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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1978
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GSA fraud estimate increases
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The total
im()U „t of money stolen from the
■cuKlal-niarrecl General Services
^ministration is now estimated at
noir than $100 million a year.
Earlier estimates by GSA inves-
Ijaitors and auditors had placed the
iunt stolen from the $5 billion-
|.vear building and supply agency at
166 million a year.
But GSA chief auditor Howard
avia told a House Government Ac
uities Subcommittee Tuesday re-
ised estimates based on actual
raud cases and agency audits re
vealed that annual fraud is poten
tially about $100 million.
GSA chief Jay Solomon told the
panel about 50 GSA employees have
been disciplined as a result of the
growing investigation into misman
agement and fraud at the agency,
and dozens more have been trans
ferred to other jobs.
However, Solomon and his chief
investigator, Vincent Alto, both
agreed the recent revelations repre
sent "only the beginning” of a chain
of corruption dating back more than
two decades.
Solomon also said Atlanta attor
ney Charles Kirbo, President Car
ter’s close friend and adviser, has
had “a very small role” in the GSA
investigation. Solomon said he has
had "little contact” with Kirbo.
Carter named Kirbo last month to
monitor the investigation, but Sol-
If AMOR EAST 3 THEATRES
Texas attracting
drug smugglers
United Press International
CORPUS CHRISTI — Stepped-up law enforcement efforts along
the East Coast have caused international drug dealers to eye the
Texas Gulf Coast as a more favorable route for drug smuggling, the
head of the Drug Enforcement Administration said Tuesday.
DEA Administrator Peter Bensinger, speaking at a joint news con
ference with State Attorney General John Hill, said cooperation be
tween federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in Texas
would be necessary to thwart smugglers using air and marine routes
from South America and Mexico.
The news conference opened a three-day closed-door anti-
smuggling conference which has attracted more than 70 Texas law
enforcement officials and numerous federal narcotics agents.
Citing statistics indicating smugglers are encountering stiff resis
tance along the East Coast, particularly in Florida, Bensinger said,
"We are seeing some of the traffic shift to the Texas Gulf Coast.”
He said recent seizures included two million pounds of marijuana,
1,000 pounds of cocaine, 82 mother ships and 462 defendants.
The DEA chief said the highly organized and well-financed traffic
kers could succeed in penetrating Texas unless authorities develop
“an element of unity and information exchange that is desperately
needed.”
“At the close of this conference we will develop a task force for Texas
to control air and marine traffic in our state.
Asked about reports a federal grand jury in Corpus Christi was
investigating possible links between drug trafficking and certain
South Texas public officials. Hill said: "It's not a subject 1 should get
into at a press conference, but frankly we have some deep undercover
efforts underway right now.”
Bensinger said most marijuana reaching the United States origi
nates in Colombia, because eradication efforts in Mexico, along with
increased cooperation between U.S. and Mexican officers, have
slowed drug exports from that country. He said heroin flow from
Mexico had been drastically reduced, based on decreasing overdose
statistics in the United States.
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omon said his actual role had been
exaggerated.
In addition to the 50 disciplined
employees, 12 GSA workers in
dicted by a federal grand jury last
week for fraud have been dismissed
from their jobs.
In a related matter, two senators
sent Solomon a letter asking for the
names of any senior GSA officials —
past or present — under investiga
tion for wrongdoing.
Sens. William Roth, R-Del., and
John Heinz, R-Pa., expressed con
cern "the investigation is focusing
more on the actual perpetrators of
fraud and abuse than on the officials
who, knowingly or unknowingly, al
lowed it to continue.”
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■ NEW ORLEANS — Former
President Gerald Ford says be is
fcady to return to the White House
if the Republicans want to send him.
During a question-and-answer
ession after a speech to convention
lelegates, Ford said Tuesday he was
eady for a Republican presidential
raft.
They said I’m healthy. I’m going
o be active, I’ve got time to con-
ider a number of options,” Ford
“id III simply say I won’t duck
ny responsibility in 1980.”
The former president used his
peeeh to the International Oil In-
lustry Tire, Battery and Auto Ac-
essory Association convention to
am the Carter Administration
way from mandatory wage and
nice controls to curb inflation.
Ford said he expects President
Carter to impose a form of wage and
price controls to curb inflation, a
policy that Ford said will not work.
“I’m getting more and more ap
prehensive over the ultimate pros
pects of the administration doing
something about inflation by start
ing us down the road to mandatory
wage and price controls,” the
former chief executive said.
"I’ve lived through price controls
at the time of the Korean War and in
1971 when my predecessor (Richard
Nixon) imposed wage and price con
trols.
"It is my experience that wage
and price controls may be good poli
tics, but they re lousy economics. ”
Ford labeled government spend
ing as “the villian" in the inflation
problem.
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Lunch time in the patio of our La Rojeha distillery.
W hen our workers sit down to lunch
they sit down to a tradition.
W hen they make Cuervo Gold
it’s the same.
Every day at just about eleven the wives from Tequila
arrive at the Cuervo distillery bearing their husbands'
lunches.
Lunches that have been lovingly prepared in the
same proud manner since men first began working here
in 1795.
It is this same pride in a job well-done that makes
Cuervo Gold truly special. Any way you-drink it, Cuervo
Gold will bring you back to a time when quality ruled
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FEATURES
• Direct Drive system with Sony's unique BSL motor
• Two speeds: 33 1/3 and 45 RPM
• Automatic Tonearm return and shut-off
• Front panel reject button
• Strobe light and fine speed adjustment of ± 4%
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125 watts per channel - minimum continuous "RMS" into 4 or 8
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A string of 24 LED's, 12 per stereo channel, light up to indicate peak
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instead of mechanical power meters because they are faster-acting,
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Reg. $160.00
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