fit A ,--v4 ' VT f t " Thursday, March The Salt Lake Tribune ' 15, 1984 . GAO Says U.S. Defense Too Dependent on Undependable Civilians ' By David Goeller Associated Press Writer t WASHINGTON Crucial U.S. ; defense systems overseas could fail n a crisis because the civilian needed to keep them operat-- ; ing might leave when the shooting starts, a House subcommittee was told Wednesday. Not only is this a risky situation, it is one that wastes millions of dollars in taxpayer money because the Pentagon awards many of its mainte- nance contracts without competi- tive bidding, a General Accounting Office official testified. Robert M. Gilroy of the GAOs na- tional security and international af-- ; fairs division said studies estimate there are between 4,500 and 6,000 ci-- i vilians both Pentagon and private contractor employees - civilians . . . may not be willing to remain if the likelihood of war increases or if a conflict starts, he told the Government Operations legislation and national security subcommittee. Without civilian support, some important military systems and equipment would be seriously degraded or inoperative, said Gilroy, a congressional employee. He and Lawrence J. Korb, an assistant defense secretary, said that unlike military personnel, the government cannot force civilians to remain in a combat zone. Korb said the Pentagon has been working on the problem since 1981 and expects tech-i.-nlcia- ; ' ! ; ; ; working overseas in key jobs. There is concern that essential to propose a solution by the end of tracts requiring them to continue to this year. provide service during an emergenWhile Department of Defense cy, according to Gilroy. Assessments of potential impact and industry officials are optimistic that essential civilians would volun- .vary, he said. For example, the U.S, Air Force in Europe says that no assurtarily remain, there-artechnical representatives only train ances, Gilroy testified. He that without skilled civilians, military personnel and therefore the World Wide Military Command are not essential. Control System "would almost cer"But many of these contractor tainly cease after one week. personnel expedite or even perform He said that when Honeywell, the many repairs, he continued. "The firm working on the communica5 aircraft maintenance crews we tions network in Germany, surveyed interviewed felt that sortie rates its technicans, "only five of 38 emwould decrease markedly without ployees said they would stay on in a them. crisis. Under sharp questioning by Rep. None of the contractors repairing Jack Brooks, the subcomand maintaining weapons systems mittee chairman, Korb conceded components at three U.S. air bases that field commanders are deeply in Europe have clauses in their con- - concerned about their ability to e F-1- Drunk Left In Car by Police Dies Dump Ad Blitz Considered, Rejected by Nuclear Industry Group Pro-Was- te The nu(UPI) clear industrys promotional arm considered but rejected plans for a multimillion-dolla- r advertising blitz in the six states considered as sites for the first high-levradioactive waste dump, United Press International has learned. Internal memos and planning documents obtained by UPI show the plan drawn up for the industry-backe- d U.S. Committee for Energy Awareness was designed to encourage public support in the states Texas, Utah, Louisiana, Washington, Nevada and Mississippi for the federal waste site selection program. Harold Finger, president of the industry group, confirmed his organization asked a New York advertis- - i J t nix. Coking said Thomas James Craw- ford, 33, of Glendale was found dead early Sunday in the front seat of a I J parked car. William Crawford, J J 28, remained hospitalized Wednesday under treatment for cuts and a sore hip at i Maryvale Samaritan Hospital. Coking said a preliminary Mari- copa County medical examiner s re-- ! port has led officials to suspect that Thomas Crawford died of a heroin overdose. Eloy Ysasis, county medical in- vestigator, said tests showed he had a level of 0.16 percent. Arizona law sets defines intoxica- -' tion as a level of 0.10 percent. Coking said officers saw William Crawford and another man carry Thomas Crawford to the car about 6 or 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. William Crawford told them he had been J i ! ! blood-alcoh- i ing firm, ol - ' V' Associated fr blood-alcoh- 1 i J i 1 ' beaten. But the officers, who ! smelled alcohol on all three, saw no injuries, Coking said, Crawford and the other man. who was not identified, told the officers they were drunk and wanted to sleep "ft off, Coking said. He said the two Crawfords were placed in the car, its doors were locked, and the officers left. Lisa McCoy, 21, who lives in the area, said she and her sister became concerned after seeing the men in the car and went to check on them. The one was changing color be-- ; cause he wasnt breathing right, and the other one was gasping for breath, she said. Mrs. McCoy said her sister called Fire Department paramedics who took their phone number, then called back a short time later to say they wouldnt come because police said the men were drunk. She said she and her sister subse-- quenlly went to the car several times, tapping on its windows and getting the men to stir, but didnt call paramedics again. Coking said William Crawford left the car sometime after mid-- ; night, went to a nearby convenience store and called police. J i ! ; ! ! ; ! i ! I ; ! ! ; ; ; ! Comedians Widower To Get j 850,000 - Co- BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) median Totie Fields widower will receive $850,000 in an settlement with the cosmetic sur- geon who performed a face lift blamed in a lawsuit for her fatal heart attack two years later, an at- torney said. The settlement will be paid to George Johnston of Las Vegas, w ho was married to Miss Fields for more than 25 years and is the executor of her estate, Johnston's attorney. Stuart Schlesinger. said Tuesday. Attorneys claimed that she should never have undergone the operation because she had a history of heart ; ! rt ; 1 I ! ; ! ; trouble, obesity, hypertension, chronic asthmatic bronchitis and ! di-- - -- abetes. About a month after the operation, her left leg was amputated because of a blood clot. Sliss Fields died at her Las Vegas home at the age of 48 on Aug. 2. 1978. - I asr' Smiling Dolphins i Speedy, a dolphin at the Sea World marine park, swims with her newborn, Jackie, moments after the birth of the calf. Mother and calf are both healthy. SAN DIEGO, Calif. Gay Rights Backers March Against Governors Veto - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Supporters of a homosexual rights bill vetoed by Gov. George Deukmejian marched in protest and vowed Wednesday to work for the defeat of the governor and conservative lawmakers who opposed the measure. About 350 gay activists staged a protest march Tuesday night in San Francisco, shouting obscenities at the governor and toting signs venting their feelings. The demonstration was orderly, and there were no arrests. "We don't get mad. we don't get angry, we get even, the crowd was told by San Francisco supervisor candidate John Wahl, who was an attorney for Harvey Milk, the homosexual supervisor assassinated in 1978 by Dan White. Mayor Dianne Feinstein, who was first elected to office with the help of gay support but lost standing orwhen she vetoed a dinance, ako spoke against the veto. Predicting further efforts to get the bill into law, she said, "I regret very much the governor's action and am saddened by it. On Wednesday, Cleve Jones, a legislative staff member for the bill's author. Assemblyman Art Agnos. said, "We are going to defeat those who worked against it. "We ll get it through the Assembly again; we'll get it through the Senate again, and we'll get it on that man's Deukmejians desk one more time. Agnos, a Democrat from San Francisco, said at a news conference Tuesday that he was heartbroken at the veto. "This is the toughest veto I have had to accept in my career. But he did not criticize Deukmejian directly. "I appreciate the governor's sinHe simply was not cere effort this year, and I am sorry for ready him." he said. Others were not as optimistic. "I feel this legislation is dead until there is a new governor, or this one sees the light, said Leonard Graff, legal director of the National Gay gay-orient- ... Lawyer in Contempt for Hurling A Spitball to Prove His Point A lawyer has been cited for contempt SACRAMENTO. Calif. (AP) for throwing a spitball in court, but he says he was just trying to impeach a witness. Municipal Court Judge Leighton Hatch told lawyer Mark Merin he can serve a day in jail or pay a $200 fine. Merin appealed to the Superior Court, contending that he threw the spitball, not as a prank, but in an attempt to disprove a witness's testimony. Merin last month was defending a man charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police olficer. police officer called as a witness b the prosecution said a prior wi.m-- s had thrown an ashtray at him from a distance of 4 to 6 feet, but that he hud ducked to avoid being hit. Merin then made a spitball and threw it at the police officer from a distance of 4 to 6 feet, hitting him in the chest Merin said he was demonstrating that the officer could not have ducked sst - WASHINGTON One GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) man was found dead and another was hospitalized six hours after po-- i lice locked them in a car thinking they were drunk, authorities say. It appears that there was a breakdown in communications, said Sgt. Dennis Coking, a police spokesman in this suburb of Phoe-- i ; job under fire. Korb cited experiences on Wake Island daring World War II and in Vietnam. Brooks shot back that there was no way for civilians to flee Wake Island and that civilians went to Vietnam knowing they were entering a war zone. Speaking generally about using contractors to maintain weapons systems, Korb said that "we look first to the private sector because it is cheaper. Brooks, however, cited figures that contracting out costs the Pentagon $100,000 a year per civilian employee, compared to $32,900 for an Army civilian worker, $42,500 for one with the Navy and $54,200 for a federal employee with the Air Force. carry out their missions without key civilians. They civilians are very critical, said Korb, who added that the situation is the same at U.S. installations outside Europe and that the Pentagon doesn't know exactly how many civilians fit this description. He said the Defense Department still is attempting to define a critical civilian. Korb said that training military personnel to take over the skilled jobs is not an easy solution. He said it costs more than hiring civilians and that a military technician, once the enlistment is up, will become a civilian and do the same job for five times the pay. He said that if history is any guide, civilians will remain on the r Rights Advocates in San Francisco. The Republican governor said in his veto message he found no compelling evidence" of a widespread job discrimination against homosexuals. His veto followed nearly two weeks of the most intensive lobbying and letter-writin- g campaign in the 15 months of his administration. Questioned Wednesday by reporters. Deukmejian refused to say whether he might sign a future gay rights bill if sufficient evidence of job discrimination is presented to him. Asked about allegations that he vetoed the bill for political reasons, such as a possible future race for president, he gave a similar reply, and finally cut off all questions. More than 90,000 letters and telephone calls, running 1 against the bill, flooded the governor's office since March 1 when the bill landed 2-- on his desk. Winner-Wagne- r & Associates, to outline a campaign to influence public opinion on the politically explosive issue. Without a program of this sort, existing activist opposition groups and allied politicians could generate public hostility toward the sites and thereby create a significant obstacle to the construction and operation of a repository, Winner-Wagntold the industry group in a memo Dec. r Newspapers ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. James L. Usry was sworn in as this city's first black mayor Wednesday after a chaotic day in which Michael Matthews. who was recalled from office Tuesday, tried unsuccessfully to invalidate the election. Moments before Usry was to be sworn in at 1:30 p.m. before hundreds of supporters, judges of the Appellate Division of Superior Court and the New Jersey Supreme Court blocked the inauguration. They said Matthews deserved a hearing on his contention that the recall petition that led to the election did not bear enough valid voter signatures. But at about 3:30 p.m., the judges in part, they reversed themselves said, because Police Chief Joseph Pasquale had warned them that a large crowd of Usry supporters at City Hall might get out of hand if their candidate was not sworn in. - Appellate Court Judge Neil Deighan said in a telephone interview that Pasquale had told him that the situation at City Hall was "getting out of control. But he said he was mainly concerned that the city had been left without a mayor after the City Clerk officially certified the election results. Edwin J. Jacobs Jr.. Matthews attorney, said an Usry attorney had made an improper personal appeal to the judges, and called the court deri-iun- s "absolutely improper" and a t umpkte injustice. ReMdi nts here voted 7.162 to 4 144 T uesd.iy to recall Matthews from office midway through his four-yea- r term. Then, in the second question T The Committee for Energy Awareness was created by the utility companies and reactor manufacturers to try to calm public fears about commercial nuclear power, stemming largely from the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania. lem. Finger said his organization still plans to send speakers into the six Blood Test May Reveal Tots Apt to Get Rheumatic Fever Researchers NEW YORK (AP) are working to develop a blood test that would identify infants especially vulnerable to rheumatic fever, a disease that strikes 15 million to 20 million children a year around the world. Rheumatic fever, which can lead to heart damage, occurs most often in poorer countries. It follows strep which is an expensive undertaking in poor countries. With a blood test to identify most newborns at risk, you cut down markedly on the number you have to look at, said Dr. John Zabriskie, a professor in the department of mi- crobiology and immunology at Rockefeller University in New York. the child has ' after Rheumatic fever causes feverish throat, usually Might Create Backlash felt fine for days. and painful swelling of joints fatigue But Finger said in an interview he about 3 percent of children and may rob the victim of coordinaOnly efdecided not to proceed with the with untreated strep throat get tion. About 250 cases were reported fort because it might polarize public rheumatic fever. But without a way in the United States in 1981. sentiment in the six states and creto predict who those children will Up to 60 percent of rheumatic feate a backlash against the nuclear health authorities must ver cases lead to rheumatic heart be, public waste program. treat each strep case as a threat disease, which can cause permanent "There could have been a turn-of- f heart damage. by just the kind of people were tryThe blood test, to be developed by to said "If talk to, peoing Finger. May and his colleagues, will Zabriskie ple get emotionally involved in newborns who run about 15 identify to to talk something, its very tough times the normal risk of catching them. rheumatic fever in later life. The DALLAS for (AP) Attorneys The government is considering test will look for a particular subwhose died stepmother nine areas in the six states for the Larry Boff, Jan. 5 while she waited for a fire stance on the membranes of the infirst underground site to permafants immunological cells. if the nently store thousands of spent fuel department ambulance, say Zabriskie's team has found the of a offered fair settlement city rods from commercial atomic reacin 75 percent of rheumatsubstance would Boffs claim not $315,000 they tors. The waste remains highly ratested in Colombia, ic fever victims file a lawsuit. of for thousands dioactive years. States. NewUnited and the India Boff filed the claim against the A plan prepared for the industry the substance can borns carrying 25. on Jan. Boffs attorneys, group by Winner-Wagnproposed city to then be treated with statewide advertising budgets of Richard Armstrong and Greg Davis, head off rheumatic feverpenicillin if they get would not what say Tuesday they $3.8 million in Texas. $945,000 in strep throat. Louisiana, $577,000 in Mississippi, consider a fair settlement. Zabriskie said he didnt know Dallas Fire Department officials $517,000 in Nevada and $499,000 in when the test would be available. said Monday that they expect to finUtah. He said that understanding why It also proposed separate local ish an investigation into the case children are more suscepticertain Nurse week. this dispatcher Billye advertising budgets of $576,000 for ble to rheumatic fever may help reMyriek argued with Boff while he Lubbock, Wichita Falls and Amarilsearchers learn about other diseases pleaded for her to send an ambulo in Texas; $469,000 for Shreveport involving the immunological sysand Monroe in Louisiana; $376,000 lance to help his stepmother, tem. Those include lupus and rheuLillian Boff. The nurse has for Las Vegas, Nev.; and $343,000 for matoid arthritis, in which the body been on administrative leave placed Hattiesburg, Biloxi and Gulfport in attacks its own tissue, he said. the inquirys outcome. pending Mississippi. 13. Survivor No-Ambula- Settle Suit nce er Despite Delay, Atlantic Citys First Black Mayor Sworn In Knight-Ridde- states to discuss nuclear waste and also help form local groups to address the issue. He also did not foreclose the possibility of an advertising campaign in the future, saying, We may run some ads at some point, although we currently have no plans. budget was proposed for Washington in documents obtained by UPI. But other planning material discussed issues the promotional effort ought to address in Washington. Faces Acceptance Problem The Energy Department, which is managing the waste program, has run into considerable public opposition in all six states. Federal officials admit the program faces an enormous public acceptance probNo tfsV SALT LAKE CITY'S SPRING on the ballot, they voted to have Usry serve the remainder of the ANTIQUES SHOW & SALE term. Official returns showed that Usry received 7,393 votes and Matthews 4.224. A third candidate, John Polillo, received 306 votes. 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