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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 24, 1986 the stars and stripes Pago 7 two years after slayings up photo Gloria Rubalcaba places signs at the site where two Yean ago James Huberty gunned Down 21 people at a Mcdonald s restaurant in san Ysidro Calif. The Mcdonald s building there has been demolished and residents say the vacant lot is an embarrassment tothe Community. White House says it did t Aid Union in fort Sill election Washington up the Whitehouse has denied that it paid off the teamsters for supporting president Rea Gan by helping the Union win an election to represent civilian workers at fort Sill okla. White House spokesman Larry speak is confirmed tuesday that political adviser Mitchell Daniels with Pentagon backing set up a meeting last october Between teamsters and army officials to discuss the problem of the army contracting out work instead of giving it to the employees represented by a rival Union. The meeting came right before a close election Between the teamsters and the National federation of Federal employees which lost its right to bargain for most of the 2,500 workers after 15 Yean of representation. The Federal labor relations authority complained in february that the meet ing was an apparent violation of Law re Quiring government neutrality in representation elections. The teamsters Long linked to organized crime then launched a publicity Campaign among the workers touting its Access to the White House with a flyer headlined when we talk for you the White House  Steven Kreisberg director of the rival Union s Field operations said the meet ing was a political payoff for the sup port that the teamsters have Given the White  Scakes said not so because Seweren t aware we were doing any favors for the  Daniels had no knowledge of an elec Tion that was pending and if he did he would not have met with the team sters he said. Speakes said the White House would be willing to hear from any Side in a dispute about government contracting practices but he could not cite a pre Vious Case. Daniels reported on the dispute to the White House counsel Fred Fielding after the oct. 10 meeting seven Days be fore the election won by the teamsters591-516, he said. The army has contested the Union Scharge that it violated the Law. The Board which supervises labor relations among Federal workers could overturn the election. A memo written by army col. James Schroeder of the office of the comptroller of the army to one of the participants the Day before the White House meeting said the Exchange was viewed Asa show the Flag meeting to impress fort Sill s workers that the teamsters can do More for them than the  report urges . To prepare to explore space Washington a a commission that has charted out a future for the United states in colonizing space presented its report to Congress on tuesday. The report pioneering the space Frontier had been ready since april but the White House postponed its delivery to president Reagan several  May it finally was made Public and delivered to the White House. Panel chairman Thomas o. Paine reviewed the re port separately tuesday with Reagan and the space subcommittees of the Senate _ Commerce science and transportation committee and the House science and technology committee. Although the report focuses on establishing colonies and manufacturing on the Moon and Mars directed to report by the end of sagan1986 what he will do to implement the recommendations that Congress re examine the possibility of re establishing the National space Council and that if the Long Range Agenda is adopted a blues not be drawn for the kind of technology needed. One congressional witnesses was astronomer Carl Sagan director of the Laboratory for planetary studies at Cornell University who said the United states needs an easily understood widely accepted goal. Rep. Robert Walker said space activities need to Bemore than adventure that if Queen Isabella had justified Christopher Columbus trip in 1492 As Only an adventure she probably could t have gotten fund ing from her court for that so she justified it on the basis they were going to find a Short route to the indies and they were Al going to get  $13 a barrel now Oil Price slide eliminating jobs Washington a the slide in Oil Price probably will wipe out 142,000 Oil Industry jobs by the end of this year and almost As Many among supplier companies the Industry s largest Trade group said tuesday. Jobs among suppliers ranging from machinery an steel manufacturers to advertising agencies probably will fall by 116,000, the american Petroleum Institute said. A Price of $15 a barrel would by 1991, mean the end of almost 300,000 jobs from the 1.6 million provided by the Industry in 1985, according to api Fig ures. A so per barrel Price would eliminate 407,000 jobs the Institute said. These projections do not in clude jobs in supplier firms. Oil prices averaged about $28 in the United state last year according to the api. On the new York mercantile Exchange contracts for August delivery of West Texas crude recently have been running around $ 13 a barrel after rebounding from about $ 10. The Institute presented a new study based on Survey of 21 Large member companies that projected . Production in 1991 at 6.2 million barrels per Day if the Price is $15 and 5.1 million barrels at $10. Last year s production was 8.9 million barrels a figure thai would Rise to 9.1 million barrels if the Price remained at $28, the api said. This Means imports would Rise from about a third . Consumption currently to More than 50 percent under either Price scenario Charles Dibona Institute president told a news conference. The Institute study repeated earlier predictions of Price increases after three to five years when world Oil use stimulated by Low prices stimulates production from open countries to 80 percent of capacity. This is the Point at which the Cartel has been Able to dictate prices in the past the api said. Each billion Dollar reduction in exploration and production capital expenditures reduces direct Indus try jobs by almost 11,000 and indirect jobs among suppliers by 8,900, the api estimated on the basis of Commerce department computer Model of the . Economy. The Job loss estimates of 142,000 and 116,000 were two year declines based on an estimated Cut of $13billion in 1986 capital spending from 1984 Levels As reported by Oil & Gas journal. Man admits he s Captain midnight1 by the los Angeles times Washington a Florida Man who operates business Selling backyard satellite dishes pleaded guilty tuesday to charges that he is the video pirate dubbed Captain Midnight who illegally interfered with satellite transmissions of a Home Box office movie last april the Federal communications com Mission said. John r. Macdougall who owns Macdougall electronics a Dealership that Sells Home satellite dishes Inocula fla., entered his plea in Federal court in Jack Sonville. He was charged with illegally operating a satellite transmitter to cause interference intentionally to Hob Cable television programming. Under an agreement reached with . Attorney Robert Merkle Macdougall will be subject to a $5,000 Fine a year s probation and a suspension of his Amateur radio License for one year. Macdougall who will be sentenced later had faced a maximum penalty Ozone year in prison and a $100,000 Fine. The search for Macdougall began after a Surpris video signal overrode Hob transmissions from its Long Island n.y., facility to the Galaxy i satellite around Midnight april 27. The interference prevented reception of the Star of the movie the Falcon and the snowman by Cable to and other viewers in the Eastern part of the nation. The interruption was an apparent protest to Hob practice of scrambling its signals so that its programs could be seen Only by those who had paid to watch them  
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