Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, July 24, 1984 Presidents, legislators draw hefty pensions N BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired members of Congress are drawing an average pension of $35,386 a year, and 138 former senators and represen- tatives collect more now than they ear- ned as lawmakers, the National Tax- payers Union said yesterday. The congressional figure was nearly three times the average $12,988 that the U.S. Census Bureau says was earned from all sources in 1982 by American men over age 65. Women over 65 drew an average $7,435. THE NTU'S study said that pension benefits for 374 former congressmen totaled $13 million last year, compared to the $36.8 million annual cost of salaries for the 535 current members of Congress. Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale gets $32,616 a year for the 12 years he represented Minnesota in the Senate. His salary was $44,600 when he became vice president in 1977. Two former presidents, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, are earning more in congressional pensions than they did in Congress. Nixon's Capitol Hill pension is $30,816, compared to the Senate pay of $12,500 when he became vice president in 1953. Ford, a represen- tative from 1949 to 1973, draws a congressional pension of $64,800. The pay for lawmakers in 1973 and $42,500. NIXON, FORD and Mondale also are eligible for pensions from their service as president, vice president, or both. The largest yearly congressional stipend goes to Carl Albert, the Oklahoma Democrat who served inthe House for 30 years and retired as its speaker in 1977 at a salary of $65,600 a year. Albert's $87,864 pension was one of five exceeding the present congressional pay level of $72,600, the NTU said. THE OTHER four largest pensions go to Margaret Smith, a Maine Republican. who was in the House and Senate from 1940 to 1973, $81,204; Rep. Benjamin Reifel (R-S.D.), 1961-71, $76,512; Albert Gore, a Tennessee Democrat in the House and Senate from 1939 to 1971, $74,460; and Sen. James Eastland (D- Miss.), 1943-1978,$73,812. The NTU said the 374 people now drawing pensions have collected $82.9 million since 1969, when the Office of Personnel Management automated its record system, making such calculations possible. Among the retirees, the highest cumulative recipient is Rep. Charles Halleck (R-Ind.), 1935-69, with $671,724. His annual pension is $70,560. Smith has collected $667,778 over the years, followed by Reifel at $658,748 and Gore at $649,932. Supreme Court will review von Bulow case PROVIDENCE, RI. - The U.S. Supreme Court was asked yesterday to reinstate Claus von Bulow's con- victions of twice trying to kill,'his heiress wife, who has been comatose since December 1980. The five-member state court threw out the convictions and or- dered a new trial on grounds state police should have obtained a search warrant before allowing tests on drugs a private investigator seized from von Bulow's Newport mansion. Economy remains strong WASHINGTON - The economy spurted at a surprisingly strong 7.5 percent annual clip in the second quarter, with inflation remaining under control, the government reported yesterday. The White House called that "ex- ceptionally good news," but private economists predicted the continued boom would lead to a bust, and stock prices dropped amid investor fears that interest rates wil lhe driven higher. The Dow Industrials closed off 4.75 points after a double-digit dip through much of the day. Moon begins prison duties DANBURY, Conn. - The Rev. Sun Myung Moon gamely cleaned the filthy trays and loaded dishes into washers yesterday in his first stint at food service duty at a federal prison where he is serving time for tax evasion. Moon was convicted in 1982 for not paying taxes on nearly $162,000 in in- terest earned on nearly $2 million kept in New York banks. His appeal to the Supreme Court was refused May 14. Violence rocks Scottish mines EDINBURGH, Scotland - Hun- dreds of striking miners smashed windows, set tires ablaze and tore down a stone wall yesterday in clashes with plolice outside two Scottish coalmines as the British coal strike entered its 20th week. The clashes coincided with the return of 35,000 longshoremen to Britain's 100 ports after ratification of an agreement between the dockers union and management Sunday, ending a 12-day work stop- page that threatened to cripple the nation's economy. Soviets refuse to negotiate MOSCOW - The Soviet Union denied yesterday it might return to the Geneva arms talks if the United States, freezes deployment of new missiles in Europe and raised new doubts over whether it will hold "star wars" talks with Washington. The Soviet reaction came a day af= ter Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu said he was convinced Soviet President Konstantin Cher- nenko was willing to resume talks as long as there were no further missiles installed in Western Europe. Fighting erupts in Tripoli BEIRUT, Lebanon - A bitter feud between two rival Moslem factions in the Northern Lebanese port of Tripoli flared anew yesterday as fierce fighting in the streets killed on person, wounded six others and for- ced thousands of civilians into shelters. As the fighting raged in Northern Lebanon, militiamen in Beirut tur- ned over more weapons for storage in warehouses to strengthen the capital's new peace plan. Cancer linked to gene defect BAR HARBOR, Maine - A childhood bone cancer called osteosarcoma has been linked to the same genetic defect that causes an inherited children's eye cancer, researchers said yesterday. The discovery suggests that many forms of adult and childhood can- cers might be caused by a kind of genetic defect, or mutation, that un- til now has been thought to occur only in inherited cancers, the researchers said. Labor party expected to win Israeli election (Continued from Page3) In the last election in 1981, the Likud' was led by Menachem Begin and won 48 seats to 47 for Labor. Begin remained in seclusion and failed to vote in yester- day's balloting. No one party has ever won an absolute parliamentary majority in Israeli history. Israel Television said the balance of power rested with the National Religious Party and projected it would win five Knesset seats. A LEADER of that party, Yehuda Ben-Meir, said the NRP would press for a government of national unity, in- cluding both the Likud and Labor. Under Israeli law, the president asks the candidate he believes has the best chances of gaining a parliamentary majority to forma government. In the past, the nod always went to the leader of the party that won the most votes in the election. He then has 21 days to try to put together an administration. If he fails, the president can grant him another three weeks before turning to the leader of another party. AT LABOR campaign headquarters, party faithful appeared shocked by the projection. Labor had been expected to win the election by a large margin after a campaign that focused on a raging 400 percent inflation. Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister David Levy said he expected actual results would put the Likud in a better position to form the next governemnt and said talks on forming a coalition would begin last night. But Defense Minister Moshe Arens said if there is a national unity government "it will be headed by the party which can form a coalition on its own, probably the Likud." VOTERS THRONGED polling places in numbers seldom seem in Israel's 10 previous national elections. National election headquarters said nearly half of the nation's 2.6 million eligible voters had cast ballots by 6 6 0 .Shamir ...-trails in polls midday. Arab voting was reported low. Shamir, 69, successor to Begin when he resigned in September, sought his own mandate to pursue the ruling Likud coalition's policies that have created more than 120 Jewish settlements in the West Bank captured from Jordan in 1967. Peres, 60, twice a loser to Begin, said he would cool Israel's 400 percent inflation by cutting spending for the settlements and ending Israel's two- year occupation of south Lebanon. Member of the Associated Press Vol. XCIV- No. 28-S The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967X) is published Tuesday through Sun- day during the fall and winter terms and Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday during the spring and summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. 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