Wasteful accounting haunts U S government say GAO and reform urged
A guest column argues U S government faces widespread accounting failures with 427 systems operable across agencies, 226 non compliant, and GAO warning that data gaps allow billions in waste and fraud. Defense, Social Security, and offsetting collections obscure true costs, prompting calls for a major overhaul. Government waste cited by CAGW and lawmakers as urgent reform needed.
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Washingtoon
Comptroller General of the
United States
General Accounting Office
Comptroller General
Defense Department
GAO
Jake Brooks
D.texas
House
Citizens Against
CAGW
White House
5Onemy
Peter Grace
WLR. Grace & Co
George S. Goldberger
Internal Revenue Service
Customs Service
Interior Department
State Department
Goldberger
Campaign contest shapes up for Fredericksburg House seats
A looming September 9 Democratic primary in Sub District 3-B pits incumbent James E. McClellan against Galen Clagett with Boyd Smith as a rising challenger. Campaigns at the Fredericksburg fairgrounds feature fundraisers and endorsements as party rivals trade barbs over leadership of the Annapolis delegation amid a tenuous truce unraveling from prior year.
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Galen Clagett
House of Delegates
Winchester Hall
Clagett
James E
McClellan
Boyd Smith
Smith
Fairgrounds
Frederck
Annapolis
House
Jack Derr
Senate
Derr
Democratic Party
Frederick
Ron Young
Communists sell arms to contras in Nicaragua and Angola
Adolfo Calero confirms purchases of weapons from China for the Nicaraguan guerrillas, denying the ships were Chinese and noting European AK-47 rifles. The report links arms flows via a common middleman to UNITA in Angola and cites fundraising by Maj. Gen. John Singlaub with support from Israel, Taiwan, and conservative groups.
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Washington
Adolfo Calero
China
Managua
People’s Republic of China
Calero
Nicaragua
Honduras
Miguel D'Escoto
Commandante Henry) Ruiz
Peking
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Jonas Savimbi
Usnita
Savimbi
Contras
Congress
CIA
Israel
Taiwan
South Korea
Sun Myung Moon
Unification Church
United States
U.S. Army
John Singlaub
Eden Pastora
White House
Singlaub
U.S
Letters to the editor defend Frederick High and critique reporting
Nelson Palmer a Frederick High School teacher urges readers to see Frederick High as an excellent school with dedicated staff and a diverse, capable student body while criticizing the Frederick News Post for biased coverage. He cites prior articles on various issues and argues due process matters should guide judgments, not a winning record, then responds to a separate blue laws debate urging open discussion and community choice.
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Frederick
Frederick High School
Frederick News Post
Frederick High
The
Frederick News
Teens in worldwide crisis of death by own action
A reader asks if teen death by own action is a world problem. Dr. Wallace notes 17 percent globally and 18 percent in the United States have considered suicide, reflecting intense pain and perceived lack of escape in personal crises.
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Dr. Wallace
United States
Jody
Florence
Ala
Robert Brager
U.S
Frederick County News Highlights and Local Event Notes
Unofficial results from Frederick County show Roosevelt and Lewis leading in the Democratic primary with Legore top Republican contenders. Stephen Deak to perform in Frederick at the city opera house as part of the Waynesboro Chambersburg Symphony Orchestra. WPA layoffs cut county rolls from 1137 to 600, with a sewer project in Brunswick hiring a few workers. Mary Condon Hodgson elected first woman president of the Frederick County Board of Education. Local piano students staged spring recitals at the Holiday Inn, with a follow up group rehearsal planned. A Gaithersburg lumber employee was run over by a B&O train cowcatcher and treated for minor injuries.
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Stephen Deak
Hagerstowe
Fredenck
Waynesboro
Chambersburg Symphony Orchestra
Loc
Fredenck City Opera House
Hungary
Piece Orchestra
Deak
America
Works Progress Amsnistraee
Lee Stephen
Cromwell
Frederick County
Frederick
G.H. Sykes
Brunswick
John B Funk
Mary Condon Hodgson
Cletus Roberts
Gaithersburg Lumber Co
Baltimore and Ohio
B&o
William Smith
Lumber Company
Roberts
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