Thursday, November 16, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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Carlin seeks efficient government
TOPEKA (AP)—The major goals of his administration will be making state government more efficient and revamping the state's tax structure to make it more equitable, Gov-Elect John Carlin said yesterday.
"Those are two major areas," Carlin, a Democrat, said in his first major interview since he was elected Nov. 7. He detested Republican Gov. Robert F. Bennett.
"What we're going to do on the tax structure is one thing we want to devote a lot of our attention to. Another real challenge is the government more efficient and effective.
Garlin already has staff members at work formulating the basics for the tax proposals. (Eric Schuster)
it is too early to be specific, he said, but tax fairness is a prime objective.
BENNETT SAID during the campaign that he was proud of the work of his government management task force, a blue ribbon group of businessmen who studied state government for a year and made araft of their ideas, as a few of which have been implemented.
"We won't discard what his task force has done." Carlin said. "They did a lot of talking, but they implemented very little. And we we're going to take a very serious look at."
Carlin will plunge into budget hearings next week, scrutinizing with state Budget Director James W. Bibb the money requests he made for fiscal 1800 which begins next July 1.
GSA special counsel sees more corruption
WASHINGTON (AP) — The investigator who brought to light the multimillion-dollar scandal at the General Services Administration says he believes "a small handful of controlling political figures" shared in the corruption.
The investigator, Vincent Alto, who voluntarily left his post as the GSA's special counsel yesterday, refused to name individuals, but said that over the past 20 years, top officials at the agency, the White House and capitol Hill had been involved in the scandal.
ALTO ALSO predicted that unless "some of the higher-ups are nailed", the GSA would not be able to keep up.
"If we don't get to the bottom of this, we won't have any lasting changes at GSA," the 42-year-old former Justice Department prosecutor said in a telephone interview.
Last May, Alto launched the investigation, which brought national attention to two decades of corruption at the Duncan landlord's bank and supply cleanhouse.
THE INVESTIGATION, now primarily in the hands of the Justice Department, has led to indictments of 26 GSA employees and contractors. Twenty have pleaded guilty.
Alox has described the corruption at the GSA—estimated to cost taxpayers as much as $100 million a year—as the biggest federal money scandal ever.
In leaving, Alto said he was encouraged by reforms instituted by GSA Administrator Jay Solomon, but added that those changes could be overturned easily.
"If we get one council administrator, he could daw away with the reforms in a single department."
"SRS AND highways, the Department of Transportation, will get special attention, but I don't mean to single them out too much."
"I said during the campaign that I wanted to take a close look at SRS, the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services" as he went on to re-going to a close look at everything.
Carlin said he would study the budgets of agencies with an eye out for ways to aim them.
we want to eliminate that kind of duplication," he said. "I want to make SRS more efficient. We haven't had it all that much, a lot of things together over there quickly."
He cited as an example the fact that three agencies—SRS, the Department of Health and Environment and the state fire marshal, who is responsible for the state's foster parents licensing program.
The first week of the transition was described by Carlin as very, very hectic.
"I JUST FEEL like we have almost to go back to zero and take a look at it from the ground up. We just have, in my judgment, too much overhead there."
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"I can see where it would be a very difficult problem if a person didn't have that background," Carlin said. "But there's nothing coming up that's totally new to me."
"If I'd ever had time to think about it, I'd have thought it would be this way, though."
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Carlin said his experience from the House Ways and Means Committee would be of untold benefit in the budget preparation.
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"The pieces are starting to fall into place. We're where we want to be."
Mideast talks stalled
Egyptian President Anwar Salah described the Mideast peace talks yesterday as being in a state of "serious crisis" and raised the possibility of suspending negotiations to allow Egypt and Israel time to consider their positions.
By the Associated Press
Informed Egyptian sources said their government had formulated new proposals that still held to Egypt's primary role in the country.
In Jerusalem, the Israeli Cabinet can short its review of the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations to await clarification of the new agreement.
THE WHITE House house said President Carter met with Israel Defense Minister Ezer Weizman on Tuesday to ask Israel to wait until Egypt's new position was clear before making any decisions. Sadat, said to university professors and students in Ismailia, a Suez Canal town, said, "We have gone a long way at the Washington talks and have achieved 90 percent of the road.
"Now we are at a serious crisis and if we can avoid it to order to achieve the remaining 10 percent by suspending the talks for a while to allow the parties to think again and then resume, so be it."
SADAT DID not elaborate on the nature of the crisis or refer to the reported fresh formulation of Egypt's demands.
Israel wants the peace treaty to stand on its own and has opposed setting any timetable on developments on the West Bank or
Informed sources in Cairo said "the word crisis can be underlined. It is very real."
The Washington negotiations have been snarled by Egyptian pressure to the transformation of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip into an autonomous Palestinian region to the development of peaceful relations between Egypt and Israel.
There was no indication in Jerusalem when the Cabinet would resume discussions. The Cabinet had met to take up a new U.S. mission.
In Damascus, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad vowed that "Syria and the Arab nations will save the Egyptian people from the shameful position to which they have been dragged by their rulers."
ISRAELI PRIME Minister Menachem Begin told reporters after a three-hour Cabinet session, "According to the latest reports received, Egypt is about to submit new proposals and legislation, which would affect the two countries. Their reports are not yet official and complete."
In a speech before the annual Syrian trade union congress, Assad said Israel and Egypt "can sign any agreements they want, bilateral or otherwise, but such agreements will not bring peace to the Middle East because peace cannot be established."
CARTER WILL be briefed on the Egyptian suggestions by Vice President Honi Mohumak, whose datal dispatched to Washington on Friday.
Sadat, harshly criticized by some Arab states for ignoring the Palestinians, has insisted that a link be made. Because of Israel's rejection of Egyptian demands thus far, sources said, Sadat was trying to deal with Gaza first, leaving the West Bank for later.
THERE WAS some confusion in Western diplomatic circles in Cara to as the weight of the new proposals, particularly over a
"It is less emotional for them than the West Bank," one source said. "It would be easier implement steps in Gaza than in the East."
report that Sadat was demanding the return of the Gaza Strip. Egyptian administered the territory from 1948 to 1987, when it was occupied by Israel.
U. S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis said after calling on Begin that the Washington talks were continuing and "there no crisis."
"In view of this fact, the Cabinet decided to hold the political debate after it has received all the necessary clarifications."
The Israeli press reported that the Americans have suggested that elections in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip be called for
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