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Originally Processed With FOIA(s):
FOIA Number:
2009-0166-S
2009-0166-S
FOIA
MARKER
This is not a textual record. This is used as an
administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential
Library Staff.
Record Group/Collection:
George H.W. Bush Presidential Records
Collection/Office of Origin:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
OA/ID Number:
90532
Folder ID Number:
90532-005
Folder Title:
Monday, January 15, 1990
Stack:
Row:
Section:
Shelf:
Position:
V
12
11
5
5
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Doc. No. / Type
Subject/Title
Date
Restriction
Classification
01a. Log
White House Telephone Log [President Bush] [redaction of
01/15/90
(b)(6)
personal information] (1 pp.)
01b. Log
White House Telephone Log [Signal Switchboard] [redaction of
01/15/90
(b)(6)
personal information] (1 pp.)
02a. Memo
From Command Duty Officer to Commanding Officer Re; CDO
01/15/90
(b)(7)(e)
Visit Report for 12 thru 15 January 1990 [redaction] (1 pp.)
02b. List
Visit package 12-15 January 1990 [Camp David Visit] [double-
01/16/90
(b)(7)(e)
sided] (2 pp.)
03. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with Brent
n.d.
(b)(1)
[Scowcroft] Re: various issues (1 pp.)
Page 1 of 1
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Monday, January 15, 1990
Pinksheet Number:
dw1569
OA/ID Number:
90532-005
Date Closed:
12/29/2009
FOIA/Sys Case #:
2009-0166-S
Re-review Case #:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
01a. Log
White House Telephone Log [President Bush] [redaction of
01/15/90
(b)(6)
personal information] (1 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Monday, January 15, 1990
Date Closed:
12/29/2009
OA/ID Number:
90532-005
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:
MR Disposition:
AR Disposition Date:
MR Disposition Date:
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
JANUARY 15
90
PRESIDENT BUSH
19
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
OUT
9:40 AM
MR. DEAN BURCH
ENROUTE TO HAWAII
ARRIVE 5PM TODAY;
(b)(6)
Wex
PM
TOLD PRESUS; CA 9:46AM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
9:48 AM
SECRETARY SAMUEL K. SKINNER
O/C IN FL.; TOLD
PRESUS; CA 9:51AM
(b)(6)
INC
XPM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
10:15 AM
AMBASSADOR FRED ZEDER
PRESUS UNAVAILABLE
WCB;MR. McBRIDE SPOKE
(b)(6)
TO AMB. ZEDER 10:26AM
INC
PM
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
10:26 AM
10:39
MR. ALLAN ALPER
(b)(6)
INC
PM
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
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
01/15/90
(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:
Monday, January 15, 1990
Date Closed:
12/29/2009
OA/ID Number:
90532-005
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:
MR Disposition:
AR Disposition Date:
MR Disposition Date:
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
January 15 , 1990
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
OUT
8:55 AM
LW with Mr. Sullivan
Secretary General Juavier De Cuellar
9:02 AM
(b)(6)
PRESUS Cancel
9:02 AM
INC
PM
OUT
9:02 AM
9:08
General Brent Scowcroft
Tlkd-ok
Office, Washington, D.C.
9:04 AM
White House Signal 2-2260
INC
PM
OUT
9:08 AM
9:11
Secretary James A. Baker III
Tlkd-ok
Residence, Washington, D.C.
9:09 AM
PM
White House Signal 2-3103
INC
OUT
9:09 AM
9:13
Mrs. Barbara P. Bush
Tlkd-ok
Wyeoak Fitness Center
9:12 AM
Camp David, Maryland
INC
PM
Camp David Signal 4-1556
OUT
9:14 AM
9:16
MS1 Cheryl J. Minnie
Tlkd-ok
Aspen Lodge, Camp David, Maryland
9:15 AM
INC
PM
Camp David Signal 4-1634
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
OUT
9:21 AM
9:25
Ms. Patty Presock
Tlkd-ok
Residence, Fairfax, Virginia
9:22 AM
White House Signal 2-3804
ANC
PM
OUT
9:25 AM
Congressman Robert H. Michel
PRESUS Cancel
9:32 AM
(b)(6)
INC
PM
OUT
9:28 AM
Mr. Raymond Clevenger
Tlkd with Mr. McBride
(b)(6)
9:29 AM
INC
PM
OUT
9:30 AM
9:31
MS1 Cheryl J. Minnie
Tlkd-ok
Aspen Lodge, Camp David, Maryland
9:30 AM
Camp David Signal 4-1634
NNC
PM
OUT
10:22 AM
10:28
Secretary Nicholas F. Brady
Tlkd-ok
En route New York City, New York
10:26 AM
INC
(b)(6)
via Cellular Phone
PM
OUT
11:26 AM
11:32
Mr. Gary J. Walters
Tlkd-ok
11:31 AM
(b)(6)
INC
PM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SIGNAL SWITCHBOARD
January 15 . 19 90
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
OUT
11:32 AM
Secretary Nicholas F. Brady
Tlkd-ok
En route La Guardia Airport
11:58 AM
New York City, New York
via Cellular Phone
INC
PM
12:01
509-8993
OUT
11:52 AM
Mr. Peter B. Teeley
Tlkd-ok
Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, Virginia
12:04 PM
12:05
698-2201
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
Camp David, Maryland
LOCATION Washington, D.C.
DATE 15 January 1990
TIME
MOVEMENTS
1213
Depart Camp David via Marine One
1245
Arrive Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland
(LOW KEY)
1648
Depart Andrews Air Force Base via Marine One (LOW KEY)
1655
Arrive South Grounds
1657
Residence
1958
South Grounds
2006
Residence
WHCA FORM 15, OCTOBER 15, 1980
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
02a. Memo
From Command Duty Officer to Commanding Officer Re;
01/15/90
(b)(7)(e)
CDO Visit Report for 12 thru 15 January 1990 [redaction]
(1 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Monday, January 15, 1990
Date Closed:
12/29/2009
OA/ID Number:
90532-005
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:
MR Disposition:
AR Disposition Date:
MR Disposition Date:
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.
15 January 1990
MEMORANDUM
From: Command Duty Officer
a
To: Commanding Officer
Via: Executive Officer
Subj: CDO VISIT REPORT FOR 12 THRU 15 JANUARY 1990
Encl: (1) Revised cabin assignment and access list
(2) Action items/discrepancies
ARRIVALS/DEPARTURES
Friday, 12 January 1990
1448 - WHSM Van aboard with MSCM San Victores and Paula Rendon.
(C1)
1711 -
(b)(7)(e)
(H2)
1714 - Marine ONE aboard with President and Mrs. Bush, and staff.
(H1)
Saturday, 13 January 1990
0528 - WH Vehicle #20 aboard with newspapers.
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
1138 - Guests William Steiger and David Sabelton aboard. (P1)
1215 - Guests Laura Farrish and John Chadwick aboard. (P2)
1250 - Guests Andrew Brophy and Carol Jansing aboard. (P3)
1557 - All guests ashore. (P1, P2, P3)
Sunday, 14 January 1990
0542 - WH Vehicle #28 aboard with newspapers.
0710 - Chaplain Weyand aboard. (P6)
0818 - Chaplain Weyand ashore. (P6)
0840 - Chaplain Holderby aboard. (P7)
0955 - Chaplain Holderby ashore. (P7)
1510 - Marvin, Margaret, Marshall and Charles Bush aboard.
(P4)
1642 - Guests William, Belinda, and William (Jr.) Nixon
aboard. (P5)
Monday, 15 January 1990
1216 - Marine ONE departed with President and staff. (H1)
1217 - NH 02 departed. (H2)
1413 - First Lady ashore via motor cade. (C4)
1425 - WHSM Van ashore with MSCM San Victores and Paula
Rendon. (C1)
1429 - Marvin Bush and family ashore. (P4)
1434 - William Nixon and family ashore. (P5)
GUEST ACTIVITIES
Aspen Movies:
Friday
"MUSIC BOX" (35MM)
Saturday
"SHE-DEVIL" (35MM)
Sunday
"GLORY" (35MM)
Friday's movie was requested immediately upon arrival.
Approximately 30 videos were viewed by guests and staff.
Tours
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
No tours given.
Wye Oak
President and Mrs. Bush used Wye Oak at various times during the
weekend. President and Marvin Bush played Wallyball on Sunday.
Bowling Alley
Guests of President Bush used the bowling alley on Saturday.
Staff Pool
No use.
Skeet
No use.
Chapel Service
Chaplain Weyand conducted Catholic Service at 0730 in the
Hickory Theater. Approximately 7 in attendance. Chaplain
Holderby conducted an inter-denominational service at 0900.
President and Mrs. Bush, 40 crew members and dependents attended.
Horse Shoes
Not used.
Sledding
Not used.
Jogging/Fit Trail
Not used.
Walk
The President, Mrs. Bush, William Steiger and David Sabelson
walked the perimeter on Saturday. The First Lady also walked it
again Monday.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMENTS
Friday
- No heat in storage area of Holly, duty CE notified, problem
rectified.
- No heat in Library Room at Holly, duty CE notified, problem
rectified.
Saturday
- Moved two pictures in Laurel and hung two others.
- POM patio had to have snowban removed.
Sunday
- Sunday night 2" - 3" snow fall accumulated.
- After vehicle damage to inner perimeter fence, on lane 8, a
temporary micro wave was installed.
Monday
- A.M. morning, vehicle accident lane 11, Marines.
COMMUNICATIONS
Communications between USSS, Marine and the NSF Duty Section were
excellent. Notifications went extremely well.
DUTY SECTIONS
FRI
SAT/SUN
MON
CDO: LT. ADAMS
LT ADAMS
LT ADAMS
NOOD: UTC EVANS
CMC SUESS
BUC EDWARDS
JOOD: CM1 GILLETT
SW1 ASHCRAFT CM1
RADFORD
Very respectfully,
Ad Q.Adams II
D.E. ADAMS, II
LT, CEC, USN
Copy to:
DH (including WHCA)
All CDO's
Visit File
OOD Pass Down Log
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
02b. List
Visit package 12-15 January 1990 [Camp David Visit]
01/16/90
(b)(7)(e)
[double-sided] (2 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Monday, January 15, 1990
Date Closed:
12/29/2009
OA/ID Number:
90532-005
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:
MR Disposition:
AR Disposition Date:
MR Disposition Date:
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.
News Summary
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1990 -- 6 a.m. EST EDITION
TODAY'S HEADLINES
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Battles Rage In Caucasus; Kremlin Declares State Of Emergency -- The
Kremlin dispatched army and KGB units to Azerbaijan and declared a state
of emergency in parts of the southern republic, where pitched battles
raged between hundreds of Azerbaijanis and Armenians.
(AP, Washington Post)
China Says Leaders Must Be Loyal To Marxism, Hints At Purges -- China
Marxism and it hinted broadly at new purges and dismissals.
said Tuesday that the Communist Party must be led by people (Reuter) loyal to
NATIONAL NEWS
Bush To Offer Family Savings Plan -- The Bush Administration is getting
ready to offer a new enticement to encourage Americans to be more
thrifty, hoping to boost the country's low savings rate.
(Washington Times)
NETWORK NEWS (Monday evening)
LITHUANIA The Lithuanian
parliament elected the head of the
Communist Party there as the new
INTERNATIONAL A-1
president of the Lithuanian republic.
NATIONAL NEWS
A-7
BULGARIA -- The Bulgarian National
Assembly voted to allow a multi-
NETWORK NEWS
B-1
party system for the first time in
TALK SHOWS
C-1
43 years.
EAST GERMANY -- Thousands of East
Germans ransacked the headquarters
of the secret police.
This Summary is prepared Monday through Friday by the White House News Summary Staff.
For complete stories or information, please call 456-2950.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
SOVIETS SEND TROOPS TO QUELL
NATIONALIST FIGHTING IN SOUTH
MOSCOW -- The Kremlin Monday night sent army, navy and KGB
security forces to the southern republic of Azerbaijan to put down what it
described as "attempts at armed overthrow of Soviet power," following two
days of armed clashes between Azerbaijanis and Armenians.
The decision to declare a full-scale state of emergency in the border
areas between Azerbaijan and Armenia was made at a hastily convened
session of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet that was chaired by
President Gorbachev. Prime Minister Ryzhkov said in a radio interview
earlier that the Kremlin had no choice but to use armed force to prevent a
civil war in the region.
The presidium decree suggested that the Soviet leadership regards
the latest events in Azerbaijan, where at least 40 people have been killed
in anti-Armenian attacks, as an intolerable challenge to its authority. It
said the situation in several cities -- including Baku, the Azerbaijan
capital, and Gandja
-- had become "particularly tense."
Soviet television Monday night reported that several hundred
Armenians and Azerbaijanis, using helicopters, armored cars, and machine
guns, were fighting each other in the Khanlar and Shaumyan districts of
western Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani officials said mortar fire could be heard
around Gandja, where Azerbaijani activists have been trying to prevent
Soviet troops from moving south to protect embattled Armenian villages.
(Michael Dobbs, Washington Post, A1)
Battles Rage In Caucasus; Kremlin Declares State Of Emergency
MOSCOW -- The Kremlin dispatched army and KGB units to Azerbaijan
and declared a state of emergency in parts of the southern republic,
where pitched battles raged between hundreds of Azerbaijanis and
Armenians
Many of the fighters were armed with submachine guns and some flew
unmarked helicopters or rode in armored vehicles commandeered from
military posts, Soviet media reports said.
They described "open armed clashes" in the region, with 300 gunmen
fighting in a single battle and trenches being dug and other fortifications
built to defend villages against attack
Tass said the state of emergency means regular Red Army units and
KGB troops now will be used to protect residents of the strife-torn area
and vital installations like railroads.
(John-Thor Dahlburg, AP)
-more-
Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- A-2
DEFENSE SECRETARY CHENEY SAYS
SOVIET REFORMS 'REVERSIBLE'
HOUSTON -- The U.S. and its allies must maintain a strong military
because reforms taking place in the Soviet Union "are potentially
reversible," Defense Secretary Cheney said Monday.
Cheney, in a speech to the Houston Forum Club which reiterated the
Bush Administration's defense policies, said Soviet leader Gorbachev faced
many problems which threatened to undo his moves toward reform.
"There's no question
that the litany of problems Mr. Gorbachev is
faced with is a very long one indeed," he said.
"It would be very risky business for the U.S. to make policy based
on the assumption that the transition we now see in the Soviet Union will
continue in a peaceful, orderly basis,' Cheney said.
(Reuter)
PROTESTERS RANSACK OFFICES
OF E. GERMAN SECRET POLICE
EAST BERLIN -- Crowds of demonstrators surged into the
headquarters compound of the secret police Monday, broke into a main
building and raided offices as anger against continued operation of the
security services erupted into one of the most violent demonstrations since
the start of East Germany's largely peaceful revolution.
The crowd, part of a huge gathering of 100,000 people called by
opposition groups to protest the slow pace of dismantling the hated
Stasi
stormed through the building, seizing files and papers, ripping
down a picture of ousted Communist leader Honecker, covering walls with
graffiti and ransacking a pantry and barbershop.
Windows were broken, but some witnesses said that the first glass
was shattered from inside before demonstrators forced their way in,
suggesting that provacateurs may have helped trigger the uncharacteristic
outburst
Prime Minister Modrow was whistled down when he first tried to
address the demonstrators, but he quieted the crowd long enough to call
for "prudence."
(Dan Morgan, Washington Post, A1)
BULGARIAN ASSEMBLY ENDS COMMUNIST PARTY PRIMACY,
AMNESTIES 60 PRISONERS
SOFIA -- The National Assembly took a further step forward Monday
toward multi-party democracy by repealing the constitutional provision
enshrining the Communist Party's political dominance and restoring the
reputations and rights of some of the victims of the old regime.
The assembly also approved acts to depoliticize the state police force
and place it under legislative authority. It granted amnesties to 60
political prisoners and sentence reductions to others. It also gave its
backing to an 11-point program for restoring full rights to the country's
1.5 million ethnic Turks and other Moslems persecuted previously.
The actions came on an emotional day in which the
communist-controlled legislative body sought to come to terms with a dark
chapter in this nation's history in attempting to define its future. But
critics said the effort was half-hearted and showed the reluctance of party
officials to confront the real legacy of 45 years of communist rule.
(Glenn Frankel, Washington Post, A18)
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- A-3
PRAGUE, MOSCOW OPEN TROOP PULLOUT TALKS
New Czechoslovak Government Wants
Complete Soviet Withdrawal By Year's End
PRAGUE -- Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union began talks Monday
on removing the Kremlin's estimated 75,000 occupation troops here amid
some Western concern that meeting Prague's demands for a total withdrawal
could complicate existing East-West troop reduction negotiations.
Neither side has issued a formal statement on the first of several days
of talks
The Czechoslovak government
wants 50,000-60,000 Soviet soldiers
out by mid-May and a political commitment for a total evacuation by year's
end, sources close to the meeting said.
(Jonathan Randal, Washington Post, A20)
BANK TO AID EAST EUROPE LAUNCHED BY 34 NATIONS
PARIS -- Thirty-four nations from East and West laid the groundwork
Monday for a new international bank to help finance the economic
transformation of Eastern Europe.
President Mitterrand, opening the first day of negotiations, warned
officials gathered here they have to work fast or risk being overtaken by
the fast-moving events that have suddenly thrust Eastern Europe into a
new political and economic era
The institution, named the European Reconstruction and Development
Bank for Eastern Europe, is to be capitalized at $12 billion and start its
first loan operations with 30 percent of the amount in 1991, according to a
suggestion by Ireland.
(Edward Cody, Washington Post, C1)
FREED SOUTH AFRICANS MEET EXILES IN ZAMBIA
Black Leaders Exult After 27 Year Separation
LUSAKA, Zambia -- There was jubilation and high emotion at Lusaka
airport Monday as Walter Sisulu and six other recently freed South African
black nationalist prisoners were reunited with leaders of the exiled ANC
they had not seen in 27 years.
A crowd of 5,000 ANC exiles and Zambian supporters waited for three
hours in a downpour for a charter flight carrying their founding leaders
to land, then erupted in a display of uninhibited joy as they embraced,
kissed and danced across the wet tarmac with the freed prisoners
One ANC leader described the gathering as a "watershed moment" for
the black nationalist movement. (Allister Sparks, Washington Post, A12)
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- A-4
CHINA SAYS LEADERS MUST BE LOYAL TO MARXISM,
HINTS AT PURGES
BEIJING -- China said Tuesday that the Communist Party must be
led by people loyal to Marxism and it hinted broadly at new purges and
dismissals.
The official People's Daily, in a front-page commentary entitled "The
Leadership Must Be Loyal To Marxism," said that the struggle against
Western ideals would continue.
"Those who aren't firm in their political stance, whose political caliber
isn't high enough or who are just opportunistspretending to be loyal
should not be given responsible posts," the newspaper said.
"If such people are in office, we must resolutely remove them," it
said.
The newspaper went on to say that any communists who opposed the
party must be kicked out. Problems within the party would eventually
destabilize the leadership and that had to be avoided, it said. (Reuter)
CONGRESS SET FOR CHINA POLICY BATTLE
Congress is putting on the gloves for a brawl with President Bush
over U.S. policy toward China
Many in Congress believe it's too early to lift sanctions because few
freedoms are yet available in China.
Chinese authorities' continuing repression of dissent "reinforces our
argument," says Rep. Pelosi (D.-Calif.), author of a bill that would waive
a U.S. requirement that Chinese students return home for two years when
their visas expire.
Passage of the law, vetoed by Bush in November, will "send a very
clear message to the people in Beijing that there has to be some change in
the way they treat their people if there's going to be continued opening
up," Pelosi said.
Sen. Simon (D.-III.) says he "welcomes" the end to martial law. "But
it is not satisfactory in terms of really, substantively easing and improving
relations. We have to send a stronger signal to China than we've been
sending. The White House on the whole Chinese question has been,
frankly, very anemic in standing up for freedom."
(Marilyn Greene, USA Today, A4)
5 BIG POWERS BEGIN TALKS ON CAMBODIA
Nations Seek Diplomatic End To Long War
PARIS -- The big powers launched a new effort to find a diplomatic
solution to the long-running war in Cambodia Monday and prevent the
brutal Khmer Rouge from fighting its way back to power in Phnom Penh.
Citing a growing consensus on having the U.N. enlarge its role,
officials said two days of talks here among the five permanent U.N.
Security Council members represents a chance to revive the momentum lost
in the peace process when a French-sponsored Cambodian conference broke
down last August.
Diplomats involved in the renewed peace initiative have been spurred
on by reports from Cambodia that fighting may be intensifying
The U.N.-based peace plan, sponsored by Australia, shifts emphasis
away from earlier efforts to form a provisional coalition in Phnom Penh
compromising Hun Sen's government and the three guerrilla factions in the
coalition.
(Edward Cody, Washington Post, A12)
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- A-5
CRISTIANI POSTPONES U.N. TRIP AS COUP RUMORS FLY
SAN SALVADOR -- President Cristiani postponed a planned visit to
U.N. headquarters in New York, but officials discounted speculation that
fears of a military coup prompted the delay.
"All that talk about coups and things like that is a thing of the
past,' presidential spokesman Sandoval said Monday.
Rumors have circulated in El Salvador's diplomatic circles in recent
weeks that Salvadoran commanders may be considering an attempt to oust
the conservative president bacause of his relatively aggressive stance
aginst military abuses.
Diplomatic sources said Cristiani has created tension within the
Salvadoran Armed Forces through his resolve to bring to justice military
officers "whoever they mat be" involved in the killing of six Jesuit
priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter. (Daniel Alder, UPI)
ELLIOT RICHARDSON PREDICTS FAIR NICARAGUAN VOTE
MANAGUA -- Elliot Richardson, the U.N. secretary general's personal
representative observing Nicaraguan elections, said Monday that he
believes voting on Feb. 25 will be carried out fairly, but he expressed
concerns about the atmosphere surrounding the campaign in the six weeks
remaining until election day.
In an interview and press conference later, Richardson mentioned
unbalanced coverage in the state-owned media and misuse of government
property for campaigning by the ruling Sandinista party. He cited
violence and intimidation at political rallies and by contra rebels in the
countryside as areas of particular concern.
During a three-hour meeting with Richardson Sunday night, at a
campaign rally and in remarks to reporters, President Ortega has raised
the possibility that the coalition opposing his Sandinista party might pull
out of the elections because "they know they are beaten."
(Don Podesta, Washington Post, A12)
FOUR CONVICTED IN DRUG RING WITH NORIEGA TIES
Four men were convicted Monday in a major drug-smuggling operation
with links to deposed Panamanian dictator Noriega, but 16 co-defendants in
the 2}-month trial were found not guilty.
The defendants, mostly boat captains and truck drivers, had been
charged with conspiracy, importation and distribution. Federal
prosecutors said the smuggled 48,000 pound of marijuana into North
Carolina in 1982 and 280,000 pounds into Louisiana in 1983
The same investigation that led to the trial also led to Noriega's 1988
indictment in Tampa on drug charges.
(AP, Washington Post, A8)
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- A-6
RABIN UNLIKELY TO BREAK MIDEAST DEADLOCK IN WASHINGTON
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Defense Minister Rabin is unlikely to advance
deadlocked U.S. efforts to convene Israeli-Palestinian talks when he meets
senior Bush Administration leaders in Washington this week
Israeli officials say he has no new proposals or concessions to offer,
amid indications that Secretary Baker is running out of patience with
Middle East recalcitrance and is turning his attention to other areas.
"Rabin is not supposed to deal in depth with the peace process. The
government has not yet agreed on a response to the latest U.S.
document," a Foreign Ministry official said.
(Paul Taylor, Reuter)
EDITOR'S NOTES: "Noriega Trial Captures The Center Ring In Miami," by
Laura Parker, appears in the Washington Post, A8.
"Military Leaders Of East And West Conferring As Europe Changes," by R.
Jeffrey Smith, appears in the Washington Post, A20.
"Beirut Government, Facing Rivals, Asks U.S. Arms," by Ihsan Hijazi,
appears in the New York Times, A7.
"GI's in Panama And 3 Embassies Still Sparring," by David Pitt, appears
in the New York Times, A13.
###
NATIONAL NEWS
MOYNIHAN'S TARGET: THE BUDGET DEFICIT
Senator's Proposal Unhinges
1983 Social Security Agreement
Sen. Moynihan's (D.-N.Y.) radical proposal has sparked an
impassioned debate that is quickly taking center stage in the battle
between the Bush Administration and Congress over federal spending and
taxes.
It also has raised the specter of major upheaval in the political
landscape. Democrats, after all, are supposed to be for tax increases, not
tax cuts. A number of leading Republicans are deeply worried that
because the Bush Administration is opposing Moynihan's proposal, the GOP
may be on the verge of losing its most valuable issue
Even those who applaud the senator believe Moynihan is using
political theatrics to drive home his point about the folly of the nation's
fiscal affairs.
"I don't think Moynihan proposed [cutting payroll taxes] with the
expectation that it would actually happen," said Norman Ornstein, resident
scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Maybe I'm wrong, but I
think he proposed it for the shock value."
Whatever his intentions, his proposal is rapidly gathering momentum
and threatens to produce far more than shock value.
The political appeal of a tax cut may prove irresistible, forcing
Republicans and Democrats to scramble aboard the bandwagon, experts
say.
(Paul Blustein, Washington Post, A1)
Key Republicans Warn Of Political Stampede
Key Republicans warned the White House last week that the
Administration faces what one called a "stampede" in favor of a proposal
by Sen. Moynihan (D.-N.Y.) to cut Social Security taxes unless the
President and his surrogates can convince the public that the proposal is
an attack on Social Security benefits.
Even then, they said, the President might have to produce an
alternative plan that somehow cuts Social Security taxes
According to White House and Republican party sources, Rep.
Gingrich (R.-Ga.) warned White House officials last week that Moynihan's
proposal to cut Social Security taxes was a political ploy aimed at forcing
an eventual tax increase
Asking Republicans to oppose a tax cut in
an election year, he told the White House, is political trouble.
Gingrich, in an interview, said the Moynihan proposal is
a
"bait-and-switch tactic." Once that $62 billion in surplus Social Security
revenue is no longer available to reduce the federal budget deficit, he
said, "I'll bet you any money Moynihan will propose a general tax
increase."
(Ann Devroy, Washington Post, A1)
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- A-8
One Tax Cut Bush Won't Back
President Bush, elected on a "no new taxes" pledge, is in the
awkward position of opposing a politically appealing proposal to cut Social
Security taxes
Despite support from conservatives, liberals and business groups,
Moynihan faces an uphill battle. But his proposal is gaining interest since
it was proposed last month.
The Heritage Foundation
issued an analysis last week entitled
"Three Cheers For Moynihan's $55 Billion Tax Cut For Working
Americans."
At the liberal Institute of Policy Studies, analyst Robert Borosage,
campaign adviser to Rev. Jesse Jackson, called Moynihan's proposal "good
economics" and "good politics -- the first protest of an increasingly
hard-pressed middle class."
Conservative columnists raved about it. "A blow for candor and
equity," wrote George WIll. "The first Democratic tax cut in a generation
appealing to Middle America," said Evans and Novak.
(Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today, A7)
BUSH TO OFFER FAMILY SAVINGS PLAN
The Bush Administration is getting ready to offer a new enticement to
encourage Americans to be more thrifty, hoping to boost the country's low
savings rate.
President Bush will ask Congress to create a new "family savings
account" that would allow people to earn tax-free interest and dividends on
money that is squirreled away for a specified number of years,
Administration officials said.
These officials, who spoke on condition their names not be used, said
the savings accounts would be part of the President's 1991 budget, due to
be released Jan. 29, and would also be featured in Mr. Bush's state of the
union address to Congress Jan. 31
The Administration is touting the proposal as a key to bolstering the
country's lagging international economic fortunes by increasing the pool of
money available for investment and thus lowering the costs American
businesses must pay to expand and modernize.
However, many private economists remain skeptical, saying while the
proposal would be a popular tax break for the middle class, it would do
little to boost overall savings.
(Martin Crutsinger, Washington Times, A1)
THINK TANK: U.S. SPENDING ON EDUCATION
LAGS BEHIND OTHER NATIONS
Thirteen other industrial nations spend relatively more on elementary
and secondary education than the U.S., says a report that challenges
President Bush's assertion that results -- not resources -- are the
problem.
The U.S. leads only Ireland and Australia among industrial nations,
the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute said Monday in a briefing paper
"Shortchanging Education."
"If the U.S. were to increase spending for primary and secondary
school up to the 'average' level found in the other 15 countries, we would
need to raise spending by over $20 billion annually," said the report.
(Tamara Henry, AP)
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- A-9
DEFENSE SECRETARY HAS NO PLANS
TO ALLOW WOMEN SOLDIERS IN COMBAT
HOUSTON -- Defense Secretary Cheney said Monday he has no plans
to allow American servicewomen in combat despite complaints from some
female soldiers and a call to do so from a congresswoman.
"My own personal view is that the current system is about right,"
Cheney said at a news conference
"I think there are situation in the nature of modern warfare that
women assigned to various combat support units or to M.P. units, for
example, as was the case in Panama, will in fact end up in combat and
have to defend themselves accordingly."
"That's a different proposition from taking a unit that has a specific
combat role and saying we ought to change the makeup of that unit and
include women to fill those roles. As a general proposition, I think the
current exclusion from certian types of units is appropriate."
(Michael Graczyk, AP)
THRIFTS COMPLAIN NEW FEDERAL RULE
BREAKS GOVERNMENT PLEDGE
Buyers of failed savings institutions in 1988 are protesting a new
regulation that revokes some of the financial breaks they received from the
government as part of the deal.
The Office of Thrift Supervision says S&Ls must meet new and
tougher capital requirements, regardless of whether they earlier received
an exemption, known as a "forbearance," from meeting capital
requirements
Attorneys representing buyers in the 1988 deals regard the new deal
as a double-cross and predict the legal battle over the issue will reach the
Supreme Court.
"If this is upheld, nobody will ever feel secure doing business with
the government," Washington attorney and S&L lobbyist Douglas Faucette
said Monday."
(Dave Skidmore, AP)
EDITOR'S NOTES: "SHORT TAKES -- Groups Seek Action On Great Lakes
Plan," appears in the Washington Post, A21.
"SHORT TAKES -- Yeutter Warns Farmers," appears in the Washington
Post, A21.
"TALKING POINTS -- Energy Dept.'s Stello Injured In Wyoming Skiing
Accident," appears in the Washington Post, A21.
"Moynihan Leads Surplus Showdown," by Marilyn Greene, appears in USA
Today, A7.
"In City Of Shaky Egos, Treasury's Mulford Bruises Quite A Few," by
Alan Murray and Peter Truell, appears in the Wall Street Journal, A1.
-End of A-Section-
NETWORK NEWS SUMMARY
(Monday Evening, January 15)
AZERBAIJAN
ABC's Peter Jennings: We begin tonight in the southwest corner of the
Soviet Union, where the Soviet leadership believes that fighting
between Azerbaijanis and Armenians in the republic of Azerbaijan is
so bad that the region is on the verge of all-out civil war. There's
been so much bloodshed in the last three days that a state of
emergency has been declared in Nagorno-Karabakh, which is an
Armenian enclave in the heart of Azerbaijan. It amounts to yet
another enormous challenge for Mikhail Gorbachev.
ABC's Jim Laurie reports that Soviet television reports tonight the
situation still out of control in some areas of Azerbaijan, despite the
dispatch of additional security troops deployed in helicopter patrols to
try to keep apart warring Azerbaijanis and Armenians and curfews
imposed in several cities. The spate of killings was the worst in two
years, and developed after rallies in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku
last week, where Azerbaijanis demanded Armenians living there be
expelled. The Armenians are a tiny minority; about 20,000 in Baku,
another 140,000, most of them living in Nagorno-Karabakh. The
Armenians want to control Nagorno-Karabakh; the Azerbaijanis want
them out. In an interview today, Prime Minister Ryzhkov said the
only way to avoid an all-out civil war is to use military force. Soviet
television also noted casualties among troops. Azerbaijani nationalists
armed with machine guns opened fire on helicopters. Others tried to
prevent reinforcements from moving in to protect Armenian villagers
as Azerbaijanis attacked. Soviet reports from Azerbaijan speak of a
bloodbath, burned bodies thrown onto trash heaps, and militants
using stolen army vehicles and helicopters to do battle. Mikhail
Gorbachev has said he did not want to use force to settle ethnic
issues, but as one commentator here said tonight, now there's really
no choice.
Jennings reports that according to the Soviet media, at least 37
people have been killed in the violence so far; large numbers of
Armenians are reported to be fleeing from Baku.
(ABC-Lead)
NBC's Tom Brokaw reports that at least 32 people have been killed in
recent days there, more than 200 in the past two years.
NBC's Bob Abernethy reports that a Soviet spokesman agreed with
Prime Minister Ryzhkov that military force will have to be used to
prevent civil war.
(Nikolai Shislin, spokesman: "I'm quite sure of that. It is simply
necessary.")
In Moscow today, Armenians charged Gorbachev should have done
more to prevent the violence in Azerbaijan, rather than spending time
in Lithuania. The many kinds of unrest in the Soviet Union are now
so widespread they threaten to tear the country apart and bring
Gorbachev down.
(NBC-5)
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- B-2
CBS's Dan Rather: Russian soldiers lose control in a Muslim area.
Mikhail Gorbachev, just back from an unsuccessful effort to head off
a peaceful secession movement in Lithuania, tonight has a violent
crisis on his hands. The Kremlin declared a state of emergency in
parts of the southern republic of Azerbaijan. Thousands of Soviet
troops are already on the scene, but today the Soviet press reported
they had lost control. Fierce battles are reported near the disputed
region of Ngorno-Karabakh. Most of the 34 known dead were
Armenians, dragged out of their homes and slaughtered by Muslim
mobs over the weekend in the Azerbaijani capital city of Baku. Many
Armenians are reported to be fleeing. Two ferries carried about 700,
mostly women and children, across the Caspian Sea, over to the
Soviet republic of Turkmenia.
CBS's Barry Petersen reports that the Kremlin said attempts are
underway to overthrow Soviet power. Tass said opposing guerrilla
forces are using helicopters, armored vehicles and weapons, many
captured from soldiers or military bases. Throughout the area both
sides held rallies, the extremists calling for revenge, for more blood.
Rather discusses Gorbachev and Azerbaijan with Petersen.
Rather: What do these latest problems mean for Mikhail Gorbachev?
Petersen: You know, I think he has a chance to score one here.
He's been criticized in the past on this particular issue for moving
too slowly, for trying to apply a political solution to what is clearly
not a political problem. Now he's moved quickly and firmly and
militarily, and I think his own people will like that, because they like
that show of strength from their Soviet leader.
(CBS-Lead)
LITHUANIA
Jennings reports that today the Lithuanian parliament, in a clear signal of
defiance to Moscow, elected the head of the Communist Party there --
the same man who advocated getting the party from under Moscow's
control -- as the new President of the Lithuanian republic. (ABC-2)
E. GERMAN SECRET POLICE
ABC's Jerry King reports that thousands of East Germans, frustrated at
the slow pace of democratic reform, ransacked the headquarters of
the hated Stasi, the secret police. The force was supposed to have
been disbanded a month ago, yet Friday the government admitted the
Stasi was still spying on people. In revenge, the people rifled
through the archives, looking for anything that might be
incriminating to the Stasi. They found little they were interested in,
ignoring documents on American diplomats based in the U.S. Embassy
in Moscow and one covering the activities of Lech Walesa. They did
find evidence of privileges the secret police enjoyed. East German
police made no attempt to intervene as the anti-Stasi binge continued
for nearly two hours. The former chief of the secret police has
become the subject of an official investigation for high treason today.
Earlier today, opposition leaders had forced Prime MInister Modrow to
explain his policies to them personally at the so-called roundtable
talks. He's been under fire from all sides about the economy and for
not giving the opposition a fair chance in the May elections.
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- B-3
Jennings reports that the violence prompted East German television to
warn that democratic reforms in East Germany were in danger(ABC-3)
NBC's Mike Boettcher reports that Prime Minister Modrow rushed to the
Stasi headquarters to try to calm the crowd, but the damage had
been done. During a roundtable meeting with opposition groups,
Modrow pleaded with the nation to remain calm until the May
elections.
CBS's Tom Fenton reports that the uniformed police who were guarding the
compound had orders not to intervene. What angered the people was
that three months after the fall of Erich Honecker, most of the secret
police are still on the payroll.
(NBC-6, CBS-2)
BULGARIA
Jennings reports that the Bulgarian National Assembly voted today to allow
a multi-party system for the first time in 43 years. The government
has now promised free elections for this year.
(ABC-5, CBS-3)
CZECHOSLOVAKIA/SOVIET TROOPS
Rather reports that the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia began talks on
the withdrawal of Soviet troops. The new Czech government wants all
75,000 Soviet troops out by the end of this year.
(CBS-4)
ROMANIA
ABC's John Donvan reports that students in Romania voted to boycott any
professor they believe had put Communism before truth. Also, most
Romanians believe the new government contains too many Communists.
And yet, most Romanians say they are prepared to suspend their
mistrust and to be patient, at least until spring, when free elections
are promised. However, food shortages are back again, and gas is
being rationed again because supplies are running low.
(ABC-4)
PANAMA/U.S.
CBS's Bob McNamara reports that while Americans school Panamanians to
keep their own civil order, the sight of a burly foreign military
occupation has brought an uneasy American self-consciousness and a
promise of change.
(Amb. Deane Hinton: "I can assure you, there are going to be a hell
of a lot fewer American forces, they're going to be hardly visible,
very, very soon.")
But with each American troop withdrawal and the scheduling of more,
Panamanians fear the Americans leaving too soon.
(Alfredo Maduro, Panamanian Chamber of Commerce: "The seed of
Noriega is still here. Noriega still lives.")
Though American troops paid close to a million dollars for
surrendered weapons, guns flourish. The fears of chaos after the
Americans go fuels a weapons' black market.
(CBS-10)
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- B-4
AT&T
NBC's Tom Brokaw: Long-distance telephone calls: business or pleasure,
we take them for granted. So when something goes wrong, it's more
than a nuisance, it's maddening, especially since that unpleasant little
recorded interruption is so mindless. Well, today, AT&T had a
nationwide glitch in its long-distance operation.
NBC's Bob Kur reports that even at this hour, only about half of
AT&T's long-distance calls are getting through. Earlier in the day,
beginning at about 2:30 p.m., it was even worse for about 90
minutes. Faxing was frustrating, too. From New York, calls to
Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle and San
Francisco did not go through. At the same time, some calls, to Los
Angeles, Minneapolis and Boston, did. For a couple of hours,
AT&T's public relations team would say only that the problem was an
anomaly, a fluke caused by computer software that operates the
switching equipment. Even 800 numbers were affected, and
disruptions would have been worse had so many offices not been
closed for Martin Luther King Day. Until the cause is determined,
AT&T cannot say tonight that the problem won't happen again.
(NBC-Lead, ABC-8, CBS-7)
CAMPEAU CORP.
Jennings reports that Campeau Corp., owned by Canadian businessman
Robert Campeau and owner of the two biggest department store chains
in the U.S., Allied and Federated, said it is so deeply in debt it has
asked the bankruptcy judge to keep the creditors away.
NBC's Mike Jensen reports that the biggest effect of the bankruptcy
is that suppliers to the department stores are starting to ship again.
The big losers are not the employees, but the people who helped
Campeau buy the stores by purchasing his junk bonds, which are
now selling for cents on the dollar. The banks are also potential
losers -- they're owed almost $2.5 billion. One of the reasons for the
bankruptcy filing was to give the stores more time to pay that debt.
Meanwhile the banks are lending even more money; the Campeau
stores got $700 million in new loans to buy spring merchandise and to
pay their bills.
(ABC-6, NBC-2, CBS-6)
AUTO INDUSTRY
Brokaw reports that Ward's Automotive reported today a car glut in the
U.S., the largest inventory of cars for sale in nine years in the U.S.
This is despite an aggressive rebate program, cutbacks in
production and big auto industry layoffs.
(NBC-3)
U.S. MEMORIES CORP.
Jennings reports that U.S. Memories Corp. said today it was going out of
business. The consortium had formed last May from seven companies
in order to pool resources to manufacture computer memory chips and
take the market back from the Japanese, but had failed to attract
other participants.
(ABC-6)
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- B-5
KING HOLIDAY/ADMINISTRATION
NBC's Kenley Jones reports that speakers at the annual service honoring
Martin Luther King, Jr. demanded that the Bush Administration spend
less money on the military and more for social programs.
(Rev. Joseph Lowery: "Let us, Mr. President, invade the run-down
ghettoes and barrios of this country for jobs and job training and
health care. How long, Mr. President, for a kind and gentle
nation?")
(NBC-9)
Jennings reports that the Rev. Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, asked President Bush today, "How
long, Mr. President, for a kinder, gentler nation?" Lowery said that
while the walls are tumbling down in Berlin and Eastern Europe, in
America, walls separating the haves and the have-nots are going up.
ABC's Walter Rodgers: Civil rights leaders credit President Bush
with reopening dialogues with blacks, Hispanics and women, but they
say his meetings like [those he holds with black leaders] reflect more
a change in tone than policy.
(Ralph Neas, Leadership Conference in Civil Rights: "You can talk
to President Bush, but thus far there has been very little
substantive leadership after those meetings.")
Civil rights advocates have not forgiven the President for his muted
response in recent Supreme Court decisions sharply limiting racial
hiring quotas. Jesse Jackson faults the President for not yet
appointing an Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, the
government's point man on enforcement.
(Jesse Jackson: "It means, for example, that when the Supreme
Court decisions were rendered that have a negative impact upon
African-Americans, Hispanics and women, there was no one we could
turn to in the Justice Department.")
Senate Democrats rejected William Lucas, the President's first
nominee, for the civil rights post. Lucas, like the President, saw
nothing wrong with those restrictive Supreme Court decisions. But
despite a year-long vacancy in that top civil rights job, Attorney
General Thornburgh denies any drift or lack of enforcement.
(Attorney General Thornburgh: "Anyone who feels that the civil
rights division in this Department of Justice is asleep at the switch is
clearly wrong.")
The F.B.I. just finished its check on John Dunne, the man the
President is next expected to name to the civil rights post. Dunne is
a corporate lawyer with little civil rights experience -- a background
not reassuring to the civil rights community.
(ABC-10)
MINORITIES/COLLEGE
Brokaw reports that a new study by the American Council of Education
shows that blacks and Hispanics are losing ground significantly in
college attendance. The study found that in 1976, 40 percent of
low-income black high school graduates were in college. By 1988,
only 30 percent were in college. Among low-income Hispanics in 1976,
50 percent were in college, but by 1988 only 35 percent. (NBC-10)
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- B-6
SOVIETS/U.S. SPY
Brokaw reports that the Soviet Union said it captured and sentenced to
death a man who spied for the U.S. for almost 30 years. The Soviets
called him Donald, but sources in the U.S. intelligence community
believe he may be a celebrated spy code-named Top Hat, (NBC-12) a double
agent who also spied for the Soviet Union.
AIR FORCE/PREGNANCIES
NBC's Katherine Couric reports that 22-year-old "Mary," who asked that
her real name not be used, was barred from a linguist's post for the
Air Force last spring. Air Force officials said she was an impressive
candidate until she was interviewed for her top-secret security
clearance. ("Mary": "He started with all kinds of questions, like 'how are your
finances,' and really inconsequential things, and then he children asked me if I
I'd ever been pregnant. I said yes
three
times
no
:
had three abortions. And he just kind of leaned back in his chair
and said, 'Well, I'm afraid you're disqualified from your position.
"Mary" said she had the abortions during a monogamous, five-year
relationship, and that her birth control failed. But she claims the
Air Force wasn't interested in details.
(Lt. Col. Johnny Whitaker, Air Force spokesman: "This shows a
pattern of irresponsibility on the individual's part, a judgment
problem, if you will, and we question whether we should entrust the
nation's highest, most sensitive information to those individuals.")
And there were other considerations.
("Mary": "Then he started talking about other ridiculous things like,
'Well, and then there's a slim possibility of blackmail from communist
countries
I was really upset. I was half-crying and half just
really angry.")
But the Air Force says abortion is not the issue.
(Whitaker: "The Air Force policy regarding pregnancy, whether it's
a man who gets a woman pregnant two or more times or a woman who
becomes pregnant two or more times, out of wedlock, regardless of
the outcome of the pregnancy, will very likely not be granted a Top
Secret or higher security clearance.")
Some legal experts say the policy gives the male recruit an unfair
advantage. In fact, the Air Force acknowledges that unmarried
women are disqualified for unplanned parenthood three times more
often than men, even though women make up only 20 percent of all
recruits. In fact, both Army and Navy officials say if they
disqualified candidates for this reason, they'd lose too many (ABC-13) qualified
people.
JAPANESE LOBBYISTS
CBS's Phil Jones reports that more than 100 American firms are getting at
least $100 million a year to lobby for some 250 Japanese interests.
(Sen. Hollings: "You see, I'm chairman of the Commerce, Science
and Transportation Committee, and none of these trade bills go in
that immediately my office doesn't fill up with the Japanese lawyers,
or the American lawyers, frankly, representing various Japanese
interests.")
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Jones continues: It's no secret to the Japanese that James Lake is a
close personal friend and campaign adviser to former President
Reagan and President Bush. In 1988 Lake's company -- Robinson,
Lake, Lerer & Montgomery -- received $330,000 from Japanese clients
for access and advice that included 22 phone calls, 11 meals, and
nine meetings with policy makers from Commerce, Transportation,
Trade, and Congress. Legal contacts which have paid off for the
Japanese.
(James Lake: "We always want to have a scapegoat. If things aren't
going well, let's blame somebody. It's too easy, I think, to blame the
Japanese. And I think that's what's going on here. A lot of
Jap-bashing.")
The Japanese also hire Democrats, like Stuart Eizenstat, one of
President Carter's senior advisers.
(Eizenstat: "This town is full of hired guns for every kind of
interest imaginable, and because Japan has an increasing interest in
the United States, you're going to see increasing numbers of firms
representing those interests.")
The Japanese claim that because there is so much attempted trade
retaliation against them, they need to hire protection.
(Toshiyuki Tashano, Japanese Embassy: "To deal with American
legislation they obviously need some kind of help from American
lawyers.")
Because of loopholes in the law, the true number of Japanese
lobbyists is unknown. If only advice is given to foreigners, and
there is no direct contact with U.S. officials, registration is not
required. One lobbyist who tried to get reporting regulations
tightened discovered how powerful Japanese interests are.
(Michelle Laxalt: "I was told pointedly, 'Do you want to be known as
a pariah in this town? Leave this alone, let sleeping dogs lie.")
(CBS-8)
SOUTH AFRICA/ANC
Jennings reports that eight leaders of the African National Congress,
recently released from prison, were given permission by the South
African government to travel north to Zambia. They met there with
other members of their organization.
ABC's Richard Sergay reports that Walter Sisulu left South Africa
today for the first time in his life. He and seven other veteran ANC
leaders were then given a hero's sendoff.
(Winnie Mandela: "This is the beginning of a new chapter in the
history of our country."
For the first time, the South African government is allowing ANC
leaders inside the country to visit their exiled comrades in Zambia.
President de Klerk's decision to give these men passports may be a
signal that his government is moving closer to negotiations.
Government officials are still demanding the ANC must still renounce
violence. The ANC says it will if the government does. ANC leaders
said it's up to President de Klerk to legalize the ANC, end the state
of emergency, and release all political prisoners, including Nelson
Mandela.
(ABC-13, CBS-11)
-End of B-Section-
ABC -- THIS WEEK WITH DAVID BRINKLEY
Moderator: David Brinkley. Panelists: George Will, Cokie Roberts.
Guests: Gov. Douglas Wilder, Actor James Earl Jones, Gen. Colin Powell.
Guest: Gov. Wilder.
Roberts: You have been described as a politician who happens to be
black, as opposed to a black politician. Is that an accurate description?
Wilder: I would like to believe that
I speak to issues
If you
speak to the issues rather than people, you can begin to solve the issues
of all of the people, and if you're going to be a representative of all of
the people, than you must speak to them all.
Roberts: You have now more elected black politicians than ever before in
history, and I wonder what good it's doing to the black community. You
have more trouble with black youths in the cities than you've ever had,
with black mayors there.
Wilder: Anyone who feels it does no good isn't properly reading the tea
leaves. For instance, Gen. Powell. You can't tell me that him being the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is going to tolerate circumstances in
the military that 50 years ago would have been passe. You're not going to
tell me likewise that a a mayor of a city is going to tolerate discrimination,
is going to tolerate neighborhoods going neglected.
Roberts: Do you see a rollback of [affirmative action], with the Supreme
Court decisions that have come down this year and in the Administration's
attitude?
Wilder:
The rollback in terms of the national agenda has hurt
considerably, because there's been no thrust, and it goes back to the
psyche, the mentality. Are you suggesting that people are going to life
themselves up by their own bootstraps when they've been stepped on for
years, and given no remedey? It's impossible to believe that. So you've
got to provide some degree of remedy.
Guest: James Earl Jones.
Brinkley:
Racism is alive to some degree
Is it improving, in your
opinion?
Jones: Racism is an insanity. Until it is healed, it is hard to assess
In terms of the world I work in
it's important that we keep addressing
history, ancient and contemporary
I think it's important to allow the
[entertainment] industry to present, as best we can, issues.
Brinkley: If you were President now, what would you do about this racial
problem?
Jones: First of all, I'd tremble. But I think it's a matter of setting
priorities.
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Guest: Gen. Colin Powell.
Brinkley:
The Martin Luther King weekend holiday seems to be an
appropriate time to take a look at the state of race relations in our
country. I wonder if you can give us your judgment.
Gen. Powell: I think it's important to remember what his dream really
was. His dream really wasn't the first black chairman or the first black
mayor or the first black governor. His dream was that in due course and
time, every American should only be judged by the content of their
character and not by the color of their skin. And we've progressed a
great deal, I believe, since Dr. King uttered those words
But I think
we also have to acknowledge that there is much more to be done, because
that is still not the case. We still do have racism in this country, we do
still have areas of poverty
And all the Americans who are celebrating
what blacks have been able to achieve, it seems to me, should re-dedicate
to the proposition that Dr. King dreamed of.
Will: Is [the military] a meritocracy and an equal opportunity employer?
Gen. Powell: More so than any other form of endeavor in our society, and
I'm very proud at what we have done in the military over the years, and I
think for the most part it is a meritocracy and you're not limited by
anything but you're own ability and the ability to perform a job that you
are in within the military.
Will: The military has indeed been an escape for a good many black young
men and women, getting out of unpromising social settings and into a
career, and a great training program. Is that program apt to be
truncated as a result of
the end of the Cold War?
Gen. Powell: Obviously, as the armed forces draw down in size in
response to the budget situation as well as the changing situation in the
world, it will get smaller, and therefore there will be fewer opportunities
for people to serve. But I think the armed forces will continue to be seen
in the future as a road up, as a way to better oneself, as a way to serve
one's country, and to learn a trade and a skill.
Roberts: What is the problem with the Republican Party and blacks?
They really don't get black votes.
Gen. Powell: Well, I have served in both Democratic and Republican
administrations, and the last thing I wish to do is to start comparing them
in political matters, since I am apolitical and I'm asked to be in the armed
forces of the United States. I would just say that there's a responsibility
for all political leaders, of whatever party
to re-dedicate themselves to
the dream that Dr. King believed so much in.
Roberts: We read that you regularly consult with Jesse Jackson. Is that
true, and why?
Gen. Powell: Jesse Jackson and I have been friends for a number of
years. I believe he is a great AMerican, one who has spoken out at the
issues of our time, and we keep in touch.
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- C-3
Will: How big is [the peace dividend] going to be and how
can we
spend it
Powell: Well, I'm not sure that there is really a peace dividend in the way
that people talk about it in town. I think what we're going to see in this
budget submitted at the end of this month and in subsequent years is that
the armed forces are going to get smaller in response to changing
geopolitical situation, in response to our own budget. But as we get
smaller, what that means is that we'll not be spending as much as we had
planned to spend. Whether those are real dollars out there to be allocated
for other programs or whether they will just go toward the reduction of
the deficit is for others to decide, not me. What I'm concerned about is
that as we go through this process of restructuring armed forces, let's do
it in a sensible way. I'm somewhat disturbed by some of the statements
that are out there that say all danger is gone, we don't have to worry
about anything any longer, and let's bring all the troops home.
Brinkley:
Why do we have an increasingly large underclass?
What
can we do about it?
Powell: It's essentially a problem of economics, of education, and of
opportunity. I'll always believe that we have to go after educating all
Americans and then provide them true opportunity and economic
incentives to pull them out of their despair.
Will:
You had one or two or three [women in combat] in Panama. Is
there any evolution in military policy on this?
Powell:
Women
are serving in units that provide direct combat
support, they are serving in units that will be under fire. But by
American law, American policy and American tradition, we have not put
women in those direct combat units
I believe that's a sound policy, I
think it makes sense, I believe that it is what the American people wish,
and it has been successful.
Will: What about the women in the military?
Powell:
The last thing I think I would do right now is try to speak for
all the women in the military. But I would say that by and large they
recognized that over the years we have opened up as many occupational
specialties as we can for them, we have tried to provide routes to the top,
we have generals in the military services who are women, but at this point
I don't think you would find a groundswell of enthusiasm within our
military to join the infantry, the armor, the cannon artillery and things of
that nature.
Discussion segment. Bob Maynard of the Oakland Tribune joins.
On the Social Security payroll tax:
Brinkley:
Sen.
Moynihan
wants to repeal the increase in the Social
Security tax because the Social Security fund is piling up huge
surpluses
reducing the appearance of the deficit
He wants us to go
straight, to be honest.
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- C-4
Maynard: straightforward. But the fact is that we're masking a huge deficit which
It probably won't happen for the very reason that it is so
is crippling our long-term economic growth
Will: The Bush Administration and Congress boasted, believe it or not, in
the seventh or eighth consecutive year of economic expansion, that the
deficit last year was only $152 billion Take out Social Security alone,
you're at $204 billion
Moynihan's bill has the potential to change the
political conversation of this decade, because we're two weeks into the
decade, and the President is saying, I do not want to cut taxes for the
working man
but I want to cut the capital gains tax. That's the loser.
Clift: Politically, on the face of it, it's brilliant, on the part of
Moynihan succeeded in convincing average Americans that any tax is a bad tax, so
But what's so interesting is the Republican Party has
therefore you've got working people who have never paid a capital gains
tax in their life saying, I'm for cutting the capital gains tax. And you
get any Democratic who says the word "tax", the voter seems to hear
"increase," whether the Democrat is saying "cut" or not.
On the "peace dividend":
Will: First of all, arithmetic's not the President's strongest suit. You've
just heard the nation's number one soldier say the military's going to get
smaller. There's going to be some, but remember, strategic arms, for
example, are a small portion of the defense budget. Most of the defense
budget is military pay and retirement
Maynard: We are going to have to find ways to reduce the deficit
and
we're going to have to find ways to address an infrastructure which is
deteriorating.
On Lithuania:
Will:
The Soviet Union cannot remain communist and succeed
economically and socially. It cannot remain the Soviet Union, that is,
keeping all these restive nations captive together, unless it is
communist.
Clift:
Instead of being in the forefront of the change, Gorbachev is
now behind it.
Maynard: I think Gorbachev made a terrible mistake in linking his fate to
keeping Lithuania in the Soviet Union
He thinks that he's playing
poker and the rest of us see a game of dominos going on, and I think it's
about time for him to sell the downsizing of the Soviet.
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NBC -- MEET THE PRESS
Moderator: Garrick Utley. Panelists: David Broder, Andrea Mitchell.
Guest: Charles Keating.
investigation, Utley: the IRS, FBI have been doing the same thing
The government is suing you, the SEC is conducting an
Why do
you say that you are a victim, that all of these people are wrong?
Keating: Well, we bought a savings and loan in 1984. It operated
profitably until the government confiscated it. It seems to me that
something's wrong with a government that takes away a profitable
property.
Utley: But the fact is, the government took away the profitable property
because they said many of the profits that were shown there were not
real profits
that you had gone belly up
Isn't there any merit to
that case?
Keating: Not really. The trial is now on and truth will come to the
courtroom, and I think that the certifications of some of the best
accounting firms in the country of the facts which favor us will be made
known and the government just plain wrong.
Mitchell: Let's focus on the campaign contributions, on the Keating
Five
Is that what you were buying with more than a million dollars
in campaign contributions: Influence?
Keating: Typically of thousands of other fundraisers, I raised money.
No my contributions never came to anything even close to a million
dollars all included I wanted to say that I wanted to be involved in
the process; it's important to me how this country goes, and it was
particularly important to me the way the savings and loan industry went.
Broder: You are a man of some experience in both the business and the
political world. You don't want to pretend that any ordinary citizen could
get five U.S. senators to hold a meeting on his behalf with the people
regulating him and his industry.
Keating: It wasn't an ordinary problem. It was a problem of taking down
a savings and loan which was critical to the economy, the employment in
those areas in which the senators served.
bailouts Utley: to be $500 billion or more. How do you come to that figure?
You have said earlier that you expect the total cost of the
Keating: I expect it to be at least $500 billion or more, and I think that
the bailout bill will simply exacerbate the problem. They're confiscating
assets right and left, and I think the cost of holding, warehousing and
selling those assets, the damage to the overall economy of the United
States will easily reach that number.
Utley:
It is, according to some people, the biggest land sale since the
Oklahoma land rush. What's going to be the impact of that?
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- C-6
Keating: First of all, it won't work. There's no way you can put that
much together in a pile and give it to a government who has no experience
whatsoever in selling that stuff and get the job done. The impact of
simply having it overhang the market will wreck the markets throughout
the country for years to come.
Utley: Should S&Ls exist in the future? Or has their time passed?
Keating: Their time has long passed
Utley:
You didn't help run the S&Ls into this mess?
Keating: I'm saying the opposite. Had they listened to the senators and
had they listened to me, there wouldn't be the mess today. It was
Messrs. Edwin Gray, William Black and Darrel Dochow, people like that
that did the damage.
Broder:
I'd like to know what you think about somebody like William
Seidman who has been very critical. You claim that your operation was
profitable. He says it wasn't legal.
Keating: I think Mr. Seidman is getting bad information. The opposite is
true
We took a failed savings and loan and made it enormously
profitable.
Mitchell: The reason people think that you and the people in your
industry were the problem is that in federal court it was shown there were
land deals that didn't appear on paper -- the real buyer and seller didn't
appear
As Judge Sporkin said to you, how can you run a
billion-dollar business on oral understandings?
Keating:
What you're doing is you're throwing at me the words of the
regulators
The housing industry is what wrecked the savings and
loan industry
It's what started the problem. These regulators and
this Administration -- it was on their watch that this problem developed.
###
CBS -- FACE THE NATION
Moderator: Lesley Stahl. Guests: Christopher Jehn, Asst. Sec. Def. for
Personnel; Rep. Pat Schroeder; Bryan Mitchell, author.
Stahl:
Why are [women] being deprived of these
combat jobs
[and]
of promotion and advancement?
Asst. Sec. Jehn: The simple answer is, it's the law. The Congress has
passed a law that for the Air Force and the Navy is quite explicit: Women
may not be assigned to combat vessels. Women may not be assigned to
combat aircraft.
Stahl: It's not the law in the Army?
Jehn: No, it's not the law in the Army. But the Army policy takes its
cue from the law applying to the Navy and the Air Force.
Stahl: But isn't it true that the military itself is against sending women
into combat?
Jehn: Without a doubt, there are some senior members in the military who
believe women should not be in combat. But believe me, there are others
who don't share that view. We have not taken a public position, however,
because it's not a technical and management or budget issue. It's really
an emotional, political issue that we think needs to be resolved in the
Congress, not by policy edict in the Defense Department.
Stahl: You have a proposal before you from one of your own advisory
committees that the army, which does not have this law, experiment with
women in combat. Do you think the army will go that way? And if not,
why not?
Jehn: Don;t know whether they will or won't
My concern would just
be that if in fact we do it, we need to define very carefully what we mean
by an experiment and what constitutes evidence of success or failure.
Stahl:
If there were a vote, is it your guess that Congress would vote
against it?
Jehn: I don't know. You're probably as qualified as I am to make a
judgment like that.
Stahl: I would guess they would vote against it.
Guests: Rep. Schroeder, Bryan Mitchell.
Stahl:
Do you think that if it came to a vote in Congress to open up
these roles to combat that it would pass?
Rep. Schroeder: I think you'd see the same thing going on with Congress
you saw with the assistant secretary. They want to duck, waffle, tap
dance and everything else. They all know the distinctions are ridiculous.
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- C-8
Mitchell: I think you have to look at the statements we've seen come out
of Congress and the Pentagon in the last week. Sam Nunn said that he
doesn't support repeal of the combat exclusions. Beverly Byron says she
doesn't. Admiral Trost, chief of naval operations, told a group of young
female naval officers that he doesn't support repeal.
Rep. Schroeder:
I think basically politically most members of Congress
are terrified of the Lee Atwater types and figured that if they did what
was the right thing to do, you would suddenly find a Lee Atwater saying,
"This is the congressman who voted to put your daughter in combat
boots."
Mitchell: Women do not have the physical strength to do a lot of the jobs
they would be required to do in combat
The other reasons are, that
women do negatively impact the morale and discipline of units. They do
require more support in a field environment. And they are not as
deployable in emergency situations because they're pregnant or because
they're parents.
Rep. Schroeder:
Number one, no one has ever said lower the
standards
Secondly, the whole issue of childbirth. They have tested
that every way from the moon and found that really women came to work
more in the military service than the average young man. So I mean that
didn't hold up either
You and I know that the tests say just the
opposite of what you're saying, that the Defense Department's very own
advisory committee -- that the President and secretary appointed has come
forward and said, after all these years of testing, women have done very
well, and we should open these on a test basis and go the whole route.
Mitchell: well, I think she's just plainly misleading the American people.
And what she's saying is that the only reason that people oppose women in
combat is because they're afraid of the public outcry. The only public
outcry we've seen now [is] from proponents of women in the military, not
from the opponents.
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THE McLAUGHLIN GROUP
Moderator: John McLaughlin. Panelists: Pat Buchanan, Fred Barnes,
Jack Germond, Eleanor Clift.
On Lithuania:
Buchanan:
The Lithuanians clearly want freedom and they're willing
to take risks for that, they don't want Gorbachev's style of Communism.
Barnes: Gorbachev is not the engine of history. He's being dragged
along or being run over by history
The guy is desperate
Gorbachev's got to choose between cracking down militarily or letting
Lithuania go. I think he's going to have to let him go.
Germond:
The Lithuanians are not driven by anti-Communism
They're driven by nationalism, a desire for independence. He'll survive
only if he finds some formula, a commonwealth-type formula, to let them
achieve an independence but maintain some ties.
Clift:
...I think Gorbachev's Western-style campaign to sell the fruits of
staying in the Soviet Union [to the Lithuanians] is going to flop
But
I don't think that means that Gorbachev is out or that the Communists in
Lithuania are out.
McLaughlin: Gorbachev is proposing that they give him the time to
draft a secession law. What do you think of that strategy?
Clift: I think it's really a ruse, because they're talking about Lithuania
having to pay resettlement costs to anybody who wants to leave.
McLaughlin: Gorbachev needs time to see if he can get his economic
reforms to work.
Barnes:
In late February, when there's an election, all the people who
are for total independence are going to win. The only reason the
Communists in Lithuania have come out for independence is because they
know that's the only thing that'll give them a chance.
Germond:
[Politburo member Yegor] Ligachev came out against the use
of force in very strong terms. That's a signal that they know they can't
do it that way.
Clift:
Lithuania gets 80 percent of its raw products from the Soviet
Union and all of its oil, and I think Gorbachev's trying to buy time so he
can put the economic screws to the Baltics.
McLaughlin: When will Lithuania break from the Soviet Union?
Will
they wait until the Gorbachev-Bush summit?
Barnes: It'll happen right after the [February] election.
Germond: The idea it will have anything to do with the Bush summit --
nobody cares about the Bush summit.
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Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- C-10
On Panama:
McLaughlin: Do you think that the public is having second thoughts about
the wisdom of the Panama invasion and the bringing of Manuel Noriega to
trial?
Germond: This was never legal, it was always political. You don't
determine what is good policy by the mob, you don't determine by poll
numbers. It was lousy policy, it was the wrong thing to do.
Buchanan: A lot of the old anti-interventionist right spoke out and
criticized and condemned it
Clift:
[The Democrats] are silent because their eyes are glued to their
political hides
They're not going to criticize George Bush when he's
riding this wave of patriotism. But the questinos will begin to come in;
it's going to cost us $2 billion to rebuild an economy we wrecked
And
we've really put our relationship with the other Latin American nations at
risk at a time when we need their cooperation if we're going to go on to
the next stage of the drug war.
Germond People don't care about Panama
It makes their juices flow,
it's jingoistic, and they approve of what Bush did.
McLaughlin: About those aircraft carriers off the coast of Colombia. Do
you think that the President will have to pull them back, or do you think
he's going to work out a deal whereby they're going to be able to stay?
Buchanan: I think they're going to work some kind of deal where there
will not be any kind of blockade, but they'll be down there anyhow.
Barnes: I think he's going to take them back. It's a little overkill to
have aircraft carriers there.
Germond: He's going to have to pull them in.
Clift: It's a cowboy gesture. They're coming home.
---
On the Social Security payroll tax:
McLaughlin: Predictions. Will Congress cut the payroll Social Security
tax next year?
Buchanan: Yes, but not as much as Moynihan wants.
Barnes: Yes, and the White House will get beaten on this.
McLaughlin: Absolutely.
Clift: Yes, and the capital gains tax will be lowered, too.
McLaughlin:
Eleanor, you're right again.
###
INSIDE WASHINGTON
Moderator: Gordon Peterson. Panelists: Charles Krauthammer, Juan
Williams, Carl Rowan, James Kilpatrick.
On the Administration's foreign policy:
Peterson: Is the Bush Administration too quick with its praise [for the
governments of China and El Salvador]?
Kilpatrick:
You draw more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
Williams:
To be quite honest, I don't think George Bush cares one way
or the other. I think George Bush is of a mind that, he's running the
government, he's maintaining relationships with China, and he'll do the
same with El Salvador.
Krauthammer: On Salvador, he's correct to praise a president who's
taking on his own army. On China, I thin he's wrong. China remains a
communist dictatorship at war with its own people; nothing's changed.
Rowan: This is a President who's been kicked around for kowtowing to
the CHinese and for his ho-hum attitude to what happened in Salvador, so
all we are getting from him is some self-serving comments.
On U.S. race relations:
Rowan:
In Boston, we had a gruesome murder, a hoax almost pulled
off because the white husband said a black guy did it. Yet we have the
contrast in Virginia, of people
saying, "Let the black guy do it."
Krauthammer: I disagree with the opinion that the reason the story in
Boston was believed is because the accused was black. The reason the
story was believed was because there was no other plausible
explanation
It was a terrible hoax, but I think accepting that story is
not evidence of racism.
Williams:
In a city that I think is really tinged and troubled by race,
Boston, they really fell for that story.
Krauthammer: A year ago, we had another hoax in the Tawana Brawley
story
It was an example of another elaborate hoax which everyone
accepted.
Rowan: The police did not behave in the Tawana Brawley case quite the
way they did in this case. They didn't go busting into any white people's
houses.
Williams: The country's made tremendous progress on racial issues
But it is true that in the current public temperature, we are very very
much dealing with racial tempers, polarizations, stereotypes, and the Willie
Hortonization
really does work. It's our urban fear
come to life.
-more-
Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- C-12
Rowan:
Virginia and Doug Wilder is as remarkable in its own right as
anything that's taken place in Boston.
Williams: The underclass in this country is now about 60 percent
black
Poverty and class issues now dominate as much as race, and
truly, that may be the change in the 90' is that race is no longer that
main factor so much as class.
On Lithuania:
Rowan:
We fought a terrible war over this issue of secession, and
Gorbachev may have the same kind of thing coming up.
Krauthammer: There's a difference between saving a union of democratic
states, which we were, and saving a union of socialist republics
The
problem is, if the Lithuanians get [national rights], the Estonians and the
Latvians and the Georgians and Ukrainians are next. And that means the
end of the Soviet Union, and that also means, I'm convinced, the end of
Gorbachev, which is a paradox and a real problem, because Gorbachev is
the one who brought human rights to the Soviet Union in larger measure
than anyone in the last hundred years.
Williams:
What you're going to see is Gorbachev using the public
pressurés of the crowds in the streets to say that he must reform the
Communist Party. He's going to use that combination of tactics to
undercut it because secession is never going to happen. It would not only
undercut Gorbachev, it would undercut the Soviet Union.
Rowan: But he runs up against the Lithuanian feeling that they never
were part of the Soviet Union
They have the right to walk away, and
this could lead to war.
On El Salvador:
Williams: I don't think President Cristiani is really pointing at He's his
military, I think he was pointing at the United States Congress
concerned about U.S. aid to El Salvador
When [people say] that the
Bush Administration is right to support this man, they're simply playing
into a complex political set that really doesn't do anything for human
rights in that country.
Krauthammer: It's true that Cristiani has pressure on him to do this, but
the fact is that he's risking his life and his government by doing this,
and it's a courageous act.
Rowan: democracy in Panama and so forth. All it ever comes down to is, Is this
All this lip service about saving American lives and restoring
S.O.B. on our side, or is he on somebody else's side?
Kilpatrick: I think you go into the armed forces and you have to
sublimate these values of human life to some degree. Otherwise, you'd
never pull a trigger in anger.
-more-
Tuesday, January 16, 1990 -- C-13
Williams: That's one of the consequences of having all these World War II
veterans running the U.S. government. They all think that really all it's
about is the Cold War
Human rights will become more of an issue, and
not so much how it plays in the East-West strategy game.
Krauthammer: If human rights is the issue in Salvador, than we are on the
right side. The other side is led by hard-line Marxist Leninists of the
Kim Il-Sung variety
If anybody thinks human rights will be improved
under
that
they are wrong.
On the Social Security tax:
Peterson: Sen. Moynihan wants to repeal this year's Social Security tax
hike and cut it again next Jan. 1. The Heritage Foundation, no less,
says three for Pat Moynihan. The Bush Administration, however, does not
say three cheers.
Kilpatrick: We're piling up these tremendous surpluses in the Social
Security, quote, trust fund, unquote. And they're being used for the
operating expenses of government today. And this is wrong, it's just as
deceptive and fraudulent as it could be. It's pure sham.
Rowan: Also, this payroll tax is one of the most regressive taxes in the
land. It does an injustice to poor and middle class people.
Krauthammer: The fact is, this is not the time for anyone to be proposing
tax
cuts Our country has run up $3 trillion in debt, and it's
irresponsible for anyone to propose a tax cut without proposing at the
same time an offsetting cut in spending, or a rise, for example in the
income tax.
Williams: The question is, is Social Security secure. I think a lot of
people are concerned about that.
-End of News Summary-
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Patty -- Tim just called --
said that the President does
not want to call Alison Leland,
said instead to send a telegram
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Monday, January 15, 1990
11:45 am
Patty:
Congressman Jack Fields called to let
the President know that Alison Leland
gave birth to twins at Grady Memorial
Hospital in Atlanta. (see attached)
He thought it would be a good idea
for the President to call Alison Leland.
I passed this information to Rob
Portman in McClure's office, and also
told Tim at Camp David. I left the
number of Grady Memorial Hosptal with
the White House Operators.
Portman thought it could wait until
tomorrow --- he said he would let McClure
know of the call.
Bridget
Grady Memorial Hospital 404/ 697-8576
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MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1990 D3
Personalities
By Chuck Conconi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Alison Leland, who was at the Martin
Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta last weekend
to accept a "Salute to Greatness" award on
behalf of her late husband, Rep. Mickey Le-
land, gave birth to twin boys at Grady Memori-
al Hospital there yesterday. She and the yet-
unnamed boys-one three pounds, the other 2
pounds 11 ounces-are doing well, according
to a hospital spokesman. The infants, several
weeks premature, are in a special care nurs-
ery.
The 31-year-old mother was six weeks
pregnant when her husband was killed in a
stormy weather plane crash in Ethiopia Aug. 7.
The 44-year-old Texas Democrat was on a
mission for hunger relief-which had been a
passion of his-when he died. Later that
ALISON LELAND
LUCIE ARNAZ
month, the widow declined offers that she run
for her husband's seat, saying her top priori-
wasn't performing. In an interview for the "Joan
you look at the backs of some of them you can
ties were her son Jarrett, now 4, and the "new
Rivers" show to be broadcast today, she also
still find red print from "Safeway." Fortunately,
baby on the way."
says her father, Desi Arnaz, was the funny one
as he points out to friends, he has examined the
but it was "depressing he ended up a drunk." As
brown paper cards to make certain they are free
Out and About
for the madcap, lovable Lucy omnipresent on
of the smell of bananas or cheese
Noted Washington documentary photogra-
television, Arnaz describes her mother instead as
George Plimpton, the writer-editor who has
pher Roland Freeman, who has exhibited his
"a control freak," adding sadly, "I'm sure she
been a success writing about participating in
work at major institutions throughout the
loved us in the only way she knew how"
sports competitions in which he is greatly out-
world, including the Smithsonian, the Corcoran
Comic Jackie Mason obviously can't get into
classed, was surprised last year when he nearly
and the National Gallery of Art, has completed
enough trouble on his own in New York City
won an event. Plimpton, who became famous for
his 20-year project-a book called "The Arab-
politics, so he's taking his act abroad. He is
bers of Baltimore." Freeman, who was on his
joining Sen. Rudy Boschwitz at the Berlin Wall
his book "Paper Lion," in which he told of
today and is scheduled to be a guest of Ambassa-
quarterbacking four plays with the Detroit Lions,
way to being a fourth-generation street arab-
ber-those colorful Baltimore sellers of fruit
dor to West Germany Vernon Walters on
last year had a horseshoe-pitching contest with
and produce who drive horse-drawn carts—
Wednesday. Mason's publicist says the comedian
famed horseshoes player George Bush, then
said he wanted to document the courage and
will then travel for meetings in Hungary with
president-elect, at the vice president's residence.
human spirit of a unique Baltimore way of life
government officials, Jewish leaders and Hungar-
Speaking at the Hunt Breakfast of the Washing-
that is fading away, while at the same time
ian comedians to discuss what it's like to develop
ton Antiques Show at the Shoreham hotel yes-
presenting a salute to his family's heritage
comedy material in the Eastern Bloc
terday, Plimpton said that, to his consternation,
It seems sad that our favorite entertainers
At a time when most Washingtonians are
he suddenly realized he was one point away from
are seldom what we think they are. The late
wrestling with the new recycling regulations, it's
beating the man who was about to lead the
Bing Crosby's children revealed after the croon-
heartening to see that William K. Reilly, admin-
Western world. Fortunately, he added, Bush
er's death that he was not the warm, sweet man
istrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,
threw a ringer and won, making it possible for
he seemed to be, and now Lucie Arnaz says her
is taking reusing paper seriously. His business
Plimpton to continue as the luckless under-
mother, Lucille Ball, wasn't SO funny when she
cards are printed on used grocery bags. In fact if
dog
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each ( us must "take
our lumps" on occasion.
what I meant to
convey was a deep
pride in and love for
Dick, my man. we are
team players and want
only to help solve your
problems, not add to then.
May 1990 be a
year 01 joy and peace
(fun too) for you and
Barbara. Is ut she
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of him.
our prayers are with the other 22 Killed
in Panama, including Wilson (Sonny) Owens who
was Co-pioliting with John
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sincerely -
Ray & Jean Huntie
Patte Mcalpain & family
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Bush relaxes at Camp David, on the golf course
WASHINGTON (UPI) Undeterred by gray skies, President Bush decided
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to cut short his stay at the presidential retreat at Camp David Monday
to play a round of golf at nearby Andrews Air Force Base.
Bush had been spending an extended weekend over the Martin Luther
King holiday at the presidential retreat in the Western Maryland
mountains.
He arranged to return to the White House in the late afternoon
Monday.
The president has been working on the first drafts of his State of
the Union address to be delivered before a joint session of Congress on
Jan. 31. His budget for the 1991 fiscal year has been prepared for
public release on Jan. 29.
This is an anniversary week for the president who celebrates his
first year in office on Saturday, Jan. 20. Bush plans to approach the
anniversary Thursday with a pep talk to all of his top federal
appointees and a reunion gala for the Bush-Quayle campaign.
A poll published Monday indicates that Bush is ending his first
year as president with favorable ratings.
In a USA Today poll of 810 adults conducted last Wednesday and
Thursday the president received a grade of A or B from 63 percent, up 12
percentage points since a similar poll in October.
Sixty-two percent feel better about Bush because of the way he
handled the Panama crisis, up 12 points from a similar poll taken right
after the December invasion.
On the domestic front, 45 percent think Bush has "taken charge"
in Washington instead of reacting to events, up 16 percentage points
from April.
However, Bush gets better marks for his foreign policy than he does
for his domestic affairs with 74 percent approving of his dealings with
the Soviets and only 25 percent approving of his handling of the
nation's deficit.
First lady Barbara Bush received an A or B from 76 percent, up 5
percentage points from October, with 48 percent of the women and 37
percent of the men giving her an A.
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Sun 14-Jan-90 14:44 EST
Services held for Rabbi Schachtel
HOUSTON (UPI) Funeral services were held Sunday for Rabbi Hyman
Schachtel, a noted teacher, speaker, author and composer who befriended
presidents and was a well-known religious leader for more than 30 years.
Schachtel, chief rabbi of Houston's Congregation Beth Israel for 32
years before his retirement in 1975, died Thursday after a long illness.
He was 82.
In a statement released from Camp David, Md., White House press
secretary Marlin Fitzwater said President Bush called Schachtel's wife,
Barbara Schachtel, Sunday to express his sadness over the death of her
husband.
"The president and Hyman Schachtel go back a long, long time,"
Fitzwater said. "The president termed Rabbi Schachtel one of the great
religious and civic leaders that he has known. He told Mrs. Schachtel
that her husband had been an inspiration to him and a very good friend.
"The president and Mrs. Bush will miss him sorely," Fitzwater
said.
Schachtel, the former president of the Houston Rabbinical
Association, once said, "I have fallen in love with my religion over
and over again. I am constantly enthralled by it."
"He fought for the rights of everyone," said Rabbi Jack Segal of
Congregation Beth Yeshurun in Houston. "He didn't care if a person was
white or black or yellow he believed the person had the right to
believe in what they wanted to."
Added famed heart surgeon Michael DeBakey, a friend for 30 years:
"He was truly a great contributor to our community and to the uplifting
of human endeavors. I will miss him and our community will miss him
greatly."
Schachtel was born in London, the son of a rabbi and cantor. He
chose the rabbinate over the career in medicine his father wanted for
him. He came to the United States as a boy, was ordained in New York at
age of 24 and moved to Houston in 1943 to take over the leaderhsip of
Beth Israel.
He held doctorates in education from Columbia University and the
University of Houston, and received honorary degrees from Hebrew Union
College and Southwestern University.
Schachtel taught a course in biblical literature at the University
of Houston, and was awarded the Coronat medal from St. Edwards'
University, a Catholic institution.
Schachtel was proud of the fact that he was called upon to
represent Judaism at the presidential inauguration of his longtime
friend, Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1964. A photograph of the event hung in
Schachtel's office, and he prized a collection of 50 letters Johnson
sent to him over the years.
He was the author of five books and wrote a column for the Jewish
Herald in Houston and had a weekly radio program for many years. A
lifelong musician and music lover, he also composed liturgical music and
wrote five hymns.
Schachtel is survived by his wife, a longtime member of the board
of the Harris County Hospital District and a department head at
Methodist Hospital, one son, one daughter and three brothers.
THE WHITE HOUSE
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 15, 1990
The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State
of Florida and ordered Federal aid to help farming communities in
portions of the State to recover from the effects of a severe
winter freeze that began on December 23, 1989.
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which
will coordinate the aid, Federal funding provided under the
declaration will include unemployment compensation to individuals
who are unemployed as a direct result of the freeze in the counties
of Broward, Collier, Dade, Hendry, Lee, Monroe and Palm Beach.
The counties were designated eligible for this assistance by the
Agency immediately following the President's action.
Thomas P. Credle, of FEMA's regional office in Atlanta, Georgia,
was named by the Agency to coordinate Federal relief activities in
the stricken area.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: FEMA (202) 646-4600.
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