European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday december 31, 1987 poor financial management still costing . Billions p h Washington a the . Government is Lusins. Hilmons of dollars through poor accounting sys tems and eak internal controls despite several improvements mingled in the past two years the Cic neral accounting a Tkv i d wednesday. About 30 percent of the 1,515 accounting procure ment. Debl collection and other weaknesses identify Eddy is government departments or agencies since 1983 remain in corroded. The accounting Agency said in a  Focone Grysh. It said the in agencies which account for about 95 recent of Federal expenditures pay 15 percent of their ills late incurring millions of dollars in interest penal lies annually. Another 25 percent of the government s Bills Are paid too Early. Thai Cost he government More than s35d million in lost interest in 19s6. The Gao said. But significant Progress has been made in a number of areas according to the 50-Page report the third by the Gao on How Federal agencies arc living up to the 1982 financial integrity act intended to curb fraud waste and abuse in government two years ago. In its last report on the Congo is Sio Natly ordered reforms he Gao complained thai he major problems remained largely unchanged. This Lime it said the administration of president Reagan has taken significant Steps in several problem areas making collection of delinquent Loans and other debts owed to the government and belter Cash manage ment particular no relies. While improvements have been made most Agen cies still have a Long Way to go the Gao said. Underlying the problem it said is the government s conic Nudd Reliance on antiquated accounting systems. Laid out in world War ii and Many of Ihm built around 1950s Vintage concepts and  As a result the Gao said billions of dollars Are not being adequately accounted for managed or financially control for example. The defense department which accounts for about bal percent of the s200 billion i goods and services that the government contracts to buy annually reported that 52 of its 114 accounting systems did not meet Gao requirements. Because of problems in just one of those systems for inc multimillion Dollar foreign military sales pro Gram the Pentagon cannot account for More than $600 million in advances made by foreign customers for the Purchase of weapons systems Gao said. More serious is the Lack of internal controls Over the defense department s $160 billion inventory that among Oiher things has allowed explosives to fall into the hands orc Tremise organizations inc Gao said. The Pentagon is nol the Only Agency whose poof internal controls May have aided terrorists the Gao said. The state department allowed construction Blue prints for an Annex to the . Embassy in Beirut Lebanon where terrorist a lacks have killed 260 americans since 1983 to go to 11 lebanese contractors who did not have required so curly clearances. Wafer afe figure Liddy finds Fame fleeting offer hit and run incident Washington map convicted watergate Bur Glar g. Gordon Liddy found out the hard Way recently that Fame is a fleeting thing. Liddy says lie suffered a broken left Arm broken rib ruptured kidney and a Lorn ligament in his Lefi knee after he As hit by a pickup truck driven by a quarrel some Lover whom Liddy had ordered off his property. A Normal person Mould be dead but. As you Proba Bly already know i Don t fall Mlo Hal category Liddy said in an interview tuesday at Southern Mary land Hospital. Although Liddy was Well known after he 1972 break in Ai the democratic National committee head quarters in the watergate Complex in Washington his lame was lust la the investigating Prince George s county. Md., polite officer who was a child during the height of the scandal and did t Koiv who Liddy was. The police report referred to him As or.  Liddy said the incident occurred late on Christmas eve after he looked out the window of his Home in an exclusive neighbourhood South of Washington and saw two trespassers in a pickup truck. The area is known to attract lovers and drug users looking for privacy. I Don t tolerate that sort of  Liddy said. He said he went out and lapped on the window on the Driver s Side of he Ruck with a police officer s Billy club he often carries to Chase away trespassers he then told the Driver he was on private properly and to gel out of  the two men argued and the Driver pulled the truck Forward then threw the truck into reverse. Liddy said he jumped out of the Way and took out his rear right Lai Leighl. It s an old Fri Irick 1o Mark vehicles he said. As you know. I was in the Fri the truck then made a a Tum and came barrelling Down a Hill and Hil him. Liddy said knocking him 15 feel to to feel in the air. Liddy 57. Said he expects to be released from the g. Gordon Liddy Hospital  Cpl. Bruce Gentile said the sought by authorities faces a number including assault with intent to murder and simple assault. Driver being of  hit and run stateside professor who joined acid rain research Dies Hanover . At1 Noyce Monroe Johnson a Dartmouth College ecology professor who helped discover and name acid rain in inc Laic 1960s, has died College optic inns a Iid Mon Day. He was 57. Johnson win died of cancer at Home sunday was a Navy of racer m Hie korean War and earned his master s degree and do Clorale at the University of Wisconsin College spokesman Alex Llu pc Aid i joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1461 find became a full professor in 1971. Johnson chaired the department of Larth science from 1969.71. During the %0s. Johnson and two other then Dartmouth professors. F. Herbert Hor inane now of Vale univ rosily and Gene Lik ens no of Cornell conducted experiments Atic Hubbard Brook  Forest. In anal Wing drainage from the area s water Sheds. Inc three discovered High Levels of Sut fates and concluded the chemical came from the atmosphere via a phenomenon they called acid rain. Jetliner skids off runway at Detroit no one injured Romulus Michigan u r said the last human Case of rabies in san Francisvo was m im40. Rabies Lus to be one of the rarest infectious diseases in humans in the i United Slatev said or. Daniel Fishbein of the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta. There have been Only nine cases diagnosed in americans since fish ban said there Are in estimated 5ll.ut.ki uses of rabies in humans world wide each Cir. With 25.000 in India alone. In almost All of the cases the exposure comes from a b the. However he said exposure m the United slates is very Low because a per son has to come into Eon laut with a wild animal to contract the disease