Entry frauds cost Army millions
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
Improper recruiting practices,
fraudulent enlistments and
inadequate entrance medical
examinations resulted in more
than 29,000 unsuitability
discharges last year and cost the
government $73 million, the
Army reported Sunday.
Discovery of the situation by an
Army Audit Agency team led to a
crackdown last spring on
recruiters and revision of Army
recruiting regulations to
eliminate loopholes pointed out
by the team. an Army spokesman
said.
He said, however, that
enlistment of unqualified per
sonnel due to “administrative
processing errors and, in some
instances, acts by a few over
zealous recruiters" represented
only a small percentage of the
total number of men and women
who joined the Army.
The audit agency report, called
“Recruiting Volunteer Army,”
was a detailed examination of
recruiting during fiscal year end
June 30, 1972.
It said a total of 29,217 men and
women 16 per cent of those
accepted by Armed Forces
Entrance Examination Stations
during the year—had to be
discharged later because they
were found unfit mentally,
physically or morally when first
accepted.
“The acceptance and
discharge of first team personnel
for unsuitability and medical
disqualifications which existed
prior to service cost the Army $73
million during fiscal year 1972,”
the auditors reported. “In
dividuals were enlisted who were
not medically qualified. Other
individuals made fraudulent
enlistments.
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Laos bomb reports also were faked
WASHINGTON—U S. military records of bombing
missions over Laos were falsified in the same manner as
those for the 14-month secret bombing campaign in Cam
bodia. it was reported Sunday. The New York Times quoted
“well-informed sources” as saying the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee has received evidence that B52s and
smaller tactical aircraft flew the raids in question from 1969
through 1972. The committee is scheduled to take testimony
today from Gen. Earle Wheeler, former chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, he is certain to be asked about the
nature and extent of the raids. The Times said nearly all the
falsified missions were flown over nothem Laos, in contrast
to Pentagon reports that they occurred in southern parts of
the country, where American planes heavily pounded the Ho
Chi Minh supply trail between North and South Vietnam. The
Times’ sources said the secret missions were included in
Pentagon statistics provided to the Armed Services Com
mittee last month, indicating more than 1 million tons of
bombs were dropped on Laos in over 24,000 B52 missions and
350.000 fighter-bomber flights between 1969 and 1972.
Rock festival hits Watkins Glen
WATKINGS GLEN. N.Y.—Thousands of blue-jean -dad
rock fans, leaving behind them a huge dance hall of mud and
garbage, snake! along narrow country roads here in cars,
campers and on foot, causing a jam of humanity that might
not clear up for days. Police reported about 300,000 persons
remained Sunday in the vicinity of the Grand Prix race
course that for 12 hours Saturday became a throbbing and
undulatiiig dance floor for more than 600,000 rock fans at the
“Summer Jam" festival. “They started coming in Wed
nesday," said one deputy sheriff, “and it will be Wednesday
before they’re gone." State police and sheriffs deputies said
roads within a 10-mile radius of the festival remained closed,
blocked by cars and trucks simply left in pre-weekend traffic
snarls. A number of girls frolicked bare-breasted in the
humid 90 degree weather.
Hijackers will be tried in Libya
BEIRUT—Libya has decided to try the hijackers who
blew up the Japanese 747 jetliner at Benghazi airport last
Tuesday, Information Minister Abu Zeid Durdah said Sun
day. It will mark the first time that hijackers will be tried by
an Arab country. The official Tripoli Radio quoted Durdah as
saying the hijackers-three Arabs and one Japanese-will be
tried in accordance with Islamic law which is enforced in
Libya. The JAL jumbo jet, carrying about 150 passengers
and crew, was hijacked over Amsterdam July 20 and flown
first to the Persian Gulf sheikhdom of Dubai where it
remained parked on the airstrip for three days. Late Mon
day, the plane was flown to Beghazi, where it was blown up
shortly after all aboard had escaped by emergency chutes.
The four hijackers were arrested by Libyan police.
Oil allocation to start this week
WASHINGTON—Administration officials said Sunday
the White House probably will announce strong measures
this week to control distribution of crude oil and other
petroleum products in rapidly dwindling supply. The
Washington Star-News reported earlier that the ad
minstration would propose an oil allocation program
requiring the oil companies to distribute petroleum products
equitably to all customers. Although administration officials
said a final decision had not been made on how to deal with
possible fuel shortages, they said a program is being drafted
by President Nixon’s chief energy adviser, John Love, and
that mandatory oil allocation was under consideration. The
proposed program was scheduled to begin in mid-August. At
this stage, it does not involve any direct consumer rationing.
He ’d rather switch than fight
NEW YORK—A liberal Democrat who now makes
$23,000 a year as a New York State assemblyman inserted an
ad in The New York Times Sunday asking for “honest em
ployment.” The Times identified the advertiser as Assem
blyman Seymour Posner, a Democrat-Liberal from the
Bronx. His three-line ad, buried in the classified section
reads: “Politician who’s fed up seeks honest employment in
community, intergroup relations or labor fields...X3105
Times.” Posner told the paper he was not saying that politics
was not an honest profession—only that he has had enough.
“My job as assenblyman is my only job and I’ve worked
long and hard to be honest and effective, but I’m getting fed
up with the lack of cooperation and understanding from
constituents and other politicians...” he said. “I get blamed
for everything from the Watergate scandal to garbage in the
streets of my district. It seems that the harder you work at
being a good representative, the more you’re blamed for the
problems in your district.”