommittee on the Interior that efforts 10 give the indians More control Over Federal assistance have been resisted because indians fear they will be abandoned and left to Cope with less Aid from Washington. The hearing was called to explore Points raised in a series of articles in the Arizona Republic that were highly Crit ical of the governments performance in carrying out its responsibilities to the indians. The Interior department on monday made available the prepared testimony of swimmer and Interior Secretary Don Ald p. Hodyl but subcommittee chair Man Sidney Vales. D-lll., told them he did t want to hear their statement and went directly 10 quest ions. Yates said he doubted Model had writ ten his statement or that its rhetoric rep resented inc Secretary s views telling Hodyl. "1 think you re Loo smart 10 have prepared the testimony. Model and swimmer said the prob lems cited in the articles represented exceptions to government efforts id improve services to indians but Yates cited a report that found the Agency had been slow to Correct problems. The Correct ions Aren t taking  he said. Swimmer s prepared statement said Congress should establish a formula to provide Grants called self Delentina lion funds that would replace most budget categories. With these self determination funds inc tribes would have Complete autonomy in determining what programs would be provided the statement said. The tribes could contract their own programs or contract them to the Bureau or if they chose in another Federal or local  True Wolf  cannot be limited to programs designed 50 years ago or even those designed 15 years ago since those programs operate on the Assumption that what works on the Navajo reservation should work on the Mississippi Choctaw reservation in said