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Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1972 THE JOURNAL HERALD DAYTON, OHIO Probe of C5 defects: the jury appears to he friendly could get to protect our very significant investment by making the plane as durable and long-lasting as possible." He conceded that the plane is "fraught with all kinds of problems" and the most of these are already known before the study begins. "But some tough engineering problems are involved in how to solve these things. I hope we will be able to crank them into the plane's production as we go along instead of waiting a year and then producing a report." Among the reasons the C5 became such a problem plane, he listed "a lack of recognition that this was going to be a whole new aircraft and not just a scaled-up C141." He also said that the Air Force "asked impossible things of Lockheed" which could not be achiefed for the original price. It was "silly" of the Air Force to demand a plane as big and expensive as this capable of landing on a short, rough field, he said.

This requirement has now been dropped. In spite of all its problems, he said that Fat Albert already is being used or. a day-to-day basis, "carrying significant quantities of people and cargo to all parts of the world." The number of people who understand the structure of dynamics is quite limited," he observed. He was reminded that a blue ribbon panel which investigated the Defense Department for defense secretary Melvin R. Laird recommended that an independent testing agency be created to avoid the kind of blunders the Air Force, Navy and Army have committed in, postwar weapons development.

Whittaker said he was aware of this and also of the contention that the Russians have better luck in weapons development because the testing is done by an agency independent of its military services. He thinks that a group recently set up in the Pentagon's research division is moving in the direction of this kind of control for future weapons programs. "But the C5 has been around so long it did not have the benefit of this group. And the program is so far down the road, we are almost at the point of a fait accompli. "This is not an investigation to decide whether to terminate the plane or who to blame for its faults.

Our problem was to call in the most -knowledgeable people we the Air Force, who, together, created the problem In the first place. Is this not a strange way to conduct an inquiry? The Pentagon's critics think it is. But Philip N. Whittaker does not agree. Whittaker, the Air Force's assistant secretary for installation and logistics, confided in an interview that the Pentagon had considered asking the Boeing Aircraft Co.

to come in and do the job. "But they were the losers in the contest with Lockheed fof the plane's contract and we did not know whether they could claim to be unbiased," he said. "If they had come to the conclusion that the design had deficiencies, there might have been a suggestion that they had a sour grapes attitude and were resuming the battle they had lost in 1964 and 1965." Design, development and procurement of the plane are managed by the C5 systems program office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Bringing Lockheed and the Air Force into the inquiry "does not represent a conflict of interest," in Whittaker's opinion. The Lockheed experts and Air Force specialists will be men who have had no association with the C5 program, he said.

By William McGaffl Chi Dairy Nm Srvtc WASHINGTON Probably no military plane in history has been plagued with so many embarrassing flaws as the C5. Fat Albert, as the Air Force nicknamed the giant cargo plane being built by the Lockheed Aircraft had an engine drop oft recently when the engines were set to full throttle just before take-off. It also has had a series of wing cracks. Its landing gear has malfunctioned. Its navigation equipment has given trouble.

It has become, a major scandal, not only because of its defects, but also because of its runaway costs. It is not only the worlds biggest plane, it is also the world's most expensive. The price tag has soared from the original estimate of $28 million per plane until it is now at $61 million. And now, the Pentagon has decided to spend $3.5 million in a year-Ions study just getting under way to determine what can be done to remedy the C5 defects. But the LV member study team the Defense Dept.

has assembled js dominated by representatives of Lockheed and 5 pet. ineligible on welfare list dent Nixon's stalled welfare Nathan said a treat deal of WASHINGTON (UP I) A'less than 0.4 percent of the total preliminary government -study 'case load, showed yesterday that nearly 5 Based on checks of about half percent of the 14.4 million Amer- the nation's 14.4 million reci-icans on welfare about 700,000, entSi the survey sh0Wed that 5.6 the ineligibility could be eliminated by better administration of the a i 's welfare pro persons are lneiigmie tor tne of the mothers and grams. Trophy for Hanoi Two North Vietnamese display what Hanoi claims to be part of a wing from a U.S. plane shot down Dec. 30.

The caption on the radiophoto monitored yesterday in Warsaw said the plane was downed over Nghe Province, North Vietnam. AP Wlrephoto Only two months ago, the Administration reported in a pamphlet that only 1 to 2 percent of so -'is i 1 I -i 1 I j-f4" -i CJ- 4r? i the welfare recipients were inel youngsters getting help from the Aid to Dependent Children pro-gram were ineligible. This program covers about 10 million welfare recipients. Overall, the ineligible figure a 1 4.9 percent, counting welfare under programs to help the aged, blind and disabled. igible.

Many publicized charges of cheating or ineligibility sinv nly have not stood up under investigation, the pamphlet said. It was prepared at a cost of HEW said the 1 1 dis $7,000 and sent to 10,000 persons The preliminary findings of closed yesterday do not include checks of some large states such as California, New Jersey, Colo the new survey found: Overpayments and r-payments occurred in 24.3 per benefits they receive. That is about double the estimates from previous investigations. But the Health, Education and Welfare Dept. which conducted the survey, said cheating was not the major cause.

"Most of the errors were honest mistakes," HEW said. "More than half were agency errors." RICHARD P. Nathan, deputy HEW undersecretary, Said suspected welfare fraud remains at Party goal is 'equal' ah time WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic National Committee asked the Columbia Broadcasting System yesterday for prime rado, Maryland, Texas and Vir ginia. And it said reports from cent of the Aid to Families with New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania Dependent Children (AFDC) and Wisconsin are incomplete. cases and in 17.8 percent of aged, blind and disabled cases.

Based on complete data from Overpayments to all welfare 41 states representing about half the welfare recipients, Nathan said erroneous benefits pay adults average $22.43 a montn and underpayments $14.23. But overpayments to AFDC mothers and children averaged $44.9 a family and underpayments ments and payments to persons not eligible cost about $254 million annually. That figure could be doubled about a half billion dollars to give a true national picture of welfare mis $18.32. U.S. expects major Red offensive AS FOR Ineligible recipients, spending, he said.

HEW said the major causes are misunderstanding of the rules, air time to respond to the net Lot AiKtelM Tlmoj- where the borders of South Viet compassing the highlands. agency mistakes, changes in "THE PROBLEMS are deeper, severe and worse than work telecast interview with President Nixon Sunday night, The Democrats also asked the cally areas strongly favorable to the Viet Minh and Viet Cong. Whether this can be accom- nam, Laos and Cambodia meet. American military sources familv circumstances that are represented here," Nathan said. not reported quickly enough and said yesterday there was also a good chance of an attack on Two South Vietnamese fire support bases near Kontum National Broadcasting Company rolished under the existing um for air time to answer that payment miscalculations.

"These are human and technl brella of American air power is The preliminary results were disclosed at a news conference network Dec. 21 airing or a cal errors; it is not cheating," South Vietnamese forces Just south of the demilitarized zone in the next month or so, but that the highlands offensive seemed at which HEW officials urged were targets last spring for furious assaults by the North Vietnamese, who were repulsed in several weeks of bloody fight Washington Pott strvlct SAIGON The buildup of Communist supplies in South Vietnam's Central Highlands has reached "historic" proportions and may indicate a major offensive early this year, senior U.S. military sources said yesterday. According to Intelligence reports, the sources said, North open to question, but there is no doubt that American Commanders are concerned atthepossi said HEW officials. The American sources dismissed President Nguyen Van Thieu's oft-repeated contention that 1973, not this year, will be the year of South Vietnam's major military test.

"No, it's this year that they'll make thV big push," one officer, said. "There's no question about it in my mind. They want the war back on the front pages, if not before Nixon goes to China then right in the middle of our presidential election campaign, and they think this is the way to bility of a highland offensive. even more likely. ing- Congressional action on Presi Textile curbs South Vietnamese troops in the highlands were placed on IF SUCH a drive is launched, it will be up to the South Viet Last week's bombing raids, the sources said, destroyed supplies that were "fairly far back in the pipeline" in other words, destined for use several months from now in South Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos.

alert last week, following reports that two North Vietnamse divisions were moving into posi Vietnam is gearing up for large-scale military action In namese to stop it on the ground by themselves. There are no American troops remaining in program entitled, "A Day in the Presidency." The requests Were made in telegrams from the committee's general counsel, Joseph A. Call-fano, to Charles T. Ireland president of CBS, and Julian Goodman, president of NBC. Califano said the Sunday night program was "highly political in its overtones and offered the President an opportunity to express his views on a number of controversial issues of public Importance." A demand for equal time came also from Rep.

Paul N. tion to the west of Pleiku, across the border in Laos and Cam the second military region en- do it." Reds hit four U.S. copters, bodia. Page 6 Japan, US. sign pact May free hero the first months of 1972 in an effort to make a political impact in the United States perhaps WASHINGTON (UPI) -The I David Kennedy, U.S.

ambas- before President Nixon leaves for Peking in February. McCloskey, a young Republican Bhutto asks peace tlnited States and Jaoan sisnedisador-at-large, who personally antiwar congressman from California who is challenging Nixon "The enemy has never stock a 3-year agreement yesieruay negotiatea tne agreement wan Japanese officials, said it would piled as much stuff up there (in the highlands) as he has now," permit orderly growth for both asking the people's permission to free Mujib. The crowd re Two brigades of South Vietnam's airborne division, assigned to operations in Cambodia are reported about to be reasigned to the Pleiku area. THE THINLY populated Central Highlands have long been considered one of South Vietnam's most vulnerable areas, Some officials including John Paul'Vann, the senior American in the area have been known to suggest that the South Vietnamese in effect abandoned the highlands by concentrating their forces in the thickly settled lowlands along the coast to the east. Control of the highlands has been a Communist goal since in the March 7 New Hampshire under which Japan agreed to lim-primary.

it exports of wool and man-made There was no Immediate re- fiber textiles to the American sponse fronveither network. 'market. one general oficer said. "He's in the Japanese and the American KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto declared his willingness yesterday to release Sheik Mujibur Rahman unconditionally and sponded: "Yes." a frame of mind to make a push, textiles industries. and that's what we're going to "I will then release him unconditionally and without bar The agreement, which is ret see." roactive to Oct.

1, 1971, was called on India for peace talks. gaining," Bhutto said. signed by Kennedy and Japa THE SOURCES said the mili nese Ambassador I tary supplies brought down the Ushiba only two days before Ho Chi Minh Trail from North Japanese Prime Minister Et-saku Sato and President Nixon Vietnam over the past few months were already in place hold official talks at the Presi- The sheik, under arrest In West Pakistan since last March, has been proclaimed the presi- Editorial, "Mujibur's Importance," Page 4. dent of independent Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, by Ben Vf A 4J If 1 dent's home in San Clemente, before last week's U.S. bombing raids on supply depots above the Calif.

demilitarized zone. the war against the French. In the past, North Vietnamese strategists have sought unsuccessfully to cut South Vietnam in half, driving east through the highlands down to Binh Dinh and Phuyen provinces histori BOTH KENNEDY and Ushiba said the agreement removes a They gave no location for the supplies, but they are presuma bly in the mountainous area around Pleiku and Kontum, gali trade dispute which had become the most serious problem be BUT, HE ADDED that he would first go to his home in Larkana, about 300 miles north of Karachi, to 1 a his birthday and later meet with Mujib. He is expected to leave on tomorrow. Presumably, Mujib would be allowed to go to Bangladesh.

The return of Mujib, a 54-year old former insurance salesman turned politician, should serve as a stabilizing force in Bangladesh, where he has been considered the only major political leader with a mass following. His Awaml League won 167 of the 169 East Pakistani seats in the December, 1970 National Assembly elections for an absolute majority in the 313-member legislature. The remaining seats went to tween Tokyo and Washington. The agreement allows either Japan or the United States to call for prompt consultations if Charles Wilson of GE is dead either government feels its tev tile industry is being unduly Speaking at a rally here, Bhutto said he would release Mujib after at least one more talk with him. SHORTLY after becomming president last month, Bhutto freed the sheik from prison and ordered him held under house arrest.

On Dec, 27 he conferred with Mujib, as the sheik is familiarly known, and said more talks would be in store. Bhutto told the throng he was harmed by the pact or by textile v3v' rf i JL 'r 1 i -it''' i Mujibur Rahman West Pakistan, where Bhut'o's National Peoples party a majority, although it only a minority in the Pakistan dominated assembly. exports from any third country. It said both governments recognized their rights and obligations under the General Agree- BRONXVILLE. N.Y.

(UPI) Production Board by Presi Charles E. Wilson, who started; dent Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, 1 a Vf fJuT" an office by in toe fledgling1 down fron. hi! no.t flt (GATT) are not affected by the triortrir rn. in irm and! from nisPost at new agreement. wm Af.n.-m.ii'GE to do so.

He resumed his jvears later, died yesterday in! duties as president ofthecom-THE AGREEMENT limits the, -Lawrenfe Hospitaj here after a pany between 1944 and 1950 Japanese wool and man-made; hort g5 Chess bids opened fiber textiles exports tne i 1 nuouu uppuuin-u ivi me unice oi ueiense MODiii- zation during the Korean War. United States to 997.5 million vards in the year from Oct. 1, 1971, to Sept. 30, 1972. The limit rises to 1.04 billion in the second year and 1.09 billion In the third and final year which ends Sept.

30, 1974. It further stipulates that 0I00E1T 5 (D JC HIGHEST Jh 3 fjSteSt smallest within such overall limits, the annual limits for wool textiles In 1955 Wilson, known as "Electric Charlie," became board chairman of the W.R. Grace Shipping Co. He also served as president of the People to People Foundation. Wilson spent most his life in Nw York City and lived there until moving to the suburb of Scarsdale, N.Y.

He held honorary degrees from Columbia Uni-v i Dartmouth College, NEW YORK (AP) The U.S. Chess Federation disclosed yesterday that bids opened in Amsterdam for the site of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fisher world championship chess match next June showed Belgrade the highest bidder. The Yougoslavian city's $152,000 offer of prize money for the match was reported by E.B. Ebmondson, of the U.S. federation.

FISCHER HAS said he would prefer a match in the United States or Canada but the site was expected to go. to the highest bidder. Fisher, who won the right to challenge Russia's Spassky, the world chamiopn, when he defeated Tigram Petrosian, also" of the Soviet Union, in Buesno Aires last fall, said he could not express any opinion on the bids until he had studied them further. "I like to play in the States," he said, "but it's a quest on of money." AP Wlrtpnoto Other bids reported by Edmonson, who said they were unprededented, included $12 ,000 by Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; $125,000 by Iceland; and $150,000 by Argentina. THE TOTAL amount of the successful bid will be given to the players, with the winner receiving 62.5 percent and the loser 37.5 percent.

Edmondsor. said a total of 15 bids were opened at the World Chess Federation headquarters in Amsterdam and that copies of all bids will be sent to Spassky and Fisher. They have until mid-January to Inform Dr. Max Euwe, World Federation president, of their order of preference. Euwe will compare the preferential lists and announce the site, then each player will be allowed one veto of the announced site, Oilier bids received before the Dec.

31 closing were from West Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Canada, Zagreb, Yugslavia, Switzerland, Greece, France and Colombia. "will be 42.8 million square yards equivalent for the first arrangement year, 43.2 million square yards equivalent for the second arrangement year, and 43.6 million square yards equivalent for the third arrangement year." Man-made fiber textiles are limited to 954.6 million square yards In the first year, 1.004 billion square yards in the second year, and 1.056 billion square yards for the third year. ICE CREAM SUNDAE: The most gigantic ice cream sundae was made of 600 lbs. of Ice cream dripping with 34 quarts of chocolate sauce, topped out nuts, valued at $720. It was produced for a Los Angeles TV show by Baskin-Robbins Inc.

(Prom GuinriMi Book ol World Roe-ordi. 171, Itorlinfl Pudllihinfl CO. Inc.) A time for yawning When you're only 8, when photographers are always around you, when you go from one ceremony to another, the days get kind of long and the yawns come big and often. One of yesterday's ceremonies for Carmen Donesa, national poster girl for the a of Dimes, was receiving the key to Chicago from David Slahl, city comptroller. And, for the Fort Wayne girl, it had been a long day.

New York University and 18! other schools. His is survived by his daugh-1 ter, Margret Wilson Pierce of1 New York. Memorial services will be held Thursday. The time The Chicaco convention bureau offered and location were Immediately i $100,000 the minumum set for the biddina as did not announced. Bled, Yogoslavla..