European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 5 Navy official reportedly bribed $ ,000 payments involved prosecutors charge by the los Angeles times Washington a Navy Purchas ing official received regular payments from consultants working on behalf of a major defense contractor in Exchange for his help in bidding on a $ 16 million con tract for Navy electronic equipment prosecutors charged in court documents unsealed tuesday in new York. The documents part of the defense procurement fraud investigation Dis closed last Spring provide a detailed Pic Ture of the Active role Federal investigators believe a government official played in at least one facet of the scandal. The Navy official Stuart Berlin Alleg edly not Only provided crucial inside information to a consultant hired by Hazeltine corp., which was seeking the contract but worked within the Navy to try to limit Competition from other companies bidding on the project. In return Alexandria va., consultant William Parkin and an associate Fred Lackner of los Angeles periodically made $1,000 Cash payments to Berlin according to a search warrant affidavit prepared by Federal prosecutors last june. The allegations of payoffs for confidential data Are at the heart of the Feder Al investigation into military weapons buying that first surfaced last june when Federal agents searched the Homes and offices of More than 40 Pentagon officials defense Industry consultants and military contractors. The searches capped a two year investigation into alleged fraud bribery and influence peddling in the $150 Bivion a year military procurement system. Law enforce ment officials have described the investigation As the broadest inquiry Ever into corruption in military purchasing. The investigation directed by Henry e. Hudson . Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is expected to yield its first indictments soon perhaps As Early As Friday. Hazeltine Parkin Lackner and Berlin Are among the subjects of the probe. Sources close to the investigation say the Case is being built in stages with relatively minor players being pursued first in Hopes they will provide information on higher  including former assist ant Navy Secretary Melvyn r. Paisley one of the prime targets of the inquiry. High powered Industry consultants William Galvin and Charles Gardner Are also among the prosecutors top targets. Investigators say they Are suspected of using their contacts inside the Pentagon to illegally help their numerous corporate clients win lucrative department of defense business. The court document unsealed tues Day provided the prosecutors justification for searching the office of Joe cola Russo a Hazeltine senior vice president working from the company s Greenlawn n.y., facility. The allegations Are based largely on conversations recorded from a tap on Parkin s Telephone. The warrant details Hazeltine s efforts in 1987 and 1988 to win a $16 million con tract for a device to test Navy radar systems a move that collapsed after the Federal investigation was disclosed last summer. It also includes allegations about Hazeltine s attempts to win two other multimillion Dol Lar Navy electronics contracts. On the radar systems contract the affidavit alleges Hazeline was on the Brink of being eliminated until Berlin inter ceded on its behalf with his colleagues. Hazeltine is a subsidiary of St. Louis based Emerson electric co., which in 1987 did $366 million Worth of business with the Pentagon making it the nation s 43rd-largest defense contractor. A Hazeltine spokesman said in a pre pared statement tuesday Hazeltine Reagan proposes weaker version of whistle Blower Protection Law by the Washington Post los Angeles president Reagan who last year vetoed legislation that would have Given added protections to Federal workers who expose fraud and mismanage ment tuesday proposed a new Law to encourage such whistle  Reagan also sent to the Senate for ratification an International agreement that would provide for prosecution of terrorist acts on the High seas. And he issued a statement explaining Why he was not imposing Oil import fees. White House Deputy press Secretary roman Popadiuk in a statement accompanying Reagan s submission of the Whis Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 5, 1949 the United states Britain and France demanded that the soviet Union reveal How Many German prisoners of War it was still holding and explain Why they had not been released earlier As agreed to by the big four pow ers in Moscow. 30 years ago today. Jan. 5, 1959 Manuel Urrutia was sworn in As Cuba s provisional president and immediately named rebel Leader Fidel Castro head of the nation s armed forces. 20 years ago today. Jan. 5, 1969 the House of representatives voted to allow rep. Adam Clayton Powell d-n.y., who was accused of misusing Public funds by putting his wife on the congressional payroll to retain his seat if he paid a $25,000 Fine. ? 0 years ago today. Jan. 5, 1979 Sicily got its first Snow in 25 years and France set a record for heat usage As Europe was hit by the worst storm of the Winter. To Blower Protection act of 1989," said the legislation protects Federal employees who blow the whistle on fraud waste and abuse in government from reprisals by their supervisors. The administration believes that employees who speak up when they see wrongdoing deserve the thanks and Protection of the  last october at the Behest of attorney general Dick Thornburgh Reagan pocket vetoed a stronger whistle Blower Protection Law upsetting a carefully constructed com Promise that had passed both houses of Congress unanimously. Reagan said the Bill raised serious constitutional con Cerns because it created an office in the executive Branch that was immune from presidential supervision. In an attempt to answer these con Cerns the new legislation would establish an office of special counsel within the executive Branch. The office would be empowered to protect employees who blow the whistle on their employers and would have Broad investigative authority. The new office also could seek orders from the Merit systems Protection Board to protect a whistle blowing employee from disciplinary action. In Washington Carl Levin d-Mich., chairman of the Senate governmental affairs oversight subcommittee called the proposal another giant step  it is obvious that the outgoing administration intends to do absolutely nothing to protect whistle blowers he said. The vetoed legislation would have made it easier for employees who were dismissed for whistle blowing to prove they were fired for exposing government wrongdoing. To save their jobs they would have had to show that whistle blowing was a Factor in the decision to fire them rather than a significant or dominant reason. In other actions tuesday Reagan approved the finding of Commerce Secretary c. William Verity that Oil import fees would not be Cost effective and would in the Long run impair rather than enhance National  Reagan acknowledged that there Are substantial Energy concerns and called for deregulation of natural Gas prices for Oil exploration and development of the Arctic National wildlife Refuge and the outer Continental shelf for increases in the Oil depletion Al Lowance and for new nuclear Power plants. Submitted to the Senate a convention signed by 23 nations in Rome in March that would provide for extradition and prosecution of terrorists who commit crimes such As the seizure of the italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985, on which an american passenger was murdered. Issued his eighth annual report on Small business which he praised As the Cornerstone of american economic vitality. Continues to cooperate fully with authorities and has no further comment at this  the company earlier acknowledged that it was a target of the govern ment investigation. Berlin s lawyer Jeffrey Harris could not be reached for comment tuesday but in an earlier interview said the government Case is built wholly on circumstantial evidence and that Berlin never took payments from defense consultants. According to the picture painted by the affidavit Berlin served from his Pentagon office As the vital source in an in formation pipeline providing in re turn for bribes the inside guidance that eventually enabled Hazeltine to de sign its bid to fit the Navy s specifications precisely. A family tradition Patrick Kennedy son of . Sen. Edward Kennedy is sworn in As a member of the Rhode Island House of representatives in Providence on tuesday. Kennedy 21 and a provi Dence College Junior ousted the incumbent in a hard fought race Las year. Girl finds Mother in Freezer father held Canton Mich. Up a Veteran Michigan school official was arraigned tuesday on a murder charge in the death of his wife whose body was found by their daughter in a Freezer at their Home monday More than three years after she was reported missing. Leonard Tyburski who Heads the department of attendance at Detroit s Mackenzie High school was ordered held without Bond on a charge of open murder after his arraignment in 35th District court. The body of his wife Dorothy Tyburski was discovered monday by their daughter Kelly 20, who had pried open the Freezer door. Kelly Tyburski who had reported her Mother missing in october 1985, was not looking for the body when she opened. The Freezer police said. Police would not say Why the Freezer door was not opened before. Kelly Tyburski is a student at Michigan state University and does not live at Home. Dorothy Tyburski s disappearance was investigated for two years but was dropped because of Lack of Progress said sgt. Ernie Sayre of the Canton township police department. Harry Nicholaou 60, a neighbor who was asked by police to identify the body said Tyburski had told him his wife had left him and moved to Ohio. Sayre said it appeared that Tyburski who was 37 when she was reported miss ing had been dead since her reported disappearance. Her daughter pried open the Freezer in the basement and found her Mother Frozen Sayre said. It appears she s been dead since 1985." police refused to speculate about pos sible causes of death. An autopsy will be conducted by the Wayne county medi Cal examiner s office