When ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman took on his big job last April, he promised that ECA would be run on a streamlined, businesslike basis. Last week he took a long step toward making that promise come true. Over the protests of offended career bureaucrats, he gave Comptroller Eric L. Kohler the go-ahead for a tough, continuous financial checkup on ECA.
No novelty to U.S. businessmen, but an unorthodox departure for hidebound government agencies, Kohler's new role will make him a sort of super house detective, with broad authority to pry into all ECA activities both at home & abroad. Besides the routine...
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