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...story of the testing-device contract begins with the retirement from the Pentagon of William Parkin about five years ago. He had worked for 20 years as a civilian employee of the Navy, rising to become the chief contracting officer on the cruise-missile program. He had a reputation for being tough on contractors; at his retirement party, McDonnell Douglas presented him with a "cost cutter of the decade" award. But afterward, Parkin decided to go through the "revolving door" between the Pentagon and those who do business with it. He set up a consulting firm in nearby Alexandria...
...Hazeltine Corp., a defense electronics company based on Long Island, N.Y., became one of Parkin's clients. Hazeltine was competing for a deal to supply devices to test IFF (identification, friend or foe) equipment used on Navy planes. It agreed to pay Parkin $24,000 a year for any marketing information related to IFF that he could gather...
...Parkin turned to Fred Lackner, another consultant. They met about ten years ago, when Parkin was working for the Navy and Lackner for a defense contractor; they grew close enough to become involved in several joint business ventures. Parkin gave Lackner half the fees he was collecting from Hazeltine and proposed to share any bonus he might receive if Hazeltine won the IFF contract...
...prompted the government to announce plans to rezone it as a "colored area," a step that would have forced white residents to move out. An interracial grass-roots campaign was organized to fight the proposed rezoning, and at least for the time being, has succeeded. Says an elated Peter Parkin, a city councilman and head of the Open Woodstock campaign: "The first nail is being driven into the coffin of residential segregation in South Africa...
...brand new valet to handle the parkin...