European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday october 2, 1978 Congress decides baggers can still work for tips Only she May not like police a woman identified by police As Jan Morrison fires a handgun into an empty police car in san Diego. Holding police at Bay for nearly three hours she fired a total of 15 shots during her siege. Neighbors who said she fired a shot in the front Yard of a House called police. She was later apprehended with a police officer receiving a bump on the head. A photos Washington a Congress has overruled a Federal Agency and saved the jobs of thousands of grocery baggers at military commissaries across the United states. The Issue described by sen. William Roth r.-del., As an example of govern ment regulators and Legal beagles running wild was settled when the House agreed to a Senate provision exempting the bag Gers from a civil service commission Rul ing. The commission had decided earlier this year that commissary baggers should be come full time government employees with a regular salary and benefits the same As the Cashiers and Stock boys. But because of the House action late last week these persons can continue to work part time for tips instead of becoming full time government employees. Traditionally the baggers have been teen agers retired military people and off duty servicemen who worked part time for tips. The commission s ruling ran into a Tor rent of criticism largely because commis sary shoppers would have had to pay a 2 percent surcharge on their Bills to pay the baggers salaries. The defense depart ment also objected to the ruling. Roth told the Senate earlier this year there Are an estimated 24,000 baggers and that 14,00.0 of them would lose their jobs if the commission s ruling went Funchal commission delayed putting its Rul ing into effect pending congressional a Issue turned up As part of a $35.2 Bil lion weapons authorization Bill a measure replacing legislation vetoed by president Carter because it had authorized a $2 Bil lion nuclear aircraft Carrier. The exemption for baggers was included in the original Bill and was killed by the spy trial of Russ hears . Officer Newark. . Up an american naval officer testifying for the government in the espionage trial of two russian Citi Zens said saturday he passed on american defense secrets for Cash. It. Cmdr. Arthur e. Lindberg. 43, Star witness in the government s Case against Valdik a. Enger and Rudolf p. Cher nay Aye two russians employed at the United nations said he had made Contact with a network of spies seeking classified defense material. Enger. 39. And Chern Alayev 43, re leased without bail in the custody of the so Viet ambassador Are charged with paying the naval officer More than $20,000 for the defense documents. They were arrested May 20 by the Fri in Woodbridge soon after they allegedly picked up classified documents. In testimony before . District judge Frederick b. Lacey Lindberg did not identify the defendants since his contacts were by Telephone or written notes. The officer stationed at the . Naval air engineering Center in Lakehurst n.j., said he accepted an undercover assign ment from the Fri to help identify and prosecute a network of spies allegedly us ing the soviet merchant Marine As a cover. Lindberg said he made his first Contact with a foreign operative after taking a cruise on a russian passenger ship and leaving a note that he would Exchange documents for Money. A Man with a heavy foreign accent contacted him by phone and said we were pleased to receive your note Lindberg testified. In a series of Calls to Public phone Booths on the Garden state Parkway Lindberg said he received verbal and written instructions for exchanging documents. On oct. 22,1977, Lindberg made the first in a series of drops of secret documents in an Orange juice Container at the Bottom of a stairway in a train station in Iselin. The drops took place Over a 9-month period. He drove two Miles up the toll Road to a service station and received $2,000 in Cash hidden in a flattened milk Carton he said. After every phone Contact Lindberg said he was interviewed by the Fri and was provided with instructions on How to proceed. Envoy s wife daughter murdered Anka iia Turkey a an unidentified Man has shot and killed the wife and daughter of Austria s envoy to Turkey Heinz Laube in the Mediterranean resort town of Fethiye the state radio reported radio said the incident took place at a quiet Beach site saturday afternoon. The envoy s wife Verena his 23-year old daughter Andrea and a Nephew Hay do harms 19, were vacationing at Fethiye. Laube himself was in Ephesus on the Aegean coast to attend the opening of the celcius Library the Semi official Anatolia Agency reported. Quoting the local governor Anatolia said a Middle aged Man in peasant s clothing and carrying a Shotgun had approached mrs. Laube on the Beach and after a Brief conversation shot first her and then the daughter. Harms hearing the gunfire rushed to the scene wrestled with the assailant and took the gun away Anatolia said. The Man escaped. Militia troops surrounded the area the Agency said and an intensive manhunt was begun. Anatolia said mrs. Laube died instantly and Andrea several hours later in the local Hospital. The austrian embassy in Ankara con firmed the incident but officials said they had no additional information particularly on the possible motive for the killings. Veto. The Senate put it Back in the revised version that it approved but the House armed services committee omitted it reportedly because the education and labor committee Felt it should have jurisdiction Over the Issue. The Issue was settled by the time the Bill reached the House floor on Friday and the baggers amendment was accepted on a voice vote. The House is expected to com plete final action on the Overall Bill next wednesday. Saudi says Dollar is still Best currency Beirut up the finance minister of saudi Arabia says that the . Dollar is still the Best world currency for calculating Oil prices according to an interview published sunday. Mohammed Abal Khail told the Washington correspondent of the Beirut newspaper an Nahar that his country believes that the calculation of Oil prices in any Bas Ket of currencies is not such a move has been advocated by other Oil states in order to avoid further Ero Sion of their Oil income caused by the Dol Lar s slippage on world Money markets. Abal Khail said the organization of Petroleum exporting countries open has experimented in the past with a Basket of world currencies to calculate Oil prices but this method proved ineffective. We believe practically that the Dollar is still the sole world currency for calculating Oil prices he said. The saudi finance minister noted that president Carter had personally pledged to Shore up the sliding Dollar. The american administration is seriously considering the situation and the necessity to support the Dollar More than at any time before he added. Korchnoy Victory Narrows Gap to 5-3 Baguio City Philippines up world chess challenger Viktor Korchnoy scored a Victory in the 28th game of the world title match forcing Champion Anat oly Karpov to resign on the 62nd move. The Champion who holds a 5-3 Lead in the match was unable to Stop Korchnoy s advancing Queen Side pawns and resigned after less than an hour of the resumed match. The win boosted Korchnoy s chances in the 76-Day-old match already the longest in 51 years of championship play. Karpov showed no emotion at the loss. Former a columnist Dies new York a Samuel a. Dawson who for 19 years was business columnist for the associated press before retiring in 1966, has died at the age of 77. Temperatures l h 77 87 Miami Beach 50 71 Minneapolis 54 76 Nashville 66 82 new Orleans 53 71 Phoenix 54 73 St. Louis 55 69 san Francisco 52 65 Seattle 63 76 Washington l h 58 76 46 59 56 73 47 69 53 66 60 85 45 83 49 66 66 98 Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit los Angeles
