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Dayton Dally New Frl March 24. 1989 4-A 6 hijacking warning downplayed House OKs raise in minimum wage, defying President i i jf iv. a ('. T- i i mi ii I nn ni inn inn -i in i I -w in I tJ WASHINGTON (AP) The White House on Thursday played down a U.S. warning about the possible hijacking of an American airliner in Europe, saying the bulletin was similar to many other terrorist alerts and travelers "should be confident that all reasonable precautions are being taken." Airports in England, West Germany, Italy and Belgium stepped up security after receiving the warning issued by the Federal Aviation Administration.

No additional precautions were reported in the Netherlands, Greece or Spain. The Bush administration was clearly unhappy the warning had leaked out in a front-page newspaper story in London. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner called it a potentially serious compromise of intelligence-gathering activities. Three Lebanese Palestinians were mentioned by name in the warning, according to the Daily Express. The bulletin said the three may be traveling on passports from Bahrain, Pakistan or North Yemen.

The FAA confirmed it had issued a security bulletin to airports and carriers March 16 about "the possibility of a hijacking of a U.S. airliner in Western Europe." The warning did not mention any specific airline or airport, nor did it cite ASSOCIATED PRESS last and says he has the strength to sustain a veto of minimum wage legislation he considers unacceptable. But the House sponsors refused to accommodate the President and the showdown now shifts to the Senate, where floor debate is scheduled early next month on a proposal to raise the hourly minimum wage to $4.65. Before the House gave final passage to the bill, the chamber approved, 240-179, a leadership-backed amendment cutting the bill's target from $4.65 an hour by 1992 to $4.55. The amendment added a provision allowing new entrants in the job market to be paid a subminimum wage for two months.

The revisions represented significant retreats by the sponsors, who last year proposed raising the minimum wage to more than $5 by 1992 and had opposed a system allowing lower wages to be paid to newly hired workers. But they agreed to the amendment to stem defections by moderate and conservative Democrats, largely5 from Southern states, to the Republican effort to win passage of the Bush plan. Forty-three Democrats defected anyway, and Republicans insisted that the majority Democrats eventually will have to accept the Bush proposal or see a ninth year pass without an increase in the minimum wage, now $3.35 an hour. Leaders of the Democratic effort, however, said they had compromised enough. WASHINGTON (AP); The House voted Thursday to raise the hourly minimum wage from $3.35 to $4.55 by October 1991, rejecting a more modest increase proposed by President Bush and sending the bill to the Senate.

The House adjourned for a weeklong Easter recess after voting 248-171 for a bill that included compromises long resisted by its Democratic sponsors but still left the Democratic congressional leadership and the Republican President far apart on the issue. Ohio's representatives were divided along partisan lines. Democrats Douglas Applegate, Dennis E. Eckart, Edward F. Feighan, Tony P.

Hall, Marcy Kaptur, Mary Rose Oakar, Donald J. Pease, Thomas C. Sawyer, Louis Stokes and James A. Traficant Jr. voted yes, while Republicans Michael DeWine, Paul E.

Gillmor, Willis D. Gradison John R. Kasich, Donald E. Lukens, Bob McEwen, Clarence E. Miller, Michael G.

Oxley and Ralph Regula voted no. Democrat Thomas A. Lukeri and Republican Chalmers P. Wylie did not vote. Bush proposed raising the minimum wage to $4.25 an hour by 1992, provided newly hired employees could be paid a subminimum wage for six months.

That plan was offered by Republicans in place of the bill backed by the House leadership but was defeated 218-198. Bush has insisted that his offer is his Fawn Hall arrives for second day of testimony at Federal District Court with mother, Wilma Tawn Hall breaks down Tears interrupt North trial twice any lime irame lor me warning, uiey FAA said. fa say boarding jet rent testimony. Tears streamed down her face and she was clutching her stomach as she walked out of the courtroom after the judge allowed a break. The witness began to cry again as she told Sullivan she had met "Colonel North, his wife, Betsy, and their four kids in Easter of 1983." A recess was called so she could compose herself.

Robert Earl, a Marine lieutenant colonel who worked with North, testified North told him of the arms sales to Iran just before taking a trip to Tehran in May 1986 with a planeload of Hawk missile parts. The jurors were given a four-day weekend for Easter and Earl is expected back on the stand Tuesday. Also next week, former Attorney General Edwin Meese is to be a wit WASHINGTON (AP) A weeping Fawn Hall praised former boss Oliver North on Thursday as an inspirational, tireless and selfless man and said their wholesale shredding of Iran-contra documents "was no big deal." Alternately crying and spitting back sharp responses, Miss Hall twice appeared unable to go on with her testimony at North's trial, causing impromptu recesses. She called North's firing by President Reagan on Nov. 25, 1986, unfair.

Miss Hall, who was North's secretary at the National Security Council for nearly four years, admitted when attorney general's investigators altered documents to soften recorded versions of North's involvement with the Nicaraguan contras. At one point Thursday, she became upset when prosecutor John Keker confronted her with a transcript of "your words" in previous testimony. She had testified then that North may have directed her to shred some documents, but she said on Wednesday that North had given no such instructions. When North lawyer Brendan Sullivan objected to the questioning, she continued to talk and U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell snapped: "Please keep your mouth shut while I'm talking." Then he ruled that what she had said earlier was "entirely consistent" with her cur Teledyne, Navy official guilty in Pentagon probe ness, before the prosecution rests, were closing in on Nov.

21, 1986, she House Dem turns tables on combative Gingrich shows security lapse at London airport LONDON (AP) -1- Young men who boarded a jumbo jet at Heathrow Airport and got into the cockpit said the caper proved the security has not Improved since a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland. British Airways said it considered the breach to be extremely serious, but stressed the Boeing 747 was in a maintenance area and was not operational. A videotape taken by three men who said they boarded the aircraft early Monday was shown Thursday by Independent Television News. "They say they are cracking down on security and they are confident no one else can do what happened at Lockerbie," said Shoaib Khan, the only one of the three who was identified. "It is just not true." "We want to prove the point and just want to tell the whole world that they are not doing anything about it," he said.

"We did break the law and we are ready to stand up and say it was us who did it and this is the reason why we did It." Airport security has been a sensitive Aronica declined to comment when asked whether there would be more guilty pleas or how extensively Berlin's testimony might be used against others. Berlin, 51, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, receiving a bribe, wire fraud and making false statements. Teledyne pleaded guilty to conspiracy and two counts of making false statements in connection with a contract with one of its divisions Teledyne Electronics of Newbury Park, worth about $24 million. As part of the plea agreements, prosecutors dismissed counts of bribery and wire fraud against Berlin and Teledyne. Still facing charges in a trial scheduled to begin April 3 are defense consultants Fred H.

Lackner and William L. Parkin, as well as three Teledyne officials: George H. Kaub, Eugene R. Sullivan and Dale Schnittjer. ALEXANDRIA, Va.

(AP) A Navy official and a major defense contractor pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in the "III Wind" Pentagon procurement case, with the Navy man admitting he took a bribe to provide inside information on a contract. The contractor, Teledyne Industries agreed to pay more than $4.3 million in penalties and to satisfy other claims in the case, saying a former employee who pleaded guilty earlier "had entered into a corrupt and illegal arrangement" with two other men who still face charges. The suspended Navy official, Stuart E. Berlin, agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the continuing investigation which has resulted in a dozen guilty pleas. He is to be sentenced June 2 and could face 25 years in prison and fines of $750,000.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Anthony said Gingrich has been "a bomb thrower for 10 years" in the House and the fact that he is now being rewarded by his GOP colleagues means that Democrats can use him as ammunition against all of them. "That's a gold mine of campaign issues," he said. Rep. Byron Dorgan, compared Gingrich to Gen.

George Armstrong Custer. "Custer was a hard charger and everybody got excited about him too," he said. "That didn't work out so well." raised previously by the DCCC about an unusual promotional deal for Gingrich's book Window of Opportunity, about $13,000 Gingrich received in 1977 to write a novel that never was published and about a political action committee chaired by Gingrich that raised $217,868 in direct-mail solicitations for conservative candidates but spent only $900 on political campaigns. Reporters' telephone calls to Gingrich's office seeking comment on the letter were not returned. Gingrich has said he committed no improprieties.

On ethics, Anthony points to 'unanswered' questions WASHINGTON (AP) House Dem-ocrats, girding for expected partisan warfare following Rep. Newt Gingrich's selection as House minority whip, circulated a letter Thursday raising "unanswered questions" about Gingrich's activities. Rep. Beryl Anthony, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, sent all House Democrats the letter Thursday listing a "summary of some of the unanswered questions" about Gingrich's activities. Anthony is mounting an organized campaign to combat Gingrich, who rose to prominence within House GOP ranks largely on the basis of his ethics campaign against Speaker Jim Wright and two dozen other prominent Democrats.

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