European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Gabo Lodge in a wbk 81 age 8 d Georgetown defeats Johns 21 House of far Ufier e Aiu Page 28 the Andis ripes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 316 March 1985 d 8693 a pan am paralysed by strike new York a picket lines went up from Miami to Honolulu on thursday As transport Union workers struck pan Ameri can world virtually shutting Down the financially troubled carriers Domestic service and severely curtailing its overseas i think it is going to be a Long said the director of the airline division of the transport workers John he announced the strike by baggage flight dispatchers and food service workers at a military Airlift come spokesman at Rhei main said anyone who holds tickets on a commercial pan Ameri can flight should Call the Rhei main Pas Senger terminal for information and reroute air Force personnel should Call Rhein main military 7107 and army personnel should Call Rhei main military pan am charter flights out of Rhein main will not be affected because pan am is required to provide another the Mac spokesman picket lines immediately went up at airports in los san Francisco and Kerrigan said pan am pilots who settled their con tract with the airline tuesday have promised to Honor Twu picket and other unions have advised their members to stay off the pan am spokesman James Arey said the airline was to originate 14 flights from airports in the United states on thursday two from san three from eight from new York City and one from los the Only flight with both departure and arrival Points within the United states was a new Yor Tolos Angeles pan am usually runs 400 flights pan am made fresh contract offers to mechanics wednesday but Kerri Gan said they were the last pan am flight out of the United states from los Angeles to Syd left on schedule at the airline had three overseas flights expected at John Kennedy International Airport in new York Early and Jeff a pan am vice presi said supervisors would handle the baggage on All three 747 pan am has been contacting its competitors to seek available space for any of its passengers an average of daily who Are grounded by a cancelled Arey told on wednesday pan am offered Twu members a 20 percent wage in crease Over 36 Kerrigan in pan am offered mechanics an immediate Bonus and a Bonus to other bargaining he pan am chairman Edward in a statement released after the said in rejecting the Twu has woefully failed to recognize that pan am cannot compete in a deregulated environment under the Burden of archaic work rules and unrealistic compensation pan am asked All unionized work ers for productivity gains and Large reductions in pension and healthcare the Twu has asked for a Snapback to the 14 percent increase its members postponed in but by tuesday the company had offered Only a 4 percent in crease in each of the next three the airline had a pretax operating loss of million last new zealand blasts defense sanctions London a new zealand prime minister David Lange in effect accused the United states on thursday of attempting to oust him from Lange implied that Washington is using methods Akin to totalitarianism in its nuclear quarrel with new the United states has imposed Intelli gence and defense sanctions against new zealand because Langes labor govern ment has refused to permit nuclear powered or nuclear armed ships to use new zealand ports during military Lange told a jammed news conference that americas actions to scale Down its cooperation with new zealand Are de signed to Embarrass to cause morale in the defense services to be he said of the policy it is generally seen by the government As pursuing once More the strategy of having the situation in new zealand changed to the Point where a government is elected that will Welcome nuclear weapons to new the Leader of the opposition National party Leader Jim Mclay has already declared his commitment to snuggling up to the bomb and i have no doubt that various efforts will be made to keep that course on who was told of the actions tuesday during a visit to los was asked by a dutch reporter How can a Small nation like yours and mine resist the pro nuclear pressure of the big Powers Lange replied the Type of pressure which Large Powers can exert Over the Small ones is seen by the people in a Small democracy As being somewhat Akin to the very totalitarianism we Are supposed to be fight ing whose party replaced a conserva Tive administration in new zealand last said that economic or defense sanctions can cause an upsurge of support for the antinuclear of hey maybe an Al most unrealistic nationalism can he also Dearest allies should take this into account in making utterances Lange actions Are designed to Embarrass to cause morale to be affected of cashes in on efforts to stamp out overpricing by Jim Macfarlane Raf England eyebrows Here Rose recently when it was Learned that a Vendor was Selling 3cent screws to the air Force for the find was one of the 11 unearthed through innovative measures started by the bases Zer overpricing com grat whose full time Job is commander of the s13th Supply said the items Range from screws to All instances were discovered since june when the committee was the committee has reviewed 75 suspected cases of overpricing in the past eight in addition to the 11 verified another eight Are considered Strong and Are in the final stages of Verinica the most blatant overpricing concerned three sizes of the air Force was paying each for the half Inch to five Inch when the cases were brought to the attention of the All three types of screws were found in Supply channels for 3 cents when we began the we thought wed be Lucky to verify 10 percent of the cases reviewed As Over Horn i never expected we would find More than twice that number were actually charging the air Force too much Horn credits the findings to a High degree of aware Ness among his customers of the items with More than items on Stock in his 30 know ing the exact Price of each item is an impossible task for his Squadron that Why he depends on the people who order items to be aware of what they Are getting for the also important to the programs Success is a High state of awareness that overpricing wont be he to increase awareness of the overpricing program at Raf the committee began an instantaneous award each participant is awarded a certificate of regardless of the outcome of a when a Case appears to have unearthed an the committee can award an initial although final verification would still be Horn these awards Are in addition to larger Cash awards that May be Given if the air Force saves a substantial amount of he the largest award to Date at Mildenhall was for More than photographic slide mounts costing the air Force per Hundred were found elsewhere for per the new Price will save the air Force about a the most recent verification was for a specialized avionics Cable for which the air Force was paying a new supplier is now Selling them to the air Force see pricing on Page 28 Buck stays at Marks Page 28