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And chairman of the committee. It appears to me that we Haven t made much Progress from the a s of the $400 Pentagon officials disputed some of the report s specifics the times said. The officials acknowledged a chronic serious problem with excess inventor but said it was already being worked on. The report attributed the problem to inefficient management including a Pentagon unwillingness to throw away anything inadequate inventory control and a reluctance to cancel Unn ceded orders the times said. Some examples cited in the study in the past year the army was forced to buy 80.000 camouflage helmet covers because officials could t locale ones they had already bought until after the new order was delivered. The Navy has a 13.000-Ycar Supply of a machine tool used to make circuits for the f-14 fighter Jet. The army has More than $3 million Worth of women s Long sleeve dress shirts sitting in a warehouse while a new one of a heavier material is being de signed. Defense logistics Agency warehouses store 150.000 pairs of korean War Vintage pants for cold weather. He sees and he obeys Sij Iii nor scr Patrick a cart appears to hau1 taken in sva. A ers is actual making an adjustment to the heart a Mcvae on a Hank sin in Dunlin inn temperature Monitor on the new sin. U.s., cuban ships join to Rescue stranded freighter Miami hum the . Coast Cliuard and Cuba joined forces sunday to assist a stranded c Praml freighter off the cuban coast pulling aside tension from last Witk s encounter Between the two nations in the cull of Mexico. The coast guard said it received a distress Call about 4 . Sunday from the Lake Michigan a a not merchant ship. They said thes were on fire and dead in the water without any sort of propulsion the asked for immediate assist coast Cliuard it. C mar. Jeff Karo Nis said. The 6u-fool freighter was about 10 Miles olt the northeastern cuban coast near the Windward passage Karonis said. We advised cuban authorities through informal communication links. That we were sending a ship to assist the c a print Cassel. Thi came Back and said. Yes. It s of Thev also gave per Mission to Send an Karonis said. They abused that thes also were sending a i he i a. Sur Elliance and Rescue plain1 reached the ship about 10.15 . They reported the fire is out. But the ship is still disabled and needed assist Karonis said. The cuban ship and the coast guard Cutter thetis Ere both on their a to the sue at Midda sunday. The plane remained with the disabled ship. There were no reports of casualties. Karonis said. Tension Between the United states and Cuba flared last week when a coast Cliuard Cutter fired on a cuban chartered freighter in the Gulf of Mexico. The . Ship riddled the freighter with Bullet holes after the skipper refused to allow a search for illegal drugs. The panamanian registered freighter taking on water and belching smoke made it to the mexican port of Tampico. No casualties were reported. Mexican authorities said a search of the ship turned up no evidence of drugs. Cuba s ambassador to Mexico de scribed i he attack As an Aci of North american piracy and the coast guard said the panamanian government had Given the . Per Mission to Board the vessel and to disa ble it if it refused to Stop for a search. The . Government maintains that the coast guard ship s actions were legitimate Law enforcement activities. Before the distress Call the thetis was sailing in International Waters off Cuba s coast. Under an International policy known As right of assistance ships Are permitted to enter foreign Waters to Aid in distress cases. Karonis said. We have been doing that for 10 years. Whenever we do that we let the cubans know. For the aircraft we had to get their permission to enter their air Karonis said. What makes this different is who was oldest car Plant in . Closes in motor City Detroit a motor City is Down to its last Auto asset ably Plant with the closing of Chrysler corp s Jefferson Avenue factory. Alter 83 years and about 8.3 million cars the factory on Detroit s lower East Side has closed. It was the nation s oldest Active Auto Plant. Its last car was a Gray Dodge Omni with a Gray Interior
