European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday december 15, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 7 Dod pulls Surprise will now Back plan to review consultants by the los angles time Washington the depart mint of defense in an apparent policy reversal old Congress tuesday it would Back a system to Register Consul Tants in an Effort to determine whether they were in con Iii of interest by consulting for the Pentagon while peddling inside information to defense contractors. Anything that could provide additional information to Jhc contract offi cer on consultants is something we could said Eleanor a spec Lor Deputy assistant Secretary of de sense for procurement. Critics contend that the thousands of consultants who advise the Penta gon on defense contracts arc Able to skill conflict of interest regulations because the government has no formal system of monitoring their activities or whom they represent. The depart ment of defense had initially opposed a measure that would have established a consultant registry saying that such a move was premature and unnecessary. However the Pentagon respond ing to pressure by Congress for reforms in the Wake of the massive probe into inc nation s defense contracting sys tem has decided to support such registration. The department of de sense must work on the definition of organization conflict of interest. We have to tighten up our own rules on this Spector said. Pentagon officials making their comments tuesday before the Senate governmental affairs subcommittee on Federal services also announced that department auditors had begun a review of is defense contractors to de Termine whether consultants passed along improper charges. Last month the department Dis closed that it had audited 12 other lop contractors and found the Pentagon was charged for 143 million of questionable and improper consulting fees. The department will try to recover is 9 million of that officials said. None of the companies being investigated has been identified but the Pentagon expects to Check the nation s 30 largest defense contractors by the time it comply Les its review in february said William h. Reed director of the defense contract audit Agency we have a lot of potential for conflict of interest said sen. David Pryor d-ark., author of the Consul Tant Regis Lulion measure. I think we have an old buddy boy network out there that s alive and Well and has been in a feeding frenzy for the office of management and Bud get is examining the possibility of a regulation requiring defense Consul Tants to report their clients services and credentials to the government. In october Congress directed the Omoto make a recommendation on that idea by March. The contractors now being reviewed arc spending considerable sums supplementing virtually every in House activity with professional and Consul Tant services Reed said. Among those consulting costs charged improperly to department of defense con tracts in 1986 and 1987 were fees for lobbying Congress and the Federal government for foreign sales costs and for Legal defences against government claims and fraud proceedings he told lawmakers the initial audit of 12 top contractors turned up 10 instances in which the Pentagon was billed for Consul lands who were used to lobby a cd said. Defense auditors had referred five infractions to department of jus Tice investigators he added but they re so Busy that quite frankly they Haven t got to us yet to see what we be got.". But Reed and up color maintained that defense contractors under pres sure from Secretary of defense Frank c. Carlucci and Pentagon auditors Are submitting fewer improper expense vouchers. Ziggy the wet nosed Dane Deer Rudolph faces a run for his Jab this Christmas at least in Columbus Ohio of nit Ziway. Santa tried out the great Dane in a Columbus Charity run tues Day. Rudolph s Job is Safe fur now. Al though 7-Iujiy May puss for a it nosed Reindeer he can t Cul it As the red nosed Reindeer Santa uses to Pride his Way id children s humps Christmas Etc. Maybe he could sniff out the chimneys instead. Reports link Man to killings in mass. New Bedford mass. Up state police investigating the deaths of six women found along High ways in the new Bedford area arrested a 35-year-old Man tuesday on charges of kidnapping a woman a draping and assaulting her with a dangerous weapon. A slate police spokesman refused to link the suspect Neil f. Anderson to the six murders but news reports said he was considered a prime suspect in the possible serial killings. -. Anderson who is unemployed surrendered at his Home 10 blocks from the Weld Square area where at least Tomc of the victims were believed to have worked As prostitutes the spokesman said police said he was held overnight at the City jail and was to be arraigned wednesday morning. We arc not saying when or where the alleged crimes were committed. And i repeal there is no charge of murder his victim is in ill said slate police troops Harry Martin. Bui this is a spinoff from the major investigation of the murders. The information developed As a result investigation Martin said. ,. The Boston Herald and Wiz to in Boston both re ported that Anderson was a suspect in the murders. The Herald said the rape victim was a former prostitute who was abducted at knife Point in August 1987 from the Weld Square area and raped along the same stretch of Highway where some of the bodies have been found. Schools in Mas Sachus b e g i n p i i o t b i i Ingua i or 6gram Boston not Vii a Federal court s approval the Public schools of Lowell mass., arc starting one of the nation s most far reaching programs of instruction and special services for students and parents whose first nol English. ,./ last Friday a Federal court Here approved the plan As part of a settlement of a suit against Lowell a City of9i,000 residents 35 Miles Northwest of Boston. The suit brought by Lite parents of Southeast asian and hispanic students in 1987. Charged that school officials had deliberately segregated the children and provided them with an inferior education this plan is on the cutting Edge and will Advance what we think of As bilingual education said James j. Lyons a lawyer for the National association for bilingual education an advocacy group. It seems comprehensive enough lobe a National Model the Lowell agreement includes these features the school District must try to find All the hundreds of children who dropped out of school since 1986, when turmoil overtook a system unable Loab sorb a Large influx of students who did not speak in Lish. The dropouts will be offered a bilingual or sinn Ard educational program / a school for bilingual instruction will be established bringing together students of All degrees of competency in English and emphasising american and hispanic cultures. The school must have a roughly 60 40 ratio of White and minority students As required by a state desegregation plan. Parents who speak link or no English will not Only receive All school notices in their native language but will also have interpreters available at school Board meeting Sand student disciplinary hearings. Counselor and tutors will he on Call to help Stu dents who leave the bilingual program. The Lowell schools have 13.600 students about of percent or 5,691, Are from minority groups mostly cambodians laotians or children of hispanic Heri Uigh. About 2,900 Are in the bilingual program. In 1980,17 percent of the system s students were from minority groups with454 pupils getting bilingual education. A new Arm of the Lowell school committee will be set up to oversee the new plan. The District Wilt hire More administrators teachers guidance Counselor and other specialists for the Federal court will Monitor the. Plan whose Cost is estimated to be $159,000 for this school year said a lawyer for the parents Canizlo Here Bustillo v -. The suit was filed after the City schools pressed for space put Many pupils who did not speak English in makeshift classrooms like a former boiler room and what had been a ladies room. Classes were often Large and the age Span of students substantial
