Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 322, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 August 1985 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, Tuesday, August 27,1985
Mayors seeking president's aid on wage and hour law decision
o. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON President Reagan will decide next week whether to endorse legislation to reverse a Supreme Court decision that required state and local governments to adhere to federal wage and hour laws, a White House aide said Monday. The aide, Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, said after a three-hour meeting with 150 mayors and county officials that he had told them, ‘This is a decision that only the president can make, after the Cabinet Council makes its recommendation early next week.” A bill introduced in the Senate would waive the overtime provision of the federal law for municipal workers. Daniels said that he and some other White House aides favor such legislation philosophically but recognize there are practical, political factors that might argue against presidential support. These aides say they do not want the president to expend political capital in a futile cause, and so they have have asked local officials to generate support for the measure. “The activity and evidence the mayors have generated is impressive,” Daniels said. He said the aides regarded the Supreme Court decision as a new, unwarranted federal intrusion into the role of states and localities. The court held, 5-4, in Garcia vs. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority that
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4,600 added to active duty WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation’s military services added more than 4,600 active duty personnel in the month of July, the Pentagon announced. The Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines had a combined strength of 2,155,905, as of July 31, an increase of more than 13,800 over the same period last year, officials said Monday. The July increase of 4,669 followed an increase of 2,424 in June. The June totals marked the first time since February that overall active-duty strength climbed by more than 1,000 in one month.
the Fair Labor Standards Act applied to local government employees. City managers and county executives said that the decision would require them to pay for overtime work at the time-and-a-half rate required by the act for hours in excess of 40 a week. The usual practice has been to give the police and firefighters compensatory time off rather than overtime pay, a practice the city managers prefer because it spares ther budgets. Bill Brock, secretary of labor, is to make his position known Sept. 10 at a hearing of the Labor Subcommittee of the Senate
Hedge a spy since 1966?
West German spy scandal said widening
BONN, West Germany (AP) A highranking counter-espionage official who defected to East Germany may have been an undercover Communist agent for almost 20 years, government officials said. Chancellor Helmut Kohl scheduled an emergency Cabinet session today to discuss West Germany’s widening spy scandal, which authorities say will force reorganization of the entire counterespionage operation. Interior Ministry spokesman Wighard Haerdtl told a news conference Monday that Hans Joachim Tiedge, a high-ranking counter-espionage official who defected to East Germany last week, could have been a long-time East German agent. Tiedge worked for 19 years in the Con-
Labor and Human Resources Committee. The Supreme Court reversed itself last February and ruled that states and localities were subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act. Under this ruling, policemen, firemen and other local employees would be required to be paid overtime, instead of the compensatory time off they now take. The Nickles bill would exempt states and localities from the overtime provision, retroactive to Feb. 19, the date of the decision. Alan Beals, executive director of the National League of Cities, which cosponsored Monday’s meeting, estimated that the ruling would cost localities $1.75 billion, and result in a further reduction of government services. Several mayors noted that policemen, firemen and other public employes were called upon to work overtime in emergencies and outbreaks of violence. “There are some unique aspects on how we deploy our forces,” Beals said. Edward Farrell, executive director of the New York State Conference of Mayors, said that the ruling would cost New York City S4O million, and other New York localities an additional $35 million to S6O million. Robert Grasmere, mayor of Maplewood, N.J. who is president of the New Jersey State League of Municipalities, said that the ruling “will be extremely damaging to the flexibility of public services.” “We don’t know how much snow will fall this year,” he said.
stitutional Protection Office, West Germany’s primary counter-espionage agency. “We have to accept the possibility that he worked for a foreign intelligence agency for years,” Haerdtl said. “In theory he could have been a spy since 1966.” another ministry spokesman, Michael-Andreas Butz, told The Associated Press. “His (Tiedge’s) division will have to be reorganized. This means we will have to reorganize counterespionage.” Butz said that as soon as East Germany’s official ADN news agency announced Tiedge’s defection last Friday, Bonn warned its agents abroad that they are in danger of exposure.
Carrying bundles of their belongings on their heads, a Moslem woman and her daughter flee Beirut's shell-battered suburbs after more than 12 days of fighting
Government officials have said privately that intelligence experts were hastily arranging to bring some of their undercover operatives out of the Soviet bloc out of fear they would be exposed by Tiedge. Butz said Margarete Hoeke, a secretary in President Richard von Weizsaecker’s office arrested Saturday in connection with the spy scandal, had access to secret reports and cables from West German embassies. She worked in the defense and foreign affairs section of the office, Butz said. The West German president’s post is largely ceremonial, but he is kept informed on all government matters. “I’m afraid she can cause a lot of
Union Carbide's handling of latest leak applauded
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) Emergency officials gave Union Carbide Corp. high marks on dealing with the company’s second leak in two weeks here, a spill of hydrochloric acid that was contained with no injuries or evacuations. The spill Monday night, about l>/ 2 miles from an outdoor amphitheater where 60,000 people were attending a rock ’n’ roll concert, was at a different unit of the plant where a spill Aug. 13 sent some residents fleeing. After that leak, and another two days earlier at Carbide’s Institute plant, officials criticized the company for delays in reporting. Not this time. “We’re more than satisfied with the information they gave us,” Charleston public safety director Kent Carper said. “They notified us within minutes of the leak, and they let one of our people into the plant.” The spill occurred at 8:30 p.m. at Carbide’s Blaine Island unit and was contained in about an hour, said Carbide spokesman Mike Lipscomb. It was caused by a gasket leak in the plant’s silicon unit, he said. Authorities said they were notified almost immediately by Carbide. However, the leak was marked by confusion concerning the chemicals. Lipscomb said the leak was 35 percent
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damage,” Butz said. “But not as much as Tiedge can cause.” Ms. Hoeke, 50, was the first person arrested in the scandal. The mass-circulation Bild daily newspaper reported today without citing its sources that about a dozen Bonn government secretaries also are under investigation in connection with the spy scandal. One of the secretaries works in Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s office. Bild said. Opposition Social Democratic Party leader Hans-Jochen Vogel described Tiedge’s defection as “the worst case of treason since the founding of the republic.”
hydrogen chloride and 65 percent water, and that a white cloud that formed was steam resulting from water poured on hot equipment by the emergency crews. Ron Engle, chief chemist with the state Air Pollution Control Commission, said the chemical that spilled was the same as hydrochloric acid. “If you were in it, it would cause burning of the eyes, the skin, the respiratory system.” Carbide officials “called here and reported it was all under control,” said S.C. Nichols of the Kanawha Valley Emergency Services office. “They said it did not contain anything dangerous.” As a precaution, police said, officers closed the Patrick Street Bridge. The leak occurred just IV 2 miles downriver from where a crowd gathered for an annual festival to hear Chubby Checker, but no one in the crowd appeared to hear the emergency whistles or be aware of the spill. Lipscomb said today that he described the chemicals in the South Charleston leaks as not dangerous because only small amounts leaked. If the fumes had left the plant, he said, residents at worst would have felt minor irritation. “Too much Pepsi could kill you,” he said. “The concentrations that we experienced would have posed no threat to the community.”
Discovery in pursuit of satellite CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Shuttle Discovery found a hole in the clouds today and finally rocketed away from Earth on a daring salvage mission in which space-walking astronauts will try to “hotwire” a derelict satellite. The twice-delayed shuttle mission began spectacularly as the 100-ton space plane thundered off its launch pad at 6:58 a m. EDT and dashed high over the Atlantic Ocean, spewing a 700-foot-long tail of flame and lighting up the dawn sky. Weather had once again threatened to block the launching as clouds from a tropical disturbance dumped rain on the space center throughout the early morning. The five astronauts wore rain slickers as they left their crew quarters for the 8-mile ride to the launch pad shortly before 5 a.m. But forecasters spotted a large hole in the center of the system and predicted it would pass over the Cape shortly after 7 a.m. With that information, launch director Bob Sieck pushed the liftoff back from 6:55 a. m. to 7:05, then ahead when the hole moved over. The clock was counted down to nine minutes and was held there while meteorologists watched the weather. The hole materialized, the count resumed, and Discovery blasted into space, a pillar of fire against the dark sky. Nine minutes later, Mission Control Center in Houston reported Discovery was in a secure orbit more than 200 miles high, racing at more than 17,000 mph. A thunderstorm wiped out the first launch attempt Saturday and a failed spacecraft computer forced a second postponement on Sunday. The launch team had only a 34-minute period in which to put Discovery on a proper course to deploy three communications satellites and to track down a fourth for repair. If Discovery had not been launched by Thursday, the rescue would have been abandoned because the derelict satellite no longer would be in a proper position for a rendezvous. In that case, the astronauts would have flown a shortened mission to deploy three communications satellites. Although the rescue of the SBS million Syncom communications satellite is the glamour part of the flight, the release of the trio of satellites for paying customers has higher priority and a S4O million delivery fee. The first, for American Satellite Co., was to be dropped off 9‘ 2 hours after launching. The others, for the Australian government and Hughes Communications Services, are set for release on the second and third days. After the cargo bay is empty, commander Joe Engle and pilot Dick Covey will steer Discovery through two days of maneuvers to chase down the disabled Syncom, pulling alongside and “parking” about 35 feet away as shuttle and satellite streak around the globe at 17,400 mph. Syncom failed to activate when it was released by another shuttle crew in April. Space walkers James van Hoften and Bill Fisher will attempt to repair it by running a cable from one satellite electrical outlet to another to bypass an automatic timer, believed to be the cause of the failure. This “hot-wire” would make it possible for a ground station to send rocket firing and other commands that had been the responsibility of the timer. Fisher also will install an electrical box to provide power to erect Syncom’s radio antenna. Fisher said the riskiest part will be at first when he installs safety devices to ensure that no stray electrical signals ignite the 13,000 pounds of fuel needed to boost the payload to higher orbit. Marvin Mixon, vice president of Hughes Communications, which owns Syncom and is paying NASA $8.5 million for the rescue effort, set the odds of success at 50-50. He said the fuel has been exposed to temperatures of 40-50 degrees below zero and much of it may be frozen. Mixon said if the repairs are made, a ground station will maneuver the satellite so the sun will thaw the frozen propellants. After about two months, a signal will be sent to fire the main motor, which could explode if the fuel hasn’t thawed.
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