European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes june 1977 House votes to keep its hike Washington a the House re fused wednesday to Roll Back a pay raise members of Congress received this year and corresponding pay raises received by More than other officials and the House Defeated an amendment to the legislative appropriation Bill that would have Cut out funds for the thus it reaffirmed with a recorded vote the increase that went into effect in March without such a the vote defeating the Rollback of the pay hike was 241 to opponents of the pay raise argued that the method by which it was put into effect was and that Congress should not protect itself against an inflation it helped cause but supporters said the the second in eight did not even keep Pace with the rising Cost of living or the level of business House speaker Thomas tin Oneill was applauded when he argued that the House had to accompany the pay an ethics code whose heart and soul was full financial disclosure and a limitation of is per cent on outside earned the March pay which went into effect automatically without a raised the salaries of congressmen and senators from to and included pay in creases for the vice Cabinet other High officials and top civil servants and Federal members of the House were also in line for another pay a costo living in on but on a 39720 vote tues the House sent to president Carter a Bill denying that raise to anyone who received the March the costo living raise had not been computed but was expected to be about 63 per which would have amounted to about for members of most Federal employees will be eligible for the the scheduling of the two pay raise issues on successive Days brought com ment in the House that it had been planned so members could Tell their constituents they had opposed the costo living in crease while supporting continuation of the present pay scale Stephen it would be politically obscene for members of Congress at such a Lime to get two pay raises in a italian Church bomb target Italy will a powerful bomb exploded outside Florences modern sacred heart causing consider Able damage to Ibe Church police said it was the first bombing attack on record against a Florence there were no 14 nations in British Tattoo Silver Jubilee takes to air Wyleah Arjun Suff writer Greenham England i Sisi planes brought the crowds to this Green Airfield in Southern but Many of the visitors spent much of the Day discussing the it was downright miserable the kind of Damp cold that gets to your Bones and makes you at times you could even see your hardly the kind of summer Day to spread your Blanket on the ground and watch photos on facing the Sun did manage to make intermit tent and Brief appearances late in the of but the air show had started at 10 am when visibility was poor and Clouds were making some of the aircraft Dis plays and Maneu vers not up to crowd sex the Silver Jubilee International air Tattoo had its Britain famed acrobatic the red staged some exciting flying with planes crossing and passing each other so dose Vou were certain they would they even ten trails of White and Blue smoke across the an Raf harrier did something in Sharp contrast to the other performers it literal recovery Frend sluggishly stood still in the then flew Back a crowd favorite was the air Force f15a when the Clouds had this powerful aircraft was Able to do its thing soar straight higher the plane that just about everyone talked about was the air Force designed for close air support which has been appearing throughout Europe for the past at the Paris air show earlier in an sponsored by far child and piloted by a killing the but at this military air show the plane flew trouble this Snow is not the same As said Charlie jj3rd tactical fighter training Pilot of the my demonstration is a Mili tary one of tactical not acrobat who has been flying fighter planes or and is based at Dalsmon than was full of Praise for the its ideally suited for what it was de signed to work in close support with ground especially in a tank another fan of the plane is airman Mary Crew chief for the its easy to simple to work German Economy showing slowdown Bonn i api the economics ministry took a gloomier View wednesday on prospects for West Germany sluggish Economy and the conservative opposition demanded a special Survey by leading experts to read the nations economic a ministry prepared for a con be redaction session of in labor and other leaders who regularly meet to discuss economic devel admitted that the Post recession recovery trend slowed Down considerably this opposition righting Leader Franz Josef the former finance minister who is parliamentary economics spokes Man for the conservative Christian Union accused the government of having slumped into in an article in his party daily news he wrote that a special report from the governments advisory Council of leading economic experts has now become an urgent Strauss noted unofficial reports that the unemployment figure declined Only slightly this month to or about four per this arouses fears that the average concorde will begin daily flights Between Paris up1 air France announced wednesday that its supersonic concorde flights Between Paris and Washington will become daily starting july the Price of a one Way ticket for the nonstop flight lasting 3 hours 55 minutes remains unchanged at air France said it decided to step up its current service of three flights a week be cause of the lines commercial it reported that an average of per cent of seats have been filled on the Anglo French jetliner since the service started May flights will leave Croissy Charles de daily at 8 arriving at at 5 55 i they will leave Dulles at 1 arriving Croissy at p concorde flights to Washington Are still being operated on a 16month trial which expires an air France spokesman we dont see Why this  be transformed into permanent concorde flights to new York Are still under negotiation and the subject of a pro longed Legal Wrangle in new where a Strong environmentalist lobby says the plane is too jobless rate for 1977 will disappoint government Hopes by returning to last win ters Mark of a million or he the minis by report found that the Economy is subject to stronger fluctuation than in previous periods of re covery Domestic demand stimulus lags below the level of the last 1976 Quarter even though manufacturing output Rose be tween that period and the first Quarter of 1977 Gross National product growth was Down from six per cent in september de Cember 1976 to an estimated four per cent in the first 1977 Quarter and unemployment has not decreased much beyond seasonal fluctuations in the first five months of the last the jobless rate dropped below the million Mark for the first time since last novem Ber to or Bright spots noted by the report included increased foreign orders for German Export goods a five per cent Export increase in real terms during january May 1977 and a Low inflation rate still hovering around four per rhodesian forces clash with insurgents Rhodesia Impi Rhode Sia wednesday reported the deaths in clashes of 18 Black insurgents and one Security forces member and said its troops tuesday swapped fire with gunners in to a military communique said that since rhodesian Security forces lulled 14 Black nationalist two guerrilla recruits and two Blacks running with and actively assisting a terrorist the communique also said a White police reservist was killed by guerrillas on the Road linking 120 Miles Northwest of and the Border Post of Chiron do on the Frontier with never any its just a super said the 23yearold aircraft maintenance flying in air shows is a special Chal Lenge said before every show you work out in your mind where the show Center How you will keep the plane on the Center before you get in the there might be nervous but you get in and it just you work and at the you get out and youre just he enjoys you get a Chance to meet Guys from All Over the to critique each others its Salute to the Queen More than 200 planes from 14 countries participated in this air show Here saturday and the International air an annual event since it originated in was called the biggest military flying Dis play in Europe in this be cause it incorporated the nato Tiger a meeting of nato Tiger and because it was billed As a Salute to the Queen in Honor of her 25th it was said to be bigger and better than sponsors of the show expected to turn out for the the Winter like weather undoubtedly kept some away sat plan watching is Papular with the and crowds poured in with blankets even camper stoves and pots of plenty of diversion for those who got bored with seven hours of watching the there was plenty of one area along the air Field was like a state fair with there were tents where visitors could buy everything from Maureen homemade fudge and Candy floss to Blue jeans and handcrafted Bird boxes and planes of All shapes and vintages were parked along the Field to give the crowds a closer they could walk through the huge belly of a c5a cargo plane which seemed to devour them like a giant Navy Jack air Wing com Mander from the Carrier John is a Veteran of air he and eight pilots from the Kennedy participated in the British Presley said he never gets tired of i love its a Good Opportunity to see planes together that you would never Sec he he and everyone else loved it even More on sunday when the Sun was temperatures l h u 15 Albany 64 98 Albuquerque m 11 air Anllo is 68 Anchorage 61 m acne Taille n 91 Atlanta 61 74 Atlantic City if 91 Aurum i 91 Baltimore v 16 Billings Al 96 Birmingham is 77 Bumarch m 89 Boise 67 90 Boston 71 90 Brownsville 68 ii Buffalo u w Burlington u u 99 Charleston s c 70 ii cd w 94 Charlotte w 14 Cheyenne 74 j Chicago 19 t4 Cleveland u 99 s 69 i Columbus n Foo Dallat it North m Dayton a k Denver 70 i Desmoines u 90 oel roil i7 66 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