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Pentagon Overruns
Set At s2l-Billion
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
General Accounting Office, the
government’s financial watch
« dog, has criticized “serious
shortcomings” in Pentagon
contracting procedures that
have permitted cost overruns of
• nearly s2l billion for weapons
systems.
It recommended a tightening
of purchasing procedures to
* prevent future ballooning of
costs between initial estimates
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HIPPIE LEADER Charles Manson, who with five members of his group is being held
in the slayings of seven persons including actress Sharon Tate, is seen in photos taken
at various times in his life. At left, Manson as he appeared recently at Los Angeles
jail. In center, his hypnotic stare is evident in a file picture from Ventura County
sheriff’s office. As a 14-year-old, right, Manson was photographed in Indianapolis
where he lived in a rooming house and worked as a messenger boy. His mother had
abandoned him and he became a ward of the County Juvenile Center.
James Earl Ray Wins
Limited Concessions
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI)—
“ James Earl Ray has won
limited concessions from Ten
nessee corrections officials, but
was denied what he wanted —
* freedom from his cramped
maximum security quarters.
U.S. District Court Judge
, William E. Miller Monday
ordered correction officials to
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By Jack Crowiay
• What this country needs is a
good 5-cent carrying charge.
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After a recent night at the
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shouldn’t attend science fiction
films without a 12-year-old along
to explain the technicalities.
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• Career girl: one who is more in
terested in plots and plans than
pots and pans.
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• Bookkeeper: a person who feels
good when things start looking
black again.
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, The only man who ever got all
his work done by Friday was
Robinson Crusoe.
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and final outlay.
The agency, which keeps
account of government spend
ing for Congress, said that 38
defense weapons programs
chosen for review by the GAO
would cost $62.8 billion, com
pared with original estimates of
$41.9 billion extending back
several years.
It said the Pentagon’s recent
ly adopted selected acquisition
reporting system had “serious
submit by Jan. 12 a plan
providing a work program and
better exercise and recreational
facilities for Ray.
But the judge refused to
order the convicted assassin of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
released into the general prison
population. Prison officials ob
jected to his release from
maximum security, saying he
needed protection from any
possible conspirators in the
King slaying.
Miller’s ruling came after
seven hours of testimony which
included the rare mention of
possible co-conspirators in the
King assassination —a view
which is officially denied.
Assistant State Attorney Ge
neral Thomas E. Fox asked
state Correction Commissioner
Lake Russell why Ray was
being kept in solitary confine
ment.
Boats Stay Clear
Os Arab Shores
By JOHN RIGOS
ATHENS (UPI) - Five
French-built gunboats kept
their distance from Arab shores
today en route to Israel in an
intrigue that brought increasing
calls in Paris for an official
explanation.
The influential Paris newspa
per Le Figaro accused the
government of President Geor
ges Pompidou of collusion in
letting the gunboats escape the
French embargo on arms
shipments to the Jewish state.
Arab world capitals withheld
condemnation of the incident
pending an explanation from
France. Representatives of 14
Arab nations called a meeting
in Paris today to discuss the
matter, a threat to what had
shortcomings” although it was
designed to improve cost
control.
The GAO report was pre
pared for a subcommittee of
the Joint Congressional Econ
omic Committee which is
investigating economy in milita
ry and other government
spending. It was presented
Monday by Robert F. Keller,
assistant comptroller general.
“If there were conspirators
on the outside, wouldn’t you
have to protect him from the
conspirators?” asked Fox.
“Yes,” said Russell.
Ray, asked the same question
earlier in the hearing, replied,
“If the state is interested in a
conspiracy, let them have a
trial.”
Ray, who agreed to a 99-year
sentence in exchange for a
guilty plea, has been trying for
seven months to get a new trial
for the King slaying which
occurred April 4, 1968, in
Memphis.
“Enforced idleness can be a
very real form of punishment,”
said Miller as he made his
ruling which was well received
by Ray’s attorney, Robert W.
Hill Jr. of Chattanooga.
“This is what we wanted,”
said Hill. Ray’s brother, Jerry,
called the rulling “a step
forward.”
been improving relations with
the French.
With Israeli crews, the
gunboats slipped out of Cher
bourg, France, Thursday, en
tered the Mediterranean Satur
day rendezvoused with an
Israeli escort flotilla Monday
and sailed eastward for what
promised to be a tumultuous
welcome in Israel.
The Israeli convoy was last
seen before sunset Monday east
of Malta. Greek naval sources
said it probably would pass
between Crete and Rhodes
before making the cross-sea
run for Israel.
Keeping to the Mediter
ranean’s northern shore would
keep the flotilla far from Arab
world shores, and out of range
of Egyptian warplanes, for as
long as possible.
Government officials in Paris
said they had prepared a list of
“all possible diplomatic and
military steps” that could be
taken by the French cabinet
when it meets to discuss the
matter Wednesday.
The officials described as
speculation reports that the
chief French arms salesman,
Gen. Louis Bonte, would be
fired or that the head of the
Israeli arms buying mission in
France, Adm. Mordechai Li
mon, would be expelled.
French and Israeli officials
held a series of meetings in
both Paris and Tel Aviv
Monday but declined to disclose
what they talked about or what
was decided.
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AWOL Gl
Arraigned
In Rob Try
ATLANTA (UPI)—An AWOL
soldier was arraigned in Colum
bus Monday and jailed in lieu
of $25,000 bond in connection
with an attempted Atlanta bank
robbery Dec. 11.
Atlanta FBI agents said
George R. Saxon, 19, of Colum
bus was the second suspect
charged in the attempted rob
bery at a C&S Bank branch
here.
The second man, Albin Virgil
Brown, was arrested Dec. 24.
The warrant on which Saxon
was arrested said the alleged
robber approached a teller at
the bank and demanded a pa
per sack be filled with money.
But when the teller sounded
the alarm, the man fled.
Roving schoolrooms
HELSINKI (UPl)—Finnish
school children of the future
may get their basic education in
buses roving the sparsely popu
lated countryside, according to
education officials. The officials
say the biggest advantage of the
planned system would he that
very young children would not
have to walk several miles to the
nearest school, as still is the
custom in central and northern
Finland.
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Diana Ready to Doff Her Cloak and Dagger
By DICK KLEINER
NEA Hollywood Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD (NEA)
I asked George Lazenby, the ex-mechanic who starts his
acting career as James Bond, what he thought of his first
leading lady, Diana Rigg.
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Tough like custard.
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Service,” but that is it. Finis.
But she won’t go back to the Royal Shakespeare Com
pany either—“ They want you for a year, and I’ve done
that”—so all she can do is wait for something interesting
to come along.
“Pretty soon,” she says, “I’ll be ready for character
parts—and I can hardly wait. Maybe I look young now,
but I have to face up to the fact that time goes by.”
“She’s a tough lady,” he
said, which anybody who
ever saw her as Mrs. Em
ma (Sexa) Peel on The
Avengers would easily be
lieve. And then you meet
her and she seems about as
tough as vanilla custard.
She says The Avengers
part was just that—a part.
She had no interest in
karate before or since. She
got very tired, she says, of
all the jokes—“ Throw me
over your shoulder, dearie”
—and, as she puts it, “I had
to learn how to simper at
the joke-tellers.”
The part was such a good
one and she was so good at
it that she says she just
had to stop. And, simulta
neously, call a complete
halt to playing spies and
agents. She appears with
Lazenby in the Bond film,
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She does look moderately young. Especially with all her
gold rings. She collects antique gold rings, and has 15 at
the moment. She was only wearing nine, and all on the
left hand.
“On both hands,” she says, “it gets a bit flashy.”
Why only gold?
“I’m a gold person,” she says. “I have a theory that
people’s skin tones are either gold or silver. I’m gold.”
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It’s nice to see that the old values still remain. I went
to a party and met a new rock group called Poco (they
were Pogo, but cartoonist Walt Kelly objected). The only
refreshments at the party were cookies—baked by the
wives of the group. Good, too.
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THE PSYCHIC STARS: James Earl Jones
He was discharged from the Army in Colorado and,
anxious to get home to Michigan, he drove straight through.
On the second night, he found himself on the outskirts of
Kansas City, Mo.
The next thing he knew, he was through the city. His car
was swerving. Several hours had elapsed.
He had driven through the city automatically—but he
wasn’t alone. There was, he says, a visitation that guided
him through Kansas City. It was his guardian angel.
Curiously, she was a white girl, about 11 years old,
blonde and blue-eyed. She told him when to stop, when to
turn, when the signal lights were red and green.
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