European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday. May 12, 1986 of scism of go f retirement distortion by Dick Hodgson  Bureau ram Steij a Germany congressional 1 pro posed cuts 10 i tie minor retirement plan arc the result of misinformation Distor Liol and sensationalism Gen. An Drew p. Losic says. They Congress said we  and made the Case of a 40 or 42-Ycar-Atd Retiree tos Aid Josite commander or the or Force s air Tram re pm head quartered Al Randolph fab Texas. They Salsi Ushy we did t keep i hem in longer " Losic said he Dislo lion in that argument is that average Reid acc is 56 years old and serves Mare Ihnn he 20 year minimum before leaving Active duty. Most scr vice  Between 23 arid 26 years he said. They said it Cost too much he said Friday. In icbms of Cost you re talking about Sis billion. They said if you took at the Cost in the year 2020, it will Cost s50 billion. -. All that is sensational sing simple 3 to 5 percent inflation figures la s the same thing its me telling you that a Chevy pickup truck is going to Cost you j15,000 this year bul130.000 in the year 2000. You say wow. 1 can t afford a pickup truck for . Sure you can. It s 3 to 5 percent simple sensationalized inflation. Losic said Congress also characterized the current Lary retirement system As being  if it s lavish Why is it thai Only about 2pafklo the Force stays with us Lane enough to  average Retiree receives about $9,300 per a cat Ai s about the poverty level for a family of four  today he said. The word lavish was used to dramatize and sensation Alize the proposal. How Rowe world can less than 110,000 per year be consider Dervish now they re going to $7,000 per year retired another  Losic said was thai retirees receive 50 a out to change those numbers and increase Thorn to allow  pin on and sew on times and promotion opportunities to wind. For example now there is an 80 percent promotion  to major 75 percent to lieutenant colonel and 55 Percy to colonel. If those remain the same and people stay Tractive duly longer to get the higher retirement pay what Fitt Peru to the Young Captain who asks am i going to wait 1 years to make major those Are the things we Don t 1 bul we think it will have a negative effect on  Syria won t a now q question i no so Britain will expel 3 envoys news update London a Britain saturday or dered the expulsion of three syrian Diplo Mats after the syrian embassy refused to lift their diplomatic immunity so that police could question them about terrorist activity. The syrian embassy said the action in question was the attempted bombing of an israeli Al Al Airliner Al London s Heathrow Airport. Ambassador or. Lou of Allah Haydar strongly denied involvement in terrorist attacks in Britain and claimed the embassy was willing to cooperate with Scot land Yard. But he confirmed Syria s refusal to waive diplomatic immunity a foreign office ionic Mcnol said Haydar was summoned saturday by Deputy under Secretary of state Ewen Ferguson and Given a week to remove the three attaches from Britain. Haydar told the associated press we have never been involved in any terrorist activities on British soil and subsequently have nothing to hide at  he said it was our wish to contribute to and cooperate with the British Security authorities in their investigation of this matter in order to decide who was behind this at tempted blast at  bul his government refused a title Diplo Matic immunity he said because no Mem Ber of Bis staff was directly accused and diplomatic immunity is a Sovereign act to be taken by a Sovereign country Only in grave and serious cases where there is cer Tain reasonable evidence or proof of involve ment in something  Haydar said that since there has been none of that we did t see any justification for waiving immunity he declined to speculate on the possible Impact Britain s actions would Nave on Urcla Lions with Syria but said the foreign office has assured me they Are its anxious As we arc to maintain Good  Haydar refused to spell out the functions of the three men under expulsion orders. They Are listed in the diplomatic Register As attaches with no elaboration. The statement said police wanted to flues Ion hem on allegations about syrian involvement in certain terrorist activities in his  it did not spell out these activities but last week foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe told parliament that the incident under discussion was the april 17 attempt to smuggle a bomb into the Al Al Boeing 741 Al Condon s Heathrow Airport. The expulsions followed a pledge by prime minister Margaret Thatcher at the Tokyo Summit of the Western Powers to Lake tougher measures against terrorism. Britain s trial lawyers lose monopoly London a barristers the be wigged and gowned trial lawyers who epitomise British Legal decorum lost their Cen Tury old monopoly Friday on representing clients in the higher courts. But the Long running bar wars Wrangle Between Britain s two classes of lawyers barristers and solicitors rages on with solicitors demanding an even Digger piece of the barristers lucrative Legal action. Lord Lane the lord chief Justice announced that solicitors who generally have less prestige than barristers will be allowed for the first time to present cases in the Crown court High court and court of Appeal. But he said the privilege would be limited to Reading formal statements in court and Only in unopposed cases those in which both sides agree there will be no Legal arguments. Handling High profile High fee criminal and civil trials will remain the barristers preserve the Jurist said. A strict distinction Between barristers and solicitors has been enforced since the Laic 19tb Century. Barristers have been allowed to argue cases in the higher courts and solicitors did the other com Mon duties of a lawyer such As making Oul wills and contracts. The difference was once summed up by the country s highest Jurist. Lord Hall Sham the lord Chancellor who de scribed the solicitor As a Man of Busi Ness and the barrister As to some extent an artist and scholar solicitors have had the right to appear at private hearings and handle such cases As Petty thefts in the magistrates courts and county courts. But until Friday Iney could not speak on their clients be half in the higher courts. Those courts Nave been the exclusive pre serve of the country s 5,000 barristers from whose ranks judges Are chosen. A pm Ine to thirds of the 60,000 solicitors portrayed the Deci Sion As a Small Victory for Consumers Choice but said it did not go far enough. 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