European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday july 8,1988 Dod need for More fraud inspectors May be forestalled by budget cuts Washington a although the Pentagon has increased the number of inspectors trying to spot fraud among defense contractors More Are needed Andare not Likely to be added to the staff the defense department s inspector general said wednesday. Given the defense department s projected budget shortfalls for the coming years i am pessimistic that the investigative organizations will get the additional resources they need june Gibbs Brown told the House armed services committee. She did not speak specifically about details of the ongoing criminal investigation into fraud and bribery allegations among Pentagon contractors and Consul  she said the Pentagon has about 1,000 people who do nothing but investigate fraud a Sharp increase from 1982, when 375 were assigned to that task. In spite of these impressive gains i remain concerned Over the resources available to the defense criminal investigation organizations for the detection and investigation of fraud she said. At least 450 More fraud investigators Are needed she  surrounds defense Secretary Frank car Lucci s hurried announcement of contract suspension sin response to the widening Pentagon bribery probe with officials unable to say which projects Are covered. Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard said tuesday that the defense department still is trying to implement Carlucci s  suggested Carlucci s announcement was a response to clamouring in Congress and elsewhere forthe Pentagon to do something to restore its credibility in the midst of the criminal investigation. We had people Here and people on the Capitol Hill demanding immediate action to suspend people to suspend contracts Howard said when asked to explain the timing of Friday s announcement. Defense contractors say they Are still waiting for formal notification of the contract suspensions. We re in the dark said Johann Whitney a try inc.  be received no official notification and until we do we re going ahead with production. The work will continue said Robert Knapp a spokesman for Litton industries. Try is taking the same position. We re working with the Navy to try to get some clarification on the announcement Whitney said. Carlucci announced last Friday he was ordering a immediate suspension of what Pentagon officials said were $1 billion Worth of contracts. He said he was acting because the pacts May be tainted by the bribery allegations. The investigation centers on allegations that defens contractors and consultants Many of them former de sense officials bribed Pentagon officials for contract ing details that could be vital in winning contracts Worth billions of dollars. Asked for details of the contract suspensions How Ard said we worked that one very quickly and we gave you the Best information we  but he admitted i Don t know the answer when asked which contracts Are involved or whether the freeze affects contractors and subcontractors alike. Tiptoeing through a hot Day a photo finding that even canoeing can be too strenuous on a Relief by dipping their feet into the Cool water of Webb Semones of Wilton and Cindy Newcomb and Wendy hot Day three Young women in Maine get some extra Lake near Weld. The floating boaters Are Billie Jean Mcluskey of Jay. Lejeune marines get their 1 St official soviet visitor Jacksonville . A the first soviet official Ever to visit Cam Lejeune watched . Marines train thursday As part of a tour of military installations. Soviet marshal Sergei  was accompanied by . Navy . William j. Crowe jr., chair Man of the joint chiefs of staff. Fakhr Omeyer chief of the general staff of the soviet Union and Crowe and their aides arrived at new River air station on a . Air Force c-9 Jet from Washington. Their schedule included a tour of a display of weapons and equipment at tactical Landing zone and a View of an air ground logistics task Force operation by various units of the 2nd Marine div. And 2nd Marine aircraft Wing Accord ing to 1st it. Cathy Engels of the Lejeune joint Public affairs office. One of the goals for this visit is to enhance the credibility of deterrence by giving him a feel for the Quality of Pur military. Seeing is believing and believing is important in this business said army it. Col. Arnold Williams a Penta gon spokesman. Crowe and the soviets Are schedule to visit the Navy s newest aircraft car Rier the Theodore Roosevelt in the Vir Ginia capes Region. They also will observe army main Battle tanks at fort Hood Texas and see a new b-1b bomber in South Dakota. The Field marshal and his party which includes ranking officers from most of the soviet armed forces will attend a Rodeo and Barbecue on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma and see the Alamo in san an Tonio Texas on saturday. Other stops include colonial Williamsburg va., and new York City. Nuclear weapons test rocks vegas High rises Las vegas Nev. A a nuclear weapons test rocked the Nevada desert thursday registering 5.6 on the Richter. Scale and causing a swaying motion i High Rise buildings Here 100 Miles from ground Zero. John Minsch a spokesman for the National Earth quake information Center in Golden colo., said the Reading indicated the test was one of the larger ones conducted at the desert site. The device was detonated 40 Miles from Mercury a tiny town on the Nevada test site where soviet nuclear scientists Are based while preparing for a joint . Soviet test next month. A controller in the Tower at Mccarran International Airport in Las vegas said the Tower rocked slightly seconds after the blast at 8 05 . A Telephone switchboard operator at Fitzgerald Shotel in downtown Las vegas said a guest on the 29th floor called to ask Why she Felt ground motion. And a receptionist at the Lionel Sawyer Law firm atop a High Rise office building downtown said she Felt a dizzy swirling feeling at the time of the blast. She said a hanging Plant in the office began swaying. All three declined to give their names. Motion was recorded on Energy department seismographs atop several hotel casinos on the Las vegas strip and downtown. Motion was also recorded at Scotty s Castle in death Valley calif., West of the test site. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion As recorded on seismographs. An earthquake or explosion of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage inthe local area 4 moderate damage 5 considerable damage 6 severe damage