Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 21, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 September 1984 — Page 2

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, September 27,1984

Shultz, Gromyko exchange views

By R. GREGORY NOKES AP Diplomatic Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, having exchanged views for improving U.S.-Soviet relations, went separate ways today Shultz to brief President Reagan and Gromyko to address the United Nations. Shultz and Gromyko met for three hours here Wednesday, and both said their discussions on U.S.-Soviet relations would continue when Gromyko meets Reagan at the White House Friday. Gromyko was in a good mood after the meeting, and a senior U.S. official said the “discussions were a good start” toward improving relations between the superpowers after a long period of deep chill. “We hope the Soviet Union is prepared to move the relationship forward,” said the official, who briefed reporters on the condition he not be identified. “We hope they are as prepared as we are,” he added. Shultz, who also seemed satisfied after the meeting, gave Reagan a 15-minute telephone report on his talks with Gromyko. He was going to Washington today to provide Reagan with an in-depth briefing. Gromyko today was delivering an address to the United Nations General Assembly here and then meeting with Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic presidential hopeful. U.S. analysts were closely scrutinizing

Pentagon finding contract abusers 'under every rock'

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Gromyko’s speech for clues on Moscow’s response to Reagan’s proposals, unveiled in a U.N. speech Monday, for “a better working relationship” between the superpowers. Publicly, Moscow has been skeptical and even insulting, accusing Reagan of using his speech as “camouflage” to hide his real aggressive intentions. But U.S. officials said the Soviets are privately signaling they may be interested. Reagan will find out for sure on Friday, officials believe. But these officials, who insist on anonymity, also caution against expecting any significant breakthroughs in U.S.-Soviet relations to emerge from the meetings here and in Washington. Gromyko was smiling when he left the meeting site at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, joking that while he couldn’t answer any questions, but that reporters could ask him “a thousand questions ” after his meeting with Reagan. The senior U.S. official indicated that Shultz had raised Reagan’s proposals for improved relations with Moscow, including regular Cabinet-level meetings. He said considerable time was devoted to arms control issues. In addition, the official said, Shultz and Gromyko discussed security matters, regional problems, bilateral relations, human rights and terrorism.

problems,” he said. “And we’re doing a tremendous amount of work on improving our internal controls.” But at the same time, Sherick said, “I keep turning over rocks and every rock I turn over I find new things.” Sherick’s appearance came a week after a Senate subcommittee heard about the $7,622 the Air Force paid for a 10-cup coffeemaker for the C-5A cargo plane and about arm rests for that airplane that cost $670.06 apiece. The inspector general said he hadn’t known about those cases before they came

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to light in the Senate hearing. But he asserted that many contractor abuses that get in the newspapers are recycled horror stories uncovered by his own 1,500 investigators. “Most of these people are living off our own audits,” he said of the investigators in Congress and elsewhere who call attention to bloated prices paid by the Pentagon for everyday items. Sherick said he could not say how much money is lost to fraud and waste in a defense establishment that buys weapons and equipment at the rate of S6OO million a day.

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He said overcharging the government is the exception, not the rule among the 160,000 contractors and subcontractors who supply the military. The military has “a lot of good contractors and a lot of honest contractors,” he said. ‘But ... this is a big operation. You’re not running a hot dog stand.” One problem, he said, is that the government cannot simply to decide to stop dealing with some contractors. “Who do you get to build aircraft carriers or submarines or whatever if they have that unique capability?” he asked.

movement have disassociated themselves from the violence against soldiers, and Carl-Dieter Spranger, an Interior Ministry official, said members of West Germany’s “terrorist fringe” were to blame for most of the trouble. Spranger provided sketchy details of about half a dozen “life-threatening actions against exercising troops.”He said unknown assailants had thrown incendiary devices at military vehicles, sabotaged railroad tracks, planted spikes in roads used by convoys and slashed tires. In the worst incident Wednesday, police fired tear gas to disperse about 200 protesters who had cut through a fence at a munitions depot in Grebenhain, 30 miles northeast of Frankfurt.Fulda police said 55 protesters were arrested during the hour-long dash at the site, where the demonstrators claim chemical weapons are stored.

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Years ago, he said, the Pentagon had its own arsenals and shipyards and military people who had worked in those places served as inspectors in the plants and shipyards of contractors. About 15 or 20 years ago, he said, the Pentagon withdrew its own inspectors and started to accept the manufacturers’ own certifications of quality. “And what we’re seeing is the breakdown of those internal quality assurance programs,” he said. The solution, he said, is to go back to the old system of stationing inspectors on the production lines.

Dallas billionaire buys 687-year-old copy of Magna Carta document

c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service DALLAS A 687-year-old copy of Magna Carta has been sold to Dallas billionaire H. Ross Perot by relatives of the Earl of Cardigan. Perot announced on Tuesday that he had paid $1.5 million for the document, which was issued by King Edward I on Oct. 12,1297, an updated version of the 1215 original. The document is one of 17 copies known to exist, but is believed to be the most complete Magna Carta, which limited the powers of the king and affirmed the rights of man before the law. Originally, Magna Carta was granted by King John at Runnymede under threat of civil war. The sellers of the only privately held Magna Carta were the Brudenell family of Corbey, England. The family, which dates back to the 1200 s, is believed to have owned the document since its issuance. Perot recently sold his computer services concern, Electronic Data Systems, to General Motors. His role in freeing imprisoned EDS employees from Iran in 1978 was chronicled in the best-seller, “Wings of Eagles.” The purchasing of the Brudenell’s Magna Carta ended four years of offers by individuals and governments interested in buying the document, whose 2,500 Latin words are written on animal skin in vegetable dyes.

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New U.S. role due in Mideast? CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Egypt is consulting with the United States at the highest level about the possible renewal of a U.S. peacemaking role in the ArabIsraeli conflict, the state-run Middle East News Agency said today. The state-run agency said Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid would meet with President Reagan in Washington today to deliver a message from President Hosni Mubarak. It said the message “deals with the latest developments in the Middle East, particularly a reactivation of the peace process and active participation of the United States.” The Cairo newspaper A 1 Ahram said Mubarak telephoned Abdel-Meguid on Wednesday to give him “directives” regarding the meeting with Reagan. Ab-del-Meguid has been in New York since last week for the current session of the U.N. General Assembly. The Egyptian-U.S. consultations come two days after Jordan decided to resume diplomatic relations with Egypt following a s^-year break that stemmed from Egypt’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel. Top Egyptian officials including Ab-del-Meguid, Prime Minister Kamal Hassan Aly and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali said Wednesday that Jordan’s move would boost chances of renewed Arab-Israeli peace talks. Pro-Soviet Syria and Libya have condemned Jordan’s action and threatened to seek an Arab boycott of Jordan in retaliation for the move. The Reagan administration characterized Jordan’s action as “helpful to the cause of peace and stability” in the Middle East. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, who is on what U.S. officials describe as an “exploratory tour” of the region, met with King Hussein for two hours in Amman on Wednesday, but no details of the talks were released. Murphy has been in the Middle East since last week, when he traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, to investigate the bombing of the U.S. Embassy annex a week ago.

The copy is now held in London and is to go on display sometime in 1985 in the rotunda of the National Archives and will eventually embark upon a national tour, Perot said. The document is significant, he explained, because it was the first document to be incorporated into English law and was the first to grant individual freedom. “I was amazed that it was for sale,” the industrialist said. “It was like someone said, ‘Mona Lisa.’ I was conditioned by the events of 1976, when the British government loaned us a Magna Carta. This was a major event in this country in the Bicentennial. So having observed that in the media, I was surprised at the opportunity of being able to have one in the country permanently.” Perot dispatched his attorney of 10 years, Thomas Luce, and Dr. Decherd Turner, director of the humanities research center at the University of Texas, at Austin, to check on the document. “Time confers its own pattern on things that have lasted this long, but as far as the three I’ve seen, this one is in good condition,” said Turner. “This version is the supreme expression of what is meant by Magna Carta. It’s the full-blown thing, as opposed to the one issued by King John at Runnymede in 1215.”