University Daily Kansan, April 5, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
Defense to recover $244 million
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department, following a monthlong audit of General Dynamics Corp's expense claims, said yesterday it planned to recover $244 million the improperly improbable bills to taxpayers.
Deputy Defense Secretary William Taft said payments to the company would be held back pending completion of the audit.
Announcing the latest Pentagon action to recover funds from General Dynamics, chief spokesman Michael Burch told a news conference the audit team needed to recoup $154 million to adequately protect the government's interests. He said $90 million was withheld earlier.
"SO IF YOU were to add the $90
million to the $154 million, then the government will receive a total of $244 million in payment for overcharges," Burch said.
Burch told a news conference the government would extend a freeze on monthly, $30-million-overhead payments to the firm — imposed last month by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger — until the money is recovered. The freeze was due to expire at midnight yesterday.
General Dynamics, the nation's largest defense contractor, had been accused of improperly submitting charges for country club membership fees, dog boarding by a executive and entertainment.
GENERAL DYNAMICS' chairman, David Lewis, whose firm faces nine federal investigations, told Congress last week the firm was
withdrawing $23 million in claims based on its own audit reviews, which he said were continuing.
The company said in a statement, "General Dynamics has received no notification from the Department of Defense concerning the results of its audit of the company's overhead accounts for past years. The company has no idea of the origin of the figure quoted in the Department of Defense press briefing, nor the period covered by the audit."
Burch said that after freezing the $30 million, the company would have "an owed balance of about $124 million."
In answer to questions, Burch said he did not have a breakdown of which divisions of General Dynamics were involved. Overcharges included workers' compensation and data processing.
Judges hear discrimination case
By United Press International
SEATLET — Arguing that the state of Washington has practiced deliberate wage discrimination based on sex, a union lawyer yesterday asked three federal appeal court judges to uphold a precedent-setting 1983 comparable worth ruling.
But Christine Gregoire, deputy attorney general in Washington, sought reversal of the ruling on the grounds that there was nothing in federal law that required equal salaries for female-dominated and male-dominated positions.
The concept of comparable worth holds that people who perform different jobs that require generally equal skill and education requirements should receive comparable pay. Advocates assert, for example, that an executive secretary should be equally to that of an electrical engineer.
"Congress has said 'no' to comparable worth as a sole basis for finding discrimination. "Gregore told three states that the state would direct U.S. District Court of Appeals.
Tanner, who said he based his decision on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ordered the state to pay back wages and salary adjustments to employees — an order that could cost the state more than $400 million.
This case stems from a controversial ruling made two years ago by U.S. District Court Judge Jack Tanner.
Winn Newman, representing the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, urged the justice to uphold Tanner's ruling.
The union has filed a similar suit in California on behalf of about 100,000 former and current workers. Other actions are pending in New York, Illinois and Hawaii.
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