Cash Register Shortages Not Serious, Stanat Says Colonel Backs Rapid

wsmsmsBBm Inside Police deaths tragic P. 3 Kate Jackson interviewed ..P. 7 CIWM salvages victoiy P. 9 Vol. 26, No. 34, February 4, 1982 Cash register shortages not serious, Stanat says by Gary Redfera ' 'We also have internal auditing are made to allow them to attend of The Post staff which reviews our procedures and classes. , tells how we can improve them," Associated Union Services Dir he added. "We could eliminate this sit ector Kirby Stanat says he bel However, according to Stanat uation by hiring full-time cashiers ieves Food Service is doing every and other people involved with but we don't want to because thing it can to control cash reg the Food Service operation, the it would eliminate student jobs," ister shortages. entire system itself lends to such he said. "There is no doubt we have a problems. Stanat agreed, saying, "We problem," Stanat said. "Anyone Food Service Director Dick ought to audit the registers after who runs this organization will. Wojeiechowski said, "Because we each person leaves. That takes But I think we have the sit have more than one person work- time and if it is busy it just uation under control." isn't feasible." Unexplained cash register "I think our losses (due to shortages for all food services "There is no doubt we have shortages) are within reasonable totaled more than $4,000 in the a problem . but I think limits and I firmly believe almost last three months of 1981. we have the situation all of these shortages are cashier Controller William McCarthy, control." errors that do not involve missing who handles some Food Service cash," Stanat said. accounting, said, "The shortages —Kirby Stanat A hypothetical situation that bother us. Sometimes it is a may lead to a shortage was out horrendous situation." ing in a shift, it is hard to blame lined by Stanat: Stanat said things are being a shortage on someone." "If a person has a $1.25 done to control shortages. Shifts are the daily time seg item and the cashier rings up "WeTiave detective or (shop-- ments in which money and tape a $3.25 sale the customer will ers service) _where people eat at_ totals are recorded. Wojeiechow not pay the $3.25, he will pay Right now, the foot bridge over Maryland Ave. seems to be the snack bar and make a report ski said several people must work the cost of the item. However nothing more than Scaffolding. The bridge is scheduled for of the service they received," every shift because the cashiers the cashier may fail to note this completion this spring. Stanat said. are students and arrangements so a $2.00 shortage will appear." Post photo by Sue Harris Colonel backs rapid deployment forces by Dave Simon valuable to the Russians and the strike, lightj self-sustaining forces Facing the threat of Russia image in the area.'' of The Post staff - dependence of the United States also atrophied during this per causing internal instabilities in "The rapid deployment force on the oil makes Russia more iod.." other countries, the Arab-Israeli ispartofthe'answer,"hesaid. A change is needed in United interested, he said. the Iranian situation "shocked problem and the PLO," are all The force has been called a States defense tactics in the Per The United States has no mili the American public into realizing factors in the political arena "paper tiger" in the past and sian Gulf if the country is to pro tary representation in this Middle that U.S. forces could not mobil that must be dealt with as well. must be improved, he said. He tect its interests there, Col. East area except advisors at ize and go into a country quickly." listed three limits to the use of Michael Sheridan of the Defense present. This is to avoid the Now "we need ways to get the the rapid deployment force. Department told a crowd of 90 "possibility of another Vietnam," troops over/' he said. Response needed "It's not necessary for the U.S. Tuesday night. he said. With "strategic mobility Sheridan said the .real puzzle to wait until the Soviets act Sheridan's lecture on "Amer- The "Vietnam syndrome shot weak," Sheridan sees the new is "how to demonstrate a cred aggressively before we act.". ca's Defense: What Price Sec down military programs in the defense budget "working in this ible response to a Soviet threat "NATO allies are essential to urity?" in the Fireside Lounge early 1970's," he said. "Quick aj_ea." in the region and not hurt cur the program (for the first 15-20 was the first in the "Great days of a problem, the country Decisions" series. is totally dependent on NATO). With one.half of the world's Lastly, it jis not necessary that crude oil reserves in the area, the first forces be capable of No price tags in speech defeating the aggressor.'' Sheridan said there is "global interest" in tiie Persian Gulf. Sheridan said that this .country An interpretive report The concern is "mercantifrstic plane and how pleased he was to see their .lum nrost have "demonstrated resolve by James MeCarter because oil is the lifeblood" of bers doubled in recent months; about our new to deploy forces that will deter of The Post staff most of the world's economies, transport ships and amphibious assault vessels; the Soviets" anyhow litem that and about some new lightweight troop carriers on he said. the "risks of irrterventiOh are Anyone against Ronald Reagan's arms policies order that will require a compliment of more While alternative energy sour great." He listed tftree changes should have been at the Fireside Lounge last transport planes and ships. He conspicuously ces and conservation are currently in tiie general purpose Tbrces Tuesday; a Pentagon spokesman was there neglected to mention the price of any of these being used, Sheridan said that speaking on its merits. Everything he said, and items at this lecture on the price of America's that he would like to see in the those kinds of measures "are not everything he didn't say, was representative of defense. next few years. an answer to preventing disaster the questionable system this country uses to de And, just like a government brochure, he was in the next ten years if the umbil Three change* fend itself. completely oblivious to any questions put to him, ical cord to the Persian Gulf is First, is "reallocating ground cutoff." The title of the lecture was "America's De treating his audience as though they knew no thing and accusing them by implication that they forces to the rapid deployment Sheridan said that the United fense: What Price For Security." Why it was call force. Instead of creating new ed that is unclear because the speaker, Colonel were naive. With the help of a cooperative MC, States is concerned with "internal who shoed away hostiles, Sheridan shuffled forces, existing ones would be instability in the Gulf, the possib Michael Sheridan, never once mentioned the cost improved." of anything, either in terms of dollars or human around almost every relevant question. But, for ility of interregional conflict and tunately, some members of the audience were not Second, "major improvements the threat of Russian interven lives, except for a passing reference to the $1.5 in strategic lift capability must trillion grand total. fooled. They knew he wasn't touching the real tion." The United States would issues. be made." like to see "friendly countries He began the evening by giving a safe lec Third, "We must recognize Here are some of the relevant points he didn't developing freely without domin ture on the problems of creating a rapid deploy the logical implications of a global speak on effectively, even though members of the ation, and a secure area.'' ment force for the Middle East. He talked solely war and the results in the Middle audience repeatedly asked about them: on conventional weapons, as though his audience East." When a gentleman suggested that the Pent Soviet Interest wasn't at all concerned about the nuclear side of Sheridan stressed that "out agon try to find wa$s of saving money from within! At present, Sheridan said there the military. He was as informative, and as proof right Soviet aggression is unlikely is "not much Soviet interest read as government brochures always are. He] by eliminating corruption, the colonel questioned He in the Persian Guff" because of "was also well-armed with nifty fun facts about war the logic of sjjch an investigation. He said there Sheridan stressed that "out the Poland situation, but "econ "games" and all the related equfpment. He went may be a few places here and there, but for the right Soviet aggression is un omically they do have an interest on about the capacities of the C-5 transport tfmtop_5,e«l.3] likely. Interregional conflicts are in the oil." The location is also more likely." UWM Post Warning: UBUS ride no bargain ever got on tiie UBUS happened byMfteUraske than ride a UBUS. always felt like shouting, 'Free when a bus driver turned a corner Maybe I've got the wrong idea, at last. Free at last. Thank of The Post staff too sharply and sheared off but I think the UBUS's sole pur God Almighty, I'm free at an arterial stop sign. When I ride on a UBUS, my pose is getting me home fast. last,' " Biemann said, laughing. When I was riding the UBUS knees shake, my palms get clamy I get annoyed when the UBUS the other day, my thoughts drifted and I start sweating profusely.

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