European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday August 31, 1978 says potential Gas shortage covered up House panel attacks Energy dept. Officials Washington a a House sub committee sharply criticizing Energy department officials says the administration failed to make a convincing Case for re moving Price controls on gasoline and withheld information predicting a possible shortage in 1980. The subcommittee report said the Short age forecast by the Energy information administration could be As High As 400.000barrels a Day. A 400,000-per-Day gasoline shortfall with or without gasoline controls would be an unmitigated National disaster said the report. The subcommittee said the shortage during the 1973-1974 Arab Oil embargo was 280.000 barrels a Day. The inability of the Doe to present a logical and coherent Case for gasoline de control is attributable to a number of fac  said the House Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations chaired by rep. John Moss d-calif., in a report made Public wednesday. The report cited the department s apparent intellectual inability to justify the administration s longstanding commitment to Gaso line decontrol. Neglect on the part of David Bardin. Administrator. Economic regulatory administration charged with preparing the environmental assessment and supple ment in reviewing the work of his  it said the forecast of a possible shortage was included in a june 7 memo Randum to Bardin. An embarrassing failure of acting assistant Secretary for the environment. Or. James l. Liverman to fully and effectively discharge the duties of his office in reviewing the environmental assess  the subcommittee said it was not com menting on the question of whether the Price controls imposed on gasoline during the Arab Oil embargo should be lifted but on the competence and credibility of the Doe in addressing the issues surrounding gasoline  the report said the Energy department withheld information indicating the possibility of a gasoline shortage in 1980. The panel also said the Doe had no basis for stating in its environmental assessment and supple ment that All gasoline is Selling at retail for less than the Price permitted by regulation and that retail Price controls Are  contrary to the Doe s Contention Price regulations arc constraining gasoline prices at the refinery  Doe had no basis for concluding that gasoline decontrol will not have an and verse environmental Impact in fact the evidence strongly suggests the  coast guard 592,000 workers were underpaid sea i St in 10 Mon is labor def. Reports Washington a the coast removing most of its sex barriers will be sending More women to sea. By 24 of the service s 707 women Dowson sea duty but the coast guard said it process of assigning Many More to guard commandant John b. I announced the new policy which re i restrictions based solely on sex in Ning assignment and career oppor of its personnel the policy All women graduates of the coast i Academy like the men will be As i to sea duty for their initial Tours Asi officers. J mixed sex Crews May now be As 1 to any coast guard unit afloat or which can provide reasonable Pri for each sex in berthing and pers Onalene. Numerical ceilings based on sex Haven removed from recruiting quotas. Puj administrative restrictions based on have been removed in relation to train advancement and specific Job assign women previously have been sex t from fire control technician miners mate and sonar technician rat Ings. All officer career Fields and Allen listed ratings will be open to military personnel of either sex. Coast guard women first went to sea in 1977, but until now they have been limited to duty aboard two Large cutters with Modem facilities. Twelve women serve on each vessel. Henceforth there will be absolutely no arbitrary restrictions based solely on sex in the Way the coast guard uses its peo ple Hayes said. Of course there Are anatomical differences which cannot be ignored but these can be accommodated As incidental matters in areas such As medi Cal support and not allowed to override the really important  Washington a almost 592,000 workers protected by Federal wage and hour Laws were illegally underpaid by some $105.1 million in the first 10 months of this fiscal year the labor department re ported tuesday. During the same period of the previous fiscal year amounts totalling $105.4 million were found due to 551,936  Vela wage and hour administrator in the department said enforcement of the Federal wage and hour Laws will re main a High priority until All workers receive the wages they Are entitled to by  estimated 5.4 million workers Are covered by the Taw which establishes a hourly minimum wage now set at $2.65. These include those employed on farms i department stores behind fast food coun ters and in businesses with annual Gros sales of $275,000 or More. / Between oct. 1, 1977, through july 31,1978, employers agreed to restore a total of some $65.6 million to 446,421 underpaid workers the labor department said. This compared to $60.6 million found to be owed to 452,662 workers during the same period oneyear before. The department said that the major Rea son for the difference Between the total Money found due workers and the amount actually restored is the refusal by some employers to pay Back wages in cases found unsuitable for litigation by the de Isabel Peron transferred to a new detention Retreat Buenos Aires Mph the military government transferred former president Isabel Peron from a guarded Navy Bas Bungalow and put her under House arrest at one of her late husband s weekend re treats military sources said. The move Peron s third since the armed forces overthrew and arrested her in March 1976 gave her a walled enclosure in which to walk outdoors apartment. In such cases it said an employee has the right to bring his own suit for Back wages due but any wage recovered in a private suit Are not reflected in the department s figures. The bulk of the underpayments this yen came under the minimum wage and time provisions of the Law. Minimum i underpayments totalled $33.6 i to 321,418 workers. Overtime ments totalled $43.3 million owed to workers. Under other Laws administered Clabor department minimum we i payments by firms under go tract totalled $5.7 million owed to workers with $986,000 due 6,747 under overtime provisions $7.7 owed to 2,423 workers covered by which protects workers age 40 to 651 Job discrimination because of their tit and $13.8 million due 16,841 workers cof. Ered by the Law which requires equal Anfor men and women doing substantial equal work in the same establishment. Fra drops its fight to enrich bread Washington up the food and drug administration after seven years of controversy tuesday scrapped a proposal to double the Iron Content of White bread. The Agency said Only a Small fraction of the . Population has been shown to be Iron deficient an there Are no Good stud ies showing that additional Iron enrich ment of flour and bread will be effective in supplying the needs of those who Are  the Issue stems from the 1969 White House conference on food nutrition and health which urged that something be done about an alleged Iron shortage in the american diet. At that time studies claimed changing dietary habits and the use of cookware other than that made from cast Iron had contributed to diminishing amounts of Iron inthe diet. Use of cast Iron cookware sometimes Al lows minute amounts of Iron to enter the food being cooked. But aluminium and other coatings and materials have replaced Iron in Many utensils. In 1971 and again in 1973 the Fra pro posed that up to 25 milligrams of Iron be Al Lowed in each Pound of enriched bread compared to the then allowed Levels of from 8 to 12.5 mrs. For enriched flour the proposal would have allowed up to 40 mrs. Per Pound compared to the old Levels of from 13 to 16.5 mrs. Enriched flour accounts for about two trained marxist faction in Angola guerrilla admits cubans helped new York api a commander of Black guerrillas operating in White ruled South Africa has acknowledged the guerrillas receive training from cuban troops in Angola the lbs television network re ported wednesday. It presented an interview filmed in Lusaka Zambia with Oliver Tambo identified As a commander of the african National Congress a South african Black organization outlawed by the government. Tambo said in response to a question by lbs correspondent George Crile that Anc guerrillas have been trained in the soviet Union. Crile then said. And we know that there Are a number of your men who Are being trained by cubans in Angola now for further activities in South Africa " an Tambo replied. Yes that is also  Tambo. Asked what conclusions should be drawn said a South african Young Man goes to the soviet Union learns How to handle weapons comes Back uses those weapons to gain his Freedom. The Only conclusion you can draw is that the soviet Union has been willing to assist us " Cuba sent More than 10.000 soldiers to help a marxist faction defeat two Western backed groups in a civil War that erupted alter that Southeastern african country was granted Independence by Rel Alto november 1975. The cubans Haver a f 2 a Sola he p a the forces of angolan president ago Sttne Neto against guerrilla warfare still being waged by the pro Western factions. B y thirds of All the flour consumed annual we . Of the proposal which was supported the baking Industry was embroiled Tae Troverso from the beginning and was new put into effect. At one Point More the Lam doctors told the pad thousands of Anir cans would be exposed to sickness Andi Iov sible death by the change from a nne known Iron storage  disease  Leaito in excess Iron being stored in the tested liver pancreas and other organs. In a notice published in tuesday Era Register the Fra said Hemoc Tosis is a hereditary disease and mat sufficient evidence to prove that it be influenced one Way or the other id changes in dietary Iron intake. It rejected a proposal that bread More Iron in it be labelled to Alert adm als suffering from the disease saying a Many persons May not know they Talp problem. � the proposed increase in Iron to Jujj eluded has not been proved to be new Safe or  temperatures l h h 10 Natt � a to to a n n 11b n w u . . Baton   m n a w ii  u u Ibn a