European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars  stripes tuesday March 21,1989 Continental flight attendants go on strike by the associated press Continental airlines flight attendants announced a strike monday  began picketing at airports but no immediate effects on flights were reported at strip rebound Eastern s sister Carrier. See related Story pages i can Only confirm that the strike has been called Myra Clayton spokeswoman for the Union of flight attendants said monday in Houston. She said the decision was made among Union Leader sunday night but it was not directly related to the strike that has All but shut Down Eastern airlines since March 4. Meanwhile Donald Trump said monday he is no longer willing to pay his prior offer $365 million for Eastern s profitable East coast shuttle because of the labor troubles at Continental s sister airline. As the Continental strike deadline came at 10 . Some flight attendants set up picket lines at the Carrier s main Houston Hub but flights appeared to be departing  arriving normally. There arc about 6,800 Continental flight attendants the company  Union give differing figures on How Many Are Union members in the largely non Union Carrier. About 10 members of the Union of flight attendants dressed in Maroon uniforms with Continental emblems walked a picket line at Houston intercontinental Airport carrying yellow signs proclaiming on  we were prepared to strike in december  we were promised at the time that if we waited the company would be willing to sit Down  negotiate a contract with us in january but that still has not happened said Sheila Hammond one of the pick  were also reported at Newark . Inter National Airport  Denver s Stapleton International Airport two other major Continental airports. It was not immediately Clear How Many flight attendants walked off their jobs  How Many were picketing on their Days off. " problems Ather airports. Puck in us men was Radii there were no immediate reports of a airports affected by the picketing or at Othni Continental said in a statement that the flights were running normally which shows that Pur flight attendants Are proud of their service  will continue to support the company s goal of providing for the  according to the company Only about 5 percent of its flight attendants arc actually dues paying Mem Bers of the attendants Union which is the Only Union at the airline since 1983. However the Union says More than 60 percent of the attendants arc members. Continental s flight attendants voted in december to authorize a strike Over wages  have been free to walk out since that time Union president Carla Winkler said sunday. Continental s flight attendants although rep resented by a Union have been operating without a collective bargaining agreement since september 1983, when Frank Lorenzo chairman of Texas air corp., took Continental into bankruptcy  Abro gated the Houston based airline s Union contracts. Texas air is the Parent company of both Eastern  Continental. Wrong coding disabled some minutemen missiles Washington up the air Force strategic air come said monday that a few minuteman nuclear missiles were found in 1986 to contain outdated launch codes making them useless in the event of War. Air Force it. Col. George Peck a spokesman for the Sac said from the Sac s Nebraska Headquarters that the problem believed caused by human error was limited to Only a few missiles. He said it has been resolved  will not happen again. The Washington times reported monday that air Force technicians inadvertently inserted outdated elec tronic launch codes into minuteman Iii missiles in their silos at Malmstrom fab in Central Montana in late 1985,  that the coding mistake was not discovered until a year later. For that entire year the missiles were useless an would not have responded to commands ordering them to launch. In 1986 a few of the missiles in one Squadron at Malmstrom air Force base were found to contain out dated codes a Sac statement said. The actual num Ber of missiles involved in the incident remains Classi fied. However the Sac icbms intercontinental ballistic missile Alert rate remained above 98 per  Sac operates about 500 minuteman Iii mis Siles  a 98 percent Alert rate Means no More than 10 missiles were affected. The Washington times said sources told it that Only five missiles were disabled. It was a very Small number Peck said. It s True that those missiles that were improperly coded would not work but it would not Impact the rest of the mis Siles in the  Peck said an investigation did not determine a specific cause but it was concluded that human error was involved. As a result we made several procedural changes to ensure this sort of thing does t happen  news updates paraguayan election Asuncion Paraguay a the opposition Christian Democrat party on sunday endorsed a former priest to run in May presidential elections  rejected a plan that i support a coalition candidate with other opposition parties. At another convention the revolutionary fcb Terista party also announced it would participate in the May 1 elections even though the provisional government has not met opposition demands. The party has not yet decided whether to run its own candidate or endorse a coalition candidate. Elections arc to replace deposed president Gen. Alfredo so roessner whose nearly 35-year regime ended feb. 3 when he was toppled by coup led by Gen. Andres Rodriguez. Bail refused san Diego up a Federal judge has refused bail for an Irani an businessman suspected of smuggling stolen military aircraft parts despite a Black Eye his attorney said was inflicted by anti Ira Nian prisoners. . District judge Leland c. Neil san ordered Sacid Asci Ina Lou to remain at the metropolitan correctional Center until his trial in May on charges he fun cled stolen f-14 Jet parts from Navy installations in the United states to Iran through his company in Britain. Record set straight on executions by de reav1s staff writer when word came out last week that the Western allies were abolishing the death penalty in West Berlin officials said no one had been executed under the world War la Cra Law known As Rule 511. However what an Allied spokesman termed a theoretical Law actually was used to Send 12 people to their deaths in the West a spokesman for the City s jus Tice department said monday. The Allied enforced death penalty covered All sectors of occupied Berlin at the end of world War ii. In the Western zones 25 people were sentenced to death  12 went to the Guillotine. In 1950, a year after West Germany became an Independent nation the Al lies stopped handing Down death penal ties said Justice department spokesman Cornel Christoffel. The government in Bonn eliminated the death penalty in 1949 when it officially became the Federal Republic of Germany he said. In deference to that decision the allies commuted death sentences to prison terms. In 1950, the Al lies stopped proclaiming death penal  the death penalty was abolished in East Germany in 1987, Christoffel said. The allies  the Berlin Senate the civilian ruling body in West Berlin announced in 1984 their intention to Abol ish a number of world War a Cra regulations still on the books. During the postwar occupation period executions in the ., French  British zones were by Guillotine. In the soviet sector they were by a. The last execution in the Western Sec tors was on May 11, 1949, one Day be fore the end of the Berlin blockade by the soviets. According to the Berliner  newspaper Berlin s last executioner was Gustav Volpel who executed 48 people in the Eastern  Western zones of the divided City earning 1,000 German Marks per head. Is incl kept the Blade of the Guillotine in a Green suitcase in his apartment next to sign on the Wall that said love thy neighbors As thyself the Morgen Post re ported. In 1950, a incl was himself imprisoned As a member of the notorious glad of gang that had committed a number of murders  robberies the Morgen Post said. The three gang leaders were beheaded in Frankfurt an Der Oder in East Germany. Vol pc served a seven year sentence  died two years after his release. Howe nominated for fourth Star Washington is vice .Jonathan t. Howe has been nominated by the White House for promotion to four Star rank  appointment As com Mander of Allied forces Southern Europe   Naval forces Europe Pentagon officials said monday. If confirmed by the Senate Howe currently the assistant to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff would replace . James b. Busey who retired Totake Over the Federal aviation administration. Howe 53, is a 32-year Navy Veteran who has held a variety of ship commands  top level posts including serving a commander of the 7th Fleet from 1978 to 1980. He was also military assistant to then vice president Nelson Rockefeller from 1975 to 1977, senior military assistant to Deputy Secretary of defense William h. Taft in from 1981 to 1982  Deputy chairman of the nato military com Mittee from 1986 to 1987. Among his awards arc the defense distinguished service medal with two Oak Leaf clusters  the legion of Merit with two Gold stars. He  his wife Harriet have six children. Correction a Chart yesterday depicting volume sales of liquor in army  air Force class i stores for 1987  1988 was incorrect. The numbers attributed to the army should have been listed for the air Force. Numbers for the air Force should have been listed for the army. Naples area hit by biggest quake in years Naples Italy is mount Vesuvius strongest earthquake in 45 years Shook windows glassware  balconies in the Naples area sunday evening but caused no injuries or property damage. The quake which occurred at 10 22 p.m., measured 3.2 on the Richler  effects extended about 2 Miles from the epicentre at mount Vesuvius. The areas most affected were Torre Del Greco san Giorgio  san Sebastia no but it also reached  of Taviano tar Zignor  Torre Annunziata. Giovanni Ricciardi a researcher fro the neapolitan geophysical Observatory said about 30 volcanic tremors shake the area each month. He said sunday s quake was significant because it was the most intense since 1944. Earthquakes like these arc foreseeable. However we must wait a month to deter mine if  when there will be recurrences Ricciardi said. At the moment there is no danger. Signs of an eruption Donot  the Volcano s most famous eruption occurred in . 79, destroying the cities of Pompeii  Hercul Ankum