European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday april 18,1994 . The stars and stripes Page 5 try to pay $29 million for overcharging Pentagon from wire reports Washington a try inc. Has agree to pay the government $29 million to Settle claims it overcharged the defense department for Jet Engin and naval nuclear reactor parts. The agreement settles a complaint filed in april1986, assistant attorney general Frank a hunger of the Justice department s civil division announced Friday. hunger said employees of two try divisions in Euclid Ohio padded labor hour estimates to support inflated Cost proposals charged the _ Pentagon for time spent working on commercial contracts and misstated the costs for raw divisions were sold in 1986. The overcharges occurred on numerous military subcontracts from at least 1978 through mid-1984,hunger said. The compressor components division made Lades and vanes used in Jet engines sold to the army Navy and air Force. The Power accessories division produced control Rod mechanisms and cell housings for nuclear vessels Jet engine fuel pumps and naval ordnance devices. Clinton mulls candidates Washington president Clinton May announce his Choice for a supreme court nominee in couple of weeks officials say. In the meantime the president is considering a dozen or so House counsel Lloyd Cutler said Friday that the list of candidates includes people with political As Well As Legal experience Clinton met late Friday afternoon with his Lega advisers to discuss the search and specific court appointments have favored Federal judges. Clinton has spoken of the attractiveness of candidates with political experience or stature As a process of selecting a successor to Justice Harry a. Blackmun who will retire later this year was scrambled last week when the leading candidate Senate democratic Leader Georg Mitchell of Maine asked Clinton to withdraw his name from consideration so he could concentration passing legislation for health care Reform. Bank official slain wife Hurt Leachville Ark. A kidnapped Bank Vic president was slain and his pregnant wife was injured after a gunman abandoned plans to Force them to open up a Bank police said. Despite a Bullet in her Arm and a fractured Skull Cassandra Austin 26, was Able to walk about a mile to a farmhouse to report the attack late Friday police said. She is 5vi months husband Richard Austin 25, was vice president of the Leachville state Bank. He was shot at least three times authorities said. Calvin Adams 24, of Leachville was arrested saturday on charges of capita murder attempted capital murder and kidnapping he was being he Din the Mississippi county detention Center awaiting a court appearance today. Juk s widow recovering new York former first lady Jacquelin Kennedy Onassis was recuperating saturday in a new York City Hospital after undergoing surgery to treat an ulcer a spokeswoman said. A spokeswoman for the new York Cornel medical Center a private facility on the upper East Side of Manhattan confirmed that Onassis 64, was there but declined to discuss her condition. Onassis spokeswoman Nancy Tuckerman said the former first lady the widow of president Kennedy and greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis went to the Hospital As part of her ongoing treatment for cancer. Clinton aide May teach Washington White House Counselor David Gergen has told officials that he May take a teaching Job at Duke University in Durham n.c.,when he leaves the administration the Washington Post , the Veteran of three Republican White House staffs who was drafted to bring experience tothe Clinton inner Circle last Spring has already made Public his intention to leave the White Houseboy the end of the congressional session this fall. Forward to horsemen re create the Days of the . Cavalry during Drill Maneu vers at Francis e. Warren fab in Cheyenne Wyo., on saturday. In Frontier times both infantry and cavalry troops were stationed at the site then called fort . Russell later named for the firs state governor of Wyoming. The re enactment was held partly to commemorate the founding of fort Russel during the 1860s. Deadbeat parents to new fair share7 ram by the los Angeles times Springfield mass. David Misterka is a 23 year Oid whose Girlfriend at the time became pregnant when she was 16. Juan Alamo 38, is divorcing his wife of i years. Shaun Benton is fresh from prison after serving time for robbery and has t seen his son for three years. They Are All absent fathers. Their children receive welfare benefits. And the government is about to Send the dads the Bill even though they Are without jobs and say they cannot pay. The government is about to help them do that too. The men All from Western Massachusetts Are part of a Pilot program begun two years ago to teach the responsibilities of fatherhood help develop Job skills and find lucrative enough employment so fathers can Send child support checks every two weeks. The program dubbed Parent s fair share is one of scores of innovative efforts aimed at decreasing welfare costs by making fathers pay up. I m glad the government did t lock me up but in Stead put me in this program and said you re not alone. We re going to help you help yourself " said Alamo who had been earning some Money As a private investigator but not enough he said to help support his three children. President Clinton s vision for revamping the welfare system Calls for an assortment of new measures to catch up with fathers such As Misterka Alamo and Benton and the occasional absent Mother As Well the administration estimates that it can save $1.4 Bil lion by the 10th year of the program. The savings would be achieved primarily by persuading unwed fathers to admit paternity while their newborns Are still in Hospi tals the period when research shows they Are most Likely to do so. V other savings would be achieved through a nation wide computer network to track Deadbeat parents enabling government officials to attach their wages according to Bruce Reed a presidential adviser and one of the chief architects of Clinton s evolving welfare re form plan. Although there appears to be widespread support for the crackdown expensive efforts Over the last two dec Ades to collect from noncustodial parents have not been overwhelmingly successful. I m sceptical. We be spent the last 15 years trying to increase the child support for welfare families and have had Only modest Success said Doug Besharov a welfare specialist at the american Enterprise Institute for Public policy research a nonpartisan research Cen Ter ". A " police prank leaves town in uproar Torrington Wyo. A the masked Man entered the 7-Eleveh and fired several rounds from Anm-16 automatic Rifle at the clerk. The clerk hit the floor and searched his body Foxholes. When he found none he looked up and saw the smiling face of an off duty police officer whose Rifle was loaded with Blanks. It was a fake armed robbery. A practical joke. At least that s How it started out. What it has turned into is a Nightmare for officials and a topic of heated debate from barroom to churches in this Eastern Wyoming town of 5,600. Two of four department employees involved in the feb. 18 incident officer Mike Reeve and sgt. Tony Fisher were fired and May face criminal charges. City officials said the officers told them they were retaliating for a prank by Douglas Haines the 7-eleven clerk. Haines filed a Federal lawsuit april 8 seeking unspecified damages from the town of Torrington and the officers. The lawsuit claims the officers wanted to scar Haines because he spurned their homosexual advances. The lawsuit does t specify which officers made the alleged advances. What happened is so weird so bizarre so inexcusable that you have to ask Why because a nonstick person would t have done that said Harry Buck haines1 at Torney. I think Harry is an attorney who s looking to make Money on a lawsuit and is going to try to draw his own conclusions to whatever said police chief Bill Janes who oversees 12 officers. He s grasping at
