European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Monday december 7, 1992 gis misplaced $36 million Worth of gear report says Raleigh . Apr millions of dollars Worth of equipment and supplies were misplaced after the persian Gulf War because troops were sent Home so quickly a newspaper reported saturday. An internal army audit said $36 million Worth of items ranging from humvee to night vision goggles radiators to spare tires could not be accounted for. Also lost were 455 trucks and four wheel drive vehicles that were donated by the japanese according to an internal army audit. They were Worth More than $11 million. Half of 255 computers Worth $2.9 million also donated by the japanese were missing until they were traced through a time consuming and costly search. A copy of the audit was obtained through the Freedom of information act by the news amp observer of Raleigh. Army auditors spent More than a year compiling the report which was completed in August. The government accounting office the investigative Arm of Congress conducted a similar audit and also criticized the army. The Gao audit was narrower in focus. The Gao had tried to get a copy of the army audit but was refused according to a High ranking Gao official who visited the persian Gulf after the War to review Supply operations. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity the army audit cited the haste to Send Home the 540,000 americans in the Gulf at the end of the War Ais a major reason for1 equipment loss. More than 5,000 troops were sent Home each Day after the cease fire with Iraq in March 1991. It also cited poor accountability. A command Hadnot established adequate accountability Over equipment ammunition repair parts donated equipment and rations at the time of our review a the audit said. In response to its audit the army said that much of the missing equipment had been found and that Many of its problems were corrected. But it acknowledged some theft was suspected and searches continue. The Gao official reviewed the army audit at the newspapers request and said the army a did no to even come close to establishing accountability for supplies weapons and vehicles. The Gao official said the army and Gao reports showed that the army has much to learn about handling equipment issuing contracts and accounting for supplies during a War. A they spent millions millions and millions of dollars unnecessarily a he said. A i can to fault the army for what it did in getting ready for the War but when the War was Over its hard to excuse the inefficiencies that took place simply for the Speed of getting  Pilot Robert Cabana ice and astronauts James Voss Center and Guion Bluford or. Pose on the flight deck during a tour of the space shuttle discovery on saturday. Voss wore his army to shirt proudly after army Defeated Navy 25-24. Space junk Experiment cancelled Cape canaveral Fla. Up Nasa saturday cancelled an Orbital debris tracking Experiment that called for six Metal spheres to be deployed by astronauts aboard the shuttle discovery. A device that was to pop the balls out from a canister in the shuttles cargo Bay apparently lost Power and shuttle flight managers were reluctant to fashion a makeshift solution without fully understanding what went wrong. A the Best thing to do is Call it quits a said flight director Milt Heflin. A we really done to know for sure what the status of the hardware is and when you really done to know there a no reason to go play with it because you might get yourself in a situation that a worse than where you Are now. And where we Are now is Safe a he said. The test originally scheduled for Friday was intended As a training exercise for ground based radar and optical telescopes that track potentially dangerous debris in the Earth a orbit. Flight managers had been considering rescheduling the test for sunday. The Experiment was one of several space technology demonstration projects planned for nasal a 52nd shuttle Mission and final flight of the year. The discovery astronauts completed the main goal of the flight about six hours after liftoff with the successful deployment of a classified defense department satellite. On saturday the five Man Crew continued tests of an electronic camera that encodes each picture with geographic coordinates. From a Vantage Point 200 Miles above Earth the Crew snapped pictures of hunger ravaged Somalia Zanzibar and portions of the great lakes Region of the United states. In addition to the science experiments the Crew which also includes commander David Walker 48, Guion Bluford jr., 50, and Michael Richard Clifford 40, exercised on an experimental rowing machine and kept close track of the army Navy football game. The Crew includes two graduates of the . Naval Academy two army officers and one air Force colonel. Army won the game 25-24. Discovery is scheduled to land wednesday at the Kennedy space  who s no keeper discovers Many weepers from wire reports Tyrone a. A a Man who found a Large sum of Cash and ran an advertisement seeking the person who lost it has gotten several Calls from people whose claims done to add up. Dick Roundsley of Tyrone says hell give the Money which he found downtown last week to the person who can name the sum and describe the Container it was in. One person told Roundsley the Cash was in a yellow envelope. Another said the envelope was Brown. A third said the Container was a combination cigarette Case and change purse. Wrong. A a in a surprised so Many people lost so much Money recently a said Roundsley who declined to Call them liars. Is the amount less than $100? More than $100? a it was More than id want to lose a is All Roundsley will say. If the real owner does no to come Forward soon Roundsley said he will give the Money to the Tyrone food  crash kills 6 Birmingham Ala. A Rescue workers saturday recovered the bodies of six people killed when their Small air plane crashed into a Quarry and burned. Officials used ropes and safety cables to reach the wreckage on the Side of the Quarry about 150 feet below the the top rim said David Brown a supervisor for Vulcan materials which owns the Quarry. A the slope is primarily made of Large Stone and Clay so you done to have Good footing a he said. The twin engine Beech Baron crashed Friday about 30 Miles South of Birmingham said it. Col. James Norris of the civil air patrol. The burning wreckage was spotted around 9 40 . Friday. It was apparently a plane travelling from Gainsville Fla., whose Pilot reported engine trouble about iv2 hours earlier Norris said. A National transportation safety Board inspector Ralph Ricks of Atlanta said the Pilot who reported trouble was in route to Birmingham and was rerouted to the Shelby county Airport a few Miles North of the  pay up Philadelphia a when mayor de Rendell said he could solve Philadelphia a Money woes if every citizen sent him $100, he did no to expect anyone to actually do it. But 20 people took him seriously and As of Friday the City a $57 million budget deficit had been reduced by $1,960. Rendell who made his quip in september while locked in contract negotiations with City unions said he was a a flabbergasted that people were sending checks. A it was a joke a he said. Most checks were for $100. The checks began arriving shortly after Paul Henkels of Plymouth meeting Montgomery county mailed Rendell a $100 Check and then wrote a letter that was published in the Philadelphia inquirer challenging others to do the same. Said Casimir Toczylowski a Philadelphia accountant who mailed a $100 Check a i thought this was my pro rata  flips sinks Canton to. A a ferryboat flipped and Sank saturday morning tossing five people into the Mississippi River. Three victims were rescued but the other two could not be found. The ferry which carries Grain trucks Between Clinton to. And Meyer 111., Sank on the Missouri Side of the River. A a . Coast guard Seaman David Young said the vessel overturned with three Grain trucks on Board. 1 he cause of the Accident was under investigation. A boat equipped with a Crane was brought in to hoist the trucks out of the River he said. Divers kept searching for the two missing people after Nightfall helped by powerful lights on the Salvage Crane