European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday november 6, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 of logistics Center buys faulty parts Georgia facility makes $104 million Purchase Washington a an air Force logistics Center in Georgia paid an estimated 1104 million Tor spare parts thai did not meet contract specifications. The parts accounted for 89 percent of the Center s inventory according to a Pentagon audit. A Pentagon inspector general s re port concluded the air Force did not receive the Quality parts it paid  a spokesman for air Force logistics come at Wright Patterson fab in Dayton Ohio disagreed with he draft report which was obtained from the Pentagon and distributed by the project on military procurement a Pri vate watchdog group in Washington. The figure is very misleading said air Force spokesman Ken Petrolia. They tested a Sample and made projections he said challenging both the methods and the calculations used by the inspector general s office. He was unable to offer an alternative estimate or the percentage or value of the spares that did not conform to contract specifications. He said detailed calculations were Likely to be included in a report being prepared at air Force Headquarters at the Pentagon in response to the draft inspector general s report. To make their estimate auditors from the inspector general s office visited the Warner Robbins air logistics Center near Maeon ga., and checked samples of 46 inventory items ranging from a Boll costing s6.95 to More complicated hardware costing thousands of dollars per item. The Center is one of five maintained by the air Force nationwide. Together the five employ 20,000 people and warehouse spare parts and components Worth s2.09 billion the report said. The total value of the items checked was $114.4 million of which $48.4 million Worth were found to have major non conformance which made them unfit for service and $55 million had less problems known As minor non conformance is. The auditors checked 1,027 samples of 46 different items and projected their results against a total of 635,925 spare parts calculated id have been at the Center. Those projections showed 89 percent of the spares did not meet contract specifications. We projected that the logistics Center paid about $103.8 million for spare parts that had major non Confor and minor non Confar manics to contract specifications the inspector general s report said. Since the same acquisition and Quality Assurance procedures used to Purchase spare parts at the logistics Center arc also used by other air Force logistics centers the same probability exists that the other centers have acquired Noil conforming spare parts in Supply classes that we Audi Ted in said. Perrotte the air Force spokesman also challenged that finding saying that the inspectors classified As nor. Conforming Many items which had Only slight defects and were fully  the inspector general s report was the first to Deal specifically with air Force spare parts however the report listed seven previous audits dating Back to 198which indicated widespread Quality control problems in the military. Those audits found that a contractor shipped 13 million in defective spare parts to an army depot in Corpus Christi Texas in 1983. Defective pans on Navy helicopters were not always reported or investigated in 1984. More than 50 percent of the Quality deficiency reports sent to the de sense logistics Agency were inaccurate or inadequate in 1986. Defense department Field offices did not always ensure that supplies and services conformed to contract specifications in 1986. The number of known defective items going unreported was Smalt in 1987. The air Force was experiencing problems with the Quality of fiber optic a Solus but failed to follow through in s9sb. Four classes of Navy missiles failed to conform to contract specifications in 19kb. The latest audit showed that con tractors that supplied the parts failed to satisfactorily control Quality the department of defense did not identify the Quality control problems and non conforming parts were accepted by the government and not identified far corrective management actions the in Cecior general s report said. W. German sentenced to death Miami a a West German was sentenced Friday to die in Florida s electric chair for the Mur Der of his Girlfriend in Miami Beach More than a year ago. Afler hearing his sentence 44-year-old Dieter Rischmann told dude circuit judge Harold Solo  "1 was found guilty but there was not one shred of evidence thai proved my guilt. 1 Don t accept any kind of penalty the death penalty or imprisonment. I am sure the verdict will not stand up under  Rischmann was found guilty of first degree Mur Der aug. 12 in the shooting of karst in Kischnick 31, oct. 25, 1987. Prosecutors said the murder was committed to collect More than �1 million in insurance. Rischmann had claimed that a pedestrian shot Kischnick in the head with a .38-caliber pistol after the two stopped their car to ask directions in Down town Miami he said he then drove frantically around Miami and finally to Miami Beach looking for a policeman. Bui police and prosecutors doubled the Story. The state noted that a .38-Calibcr weapon similar to the one used in the killing was found in Nicch Mann s Luggage. On aug. 30. By a 9-3 vote the jury recommended the death penalty.  a plea for his client s life attorney Edward Carhart said thai in the penalty phase of the trial evidence was presented thai the motive for the crime was insurance but there was no proof that there was cold calculation and premeditation and that there was a question that he did it for the insurance Carhart also said he was troubled by the fact that the jury did t realize the serious Pussy Bizily shut a mistake has been  he then asked the judge to overrule the jury s Dieter re Chunn smiles after getting death sentence. Recommendation and sentence Rischmann to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole. In sentencing Riechmann to death Solomon said he had carefully considered the testimony. I find that the aggravating circumstances out weigh the mitigating circumstances he said and that the crime was committed in a cold calculating and premeditated  Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Nov. 6, 1948 after a Victory Celebration in his Hometown of Independence mo., presi Dent Truman arrived by train in Washington after being elected. 30 years ago to Ofay. Nov. 6, i95s Republican Nelson a. Rockefeller was elected governor of new y9rk by a majority of More than a half million Voles greatly increasing his chances of being chosen to receive the i960 gop presidential nomination. 20 years ago today. Nov. 6, 1968 seven Hundred women from nearby women s colleges moved Init the dorms Al Yale University to attend coed week the school s first Experiment in coeducational living. To years ago today. Nov. 6, 1978 anti Shah rioters ransacked the British embassy in Teheran but iranian troops blocked an attack on the . Embassy compound during the worst rioting to hit Iran in add cad.  -. Sex president of time Dies new York a James Robinson Shepley who Rose from reporter to president of time inc. And led it through a period of expansion in which the company launched Money and people magazines has died at 71,  4 to stations reject and against  Foster care Portland. Ore. A p four local television stations have refused to Broad cast a political commercial that shows a boy being placed in the Foster care of two homosexual men. The commercial was produced by sup porters of ballot measure a which would repeal adv. Neil Cpl Schmidt s 1987 executive order prohibiting discrimination by state executive agencies on the basis of sexual Oric Lalion. The spol is extremely inflammatory and distasteful said Steve Currie Man Ager of broadcast operations at Koin. The commercial also was rejected by. Kate Kew and a pts. A. A chief sponsor of the initiative Mike Wiley called rejection of the advertise ment out and out  measure 8 needs a simple majority to pass. A statewide poll released Friday of 400 registered voters commissioned by the oregonian in Portland and Koin. Showed 50 percent were against the bal lot initiative and 44 percent in favor. The 30-Sccond commercial shows a. Young boy with a social worker who says Well Ryan shall we meet your new parents the camera then briefly shows iwo men sitting on a Bench together and the spot ends Wilh the , but where is my Mommy the governor s order removes any discretion state agencies have in refusing to place Foster children with homosexuals a voice in the and says. Goldschmidt said his order has been distorted from its original intent and it does t include special treatment. Station officials said they did not be Lieve he executive order had a direct bearing of the state s Foster Parent pro Gram. Nothing in the language of the order deals with Foster care. Station executives said they generally broadcast without editing political ads from qualified candidates but had a greater obligation to review ballot Mea sure ads for inaccuracies. ,