European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 23, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9travel by club ski questioned$2.4 million spent lost fiscal year report says Washington a Globe trotting officials from the Pentagon a strategic defense initiative spent $2.4 million in travel last year and Hawaii proved to be a favorite destination a congressional report says. The hawaiian trips appeared to include More vacation time than official work Days according to investigators for the House government operations committee. The study found that ski officials took 65 trips to Hawaii and stayed at exclusive hotels on Maui and Kauai islands even though military facilities for distinguished visitors were available. Those military facilities included 225 Beach cottages and guest houses. Overall 109 ski officials took 218 trips to 16 countries Hawaii and Alaska in fiscal 1991, which ended sept. 30. All the officials travelled by coach except for the ski director who flew business class. The total travel Tab was $2.4 million. The investigators preliminary report made available thursday is based on travel vouchers from the ski office and written responses to questions. It said additional investigation is needed to determine whether ski officials violated any Federal Laws or regulations with their travel. The government operations committee in conjunction with Congress investigative Agency the general accounting office conducted the inquiry after receiving complaints from ski employees. The employees of the Pentagon a multimillion Dollar program said that a overseas travel was handed out As rewards to favored officials. A the business meetings cited for the trips were frivolous. A some officials used the trips to further their own careers. The Federal government has invested about $28 billion in the ski program which Aims to build an antimissile defense system. A what we Are discovering now is that a club Sdit has some pretty attractive travel benefits for its officials a said Hep. John Conyers d-mich., chairman of the committee. A spokesman for the defense departments ski organization maj. Mike Doble said thursday that the department had not seen the report and would have no comment. The report found that expenses for the trips to Hawaii were $118,817 and that ski officials spent a total of 471 Days in the state in fiscal 1991. The ski assistant general counsel Michael Van Zandt took the most trips to Hawaii a 10 visits for a total of 71 Days. During one trip in july Van Zandt had five full workdays during a 14-aay visit. Overall the report said 27 of the trips involved visits to the several hawaiian test facilities but 36 were meetings workshops briefings and assessments that appear questionable. In another instance the assistant Deputy for strategic defense Richard bleach spent 14 Days in Hawaii and worked a total of seven Days according to travel records obtained by the committee. Bleach spent 2vi hours at the University of Hawaii Shilo Campus on monday july 8, and because of his work the ski program paid for him and his wife Sherry to stay at the Kona Hilton resort that weekend. The official purpose of bleaches trip was to Brief the staff of the commander in chief of the Pacific come on the ski program and visit various ski Sites. The briefing took 45 minutes the report said. Other frequent destinations for ski officials were Britain and Gotland 94 trips Europe 24 the Caribbean four and the Middle East and Russia 14. Sculpture atop House is saved from the jaws of destruction Oxford England a the 18-foot fibreglass shark sticking out of the roof of a House just outside Oxford May stay the department of environment ruled thursday. The Sharks owner William Heine had waged a six year planning fight to keep his sculpture untitled 1986 by John Buckley. A it is a wonderful Triumph for Art in Public places a said Heine a radio talk show Host. A i think the winners Are the people of Oxford who have supported the shark for six  Heine 47, said his Victory shows that even in Britain a if you grab the system by its neck and shake it Long enough it  in 1986, Oxford City Council ruled that the realistic looking shark a was Large and prominent and detracted from the otherwise harmonious appearance of the  the Council ordered Heine to pull it Down. Heine who comes from Illinois but settled in Oxford after attending Oxford University refused. He appealed after he was fined 1,000 pounds about $1,800 Tor keeping the Gray and White monster on top of his House in Headington two Miles East of Oxford. Heine said he decided to erect the shark on april 15, 1986, the Day he moved in. A it was also the Day the . Bombed Libya and i saw pictures on my to of suburban streets in Libya like mine being ripped apart. Later that month the chernobyl nuclear disaster happened and it seemed like even the most extraordinary things weren to impossible. The shark destroying the roof of the House is playing on fears that All of us have about Home and life in general a he said. The department of environment said it received More than 200 letters and petitions 90 percent of them in favor of the shark. A the Secretary of state considers that the shark does not cause such demonstrable harm to visual amenity As to justify refusing consent for its retention a the department of environment said in a statement. Planning minister Tony Baldry said planning control should not enforce a a Boring and mediocre  a any system of control must make some Small space for the dynamic the unexpected and the downright Quirky or we shall All be the poorer for it. I believe that this is one Case where a Little vision and imagination is appropriate a Baldry said in a statement. William Heine a fibreglass shark appears to plunge through the roof of Heine s Home near Oxford  with his says she had 50 men a week Harrisburg a. A a prostitute who has the aids virus told police that she had sex with an average of 50 men a week in the last three years while she knew she was infected an official said thursday. Randy King a spokesman for Harrisburg mayor Stephen Reed who also Speaks for the City a police department said he  confirm her claims. A blood test did confirm that the woman is his positive King said. The 32-year-old woman was arrested May 17 about a mile from the state Capitol King said. He said the woman a freely admitted she had his the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome and had known about it for three years. King  release the woman a name citing a Pennsylvania confidentiality Law that prohibits officials from naming anyone who has tested his positive. It Wasny to immediately known what kind of sexual activity the woman engaged in or whether she used condoms which would reduce the risk of transmitting the incurable disease. Bruce Reimer a spokesman for the state health department said men have a lesser Chance of contracting the disease from an infected woman than women have of getting it from men. A but its still very possible for a Man to get it that Way a Reimer said. A there Nave been numerous cases across the country where men get the disease from a woman during Normal sexual  Bill Shepherd an aids educator with the department said any person who had any Type of sexual Contact with the woman was at some risk. The most risky form of sexual Contact would be anal Intercourse he said. Some people can carry the his virus for 10 years or longer without developing full blown aids Shepherd said while others can develop the disease almost immediately. The woman turned to prostitution to support a cocaine addiction King said. She was being held on $10,000 Bond on charges of reckless endangerment and  investigator s past worries women s groups Springfield 111. Up1 a former Peoria police officer fired three years ago for sexual harassment started a new Job thursday As an investigator for the state Agency that handles sexual harassment cases. Women a groups Are shocked and outraged Over the Illinois department of human rights decision to hire Christopher Duncan a former policeman who also is a member of the Peoria county Board. A this is deplorable a said Luellen Laurenti a lobbyist for the Illinois chapter of the National organization for women. A the absolutely has no business being an investigator. Its like hiring a Wolf to look Over the  officials with the state Agency said they knew of Duncan a record when they hired him but still Felt he was the Best candidate. A if the harassment had happened six months ago it might have been a different Story a said Agency spokesman Jeff Drager. A it happened three years  but Melissa Josephs of women employed a Chicago based group that tracks sexual harassment charges filed with the human rights department said Duncan a Job could Force him to investigate the same things he was accused of doing. A i would be a Little sceptical about hiring him a Josephs said. Duncan was a sergeant with the Peoria police department when he was fired in 1989 after a series of highly publicized sexual harassment hearings. Eight female co workers claimed he had kissed fondled and requested sexual favors from them. Duncan said that he was the victim of false accusations and that police officials used those allegations to punish him for his alleged failure to cooperate in the murder investigation