European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Age votes 80% against unionizing military rejected by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington is local unions of the american federation of government employees age have rejected the idea of organizing military personnel into the federation by a margin of 80 per Cen against to 20 per cent in favor. In announcing results of a Union Survey wednesday the age National president Kenneth t. Blaylock said it is my intention to live by this Deci Sion. Press speculation to the contrary we will not be acting to organize military personnel now nor at any time in the foreseeable poll was in the form of a mail ballot sent to each one of age s 1,566 local unions. Blaylock said More than 60 per cent of the Union s membership was represented by the poll results which showed 151,582 to about 80 per cent of those responding and38,764 yes about 20 per cent of those responding. The poll question was should the National president of age be directed to commence organizing and representing members of the uniformed military serv ices Blaylock said the poll results should note misconstrued As a rejection of the idea that military personnel need representation. He said that Between 10,000 and 12,000military personnel had contacted the age for assistance and that this is sufficient evidence that the idea of unionized military will not soon be Laid to said he believes that eroding conditions for military personnel Cut backs in pay medical benefits subsist continued on Page 28, col. 1 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 36, no. 143 Otto and sunday thursday september8,1977 if 21855 a kidnappers ask release of 11 for sch lever Bonn up Urban guerrilla wednesday demanded that the govern ment free 11 of their comrades in return for the life of a leading industrialist. The government countered by asking the kid Napers to prove their captive is still alive. Midday deadlines set by the terrorist who seized harms Martin Schleyer monday evening after killing his drive Rand three bodyguards passed with the government still refusing to make any com ment on the demands or even confirm they had been evening however the kid Napers contacted the West German government an official spokesman said. It was unknown whether the Contact included tape recording of Schleyer speaking. A government spokesman wednesday eve Ning said simply that a communication had been Federal criminal police broadcast a message to the kidnappers asking tha Schleyer prove he was alive by tape re cording replies to two questions what is the nickname of Edgar Obrecht what is the name today of the Euler grandchild and where does she live criminal police said the answers to these would prove Schleyer is still an order by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that no official comment on the kidnapping Interior minister Karl Schiess of the state of Baden Wurttemberge con firmed the substance of reports that the kidnappers had asked for the release of 11 of their comrades the payment of 100,000 Marks about $44,000 in Cash to each of them and provision of an air plane to Fly them to a place of their sources said the guerrillas demanded that pastor Martin Niemoeller an85-year-old pacifist and anti nazi Church Leader and an official of the . Accompany the 11 abroad. Schiess said seven of the 11 persons the guerrillas want freed Are in prisons in his state. They include Andreas Baader who gave his name to the guerrilla groups his girl Friend Gudrun Ennslin and Guenther Sonnenberg arrested two months ago on suspicion of having slain Federal prosecutor general Siegfried Buback. Schiess said the guerrillas had asked that a letter they sent to the government tuesday be read Over a National television network that evening and that the network also show film at 10 . Wednesday of preparations to collect the 11 prisoners in one place for their flight abroad. Neither condition was Young unmarried couple arrested tuesday on suspicion of involvement in the kidnapping was released wednesday with out charges. Lap dog it s love at first nuzzle As dog meets girl at an open air Market in Mons Belgium just Down the Road apiece from shape he. If fido s for Sale one Mother May be facing a hard sell buy pitch. Is photo by Jim Cole Carter Calls canal treaties reflection of . Fairness from press dispatches Washington against a background of conservative protests president carte told a Cross Section of the country s Busi Ness and former government leaders that the Panama canal treaties to be signed wednesday night reflect the Basic fair Ness of our i think it s a fair treaty he said. Think it s one that guarantees the openness of the , who was to sign the treaties in a ceremony attended by most of the leaders of North and South America briefly out lined the agreements for a group of about70 labor business civil rights and former Cabinet members he invited to the White House including former first lady lady Bird Johnson Al Cio president George Meany banker David Rockefeller East Ern airlines president Frank Borman and former defense Secretary Melvin two treaties must be ratified by the Senate where Strong conservative opposition has developed against turning the waterway Over to Panama on Jan. 1,2000.that congressional opposition was reflected by protests across the nation the most dramatic of which was an order by new Hampshire Goy. Meldrim Thomson that state and american flags be lowered to half staff on All state , an outspoken conservative personally lowered the american Flag atop the new Hampshire statehouse Earl wednesday morning calling it America s second Day of president Franklind. Roosevelt called dec. 7, 1941, the Day the japanese bombed Pearl Harbor a Day of infamy. In Washington a coalition of conserva Tive groups called the coalition to save the Panama canal used radio advertisements to summon protesters to a noon rally on the Capitol Steps and the panamanian com Mittee for human rights scheduled a news conference in potential obstacle to the treaty was removed tuesday when supreme court Justice William Brennan rejected a re continued on Page 28, col. 1
