European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 10 the stars and stripes Friday september 12. 1980 Senate votes to bar self from pay hike Washington up the Senate wednesday voted overwhelmingly to exempt itself from the 9.1 percent pay raise going into effect oct. I for 1.4 million other Federal employees. After suspending the rules in order to attach the pay limitation to the Energy and water development appropriation the sen ate voted 78-13 to keep congressional Sala Ries at 160,662.50. The entire Bill with the Senate pay Cap rider must now be approved by a House Senate conference committee. If both houses fail to act by oct. I con Gressional salaries will Rise to $66,184 under . Oil surplus brings Cut in pump prices by United press International Amoco Oil co., the nation s second largest gasoline marketer is lowering its wholesale prices by 2 cents a gallon in All . Markets except the West coast and Standard Oil co. Ohio wednesday Cut its pump prices by a Penny a gallon. The american Petroleum Institute re ported . Gasoline stocks Rose last week during the period hat included the Long labor Day weekend. Analysts said a 7 percent drop in . Gasoline demand this year has created a National Oil surplus and caused refiners to engage in Price cutting in an Effort to re Duce High gasoline inventories. In Chicago Amoco said its wholesale gasoline prices arc dropping by a Penny gallon on the West coast where the company has a very limited Market. The Amoco Price cuts took effect thurs demand continues Well below last year s level and supplies Are ample said a spokesman for Standard Oil co. Indian Amoco s Parent. Our action reflects the Overall downward trend in Gas Oline prices that has been occurring re Cleveland based Ohio reduced its wholesale and retail prices for All grades of gasoline by a Penny a gallon in Ohio effectively immediately. Ohio also decreased retail prices by a Penny a gallon for All customers of Boron Oil in Michigan Indiana Kentucky Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Ohio s by Oil co. Subsidiary Cut pump prices by a Penny a gallon in Pennsylvania and West Boron s and by s wholesale Gaso line prices went Down by Between 1 and a gallon. A Ohio spokesman said the company s Price decreases were made to meet the retail Price reductions will appear immediately at Ohio s company operated stations he said. But Ohio s dealers must decide individually whether to pass the wholesale Price cuts along to the Motorist. Swiss jewel heist yields $12 million Geneva up jewels Molen in Switzerland s biggest Ever armed robbery were estimated lobe Worth 512 million. Police said three men were involved in the Holdup at he offices of reds jewelry a trading company dealing in precious stones but mainly diamonds. The company s owners were lebanese born frenchmen Hassan Ahmed and Parck Dib Brothers had been expecting a customer but on opening the doors were faced by two armed men police said. A third gangster was outside with a Geta Way said the Dib Brothers estimate the stolen jewels mostly Cut diamonds at 20 million francs. Terms of a Law enacted to take the Politi Cally sensitive pay question out of legislative Bounds and give it loan impartial Board. The Board recommended that in order to keep government salaries competitive with private Industry White Collar civil servants should get a 13 percent raise this year. President Carter As he has since taking office originally wanted to limit it to 5.5 percent but he gave in two weeks ago and recommended the 9.1 percent boost. Attempts to exempt executive Branch and judicial salaries from the pay freeze failed. The Senate approved capping the pay of Federal judges and 22,000 top civil servants who would be Able to earn no More than the current ceiling of $50,112 a of keeping civil servants pay under the lid said that after several years of Frozen salaries the Best executives Are Leav ing government . Robert Byrd d-w.va., countered that while this is a regrettable effect it would not be fair for civil service by by rising every year to match or top the Sau Ries of members of Congress. Sen. George Mitchell a Maine a former Federal judge and sen. John Danforth r mo., argued on behalf of letting judicial salaries Rise each year. The freeze Danforth said a a ret of Terrant to getting people on the Fader to Bench. And you get what you it Byrd said in his hate at lean to has never been shortage of qualified Tew yers seeking to become judges. � not Only do they not have to pot up Wmk the diatribes of columnists or editor of commentators or colleagues Ai my Mem of Congress do they Don t pay payt was into their retirement fund and they do their full salary after retirement Byng a Gued. Ecological leaders give endorsement of Carfer Call Reagan Vns ens free spy talks former spy Carmen Mackonsky cells news conference la West new York n.j., that her first husband Cuba s chief of counter intelligence never knew of her cloak and Dagger life until her arrest As a Cia spy. The 44-year-old, cuban born naturalized american has sued the Cia contending she was pre pared poorly for her Mission. A fewer birth problems Washington up the leaders of almost every major . Environmental group endorsed president Carter s re elec Tion bid wednesday and denounced Ronald Reagan As an insensitive Man who fails to grasp Basic ecology issues. Among the 22 conservationists who spoke with reporters after meeting with Carter in the White House were former Delaware gov. Russell Peterson president of the National Audubon society Tom Kimball president of the National wildlife federation and Michael Mccloskey of the Sierra , speaking for the group said the endorsements were made As individuals rather than on behalf of their environmental organizations. On balance we believe president Carter has been sensitive to environmental con Cerns and committed to conservation principles he said. He has More than any other presi Dent to protect the natural wonders of alas a to control strip mining to Abate pollution to promote Energy conservation and solar Energy to conserve wildlife on Public lands and to oppose wasteful and Environ mentally damaging Public works projects Kimball said. Carter posing for a picture wit i the Lead ers said he had a lot in common with the study shows needs Friend in delivery room Boston a a Friendly reassuring face by a Mother s Side May do More than boost her spirits during childbirth it also results in Shorter labor and fewer complications a study says. In addition women who have company in the delivery room Are More affectionate to Ward their new babies according to the study. Increasingly in recent years american women have gone into the delivery room with a husband Mother or a Friend at their Side but Many still give birth surrounded Only by doctors and nurses. Certainly a Rule is that no Mother should Ever labor and deliver alone. That s awfully Clear said or. John Kennel one of the researchers. The new report published in the new England journal of Medicine showed that when women had a companion their labor lasted half As Long As usual. In the first 43 minutes after birth there mothers talked to their babies and smiled at them More than unaccompanied women. In this study conducted at the social Security Hospital in Guatemala City 20 women were accompanied during childbirth by untrained strangers who rubbed their backs held their hands and talked to them. The researchers measured the experiences of 40 women 20 of whom had been helped by companions and 20 others called controls who received traditional care. They kept assigning women to the program until there were 20 in each group who had had uncomplicated deliveries. Three times As Many women had to be assigned to the control group As the experimental group. In All 83 women who were initially put in the control group had to be eliminated from the study because problems developed during childbirth. Only 13 were removed from the experimental group. The results arc particularly relevant to the care of Low income. Jingle or teen age mothers who May not receive positive sup port from their families during labor and delivery and who May have had no formal or Strong cultural preparation for child birth the researchers wrote. Environmentalists. There arc very few decisions i have Uken that have As much Impact on this and future generations As those concerning us environment he told the group. The accesses we have had Are very notable in afterwards the conservationists took turns denouncing Reagan who they said is Carter s Only viable opponent. Marion Edey of the league of conserva Tion voters accused the Republican Nomi Nee of appalling ignorance and a Devotion to narrow special interests and said he la willing to sacrifice Public health for the convenience of Peterson said i think he Reagan really does t understand the relationship be tween All forms of Carter also won the endorsement of the new York democratic congressional delegation and its members promised to work very hard for his re election and to offset the Liberal party endorsement of John an Derson. And in a Day of revolving door endorse ments the last to emerge was new York financier Felix Roj Satyn accompanied by Campaign manager Robert Strauss. Israeli compiles guide to soviet prison Camps Tel Aviv a an israeli Immi Grant from the soviet Union has compiled Guidebook to what he says Are More than 2, 000 work and prison Camps in the soviet Union. The Book was published in Geneva and four other european cities Avraham Shifri said in an interview broadcast by Israel s army radio station. Shifri who runs a research Center which monitors soviet dissidents said his guide to prison Camps in the soviet Union locates 2, 300 prisons and work Camps in which than 100,000 criminals and political prison ers Are allegedly imprisoned. The radio s interviewer said Shifri kit extensive contacts with jewish dissidents far the soviet Union and has acquired Autiat tic photograph from soviet prison Camps. Shifri said israeli newspaper Aad pub Lishers had turned Down a Guidebook be cause of the limited audience for it in he brew. Swedish Trade office to be opened in a Tant Stockholm up Sweden open a Trade office in Atlanta a in a. 1981, the swedish Export Board a trounced. Strong interest in swedish paper uti pulp equipment prompted the Export a flirt to locale in the Southern american City mid Stollan Litton of the Export Board 1
