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...weapons whose cost is hard to estimate; manufacturers find that they cannot deliver for the agreed price and ask for more money. Rule contends that the Navy should have signed a "milestone" contract, under which the manufacturer is paid legitimate costs plus a set fee. Democratic Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin, a former Defense Department economic analyst, agrees and is demanding a full congressional investigation...
...Aspin, 35, went to Congress armed with an M.I.T. doctorate in economics and two years in the Office of Systems Analysis in Robert McNamara's Defense Department. The second-term Democrat from Wisconsin has waged an all-out war on military waste and cost overruns. He helped expose ballooning costs at Litton Industries' naval shipbuilding yards and mechanical troubles with Lockheed's C-5A cargo plane. Aspin also led the move that cut $1 billion from last year's Defense authorization and shot down flight pay for admirals and generals whose active flying days are behind...
...change these policies, South Dakota Democratic Senator James Abourezk and Wisconsin Democratic Congressman Les Aspin have introduced a bill that would permit a company to operate in only one of the four phases of the industry: production, refining, pipeline transport or marketing. Democratic Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre of New Hampshire has submitted a bill that would force all U.S. oil companies to give up their retail-marketing divisions by year's end. Florida's attorney general, Robert Shevin, has also filed suit seeking to force the 15 major oil firms to divest themselves of their crude-oil-production...
...ASPIN, 32, Democrat, Wis., has already been tagged the resident Whiz Kid. He has degrees from Yale and Oxford and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. He won on a platform of peace, conservation and economic welfare, but probably knows too much to get the seat he wants on the Armed Services Committee: he once served as special assistant to former Defense Secretary McNamara...
...Republican cross-over will go to McCarthy, observers agree, since he offers the only clear alternative to Nixon. No one is willing to predict the exact amount of cross-over votes McCarthy will get, but it will be substantial--perhaps enough to beat Johnson. "It can do it," Leslie Aspin, executive director of Wisconsin citizens for Johnson-Humphrey, said recently...