European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pentagon studying decision Nikolai Podgorny wages for Justice rules by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington Sis the pentagons general counsel is studying a Justice department decision that grocery baggers at commissary stores Are to to considered employees and be paid the minimum wage of an oar lawyers arc reviewing the Justice department received last to determine whether or not the Pentagon will a defense department offi Cial said later this week we May know what the its a topic close to everyone pocketbook and the subject of a service it Purt in today stars and land dutch Uncle and Stock brokers with a message Are All discussed in the two Page report on pages 8 and next step will he the Justice department ruling is in favor of a civil service commission compliance order issued to the Pentagon last that compliance order directed the defense department to Stop the practice of compensating baggers solely by Means of he the commission had Given the Pentagon until june 30 to comply with the in the the Pentagon asked the jus Tice department to review the commis Sions officials at the commission said they Podgorny freed from politburo Moscow api soviet president Nikolai since 1964 one of the three most powerful men in the was dumped without explanation tuesday from the ruling Council of the soviet communist a terse communique read on Moscow radio and television said the communist party Central committee freed com Rade Podgorny from the duties of a member of the politburo of the Central committee of the communist party of the soviet there was no sign whether had retired Central com Mittee communiques often say in other casts that a leading figure has left in connection with ill health or at his own the communique said nothing about whether Podgorny would retain the presi Dency do the soviet a largely ceremonial the which would be virtually impossible to hold without in the is bestowed and taken away by the supreme the country the supreme Suvil next meets june but us standing executive committee can 2 38 May 1977 the u s armed Force is doily ont sunday if 21855 a had received complaints from the grocery baggers that the fair labor standards act was being violated in their employment at the commissary there Ace Many alternatives to having grocery baggers working solely for tips or As employees receiving the mini mum the defense official some of the alternatives Are to do with out the increase the commissary surcharge to pay for the baggers or Institute variable pricing on some Basic items such As health and Beauty aids and soft the last two alternatives would require legislation by according to the on april Les d wis introduced legislation to save the military commissaries from the extra Burden of having to pay salaries to the Aspin said it would take a surcharge of per cent to cover the Cost of placing the baggers on a salary rather than having them work for a longtime critic of Federal subsidies to the commissary store Page col 1 a trailer Load of food is pushed to the school in the entering the siege zone where South moluccas Are holding 105 children and five teachers unidentified civilians and South Mol Lucans who live near the school dutch officials intensify efforts to get moluccan hostages freed Netherlands Deli the dutch government directed its full Energy and attention tuesday inward the release of 105 Young children threatened with death by gun uting asian terrorists in a Village school a few Miles away another 60 persons were Iriny held prisoner aboard a four coach train by a second gang of South moluccan terrorists who want Independence for their native land annexed to in their the terrorists three times threatened to kill their drawing no distinction Between the Chil Dren and the gunmen have said several limes if you Send we will shoot at a psychiatrist told them of the govern ments position by radiotelephone and they agreed to give an answer by wednesday morning at the latest after an emergency Cabinet prime minister Joop Den Uyl said it was government policy that hostages will never be allowed to leave the country in making their the gunmen made no distinction Between hostages at the school and those aboard the shots were fired on several occasions during the Day and at one Point some Chil Dren were heard crying in the school in the Village of several shots were fired from the train at a Low flying police helicopter tuesday shots were also fired when a woman from a nearby mental Hospital strayed beyond the police cordon towards the continued on col ii