European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july 1977 generous alter Rickover urges by John Hart Washington Boreau chief Washington its White telling a congressional panel that military people should be properly 77yearold Hyman Rickover said it is wasteful and inefficient to provide an Overly generous retirement at House hearing on dual compensation or double Rickover outlined a program dial would totally revamp the military retirement concept As the Lead off witness tuesday before the House committee on Post office and civil Rickover said Alt Federal civilian and military retirement programs should be put under one according to re Covert All retired pay would be deferred until at least age our should nut be encouraged to believe they can expert a salary and re tired pay during their working he in Oiler re covers would put an end to the practice of double among other things Fea Tures of his plan would prohibit waivers of the dual compensation Laws that permit some retired Mili tary officers to keep their full pension and Lake jobs with government apply dual compensation restrictions to All retired military personnel regu there is no valid reason to discriminate against regular Rickover provide that retired military person net subsequently employed under civil service would earn retirement but not be paid in total More than approved Ovil service salary for the Job he la give consideration to making All government retirement systems contributory so that actual salaries and personnel costs Are fully visible to the the consolidate the 50some government retirement plans into a single system which would include die provide military personnel Dis charged before completing 30 Yean of service with a Lump sum settlement rather than by offering a lifetime retirement such persons would still have their years of service credited towards retirement at a later committee chairman Robert Nix said Rickover presentation was the most Complete and factual state ment it has been my privilege to listen to in my 20 years in Pentagon officials said wednesday that Rickover a statement before the tee represented is own views and not those of the defense a Pentagon spokesman said that he de sense department cannot adopt a position on double dipping and retirement until the presidents commission completes us review of the total military compensation 4 operas in English Wagner test in Seattle is a rih Goding affair catholics Given communion Choice Seattle a sellout audiences come from every stale and several Wear Levels and Tux Edos and evening some Are Here to mix backpacking with their but the prime attraction is a monster production or the ring of the Rtchard Wagner 101yearold super opera Abdul the fall of the and its putting Seattle in the International soot it is an unequalled feat for the third straight the Seattle opera com Pany is performing the rings four operas in backlog we Klong cycles in German and the ring has teutonic music music to Charm the spinal said me critic along with the winged helmets and Spear carriers familiar even to people who dual patronize ends saturday the extravaganza ends saturday with the English version of die Gotte Damme or the two Liam of the the rhinegold and the Valkyrie were performed monday and the third is each Cycle of this musical Marathon has 15 hours of 58 scenes and m soloists including imported Wagner ans like Herbert in the German and James in the As the Young Warrior Siegfried 6foot10 Noel the German version of god of Wisdom and War and Ute and Margaret As Wotan favorite other than theres nothing to laughs music director and conductor Henry total production Cost is double duty the greatest pressure was fell by the soloists who Sang in German and at some of them kept confusing the two languages and punctuated their mistakes with expletives that Wagner never knew in either critics say the results have been with the music better served than the but for opera bulbs it has been a night after night the murky doings on stage have audiences standing and cheer 1 i came Alt the Way from Idaho to see this festival said one Man during an in in from said an a Chicago couple lost their tickets to the festival when their House they came anyway and were promptly Gwynn a former Golden gloves Boxer from Omaha and the company Gen Era pitched the ring using a to commercial featuring his teutonic gods tipping through the air on Seattle lie offers Wagner paraphernalia for the compleat from books and records to tote bags and Lapel Washington a the Vatican has granted permission for roman catholics in this country to receive communion in the hand if they rather than on the a spokesman for the roman Catholic Bishops of the United states said wednes Day that word has just come from Rome that the Bishops approved by them last has been the practice will be each Bishop May Institute it in his the individual Catholic would be free to elect communion in the hand or on the in a period of instruction would be and the Nalio naj Council of Catholic Bishops is preparing educational materials on the the spokesman said the materials May be ready for distribution next a tentative target for instituting the noted research chemist Dies a Louis a chemist whose research led to the development of the hormone used to treat rheumatoid has Harvard University Fieser helped develop napalm during world War hut protested to Ine White House about its use in no longer missing smiling conies easy to this Bey two years ago his vietnamese Aad Sam Tri fast him during the evacuation of South Vietnam which followed the communist Takov Hie named began a new life with american Foster the and Paul Row of last lacs nalu ral Parent turned up and the rows gave up their claim to they Are sponsor if the proposed admission of the boys parents into the United associated press photo practice is but individual Bishops May choose another receiving communion in the hand or in the Mouth is a matter of Church order and not of communion in the hand was the Universal practice of the Church for nine centuries and is now Autho upon request 16 the about 50 countries have adopted the optional practice since including England and House votes to repeal Law on immunity Washington Puli the House voted wednesday to repeal the 1790 Law under which All diplomats in the United slates Are immune from including Freedom from automobile Accident suits and parking the passed by voice Vole and sent to the would repeal the Law which gives their their staffs and their staffs families in Muncy from All criminal and civil Laws and would put them under the Vienna convention of that More restrictive treaty has been signed by the United sates and 122 other the stale department and the courts decided that the Vienna convention did not repeal the j7m Law because u went further than the agreement instead of contradict ing repeal was sought mainly because citizens injured in Auto accidents could not sue for damages in cases where even serv ants in foreign embassies were at fault hundreds of us Sands of Dol Lars in parking tykets went mainly in Washington and new York the measure requires All foreign embassy personnel to have liability insurance before they can operate a vessel or aircraft in the United top Diplo Mats from ambassadors Down would be required to pay parking tickets or other traffic humanitarian Kissinger los an cycles up former Secre tary of slate Henry Kissinger has been named recipient of the huh annual humanitarian award of the National conference of christians and jews entertainment Industry