European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes wednesday june 15, 1977 Retiree Banc a director issues an order barring Agency from hiring former members of the military Washington is adm. Stansfield Turner director of the Central intelligence Agency has issued an order barring the Agency from hiring military order also bars the hiring of civil service and foreign service retirees. Turner s action prompted speculation that his move was a trial balloon which could Lead to similar actions by other fed eral departments and agencies. Turner is very close to president Carter who has spoken out against double dipping by re tired military and has appointed a com Mission on military compensation to make recommendations on inc subject. The Cia was Able to Issue such an order because it is not under civil service. Departments and agencies under civil scr Mondale oks changes in voter Bill Washington a vice president Walter f. Mondale and House leaders have agreed to revise president Carter s voter registration Bill in an Effort to win congressional approval. The changes Call for establishing special voter registration offices instead of permitting voters to Register and vote at the polls on election Day. Permitting states to implement the new system on a voluntary basis in the 1978 election. All states would be required to adopt the plan for the 1980 elections. Requiring persons to present positive identification when registering to vote a move designed to prevent voter fraud. The posit Ive identification was not s Bill would allow unregistered voters to Register and vote at the polls on elect Ion Day. Mondale and House leaders said after a breakfast meeting the Bill would meet the goal set by Carter and some democrats of eliminating registration As an obstacle to voting. Carter s Bill was pulled off the House Calendar last month because of opposition from state elections officials and democrats in big cities particularly Chicago. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski. D-ii1. Had said Chicago democrats opposed Carter s plan because they work hard to Register their voters in Advance and Don t believe the system should be disrupted by last minute Bill s floor manager. Rep. Frank Thompsonjr. . Noted the leaders generally agreed Only to the concepts of the revisions. He said the amendments remain to be written. Ice would require legislation in order Tobar hiring of retired military personnel. A House defense appropriations subcommittee recently approved a provision re Quiring retired military personnel in Federal civilian jobs hired after next oct. T to give up their military pay but it did not bar such wrings per be. There would be nothing to prevent non civil service agencies such As the Fri de sense intelligence Agency and others from following the Cia s Lead in barring the hiring of retired military except in special cases. And it could give impetus to a legislative move to give other Federal depart ments and agencies similar authority. Whether this would be a constitutional abridgement of the rights of retired Mill Al Issue. News order first discloses by Alan Morton of Scripps Howard newspapers is designed to increase promotion opportunities and career advancement for no Nnoli tary Cia careerists and to guarantee what he called a steady accession of new career order does not apply to retired Mili tary or other types of Federal retirees Al ready on the Cia payroll. It s estimate that there Are hundreds of retired military among the Cia s 15.000 employees. There also Are a considerable number of retired foreign service quotes a retired major general As saying Admiral Turner has deprived himself of an awful lot of a senior colonel said it is not exactly the Ameri can Way to deny jobs to men and women lust because they have served their coun try. It s particularly irksome to have this done by a military Turner s order not Only will prevent direct hiring of double dippers but also will prevent in most cases the hiring of Cia and military retirees As consultants translators or while Cia careerists generally were de lighted with the order some said it also should have applied to double dippers Al ready on the Cia payroll. They noted that Turner last March hired As a top aide a re tired Navy Captain who now draws More than $60,000 a year in civilian pay and Mili tary pension. 503,388 sign petition to ban a Power plants Carter replies to charges Job priority promised to disabled veterans Washington up Ralph Nader calling nuclear Power both unacceptable and unnecessary presented Congress petitions with More than half a million Signa Tures tuesday urging a ban on atomic Power said there were 503,388 names on the sheets of paper representing every state in the nation the District of Columbia and puerto petitions on Blue yellow Green and White sheets of paper were boxed in 64 Brown cardboard containers and stacked along one Wall of the House Interior and in sular affairs subcommittee where Nader said All the signers favor a proposed nuclear Energy reappraisal act which would halt All licensing of new atomic Power plants and would launch a five year study by the congressional office of technology assessment of All hazards posed by nuclear is important to note at the outset that atomic Power is beset with technical controversies that Are splitting the scientific and engineering communities said Nader Long a foe of the it is also important that the atomic Power controversy is dominated by issues which Are not technical institutional political social economic and moral in challenged the accuracy of the government s main reactor safety study noted that a Federal District judge in North Carolina has declared parts of the govern ment supported nuclear insurance pro Gram unconstitutional and said any Effort to use plutonium fuel would raise the threat of weapons proliferation. Washington a president Carter accused by veterans groups of moving too slowly to find jobs for Vietnam Era servicemen said disabled veterans will get top priority in filling about 100,000 jobs he and an Alliance of businessmen Are trying to first priority is the disabled Veter an Carter told representatives of Veter ans groups who met with him tuesday in the Roosevelt room at the White House. Stuart Eizenstat Carter s Domestic affairs adviser and Max Cleland his veterans chief sat veterans in general have second priority for the jobs. Carter said followed by veterans of other wars and spouses of veterans of All wars. The jobs Are to be provided through the administration s hire program which Carter is launching with a White House his talk. Carter actually mentioned creating 140,000 jobs but a labor depart ment spokesman said after Carter s ses Sion with the veterans representatives that the president apparently had con fused the Dollar figure with the jobs goal. The hire program has a goal of about 100,-000 jobs the spokesman said not 140,000. Executives of 200 corporations and representatives of veterans groups labor unions and members of Congress were expected to attend a conference designed to persuade major companies to hire Veter ans with or without Federal funds. Carter was expected to sit in on at least part of the session. The hire program help through Industry retraining and employment is expected to spend $140-million Over the next 18 months to create about 100,000 Job training positions. Under Secretary of labor Robert j. Brown said the government Hopes an equal number of veterans will be hired by Busi Nesses not receiving government funds or re going to hold their feet to me Brown said of the government s plan to urge employers to hire veterans without financial assistance. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall announced As his first act in office last Janu Ary a three part jobs for veterans program. Under the hire program employers being reimbursed for training costs will rely first on local Job service referrals who will recommend Only veterans for five Days. After the five Days eligible no Vete rans May be referred. Employers hiring without Federal Aid need not go through the state Job service for recruits. Another part of the veterans employ ment involves Public service jobs under the labor department s comprehensive employment and training act. The. Administration goal is to give 33 per cent of these jobs to veterans but Brown said the figure is now running at Only 25 per cent the veterans of foreign wan accused the administration earlier this year of ignoring its goal of filling 35 per cent of toe new Public service jobs with veterans. The organization said the official guidelines for the program published in the Federal Register did not mention the 35 per Cen figure. Candidates for Fri chief president Carter revealed at a new conference in Washington that five men have Beta recommended to him As potential directors of the Fri they Are from left John Van de Kamp los Angeles county District attorney Neal Welch who is the agent in charge of Philadelphia s Fri office Massachusetts Superior court judge John j. Irwin William Lucas sheriff of Wayne county. Mich., and . Appeals cowl judge Harlington Wood. A
