European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 10, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5 in id by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a a House lawmaker has written to the Pentagon leadership to express disappointment that the stars and stripes is not being distributed to troops in Somalia. A rep. Earl Hutto a Flat a chairman of the House armed services readiness subcommittee wrote to defense Secretary Les Aspin in late february to say he was a a troubled to learn that troops Are still net receiving the stars and stripes More than three months after operation restore Hope began. The readiness subcommittee oversees the Small portion of the stars and stripes budget that is funded with taxpayer Money currently about s.6 percent the newspaper has been largely self supporting through sales of the paper and hardcover books paperbacks and magazines in its bookstores. The Small taxpayer subsidy covers such items As salaries for assigned military personnel shipping costs for newsprint equipment and other items and utilities maintenance and repair costs for the newspapers facilities. A it is difficult to understand Given our tremendous lift capability Why the stars and stripes cannot be provided As was done in the Gulf War a Bhutto wrote to Aspin. Quot certainly our troops deserve to be Well informed during these deployments of world events that shape their destiny As Well As to receive cherished hews from Home a he said. Hutto said he expects Aspin to ensure that future deployments Are supported by the stars and stripes. A House staffer acknowledged that the letter does not require Aspin to take any action. But he said a the message is Clear that Congress considers one of the newspapers principal roles to be supporting troops on deployments overseas. The Issue of the paper s inability to get into Somalia came to the attention of Hutto and other lawmakers after a column written recently by the stars and stripes ombudsman Bill Monroe. Quot somebody owes the soldiers on the ground a better explanation than is now available of Why they re not allowed to receive the newspaper designed by the defense department and fostered by the Congress to keep scr ice members overseas in touch with the military Community and in touch with Home a Monroe wrote. The column appeared in the feb. 21 Issue of the newspaper and was later picked up by several Washington Media. Defense department and Central come officials have consistently said it is strictly up to the theater commander a in this Case Marine it. Gen. Robert b. Johnston a to decide what Media support should be made available to the troops. Johnston has not commented on his decision to keep the stars and stripes out of Somalia. The Central come has couched the Issue in terms of Cost. The paper would be distributed free to troops but the Central come or another defense department Agency would have to foot the Bill. The Cost Factor is supported by a Deal recently struck Between the Central come and Usa today to provide several thousand free copies of that newspaper for distribution in Somalia. Usa today remains the Only major source of outside news for troops in operation restore Hope but few of them have regular Access to it. One Pentagon reporter who recently spent several Days in Somalia said troops there were Quot constantly begging for news of the outside world. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago March 10,1983 a . Defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger issued a report that he said documents a a relentless Quot soviet drive toward military superiority in All Fields including space. 20 years ago March 10,1973 a . Treasury Secretary George p. Shultz and representatives of the world s leading monetary Powers agreed that official currency exchanges should reopen March 19 after being closed for 17 Days in the Wake of a monetary crisis. 30 years ago March 10,1963 a soviet ambassador Anatoly f. Dobrynin said his country would a do what we promised we will do a and withdraw several thousand troops from Cuba. 40 year Sago March 10,1953 a new soviet Premier Georgi m. Malenkos made the strongest Appeal yet for Quot prolonged coexistence and peaceful competitions with the West but warned that soviet armed forces were ready to fight any attack. So year Sago March 10,1943 a the most determined wave of resistance to the nazis since the fall of France was sweeping through occupied Europe. World War ii50 years ago today March 10 a 9 #4 #3 1 the . Government extends lend lease agreements Lor another year having provided $9.6 billion in Aid in the plan s first 24 months. After Savage fighting Germany ass corps penetrates to the Center of Kharkov reversing one of the red army s biggest successes on the Southern front soviet troops hang on in parts of the ukrainian City. A peace prize Kiken Ayu Murti Suhartono 12, of Indonesia poses at the National peace poster contest. The poster is on display at the United nations with her poster Quot an environment for peace a visitors entrant of the . Grand Assembly building. More which received the grand prize in the annual Lions club inter than 200,000 children from 38 nations entered the contest. States get of for Union Only Job pacts by the new York times Washington a in a unanimous decision that cleared the Way for states to use an increasingly popular tool for ensuring labor peace on major Public works projects the supreme court on monday validated a labor agreement requiring that Only unionized workers be used for the $6 billion cleanup of Boston Harbor. The decision was a Victory for organized labor. Justice Harry a. Blackmun a opinion for the court overturned a decision by the Federal appeals court in Boston which ruled in 1991 that the agreement violated Federal labor Law. The Massachusetts water resources authority the state Agency in charge of the Harbor cleanup and an Alliance of the construction trades unions both appealed the lower courts ruling. They were supported in the supreme court by the Bush administration de spite lobbying by the group of no unionized contractors that brought the court Challenge. The question for the court was whether the National labor relations act preempted the states decision to enter into a collective bargaining agreement known As a project labor agreement. The agreement includes a guarantee of Union Only labor in Exchange for a 10-year no strike pledge from the unions. The justices accepted the argument of the state Agency and the labor unions that Massachusetts was acting not in the prohibited role of a regulator but rather on its own behalf As owner of the project. As such the state argued it should have the same flexibility that private participants in the labor Market would have in similar circumstances. A provision of the National labor relations act that applies Only to the construction Industry permits employers to enter into Union Only hiring agreements. Massachusetts is under a Federal court order to Stop polluting Boston Harbor. One of the biggest Public works programs in the country the 10-year project includes construction of primary and secondary sewage treatment plants a five mile Tunnel to carry sewage for treatment and a 9.5-mile Tunnel for the effluent. For the water resources authority the attraction of the project labor agreement was its Promise of labor peace making possible the uninterrupted work necessary to meet the terms of the Federal court order. Project labor agreements Are also used in dozens of other Public works projects including construction of a commuter rail system in Southern California and rebuilding of the Tunnel under Baltimore Harbor