Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have the slightest hesitancy in asking the Department of Justice to take whatever remedies are appropriate to deal with the situation." With that warning, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger last week announced a long-overdue crackdown on military purchasing agents and on contractors who may have charged inflated prices for spare parts...
Weinberger's crackdown was prompted in part by a Pentagon report that disclosed scandalous price increases-as much as 3,725%-for spare parts being sold to the military. Critics derided the disciplinary steps as mere wrist slaps, but Weinberger disagrees: "We want to do something to ensure that we don't continue contracts like these...
Edmund Muskie, who was then Secretary of State, complained to Israel about the arms sales, but the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin responded that it had sold Iran only $300,000 worth of spare tires for F-4 fighter planes. It promised, in any event, to stop all future military sales. Yet, according to U.S. intelligence sources, Israel was also selling tank parts and ammunition to Iran. In 1981, after the release of the U.S. hostages, Israel resumed its military sales to Iran without Washington's approval...
...vague U.S. trade rules. It included radar, navigational equipment and radio parts. When R.R.C. found that U.S. Customs officials rarely checked crates of this equipment, it began to address them openly to the Iranian air force. It also began to include in the crates such clearly banned items as spare parts for fighter planes, including engines and generators. The process became so easy, contends De Mello, that "after subcontractors sold parts to us two or three times, knowing they were being shipped to Iran, and saw that no one had been arrested, they began dealing directly themselves...
...average cost for each tale is a spare $400,000. To keep expenses down, Duvall pays everyone at or near scale. For actors, that has meant between $2,000 and $7,000 a week. Says Production Designer Mike Erler: "We have a champagne appetite and a beer budget...