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WORLD & NATION
Wednesday, July 12, 1989
Defense secretary introduces plan
Vol.
to overhaul Pentagon bureaucracy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary
Dick Cheney, predicting he can save taxpayers
$30 billion by fiscal year 1993, outlined a com
plex plan Tuesday to overhaul the Pentagon’s
bureaucracy and tighten control over its massive
arms-purchasing systems.
His proposals include paring the number of
people involved in purchasing decisions by thou
sands and giving more authority to the underse
cretary of defense in that area, thereby trimming
some powers of the individual military services.
Cheney was quick to say he had no magic solu
tion for ridding the Pentagon and the defense es
tablishment of fraud and abuse, or making it
more efficient. Nor will he be able to make his
program work on his own, he said.
“There’s no silver bullet here . . . We have a
blueprint that we plan to pursue ... to try to sig
nificantly improve the way we do business,” Che
ney said of his plan at a Pentagon press confer
ence.
“If we’re going to be successful, it will be be
cause we got Congress to cooperate,” he said.
His report was requested by President Bush
five months ago as part of a major review
spurred by the weapons-procurement scandals
that rocked the defense establishment.
Weapons purchases account for more than
$60 billion of this year’s $305 billion military
budget and involve more than a half-million civil
ian and uniformed employees of the Def ense De
partment.
Cheney acted Tuesday to put some of the
changes in place, in particular the realignment of
his top-level Pentagon management team. Other
steps require congressional approval, while oth
ers will need work “throughout my tenure at the
department,” the secretary said.
Even before its official release, the package
stirred opposition on Capitol Hill, where some
said it doesn’t go into enough detail.
Cheney also seeks relief from some congressio
nal oversight requests, complaining that Con
gress requires a “staggering” amount of reports,
inquiries and testimony from the military.
To emphasize that point, Cheney and his dep
uty Donald Atwood stood beside two!
high stacks of reports that Congress '|
quested from the Pentagon duringthepjjH
One of the reports cost $1.9 million topi|
the secretary said.
“I’m convinced nobody ever reads ih
ports,” Cheney said, evoking laughter 1
audience. “It’s make-work.” Before tali
top Pentagon job this year, Cheney was a (I
lican leader in the House.
Cheney also is suggesting that Congress;
merit fully a two-year defense budgetrr
and establish select committees in both ha
review and rewrite the maze of federal prs
ment laws.
Cheney said that while more than 580,i
itarv and civilians are involved in theaapii
process, much work is being done becausti
oversight requirements imposed by Conns If" 0 '
savings “will depend a lot upon the kind * I
port and cooperation we get on CapitolHiB n ' n
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Air Force security policemen
arrested for theft of jet engines
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two
Air Force security policemen were
arrested in the theft of three F-16 jet
fighter engines after an undercover
sting identified dozens of people
suspected of stealing military goods,
the FBI said today.
Indictments have been returned
against 12 other people, but the doc
uments remained sealed in U.S. Dis
trict Court and the FBI refused to
name them.
The two-year investigation was
aimed at the theft of military goods,
“a very lucrative activity in the
United States and, to some extent, in
Utah,” Robert Bryant, special agent
in charge of the agency’s Utah of
fice, said.
Thefts of military equipment
turned up by the investigation in
cluded sleeping bags, helmets, can
teens, munitions and firearms, as
well as the jet engines stolen July 3
from Hill Air Force Base, U.S. At
torney Dee Benson said.
None of the items included mili
tary systems or strategic weapons, he
said.
“The thefts at Hill . . . appear to
be part of a larger problem involving
I he thefts at Hill
appear to be part of a
larger problem involving
other states and other
military establishments.”
Dee Benson,
U.S. attorney
Valdez blamed
for oil slick
off California
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Oil inside
the hull of the crippled tanker
Exxon Valdez, washed away by
the sea, was the likely source of a
10-mile oil sheen off the South
ern California coast, a Coast
Guard official said today.
Concern about the offshore oil
slick and the discovery of five
flaps of steel hanging from the
bottom of the tanker will delay
the disabled tanker’s entry into
San Diego Bay at least several
days.
Preliminary results of test sam
ples taken from the oil slick have
not yet confirmed that the oil
came from the tanker, said U.S.
Coast Guard Cmdr. Jack Scarbo
rough, captain of the Port of San
Diego.
However, Scarborough said,
Exxon officials agreed that the
Exxon Valdez was the likely
source.
other states and other military estab
lishments,” Benson said. “Unfortu
nately, many of the participants are
military policemen, and we find that
especially disturbing.”
There was no evidence that the
suspects believed they were selling
the jet engines to a foreign power,
Benson said.
“It was just good, old-fashioned
greed,” Bryant said.
Benson identified the men ar
rested at a restaurant Monday night
as Airman 1st Class Brian Roth of
Ohio and Senior Airman Danny foe
Stroud of Kansas. No hometowns or
ages were immediately available.
Benson said he expected “many
more” arrests in coming weeks.
Operation “Punchout,” a joint ef
fort of the FBI, the Department of
Defense and the Air Force, targeted
Hill and other unidentified military
installations in the Salt Lake Valley,
Bryant said.
The FBI established a storefront
operation called “Military Surplus
Brokers” in Roy, near the northern
Utah base, which bought thousands
of items stolen from all branches of
the military, Bryant said.
He s^id the purchases resulted in
“the identification of more than 100
suspects throughout the United
States who are involved in the theft
and sale of stolen government prop
erty.”
He said the government spent
about $80,000 to purchase equip
ment worth about $600,000. Bryant
said the two suspects had been given
a down payment of $10,000 toward
a purchase price of $300,000 for the
three Pratt & Whitney engines, va
lued at $2 million each.
The engines were reported miss
ing last Wednesday by maintenance
personnel returning from the Inde
pendence Day holiday, officials said.
WASH INGTON (AP) - Ot
ver North said today he isappei
ing his conviction and sentence
the Iran-Contra affair, six dai vvill
after the judge in the case a;
non need that North wouldn't
sent to prison.
After today’s appeal, U.S. Dt
trict Court Judge Gerhard A
sell issued an order saying Non!
won’t have to pay $150,0001
fines until the matter is resolved
North disclosed his intentio:
in a one-sentence notice:
“Oliver L. North appealstotli
United States Court of Appe<
for the District of Columbia ft
the judgment of conviction ac;|
sentence entered by . .. Gesell
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him to perform 1,200 hours Cp
community service. North vj.
convicted May 4 of aiding a: f ' BU
abetting in obstruction of CocP u sh,
gress, of destroying documer t0 pa
and of accepting an illegal gran
ity in connection with the I®B e ph
Contra affair. B^ds
Twenty-two fires blaze across West
2 firefighters reported dead thus fai
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Twenty-two fires burned out of control in nine West
ern states Tuesday, with one blaze in Nebraska growing
to 100,000 acres of grass and pine and a fire in Utah
briefly threatening a major power transmission line.
A blaze west of Denver destroyed more than 60
structures by Monday night, including an unknown
number of homes.
Rain helped elsewhere, but thunderstorms in Ari
zona also led to the lightning death of a firefighter
Monday, the Western fire season’s second fire-related
death; a firefighter in California was killed by a falling
tree on Sunday.
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blackening 167,000 acres on Monday, the federal
Interagency Fire Center in Idaho reported.
Fires were active in California, Arizona, New Mo
Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho andC
gon. Information officer Debbie Shivers said II and A
firefighters were at work throughout the West, [f Bus
While rain moderated some fires in the SouW|f avore
the beginning of the seasonal monsoon weather®
mean more lightning storms in the dry West.
A brush fire in Utah threatened two power lines
relay electricity in the West, prompting the tempoi
shutdown of a 345,000-volt line, but crews contain
the blaze early Tuesday, an official said.
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