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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SCC 5/27
DATE: May 27, 1992
:
TO: Sec. Skinner
FROM: CLAYTON YEUTTER
Counsellor to the President for
file
?
Domestic Policy
Sam, I've talked with Reilly about
this subject three or four times over the
past several weeks, and to Charlie Black
innumerable times. Charlie represents
the tobacco industry, but he's also in-
terested in the political implications.
In contrast to some of the other issues
I believe Reilly is handling this one about
as well as he can under the circumstances.
He feels compelled to refer the matter to
his Scientific Advisory Board, get their
opinion, and ultimately take whatever action
is deemed appropriate. This process will
take us well past the Nov. election, so
that should make it a non-factor politically.
The industry believes the Scientific
Advisory Board to be biased against them,
but Reilly feels they'll be as objective as
any other group to which he might turn. And
he does not believe he can procrastinate
because there is so much Cy interest in the
issue.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 1, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR SAMUEL SKINNER
THROUGH:
NICHOLAS E. CALIO NEC
FROM:
JAMES W. DYER
JUD
SUBJECT:
Call from Senator Helms
I returned Senator Helms' call to you. It is his understanding
that EPA will shortly issue a risk assessment stating that
environmental tobacco smoke is a class A carcinogen. Helms feels
this will have a very negative political impact upon the
President in North Carolina and in other tobacco states. Helms
suggests that we attempt to modify or delay EPA's action.
I told him I would alert you and Clayton Yeutter. No further
action is necessary on your part.
CC: Clayton Yeutter
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DCF HAS SEEN
DATE: May 20, 1992,
TO: Sec. Skinner
FROM: CLAYTON YEUTTER
Counsellor to the President for
fie
Domestic Policy
Sam, for your info our spotted owl
preservation plan was just introduced by
Sen. Gorton, Cong. Bob Smith, and Cong.
Chandler. They had a press conference
which apparently went well.
I sent over a very supportive letter,
and they expressed their appreciation
for that.
of
JESSE HELMS
NORTH CAROLINA
United States Senate
WASHINGTON, DC 20510-3301
February 14, 1992
Same: This little givy. spunky
The Honorable Samuel K. Skinner
June
Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Sam:
Please have one of your people send a picture
of the President to a 12-year-old boy in Oregon
who doesn't have long on this earth. I talked
with him yesterday and he's perfectly charming.
He admires the President very much.
I read about Cory Buchanan in the newspaper.
He is now almost blind, but his terminal ailment
certainly hasn't affected his personality. Inci-
dentally, Cory's great-great-great uncle was
President James Buchanan.
The boy's name and address: Master Cory
Buchanan, 522 West Ballf Street, Roseburg, Oregon
97470.
I do hope Cory will get the picture. In fact,
if the President ever has a moment, he might want
to call Cory. The number is 530-672-6801.
Kindest regards.
Sincerely,
Jesse
JESSE HELMS: pd
EH
REQUEST FOR PHOTO/MAILING
(PLEASE TYPE)
02/18/92
(Date)
TO:
MARY INGALS
CORRESPONDENCE OFFICE, Room 94, OEOB, Ext. 7610
FROM: Sam Skinner
Room WW
Ext. x6797
Description of photograph or photo number Please use your judgement
the picture is for a 12 yr old boy (terminally ill)
ATTACH PHOTO IF OTHER THAN OFFICIAL PORTRAIT
TO:
CORRESPONDENCE REVIEW SECTION, Room 76, Ext. 2916
The President
PHOTO TO BE SIGNED BY:
X
Return to originating office. Type name & address of recipient below
Photograph is to be mailed.
Attach mailing label, any correspondence and include typed address
here:
NAME:
Mr. Cory Buchanan
ORGANIZATION:
522 West Ballf Street
STREET:
Roseburg, OR 97470
CITY/STATE:
INSCRIBE TO: Cory:
MESSAGE SHOULD READ:
X
With best wishes
Congratulations and best wishes
DO NOT PACKAGE PHOTO. DO NOT SEND IT TO THE MAIL ROOM.
News Summary
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1992
6:00 A.M. EDT EDITION
NATIONAL NEWS
BUSH vows TO PRESS FOR BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT -- President Bush
Wednesday intensified his election-year campaign for a
constitutional amendment to balance the budget, telling a group of
political supporters, "I believe we can win, but we've got a big
fight on our hands."
(Washington Post, Reuter)
ROLLINS AND JORDAN SIGN UP WITH PEROT -- Ross Perot recruited two
experienced professionals to his insurgent presidential campaign
Wednesday, Hamilton Jordan and Ed Rollins, in a move that further
rattled an already demoralized White House and Republican
establishment. (Washington Post, Washington Times, Reuter, UPI)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
U.S. SAYS FORESTRY IS ITS KEY ISSUE AT EARTH SUMMIT -- William
Reilly said Wednesday that protecting the world's forestry
resources was the main American concern at the U.N. conference.
(UPI, Washington Post)
EXILED HAITI LEADER CHIDES U.S. ON RESPONSE TO COUP -- Jean -
Bertrand Aristide asked the U.S. and other countries in the
hemisphere Wednesday to stop talking about democracy and start
taking direct action to restore it, beginning with the interception
of oil tankers bound for Port-au-Prince.
(New York Times)
NETWORK NEWS (Wednesday evening)
PEROT TEAM Ross Perot has
managed to steal the day from
President Bush and Bill Clinton
by hiring two of Washington's
NATIONAL NEWS
A-1
leading insiders to run his
campaign.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
A-7
EARTH SUMMIT -- The Earth Summit
NETWORK NEWS
B-1
began in Rio; President Bush is
under fire from the haves and the
EDITORIALS
C-1
have nots.
ECONOMY -- Orders to U.S. factories
rose 1% in April.
This Summary is prepared Monday through Friday by the White House News Summary Staff.
For complete stories or information, please call 456-2950.
NATIONAL NEWS
BUSH VOWS TO PRESS FOR BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT
President Bush Wednesday intensified his election-year
campaign for a constitutional amendment to balance the budget,
telling a group of political supporters, "I believe we can win, but
we've got a big fight on our hands."
Bush held a series of White House meetings on the proposed
balanced budget amendment, speaking to Republican and Democratic
supporters and a gathering of groups that back the measure.
Director Darman, briefing reporters on the Administration's
position, acknowledged Wednesday that "this is going to be an
extraordinarily difficult vote in the House," although, he added,
"We're within striking distance." In the Senate, he said, "the
opposition is formidable, to say the least."
Not all Republicans are enthusiastic about the proposal,
warning that without a provision that would require a three-fifths
majority to approve new taxes, the balanced budget amendment could
result in tax increases. "To be candid about it, we never thought
it was going to pass before," said Rep. Weber. "Everybody else is
quite enthusiastic, all for political reasons," he said. "They
just think it's a great political issue."
(Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, A4)
Darman Says U.S. Debt Like Second Mortgage Without House
Saying the nation's debt buildup was like a second mortgage
"without the house," Director Darman plugged Wednesday for a
balanced budget amendment before a partly skeptical press.
"We need the force of the Constitution behind this to force
a political system not now functioning correctly to get done a job
that it has demonstrated clearly it will not do in the current
system," Darman told a news conference at the White House.
But Darman was grilled by some reporters who wanted to know
why Bush did not try to balance the budget now or exercise more
leadership on the issue with Congress if the matter was so
important.
Darman replied that "the President has been trying very hard,"
but that it was difficult to draw attention to the issue --
including from the press. "This is a boring topic, you all are not
terribly interested in it, it doesn't get much coverage; it is so
hard to get people to look at this stuff seriously," Darman told
reporters.
(Susan Cornwell, Reuter)
"more-
White House News Summary
Thursday, June 4, 1992 -- A-2
ROLLINS AND JORDAN SIGN UP WITH PEROT
Ross Perot recruited two experienced professionals to his
insurgent presidential campaign Wednesday, Hamilton Jordan and
Ed Rollins, in a move that further rattled an already demoralized
White House and Republican establishment.
At a joint news conference in Dallas, both Jordan and Rollins
said they decided to break with politics as usual and join the
Texas billionaire after concluding that neither party offered any
hope of breaking the political gridlock in Washington or solving
the nation's fundamental problems.
Sources said Wednesday that Sam Skinner held a private
luncheon with Secretary Baker, and that Skinner is considering
bringing in a new deputy chief of staff to work with or replace
Henson Moore, with some of Baker's top aides on his list.
Both White House and Baker aides denied such a scenario was
discussed at the lunch. One senior official said President Bush
"is if anything determined to not make any quick changes right now
or it would look like full-scale panic."
Several Republicans bitterly said the Bush team was to blame
for harboring grudges against Rollins for his often impolitic
criticisms of the President, and declining when he offered his
services earlier this year. "You can blame this on the President,"
one prominent Republican said. "He was so angry with Ed that he
made sure he'd have no role in 1992, and Ed can't sit out a
presidential campaign like this. They lost him."
(Ann Devroy & Michael Isikoff, Washington Post, A1)
Hired Guns Ready To Ride with Texan
Hamilton Jordan and Ed Rollins joined Ross Perot's undeclared
presidential campaign Wednesday in a bipartisan effort to topple
the two-party system that launched their careers.
"I think the issue is the future and not the past," Rollins
said.
"I
think
getting the economy moving again, creating a
change in the way Washington works, is probably going to take
someone like Mr. Perot. "
Vice President Quayle criticized Perot's opposition to the
Gulf War. "His judgment at that critical time was flawed and
judging from his recent statements (about the war) he still does
not understand," Quayle told reporters during a trip to Florida.
(Major Garrett, Washington Times, A1)
Top GOP, Democratic Strategists To Join Perot Campaign
Ross Perot Wednesday hired top Democratic and Republican
strategists to guide his likely White House bid.
Said Rollins: "We need leadership. We need to break this
impasse in Washington today get the economy moving." Rollins
said Bush had led the country well when foreign policy skills were
paramount, including his Gulf War leadership, but that Perot was
the man to lead America out of the economic doldrums.
"The vulnerability the President has is that the American
public today is looking to the future, not the past, and I think
that obviously when you've been around for as long as he has
it's awfully hard to be the change-agent," he said.
(Robert Doherty, Reuter)
-970m-
Piched up in SKiNNers Box,
6/4/92
White House News Summary
Thursday, June 4, 1992 -- A-3
Perot Takes Spotlight As Primaries End
On the day President Bush and Bill Clinton should have started
their face-to-face battle, Ross Perot Wednesday announced two old
political pros would run his still unannounced campaign
Meanwhile, Richard Bond said on ABC's "Good Morning America,"
"These polls are fairy tales right now. Ross Perot hasn't faced
the voters in a single state. He doesn't have a specific stand on
a single issue. He offers very vague propositions of principle to
the American people, which are contradictory.
"When the leveling process starts that the media and political
opponents will do in the fall, it'll be a totally different
picture, and while I take the Perot factor very seriously, with
anyone who spends hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the
presidency in the end, George Bush will be re-elected." (UPI)
NETWORKS SNUB BUSH, WON'T AIR NEWS CONFERENCE LIVE
Pushed by calls for a major staff shake-up and defections to
Ross Perot's surging presidential campaign, President Bush hopes
to recharge his stumbling campaign Thursday. Bush plans a series
of news conferences starting Thursday night to bypass the press and
take his case to American voters. But the networks indicated they
won't carry the news conference live.
Decisions to schedule a news conference and to start the
formal campaign two weeks earlier than usual came as Ed Rollins
announced plans to join Ross Perot. Several other Republican
officials who worked in the 1988 campaign also are considering
jumping the Bush-Quayle ship, according to GOP officials.
Torie Clarke said Perot's hiring of Rollins underscored GOP
claims that Perot isn't as independent as he claims. "It does
belie his hoped-for image as an outsider," Clarke said.
The defection highlighted a week marked by White House and re-
election campaign staff backstabbing as well as criticism from
outside GOP advisers who are calling for major staff shake-ups.
"We've dropped 15 points in the polls in six weeks. No one
is in charge. Logic dictates that something should happen," said
a senior Administration official.
(Paul Bedard, Washington Times, A4)
KEMP SAYS NO TAX SHELTERS IN BUSH'S ENTERPRISE ZONES
Secretary Kemp said Wednesday that President Bush's plan to
establish enterprise zones in inner cities will not allow the areas
to become tax shelters for unscrupulous investors.
Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, Kemp said, "We
don't want to turn an enterprise zone into a tax haven. I'm not
looking for a Cayman Islands in Watts. The benefit of a zero
capital gains tax would only go to an investor and an entrepreneur
who increases the wealth of the community
That's
the
way
the
law will be drafted," he said.
The aim of the enterprise zone plan is to create jobs, not to
lure businesses from the suburbs to the inner cities, Kemp said.
"The purpose of the incentives will be to encourage
entrepreneurship, to get men and women -- particularly minority men
and women -- access to capital and seed corn and venture capital,"
he said.
(Carleton Bryant, Washington Times, A3)
-
White House News Summary
Thursday, June 4, 1992 -- A-4
RTC LEGAL STAFF SHAKE-UP
The federal legal team that has been pursuing former S&L
officials is being dismantled just as the government is facing
critical deadlines in its effort to go after wrongdoers and recover
money for taxpayers.
The action, taken by top officials at the RTC, has thrown the
legal staff into turmoil, jeopardizing potential civil lawsuits
against officers, directors, attorneys and accountants of failed
S&Ls, according to the GAO. Various agency sources said the shake-
up is widely viewed as a battle for control between managers of the
division and other agency lawyers. Some RTC sources noted,
however, that there had been sharp disagreements between the
division and the RTC general counsel's office over the division's
aggressive approach.
(Susan Schmidt, Washington Post, A1)
FOREST SERVICE CHIEF ORDERS 'ECOLOGICAL APPROACH'
TO MANAGING U.S. WOODLANDS
U.S. Forest Service field officers are being ordered Thursday
to start running the 156 national forests on an "ecosystem
management" basis that could reduce by 70% the controversial
practice of clear-cutting timber and result in more environmentally
sensitive stewardship of the nation's 191 million acres of
federally owned forests.
Forest Service Chief Dale Robertson ordered the services field
staff to implement within 90 days new strategies for managing U.S.
forests on the basis of several principles that place a new
emphasis on protecting wildlife habitat, ensuring clean air and
water and outdoor recreation as well as production of timber on
national lands.
(Tom Kenworthy, Washington Post, A11)
3 REBUKED IN 'FRIENDLY FIRE' DEATH
The Army, in the first known punishment of officers held
responsible for a "friendly fire" death in the Persian Gulf War,
has issued letters of reprimand accusing three men of negligence
on the battlefield. Such a reprimand, if placed in an officer's
permanent record, is generally regarded as damning to prospects for
promotion. Two of the officers have already left the Army or
announced plans to leave, but a third now finds his career hanging
in the balance.
(Barton Gellman, Washington Post, A1)
'STAR WARS' FOUND TO VIOLATE TREATY
Top analysts in the Pentagon's "Star Wars" program have
concluded that even the most rudimentary defense from nuclear
attack would violate the ABM treaty. But SDI Director Dr. Henry
Cooper said Wednesday that his agency had not adopted this view.
The finding that a planned deployment of 100 land-based
interceptors clashes with the 1972 ABM treaty is spelled out in a
112-page draft of a report scheduled to be sent to Congress this
month by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, which runs
the "Star Wars" program. Although critics have frequently charged
that the 100-interceptor deployment would violate the treaty, this
is the first time Pentagon analysts have said as much.
(William Broad, New York Times, A7)
-970m-
White House News Summary
Thursday, June 4, 1992 -- A-5
HOUSE VOTES TO CUT OVERSEAS FORCES
The House, opening debate on a $274 billion military budget,
approved plans Wednesday to reduce sharply the number of troops
stationed abroad and to force U.S. allies to shoulder a greater
share of their defense.
The package is $7 billion less than President Bush has
proposed for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. The Bush
Administration said it opposes the legislation, citing a $1.1
billion cut in Bush's $5.4 billion request for SDI and inventory
reductions it says would hurt troop movement.
The House overwhelmingly approved a measure that would
increase the bill paid by South Korea and NATO allies by about $6
billion for the cost of stationing U.S. troops in those countries.
The vote was 396-9.
In a surprise, lawmakers approved a measure reducing the
overall defense bill by $3.5 billion by cutting funds for U.S.
troops in Europe, Japan and South Korea. The vote was 220-185.
(AP, Washington Post, A5)
RECESSION JOB LOSSES HIGHER THAN REPORTED
The Labor Department said Wednesday that 2.2 million payroll
jobs were lost in the last recession, a figure that is one-third
higher than the government's previous job-loss estimate.
Officials said they are still at a loss to totally explain how
such a huge error could have been made, but William Barron, acting
commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said that there was
"absolutely nothing that would support" a charge that politics
influenced the government's statistics-gathering process.
The new estimate showed that 2.2 million jobs were lost
between June 1990, the month before the recession officially began,
and January of this year. Under the old figures, the job loss for
that same period had been put at 1.68 million, 32% below the new
estimate.
"Today's figures should put to rest once and for all the myth
that this recession was mild or shallow," said Sen. Sarbanes.
"These figures more accurately represent what American workers have
known all along -- that this was a severe recession and a disaster
for workers, who saw 2.2 million jobs disappear."
(Martin Crutsinger, Washington Post, D9)
FACTORY ORDERS FEED RECOVERY
Manufacturing continues to power an unsteady economic
recovery. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that orders for
factory goods rose 1% in April to $243.8 billion -- a fourth
straight monthly increase.
"Chances of relapse into recession are fading as manufacturing
picks up speed," says Gary Schlossberg, economist at Wells Fargo.
(Beth Belton, USA Today, 1B)
-
White House News Summary
Thursday, June 4, 1992 -- A-6
U.S. AUTO MAKERS' RECOVERY PICKED UP
SPEED IN MAY AS JAPAN RIVALS FALTERED
DETROIT -- The U.S. auto industry's recovery gathered more
steam in late May, as Detroit's Big Three grabbed sales and market
share from their Japanese rivals.
Sales from late May and the entire month indicated that buyers
were turning away from Japanese cars in favor of cars and light
trucks built by the Big Three auto makers. The shift is a sign
that recent price increases by the major Japanese auto makers are
giving Detroit a long-awaited opening to win back consumers.
Domestically built cars sold at a seasonally adjusted pace of
6.5 million vehicles in the May 21-31 period. That's relatively
flat compared with the sales pace in mid-May and a year earlier.
But it was enough to give May a 6.3-million-vehicle sales pace -
the best in more than 18 months.
(Bradley Stertz, Wall Street Journal, A2)
GREENSPAN: INFLATION FEARS 'MAJOR THREAT' TO RECOVERY
TORONTO -- Alan Greenspan said Wednesday the economy's
recovery is threatened by expectations that inflation may escalate
in the years ahead. Greenspan, speaking with reporters at an
international bankers conference here, said "there is almost no
evidence of inflation emerging as a key factor in the next two or
three years."
But medium and long-term interest rates, particularly for the
U.S. Treasury's 30-year bond, are higher than they should be, he
said. Greenspan said that's a reflection of worries from private
economists and bond traders "that inflation will reemerge in years
farther out, " partially because of the huge federal budget deficit.
"The major threat at this particular point is the inflationary
expectation," Greenspan said. Those expectations may force rates
higher, which would "begin to constrict the capacity of the overall
economy to expand."
(Rob Wells, AP, Washington Post, D11)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Mrs. Rollins, Resigned To Reality," by Martha
Sherrill, appears in the Washington Post, page C1.
###
INTERNA TIONAL NEWS
U.S. SAYS FORESTRY IS ITS KEY ISSUE AT EARTH SUMMIT
RIO DE JANEIRO -- William Reilly said Wednesday that
protecting the world's forestry resources was the main American
concern at the U.N. conference. But Reilly failed to announce any
new expenditures for this area apart from the $150 million in
additional funds recently announced by the Bush Administration.
Reilly said that while the U.S. believes "each country must
pay the major share of its environmental efforts," the Bush
Administration recognizes the "need for outside resources to assist
developing nations." Reilly said "economic growth can and is to
be the engine of environmental improvement." He said the U.S. also
"strongly supports" the revised climate change agreement -- a
document pledging countries to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gases
such as carbon dioxide.
(Hugo Coya, UPI)
U.N. Earth Summit Opens with Calls To Save Planet
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Representatives of nearly every government
assembled here Wednesday to inaugurate the world's first high-
level peace conference between man and his environment.
The U.S. has pledged $50 million to the Global Environment
Facility, $25 million in bilateral aid for developing countries to
inventory their energy uses and $150 million to help the Third
World preserve forests.
The Bush Administration has made it clear that no more money
will be coming, fueling criticism here that the world's wealthiest
nation is shirking its duty. William Reilly found himself having
to defend Washington at every turn of the opening day. "It's been
a character-building experience for me," quipped Reilly.
(Michael Weisskopf & Julia Preston, Washington Post, A20)
OAS, U.S. DENOUNCE PRIME MINISTER CHOICE IN HAITI
The State Department and the OAS criticized Wednesday the
naming of an opponent of ousted Haitian President Aristide to head
the military-controlled government.
OAS Secretary General Baena Soares said the choice of Marc
Bazin as Haitian prime minister was a "political delaying maneuver"
and a continuation of the Sept. 30 military coup. Richard Boucher
said the naming of a prime minister should be by consensus and
"this is not the case" given that Aristide had no role in the
decision. Both men said any solution to the Haitian crisis must
include the return of Aristide.
(Herman Beals, UPI)
-970m-
White House News Summary
Thursday, June 4, 1992 -- A-8
EXILED HAITI LEADER CHIDES U.S. ON RESPONSE TO COUP
Jean-Bertrand Aristide asked the U.S. and other countries in
the hemisphere Wednesday to stop talking about democracy and start
taking direct action to restore it, beginning with the interception
of oil tankers bound for Port-au-Prince. Aristide said that sooner
or later a naval blockade of Haiti might be necessary to bring down
the military government.
While avoiding direct criticism of the Bush Administration,
Aristide delivered a bitter and sarcastic indictment against
"friends of democracy" who he said seem unable to act to support
it.
"They say: 'We will give democracy to them, we are with them.
We will tighten the embargo, " he said in an interview. "But when
we saw more tankers arriving in Haiti only four days ago with oil,
we thought, 'is this the best way to tighten an embargo?'"
(Barbara Crossette, New York Times, A10)
AMERICAN GOODS FIND WAY TO HAITI
DESPITE EFFORT TO TIGHTEN EMBARGO
PORT-AU-PRINCE -- The seven-month-old trade embargo against
Haiti is springing new leaks despite tough talk by nations in the
hemisphere, and one of the main sources of merchandise reaching the
island is the U.S.
The embargo has had a devastating effect on Haiti's large
majority of peasants and slum dwellers, but the country's upper
classes continue to find ways to circumvent it. While some goods
are scarce and prices have soared, hurting the poor, products
ranging from cosmetics to soft drinks are still available for more
affluent Haitians.
Diplomats, business owners and analysts here say the U.S. is
one major source of products banned. Although U.S. officials have
talked from time to time about cracking down on contraband traffic,
there is little evidence that the flow has been stanched, sources
here say.
(Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, A24)
U.S. SUSPENDS NICARAGUAN AID AT LAWMAKERS' REQUEST
The Bush Administration has quietly suspended assistance to
Nicaragua at the request of members of Congress who are troubled
by that country's economic program and continued Sandinista
influence within the government.
The aid suspension was imposed at the request of Rep. Obey and
Sen. Helms. In addition to criticizing Sandinista influence, Helms
had faulted the government of President Chamorro for its failure
to compensate 200 U.S. citizens whose property in Nicaragua was
seized.
Bush Administration officials agree there is room for
improvement in Nicaragua but they credit Mrs. Chamorro for having
slashed the inflation rate, thereby laying the groundwork for a
more vibrant economy. The officials contend that an extended aid
cutoff would put Nicaragua in arrears with international financial
institutions, leading to a suspension in assistance flows and
wiping out the economic stabilization gains of the past two years.
(George Gedda, AP)
-970m-
White House News Summary
Thursday, June 4, 1992 -- A-9
U.N. CURBS ON BELGRADE QUESTIONED
U.N. -- A dispute has broken out in the Security Council over
whether Belgrade controls Serb militias fighting in Bosnia-
Hercegovina and whether U.N. sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia will
have their desired goal.
One of the aims of the sanctions is to force Belgrade to use
its influence over Serb militias in Bosnia to stop fighting. But
a report by Secretary General Boutros-Ghali received by the
Security Council an hour after it voted the sanctions on Saturday,
notes that the Serb militias under the command of Gen. Ratko Mladic
are "independent actors." Boutros-Ghali adds that these forces are
"subject neither to the authority of Belgrade nor to that of the
government of Bosnia and Hercegovina."
However, a U.S. official noted that Gen. Mladic "was appointed
by Belgrade, he was armed by Belgrade, and as far as we know Serb
irregulars don't have an air force (a reference to air attacks),
so we still put that monkey on their back."
(Trevor Rowe, Washington Post, A21)
SERBS RIDDLE HOSPITAL VEHICLE
BELGRADE -- Serb forces machine-gunned a Red Cross hospital
bus and shelled an apartment complex in Sarajevo Wednesday, killing
four persons, witnesses and U.N. officials said.
The U.S. expressed "outrage" at the attacks and accused the
Serbian government of deliberately keeping Sarajevo airport and the
roads to the city closed to humanitarian relief efforts.
"We've been outraged by the attacks on the convoys," Richard
Boucher said. "You've seen attacks on clearly marked convoys with
U.N. markings. You've seen attacks on Red Cross convoys. You've
seen attacks on hospital vans, as well as on innocent people."
(Mark Heinrich, Reuter, Washington Times, A7)
KOHL REASSURES BUSH ON NATO
BONN -- Chancellor Kohl, trying to calm U.S. fears that a new
German-French military force will undermine NATO, has sent a letter
to President Bush offering assurances of loyalty to the alliance,
German officials said here Wednesday.
The chancellor's intention is to "again make it clear that
this is not directed against NATO," according to a Kohl aide, who
said the letter had been sent in the past two days.
(Special to the Washington Post, A22)
CHINESE CHECKERS ON HILL TRY AGAIN
House members Wednesday introduced a bill that would put
strict conditions on renewal of favorable trade status for China.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Pease, requires that China
improve its human rights record, stop selling weapons to unstable
countries and cease unfair trade practices against the U.S. A
similar measure was expected to be introduced Thursday in the
Senate.
(Anne Veigle, Washington Times, C1)
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NORTH KOREA IS FAR FROM A-BOMB, VIDEO INDICATES
A video recording of a visit by international nuclear experts
to a formerly secret nuclear installation in North Korea suggests
the facility is far from ready to produce enough plutonium to make
atomic weapons, according to IAEA officials.
David Kyd, information director of the IAEA, said that the
video shows an "extremely primitive" facility that was visited in
mid-May by IAEA Director General Hans Blix and accompanying nuclear
experts.
CIA Director Gates testified before the House Foreign Affairs
Committee Feb. 25 that North Korea is "a few months to as much as
a couple years" from producing a nuclear weapon. Such intelligence
reports had provided the basis for increasingly tough U.S. warnings
to North Korea and an emerging atmosphere of crisis. Wednesday,
a senior Administration official defended the earlier U.S.
intelligence data, saying the "intelligence was admittedly vague"
and most news media reporting about it had focused on the "worst
case" side of the range of estimates provided by officials.
(Don Oberdorfer, Washington Post, A18)
U.S. SUSPENDS EXERCISES PLANNED WITH JORDAN
The U.S. has decided to suspend planned military exercises
with Jordan because the kingdom has failed to stop banned goods
flowing through its territory to Iraq, officials said Wednesday.
The decision was made by President Bush after he was informed
that despite a personal commitment from King Hussein to stem the
flow, U.S. intelligence had reported the smuggling was unabated,
said officials.
(Ruth Sinai, AP)
SHELL OIL EX-CHIEF TO BE NAMED SAUDI ENVOY
President Bush plans to name Shell Oil Co. chairman John F.
Bookout, 69, as ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
So far, there is no indication that Bookout has taken any
public position on any of the Middle East's chronic conflicts,
including the Arab-Israeli dispute. In his years at Shell, Bookout
was a favorite of reporters and oil industry analysts, who
described him as accessible and cool under fire.
The only sour note about Bookout's career appears to be his
inclusion on TransAfrica's list of one of the "Faces Behind
Apartheid" because of Shell's business activities in segregated
South Africa.
(Thomas Lippman, Washington Post, A27)
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NETWORK NEWS
(Wednesday evening, June 3)
PEROT TEAM
ABC's Peter Jennings: We begin tonight with Ross Perot. He may
not be the classic politician, but he certainly knows how to play
the game. Mr. Perot, who advertises himself as being an outsider,
has managed to steal the day after the primary season from
President Bush and Governor Clinton by hiring two of Washington's
leading insiders to run his campaign for the presidency. Ed
Rollins is a Republican. Hamilton Jordan is a Democrat. What they
have in common is a knowledge of how to push all the right
political buttons.
ABC's Jim Wooten reports they may be an odd political couple but
their credentials are impressive. Both said today they are now
fully committed to Perot's presidential pursuit.
(Jordan: "I think the possibilities of a Perot presidency are more
exciting and promising to me personally than the certainty of what
either a Bush or Clinton presidency would mean for this country.)
(Rollins: "I think the vulnerability the President has with the
American public today is looking to the future not the past. And
I think that obviously when you've been around for as long as he
has and many of his advisers, it's awful hard to be the change
agent.
The President had no comment. For weeks now the President and
Clinton have tried to ignore Mr. Perot's rising popularity -- to
treat it as a passing fancy based on symbol. But now with two
respected and recognized pros running his campaign, their campaigns
have good reason to be frightened.
(ABC-Lead)
NBC's Tom Brokaw: Ross Perot, the self described innocent of
presidential politics, demonstrated again today his shrewd sense
of timing and publicity. One day after he diverted most of the
attention from President Bush and Bill Clinton's primary victories,
Perot introduced his new campaign generals -- one from each side.
NBC's Lisa Myers reports Perot quickly gave the competition more
to worry about. Perot today hired two big names: Ed Rollins and
Hamilton Jordan.
(Jordan: "President Bush and Governor Clinton are both well
intentioned good men. I think that Mr. Perot is the future of this
country.")
Political pros called Perot's broad-based appeal phenomenal.
(Mervin Field, pollster: "The question today is now whether this
is an infatuation or long-lasting love. But the way it looks, it
looks like real love.")
Jennings: Let's go to John Cochran at the White House where the
President first tried to ignore Perot and then realized he could
not.
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Cochran: The President has told aides that Ross Perot is a real
threat, and today the President sounded as though he expects the
fight of his life. The President admitted in a teleconference to
California Republicans that he now has two rivals.
(President Bush: "So far I have not attacked my opponent. In
fact, I don't think you can point to one single remark against
either one of them. But when that convention of ours is over, I'm
coming out of there with my sleeves rolled up ready to take this
fight to every precinct in this country.")
Meanwhile, campaign chairman Bob Teeter is pushing Bush to be more
aggressive in selling himself and his policies. Aides say Bush
himself is frustrated that he is not getting his messages to the
public.
(TV coverage of President Bush shaking hands in a crowd.)
He complains privately that TV networks broadcast only brief
soundbites. So Bush will hold a rare primetime news conference
tomorrow in the East Room, the setting Ronald Reagan's handlers
chose.
(TV coverage of President Bush giving speech in East Room.)
Bush used to think elaborate nighttime interrogations were phony
and pretentious. Bush's aides hoped for a big primetime audience
tomorrow. But so far only CNN has agreed to a live broadcast.
Bush may not be attacking Perot yet. But today Dan Quayle took
aim at Perot's opposition to the Gulf War.
(Quayle: "If you look at Ross Perot's judgement on the Persian
Gulf, it was wrong.")
Besides attacking Perot's judgement, the President's surrogates are
also looking for any character faults they can find -- anything to
slow down the Ross Perot express.
(NBC-Lead)
CBS's Dan Rather: Further evidence today that there's never been
a presidential race like this one. The primaries are over, and the
biggest winner wasn't even on the ballot -- independent Ross Perot.
Perot is campaigning as an outsider, but today he hired a couple
of insiders.
CBS's Eric Engberg reports Perot put Ed Rollins and Hamilton Jordan
into top campaign posts.
(Rollins: "The most critical thing that we all feel is that we
need leadership -- we need to break this impasse that's going on
in Washington today.")
The ability to attract such veterans adds to the luster of a
candidate who has already convinced many skeptics he could win or
at the least ensure a three-way campaign like nothing ever seen
before.
(David Garth, campaign consultant: "That's a quintessential anti-
politician This is Mr. Smith goes to Washington. This is a
Frank Capra movie.")
(Eddie Mahe, campaign consultant: "The agenda for Ross Perot is
not issues. The agenda for Ross Perot is change: 'I am the agent
of change. I will kick butt and I will make it happen.
His campaign strategy according to informed sources rests on a
triangle of mega-states worth 111 electoral votes: Texas,
Californian and Florida. Blitzing these big states with TV ads,
Perot hopes to keep looking like a winner while going after others.
(CBS-Lead)
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RATHER-PEROT INTERVIEW/ECONOMY
Rather: Last night Perot told me what he will do about the economy
if he is elected president.
Perot: Move heaven and earth to stop the deficit spending. Get
a real Gramm-Rudman as fast as I can. Then you will see me buried
in meetings to stop the declining job base. That's the declining
tax base also
We have got to turn that around and have a
growing dynamic job base. There's only one way to do it: Let's
have the words "made in the U.S.A." the world standard for
excellence again.
Rather:
Can I quote you as saying, "Read my lips. No new
taxes"?
Perot: No, you can't ever quote me as saying anything that
stupid
Rather:
No new taxes?
Perot:
I would only consider raising taxes if all else
failed
In the unlikely event that it ever occurred, it would
be after we had a grass roots consensus that this was the right
thing to do for the country and we were doing it in a fair way.
(CBS-2)
PEROT/BUSH-QUAYLE STRATEGY
Rather: The Bush-Quayle reelection team is now described by some
Republicans as being in disarray and reeling -- looking for
strategy, some strategy for dealing with Perot. Susan [Spencer],
what, if anything, have they come up with so far?
CBS's Susan Spencer: They've come up with one thing for sure. In
fact, President Bush's consternation at being constantly drowned
out by Ross Perot prompted him today to announce that he will have
a primetime news conference tomorrow night from the White House
East Room. Now, this is only the second time in his entire
presidency that he has done this. Asked if this wasn't something
of a stunt or if it wouldn't look like a stunt, one campaign
official said, I thought rather frankly, "Well, it does give him
good face time with people." That apparently is what the campaign
thinks he needs to look presidential but at the same time to have
some forum for appealing to the ordinary voter. You can translate
that: the Perot voter. With that perhaps in mind, he's also
stepping up his calls for a balanced budget amendment -- a
constitutional amendment to force Congress to balance the budget.
Now, he has never submitted a balanced budget, but the White House
clearly thinks that this gives him a way to fight against Congress
-- fight against the hated spend-thrift ways of Washington. He
won't take on his real opponents until after the convention. He
stressed that again today, but he told some California supporters
today that after that he's going to roll up his sleeves, he's going
to fight, and he said he's going to win.
(CBS-3)
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PRIMARIES
NBC's John Chancellor reports the primaries has brought us two
candidates for president who should be triumphant but who look
instead as though they've been in a meat grinder. George Bush's
campaign lacks luster, his staff is in disarray, and his poll
numbers are in the cellar.
(NBC-11)
WOMEN IN ELECTIONS
ABC's Cokie Roberts says although women in both parties are doing
well so far, Democrats might expect to benefit from something else
voters tell the exit pollsters. Most Republicans disagree with
their own party's anti-abortion stance.
(Neil Newhouse, Republican consultant: "It's definitely a
potential problem. And it poses a problem for the Bush campaign.")
Issues like abortion might play a role this year, but the main
thing women candidates have going for them is the voters' readiness
to throw the bums out. And, many say, bums is a masculine noun.
(CBS-4, NBC-13, ABC-2)
EARTH SUMMIT
Brokaw reports the earth summit began today in Rio. Battle lines
are already drawn between the haves and the have-nots. President
Bush is under fire from both sides.
NBC's Ed Rabel says just to reverse current world pollution would
cost $650 billion a year -- $125 billion of it in direct payments
from the U.S. and other industrial powers, according to summit
coordinator Maurice Strong.
(Strong: "Under the polluter-pays principle those who create the
damage should pay for it. And, of course, we in the industrialized
countries are creating most of it. And therefore we need to pay
for most of it.")
That is the demand of the southern nations here, and it is being
challenged by the northern nations led by the U.S.
(William Reilly: "We can only hope that this story or this line
on the U.S. will become tedious and wear a little thin with time.")
But many of the world's environmentalists who have launched their
own alternative conference here aren't buying the U.S. arguments.
What is more, the U.S. and President Bush are being painted as the
villains. Some ecologists say Mr. Bush dashed their hope for a
cleaner environment by watering down an agreement on global warming
and by rejecting a proposal to protect plants, animals and natural
resources.
(NBC-3)
Rather reports Secretary-General Boutros Ghali said both rich and
poor nations are to blame for destruction of the environment and
endangering the planet. But as correspondent Doug Tunnell reports,
the U.S. and President Bush are taking large portions of the
criticism.
Tunnell reports most environmentalists here say the only thing
President Bush wants to protect are his chances at the polls in
November.
(TV coverage of President Bush fishing.)
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Thursday, June 4, 1992 -- B-5
From here in Rio, the Bush Administration appears to be not just
a little schizophrenic when it comes to the environment. Just
imagine a government of a major industrial country in the north
that is responsible for about one quarter of all the CO2 emissions
in the world and whose leader calls himself the environment
president.
(TV coverage of President Bush in a boat in the everglades.)
But this president forced the U.N. to water down a global clear
air accord and refuses to sign another agreement to further protect
endangered species.
(William Reilly: "The financing mechanism is not one that we
support nor one that we agreed to in the negotiations for the
climate treaty. And therefore we cannot sign.")
Environmentalists say President Bush, the leader of the most
powerful nation on earth, held this conference hostage by
threatening not to come to Rio until he got his way.
(unidentified man: "The U.S. government is mostly part of the
problem and not so much part of the solution.") (ABC-14, CBS-5)
ENVIRONMENT/MERCURY POISONING
CBS's Bob Faw reports Florida's everglades are sick from mercury
poisoning. And even though mercury has turned up in the water of
21 states, the federal government isn't doing much about it.
(Henry Cole, National Clean Water Action: "The Bush Administration
is so short sighted that when they see the word mercury all they
want to do is look the other way because it means some economic
problem to some of the big polluters.")
(CBS-14)
ECONOMY
Jennings reports there's some strength in the manufacturing sector.
Orders to U.S. factories rose 1% in April. It's the fourth
consecutive gain and the first time that has taken place in four
years.
(ABC-9)
UNEMPLOYMENT
Brokaw reports it may be a only a coincidence, but the Labor
Department waited until after the primaries to announce that
2,200,000 payroll jobs were lost during the recession. And that's
a third higher than earlier estimates of job losses.
(NBC-2)
Rather reports the Labor Department was forced to admit today that
it seriously undercounted how many Americans lost jobs in the
recession. It turns out almost two-and-a-quarter million were cut
from payrolls -- one third more than was officially reported. Bush
Administration officials say they don't know how they made the
mistake. They denied it had to do with political motivation.
- (CBS-6)
AIDS
Jennings reports there is a new forecast today on the spread of
AIDS: much more pessimistic than any of the projections we have
seen before. Researchers at the international AIDS Center at
Harvard University warn that the spread of AIDS will be in their
words "explosive, disastrous and quite probably unstoppable."
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ABC's George Strait reports the Harvard group says previous studies
by the World Health Organization were too conservative, and that
by the year 2000 the number of people worldwide infected with the
AIDS virus could be 110 million -- 2 million in the U.S. That's
twice as many as earlier estimates. And as the epidemic grows, the
amount being spent to control it is going down.
(Dr. Mann, Harvard International AIDS Center: "Our national AIDS
efforts in this country are not up to the task. Unfortunately, we
wish we could say America is a model but we can't.")
(ABC-4)
SEX DISCRIMINATION/NAVY
NBC's Jim Miklaszewski reports the sex scandal involves at least
70 officers and elite Naval aviators, but it has shaken the entire
Navy to its core. The incident occurred last September at a Las
Vegas hotel during a convention of Navy fliers. According to the
Navy, 26 women -- half of them Navy officers -- were molested and
fondled when they were forced to run a gauntlet of male officers.
Six officers could be court martialed on assault charges. Sixty-
four others face possible disciplinary action. In a memo released
Tuesday, Secretary of the Navy Lawrence Garrett said the Navy
cannot and will not tolerate the demeaning and insensitive behavior
and attitudes of the past. The Navy insists it's going to crack
down with warnings from the top brass. But Navy officials admit
it'll take years for the old and now unacceptable traditions to
die.
(NBC-4)
TIANANMEN SQUARE ANNIVERSARY
Jennings reports it was 3 years ago today that Chinese soldiers
massacred hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators at Tiananmen
Square.
ABC's Todd Carrel reports today a man came out in the square and
began to unfurl a banner, and we ran to take pictures of him.
Plain clothes policeman descended on us and the man and began
beating us and grabbing him. Later they brought us across the
square and led us into a jeep where they beat us again and later
detained us.
Jennings says Asia Watch reports that many more pro-democracy
activists were arrested 3 years ago than Chinese officials
admitted. Hundreds of them, according to Asia Watch, are still
being held.
(CBS-13, ABC-5)
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EDITORIALS/COLUMNISTS
HEALTH INSURANCE
Health Insurance -- "In the public debate over the accessibility
of health insurance, the Bush Administration has fended off demands
for national health insurance and appropriately has argued for an
expanded role for private insurance. But if the President is to
convince Americans that he is right, he will need to show that the
private system is indeed up to the task. Mr. Bush has an
opportunity to do that by opposing a recent federal appellate court
decision that said employers may revoke the health insurance
coverage of employees who develop costly illnesses. Although the
case involves a Houston man [John McGann] who developed AIDS, it
has implications for millions of Americans with chronic
diseases
Allowing the private sector to walk away at the first
sign of trouble will be an invitation for disaster."
(Dallas Morning News, 5/26)
ABORTION
Bush Should Let His Party Put Abortion To Floor Vote -- "The
unborn child,' said the 1988 GOP plank, 'has a fundamental
individual right to life which cannot be infringed.' Lots of
Republicans, including George Bush, want to keep such a position
in the party platform. But lots of others, and probably a
majority, do not Bush and the Republican convention ought to
allow a floor vote on this issue. It is a national, not just a
regional, issue. It is important to millions of Republicans.
There is an active dispute. Nothing could be more fair, even for
those who disagree with the outcome, than to conduct an open
democratic vote on the abortion plank of the GOP platform at this
convention of the national party in Houston. (Buffalo News, 5/29)
BOSNIA
Leadership On Bosnia -- "For all its past reticence, the Bush
Administration in the last few days has asserted refreshed
leadership in the crisis. It suspended flights to and from
Belgrade
It cut off diplomatic and military contacts and
called for putting in place international sanctions against the
Serbian government by European nations and the U.N.... It
is
preferable to apply appropriate pressures through recognized
international organizations, such as the U.N., that act upon broad
consensus rather than through one nation's go-it-alone policies
that lead where no one else will follow. Yet some nation must
lead. Washington's decision to do so here, however belated, is
correct."
(Buffalo News, 5/27)
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AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Working Poor Can't Afford Housing -- "The Bush Administration,
indeed, loves vouchers when it come to education. Housing
vouchers, however, have dropped off the agenda. Why? An
expanded voucher program to buy down the cost of apartments would
go a long way toward making housing affordable for that nation's
working poor. It would also cost money. Evidently, that's too
much of a downside for the Administration."
(Atlanta Constitution, 6/3)
BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT
Happiness Is A Gimmick -- "Washington's newfound enthusiasm for
fiscal discipline is a cynical political exercise
If the
President and Congress, apparently in rare and suspicious agreement
on this issue [balanced budget amendment], are so inclined, they
can simply begin the budgetary-balancing process. By contrast, a
balanced-budget amendment, if approved by Congress, must be
ratified by 38 state legislatures and would take effect, at the
earliest, in 1997. Who needs another amendment? Just start
balancing the books."
(Los Angeles Times, 5/28)
PEROT
Another Triumph For None of The Above -- "Voters know that Perot
doesn't have much of a program. But no one else seems to offer
anything better. For all of Bush's statements and Clinton's
position papers, both come across as slickly packaged, cautious
operators more concerned about political process than about making
government work. At least Perot seems determined to do something
-- even if he has no consistent idea what that something might be.
That little more than a sharp tongue and a combative attitude could
propel him to the front of the public opinion polls is deeply
unsettling, for it indicates nothing less than a crisis of faith
about America's political establishment. It is a crisis of major
proportions. And one that -- unless the major parties directly
confront it -- will linger long after Perot fades away."
(New York Daily News, 6/3)
NUCLEAR TESTING
U.S. Should Set An Example by Ending Nuke Tests -- "The Bush
Administration wants to spend $473 million next year to test
nuclear weapons. Yet is expressed pious regret when China set off
a 1-megaton nuclear device last month
We can't expect other
countries to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons if we insist
on endless tests ourselves. If the Bush Administration won't sign
a permanent test-ban treaty now, it should at least suspend testing
for a specified period and negotiate with China and various nuclear
wanabes to do the same.
(New York Newsday, 6/2)
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29 May 1992
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'BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS: TROOPS - NOT SANCTIONS -
POLICY
NEEDED TO HALT YUGOSLAV CARNAGE, MILOSEVIC'S AGGRESSION
(Washington, D.C.): For nearly a year, Serbian aggression against other former
republics of Yugoslavia has met with studied indifference from the Bush Administration.
This stance has translated into policy paralysis in and an attendant absence of
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leadership from -- Washington.
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The practical effect of the U.S. stance on the Yugoslav crisis to date has been to
enable Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic largely to achieve his goal of a "Greater Serbia"
through brazen territorial conquest in the heart of Europe and through the fascistic
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practice of "ethnic cleansing." The latter is the pretext used to rid occupied areas of
Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina of non-Serb peoples. Fully one-third of Croatian
territory and some 70 percent of Bosnia are now in the hands of Serbian forces or their
wholly-owned "irregulars" loyal to the communist Milosevic.
More of the Same?
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Tragically, it now appears that - even as the Bush Administration trumpets a new,
more active approach involving the imposition of sweeping international economic
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sanctions against Serbia - the actual impact of this new policy at this juncture may
well prove to be the same as the earlier U.S. approach. While the Center for Security
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Policy has called for economic and diplomatic sanctions against Serbia since hostilities
began last summer, it is now clear that sanctions alone will be inadequate to arrest the
current violence -- and that yet to come.
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Knowledgeable analysts currently believe that Milosevic only requires another 30
days (or less) to consolidate his annexation of most of Bosnia by the intimidation, forcible
expulsion or execution of those Muslims and Croats still within the zone under Serbian
military occupation. Worse yet, the Bush Administration has postponed any decision on
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the introduction of peacemaking forces - the only step remotely likely now to stem
Milosevic's ongoing predations, let alone to roll-back those already accomplished - until
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the "sanctions are given a chance to work."
This is, of course, precisely the argument made by many congressional Democrats
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and other critics of President Bush's military response to Saddam Hussein's invasion of
Kuwait. It was an argument strenuously, and property, resisted by Mr. Bush in the fall
of 1990. Waiting for sanctions to work makes no more sense in the case of Serbia
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than it did with respect to Iraqi aggression for the following reasons:
First, in the absence of military action against Serbian forces and paramilitary
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surrogates, sanctions may simply have the effect of shoring up Milosevic's waning
popular support at home. He will be able to claim that the economic catastrophe he has
wrought (for example, inflation estimated to be running at an annual rate of 48,000%) is
the result of sabotage from external enemies - not his inept command economic practices
and the debilitating drain of an offensive war.
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Second, a waiting game is one Milosevic -- like Saddam before him -- is only too
ready to play. As one observer, Edward Mortimer, noted in the Financial Times of 27 May:
"The beauty of this formulation is that it raises the possibility of military action only when
other measures have been tried and failed. By then, of course, the Serbs would have more
or less completed their 'ethnic cleansing,' and might even value the arrival of a
'peacekeeping force' which would make it more difficult for armed Croats or Moslems to
infiltrate the 'cleansed' areas." (Emphasis added.)
Third, even the financial and other economic impacts of these "telegraphed" sanctions are
likely to be considerably less significant than would have been the case heretofore. The
Serbians have had months to prepare for these measures and have done so by squirrelling
away the vast majority of their assets in Europe. Presumably at the urging of friendly
Western governments, the Serbs have entrusted them to "safe harbors" on the continent and
elsewhere around the world. The sums involved are substantial; according to the 15 May 1992
Financial Times, some $1.5 billion has been moved by Milosevic out of Western banks and
banks in Belgrade over the past six months.
Still Wedded to Slobo?
Regrettably, under present circumstances, one conclusion seems inescapable: The Bush
Administration remains wedded to Milosevic; its policies continue to reflect that commitment
and are calculated neither to undermine his hold on power nor to undo his quest for a "Greater
Serbia."
Perhaps this is attributable to the sort of misguided personal diplomacy conducted by
President Bush and Secretary Baker toward Saddam Hussein and Mikhail Gorbachev. Perhaps it
is the result of even more base forces namely, the alleged conflict of interests arising from
past business dealings in Belgrade on the part of Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence
Eagleburger and National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. Indeed, if evidence now surfacing
of frantic damage-limitation efforts by both Baker and Eagleburger1 is to be believed, both of
these factors have contributed to this policy fiasco.
Whatever the reason, it is simply intolerable that the Bush Administration might persist in
pursuing policies that have, to date, helped create nearly 1.5 million refugees across the former
Yugoslavia and resulted in nearly 6,000 dead, 27,000 wounded and thousands more missing in
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In an article in the 27 May 1992 editions of the New York Times entitled "Why U.S. Bears
Down on Belgrade," Eagleburger is reported to have told "friends and colleagues that he was
reluctant to resume working on Yugoslav issues [after he recused himself from doing so for one
year] but was gradually drawn into them by Mr. Baker." On the same day, a State Department
official was quoted in the Financial Times as saying: "Baker had already been briefed many
times by Larry Eagleburger and Brent Scowcroft, both of whom were diplomats in Belgrade in
the 1960s and had close connections with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic." (Emphasis
added.)
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Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia. The civilized world must bend every effort to prevent Serbia
from inflicting any further mayhem and loss of life on the objects of its aggression.
Now There's No Alternative to Military Intervention
In the final analysis, there is only one way to stop the carnage in the former
Yugoslavia - by denying Serbia the fruits of its aggression. This requires that the present
lopsided advantage in military power currently enjoyed by Serbian-backed forces be eliminated.
It means that Serbia must no longer be able to carry on the war in other neighboring states
confident that its own territory will remain in sanctuary. And it means that Serbian-led forces
occupying areas of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina must be expelled by force if necessary -
from areas they currently occupy.
No less clear is the reality that such an intervention must be effected quickly if it is to
have any chance of success. "Peacemaking" forces involving a comprehensive "air cap,"
sizeable numbers of ground troops and naval elements - will have to be assembled at once and
introduced into Croatia and Bosnia within a matter of days.
Don't Hold Your Breath Waiting for the Franco-German Corps: If there were any-
thing to the newly-formed Franco-German corps either as a free-standing entity or, as adver-
tized, as the cadre for a West European defense force it would presumably be the unit to
engage in such a mission. The Yugoslav crisis, however, amply shows the severe limitations
that are sure to render this military initiative permanently impotent, for all intents and purposes.
Not the least of these are the fact that the French have been supporting Milosevic
throughout this crisis as evidenced by the opposition they have expressed in such forums as
the CSCE, EC and UN to earlier proposals for political, diplomatic or military penalties against
Serbia. The Germans, on the other hand, have supported Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia by
insisting on recognition of their independence and through material and other support. The
truth is that France and Germany have fundamentally different positions and objectives.
This reality - and not the lead-times involved in formally establishing a joint headquarters,
etc. -- is what will render the Franco-German corps irrelevant in the present crisis and an
unreliable security instrument in future crises.
A Job for NATO: There is, in fact, only one organization capable of taking on and
successfully executing this daunting task: NATO. Only the Alliance has the dedicated, highly
trained and rapidly deployable forces necessary to thwart Milosevic's hegemonic designs. Only
NATO can credibly act within the time available to eliminate the overwhelming military
advantage enjoyed by Serbia's forces. Only NATO can realistically be turned to perform the sort
of "peacemaking" role so desperately needed in Bosnia and the other former Yugoslav republics.
Miraculously, the Alliance seems to have recognized just two days ago that this is
precisely the sort of activity NATO must be prepared to perform if it is to have a raison d'être
in the post-Cold War period. In a decision taken by allied defense ministers on 27 May that is
expected to be ratified at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers next week in Oslo, the
organization has agreed to permit its forces to undertake expanded peace-keeping roles in
non-NATO Europe.
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Conclusion
The Center for Security Policy has long believed that NATO - or a multinational
force backed by NATO - should dispatch combat troops to Yugoslavia to repel Serbian
aggression and to help foster conditions in which the rights of minorities will be respected
within the various independent republics' pre-conflict territorial boundaries. (See: Decision
Brief No. 91-D77 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Serbian Dress-Rehearsal for the Coming
Crisis in Europe, 13 August 1991.) The Center is under no illusion about the risks inherent
in such an intervention; there would inevitably be casualties and the possibility of a wider
war cannot be excluded. In addition, the Balkans have proven the bane of many who have in
the past sought to bring peace and order to that troubled region.
Still, the risks and international precedents associated with inaction - including those
of a substantially broadened conflict -- have become increasingly evident in recent days. In
the Center's judgment, the downsides of NATO intervention pale beside the dangers for
the continent, and Western interests, sure to arise if a communist/nationalist despot
remains effectively unchecked in his barbaric effort to secure territory and consolidate
his power through aggression.
The Center also believes that it should be made clear to the long-suffering people of
Serbia that there is something in such an intervention for them, as well. NATO's mission
should not be considered complete until Slobodan Milosevic is brought to justice for
crimes against humanity - both those perpetrated in the course of his war against
Kosovo, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and those inflicted upon his own beleaguered
people. The message should go forth to all such despots: The price of aggression is not
only certain defeat, but the liberation of their own nation from such tyranny.
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May 28, 1992
OFFICERS AND BOARD
Jeffrey H. Coors
Chairman
The Honorable Samuel Skinner
Dr. Robert H. Krieble
Chief of Staff
Vice Chairman
THE WHITE HOUSE
Congressman Ralph M. Hall
Secretary
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dr. Charles Moser
Treasurer
T. Coleman Andrews III
Dear Mr. Skinner:
Senator William L. Armstrong
John D. Beckett
Clifford S. Heinz
You may recall that we met when the President signed
Terry J. Kohler
a Proclamation declaring Sanctity of Human Life Day
Marion Magruder, Jr.
Thomas A. Roe
1992. It was an honor to meet you and the
Kathleen Teague Rothschild
President.
Robert L. Sandblom
Henry J. Smith
Paul M. Weyrich
Please allow me to take just a moment of your time
to compliment Leigh Ann Metzger of your staff. I
Paul M. Weyrich
have had occasion to work with several persons who
President
have held the position she currently holds and,
Richard B. Dingman
Executive Vice President
without question, Leigh Ann is the best. Her
commitment to the Administration and her dedication
FIELD REPRESENTATIVES
to those with whom she works is tremendous.
Natalie Andrievsk, C. Ukraine
Gregori Brejnev, Kazakhstan
I just thought you would like to know what a
Oleg Kangur, S. Baltics
Aziza Nazarova, Tajikistan
terrific job I think Leigh Ann is doing and what a
Siiri Odrats, N. Baltics
pleasure it is to be able to work with her. Thank
Bert Parac, Croatia
Oleg Popov, W. Siberia
you for your time.
Cristian Radu, Romania
Mikhail Reznikov, Moscow
Sincerely,
Vladimir Salitra, W. Ukraine
Todor Staikov, Bulgaria
Sergey Tsodikov, E. Siberia
Alexander Urmanov, Russia
Igor Veryutin, Sakhalin Is.
Doug Scott
Anatoly Yarokh, E. Ukraine
Douglas R. Scott
Henryk Zwolski, Poland
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El Embajador de España
Washington, D.C., May 26, 1992
The Honorable
Samuel K. Skinner
Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, D.C., 20500
Dear Mr. Skinner:
I am very pleased to inform you that the Niña, the Pinta and the
Santa María will be arriving in Baltimore on May 29th and in
Annapolis on June 8th. These "Discovery Ships" are authentic
replicas of Columbus' caravels, painstakingly built in Spain,
which are now visiting different U.S. ports and harbors on a
goodwill tour, in commemoration of the Quincentennial of the
historic encounter of two worlds in 1492 and as testimony to the
lasting ties that unite our nations across the Atlantic.
You will soon receive an invitation to welcome the Niña the Pinta
and the Santa María on their arrival in Annapolis, on June 8th.
I will have the pleasure to host a reception immediately after
at City Dock. It will be a great honor if you could join us in
this occasion.
With best regards,
Jaime de Ojeda
Ambassador of Spain
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DCF HAS SEEN
DATE: May 15, 1992
TO:
Sec. Skinner
FROM: CLAYTON YEUTTER
Counsellor to the President for
Domestic Policy
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Sam, my apologies for not having
responded sooner to your query. I was
waiting to see if anything began to jell.
Treasury is working the interstate
banking issue hard, and Jay Powell is doing
so a lot more skillfully than did Glauber
last year. But some, particularly the
ABA folks, believe they are, nevertheless,
embarked upon a Don Quixote exercise.
I believe we ought to let them have
some rein over the next couple of weeks
and see where that takes them. I'll mon-
itor things from a distance, and we'll be
able to get reads from Calio too. If
by Memorial Day it does not appear that
we have something approaching a consensus,
we should probably rein them in and tell
them to wait until next year.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DATE: May
OF HAS SEEN1992
TO: Sec. Skinner
FROM: CLAYTON YEUTTER
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Counsellor to the President for
Domestic Policy
Since the next Commerce announcement
on the subsidy/countervailing duty case
is due on May 20, I thought you might
like to peruse this letter. As you will
see, it indicates what the Canadians
are alleged to be doing, and also the
Congressional reaction C that is developing.
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SONNY CALLAHAN
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY
1ST DISTRICT, ALABAMA
AND COMMERCE
1330 LONGWORTH BUILDING
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WASHINGTON, DC 20515
(202) 225-4931
Congress of the United States
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DISTRICT OFFICE:
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May 6, 1992
Honorable Clayton Yeutter
Counselor to the President for
Domestic Policy
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Honorable Yeutter:
The purpose of this letter is to express my concerns
regarding Canada's efforts to avoid the U.S. countervailing duty
on softwood lumber, particularly in light of reports I have
received that Canada's lobbying efforts extend into the White
House.
I'm concerned by allegations that some White House
officials are pressuring Undersecretary of Commerce Farren to
"go easy" on the Canadians. As a Republican co-chairman of the
Congressional Forestry 2000 Task Force, I am apprehensive about
the consequences this White House action will have during the
1992 Presidential election. The repercussions caused by the
mishandling of this situation could extend well into the 103rd
Congress.
Canadian lumber is heavily subsidized and Canada is
fighting "tooth and nail" to keep its subsidies. It is my
understanding that Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney has, on
several occasions, requested that President Bush intervene in
the legal process. I have also heard that Canada's External
Affairs Minister McDougal asked National Security Advisor
Scowcroft and Secretary of State Baker to intervene. Canada has
launched a lobbying/media campaign involving tens of millions of
dollars targeted at undermining the countervailing duty law's
clear requirements. As I understand it, the campaign includes a
former Congressman, a former White House official, two former
Canadian ambassadors, a former governor, at least thirteen law
firms, and two Public Relations firms, not to mention Canadian
embassy and consular officers.
The Canadian campaign has been filled with disinformation
in an effort to cause panic. For example, they say the cost to
consumers of ending the Canadian subsidies (and saving as many
as fifteen thousand U.S. lumber mill jobs) will be no more than
a few hundred dollars on a new house -- two to three dollars per
month on a average mortgage. The National Association of Home
Builders now admits that its original estimate of the cost
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Honorable Yeutter
May 6, 1992
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(paralleling Canadian industry estimates) was grossly
unrealistic. Canadian lobbyists are falsely arguing that U.S.
log export restrictions are being placed at risk.
Let me reiterate that if there is any suggestion that
Commerce does not intend to fully offset the subsidy as required
by law, -- either because of Canadian political pressure or for
any reason -- I am concerned that it will spell disaster for the
Administration. Congress will not tolerate it, and the issue
will immediately become a political hot potato.
Bowing to Canadian lobbying pressure would clearly be
unacceptable to Alabama's lumber manufacturers and to me. It is
simply inappropriate to give Canadian lumber any economic
advantage in the marketplace, and I urge you to do all you can
to uphold the law and reject Canada's efforts to circumvent it.
With kind personal regards, I am
Sincerely,
sommy Member of Congress
Sonny Callahan
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