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04/16/91 13:40 6412 471 3274
E HILLMAN
001
Republican
National
Committee
Elsie H Hillman (Mrs. Henry L)
Member, Chairman's Executive Council
Member for Pennsylvania
Box 113, Suite 375
Westin William Penn Hotel
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
(412) 471-8312
FAX: (412) 471-3271
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04/16/91,
13:40
2412 471 3271
E HILLMAN
Support
expresse
for Senate run by Mrs. Heinz
By Dennis B. Roddy
plane and a helicopter near
seal until a successor is chose
Philadelphia.
in November.
The Pittsburgh Press
"I would be very strongly sup-
At a news conference yeste:
Republican National Commit-
portive" of a Teresa Heinz candi-
day, the governor said he had no
teewoman Elsie Hillman believes
dacy, said Hillman, one of the
been aware Mrs. Heinz was cor
Teresa Heinz would be "our
state's most powerful Republican
sidering a run for the seat. "TI
strongest candidate" if she de-
leaders.
just hearing that for the firs
cides to seek election - rather
In a memorandum to the late
time. I think that's a decisio
than accept an interim appoint-
senator's staff yesterday, Dixon
that, obviously, Mrs. Heinz has t
ment - to her late husband's
Brown, an aide to Mrs. Heinz.
make and I certainly respect he
U.S. Senate seat.
said she is "carefully examining"
contributions," he said.
Hillman predicted Mrs. Heinz
whether to run in the Nov. 5
Grant Oliphant, Heinz's pres:
would receive the recommenda-
election.
secretary, said Mrs. Heinz likel
tion of the party's executive com-
However, Mrs. Heinz ruled out
would take a week or more to
mittee, which sometimes urges
filling the Senate seat on an
make up her mind. She was no
the endorsement or appointment
interim basis until then.
available for direct comment.
of a candidate before the entire
Mrs. Heinz, 52, had been sug.
Until yesterday, the odds-or
280-member state committee.
gested as a potential appointee to
favorite for the Republican Sen
The state committee will se-
Teresa Elienz
the seat, but had not been consid-
ate nomination had been U.S
lect a candidate sometime this
Won't accept: appointment
ered by political observers as a
Attorney General Dick Thorn.
spring for the Nov. 5 special
candidate in November.
burgh, a former two-term Penn-
election scheduled by Gov. Rob-
Heinz, who ded April 4 in the
Under state law, Casey can
sylvania governor.
ert P. Casey to replace Sen. John
mid-air collision of his charter
appoint someone to fill Heinz's
Please see Heinz. B4
in
Patrick Killian, who managed the
sury estimated at $1.2 million, said
Heinz left a campaign fund trea-
a campaign.
amount of his or her own funds for
candidate to spend an unlimited
Federal election laws permit a
have little time for fund-raising.
paign in which candidates would
large amounts of cash for a cam-
offer Republicans the advantage of
A candidacy by Mrs. Heinz would
National Board.
to the newly formed Smithsonian
tal Defense Fund and been elected
vice chairman of the Environmen-
More recently, she has become
Spouses Forum on Human Rights.
founder or the Congressional
for Soviet Jewry, and CO-
chairman of the Congressional
Mrs. Heinz was a founder and CO-
standing in the nuclear age.
wives to foster international under-
group started by congressional
Peace Links. a national grass-roots
She was a founding member of
to her husband
ment to world peace, matters dear
education reform to the environ-
outspoken, her issues range from
Well-educated, opinionated and
U.S. citizen.
eastern
Africa
and
a
naturalized
Ferreira, is a native of Mozambique
Mrs. Heinz, born Teresa Simoes-
ious for him to leave," she said.
sure the president would be anx-
in our administration and I'm not
'He's serving a very important role
able to accept the GOP nomination.
that Thornburgh might not be avail-
Hillman yesterday suggested
Heinz
from Page B1
this report.)
inquiries.
million.
man and Ed Blazina contributed to
Dan Donovan, Don Wolf, Lee Bow-
(Pittsburgh Press staff writers
Yatch, did not return telephone
Democratic Chairman Lawrence
ner in the same law firm as state
Rooney, who is managing part-
isn't talking about it at this stage."
really going to come out, and he
person who knows how this thing is
understanding is there is only one
a reference to Casey said, "My
speculation about his name, and in
Sweet said he is aware of the
owner Arthur Rooney.
Rooney II, grandson of late Steelers
Washington County and Arthur
former state legislator from
most recent including David Sweet,
tioned as possible appointees, the
About 20 people have been men-
interim successor to Heinz soon.
Casey has said he will name an
what course to take with the $1.2
paign fund's attorney is studying
Killian yesterday said the cam-
transferable to Mrs. Heinz.
campaign fund would not be easily
cycle. Consequently, the Heinz
$1,000 per giver in each election
Federal law limits donations to
of its funds to another candidate.
uals in donating or transferring any.
restrictions that apply to individ-
paign fund would face the same
Commission, said the Heinz cam-
man for the Federal Elections
However, Fred Eiland, a spokes-
late senator's 1988 campaign.
Tuesday, April 16, 1991
04/16/91
13:41
T412 471 3271
E HILLMAN
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Mrs. Heinz considers
run for Senate in fall
By Barbara White Stack
Pgh. Post Ggette
Gov. Casey said yesterday that
Post-Gazette Staff Writer
The had been one of those considered
for the Interim appointment. The
4/16/91
Teresa Heinz is "carefully consid-
ering" running for the Senate seat
special election to complete Sen.
Hairn's term has been set for Nov. 5.
left vacant by the death of her
husband, U.S. Sen. John Heinz, in an
Amother name on Casey's list is as
air crash 12 days ago.
Cardliar to Pittsburghers as Heinz's
lawyer Arthm J. Rooney II,
A letter sent by the Heinz family
unadson of Steelers founder Art
staff in Pittsburgh to the Heinz
Honey.
Senate staff In Washington indicat-
ing her Interest said, though, that
During two decades in Washing-
Mrs. Heinz would not accept an
too, Mrs. Heinz has been active in
Interim "caretaker" appointment.
CHILDES as divèrse as the environ-
Until she makes up ber mind
medic, children's television and aid to
Seriet Jews
about the fall campaign, Republican
officials interviewed yesterday
Grant Oliphant, press secretary to
The IEL, said that while Mrs. Heinz had
agreed, maneuvering for the party's
nomination will grind to a halt. Mrs.
(5) through a very tragic time and
Heinz said she would decide in seven
to 10 days.
SEE SENIATE, PAGE 5
Mrs. Heinz considering run for Senate seat in fall
SENATE FROM PAGE I
November eliction as Thoraburgh
saying that they would be interested
well: be He said she would be
translator in Washington, D.C., and
has been absorbed with that." she
value which to charges that she was
if the is not a candidate, or that they
as a consultant to the United Nations
had been "flooded with suggestions
unquilitied for the seat. because
want to be considered if Thoraburgh
Trusteeship Council.
from dazens upon dozens of friends,
"Clust: sure big shoes to fill"
is not A candidate," Druce said.
Since ber husband first ran for
Republican National Committee-
family: associates and acquaint-
State Auditor General Barbara
Congress, Mrs. Heinz has worked in a
woman Elsie Hillman said: "I think
ances that she ought to consider
Hater. NI Docting a more widely hold
wide variety of social issues and
we ought to wait and see what she is
seeking this seat
vial, reld. "I can't Imagine that
served on boards of directors of
going to Co. I think there are a lot
"In the few peaceful moments she
any the would want to go up against
schools and art museums.
her." She said the shadow of Mrs.
of good caudidates from Western
had to think about it over the week-
She is vice chairwoman of the
Help Б candidney would freeze oth-
Pennsylvania, but I think we should
end, she reached the conclusion that
Environmental Defense Fund and
wait" for Mrs. Heinz's decision.
if she decides to seek the Senate seat.
or temporarily.
recently co-founded Congressional
She described Mrs. Hainz as com-
she wants to do it right, and not as an
"Ard 1 think It puts the Helaz
Spouses Forum on Human Rights, a
Interim appointee.'
family ID a strong position, If it's not
mitted. bright and articulate. She
group dedicated to education on
Signature
said she had not discussed the candi-
U.S. Sen. Tim Wirth, D-Colo., a
Terms, the make the pick - or at
world human rights Issues.
close friend of the late senator since
least libe prime sponser of sorce-
dacy with her. but that she thought
She served as co-chairwoman for
only MI an excellent political
both the party and the people of
prep school, said Mrs. Heinz would
the Congressional Wives for Soviet
make 2 "superb" senator.
more Hafer said.
Pennsylvania would embrace her.
Jewry. She founded the Pennsylva.
the said Mrs. Heinx would make A
"The people of Pennsylvania
Asked whether the Senate would
nia Chapter of Peace Links and
adored John Heinz, and those who
accept ber, Wirth sald: "Teresa
good startor and candidate. "She's
helped form the national organize-
knows almost everybody in the Sen-
beer divided in many causes, the
met her adored ber, too." Hillman
Lico, which works for peaceful seulo-
said.
ate and probably knows balf of them
was umestal in John's can
ment of International conflict.
well. The bigger problem would be,
paint she speaks many languages
Mrs. Heinz, 52. was born in Mo-
Among Mrs. Heinz's consider-
could she be persuaded to do it?"
and rapaigned in a lot of ethoic
zambique, then a Portuguese colony,
ations, Wirth said, was whether she
com multies."
and became a naturalized American
Wirth, who spoke at Heinz's funer-
would be able to serve as senator and
al last week, has stayed close to the
aid Anne Atistine, the state
citizen more than 20 years ago,
mother to her three song "They are
family since the accident.
part, irwornan, had been talking
A graduate of the Interpreters
pretty much grown" and will support
School of the University of Geneva in
"As of Saturday, the color was
yes en ay with other potential candi-
whatever their mother chooses, he
back In her face," be said of Mrs.
date: vium she learned of Mrs.
Switzerland and the University of
said.
Heinz "And there was a sparkle in
Helat's Interest.
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg
her eye, and we were starting to see
"Thare are some candidates who
South Africa, she speaks five Ian-
Post-Garette staff writers Harry
guages, including French, Portu-
some of the wonderful Teresa start-
are Multive to her Involvement,
Stoffer, Jack Torrey and Gary Tume
gucse and Italian. She worked as a
ing to pump."
contributed to this report
If Mrs. Heinz enters the race, she
could quickly become the favorite.
"Her statement certainly changes
the complexion of the process from
what it was on Friday," said Tom
Druce, executive director of the
Republican State Committee.
Doc Sweitzer, a Phlladelphia
Democratic consultant who worked
with Heinz in his 1970 campaign.
said: "Teresa is a dynamo. She be a
hell of a candidate. and, from what I
can see, a hell of a senator. The
Democrate would have their work
cut out finding a candidate against
her."
Sweltzer sald that if Mrs. Heinz
"moves forward, 11 really boxes out
any other Republican. If I were Dick
Thornburgh. that's not who I would
want to run against."
U.S. Attorney General Dick
Thornburgh. the former two-term
Pennsylvania governor. had been
considered the leading Republican
candidate to replace Heloz. though
he has not said whether he would be
willing to give up his post to run.
Rep. Joe Gaydos, D-McKcesport,
said Mrs. Heinz would not be as
"formidable" Al candidate in the
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04/18/1991 10:57 BASS ANGLERS MONTGOMERY
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1991
Eagles of Angling
Tournament
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
16 April 1991
President Bush Competes In First Bass Tournament
PINTLALA, Ala President George Bush took a break from his hectic schedule to get in some fishing
Saturday. After a morning speech at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala., Bush spent five hours fishing in a
charity bass tournament In the small crossroads village of Pintiala, Ala.
The Second Annual Eagles of Angling tournament was conducted for the benefit of a new chapel for the
Pintlala Baptist Church. The tournament was held on Ray Scott's private lake 20 minutes south of Montgomery. The
competition attracted 20 of the nation's top bass pros and a host of industry representatives. The event raised a
total of $300,530 for the church from boosters, sponsors and supporters.
Contestants fished, two pros and one celebrity to a boat, through 10 "bass holes" on Scott's 55-acre lake.
The anglers Wore allowed 30 minutes to fish each hole and then rotate clockwise to the next hole.
The idea for the tournament came from Bill Schroeder Sr. of Paducah, Kentucky, and other nationally known
pros who wanted to personally take on the project for the little Pintiala church. Scott said, "It's unbelievable how this
idoa attracted interest from across the country." Even Scott's No. 1 fishing partner George Bush volunteered to join
in the fun. "The pro fishermen are determined to participate in the tournament program until the chapel is completed."
The estimated cost is more than one million dollars, Scoll says he hopes to have the project paid in full in less than
five years.
Each boat had an eight bass no-cull limit. Once a bass was caught and put in the livewell it could not be
released.
"We had a groat day out there," Bush said after it was over. "It's been a great, relaxed and wonderful day for
me." Storm clouds from the previous day moved out the night before, and Bush fished under mostly sunny skies with
balmy breozes and temperatures in the high 70s and low 80s.
Bush boated a limit of eight bass. I le cast a silver/blue Rat-L-Trap early in the day before switching to a
chartreuse spinnerbait later in the afternoon.
Bush drew praise from his partners, two of the top pros in the country--Roland Martin of Clewiston, Fla., and
Orlando Wilson of Woodstock, Ga.-- for his fishing ability. Martin and Wilson earned fishing rights with the chief
executive by winning a dart throwing contest which was aimed at a target of Saddam Hussein.
"I've fished with a lot of people, but I've never seen a more accurate caster," said Martin, a 17-time
BASSMASTER tournament winner and the only angler ever to win nine B.A.S.S. Angler-of-the-Year titles. "His hand
and eye coordination is great."
"The President never quit all day," Wilson added. "He fished like a tournament angier." Wilson said the day's
conversation revolved totally around fishing. The morning conversations dealt with fishing strategy. Later in the day
the three talked about structure, lures, seasonal patterns and about how to change their previously established
plan
to
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plan to win the tournament. But the afternoon strategy session didn't quite do the trick. "We had a great coach,"
Wilson said, "but the team was a little shaky. As a matter of fact, I was 80 nervous that 1 could thread a needle on a
sewing machine while it was running."
Guy Eaker of Cherryville, N.C., and Charlle Ingram of Columbia, Tenn., anchored an eight-bass catch with a
9-pound, 11-ounce largemouth to win the tournament with 34 pounds, 14 ounces and garner the $25,000 first-place
prize. The two tournament pros, who said they'd been planning their strategy for this event for months, fished big
worms (10 and 12 inches) and big lizards (9 and 10 inches) on 30-pound-test line, "We put rattlers in all our baits,"
Eaker said, "and we'd shake them every now and then to get the fish to bite," They asked their celebrity partners to
throw big crankbaits.
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Bill Schroeder Sr.and Bill Schroeder Jr. of Paducah, Ky., finished second with five bass weighing 30
pounds. 8 ounces, The father and son team weighed two hefty bass one pushed the scales to 8 pounds, 6 ounces,
the other boosted them to 10 pounds, 14 ounces. The Schroeders split the $15,000 second-place prize.
All-time B.A.S.S. money-winner Larry Nixon of Bee Branch, Ark., and former BASS Masters Classic winner
Tommy Martin of Hemphill, Texas, split the third-place prize - $10,000 for eight bass, 29 pounds, 12 ounces. Their
largest bass weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces.
But Nixon and Martin treasured the day on the water with President Bush's national security adviser Brent
Scowcroft, perhaps, more than they did the win. Scrowcroft fished a black lizard with red metalflake around stumps
and drop-offs to catch two of the team's larger fish. Nixon said one of the bass weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces and the
other weighed about 5 1/2 pounds.
Martin and Wilson were a little disconcerted at having the President of the United States fetching and
carrying for them. "Every time we'd want something, like a soft drink, or something," Martin said, "he'd say, 'Here,
Let me get that for you.' And he has a great sense of humor, Martin said. "He cut up and we had a really great time.
The greatest fishing day I've ever had."
Bush learned at this tournament about some unknown political success he'd had at an earlier event. Gary
Klein, one of the younger pros on the circuit said Bush had turned him into a voting Republican after a Bush visit to
the BASS Masters Classic in 1979. "Becauso of Mr. Bush, ] went and voted." When Bush ran for president the first
time, Klein says, he registered as a Republican and has been voting that way ever since. "My whole family has," he
said Saturday.
Forrest Wood, the founder of Ranger Boats, who fished this event and who also fished with President Bush
on his last visit here (Jan, 1, 1990), said the president's fishing hobby adds to the credibility of the sport. "It's nice to
have a president," Wood says, "who lives in the real world and enjoys the things real people enjoy."
Place Name, City, State
Bass/Alive
Lbs.-Ozs.
Winnings
1.
Guy Eaker, Cherryville, N.C.
Charlie ingram, Columbia, Tenn.
8/8
34-14
$25,000
2.
Bill Schroeder Sr., Paducah, Ky.
Bill Schroeder Jr., Paducah, Ky.
5/5
30-08
$15,000
3.
Larry Nixon, Bee Branch, Ark.
Tommy Martin, Hemphill, Texas
8/8
29-12
$10,000
4.
Forrest Wood, Flippin, Ark.
Jerry McKinnis, Little Rock, Ark.
8/8.
27-08
5.
Ken Cook, Moors, Okla.
David Gregg, Bedford, Texas
7/7
23-14
6.
Denny Brauer, Camdenton, Mo.
Gary Klein, Montgomery, Texas
7/7
23-08
7.
Jack Chancellor, Phenix City, Ala.
Paul Elias, Laurel, Miss.
8/8
19-11
8.
Charlie Campbell, Forsyth, Mo.
Johnny Morris, Springfield, Mo.
7/7
19-05
9.
Junie Copley, Chesterfield, Va.
Hank Parker, Denver, N.C.
7/7
17-03
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10.
Orlando Wilson, Woodstock, Ga.
Roland Martin, Clewiston, Fla.
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NOTE: Ray Scott says he almost laundered one check donation to the Chapel Fund. A supporter
gave Scott a $10,000 check Saturday night. Scott put it in his pocket where his housekeeper found it
laundered. Monday morning on the way to the washing machine. She returned the check to Scott before it was
(For more information please call Ray Scott at (205)272-9530, Ext. 400)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, April 16, 1991 -- A-15
MARTIN HITS COAL INDUSTRY IN TAMPERING PROBE
Secretary Martin Monday chided the coal industry for its
response to the disclosure that air samples from underground mines
taken for safety testing had been tampered with.
"I am appalled by the flagrant disregard for a law designed
to protect coal miners against disabling lung disease that is
represented by the widespread tampering we have uncovered," she
said. "We are talking about tampering with people's lives."
Martin told the House subcommittee on health and safety the
suggestion by the National Coal Association that the tampering may
have been the work of miners themselves should be viewed with "some
disbelief.
(Frank Swoboda, Washington Post, D1)
NRA SELECTS HARD-LINER AS GUN BATTLE NEARS
Choice Seen As Triumph For Conservatives
SAN ANTONIO -- The National Rifle Association Monday chose its
chief lobbyist, Wayne LaPierre, to oversee the organization,
capping a year-long internal feud marked by charges that his
predecessor had mismanaged the group's finances and been too
accommodating with foes on Capitol Hill
Jay Sugarman, executive director of the Firearms Policy
Project, a gun control group, charged that LaPierre's selection as
executive vice president would "alienate the organization from a
larger segment of gun owners and the general public.'
But in a brief acceptance speech, LaPierre promised to step
up the organization's efforts to "serve the cause of freedom" by
defeating gun control legislation.
(Michael Isikoff, Washington Post, A5)
NRA SUFFERS ANOTHER SETBACK FROM SUPREME COURT
The National Rifle Association
suffered another setback when
the Supreme Court Monday rejected its appeal of three gun
regulations.
The 1988 Treasury Department regulations require a gun dealer
to keep records of personal firearms not obtained from inventory,
make part-time gun dealers keep their premises open to the public
and require gun shows to be sponsored by certain non-profit
organizations.
(Robert Green, Reuter)
HEINZ'S WIDOW CONSIDERS BID FOR SENATE SEAT
Gov. Casey To Act Soon To Fill Vacancy
The widow of Sen. Heinz has told friends she is seriously
considering a bid for her late husband's seat, potentially
complicating Republican efforts to lure Attorney General Thornburgh
into the race
Heinz's press secretary, Grant Oliphant, said
Teresa Heinz
would make a decision within 10 days.
Meanwhile, Democratic sources say Gov. Casey has cooled to the
idea of appointing a caretaker to hold the job until a November
special election, and is whittling through a list of potential
candidates.
(Dan Balz, Washington Post, A4)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, April 16, 1991 -- A-14
NEW NIH CHIEF BACKS TRANSPLANT BAN
Before Appointment, Healy Urged Fetal Tissue Moratorium Be Lifted
Two years after she voted twice to lift a ban on fetal tissue
transplant research, the new director of the National Institutes
of Health Monday adopted the Bush Administration line and testified
in support of continuing the controversial moratorium indefinitely.
Bernadine Healy, NIH director since last week, testified at
hearings before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on
health and the environment that, personally, she favors lifting the
ban. But as director of the NIH, Healy said she "will abide by the
policies, federal regulations or laws that govern this area of
public policy."
She said that includes objecting to several provisions in a
bill introduced last fall by subcommittee Chairman Waxman that he
calls the NIH Revitalization Amendment
Among other things, the
bill would overturn the ban on federal funding of research on
transplanting fetal tissue and give the NIH permanent authority to
fund such research, provided it complies with strict ethical
guidelines that prohibited sale of fetal tissue or directed
donations.
Calling some of the bill's provisions "an intrusion on the
authority of the executive branch," Healy said they "would be a
dangerous precedent."
(Sally Squires, Washington Post, A5)
Ban On Fetal Tissue Said Hindering Disease Research
The government's ban on federal financing of research
involving fetal tissue from elective abortions is choking off
progress toward possible cures for devastating diseases, opponents
say. "Those of us depending on this work are hostages of abortion
politics," Joan Samuelson, a Santa Rosa, Calif., lawyer who has
Parkinson's disease, told the House Energy and Commerce health
subcommittee Monday.
She called the ban "misguided and heartless," and said that
as long as abortion remains legal in the U.S. "it makes no sense
to require that the remains be destroyed instead of being used to
save lives."
(Deborah Mesce, AP)
HHS MERGES CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS
New Agency To Have $27 Billion Budget
Secretary Sullivan announced Monday that he is consolidating
children's programs into a mega-agency to be headed by an assistant
secretary with a $27 billion annual budget. The new agency [will
be] called the Administration for Children and Families
"For the first time,' Sullivan said, "the government will have
a single agency bringing together the many child and family
programs." "This will increase the clout of the children's
programs,' said Kevin Moley, assistant secretary for management and
budget
Rep. Downey, who heads the House Ways and Means subcommittee
with jurisdiction over most of the programs, said, "It seems to
make sense to coordinate family policy under one head, and I'm
prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt, but additional
resources and attention is what family policy needs, not just
personnel changes in HHS."
(Spencer Rich, Washington Post, A17)
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DEMOCRATS COULD SUPPORT CUTS IN TAXES, CAPITAL GAINS
Democrats could support tax cut incentives to stimulate the
economy if the package is fair and does not worsen the deficit,
four Democratic congressional leaders said Monday.
Declaring that their party must develop an economic agenda
that appeals to the middle class, the leaders said they could
support proposals to cut the capital gains and Social Security tax
rates if they were part of a set of proposals perceived as helping
the economic recovery
Rep. William Gray and Rep. Charles
Stenholm predicted that their party would develop a strong agenda
to encourage economic growth in the coming months
"Could Bill Gray support a capital gains cut as part of a
package that promotes growth and fairness? Sure," Rep. Gray
said.
adding that if Congress were to pass any tax incentives
this year, he would want "to make sure that they offer the greatest
good for the greatest number
"
"The [proposals] must be seen as fair and fiscally
responsible," said Rep. Stenholm. "I would not shut the door to
any growth-oriented policy as long as it was part of a package"
aimed at encouraging new business investment and increased
employment, he said
Rep. McCurdy suggested that there was still deep division in
his party over the kinds of economic growth proposals that
Democrats should support. He said former Sen. Tsongas
"made a
mistake" by calling for the adoption of an industrial policy to
help American businesses, an idea that he suggested was
outdated.
(Donald Lambro, Washington Times, A5)
CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS CLAIM WHITE HOUSE CUT OFF TALKS ON BILL
Some civil rights leaders charged Monday that the White House
tried to halt a promising round of negotiations being led by
business leaders on the civil rights bill. The rights leaders
claim that the Bush Administration does not want the bill to
succeed because it would rob the Administration of the politically
powerful job-quota issue before next year's election.
"It is increasingly obvious the White House does not want a
good civil rights bill," said Ralph Neas, the chairman of the
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. "All they want is a
political issue to demagogue."
Neas said "substantial progress" has been made in the private
talks between some business and civil rights leaders, which he said
prompted White House officials to cut off the negotiations.
William Taylor, a longtime official at the Leadership Conference
on Civil Rights, charged that the Bush Administration is trying to
scuttle the talks for the "politically cynical" reason of
preserving the racially charged quota issue for the 1992 campaign.
White House spokesman Fitzwater acknowledged Monday that top
Bush Administration officials called two of the business leaders
and urged them to cut off their talks with civil rights leaders.
But he strongly denied that the White House was trying for
political reasons to halt progress reportedly made in the
negotiations.
(Michael Kranish, Boston Globe)
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WS Summary
Tuesday, April 16, 1991 -- A-8
SES CONSTITUTION TO CREATE A DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA
NNESBURG -- The African National Congress has published
sed constitution for a democratic South Africa that is
1y influenced by American and other Western models.
The ANC plan would protect individual rights but would not
vide any explicit political or economic guarantees for the
inority white population
The ANC document provides for one-
person, one-vote elections to fill a senate and a national
assembly. It calls for a president who would be elected by either
popular vote or parliament and serve a maximum of two five-year
terms. It also calls for a bill of rights to be enforced through
the ordinary courts and a special constitutional court.
(John Matisonn, Washington Post, A13)
BUSH ADMINISTRATION RUNS INTO PROBLEMS WITH U.N. FUNDING PLAN
Budget constraints may kill the Bush Administration's efforts
to pay off more than a half-billion dollars in arrears to the
United Nations and other international bodies.
The State Department asked Congress Monday to approve the debt
payment plan as a strong signal of support for internal U.N.
reforms and for the organization's authorization of allied military
action that ended Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. The Administration
asked that the arrears payments be appropriated for fiscal 1992 and
then paid off in four annual installments.
But Rep. Neal Smith, a House Appropriations subcommittee
chairman, said at a hearing that the Administration's plan would
likely exceed budget ceilings agreed upon last year.
(David Briscoe, AP)
NEW ALLEGATIONS LINK REAGAN CAMPAIGN TO ARMS-HOSTAGES DEAL
New allegations surfaced Monday involving an unproven story
that senior officials of the 1980 Reagan campaign secretly agreed
to allow the shipment of U.S. arms to Iran if the Tehran government
waited until after the November election to release American
hostages it was holding
The new allegations were contained yesterday in a New York
Times op-ed article written by Gary Sick, a Middle East specialist
who worked on the Iranian hostages crisis as a member of the Carter
Administration's National Security Council staff. The case is the
subject of a documentary to be broadcast tonight on the PBS
"Frontline" series
Sick repeated previous allegations that then-Vice Presidential
candidate Bush attended one of the Paris meetings [on the fate of
the hostages]. That has been steadfastly denied.
(Walter Pincus & Dan Morgan, Washington Post, A12)
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Tuesday, April 16, 1991 -- A-4
TURKEY TO MOVE IRAQI REFUGEES
Effort Would Ease Harsh Living Conditions
SILOPI, Turkey -- The Turkish government, after two weeks of
ordering its army to pen up hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurdish
refugees in squalid and chaotic mountain camps, announced today
that it will transfer all of the refugees into properly equipped
refugee centers.
In a dramatic reversal of its policy on the Kurds, the
emergency-rule governor of eastern Turkey said that as of today,
the government will begin busing about 2,000 refugees a day from
the largest mountain camp at Isikveren, where 150,000 people are
sleeping in the highland cold without water, sufficient shelter or
basic sanitation
U.S. Army soldiers, working with Turkey as part of "Operation
Provide Comfort," pitched hundreds of tents here overnight. JUst
down the road, at a helicopter base set up over the weekend, a
massive American air-land program to rush help to the Kurds is also
taking shape. The Turkish government, after being lambasted by
international relief agencies for keeping the refugees in the harsh
mountain environment
today dispatched scores of doctors and
nurses, truckloads of medicines, eight mobile kitchens and a mobile
hospital here to Silopi.
(Blaine Harden, Washington Post, A1)
ISRAEL'S LEVY SAYS U.S. FOOD WON'T SAVE KURDS
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Foreign Minister Levy assailed Washington
Monday for denying military aid to Kurdish rebels in Iraq and said
U.S. food relief only ensured Kurdish refugees would "die with
their stomachs full.
"It is not possible that the world that went out to stop the
cruelty and ambitions of a dictator like Saddam Hussein will stand
by as a genocide of the Kurds is taking place and will view it as
an internal affair," Levy told Kurdish Jewish leader Haviv Shimoni.
Shimoni blamed the U.S. for the massacre of Kurds, saying it
encouraged them to revolt and then stood by while they were killed.
(Reuter)
IRAN ACCUSES IRAQ OF BORDER ATTACKS
Protest Made At U.N.; Baghdad Releases Two Captured Journalists
U.N. -- Iran accused Iraq Monday of sending a brigade of Iraqi
troops two miles over the border in what Tehran called an act of
aggression and occupation of its territory. Iran made its
allegation, which could not be independently verified, in a letter
to U.N. Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar
A senior Iranian
official at the U.N. said the incursion occurred close to a
concentration of Iraqi refugees who had fled to Iran, most of them
Kurds.
Meanwhile, Tehran radio said that Iraqi troops and tanks
attacked Kurdish refugees at another point on the Iranian border,
killing a number of them and closing off an escape route.
(Reuter, Washington Post, A16)
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Tuesday, April 16, 1991 -- A-3
SOVIETS WARN N. KOREA ON A-CONTROLS
TOKYO -- The Soviet Union has warned North Korea that it will
cut off all nuclear supplies and cooperation unless Pyongyang
agrees to international inspection of its nuclear facilities, a
leading Soviet academic said Monday.
"If they give permission for international inspection, there
will be no problem," said Vladlen Martynov, director of the
Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the
Soviet Academy of Sciences.
(Reuter, Washington Post, A13)
CHENEY: U.S. TROOPS COMING OUT OF IRAQ
Secretary Cheney said U.S. forces will be out of Iraq within
a matter of days, although some will stay just inside Iraq near
the border until U.N. observer troops are in place.
Cheney also said Monday a few U.S. personnel will be included
within the U.N. force that will patrol the Iraq-Kuwait border to
act as a whistle-blower should Iraqi troops try to cross into
Kuwait. Speaking to reporters
Cheney also said U.S. forces
would protect a refugee camp on the Iraq-Saudi Arabian border until
it is sure the camp is safe.
(Eliot Brenner, UPI)
U.S. QUITTING IRAQ; 4 KUWAITI ROYALS FACE OUSTER
KUWAIT CITY -- U.S. troops withdrew from most of southern Iraq
Monday, and Kuwait's rulers reportedly decided to dismiss four
members of the royal family from the government.
Also Monday, European Community ministers endorsed a French
proposal for the creation of protected zones in northern Iraq to
which any Kurds who wanted to return home could do so without fear
of attack by Saddam's military. The plan, if implemented, would
nevertheless leave the Iraqi leader in power and in control of
almost all the territory he had before his invasion of Kuwait.
In Kuwait, sources said Monday night that at least four
members of the royal family would be replaced in a government
shakeup next Saturday that would also bring new leaders to the
pivotal ministries of finance, oil and defense. Kuwaiti and
Western officials said last week the new cabinet could contain
members of the political opposition, but the sources said it would
not.
(Adam Pertman, Boston Globe)
EUROPEANS SEEK TRIAL OF SADDAM FOR GENOCIDE
PARIS -- The European allies called on the U.N. Monday to
explore the possibility of prosecuting Saddam Hussein at a
Nuremberg-style war crimes tribunal for attempted genocide of the
Kurdish people
Foreign Ministers of the 12 EC countries agreed to urge U.N.
Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar to launch a formal war crimes
investigation. They instructed Jacques Poos, the Luxembourg
foreign minister whose country now holds the EC presidency, to make
the appeal in Strasbourg on Tuesday when he sees Perez de
Cuellar
Meeting in Luxembourg, the EC foreign ministers also
decided to lift remaining sanctions on imports of iron, steel and
gold coins from South Africa to acknowledge that country's progress
toward the abolition of apartheid.
(William Drozdiak, Washington Post, A14)
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INTERNA TIONAL NEWS
BUSH, GORBACHEV REPORTEDLY SETTLE DIFFERENCES ON CFE TREATY
In an exchange of letters over the past two weeks, President
Bush and President Gorbachev have virtually settled on a compromise
that will clear the obstacles blocking a treaty to slash the number
of U.S. and Soviet tanks, planes and other weapons in Europe,
officials said Monday.
"We're hopeful, but the next move is theirs,' said one U.S.
official involved in the negotiations.
Even the Administration's deepest skeptic of detente,
Secretary Cheney, who said just two months ago the future of arms
control lay "in doubt," said Monday, "I think we're making some
progress.
"
The effect of the compromise, one State Department official
said, would be to "get precisely the reductions we thought we were
getting on November 19," when the CFE treaty was signed. "That's
the important factor."
(Fred Kaplan, Boston Globe)
U.S. Wavers On Summit Conditions
White House spokesman Fitzwater said Monday that President
Bush was willing to hold a summit with President Gorbachev even if
no agreement were reached beforehand on a treaty to reduce nuclear
weapons, but quickly retracted the position by day's end in the
face of strenuous complaints both within and outside the
government
At first yesterday Fitzwater said the President was willing
to meet with Gorbachev without a strategic arms reduction treaty
to sign. Pressed on whether Bush was abandoning a START agreement
as a precondition to a summit, Fitzwater said, "The President said
he would like to have regular summits with the Soviet Union to
discuss general matters and we don't have to have agreements to
have summits."
Fitzwater insisted the statement was not a change in position,
but he and numerous other officials in the past have directly
linked START progress to the summit the Soviets have been avidly
seeking for months. Bush himself early this year said the session
"was to be a summit at which we were going to sign an arms control
agreement."
Late yesterday afternoon Fitzwater said in a statement
clarifying his original remarks, "It is our aim to have a START
treaty" to sign at a future summit.
A senior official said that government experts on the Soviet
Union and arms control had complained that a suggestion from a
White House official that Bush would attend a summit without a
treaty would result in the U.S. losing its leverage in negotiating
with the Soviets over the arms issue.
(Ann Devroy & R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post, A1)
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BEIJING, April 16, Reuter - China said on Tuesday it opposed
the United Nations setting up a safety zone to protect Kurdish
refugees in Iraq because it would violate Iraqi sovereignty
The establishment of a safety zone touches upon the
sovereignty of one country, the Chinese foreign ministry said
in a statement.
According to the relevant provisions of the U.N. charter
it is inappropriate in our view for the Security Council to
discuss the issue and take action on it.
China is one of five permanent members of the U.N. Security
Council, along with Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the
United States. All have the power to veto resolutions.
The Kurdish exodus of at least two million refugees to Iran
and Turkey was triggered by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's
crushing of post-Gulf war revolts. Relief agencies have said up
to 1,000 refugees are dying each day along the Turkish border.
British Prime Minister John Major proposed last week that
safe havens inside Iraq be set up where returning refugees would
be safe from attack by Iragi forces.
His proposal won support from the European Community and
U.S. President George Bush but no clear plan has emerged Major
also wrote to Chinese Premier Li Peng with details of his
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initiative.
While rejecting the proposal, China also expressed concern
and sympathy for the refugees.
We are deeply concerned over and sympathise with the
Kurdish refugees in Iraq who are in a difficult situation, the
ministry said.
We support the efforts made by the U.N. Secretary General
(Javier Perez de Cuellar) in this regard and we hope the
Secretary General will hold consultations in Iraq and the
parties concerned to find an appropriate solution to this
problem.
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PARIS, April 16 (AFP) - The United States and France have agreed on an
"initiative to meet the urgent needs of Kurdish refugees' President Francois
Mitterrand 5 spokesman said here Tuesday.
Hubert Vedrine said that Mr Mitterrand and U.S. President George Bush had
spoken on the telephone. but gave no details of the initiative the two leaders
had in mind
It would take place in close cooperation with Britain, other European
Community countries and the United Nations he added.
French Secretary of State for Humanitarian Action, Bernard Kouchner
meanwhile had talks in London on Tuesday with British Overseas Development
Minister Vnda Challer Defence Secretary Archie Hamilton and Foreign Office
Secretary of State Douglas Hogg to discuss the Kurds: plight officials seid.
Mrs Chalken is due to 00 to Iran and Turkey on Thursday while Mr.
Kouchner who was in the border regions with Iraq last week will return the
end of this week the French official said.
U.S British and French aircraft had by Monday dropped 1 029 tonnes op
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relief supplies to some 800 000 displaced Iraqis, mostly Kunds, Mr Vedride
said.
The French Foreign Ministry on Sunday said Paris had drawn up precise@plans
to enable Kurdish refugees to return home with U.N. assistance and protection
In Ankana Turkish President Turout Ozal said on television Tuesday that
some 400 000 refugees stranded on the Turkish border at an altitude of more
than 1 800 metres could be "led home in a two-phase plan, which would also
provide for temporary camps in northern Iraq.
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MM Ozal did not say who would accompany the refugees.
U.N. Secretary General lavier Perez de Cuellar is due in Paris on Wednesday
to discuss French plans submitted to the international body on assisting the
Iragi refugees
Mr Perez de Cuellar S special envoy in Inaq. Erik Suy on Tuesday told AFP
in Baghdad that the Iraqi government had agreed to let the United Nations set
up reception centres on its territory to distribute Food and medical aid to
refugees.
Mr Ozal said there was little chance that other countries would take them
in adding that the international community backed Ankara S view that the "only
solution in the long termswas that they go home
In Geneva the U.N High Commissioner for Refugees. Sadako Ogata, said that
about 1 000 refugee babies were dying each day. Mrs Ogata on Tuesday left
Teheran by helicopter to flv over mountainous border regions where some 60.000
people are gathered on eight sites
Her trip took here to the Turkish town of Divarbakin.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE
Tuesday
April 15, 1991
Meeting with Commissioner J. J. Simmons (ICC)
7:30 a.m.
Commissioner Simmons requested a "personal" meeting with the President.
During the meeting Commissioner Simmons asked the President to swear
him in as. Commissioner. The President did SO.
Others items raised by Commissioner Simmons:
1. Interested in hosting a fundraiser for George Bush at the
International Club - 100 people @ $1000 each.
He did this previously for Mr. Bush. (no action at this time)
2.
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3. Letter dated 4/12 from Frank Ahmed, President of the International
Club of Washington. Asking that Mr. Bush serve as the Honorary Chairman.
Mr. Reagan served as Honorary Chairman during his tenure as President
according to Ahmed. (referred to Phil Brady for action and follow-up)
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Private Meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
DATE: April 16, 1991
TIME: 6:00 p.m.
LOCATION:
The Residence
PP
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
COMMUNICATIONS
FROM:
SICHAN SIV whose
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR PUBLIC LIAISON
I.
PURPOSE:
For the President to meet with the Dalai Lama to discuss a
variety of topics pertaining to Tibet.
II.
BACKGROUND:
The Dalai Lama, who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Peace
Prize, has been on a lecture tour of the United States.
In the evening of April 16th, he is to deliver the
invocation at the National Endowment for Democracy Award
Ceremony attended by Vice-President Quayle. He is also
scheduled to meet with Congressional leaders later this
week.
The Dalai Lama has been a staunch supporter of a peaceful,
nonviolent approach to achieving independent national
status for Tibet. He continues to lobby with world
governments to support Tibet's drive for independence.
At the present time the United States has no intention of
changing its policy recognizing Tibet as part of China.
However, the United States is providing $500,000 in aid to
help resettle Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal.
In addition, Voice of America started broadcasting to
Tibet in late March, 1991. There has been no reaction
from the People's Republic of China and there is no
indication as to whether the broadcast has been jammed.
When the Dalai Lama refers to Tibet, he includes Quinghai
and Gansu provinces and parts of Sichuan and Xinjiang
provinces. This is one of his major stumbling blocks in
his talks with Beijing.
III. PARTICIPANTS:
The President
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
S. than Siv, Deputy Assistant to the President,
Office of Public Liaison
IV.
PRESS PLAN:
White House photographer only.
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:
-- The President greets the Dalai Lama.
-- The President participates in a brief discussion with
the Dalai Lama.
-- The President bids farewell to the Dalai Lama.
VI.
REMARKS:
Talking points provided by the National Security Council.
A Private Meeting with His Holiness the Dali Lama
DATE: April 16, 1991
TIME: 6:00 p.m.
LOCATION: The Residence
-- Congratulations on your receipt of the Nobel Prize.
-- I very much appreciate the peaceful, nonviolent
approach you have consistently advocated.
-- I remain deeply concerned about reports of human rights
violations in Tibet.
-- We will continue to press the Chinese for greater
openness and will do what we can to urge the Chinese
authorities to end any abuses.
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-- Like you, we believe strongly that the way to resolve
the human rights abuses and the issue between you and
negotiations. the Chinese over the status of Tibet is through
-- We urge you to continue with your efforts to resume
approach to them.
these discussions and to maintain a flexible, pragmatic
-- You know we have no intention of changing our policy
recognizing Tibet as a part of China.
-- We hope that you will do whatever you can to prevent
between 1987 and 1989.
a return to the cycle of violence that plagued Tibet
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PARTICIPANTS
The President
John H. Sununu, Chief of Staff
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs
Robert Gates, Assistant to the President and Deputy for National
Security Affairs
Virginia Lampley, Senior Director for Legislative Affairs, NSC
Staff
Ed A. Hewett, Senior Director for Soviet Affairs, NSC Staff
(Notetaker)
David L. Boren, Democratic Senator from Oklahoma
FOR:
PRESIDENT BUSH
FROM:
SENATOR DAVID L. BOREN
BOREN TRIP REPORT
1.
The Moscow Embassy needs quick resolution.
2.
We must consolidate our gains in Eastern Europe.
Developments in the Soviet Union cannot be allowed to
lead to a reversal of democracy. The United States
should strengthen East European security in ways that do
not threaten the Soviets, e.g., training military
officers and formal contacts between national security
officials.
3.
The United States should develop more ties with the
republics -- without abandoning Gorbachev.
4.
The United States should open channels of communication
with opposition leaders, including but not limited to
Boris Yeltsin.
4/16
Presidential Call to Pres. Mitterrand
--I am calling to discuss the plight of the Iraqi refugees,
especially the Kurds in southern Turkey and northern Iraq.
--I feel a real sense of urgency. The most recent reports we are
receiving are extremely distressing. Despite all our best
efforts, the fact is that we are not getting enough food and
medicine to those who need it. Hundreds are dying daily.
--President Ozal phoned me yesterday. To be frank, he is
extremely anxious. He will take in 40-50,000 refugees, but there
are hundreds of thousands more in the mountain areas he cannot
take and who will not be able to survive there indefinitely.
-- His view, one that our military and the relief organizations
fully subscribe to, is that we must get these people off the
mountains and into lowlands where we can deliver and distribute
food, medicine and shelter on the necessary large scale.
--Obviously, there is the related problem of security. Although
I doubt Saddam would interfere, and we will warn him not to, we
will only convince these people to move if they are confident
they will be safe.
-What I have in mind is something ambitious that builds upon
your own thinking on "way stations." The long-term goal is to
get all the Kurds to return home, safely. But there is the
immediate need to encourage the refugees to return to the lowland
areas in northern Iraq, just inside the border. Our own military
is best suited to build these temporary encampments in a hurry.
We will work with the Turks, your people and others in creating
the supply train.
--As for security, U.S. air forces operating out of southern
Turkey could provide cover. But I think we would also need a
ground presence, primarily to reassure the Kurds that they can
move into Iraq without fear. No amount of Iraqi promises will
do. Our idea is that the UK and France and subsequently others
would supply troops for this purpose. [if necessary: We'd be
prepared to join with you in this.]
--It will be essential to get the UN involved in running these
camps. I am confident that all this is consistent with UNSC
Resolution 688. We informally sounded out Perez de Cuellar, who
seemed positive. I will phone him later today to see if I can
get him to push his bureaucracy to get more active inside Iraq.
--I also expect to get back to Ozal and then announce something
today. Can you agree with all this?
4/16
Presidential Call to PM Major
--I am calling to discuss the plight of the Iraqi refugees,
especially the Kurds in southern Turkey and northern Iraq.
--I feel a real sense of urgency. The most recent reports we are
receiving are extremely distressing. Despite all our best
efforts, the fact is that we are not getting enough food and
medicine to those who need it. Hundreds are dying daily.
--President Ozal phoned me yesterday. To be frank, he is
extremely anxious. He will take in 40-50,000 refugees, but there
are hundreds of thousands more in the mountain areas he cannot
take and who will not be able to survive there indefinitely.
-- His view, one that our military and the relief organizations
fully subscribe to, is that we must get these people off the
mountains and into lowlands where we can deliver and distribute
food, medicine and shelter on the necessary large scale.
--Obviously, there is the related problem of security. Although
I doubt Saddam would interfere, and we will warn him not to, we
will only convince these people to move if they are confident
they will be safe.
--What I have in mind is something ambitious that builds upon
your own thinking on safe-havens. The long-term goal is to get
all the Kurds to return home, safely. But there is the immediate
need to encourage the refugees to return to the lowland areas in
northern Iraq, just inside the border. Our own military is best
suited to build these temporary encampments in a hurry. We will
work with the Turks, your people and others in creating the
supply train.
--As for security, U.S. air forces operating out of southern
Turkey could provide cover. But I think we would also need a
ground presence, primarily to reassure the Kurds that they can
move into Iraq without fear. No amount of Iraqi promises will
do. Our idea is that the UK and France and subsequently others
would supply troops for this purpose. [if necessary: We'd be
prepared to join with you in this.]
--It will be essential to get the UN involved in running these
camps. I am confident that all this is consistent with UNSC
Resolution 688. We informally sounded out Perez de Cuellar, who
seemed positive. I will phone him later today to see if I can
get him to push his bureaucracy to get more active inside Iraq.
--I plan to get in touch with Mitterrand, Perez de Cuellar and
Ozal and then announce something today. Can you agree with all
this?
gam
CARD 1 OF 3
POINTS TO BE MADE FOR MEETING WITH
SENATE RANKING REPUBLICANS
FAST TRACK AUTHORITY
--
I AM TOTALLY COMMITTED TO THIS AND WILL WORK
TIRELESSLY TO GET IT APPROVED. I NEED YOUR
SUPPORT. IT IS VITAL FOR MY ABILITY TO
CONDUCT TRADE NEGOTIATIONS, FOR THE STRENGTH
OF THE U.S. ECONOMY AND FOR GLOBAL PROSPERITY.
--
OUR KEY ALLIES, OUR FRIENDS AND OUR NEIGHBORS
ARE ALL LOOKING CLOSELY TO SEE WHAT CONGRESS
WILL DO. I HAVE TOLD ALL THE LEADERS I HAVE
MET WITH RECENTLY -- SALINAS, KAIFU, MULRONEY,
MAJOR, MITTERRAND AND DELORS THAT WE ARE GOING
TO WIN THIS FIGHT. AND WE WILL WITH YOUR
SUPPORT.
:
BUT THIS IS NOT -- AND SHOULD NOT BECOME -- A
PARTISAN ISSUE. WE MUST BRING AS MANY MEMBERS
CARD 2 OF 3
AS POSSIBLE ON BOARD.
--
EXTENSION OF FAST TRACK WILL ALLOW US TO
CONCLUDE THE URUGUAY ROUND, TO NEGOTIATE A
NORTH AMERICAN FTA AND IMPLEMENT THE
ENTERPRISE FOR THE AMERICAS INITIATIVE. ALL
THREE ARE VITAL TO AMERICA'S TRADE AND FOREIGN
POLICY INTERESTS.
:
WITHOUT FAST TRACK, WE WILL LOSE SIGNIFICANT
TRADE OPPORTUNITIES AND JOBS, THUS
JEOPARDIZING ECONOMIC GROWTH.
GULF/MIDDLE EAST
:
WE ACHIEVED OUR PURPOSE, WHICH WAS TO REVERSE
IRAQI AGGRESSION. WE ALSO HAVE IN PLACE THE
MEANS TO PREVENT A RENEWED IRAQI THREAT. AND
WE HAVE MADE IT CLEAR THAT IRAQ WILL RECEIVE
FAR BETTER TREATMENT IF IT IS LED BY SOMEONE
PREPARED TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH THEIR OWN
PEOPLE AND WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS.
:
OUR POLICY IS CLEAR: U.S. TROOPS ARE COMING
CARD 3 OF 3
HOME. WE WILL NOT GET INVOLVED IN IRAQ'S
CIVIL WAR. IT IS NOT SIMPLY THAT WE WANT TO
SEE IRAQ INTACT; WE ALSO REALIZE THAT IT IS
FAR EASIER TO BEGIN SUCH INVOLVEMENT THAN IT
IS TO LIMIT OR END IT.
WE ARE DOING ALL THAT WE CAN TO RELIEVE THE
HUMAN SUFFERING. WE WANT TO PROVIDE TEMPORARY
FOOD AND SHELTER AND PROTECTION AND GET THESE
PEOPLE BACK HOME, SAFELY AND PERMANENTLY. WE
WILL NOT TOLERATE ANY INTERFERENCE IN RELIEF
EFFORTS.
ON THE MIDDLE EAST, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT
JIM BAKER IS LEAVING TONIGHT FOR HIS THIRD
TRIP IN ABOUT AS MANY WEEKS. OUR GOAL IS TO
CONVENE A REGIONAL MEETING THAT WOULD
FACILITATE DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS AMONG ISRAEL,
THE ARAB STATES, AND PALESTINIANS. WE ARE
MAKING SOME PROGRESS, BUT IT SHOULD SURPRISE
NO ONE THAT THE DIFFERENCES AND PROBLEMS ARE
GREAT.
Attachment A
PARTICIPANTS LIST
The President
The Vice President
John Robson, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Richard Darman, Director, Office of Management and Budget
Michael Boskin, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
Congressional Participation - Senate
Senator Bob Kasten (WI)
Senator Trent Lott (MS)
Senator Connie Mack (FL)
Senator Malcolm Wallop (WY)
Congressional Participation - House
Congressman Vin Weber (MN) , Secretary, Republican Conference
Congressman Dick Armey (TX)
Congressman Tom DeLay (TX)
White House Staff
John Sununu, Chief of Staff
Fred McClure, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
White House News Summary
Tuesday, April 16, 1991 -- 1
10:30 A.M. NEWS UPDATE
JEWISH SETTLEMENT/BAKER (Revava/Reuter) -- Israelis erected a new
Jewish settlement in the West Bank Tuesday in a move certain to
anger Washington ahead of Secretary Baker's latest Middle East
peace mission. The Gush Emunim settlement movement sent 14 mobile
homes to Revava, about 15 miles northwest of Jerusalem, Monday
night after police and soldiers declared the area a military zone
and force leftist protesters to leave. Settler Uri Ariel denied
the settlement was done to preempt Baker. "He (Baker) does not
coordinate with us and we do not coordinate with him," Ariel said
on Israel Radio.
(Revava/AP) -- Five Israeli families set up a new Jewish
settlement on this boulder-strewn hilltop, dramatizing their
opposition to U.S. calls for a halt in new Israeli enclaves in the
occupied territories. Settlement leaders said the move was timed
in advance of Secretary Baker's arrival Thursday. Left-wing
parties filed no-confidence motions in parliament, alleging the
settlement would sabotage peace efforts. Yossi Sarid of the
Citizens' Rights movement said it was "like putting a bomb in the
American secretary of state's plane, Israel Radio said. Criticism
also came from within Prime Minister Shamir's Likud bloc. Health
Minister Olmert took issue with the clandestine manner in which the
settlement was built. "There is something about the way they have
moved out there that raises questions
If we want to differ
with said American policy we shouldn't play hide-and-seek, Olmert
Settlement leader Daniella Weiss said: "We hurried the
decision (to build) because of Baker's visits to the Middle East.' "
BAKER/SYRIA (Damascus/Reuter) -- Syria welcomed a new mission to
the Middle East by Secretary Baker. "No doubt the American effort
wins the appreciation of Arabs and the world, especially after it
was announced in Washington that Baker would make a new trip to the
region in the next two days to push peace efforts," the government
newspaper Tishreen said.
SADDAM TRIAL/CHENEY (Reuter) -- Secretary Cheney welcomed an EC
decision to press for a war crimes trial for Saddam Hussein but
said the U.S. would not send troops to arrest him. "Somebody's
going to have to go to Baghdad and arrest the gentlemen,' " Cheney
said in an interview with NPR. "If they want to do that they
certainly can have at it.
"If somebody else wants to go to
Baghdad and arrest Saddam Hussein and try him, that's fine. I have
absolutely no objections whatsoever. But that's not our agenda.'
KURDS/GERMAN AID (Bonn/UPI) -- An advance team left for Iran to
start a massive German operation to aid Kurdish refugees and the
government announced it was nearly tripling funding for relief
efforts in Turkey and Iran. Government spokesman Vogel said
Chancellor Kohl and his coalition partners agreed to increase aid
to $165 million from about $58 million.
KURDS/AID (Ankara/Reuter) -- U.S. helicopters have helped to double
the amount of aid flown to half a million Iraqi refugees on the
Turkish frontier in one of the biggest relief efforts in modern
military history, a U.S. spokesman said. "The operation is now
expanding a great deal. We are just putting out as much stuff as
we can," said Lt. Col. Crowley at the Incirlik base.
KURDISH HAVEN/CHINA (Beijing/Reuter) -- China said it opposed the
U.N. setting up a safety zone to protect Kurdish refugees in Iraq
because it would violate Iraqi sovereignty.
MFN/CHINA (Hong Kong/Reuter) -- China's de facto embassy in Hong
Kong has warned Washington that suspending China's MFN trade status
[due for renewal in June] would hurt both countries, the Beijing-
funded newspaper Ta Kung Pao said.
RELATIONS WITH U.S./VIETNAM (Bangkok/UPI) -- Vietnam wants to
normalize relations with the U.S. as a step toward resolving the
Cambodian conflict rather than making such a settlement a condition
for normalization, a Vietnamese spokeswoman said. Responding to
a U.S. plan for normalization presented by the U.S. in talks with
Vietnamese officials in New York last week, Ho The Lan said
immediate normalization without conditions would be best for both
countries.
READ-ALOUD DAY (UPI) -- President Bush gave a preview of "the Great
Read Aloud Day" by reading fairy tales and poems to first and
second graders in the White House, apparently impressing one youth
that reading was more important than affairs of state. With the
youngsters sitting either beside him or on the floor in front of
him, Bush read to the children and asked volunteers to read to him
as their proud teachers nodded approval on the sidelines. Bush
turned to one book and noted that some of the stories were long and
said, "I don't know if we've got time for this. I've got a lot of
important things." Obviously not impressed with the presidential
agenda, one little boy piped up: "Who cares?"
HOUSING STARTS (Reuter) -- Construction of homes and apartment
buildings fell 9.3% in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate
of 901,000 units a year, the Commerce Department said.
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION (UPI) -- Industrial production fell 0.3% in
March for the sixth consecutive monthly decline, bringing total
factory output to its lowest level in almost three years, the Fed
reported.
U.N. MEMBERSHIP/RUSSIA (Strasbourg/Reuter) -- The Russian
Federation is to seek membership of the U.N. and other
international bodies, Boris Yeltsin said. Yeltsin said it was
illogical that the Soviet republics of Ukraine and Byelorussia were
U.N. members while Russia, the largest republic, was not.
GORBACHEV/KAIFU (Tokyo/Reuter) -- President Gorbachev and Prime
Minister Kaifu agreed to tackle their long-standing territorial
dispute and close what Gorbachev called one of the last fronts in
the Cold War. In an emotive appeal, Gorbachev told Kaifu they must
not miss an opportunity to raise ties between the world's second
and third biggest economic powers to a new level, spokesmen for
both sides said.
SOVIET GEORGIA (Moscow/AP) -- Georgia's new president issued a
sweeping decree instructing the southern republic's government
agencies to use strikes and civil disobedience to support its
declaration of independence from Moscow. Zviad Gamsakhurdia,
flexing his strong new presidential powers for the first time, also
ordered the creation of a government-controlled news service to
distribute information about Georgia outside its borders.
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, April 16, 1991
5:30 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
KURDISH AID/PRESIDENT (CNN) -- The President will unveil new plans
for aid to the Kurdish refugees. We understand the U.S. and France
have agreed on an initiative to meet the urgent needs of the
Kurdish refugees, a plan that also has been signed onto by Britain
and other European Community nations.
KURDISH HAVEN/MAJOR (London/Reuter) -- Britain sought to galvanize
world action to protect freezing, starving Kurdish refugees, with
direct appeals to President Bush and Secretary General Perez de
Cuellar. Government officials said Prime Minister Major stressed
the urgency of implementing his safe haven plan for the refugees
in separate telephone conversations with the two leaders, each
lasting 20 minutes. The officials said the U.S. appeared to be
warming to Britain's idea of setting up protected zones within
Iraq. "It appears the U.S. is more positive," one official said.
KURDISH RELIEF/GOP SENATORS (UPI) -- The massive relief effort in
southern Turkey and northern Iraq was bolstered with the creation
of two staging bases and officials said U.S. troops may make brief
forays into Iraq on relief missions. Pentagon spokesman Hall said
forward bases have been established at nearby towns, much closer
to the refugees on the border and in Iraq than Incirlik, where
relief flights had originated. President Bush, meanwhile, told GOP
senators he had been on the telephone to foreign leaders, including
those of Britain, France and Turkey, to discuss what was
characterized as a "new approach" to the crisis. Sen. Hatch said
Bush claimed to be "making great headway" in discussions of a joint
effort to transport refugees from hard-to-reach mountain positions
to areas where they can be more easily cared for and sheltered.
"Clearly there is something afoot in that regard," said Sen.
Murkowski.
BAKER TRIP (AP) -- Secretary Baker, looking for a formula for
Mideast peace talks, is turning to Jordan for support as U.S.
policy shifts from irritation with the Arab kingdom to giving it
a major role in Mideast diplomacy. At the same time, U.S.
irritation with Israel over plans to expand Jewish settlements on
the West Bank appeared to be rising. "I will make my views with
respect to settlements known, as indeed I already have, with the
Israeli leadership directly, " Baker said before leaving Washington.
(Reuter) -- Secretary Baker expressed optimism that Israel and
its Arab adversaries were "ready to move forward" toward peace
despite new signs of Israeli defiance to his Mideast diplomacy.
Baker declined to publicly criticize the Israeli government for the
new West Bank settlement. "What makes me feel that the Israelis
are ready to move forward are an excess of five plus hours of
meetings
with [Israeli leaders]
That's what gives me the
hope that perhaps Israel is ready to move forward
I've also
had extensive meetings with Arab leaders and I got the same sense
from them," he told reporters.
MEDIA LAWSUIT/PENTAGON (New York/AP) -- A federal judge dismissed
a lawsuit by news organizations that challenged the
constitutionality of Pentagon rules governing media access to
combat. District Judge Sand said the media had the right to sue
the government, but he ruled he did not have enough information to
decide the case now that the Gulf War was over. "Prudence dictates
that a final determination of the important constitutional issues
at stake be left for another day when the controversy is more
sharply focused,' Sand said in a decision granting the Pentagon's
request to dismiss the case.
FREED JOURNALISTS/IRAQ (Baghdad/Reuter) --- An American journalist
and a French photographer who entered Iraq with Kurdish rebels have
been released from a Baghdad prison after 18 days in detention.
PATRIOT, SDI (Reuter) -- Congressmen got conflicting advice on
whether Patriot missiles' success in defending cities in the Gulf
War means the U.S. should seek early deployment of a Star- Wars
defense for U.S. cities. Three defense policy experts [Richard
Perle, former arms negotiator Albert Carnesale & physicist Theodore
Postol] agreed at a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing that
it means even better Patriot missiles should be built but disagreed
whether a Star Wars defense could be deployed any time soon.
MEXICO FREE TRADE/AFL-CIO (UPI) -- The AFL-CIO told a House panel
big business would "hit the jackpot" while U.S. workers would get
the booby prize of thousands of lost jobs under President Bush's
proposed free trade agreement with Mexico. "A free trade agreement
between two such disparate economies is unsound in theory and
disastrous in practice," AFL-CIO spokesman Cunningham told a
hearing of the House Banking subcommittee on trade. But Assistant
U.S. Trade Rep. Roh said the argument of lost American jobs made
by Cunningham and other opponents was one of the several "myths"
about the trade agreement. "Our first priority is a negotiated
agreement that advances American interests,' Roh said. He said
recent economic analyses of the proposed free trade agreement "show
that there will be no net job losses in the United States."
HEALTH COSTS/DARMAN (UPI) -- Budget Director Darman said "something
is going to have to give" to have an affordable federal health care
spending program but the administration is not ready to present
its reform plan. At a Senate Finance Committee hearing on health
care costs, Darman said there are problems with nearly all of the
health care reform proposals offered by lawmakers, think tanks and
unions. "We do intend to have a comprehensive proposal, " Darman
said. "But I do think the do-no-harm principle should apply when
it comes to comprehensive reform. You're going to have a fairly
substantial shake-up of the system. I do believe we all have some
obligation to have a high degree of confidence that, based on what
we know, it will work. We're not there yet.
CHILDREN/KENNEDY (Scripps Howard) -- Sen. Kennedy urged a new
federal commitment to address the plight of America's children.
Kennedy said the problems of infant mortality, child poverty and
inadequate education require the federal government to launch what
he called "Social Security for Children." "Too often, the present
administration seems preoccupied with international relations, and
to have a domestic policy attuned solely to the needs of business.
But hungry American children cannot eat foreign policy. And sick
American infants cannot be healed by capital gains tax cuts for the
wealthy."
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CONFIDENTIAL
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CONFIDENTIAL
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MEETING WITH JIRI DIENSTBIER,
FOREIGN MINISTER OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
DATE: April 16, 1991
LOCATION: General Scowcroft's Office
TIME: 2:15 p.m.
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT B
I. PURPOSE
To accommodate President Havel's request by dropping by
briefly during my meeting with Dienstbier.
II. BACKGROUND
During your April 12 telephone conversation, Havel asked
that you agree to meet with Dienstbier, who is here to
accept on Havel's behalf a Democracy Award which the
National Endowment For Democracy will bestow on Havel and
Violetta Chamorro at an April 16 ceremony.
You can also be responsive to two other requests Havel made.
First, in addition to your reference to Czechoslovakia's
defense conversion problems in your Air University speech,
we arranged for Dienstbier to meet with Deputy Secretary
Atwood on April 15 for a preliminary review of the issues.
John Petty, the new Chairman of the Czechoslovak Enterprise
Fund, has also prevailed upon former John Deere CEO Bob
Hansen to lead a fact-finding mission to Czechoslovakia.
The Trade and Development Program (TDP) and OPIC also have
programs that might prove useful, as do the World Bank
(which is already active in Poland) and the EBRD. But Havel
and Dienstbier have to understand that there are no easy
answers to the problems they face.
Second, you can tell Dienstbier that we want to begin a more
intense dialogue about the future of Radio Free Europe. At
the end of April, the State Department will be sending a
team to Czechoslovakia as well as to Poland and Hungary.
Dienstbier may also raise with you the possibility of a
Havel visit in the fall. We and State think this a good
idea, but we have not formally reviewed official visits for
the second half of 1991.
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III. PARTICIPANTS
The President
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
Robert M. Gates, Assistant to the President
and Deputy for National Security Affairs
Robert L. Hutchings, Director for European Political Affairs
Jiri Dienstbier, Foreign Minister
Rita Klimova, Ambassador to the U.S.
IV.
PRESS PLAN
None.
V. SEQUENCE
Drop-by General Scowcroft's office for brief meeting
Attachment
Tab A
Points to be Made
Tab B
Biography
CONF IDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL CONI IDENTIAL
CONF IDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL CONT IDENTIAL
POINTS TO BE MADE FOR MEETING WITH
FOREIGN MINISTER DIENSTBIER
-- Let me express my appreciation for Czechoslovakia's strong
support for the international coalition in the Gulf. You
were resolute from the beginning, and the first of the
former Warsaw Pact countries to commit forces to the
coalition.
-- President Havel explained the enormous difficulties you face
with your defense industries. He asked me to refer to them
publicly, which I did in my speech on Saturday.
-- I am glad that we were able to arrange your meeting with
Deputy Secretary Atwood at the Pentagon.
-- These are very difficult problems, with no easy answers. In
many cases, the answer may not be conversion but rather
starting over -- by attracting new investment into the
regions affected and making use of the same skilled workers.
-- We will do all we can to help. The Czechoslovak-American
Enterprise Fund is arranging to send a fact-finding mission,
which could be followed by OPIC and other investment teams.
The World Bank and EBRD also have programs on which you
could draw.
-- President Havel also spoke about his interest in seeing
Radio Free Europe continue. I know you also wrote to
Secretary Baker about this.
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--
We have made no decisions about closing down the Radios,
though we have assumed that they will eventually close down
as the new democracies develop their own independent media.
--
Before the end of the month, the State Department will be
sending a team to Czechoslovakia, as well as to Poland and
Hungary, to consult with you on the future of the Radios.
These Radios have always served your needs, so we take your
views very seriously.
--
( (HAVEL VISIT -- IF RAISED) ) My schedule for the rest of
the year has not been set yet, but I would very much like to
have the opportunity to return President Havel's generous
hospitality. I was very moved by my visit to Prague in
November.
CONFIDENTIAL
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Tabard Irr
1739 N Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Telephone 785-1277
April 18
Dear Mr President,
obviously there were many
considerations in play. but from my
little corner, I was completely
undone by your act of generosity,
courage and kindness For me
was all very connected with
Dad it d he loved you t I miss him.
Now wherever the Dalai Lama
goes, he mentions your heart. warm
feelings and good
Islit he special?
Thank you both from even the botton
more my devoted cousin XXX S/S-
of heart N from your
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FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
The Honorable Craig Fuller
President and Chief Operating Officer
Hill and Knowlton
Washington Harbour
bcc: Bridget Montagne
901 31st Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20007-3838
entire package
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THE PRESIDENT
4-16-91
Craig -
You got nice friends
Tharles for my ATNT
- Vrsa cards- Let's 90
spend save major GB, bucks
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Thanks!!
Thanks!!
Michael
Michael
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Paul G. Kahn
President and Chief Executive Officer
AT&T Universal Card Services Corp.
8775 Baypine Road
Jacksonville, FL 32256
THE PRESIDENT
April 16, 1991
Dear Paul:
Many thanks for sending along the new AT&T Universal
cards. Barbara and I both appreciate your thoughtfulness.
I suspect that during our upcoming travels we just might
have an occasion to give them a try.
With warmest best wishes,
Sincerely,
Bal
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FROM
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WASHINGTON, D.C.
Mr. Peter Gallagher
Senior Vice President
AT&T Univeral Card Services Corp.
8775 Baypine Road
Jacksonville, FL 32256
THE PRESIDENT
April 16, 1991
Dear Peter:
Craig Fuller passed along the new AT&T Universal cards
and I wanted to thank you. Both Barbara and I appreciate
your thoughtfulness to the Bush family.
With warmest best wishes to you and Linda.
Sincerely,
GBul
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Washington. D.C. 20007-3838
202-333-7400
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Craig L. Fuller
President and
Chief Operating Officer
Mr. President- -
A friend (not a client)
wanted to malee sure you
One Act place! spend Best all regerds in
got your senewal it cards.
Hill and Knowiton
Public Affairs Worldwide Co
Washington Harbour
901 31st Street. N.W.
Washington. D.C. 20007-3838
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3/29
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Craig L. Fuller
President and
Chief Operating Officer
Path -
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one
go who to is Peter, the Chairma too. of Med Lantic
Health which hired Daro.
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AT&T
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Dear AT&T Universal Card Charter Member:
Thank you for choosing the gold AT&T Universal Card and becoming a Charter Member.
Your new card is enclosed-free of membership fees, of course.
To keep your free lifetime membership, all you have to do is use your card as you
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Make purchases around the world, wherever MasterCard and
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AT&T Universal Card Services Corp.
Enclosure
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© AT&T 1990
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dear Jay:
Thank you for your terrific letter. I was moved
by your kind words of support for our efforts to
liberate Kuwait.
Like you, I believe that most Americans realize
that we had to stop Saddam Hussein's ruthless
aggression, and they understand that we had to
stand up for fundamental principles of justice
and for the international rule of law. The renewed
sense of pride and of confidence that has spread
across our country in the wake of Operation Desert
Storm reaffirms my belief that our citizens want
America to continue to shoulder the responsibility
of serving as a catalyst for peace and stability.
By so doing, we can, as you said, give future
generations greater hope for a world of enduring
peace.
Best wishes.
Sincerely,
CoBl
Mr. Jay Mathews
The Washington Post
Suite 378
10100 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90067
225866
The Mashington Post
10100 SANTA MONICA BLVD., SUITE 378
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90067
(213) 277-4819
March 25, 1991
Dear Mr. President,
At interest in China and you always - not and having called bad
first I thought I liked you only because we
shared an before or since- recogns id Hers me Kor and
any me by cantact my first with have me in press conterences in
Beijing. Later, basic assumptions about That sottened
as were maswrittenabout you, triendship I realized and we
shared family some and how The would works. me up
50ml But I real cove of my admination considerable political you.
more. will never forget, as long as I live, for what
has how became the of Kuwnit, you took to stand
After and personal the invasion risk, that to yourself is absolutely and your tundanental family, had to to a peaceful duck,
world. I lost and Leave this problem for some Mr. President president.
by a principle count of the opportunities you future
honorably, for your clarity and your courage, and my
Thank occasional you spoilspant columns I see much in I my think paper we are
wite's Amid the I wanted you to know how safer world.
lately, dobt for leaving our children a Sincerely,
In. Wither
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 16, 1991
Dear Betty:
Thank you for your letter and for the enclosures.
I appreciate the sentiment that prompted Peace
Links members to write.
Of course, I'm very pleased that the war in the
Persian Gulf ended as quickly as it did and that
there were far fewer casualties than had been
widely predicted. I'm proud of our troops, our
coalition partners, and our whole team.
Saddam's brutality regrettably continues; once
again, he is killing his own people. We will lead
a gigantic refugee relief program, and we will
insist that the relief items get to the refugees.
Thank you for writing. My best to Dale.
Sincerely,
GBl
Mrs. Betty Bumpers
Peace Links
747 Eighth Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
(ND)
approx 350 copies
filed in mailroom-
223481
sampu attached
747 8th Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
(202) 544-0805
PEACE LINKS
Women Against
Betty Bumpers
Nuclear War
Founder and President
year
March 19, 1991
Dear President Bush,
With this letter I am passing on to you messages
from American voters. Thousands of these messages were
delivered to the White House before January 15th. Peace
Links people were hoping that by allowing economic
sanctions a longer time to work, war in the Middle East
could be averted. Although this did not happen, we are
thankful the war was of short duration.
While we are grateful that American combat deaths
were limited to 115, we grieve for those who loss their
lives. We also grieve for the thousands of Kuwaitis who
died because of Iraqi acts and the 80,000 to 100, 000
Iraqis who died because of the bombing and shelling by the
coalition forces.
Peace Links advocates solving conflict by other
means than force. We hope that someday this will be a
universal way of acheiving and maintaining peace.
Sincerely,
Self Cample
Betty Bumpers
President and Founder
White House News Summary
Tuesday, April 16, 1991
1:30 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
N. IRAQ/U.S. TROOPS (Reuter) -- The U.S. is preparing to send a
small number of Army troops into northern Iraq to help distribute
aid to thousands of Kurdish refugees there, anonymous defense
officials said. The officials stressed that the move along the
Turkey-Iraq border would only be for humanitarian assistance.
SADDAM TRIAL/U.N. (Strasbourg/Reuter) -- Secretary General Perez
de Cuellar expressed caution over a call from EC states to put
Saddam Hussein on trial for war crimes. "It is an initiative which
I respect but which deserves much study and reflection because I
would like nothing to be done which could prejudice the
humanitarian action to which we, the United Nations, are totally
committed."
SOVIETS/ISRAEL (UPI) -- Israel and the Soviet Union held a top-
level meeting in London on Israel's proposal for a post-war
conference jointly sponsored by Washington and Moscow. But Prime
Minister Shamir stipulated that "it is absolutely necessary" for
Moscow to renew ties with Israel, which it severed after the 1967
Six-Day War, if it was to serve as co-chair of the conference with
the U.S. And Shamir rejected any linkage between the conference
and new Jewish settlements on the West Bank.
ARMS/SAUDIS (Cairo/UPI) -- Saudi King Fahd said his country has
decided to strengthen its armed forces in the aftermath of the Gulf
War and to supply its troops with the latest weaponry, it was
reported in the leading Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat.
PRYOR (Reuter) -- Sen. Pryor suffered a heart attack early Tuesday
and was resting in fair condition at George Washington University
Hospital, his office announced. Pryor, 56, was "doing very well,"
doctors said in a statement released by Pryor's office.
RAIL STRIKE/SKINNER (AP) -- Freight railroads and their unions said
they were deadlocked after an all-night bargaining session and
Secretary Skinner said he considers a nationwide rail strike likely
at midnight. "There's every indication" Congress will have to step
in, Skinner told reporters while attending a business event. He
said he hoped Congress could act as early as Wednesday. Congress
has the authority to step in and stop a transportation strike, but
Speaker Foley said that Congress would not interfere until all
avenues of bargaining have been exhausted and a strike is under
way.
CHAMORRO (AP) -- President Chamorro told a joint meeting of
Congress her country will need 10 years of U.S. financial support
to recover from the war and economic mismanagement of the past
decade. She said Nicaragua also requires foreign investment credit
and international cooperation "to let us rise from the ashes left
for us by past dictatorships." Chamorro spoke of the gains she has
made during her first year. She noted that 20,000 Contra rebels
have agreed to disarm and that "the huge army" amassed under the
Sandinistas has been reduced by two-thirds.
-
U.S. BASES/PHILIPPINES (Manila/UPI) -- Philippine Sen. Enrile
called for the removal of key U.S. military bases in the
Philippines and said he disagreed with Singapore Prime Minister
Goh's view that the withdrawal would create a power vacuum in the
region. "I ask the Americans: Who is the enemy under which we
need this security umbrella?" said Enrile, who is aspiring to
become the opposition candidate in the 1992 presidential election.
"Who is going to destabilize the region? I don't think there is
any country today that can destabilize the area," he said.
SOVIET STRIKES (Moscow/Reuter) -- The Soviet parliament gave
initial approval to a bill banning political strikes but it seemed
unlikely to halt spreading labor unrest. Anatoly Denisov, head of
a parliamentary commission, said a closed parliamentary session
approved the strike bill.
YUGOSLAV STRIKES (Belgrade/UPI) -- About 700,000 workers of state-
run metal, textile and footwear industries in the communist-ruled
Republic of Serbia walked off the job in the largest strike ever
organized in Yugoslavia.
WINNIE MANDELA TRIAL (Johannesburg/UPI) -- Winnie Mandela, on the
strand for the first time in her assault and kidnap trial,
testified that she was out of town when the crimes allegedly took
place and was "outraged" when she was accused of complicity by
black anti-apartheid activists. Her testimony contradicted that
of two alleged victims, who said she threatened, punched and
whipped them and two other young black men at her home the evening
of Dec. 29, 1988.
###
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Pacty
Peggy,
Jamie Bush called and gave the
following info:
They (Jamie, Sue, Sarah, Sam) are
driving down and will arrive
approximately 2:00 pm on Monday, 4-
15. ETD is Wednesday, 4-17 around
11:00 am.
Sally
-
THE PRESIDENT
4/16/91
Bruce- -
Hope John is
doing OK.
Thank for the
"heads up "- - All Cy But
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
The Honorable Bruce S. Gelb
Ambassador to Belgium
American Embassy
APO New York 09667-1000
LEnclosure: Presidential letter to John Hilson
bcc: Bridget Montagne
THE PRESIDENT
April 16, 1991
Dear John
Your pal - minn Bruce
Gelb this finds you feeling
told me you're been ill.
I hope lot better Maybe it'll help
a a tiny bit to know that
Barbara n I are
thirty of you with
all our family love -
Cy Burl
Bridget Montagne
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FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Leo Cherne
Mr. John Whitehead
386 Park Avenue South
International Rescue Committee, Inc.
New York, New York 10016
4-16-91
THE PRESIDENT
Dear Leo - John,
Yes, what saddam
has done to his own people is one of
the great tragedies of modern trins
I are very pleased that the IRC
IS over again out front in
helping alleriate the human suffing.
(plural)
Knowing of your own
concerns - this is
not surprising.
I hope the ting check
attached will wlp. I wish
it were none.
simuly, by Bl
Bush Presidential Library
(b)(6)
get a check from
Don Rhodes (Don can
sign)
then mail
thanks
1 CC daily
1 CC don
Document Originally
Attached to
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
4-12-91
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FOR THE PRESIDENT
FYI
A copy was also sent to Robert Kimmitt
at the Department of State.
Burton J. Lee, III, M.D.
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Physician to the President
Bush Library Photocopy
George Bush Handwriting
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P.2/2
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IRC
LEO CHERNE
COMMITTEE, INC.
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JOUNDED
1833
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10016
TEL (212) 679-0010
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PRIVIARD M. NAMMER
Chairman Committee Treasurer
No. DONALD M. BLINKEN
Vice President
LIONEL H. OLMER
Vice President
*THOMAS LIRHODES
April 12, 1991
Via President
"MRS. ENVERINCE COPLEY THAW
Visa President
LIV ULLMANN
14 President International
The Hon. George Bush
ELIE WIESEL
President of: the United States
My President tournational
*ANNS WHITHEAD CRAWFORD
The White House
General Countri
Washington, DC
"FETER W. WEISS
Asign Deasurer
CARLES STERNBERG
Dear Mr. President:
Services
120BERT P. DeVECCHI
Executive Director
We know you will be pleased to learn that the
ALTON KASTNER
Deputy Director
International Rescue Committee, in the strongest
R. ROY WILLIAMS
tradition of American voluntary leadership, has
Declay Diverson-Operations
ARBARA NAGORSKI
established an emergency relief program for Kurdish
Deputs Director. Resealement
refugees on the border of Turkey and Iraq.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The IRC is the first American private voluntary
THE OFFICERS AND
ROSE BECKER
agency to have begun the work of helping these
WMICHAEL BLUMENTHAL
ANGIER BIDDLE DUKE
victims of the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein. In
SANDRA FELDMAN
WILLIAM-FITELSON
addition to providing emergency shelter to the most
TOM GERETY
vulnerable, IRC is bringing in medical, public
FIERBERT a GRAETZ
FIORTON 1. HAMBURG
health and sanitation specialists from its world-
MARK O HATFIELD
GEORGE P. HRITZ
wide programs.
TOM KAHN
BANCIS L KELLOGG
IREMA KIRKLAND
This is one of the great human tragedies of modern
HENRY A. KISSINGER
TOM LANTOS
times. Not since Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge have we
RONALD S. LAUDER
JOHN LeBOUTILLIER
witnessed such barbaric acts by a government against
BURTON 1. LEE. M.D
MARGERY LEVENSTEIN
its own people. There is no challenge more daunting
THEODORE LI. M.D
today than saving the lives of these innocent men,
*WINSTON LORD
CECIL 8. LYON
women and children.
JAY MAZUR
ROBIN MEMILLIN
W, ALLEN MOORE
VETER A NATHAN, M.D.
We encourage the administration to enlarge its
CATHERINE ONE)
relief operations now under way, and pledge to
CLAIBORNE PELL
DITH PRAN
continue our voluntary efforts to the utmost.
JOWN RICHARDSON
JOHN P. ROCHE
FELIX ROHATYN
Sincerely,
LIONEL ROSENBLATT
ISADORE M. SCOTT
ALBERT SHANKER
IACOB SHEINKMAN
COLORES C. SMITHIES
Leo therm of L. whitehead
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FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hommell
Worldwide Sportsman, Inc.
Post Office Box 787
Islamorada, FL 33036
THE PRESIDENT
April 16, 1991
Dear George and Doris,
Here are a few souvenirs of a really great time. The
fish weren't biting, but the company was A-1. Thanks
again, my friend.
Barbara joins me in sending warm regards.
Sincerely,
GB/
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FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hommell
Worldwide Sportsman, Inc.
Post Office Box 787
Islamorada, FL 33036
To: Doris Hommell- with all good
wishes and usey happy receives !
Barbara Bue
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hommell
Worldwide Sportsman, Inc.
Post Office Box 787
Islamorada, FL 33036
To George a Doris -
with So May Thanks For Another
Restful Vacation.
ag Bund
THE PRESIDENT
April 16, 1991
Dear Dave,
Brent passed along your good letter of April 8. I
appreciate the updates on your work and hope you'll
stay in touch. Thanks so much.
Warm regards.
Sincerely,
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WASHINGTON. D.C.
The Honorable David M. Abshire
President
Center for Strategic & International
Studies
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, April 16, 1991
1:30 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
N. IRAQ/U.S. TROOPS (Reuter) -- The U.S. is preparing to send a
small number of Army troops into northern Iraq to help distribute
aid to thousands of Kurdish refugees there, anonymous defense
officials said. The officials stressed that the move along the
Turkey-Iraq border would only be for humanitarian assistance.
SADDAM TRIAL/U.N. (Strasbourg/Reuter) -- Secretary General Perez
de Cuellar expressed caution over a call from EC states to put
Saddam Hussein on trial for war crimes. "It is an initiative which
I respect but which deserves much study and reflection because I
would like nothing to be done which could prejudice the
humanitarian action to which we, the United Nations, are totally
committed."
SOVIETS/ISRAEL (UPI) -- Israel and the Soviet Union held a top-
level meeting in London on Israel's proposal for a post-war
conference jointly sponsored by Washington and Moscow. But Prime
Minister Shamir stipulated that "it is absolutely necessary" for
Moscow to renew ties with Israel, which it severed after the 1967
Six-Day War, if it was to serve as co-chair of the conference with
the U.S. And Shamir rejected any linkage between the conference
and new Jewish settlements on the West Bank.
ARMS/SAUDIS (Cairo/UPI) -- Saudi King Fahd said his country has
decided to strengthen its armed forces in the aftermath of the Gulf
War and to supply its troops with the latest weaponry, it was
reported in the leading Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat.
PRYOR (Reuter) -- Sen. Pryor suffered a heart attack early Tuesday
and was resting in fair condition at George Washington University
Hospital, his office announced. Pryor, 56, was "doing very well,"
doctors said in a statement released by Pryor's office.
RAIL STRIKE/SKINNER (AP) -- Freight railroads and their unions said
they were deadlocked after an all-night bargaining session and
Secretary Skinner said he considers a nationwide rail strike likely
at midnight. "There's every indication" Congress will have to step
in, Skinner told reporters while attending a business event. He
said he hoped Congress could act as early as Wednesday. Congress
has the authority to step in and stop a transportation strike, but
Speaker Foley said that Congress would not interfere until all
avenues of bargaining have been exhausted and a strike is under
way.
CHAMORRO (AP) -- President Chamorro told a joint meeting of
Congress her country will need 10 years of U.S. financial support
to recover from the war and economic mismanagement of the past
decade. She said Nicaragua also requires foreign investment credit
and international cooperation "to let us rise from the ashes left
for us by past dictatorships." Chamorro spoke of the gains she has
made during her first year. She noted that 20,000 Contra rebels
have agreed to disarm and that "the huge army" amassed under the
Sandinistas has been reduced by two-thirds.
U.S. BASES/PHILIPPINES (Manila/UPI) -- Philippine Sen. Enrile
called for the removal of key U.S. military bases in the
Philippines and said he disagreed with Singapore Prime Minister
Goh's view that the withdrawal would create a power vacuum in the
region. "I ask the Americans: Who is the enemy under which we
need this security umbrella?" said Enrile, who is aspiring to
become the opposition candidate in the 1992 presidential election.
"Who is going to destabilize the region? I don't think there is
any country today that can destabilize the area," he said.
SOVIET STRIKES (Moscow/Reuter) -- The Soviet parliament gave
initial approval to a bill banning political strikes but it seemed
unlikely to halt spreading labor unrest. Anatoly Denisov, head of
a parliamentary commission, said a closed parliamentary session
approved the strike bill.
YUGOSLAV STRIKES (Belgrade/UPI) -- About 700,000 workers of state-
run metal, textile and footwear industries in the communist-ruled
Republic of Serbia walked off the job in the largest strike ever
organized in Yugoslavia.
WINNIE MANDELA TRIAL (Johannesburg/UPI) -- Winnie Mandela, on the
strand for the first time in her assault and kidnap trial,
testified that she was out of town when the crimes allegedly took
place and was "outraged" when she was accused of complicity by
black anti-apartheid activists. Her testimony contradicted that
of two alleged victims, who said she threatened, punched and
whipped them and two other young black men at her home the evening
of Dec. 29, 1988.
###
White House News Summary
Tuesday, April 16, 1991
5:30 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
KURDISH AID/PRESIDENT (CNN) -- The President will unveil new plans
for aid to the Kurdish refugees. We understand the U.S. and France
have agreed on an initiative to meet the urgent needs of the
Kurdish refugees, a plan that also has been signed onto by Britain
and other European Community nations.
KURDISH HAVEN/MAJOR (London/Reuter) -- Britain sought to galvanize
world action to protect freezing, starving Kurdish refugees, with
direct appeals to President Bush and Secretary General Perez de
Cuellar. Government officials said Prime Minister Major stressed
the urgency of implementing his safe haven plan for the refugees
in separate telephone conversations with the two leaders,- each
lasting 20 minutes. The officials said the U.S. appeared to be
warming to Britain's idea of setting up protected zones within
Iraq. "It appears the U.S. is more positive," one official said.
KURDISH RELIEF/GOP SENATORS (UPI) -- The massive relief effort in
southern Turkey and northern Iraq was bolstered with the creation
of two staging bases and officials said U.S. troops may make brief
forays into Iraq on relief missions. Pentagon spokesman Hall said
forward bases have been established at nearby towns, much closer
to the refugees on the border and in Iraq than Incirlik, where
relief flights had originated. President Bush, meanwhile, told GOP
senators he had been on the telephone to foreign leaders, including
those of Britain, France and Turkey, to discuss what was
characterized as a "new approach" to the crisis. Sen. Hatch said
Bush claimed to be "making great headway" in discussions of a joint
effort to transport refugees from hard-to-reach mountain positions
to areas where they can be more easily cared for and sheltered.
"Clearly there is something afoot in that regard," said Sen.
Murkowski.
BAKER TRIP (AP) -- Secretary Baker, looking for a formula for
Mideast peace talks, is turning to Jordan for support as U.S.
policy shifts from irritation with the Arab kingdom to giving it
a major role in Mideast diplomacy. At the same time, U.S.
irritation with Israel over plans to expand Jewish settlements on
the West Bank appeared to be rising. "I will make my views with
respect to settlements known, as indeed I already have, with the
Israeli leadership directly,' Baker said before leaving Washington.
(Reuter) -- Secretary Baker expressed optimism that Israel and
its Arab adversaries were "ready to move forward" toward peace
despite new signs of Israeli defiance to his Mideast diplomacy.
Baker declined to publicly criticize the Israeli government for the
new West Bank settlement. "What makes me feel that the Israelis
are ready to move forward are an excess of five plus hours of
meetings
with [Israeli leaders]
That's
what
gives
me
the
hope that perhaps Israel is ready to move forward
I've also
had extensive meetings with Arab leaders and I got the same sense
from them," he told reporters.
-
MEDIA LAWSUIT/PENTAGON (New York/AP) -- A federal judge dismissed
a lawsuit by news organizations that challenged the
constitutionality of Pentagon rules governing media access to
combat. District Judge Sand said the media had the right to sue
the government, but he ruled he did not have enough information to
decide the case now that the Gulf War was over. "Prudence dictates
that a final determination of the important constitutional issues
at stake be left for another day when the controversy is more
sharply focused,' Sand said in a decision granting the Pentagon's
request to dismiss the case.
FREED JOURNALISTS/IRAQ (Baghdad/Reuter) ----- An American journalist
and a French photographer who entered Iraq with Kurdish rebels have
been released from a Baghdad prison after 18 days in detention.
PATRIOT, SDI (Reuter) -- Congressmen got conflicting advice on
whether Patriot missiles' success in defending cities in the Gulf
War means the U.S. should seek early deployment of a Star- Wars
defense for U.S. cities. Three defense policy experts [Richard
Perle, former arms negotiator Albert Carnesale & physicist Theodore
Postol] agreed at a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing that
it means even better Patriot missiles should be built but disagreed
whether a Star Wars defense could be deployed any time soon.
MEXICO FREE TRADE/AFL-CIO (UPI) -- The AFL-CIO told a House panel
big business would "hit the jackpot" while U.S. workers would get
the booby prize of thousands of lost jobs under President Bush's
proposed free trade agreement with Mexico. "A free trade agreement
between two such disparate economies is unsound in theory and
disastrous in practice," AFL-CIO spokesman Cunningham told a
hearing of the House Banking subcommittee on trade. But Assistant
U.S. Trade Rep. Roh said the argument of lost American jobs made
by Cunningham and other opponents was one of the several "myths"
about the trade agreement. "Our first priority is a negotiated
agreement that advances American interests,' Roh said. He said
recent economic analyses of the proposed free trade agreement "show
that there will be no net job losses in the United States."
HEALTH COSTS/DARMAN (UPI) -- Budget Director Darman said "something
is going to have to give" to have an affordable federal health care
spending program but the administration is not ready to present
its reform plan. At a Senate Finance Committee hearing on health
care costs, Darman said there are problems with nearly all of the
health care reform proposals offered by lawmakers, think tanks and
unions. "We do intend to have a comprehensive proposal," Darman
said. "But I do think the do-no-harm principle should apply when
it comes to comprehensive reform. You're going to have a fairly
substantial shake-up of the system. I do believe we all have some
obligation to have a high degree of confidence that, based on what
we know, it will work. We're not there yet."
CHILDREN/KENNEDY (Scripps Howard) -- Sen. Kennedy urged a new
federal commitment to address the plight of America's children.
Kennedy said the problems of infant mortality, child poverty and
inadequate education require the federal government to launch what
he called "Social Security for Children." "Too often, the present
administration seems preoccupied with international relations, and
to have a domestic policy attuned solely to the needs of business.
But hungry American children cannot eat foreign policy. And sick
American infants cannot be healed by capital gains tax cuts for the
wealthy."
###
White House News Summary
Tuesday, April 16, 1991 -- 1
10:30 A.M. NEWS UPDATE
JEWISH SETTLEMENT/BAKER (Revava/Reuter) -- Israelis erected a new
Jewish settlement in the West Bank Tuesday in a move certain to
anger Washington ahead of Secretary Baker's latest Middle East
peace mission. The Gush Emunim settlement movement sent 14 mobile
homes to Revava, about 15 miles northwest of Jerusalem, Monday
night after police and soldiers declared the area a military zone
and force leftist protesters to leave. Settler Uri Ariel denied
the settlement was done to preempt Baker. "He (Baker) does not
coordinate with us and we do not coordinate with him," Ariel said
on Israel Radio.
(Revava/AP) -- Five Israeli families set up a new Jewish
settlement on this boulder-strewn hilltop, dramatizing their
opposition to U.S. calls for a halt in new Israeli enclaves in the
occupied territories. Settlement leaders said the move was timed
in advance of Secretary Baker's arrival Thursday. Left-wing
parties filed no-confidence motions in parliament, alleging the
settlement would sabotage peace efforts. Yossi Sarid of the
Citizens' Rights movement said it was "like putting a bomb in the
American secretary of state's plane,' Israel Radio said. Criticism
also came from within Prime Minister Shamir's Likud bloc. Health
Minister Olmert took issue with the clandestine manner in which the
settlement was built. "There is something about the way they have
moved out there that raises questions
If we want to differ
with said American policy we shouldn't play hide-and-seek," Olmert
Settlement leader Daniella Weiss said: "We hurried the
decision (to build) because of Baker's visits to the Middle East."
BAKER/SYRIA (Damascus/Reuter) -- Syria welcomed a new mission to
the Middle East by Secretary Baker. "No doubt the American effort
wins the appreciation of Arabs and the world, especially after it
was announced in Washington that Baker would make a new trip to the
region in the next two days to push peace efforts," the government
newspaper Tishreen said.
SADDAM TRIAL/CHENEY (Reuter) -- Secretary Cheney welcomed an EC
decision to press for a war crimes trial for Saddam Hussein but
said the U.S. would not send troops to arrest him. "Somebody's
going to have to go to Baghdad and arrest the gentlemen," Cheney
said in an interview with NPR. "If they want to do that they
certainly can have at it." ... "If somebody else wants to go to
Baghdad and arrest Saddam Hussein and try him, that's fine. I have
absolutely no objections whatsoever. But that's not our agenda.'
KURDS/GERMAN AID (Bonn/UPI) -- An advance team left for Iran to
start a massive German operation to aid Kurdish refugees and the
government announced it was nearly tripling funding for relief
efforts in Turkey and Iran. Government spokesman Vogel said
Chancellor Kohl and his coalition partners agreed to increase aid
to $165 million from about $58 million.
KURDS/AID (Ankara/Reuter) -- U.S. helicopters have helped to double
the amount of aid flown to half a million Iraqi refugees on the
Turkish frontier in one of the biggest relief efforts in modern
military history, a U.S. spokesman said. "The operation is now
expanding a great deal. We are just putting out as much stuff as
we can," said Lt. Col. Crowley at the Incirlik base.
-
KURDISH HAVEN/CHINA (Beijing/Reuter) -- China said it opposed the
U.N. setting up a safety zone to protect Kurdish refugees in Iraq
because it would violate Iraqi sovereignty.
MFN/CHINA (Hong Kong/Reuter) -- China's de facto embassy in Hong
Kong has warned Washington that suspending China's MFN trade status
[due for renewal in June] would hurt both countries, the Beijing-
funded newspaper Ta Kung Pao said.
RELATIONS WITH U.S./VIETNAM (Bangkok/UPI) -- Vietnam wants to
normalize relations with the U.S. as a step toward resolving the
Cambodian conflict rather than making such a settlement a condition
for normalization, a Vietnamese spokeswoman said. Responding to
a U.S. plan for normalization presented by the U.S. in talks with
Vietnamese officials in New York last week, Ho The Lan said
immediate normalization without conditions would be best for both
countries.
READ-ALOUD DAY (UPI) -- President Bush gave a preview of "the Great
Read Aloud Day" by reading fairy tales and poems to first and
second graders in the White House, apparently impressing one youth
that reading was more important than affairs of state. With the
youngsters sitting either beside him or on the floor in front of
him, Bush read to the children and asked volunteers to read to him
as their proud teachers nodded approval on the sidelines. Bush
turned to one book and noted that some of the stories were long and
said, "I don't know if we've got time for this. I've got a lot of
important things." Obviously not impressed with the presidential
agenda, one little boy piped up: "Who cares?"
HOUSING STARTS (Reuter) -- Construction of homes and apartment
buildings fell 9.3% in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate
of 901,000 units a year, the Commerce Department said.
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION (UPI) -- Industrial production fell 0.3% in
March for the sixth consecutive monthly decline, bringing total
factory output to its lowest level in almost three years, the Fed
reported.
U.N. MEMBERSHIP/RUSSIA (Strasbourg/Reuter) -- The Russian
Federation is to seek membership of the U.N. and other
international bodies, Boris Yeltsin said. Yeltsin said it was
illogical that the Soviet republics of Ukraine and Byelorussia were
U.N. members while Russia, the largest republic, was not.
GORBACHEV/KAIFU (Tokyo/Reuter) -- President Gorbachev and Prime
Minister Kaifu agreed to tackle their long-standing territorial
dispute and close what Gorbachev called one of the last fronts in
the Cold War. In an emotive appeal, Gorbachev told Kaifu they must
not miss an opportunity to raise ties between the world's second
and third biggest economic powers to a new level, spokesmen for
both sides said.
SOVIET GEORGIA (Moscow/AP) -- Georgia's new president issued a
sweeping decree instructing the southern republic's government
agencies to use strikes and civil disobedience to support its
declaration of independence from Moscow. Zviad Gamsakhurdia,
flexing his strong new presidential powers for the first time, also
ordered the creation of a government-controlled news service to
distribute information about Georgia outside its borders.
###
White House News Summary
Tuesday, April 16, 1991 -- 1
10:30 A.M. NEWS UPDATE
JEWISH SETTLEMENT/BAKER (Revava/Reuter) -- Israelis erected a new
Jewish settlement in the West Bank Tuesday in a move certain to
anger Washington ahead of Secretary Baker's latest Middle East
peace mission. The Gush Emunim settlement movement sent 14 mobile
homes to Revava, about 15 miles northwest of Jerusalem, Monday
night after police and soldiers declared the area a military zone
and force leftist protesters to leave. Settler Uri Ariel denied
the settlement was done to preempt Baker. "He (Baker) does not
coordinate with us and we do not coordinate with him," Ariel said
on Israel Radio.
(Revava/AP) -- Five Israeli families set up a new Jewish
settlement on this boulder-strewn hilltop, dramatizing their
opposition to U.S. calls for a halt in new Israeli enclaves in the
occupied territories. Settlement leaders said the move was timed
in advance of Secretary Baker's arrival Thursday. Left-wing
parties filed no-confidence motions in parliament, alleging the
settlement would sabotage peace efforts. Yossi Sarid of the
Citizens' Rights movement said it was "like putting a bomb in the
American secretary of state's plane,' Israel Radio said. Criticism
also came from within Prime Minister Shamir's Likud bloc. Health
Minister Olmert took issue with the clandestine manner in which the
settlement was built. "There is something about the way they have
moved out there that raises questions
If we want to differ
with said American policy we shouldn't play hide-and-seek," Olmert
Settlement leader Daniella Weiss said: "We hurried the
decision (to build) because of Baker's visits to the Middle East.'
BAKER/SYRIA (Damascus/Reuter) -- Syria welcomed a new mission to
the Middle East by Secretary Baker. "No doubt the American effort
wins the appreciation of Arabs and the world, especially after it
was announced in Washington that Baker would make a new trip to the
region in the next two days to push peace efforts," the government
newspaper Tishreen said.
SADDAM TRIAL/CHENEY (Reuter) -- Secretary Cheney welcomed an EC
decision to press for a war crimes trial for Saddam Hussein but
said the U.S. would not send troops to arrest him. "Somebody's
going to have to go to Baghdad and arrest the gentlemen,' Cheney
said in an interview with NPR. "If they want to do that they
certainly can have at it." "If somebody else wants to go to
Baghdad and arrest Saddam Hussein and try him, that's fine. I have
absolutely no objections whatsoever. But that's not our agenda."
KURDS/GERMAN AID (Bonn/UPI) -- An advance team left for Iran to
start a massive German operation to aid Kurdish refugees and the
government announced it was nearly tripling funding for relief
efforts in Turkey and Iran. Government spokesman Vogel said
Chancellor Kohl and his coalition partners agreed to increase aid
to $165 million from about $58 million.
KURDS/AID (Ankara/Reuter) -- U.S. helicopters have helped to double
the amount of aid flown to half a million Iraqi refugees on the
Turkish frontier in one of the biggest relief efforts in modern
military history, a U.S. spokesman said. "The operation is now
expanding a great deal. We are just putting out as much stuff as
we can," said Lt. Col. Crowley at the Incirlik base.
-more-
KURDISH HAVEN/CHINA (Beijing/Reuter) -- China said it opposed the
U.N. setting up a safety zone to protect Kurdish refugees in Iraq
because it would violate Iraqi sovereignty.
MFN/CHINA (Hong Kong/Reuter) -- China's de facto embassy in Hong
Kong has warned Washington that suspending China's MFN trade status
[due for renewal in June] would hurt both countries, the Beijing-
funded newspaper Ta Kung Pao said.
RELATIONS WITH U.S./VIETNAM (Bangkok/UPI) -- Vietnam wants to
normalize relations with the U.S. as a step toward resolving the
Cambodian conflict rather than making such a settlement a condition
for normalization, a Vietnamese spokeswoman said. Responding to
a U.S. plan for normalization presented by the U.S. in talks with
Vietnamese officials in New York last week, Ho The Lan said
immediate normalization without conditions would be best for both
countries.
READ-ALOUD DAY (UPI) -- President Bush gave a preview of "the Great
Read Aloud Day" by reading fairy tales and poems to first and
second graders in the White House, apparently impressing one youth
that reading was more important than affairs of state. With the
youngsters sitting either beside him or on the floor in front of
him, Bush read to the children and asked volunteers to read to him
as their proud teachers nodded approval on the sidelines. Bush
turned to one book and noted that some of the stories were long and
said, "I don't know if we've got time for this. I've got a lot of
important things." Obviously not impressed with the presidential
agenda, one little boy piped up: "Who cares?"
HOUSING STARTS (Reuter) -- Construction of homes and apartment
buildings fell 9.3% in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate
of 901,000 units a year, the Commerce Department said.
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION (UPI) -- Industrial production fell 0.3% in
March for the sixth consecutive monthly decline, bringing total
factory output to its lowest level in almost three years, the Fed
reported.
U.N. MEMBERSHIP/RUSSIA (Strasbourg/Reuter) -- The Russian
Federation is to seek membership of the U.N. and other
international bodies, Boris Yeltsin said. Yeltsin said it was
illogical that the Soviet republics of Ukraine and Byelorussia were
U.N. members while Russia, the largest republic, was not.
GORBACHEV/KAIFU (Tokyo/Reuter) -- President Gorbachev and Prime
Minister Kaifu agreed to tackle their long-standing territorial
dispute and close what Gorbachev called one of the last fronts in
the Cold War. In an emotive appeal, Gorbachev told Kaifu they must
not miss an opportunity to raise ties between the world's second
and third biggest economic powers to a new level, spokesmen for
both sides said.
SOVIET GEORGIA (Moscow/AP) -- Georgia's new president issued a
sweeping decree instructing the southern republic's government
agencies to use strikes and civil disobedience to support its
declaration of independence from Moscow. Zviad Gamsakhurdia,
flexing his strong new presidential powers for the first time, also
ordered the creation of a government-controlled news service to
distribute information about Georgia outside its borders.
###
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