The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 211, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 5, 1983 Page: 4 of 16
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THE BaYTO*> SUN
Toads’.. July 5. 1««3
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Military Building
Waste Could Be Cut
A large amount of mooey the federal government col-
lects from taxpayers is eventually wasted
We have cited examples of waste in these columns
before and have pointer ou: much of :t occurs in the
military Some waste m operating this :rentercxwsly
large and complex establishment is understandable but
not to tbe extent It is being tolerated
F rr example m their burry to buiir a Mississippi am-
munition plant mil:tar. construction officials failed to
properly measure equipment that went inside
carelessness that cos: taxpayers nearly s: million, a Pen-
tagon audit revealed
Trie hassilv-biul: structure was too small to bouse tbe
equipment and the Army Corps of engineers had to tear
out walls trenches and concrete slabs and reconstruct
them so munitions manufacturing equipment would fit
In a review of change orders in the governments
military building program, the Defense Cep ar. men:'s
Audit Agency concluded that similar hasty construction
often before projects were fully designed, was the major
reason for modifications costing taxpayers $652 million in
a two-year period alone
Commenting or. waste at the Mississippi munitions
plant, auditors said design of the facility was dependent
upon dimensions of equipment to be installed, and it was
not cost-effective to estimate the dimensions
In another glaring example, the Air Force rushed to
build a launch facility at Vender.berg Air Force Ease in
California, refusing to wait for the space agency to com-
plete a similar structure at Cape Kennedy. Fla and
share data or. design problems
Soon the .Air Force encountered many of the same
obstacles as those faced by the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration and ended up paying $37.7 million
in extra charges
One of the problems appears to be that no one is stop-
ping the Corps of Engineers and Naval Facilities Com-
mand from rushing into major, expensive construction
projects without complete designs
The urgency of building military facilities in peacetime
could not be as great as the waste in such projects once
they are pronounced completed. More time and money
are lost in correcting errors caused by carelessness than
would have beer, spent if proper procedure had been
followed
Auditors reviewed construction projects in 1981 and
1981 m eight of the 43 .Army and Navv-supervised con-
struction districts, studying 1.819 of the 7.200 change
orders issued in those districts at a cost of $299 million to
taxpayers
That staggering sum should be reason enough for the
military to do a better jot of controlling and policing con-
struction jobs.
Compassion Can Be Costly
Of ever.- $4 m federal loan subsidies intended to help
first-time home buyers, only about $1 actually helps first-
time home buyers, according to a recent congressional
audit Toe rest, the General Accounting Office says, is ab-
sorbed by lawy ers, well-to-do investors and other mid-
dlemen and of the 25 percent of the money that they don't
absorb most goes to 'middle-income households who
probably could have purchased homes without
assistance
Outraged, congressmen have introduced a flurry of
ouls to correct the problem
Some call for t.ghter lending requirements: others
would abolish the tax exemption or. some kinds of mon-
gage bonds altogether We wonder what all the fuss is
about.
Given the record of most federal efforts to "help the
poor, bureaucratic overhead of only 75 percent makes it
a model program Maybe Congress should see if it can
bring other relief operations up to the same level.
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Soviet Spies Make Contacts
Coast To Coast, FBI Says
WASHINGTON NEA - It is
not -jmxsoal for politiciansto have
strange bedfeBows Bat Guy
Yaader Jag*, has ooe of toe most
curious of all Every news ardthen
toe congressman from Michigan
lunch and ocher refreshments
with a Russian diplomat who is
**. do i '• ..0-: u gr. * to do a :~c mm. ur. i s t
spy
Tbe diplomat's name is Boris
Davydov And Yander Jag: does
not soo anything wrong with doe
relationship He agrees that
Davydov is probably a spy. yet lie
looks or rim too as a rice feUow.
'I may be a dupe. ' he has tnid my
reporter * bet I really believe
that a friendship has developed
And a lot of people .r toe capital
apparently agree with toe coa-
gressmar Because they are also
•developing friendships with R.s-
s:ar spies Mer. and women at
every level are eating, drinking
and otherwise mingling *: hi
agents of toe Soviet totetligenie
•operation.
Ir many cases the mingling s
unavoidable Authorities say Rus-
sian spies have become so
prevalent in Washington that they
are almost part of toe local
routine Gone are toe times here
when espionage was a private oc-
casion today it has become part
of toe social and political whirl
Russian spies prowl openly on
Capitol Hiil They attend tot*
public hearings, they ho the:;*
research in toe Library of Con-
gress and they ask questions a:
the press conferences James-
Bend would never understand it
Tne communist spooks today are
even going to toe most elegant
parties in town.
What s more, they are going to
elegant parties across toe nation
The FBI says toe Soviet spies are
making contacts from New York
to San Francisco. They are now
getting invitations to speak cm col-
lege campuses, complains one
awed government investigator
“It's a remarkable prolifera-
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It's a.so a somewhat confusing
proliferation The spies are
muA:plying so fas: that no one
can keep an exact count or. them
The traditional mathematics are
gathered by toe FBI and toe test
it can guess at toe moment is that
there are about 1.5*1*1 Soviet Bloc
spies in toe nation
Korczak is the founder of the
rigidity anti -comm urns: group
known as “Together Interna-
tiona. ' He says the immigrants
may be pan of a force the Soviets
call Spetznaz He claims they
are trained to go behind toe lines
to time of war. He adds they may
now be waiting for that w ar here.
But that figure deals chiefly
with permanent spies The com-
munists may a.so have an army
of par. timers snooping about
Every year, for example. 20.»l
Soviet seamen dock in the United
States, and at the same time
30.000 Iron Cunair. citizens visit
for business or cultural purposes
Korczak thinks that when the
Spetznaz agents are included,
there are at least 5.000 communist
spies in this country And be
Disagrees with Rep Yander Jagt
about their motives ■They may
oe trying to make friends, ail
right,*’ he say s, “but that is only
part of their intention.**
Then there are 130 300 Russians
who have defected to. or im-
migrated to. the United States At
least some of them may be double
dealing Boris Korczak a case-
time Russian spy. and later a CIA
spy. says hundreds of the im-
migrants might be living under
the best cover of ail: American
sanctuarv.
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WASHINGTON - Two House
committees are investigating
charges that John Feeders, toe
Securities and Exchange Com-
mission's enforcement chief,
blocked an inquiry into ques-
tionable payments to foreign of-
ficials by the Ashland Oil Co.
According to Capitol Hill
sources, SEC investigators
received detailed information
more than two years ago that
Ashland — at the behest of its
tbeik-chairman, Onn Atkins —
was paying millions of dollars to
officials close to the Sultan of
Oman But the commission sat on
toe information because Feeders
told his enforcement chief Dot to
investigate the payments
My associate Indy Badhwar has
obtained internal company
documents that suggest the
payments were intended to per-
suade tbe sultan to sen crude oil
to .Ashland at favorable prices.
Payments to foreign officials in
return for business favors are ex-
plicitly forbidden by law
As I reported earlier, the com-
pany commissioned its own in-
vestigation by a Pittsburgh law-
firm. The final report, detailing
tbe financial hanky-panky, was
c ne of tbe oil industry's most
closely guarded secrets But
Ashland was forced to release the
report after I disclosed its ex-
Lsteoce and made some of the fin-
dings public.
Now- the SEC has belatedly
b?gun what one source described
as a “flat-out investigation of
Ashland To make sure the SEC
stays on tbe track this time,
parallel investigations have been
started by toe Oversight and In-
vestigations Committee, chaired
by Rep John Dmgeil, D-Mich .
and an Interstate and Foreign
Commerce subcommittee headed
by Rep Tim Wirth. D-Colo.
They are looking into charges of
illegal insider trading m .Ashland
stcck. payments to officials of
oilier countries as well as Oman,
and the activities of Atkins and
hi s sons. Randy and Charles
Here are some of the dubious
(dialings outlined in the internal
company documents:
— Ashland invesred S25 million
in a Zimbabwe chromium mine
slier Orin Atkins “advised the
tjoard that the purchase of this
property might improve
From Sun Files
Praetorious
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Title In 1953
From Tbe Raytovm Sun files,
this is toe way it was 40 and 30 and
20 vears ago;
JULY 5, 1943
Mr and Mrs R.M Robinson
and daughter. Suzanne, are spen-
ding tbe weekend in Austin.
Mrs George Brown III and
daughter. Becky, are visting in
KerrviUe at the ranch of Mr and
Mrs George Brown Sr
Mr and Mrs C.R. Mann and
son. Pat. leave for two weeks in
Boston. Mass.
Douglas Stewart and Gerald
Hanson leave for the University
of Texas at Austin.
Aviation Cadet Ray Rushing is
taking advanced training at the
Corpus Chnsti naval base
JULY 5, 1943
Yvonne Praetorious is “Miss
Baytown of 1963.” The blonde
1 'eauty captured the title in the
u uly 4 beauty contest at Roseland
F ark. Second place winner is
C irolyn Kelley, who was last
ye ar s ‘ Miss BaytownV Pat
Ni cbolson takes third place
*i*he Rev Mondrick Gorzycki,
for. ner pastor in Baytown and
Cro toy. is the new pastor of La
Pot, e Methodist Church
Pr uett and Lobit Church of
Chm X welcomes its new minister.
A Hu gh Clark
Lar ny Henmnger and John
Brazi ?1. students at Abilene
Christ ian College, speak at
Virgin > a Street Church of Christ.
Both ai e REL graduates
JULY 5, 1963
FranK Terry. REL senior, will
be a del legate to the first Attorney
General s Youth Conference Aug
17-18 in A us tin.
Earthr ian Ambulance drivers.
Lynn Wilihurn and Bobby Francis,
deliver a baby for a woman who
didn’t ma ke it to the hospital on
time. Thh; marks the 13th baby
delivered by Earthman
employees on ambulance calls.
Manager Joe Speck has even
delivered tv . ins.
Kathy Le^er. daughter of Mr
and Mrs. Leon Legler. enrolls in
the music di vision of Midwestern
Music and Art Camp at the
University of Kansas.
Floyd A. Ti chalek is promoted
to Airman 2 -C at Forbes Air
Force Base in Kansas. He is a jet
mechanic.
Robert Guai ino will graduate
from Post Security School at the
U S. Coast Guard Training Center
in Yorktown. Va
Airman 3-C Jolin T. Sampson is
awarded the Air Force Commen-
dation Medal at ,>cott Air Force
Base
Edwin Theodore Davis is on the
honor roll at the University of
Texas
Today
In History
Many government authorities
concur They- say the increasing
contact between Americans and
spies is a cause for alarm As it
happens, some of the contacts are
reported to the FBI Yander Jagt
is regularly debriefed . but of-
ficials worry about the mingling
that goes on without notice.
Ashland's prospects for obtaining
crude from Oman " A memo ex-
plains why: “The principal
sellers were a family group, one
of whose members is a principal
adviser to the Sultan of Oman.”
.Another part-owner was Yehia
Omar formerly Oman's
ambassador-at-large in
Washington.
— Ashland paid fl 35 million to
a Liechtenstein corporation. Mont
D Or. “designated by Mr Omar
as toe recipient of commissions
for his purported assistance to
Ashland in connection with the
purchase of crude oil from
Oman This deal was later
rescinded
— In 1380, Ashland paid £2
million for a half-interest in a ven-
ture to produce Teflon-coated,
reusable sausage-stuffing car-
tridges. “Owners of the enter-
prise included Omar's son and
Omar's doctor,” a memo states,
adding that, even with an addi-
tional contribution of $750,000 in
operating costs by .Ashland, “to
date the process has failed tests of
viability.”
By THE ASSOCIATED) PRESS
Today is Tuesday. July 5. the
186th day of 1383. Thei*e’are 179
days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history: On
July 5. 1811, Venezuela became
the first South American country
to declare its independence from
Spain.
On this date:
In 1738. the French Army of
Napoleon Bonaparte captui*ed the
Egyptian port of Alexandria
In 1865. William Booth founded
the Salvation Army in Londo n.
In 1360. Texas Sen. Lvndon
Johnson announced he was a can-
didate for the Democratic
Presidential nomination
And in 1375. the Cape Verde
Islands became independent after
>X> years of Portuguese rule
Ten years ago: The United
States decided against sending an
ambassador to Uganda after
Ugandan President Idi Amin
upset diplomatic protocol bv
w ishing President Richard Nixon
a speedy recovery from thi
Watergate affair.
Five years ago: A truce in
Lebanon collapsed amid urgent
negotiations to end fighting bet-
ween Syrian peacekeeping
soldiers and the Lebanese Chris^-
tian militia.
One year ago: Israeli gunboats
ami artillery shelled Palestinian
carnps in West Beirut
Today's birthdays: Former
U N Ambassador Henrv Cabot
Lodge is 81. Julie" Nixon
Eisenhower, daughter of former
President Nixon, is 35
Bible Verse
• But I have prayed for thee that
thy faith fail not: and when thou
art converted, strengthen thy
brethren.”
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 211, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 5, 1983, newspaper, July 5, 1983; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1044223/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.