European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 15, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Vietnam vet loses Job Over matter of principle Fontana Calif. A Dennis Elmore figures he proved he s an american by serving in Vietnam so he refused to document his citizenship to keep his Job. That refusal got the 40-year-old machinist fired Friday the deadline his Boss had set for filling out a government form employers have to keep to prove their workers Are citizens or Legal . Residents. When i was 18 years old they sent me a draft notice. They knew i was a citizen then Elmor Esaid. His Boss Dick Fisher of so specialities said he wishes he could keep Elmore in the $ 12-an-hour Job making parts for Hydraulic cylinders. But if he did the company would risk a $500 Fine for failing to keep the new form required by the immigration an naturalization service. They did t give me a lot of options. It s a Federal Law Fisher said. The Law is part of the immigration Reform and control act of 1986, which extended amnesty to illegal aliens who can prove they Are longtime . Residents. The Law also imposed the employer penal ties in Hopes of cutting the influx of illegal aliens. Elmore acknowledged the government did t want much just that he fill out the form and Supply his Driver s License and social Security numbers. It s a matter of principle All right he said. He ignored the form during the six months he s been working in this town 50 Miles East of los an Geles. But Fisher decided he had to set a deadline and the men agreed Friday would be Elynore s last Day unless he did the paperwork. Elmore went to Vietnam As an army enlisted Man in 1969 and said the government should have take military service into account. Immigration and naturalization service spokes Man Ron Rogers in los Angeles said the service can t make exemptions for veterans. Does he want to cooperate and help us control our Border Rogers asked. He did serve his coun try and this is another Way of helping his  Elmore does t have any firm plans for a Job Hunt. One thing s for sure he won t take a Job if they ask him to fill out the immigration form. I Don t think i will he said. I really Don  air controllers Union accepts new pact with Faa Washington not air traffic controllers have negotiated the first labor agreement with the Federal government since 1981, when a strike led to the mass dismissal of controllers and the abolition of their Union. The National air traffic controller association which replaced the old Union reached the tentative agreement with the Federal aviation administration after 2 /2 months of bargaining and Union leaders said they expected its 7,000 members to approve the agreement in March. The pact determines working conditions but not pay or economic benefits for the 13,000 controllers employed by the Federal government. Because the controllers Are Federal employees their salaries which Range from $19,000 to $55,000 a year Are set by Congress. John Leyden a spokesman for the Faa said the negotiations involved none of the old hard nosed confrontations that were a feature with the professional air traffic controllers organization whose strike in 1981 was declared illegal by president Reagan. Reagan fired the controllers in a major confrontation Between labor and his new administration. Ray l. Spickler executive vice presi Dent of the Union agreed that relation shave healed. If you could have been there. Both sides were celebrating their Success together at a banquet he said. It was a big group of friends. You could t distinguish one Side from the  the Union said the contract provided important new benefits for members that Are meant to improve the safety of the increasingly crowded air traffic system. Among the benefits is a mandatory 30 minute break after every two hours of work. The three year contract provides for the first time that controllers May continue to be paid by the aviation Agency even if they Are temporarily working on investigations by the National transportation safety Board and it provides immunity from reprisals for controllers who report safety violations. The main significance of the agreement however is in cementing the new Union s role As a major Force in is sues affecting the future of the nation airways. The Union which was certified to rep resent controllers in june 1987, was granted a role in a wide Range of panels and working groups that supervise the operation of the air traffic system. However the aviation Agency refused to include in contract negotiations specific operational matters involving the procedures to be followed in directing aircraft or the equipment that must be installed in control towers. Scholarly surfer new image Salon systems a los Angeles base computer service available in 700 Beauty salons nationally to show customers How they would look with various hair styles projects a scholarly George Bush in top photo and a surfer look in the Bottom photo. Commerce chief warns Bush of economic warfare in 90s Washington a outgoing Commerce Secretary c. William Verity says Many american products Are below world standards of Quality and the japanese Are two years ahead in developing scalable product from american inventions. Blaming antitrust Laws for a Large part of the prob Lem Verity urged president elect George Bush to pre pare for economic warfare in the 1990s. What s going to be on the front Burner of the 1990s for the Bush administration is trading and How is America going to make sure it will be the number one player Verity said Friday in a speech for Export now a Campaign he has pressed in his 18 months in office. As president Reagan leaves office this week Verity will follow. An old Friend of Bush s from the Texas Oil Indus try Robert Mosbacher has been named to succeed him. The reason that Many american products Are not Selling abroad is very simple because they Don t have sufficient Quality to do it he said. He told How his family company Aramco inc., had been a big supplier of Sheet steel to the american Auto Industry but had to work five years to produce steel that would meet the standards of Honda the japanese Auto manufacturer. Verity says antitrust Laws discourage cooperation of american companies creating a Barrier to More effective Competition. It should be possible for High technology Compa Nies or other companies to get together not Only just research together but develop and produce together and Market together and then compete he said. That s what has to happen if we re going to stay in some very important markets including the semiconductor Market. Or High definition television or super conductivity and there s much More coming Down the  the . Has some marvelous technology he complained but it is less expert at transforming theoretical discoveries into products that can sell. The japanese can do this two years quicker Thane can he said. This is a serious problem if we develop a technology but if the japanese take Pur technology and use it and we re two years delayed in getting into the Market place. That s going to be disastrous to this  Verity s criticism of . Industry was not the first from a High figure in the Reagan administration. Rich Ard g. Darman who was Deputy to former Treasury Secretary James a. Baker Iii has criticized what he called a corp Cracy in american business for what he saw As Lack of initiative. Baker is to be Secretary of state under Bush and Dar Man will head the office of management and budget. . Profess panamanian attack on . Sailor Washington up the United states has protested the beating and threatened killing of a . Sailor in pan Ama by three policemen one of whom held a gun near the american s head and fired it the . Military confirmed Fri Day. The . Forces find this incident to be despicable said a letter written by it. Col. Robert Perry co chairman of the joint american panamanian com Mittee created to Deal with such Inci dents and delivered last month to his panamanian counterpart it. Col. Aqui Lino Sieriro Murgas. Navy Petty officer Mike Nieves serv ing with the . Southern come in pan Ama was detained by three panamanian Highway policemen nov. 13 for allegedly parking in a no parking zone at Panama City Airport the letter said. The contents of the letter were con firmed by col. Ron Sconyers a spokes Man for the Southern come. Nieves was hit in the face pulled through the window of his car by his neck and struck again and then physically degraded the letter said. One officer Drew his pistol placed it next to the Sailor s head and forced him to his Knees the letter said. He was forced to beg for his  the panamanian was about to kill the Sailor but was stopped at the last moment by one of his colleagues the letter said. He still fired a shot that just missed the american s head it added. Nieves suffered extensive bruises and was hospitalized. He has since recovered and returned to work Sconyers said. The letter said the incident was an ominous reflection of either a Campaign of intimidation directed against the . Forces Community or a loss of control Over elements of the Public  it was a serious incident but one that we Are still investigating to the fullest extent so that we have All the facts Sconyers said adding he did not know the panamanian government s response if any. Sieriro is a brother in Law of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega Panama s Mil itary dictator Sconyers said. Relations Between the United states and Panama have steadily deteriorated since Noriega was indicted by two . Grand juries last february on drug trafficking and racketeering charges and president Reagan imposed economic sanctions in an attempt to Force Noriega out of Power