European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 13,198b the stars and stripes Paga 9 sculpture Points to knotty problem of gun control a Bronze Sci Piure outside Enart museum in Dies Sci Dorf West Germany Carrie a message against Vio Lence in he world. The big revolver with its barrel tied in knot is the Cretini at swedish sculptor cart Frederik Reuters Ward. A copy of the work stands near the Entrance to the United nation building in new York. Firm to pay $115 million for overfilling Dod Chicago a Sundstrand corp. Has agreed to plead guilty to Federal fraud charges and pay a is 15 million settlement for overfilling the Pentagon for air plane parts Over five years Federal prosecutors said wednesday. . Attorney Anton Patukas said the settlement includes tens of millions of dollars in penalties against the Rockford based aerospace contractor. You have a company that set out to defraud the government he said at a news conference. The Only Way that Type of activity can be deterred is through Swift Legal  Valutas would not estimate she Cost of Sundstrand s actions id the government. A further investigation of individuals at Sundstrand will be completed in two or three months he said noting he Pica agreement Calls for the company to cooperate in that probe. Sundstrand spokesman Claude Vernam said he could not immediately comment on the plea agreement. Sundstrand makes flight data equipment Engin Start up systems and other electronic equipment for military and commercial aircraft. The defense department accounts for 42 percent of the company s $ 1.4 billion in annual sales. Sundstrand has provided a Good Quality product for a Long period of Lime. Unfortunately we be been paying too much for  Francis Holland regional commander of defense contract administration serv ices said at the news conference. Sundstrand May be barred from further contract with the defense department pending an investigation spokesman lorry Wilson of the department s de i enc logistics Agency said from Washington. Wilson said before the company would do business with the government again the defense department would Check changes in Sundstrand s accounting sys tem that would prevent a recurrence. Also he said an High ranking officers involved in the fraud should be suspended. Sundstrand has agreed to plead guilty to a four count criminal information produced by a Federal Gran jury in Rockford. The document accuses the company of submit ing intentionally Low bids on contracts from 1981 to 1985and then concealing the extra costs in general overhead costs. In essence if Sundstrand had a $100 million Bidon contract slut Cost si50 million and had a fixed Price for that bid he additional $50 million in Over runs was hidden in the overhead account and billed improperly Back to the government in a concealed fashion Valukas said. The company also was accused by the grand jury of conspiring to undermine the contract bidding process by spending More than si00,000 on defense depart ment personnel buying liquor meals theater ticket Sand related items in efforts to gain greater Access to them. Some government employees Are being investigate for allegedly accepting the gratuities Wilson said. Another count accused the company of defrauding the internal Revenue service by writing off As scrap parts it had shipped of another company. The fourth count said the company had billed As general and administrative costs charges for liquor baby sitting saunas country club dues and other amenities for its executives. In its annual filing with the securities and Exchange commission earlier this year Sundstrand said the government has advised that tit intends to charge the company with criminal violations in Mortford and Seattle. Sundstrand operates a subsidiary part of its advanced technology group in Redmond wash., near  agreement announced in Chicago resolved the Rockford violation Valukas said. An  by Sundstrand to an additional s 500,000 settlement was announced wednesday in  company began putting Money in Reserve two years ago to cover settlement costs and Legat expenses. Nuclear laboratories lax on Security panel told Washington trying to build nuclear weapons according to Keith Fultz of the congressional general accounting office. Fultz who did not identify any of the people told governmental affairs com Mittee chairman John Glenn a Obio Hal the Gao docs not believe the three High level research labs Are fully protected against espionage. The visitors mainly scientists came from a variety of communist bloc nations headed by the soviet Union and China and nuclear sensitive nations such As Israel India South Africa Pakistan Iran and Iraq he said. We could not determine if sensitive or classified information has been lost but because of weaknesses in Doe s for eign visitor controls we have Little Confidence that adequate Protection of weapons related information and technology is achieved Fultz said. He said that even if no  data Art available the situation threatens . Interests. Dob studies have concluded that unclassified information at the laboratories May provide foreign countries details on sensitive and even classified activities that the United states conducts Fultz said. Richard do Val a Deputy assistant Energy Secretary said officials began lightening Security a year ago but he could not assure Glenn that no foreign visitor was getting into the labs now without proper screening. Fultz detailed the results of a Ca study of foreigners who Between Jan uary 1986 and september 1987. Visited los Alamos and Sandia labs in new Mexico and California s Lawrence Liv Ermord lab which is doing work on the strategic defense initiative commonly called the Star wars program. Energy department Security proce dures require a background Check in most cases before a lab admits someone from a communist or nuclear sensitive nation. Fultz said a review of the files on 181 communist bloc visitors showed that 176 should have been checked out with the Fri and intelligence agencies. No checks were done for 119, and Only seven checks were completed before a visit began. Doe obtained even less background information on visitors from other Sensi Tive  said Fultz a total of 637 visitors with 77 background checks Only 14 completed before the visitor arrived. He said that no checks were done on the approximately id percent of the these visitors who Are affiliated with or ianiz8iioos on the department s watch fist because of suspected nuclear weapons activities. Fultz quoted department officials a saying thai Only one of the hundreds of visits broached a sensitive topic. We found it least 37 others related to Iner till confinement fusion and isotope Sepa ration which arc identified As sensitive by  Energy officials say their Basic line of defense is Security plans tailored to specific visitors and Selling parameters for what can be discussed and what areas of a lab can be visited. Full said the labs prepared such plans in Only 89 of the 248 visits that fell under this requirement. He said that there arc problems even when the department knows about Viti tors in Advance. The Energy Field office in san Francis co tried to limit a soviet official s visit to lev crore to Public Access areas but lab officials allowed him to spend a significant part of this visit in classified areas according to full and in a recent Case the department officials in Washington denied two israe Lis Access to an unidentified lab. One of them got a lab employee to tap into the lab s unclassified computer from a Termi Nal in the employee s garage according Louval. I m not aware of any other cases like this but i would t bet on it do Val said. It s no longer a matter of whether the visitors Are inside the