Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Quayle Used Military Planes for Golf Trips

The General Accounting Office has issued an audit that found that Vice President Dan Quayle used military planes several times last year for trips with Samuel K. Skinner, mostly to play golf. Skinner, the White House chief of staff, was transportation secretary at the time. The New York Times, in today’s editions, quoted aides to Quayle and Skinner as saying the government had been partly reimbursed for trips involving political events. But they conceded the repayments--by sponsors of the events--represented only a small fraction of the total cost to taxpayers of the flights, the paper said. The cost was not disclosed.