
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, July 5, 1990                   TAG: 9007050156
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

GOVERNMENT PROPERTY WORTH MILLIONS MISSING

More than $45 million worth of equipment, ranging from typewriters to microcomputers, is missing from the inventory of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California, according to the General Accounting Office.

The GAO, asked to investigate charges that equipment was being stolen from the federal laboratory to buy illegal drugs, said in the report released this week that Livermore could not account for 27,528 items.

Chemicals that could be used to make drugs are stocked at the nuclear weapons research and development facility, but the GAO said it could not identify any losses of such chemicals.

Missing items from Livermore, the GAO said, total about 16 percent of the property listed in the laboratory inventory. It noted many items are not listed in the inventory so losses from this group could not be confirmed.

- Associated Press

by CNB