NATION AND WORLD
Official's trips questioned
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University Daily Kansan, March 26, 1985
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Assistant Navy Secretary George Sawyer in 1983 accepted free plane trips to discuss a top job with General Dynamics Corp. before overseeing a submarine contract awarded to the company, a House panel charged yesterday.
Sawyer, who became a company vice president, failed to fully disclose the timing of his employment discussions or his acceptance of travel when he obtained a Navy general counsel's opinion that he had "compiled with the conflict of interest laws," the House panel said.
At a packed hearing, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, led by Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., confronted company chairman David Lewis with his own handwritten notes of the employment discussions that began in March 1983.
Lewis argued that the talks before late May 1983 were exploratory and did not involve a decision.
But Rep. Gerry Sikorski, D-Minn,
a subcommittee member, shot back,
"I can point to at least three
occasions in your handwritten notes
where you specifically mention that
job" in the earlier talks.
executive vice president for land, international and services systems was a subject of an investigation by a federal grand jury in New Haven, Conn.
Lewis acknowledged that Sawyer's acceptance of a post as company
A federal conflict of interest law, punishable by up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine, prohibits government employees from participating in a decision affecting firms with whom they are negotiating for employment.
Sikorski said that on May 5, 1983, Sawyer approved a decision to negotiate sole-source contracts with General Dynamics and the Newport News shipbuilding and Drydock Co.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether the First Amendment rights of utility companies are being required by businesses to place messages by consumer groups in monthly bills.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. brought the appeal to the nation's highest court to protest a decision by the California public utilities commission that the privately owned company must allow third parties to place money solicitation in its bill envelopes.
The utility complained that its constitutional speech rights would be violated if it was forced to mail such fliers, particularly by groups that plan on using any money raised to onose utility policies.
The utility argues that the mandatory billing inserts violate the First Amendment by disrupting the way it has communicated with its customers for more than 60 years and by requiring the utility to carry a message when it would prefer to remain silent.
Court to hear utility rights case
In other action yesterday, the court:
- Agreed to hear a reaportionment case that could deter
By United Press International
- Agreed to decide who has the authority to regulate the sale of natural gas to pipelines — the federal government or the state where the gas is produced.
mine whether the political party in power can draw voting districts to its advantage.
*Let stand a ruling barring the makers of Bayer aspirin from engaging in deceptive advertising of his virtues as a pain reliever.
- Uphold a Georgia school board policy that prohibits a state legislator from taking a leave of absence from his administrative job to attend legislative sessions.
Teacher certification test stolen
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Tight security surrounding the state's controversial teacher testing program may have failed, enabling a copy of the test to be stolen and sold for up to $1,000 a copy, investigators said yesterday.
By United Press International
Col. Tom Goodwin, director of the Arkansas State Police, said yesterday that he hoped to determine through interviews how the test apparently was taken from a warehouser. The test was given in two sessions Saturday.
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Bob Steel, news director at KARK, said eight teachers on Saturday and Sunday all confirmed the station's role in the test given in the afternoon session.
A Little Rock television station,
KARK-TV, reported that an unidentified teacher on Friday had given the station a copy of the reading and mathematics sections of the examination.
The Arkansas Legislature approved the testing program in 1883 to accompany a series of school reforms. It was given at 277 sites around the state.
The Arkansas Education Association's anticipated widespread boycott of the tests fell short of predictions. Education Department officials said up to 22,000 of about 85,000 students in instructors took the test. About 3,000 teachers beforehand were known to have valid excuses.
Walt Eilers of Little Rock, executive director of the agency said the availability of copies of the test was the "hot topic" among teachers with whom he visited Saturday in eastern Arkansas.
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