European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 26, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 5 Northrop bilked air Force suit says stealth overcharges reported at $ 1 billion Washington up the Northrop corp. Has fraudulently mis charged the government at least is billion for expenses incurred in developing and build ing the Lap secret stealth bomber several current and former Northrop employees charged. Al least four of these employees alleged in a court suit that inc giant lot Angeles firm sought to conceal Cost overruns and keep the air Force from discovering the company s Lack of Progress in developing the plane which costs 1300 million each the employees attorney said. Employees told United press International that scores perhaps Hundred of s5d,000-a-year manager and engineers at the firm s Pico Rivera calif., Plant often had no work to do and were Silling around read ing magazines. The company still billed the govern ment for heir time the employees said. I Schargus of $400 million projected to exceed is billion during the last 18 months were documented in a draft Northrop audit thru was ordered destroyed by company officials Tail summer the employees said. The suit against Northrop which was tiled under Seal in . District court in los Angeles through the false claims act alleges thai company officials also transferred a key auditor to another Jab employees attorney Robert Kilbore said. The Pentagon inspector general s office and the air Force s office of special investigations Are probing Hie by Law to open its own inquiry with the filing or the suit Kilborne said. To allegedly Mise aging the government Northrop billed expenses from one stealth sub account Ibal had exceeded in allotted budget 10 another account that still was under budget employees said. Air Force officials normally investigate a program once they learn that a sub account has gone Over budget but were kept at Bay by Northrop s Cross Billing they charged Northrop spokesman Tony Cantafio declined com ment and the air Force offered no immediate com ment. The allegations arc the latest of a series of criminal charges levelled by employees against the defense con three other Legal complaints which now Are under investigation by a Federal grand jury alleged wide spread fraud by Northrop on contracts to build key components of the my and cruise missile systems. Northrop acknowledged problems in both missile pro Grams at recent congressional hearings. The employees also alleged that the air Force exercised hut oversight of the classified stealth program. The suit says Toni air Force has been aware of some of the fraud and deception in the stealth program but has chosen to Bend its program and Cost requirements rather than press Northrop to improve its performance according to company auditors and engineers. What you be got one Northrop employee told up. Is. A big fat program that nobody is Monitor  the advanced technology bomber or stealth is a Low flying radar eluding plane produced under a classified program begun in 1981 to complement the by bomber air Force spokeswoman copt. Toss Taft said. Studies show Low metabolism linked to obesity Boston a overweight people often get that Way because their bodies bum calories More sparingly than nor Mal size folks and this difference be tween inc int end the lean can be seen in inc first months of life two new studies show. Together the studies demonstrate that whether people arc Chubby or svelte May depend As much on Shcier metabolism How efficiently their bodies use Energy Asil docs on what hey cat. In one of the studies researchers found that fat babies All of whom had overweight mothers were Al ready expending less Energy than other infants when they were just 3 months old. Low Energy expenditure in infants seems to be making Ihm become Over weight said or. Susan b. Roberts of Massachusetts Institute of technology. Roberts directed the study. The other report found that some grownups have lower metabolic Rales or Energy expenditure than others. They need less food to keep going and they gain weight More quickly. It All boils Down to How much you eat and How much you expend. Some people arc just unlucky enough that they can 1 eat Loo much said a co author of the adult study or. Clifton Bogardus of the National institutes of health in Pho enix Ariz. Overweight populations. By selected i atm in percent d Zenou con tiered Ovion Ghl of lined by a body Man and Al 27.8 of Man and  women. Wait Euglnia 1 Wisconsin i North Dakota 1 Kentucky 1 Moull 1 North Carolina Washington. . 123 ill rail. 1 13 1 win Nentz 112 1 California 21 la Zooa 11 1 Hawaii Iii 1 Utah 10 ii it a ti4 Noto pregnant woman was excluded Iran Tunny Ctm Otmani on Sci noun a  Ca do other studies have shown that fal people often use up relatively Low amounts of calories when resting. But a crucial question remained is their metabolism Low because they Are fat or arc hey fat because their metabolism is Low by following people Over time the new studies conclude thai people gel fal because their bodies Are especially fuel efficient although overeating also aggravates this problem. But when two people the same height and sex cat the same amount it appears that one May stay trim while the other gels Chubby solely because of this difference in metabolism. What s being shown Here is thai there is some Broad pattern of vulnerability to weigh gain commented or. William i. Bennett of Harvard medical school. They arc starting to get awfully close to showing that there is a set of genes that controls obesity. The two latest studies were published in thursday s Issue of the new England journal of Medicine. In the infant study doctors studied six babies who were born to lean Moth ers and 12 who were born to Over weight women. They used a newly developed urine lest called the doubly labelled water method to measure the a Fanis Energy expenditure while Liv ing at Home. Al age 3 months All of the babies were normalized. But by age i six of the fal mothers babies had become overweight. Total Energy expenditure at 3 months was 21 percent lower in inc infants who later became fat. The researchers theorize that these babies have an inherited tendency to be fat. Their bodies have a High set Point or weight goal. They try to reach this Point by taking in More Energy or using up less. Roberts said she believes that the fat babies ale no More than the Normal ones. So they put on weigh to reach their set Point by being less Active. That would be a logical thing to do in Small infants because their food in take is largely controlled by their mothers so they did t have the option of going to the fridge and having another Sandwich she said. But in adults who have the option of going to the fridge High food intake May also contribute to the maintenance of being  Packwood hauled into Senate during Campaign Bill filibuster Washington a republicans complained of banana Republic tactics wednesday after armed Capitol police broke into gop sen. Bob fac Wood s locked office arrested him and hauled him feet first into the Senate chamber in the Early hours of a round the clock filibuster. On a motion by Senate majority Leader Robert c. Byrd d-w.va., scr cant at arms Henry k. Giugni was handed warrants for the arrest of absent Republican senators thus forcing Ihm to answer a quorum Call. Without a quorum the Senate would have to adjourn and democrats pushing Campaign finance legislation would lose i hair leverage Over Republican opponents. Giugni found several senators offices empty but saw sen. Sieve Symms. A Idaho running Down a Hall Way to escape arrest. Then in an extraordinary Inci Dent that the Senate historian said had not occurred since 1942, Giugni used a passkey to unlock pack Wood s office door. I had to shove in inc door to gel into his office said Giugni a Stocky army Veteran of world War ii and former vice squad policeman in Honolulu. I think he Hurt his Finger. He was very  Packwood walked with Giugni and his police escort a Block or so from the Russell Senate office building to the Capitol but refused to walk on the door willingly Giugni said. Al that Point three policemen grabbed Packwood by his Ankles and both arms and carried him bodily into the Senate chamber feet first. Later Packwood said that the Campaign spending Bill has no Chance of becoming Law because Senate republicans have enough votes to sustain a certain veto by president Reagan and that Byrd succeeded Only in alienating his gop colleagues. Packwood s arrest provoked clashes Between democrats and republicans. Sen. Arien Specter r-pa., said the incident brought to mind the police state measures of nazi Germany and communist  he pro tested that Packwood was hustled into the Senate chamber like a common  sen. Orrin Hatch. Ruiah. Complained of banana Republic tactics and said Packwood s arrest flaunted the Constitution of the United  he proposed a change in the Senate rules to forbid any future arrest of Absentee senators. Sands of time. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 26, 1948 the . Embassy and the Macri can Mission for Aid to Greece issued a joint statement that said there is As real a Freedom of the press in Greece today As there is in the United  30 years Ogo today. Feb. 26, 1958 argentinian race car Champion Juan m. Fangio was released by kidnappers hours after the cancellation of the cuban Gran Premio race. 20 years ago today. Feb. 2fi, ims the commander of . Forces in Vietnam Gen. William c. Westmoreland expressed doubt that North Vietnam could stand a Long War and likened the recent Tel offensive to inc Bailie of the bulge. 10 years ago foday feb. 26, 1978 bar gainers for the United mine workers and the bituminous Coal operators association forged a tentative settlement after months of talks to end the longest continuous nationwide Coal strike in . History