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Soviet Union's Spy Campaign
Doesn't Stop in Path of Love
Berlin - IUPI) - "Conditions
are deplorable there. The spy
campaign has made most peo
ple afraid of Americans."
The speaker was a slim, bru
nette teacher from Los An
geles, Betty Jean Kofferts.
Her voice was quiet but
filled with horror and aimer
at the way she had been treat
ed as a spy in Soviet Union,
just because a young Russian
student fell in love with her.
Betty Jean went to the So
viet Union filled with good
will and anxious to believe
the best about a nation that
has produced great works of
art and science.
.She emerged disillusioned
after being shadowed for 10
days by Soviet police, having
her telephone tapped and a
Russian boy friend threatened.
She herself was labeled a
"Pentagon spy."
The story she told to a re
porter here fitted another
piece into a massive espion
age scare campaign in the
Soviet Union leading up to
the trial of U2 pilot Francis
Gary Powers which starts
next Wednesday.
Miss Kofferts said it all
started when the student in
Leningrad dated her,
"They picked him up, took
him to police headquarters
and Interrogated him for three
hours," she said. "They warn
ed him against seeing mc
again. They told him I was a
, Pentagon spy.
" 'Look at that camera she
carries,' they told him. 'She
will take a photo of you and
back in the Pentagon they
will superimpose a Russian
uniform on you, put you next
to President Eisenhower or
some general and say you de
fected to the west.' "
The student ignored the po
lice warning and saw Betty
Jean again.
"I don't care what happens
to me," he told her. "I love
you."
They walked in a Lenin
grad park and along the
Political Parties Differ on Ways for Growth of Economy
. ... . . ... . , . ...til, onnuphi RprioUS
By HENRY J. BECHTOLD
UPI Financial Editor
New York - (UPD - The two
political parties are in agree
ment that vigorous economic
growth is a
must, but they
differ in their
ideas on how
to accomplish
It.
The Repub
licans say the
mainspring of
this growth
lies in the pri-
Henry Bechtold vate sector of
the economy. "The only effec-
TERROR IN RUSSIA Betty Jean Koferts, above, a Los
Angeles school teacher, said that she spent 10 days of terror
shadowed by Soviet secret police because a Russian fell in
love with her. (UPI Telephoto)
waterfront. Plainclothes po
licemen trailed them.
"He was so brave he gave
me confidence loo and I
didn't realize at first what
danger we were in," she
said. "But now I have night
mares about it ... I felt com
plete terror, for the first time
in my life."
The tall school teacher said
this is the type of thing the
Russians have to put up with
all the time. '
"I am no flag waver, but I
am telling this story for two
reasons," she said. "First to
warn any young woman, or
any woman for that matter,
against traveling in Russia un
escorted. And because I know
there arc other people who
share the view I used to hold
that such things cannot hap
pen In a country that has the
Bolshoi Ballet and puts Sput
niks in orbit."
Even so, she said, the young
student and his friends were
pro-American.
"They dressed like Ameri
cans, collected American pic
lure postcards and records,"
she said. "One even wore a
small pin in his lapel with the
American flag on it."
In Los Angeles, Miss Kof
ferts' father, Ben, said it was
"quite a shock" to learn his
daughter had been shadowed
in Russia. He said she had not
complained of any unpleasant
experiences in her letters
home.
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The man who found Adolf Eichmnnn
answers these provocative questions...
Why didn't Israel go through
Argentine channels to get Eichmnnn?
How did the NO. 1 NAZI
BUTCHER hide for three years
under the noses of his hunters?
How did his background of Hebrew
and Yiddish study help him kill six million Jews? '
Be sure to road . . ."How We Hunted Down the NO. 1 NAZT
BUTCHER". . . by Leo Heiman, an article of wide scope that every
American should read.
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Pentagon Shows
Childish Trust
With Contracts
Washington -WPD- The Pen
tagon shows a childish trust
when writing contracts for
defense suppliers, in the
opinion of Sen. Paul H. Doug
las (D-IU.).
A study of Government Ac
counting Office spot checks
of the contracts showed that
in an astonishing number of
instances the military accept
ed without investigation the
manufacturer's estimates of
costs, Douglas said.
The senator collected 52
GAO reports on audits of de
fense contracts for supplies
ranging from screws to fire-
control radar. All were of the
"negotiated" variety, awarded
for an agreed-upon sum or
guaranteeing to meet the
manufacturer's expenses plus
a specified fee in payment for
the work. Some provided that
the manufacturer would be
given an "incentive payment,"
a percentage of savings ac
complished by fulfilling his
contract at less than the "tar
get cost."
Sub-Contracts Let
In many, the military con
tracted with a firm which
then let sub-contracts for part
of the work.
In none was there competi
tive bidding.
Douglas believes that the
lack of competitive bidding is
costing the government at
least $2-$3 billion a year
unnecessary over - payments.
The GAO reports are proof
that the military should be
required to call for bids when
ever possible, he said.
Douglas cited a contract the
Air Force signed with Boeing
Airplane Co., Seattle, Wash.,
lor spare parts lor B32 air
planes. The contract, accord
ing to the GAO report, con
tained estimated sub-contract
costs which were higher than
prices established earlier by
Boeing with its sub-contractors.
Boeing did not tell the
Air Force this, the report
said, and the Air Force did
not secure the information.
'As a result," GAO said,
. . target costs for these
spare parts were excessive by
about $5 million."
High Prices Negotiated
In a contract with General
Motors Corp., A-C Spark Plug
uivision, Milwaukee, W i s..
GAO found "unreasonably
high prices were negotiated."
'ihe report said the Air
Force "awarded the contract
on a fixed price basis without
requiring the contractor to
furnish detailed support for
the estimated costs included
In the prices proposed by the
contractor."
The audit produced a $750..
000 refund, it was said.
In an Air Force contract,
GAO said, McDonnell set esti
mated sub-contract costs at a
figure higher than the maxi
mum prices the firm had es
tablished with Its subcontrac
tors before the target price
negotiations with the military.
GAO figured this boosted the
target costs by about $5.1
million, and set the incentive
payments for the contractor at
approximately $1.5 million.
tive way to accelerate eco
nomic growth is to increase
. . . initiative and investment,
productivity and efficiency,"
their platform says.
The Democrats have set a
5 per cent annual growth rate
as imperative, but they say it
should reflect massive federal
spending and other federal in
tervention in the economy.
Election Will Tell
The November elections
will tell us which growth pat
tern we can expeot to follow
the next four or eight years,
but meanwhile the Tax Foun
dation offers its solution to
stimulate economic growth -
tax reduction and tax reform.
The foundation notes that
the big test over the next
decade will be to create more
GOV. MELNER LOSES
Trenton - (UPD - Gov. Robert
B. Meyner's political influ
ence did him no good at all
last week end. Meyner entered
the New Jersey senior men's
tennis tournament at the New
Jersey Players club in Kear
ney,, N.J.. In the first round
Saturday, he was matched
against joe Cundari, a fel
low Democrat and town engi
neer of Harrison. Meyner lost
in straight sets, 9-7, 6-2.
than 13 million new iobs for
our rapidly rising population.
Since industry invests about
$13,000 per worker, it adds,
the economic growth involves
the provision and investment
of nearly $200 billion of new
private capital.
The only possible source for
this huge sum, according to
foundation chairman Roswell
Magill, is savings from income
received after taxes. "If taxes
are too high, there can't be
much money saved; new jobs
can't be created."
But, he states, economic
growth can be stimulated by
tax system that leaves pri-
. :n..inn with enougn
savings and encouragement to
promote vigorous private en
terprise. Income Tax Blamed
The biggest trouble - maker
today, Magill asserts, is the
income tax - individual and
corporate. "When individual
rates take up to 90 cents of an
extra dollar of income there
is not much encouragement to
save money for investment in
new enterprises that will
create jobs."
The corporate income tax,
which now takes up to 52
cents of every dollar of a
comDanv's profit, "is another
sprious obstacle to pusiness
growth," Magill says.
He adds that when the new
Congress convenes next Janu
ary, tax . reduction and tax
reform should be high on the
list of priorities "if we really
intend to remove the obstacles
to creation of 13 million new
jobs in the next 10 years."
There can be little argu
ment about the need for eco.
nomic growth; the big ques
tion is whether that growth
should be government's chief
responsibility or whether it
should be left, as in the past,
to our private economic system.
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New York - aTll - The Value
Line Investment Survey said
today it at last sees an upturn
in the domestic petroleum in
dustry, but that the interna
tional oils still face some
tough problems.
The survey said it looks for
favorable earnings compari
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