University Daily Kansan, March 6.1985
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contractor in the country, was awarded $6.8 billion worth of Pentagon business in fiscal 2015.
Weinberger, echoing charges made by several congressmen, told the Legionnaires that General Dynamics was including in bills for overhead "a lot of expenses that did not 'benefit' the government and had nothing to do 'with the contract involved.'"
SOME OF THE expenses involved political or advertising expenses, corporate trips, he said. One case involved kennel expenses for a dog owned by the corporation.
The Pentagon did not have specific details immediately about the bills, the expense charges or the amount of money involved.
"If you want to call it a get-tough policy, you can label it that way." Burch said.
Lawsuit
- All contractors will be required to certify under penalty of perjury that their bills do not include any expenses or claims for reimbursements for political, entertainment or other expenses that are not made directly for the benefit of the government.
enough to rule out payments for improper expenditures.
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This is not the first time the government has launched broadsides against General Democracy.
Weinberger said he was taking the following actions against General Dynamics and all other large defense contractors:
- Suspension of all payments to General Dynamics for 30 days for general and administrative expenses pending a complete and comprehensive review of the billing and documentation of their functions. Suspension will go beyond 30 days if the review is not completed.
The company has been accused of amassing up $544 million in cost overruns on submarine contracts for the Navy. The Justice Department is presenting evidence that fraud may be in New Haven, Conn., about fraud allegedly committed by the company in the 1970s.
- None of the improper expenses identified in the congressional hearing will be considered. Weberminger said, "After our auditors asked us to simply refuse to pay anything of that kind."
*That case could be scheduled for some time in May.*
- A review of interim billing rates of all large contractors to ensure they are low
TWO DEFENDANTS in the 1979 lawsuit, Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor; and Delbert Shankel, professor of microbiology and former acting chancellor, also are named as defendants in the most recent case, the suits said.
George Worth and Gerhard Zuther, both professors of English, and Archie Dykes, former chancellor, also are defendants in the 1979 suit.
Rose Marino, associate general counsel and a defendant in the recent suit, said the attorney general's staff was acting as counsel for the defendants in the 1979 suit. She said she was assisting the attorney general's office in that case.
In January, Willner, who is acting as her own counsel in the 1979 lawsuit, filed a motion to have the University pay her a compensatory attorney fee for providing her own counsel, the clerk said. The motion was denied by the trial judge.
WILLNER, WHO HAS been a KU professor since 1970. also is acting as her own counsel
in the recent suit, according to the suit. She also is requesting a trial by jury in both cases.
in the suit filed last week, Willner charged that KU officials violated her civil rights, causing her financial losses in earnings, professional losses in research, damage to professional reputation and emotional distress.
Willner's lawsuit also alleges that the defendants "have maliciously conspired to commit and have committed various, continuing and harmful acts of reprisal and retaliation against plaintiff in a pattern of gross and unremitting harassment."
Wilmer's suit said that the defendants violated the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, civil rights prohibiting sexual discrimination in education.
The alleged discriminatory acts listed in the suit include "reducing plaintiff's employment status and salary; abridging plaintiff's tenure rights and denying her access to internal grievance procedures."
orchestrating baseless charges of academic misconduct against plaintiff by unqualified foreign students who also were part-time employees of the University of Kansas and by a student guilty of plagiarism; holding unwarranted academic misconduct hearings against plaintiff; fraudulently finding plaintiff guilt of alleged academic misconduct; and interfering with plaintiff's legal counsel."
Other charges include: "instigating and
Others named as defendants in the case are Melvin Dubnick, associate professor of political science; Ronald Francisco, associate professor of political science; Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research. Martin Toliver, associate professor of Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Burdett Loomis, associate professor of political science.
Also named in the suit were John Nalbandian, associate professor of political science; Earl Nehring, professor of political science; Elaine Sharp, professor of political science; and David Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
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In 1981, Owens took the Jayhawks to the NCAA tournament, but the team lost by one point to Wichita State in a regional semifinal game. The next two seasons were losing games, and who had become athletic director four months earlier, decided to make a change.
Owens said of his firing. "It leaves you with an empty feeling. There were things you wanted to accomplish, but now you don't get the chance."
"H TOLD US he would discuss any aspect of his career, any player." Hedrick said. "But he wouldn't say anything about his firing or the person who fired him."
At the time, Owens refused to comment on the firing. Hedrick recalled a meeting he and a few other members of the press had with Owens shortly after his dismissal.
Last year, Owens decided to attend several KU basketball games. Owens said he thought that if he didn't go back last year, he might have been unable to return.
"I didn't like what happened and I never will," he said. "But I loved KU basketball for such a long time. I had recruited and coached the team. It was the 1983-84 team) and I had feelings for them.
"My wife and I talked about it. We decided that no matter how much it hurts, we're going back. It was never easy."
Although the period immediately after his firing was rough, Owens was able to start on a new course in life. He decided to become an assistant to the leading months preparing for license tests.
"IVE BEEN IN business for a year and a half," he said. "I'm no expert, but I think I do a good job for my clients. It's a fascinating job that has really broadened my interests."
Working in the financial world is just as stressful as coaching basketball at a major university.
"I'm always amused at coaches who talk about all the pressure they re under." Owens said. "Pressure is the first day you go on a field trip, but it don't sell, you don't eat. Now that's pressure."
In addition to his regular job, Owens has been doing the commentary for Wichita State basketball games this season for KAKE-TV in Wichita.
Owens said his goal as a broadcaster was to teach the game to viewers.
"I try to explain the alternatives of a certain game situation to the audience," he
ALTHOUGH OWENS seems content with
returning to the same as a head coach,
but returning to the same as a head coach,
"I would never tell anyone. 'No, I will never do it.'" he said. "But it would have to happen that they approached me. I'm not out looking."
Hedrick said he could he see Owens returning to college coaching if the situation was right. But the school would have to have a football tradition and strong alumni support.
Owens admitted that nothing in the business world could match the emotional high of a big victory.
But if the emotional highs in coaching are lofter than those in business, then the reverse is also true. The lows make one sink even farther.
“It’s such a shared joy,” he said. “Nothing in this business cantures you like that.”
OWENS SAID OF the tough losses he suffered as a coach, "Nothing in this business makes you feel that way. It's a long walk to the dressing room after a loss."
Owens said the last $1 \frac{1}{2}$ years had been hard.
"It's been tough to leave the home you love and to leave a group of young men you felt attached to."
"You have a new home and a new job. Now instead of being in a profession where you felt you had expertise, suddenly you're the boss." You are rewarded by having taken up the challenge.
"I'm not glad at the way things at KU turned out, but I got out and saw what other people were doing. If I hadn't, I would have missed out on a lot things."
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