European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Outlines major revisions n service retirement system grandfathering is biggest Issue Washington a a presidential commission agreed thursday on outlines for sweeping changes in the Multi billion Dollar military retirement the nine member commission appointed by president Carter was divided on a number of issues and ordered its staff to refine various proposals for later con one Point of disagreement was the extent that the present million Mem Bers of the armed forces should be allowed to continue under the present pension chairman Charles Zwitek said the effects of reducing retirement costs could be delayed 20 years if we Grandfather every grandfathering would permit current employees to continue under the existing some commission members seemed to favor eliminating Grandfather Protection on retirement benefits for service personnel with less than five years at Active Herbert a former Pentagon research opposed such a arguing hat such a denial would discourage this commission Hast saved a Penny Zwick in the group agreed to end the practice of allowing military personnel to retire voluntarily after 20 years and draw lifetime pensions equal to so percent of their Basic military critics have said this system permits service men and women to retire too Young and at too High a Cost to the the Cost is about billion this year and is expected to Rise to As much As billion a year by the end of the Century unless it is tie commission tentatively adopted a proposed plan that would allow future service personnel to retire after 3d years of service at the age of 55 with a pension equal to about three quarters of their base those who choose to leave the service after 20 years would be required to wait until they Are 60 years old to draw pensions equivalent to about half their service the plan would also Grant service personnel a right to a pension after 10 years of duty with payment starting at age 62 based on about 21 percent of Active duly Only Benjamin Davis ret flatly opposed abandoning the pre sent 20year voluntary retirement the Complex package would provide continued on Page 2 a Royal Navy copier rescues a Crew Man in the norwegian Oil Rig Orion la Lac English mounted on a he Alwort High Rig was daring rescues towed to Brasil when the cables broke in a two Royal Navy copters res cued from us Rig Utah foundered out of control Halo jagged unofficial Fui cation for the Ahmed Forcel 290 february 1978 if 21855 a would legalize1 Dodd eur school Bill backed by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington the european of american teachers w students Eca pts this week gave its to legislation that provides for be the defense department Over depend Tiu schools were Stdeni of the army it 01 Geoffrey Stulman of testified before joint panels of House education and labor commit legislation known As he defense ends education act of 1978 or would among other or subsidized reduced Price lunches of the students in the overseas John Erl Enbom is Span the Bill that also provides for giving authority to the legislation would give the defense department control of More than two drawn schools on stateside Mili tary Stillman said that the Bill addresses Many of the problems that have prevailed in the overseas schools for the overseas schools have been in exis tence since im6 and enrol about military dependent children around the the majority of the problems result from the fact that ours is a temporary school and thus not eligible for benefits found in stateside soil Imon perhaps the most pertinent example of what 1 refer to is what we Call the schools hot lunch in he estimated that Only 46 per cent of the schools have a hot lunch pro of 43 percent have what we Call a junk food or Short order according to he Laid that a number of organizations other than the schools provide the lunches at prices ranging from a Low of 30 cents to while we Are grateful for what we Stulman our children students deserve we be Lieve this Bill will help us achieve this if the Bill becomes it would bring the overseas schools under the National school lunch and children nutrition one Section of the Bill Calls for establish of school advisory committees and an advisory Council of dependent Educa we would like to recommend that the word curriculum be included in the advisory authority of the local school advisory Stillman he said that parents Are concerned about policies and curriculum decisions made Stillman stressed the importance of having the local Community com continued on Page 1 credit woes ill t r v Roa doot youre to credit american car in hmm where Coto a Educ car