European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pics gave $113 million in 1983-84 Washington up1 special inter-fn3,1? " record a Millium Imo a 1983-84 election Cycle with most of in going to incumbent members of Congress the Federal a Lection commission reported saturday. Senate and House members seeking re election received j80.6 million or 70 per cent of All the Money contributed by Spe Ciul interest political action committees. By comparison challengers received Only 16 percent and candidates in open Seal elections got 11 percent. As a group. House democrats got the biggest Clink s38.8 million or 34 per cent of the total. Growing concern Pac contributions by special interests Nave been a growing concern because of allegations that the corporations unions and groups giving the Money have undue influence on the votes of members of Congress. On tuesday the Senate will vote on a Mea sure to limit the amount of Pac Money a congressional candidate can accept. Pac contributions in the last election Cycle jumped from the j87.6 million spent two years earlier. Tie Fec said in report reviewed 4,347 pics. The King of the pics continued to be it controversial National conservative political action committee which spent much of its $19.3 million on advertising opposing Liberal incumbents. Second was the fund for a conservative majority with j5.4 million and third was  National congressional club organized by conservative sen. Jesse Helms r n.c., with $5.3 million. Re Lton Pat most those big pics spent much of their Money independently. The biggest contributor to congressional candidates was the realtors Pac with $2.4 million Fol Lowed by the american medical association with si.8 million the National association of Home builders with si.6 million the nation education association with $1.5 million and the United Auto workers with si.4 million. Monday december 2, 1985 the stars and stripes o Page 9 Singer Ellon John left and berate Tupin Center will get unpaid royalties from i Ondon music publisher Dick  rightl"0"" Elton John and songwriting partner win royalties suit but lose copyrights London a Rock Star Elton Nicholls found that Money that should " " have been paid to John and Taupin in royalties had been siphoned off into companies owned by James. Sam Sylvester James lawyer said the judgment has enormous implications for the  a spokesman for the Rock Star said Elton is pleased that some practices in the music Industry particularly that of foreign publishing have received a very thorough judicial investigation and in the Case of the Dick James organization have been found to be  Tau Piti said after the ruling we have not retained our copyright but we have prove we were morally  the question of who will pay the Esti mated 1.5 million Pound $2.25 million Cost of the Case which ran for 50 Days will be decided later. John 37, of of Windsor England and Taupin 34, now living in Beverly Hills calif., were seeking the copyrights to More than 140 songs including hits John and his songwriting partner Berner Taupin in a court Battle with their music publisher Over unpaid royalties won an undisclosed amount of Money Friday which could amount to millions but they lost their claim to ownership of the copyrights and the master record Ings of their greatest hits. They signed them away to Dick James music in 1967. Frank Pressland. Lawyer for the song writers said they stood to gain up to 5 million pounds $7.5 million in unpaid royalties and interest. But Stephen James managing director of the Dick James firm said the amount would be no More than half a million pounds. High court judge sir Donald Nicholls ruled that the songwriting team was deliberately underpaid enormous sums in royalties while employed by music pub Lishing giant James Between 1967 and 1975. Like rocket Man Crocodile Rock and Candle in the  the songwriters claimed in court that undue influence was used by James to get the then unknown pair to sign their songs away for life in 1967. However the judge ruled that under the terms of the agreement they signed their entire output for sin years and the copyright to it was bound to Dick James music forever with no provision for the rate of royalties to be increased. Nicholls described the Deal As an unreasonably hard bargain but he stressed that James had not sought consciously to obtain an unfair advantage. The judge also said both John and Taupin had benefited greatly from their association with James. I can see no reason to doubt that in giving or. John and or. Taupin a Chance to Start at All or. James made a significant contribution to their subsequent Success he said. Riff called unlikely to jeopardize South pole research Washington up the deep freeze in . Military relations with new zealand is not expected to affect . Navy and air Force logistical support to Ameri can scientists staffing bases at the South pole one authority says. But Peter Wilkniss director of Polar pro Grams for the National science foundation could not disguise some anxiety when Dis cussing the seemingly Remote possibility of loss of . Antarctic Supply facilities at Auckland and Christchurch new zealand. The Reagan administration has warned new zealand that if it goes ahead with legislation prohibiting visits by . Ships suspected of carrying nuclear weapons Washington will renounce the new Zea land part of the anus Australia new zealand United states Mutual defense Pac signed in 1951. . Participation in Antarctic scientific projects is governed by an Antarctic treaty regulating activities of All 16 signatories including the soviet Union wildness said. At present . Policy is that anything that has to do with the Antarctic treaty is totally separate from the political considerations of . Defense treaties wildness told the United press International. The Antarctic treaty Calls for peaceful cooperation on the continent for scientific research he said. But even though the treaty declares Antarctica to be a nuclear free zone it does not bar the use of unarmed military personnel to assist in carry ing out the  wildness said two . Coast guard ice Breakers an ice research vessel and Navy chartered cargo vessels not Navy ships and chartered air Force and Navy c-130 and c-141 aircraft arc involved in replenishing supplies and rotating manpower. The National science foundation reimburses the coast guard Navy and air Force for the ships aircraft and Crews he said. We own seven lc-130 ski equipped aircraft and charter c-14ls," he said. The lc-130s Are flown by Navy Crews the c 141 by air Force Crews. The foundation also operates helicopters. Wildness said Congress appropriated $110 million for the foundation for 1985 and has earmarked $110 million for 1986. The United states operates three Perma nent stations in Antarctica at the South pole at Mcmurdo sound and on he Palmer Peninsula the wheeled aircraft can land on the fro zen sea he said. At other times the ski plane is used to land ashore. During Winter Only 19 scientists remain at the South pole base which has a comple ment of up to 50 during the comparatively Milder summer. Mcmurdo s Winter Popula Tion averages about 75, rising As High As 1.200 during the summer. Palmer s inhabit ants average about so. Outlying Field Camps also arc established during the summer with a complement of about 50, and More people arc aboard the icebreakers and Supply ships offshore. Purge of polish universities draws academics ire Warsaw Poland a polish Aca Demic have expressed outrage Over the re Moval of More than 40 senior University officials from their posts by resigning in protest organizing petition campaigns and threatening to Boycott a govern Mcnol Spon lord scientific Congress to be held next Spring University sources said saturday. At least four senior University officials were reported to have resigned to protest dismissals ordered by the government in a purge of academic staff members whose views were considered politically unreliable opposition sources said. Piotr Zalowski Rector of the Academy of agriculture in Krakow and a Deputy rec Tor Marian Tischner resigned from their posts after another Deputy Rector Ludwik Spiss was removed said Zygmunt Lenyk a Krakow human rights activist in a Tele phone interview. Opposition sources reported that two vice rectors at Gdansk University Antoni Sliwinski and Brunon Synave submitted their resignations after the ouster of the school s Rector Karol Taylor. According to unofficial accounts from University and opposition sources at least 46 senior academic officials have been removed from administrative positions at 14 polish col Leges and universities in recent Days. _ among those dismissed were the rectors of Gdansk University Poznan University and Warsaw polytechnic. Other removals of vice rectors Deans and department Heads were reported at other universities in Warsaw wroclaw Poznan Gdansk Krakow Polc Torun and Radom some sources estimated that the number of ousted officials could eventually total More than 100, because information was not yet available from All of the some 90 state run institutions of higher education in Poland. Ministry of higher education spokesman Antoni Stolarski confirmed on Friday that a review of academic personnel had taken place but he refused to say How Many peo ple had been removed from administrative posts. He said the results of the review would later be made Public