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Congressional critics were angered by the announcements. "To say there's no corruption is ridiculous," said Michigan Congressman John Dingell, a leading investigator of Pentagon procurement. "The Navy is more anxious to get ahead with its spending goals than in spending well." Declared Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire: "The case is not closed just because the Navy says it is. I intend to look very closely at the whole matter in hearings this fall...
...PENTAGON "Nothing Improper...
...proposed firm, Mary Ann Gilleece, had been Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Management since 1983, a job that made her Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's principal adviser on procuring weapons from defense contractors. Gilleece knew that her job was being phased out, but before leaving the Pentagon, she was attempting to line up clients among the companies she had dealt with as a public official...
...Pentagon was initially unperturbed. "Nothing improper or illegal," said Spokesman Fred Hoffman. Indeed, Pentagon Counsel Chapman Cox had approved Gilleece's move, requiring only that she stop handling Government business with the 29 firms she was soliciting. Faced with criticism inside and outside the Pentagon, Gilleece finally decided not to set up the firm. And late last week she submitted her resignation. CONGRESS Giving and Receiving...
...institution focused on improving living standards in the developing world, he is racing to get up to speed on everything from the price of coffee beans in Rwanda to the salaries of schoolteachers in Brazil. Having served four years as Donald Rumsfeld's hawkish deputy at the Pentagon, Wolfowitz suddenly finds himself on the front line of another war: the global battle against poverty, a cause that has lately attracted Hollywood's interest but whose details are anything but glamorous. And so it wasn't entirely surprising that on a four-country swing through Africa last week, Wolfowitz spent most...