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Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Doc. No. / Type
Subject/Title
Date
Restriction
Classification
01a. Log
White House Telephone Log [E.D.T.] [redaction of personal
07/18/89
(b)(6)
information] (2 pp.)
01b. Log
White House Telephone Log [Signal Switchboard] [redaction of
07/18/89
(b)(6)
personal information] (1 pp.)
02. Notes
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with King Fahd Re:
07/18/89
(b)(1)
visit (1 pp.)
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Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, July 18, 1989
Pinksheet Number:
dw1388
OA/ID Number:
90517-003
Date Closed:
6/23/2009
FOIA/Sys Case #:
2009-0166-S
Re-review Case #:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Tuesday, July 18, 1989
8:00 am
Meeting with Opposition
Ambassador's
Leader Wim Kok
Residence
8:30 am
Breakfast with Dutch Parliament-
Ambassador's
ary Leaders and Foreign Affairs
Residence
Committee Members
10:00 am
B American Community Greeting
American Embassy
11:30 am
B Arrive Airport
Schiphol Airport
Departure Ceremony
11:55 am
B
Depart Amsterdam enroute
Schiphol Airport
Andrews Air Force Base
2:35 pm
B Arrive Andrews Air Force Base
AAFB
2:50 pm
B Arrive White House
South Lawn
Arrival Statement
3:28 all out except Brady, summer, Hills. Darman; add mcClure
3:31 Hillsont 3:32 scourroft out
4:47 Darmant Brady out + McClure out
4:51 Junern ont 5:15 add scowerft 5:23 add Annual, Prince Bandon +
Richard Hass
5:33 Bondor, sunum + Haas ant 5:35 Annune in 5:48 Acoweroft out
5:55 Annernu out ? Potus dpt
UNP 07/17/89
3:00 pm
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
3:01 POTUS arrived in
oval ofc w/
Cabinet members
-- Baker
-- - Cheney
-- Thorn burgh
-- Yeutter
-- mosbacher
- - Dole
-- cavazos
-- - - barman
-- Hills
- - Bates
3:14 - - Brady in
3:15 - - Sullivanin
3:25 -- mts begins to
Break
+
This goes w/
schedule for
7-18
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
01a. Log
White House Telephone Log [E.D.T.] [redaction of personal
07/18/89
(b)(6)
information] (2 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, July 18, 1989
Date Closed:
6/23/2009
OA/ID Number:
90517-003
FOIA/SYS Case #:
2009-0166-S
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RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRAJ
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
JULY 18
, 1989
E.D.T. PRESIDENT BUSH
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
OUT
AM
CONGRESSMAN BILL ARCHER
WASHINGTON, D.C.
4:22
4:30
225-1076
MAX
PM
TLKD-OK 4:25PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
CONGRESSMAN JACK MURTHA
LW
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK 7:12PM
ING
5:18 PM
7:17
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
CONGRESSMAN DANIEL ROSTENKOWSKI
OFC. WASHINGTON, D.C.
225-4061
TLKD-OK
INC
5:52 PM
5:56
OUT
AM
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
INC
PM
OUT
AM
SENATOR JESSE HELMS
OFC. WASHINGTON, D.C.
224-6191
TLKD-OK 6:30PM
XNE
6:28 PM 6:33
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
XM
SECRETARY JAMES BAKER
(b)(6)
XNC
6:40 PM
TLKD-OK
6:42
OUT
AM
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OUT
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GPO : 1982 0 - 370-008 : QL 2
JN/JG
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
JULY 18
E.D.T. PRESIDENT BUSH
, 19 89
TIME
NAME
PLACED
DISC
ACTION
OUT
XM
GENERAL BRENT SCOWCROFT
OFC. WASHINGTON, D.C.
7:18 PM
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN EXT. 653
MXX
7:21
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
XX
MR. CHARLES BARTLETT
(b)(6)
INC
7:47
PM
7:49
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
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PM
OUT
AM
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
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GPO : 1982 O - 370-008 : QL 2
JN/JG
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
01b. Log
White House Telephone Log [Signal Switchboard] [redaction
07/18/89
(b)(6)
of personal information] (1 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, July 18, 1989
Date Closed:
6/23/2009
OA/ID Number:
90517-003
FOIA/SYS Case #:
2009-0166-S
Appeal Case #:
Re-review Case #:
Appeal Disposition:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Disposition Date:
AR Case #:
MR Case #:
AR Disposition:
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RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SIGNAL SWITCHBOARD
July 18, , 19 89
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
OUT
10:22AM
Secretary Nicholas Brady
Tlkd with Mr. Sununu
Office, Washington, D.C.
10:35 AM
White House Signal 2-2125
INC
PM
Conference Call:
Tlkd-ok
OUT
AM
King Fahd
5:27 PM
(b)(6)
INC
5:20PM
5:31
OUT
AM
Prince Bandar
The Oval Office
White House Signal 2-4176
INC
PM
OUT
AM
Ms. Sandra Charles
White House Situation Room
White House Signal 2-2264
INC
PM
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
OUT
AM
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AM
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PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
The Hague, Netherlands
Amsterdam, Netherlands
LOCATION Washington, D.C.
DATE 18 July 1989
TIME
MOVEMENTS
0745
Depart Noordeinde Palace via Motorcade
0750
Arrive Ambassador's Residence
0943
Depart Ambassador's Residence via Motorcade
0951
Arrive American Embassy
1030
Depart American Embassy via Motorcade
1036
Arrive Noordeinde Palace
1105
Depart Noordeinde Palace via Motorcade
1139
Arrive Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1205
Depart Schiphol Airport via Air Force One
EDT
1431
Arrive Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland
1441
Depart Andrews Air Force Base via Marine One
1451
Arrive South Grounds
1501
Oval Office
1816
South Grounds
1827
Residence
2010
South Grounds
2026
Residence
WHCA FORM 15, OCTOBER 15, 1980
1989
Tuesday, July 18
2:51 The President and Mrs. Bush arrive South Grounds
2:52 The President addresses assembeld crowd (2,000 - 3,000)
3:01 The President to the Oval Office
3:01 Mrs. Bush to the Second Floor
5:20 Mrs, Bush to the Oval Office
6:15 The President and Mrs, Bush to the south Grounds
6:26 The President and Mrs. Bush and Gov, Sununu to the Second
Floor
6:28 Mrs. Bush to the Doctor's Office
6:31 Mrs, Bush to the Second Floor
6:36 Sununu down
7:00 Dinner for the President and Mrs. Bush
8:12 The President and Mrs. Bush to the South Grounds
8:27 The President and Mrs. Bush to the Second Floor
8:35 Retired
News Summary
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TUESDAY, July 18, 1989 -- 6 a.m. EDT EDITION
5:00 a.m. edt/11:00 a.m. The Hague Edition
TODAY'S HEADLINES
TRIP NEWS
BUSH LAUDS U.S.-DUTCH FRIENDSHIP -- President Bush repaid a debt of almost
four centuries Monday when he came to the home of the Pilgrims and saluted
the Dutch people for a "friendship older than the American Constitution."
(Boston Globe, Washington Post, Reuter)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
U.S., MOSCOW SAID TO AGREE ON KEY ISSUES OF CHEMICAL ARMS PACT -- The
United States and the Soviet Union have reached agreement on key aspects of
a treaty banning chemical weapons, including a timetable for destruction of
the arms and procedures for inspecting chemical factories, the New York
Times reported Tuesday.
(Reuter)
FRENCH MISSILE TECHNOLOGY MAY LAND IN LIBYA -- Senior U.S. defense and arms
control officials are worried that a French decision to transfer sensitive
rocket technology to Brazil could result in intercontinental ballistic
missile technology ending up in the hands of Libyan strongman Gadhafi.
(Washington Times)
NETWORK NEWS (Monday evening)
B-2 -- The maiden flight of the
world's most expensive warplane
TRIP NEWS
A-1
went without a hitch.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
A-2
SDI -- For the first time the
military has successfully fired
NATIONAL NEWS
A-6
a particle beam into space.
NETWORK NEWS
B-1
TRIP -- President Bush added a
few more brush strokes to the
portrait of the world he would
like to see.
This Summary is prepared Monday through Friday by the White House News Summary Staff.
For complete stories or information, please call 456-2950.
White House News Summary -- Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- A-1
TRIP NEWS
BUSH LAUDS U.S. -DUTCH FRIENDSHIP
Historic Visit Ends His European Trip
LEIDEN -- President Bush repaid a debt of almost four centuries
Monday when he came to the home of the Pilgrims and saluted the Dutch
people for a "friendship older than the American Constitution."
The first American president to visit this staunch ally and major
trading partner, Bush was entertained by Queen Beatrix and Prime Minister
Lubbers
Monday, Leiden's mayor, C.H. Goekoop, gave Bush the city's medal as a
reminder that 379 years ago, "the American dream -- and the American
reality -- began right here. "
Standing before crossed Dutch and American flags, Bush paid tribute to
Holland's contributions to America and to Europe. The tradition of freedom
the Pilgrims brought from Leiden to the New World, he said, "is alive today
in Warsaw and Gdansk, in Budapest and across the Soviet Union. " The
President's reference to the Pilgrims took on a personal dimension when his
hosts surprised him with a family tree showing that he is 12 generations
Netherlands. removed from Francis Cooke, a Pilgrim from England who lived briefly in the
(David Broder, Washington Post, A14)
Bush Says 'Dream For Freedom' Alive In Soviet Union
LEIDEN -- Speaking from the city where the Pilgrims set sail for the
New World, President Bush Monday challenged the Soviet Union to help close
the gap dividing the East from West in the old world Europe.
On the last leg of a nine-day Europe trip during which he witnessed
the political changes taking place in Poland and Hungary, Bush said that
the same "dream for freedom" he saw in those communist countries was alive
"across the Soviet Union."
Bush referred to the Pilgrims several times, paralleling the odyssey
they took from England to Leiden to Plymouth for religious freedom to that
of the Poles and Hungarians for political freedom.
"Here in Leiden, where the Pilgrims dreamed their new world, let us
pledge our effort to create a new world in Europe, whole and free, a new
world within our reach, Bush stated.
(Stephen Kurkjian, Boston Globe)
Bush Concludes European Trip Calling For 'New World'
THE HAGUE -- President Bush, who began his 10-day trip to Europe with
a call to reunite the continent, is ending his journey insisting that the
"new world" he seeks poses no threat to the Soviet Union.
"The new world we seek is a commonwealth of free nations working in
concert -- a world where more and more nations enter a widening circle of
freedom," Bush said Monday in the Netherlands
Bush praised Soviet leader Gorbachev's reform efforts and said a
recent offer by the Kremlin chief for economic cooperation with the West
was "the latest example of the Soviets moving in our direction -- coming
our way
The Soviet Union has nothing, nothing to fear from the reforms
said. that are now unfolding in some of the nations of Eastern Europe,' Bush
(Laurence MCQuillan, Reuter)
###
White House News Summary -- Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- A-2
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
U.S., MOSCOW SAID TO AGREE ON KEY ISSUES OF CHEMICAL ARMS PACT
NEW YORK -- The United States and the Soviet Union have reached
agreement on key aspects of a treaty banning chemical weapons, including a
timetable for destruction of the arms and procedures for inspecting
chemical factories, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Under the draft treaty -- eight years in the making -- Moscow and
Washington would ban the development, production, possession and transfer
of chemical weapons, the newspaper said
Under the U.S.-Soviet pact, some chemical weapons and production
equipment would be destroyed annually, but each country could retain some
weapons until the end of a 10-year transition period.
(Reuter)
FRENCH MISSILE TECHNOLOGY MAY LAND IN LIBYA
Senior U.S. defense and arms control officials are worried that a
French decision to transfer sensitive rocket technology to Brazil could
result in intercontinental ballistic missile technology ending up in the
hands of Libyan strongman Gadhafi.
According to the officials, the French Embassy in Brasilia has
notified the U.S. Embassy there that France has granted preliminary
approval for the transfer of technology relating to the Viking liquid
rocket engine, used to propel the French Ariane space-launch vehicle.
A strong link exists between Brazil and Libya in developing and
building ballistic missiles, said the officials, who asked not to be
identified. Libya offered $2 billion to buy Brazil's latest theater
ballistic missiles, according to a June 1988 report from then-Senate Armed
Services Committee member Dan Quayle
The technology transfer, the officials said, could be a serious
violation of the Missile Technology Control Regime signed in 1987 by
France, the U.S., Canada, West Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK.
(Clarence Robinson, Washington Times, A1)
'STEALTH' BOMBER CALLED SUCCESS IN FIRST FLIGHT
B-2 Pilot Says Warplane Proved 'Very Nimble'
In Two-Hour Test Over Mojave Desert
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE -- The B-2 "stealth" bomber, the most expensive
U.S. warplane ever built, roared into a desert sunrise Monday on a two-hour
maiden flight that controversy-weary Air Force officials quickly declared a
"historic day in aviation.'
The $530 million bomber performed a series of simple, first-flight
maneuvers before touching down 30 minutes earlier than scheduled
In Washington, Rep. Gingrich said the Administration "has not done a
good enough job" in making the case on Capitol Hill for the B-2 and that
President Bush will have to concentrate on lobbying Congress if he hopes to
win full funding for the costly plane. "It will have to absorb all his
energy, Gingrich said.
(Molly Moore, Washington Post, Al)
-more-
White House News. Summary Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- A-3
30 KILLED IN AFGHAN REBEL FEUD
Guerrilla Leaders Ambushed After Strategy Meeting
ISLAMABAD -- As many as 30 Afghan rebel military leaders, including
more than a half-dozen senior field commanders, were ambushed and killed by
a radical guerrilla group while returning from a strategy meeting in northern
Afghanistan last week, rebel sources and Western diplomats here confirmed
Monday.
The killings, the most serious internecine violence reported among the
U.S. -backed rebels in years, occurred in Takhar Province following a
four-day meeting of rebel military leaders to plan renewed assaults against
the Soviet-supported Afghan government
In Washington Monday, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher
called the attacks "tragic and brutal" and said the killings "can only
play into the hands of the enemies of a free Afghanistan."
...
Boucher
rebels. added that the incident would not affect U.S. support for the Afghan
(Steve Coll, Washington Post, Al)
ISRAEL INCREASES EFFORTS TO HALT U.S.-PLO TALKS
JERUSALEM Israeli Foreign Minister Arens and other senior Likud
party officials have stepped up efforts to persuade the U.S. to break off
its dialogue with the PLO, arguing that the contacts are helping to block a
government initiative to hold elections.
In a move that appears clearly at odds with the strategy of Defense
Minister Rabin of the Labor party, Arens today asserted that it would be
impossible to hold free elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip while the
U.S.-PLO talks continued because any Palestinian who sought to run
independently of the PLO "would probably be dead in 24 hours."
(Jackson Diehl, Washington Post, A17)
U.S. OFFERS AMENDS IN IRAN JET DEATHS
The U.S. has offered compensation of $100,000 to $250,000 for each of
the 290 passengers and crew members killed when an Iranian civilian
jetliner was shot down by a missile from the cruiser USS Vincennes in the
Persian Gulf last year, the State Department said Monday.
A senior department official said payments to victims' relatives could
total about $30 million. However, he added, it is not possible now to
arrive at a clear-cut figure because the Iranian government has not
cooperated with U.S. requests for information about the 250 victims who
were Iranian citizens, and U.S. officials do not know if a method can be
worked out to assure the payments reach their survivors.
(John Goshko, Washington Post, A14)
POLAND, THE VATICAN RESTORE TIES AFTER 50-YEAR DIPLOMATIC BREAK
WARSAW Poland and the Vatican announced Monday the resumption of
diplomatic relations after a 50-year break caused by World War II and the
postwar Communist takeover of one of the world's most Roman Catholic
countries
Under the new agreement, Poland will send an ambassador to the Vatican
and the Holy See will send a nuncio to Warsaw.
(A.D. Horne, Washington Post, A14)
-more-
White House News Summary -- Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- A-4
U.S. MAY CUT CONTRAS' POLITICAL AID
The Bush Administration is considering sharply reducing subsidies to
the Miami-based Nicaraguan contra political leadership with an eye toward
eliminating the contras' Miami headquarters and the political bureaucracy
that has sprung up around it, according to U.S. officials.
The plan follows reductions in CIA funds for the Contras' U.S. -based
political operation made this spring, when its monthly allotment of
$500,000 was cut in half, U.S. officials said.
The Administration strategy is to encourage the contra leadership to
adapt to changes brought about by the Central American peace process --
including presidential elections scheduled in Nicaragua early next year --
and to the virtual certainty that in current circumstances, Congress will
not approve additional lethal aid to the rebels.
(Joe Pichirallo, Washington Post, A15)
Foreign policy amendment
WASHINGTON -- President Bush is being advised to veto any legislation
which forbids him to use money from other countries for activities denied
funds by Congress, such as helping the Contra rebels, Sen. Helms said
Monday.
"This doesn't even make good nonsense because Congress doesn't have
the authority to do that," said Helms as debate opened on an amendment
offered by Sen. Moynihan to a pending State Department authorization
bill
Undersecretary of State Eagleburger, in a letter read by Helms, said
the amendment would seriously affect the ability of Bush or any succeeding
president from conducting foreign policy.
(AP)
Panama
PANAMA CITY -- The government insisted Monday that Gen. Noriega would
not step down as Panama's de facto leader, complicating talks with the
opposition on resolving the nation's political crisis.
Earlier, government representatives had said they were willing to
listen to a proposal for Noriega's departure
Government and military representatives listed as their agenda items
an end to what they called U.S. aggression and military threats against
Panama; withdrawl of additional U.S. troops sent to Panama; the return of
Panamanian funds held by the U.S.; strict compliance with Panama Canal
Treaties;
and no U.S. interference in Panama's political affairs. (AP)
SOVIET STRIKES HIT UKRANIAN COAL FIELDS
MOSCOW -- A coal miners strike in western Siberia involving more than
100,000 workers spread today to the Ukraine's Donbass coal fields, the
largest mining region in the Soviet Union, according to official Soviet
media reports.
The evening news program Vremya said that 2,000 miners working outside
the Ukranian city of Donetsk have joined the strike demanding better living
conditions and higher wages and pensions. Considering the sheer size of
the Donbass coals fields, prolonged strikes there could spell an economic
catastrophe
The Kremlin appears eager not to inflame the tensions among the
workers, and has gone about taking a conciliatory stance.
(David Remnick, Washington Post, A1)
-more-
White House News Summary -- Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- A-5
ENVOYS WITHOUT EXPERIENCE
Bush Choices Drawn Mostly From Politics
[Ambassador-designate to Barbados Joy] Silverman is one of the
major exhibits in the case being built by Democrats and some groups
promoting career Foreign Service officers: Compared to previous
administrations, the Bush team is naming as ambassadors more political
appointees with little or no qualifications outside of support for Bush or
wealth given freely to the GOP
Sen. Sarbanes
said that many of Bush's political appointees have had
fewer qualifications than those of other presidents. "They have gotten to
the point here where the only reason some of them are being picked is big
political giving," he said. "I'm not a purist on this, but they have gone
too far."
The Bush Administration is also defending the number of its political
appointees. Government Executive magazine is preparing for its August
edition a comparison of three administrations' records in appointing career
Foreign Service and political ambassadors. The study concludes that
fewer than one-third of Bush's nominees, compared to Reagan's 44 percent,
have been career Foreign Service officers.
(Ann Devroy, Washington Post, A1)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Ortega, After 10 Years In Power, Remains Confident And
Consistent," by Julia Preston & Lee Hockstader, appears in the Washington
Post, page A15.
###
White House News Summary -- Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- A-6
NATIONAL NEWS
LUJAN CAMPAIGNS TO PREVENT BAN ON OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING
Secretary Says Energy Imports Would Rise
Interior Secretary Lujan, kicking off an Administration campaign to
block any congressional ban on offshore oil development, Tuesday will
accuse Congress of pursuing a "dangerous" course that would increase U.S.
reliance on foreign oil, according to an advance copy of his speech.
In remarks prepared for a meeting of the Western Governors'
Association in Long Beach, Ca., Lujan said last week's House vote for a
one-year ban on oil drilling off much of America's coast was "based on an
risks." unfounded belief that our program presents unacceptable environmental
Lujan said the House action, if upheld in the Senate, would raise the
chances of an environmental disaster by creating more foreign tanker
traffic in and around American ports.
(John Lancaster, Washington Post, A8)
MANY CITIES WILL STILL HAVE UNHEALTHY AIR IN 2000, REPORT WARNS
Despite the Bush Administration's optimistic assertion that it can
clean up the nation's dirty air by the end of the century, about half of
the cities now failing to meet air quality standards will still have
unhealthy skies in the year 2000, according to a study released Monday by
the congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
Even the most aggressive use of "all currently available technologies"
will fail to bring dozens of cities into compliance with federal standards
for ozone, one of the main ingredients in smog and the most intractable air
pollutant, according to the OTA report
The author of the OTA report, Robert Friedman, said the Administration
and the EPA are being overly optimistic about how rapidly the most polluted
cities can reduce ozone
The OTA report states that in the short term
the use of methanol or compressed natural gas in automobiles would produce
only "modest reductions," but in the long term it might "ultimately result
in quite substantial air quality benefits."
(William Booth, Washington Post, A3)
MORTGAGE SUPPORT GETS COSTLY
Taxpayers' Bill In Foreclosures Passes $2 Billion
The taxpayers' bill for foreclosures on federal backed mortgages for
middle-class housing has passed the $2 billion mark and is showing few
signs of leveling off as once-profitable government housing insurance funds
are hit with the full impact of the losses, according to government and
housing industry officials
The Government National Mortgage Association, a mortgage-financing
agency known as Ginnie Mae, is the latest to suffer. The agency's losses
could eventually hit $1 billion and Ginnie Mae is blaming much of its
problem on the Department of Veterans Affairs' loan guaranty policies.
Unless action is taken to curb the expected VA losses, Ginnie Mae could be
recording losses of $50 million to $100 million annually starting as early
as next year, according to a high-ranking Ginnie Mae official who requested
anonymity.
(Ann Mariano, Washington Post, A1)
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White House News Summary Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- A-7
456 CAUGHT IN SECRET FEDERAL DRUG EFFORT HERE
Federal officials announced Monday that 456 fugitives, including 25
accused murderers, were apprehended during a U.S. Marshals Service
operation that targeted some of the most dangerous drug suspects in the
Washington and Baltimore areas
Attorney General Thornburgh and Drug Control Policy Director Bennett
hailed
the
$1.3
million
operation
as the most dramatic example to date of
the much-publicized initiative they announced in April to help curb the
Washington area's drug problems
Street Terror Offender Program (STOP) was described Monday as an
integral, but heretofore unannounced, part of the Bush Administration's
District plan
The U.S. marshals began last spring developing a
priority list of 840 drug and homicide-related fugitives wanted by local
police forces.
(Michael Isikoff, Washington Post, A12)
HOUSE DOUBTFUL ABOUT REACHING BIPARTISAN PACT ON CAMPAIGN FINANCING
House Republican leaders expressed pessimism Monday over the prospects
of reaching a bipartisan accord on campaign financing and warned Democrats
that they are not prepared to settle for small steps just for the sake of
an agreement.
Arguing that "any real reform hurts the Democratic Party," Rep.
Gingrich said that the "cost to Democrats of passing something they call
reform is that it be real reform. We're not going to give them an
inexpensive ticket to masquerade behind."
Rep. Gunderson said that Republicans and Democrats would probably
find agreement only on what he called "three or four easy issues. But he
said there is little prospect for agreement on larger questions such as the
elimination of most PACs.
(Dan Balz, Washington Post, A7)
14 IN HOUSE ASSAIL JUDGESHIP CHOICE
Fourteen members of House subcommittees with jurisdiction over the
EEOC announced their opposition to President Bush's choice of of EEOC
Chairman Clarence Thomas for the federal appeals court here, asserting that
Thomas' actions at the commission "demonstrated an overall disdain for the
rule of law."
In a letter to Bush, the members accused Thomas of failing to
vigorously enforce federal laws prohibiting discrimination against
minorities, women and the elderly.
(Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, A5)
HILLS DEFENSE REQUEST MADE TO PIERCE IN '85
U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills Monday defended the appeal she
made to former HUD Secretary Pierce in 1985 as a lawyer representing a
lender that subsequently defaulted on $538 million in government-backed
mortgages
Hills, in nearly six hours of testimony before the House Government
Operations employment and housing subcommittee, said that when she
represented DRG Funding Corp. she did not know the extent of the company's
financial difficulties and no one in HUD warned her
Another key player in the HUD scandal, former Deputy Assistant
Secretary Hunter Cushing, Monday refused to answer questions from
subcommittee self-incrimination. members, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against
(Gwen Ifill, Washington Post, A10)
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White House News Summary -- Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- A-8
KEMP PRAISES FAIRFAX HOUSING PROJECTS
Monday, HUD Secretary Kemp visited [two Fairfax housing projects
achieve and cited them] as examples of what such housing complexes could
Both [well maintained] projects were developed in partnership with
private developers under the sponsorship of the Wesley Housing Development
Corp. a nonprofit group supported by the United Methodist Churches of
Northern Virginia. Tenants at both projects pay no more than 30 percent of
their adjusted income for rent. Federal subsidies make up the difference
up to an agreed-upon limit set by HUD
Kemp told the
tenants that he favors changes in the tax code to help
nonprofit groups such as Wesley.
(Evelyn Hsu, Washington Post, A10)
NASA budget
WASHINGTON -- A 1990 NASA budget of $12.3 billion, recommended last
week by a House subcommittee, was approved Monday by the full House
Appropriations Committee.
The amount includes the expected $1.64 billion for the Space Station
Freedom project but cuts money from NASA's share of the National Aerospace
Plane program.
(Newhouse)
VICE PRESIDENT COMMENTS ON WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS DURING CALIFORNIA STAY
LOS ANGELES -- Vice President Quayle indicated Monday the Bush
Administration plans to remain on the sidelines during the raging abortion
battle.
He said President Bush would support a "human life" amendment if it
passes Congress, but does not plan to lead the charge as he is doing in the
case of a constitutional amendment to permit laws barring barring
desecration of the American flag
Quayle
arrived in San Diego Monday
and is scheduled Tuesday to address employees of the General Dynamics Space
Systems Division and to meet with high-technology entrepreneurs.
(John Marelius, Copley)
ADMINISTRATION SEEKS PANEL TO STUDY VETS' HOSPITALS
The Bush Administration Monday called for creation of a commission to
study the future of the nation's 172 veterans' hospitals and, in what one
official acknowledged was a ploy to win congressional support of the study,
promised not to close any of them.
"I didn't get this assignment from George Bush to close down the VA,"
said Secretary Derwinski. "George Bush told me to improve the VA
It'll be a cold day in hell when you hear me advocating that the VA shut
down or start to phase down. That's not what we're here for."
Derwinski made clear that the Administration wants the commission to
recommend significant cost-savings changes by altering the missions of some
hospitals.
(Bill McAllister, Washington Post, A4)
EDITOR'S NOTES: "2 Senators Attack South Korea 'Son Of FSX' Plan," by
Stuart Auerbach, appears in the Washington Post, page C1; "House Conferees
Plan S&L Counterproposal, by Kathleen Day, appears in the Washington Post,
page Cl.
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NETWORK NEWS SUMMARY
for Monday Evening, July 17 -- B-1
B-2
ABC'S PETER JENNINGS: We begin tonight with the invisible aircraft that
the whole world has been watching. Today the most expensive war plane ever
built finally made its maiden flight. In fact, the pilot of the B-2
reports it virtually leapt into the air. There is a reason why this first
test flight is so public. The Air Force had no secret way of moving the
plane from where it was built north of Los Angeles to Edwards Air Force
Base, where it's going to be extensively tested.
ABC'S BOB ZELNICK reports that today's flight was less a test of evading
radar than whether this radical flying-wing design could actually fly.
Those who flew the plane through relatively simple low-speed maneuvers
today said it met all expectations. On Capitol Hill, today's flight failed
to convert the B-2's critics.
(REP. SCHROEDER: "Well, my reaction is one flight does not a blank check
get.")
(SEN. GLENN: "We should not be going ahead and committing more money and
more dollars in this very expensive program until we have a better
definition from the flight testing.")
The Air Force knows that bruising budget battles lie ahead if the stealth
program is to survive. But to appreciate its pride and relief at today's
belly-up. success, consider where things would stand if today's flight had gone
(ABC-Lead)
NBC'S MARY ALICE WILLIAMS: The United States' newest and most expensive
war plane, the sinister-looking stealth bomber, today finally proved it can
fly. But after being shrouded in secrecy for a decade, the B-2's maiden
flight just barely gets it off the ground.
NBC'S FRED FRANCIS reports that the 150-ton flying wing soared for an hour
and 53 minutes over the Mojave desert. Today's aviation history meant
little to many in Congress, still stung by the base sticker price of $530
million per plane.
(REP. ASPIN: "I think that there's a lot of unanswered questions about the
plane, and I think it's got some real problems in terms of the cost of the
plane.")
In the House there is a move to build just 13 of the bombers, then mothball
the assembly line.
(REP. KASICH: "Never again will we allow ourselves to be waltzed into a
$23 billion commitment before we have a chance to look at the program and
study it carefully.")
What the Pentagon wants is another $50 billion from Congress over the next
six or seven years. The best the Pentagon will probably get is a delay in
the stealth program as Congress anguishes over how to pay for it.
(NBC-Lead)
CBS'S CHARLES KURALT: The world's most expensive war plane finally got off
the ground today. The maiden flight of the B-2 bomber went without a
hitch. Still, the plane has a long way to go to prove its worth.
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for Monday Evening, July 17 -- B-2
CBS'S DAVID MARTIN reports that the plane's max speed was only 180 knots,
maximum altitude 10,000 feet. This was a day the Air Force has been
working toward for a decade.
(GEN. BERNARD RANDOLPH: "This was a historic day in aviation. We flew the
flying wing. We're talking about an airplane now that basically negates
the air defenses that have been built up over the many, many years around
the world.")
But the stealth bomber's first flight did not appear to change many minds
in Congress.
(SEN. GLENN: "We can't have an airplane that is so expensive that you
make.") can't afford to use it in combat. One flight does not a test program
(REP. TRAFICANT: "What next? A $100 billion Batmobile?")
Today, the stealth bomber answered the basic question, can it fly? But
when it comes to justifying the plane's price tag, Congress may have more
questions than the Air Force has answers.
(CBS-Lead)
STAR WARS
JENNINGS: The Pentagon is also pleased today about the testing of another
particularly controversial, particularly expensive weapons system. For the
first time the military has successfully fired a particle beam in space
The Pentagon says it's an important step in the overall development of SDI
just as Congress is about to act on the Pentagon's budget.
ABC'S JOHN McWETHY reports that though it is a long way from being a
developed weapons system and was not even firing at a target, the
experiment of the neutral particle beam Thursday was proclaimed a success.
When can such an experiment lead to a real weapon? That's the catch.
(COL. THOMAS MEYER: "It's difficult for me to tell you when we'll have a
weapon in space without a clear definition of what our future funding is.")
(JOHN PIKE, Federation of American Scientists: "If we were willing to
spend an unlimited amount of money on such a defense it might work. Given
the reality that we don't have an unlimited amount of money it's unlikely
that we could afford a workable defense.")
So while Pentagon officials are delighted with recent test results, the
reality is for the Star Wars defense program, budget cuts -- not increases
are the most likely trend of the future.
(ABC-2)
TRIP
JENNINGS: Overseas today, President Bush had a personal glimpse of the
past and added a few more brush strokes to the portrait of a world he would
like to see. In Holland today, to illustrate his pilgrim roots, Mr. Bush
actually saw the municipal register which records two of his ancestors'
wedding in 1613.
ABC'S BRIT HUME: As the Bush motorcade snaked through the narrow cobbled
streets of the town of Leiden today there were friendly people along the
way, some so close they could almost touch his car -- some so full of high
spirits they almost fell into it. The President got an obvious charge out
of the welcome in the town where the Plymouth Rock pilgrims, including some
of his own forebears, started for the new world.
[TV COVERAGE: The President waves from the window of his car.]
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for Monday Evening, July 17 -- B-3
HUME continues: Inside the town's oldest church, he described his vision
of a modern new world in Europe.
(PRESIDENT BUSH: "Commonwealth of free nations working in concert -- a
world where more and more nations enter a widening circle of freedom.")
Mr. Bush cited the Soviets' request for inclusion in the world economy as
one more reason to think such a new world is now possible.
(PRESIDENT BUSH: "General Secretary Gorbachev's recent letter, two days
ago to the economic summit, is only the latest example of the Soviets'
moving in our direction, coming our way.)
Afterward he was shown the church's exhibit of historic documents and was
given a copy of his family tree by a man, who it turned out, was a distant
cousin.
[TV COVERAGE of a man presenting the President with a record of his family
tree. PRESIDENT BUSH: "You and I are related?" MAN: "Yes." [laughter])
He was not related to this woman, but you wouldn't have known from their
greeting.
[TV COVERAGE of the President kissing a woman on the cheek.]
The heavy lifting of this trip is over, and this is basically a
presidential courtesy call on a small nation that's never before had one
but which just happens to lead the world in foreign ownership of U.S.
property.
(ABC-4)
WILLIAMS: President Bush was talking of a day when there would be no more
animosity between East and West.
NBC'S JOHN COCHRAN: The Netherlands: last stop of a successful European
tour for the President. This was also the last stop for the English
pilgrims who lived here for several years before sailing to the new world.
Dutch officials told Bush that he and the Democratic President, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, were definitely related to the pilgrims.
(PRESIDENT BUSH: "And today, as when the pilgrims left this city, a new
world lies within our reach. The new world we seek is shaped by an idea --
and that idea is democracy.")
While enjoying the pageantry, Bush also had a serious message -- to thank
Dutch officials for accepting American nuclear cruise missiles in the early
'80s when the ban-the-bomb movement was strong. Today, Barbara Bush ran
into some remnants of anti-Americanism.
[TV COVERAGE of Mrs. Bush stepping out of the car. SOMEONE IN CROWD: "Go
home! Go home!"]
Despite a few scuffles here, most West Europeans seem impressed by Bush's
European tour, especially to Eastern Europe. Bush says the U.S. will help
Poland and Hungary by encouraging Soviet reforms.
(PRESIDENT BUSH: "Improved relations with the USSR reduce pressure on the
nations reform.") of Eastern Europe, especially those on the cutting edge of
Bush's aides believe his European trip, though successful, will not move
him ahead of Mikhail Gorbachev in European popularity polls. The
President's advisers have accepted the probability that Gorbachev will
continue to dominate the headlines. Gorbachev is the one who needs change
the most. So he is the one who will probably make the most dramatic
proposals. But that's okay with George Bush, as long as Gorbachev moves in
the right direction.
(NBC-2)
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for Monday Evening, July 17 -- B-4
KURALT: President Bush ended his European tour today in the low country of
Holland on a high note.
CBS'S LESLEY STAHL: President Bush's last stop -- the ancient city of
Leiden -- home of Rembrandt, last stop for the pilgrims in 1620 before they
set sail for the new world. Today, the people lined the streets to see the
first American president ever to visit the Netherlands. Most, but not all,
were friendly.
[TV COVERAGE of the President walking with Queen Beatrix and entourage down
the church aisle.]
Greeted by Queen Beatrix, President Bush ended his nine-day trip as he
began it, calling on Eastern Europe, as he put it, to enter a widening
circle of freedom. He recalled what he'd seen in Gdansk and Budapest.
(PRESIDENT BUSH: "Tens of thousands of people, literally tens of thousands
filled the street. New voices full of new hope. And theirs were the faces
of pilgrims on a journey, fixed on the horizon, on the new world coming
into view.")
But even as George Bush celebrated the triumph of Western values, his trip
to Europe underscored the diminishing power of the United States. More and
more, this president is sharing the leadership with Western Europe.
(PRESIDENT BUSH: "The key is concerted action -- bringing the collective
strength of the West to bear on our common concerns.")
In Poland, Hungary, and the economic summit, the trip seemed to reinforce
the fact that the United States no longer has the money to solve the
world's problems.
(PRESIDENT BUSH: "A success in the summit is not necessarily measured by
bold new initiatives with major price tags.")
The President goes home tomorrow to confront reality -- the budget deficit
that created this era of limits.
(CBS-5)
WILLIAMS: China went on the attack today against France. It accused the
French government of interfering in its domestic affairs by allowing
Chinese prodemocracy students to lead Friday's bicentennial parade in
Paris. China also expressed utmost regret that leaders of the economic
summit condemned China's crackdown on the movement for democracy. (NBC-11)
NBC'S JOHN CHANCELLOR comments on the summit: The news today from the
seven countries that met in Paris is that the economic summit here was a
wonderful success. Would you like another view? Not much happened. No
really important decision was taken, probably because none was needed in
these prosperous times. They quit early because if they'd gone on talking
they might have got into an argument. The fact is that these economic
summits are designed not to fail. That wasn't the idea when these summits
began 15 years ago. The idea was to let the leaders get to know each other
well enough so they could safely yell at each other without the press
finding out. That concept may not be entirely lost. President Bush said
yesterday the best part of this summit was the unstructured part -- the
times in the corridors when the summiteers didn't have to stick with the
agenda. He can get more of that if he wants it. The next summit will be
in the U.S., maybe in Texas. If Mr. Bush has less protocol and more
privacy, he'll have a better summit.
(NBC-12)
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for Monday Evening, July 17 -- B-5
IRANIAN AIRLINER
JENNINGS reports that that State Department said today the U.S. has offered
up to $250,000 to the families of each of the 290 people who were killed
when the U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian commercial airliner last year. As
part liability. of the offer, the government would express regret but not accept
(ABC-3, NBC-13)
CBS'S BILL PLANTE reports that 250 of the victims were Iranian, but their
government has refused to cooperate.
(STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN RICHARD BOUCHER: "Unfortunately, during the
past year the government of Iran has ignored repeated efforts by the United
States to obtain information on the families of the Iranian victims.")
Administration officials defend the non-negotiable U.S. money offer as fair
and reasonable and say that President Bush approved it only after the
Iranians failed to provide information on the victims, which might have
justified higher settlements. Rough estimate of the total cost: $30
million. Iran, meanwhile, has filed a damage claim against the U.S. at the
World Court.
(CBS-2)
VATICAN/POLAND
JENNINGS relations. reports that the Vatican and Poland. have restored diplomatic
(ABC-5, NBC-5, CBS-7)
SOVIET COAL STRIKES
ABC'S RICK INDERFURTH reports that it is the most serious strike to hit the
Soviet Union since Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. When the strike in
western Siberia began a week ago, workers' demands focused on issues like
better housing and better protection for miners. But now the strike has
broadened into a political protest against Moscow's centralized control of
the mining industry. There's no indication the strike is winding down. In
fact, on the Soviet evening news tonight, it was reported that the strike
has now spread to the nation's leading coal mining region in the Ukraine.
(ABC-6, NBC-3)
SOVIET GEORGIA
JENNINGS reports that today Soviet army units patrolled the Black Sea
resort city of Sukhumi, where over the weekend at least 14 people were
killed when rival ethnic groups fought over admission policies at a local
university.
(ABC-7, NBC-4)
ISRAEL
KURALT reports that the Israeli government, under pressure from the United
States, has announced it will allow schools to begin reopening this week on
the occupied West Bank. The condition is that the schools not be used for
political activities in support of the Palestinian uprising. And today,
Israeli soldiers were going through classrooms removing what the army said
was propaganda material.
(CBS-7)
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for Monday Evening, July 17 -- B-6
HUD
JENNINGS reports that the name of another top Republican has been linked to
the blossoming scandal in the Department of HUD. Today congressional
investigators wanted to know about U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills'
connection with a company that made millions of dollars in bad loans.
ABC'S BILL GREENWOOD reports that the DRG corporation of Washington, D.C.,
was the largest lender of federally insured mortgages in a government
program to remodel housing for moderate-income Americans. But
congressional investigators say the company's bad loans have already cost
taxpayers $70 million, and the final bill may exceed $300 million. One
example is the Colonial House complex in Houston, where DRG loans total $47
million. Some HUD officials wanted to halt the financially troubled
project. But the mortgage company hired former HUD Secretary Hills to
appeal the decision.
(AMBASSADOR HILLS: "I believe they came to me as a housing lawyer who knew
housing regulations, and I hope they thought that I was competent.")
Some congressmen think DRG was paying for Hills' access to Secretary
Pierce.
(REP. WEISS: "DRG was very, very precise in knowing whom they were
selecting. ")
This letter from Secretary Pierce overruled his subordinates and let the
DRG company continue to make federally insured mortgages. The
controversial decision followed a meeting between Pierce, his staff, and
Hills.
(REP. SCHUMER: "Is everybody entitled to a hearing before the secretary of
the department?"
HILLS: "Certainly when I was secretary if a company was going to lose its
business or its right to do business, I felt they were entitled to a
hearing before the secretary.")
No one suggested it's against the law for a former Cabinet member to
influence a successor, but several congressmen think such contact should be
illegal.
(ABC-10)
WILLIAMS reports that former HUD official Hunter Cushing today refused to
testify. He used to work with Deborah Gore Dean, who was a top aide to
Secretary Pierce. Dean also has refused to testify.
(NBC-10)
CBS'S TERENCE SMITH reports that Hunter Cushing, now a deputy assistant
Commerce secretary, who once directed several of the HUD programs currently
under scrutiny, declined to testify under the Fifth Amendment.
(REP. SCHUMER: "If you're not able to answer the questions truthfully,
which is your right as a citizen, then you ought to step down from your
position right now in the Commerce Department."
CUSHING: "I have asked to be and have been placed on administrative leave
without pay. ")
The committee excused Hills after five hours of testimony, but announced
its determination to recall Cushing and to see that he is suspended from
his job at the Commerce Department until he testifies.
(CBS-4)
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for Monday Evening, July 17 -- B-7
CLEAN AIR
JENNINGS reports that a congressional study says that given present
technology and the costs, about half of the 96 cities with high levels of
ozone smog will not be able to meet federal clean air standards by the
year 2000. The study warns against setting unrealistic deadlines for
compliance.
(ABC-11, NBC-8)
CANCER
JENNINGS reports that today the Cancer Society released a study concluding
poor people are more likely to die from the disease than other Americans
despite the recent advances in cancer detection and in treatment. The
primary reasons are these: Many poor people don't recognize the warning
signs of cancer, and worse, even when they know something is wrong, many
cannot afford to see a doctor or to reach one.
(ABC-13, NBC-7, CBS-8)
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Tuesday
July 18, 1989
Mr. President:
Father Alex called Tim to let us
know that Archbishop Iakovos will
have surgery tomorrow (double by-pass).
NEW ENGLAND DEACONESS HOSPITAL
BOSTON, MASS
Patty
7/18- Tried to call
in Surgery --L.W. w/ote
will call US
Sunday when he is
out of Intensive Care.
P
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE
July 18, 1989
MR. PRESIDENT:
The following Cabinet members
will be present at the South
Lawn for your arrival:
Baker
Dole
Cheney
Cavazos
Thornburgh
Darman
Yeutter
Sullivan (will
Mosbacher
arrive late)
After you speak, they will follow
you to the Oval Office for brief
conversation. Marlin will have
a press photo op at that time.
FYI, the aneçdote in your remarks
happened to me at the Embassy
lunch in Warsaw) I asked the
question of a lady who had run
a human rights group during
martial law, and had tried to
get prisoners released. Her
response was really memorable.
Am Jim Cicconi
White House News Summary -- Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- Page 1 of 6
3:00 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
TRIP (Aboard Air Force One/Barry Schweid, AP) -- President Bush,
flying home from a 10-day trip to Europe, today said leaders in Poland and
Hungary have "too much hope" for their economic and democratic reforms
to fear a Soviet backlash. "I was struck by the tears I saw in almost
every place, Bush said of the thousands who greeted him on his four-
nation journey across both sides of the Iron Curtain. Earlier, bidding
farewell to U.S. officials at the embassy in Amsterdam, Bush said, "I
cannot think of a more exciting time in post-war history."
Bush,
in
an
interview with reporters aboard the presidential aircraft as it flew from
Amsterdam to Washington, said the highpoint of his 9,000-mile journey
came in Hungary when he received a snippet of the barbed wire recently
torn down from that communist nation's border with Austria and the West.
The president also defended Vice President Quayle against renewed
criticism of his campaign performance sparked by a new political book.
"My judgment has been vindicated," said Bush. "He is serious. He is
doing a first-class job.'
(The Hague/Helen Thomas, UPI) -- President Bush returned home,
closing a four-nation, 10-day European tour that included the harmonious
Paris summit of top industrial nations and dramatic visits in Poland and
Hungary. The President and First Lady Barbara Bush bid farewell to
Queen Beatrix and began the nearly 9 hour flight to Washington, where a
gala welcoming ceremony on the White House South Lawn awaited them.
Early Tuesday, Bush hosted a breakfast meeting for Dutch legislators,
including opposition leaders, and dropped by the U.S. Embassy to thank
diplomats for helping to make his visit a success. En route home aboard
Air Force One, Bush told reporters his meeting with Dutch lawmakers "was
a very lively discussion, sometimes bordering on argument." Of his trip
overall, Bush said he was particularly impressed by the reception he
received in communist Hungary and Poland and the "people with tears in
their eyes showing their love for the United States."
Peter van der Sanden, a Christian Democratic leader, said the
president was "very pleasant very frank and open" in the discussion at
the breakfast meeting. "All subjects, including the Middle East, Western
security and world politics were reviewed," he said.
(The Hague/News Analysis/Norman Sandler, UPI) -- Six months into
office, President Bush has shed caution and skepticism to enlist the
Western allies in a dynamic response to the political change driven by
Soviet President Gorbachev
The one clear signal to emerge during his
9,000-mile trip was that East-West relations, consigned to lengthy and
careful review at the outset of his presidency, have risen to the top of a
still-evolving foreign policy agenda. Gone was the earlier hesitation over
Soviet intentions. While refusing to "seem euphoric that everything is
hunky-dorey between the East and the West," Bush declared the change in
Eastern Europe to be real and accepted a "disproportionate responsibility"
to spearhead the Western response
Throughout his journey, he voiced
hope that Gorbachev succeeds with his reforms a bid to allay Kremlin
fears as Poland and Hungary move closer to the West
On this trip, he
moved beyond the objective of a less militarized Europe to economic and
political reintegration, urging a coordinated Western effort to foster reform
in Poland, Hungary and elsewhere through the promise of economic
rewards. The high-profile suggested a shift in the superpower competition
in Europe.
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White House News Summary Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- Page 2 of 6
CHEMICAL WEAPONS (Geneva/AP) -- The superpowers have made some
recent progress toward a global treaty banning chemical weapons but the
chief U.S. negotiator in the talks today said "there is no reason to be
euphoric." The New York Times reported in today's editions that the
U.S. and the Soviet Union have reached agreement on key elements of a
draft treaty
Ambassador Max Friedersdorf, the head of the U.S.
delegation to the Geneva conference, told AP that some progress was made
in the latest round of J.S.-Soviet talks, "but that's a long way from
completing a treaty." Friedersdorf said the two sides agreed to a
document on spot inspections of chemical weapons sites, and the paper has
been sent to Washington for approval. But he called the issue "just one
aspect of the verification problem" referring to the complex anti-cheating
provisions widely considered to be the most difficult issue in negotiations
that began more than 20 years ago. He also said agreement was reached
earlier on a paper involving exchange of data of the two superpowers
before the conclusion of a treaty but that there were still "fundamental
differences" on when this information should be exchanged.
President Bush, Gen. Scowcroft and Chief of Staff Sununu all said
they had no information to confirm the Times' report. "I'd like to see that
(reported agreement) in writing before I get euphoric about it," Bush told
reporters aboard Air Force One
"It would be a pleasant surprise."
He said the problem of verifying compliance with the treaty "is what has
thwarted an agreement all along."
(Reuter) -- The U.S. and the Soviet Union have reached agreement
in principle on some key elements of a chemical weapons ban but a treaty
is not imminent, State Department officials said Tuesday. "We did get a
fair amount of progress in this round of negotiations, more than anyone
originally expected," said one official, who asked not to be identified.
"But it's not true that we're on the edge of a ban on chemical weapons,"
he told Reuters. The officials said the agreement involved procedures for
surprise inspections at sites where one country suspects the other of
cheating and timetables and procedures for destruction of chemical arms
once a ban is in place. "The challenge (surprise) inspections are really
an important piece," one State Department arms expert said.
Nevertheless, he and other U.S. officials attempted to play down word of
achievement in the 11th round of U.S.-Soviet talks on chemical weapons,
which ended recently in Geneva and had been hailed as a breakthrough by
the Soviet Union.
POLISH PRESIDENCY/JARUZELSKI (Warsaw/Reuter) -- Gen. Jaruzelski
rejoined the race for the Polish presidency Tuesday but said he was not
certain of being elected. Jaruzelski, who last month announced he was
withdrawing from the election, told communist parliamentary deputies who
will vote in the National Assembly election Wednesday that he would be a
party candidate, the official news agency PAP said. Polish radio reported
that Jaruzelski also said he was unsure of winning and asked the deputies
to endorse Interior Minister Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak as a second Communist
candidate. PAP said Jaruzelski told the closed caucus meeting he decided
to run because of a "sense of duty" and because new elements had
emerged since he announced two weeks ago that he would not run. Polish
radio added that he asked the deputies to support Kiszczak -- a move
which would give the election the appearance of a two-man race.
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White House News Summary -- Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- Page 3 of 6
WALESA/GORBACHEV (Paris/Reuter) -- Polish Solidarity leader Walesa
may meet Soviet President Gorbachev in Moscow before the end of this
year, a senior Solidarity official was quoted as saying. Adam Michnik,
Solidarity strategist and top adviser to Walesa, told the Moscow
correspondent of the French daily Le Monde that talks with Soviet
Communist Party officials and individuals gave him the impression a
meeting was possible. He said the main items on the agenda for the first
Walesa-Gorbachev encounter would be "the definitive de-Stalinization of
relations between our two countries, their perestroika (restructuring),
abandoning of dogmas and the era of diktats (authoritarian policies).
SOVIET UNION/UNREST (Moscow/AP) -- Thousands of Georgians and
Abkhazians have been shooting at each other, taking hostages and halting
traffic for three days along a resort strip on the Black Sea, officials said
today. At least 16 people were reported killed. Ethnic rioters in
numerous cities in western Georgia, including the Abkhazian Autonomous
Republic, broke into prisons and police stations, stole firearms and shot
up official buildings, according to several accounts.
CHINA/CRACKDOWN (Beijing/UPI) -- China's most prominent female
journalist was arrested after her apartment was ransacked for evidence of
her role in the pro-democracy protests, Chinese sources said. Authorities
also reported the arrest of a student activist who had studied in the U.S.
The official media reported a ban on more than 60 categories of books and
periodicals considered "pornographic, superstitious or violent" in a
widening crackdown on publications in response to the 7-week democracy
movement. The move is also the latest by Chinese authorities in a
campaign to stamp out Western influences, blamed for the protests.
CHINA/JAPAN (Tokyo/Reuter) -- Japan informed China Tuesday of the
Paris summit meeting's condemnation of last month's bloody crackdown on
pro-democracy demonstrators but stressed that it wanted to avoid isolating
the Beijing government. The Chinese Embassy in Tokyo immediately
rejected the criticism from the summit's seven industrialized nations,
calling it "reckless interference in China's internal affairs which ignores
the truth.
"Our position is not changed with regard to their brutal
repression of their citizens, but we shouldn't lose sight of the long-term
view of our relations. We don't want to isolate China, " a Japanese foreign
ministry spokesman told reporters.
CHINA/JAPAN/TERRORISM (Beijing/AP) -- A Chinese group has accused
Japan of colluding with China's "dictatorial government" and plotting an
economic invasion, and it threatened to kill two Japanese in China each
month, Japan's embassy said today. The previously unknown group,
which calls itself the Blood-Bright Dare To Die Squad, sent a letter
written in Chinese to Japan Airline's Beijing office and said the killings
would start Aug. 15. The letter concluded: "Please tell other countries,
if they collude with the dictatorial government, they will meet the same
fate."
CONTRA AID (AP) -- The Bush administration plans to cut aid to the
contras, which could force the closing of the Nicaraguan rebels' office in
Miami, contra and U.S. officials said today. "We were notified last Friday
that there will be personnel changes and a reorientation of resources,'
contra spokesman Jorge Rosales said in a telephone interview from Miami.
"We don't have all the details but it could mean the closing of the office."
-more-
White House News Summary -- Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- Page 4 of 5
PANAMA (Panama City/Reuter) -- Representatives of the government and
military have agreed to discuss longstanding demands for the resignation
of Gen. Noriega with Panama's political opposition. But the unprecedented
agreement, announced Monday, did not specify when the talks would take
place and a senior government representative said Noriega was a problem
only for Washington and not Panama. The agreement to discuss the
future of Noriega came at the end of a two-day meeting here, held under
OAS auspices.
AIRBUS COMPENSATION (Abu Dhabi, UAE/Reuter) -- Dubai lawyers said
Tuesday they were advising families of those killed in the USS Vincennes
tragedy to refuse six-figure payments from the U.S. government and seek
up to 15 times as much in American courts. Najib Yassin Abdul Ghafour,
spokesman for Dubai-based lawyers Salman Lutfi and Samir Kenan, told
Reuters by telephone: "We will continue the suit against the American
government because the offer is ambiguous and small." He said the Dubai
lawyers were contacting clients and advising them to "turn down the offer
and go ahead with the lawsuit."
TRADE DEFICIT (Reuter) -- The nation's trade deficit shot up 23.6% in
May to $10.24 billion, the biggest gap since December and a worrying sign
for U.S. exporters. Exports fell 0.9% to $30.47 billion in May, while
imports jumped 4.3% to a record $40.71 billion, the Commerce Department
said. The sharp deterioration in the seasonally adjusted May deficit was
far above projections by Wall Street economists, who expected on average a
$9.2 billion shortfall
The news sent the dollar sharply lower on
foreign currrency markets.
INFLATION/TRADE DEFICIT (Reuter) -- Inflation will decline substantially
in the second half of the year and the trade deficit will be trimmed, senior
White House budget officials said. At a press conference to release the
Bush administration's revised economic and budget forecasts, Michael
Boskin said the oil and energy cost increases of early this year will not
be repeated and will slow inflation. "The inflation rate will be much lower
in the second half of the year than in the first," Boskin said. The
White House is forecasting the CPI for 1989 is likely to show an average
gain of 4.9%, and 4.1% in 1990
Boskin said the administration remains
committed to controlling and then reducing inflation, but he did not think
a tighter Fed policy was needed to achieve that goal.
Secretary Brady told the press conference that he expects further
improvements in the trade balance despite Tuesday's news of a widening in
the deficit for May to $10.24 billion. Brady said that one month's figures
can be misleading, and noted that exports continued at a very satisfactory
rate.
ECONOMIC GROWTH (UPI) -- The Bush administration predicted that the
nation's economy will grow 2.7 percent, a figure significantly below the 3.5
percent growth projection made by the departing Reagan administration
earlier this year. In testimony prepared for the House Budget Committee,
Budget Director Darman also said the administration's projected deficit for
the current fiscal year was $148.3 billion, down from the $164.1 billion
deficit projection made last February. The new economic projections are a
mid-year review of the economy's performance and represent the first full
set of economic assumptions made by the Bush administration.
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White House News Summary -- Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- Page 5 of 6
(AP) -- The Bush administration predicted today that economic
growth will be slower and interest rates higher than in its earlier
projections. However, it said the federal budget deficit would be lower
this year than had been expected and that Congress can meet next year's
deficit-reduction targets -- if it sticks to its promises. "We believe the
economy is healthy and we believe growth will continue but at a somewhat
slower pace, Secretary Brady said at a news briefing. Although the
administration prediction of 2.7% growth this year and 2.6% next year was
still more optimistic than many other forecasters, including the cBo,
Brady said it was realistic. "The administration remains confident of the
future course of the U.S. economy," said Michael Boskin, chairman of the
CEA.
S&L LEGISLATION (AP) -- Congressional negotiators today narrowed the
issues separating them on a bailout plan for the S&L industry to junk
bonds, who will regulate 1,200 state-chartered S&Ls and how will the
rescue be financed. "We are prepared to move a very substantial
distance toward the positions you insist on," House Banking Chairman
Gonzalez told Sens. Riegle, Garn and Cranston
"It looks to me to be
a very constructive proposal," said Riegle.
VICE PRESIDENT/ABORTION (Los Angeles/AP) -- Vice President Quayle
predicted the Supreme Court's recent ruling on abortion will focus debate
not on whether abortions should be legal but under what circumstances
they should be performed. "Most people in America support the right of a
woman to have an abortion," Quayle said Monday at a breakfast with
reporters. "But that's not going to be the argument
The argument is
going to be, how are the abortions going to be performed in this
country?" Quayle said he foresees such future restrictions as parental
consent required for minors, bans on abortions in public hospitals and
bans on abortions performed solely because the fetus a woman is carrying
is not the sex she wanted
Quayle's remarks drew criticism from those on both sides of the
issue. Democratic consultant Ann Lewis suggested the vice president was
trying to boost the Republican Party's appeal to voters who believe women
have a right to have abortions. Susan Carpenter-McMillan, the
spokeswoman for the Los Angeles chapter of Right to Life, responded,
"Read our lips. We will not accept a change in the pro-life policy from
the Bush administration."
VICE PRESIDENT/SPACE POLICY (Huntington Beach, Ca./Knight-Ridder)
-- Halfway through a California trip that might influence his own future,
Vice President Quayle came to Orange County to talk about the future of
the space program. He was vague about what President Bush will say in
an address on space exploration Thursday
But he told more than
3,000 cheering McDonnell Douglas Space Systems workers that Bush
supports a "vigorous and energetic space program." And speaking later
with the Orange County Register editorial board, a relaxed and often
smiling Quayle said Bush will fight for a proposed manned space station
that McDonnell Douglas hopes to build. "If we don't go with the manned
space station, we might as well forget it in space," Quayle said. "I think
it's critical."
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White House News Summary Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- Page 1
ABC'S GOOD MORNING AMERICA
7:00 a.m.
ABC'S JEANNE MESERVE: President Bush returns to Washington today,
ending a 10-day trip to four European nations. Mr. Bush left the
Netherlands after greeting American. diplomats this morning at the U.S.
Embassy. The short stop in the Netherlands, the first by an American
President, came on the heels of the economic summit in Paris and visits to
Poland and Hungary.
ABC'S ANN COMPTON: President Bush brought this trip to a decidedly
soft landing considering it had begun with such a dramatic takeoff. He
has punctuated his themes with powerful symbols. In the shadow of the
Solidarity Monument in Gdansk, Poland, he declared that he stands
shoulder to shoulder with workers in their struggle for reform. He chose
the Polish Parliament teaming with newly elected Solidarity supporters to
make his fundamental point that democracy is on the move.
(PRESIDENT BUSH: "The profound cycle of turmoil and great change is
sweeping the world from Poland to the Pacific. It is sometimes inspiring
as here in Warsaw.")
(TV COVERAGE of the President and Lech Walesa, waving to cheering
crowds of people.)
President Bush deliberately softened the message when getting opposition
figures and Communist leaders to break bread together.
(TV COVERAGE: President Bush toasting with the opposition and Communist
leaders in Poland.)
The new openness has come with what the Administration calls
"breathtaking speed" in just the last twelve months.
(PRESIDENT BUSH: "I've said it many times that I want to see
perestroika succeed. I want to see the Soviet Union chart a course that
brings itself into the community of nations."
President Bush decided Paris would be the place not to lecture but to
listen.
(TV COVERAGE of the President and other world leaders outside the
Louvre.)
And when Soviet leader Gorbachev sent a surprise message of cooperation
to the summit, President Bush chose not to compete for the public
relations edge. Gorbachev is courting public opinion here, saying he
wants a common European home. But President Bush has turned that
phrase to make his own point. In a home he says you must be able to
move freely from room to room. For Mr. Bush the bottom line remains a
Europe whole and free.
MESERVE: In Poland, General Wojciech Jaruzelski has changed his mind
and decided to run for President. The announcement comes one day after
Jaruzelski submitted to nearly six hours of questioning from Solidarity
legislators in an effort to win votes. Solidarity leaders are meeting
today to decide whether to support Jaruzelski in Wednesday's elections.
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White House News Summary - Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- Page 2
CBS THIS MORNING
7:00 a.m.
CBS's CHARLES OSGOOD: President Bush is coming home this morning from 10
days in Europe. The President left Holland this morning after Queen
Beatrix saw him off at an airport ceremony.
(TV COVERAGE shows the President and the Queen at the departure ceremony.)
Earlier, for the American community in Holland, Mr. Bush outlined his
game plan for dealing with the winds of change in Europe.
(PRESIDENT: "So our goal now, and this will impact on your work here, is
to facilitate the change as best we can, to stand up for the principles
that everyone of us holds dear about democracy and freedom and the right to
immigrate or the right to have a free press or whatever it is to stand for
our American values, and to work with those countries that don't have near
the advantages of ours to help give their people a better life, a life of
freedom. ")
The President will be welcomed this afternoon at a White House ceremony.
7:30 a.m.
CBS's VICTORIA CORDERI: President Bush is flying home from Europe this
morning. Queen Beatrix saw the President off in Holland at a cheerful
departure ceremony, wrapping up his 10-day trip to Europe.
(TV COVERAGE of departure ceremony shows the President and Mrs. Bush
boarding Air Force One.)
Mr. Bush's reception in Holland was generally warm. And, as he boarded Air
Force One, he can also anticipate an upbeat welcome home. A ceremony is
planned this afternoon on the South Lawn of the White House.
8:00 a.m.
OSGOOD: President Bush is on his way home after seeing the new face of
Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The President left Holland this
morning for the return flight across the Atlantic and a welcoming ceremony
this afternoon at the White House.
CBS's WYATT ANDREWS: It is his practice to end trips to foreign countries
by stopping at the U.S. Embassy to pose for pictures and to put his visit
in perspective.
(PRESIDENT: "We've got a big challenge ahead of us, but I can't think of a
more exciting time in post World War II history.")
In the last 10 days President Bush has explored areas not open to any of
his post-war predecessors, with the opening to Eastern Europe being the
most dramatic. He saw a Poland where Solidarity legislators are now in
Parliament, where the general who once suppressed Solidarity is now Lech
Walesa's candidate for President. In Hungary, the Communist promised
elections even more open than that of Poland. Once in Paris, the leaders
of the West then quickly agreed that Western aid should go to Poland and
Hungary and should be used to build private industry. The decision was not
just meant to be generous but to win the East away from Marxism.
(PRESIDENT: " So our goal now, and this will impact on your work here, is
to facilitate the change as best we can, to stand up for the principles
that everyone of us holds dear about democracy, and freedom and the right
to immigrate or the right to have a free press. ")
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White House News Summary Tuesday, July 18, 1989 -- Page 3
ANDREWS continues:
President Bush comes home today trying to decide what to do next now that
Eastern Europe has returned to America's political map, specifically, who
to send and what to offer at the upcoming worldwide conference to
coordinate aid to Poland and Hungary.
NBC's TODAY SHOW
7:00 a.m.
NBC's JOHN PALMER: First in the news, President Bush aboard Air
Force One at this hour flying home at the end of his 10-day trip to Europe.
In his final remarks this morning, the President expressed the hope that
the unnatural division of Europe will come to an end and said the Soviet
Union has nothing to fear from the reforms that are now unfolding in
Eastern Europe.
NBC's JOHN COCHRAN: The President is returning home with a fistful of good
reviews from Western Europeans who think that after a slow start earlier
this year, Mr. Bush has now firmly established himself as leader of the
Western Alliance. Bush was in a relaxed, playful mood this morning as he
said goodbye to workers and children at the American Embassy in the
Netherlands.
(TV COVERAGE: Scenes of the President with children and workers in the
embassy.)
The President recalled that yesterday Dutch officials showed him proof that
he is descended from Mayflower pilgrims who lived here for several years
before sailing to Massachusetts.
(PRESIDENT: "Unlike Alex Haley, I wasn't ever quite sure what my 'roots'
were but it was quite a discovery. I've been told where to go many times
but never where I came from.")
The President said one of the few disappointments of his trip was the small
amount of financial aid he was able to offer Poland and Hungary. Bush
said he couldn't give more because of the huge budget deficit he faces
back home. And when he returns he must make another decision based
largely on money -- whether to give the green light to manned space
travel to the moon, maybe even to Mars. The President will announce his
decision on Thursday, the 20th anniversary of man's giant step on the moon.
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Agents of Innocence.
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my thanks,
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Bruce S. Foerster
Managing Director
PaineWebber
July 18, 1989
Mr. George Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Bush,
Thank you very much for agreeing to autograph "The Book of The
Presidents" which our mutual friend Charley Bartlett somehow got in front
of you for me.
On a totally different note, all of us at PaineWebber are saddened by the
loss of our employee Jeffrey Bunzel to David Mulford's office in
Treasury, effective after Labor Day. However, we are heartened that he
will be working to help implement your policies in international
finance. He is a fine young man with a distinguished career ahead of him
about whom I suspect you will hear many good things in the next three
years.
Bwee Sincerely, Oberste_
Bruce S. Foerster
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July 14, 1989
Dear George,
I'm working on my Malawi report which I
will send you in a few days! I was a tremendous
experience for which I am most grateful. Debbie
was fabulous and loved by all the Africaners,
and we had a million laughs. Our tourist flight
from Paris to Lilongue saved the State Departement
between $2000 and $2500 SO I hope they can
recover it.
Your whole trip was a sensational credit
to the United States, and I think your Budapest
speech was the best ever.
All the best,
Lou
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MISSION TO MALAWI
July 6, 1989 was a memorable day for a nation and for an individual. The
nation was the Republic of Malawi celebrating its Silver Anniversary under
Life President Hastings Kamazu Banda and the individual was myself, representing
the President of the United States, my nephew, George Herbert Walker Bush. I
was told by the State Department that I could choose one companion and when my
wife could not go due to a fall at our granddaughter's graduation at
St. Paul School, one of my twin daughters, Debbie, readily accepted. First she
had to receive permission from Connecticut Congressman, Chris Shays, as she is
working hard as his Financial Chairman and the Congressman would not accept Pac
money.
For those who may not be too familiar with Malawai, it is known as the
"warm heart of Africa" and is located opposite the Island of Madagascar. It
was once known as Nyasaland hence Lake Nyasa runs almost its entire border.
Malawi consists of 48,000 square miles and has a population of ten million and
borders on Tanzania Lambia and Mozambique from whom it has compassionately
and generously accepted some 600,000 refugees fleeing from the long internal
warfare and causing a good deal of sacrifice and hardship for the Malawians.
Our trip was strenuous to say the least, as we flew 16,000 miles in five
days and had only twenty-one hours of "in bed" sleep out of 144 hours. The
start was a bit shaky as Continental Flight #3851 from Portland, Maine to
Boston, where we were to connect with TWA #810 to Paris was cancelled. Our
driver made it to Boston in record time enabling US to catch TWA #810. A
slight altercation arose at the TWA Security Gate because the present we were
carrying from President Bush to President Banda revealed a black mass under
X-ray and we refused their request to open it up saying if necessary, we would
get the State Department on the phone. The "black mass" was a Tiffany sterling
bowl appropriately marked!
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We took off at 6:25 pm and arrived Paris at 7:30 in the morning, where
we were met by an American Embassy Aid who eased US through customs and drove US
in severe traffic conjestion to the residence of an old friend, Ambassador
Walter Curley and his charming wife, Taitsie. Shortly after our arrival, we
were informed that our carrier UTA from Paris to Lilongue was on strike and
that they were trying to fill in with a non-sked aircraft. This they were
fianlly able to do, though causing my daughter considerable consternation. We
were told that this particular carrier had received ninety violations from the
F.A.A. along with three out of seven accident reports. My daughter said "Daddy
I'm not sure I want to go" and I said "you do what you want but I'm going Hell
or high water." To this remark, she said "It's different with you because you'v
lived a long life and I'm only forty-two with two children!" My reply was,
"Thanks a lot Deb."
When we first got on the aircraft, a Lockheed LT:1011, not knowing what
to expect, I said to the stewardess, "What nationality are you?" and she re-
plied "American, what nationality are you?" As it turned out, there was no
cause for concern whatsoever. The carrier was American Trans Am out of
Indianapolis, Indiana and the pilot, Captain Dan Drummond said his plane had
never received a single violation notice or had ever been involved in an ac-
cident. Our flight was a long one, over 4,000 miles and took about twelve
hours including stops in Gabon and a well-known Entebbe, Uganda where the famous
rescue mission took place during the dictatorship of Idi Amin. We were met
at the Lilongue Airport by Ambassador George Trail and his most attractive
wife, Sharon. I spent about twenty minutes being interviewed by Malawi
newspaper and television, another hour getting our luggage and we headed
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for Blantyre, the largest city, 200 miles south where the State Dinner was to be
held. We got to Blantyre at 7:20 pm and were told we had to bathe and change into
dinner jackets in fifteen minutes as dinner was at 8:00 pm. Debbie and I were
lodged in a Government house that forty-eight hours previously had been empty
and now, as if by waving a wand, was a home completely furnished with a staff of
four servants and an English housekeeper.
Miraculously, we made it to the palace at 7:55 to find a rather large
crowd of about 250 invited to the State Dinner. Debbie and I were seated on
the dais with Dr. Banda in the middle, five women on his left and five men
on his right and a man at each end of the table. I was seated next to Minister
Pshami of Malawi and the Minister of Foreign Affairs from Tanzania. The 250
guests were seated below and the serving was performed by 50 paratroopers in
military precision you might see at West Point.
THE MENU
Beef Consomme Kwacha
Chambo Kampango Envelop
Ngodya Ainayi Four Cormerstones
Supreme of Chicken Jubilee
Kumanga Mtudnu-Building the Nation
Platter of Lalawi Vegetables
Parisienne Potatoes
Tanzania-Malawi Specialty
Coffee
Tea
Siwiti Sitti
At the conclusion of the after dinner liquors, one of the ministers at
the end of the table arose to introduce the principal guest of honor, His
Excellency Ali Hassaw Mwinyi, the President of Tanzania, who was paying his
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first visit to Malawi followed by the introduction of the United States Delegation,
Debbie and myself. It was by then 11:30 pm and we had been without any "lie
down sleep" for thirty-six hours. The lifelong President of Malawi, Dr. Banda,
age ninety, arose and proceeded to talk for two hours and fifteen minutes fol-
lowed by President Mwinyi who, thankfully, only spoke for thirty minutes.
Wednesday we were up bright and early (six hours sleep) to drive to the
third most important city, Zomba, the old capital city, about an hours drive
from Blantyre. Here you drive up to the Zomba Plateau where there is gorgeous
mountain scenery and excellent trout fishing. You also find here botanical
gardens, the University of Malawi's main campus and the country's principal
War Memorial. We returned to Blantyre just in time to prepare for our
audience with the President at the palace. Precisely at 5:00 pm, we were
ushered into a very large room with a huge oval-shaped table. There were four
photographers at one end of the room, five ministers seated along one wall,
two chairs and a microphone at one far side of the table and four chairs across
the table for myself, Ambassador Trail, my daughter and Mrs. Trail. A sort of
miniature throne was between our group and the two ministers for the Life
President to occupy. At about 5:15 we were all told to rise as Dr. Blanda
entered and took his seat looking neither left or right. One of the two
ministers arose and over the "mike" said, "Your Excellency, may I present the
Ambassador from the United States?" Ambassador Trail then arose and said,
"Your Excellency, it gives me great pleasure to present to you the delegation
from the United States. I felt like looking around myself to see what the
United States Delegation consisted of, when it only consisted of the two of us!
I arose and said, "Your Excellency, I bring you warm greetings and congratulations
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from my nephew, the President of the United States, on your Silver Anniversary
celebrating your great achievements for the Republic of Malawi these past twenty-
five years. He also wanted me to tell you how much he valued your country's
support at the United Nations and your early message of congratulations to him
on assuming the Presidency of the United States. Nor is the President un-
mindful of your compassion and generosity in allowing 600,000 refugees from
Mozambique to seek shelter in your country. This is a message of care and
consideration for all the world to note. I would also like to add, Your
Excellency, that you and I have one thing in common. My father and Your
Excellency both took their medicine at Edinborough University."
Dr. Banda graciously acknowledged my remark and then proceeded to
speak for about an hour on his early life in the United States. At the
conclusion, after exchanging gifts, he arose and we were told we could leave.
However, when we got to the door, we were told to return to our seats.
Dr. Banda returned to his chair and said, "I don't think I emphasized how
much it has meant to US that the President of the United States would send
his mother's brother to represent him. I also again want to thank the
President for his lovely gift."
The following day, Thursday, we had to be at the stadium at 9:30 am where
we sat until 5:30 pm with nothing to eat or drink, save two pieces of hard
candy passed on a platter. The stadium held approximately 100,000 people
many of whom, I was told, had been there since 3:00 am as it was first come
first served. There were four large placards around the stadium which read
UNITY - LOYALTY - OBEDIENCE - DISCIPLINE. The first two hours consisted of
parades of the Army, Police, Fire, etc. brigades in such precision you would
only possibly find at West Point or at one of our military academies.
After that, the next six hours consisted of native dances put on by
various communities from all over Malawi. At one point of each dance, a
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space would open for the ninety-year old President Banda to join in the dancing
and my daughter went along each time saying to herself "If the ninety-year old
President can do it, I can too, tired as I am." Unfortunately, my time arrived
when the wariors appeared and I was told I had to dance with them! There was
a huge roar as I tried to do the stomp and manipulate the shield, which I'm
sure was laughter at my inadequacy.
Finally, we were permitted to leave before the Malawi-Zambia soccer game
as the President was making his departure. Being able to visit the "warm heart
of Africa" was truly a memorable experience.
July 18,1989
I
THE PRESIDENT
235 PM wash. Time
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note to try to say 'Thanks'- -
we land in Washington
in 10 minutes. - I am not
THE WHITE HOUSE
Her Majesty -
Queen Beatri
Embussy of this Nethrlands.
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bcc: Governor Sununu
General Scowcroft
Tim McBride
tired. I am exhilirated.
It was your great
hospitality cum lively discussions
mth you both and with
Ruud act all then rest that
did it. Signed by this
left hander with his illegible
scrawl - but it's from the
heart. With Respect your friend
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