University Daily Kansan, March 20, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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U.S. property found with contractor
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — General Dynamics Corp., which last fall had custody of more than $500 million in government materials and equipment, has retained large amounts of unused federal property for years, the General Accounting Office said yesterday.
Government auditors, monitoring use of Pentagon materials at several plants operated by General Dynamics and other defense contractors.
found millions of dollars in equipment missing or sitting idle.
In some cases, because of a lack of inventory controls, government materials have been diverted to commercial contracts or resold to federal agencies as spare parts, the auditors said.
Contractors rarely have been required to assume liability for lost or stolen materials, the GAO reported to a House Government Operations subcommittee on legislation and national security.
the Pentagon for accepting the word of contractors and failing to conduct independent inventory checks on the materials and equipment it provides to weapon manufacturers and other product makers.
The subcommittee has criticized
many of the cases concerned General Dynamics, the nation's largest defense contractor. In a deal with the subcommittee, the GAO said:
*At General Dynamics' submarine-building shipyard in Groton, Conn., and at a Pan American World Airways facility in Banc-
gor, Maine, $2.2 million in industrial plant equipment was not used in 1983.
- At another General Dynamics plant, in Pomona, Calif., 1,499 items owned by the federal government and valued at $3.7 million could not be located for some time after internal Navy watchdogs conducted an inventory check in 1981 — the first check in a decade.
A spokesman for General Dynamics had no comment on the audit findings. The company faces at least nine federal investigations into allegations.
Hitler's yacht to get fight from Plymouth
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Town leaders said yesterday they would fight plains by a local developer to turn Aldolf Hiler's yacht into a museum in the town where the Pilgrims landed in the Mayflower.
By United Press International
"This is America's hometown," said Plymouth Selectman George Butters. "This is where freedom started. I'm totally against this and I will fight tooth and nail to stop the inception of this."
Charles Sanderson, a Plymouth developer, recently bought the decaying 85-foot yacht, the Ostwind, for $1 million from Horace Glass of Lebanon, N.H., who had it docked in Jacksonville, Fla.
Glass said he put 12 years and $178,000 into an unsuccessful attempt to restore the yacht, which is being transported to Plymouth. Sanderson was unavailable for comment.
commence Butters, a World War II combat veteran who was injured several times, said angry Plymouth residents had been calling him wanting the museum stopped.
"The Mayflower is a symbol of freedom," Butters said. "I can't for the life of me understand why he wants to put a Nazi symbol in the same town."
Hittler and his mistress Eva Braun were photographed aboard the luxurious yacht several times. The Ostwind, commissioned by Hitler in 1939, was seized by the U.S. government after the war.
Officials play it safe, cancel Atlas blastoff
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The Intelsat 5A communications satellite aboard the Atlas Centaur is capable of handling a record 15,000 telephone calls simultaneously and three television channels.
Officials with Intelsat, the 109-nation International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, said NASA was paid $61 million for the booster and launch services.
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The last Atlas Centaur launch on June 9, 1984, with a lower-capacity Intelsat 5 satellite on board ended in failure when the liquid oxygen tank in the Centaur second stage apparently cracked and sent the rocket-satellite combination tumbling out of control.
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The launch of an Atlas Centaur rocket with a $41 million communications satellite on board was canceled last night because of possible trouble with the booster's guidance system, officials said.
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Engineers were taking no chances with the Intelsat 5A satellite because the last Atlas Centaur launched in October and the loss of a $30 million satellite.
try to duplicate the problem, but they were not successful and decided to reschedule the blastoff.
Lisa Malone, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said an automatic system detected a possible problem with the rocket's guidance electronis.
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