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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, June 5, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday june 5, 1986 los Angeles Boston to Lead in Job opportunities study says Washington a California and Massachusetts communities will fruit the in Init in new jobs thru up the urn of inc next Century according to a private study thai predict that nearly Lulf of Al Iilva. Job will be in jut 30 main Inolin areas. The National i Lunning Asuri Atiim said tuesday hat inc Angeles  Irea Mil have the most new jobs Between now and the year Maxful Mcd by the Betsion metro Irum. The treads y Marling to see a Little larger pm la in the northeastern traditional Industrial areas Satti  n Strong of the planning Assoc a Tracu a in fac Soure -o.s. Mow. 1bh1 Dallas pedal patrol pause edition Al Tel stops bicycling along his Belt Long enough to bite a chit with  it a null in Memphis Tenn. The peddling a Lobnan � one of two who tone twin Chomiw As be first Mem Bers of a new bicycle patrol unit. Dying brother records plea Tor release of Kidnap victim Batavia . A the brother of kidnapped journalist Terry Anderson has made a videotape idling of his failing fight with cancer in Hopes that it might strike a chord of com passion with Anderson s Leb anese captors their sister says. Glenn Anderson made the tape in a new York Hospital where tie is being treated Peggy say said in a Telephone interview wednesday. She said the tape Wilt be sent 10 Lebanon where Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press has been held hostage since March 16,1985. It was Tike so much we be done a Des Perate Hope hat they might respond or that Fie might suite some chord of compassion in them say said from tier Home in Bata via. When i asked Glenn Richard if he wanted to do it he was very enthusiastic. He said you know anything to bring Terry Home it was very hard for him to do said say. Lie did Noi have a Good Day after the recording of the tape because or the emotions. But he it desperate to see Terry and Felt anything hat might contribute to that he was will ing to  in the tape Glenn Anderson s voice cracked with emotion As tic said this is a message to the people holding my brother Terry. My fall or died of cancer waiting to see Terry. He did not see him. Now 1 have cancer and i made a vow would not die until i saw Terry. Thai vow is very close loan end. Please release1 him. I wish to see him one More time. Please release him. Thank  say said Glenn would be sent Home to Florida this week i end because there i does t seem to be a few anything hat the doctors can do for  ten Anderson 38, a native of Lorain. Ohio is one of five americans missing in Lebanon. Last november Lebanon s television stations broadcast a videotaped birthday Mes Sage to Anderson from his relatives and friends in new York state. Official ordered to reimburse . For luxury cruise Washington a the taxpayers should nol have paid for a us a official who on his return Home with his family from assignment in Uruguay spent tic last portion of the journey cruising on a Mississippi River luxury Steamboat a judge a ruled. . District judge Thomas a. Flannery said tuesday that Christopher Paddack who was the . Information Agency s no. 2 Man in Montevideo Uruguay must repay the  Al 1,178.30 of inc ii 2,760 Cost of the 600 mile cruise. The judge said he Cost of the 12-Day trip on the missis Sippi Queen was improper Anit not in Accord with the applicable regulation and that fact should have been known to Paddack the foreign service grievance Board had earlier found that Paddack not Only did not have to repay the Money but the Agency could not subtract the extra Lime he spent on the boat from Bis annual leave. The Board ordered Usla to restore 11 Days leave originally charged against Bis account and to pay him $1,770 the spending allow Ance coming of him for 11 Days of travel. In reversing the ruling Flannery dismissed the Board s claim that the Riv Troal was a usual Means of conveyance because More than 20,000 people use the company s two boat on the Mississippi River. If Rinere number of travellers were the Only criterion in determining whether a particular Mode at conveyance were usual one could Well conclude that recreational transportation such As White River rafting Down Many United slates Rivers is a usual Mode of conveyance since Many thousands of people raft those Rivers cd year Flannory said. The judge said Paddack had testified before the Board that the primary purpose in taking the cruise was to share Wilb his two teen age children the experience he and his wife bad in seeing riverboats As a Normal Mode of transportation on the River. Travel expenses incurred for such personal conveniences must be assumed by the traveler acid not by taxpayers Flannery said. " Paddack s attempt to pass such expenses off to Ordinary taxpayers for whom 3 luxury riverboat cruise is Well beyond their Means is  Walter h. Fleischer Paddack s attorney did he had not read Flannery s ruling and declined comment. Royce Lambert chief of the civil division of the . Attorney s office that handled the Case for the government said on behalf of the american taxpayer we re pleased with the judge s decision. We Hope it tends a message to every government employee Paddack who had been serving As education officer in the us. Embassy in Uruguay headed Home o burling ton Iowa in july 1982 before beginning his new assign ment in Washington. Before leaving he received authorization to make the trip by air surface and  the embassy issued pad dark two vouchers covering the rave including ship Ravel from new Orleans to St. Louii. The vouchers bore no Dollar amounts. A travel Agency used by the embassy sent one of the vouchers to the Delta Queen Steamboat co., and gave Paddack a letter confirming the booking. A made he trip with his family arriving in Burlington on july 26, 3w weeks after leaving Montevideo Fuu Mery said the grievance Board misinterpreted for eign service travel regulations. The most crucial error the Board made was interpret ing he regulations o mean that in determining whether particular travel Wai prudent or out effective the traveler need Only consider relative cats of travel within it partic ular made he said the regulations say nothing about just Condit luring die Casl at Ravel within a particular Mode. Rather the regu lations provide that regardless of Mode travellers must minimize costs and exercise Good judgment when Mak ing travel plans  
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