European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 Reagan pension hike called oversight by the Washington Post Washington president Rea Gan in recommending 50 percent pay increases for members of Congress judges and other top Federal officials inadvertently recommended a 56 per cent boost in his pension a White House spokesman said. Under Federal Law former presidents receive annual pensions equal to the salaries of Cabinet secretaries. Reagan recommended that Cabinet secretaries annual salaries be raised from $99,500 to $ 155,000. White House spokesman b. Jay Cooper said Reagan was unaware of the pension implications when he recommended the salary increases to con Gress. Cooper said he doubted the in formation would have changed Reagan s mind the other factors being so  Reagan already receives a $29,711 annual pension As a former governor of California. Former presidents Carter Ford and Nixon would receive the pension in crease As Well according to David Keating executive director of the National taxpayers Union. The Union said in a news release More than a month ago that it had raised the Issue in a letter to Reagan. Reagan proposed that the salaries of members of Congress and judges be in creased from $89,500 to $135,000 a year. Similar 50 percent increases were recommended for assistant secretaries and Bureau directors As Well As the vice president and speaker of the House. The raises will go into effect automatically under special legislation unless voted Down by both houses of con Gress within 30 Days of monday. Greenpeace riles French in Antarctic Sydney Australia up fifteen Greenpeace protesters were reported injured in a violent confrontation with French construction workers on the ant Arctic Island of Durmont Durville a member of the environmentalist group said sunday. In a Telephone interview with a Syd Ney television station protest Leader Peter Wilkinson said a Melee ensued saturday after the French workers tried to break up a peaceful demonstration on the tiny Island protesting against the French building of an Airstrip. Wilkinson said he and his fellow pro testers had erected a hut on an Access Road to the Airstrip site when they were threatened by a violent gang of workers. He said they threatened to run them Over with a Large Earth digging machine and a Bulldozer. There was a Melee. We were thrown to one Side said Wilkinson. This is the Way the French decided to put an end to our peaceful  a newscast reported that 15 people had been injured in the Melee but Ian Balmer radio officer on the protest Greenpeace protesters saturday carry French no to the runway signs on the Antarctic Island of Durmont Durville. Balmer said that gon Dwana was an r chord off the Island of Durmont Dur another ship gom Iwana said by radio Ville where for the past three Days its phone sunday that no one had been in Crew had been carrying out peaceful Jared seriously. Demonstrations. The French originally came Here to study the life of the penguins which Breed Here. Now they have decided to build an Airstrip Here he said. We believe this intrusion is a threat to the Penguin  he said the gon Dwana which sailed from new zealand was registered in Amsterdam and was manned by 28 Greenpeace workers. Wary flight attendants cause scrubbing of threatened flight Newark . A flight attendants forced the cancellation of a United air lines Newark to los Angeles flight last week when they heard of a sabotage threat shortly before passengers boarded authorities said saturday. The seven members of flight 49 s Cabin Crew would not Fly tuesday night because the airline did not adequately explain the threat said Cindy yeast a spokeswoman for the association of flight attendants the Crew s Union. I think the flight attendants Felt threatened yeast said saturday. I just think it was an oversight on United s part. It Points to How important communication is in a situation like  the state department had informed United that the . Embassy in Oslo Norway received threats against Jan. 3 flights from new York to los Angeles the airline said saturday. No specific flight was identified according to the airline. For most of the Day tuesday United briefed Crews leaving from Laguardia and Kennedy International airports in new York City and Newark International about safety precautions. But United officials apparently overlooked an information session with flight 49 s Cabin Crew said yeast. She said the flight attendants Learned of the threat just minutes before passenger boarding was to begin. The plane a dc-10 with 198 booked passengers was scheduled to depart at 9 45 . And was the last United flight out of Newark. I think the process tended to break Down after people went Home for the Day yeast said adding that airline officials continued to perform diligent baggage checks. Rob Doughty a United spokesman said saturday from Chicago that he could not comment on the Crew briefing procedures for Security reasons. We have an excellent Security program part of which is not to discuss it publicly Doughty said. Doughty did not know How passengers were notified of the flight cancellation but he said 138 of them were accommodated overnight at hotels and departed the following Day. Airline Industry officials said saturday they did not expect More such cancellations despite sensitivity to sabotage threats following the bombing of a pan am Jet Over Scotland More than two weeks ago. We Don t think that s an appropriate response on the part of the flight Crew said Steve Hayes spokes Man for the Washington based air transport association an Industry Trade group. We just think that airline management and the intelligence Community Are in a better position to make a threat assessment and to decide what the response should be Hayes said. Yeast said the Union had Confidence in Security measures. I Don t think this is something that May be repeated by flight Crews she said. I Don t think that every flight attendant group goes through the situation ingoing to walk off. They were a victim of several Cir  nuke cleanup at House just gets costlier Lansdowne a. A the cleanup of a radioactive House contaminated by a professor processing Radium in the basement will Cost $9.5 million and involve digging up neighbors lawns and possibly garages Federal officials say. It is the second major Price increase for the project which is being financed by the Federal superfund cleanup program. In 1984, the cleanup Cost was estimated at $2 million. Last August As the cleanup began officials estimated the Cost at $7.5 million. A lot of the areas we Are excavating turned out to be contaminated Nanci l. Sinclair a spokeswoman for the . Environmental Protection Agency said Friday. In some areas we went Down 7 to 9 feet before finding clean soil. Officials found that portions of the lawns of four surrounding Homes were radioactive. Since August contractors have been pulling apart the House and its Lawn. The House was contaminated in the 1930s and 1940s by the University of Pennsylvania professor. By november contractors had torn Down the entire House and shipped it to a special dump site in Utah. Only the Lawn remained but that has proved much More radioactive than was previously thought Sinclair said