C5A cost flap seen as estimation error not scandal
The House Armed Services Committee found no skulduggery in the C5A cost surge, blaming Air Force and Lockheed miscalculations for 120 aircraft over eight years. Inflation and underestimation of the larger plane inflated the bill. Lockheed says it will break even while the Air Force argues for a reasonable price.
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Washington
House
Armed Services Committee
Air Force
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Charles E. Bennett
D-Fla
L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
Lockheed
Congress
Oris G. Pike
D-N.y
Pike
Durward C. Crow
Air Force Comptroller
Gonzalez outlines unmet needs of elderly with poverty and housing gaps
Rep Henry B Gonzalez told Eastside Senior Citizens Center at Lanier High School that one third of America's 20 million seniors live in poverty. He cited inadequate income rising health costs shelter shortages and weak social services plus a push for higher Social Security benefits and a 15 percent across the board increase with a minimum $80. By 1980 he said there will be 23.1 million elderly nationwide.
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America
Henry B. Gonzalez
Eastside
Senior Citizens’ Center
Lanier High School
Gonzalez
White House
New Roles for OTs in Bexar Mental Health Centers
Miss Avis Stovall outlines how community mental health centers in Bexar County use occupational therapists as cotherapists and group therapists in psychodrama and action drama. The program, funded by federal CMHC Act, plans four centers and a team intake concept to assess patients with psychiatrists psychologists social workers and OTs.
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Bexar County
Avis Stovall
South Central District of Texas Occupational Therapy Association
Miss Stovall
Northwest
Bexar County Hospital District
Bexar County Board For Mental Health and Retardation
Bexar County Hospital
Robert B. Green
Protestant Children’s Home
Southwest
District OT
George M. Elwinger
San Antonio
George Elwinger
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Celestino
Gary
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Austin
Burnet Road
I. A
Bexar
Susan Bauernfeind
Stovall
Dacron
Thompson
Jorrie's
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