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Page 5 — Griffin Daily News Tuesday, January 4,1977 Can Pentagon stop unionization of forces? WASHINGTON (AP) - Pen tagon lawyers can’t agree among themselves on whether servicemen and servicewomen can be barred from joining la bor unions. But there is general agree ment among the lawyers that Rep. Bella Abzug NEW YORK (AP) — Rep. Bella Abzug, whose term ends today with the swearing-in of the new Congress, says she may throw her famous hat into the ring in the 1977 New York City mayoral race. The Manhattan Democrat, who lost the Senate nomination to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, said she was being swayed by voter surveys showing her as the leading candidate. The latest was a New York Daily News opinion poll pub lished Monday. Based on telephone interviews with 273 voting-age residents taken Dec. 13-15, the survey shows Mrs. Abzug receiving 18 per cent — or just under 50 votes — to Mayor Abraham D. Beame’s 16 per cent. . 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The debate appears to boil down to an argument over whether a ban on allowing membership in a union would infringe on a service member’s constitutional rights. Pentagon lawyers have been grappling with the problem of how to frame regulations in such away as to keep them from being voided by the courts. Army attorneys contend the Defense Department has legal authority to rule out union membership. Defense Depart ment General Counsel Richard Wiley reportedly challenges the Army position. Lawyers for the Air Force and Navy are de scribed as uncertain. A current defense directive says commanders are not au thorized to recognize or to bar- < I w JL & ■■ - Griffin Bell, Levi WASHINGTON—Atty. Gen. designate Griffin Bell points to an object as he tours the Justice Department with Atty. Gen. Edward Levi Monday. Levi briefed Bell on matters pertaining to the department. (AP) Nixon invited to inauguration PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Former President Richard Nixon, who has not been to Washington since he resigned in disgrace in 1974, has an opportunity to re turn for Jimmy Carter’s in auguration. Carter’s press secrotary, Jody Powell, said the Carter gain with any servicemen’s un ion. Many civilian workers belong to the American Federation of Government Employes, which represents them before con gressional committees. Government workers may not strike and their pay rates are fixed by Congress. But the union may bargain with federal agencies on working conditions and is available to help individ ual employes in event of griev ances. The union has been consid ering for more than a year whether to try to sign up men and women in uniform. AFGE leaders decided last month to delay a decision amid reports of staff was following a tradition that all past presidents and their wives are invited to in augurals. In San Clemente, Calif., there was no response from Nixon’s staff when reporters called to find out whether Nixon in tended to go to the in- disagreement among them. The present Pentagon lead ership, both civilian and mili tary, is universally opposed to unionization of the armed forces. It is not yet known how the Carter administration will view the question. Gen. George S. Brown, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified last year that “every country that has had unionization within its uni formed side of the military es tablishment has paid one terrif ic price in operational effective ness.” Other senior military officers have said unions in the armed forces “would be detrimental to good order and discipline.” auguration. Powell said the Carter staff has heard nothing from Nixon, either. “It has been true without fail that traditionally former presi dents and former first ladies are invited to a new president’s inauguration,” Powell said. 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