European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Ritmo fluted unofficial publication fool emf . Armed of faces vol. 47, no. 359 Friday april 14, 1989 Good i Fornini 8693 a for Eastern collapses new York a Peter Ueberroth proposeds464 million Purchase of strike bound Eastern airlines collapsed Over an impasse with its unions and Parent Texas air corp., the former baseball commissioner Are deeply disappointed this transaction col lapsed last night and is done Ueberroth told a new conference wednesday. Our agreement with Texas air is terminated it s finished it s Eastern president Phil bakes said the Miami based airline s strategy is to reorganize As a smaller Carrie serving 50 percent to 60 percent fits pre strike sched ule of 1,040 flights a Day with half a Many workers. The announcement that the Ueberroth Deal had col lapsed follows Days of intense negotiations that continued wednesday As a Federal bankruptcy judge tried to Salvage the sinking Deal. A key Issue blocking the deaf was whether an outside trustee should be appointed to run the airline until the Sale was completed. The Union proposal has been opposed Frank Lorenzo chairman of Texas air who would lose his authority Over Eastern under the Union plan even if the Ueberroth Deal failed. The major hurdle 1 defined As interim management and the bankruptcy process Ueberroth said. We were not Able to Bridge this hurdle although both of us 1 think tried to do "-.= Eastern s unions have accused Lorenzo of Gross mis management and of stripping Eastern of vital assets since Texas air bought the airline in 1986, and have expressed concern he would continue doing so i left in charge. I disappointed to say the least said Wally 1 later a machinist Union official in Miami. I can Tell you right now or Lorenzo would have walked away in this Deal with a lot More Money Han he put into Eastern airlines. Obviously they be got some plans to milk some More out of Eastern.",. . Bankruptcy judge Bunon Lifland wednesday Wilh attorneys for Eastern its unions and the Ueberroth group tory to save the Deal negotiated Only Days earlier saying it represented a historic Opportunity to save one of the nation s biggest airlines. Any Deal required full agreement from , Eastern s three unions and Eastern s creditors. ". Eastern has been flying Only a fraction of its sched ule since its machinists Union began a strike March 4 thai has been supported by attendants and pilots. Ueberroth emerged As the buyer earlier this month and a Deal appeared especially after his group reached labor agreement with Eastern s striking unions following negotiations his past Weck end. To renin Bush proposes reforms by the los and tiles times Washington president Bush saying that the american people arc troubled by Brazen contempt forthe letter or spirit of ethics Laws wednesday pro posed a package of reforms including disclosure rules for Federal officials restrictions on lobbying by former members of Congress and a ban on some Campaign contributions Bush also called for a 2 5 percent pay increase for Federal judges Short of proposing a raise for. Members of Congress und employees of the executive Branch. Congress should have a pay increase he said in speech to the american society of newspaper editors where he announced the ethics package. But he added there is no Point absolutely no Point in putting con Gress through another traumatic bashing like inc Furo that led to the defeat of a 50 percent pay raise earlier this year. Announcement of the Reform package redeemed Bush s Campaign Promise to tighten ethics Laws but its prospects arc unclear. Some congressional aides have suggested that its chances could be boosted if the pending ethics report on the Finan Cial affairs of House speaker j in Wright a Texas triggers heightened Public concern Over the Issue otherwise it could be Hamstrung by Likely congressional opposition to a number of provisions. Although Bush sidestepped the questions of con Gressional pay. Congress is the target of most of the new proposals in his package. The plan would impose several new rules and establish a new con Gressional ethics office with Power to conduct Public investigations of allegations against Mem Bers or their aides. Currently such allegations Are investigated in secret by the congressional ethics committees and often become Public Only if the committees Vole to impose some penalty. Under the new plan members of Congress an their aides would have a year after leaving government before they could lobby former col leagues. A similar Cooling off period already applies to executive Branch workers. Congressmen Naples Uso Case unsolved later by a King cruder Mediterranean Bureau Naples Italy pne year after a terrorist bombing killed five people at the crowded Down town us no suspects have been apprehended and . Sailors remain without a permanent Fleet Center. The bomb planted Jyh a car on april 14, also injured 17. It went off a the narrow Calata Sanmarco shortly after 8 p,m., an especially Busy time when italian shops and businesses were closing for the Day. The Street a few minutes walk from the Navy s Fleet Landing was heavily trafficked by pedestrian about 80 people from the american frigates Paul and Capodanno were at a party in the club basement. They were starting to leave the gather ing when the bomb the blast s after with Glass and debris rained Down from buildings. Bleeding people held their Heads and dreamed while others everywhere. Some bodies were engulfed inflame. Fourteen destroy Obj or damaged vehicles littered the Street. Days immediately Ter the bombing were taken up Wilh treating injured burying leased Uso facility Little damaged because heavy bars and special Security doors had absorbed much of the blasts was abandoned for Security reasons. In the hours after the of Pming . Naval investigative service agent and italian police pooled resources to try to identify who was responsible for the attack which occurred the Day before the april 15 anniversary of the 1986 . Bombing raid of Libya. At the very beginning we were aided by Amile Luck lop ranking official of Italy anti terrorist police Force. A tie License Plale on the car carrying the bomb was found intact and it let us determine Hal the car had been rented three Days earlier by an Oriental suspects were identified according to the two ,. See Uso on Back Page ethics rules would also be forbidden from voting on legislation that affects any company Wilh which they Are Nugo Tilting for jobs. Congressional staff members although not the lawmakers themselves would but covered by the Federal conflict of interest Law that forbids taking action that affects a company in which the individual has a personal stake. By contrast Bush has proposed relatively few changes in the rules governing his own appointees in the executive Branch. And some parts of his plan such As providing a new tax break to assist government officials who must sell assets to avoid conflicts of interest would loosen current restrictions. The package disappointed some outside group that have campaigned for More dramatic overhauls of the Federal ethics code. In particular critics argue that Bush should have endorsed a ban on speech and appearances fees for members of con Gress. Such honorariums can add nearly $36,000 to the income of some lawmakers. Military s lesbian policy called Witch Hunt women s equity action understood in the military. For years men Are handled individually servicemen. Have Hung out hugged r.,v and laughed and cried together. But if Sev by William sexual from the service. Washington Kurenb. .,.,_ they Start these rumours about Washington National worn " said a military in s soups and Gay organizations Are Counselor who Kerl for Anonym Iii lesbian task Force added 1 can say. Sometimes they i i 10 being to get out ten Taft tuft charging that the military is singling out women in uniform in a Witch Hunt aimed at ridding the services of homosexuals. S. All women Are endangered Tjie groups say by the fervency brought on by a 19si Pentagon regulation barring Homo to the service when there Are homosexual women they Start looking for a Pat Tern. They Don t do that when men arc involved said Vicki Almquist of the. Anybody s a lesbian. And it s. The timor of lesbianism that will do the to because that Slop the hard charge Fri it once in their tracks. And it s the female members from female bonding Hyde said is mis Era military women Are seen celebrating Wilh their arms around one another they Are immediately branded As lesbians she department policy says that homosexuality is incompatible wit military service said maj David Sanpei. A Pentagon spokesman. When of. On Page 3
