European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday april 12. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 of parts riddled with defects panel told Glenn views equipment As garbage. L y inc Cox nits service Washington the air Force stocks defective spare parts thai could endanger personnel or could ground air Craft during War the defense depart ment inspector general s office has told a Senate committee. Air Force officials seemed to be More interested in not gelling bad publicity than hey were in fixing the Deputy inspector general Derek Vander Schaaf said Folti vials whom he charged with Hin Dering his two year evaluation of Floc parts. Sen. , a former Marine combat Pilot a lacked the defense department for accepting the parts. The Ohio Democrat who is chairman of the governmental affairs commit acc was not mollified by Pentagon army and air Force officials attempts to respond to the criticisms during monday s hearing if this is indicative of wha we re going to find in checking other areas of military spare Par this is a National disgrace,".olcnn said. Once is their parts suppliers fault. Twice is our fault if ivc let them Back in the door again.". The defense department always seems id have initiatives under Way Glenn said in a sarcastic reference to Pentagon offi. Vials contentions that they had launched initiatives to solve the problem. He also dismissed the significance of management Reform called total Quality management or Tom de scribed by Jack Katzen assistant defense Secretary for production and logistics As thing new and different and we just Dis covered it and it s going to work and it s going to be Beautiful. Meanwhile. We be got a Bunch of garbage going out that won t work in combat. Right now if we went to War. We d be if you re out there in an air plane and you re jousting with an anti aircraft position. And your guns Don t work it s your the department s main thrust for As Suring the Quality of military purchases. I have a Little problem seeing that Tom is something new and it s revolutionary and it s going to solve All of our problems Glenn said noting that the military used to Call the same process cd for Zero it s just hard for me to believe that we come along. 20 or 25 years later and we re just discovering Quality Assurance problems Glenn said. And we re Dis covering this As though Tom is some handicapped by the fact that we be got some less-1 ban operable parts. So we can t Wail for Tom a Hon Katzin replied that we can Wail for Tom Glenn shot Back no if i m going into combat with the parts you re supplying. If you re out there in an air plane and you re jousting with an anti aircraft Posi Tion or something and you re coming in on that thine and your guns Don t work it s your life. This in t like a cinder Block hat you buy and you find out it trimaran Triumph frenchwoman Anne throws the Sun Francisco n 91 of whom were denied exit visas on grounds they knew state secrets have received permission to leave the soviet Union a cording to the National conference on soviet jewry. It is the largest single group to be granted visas at one Lime since the sum Mit Celini Bow can. Former president Reagan and soviet 1 resident Mikhail s. Gorbachev last december in new York included in the list lire Alexander i a Tulsky of Kiev who has waited is years for. A visa Mark Bernfeld of Moscow 12. Years and Inna orc Oshrain of Leningrad 12 years. Shoshana s. Cardin chairman of the. Soviet jewry group said in a statement monday while be Are encouraged by the Resolution of the cases of v Many Long term Rufu Scaks. We regret that Many who set to emigrate ure Stilt de Nied their right to do know Edge of sensitive information was i in frequently in the past As a Rea son for denying visas 10 jewish scientists or others who had been involved in gov Erna Cal work one of the Preforms pledged by Gorbachev was to ease the restriction woman s right stressed by lawyer in in Vitro dispute Knoxville Tenn. A a woman s right to become pregnant through in Viltro fertilization should outweigh her estranged husband s decision not to be. Come a father the woman s monday. Mary sue Davis 28, and Junior Lewis Davis. 30,who Are divorcing disagree Over what to do with seven of her eggs that were removed from her ovaries Fertil inc Wilh his sperm and Kepi in fro in storage the husband who filed petition in fcb. Ruari referred 10 the embryos As property jointly owned and Darsn want his wife to become pregnant with the she considers the. Matter a custody Battle and has said the embryos arc life that should be taken to term. By being implanted inside her. The Blount co my term., couple have participated in a Knoxville in Viltro fertilisation program for Sis years in an Effort to become parents. The two were married in .1979., said she had had five tubal pregnancies resulting in the rupture of one fallopian lube and surgery to. Tie the other by the Lime she and her husband began the in Vitro Fertil i action Programmer attorney j a. Christenberry Siirid that because a woman can do More for the eggs produce a child than a Man can her wants should outweigh his when issues such As this arise. Christenberry said he hoped the Blount county Cir Cuit court Case could be heard by. July. In a two Page court response filed last week he said his client main Lains she is the proper parly to the custody of her embryos for the Davies acknowledge that the Case is an unusual. One incorporating medical technology personal rights and ethics. They say there apparently Are no previous court cases like it. Many in Viltro fertilisation clinic require couples to sign written agreement on fhe Fate of their Frozen embryos in the event of divorce or a spouse s death. However medical officials have conceded it s hard to draft consent forms that include every possible scenario for embryos. The Davies said they were not asked to sign such a paper. Or. I. Ray King founder of the clinic in has said thai was an oversight. But he added that any such agreement probably could be contested legally later by a husband or wife. King has agreed to continue. Maintaining the seven fro in embryos
