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Carter proposes panels to save tax dollars

WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Carter created two high-level panels
yesterday to marshal the ad-
ministration's forces against fraud,
waste, and inefficiency, which his ad-
visers say cost taxpayers untold
billions of dollars each year.
Three administration officials
described the move, as an attempt to
consolidate recent steps, including last
year's major revisions of civil service
laws and creation of 12 federal inspec-
tors-general. ,
ATTORNEY GENERAL Griffin Bell,
Budget Director James McIntyre and
personnel chief Alan "Scotty" Cam-
pbell said the two panels were part of a
long and unglamorous fight to save
taxpayers' money by cutting theft and
improving efficiency.
Carter formed an "executive group,"
headed by Bell's deputy, Benjamin
Civiletti, to coordinate the investigtions
into fraud and waste by the inspectors-
general and other federal investigators,
including the FBI and the "special

counsel" for federal whistel-blowers.
And the president set up a "Presiden-
tial Management Improvement Coun-
cil," headed by McIntyre and Cam-
pbell, which will bring in top business,
labor and academic leaders to seek
ways to improve the producitivity of the
bureaucracy.
BELL SAID the group headed by
Civiletti would seek out not only
criminal fraud but also
mismanagement. "You can have a lot
of waste without it being fraud," he
said.
He said the group would consider
suing contractors to recover money
stolen or wasted, and would work-out
ways that agencies could stop doing
business with contractors who cheat or
waste too much money.
He said it'also would work on using
computers to ferret out fraud, similar
to the computer checks that searched
lists of welfare recipients and gover-
nment payrolls to find persons illegally
getting both a paycheck and a welfare

check from the government. the bureaucracy's natural preference
CAMPBELL SAID the management for short-term fixes to long-term
panel headed by himself and McIntyre problems.
would work out ways to measure the ef- None of the three would venture a
ficiency of government workers, to peg guess as to how much money is wasted
pay to performance under the new civil and stolen each year in the federal
service regulations, and to overcome government.
,Senate O1s funds'
for nuelear mi-1sile

WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The
Senate approved funds yesterday for
the development of a new mobile
nuclear intercontinental missile.
It approved, by a vote of 77 to 12, an
addition to the 1979 defense
authorization bill that included $265
million to begin development of the so-
called MX missile.
THE MISSILE, which could be

State panel to review 'U' salaries

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we feel the lists are not complete
enough after we go over them, we may
request further details."
Schnetzler said once the lists have
been reviewed by the committee, they
will be released for public scrutiny.
THE RELEASE of salary infor-
mation from Michigan colleges and
universities received media attention
when the Grand Rapids Press attem-
pted to get individual salary statistics
from Grand Valley State College. The
college refused to release salary
statistics by name to the newspaper,
and consequently, the Grand Rapids
Press asked Hart to force the college to
comply with its request.
"We wanted Grand Valley State

College to release salaries by name so
that we could compare the salaries of
male and female faculty members,"
said John Keane, city editor for the
Grand Rapids Press. "Colleges can
cover up a lot of things if they don't
have to release that kind of information
to the public."
According to Hart, Grand Valley
State College has now complied with
that request, although other colleges
and universities may not have to
release such detailed information to the
committee.
Officials from Western Michigan
University and Grand Valley State
College said they usually try to comply
with such requests from the Senate Ap-
propriations Committee. Schnetzler

said the committee expects to encoun-
ter no problems with obtaining the
salary information from those colleges
which have not yet sent in the
necessary statistics.
"We have a good relationship with
the committee," said Smith, "and we
have no reason not to comply with their
requests."
Smith declined to comment on ac-
tions the University would take if asked
to release salaries by name. However,
a faculty committee at the University
last year studied a plan to release
faculty salaries by name. Some LSA
professors argued that such disclosure
might make state legislators aware of
the need for increasing faculty salaries.

moved secretly underground from one
hidden launch site to another, is con-
sidered a major factor for the Senate in
its deliberations on ratifying a new
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
(SALT) with the Soviet Union.
Many Senators, concerned over the
increasing accuracy of Soviet missiles,
have said they will not vote for a new
SALT accord without the MX missile.
The House is expected to join the
Senate in approving the MX develop-
ment funds when it takes up the budgets
addition in the near future.
THE INFLUENTIAL Senate Armed
Services Committee, while recommen-
ding a go-ahead on the MX, called on
the administration to make up its mind
on the best way to transport the missile
from one launch site to another.
"Continued uncertainty over this
program could confuse what is already
likely to be a lengthy Senate debate on
the SALT treaty," the committee said
in a report.
Military officers prefer a ground
transport system, saying it would cost
less and be more reliable.
White House and civilian officials in
the Pentagon have been arguing for
transport by aircraft, which they say
would give the president more decision
time during a nuclear attack.


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