European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday january 31, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 resale of used plane parts probed Seattle a a Federal grand jury and a Spe Cial task Force Are investigating whether suppliers have been buying used parts from aerospace firms and Resel Ling them with false certification papers a newspaper reported. The investigation is to determine whether undocumented used or even bogus parts have ended up in commercial or military air planes raising the question of air plane safety the Seattle times reported sunday. No crashes have been traced to defective parts but investigators said such evidence often is destroyed by crashes. We re not saying a particular part is defective but there s a system set up to ensure their integrity and when that system is breached that compromises the integrity said . Attorney Gene Anderson. Anderson s office is conducting the investigation along with agents from the Fri internal Revenue service the defense criminal investigative service and the air Force and Navy. Anderson would not identify companies targeted inthe probe or reveal any pending indictments. He said the task Force originally was formed to probe fraud Indefenso contracts in the military and aerospace Indus tries. The investigation is National and Pacific Northwest contractors including the Boeing co. Near Seattle May be victims not targets Anderson said. The Industry is really integrated he added. It difficult to make it a local the task Force is focusing on the production Pur Chase and resale of surplus and used aerospace parts including specialized electronic connectors and mechanical fasteners that hold planes together. It is also looking at the possible use of counterfeit parts manufactured to look like original parts but not necessarily meeting specifications. The Boeing co. Confirmed that it has been subpoenaed by the grand jury and is cooperating with investigators but declined to reveal the names of any surplus parts customers or of companies targeted by the probe. Boeing is not the focus of the investigation said Paul Binder a Boeing spokesman. We have been subpoenaed to provide documents and information what Ever we can provide to help them in their i Vestiga de easter senior manager of Boeing s surplus prop erty operations said the investigation stems from a similar inquiry last year in which a Florida company was convicted of misusing Boeing surplus electrical connectors but he provided no details. Miami based Southeast connectors inc. And its offi cers were prosecuted for buying the surplus wire connectors and reselling them As new material to the de sense department and other customers. The company s two top executives Are serving prison term sin Florida. 200 rally outside detention Center to denounce treatment of haitians Miami a about 200 people demonstrated sunday outside a Federal detention Center to protest the treatment of haitian immigrants held there. Inside the Gates of the immigration an naturalization service s Krome Avenue detention Center stood several dozen fed eral officers in closed ranks wearing Shields helmets clubs and body Armor. We come for peace and they re read for War said Ray Fauntroy president of the Dade county chapter of the Southern Christian leadership conference. The protesters were primarily Hai a tearful Paula Vivaldi walks with a Friend Bila Tois thermidor outside the Fence atthe Krome Avenue detention Center on sunday As riot officers stand by inside. Trans and carried placards saying fight racism. Justice for Black people and one Black is Hurt All Are haitians say their countrymen Are More Likely to be held for deportation than White immigrants. Immigration officials have maintained that most haitians entering the United states Are not eligible for Asylum because they Are seeking economic Refuge and not fleeing political persecution. In preparation for the demonstration the detention Center was placed under a modified lock Down to severely restrict the movements of the approximately 300 haitians housed there officials said. Perry Rivkind District director of the immigration service acknowledged ear Lier this month that the detention Cente became seriously overcrowded with the arrival of 94 haitians picked up after their homemade Sailboat ran aground in the Florida keys. The More people at Krome the longer they have to wait in line for food and other things the Opportunity for protest Sand tension grows Rivkind said. Betty Ferguson one of the speakers atthe rally mentioned the riot ready offi cers behind the Fence some of who were armed. When they Are ready to shoot us Down like dogs then that Means they know we Are right she said. We Are Only asking equal treatment for haitians. If they treat us like this and we re inthe outside How do you think they re treating them on the inside the demonstration was sponsored bythe haitian organization Veye to. Its members distributed leaflets listing the group s Aims As equal treatment for Black refugees Freedom for the haitians at Rome and other installations around the nation and no support for any Hai Tian government linked to ousted dicta Tor Jean Claude Duvalier. Years of pain later Metal is Cut from lung Belleville wis. A Vickie Schenk is breathing easier these Days now that a piece of Metal lodged for 36 years in her right lung has been removed. The 41-year-old Belleville woman ingested the foil thin piece of l /2-by-l Inch aluminium when she a s 5 and forgot about it. About three years later she began to develop breathing and health problems. They lasted until july1988 when doctors at St. Marys hos Pital medical Center discovered the piece of Metal and removed it. The last three years or so were really bad. Every six weeks or so i was going to the doctor for som Type of Chest infection or cold said Schenk an attendant at health care Center near her South Ern Wisconsin Hometown. The woman s Mother Victoria Schenk still remembers the Inci Dent. I came up to her one Day when she was playing with her dolls outside and asked her what she was chewing on. She Swal Lowed it right there she any other kid that swallows something like a Nickel it usually passes and you forget about her daughter remembers ingest ing the aluminium which was used to wrap Riwen or lace but said she forgot about it at the time and never linked it to her health problems be cause of the time lapse and the Inci Dence of asthma in her family. In the years that followed Vickie Schenk began to suffer chronic coughing Dunn strenuous activity or the Middle of the night. She underwent years of allergy shots to alleviate her problems. Disabled Brady retiring from press Secretary Job Washington a James s. Brady who remained on the government payroll As Ronald Reagan s press Secretary for nearly eight years after being severely wounded in an assassination at tempt is retiring. White House spokesman mar Lin Fitzwater said this week that president Bush talked with Bra by s wife Sarah about the for Mer press Secretary s retirement plans before his inauguration. At the end of the Reagan administration he and Sarah Brady s wife had put together Abrady retirement program. From a number of various outlets Fitzwater said. Brady 48, who has held a variety of government jobs since coming to Washington in 1968 As a communications consultant to the House is entitled to a government pension. He was shot in the head on March 30, 1981, during an attempt on Reagan s life and uses a wheelchair. Reagan kept him in the title of press Secretary and he continued to receive his salary of $89,500 per year As an assistant to the president. He reported to the White House about one Day week to visit with associates sign autographs and pose for pictures. Deputy press Secretary Larry Speakes became the chief White House spokesman with the title of Princi pal Deputy press Secretary. When Speakes resigned in1987, Fitzwater was named spokesman with the title of assistant to the president for press announcing nov. 29 that he would retain Fitzwa Ter As his spokesman then vice president Bush re stored to him the traditional title of press at that time whether Brady would have a role in the new administration Fitzwater said that i know the vice president is very interested in Jim and concerned about his Well being and that Bush and his advisers have some ideas of things they would like him to when asked about this again monday Fitzwater said that before his inauguration Bush talked to Sarah about it and so did i and a number of people Are interested in putting together whatever they would like to let s just say we re talking to Jim and Well see what can be worked out but something that protects his retirement system is in the planning that they have done privately he said. The White House press office said mrs. Brady was no available to talk to a reporter about the retirement plans
