European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 32 the stars and stripes wednesday june 15, 1977 creations storm Yugo . Site action to extend military Bonus pay moves Forward by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington Sis the House armed services committee voted 23-2 tuesday in favor of a Senate amendment that extends authority for payment of enlistment and selective reenlistment bonuses to Cpl. 30.1978. The Pentagon uses Bonus payments of Hority to make the Bonus payments exp res june 30. Earlier this year both the Senate and House passed Llic Bill extending the Mili tary s authority to offer the Bonus pay ments. However the Bill was not enacted because of a Senate amendment which the House had not considered. The Senate amendment gives the Penta gon authority to terminate and recoup unearned portions of a Bonus paid to an enlisted member who fails to maintain the technical qualifications required for the skill which was the basis for being awarded the Bonus. Vice . John g. Finneran. Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for military new York up _ three croatians tuesday invaded the yugoslav Mission to the . On fifth Avenue shot a yugoslav government employee and barricaded inc selves inside for iwo hours before sur rendering to scores of police and feb agents. The peaceful surrender nearly ended in violence at the last minute when unit Coli $15 to entice Perso Svith critical tied yugoslav officials produced automatic Sells to enlist its Currim  and threatened to Shoul the invaders who were being led from the building. Suddenly everyone began running. Go get out of Here shouted one police officer As kims appeared in the second floor window of the Mission. One policeman pointed a revolver and demanded. Gel that window closed gel out of Here within moments however. The yugoslav officials were restrained and the three croatians were shoved Inlo patrol cars and whisked from the scene. Ii was a Little hairy for a while there said police officer Frank Mclntosh who was with the croatians in the last minute scuffle and Brush with  a while during the siege in was feared thai the croatians were holding a least one to slag. Bul Afler the surrender in was disclosed Hal there had been no hos Lagos. Chief of detectives John Keenan said the croatians surrendered because they were convinced they had made their Point and i hey were convinced in would be the Wisest course to  smoking. Continued from Page 11 is the right of every passenger to a no smoking Seal on All flights including Char ters and the Shullie service it operates be tween Eastern cities. A number of the complaints involved the Shullie. The sell Cmunt also provides airline personnel will be instructed never to reject a request from a passenger for a no smoking scat each passenger will get a written statement before boarding spelling out his rights and How to report violations similar information will be printed in All Eastern timetables and for six months in the company s in flight Maga Zine Given to passengers where seals Are assigned All passengers Are to be asked then preference and on All flights announcements will be made both before boarding and after the passengers arc on the plane concerning availability of the seals and each passenger s right to one. The settlement was made just As the complaints were about to go to n hearing Al the cab the Agency now has 60 Days to pass on the agreement. Comet May have crashed near Bern Switzerland personnel said in May that the Pentagon strongly supports the amendment. Currently a member of the armed forces who has received an enlistment or reenlistment Bonus and who is discharged from the service before completing his enlistment can be required to repay any part of the Bonus received for service that he does not perform. For example failure to Complete the enlistment or result of mis conduct. However under the current Law the de sense department can not terminate the Bonus payments to enlisted members who Are no longer technically qualified to per form he skill for which they Are receiving the Bonus. For example when an enlisted member having received a Bonus fails to maintain the minimum skill requirements he or Sheds reclassified out of the skill but continues to receive the Bonus payments if they remain in the service. With enactment of the Bonus Bill As amended the Pentagon will now have control Over such situations. The defense department has made a Good Case for the need for authority to recoup unearned increments of the enlist ment and reenlistment Bonus rep. Bill baggers overseas will continue on tip system continued irom Page ii paper on ils employee employer relation ship status with respect to the baggers. That paper is to be presented later this week to i he  said that the subcommittee is also preparing a formal Legal position paper on the baggers employment status for present Al Ion to the Csc. When the Flea was enacted in was not the intention of the Congress that the bag Gers would be Federal employees accordingly Domenick. A defense official confirmed that Penta gon lawyers arc preparing a Legal paper on its employee employer relationship status with re specs la the baggers. Europe partly Cloudy 10 Molly Cloud it tit or of k altered afternoon  or in under i offs wed by a of turn ddts. For Smurl Heidelberg tits i a Low s sunwrtyt3f  Unm thu Ridzy 1s-tn, natures  get adj. P m u Atn Vavina c Berlin cd Brussels 3 at a p 64p partly Cloudy cd Cloudy r=rnkluf1, Cllon Don com and. C Mumn cd of n. Cl71 Ron p Del is jail we Tfir so . Germany in Pil a Comet that witnesses first thought crashed Inlo Lake Constance Early monday probably landed near Bern. Switz Erland a West German sri enlist said tues Day. Juergen Kiko. Of the Cosmos chemical Institute of the Max Planck last Lute for nuclear physics in Heidelberg said a photograph of the meteor As Well As the Testi Mony of other eyewitnesses indicated in must have crashed near the Swiss capital two West German customs officials first reported sighting the fiery object at about 12 15 . Monday. They thought it might be an aircraft on fire and thai it plunged into Lake Constance on the basis of their reports police helicopters warmed out Over the Lake but found Nei ther wreckage nor Oil Slicks. The object glowed very brightly but nothing can be said at the moment about its size Kiko said. Scientists Hope thai the meteor did not Burn entirely but that parts of in May still be found he added. Witnesses estimated the Comet had an 80 foot Tail. They said it fell relatively , Rocky masses in space can be seen at night at up to 50 Miles Altitude As shooting stars or balls of fire. Small mete ors generally destroy themselves passing through the atmosphere although larger ones have hit the Earth at speeds of be tween 120 and 190 Miles per hour creating craters More than half a mile wide. He said the meeting on Capitol Hill gave the subcommittee an Opportunity to us Enlo All sides of the  an official of the Csc would not com ment on the outcome of the meeting. He said the next step is for the Pentagon to present new Legal arguments. We will present those arguments along with the subcommittee s position to the commissioners to decide he said without giving any indication when a decision May be reached. Last year the Csc issued a compliance order directing the defense department to Stop the practice of compensating baggers solely by Means of tips. The Csc ruling said that the grocery baggers under the Law Are actually Federal employees and to be compensated As such. Additionally the ruling called for Back payments to an estimated 10,000 baggers retroactive to May 1974.the Csc later granted the Pentagon time to Appeal the ruling. Earlier this year the Pentagon asked the Justice department for its opinion on the ruling. In mid May. Justice issued an Opin Ion in favor of the Csc. In the meantime. Rep. Les Aspin d. Wis., introduced legislation to save the commissaries from the extra Burden of having to pay salaries to the baggers. Aspin said in would Cost the government from $12 to $18 million annually to compensate the baggers As employees plus an additional $35 to $53 million in retroactive payments. He said in would also mean an increase in the commissary surcharge of about 2 per cent to cover the Cost an aide to Aspin said the legislation would die if the Csc withdraws the compliance ruling. We would t need the legislation he said. The aide said Aspin s legislation makes it Clear that Congress never in tended that baggers were to be considered Federal employees. We re hopeful that the legislation won t be needed and that the matter can be settled  Domenick said that since Aspin introduced his legislation the subcommittee has received tons of mail from Mem Bers of the armed forces supporting the legislation. Most of it. About 80 per cent has come from overseas she said. Nichols d-ala., said in a statement to the armed services committee before the , chairman of the House military compensation subcommittee said the Pentagon is developing procedures for determining when Bonus payments should be terminated or unearned portions should be recouped. The regulations will provide adequate Protection for the rights of the affected service member Nichols said. In May Finneran said that the Penta gon s Bonus administration regulation would be implemented when the Bill As amended is enacted. S rep. Donald j. Mitchell . Told the armed services committee tuesday that the amendment is a refinement of the existing system that is designed to remove an undesirable incentive resulting from the inability to terminate Bonus pay ments when they have not been  according to Nichols the Pentagon Esti mates that approximately 1,300 such cases will occur next year. Although the number of misdirected payments is not Large compared to the total enlisted Force the Adverse morale Impact can be multiplied manifold Mitchell said. Gen. Predicts grim future continued from Page i distinguished from a soviet attack in Lime to prevent the United slates from launch ing a retaliatory attack on the soviet Union no one  starry added and so True peace will not come in your time. The Only peace you can expect and the Only peace of any value to you is peace of mind peace thai comes with understanding the imperfections of Mankind and of having figured out How to Cope with this  in his talk starry told the graduates a perspective on truth is important to  expanding on this later he said in your lifetime the truth will be harder to learn than Ever before. The Liberal press has adopted the adversary doctrine. The Yare not interested in the truth Only in the five per cent or so of the news that deviates from the Norm which in an imperfect world is the Only truth there is. Presumably they would be willing to muckraker around Over every Public administration just to see it fall without con Cern for the consequences to the country or to the Quality of Public administration on another topic he Laid. Several years ago. The liberals buried god. He was t important to them. They found their god in a Liturgy which denies that anything peace truth. God even life is worthy of reverence. And because the Christian ethic is the very basis of our culture. Western civilization has been stricken with the cancer of Deci Irujo  starry told me graduates. I be recited some unpleasant realities simply to Chal Lenge you to think realistically about some hard questions that face you. Thinking seriously about what i be said could make you want to drop out of society. " but you can t drop out of society and remain a part of  most of the 2,000 persons present were military families. One of those present said the crowd did not interrupt starry s speech at any Point but gave him the usual round of applause after he finished. Starry 52, became commander of v corps in february of 1376, coming to Frankfurt from it. Knox ky., where he had commanded the Armor Center Armor school and it. Knox