European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 05, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes wednesday february 5, 1969 Hubbell plan dropped new drive pushed continued from Payd i by base pay that is due july 1.the raise will match a Compa Rable civil service salary in crease unless Congress takes other action this Spring the associated press quoted defense officials As saying new proposals will differ with the Hub Bell plan in one major respect by putting More emphasis on up grading the pay of lower rank Sas Well As career people although the Hubbell stud was conducted Over the last two years of the outgoing Johnson administration no legislation was sent to Congress to set the wheels in motion and implement the Hubbell reforms. Overdue Reform Laird said tuesday i am aware that much study has been Given to the Mailer of Mil itary compensation during the past years but the fact is no specific proposals have Bee presented to the Congress for much needed and overdue Mili tary pay informed Pentagon source say that the reason the Nixon administration is not planning to follow through on the Hubbell plan is due to the opposition generated in the services. Particularly to the changes in the retirement provisions. Many officers and cos Are complain ing to Congress and the Penta gon that the defense depart ment will be changing the rules of the game in Midstream by providing them with reduced re tired pay just before they get ready to leave the service. Earlier comment at a conference last week Laird said he Felt the Hubbel reforms were vital in going towards the direction of ending the draft. Although it now appears that the Hubbell plan As such is dead at least for the time be ing much of the work that has gone into the study and per haps Many of its conclusions will be included in the new de sense review. The new study will also undoubtedly take into consideration another end the draft stud undertaken at the Pentagon in 1966.the old study came to the conclusion that it would Cost a estimated $81 billion More to pay servicemen enough Money for an All Volunteer Force. Among the conclusions reached by the defense department on the draft study were two significant items we cannot look Forward tending the draft in the next decade unless changing world conditions reduce Force Levels substantially below those needed since Korea and increases in military compensation sufficient to attract an All Volunteer Force cannot be justified. Nor would other incentives do More than help us hold our competitive position in the labor Market under conditions of also will switch ships astronaut will Don Moon suit for space stroll Cape Kennedy a astronaut Russell l. Schwilck Art said monday night he will test the suit that astronauts will Wear on the Moon s surface Dur ing a two hour space walk on the coming Apollo 9 said he also will demonstrate an emergency Transfer of spacemen As he switches from one spaceship to another More than 100 Miles above the civilian astronaut said he had no apprehension about stroll ing in space and that his great est worry is tiring his Arm mus cles As he grasp handrails in his 15-foot Transfer from one Shipto another. As far As going Eva extravehicular activity he said i feel it s the greatest View in the world and i m looking Forward to and air Force it. Cols. James a. Mcdivitt and David r. Scott Are to ride a mighty Saturn 5 rocket into space feb. 28 to Start a 10-Day Earth orbit Mission that could be thelast preliminary before another team of american astronauts at tempts to land on the Moon. Major goal of the flight is totes the lunar module the Bug like Craft which is to ferry two spacemen to the Moon while a third astronaut orbits in the Mai Apollo ship. Mcdivitt the Apollo 9 com Mander Scott and Schweickart will ride into orbit in the Apoll command module and once in orbit will link up with the Luna module. The lunar module called a Lem will be aboard the Sam rocket on the third Day Mcdivitt an Schweickart will crawl through a Tunnel linking the two vehicle Sand Check out its systems. The space walk is schedule the fourth Day about 73 hours into the Mission. Chagrin at Cha Gatt trite Nice France a Dpi a local artist sprayed French cultural affairs minister Andre Mai Raux with red paint tuesday As a Malraux reciprocated by wresting the pain can from the artist identified Only As Pinon Celli and spraying him in arrested the artist. Malraux had just stepped out of a car to attend Stone laying ceremonies at a museum dedicated to French artist Marc Chagall when Sinoncelli approached him and fired a Jet Fred paint at his face. Sinoncelli told police that he was a devote of happenings. I m an artist. Malraux knows me. What did was a cultural act he said As he was led away. Malraux was taken to a but at the museum site where lie washed off the paint before proceeding with the ceremony. He s just a scatterbrain Malraux said Nixon Security aides discuss Mideast policy Washington a presi Dent Nixon met wit i the nation Al Security Council tuesday an the White House said some decisions will be made of Middle East policy. A response to French proposals for a four Power meet ing on the Middle East is expected to be sent off this week. There were no indications unjust what decisions Nixon will make. Presidential press Secretary Ronald l. Ziegler told reporters tuesday they la become apparent in a Short time. The response to. The French note is to be made through diplomatic channels this week Zie Gler said. Talks with lbs meanwhile Ziegler announce that president Nixon talked by phone from the White House for15 minutes monday night to for Mer president Lyndon b. John son at his Texas ranch to fill him in on the latest foreign policy developments including the Middle East and discussion concerning the pending nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Ziegler said Nixon has mad arrangements to provide both Johnson and former president Dwight d. Eisenhower with weekly briefings on foreign policy developments. The president also nominated ambassador Martin j. Hillen Brand 53-year-old career for eign service officer a native of Youngstown Ohio to be assist ant Secretary of state for euro Pean affairs. Hillenbrand has been Servings ambassador to Hungary since 1967 and will replace John Leddy in the new another action tuesday Nixon awarded his first presiden tial unit citation to the army s 716th military police battalion and attached units for extraordinary heroism in the defense of Saigon during the tet offensive Between Jan. 31 and feb. 10,1968, in Vietnam. The citation said some 800members of the battalion battled the Viet Cong in four major areas in Saigon and in Small patrol contacts and their Effort were credited. With helping to neutralize the Viet Cong attack on the . Embassy and the vietnamese joint general staf Headquarters. . Giving 6o jets to South Viets Saigon a the unite states is giving about 60 new Jet fighter bombers to the South vietnamese air Force to build up the Saigon government s military capabilities for eventual Amer ican withdrawal informed sources said tuesday night. The a37 late Model attack planes Are valued at about $18 disclosure followed by a Day reports from Washington later confirmed Here that the United states will give South Vietnam about 300 modern Heli Days ago the . Navy turned Over 25 gunboats value Dat 7.7 million to the vietnamese Navy. Mindszenty status same after visit Budapest up the self exiled hungarian Cardinal Joszef Mindszenty will continue to liven his political Asylum on the third floor of the . Embassy for the foreseeable future Franz Cardinal Koenig of Vienna said tuesday. Cardinal Koenig said that his talks with the 77-year-old Hun Garian prelate monday and tues pay were purely a private he indicated that the had nothing to do with altering the situation of Mindszenty whorled to Refuge in the embassy in 1954 and has not left the embassy grounds since. The austrian Cardinal said the fact that this visit came after an agreement Between the Vatican and Hungary on appointments of Bishops and archbishops led to spectacular speculations in Rome that the purpose of his trip was to suggest retirement in the Vatican to Mindszenty spectacular speculations connected with this visit May have been because of t h e Koenig told newsmen at the rail Way station before departing for Vienna. However i can say that no change in the Cardinal s present status can be expected in the foreseeable six of fanatic sect sentenced in girl s death Zurich Switzerland a six members of a fanatical religious sect were sentenced tues Day night to a total of 34 years and six months in prison for the flagellation death of a Swiss teen Ager they claimed was possessed by Josef sticker 64-year-old for Mer roman Catholic priest and Magdalena Kohler his 54-year-old spinster companion Veach Drew 10 years in prison is the holy parents of the sect the third defendant Swiss grocer Emilio Bettio was sentenced to four years in prison and the three Brothers Hans Heinrich and Paul Barmettler received terms of three Yea Sand six months each. Fatal result All six were convicted on a formal charge of inflicting Seri Ous bodily injury with foresee Able fatal result in the death of pretty blonde Bernadette has Ler on May 14,1966,sentence came after almost four weeks of trial filled wit somber sordid testimony on Ber Nadette s agony and death Dur ing the night of the Hundred blows in the cellar of the holy work sect s chalet near Here stocked with Champagne an food to help members survive the end of the evidence revealed she died of embolism after being subjected to beating with canes a Riding whip and plastic piping playful girl Bernadette described during the trial As having once been a playful pleasant girl was sup posed to receive corrective Edu cation at the chalet after allegedly departing from the sect s strict moral code in the holy work a Home for children in Singen West Germany. Her parents who had been members of the sect had sent her to the Home. The court was told by a psychiatric expert that the austere life and repeated beatings had driven the girl into a mood of growing resentment. This eventually made her Tell in written confessions of her love of the Devil and her plans to marry ice climaxed by Blue s drive continued from Page 1 12,000 main body army troops who participated in the Maneu ver will Start leaving Nuernberg for the United states on Satur Day. The Airlift will continue through feb. 22. Reformer willed officially about the Middle of March when All army troop involved Nave been flown Back. Bennett said the main problem faced by the troops was unseasonably warm weather that melted the Snow and softened the the years we have found this time of year Thebes for Maneu vers he explained. The ground is usually Frozen reducing Man Euver dam age and easing the Job for the vehicles. When the exercise began about3 per cent of the equipment could not take the Field because of mechanical difficulties and about the same number were cutout of commission during the a burned out clutches in vehicles and engines in the tracks Bennett said. We experienced a number of Brake failures but this is Normal for the hard use we were giving during the exercise 47 Acci dents involving army trucks and tracks occurred resulting in in juries to six soldiers. Ten More were injured in other tuesday 39 reformer participants were in hospitals inthe Grafe Woehr Vilseck Hohenfels area. Most of them had bad colds. Rep. Rivers. Continued from Page 1 might feel the same Way. Now think it is a mistake at this Point to put the blame and the full responsibility on any one individual said the South Carolin Democrat. Rivers said he would no begin his investigation until the Navy inquiry ends which wll probably be several weeks from whole thing seems to be a tragedy a tragedy of fantastic errors. The important thing so far As i am concerned of that the errors cannot and w not happen also suggested con Gressional resolutions to bran the North koreans As War criminals for pirating a american ship on the High seas and to authorize the president to offer 1100,000 Reward for any one of those Birds North koreans who May be identified and delivered to this nation dead or alive such an operation he implied might be attempted by South koreans if they could be attracted by a monetary Reward
