Ashtrays lead to sackings
NZPA-Reuter Washington A United States Navy admiral and two other officers had been relieved of their duties for approving the buying of SUS6S9 ($1462) ashtrays for Grumman radar planes, the Defence Secretary, Mr Caspar Weinberger, said yesterday. Such actions would be standard whenever excessive prices were found to have been paid for military equipment, he said. The Grumman Aerospace Corporation, which provided the ashtrays, has cut the price to SUSSO ($111) each and made a refund to the
Navy. It defended the original price. The ashtrays had been custom-made to Navy standards and only a few had been ordered, it said. It would no longer supply such items to the Navy when they could be viewed as over-priced. Those relieved - of their duties and reassigned were Rear-Admiral Thomas Cassidy, commander of the air wing that flies the aircraft, the commander of the Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego, California, which supports the planes, and a supply officer.
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