European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday november 6,1988 Gao draft faults leadership for ills of personnel Agency by the Washington Post Washington administrators of the office of personnel management failed to exercise sustained leadership Over the last 10 years while the morale standards oversight training and recruitment of Feder Al workers fell dramatically a draft report by the Gen eral accounting office says. The Gao. The investigatory Arm of Congress credit director cons acc Homer with undertaking a wide ranging and positive initiatives but complains that staff cuts losses of experienced employees continued Low morale and communication problems within the Agency have undermined pm s ability to carry them out. Homer attacked the draft report As a feeble Politi Cally inspired critique posing is analysis thai virtually ignored her efforts to tackle the problems release of this report to Congress Only one week before the election Only one week after pm receive Dit for comment and apparently without any formal congressional request strongly suggests thai Gao has yielded to democratic congressional pressure to pro vide an occasion for an attack in the press on Reagan policies designed to influence votes site wrote to comptroller general Charles a. Bowsher on oct. 28. This is another example of political i Ira is democratically controlled Congress of Itie supposedly professional institutions it controls she said in a Sec Ond . Tone of this report is unfortunate said Carol Bonosaro. The president of the senior executive association which represents the top layer of the civil service and supports Many of Homer s efforts. You be got to Start somewhere and basically she s it is very Clear that Connie has tried to make strides in the right said Patricia w. Ingra Ham. Associate professor at the state University of new York Binghamton and n leading researcher on the civil service. But the fact remains that the Organiza Tion is one with a lot of Gao said the Agency s Salt has been Cut by 54percent and its budget for direct personnel manage ment activities has been sliced nearly in half after accounting for inflation. Pm has eliminated its productivity program and virtually inactive led its recruiting program for five years Gao said. Gao faulted the Agency for failing to establish the Dala base necessary to measure the Quality of the Federal work in addition to budget retrenchments internal furloughs and reductions in Force in the Early 1980s, the Agency was reorganized three times Between novem Ber 19h1 and november 1982, the Gao said. Finally the Oao said a Survey of pm employees found management and morale problems. Many indicated that pm had internal communications difficulties and Only 23 percent thought that morale was High while few thought the Agency was effective Overall. The Gao report is the latest in a series of critical reviews of the decade old Central personnel office Al though not necessarily of Homer s stewardship. During president Reagan s first term pm be came an instrument to Advance certain no Lucy goals Only Langer rally related to the Agency s Mission the National Academy of Public administration said in september. As a direct result the reputation of of suffered As did human resources planning and manage Chester a. Newland a professor at the University of Southern California and editor of Public administration review testified before Congress in March that non partisan bipartisan oversight is needed in these Lection of the pm director and Deputy and continuing advisory oversight of a non partisan character is needed for pm at a min i stateside Chicago seven judge Dies after lengthy illness Portland Maine a p . Disc Rel j Edge Edward t. Gignoux who presided Over a contempt trial involving the Chicago seven diet Friday after months of rating health. He was 72. The cause of death was not disclosed but a Friend said the judge recently suffered from Throat cancer. Gig Aux was appointed in 1973 1o preside Over the contempt trial of Abby Hoffman Bobby scale and hid Oiler defendants known Ashe Chicago seven the 1960s radicals had been cited for Contemp while on rial on conspiracy charges for disturbance at the 1968 democratic convention in Chi Cago. The 7th . Circuit court of appeals eventually overturned any convictions. Woman handling revolver shoots kills daughter 7 Austin Texas a a woman trying to move a revolver Oul of the reach of her thre Young children shot and killed her 7-Ycar-old daughter police said. Rocholl Porter was shot once in the left Checkwith a ,25-Calibcr pistol. She died at Bracken Ridge Hospital shortly county medical examiner Robert Bay Ardo ruled the death a merely Means that a person s life has been taken by another Bayardo but this was very reckless. The girl was shot at very close Range the pistol was on a table when the girl s Mother Ulene Porter 37, was gelling Rocholl and her 9 year old sister ready for school said sgt. Don 2-year-old girl also was at Home when the shooting occurred he said. Captive killer whale gives birth to second calf three thousand people watched in Orlando Fla., As Kandy the killer whale rave birth id a female calf. Orlando Fla. A a performing killer whale i sea world of Florida has Given birth to her second calf a 6v foot female weighing about 350 pounds. It was a picture perfect birthing process and Mother and baby Are doing just Fine said Jack Pearson curator of mammals it the Orlando Marine Park. The birth which took place Friday in front of 3,000spectators, was the third at sea world Parks by per forming killer whales. The Mother named Kandy. Also gave birth to Bab Shamu born in september 198s and now one of the Park s lop performers. A third calf was born last Mon that a sea world Park in san Diego. Another of the giant mammals at the Orlando Parkis pregnant and is expected to give birth soon. Pearson said Kandy began bonding with her off Spring immediately after the birth in a special 6-Niil lion Pilon Breeding tank. The whale was in labor for a Little More than three hours. The Newborn which has not been named was expected to begin nursing several hours after birth. Kandy continued to perform before crowds at the Park s Marine stadium until thursday when trainers noticed some behavioural and body changes. She was very slow and did l eat All her food. She did not perform but spent a quiet night. This morning a she refused to cat which is a Tell tale sign that birth i imminent Pearson said. Substance drives out residents Dayton Ohio a a mysterious substance thai erodes clothing and furniture has forced a family id flee from their Home officials said Friday. Yesterday the furniture started falling apart and their clothing started falling off their body said Ray Hughes chief of the Dayton fire department s suppression Bureau the clothing you could rim your Finger through it Hughes said firefighters spent about five hours at the Home of Ethel Brick on thursday. He believes the problems caused by an acid or a caustic but that s about All investigators know. We can t figure out where it s com ing from or now it got in there Hughes said he asked the Ohio Environ mental Protection Agency to investigate. Firefighters who entered the House reported a burning sensation on their skin and an irritation in their throats. The odor smells acidic and leaves metallic taste in your Mouth said District fire chief Jerry , her daughter and two grand children could not be reached for com ment. Firefighters checked neighbouring houses but did t find other evidence of contamination. Hughes said a Quarter Sid Hole that appeared on one of the family mattresses oct. 29 had grown to 2 feet in diameter by . Thomas Whipp of the City s hazardous materials team said that shortly after the family moved Inlo the House a month ago the washing machine overflowed in the basement soaking a carpet. He speculated that the soap and water May have reacted with something that was spilled on he carpet. Shortly after that incident. Whip said Back s daughter put on a new dress when she tried it on the material started to fall away Whipp this Point on every bit of cloth ing in the basement. Started
