European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. October 30, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 my tests falsified Northrop admits Washington thirty Nothrop corp employees were removed from key management positions for falsifying test results in the my missile pro Gram a senior company executive told a congressional panel wednesday. Bui Frank a Lynch. Vice chairman of the Nothrop Board denied charges by congressional investigators Hai the my guidance system manufactured by the los Angeles based company was inaccurate. As we reported some Lime ago there had been lapses and errors of judgment in the division. They were not acceptable. Lynch Laid the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on investigations. And he said the company moved about 30 key peo ple out of their management responsibilities mostly it Northrop s Plant in Pomona Calif. President Reagan has called the 519 billion  program the Centrepiece of efforts to modernize . Strategic forces. In reorganizing the Northrop program since a con Gressional hearing last june Lynch said the company managed to Cut its backlog on orders for guidance systems from 23 to a dozen and tripled the number of auditors overseeing manufacture of my guidance unit. Lynch came under i Hicri no criticism from the sub Corn Mittee chairman. Rep. John Dingell d-mich., and other panel members. You re telling us that it was common knowledge thai the manager of the Pomona Plant was regularly falsifying lest results. To meet production sched Ules said Dongell. I would have to say that Hose were the conditions that were found Lynch replied. We had a totally unsatisfactory situation in the management. I Ean l understand the  labor chief says Trade Bill would cause fiscal panic Miami Beach Fla. Not labor Secretary William e. Brock 111 wednesday urged congressional leaders to abandon efforts on a restrictive Trade Bill predicting that passage of the measure would cause rampant panic in the world s financial markets. I think i would scare people to death if we passed something like that Brock said after addressing delegates to the Birnn Ial convention of the a Al Cio. Brock s remarks were the first by a Reagan administration official linking the Tumuli in the markets with the suggestion that the Trade Bill be withdrawn. Only last week. Clayton k. Yseult or the . Trade repro Send alive signalled the administration s interest in working oui a Compromise on Trade legislation. But Brock who also served As the administration s Trade representative before becoming labor Secretary. Indicated that the administration was now adamantly opposed to the Bill calling it  the thought thai we would run the risk of a major attack on the world trading system at a time when the world is As a Mullous As dangerous As Panicky Asil is at the moment is irrational Brock said. Brock who has resigned As labor Secretary effective Friday to become manager of sen. Bob Dole s presidential Campaign added. We ought to draw Back from any step that would further destabilize the world system financial and  think Brock s statement is an outrageous one sen Lloyd Bentsyn a Scias. Chairman of the Senate finance committee said in Washington. He has been against the Bill from the beginning and he has seized on the Slock Market crisis to malign  nuke dump scheme May be illegal Reno nov. A Nevada s Zero population. Bullfrog county created by the legislature to keep a radioactive waste dump from being forced on the stale violates the state Constitution the state attorney Gener Al claims. After months of study. It is Clear it violated the Constitution. We will not defend this statute attorney general Brian Mckay told a news conference. Bullfrog county is an uninhabited Patch of land 110 Miles Northwest of los vegas encompassing Yucca Mountain one of three potential Sites chosen by the Federal department of Energy As a possible High level nuclear dump creation of the county was backed by Cov Richard Bryan and endorsed by lawmakers opposed to the nuclear dump. In also was backed by those who wanted to assure the stale the highest possible return from the Federal government if the dump is built anyway. Reacting to Mckay s finding Bryan said that Al though Bullfrog county May be declared unconstitutional i will continue to oppose the location of b High level nuclear waste dump anywhere in the stale of  if the site is chosen for the dump the Federal government would have to compensate the state run county not Nye county for taxes in would have received had the dump been a private project. The amount involved is estimated at 18 million to $25 million a year. Calif Job safety program saved from governor s a Sacramento Calif. A a state appeals court has ruled that gov George Deukmejian acted illegally when he tried to abolish Cal Osha the stale program that enforces Job safely for millions of work ers and ordered in reinstated. The Republican governor vetoed 17 million from the j14d million state department of Industrial relations budget and earmarked it As Cal Osha funds and declared that that abolished the 19-year-old pro Gram. The unanimous court ruling issued monday and made Public tuesday by the 3rd District court of a peal said Deukmejian exceeded his authority. Deukmejian a longtime critic of Cal Osha had announced several times his desire 10 eliminate the program from the private work place where it affects about 9,8 million workers. His veto did not affect regu lation of hundreds of thousands of state and local government workers who continue to be covered. The court ruled that California s constitutional separation of Powers sections gives the legislature author Ity to set policies and said Deukmejian s use of his line item veto of budget items to eliminate programs is not Legal. The attempted exercise of a legislative Power not conferred upon the governor is a nullity the court Opin Ion said adding. The enactment of a statutory appropriation for funding the agencies of stale government to enforce the Laws entrusted to them is an exercise of the legislative  what May be reduced or eliminated by a governor s veto is quite obviously a Dollar amount. It makes no sense to say that a purpose May be reduced the ruling said Deukmejian first deleted the funding for the stale version of the Federal occupational safety and health administration from his budget proposal to the legis lature in january claiming it duplicated efforts of the Federal Agency. Deuk Mcjunk under questioning from rep. Ron Wyon. D-ore., Lynch said Nothrop employees had failed to perform adequate tests on cables leading from a Gyroscope incorporated into the guidance system. Dingol accused Northrop of paying executives bonuses while allowing the accuracy of the my to de Cline lagging on production schedules falsifying Tecsi Resul is and committing other fraudulent practices. The bonuses were paid while Northrop executive were literally running this program into the ground,1 Wyden said. Air Force oversight of Northrop s con duct sends the message to contractors that no matter How incompetent they arc they will continue to be paid for their work he added. Dingell said that because of delays by Nothrop Only 17 out of 27 my missiles at Warren Afu in Wyoming could he placed on Alert status. Families sue City for neglect in building crash Bridgeport Conn. A families of 28 men killed in the collapse of the the l ambiance Plaza project filed suit wednesday charging the City of Bridge port and two officials with failing to properly inspect building plans and the construction site. Plaintiffs in the suit filed in Waterbury Superior court also included 13 workers who were injured when the building collapsed on april 23. It was the first civil suit filed in connection with the disaster. The City of Bridgeport had two jobs to carefully inspect the plans and to inspect the building to make sure there was no possibility of safety hazards to the workers. The City failed miserably at both said Rich Ard by Der attorney for the victims and survivors. Under Connecticut Law any damages would be determined by a jury. Last week Federal investigators said the collapse apparently was triggered when a Small bracket Bent slightly while Concrete slabs were being jacked into place causing a Chain reaction that levelled the build ing within 10 seconds. The Federal report which blamed shoddy Engi Neering practices for the collapse did t mention the City. The occupational safely and health administration fined companies involved in the construction a record s5.ll million last week. The suit charges Paul Marsala. Bridgeport s former building official who issued the l ambiance building permit and Frank Mercaldi the current building offi Cial with negligence. Mercaldi declined comment. Marsala could t be reached for comment. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foe . 30, 1947 military governor Gen. Lucius d. Clay declared in Berlin that squabbling among the four governing Powers must not be allowed 10 hinder for mation of a German stale. 30 years ago today. Oct. 30. 19s7 a bomb thrown from the gallery of the israeli parliament wounded five people including Premier David Ben Chon and foreign minister Golda Meir. Meir and Ben Gurion received superficial wounds while the social welfare minister was seriously injured 20 years ago today. Oct. 30, 1967 Israel s prime minister Levi Esh Kol appealed for mass immigration from Western nations to increase the pc wifi population of greater Israel an area including he occupied Arab Territo Ries. Of years ago foe a. Oct. To. 1977 in Cring la United states As the world s no. 1 arms peddle. President Carter said he would make proposals to the soviet Union before Long to limit sales of conventional weapons