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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 22, 1687 the stars and stripes Pago 5 Annapolis profs for or pay Annapolis my. The . Naval Academy is losing top civilian teachers to private colleges because of Federal pay constraints according to the institution s academic Dean. Half of the Academy s 600 faculty Mem cry arc civilians. Most teach advanced Tecl courses. The pay discrepancies arc so great thai the Academy was unable to fill a naval architecture opening for five Yean and had to train another teacher for the course said thedean Karl a Lamb. We re not Able to hire the Quality individuals that we would like to have Lamb told a meeting of the Academy s Board of visitors similar to a Board of regents at other schools. Professors at the Annapolis school earn More than teachers at schools which do not offer Post graduate de Grees. Bui they rank below those offered at Stanford Princeton Villanova and other schools with comparable Aca Demic programs Lamb said. Full professors at the naval facade my for example earn an average of $43,200 during a nine month academic year. Stanford professors make $63,100 and Princeton professors earn $59,800. For a systems Engineer s opening the Academy received eight application hut All were withdrawn after the salary was revealed Lamb did. Hiring problems also have occurred in chemistry compel or science English and economics. Since 1980, Federal workers have received a 19,3 percent raise while raises at select private universities averaged 42.7 percent during the same period Lamb said we re four years behind where the civilian universities arc he said. The problem is unique to the naval Academy because the . Military Academy has Only 13 civilian teachers and the air Force Academy five according to Lamb. And at the other academics military Ira dim arc allowed 10 stay longer than the three year naval Lour. Lamb acknowledged thai the facade my has amenities lacking at civilian colleges including a student body that is required to attend classes and study every nigh. This is a Nice place. They like the water. They like the closeness to Washington. But that does t pay the Mort Gage he said defense contractors cheating House group says Washington a defense contractors Are making millions of dollars in excess profits by with holding information from the Pentagon about what it costs to build weapons according to a report released monday by a House committee. The review by the government operations com Mittee listed 10 major defense contractors which it said made More than $ 14 million in excess profits. According to the report which came in the Wake of hearings by the panel last fan defense contractors Are not providing All the Cost information they arc supposed to under the terms of the 1962 truth in negotiations acl rep. Jack Brooks a Texas chairman of the com Mittee said the practice of withholding information was widespread and  spokesmen for he firms either said their companies had t yet seen the report or they were unavailable. At the Pentagon spokesman Glenn flood said he could t comment on the report because he had t seen it but added that the Pentagon s profit policy has recently been revised to reduce excess profits. Many of the defense department s contracts Par. Licul arly involving items purchased from a single com May  hmm  a we , Pany rather than after competitive bidding. Involve negotiations Between defense department contract officials and personnel from the firms involved. The Standard practice is for the contract to provide a margin of profit for the contractor based on eos and production figures supplied by the contractor. Profits could be increased if a contractor uses inflated Cost or production estimates. The 1962 Law was intended o make sure government contract officials have accurate information when negotiating the permissible profit Levels. Brooks said his panel found that contractors violate those provisions by withholding their most up to Date Cost data and giving the government Cost estimates higher Ihan the costs they know they will actually incur the companies involved in the most recent report arc Boeing aerospace Boeing Vrtol. General motors Allison Gas Turbine general motors Detroit diesel Honeywell defense systems Hughes aircraft lock heed missile systems Martin Marietta Pratt & Whit Ney and Texas instruments equipment group. According to the panel a review by the general accounting office found that the defense contract audit Agency spends Only 6 percent of its time reviewing con tracts to find  acceptable. No. Governor signs mandatory recycling Bill Glass cans papers must be separated in trash Trenton . A All new Jer sey residents will have to separate mate rials such As Glass and newspapers from their household trash under a Bill signed monday creating the nation s Moil comprehensive mandatory statewide Recy cling program. The legislation signed by gov. Thom As h. Kean is aimed at saving dwindling space in landfills cutting garbage Dispo Sal costs and helping protect natural re sources. It Calls for the recycling of at least 25 percent of All household garbage after two years. It s a major step Forward toward solving the solid waste problems of the state of new Jersey said one of the Bill s sponsors. Assemblyman Arthur Al Bohn. It s the Dawn of a new Day a new Way of thinking about solid  counties will have six months to adopt 9 plan designating the materials such As Glass aluminium cans and news papers that must be recycled. After a plan wins state approval municipalities will have six months to adopt an ordinance requiring residents to Sepa rate leaves and at least three of the approved materials from their garbage. All the local ordinances Are expected to take effect by August 1988, said Mary Sycil state office of recycling director. Municipalities also must approve penal ties for violators. Dents of communities that rely on the stale for waste disposal will have to Sepa rate newspapers and aluminium Glass and Metal beverage containers from their garbage beginning in january 988, however the new Jersey Law will affect More people than either the Rhode Island or Oregon programs and unlike those initiatives it requires every stale resident to Lake part. Environmentalists say the Bill does to go far enough because plastic containers Aren t included. The Bill s supporters say markets for recycled plastic Are not developed to the Point where mandatory recycling of Plas tic containers should be approved. Vermont w. Virginia adopt 65-Mph limit on interstates by the associated press the Speed limit on must interstate High ways in West Virginia and Vermont Rose monday from 55 Mph to 65 Mph bringing to at least nine the number of Stales taking advantage of a new Federal Law. Kiaie police in both states said they would begin strictly enforcing the new limit. Vermont Coy. Madeleine Kunin signed the new limit into Law monday. West Virginia gov. Arch Moore approved the increase saturday 10 go into effect at 6 . Monday. In Vermont the Speed limit remains at 55 Mph near Burlington on interstate 89, and near Rockina Harn Westminster Andbrauleboroonl-91. The limit slays at the double Nickel in West Virginia on 1-64 through Charleston 1-70 through Wheeling and on the West Virginia Turnpike which serves As 1-77 from Charleston to Princeton. Congress passed a measure this year allowing Stales to increase the Speed limit on Rural parts of the interstate sys tem. Congress had lowered the limit Dur ing the height of the Energy crisis As a Way to Cut fuel consumption. The first stale to boost its Speed limit was new Mexico where a 65-Mph sign went up the Day the Senate overrode president Reagan s veto. It was followed by Colorado Illinois Louisiana Nevada North Dakota South Dakota and Arizo the Bill initially appropriates is Mil lion for counties and municipalities to launch the recycling programs and develop markets for recycled material. Up to 115 million a year eventually will be raised for such purposes through higher garbage disposal fees Sycil said. About 150 of new Jersey s 567 municipalities already had adopted some Type of mandatory recycling program and up to 290 others have voluntary programs Sycil said. Two other slates have adopted statewide recycling programs. In Oregon communities of More than 4,000 must arrange for collections of re cycled materials. In Rhode Island Resi Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 22, 1947 the Congress of Industrial organizations president Philip Murray announced a two year agreement Between the Cio United Siccle workers and the . Steel corp. Providing wage increases of about 15 cents an hour. 30 years ago today. April 22, 1957 the census Bureau said the number of american wives who were holding or seeking jobs moved up from 21 percent in 1955 to 30 percent this year. 20 years ago today. April 22, 1967 socialist Leader gallon diff Croc backed words with steel when he twice nicked gaullist Deputy Rene Ribicic in a sword Duel held secretly in Paris. During a heated French Assembly debate Meltem called rib inc a stupid  which sparked Ribiere s Challenge to a Duel. ? 0 years ago today. April 22, 1977 former president Richard Nixon finished the last of 12 interviews with to personality David Frost. The interviews were to be televised in May  
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