Comptroller General flags $1 million Army waste
UPI reports Comptroller General Elmer Staats criticized the Army for about $1 million spent to buy and deliver locomotives to Thailand that could not meet the country’s mainline requirements. The finding highlights waste in Defense Department spending under McNamara’s era.
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Comptroller
Army Brass
Department of Defense
Washington
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Ford Motor Co
Defense Department
United States
Elmer B. Staats
Staats
Department of the Army
Thailand
Department of Army
Pentagon Waste Fallout Prompted by Lyle Wilson Column
Washington dispatch details Defense Secretary McNamara's stance on waste. The column criticizes $1 million as trivial and urges accountability, citing Staats reports on careless spending and procurement errors. It urges voters to demand change in election day promises to remove wasteful officials.
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Washington
UPI
Defense Department Today
Lyle C. Wilson
Lyle Wilson
Secretary of Defense
McNamara
Department of Defense
Staats
Department of Army
Joe
Defense Department
Congress
Pentagon
Repayment Suggested As Powell's Way Out
Washington reports a UPI item notes a special committee may propose docking Adam Clayton Powell's $30,000 salary to reimburse payroll and travel abuse costs if he is seated in Congress. The plan, in idea form, faces legal questions about seating eligibility and the use of a shrinking pay to cover debts to Congress.
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Washington
UPI
Adam Clayton Powell
Congress
Powell
House
U.S
New York
Senate
Yvette Flores Powell
Miami
House Education and Labor Committee
Washington-to-Miami
Student Group Accuses CIA of Intimidation
Washington NSA leaders face alleged CIA harassment as National Student Association officials claim threats of legal action target officers who took national security oaths. NSA spokesman Philip Werdell voices concern over intimidation tied to disclosure of NSA CIA ties.
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CIA
Washington
UPI
National Student Association
Central Intelligence Agency
NSA
Spy Agency
Philip Werdell
Werdell
Moon Landing Sites Being Pinpointed
NASA's Lunar Orbiter 3 photographic sweep targets Apollo landing zones with 12 candidate sites mapped. Stations must be flat, 3 to 5 miles wide with 30 mile approaches, and six months may pass before final selections.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPS
America
Cape Kennedy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
T.W. Offield
U.S. Geological Survey
Reagan Vows Veto Over Death Penalty Repeal
In Sacramento three Democrats open a drive to end California death penalty citing mass executions in the San Quentin gas chamber. Governor Reagan warns he will veto any repeal and continues to defend the death penalty as a murder deterrent.
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Sacramento
Calif
San Quentin
California
George R. Moscone
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Lawmaker pushes plan to avert rail and transport strike
Rep J J Pickle proposes a strengthened Railroad Labor Act with extended cooling off periods up to 270 days and a final binding arbitration to keep railroads and airlines moving during disputes. The measure would potentially cover the entire transport sector as six railroad unions set an April 12 strike deadline amid a 20 percent wage offer dispute.
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Washington
UPS
Congress
Rep
J. J
Jake) Pickle
Dtex
Pickle
House Commerce Committee
Airlines
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Railway Airlines
Famed Civil War Ship Located In Mud at Mobile Bay
Ocean engineers say they found the Union ironclad Tecumseh buried in silt near Ft. Morgan Mobile Bay at 38 feet depth. The 225 foot vessel sank Aug 5 1864 after hitting a torpedo during Farragut’s assault. Tecumseh to be housed at Smithsonian. 105 crewmen lost.
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Mobile Bay
Mobile
Aia
UPI
Tecumseh
Adm
David G. Farragut
Smithsonian Institute
Ft. Morgan
Farragut
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Time Magazine
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Denis Vaughan
Naples
Lucia
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Trampler
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Noveck - Shultz, Inc
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