European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday june 29, 1977 House rejects raise for Cost of living n,,onh ensure that any pay Cut would apply Washington a the House voted tuesday to cancel a pro dec tic Cost of living pay increase for members of Congress Federal judges and High officials. But it faces a close vote on rolling Back a raise now in vote to Roll Back the raise May come wednesday and could result in wiping out the $12.900 annual pay raise members began receiving March 1. Had ers expect an extremely close Vole. Tuesday s vote. 397 to 20. Sends to presi Dent Carter a Bill already passed by the Senate rescinding the Cost of living raise members of Congress and others in the Queen visits Fleet in last Jubilee rite continued from Page 1 missile destroyers the Antisubmarine cruisers Black and Tiger the assault ship fearless and a mine counter measures Squadron headed by the Wilton the world s first plastic ship. The . Sent the nuclear powered guided missile Cruiser California and the nuclear powered attack submarine Bill fish. Australia sent the aircraft earner Melbourne Holland the frigate Troy non. Shell Oil dispatched one of its giant tank ers the 250.000-ton British respect the biggest ship in the display. The smallest was an inflated rubber inshore Rescue Craft of the Royal Lifeboat institution. The naval air Force staged a Fly past of 110 helicopters the most Ever assembled in one flight in Britain and other aircraft. Riot police disperse african demonstrators Pretoria up police fired tear Gas and sprayed Clouds of dense stinging Gas and powder to disperse groups of Black youths stoning schools and burning a trucking the South african township of Atteridge Ville. Outside the capital. police moved into the township where the Deputy chief of South Africa s Security police. Brig. Piet Coetzee. Said his men had captured three armed guerrillas and caches of did not say when the arrests were made but added those arrested belonged to a group of Angola trained insurgents who infiltrated the country earlier this tuesday riot police carrying automatic weapons and with dogs broke up two groups of Black students who were planning a protest March through the Center of Pretoria to the government build Ings. Upper pay brackets would get oct. 1.Many Middle and lower Grade Federal employees however will still get the Cost of Hving Bill Only denies the Cost of i veg adjustment for this year to those who received the big increase in March. The Cost of living hike has not yet been computed but is expected to be about 6.3 per cent which would have meant approximately a s3.500 raise for congressmen. The major lest will be Orvan amendment to strike from the legislative appropriation Bill funds for the higher salary members of Congress already have been getting for interviewed in Israel More than three democratic leadership is trying to Muster the votes to defeat that Amend ment something sources said they have not yet succeeded the amendment survives the rest of the legislative process the annual pay of representatives and senators would be Cut from $57.500 to s44.600. And there would be similar reductions in the salaries of Federal judges and other High officials including the vice president Cabinet members and top ranking Federal of the leadership strategy is to ensure that an these groups not just members of con Gress. Theoretically that would make cutback harder to justify. The rules committee is being counted onto take care of this parliamentary require even if House members pass the appropriations Bill minus funds to cover the raises during the next fiscal year the Senate could vote to put the Money for the raises Back into the Bill. That would sen the Bill to a conference committee of representatives from both Chambers whose Job would be to reach a Compromise. Saigon a dying City refugees say a m aaa us to Uttal in nip it to by Richard c. Gross Owakim Israel up vietnamese who fled their communist country earlier this month said tuesday that Saigon is a doing City where food is rationed modern equipment has been systematically re moved to the North and eviction of Resi dents is widespread. They said 700.000e a. Residents of Saigon now to Chi Minn City were evicted from their Homes and sent by Force to economic zones in the Countryside to cultivate vege tables. Another 2 million residents will be evacuated during 1977 and 1978. They said. Public pronouncements of the planned evictions were made on radio and television and on Wall posters the refugees said. But reports from Bangkok said the communist government was backing Down on its pledge to Cut the City s 3.5 million popu lation in half by 1977. The refugees were among 66 Vietnam Ese who arrived in Israel sunday. They fled what had been South Vietnam in a fish ing boat june 6. They were picked up in the South China sea by the israeli freight Rouvali on june 10. Japan Taiwan and Hong Kong turned them were brought to an immigrant absorption Center in this Northwestern Negev court bars Nixon claim to White House tapes pay study. I continued from Page ii president said lie ordered the fresh review of pay benefits and the military retirement system alter previous attempt to provide an equitable and efficient Luteal military compensation system failed to achieve it Nora example in april i976 the dec recommended that members of the armed forces be paid in the form of a fully taxable salary while the third a rec concluded last Winter that members should continue to be paid through a modified pay and allowances , the various reviews of Mili tary retired pay have come up with differ ent said he expects the commission to resolve these differences and to propose one integrated Long term solution to Mili tary compensation. Continued from Page i a ointment 1974 Law was passed by Congress to Stop the Ford administration from carry ing out an agreement that would have Al Lowed Nixon eventually to destroy the tapes and to have primary control Over the documents and papers that built up during the 5 i years he was in Ford had made that agree ment with Nixon As part of the discussions which led Ford to Pardon Nixon for any crimes he might have committed while in the White House including the watergate though the i974 Law now has been upheld it will be years before the Public actually has Access to the Nixon presiden tial has not yet approved final regulations on How to handle the screening of the screening process itself once it begins May take several after the sorting is done Many lawsuits arc Likely to arise Over particular ruling upholding the la came in a 56-Page opinion written by Justice William . Justices Thiergood Marshall. John Paul Stevens and Potter Stewart joined the opinion in full. ,. Justices Harry a Blackmun. A wis r Powell or. And Byron k. White joined in parts of chief Justice Warren e. Burner and Justice William h. Rehnquist dissented in full from the ruling Burger complained Attiat the decision was a grave repudiation of nearly 200 years of judicial priced Clit and historical chief Justice said he was very Dis Turbed that Basic constitutional principles Are subordinated to what seem the needs of a particular said the court has joined in punishing one person in a Way that tears into the fabric of Wir constitutional framework. Also on tuesday the court ruled that a broadcasting station can be sued for dam Ages if it broadcast an entertainer s entire performance wit tout 5 to 4. The court said state Laws granting entertainers the right of publicity do not violate the first amendment guarantee of Freedom of the Powell said the majority Rule could Lead to a degree of Media self Cen Justice White writing for the Raa Jor to. Stressed that slates Are under no obligation to authorize such damage suits and in fact can enact Laws protecting the news Media from such decision came in a Case involving Hugo Zacchini. A self described human Cannon Bau who performed his act at a county fair in Burton Ohio in 1972. Despite Zacchini s objections a free Lance reporter cameraman for the Scripps Howard broadcasting co. Filmed the act. In a late development monday the court relying on the rationale it used a week ago in ruling that states have no Legal obligation to pay for medically unnecessary abortions sent Back to lower courts challenges of Laws in new York Louisiana and South Dakota that Cut off funding for non therapeutic justices told the courts in each Case that it must be considered in Light of the High court s recent ruling. That probably will mean All three state Laws will be up fid. Unless the lower courts find an Issue not answered by last week s rulings. Sainthood process started for Angel of Marabotto Bologna. Italy l up the roman Catholic see of Bologna has begun the Long process required to try to have proclaimed Saint a Parish priest shot by German storm troopers As he gave last rites to some of i 830 italians massacred by the nazis in a reprisal Slaughter father Giovanni for Nasira. Known As the Angel of Marabotto after the Moun Tain town South of Bologna where the firing squads went to work was 29 when he was photon oct 13.1944. Town of 10.000 and housed in modern Trail ers that Are air conditioned against the desert heat. Among them were 16 children aged four months to 12 years and 17 or. Tran Quang Hoa. 33. A surgeon wit the South vietnamese army who was Cap tured before the War ended in april 1975.and spent 16 months in a concentration Camp said life in Saigon is As it was in1850. He was born there. He described widespread food rationing in which each family is permitted no More than 20 pounds of Rice and 2.2 pounds of meat a month. Three cans of milk Are permitted monthly Only in households where there Are infants no More than nine months old. Medicines available to the Public repast their expiration dates and thus Are Kwh thess. Hoa said. All the Good medi Cines Are reserved for those in the comm dist he bicycles late in Saigon now is like it was in 1950," Hoa said. Eighty per cent of the cars have disappeared and there Are Many bicycles again. All the modern equipment in hospitals and office buildings even the Light bulbs have been taken out and sent City is dying and the communist authorities Are letting it die. They have Nolan to develop Saigon just to empty it and take everything to the North. To them Saigon is Only a City whereas Hanoi is the capital that they want to make bigger and Hoa said two Modem hospitals. I Dan and Choray. Have been emptied of All their instruments and machinery. I Dan had been stocked by the United states with sophisticated medical equipment. He had been a resident intern at Choray stocked equally As Well by Japan Hoa and another refugee a 29-year-old civil servant who requested anonymity to protect his family still living in Saigon said 700.000 residents of the City were evicted from the end of 1975 through the end of 1976. They said it was necessary to develop the country is not the truth Hoa said. The truth is that All the cities will be left Only for the communist party officials and their of the officials have moved into vacated apartments he said further evictions Are planned the Refu gees said. The authorities in Vietnam have said that they will Send two million people out of Saigon during the years 1977 and 1978." Hoa said. This was on radio television and in Wall posters Europe i to Moil Cloudy Rte of Imanol ol1roon a n it to Rowlay. Incr Vanq cow a tit Ursuy Fri Flat h. 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