European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday september 5, 1977 political use of Bank planes claimed continued from Page 1 cronyism of Friendship and discredit honest decent and idealistic Lance considered by most to be the president s most powerful economic adviser is scheduled to testify thursday before no end in sight to strike the Senate governmental affairs commit House and Senate banking commit tees also will review his activities while studying possible reforms in banking Laws. One aspect of Lance s activities expected to be brought up is a log of trips by aircraft owned by the National Bank of Georgia. A source familiar with an investigation by the comptroller s office said probes found there were hundreds of flights that Are unexplained in terms of British Airport delays continue London up air travellers waited up to 10 hours sunday for planes to leave Britain with no end in sight to a strike by assistant air traffic controllers that is Cost ing airlines $3.4 million a Day. Airlines reduced their flights by 60 per cent and filled to capacity those aircraft which did Fly in and out of London s main airports at Heathrow and Gatwick. Worst departure delays were from Gat Wick on transatlantic routes with travellers waiting 10 hours for some planes to leave but the average delay on All flight times was Down to one to two hours a British airways spokesman said. The 850 assistant controllers who nor Mally operate Airport computers first walked off the Job on aug. 26 to press claims for government approval of a pay raise already granted by the civil aviation authority. The government has stated the increase infringed its policy on wage hikes designed to combat inflation. The striking assistants consulted other unionists on escalating the stoppage which would cause More flight cancellations and possibly shut Down airports completely. Most cancelled flights sunday were on Domestic or Short haul routes to the Conti nent. Where we have two or three flights scheduled to a certain Point we Are cutting Back to one flight the British airways spokesman said. That Way because a Lotof travellers Are using alternative trans port almost everyone who wants to travel by air is getting the spokesman said the airline Esti mated its losses at Between $1.7 and $2.55 million daily. Other carriers said they were losing another $1.7 million daily. Salt. Continued from Page 1 limits and . Demands that the soviet backfire bomber be treated the same Way. The state department announced wednesday that Secretary of state Cyrus Vance and soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko had decided to postpone their next scheduled round of Salt negotiations until late september in order to give tech Nical experts More time to work on these of the Van
