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...most recent report of the GAO--Congress's financial watchdog--has received the most publicity. Published in November, it established that 23 defense contractors, including Boeing Company, Sikorsky Aircraft, and Sperry Gyroscope Company, have violated a series of government regulations on the use of defense equipment. These 23 contractors hold $1 billion in government property, in addition to special tooling and special test equipment valued at $347 million. Both the GAO and the Joint Economic Committee say that the conduct of the 23 contractors is "representative" of the 5,500 contractors holding $15 billion in government property...
...million in U.S. Treasury bonds, Japan $500 million. A task force headed by New Mexico Publisher Robert McKinney, former Ambassador to Switzerland, was looking into ways to lure more foreign tourists to the U.S. The Commerce Department was recruiting a force of dozens of specialists to watchdog U.S. investments abroad...
...party's cultural watchdog, Jiri Hendrych, warned the restless writers last week that the regime cannot be indifferent to "attempts to abuse the ideological and creative movement on the cultural front." What that means is that when the Central Committee of the Communist Party convenes next week, it will probably take away some more of the privileges that Czechoslovakia's writers have recently gained...
...potential block of over 2,000,000 votes. The fact that Thieu's winning total was only 1,600,000 votes virtually nullified any claims of fraud, even though Dzu and six other civilian candidates kept their promise and served notice last week that they will ask the watchdog Constituent Assembly to invalidate the elections and order new ones. Thieu's winning margin was so eminently credible that the Assembly is unlikely to take any heed...
...renouncing nukes is India, which worries openly about China's bomb. West Germany and Italy have strong reservations about the proposed inspection of nuclear-power reactors to assure that fuels are not diverted to weaponry. They want EURATOM, not the International Atomic Energy Agency,* to be their watchdog. They are worried that Communist nations in l.A.E.A. might take the opportunity to steal advanced industrial secrets. West Germany also vehemently opposes the absence of a time limit in the treaty. The Germans argue that it should be tried for five or ten years to see whether all those who sign...