European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 10. 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 7federa i agencies wasteful Gao says Washington apr virtually no controls prevent the government from Federal Agency or program is adequately keeping track of billions of dollars that it managed or fully accountable for the tax spends each year dollars it spends the . Comptroller the result is wasted taxpayer dollars general said Friday. The report said _ As a result the government must Quot re Quot the state of management in the fed invent itself to meet the challenges of eral government is not Good Quot said the re the 21st Century comptroller general port released thursday by the Cohores Charles a. Bows her told the Senate gov signal watchdog Agency Ern mental affairs committee on Friday. It noted previous audits showing $111 had the report said. I the report identified 17 government programs with serious management problems that pose a risk of greater financial losses. A a a a. Among them were medicare the superfund toxic waste cleanup program the guaranteed student loan program and the space program. Singly on ref ing the goals set by Congress. But strategic planning incr Cas t common in private business is cd narc ered harder in government where political changes often mean changing goals and  Gao study suggested that the presence of some 3,000 political appoint. Maxes it Quot there Are hardly any government agencies that Are Well managed with modern systems and a Good financial management Quot Bowsher said As he Intro billion in taxes that went uncollected because internal Revenue service computers were out of Date. And the Pentagon made $40 billion induced a general accounting office re unneeded purchases because of. An in ers for failing to develop Long term Stra port that concludes that poor financial ability to keep track of what i already segies for running programs and achieves in the Federal bureaucracy _ ,. V. More difficult to improve the operation outmoded organizations bureaucratic 0f government agencies red tape and political pressures make it difficult to streamline agencies the Gao said. The report faulted government manag a fundamental cause for inaction is anchored in the Short term mentality created by the political appointment process the budget process and under investment in the Public service Quot the report said. A a birthday duo Joann Soden of Parker Arif poses with cardboard photo cutouts of former president Nixon and Elvis Presley at the Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda Calif. The Library celebrated the birthdays of the two men beginning Friday. Elvis was born Jan. 8,1935. Nixon was bom Jan. 9,1913. Surgical aide sues patient with his los Angeles a a surgical technician is suing a patient for concealing that she had the aids virus. A lawyer for Diane Boulais told a jury Friday that his client fears getting aids after being Cut during cosmetic surgery on Jan Lustig who had concealed the fact that she was infected with the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. Boulais has tested negative for the virus. Opening statements in the Case were Friday. Boulais claimed that Lustig a clinical psychologist from Vancouver wash., hid her diagnosis because no surgeon would perform breast surgery on her knowing she carried his. The lawsuit contrasts with recent moves to Force disclosure by health care professionals infected with the virus. It seeks unspecified damages and alleges intent to inflict emotional distress and fraud. Lustigs lawyer Richard de Natale told jurors his client hid the fact that she was infected with his because she feared she would be discriminated against. Be Natale works for the Lambda Legal defense and education fund a Gay rights organization. He also insisted that Boulais who has tested negative six times since the incident has no Chance of developing aids. L de Natale blamed Boulais and the doctor who operated on Lustig for failing to follow Standard precautions established by the government for preventing transmittal of the virus. Son Francisco observes 10,000th aids death by the new York times san Francisco a mayor Frank Jordan ordered flags on municipal buildings flown at half staff Friday and called for five minutes of silence to commemorate the City a 10,000th recorded death from aids. Officials of the City a department of Public health said the latest victim died wednesday morning. He was identified Only As Quot a Gay latino male in his 30s.�?� the City began recording aids deaths in 1981. Although there have been 30,772 aids deaths in new York and 12,213 in los Angeles san Francisco is the City with the highest percentage of its population infected with the aids virus with about 28,300 people or 4 percent infected. The lawsuit alleges that Lustig approached or. Neal Handel co owner of the breast Center in Van Guys in 1991 and arranged for a breast enlargement operation. She signed papers saying she had no medical problems. Boulais suffered a deep Finger put from a Scalpel when she was helping Handel during the operation. In cosmic by the new York times Phoenix a putting the big bang theory of cosmic origin to its sternest test yet a . Satellite has made precise temperature measurements showing that 99.97 Iier cent of the Radiant Energy of the universe was re eased within a year of that primeval explosion. V Quot this is the ultimate in tracing ones cosmic roots Quot or. John c. Mather a Nasa scientist said thursday in announcing the newest results from the cosmic background explorer satellite. Astrophysicists said the infrared measurements provided further confirmation of the Basic big bang theory As the Best explanation of How the universe began in an explosion some 15 billion years ago. I the new findings also confirmed one of the theory a most important predictions that radiation in the explosions residual afterglow should be the same temperature in All observable wavelengths. That indicated the Energy came from one explosion and that the big bang was not followed by Quot Little Bangs Quot As suggested in some versions of the theory. A the universe has passed its toughest test yet As far As the big bang theory is concerned a Mather said. Quot the big bang comes out a  results from the satellite not Only revealed Early conditions in the universe cosmologists said but also helped narrow the search for answers to an unresolved Central question if the universe originated in a. Big bang producing a uniform spread of Energy and matter then How did the stars and galaxies and super clusters of galaxies develop the results will be particularly satisfying to cosmologists because it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile the Complex Structure of the observed present Day universe with the big bang theory a implication that the universe began in a smooth featureless form. That difficulty remains but the further confirmation of the big bang s predictions for the earliest moments of the universe helps focus further study. High court to review discrimination ruling Washington a the supreme court said Friday it will use a Missouri employment Bias dispute to Clar Ify How difficult it should be for employees to prove they were the victims of illegal racial or sexual discrimination. The justices agreed to review a Federal appeals court ruling that said employees always must win their cases if they prove that their employers stated legitimate non discriminatory reasons Are not True. Other appeals courts have ruled that such proof does not always ensure Victory for the suing employees. Melvin Hicks was a supervisor at St. Mary a Honor Center a Missouri minimum Security prison until he was fired in 1984. Hicks who is Black sued and alleged that his firing was motivated by racial Bias. A Federal judge ruled that the purportedly nondiscriminatory reasons offered by prison officials for Hicks firing were Quot pretext Al Quot because White employees had not been disciplined for committing More serious offences. But the judge also ruled that Hicks had failed to meet his Quot ultimate Burden Quot of proving that his firing was racially motivated