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Thursday
February 27, 1992 (3:29 p.m.)
PHONE CALL FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM: Ed Lawson, Finance Chairman for Oklahoma
He would like a return call regarding the questions you asked him
at the February 11th Bush/Quayle 1992 Leadership Reception in the
East Room.
His office: (918) 584-5155
His home: (918) 743-4738
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
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DATE: 02/26/92
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ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SAN ANTONIO SPURS ANTI-DRUG EVENT, 02/27
(02/25 7:00 p.m. draft)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
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The attached has been forwarded to the President.
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RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
C2 FEB25 P7:19
February 25, 1992
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
$0
FROM:
BETH HINCHLIFFE BH
SUBJECT:
SAN ANTONIO SPURS DRUG FREE YOUTH BASKETBALL
LEAGUE
I. SUMMARY
On Thursday, February 27, at 4:55 p.m., you will deliver
remarks to an audience of approximately 400 people gathered at
the West End Community Center. You will be introduced by San
Antonio Spurs Player David Robinson.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (5 minutes, on cards) praise the players,
coaches, kids and parents for their commitment to this basketball
program and to the anti-drug effort.
(Hinchliffe/Nix)
February 25, 1992 7:00 p.m.
SPURS Draft Three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SAN ANTONIO SPURS ANTI-DRUG EVENT
WEST END COMMUNITY CENTER
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1992
4:55 P.M.
Thanks, Dave (Robinson). It's great to see you all here --
Roger Heminghouse, Gregg Popovich, Frank Martin, thanks for the
great work you do for this league. I'm also glad to see some
other Spurs here -- owner Red McCombs [mac-COMBS] and players.
Thanks for letting Barbara and me take part in this terrific
program -- [it's nice to be in a place where the "foul shots"
aren't coming in my direction.] I hear you kids were excited
when your coaches told you that the most important man in America
was coming here to talk to you today. So, don't worry, I won't
take up too much of Dave Robinson's time.
I'm glad to see so many parents here -- because the future
of every community depends on strong families. That was the firm
belief of our founding fathers, and it's as true today.
And the San Antonio Spurs. I've often said that from now on
in America, any definition of a successful life must include
serving others, and it's great to see athletes who succeed off
the court as well as on. Or, maybe I should say, who spur kids
into action. Here in this grand state, success comes from
strength of beliefs and a spirit as big as the Texas sky. So it
makes sense that a great Texas team decided to lead its community
in reclaiming its streets, its kids, and its future.
So many sports celebrities have volunteered their time and
effort in the fight against drugs. But think of what could be
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accomplished if every basketball, baseball, football, soccer and
hockey team, from major league to college, followed your example
and became Points of Light in this struggle. Then from San
Antonio to Minneapolis, from San Diego to Miami, a network of
athletes would show our kids there is an alternative to drugs and
crime.
And think of what could be accomplished if leaders of every
institution here committed themselves to helping the Spurs and
other organizations solve social problems through voluntary
service. San Antonio would become a "Community of Light."
You kids are learning something more than just how to do a
lay-up or a full-court press. You're learning about what really
makes adults: responsibility, conscience, goals. You're helping
your community become a decent, drug-free, safe place to live.
And by staying drug-free you're helping our country reach
its goals. We have a National Drug Control Strategy -- set up to
wrestle our country from the deadly grip of drugs. And we're
seeing results. This year we've dramatically exceeded many of
the goals we'd hoped to reach -- particularly in areas affecting
kids like you. We'd planned to reduce current adolescent cocaine
use by 30% -- it's actually fallen 63%. That's something we've
done together, and you should be proud.
I'm here in San Antonio to meet with Latin American leaders
to better coordinate our nations' efforts to combat drugs. We're
waging a war to cut the supply lines that channel drugs into this
country. But you and I know we've also got to wage this war at
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home -- cutting the demand lines that channel drugs into the
lives of our children. In addition to drug awareness and
education programs like this one here in San Antonio; and
expanding drug treatment nationwide; we need stronger legislation
to show lawbreakers that actions have consequences. I want
stiffer sentences for drug dealers. I want courts that punish
criminals, not cops trying to do their jobs. And I want laws
that make life tougher on criminals than on the victims.
As a nation we have to celebrate the success stories.
Showing the good that's being done inspires others to do good
things as well. We're here to honor something special: your
determination, your spirit. You kids and the 2300 like you
across this city are learning very important lessons here --
staying drug-free can help you make your dreams come true.
Today, in order to highlight for others the good work you
are doing here, I recognize the San Antonio Spurs Drug Free Youth
Basketball League as our 705th Daily Point of Light. You prove
no community has to accept things as they are. Drugs and other
problems can be driven from our backyards if leaders in every
community care enough to urge people to become Points of Light.
Congratulations to all of you, who show us that it's better
to build children than repair adults. Keep making those hoops
against all odds -- and may God bless you.
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FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Honorable Abdulrahman Al-Shaia
Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia
With warmest best
To Abdulrahman A. A.Al-Shaia
601 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20037
PERSONAL
wishes, Co Bund
Patty Presock
daily
2/27/92
TO BILL GEMMELL
Roben,
Please have calligraphered to:
will you
Abdulrahman A. Al-Shaia
With warmest best wishes,
throw
this in
(requested by Doro LeBlond)
your
Return to: Patty Presock
outbox
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STABLEWOOD
POTUS sent
this copy %
mas Bush
February 27, 1992
The President and Mrs. Bush
The Houstonian
111 North Post Oak Lane
Houston, Texas 77024
Delivered by hand.
Dear Mr. President and Mrs. Bush:
Welcome back to Houston! We invite you to visit Stablewood
adjacent to the Houstonian Complex this weekend. Enclosed is the
information regarding Stablewood, the 76 acre, private street
subdivision with 24 hour manned security. The developers, Walter
Mischer, Sr. and Jim and Margaret Elkins have committed two years
of thoughtful planning and are confident that Stablewood will
provide homeowners an unequaled quality of life.
Stablewood homeowners will enjoy these benefits:
*
Award Winning Spring Branch Schools:
Hunters Creek Elementary
Spring Branch Junior High
Memorial High School
*
Private Street Subdivision Enclosed By An 8' Masonry Wall
*
24 Hour Manned Security For Controlled Access
*
137 Homesites Located On 76 Acres - All Single Family
*
Strict Architectural Controls And Deed Restrictions
*
Adjacent To The Houstonian And Memorial Park
Home construction continues in Phase I of Stablewood. The street
right of ways, utility easements, design guidelines and deed
restrictions are in place. The guardhouse, perimeter wall, front
landscaping, and the gateways and entries from Memorial Drive and
North Post Oak Lane are complete. Presently, twenty-four lots have
been sold.
302 GABLE LODGE COURT
HOUSTON, TX 77024
(713) 956-0550
FAX (713) 956-0578
Stablewood
Page 2
Enclosed please find a plat outlining the Phase I lots that are
available for sale, the corresponding price list, and our spec
plans for your review. Should you have any questions whatsoever,
please do not hesitate to contact us at Stablewood.
I look forward to seeing you both.
Respectfully,
STABLEWOOD LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
Marlla adger
Martha A. Adger
Director of Sales and Marketing
MAA/ecm
Enclosures
AMENITIES
A
S the owner of a Stablewood estate, you will reward your family with the
best of Houston living. The convenience of an up-town location. The
enclosed security of private streets and the luxury of a custom home in
Houston's finest master designed environment.
CONVENIENCE:
10 minutes from downtown and the Galleria.
Adjacent to the Houstonian and Memorial Park.
First class dining, golfing, jogging, polo, gymnasiums and water
recreation within walking or biking distance.
Award-winning schools:
Hunters Creek Elementary.
Spring Branch Junior High.
Memorial High School.
The Kinkaid School.
Duchesne Academy.
PRIVACY:
Private controlled-access streets.
8-foot masonry perimeter wall.
24-hour manned entry.
LUXURY:
76-acre master planned residential community; single-family only.
137 homesites on wooded estate-sized lots, beginning at $300,000.
Discriminating deed restrictions and architectural controls.
Build your own home or choose a custom home by a preferred master builder.
The alluring lifestyle of Stablewood can be yours. Secure a homesite now and build your
dream home at Stablewood, where time will only enrich its value.
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12
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3
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3
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13
14
STABLEWOOD
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17
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TEAL
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STABLEWOOD
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LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
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42
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43
49
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SECTION ONE
SECTION TWO
39
Residential
40
45
46
Reserve
52
3
2.97 Acres
5
54
13
4
12
11
55
6
10
Buffalo
8
56
Residential
Reserve
"F"
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1.75 Acres
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STABLEWOOD
Martha A. Adger
Paula S. Arnold
Director of Sales & Marketing
Broker Associate
PHASE ONE
BLOCK
LOT
SQUARE FEET
PRICE
(thousand)
2
9
14763
SOLD
2
10
13000
SOLD
2
11
13000
SOLD
2
12
13000
SOLD
2
13
13690
SOLD
2
14
14247
SOLD
2
15
16273
440
3
12
14763
415
3
13
13168
375
3
14
13965
385
3
15
14849
370
3
16
16640
390
4
1
16594
390
4
2
14849
370
302 GABLE LODGE COURT
HOUSTON, TX 77024
(713) 956-0550
FAX (713) 956-0578
BLOCK
LOT
SQUARE FEET
PRICE
4
3
13965
385
4
4
13168
375
4
5
14763
415
4
6
15453
385
4
7
13600
325
4
8
13600
325
4
9
13579
325
4
10
13216
315
4
11
12708
300
4
12
13561
325
4
13
13599
325
4
14
13599
SOLD
4
15
13599
SOLD
4
16
13600
SOLD
4
17
13600
SOLD
- 2 -
BLOCK
LOT
SQUARE FEET
PRICE
(thousand)
4
18
13600
SOLD
4
19
1
13600
325
4
20
13600
325
4
21
13333
325
4
22
12483
300
4
23
16759
385
4
24
12895
345
4
25
13481
355
4
26
13599
355
4
27
13600
355
4
28
13600
355
4
29
15385
385
4
30
14698
415
4
31
13000
SOLD
4
32
13000
SOLD
- 3 -
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
BLOCK
47
46
45
44
43
42
41
40
39
38
37
36
35
34
33
LOT
4 I I
18303
15974
18497
13652
25043
17528
20182
19892
16206
16206
15631
14395
13230
13197
13000
SQUARE FEET
515
445
515
450
625
455
525
515
445
445
425
400
SOLD
SOLD
SOLD
(thousand)
PRICE
BLOCK
LOT
SQUARE FEET
PRICE
(thousand)
4
48
16603
450
4
49
25043
625
4
50
15525
410
4
51
14526
I
400
4
52
72491
920
4
53
39425
790
4
54
40695
850
4
55
51665
950
4
56
61280
1250
5
1
21045
SOLD
5
2
17373
SOLD
5
3
17238
480
5
4
16137
450
5
5
16000
450
5
6
19151
515
- 5 -
RESTRICTED RESERVE "B" CLUSTER LOTS
LOT
ACREAGE
TOTAL
BUILDABLE
SALES
#
TOTAL
SQ.FT.
SQ.FT.
PRICE
(Above 100 Yr. El.)
(Thousand)
1
.38
16,545
16,545
365
2
.58
25,356
9,990
SOLD
3
.22
9,670
9,670
SOLD
4
.66
28,662
14,074
SOLD
5
.29
12,915
8,830
SOLD
6
1.56
67,950
11,920
SOLD
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Mr. Andy Abercrombie
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-
8718 Stable Crest Boulevard
Traditional Stucco, two story, hardwood floors, three wood-burning
fireplaces, master down, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2 half baths, living room,
dining room, family room, drawing room, game room, kitchen, morning
room, 2 car garage, future quarters.
Block 2, Lot 13: $945,000, 5195 sq. ft. per plans.
Occupancy - September 1991.
Mr. Bruce Barnett
Bruce Barnett & Patti Barnett Lehr
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8706 Stable Crest Boulevard
Traditional Georgian Stucco, two story, hardwood floors, master down, 4
bedrooms, 5 baths, 1 half bath, living room, dining room, family room,
library, kitchen, morning room, 2 car garage, quarters.
Block 2, Lot 10: $1,150,000, 5825 sq. ft. per plans.
Occupancy - Fall 1992.
Mr. Eddie Franz
Wilshire Custom Builders
-
8707 Pasture View Lane
Brick Traditional, two story hardwood floors, three wood-burning
fireplaces, 4 bedrooms, 5 baths, 2 half baths, formal dining room,
formal living room, study, family room off kitchen. 3 car garage with
future quarters.
Block 4, Lot 18: $850,000, 5782 sq. ft. per plans.
Occupancy - Fall 1992.
Mr. Tom Overstreet -
SOLD
Overstreet Companies
-
8722 Stable Crest Boulevard
Brick Traditional, three story, hardwood floors, four wood-burning
fireplaces, master up, 4 bedrooms, 6 baths, 1 half bath, living room,
dining room, family room, study, kitchen, breakfast room, garage
apartment with full bath and kitchen. 3 car garage, optional 3rd floor
living space.
Block 2, Lot 14: $1,100,000, 6823 sq. ft. per plans.
Occupancy - September 1991.
Mr. Bill Reed
Reed Custom Homes
-
8710 Stable Crest Boulevard
Brick contemporary, one and one-half story, two wood-burning fireplaces,
master down, 3 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 half baths, living room, dining
room, family room, study, game room, kitchen, breakfast area, and wine
cellar. 2 car garage.
Block 2, Lot 11: $985,000, 5360 sq. ft. per plans.
Occupancy - Fall 1992.
STABLEWOOD
Builder list
pg. 2
Mr. Tom Tran & Mr. Kenneth Dang
Royalton Homes
-
8703 Pasture View Lane
Brick traditional, two story, hardwood floors, one wood-burning
fireplace, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 1 half bath, formal living room, formal
dining room, study, family room, kitchen with breakfast area. 3 car
garage, porte cochere, & future quarters.
Block 4, Lot 17: $750,000, 4780 sq. ft. per plans.
Occupancy - Summer 1992.
Ms. Paula Watson
P. M. W., Inc.
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8723 Stable Crest Boulevard
Brick Traditional, two story, hardwood floors, three wood-burning
fireplaces, master down, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 half baths, living room,
dining room, family room, library, kitchen, breakfast room, game room,
2 car garage, future quarters.
Block 4, Lot 35: $995,000, 5460 sq. ft. per plans.
Occupancy - January 1992.
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FINAL EDITION
The Miami Herald
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
CONTENTS COPYRIGHT o 1992 THE MIAMIHERALD
35 CEN
U.S. won't bargain
with Castro - ever,
Bush tells exiles
By ALFONSO CHARDY
presidential piece would "allay
Herald Staff Writer
concerns" in the Cuban-Ameri-
President Bush, seeking to
can community, where some
reassure Miami's Cuban exile
exiles are frustrated by what they
community about his adminis-
perceive to be a softening stance
tration's tough position toward
toward Cuba.
Fidel Castro, says in an opinion
A major focus of recent exile
column in today's Miami Herald
concern about Bush's Cuba poli-
that he will never negotiate with
cies was whether the administra-
Castro's Communist govern-
tion was collaborating with Cas-
ment.
tro to prevent exile paramilitary
"There will be no normal rela-
commando raids on the island.
tions with Cuba so long as the
In late January, State Depart-
Castro dictatorship remains in
ment officials angered elements
place," Bush says in the column,
of the exile community when
his first for the newspaper, pub-
they said the U.S. government
lished in full on page 19A. "We
would give Cuba advance warn-
want to sec a democratically
ing about possible raids. After
elected Cuban government that
the comments appeared in print,
would be the legitimate represen-
a senior State Department offi-
tative of the Cuban people."
A White House official said the
PLEASE SEE BUSH, 17A
WHITE HOUSE COMMCTR
THU 27 FEB 92 23:35
PG.03
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992, THE MIAMI HERALD 17A
Bush to Miami's Cuban exiles:
U.S. won't bargain with Castro
BUSH, FROM 1A
ington will only contemplate nor-
"There will be no
mal relations with Havana after
cial telephoned The Herald to
the Castro regime is gone.
explain that they had been made
normal relations with
The reason for the changed
by subordinates not authorized
tone, Bush wrote. is Castro's
to make them.
Cuba so long as the
decision to crack down on island
Bush makes reference to the
dissidents.
issue in his column.
Castro dictatorship
Bush's article comes on the
"Let me also comment on
recent published reports that the
remains in place.
heels of remarks Tuesday by CIA
director Robert Gates, who
United States is cooperating with
PRESIDENT BUSH
painted a bleak picture of condi-
the Cuban government on anti-
tions in Cuba, noting that the col-
Castro activities," the president
In Washington, a Cuban gov-
lapse of the Soviet Union has
wrote. "Those stories simply are
ernment official denounced
narrowed Castro's options.
not true."
Bush's column as a political ploy.
"Castro is in an unprecedented
Republican challenger Pat
"It contains nothing new, and
bind," Gates said in testimony
Buchanan, who has been making
it is evident that its goal is less
before the House Foreign Affairs
a strong pitch for the votes of
Cuba and more to obtain votes
Committee. "The halt in Soviet
Cuban Americans, capitalized on
for a not-too-assured re-elec-
aid has devastated his economy.
the State Department comments
tion." said Ariel Ricardo. a
Factories are closing, and grow-
during a visit to Miami on Sun-
spokesman for the Cuban Inter-
ing numbers of people are being
day.
ests Section.
moved into agricultural work
camps."
Buchanan's Miami pitch
Bush cites anti-Castro action
Gates went on to warn that
Buchanan told a mostly
The president's column lists
increasing repression of dissi-
Cuban-American crowd of about
administration actions against
dents in Cuba, coupled with the
300 that Castro "will not sur-
Castro, including Radio and TV
economic crisis, could trigger
vive" his presidency, and prom-
Marti, efforts in Geneva to con-
unrest.
ised that his State Department
demn Cuba at the annual meet-
"Such repression is likely only
would not "engage in collusion"
ing of the United Nations
to magnify the hardships of the
with the Cuban government.
Human Rights Commission and
Cuban people and the explosion
Buchanan's Dade campaign
recent measures to tighten the
that eventually may occur." he
chairman, former political pris-
trade embargo on the island.
said.
oner Reinaldo Lopez-Lima, has
Bush also repeated a call he
Bush's column sums up admin-
been telling the Cuban commu-
made last year for Castro to hold
istration perceptions about what
nity that Buchanan is a staunch
"free and fair" elections. But his
lies ahead for Cuba.
ally.
column appeared to strike a
"The day of the dictator is
"We're not an orphan any-
harder line: While his proposal
over, and I am convinced that
more, Lopez-Lima said
last year offered to improve rela-
Castro's days are numbered."
Wednesday. "At last, we have a
tions with Cuba if Castro held
Herald staff writer Anne Bart-
candidate.
elections, Bush today says Wash-
lett contributed to this report.
VIEWPOINTS
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1992
THE MIAMI HERALD
19A
THE PRESIDENT VIEWS CUBA AND CASTRO
A challenge to hold free elections
In November, Castro sent his Spe-
By GEORGE BUSH
cial Action Brigades to the house of
y
ADMINISTRATION'S
well-known Cuban poet Maria Elena
The day of the dictator is
M'
objectives and the American
Cruz, where she was brutally beaten
over, and I am convinced
people's hopes for Cuba can be
along with six other activists. She was
stated simply: We want freedom and
taken to jail, where she remains.
that Castro's days are
prosperity for the Cuban people and an
On Jan. 6. the home of Cuban
end to Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime.
activist Angela Herrera was assaulted by
numbered. When he goes,
There will be no normal relations
Castro's thugs while members of the
with Cuba so long as the Castro dictator-
Cuban Democratic coalition were hold-
and the Castro
ship remains in place. We want to see a
ing & telephone conversation with a
democratically elected Cuban govern-
Miami radio station. All present were
dictatorship must go, the
arrested and threatened with 30-year
United States will be
prison terms if they were caught again.
President Bush wrote this article
Two of them. Adrian Gonzalez Mari-
prepared to provide a full
for The Herald.
chal and Pedro Armenteros, remain
detained in Villa Marista.
range of assistance needed
ment that would legitimately represent
Regime critic and human rights
the Cuban people. My administration is
advocate Sebastian Arcos has been in
to help the Cuban people.
determined to keep the pressure on Cas-
jail for weeks without charge because be
tro and to keep the Cuban people's hope
dared to call for peaceful change.
for democracy alive.
For all the reasons I've cited, we have
hard on the economic front. We imple-
Let me explain what I mean by a
absolutely no intention of agreeing to a
mented a number of measures to
democratic Cuban government. We
normal relationship with a government
toughen up the embargo several months
want Cuba to have fully free and fair
that denies its people universally
ago to further restrict Castro's ability to
elections, to accept international observ-
accepted civil and human rights, eco-
cam hard currency. For example. we
ers. to permit a free press, to allow oppo-
nomic opportunity, and freedom of
have stopped Castro from charging out-
sition parties ample time and opportu-
choice on matters that affect their own
rageous fees for Cuban citizens to travel
nily to organize and carapaign. and to
future. Let me also comment on recent
to the United States. We have asked our
release all political prisoners. We said
published reports that the United States
friends and democratic allies not to
in the past that if Castro would hold free
is cooperating with the Cuban govern-
replace past Soviet and 10 Cuba by pro-
and fair national elections, commit con-
ment on anti-Castro activities. Those
viding economic assistance or preferen-
stitutionally to regular elections in the
stories simply are not true.
tial trade agreements: 10 do so will only
future, and respect his countrymen's
allow Castro to protong his illegitimate
basic civil liberties and human rights,
What we're going to do
regime and continue to only deny
our relations with Cuba would improve.
Now let mc tell you what we are doing
human rights and democracy to the
1 challenge Cuba to bold free elec-
on behalf of the Cuban people. First of
long-suffering Cuban people. We have
tions, but Castro will not allow them
all, we're doing everything WE can to
been getting good responses.
because he knows that be would not win.
keep the Cuban people's hopes and spir-
The day of the dictator is over. and 1
Instead of embarking on the path of
its alive by trying to get a free flow of
am convinced that Castro's days are
democracy like the republics of the for-
information into Cuba. We remain
numbered. When he goes - and as far
mer Soviet Union. the East European
firmly committed to providing the
as I am concerned. for Cuba to be free.
countries, and countries throughout this
Cuban people impanial. unbiased news
for Cuba to be prosperous. the Castro
bemisphere. Castro has undertaken a
through Radio and TV Marti broad-
dictatorship must RO then the United
brutal campaign of intimidation and
casts. We will continue to aggressively
States. with the cooperation of our pri-
violence to eliminate any and all peace-
pursue every opportunity to bring the
vate sector. which is ready. willing and
ful dissent in order to keep his illegiti-
fraught with danger. but WE were able to
as his regime's violations of human dig-
Cuban people the Marts message.
eager to help. will be prepared to pro-
male regime in power.
stay the course. avoid bloodshed, and
nity mount. I know that you are as aware
We're working hard in Geneva right
vide a full range of assistance needed to
We have seen the collapse of commu-
today Eastern Europe is free. Cuba also
of recent abuses as 1 am, but they bear
now for the strongest possible condem-
help the Cuban people rebuild their
nism in Europe. where the United States
will be free.
repeating because they involve real peo-
nation of Castro's human rights abuses
economy. which has been devastated by
has played a positive role. United States
II was the German people who
pie willing to stand up and say 'no mas"
by the United Nations Human Rights
the Castro regime. and to help them
policy in Eastern Europe was predicated
brought about Honecker's fall from
to this dictator.
Commission. We anticipate that the
restore their democratic traditions.
on the fact that the Poles, the Czechs,
power. It was the Romanian people who
o Back in September, Castro's "Spe-
commission will call Cube to account
Our desire is for freedom for Cuba.
the Germans, and the other peoples in
brought about Ceaucescu's fall from
cial Action Brigades" - groups of thugs
for its gross violations even more
and we want the process to be peaceful.
the region wanted 10 live in freedom.
power. It was the Czech people who
and Cuban agents - brutally beat sev-
strongly than it did last year. We're ask-
orderly. and without the spilling of
The Cubans are no different.
brought about Husak's fall from power.
eral members of the pacifist movement
ing the commission to again name a spe-
blood. At the same time. faithful 10 our
At the time. hurried voices were
and 50 it has been with every other
Solidarity and Peace. Two of its leaders,
cial envoy to review the human rights
tradition of supporting the fight for free-
raised daring me to make political capi-
tyrant of our time. As so it will be with
Daniel and Tomas Azpillaga, were sen-
situation in Cuba even though. like last
dom throughout the world. we intend 10
tal of the deteriorating situation in those
Cuba.
tenced 10 two years in prison for holding
year. we know that Castro is afraid to
do everything we can within the con-
countries and the growing tensions
Castro's fear of dissent and criticism
a peaceful demonstration in front of
permit a U.N. envoy to travel to Cuba to
fines of existing U.S. law to support all
between the people of Eastern Europe
and the weakness of his government
Villa Marista. Castro's dreaded security
do his work there.
those who are striving 10 achieve Cuba's
and their dictators. 11 was a situation
becomes clearer with every passing das
police headquarters.
We intend to keep squeezing Castro
liberation.
VIEWPOINTS
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1992
THE MIAMI HERALD
19A
THE PRESIDENT VIEWS CUBA AND CASTRO
A challenge to hold free elections
By GEORGE BUSH
In November. Castro sent his Spe-
cial Action Briendes to the house of
ADMINIST HON'S
well-known Culun pact Maria Elenz
The day of the dictator is
M
objectives and the American
Cruz where she was Inrulally heaten
people's hopes for Cuha Can be
along with six other activists. She was
over, and I am convinced
stated simply: We want freedom and
taken to jail. where she remains.
that Castro's days are
prosperily for the Caban people and an
On Jan. 6. the home of Caban
code in Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime.
activist Angela Herrera assaulted by
numbered. When he goes,
There will be no normal relations
Castro's thugs while members of the
with Cuba so long as the astro dictator-
Cuban Democratic coalition were hold-
and the Castro
ship remains in place. We want to sec a
ing a telephone conversation with a
democratically elected Cuban govern-
Miami radio station. AN present were
dictatorship must go. the
arrested and thremosed with 30-year
United States will be
prison terms if they were caught again.
President Brenh MYTHE this article
Two of them. Adrias Gomalez Mari-
line The Herald.
prepared to provide a full
chal and Pedro Amounteros, remain
detained is Villa Marista.
range of assistance needed
incret that would legitimately represent
Regime critic and human rights
the Cubas people My administration is
advocate Schastian Arcos has been in
to help the Cuban people.
aletermined to keep the pressure on Cas-
jail For mocks without charge because be
110 and to keep the Cohan people's hope
dared to call for peaceful change.
for democracy alive.
For all the reasons I've cited. we have
hard on the communic Tront. We imple-
Let me explain what 1 mean by a
absolutcly no intention of agreeing to a
mented a number of ineasures to
democratic Cuban government. We
normal relationship with a government
tougher the cmbargo several months
want Cubo to have fully free and fair
that denies its people universally
BED to further restrict Castro's ability to
elections. to sccept ernational observ-
accepted civil and human rights. cco-
cam hard currency. For example. we
COS, In permit a free press. to allow oppo-
momic opportunity. and freedom of
have stopped Castro from charging out-
sition parties ample time and opporto-
choice on matters that affect their OWN
rapcoos foes Cept Cuban citizens to travel
mily to expanize and campaign. and to
fature. Let me also comment On recent
In the United States. We have asked our
release all political presences. We said
published reports that the United States
friends and derencratic affics not to
a the past that if Castm would hold free
is cooperating with the Cuban govern-
replace past Soviet aid In Cubs by pro-
and fair national elections, commit con-
mest - anti-Castro activities. Those
viding connomic assistance or proferen-
stitutionally to regular elections in the
stories simply are THE Iruc.
tial trade agreements: In do so will only
future. and respect his countryiness
allow Castro to prolong his illegitimate
basic civil libertics and human rights,
What we're going to de
regime and continue to only deny
our relations with Cuba would improve.
New let one tell you what we are doing
human rights and democracy to the
I challenge Cuha to hold free elec-
on behalf of the Cuban people. First of
long-saffering Cubon people. We have
times bet Castro will not allow them
all we're doing everything we can to
been getting good responses.
because be knows that he would not ais.
keep the Cuban people's hopes and spir-
The day of the dictator is over. and I
Instead of embarking on the path of
its alive by trying to net a free flow of
am convinced that Castm's days are
democracy like the republics of the for.
information into Cuba. We remain
numbered. When he goes - and as far
mer Sovid Union, the East European
finaly committed to providing the
as I am concerned. for Caha to be Free.
countries, and countries throughout this
Cubon people impartial. unbiased news
for Cute to be prosperous, the Castro
hemisphere, Castro has undertaken a
through Radio and TV Mani broad-
dictatorship mag por then the United
terminal campaign of intimidation and
casts. We will continue to aggressively
States, with the cooperation of our pri-
violence to diminate any and all peace-
pursue every opportunity to bring the
vale sector. which is ready. willing. and
ful dissent in order to keep his illegiti-
fraught with danger, but wt were able to
as his regiree's violations of known dig-
Coban people the Marti message.
cager to help. will be prepared to prex
mate regime in power.
slay the COURSE, avoid bloodshed, and
may mount. know that you are as aware
We're working hard in Geneva right
vale a Fall range of assistance needed to
We have SOCH the collapse of
today Eastern Europe is free Cabs also
of recent abuses as I am. but they bear
DOW for the strongest possible coedem-
help the Cuban people rebuild their
mism in Europe, where the United States
will be free
repeating because they involve real peo-
nation of Castro's basine rights abuses
economy. which has been devastment by
has played 8 positive role. United States
at was the German people who
pie willing to stand up and any "an MMX
by the United Nations Human Rights
the Castro regist. and to help them
policy in Eastern Europe was predicated
Brought about Honecker's fall From
to this dictator.
Commission. We anticipate that the
restore their democratic traditions.
on the fact that the Poles, the Czerhs,
power. h the Routanian people who
. Back is September. Castro's "Spe-
commission will call Cobs to account
Our desire is for freedom for Caba.
the Germans, and the other peoples int
brought about Ceaucesca's fall from
cial Action Brigades - groups of things
for its gruss violations even more
and TMC want the process 10 he peaceful.
the region wanted to live in freedom.
power. It was the Czech people who
and Cuban agents - bratally beat ECV-
strongly than in did bst year. We're ask-
orderly. and without the spilling of
The Cubans are TMP different.
brought about Hasak's fall from power.
cral members of the pacifist movement
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blood. Al the state time. faithful to our
AI the time, hurried voices were
and so it has beca with every other
Solidarity and Peace. Two of its leaders,
cial chvoy to review the human rights
tradition of supporting the light for Inco
reised daring one to make political capi-
lyrant of our time. As so il will be with
David and Tomas Azpiliaga. were sen-
situation in Caba CYCN though. like last
a throughout the works we intend to
tal of Ibc deteriorating situation in those
Cuba
seneed to two years in prison for holding
year. NC know that Castro is afraid to
do everything MC can within the con.
countries and the growing tensions
Castro's fear of dissent and criticism,
a peaceful demonstration in From of
permit a U.N. anvoy to level to Coba to
fines of existing U.S. law to support all
between the people of Eastem Europe
and the weakness of his government.
Villa Marinta. Cashi's dreaded security
do his work there
those who are driving to achieve Cuba's
and their dictations. It was a skuation
becomes clearer with every passing day
police headquarters.
Wc intend to keep squeezing Castro
fiberation.
The Miami Herald
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1992
THE PRESIDENT VIEWS CUBA AND CASTRO
A challenge to hold
free elections
By GEORGE BUSH
power. It was the Romanian people who
Cuban people impartial. unbiased news
brought about Ceaucescu's fall from
through Radio and TV Marti broad-
M
Y
ADMINISTRATION'S
power. It was the Czech people who
casts. We will continue to aggressively
objectives and the American
brought about Husak's fall from power,
pursue every opportunity to bring the
people's hopes for Cuba can be
and so it has been with every other
Cuban people the Marti message.
stated simply: We want freedom and
tyrant of our time. As so it will be with
We're working hard in Geneva right
prosperity for the Cuban people and an
Cuba.
now for the strongest possible condem-
end to Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime.
Castro's fear of dissent and criticism,
nation of Castro's human rights abuses
There will be no normal relations
and the weakness of his government,
by the United Nations Human Rights
with Cuba so long as the Castro dictator-
becomes clearer with every passing day
Commission. We anticipate that the
ship remains in place. We want to see a
as his regime's violations of human dig-
commission will call Cuba to account
democratically elected Cuban govern-
nity mount. I know that you are as aware
for its gross violations even more
of recent abuses as I am, but they bear
strongly than it did last year. We're ask-
President Bush wrote this article
repeating because they involve real peo-
ing the commission to again name a spe-
ple willing to stand up and say 'no mas"
cial envoy to review the human rights
for The Herald.
to this dictator.
situation in Cuba even though, like last
Back in September. Castro's "Spe-
year. we know that Castro is afraid to
ment that would legitimately represent
cial Action Brigades" groups of thugs
permit a U.N. envoy to travel to Cuba 10
the Cuban people. My administration is
determined to keep the pressure on Cas-
and Cuban agents - brutally beat sev-
do his work there.
eral members of the pacifist movement
We intend to keep squeezing Castro
tro and to keep the Cuban people's hope
Solidarity and Peace. Two of its leaders,
hard on the economic front. We imple-
for democracy alive.
Let me explain what I mean by a
Daniel and Tomas Azpillaga, were sen-
mented a number of measures to
democratic Cuban government. We
tenced to two years in prison for holding
toughen up the embargo several months
8 peaceful demonstration in front of
ago to further restrict Castro's ability to
want Cuba to have fully free and fair
Villa Marista, Castro's dreaded security
earn hard currency. For example. we
elections. to accept international observ-
ers. to permit a free press, to allow oppo-
police headquarters.
have stopped Castro from charging out-
sition parties ample time and opportu-
In November. Castro sent his Spe-
rageous fees for Cuban citizens to travel
nity to organize and campaign, and to
cial Action Brigades to the house of
10 the United States. We have asked our
release all political prisoners. We've said
well-known Cuban poet Maria Elena
friends and democratic allies not to
in the past that if Castro would hold free
Cruz, where she was brutally beaten
replace past Soviet aid to Cuba by pro-
and fair national elections, commit con-
along with six other activists. She was
viding economic assistance or preferen-
taken to jail, where she remains.
tial trade agreements: to do so will only
stitutionally to regular elections in the
future. and respect his countrymen's
On Jan. 6, the home of Cuban
allow Castro to prolong his illegitimate
activist Angela Herrera was assaulted by
regime and continue to only deny
basic civil liberties and human rights,
our relations with Cuba would improve.
Castro's thugs while members of the
human rights and democracy to the
Cuban Democratic coalition were hold-
long-suffering Cuban people. We have
I challenge Cuba to hold free elec-
ing a telephone conversation with a
been getting good responses.
tions. but Castro will not allow them
because he knows that he would not win.
Miami radio station. All present were
The day of the dictator is over. and I
Instead of embarking on the path of
arrested and threatened with 30-year
am convinced that Castro's days are
prison terms if they were caught again.
numbered. When he goes - and as far
democracy like the republics of the for-
Two of them. Adrian Gonzalez Mari-
as I am concerned. for Cuba to be free.
mer Soviet Union. the East European
chal and Pedro Armenteros. remain
for Cuba to be prosperous. the Castro
countries, and countries throughout this
hemisphere. Castro has undertaken a
detained in Villa Marista.
dictatorship must go then the United
brutal campaign of intimidation and
Regime critic and human rights
States. with the cooperation of our pri-
violence to eliminate any and all peace-
advocate Sebastian Arcos has been in
vate sector. which is ready, willing. and
ful dissent in order to keep his illegiti-
jail for weeks without charge because he
eager to help. will be prepared to pro-
mate regime in power.
dared to call for peaceful change.
vide a full range of assistance needed to
For all the reasons I've cited, we have
help the Cuban people rebuild their
We have seen the collapse of commu-
absolutely no intention of agreeing to a
economy. which has been devastated by
nism in Europe. where the United States
has played a positive role. United States
normal relationship with a government
the Castro regime. and to help them
that denies its people universally
restore their democratic traditions.
policy in Eastern Europe was predicated
on the fact that the Poles. the Czechs.
accepted and human rights. eco-
Our desire is for freedom for Cuba.
nomic opportunity, and freedom of
and we want the process to be peaceful.
the Germans. and the other peoples in
the region wanted to live in freedom.
choice on matters that affect their own
orderly. and without the spilling of
The Cubans are no different.
future. Let me also comment on recent
blood. At the same time. faithful to our
At the time. hurried voices were
published reports that the United States
tradition of supporting the fight for free-
is cooperating with the Cuban govern-
dom throughout the world. we intend to
raised daring me to make political capi-
ment on anti-Castro activities. Those
do everything we can within the con-
tal of the deteriorating situation in those
stories simply are not true.
fines of existing U.S. law to support all
countries and the growing tensions
those who are striving to achieve Cuba's
between the people of Eastern Europe
What we're going to do
liberation.
and their dictators. It was a situation
fraught with danger, but we were able to
Now let me tell you what we are doing
stay the course, avoid bloodshed. and
on behalf of the Cuban people. First of
today Eastern Europe is free. Cuba also
all, we're doing everything we can to
will be free.
keep the Cuban people's hopes and spir-
It was the German people who
its alive by trying to get a free flow of
information into Cuba. We remain
brought about Honecker's fall from
firmly committed to providing the
GEORGE BUSH
WASHINGTON
February 27, 1992
Dear Bill:
The picture of the Silver Dollar Quartet is in my
office in the White House residence -- that's on the
second floor. The room used to be known as the
Treaty Room. You sent it to me ten years ago, and
it is still a prized possession.
It was so nice seeing you in California.
Barbara joins me in sending our warmest best wishes.
Sincerely,
Gg Bl
Mr. William A. Stone
President
William A. Stone, Inc.
110 Sutter Street
San Francisco, California 94104
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Bill Farish
Mr. President:
2/24/92
Your kind note of 10 years ago. is on
the backside of this.
Mr. Dick Kimball of the Silver Dollar
Quartet is in his 20's, and I expect
to see him at a Whiff gathering this
Spring in New Haven.
If possible, I'd like to tell him in
which "rogues' gallery" the quartet
is hanging.
Incidentally, my '52 Whiff group tapped
brother Johnny for the 53's. Also, 52'
is pleased you're making such good use
of my pals Brady, Robson and Lee.
All the best in United the future.
WILLIAM A. STONE INC.
REAL ESTATE
110 SUTTER STREET
WILLIAM A. STONE
SAN FRANCISCO. CA 0/104
PRESIDENT
(415) 986-8080
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
March 2, 1992
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Barbara and I are greatly saddened by the death of Albert Bel
Fay. Albert was a close, personal friend, and we will miss him
greatly.
He was a Texan through and through. He was a leader in building
the Republican party in Houston, starting in the early 1960's.
Albert was a mentor who helped guide me in my early years in
Texas politics, when getting Republicans elected was next to
impossible. His service to the Republican party has been
invaluable.
Barbara and I send our deepest condolences and offer our prayers
to his three children.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 2, 1992
The President today recognized the volunteers of the Pilot Parent
Program of Omaha, Nebraska as the 708th Daily Point of Light for
the Nation. This unique organization offers hope, support, and a
sense of well being to parents of children with all types of
disabilities.
Now in its twenty-first year, the Pilot Parent Program was created
to help parents overcome the initial period of grief -- often
including phases of anger, denial, and shock -- that may occur upon
learning that a child has a disability. The program offers
direction to these parents who may feel overwhelmed and unsure of
where to turn, and matches them with experienced parents of another
child with the same disability. The veteran parents act as
"mentors," offering advice in crises and in day-to-day matters.
Last year, more than 80 couples were matched with these more
experienced parents.
Twice a month, the Pilot Parent Program holds informational or
social meetings for all parents. For social gatherings, child care
is provided to give mothers and fathers an evening of relaxation.
Workshops and support programs are also offered to siblings and
grandparents of children with special needs. By working closely
with appropriate State and Federal agencies, the Pilot Parent
Program is able to provide referrals and a wealth of information
to parents. Volunteer professionals from the medical and special
education fields train client parents who wish to become mentors.
All participants in the Pilot Parent Program are volunteers, from
the family mentors to the professionals within the community who
lend their expertise. The program's success has led to its
replication in over 300 cities nationwide, as well as in other
countries, including Australia, Sweden, and Great Britain.
The President salutes the volunteers of Pilot Parent Program
for exemplifying his belief that, "From now on in America, any
definition of a successful life must include serving others."
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracey Taylor or Miah Homstad
(202) 456-6266
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE
March 2, 1992
UNTIL MARCH 3, 1992
The President today recognized volunteers of the ServiceMASTER
Company Limited Partnership of Downers Grove, Illinois, as the
709th Daily Point of Light for the Nation. ServiceMASTER, a
management support services company, encourages parents and
customers to play a greater role in education and mobilizes its
employees to help create excellent schools and a culture that
fosters lifelong learning.
Since late 1989, over 200 ServiceMASTER employees have served as
mentors, tutors, and friends to students at the Francis Scott Key
School on Chicago's west side. This corporate commitment has been
reinforced by the active participation of ServiceMASTER CEO William
Pollard and the company's Executive Board Members --all of whom
have volunteered in the schools as mentors. Five days a week
groups of 12-18 employees spend their lunch hour teaching reading
comprehension and vocabulary to children from primarily low-income
and single parent families by using computer programming.
Volunteers work one-on-one with the students, testing each of them
regularly to monitor academic progress and tailoring the curriculum
to their individual needs.
Francis Scott Key principal Louise Perez credits ServiceMASTER
volunteers with bringing enthusiasm to the school and motivating
the students to learn. Test scores of children enrolled in the
program have improved at twice the rate of those of other students.
Ms. Perez attributes this success to the presence of volunteers as
role models for the students.
The President salutes the volunteers of the ServiceMASTER Company
for exemplifying his belief that, "From now on in America, any
definition of a successful life must include serving others."
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracey Taylor or Miah Homstad
(202) 456-6266
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
March 2, 1992
For Immediate Release
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
In accordance with the requirements of section 109 (e) of
the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (Public Law 96-633;
49 U.S.C. 1808 (e) ) , I transmit herewith the Annual Report on
Hazardous Materials Transportation for calendar year 1990.
GEORGE BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 2, 1992.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
March 2, 1992
For Immediate Release
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
Pursuant to section 233 (e) (1) of the Social Security
Act, as amended by the Social Security Amendments of 1977
(Public Law 95-216; 42 U.S.C. 433 (e) (1)) I transmit herewith
the Agreement between the United States of America and the
Republic of Finland on Social Security, which consists of
two separate instruments -- a principal agreement and an
administrative arrangement. The agreement was signed at
Helsinki on June 3, 1991.
The United States-Finland agreement is similar in
objective to the social security agreements already in force
with Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
and the United Kingdom. Such bilateral agreements provide
for limited coordination between the United States and foreign
social security systems to eliminate dual social security
coverage and taxation, and to help prevent the loss of benefit
protection that can occur when workers divide their careers
between two countries.
I also transmit for the information of the Congress a
report prepared by the Department of Health and Human Services,
providing explanation of the key points of the agreement, along
with a paragraph-by-paragraph explanation of the provisions
of the principal agreement and the related administrative
arrangement. In addition, as required by section 433 (e) (1)
of the Social Security Act, a report on the effect of the
agreement on income and expenditures of the U.S. Social Security
program and the number of individuals affected by the agreement
is also enclosed. I note that the Department of State and the
Department of Health and Human Services have recommended the
agreement and related documents to me.
I commend the Agreement between the United States of
America and the Republic of Finland on Social Security and
related documents.
GEORGE BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 2, 1992.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
March 2, 1992
TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
I am returning herewith without my approval H.R. 2212,
the "United States-China Act of 1991, which places additional
conditions on renewal of China's most-favored-nation (MFN)
trade status.
The sponsors of H.R. 2212 believe they can promote broad
economic and foreign policy objectives in China by placing
conditions on the renewal of China's MFN status. They expect
that the Chinese will improve respect for human rights,
cooperate in arms control, and drop barriers to trade, given
a choice between losing MFN and addressing these concerns.
Let me state at the outset that my Administration shares
the goals and objectives of H.R. 2212. Upholding the sanctity
of human rights, controlling the spread of weapons of mass
destruction, and free and fair trade are issues of vital
concern. My objection lies strictly with the methods proposed
to achieve these aims.
There is no doubt in my mind that if we present China's
leaders with an ultimatum on MFN, the result will be weakened
ties to the West and further repression. The end result will
not be progress on human rights, arms control, or trade. Anyone
familiar with recent Chinese history can attest that the most
brutal and protracted periods of repression took place precisely
when China turned inward, against the world.
Recent agreements by the Chinese to protect U.S.
intellectual property rights, to abide by the Missile
Technology Control Regime Guidelines, to accede to the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty by April, and to discuss our human
rights concerns -- after years of stonewalling -- are the clear
achievements of my Administration's policy of comprehensive
engagement.
We have the policy tools at hand to deal with our concerns
effectively and with realistic chances for success. The
Administration's comprehensive policy of engagement on several
separate fronts invites China's leadership to act responsibly
without leaving any doubts about the consequences of Chinese
misdeeds. Our approach is one of targeting specific areas of
concern with the appropriate policy instruments to produce the
required results. H.R. 2212 would severely handicap U.S.
business in China, penalizing American workers and eliminating
jobs in this country. Conditional MFN status would severely
damage the Western-oriented, modernizing elements in China,
weaken Hong Kong, and strengthen opposition to democracy and
economic reform.
We are making a difference in China by remaining engaged.
Because the Congress has attached conditions to China's MFN
renewal that will jeopardize this policy, I am returning
H.R. 2212 to the House of Representatives without my approval.
Such action is needed to protect the economic and foreign policy
interests of the United States.
GEORGE BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 2, 1992.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
March 2, 1992
YEAR OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, 1992
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Half a millennium ago, when European explorers amazed their
compatriots with stories of a New World, what they actually
described was a land that had long been home to America's native
peoples. In the Northeast part of this country and along the
Northwest coast, generations of tribes fished and hunted; others
farmed the rich soils of the Southeast and Great Plains, while
nomadic tribes roamed and foraged across the Great Basin.
In the arid Southwest, native peoples irrigated the desert,
cultivating what land they could. Each tribe formed a thriving
community with its own customs, traditions, and system of social
order.
The contributions that Native Americans have made to our
Nation's history and culture are as numerous and varied as the
tribes themselves. Over the years, they have added to their
ancient wealth of art and folklore a rich legacy of service and
achievement. Today we gratefully recall Native Americans who
helped the early European settlers to survive in a strange new
land; we salute the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II and all
those Native Americans who have distinguished themselves in
service to our country; and we remember those men and women of
Indian descent -- such as the great athlete, Jim Thorpe and our
31st Vice President, Charles Curtis -- who have instilled pride
in others by reaching the heights of their respective fields.
We also celebrate, with special admiration and gratitude,
another enduring legacy of Native Americans: their close
attachment to the land and their exemplary stewardship of its
natural resources. In virtually every realm of our national
life, the contributions of America's original inhabitants and
their descendants continue.
During 1992, we will honor this country's native peoples
as vital participants in the history of the United States.
This year gives us the opportunity to recognize the special
place that Native Americans hold in our society, to affirm the
right of Indian tribes to exist as sovereign entities, and to
seek greater mutual understanding and trust. Therefore, we
gratefully salute all American Indians, expressing our support
for tribal self-determination and assisting with efforts to
celebrate and preserve each tribe's unique cultural heritage.
The Congress, by Public Law 102-188, has designated 1992
as the "Year of the American Indian" and has authorized and
requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance
of this year.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim 1992 as the Year
of the American Indian. I encourage Federal, State, and local
government officials, interested groups and organizations, and
the people of the United States to observe this year with
appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
second
day of
March, in the year of our
Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-two, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the two hundred and sixteenth.
GEORGE BUSH
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 27, 1992
EXCERPTS BY THE PRESIDENT
AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY
AT THE OPENING PLENARY SESSION OF
THE SAN ANTONIO SUMMIT
It is a great honor and pleasure to call to order an historic
meeting, in a historic city, in a historic state -- my home state
of Texas. we are all here to make this San Antonio Drug Summit
as successful as the first summit called by President Barco two
years ago in beautiful, "heroic" Cartagena. It is fitting to
begin this meeting with a warm tribute to the great, visionary
man who first brought us together on this issue, Virgilio Barco.
In Cartagena, as President Paz Zamora, who is also here today,
will recall, we faced a daunting, unprecedented -- some thought,
hopeless -- challenge: How to unite against the scourge of
drugs, violence, and corruption that was undermining our
democratic societies, our institutions, our economies, and our
environment.
That meeting gave birth to a new alliance to strengthen our
democracies by attacking the drug trafficking and consumption
with greater resolve than ever before. Cartagena was when we
stopped the finger-pointing and committed ourselves to
cooperation, when we recognized that drugs are an international
plague caused by both consumer and supplier.
Two years later the situation has markedly improved. We are
facing the challenge; we are united; we are resolute; we are
prevailing. We are now seven, not four. We welcome to this
group Mexico, Venezuela, and Ecuador, all of whom have shown firm
leadership and courage in this struggle. Others in the Americas
and Europe are with us, seeing the threat more clearly. Progress
is being made. We have courageously faced those who would
subvert our societies, break our laws, and kill thousands of
innocents. Top traffickers are dead or jailed; record levels of
cocaine and other drugs have been seized; cultivation has leveled
off; interdiction is up worldwide; we have cracked down on drug
users; consumption is declining as our people increasingly reject
drugs, especially our youth; our judicial institutions are
stronger, better able to meet the challenge; our efforts against
money laundering, chemical diversion, and illegal arms exports
are improving.
But, we are here today because the job is not yet done. We have
not yet won this fight. It is time to assess our accomplishments
and our plans -- to learn from the past and look to the future.
Let me mention what seems to me to be some priority areas.
First and foremost, we must reduce demand. All else will fail if
we do not do that. I know that task falls heaviest on the United
states; and we have made a good beginning. Since I came to
office, there has been a 35 percent decrease in current cocaine
users and 27 percent fewer young people are using drugs.
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second, we must continue the economic reform, economic
assistance, debt, trade and investment measures which are so
important to our anti-narcotics programs. The United states
wants alternative development to succeed.
I am sure Peruvian and Bolivian peasants will stop growing
illegal coca, if there is an alternative besides starvation. The
stick of law enforcement must have a carrot -- an offer of viable
economic alternatives for poor peasants.
Third, we must continue and enhance our effectiveness in
eradication, interdiction and law enforcement that have been so
critical to our success thus far. Just as demand reduction will
lower supply, so also supply reduction will lessen demand. We
have laid this out in the "Strategy for Action" that is part of
our Declaration. We must make it happen.
Fourth, we must look carefully and imaginatively at what might be
called non-violent, law enforcement measures. We must strengthen
and harmonize our laws on money laundering, arms, exports,
chemical controls, asset seizure, and in other areas. It is here.
that the long arm of the law can fracture the power of the
traffickers. The anti-racketeering laws in the United states
have proven to be one of the strongest measures we have developed
in recent years.
Fifth, our judicial systems need our attention. Many of us have
underway legal reforms so that we can handle criminal cases
faster, more securely and more effectively. These are important
and should proceed. We must also cooperate by sharing
information about traffickers and their crimes so they can be
brought to justice.
Sixth, our cooperation has developed in the past two years and I
welcome that. We need to keep in close touch so that we can
coordinate strategy and understand each others' perspectives and
needs. That makes the high-level follow-on meeting very
important. It will be the first review of how our "strategies
for Action" are progressing. We also must enlist the cooperation
of the Europeans and Asians. To do that we should send a
delegation to those countries to talk to their leaders.
Seventh, heroin production is a worrisome problem which Mexico
and Colombia are moving against with some success. This is a
sign the traffickers believe the cocaine trade is declining. We
cannot ignore this new threat or we risk a surprise in the
future.
Eighth, we must do a better job educating our press and our
publics about our progress. In the United States, for example,
we are seeing a down turn in demand that was purchased at great
cost in money and effort. Another example is the story of the
drop in cultivation in the Chapare in Bolivia.
Ninth, as we take up the struggle within our own countries with
renewed vigor, we must bear in mind that our efforts transcend
borders. We must respect sovereignty or our cooperation will not
be sustained. But, as sovereign states we can agree to cooperate
against the traffickers who trample on the sovereignty. If we do
not work together, the traffickers will destroy us separately.
Finally, one more note of great importance. Everything we do
must conform to our democratic principles. None of us wants a
drug-free dictatorship. We must protect the human and civil
rights of our citizens. We are all committed to defending
democracy and its principles as we defeat the scourge of drugs.
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Pres. Correspondence
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
February 27, 1992
For Immediate Release
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
President spoke by phone with president Kravchuk of Ukraine
The this morning for approximately 20 minutes. The two presidents
discussed the situation in Ukraine and Ukraine's international
debt situation. President Kravchuk stated that Ukraine will meet
its goal for withdrawing all tactical nuclear weapons from its to
territory. In addition, he emphasized Ukraine's intention
support rataification of the START and CFE treaties.
Both President's welcomed the excellent state of bilateral
relations and President Kravchuk accepted the President's
invitation to make an official working visit to Washington on
May 6.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 27, 1992
The President today announced his intention to nominate Wayne A.
Budd, of Massachusetts, to be Associate Attorney General. He
would succeed Francis Anthony Keating II.
Currently, Mr. Budd serves as a United States Attorney for the
District of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1969-
1989, he served with the law firm of Budd, Wiley & Richlin in
Boston, Massachusetts, most recently as the Senior Partner.
Mr. Budd was graduated from Boston College (B.A., 1963) and Wayne
State University School of Law (J.D., 1967). He was born
November 18, 1941 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He is married,
has three children and resides in Saugus, Massachusetts.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 27, 1992
The President today is transmitting to the Congress the 1992 Trade
Policy Agenda and 1991 Annual Report on the Trade Agreements
Program.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 27, 1992
February 26, 1992
Presidential Determination
No.
92-17
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
SUBJECT:
Drawdown from Department of Defense Stocks for
Counternarcotics Assistance for Mexico
Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 506 (a) (2)
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 U.S.C.
2318 (a) (2) (the "Act"), I hereby determine that it is in the
national interest of the United States to draw down defense
articles from the stocks of the Department of Defense and
defense services of the Department of Defense for the purpose
of providing counternarcotics assistance to Mexico.
Therefore, I hereby direct the drawdown of up to $26 million
of such defense articles from the stocks of the Department of
Defense and defense services of the Department of Defense, for
the purposes and under the authorities of Chapter 8 of Part I
of the Act.
The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to report
this determination to the Congress and to arrange for its
publication in the Federal Register.
GEORGE BUSH
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
February 26, 1992
For Immediate Release
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY WITH PRESIDENT ZAMORA OF BOLIVIA
Marriott Rivercenter Hotel
San Antonio, Texas
5:05 P.M. CST
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Mr. President, what do you say to members of
Congress who say your drug war has been a failure?
THE PRESIDENT: Tell them they don't know what they're
talking about.
******
THE PRESIDENT: I might say with your countrymen here
that we are very respectful of the job you're doing; and cooperation,
not only in the antinarcotics field but in so many other areas --
I'm just delighted to see you again.
going to support a the private industry helping other programs in
Mr. Bush, is the government of the United States
Bolivia?
THE PRESIDENT: well, we think we need every facet of
our society helping the government -- private -- everybody getting
involved to help as best we can. And it's a two-way street. I think
Bolivia has been very cooperative with the United states. We've got
a couple of sticking points here that we'll talk about. But I think
generally speaking it's going quite well, and we salute the President
for his efforts. He is a dedicated leader who is trying to whip a
tough problem. And we know that, and we respect that. So he's
welcome here, and we're glad to have the whole team with us.
Thank you all very much.
END
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 27, 1992
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY WITH
FOREIGN MINISTER ARMANDO DURAN OF VENEZUELA
Marriott Rivercenter
San Antonio, Texas
8:40 A.M. CST
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Mr. President, did you make any breakthroughs on
free trade this morning?
THE PRESIDENT: No. We had good discussions on that
with the President of Mexico. And we just reassured him that we want
an agreement, a good agreement as soon as possible. No politics, no
nothing is going to stand in the way of our doing what is right and
what is best for the American people. And what's best is to get a
fair trade -- free trade agreement through as soon as possible.
&
Do you think there will be one this year, Mr.
President?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we're hoping so, yes.
END
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 26, 1992
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENTS
AT DRUG SUMMIT DINNER TOAST
Majestic Theater
San Antonio, Texas
8:01 P.M. CST
THE PRESIDENT: Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen:
Barbara and I are honored to have you join us here tonight. It is a
particular pleasure to welcome to the United States our good friends
and our neighbors from Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Scuador, Bolivia and
Venezuela. I am delighted that we've gathered in my home state,
Secretary Baker's home state of Texas -- with the Governor here, the
Mayor of this city here -- in this gracious city of San Antonio. For
centuries, San Antonio has stood as an important cultural crossroads
of the Americas.
We meet at a time of great hope for all the people of
the Americas. In almost every nation in the hemisphere, people enjoy
self-government and respect for human rights. We're making steady
progress to improve our people's quality of life through more open
trade and investment, by creating more jobs. That's why I am
committed more strongly than ever to completing the North American
Free Trade Agreement linking the economies of Mexico, Canada and the
United States. And building upon that, we will realize the vision I
call the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative -- for robust trade
and investment from the Arctic Ocean to the Straits of Magellan.
During our meetings this week in San Antonio, we will
refine and intensify our common efforts against the menace of drugs.
Each of our nations is making progress: Bolivia has successfully
intensified its law enforcement efforts against cocaine traffickers.
Peru has taken important steps to control airstrips used by
traffickers to move cocaine to Colombia. Ecuador is moving against
money launderers and traffickers on its territory. Colombia has
jailed some of its most violent drug traffickers and is seizing
record quantities of drugs. Venezuela is clamping down on those
attempting to use its territory to ship drugs to Europe and America.
Mexico has reduced cultivation of both oplum poppies and marijuana by
unprecedented amounts, while seizing record amounts of cocaine
through Operation Halcon.
For each of our nations, the battle against drugs is
truly a war. The ultimate stakes are the same: the minds, bodies
and the souls of our young people, so many of whom have been hurt or
destroyed by the violent world of the drug dealers. In the United
States, we're stepping up treatment, prevention and research programs
-- and we're toughening our prosecution and punishment of drug
kingpins.
We're seeing results on the demand side as well. In the
United States over the past six years, we've reduced the number of
cocaine -- regular users of cocaine by two-thirds. Adolescent use of
all types of illegal drugs is down. The number of high school
seniors using illegal drugs is the lowest since we began measuring
their drug use.
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seuce
We must do more. Drug abuse and drug violence --
particularly in our inner cities threaten to destroy our children
and everything else we hold dear. At risk is the civilization we
share: our common inheritance and our common future.
So let us renew our resolve. Let us strengthen our
commitment to guarantee all people drug-free communities. And as we
work to advance the quality of life in our hemi sphere in so many
ways, let us win a lasting victory in the WELL against drugs.
And once again, a warm welcome to San Antonio, Texas.
And may God bless you and all the peoples of the Americas. And may I
raise a glass in honor of our distinguished guests and the important
mission that. all of us share.
(A toast is offered.) (Applause.)
END
8:07 P.M. CST
FEB-27-1992 12:36 FROM SAN ANTONIO PRESS OFFICE TO
MARLIN
P.02
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
February 27, 1992
For Immediate Release
EXCERPTS BY THE PRESIDENT
AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY
AT THE OPENING PLENARY SESSION OF
THE SAN ANTONIO SUMMIT
honor and pleasure to call to order an historic
It is a great in a historic city, in a historic state -- my home Summit state
meeting, we are all here to make this San Antonio Drug two
of Texas. successful as the first summit called by President Barco to
as in beautiful, "heroic" Cartagena. It is fitting visionary
years ago this meeting with a warm tribute to the great,
begin man who first brought us together on this issue, Virgilio Barco.
as President Paz Zamora, who is also here today,
will In Cartagena, recall, we faced a daunting, unprecedented -- some thought, of
hopeless -- challenge: How to unite against the scourge
drugs, violence, and corruption that was undermining our
democratic societies, our institutions, our economies, and our
environment.
That meeting gave birth to a new alliance to strengthen our
democracies by attacking the drug trafficking and consumption
with greater resolve than ever before. Cartagena was when we
cooperation, when we recognized that drugs are an international
stopped the finger-pointing and committed ourselves to
plague caused by both consumer and supplier.
Two years later the situation has markedly improved. We are
facing the challenge; we are united; we are resolute; we are
prevailing. We are now seven, not four. We welcome to this
group Mexico, Venezuela, and Ecuador, all of whom have shown firm
leadership and courage in this struggle. Others in the Americas
and Europe are with us, seeing the threat more clearly. Progress
is being made. We have courageously faced those who would
subvert our societies, break our laws, and kill thousands of
innocents. Top traffickers are dead or jailed; record levels of
cocaine and other drugs have been seized; cultivation has leveled
off; interdiction is up worldwide; we have cracked down on drug
users; consumption is declining as our people increasingly reject
drugs, especially our youth; our judicial institutions are
stronger, better able to meet the challenge; our efforts against
money laundering, chemical diversion, and illegal arms exports
are improving.
But, we are here today because the job is not yet done. We have
not yet won this fight. It is time to assess our accomplishments
and our plans -- to learn from the past and look to the future.
Let me mention what seems to me to be some priority areas.
First and foremost, we must reduce demand. All else will fail if
we do not do that. I know that task falls heaviest on the United
States; and we have made a good beginning. Since I came to
office, there has been a 35 percent decrease in current cocaine
users and 27 percent fewer young people are using drugs.
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second, we must continue the economic reform, economic
assistance, debt, trade and investment measures which are so
important to our anti-narcotics programs. The United States
wants alternative development to succeed.
I am sure Peruvian and Bolivian peasants will stop growing
illegal coca, if there is an alternative besides starvation. The
stick of law enforcement must have a carrot -- an offer of viable
economic alternatives for poor peasants.
Third, we must continue and enhance our effectiveness in
eradication, interdiction and law enforcement that have been so
critical to our success thus far. Just as demand reduction will
lower supply, so also supply reduction will lessen demand. We
have laid this out in the "strategy for Action" that is part of
our Declaration. we must make it happen.
Fourth, we must look carefully and imaginatively at what might be
called non-violent, law enforcement measures. we must strengthen
and harmonize our laws on money laundering, arms, exports,
chemical controls, asset seizure, and in other areas. It is here
that the long arm of the law can fracture the power of the
traffickers. The anti-racketeering laws in the United States
have proven to be one of the strongest measures we have developed
in recent years.
Fifth, our judicial systems need our attention. Many of us have
underway legal reforms so that we can handle criminal cases
faster, more securely and more effectively. These are important
and should proceed. We must also cooperate by sharing
information about traffickers and their crimes so they can be
brought to justice.
Sixth, our cooperation has developed in the past two years and I
welcome that. We need to keep in close touch so that we can
coordinate strategy and understand each others' perspectives and
needs. That makes the high-level follow-on meeting very
important. It will be the first review of how our "strategies
for Action" are progressing. We also must enlist the cooperation
of the Europeans and Asians. TO do that we should send a
delegation to those countries to talk to their leaders.
Seventh, heroin production is a worrisome problem which Mexico
and Colombia are moving against with some success. This is a
sign the traffickers believe the cocaine trade is declining. we
cannot ignore this new threat or we risk a surprise in the
future.
Eighth, we must do a better job educating our press and our
publics about our progress. In the United States, for example,
we are seeing a down turn in demand that was purchased at great
cost in money and effort. Another example is the story of the
drop in cultivation in the Chapare in Bolivia.
Ninth, as we take up the struggle within our own countries with
renewed vigor, we must bear in mind that our efforts transcend
borders. We must respect sovereignty or our cooperation will not
be sustained. But, as sovereign states we can agree to cooperate
against the traffickers who trample on the sovereignty. If we do
not work together, the traffickers will destroy us separately.
Finally, one more note of great importance. Everything we do
must conform to our democratic principles. None of us wants a
drug-free dictatorship. We must protect the human and civil
rights of our citizens. We are all committed to defending
democracy and its principles as we defeat the scourge of drugs.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
MRS. BUSH'S PRESS OFFICE
DAILY PRESS CLIPPINGS
Thursday, February 27, 1992
Mrs. Bush
(in folder)
Secretary Skinner
West Wing
Marlin Fitzwater
West Wing
Constance Horner
West Wing
Carol Powers
West Wing
Patty Presock
Residence
First Lady Detail
Staircase
Karen Connell
Room 58 OEOB
Shirley Green
Room 94 OEOB
Anne Griffith
Room 98 OEOB
Diana Kellogg
Room 157 OEOB
Gregg Petersmeyer
Room 100 OEOB
Marguerite Sullivan
Room 268 OEOB
Carolyn Washington
Room 268 OEOB
Benita Somerfield
hold one copy
Ann Brock
Julie Cooke
Joan DeCain
Laurie Firestone
Jane Moore
Susan Porter Rose
Sally Runion
Peggy Swift
Anna Perez
Sondra Haley
Jean Becker
Jay Suchan
(plus originals)
USA TODAY . THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992 . 5A
Drug summit likely to end lacking specific goals
By Jessica Lee
set goals," with current U.S.
to the first drug summit In Car-
USA TODAY
funding. The $165 million for
tagena, Colombia, in 1989.
First lady at anti-drug program
helping coca leaf farmers con-
"We're going to redouble our
SAN ANTONIO - Despite
vert to alternative crops is
efforts on the demand side and
President Bush's VOW to "re-
"completely Insufficient."
on the supply side."
double" efforts to battle drugs,
The White House said it
The leaders are expected to
a watered-down declaration is
plans no money beyond what's
produce renewed commit-
expected from today's summit
already in the budget.
ments and strategies for halt-
with Latin American leaders.
Some U.S. policy-makers
ing the flow of drugs to the
Meeting with Bush: the presi-
have complained that Peru,
USA, the chief consumer na-
dents of Bolivia, Colombia, Ec-
plagued by corruption and po-
tion, and helping poor farmers
uador, Mexico and Peru and
litical strife, is not doing
who grow coca leaves for co-
Venezuela's foreign minister.
enough to stop coca growing.
caine to convert to other crops.
Colombian President Cesar
Asked during a photo session
The United States began a
Gaviria sought target dates:
with Bush if Peru needed more
five-year $2.2-billion program
Cut drug trafficking in half
money, Fujimori told report-
in 1989 to help Latin American
by the year 2000.
ers, "Oh sure."
nations fight drugs.
Cut production and con-
Bush answered: "Everybody
Yet, according to a report
sumption by 70% by 2005.
does, including us."
from the U.S. Office of Nation-
End trafficking by 2010.
The president blasted con-
al Drug Control Policy, Latin
Peru, which has made slow
gressional critics who call the
American nations in 1990 pro-
By Mike Nelson, AP
progress on the anti-drug front,
drug war a failure. "They don't
duced nearly 700 million tons
CUED UP: First lady Barbara Bush cheers a shot during
has consistently opposed set-
know what they're talking
of cocaine while 70% of the
pool game at a Boys and Girls Club in San Antonio, Texas
ting specific target dates.
about.
The record's good.'
world's users were in the USA.
Wednesday. Mrs. Bush, who also checked out the club's
Peru's president, Alberto Fu-
"We're going to build on
anti-drug program, lost the game to Tyrone Darden, 12.
jimori said, "It is not possible to
Cartagena," he said, referring
Today's debate, 10A
The Washington Times
*
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992 /
Last night, Mr. and Mrs. Bush
hosted a state dinner after Mr. Bush
met privately for a half-hour each
with the presidents of Peru, Colom-
bia, Ecuador and Bolivia. He was to
Supply
have breakfast today with Mexican
President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Although the second "interna-
is focus
tional drug summit" takes place in a
city Mr. Bush was told is ravaged by
narcotics, Bush administration offi-
cials argue that major successes
of drug
since 1988 are not being recognized.
"All of us face a monster and it is
going to take days, months and years
of sustained struggle to confront
'summit'
and defeat this monster," said Ber-
nard Aronson, assistant secretary of
state for inter-American affairs.
"This war is not going to be like Des-
By-Frank J. Murray
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
ert Storm. It is not going to be won
in 100 hours."
SAN ANTONIO - President
Bush arrived in Texas yesterday to
The officials conceded the drug
convince five Latin American presi-
supply is rising despite the $2.2 bil-
dents he has dented America's appe-
lion five-year Andean strategy that
tite for the drug "monster" and to
produced arrests and a growing
prod the leaders into halting a rising
number of seizures throughout the
drug supply.
hemisphere. But the number of
Colombian President Cesar Ga-
hard-core U.S. drug users, estimated
viria also arrived yesterday, saying
at 900,000, is not dropping.
concrete goals were needed. He pro-
The increased drug supply is
posed a commitment to end all drug
blamed largely on corrupted offi-
trafficking by the year 2010.
cials in Latin America and bumper
Diplomatic sources said the draft
crops of coca and marijuana south
agreement proposes a turn-of-the-
of the border.
century target of halving drug sup-
plies, largely from South America,
"We're interdicting a lot more.
and drug demand, much of it in
The problem is they're producing a
North America.
lot, too," Mr. Bush said in an inter-
view with the San Antonio Light
But a senior U.S. official said last
night that Peruvian demands for
newspaper.
more aid would stalemate the issue
and keep it from even being men-
In a California speech on Tuesday
tioned in the final declaration.
Mr. Bush said he will seek at the
The presidents hold "summit"
international summit to "sharpen
sessions today to thrash out details
our strategy to beat this scourge"
of that statement, but objections
but said more changes are needed in
were voiced yesterday by Peru's
the United States as well.
President Alberto Fujimori, who
"We need stiffer sentences for
said he would not support compro-
drug dealers, courts that punish
mise on the objectives if there were
criminals, not [punish] honest cops
no compromise on financial assis-
trying to do their jobs, laws that
tance to combat the problem.
make life tougher on criminals than
"There's no blank checks any-
on the victims of crime," Mr. Bush
more, for this or anything else," Mr.
said.
Bush warned.
In the interview, given Monday at
All six presidents were to hold a
the White House and released en
joint news conference today after
route, Mr. Bush said his goal in to-
the final declaration is released.
day's summit sessions is "to con-
vince them - which I think will be
rather easy given the figures - that
we are making progress on the de-
mand side."
Wed 26-Feb-92 17:17 EST
SUMMIT COULD INCLUDE PROPOSAL TO HALVE COCAINE SUPPLY
By Jeff Franks
SAN ANTONIO, Reuter - President Bush and Latin American
leaders began discussions Wednesday on an anti-drug strategy
that could include a goal to halve the Western Hemisphere's
production and use of cocaine by the year 2000.
Aides to U.S. drug czar Bob Martinez told Reuters a proposal
to create goals to cut in half cocaine production and use in the
Americas by the end of the century was being discussed in
pre-summit meetings with officials from Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru,
Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela.
The formal meetings begin Thursday.
In a brief interview with Reuters, Martinez would not
comment directly on the proposal. "There's a number of things
being discussed right now and so it's really too early to tell
what the final version of the agreement may be," he said.
An aide said Martinez's statement "indicated that (goal
proposal) was one of the topics under discussion, but whether
everybody has agreed to that is unclear."
Bush began the bilateral meetings an hour after he and first
lady Barbara Bush arrived Wednesday afternoon. They were to host
a state dinner for the summit participants Wednesday night.
Even before Wednesday's meetings began, summit participants
appeared strongly divided over the issue of quotas and
deadlines.
Colombian President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo issued a
statement calling for the elimination of drug trafficking by the
year 2010. He proposed a regional center to enhance information
sharing and a "judicial cooperation structure" to prosecute
drug dealers.
But Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, in a press
conference here, said setting goals was realistic only if
impoverished countries such as his were given the money and
equipment to wage war effectively against drug production.
"If they tell there's this goal' and leave us hanging, I
can assure them that that won't work," he said.
Fujimori also termed "unacceptable" any suggestion of a
multinational military force to attack cocaine producing
regions. He said the real solution was to provide economic
alternatives to the 250,000 peasant farmers who grow coca -- the
raw material for cocaine -- in his country.
In an interview published Wednesday in the San Antonio
Light, Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora said he had presented
a plan to Bush that, if implemented, could halt cocaine
production in his country "in less than five years. "
Zamora's plan calls for creation of a fund for peasant
farmers who give up production of coca, another fund to ease the
impact on Bolivia's economy of the loss of foreign currency
brought in by cocaine and a mechanism to increase private
investment in his small country.
"I don't want money from the American government, what I
want is for the United States to generate a current of private
investments," he told the Light.
10/2
In an interview with the Light published Tuesday, Bush said
the cash-strapped United States was not prepared to increase
drug-fighting aid to Latin American nations.
"We're doing what I think we can afford to do right now
There are no blank checks anymore, II Bush told the newspaper.
Martinez and other administration officials indicated
earlier the summit may include a call for European and Asian
nations to contribute to the war on drugs because of growing
cocaine use outside of the Americas.
The United States began a five-year $2.2 billion spending
program in 1989 to help Latin American nations fight drug
trafficking.
According to a report from the U.S. Office of National Drug
Control Policy, which is headed by Martinez, Latin American
nations produced in 1990 nearly 700 million metric tons of
cocaine and 70 percent of the world's users were in the United
States.
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Wed 26-Feb-92 20:36 EST
First Lady Visits Anti-Drug Education Program
By KELLEY SHANNON
Associated Press Writer
SAN ANTONIO (AP) As President Bush began meeting with Latin
-
American leaders Wednesday on efforts to halt drug smuggling,
Barbara Bush checked out a Texas program that tutors children and
educates them about drug and alcohol abuse.
"More people should try to be part of the answer and not part
of the problem," Mrs. Bush said. "There's a lot of good fallout
that comes from a program like this."
Mrs. Bush traveled with the president to San Antonio for a
two-day drug summit her husband is holding with leaders of Mexico,
Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela.
The first lady visited a branch of the Boys and Girls Club of
San Antonio, where children from ages 6 to 17 go after school and
for other activities.
She talked with children working on computers and playing games
and took on a 12-year-old boy in a game of pool.
"I feel just like Fats whats-his-name," Mrs. Bush said, pool
cue in hand. She clenched a fist and shouted "Yes!" as she
knocked a pool ball into a pocket.
Tyrone Darden, the boy who beat Mrs. Bush at the game, said he
enjoyed the contest but doubted Mrs. Bush had a future in playing
billiards.
Six-year-old Christina Tellfair, who was playing Scrabble, asked
Mrs. Bush where she lives. "The White House," Mrs. Bush replied,
then the girl reached up and curiously played with the first lady's
trademark pearls.
Mrs. Bush moderated a drug education game, asking youngsters
about the legal drinking age and whether all harmful drugs are
illegal. The group presented a sweatshirt to Mrs. Bush, who vowed
to get the president to wear it.
The first lady said more programs like those at the Boys and
Girls Club are needed so that all children get the attention they
need.
"George says every kid needs somebody who knows their name. It
means much more than that," she said. "It's bigger than drugs.
It's education, it's caring."
Wed 26-Feb-92 19:24 EST
REAGAN SUPPORTS BUSH CANDIDACY "TO THE FULLEST"
By Irwin Arieff
WASHINGTON, Reuter - Former president Ronald Reagan, trying
to erase doubts about his backing for President Bush's
re-election, said Wednesday he supports Bush "to the fullest."
But it was unclear whether the former president's statement
would be enough to undo the damage done during the president's
visit with Reagan Tuesday, when Reagan seemed to hold his former
vice president at arm's length as he sought Reagan's political
blessing in California.
"President Bush and I had an excellent conversation
yesterday
I support President Bush's candidacy to the
fullest and will do everything I can to see that he is
re-elected as president," Reagan said in a statement.
The president and first lady Barbara Bush had gone in a
motorcade to Bel Air in suburban Los Angeles and met for 20
minutes with the former president and his wife Nancy at their
hillside home, protected by a tall metal fence and greenery.
When his motorcade arrived at Reagan's Los Angeles home, the
gate swung shut in the faces of reporters accompanying Bush and
wife Barbara. Plain brown wrapping-paper plastered across the
barred gate seemed to provide a symbolic shroud.
So there was no politically useful photo session, no
television sound bite from Reagan that Bush was his man.
Later, Reagan skipped a $1,000-a-plate fund-raising dinner
for Bush in Los Angeles. Bush campaign spokeswoman Torie Clarke
said the former president had a prior commitment.
All this despite the fact that Bush was trying to counter a
Washington Post report that Reagan had lost faith in his
successor's political acumen and doubted he could even win
California -- a prize probably indispensable to Bush's
re-election Nov. 3.
It recalled that many presidential candidates have been
hurt by faint praise from their political patrons, including
Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and Bush himself in 1988.
Accounts of the oddly chilly encounter got such prominent
notice in Wednesday morning newspapers and newscasts that damage
control was necessary and Reagan attempted it.
Bush also sought to put the best face on the results from
Tuesday's presidential primary in South Dakota, where nearly one
Republican voter in three backed "uncommitted" rather than the
incumbent Republican president.
The president said the surprisingly strong vote against him
in South Dakota did not detract from his win there, calling the
outcome "a good victory."
But it reinforced the angry message delivered a week ago by
New Hampshire Republicans who gave his right-wing challenger Pat
Buchanan 37 percent of the vote and "others" 10 percent to
Bush's 53 percent.
"Yesterday, in South Dakota, Mr. Bush lost 31 percent of
the vote to an uncommitted slate" of delegates, Buchanan said
in a television interview in New Orleans. "If I hadn't been
denied access to that ballot, we could have beaten him there or
10/2
at least won over 40 percent of the vote."
Buchanan entered the race for the Republican presidential
nomination too late to get on the South Dakota ballot, and when
Buchanan sued, a state judge ruled in early January that he had
been properly excluded.
Buchanan and the only other well-known Republican contender,
former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, are entered in only a
handful of state contests.
That means they can do little to stop Bush's renomination,
but continued strong protest votes could so weaken Bush as to
send him limping into the fall campaign.
The next Bush-Buchanan confrontation takes place in Georgia
March 3 -- a day when seven states hold primaries or caucuses to
select delegates to the two major parties' national nominating
conventions this summer.
A total of 22 primary and party caucus votes take place
between now and "Super Tuesday," March 10. They may help
identify an eventual Democratic winner -- or just generate
additional confusion.
Among Republicans Bush might be able to quell the voter
revolt in the next two weeks but more likely will remain under
fire from his own party, a bad omen for his re-election drive.
Balloting in Iowa, New Hampshire, Maine and South Dakota has
shown only that Democratic voters can be a fickle lot and that
Republican voters are intent on sending President Bush a message
of protest over his handling of the economy.
Those ballots in Georgia, Colorado, Idaho, Maryland,
Minnesota, Utah and Washington state will also shape the future
for the field of Democratic presidential contenders.
Former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas, who won in New
Hampshire and Maine but was fourth in South Dakota, wants a
victory in Maryland to show appeal outside New England. Polls
show him with a narrow lead over Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.
Clinton is focusing on Georgia to ignite his "Southern
strategy.' He is favored there and a loss could ruin him.
Although a heavy concentration of states from his native
South on the immediate primary calendar could propel him into
the Democratic nomination, he has yet to win a preference vote
anywhere. Second in New Hampshire was his best showing.
Sen. Bob Kerrey broke into the winners circle in South
Dakota and got a boost after near-bottom finishes elsewhere.
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Wed 26-Feb-92 16:11 EST
BUSH, DEMOCRATS FINDING LITTLE TO CHEER ABOUT
By Irwin Arieff
WASHINGTON, Reuter - The first four presidential preference
votes have given Republicans and Democrats little to cheer about
but the campaign now enters a crucial period that could start
to sort things out for both parties.
Balloting in Iowa, New Hampshire, Maine and South Dakota has
shown only that Democratic voters can be a fickle lot and that
Republican voters are intent on sending President Bush a message
of protest over his handling of the economy.
Twenty-two more primary and party caucus votes take place
between now and "Super Tuesday," March 10. They may help
identify an eventual Democratic winner -- or just generate
additional confusion.
Among Republicans Bush might be able to quell the voter
revolt in the next two weeks but more likely will remain under
fire from his own party, a bad omen for his re-election drive.
That drive got a double jolt Tuesday: first, nearly one
South Dakota Republican primary voter in three backed
" uncommitted" rather than Bush; then former President Reagan
seemed to hold Bush at arms length when he sought Reagan's
political blessing in California.
The president and Barbara Bush drove by motorcade to Bel Air
in suburban Los Angeles and met for 20 minutes with the former
president and Nancy Reagan at their hillside home, protected by
a tall metal fence and heavy greenery.
No media coverage was allowed, and the White House said
there would be no comment on the meeting between Reagan and
Bush, who was his loyal vice president for eight years.
Later, Reagan skipped a 1,000-a-plate fund-raising dinner
for Bush in Los Angeles. Bush campaign spokeswoman Torie Clarke
said the former president had a prior commitment.
All this despite the fact that Bush was trying to counter a
Washington Post report that Reagan had lost faith in his
political acumen and doubted he could even win California -- a
prize probably indispensable to Bush's re-election on Nov. 3.
Attempting to defuse the situation Wednesday, Reagan issued
a statement denying he was disillusioned with Bush.
"President Bush and I had an excellent conversation
yesterday I support President Bush's candidacy to the
fullest and will do everything I can to see that he is
re-elected as president," Reagan said.
Reagan earlier had endorsed Bush for the nomination over his
right-wing challenger, former political commentator and Reagan
White House aide Pat Buchanan, in a videotaped message to a
Republican dinner in New Hampshire earlier this month.
Bush said the surprisingly strong vote against him in South
Dakota did not detract from his win there, calling the outcome
" a good victory."
But it reinforced the angry message delivered a week ago by
New Hampshire Republicans who gave Buchanan 37 percent of the
vote and "others" 10 percent to Bush's 53 percent.
"Yesterday, in South Dakota, Mr. Bush lost 31 percent of
10/2
the vote to an uncommitted slate" of delegates, Buchanan said
in a television interview in New Orleans. "If I hadn't been
denied access to that ballot, we could have beaten him there or
at least won over 40 percent of the vote.
Buchanan and the only other well-known Republican contender,
former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, are entered in only a
handful of state contests.
That means they can do little to stop Bush's renomination.
But continued strong protest votes could so weaken Bush as
to send him limping into the fall campaign.
The next Bush-Buchanan confrontation takes place in Georgia
March 3 -- a day when seven states hold primaries or caucuses to
select delegates to the two major parties' national nominating
conventions this summer.
Those ballots in Georgia, Colorado, Idaho, Maryland,
Minnesota, Utah and Washington state will also shape the future
for the field of Democratic presidential contenders.
Former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas, who won in New
Hampshire and Maine but was fourth in South Dakota, wants a
victory in Maryland to show appeal outside New England. Polls
show him with a narrow lead over Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.
Clinton is focusing on Georgia to ignite his "Southern
strategy.' He is favored there and a loss could ruin him.
Although a heavy concentration of states from his native
South on the immediate primary calendar could propel him into
the Democratic nomination, he has yet to win a preference vote
anywhere. Second in New Hampshire was his best showing.
Sen. Bob Kerrey broke into the winners circle in South
Dakota and got a boost after near-bottom finishes elsewhere.
Now in a race for survival is Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, who
needed a win in South Dakota but finished second to Kerrey.
Former California Gov. Jerry Brown, apparently unfazed by
defeat, says he will run his low-budget campaign to the end.
202
THE WASHINGTON POST
CAMPAIGN '92
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1992
Reagan Gives Bush
Statement of Support
Remark on Election Prospects Is Denied
By Lou Cannon
is "not true." He described the
Washington Post Staff Writer
meeting as "just a private chat."
Administration officials and Re-
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26-For-
publican advisers to the Bush cam-
mer president Ronald Reagan is-
paign acknowledged today that the
sued a formal statement of support
Reagan-Bush meeting was mishan-
for President Bush today as White
dled amid a contentious GOP fight
House officials scrambled to repair
about whether Bush has abandoned
political damage after what ap-
Reagan's conservative mantle.
peared to be a snub of Bush when
"If we can't orchestrate a cam-
the two met Tuesday.
paign photo op with Reagan, we've
In a statement that administration
got worse problems than I thought,"
officials said they requested from
Reagan, the former president said he
one official said. Another suggested
that the new White House team has
"will do everything I can to see that
"dull antennas" for anticipating pub-
he is reelected as president."
Reagan's office issued the three-
lic relations traps and had not
paragraph statement here soon af-
thought that a meeting. with no
statements by Reagan might be in-
ter Bush departed for the drug sum-
terpreted as a snub.
mit in San Antonio. The political
White House Chief of Staff Sam-
impact of Bush's visit was marred
uel K. Skinner said the Reagans had
by Reagan's absence at the $1,000-
a-plate dinner Tuesday at a hotel
invited the Bushes to "drop in"
one block from Reagan's office.
more than two weeks ago but asked
Bush and his wife, Barbara, visited
that no media coverage in or near
Reagan and his wife, Nancy, at their
their home be allowed because they
home a few miles away, but report-
wanted to maintain their privacy.
ers were not allowed to hear from
"Of course," that request was hon-
Reagan what they anticipated would
ored, said Skinner, adding that he
be a standard endorsement and com-
did not know why a possible prob-
lem was not foreseen.
plimentary words about Bush's pros-
Meanwhile, Gov. Pete Wilson (R)
pects among California voters.
In the statement, Reagan took is-
led an all-out effort by state GOP
sue with parts of a report Tuesday in
leaders today to gather support for
The Washington Post, which quoted
suspending a party rule and passing
him as saying Bush faces reelection
a resolution giving Bush a pre-pri-
difficulty "because he doesn't seem
mary endorsement at the state par-
to stand for anything." The remark
ty convention this weekend.
Wilson's involvement has raised
was attributed to "sources close to
the former president."
concern that conservatives might
Today's statement said that "the
try to expand the resolution in an
effort to embarrass him and Sen.
quote attributed to me in The
Washington Post is incorrect. Any-
John Seymour (R), a fellow moder-
one close to me knows that I would
ate appointed by Wilson to fill his
Senate seat.
not say and have never made any
such statement
A spokesman for Seymour's con-
"President Bush and [ had an ex-
servative opponent, Rep. William E.
cellent conversation yesterday. He
Dannemeyer (R-Calif.), said he was
and I share the same view that we
not contemplating such action.
must turn the American economy
Ironically, the rule that Bush sup-
around and that the economic chal-
porters hope to suspend was backed
lenge
can best be met by Re-
strongly by Reagan when he was
publican leadership
governor and has been a principal
1 support
President Bush's candidacy to the
instrument for preventing bitter
fullest
battles between the party's conser-
White House press secretary
vative and moderate wings in past
Marlin Fitzwater. speaking aboard
campaigns.
Air Force One before the flight to
Staff writers Ann Devroy in
Texas, dismissed the flap about the
Washington and John E. Yang in
Bush-Reagan visit as "just media
San Antonio contributed to this
mischief" that "means nothing" and
report.
THE
NEW
YORK
TIMES
METRO
THURSDAY.
FEBRUARY
Chronicle
and MARIKE DE KLERK, the wife of the
When Florida sends out for moss, it must be a
president of South Africa.
The conference, which ended yes-
big deal
Who's concerned for the poor?
terday, focused on the plight and po-
tential of 550 million rural women in
Needed in Moscow: a writer with answers.
poor, countries. It was conducted by
the United Nations International
Fund for Agricultural Development.
DOROTHY SCHULMAN, the honorary
terer, security guards, musical engi-
chairwoman of a Chanel fashion show
neer, nurse and paramedics.
this evening at the Henry Flagler
ELESABETH GILLET, a chairwoman
The talk at a dinner party that
Morrison Museum in Palm Beach,
of the event, said a gasp arose when
GREGORY MOSHER, a former director
Fla, has received 60 letters pleading
she proposed raising the price of a
of the Lincoln Center Theater, gave
fortickets. "They say, 'Why am I be-
ticket from $175 to $250. The increase
on Tuesday at his Manhattan apart-
ing turned away?' Mrs. Schulman
was approved, she said, but even so,
ment for ANATOLY SMELYANSKY, a di-
said yesterday. 'I am crying, and I
"we have had to return at least 100
rector of the Moscow Art Theater and
want to be part of it.'
checks."
the head of its school, turned inevita-
The sold-out event, which will bene-
Why such a strong demand? "The
bly to the mood of the literary world
fit the Children's Medical Center at
construction work," she said, "and
in Moscow.
St. Mary's Hospital in Palm Beach, is
the public relations."
"Life in Moscow is simple surviv-
costing Chanel $250,000. It is easy to
Well, that's telling it like it is.
al," said Mr. Smelyansky, who is now
see why, from the explanation of the
a guest professor at the Yale School
logistics by JULIE MANNION, the pro-
of Drama. "In times like these, one
ducer of the show and a partner in the
In Geneva, the talk of a United Na-
questions the value of everything:
publictelations firm of Keeble, Ca-
tions conference on the plight of poor
whether the theater, literature, any-
vaco & Duka.
rural women was as much about who
thing has any value.
It is to be staged in "the largest
was not there as who was.
"There is a great sense of empti-
tent in south Florida." she said, with
BARBARA BUSH sent a brief mes-
ness, and we do not know what any of
a floor, risers, a runway and special
sage of good wishes that was not
it means. We are waiting for the next
lighting. For the cocktail party, trees
read, and some of the more affluent
generation, some young writer, to tell
were placed outside the museum to
of the 107 countries represented -
us what all of it means."
look as if they were growing into its
Britain, France, Germany Italy, Can-
Among the guests, who dined on
windows. Moss was flown in from Se-
ada and Japan- sent only staff
salmon en croûte, sliced beets and cu-
attle, and vines from North Carolina,
members from their offices at the
cumbers and drank tea drawn from a
to reflect the theme, "Coco and the
United Nations offices in Geneva.
samovar, were ALFRED KAZIN, WAL-
Enchanted Forest."
Still, a good number of names were
LACE SHAWN, JULES FEIFFER, ALEC
Two dozen models will wear de-
recognizable. QUEEN FABIOLA of Bel-
BALDWIN and LUANN WALTHER, the
signs from KARL LAGERFELD'S spring
gium opened the conference. BOU-
executive editor of Vintage Books.
and summer couture and ready-to-
TROS GHALI, the new Secretary Gen-
Mr. Baldwin had come straight from
wear collections, Ms. Mannion said.
eral, spoke. And the delegates includ-
a rehearsal for "A Streetcar Named
They are coming in from France,
ed QUEEN NOOR of Jordan; QUEEN so-
Desire," which Mr. Mosher is direct-
Portugal and the Bahamas. Six hair-
FÍA of Spain; AURA HERZOG, the wife
ing, and looked for all the world like a
dressers from Tokyo and Paris will
of the president of Israel; SAFYA QAD-
1990's Stanley Kowalski in a V-neck
on hand, not to mention the ca-
DAFI, the wife of the Libyan leader,
T-shirt.
NADINE BROZAN
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1992
The Washington Post
Style
Oh, Reege!
Oh, Kathie Lee!
The Key to Television's Popular Brew: They Percolate in the Morning.
By Tom Shales
Washington Post Staff Writer
hile Geraldo was having fat cells taken
W
out of his butt and injected into his face,
while Phil was asking a transsexual how
his new genitalia were created, and
"bean" Regis, Kathie Lee says without a blink, "Every
while Oprah was chatting up ex-spouses
day." But she is quick to add: "There is a great affection
who'd reunited long enough to have sex with each other,
between us. Great affection and great respect."
Regis was recalling how his septic tank had backed up
Also great rapport and, yes, great ratings.
on Valentine's Day and Kathie Lee was describing how
Philbin's real wife, Joy, occasionally fills in when Gif-
her mischievous 2-year-old had thrown a pork chop at
ford is off on one of her many extracurricular gigs; Gif-
her sister during dinner.
ford's husband, Frank, is the ABC sports commentator,
"Live With Regis & Kathie Lee" is that horse of a dif-
three years older than Philbin. To their burgeoning ar-
ferent color you've heard so much about. Not racy, not
my of fans, watching hotheaded Regis spar with crystal-
freaky, not remotely tawdry, the syndicated daily hour
cool Kathie Lee is like tracking the progress of a platon-
of small talk and tomfoolery has become one of televi-
ic extramarital affair, one with plenty of ups and downs,
sion's least disheartening hits, and the reason it's suc-
tiffs and spats, flirtations and exasperations.
ceeded has everything to do with the two wacky cranks
They amuse each other to bits. And us too.
at the heart of it.
During "host chat," the first 15 minutes of each show
Regis Philbin, 58, and Kathie Lee Gifford, 38, are the
(seen weekdays in Washington at 9 a.m. on Channel 7),
bickering couple next door in millions and millions of
American homes, but they aren't married to each other.
"I could never be married to Regis," says Gifford with a
shocked groan. "My gosh, we'd kill each other! Actually,
I'd kill him. I'd win."
"She does get on my nerves once in a while, as I do
hers," says Philbin. "But what I hate is the hosts who are
too civil, too nice to one another. I like to keep an edge
between us. And if it looks like there's an antagonistic
thing, well, maybe there is."
Asked if there are ever times when she'd like to
10/3
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hat Gifford said. the's restless.
th? he savs. with a Don Corieone
me remance gets its toughest work-
cowl. "Well she's gotten very not
out-Regis outraging Kathie Lee with
commercially. Wow. But I think we
remarks she considers "oinkers,"
both realize that the anchor thing is
Kathie Lee irritating Regis with a nev-
right here."
er-ending supply of anecdotes about
Could she be making more money
son Cody, who, as regular viewers
than Regis? "She well may be with all
know, is now going through the terri-
those things," he says. And how does
ble 2's.
he feel about that? Pushed to the
They also know that when Regis
breaking point. which is never far
talks about "Love-ya-baby. Love-ya-ba-
away. Philbin shouts. "Now don't ag-
by." he is referring to his agent. and
gravate me! I'm going to ask her to-
when he mentions "the Winds of War."
morrow!"
he IS referring to his sister-in-law. and
"I don't know how she'd be rest-
when he brings up "Steve i Don't Need
less," Gelman says later. concerned. "If
the Money," he is talking about his con-
I were she, I wouldn't be bored."
tractor. And they know "Gelman" is
Philbin has been through many co-
Michael Gelman. the 30-year-old,
hosts in his long talk show life-Mary
Clark Kentish executive producer
Hart. now "Entertainment Tonight's"
whom Philbin berates on the air every
chipper picker-upper, among them.
time things go wrong.
Kathie Lee, he says, is his favorite. the
Except that when they go wrong,
happiest discovery and the cheekiest
they go right, because they become
accomplice. "It works best with her be-
funnier. "The old adage about never
cause she's a very spontaneous per-
booking kids or animals?" says Gelman.
son."
"I go the total opposite. I love to book
Now, just as they're getting $0000
kids and animals because there's so
hot, she wants to break up the team!
much that can go wrong. And when
But there was to be a happy ending.
those things go wrong, you have some
Gifford subsequently signed a new con-
of the funniest moments of live TV."
tract and will stay with the show a few
slippery second banana (to Joey Bishop,
That's when Regis will twirl himself
more years. Nobody, including a
who once had a late-night talk show on
into a fit and spin around the room
spokeswoman for Disney, which syndi-
ABC) and a guy who people had a ten-
screaming, a little like his idol Don
cates the show, will say for exactly
dency to mistake for somebody else.
Rickles. though never as mean. He's
how long, however, as if this were a
Your basic generic TV Personality.
the little guy protesting the injustices
great state secret: these people are in
"The second-banana thing stuck for a
of life. from crime waves to paper cuts.
show business, SO they're just nuts.
long, long time, you know, and the crit-
The ranting is punctuated with Kathie
Ron Konecky, Gifford's attorney, also
ics kicked me around pretty good," he
Lee's familiar cry of "Oh, Reege," ut-
refuses to divulge the length of the
says solemnly.
tered sometimes in sisterly sympathy
contract but calls it "relatively long-
and sometimes in teacherly admonish-
"I'm happier in a way for Reege than
term."
for myself," says Gifford. "Because he
ment.
He sounds a little surprised to hear
sort of pioneered the whole thing, that
David Letterman watches. Barbara
about those big Broadway opportuni-
whole 15-minute 'host chat' thing. And
Bush watches. Madonna watches. and
ties. "A Broadway show as a practical
I came in on it and just sort of fit in.
has appeared on the show at her re-
matter might be a problem, a physical
But he pioneered it. He's the one that
quest. Donald Trump first confirmed
impracticality," he says. "I don't know
national success has eluded for all
his proposal to Marla Maples on "Live"
if Kathie could physically manage that."
these years, and he deserves it. That
(by phone). and Ed McMahon popped
Even Superwoman has her limits.
up earlier this week to announce his
he's finally getting his due after 30
The viewers like Kathie Lee. They fol-
latest marriage. It's hot, it's cool, it's
years, I mean, it makes you happy for
lowed her pregnancy and sent her
him."
crisp, it's fresh, it's a great place to
thousands of cards when Cody was
stop for a cup of coffee and some good
Philbin can't quite believe he's made
born. Some sent gifts, such as hand-
gelatinous gab.
it, though. "You keep looking over your
made blankets and hand-carved cribs.
It's what daytime television is all
shoulder for the next calamity to hap-
"My husband, who's been in this busi-
about, or was before the quadrasexuals
pen," he says. Although in its fourth
ness for years, said he had never seen
and spouse beaters and exhibitionistic
year the show is getting it best ratings
such an outpouring of real love from
tell-alls took over. Beamed live from
ever, there are pockets of resistance.
people," she says, eyes misting on cue.
New York each morning to stations in
WLS in Chicago, an ABC-owned sta-
They also like the fact that although
210 markets, a few of whom tape-de-
tion, inexplicably slots the show at 3
she has a definite streak of naughti-
lay it, "Regis & Kathie Lee" has be-
o'clock in the morning. In Washington,
ness, Kathie Lee is basically as whole-
come an oasis of homespun hoke and
it has to face not only "Donahue" but
some as a corn muffin. "I get an awful
folksy charm, and it's never not funny.
reruns of "I Love Lucy," still getting
lot of letters from people saying,
numbers after four decades on the air.
Not SO long ago, though, Gifford,
"Thank you for a show that I can actu-
who appears to have an insatiable lust
ally sit and watch with my family and
"I don't think of us as a hit yet," Phil-
for outside income, started making
not be embarrassed by,' she says.
bin says. "Do you think we're a hit? I
noises as if she were planning to leave
"You know, the sex stuff, it's really a
mean, I think we're on the verge of be-
the show. She does commercials for
scream, isn't it?" says Philbin, scanning
coming a hit. What's a hit? Well, some-
Carnival Cruise Lines, Slim-Fast and
the TV listings in a newspaper. "Don-
body that gets a little more national ac-
the Home Furnishings Council. has her
ahue: Couple arrested after having sex!
claim than we get."
own line of clothing (which will bring
Oprah: Telling your lover you want
He and Gifford have been on the
her to Washington for a personal ap-
more sex! Jenny Jones: Making money
covers of TV Guide and People. They
pearance at Tysons Corner Center on
with your body! Geraldo: Women in re-
hosted the Miss America Pageant on
March 7), just signed a record deal,
lationships with serial killers!' Ha ha ha
NBC last year and helped it get its best
sings in nightclubs and has a book com-
ha ha! That's not us, you know. We
ratings in years. But Philbin is worried.
ing out in the fall.
have on Tempestt Bledsoe and THINK
He wishes the program aired in the af-
"I get bored easily," she said during
WE'RE GETTING CRAZY!"
ternoons, as it does in only seven cit-
a post-show session in her dressing
One thing Philbin does a lot is end
ies, rather than the morning, because
room not too long ago. "I'm not bored
his sentences in capital letters. He's a
there are many more homes using
here and I'm not bored with Reege but
fast burner, a bit of a Howard Beale
television in the afternoon and thus a
if they don't start to give me opportu-
("Network"), never more than an inch
greater opportunity for profits.
nities here to do some of the other
from being mad as hell. Dana Carvey,
Oprah Winfrey's show takes in, ac-
things that are offered me, then it will
whose impersonation of Philbin on
cording to varying reports, from $50
be upsetting to me." Other things?
"Saturday Night Live" helped certify
million to $80 million a year. "We have
What more can she do? "I've had two
the team's status as national darlings,
a little piece of our show, yeah," Philbin
wonderful Broadway opportunities that
always includes in his impression a few
says. "So far, no profit, thank you for
are kind of hard to say no to," she says.
booms of Philbin rhetorically exclaim-
asking. You know, everybody assumes,
"My singing career means a lot to me."
ing, "ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?"
'They're syndicated and they're mak-
An hour later. over lunch at a Man-
Regis is ready for this. He's been
ing a fortune.' There's no profit."
hattan restaurant he co-owns with
ready for 30 years. Thirty years of be-
What haunts him are the missed op-
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Philbin is told
ing an also-ran and a wannabe and a
portunities of his past. He keeps dredg-
. And the numbers were not SO
I don't know. Philbin says tersely,
mg them up. perhaps as armor against
great, no. I've always had a record
just seems to work better when we do
any possible disappointments to come.
where we build and grow slowly."
it separately."
"I was Grant Tinker's first failure,"
Kathie Lee Gifford. who grew up in
Then he asks. "Did Kathie wear you
Philbin says, almost proudly, referring
Bowie, had been through several ca-
out? Do you know what it's like every
to the time in 1981 when the then-
reers by this time. Among them: host-
day with THAT BUZZ SAW? It's NOT
NBC chairman picked Philbin to do a
ess in a Mexican restaurant. Hee Haw
EASY!"
morning show on the network just af-
Honey on a syndicated "Hee Haw"
They don't spend time together be-
ter Letterman's had flopped. At the
spinoff. occasional replacement for
fore the show, either. except to say
last minute. though, Philbin's hour was
Joan Lunden on "Good Morning Ameri-
good morning. They want the host-
shortened to 30 minutes, and dozens of
ca" with David Hartman.
chat segment to be spontaneous and
NBC affiliates. burned by the Letter-
"I knew my days were numbered
unrehearsed. "In the opening, we nev-
man bomb, declined to carry the Phil-
when I was in for Joan one day and I
er lie about anything," Philbin says. "Al-
bin show.
read off the 'prompTer: 'And coming
ways truth and honesty. It's all the
"I wanted that national break," says
up in our next half-hour, we'll examine
truth, SO that makes it funny."
Philbin. He was then doing a morning
the impact that Princess Diana has had
talk show in Los Angeles. "Getting a
on the British fashion industry.' And I
Then he wants to start telling you
call from Grant Tinker is like getting a
couldn't help myself. I just had to look
again about what a big flop he was two
call from God. When he came, NBC
at David and I go, 'Maybe she could
decades ago.
started flying. and everything they did
help the Queen.'
"On the last day of The Joey Bishop
was right. They had a terrific run."
"Well it was kind of funny," Gifford
Show,' I was hosting it, and I thought it
Head bowed. "And I wish I could have
says. "We all know the Queen needs
would be interesting to see what the
been part of it."
help. But you're not supposed to say
future held for all of us." Philbin says.
"The Regis Philbin Show" lasted five
such a thing. So David looked at me
He invited Sydney Omarr. astrologer
months.
and, I mean, nobody was going to fire
to the stars, to come and make predic-
But Philbin will recall humiliations
me or anything like that, but I knew
tions. "So he said, 'You know what?
much older than this. In 1964 he was
that that was not the right place."
You're going to become a household
picked by Westinghouse to succeed
Gifford may look and act like a
name, a very famous name.' I said, 'No
Steve Allen as host of a syndicated talk
Young Republican's dream girl, and
kidding! Really?'
show, but he only lasted a year. "That
one of her early mentors was singer
"He said, 'But it's going to take
was my big shot, and I blew it," he
and right-wing gay-basher Anita Bry-
time.' I said, 'Well, how long is it going
says. "Merv [Griffin] followed me and
ant, but she says she considers herself
to take? A year? Two years?' He said,
BECAME A MULTIMILLIONAIRE!
"very much a Democrat in terms of so-
"Twenty years.' This is 1969. I said,
And I'm fighting with HER every
cial issues" while being "very Republi-
'Twenty years??? I'LL KILL MY-
morning! That's how LIFE IS!"
can in terms of financial issues." Sort of
SELF! But he was right. We went syn-
"Live With Regis & Kathie Lee"
like Paul Tsongas. She voted for
dicated actually in 1988, or 1987. So it
started as a local show in New York.
George Bush but mainly because "the
took 20 years."
When Disney came along with offers to
alternative would have been worse."
Regis has probably told this story 1
syndicate it, Philbin, recalling past fail-
On the show she regales viewers
million times.
ures, was reticent. But he said yes
with tales of her visits to the White
After lunch, he saunters back the
when Disney agreed to let him do the
House (Regis wasn't invited) and her
three blocks to WABC studios on the
same show he'd done in New York,
adventures with Frank and Cody and
Upper West Side, where the show
with no changes.
Cody's nanny. "My career has never
originates. Construction workers shout
"After years of trying, I finally found
been the most important thing in the
to him, passersby smile. He struts
an organization who said, 'Yeah, do it
world to me," she claims, even while
along like the king of New York. By
your way.' Every time I'd had a local
toting up gig after gig on the side.
hit, and every local show I did for one
Writer Barbara Lippert has called Gif-
this time, midday, Gifford is long gone,
either back home with son Cody, or at
reason or another became a hit. then
ford a heroine for the "post-feminist"
the guy would say to me, "Come on.
age and notes that as her glamorous
a singing lesson, or filming a commer-
cial.
let's try it nationally, but look, here's
stardom grows, her "self-deprecating
how you do it.'
stories" of gaffes and goofs and spills
In the morning they will hunker
on dresses sound increasingly "disin-
down again on their little stools and
"This time, I said to Disney, 'Look,
genuous."
Regis will read the morning headlines
you guys want to syndicate the show.
we'd love it, but don't change anything.
Yet in person she casts a beguiling
and Kathie Lee will talk about her
I don't want to change that opening.
spell of spunky, earnest innocence.
most recent embarrassing moment and
"I'm really a very kind person and I'm
a viewer will answer a nuttily easy triv-
Just put it up on the bird and let it go
a good person," she says straight-
ia question and Regis will go to the
out.' And that was the year that Oprah
lost 65 pounds, Phil was wearing a
faced. "I'm not perfect, but I never ev-
map and place a pin at the caller's
dress, Geraldo broke his nose. You
er set out to hurt anybody. Ever."
home town. And he'll tease her, and
know, nobody even noticed us. 'Regis
Regis and Kathie Lee will not be in-
she'll scold him.
and Kathie Lee? Who are they???'
terviewed in the same room at the
It goes on day after day, laugh after
same time. "I don't mind it. It must be
laugh, quarrel after quarrel. Like clock-
Reege that feels that way," Gifford
work, like teamwork, like life. God, I
says. "I guess there's a feud boiling and
love this show.
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Thursday, Feb. 27, 1992
The Philadelphia Inquirer
WASHINGTON PEOPLETALK By Janis Johnson
Stars get involved on Capitol Hill; Beatty says politics 'unattractive'
Stars of the new film Article 99 found
which airs tomorrow on PBS, Beatty con-
and spicy food is trendy, Miller seized the
resolution is still pending. Maybe it got
themselves swept up in a political wave
fesses that "politics kept me alive"
opportunity to bring his Western-fla-
lost among pleas for National Correction-
yesterday as they brought the world pre-
during some slow acting periods. But
vored cuisine to downtown Washington
al Officers Week, National Neighborhood
miere of their dark comedy about veter-
now, he says "nothing could be more
just two blocks from the White House in
Crime Watch Day, National Medical Staff
ans hospitals to Washington and ap-
unattractive to me" than running for
what used to be known as a fairly dead
Services Awareness Week, Italian-Ameri-
peared on behalf of homeless veterans at
president. "I think it's an insulting proc-
part of the city. "The West is the New
can Heritage and Culture Month and, oh
a congressional hearing. Director How-
ess to the people who have to go through
World - it symbolizes our own identity,
yes, Elvis Presley Day for next Jan. 8.
ard Deutsch urged stepping back and
it. I think that that's a catastrophe of the
our psyche," said Miller, an anthropolo-
taking "a new look
and to change the
new technology
We are a nation that
gist and art historian who spent $700,000
Wise on Washington
priorities so that the
veteran becomes
has been dealing in a sort of sexual
on the restaurant's design.
However lofty Washington punditry
the priority above the S&L scandal."
hypocrisy that the rest of the world
GoodFellas gangster Ray Liotta said the
doesn't really understand.
"
The big squeeze
has become on weekend talk shows,
attention he received on Capitol Hill by
To entice Congress to name February
Washington Week in Review moderator
playing the rebellious VA surgeon
Westward ho
as National Grapefruit Month, the Flor-
Paul Duke says he stays grounded by one
ida Department of Citrus hired the high-
viewer in far-off Washington state. Duke
changed his negative attitudes about
Washington's splashy Red Sage restau-
politics. "I never realized the power" an
rant is the hot new eatery since George...
powered lobbying firm of Hill & Knowl-
told a gala dinner at the State Depart-
actor can have, he said.
and Barbara Bush dropped in. Innovative
ton, which sent out fruit baskets to 150
ment Tuesday night that the viewer
members of Congress. After such a great
"wondered what the suicide rate was
owner-chef Mark Miller, nationally
Warren's view
known for his Coyote Cafe in Santa Fe,
pitch, a quarter of the Senate and a third
when we went off the air on Friday
Now that his Bugsy movie has 10 Oscar
N.M., turned down Washington four years
of the House joined Florida Sens. Bob
nights because he felt that we were all
nominations, press-shy Warren Beatty
ago because "the formal continental
Graham and Connie Mack in sponsoring
voices of gloom and doom." The PBS
has been very voluble this week. On
menu was very much entrenched." Now,
the legislation. Well, the month is wind-
program's 25th anniversary show is to-
WETA-TV's Talking With David Frost,
as fancy French restaurants are dying
ing down to its leap year day, and the
morrow.
THE BOSTON GLOBE
FRIDAY. JANUARY 17. 1992
51:
Admirers left brooding in the dark
after vandal makes off with duckling
By Gloria Negri
together about starting a fund to replace Ouack. simi-
GLOBE STAFF
lar to the button fund-raiser they sponsored in 1989 to
have Schon replace another stolen duckling.
For the third time since 1987. one of the eight
That campaign was named "Bring Back Mack"
ducklings in the bronze sculpture depicting Robert
and thousands of schoolchildren and adults bought
McCloskey's classic children's story "Make Way for
enough buttons to raise almost $5,000. Lee said a
Ducklings" has been stolen.
duckling costs between $4,000 and $5,000.
This time it was Ouack (pronounced "Whack")
A third duckling, Quack, was the first one stolen.
who was reportedly hacked from his perch last week-
but the thief left it on a street, where it was recov-
end at the Public Garden.
ered. Quack was stolen right after the sculpture was
Almost everyone involved agreed yesterday that
installed, before the cement it was set in had even
the time is overdue to adequately light the sculpture.
hardened.
but four different groups have to agree on what light-
The eight ducklings are Jack. Kack. Lack, Nack.
ing is best. As it is now, a vandal could use a hack saw
Ouack. Pack. Quack and Mack.
or blow torch on the sculpture almost undetected.
The sculpture has become celebrated worldwide.
they said.
and last year, at the request of Barbara Bush. Schon
"I'm devastated and disgusted," said Nancy Schon
made another bronze sculpture of Mrs. Mallard and
of Newton, commissioned by the Friends of the Pub-
her brood for Gorky Park in Moscow.
lic Garden and Boston Common to sculpt Mother
Lee said yesterday that many US cities and other
Mallard and her ducklings. "This story and sculpture
countries have asked for similar renditions of the
has become such a part of Boston to all the world and
ducklings, but that Schon has turned them down "be-
SO important to children. I don't understand how
cause they must remain uniquely Boston."
someone could violate it."
Lee said there was money set aside for installation
"I can't imagine someone doing this, especially
of stronger lighting around the scuipture. out it was a
since the sculpture was paid for by public donations
matter of the Friends. the Boston Parks Department.
and not government funds," said Henry Lee, presi-
the Boston Landmarks Commission and the Boston
dent of the Friends.
Art Commission agreeing on what kind.
Mary Shannon. executive secretary of the art
Eddie Doyle, bartender at the Bull and Finch pub
commission, said yesterday that she was "certain the
in the Hampshire House on Beacon Street, a short
city will see the lighting as a situation that has to be
distance from the sculpture, and Tommy Leonard,
dealt with immediately. How can people do such terri-
bartender at the Eliot Lounge, were "bummed out"
ble things?"
by the theft. "If the person who did this could just see
Victoria Williams, deputy parks commissioner.
the joy of the thousands of children who visit that
said the theft was "unconscionable. especially to steal
sculpture. they might have thought again," Doyle
said.
something that brings SO much joy to children."
Doyle said he and Leonard would put their heads
The matter of lighting the sculpture. she said. is
"at the top of my list."
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The Editor
The Boston Globe
Dear Sr,
It is wretched and sad that another of the bronze ducklings in the Public Garden has
been stolen. May it bring no joy to the thieves. But in a world where far worse things
are happening there has to be some account of why it is important to care It is
important because the statue was placed in the Garden for no reason other than to
bring pleasure, most especially to children, all children, irrespective of age, colour,
nationality, ethnicity, wealth, physical ability or whatever other category you can think
of. It is they who have been violated. It is important because the statue was a gift to the
city. The money, much of it in small bills, came from ordinary citizens in Boston who
responded to the appeal to do something gentle and enduring for children. Their
generosity has been violated It is important because Nancy Schon gave her time and
talent to make the statue exactly as it should be, respectful of Robert McCloskey's
story, safe and welcoming to young children and a work of art for them and all of us to
enjoy. Her efforts too have been violated. But the enduring damage done by the theft is
the case it argues against any efforts to improve and enrich the public realm on the
basis that the worst will always-happen. The logical conclusion to such an argument is
that we will in the end do nothing other than put up fences and locked gates.
Fortunately there are people who do care enough to ensure that the duckling will be
replaced and certainly there should now be lights for the protection of people and
ducklings alike. But the mean-minded indifference of those who went to such efforts to
steal it we may never understand eyen if they are caught.
Yours Sincerely
Suzanne de Monchaux
The writer is an urban planner who was instrumental in placing the Mallard Family
statue in the Boston Public Garden in 1987
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Light up those ducklings
The "Make Way for Ducklings" sculpture in
the historic park. This complex process makes
the Public Garden is the most beloved piece of
sense to prevent the inclusion of inappropiate stat-
public art in Boston. It deserves to be protected
ues in the park. but it is counterproductive when it
from the thieves who are making off with the tiny
delays measures to protect existing artwork.
bronze ducklings that have delighted thousands of
As a result of the latest theft, the bureaucracy
the city's youngest residents.
finally got the message, and a Parks Department
The sculpture, based on the children's book by
electrician will examine the site this week to work
Robert McCloskey, has been vandalized three
out a temporary lighting arrangement.
times. The first theft occurred in 1987, when the
The new lights should be put up as soon as
cement around the base of the sculpture was still
possible, and the Police Department should patrol
wet. But the second, which took place three years
this section of the Public Garden more frequently
ago, when the sculpture was fully in place, gave
to prevent the thief from making a successful re-
city officials clear warning that the ducklings need-
turn. The vulnerability of the sculpture makes ex-
ed extra protection.
tra protection a necessity.
Unlike traditonal statuary, the ducklings are
rooted in the ground, accessible to their youngest
Three years ago, Tommy Leonard of the Eliot
admirers. And their home in the Public Garden is
Lounge and Eddie Doyle of the Bull and Finch
poorly lighted at night, providing excellent cover
Pub raised the $3,500 needed to replace the duck-
for what probably was a lengthy removal job. Hen-
ling. Since the city is to blame for the third theft. it
ry Lee. president of the Friends of the Public Gar-
would do well to replace the duckling with public
den and Common. estimates that it took the thief
funds this time.
45 minutes to cut the duckling off its base.
The bronze in the sculpture has little intrinsic
Approval for new lighting was caught in a tan-
value. Whoever stole it may well have been moti-
gle between the Parks Department. the Art Com-
vated by a twisted collector's instinct. The best the
mission. the Landmarks Commission and the
city can do is make it extraordinarily difficult for
Friends. all of whom must sign off on alterations to
thieves to prey on this delightful scuipture again.
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Metro Region
THE BOSTON GLOBE
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1992
PROTECT
the
DUCKS
GLOBE STAFF PHOTO/WENDY MAEDA
FOR THE LOVE OF QUACK - Students at the Rafael Hernandez Bilingual School in
Roxoury show off a poster for their campaign for better lighting in the Public
40f7
Garaen. to protect its sculpture honoring Robert McCloskey's "Make Way jor
Ducklings. One of its stars, Ouack, has been missing jor two weeks. Page 34.
34
The Ouack pack
Sculpture's fans won't let Flynn duck the security issue
By Gloria Negri
GLOBE STAFF
even-year-old Peter Vir-
S
chick of Dorchester real-
Dear Mayor Flynn
-22492
ly knows how to grab a
person's attention. Not
only did he get right to
Why arent the ight's
the point in a letter entreating the
mayor to throw some light onto
on the Life Dacks?
the city's duckling dilemma. he
also underlined his last sentence.
"Dear Mayor Flynn," he wrote.
Hernordez,
"Why aren't you putting lights
on the ducklings? Do you want all
the ducklings to be stolen before
Grode's
you put up lights? I feel angry be-
cause me and other children and
adults around the world love this
GLOBE STAFF PHOTO/WENDY MAEDA
story and the characters in it.
A letter from Kyle Myrick of the Hernandez School in Roxbury
Quack was stolen now, Mac [sic]
seeks help for the ducklings.
was stolen 2 years ago. If you put
up lights they wouldn't be steeling
Landmarks Commission and the
[sic] the ducklings. So, don't just
going to do? You don't know how
Boston Art Commission, in addi-
to take care of our ducklings.
1
sit there. put up lights! Love, Pe-
ter Virchick, 2nd Grade, Rafael
tion to Doyle and Leonard, agree
am really angry at you. I am disap-
Hernandez School"
that the existing lighting on the
pointed. Take care of our duck-
duckling sculpture is far from ade-
lings. Love."
Peter is among the dozens of
quate.
Jennifer Carrion, 7, of Dor-
children at the Rafael Hernandez
The letter-writing campaign to
chester, a second grader. asked
Bilingual School in Roxbury who
the mayor and to officials of the
the mayor, "What are you waiting
have written the mayor and sent
concerned organizations was the
for? Please put those lights now!
copies of their letters to officials
children's inspiration, said first-
We already raised enough money."
about the latest theft of one of the
grade teacher Ginny Dunn.
Victoria Williams, deputy
eight bronze ducklings in the Pub-
"It's been a wonderful experi-
parks commissioner, has said that
lic Garden.
ence for them," Dunn said. "It's
help is on the way. This week elec-
The sculpture depicts Mrs.
not only been a lesson in civics, but
tricians will be looking into install-
Mallard and her eight babies,
helped with writing, spelling and
ing temporary lighting on a nearby
made famous in Robert McClos-
reading skills. Most of the chil-
pole, according to Williams. But
key's classic tale "Make Way for
dren, ranging in grades from kin-
the ultimate solution has yet to be
Ducklings." The ducklings are
dergarten to eighth grade, are in-
decided.
Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack,
volved in the campaign. Almost ev-
Nigel Rossello, 8, a Jamaica
Quack, Pack and Quack.
ery one of them has read and loved
Plain fourth grader. came up with
Quack. who was hacked from
McCloskey's book"
one of his own for the mayor:
his perch more than-two weeks
Like Peter in his letter to the
"Why not put grass lights with
ago, is still missing. Ouack was the
mayor, other children didn't mince
timers to go on at 5 p.m. and a
third duckling stolen from the site.
words. Though the general tenor
swimming pool around the duck-
When the sculpture was first in-
was of impatience, most signed off
lings?"
-stalled in 1987. Quack was purloin-
with "love," or "your friend."
Other solutions were offered
ed, but he was recovered on a Bos-
There was poignancy in some, like
by fourth graders Chris Ferreia.
ton street.
the little girl who wrote that her
10, and Tim Swain, 9, both of Dor-
In 1989, Mack was stolen and
grandmother, "now in her 50s,"
chester. "They should have a
never returned. Bartenders Eddie
read the McCloskey book "when
guard there," said Chris. "A kind
Doyle of the Bull and Finch and
she was five." Or, "the lost duck-
of undercover one, in plainciothes,"
Tommy Leonard of the Eliot
ling makes my baby sister cry."
offered Tim. And Kara Ruiz, 10, a
Lounge started a button campaign
Alisha Josey, 8, of Dorchester,
fourth grader from Jamaica Plain.
to "Bring Back Mack," and thou-
a second grader, wrote: "I am sad
advised, "They should put a cam-
sands of schoolchildren and adults
because Ouack was stolen. Lots of
era that looks like a mirror and
raised almost $5,000, enabling
other people in this world are sad
maybe an alarm inside the ducks."
sculptor Nancy Schon of Newton
too. Why don't you put lights on
As for the thief or thieves who
to make a replacement.
those ducklings. Don't just sit
have stolen the ducklings, they
All who are involved in the
around your desk, all day! Put
should expect no pity from the
maintenance of the sculpture. The
some lights on those ducklings!"
kids. Said Anna Goodkind and Do-
Friends of the Public Garden and
Second grader Nannette Ro-
mingo Rivera, both 7 and first
50f,
Boston Common, the Boston
drigues, 8, of Roxbury, wrote, "I
graders from Dorchester: "He or
Parks Department. the Boston
want Quack back. What are you
she was real mean."
The Interview
By D. C. Denison
Yunghi Kim/The Boston Globe
Nancy Schon
Nancy Schon is the Newton-based
2 years old, and I sort of
in the Public Garden. He
sculptor of the duckling sculpture
in Boston's Public Garden, which
used him as a model to help
came down from Maine a
is based on Robert McCloskey's
me come up with the proper
number of times to see my
book Make Way for Ducklings.
scale. I wanted children to be
work and to see mock-ups.
able to interact with the
In fact, one of the
ducks.
discussions we had was
Every time I've walked by
about scale.
your duck scuipture in the
Did Robert McCloskey,
Public Garden, kids have
the author of Make Way
Why?
been sitting on the ducks.
for Ducklings, have much
He thought they were too
Was that your intention?
input into the creation of
big. When he came down to
Very much so. The whole
the scuipture?
look at some very early
scale of the work was
Oh, yes, we wanted him to
mock-ups. the ducks looked
decided on that basis. At the
be a part of it. He had never
too large to him. And I
time I was working on that
let anyone do anything with
thought they needed to be
project, my oldest grandson
the ducklings before. but
that big. So we took them
was between 18 months and
Suzanne de Monchaux. an
outside to look at them. and
urban planner, and I came up
there was a day-care center
D.C. DENISON IS A CAMBRIDGE-
with a proposal, and he liked
60f,
next door, and all of a
BASED WRITER.
the idea of the ducks being
sudden these little kids came
running over and started
marble or granite, there's a
the donkey and they were
patting the ducks and
tool between you and the
patting the cat. So. I
hugging them. It was the.
material. But when I'm
discovered some years ago
most wonderful moment. I
working with wax or
that if I was going to do
couldn't have planned it
Plasticine. it's me, it's my
things for children. it had to
better. We just stood there,
hands. I like the idea that
be animais. I just did a
watching, and we knew the
I'm touching the actual
sculpture of Eeyore. the
scale was perfect.
piece. So, you can find my
donkey from the A. A. Milne
thumbprints in my work all
stories, for the Newton
You recently cast another
the time.
Public Library, and kids can
duckling sculpture for a
ride on it, they can pat it.
Moscow park, which
What public art in Boston
they can hug it, they can
Barbara Bush presented
has impressed you?
identify with it, and that's
to the Soviet Union. Is
I particularly like the Mayor
really what all about.
Make Way for Ducklings a
Curley sculpture by Lloyd
Kids really respond to
book that the Russians
Lillie, the one that is located
animals. Henry Moore
are familiar with?
behind City Hall, near
sculptures seem to be the
No. The book has since been
Faneuil Hall. Because people
exception. Kids love climbing
published in Russian. also a
can interact with it.
on Henry Moore sculptures.
video. At the time we
Everyone gets his picture
installed the ducks, the
taken sitting next to Mayor
I read that you're working
Russians were not familiar
Curley. It's wonderful that
on a sculpture for the
with the book. But I can
we have historic monuments,
Boston Marathon.
assure you that the minute
but it's also lovely if you can
I'm very interested in
that Mrs. Mallard came out
interact in some way with
putting a sculpture of a
of the crate in Moscow, the
the sculpture. One of the
tortoise and a hare near the
first child that saw it came
starting line, in Hopkinton. I
running over. The same
started thinking about it
thing happened when the
when I visited Hopkinton,
smaller ducks were
and I noticed that the only
unpacked. The Russian kids
"You can find my
thing there was a faded
did not need to know the
thumbprints in my
white starting line. These
story to get into the
The Boston (Stobe Magazine
wonderful people in
sculpture.
work all the time."
Hopkinton have nothing that
says, "This is the marathon
What's your favorite
town." So I decided that it
February 2, 1992
material to work with?
would be great to put a large
Wax is my first choice; that's
tortoise and hare near the
what I usually work in.
things I've always done
starting line. It would be a
Then, when the wax
when I've had a show is put
wonderful metaphor for the
hardens, I have the piece
up a sign that says "Please
different ways people run the
cast in bronze. However,
Touch." Because sculpture is
marathon: Some take the
because wax hardens very
a tactile medium, and if you
slow and steady approach,
quickly - you really only
can't touch it, it's got to be
others go for speed. The
have a few minutes to work
the most frustrating thing in
Boston Athletic Association
with it - I can't use it for
the world. Unfortunately, a
has already endorsed the
bigger pieces. In the case of
lot of museums can't let that
project. Now we just need to
the duckling project, when I
happen. Marble does get
raise the money to make it
was working with nine
kind of cruddy if you touch it
happen.
pieces of sculpture at once, I
a lot. But touching bronze
couldn't use wax, so I used
doesn't hurt it. The oil from
You've originated a
Plasticine, which is an oil-
your skin makes it more
number of your projects.
based clay. It's not my
beautiful. The ducks in the
Do you think artists
favorite material - I don't
Public Garden are golden.
should be more
really like the smell - but
They have been polished by
entrepreneurial?
it's better than wax for large
all the children playing on
It's interesting, because my
projects.
them.
father told me at some point
that "not everybody wants to
Many people probably
Have you found that
go through the same door at
think that sculptors have
certain kinds of sculpture
the same time." And.
all the time in the world,
have particular appeal for
basically. artistic
chipping away with a
children?
competitions are just that:
hammer and chisel, day
I remember visiting a
everybody trying to get
after day.
sculpture garden in Haifa, in
through the same door at the
But I'm an adder. There are
Israel, and there were lots
same time. And judges can
two categories of sculptors:
and lots of sculptures of
be very fickle; the best
people who take away, who
children. And there was a
piece doesn't always get
carve or chisel, and people
kitten in one of the
chosen. So, yes, I've
like me, who like to add.
children's arms, and there
discovered that if I thought
was a donkey. And the
up ideas, or found places that
70f 1
Why do you prefer to add?
children didn't pay any
needed scuipture. there
One of the reasons is that
attention to the sculptures of
would be many more
when you're working with
children. But they were on
opportunities.
Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, February 26, 1992
Political Crohn-ies The reach of
presidential politics has hit a new low: digestive
diseases. New York ad agency Slater Hanft Martin
had to sign on a new Crohn's disease spokesman
to replace presidential son Marvin Bush in public
service announcements-because equal-time
broadcast requirements have made some stations
reluctant to run the Bush spots.
The Washington Times
* THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992 /
Tie alleged
between
Bush kin,
Japan mob
REUTERS NEWS AGENCY
President Bush's older brother
stood to make $1 million acting as a
consultant to a company that was a
front for a Japanese crime syndi-
cate, NBC News reported yesterday.
Quoting from Japanese police
files, the network said that the
Inagawa-kai crime syndicate, or
Yakuza, "could not believe their
luck" when a Japanese businessman
who owed them hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars established ties to
Prescott Bush only days after
George Bush was elected president
in 1988.
NBC said the files detail how the
elder Bush, a Connecticut business-
man, arranged deals with West
Tsusho Co., the crime syndicate's
front company.
He collected a $250,000 finder's
fee for acting as a consultant for
West Tsusho's $5 million acquisition
of 38 percent of the New York firm,
Asset Management International Fi-
nancing and Settlement.
NBC said Prescott Bush stood to
make an additional $750,000 from
two deals that apparently failed -
the acquisition of a Houston-based
computer software firm owned by
Bush nephew Draper Kauffman and
a golf course and land development
plan in New Hempstead, N.Y.
Japanese authorities are investi-
gating the financial activities of the
Inagawa-kai, one of Japan's three
largest gangster syndicates.
Prescott Bush was not immedi-
ately available for comment. The
White House said the president
would have no comment on the NBC
report.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 27, 1992
The President today announced his intention to nominate Wayne A.
Budd, of Massachusetts, to be Associate Attorney General. He
would succeed Francis Anthony Keating II.
Currently, Mr. Budd serves as a United States Attorney for the
District of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1969-
1989, he served with the law firm of Budd, Wiley & Richlin in
Boston, Massachusetts, most recently as the Senior Partner.
Mr. Budd was graduated from Boston College (B.A., 1963) and Wayne
State University School of Law (J.D., 1967). He was born
November 18, 1941 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He is married,
has three children and resides in Saugus, Massachusetts.
# # #
FEB-27-1992 12:39 FROM SHN HNTUNIO PRESS OFFICE
IU
MARLIN
P.07
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
February 27, 1992
For Immediate Release
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
The President spoke by phone with President Kravchuk of Ukraine
this morning for approximately 20 minutes. The two presidents
discussed the situation in Ukraine and Ukraine's international
debt situation. President Kravchuk stated that Ukraine will meet
its goal for withdrawing all tactical nuclear weapons from its
territory. In addition, he emphasized Ukraine's intention to
support rataification of the START and CFE treaties.
Both President's welcomed the excellent state of bilateral
relations and President Kravchuk accepted the President's
invitation to make an official working visit to Washington on
May 6.
# # #
FEB-27-1992 12:36 FROM SAN ANTONIO PRESS OFFICE TO
MARLIN
P.02
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
February 27, 1992
For Immediate Release
EXCERPTS BY THE PRESIDENT
AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY
AT THE OPENING PLENARY SESSION OF
THE SAN ANTONIO SUMMIT
It a in a historic city, in a historic state -- my home summit state
is great honor and pleasure to call to order an historic
meeting, of Texas. We are all here to make this San Antonio Drug two
successful as the first summit called by President Barco to
begin years this meeting with a warm tribute to the great, visionary
as ago in beautiful, "heroic" Cartagena. It is fitting
man who first brought us together on this issue, Virgilio Barco.
will In recall, we faced a daunting, unprecedented -- some thought,
Cartagena, as President Paz Zamora, who is also here today,
hopeless -- challenge: How to unite against the scourge of
drugs, violence, and corruption that was undermining our
democratic societies, our institutions, our economies, and our
environment.
That meeting gave birth to a new alliance to strengthen our
democracies by attacking the drug trafficking and consumption
with greater resolve than ever before. Cartagena was when we
stopped the finger-pointing and committed ourselves to
cooperation, when we recognized that drugs are an international
plague caused by both consumer and supplier.
Two years later the situation has markedly improved. We are
facing the challenge; we are united; we are resolute; we are
prevailing. We are now seven, not four. We welcome to this
group Mexico, Venezuela, and Ecuador, all of whom have shown firm
leadership and courage in this struggle. others in the Americas
and Europe are with us, seeing the threat more clearly. Progress
is being made. We have courageously faced those who would
subvert our societies, break our laws, and kill thousands of
innocents. Top traffickers are dead or jailed; record levels of
cocaine and other drugs have been seized; cultivation has leveled
off; interdiction is up worldwide; we have cracked down on drug
users; consumption is declining as our people increasingly reject
drugs, especially our youth; our judicial institutions are
stronger, better able to meet the challenge; our efforts against
money laundering, chemical diversion, and illegal arms exports
are improving.
But, we are here today because the job is not yet done. We have
not yet won this fight. It is time to assess our accomplishments
and our plans -- to learn from the past and look to the future.
Let me mention what seems to me to be some priority areas.
First and foremost, we must reduce demand. All else will fail if
we do not do that. I know that task falls heaviest on the United
States; and we have made a good beginning. Since I came to
office, there has been a 35 percent decrease in current cocaine
users and 27 percent fewer young people are using drugs.
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we must continue the economic reform, economic
second, debt, trade and investment measures which states are so
assistance, important to our anti-narcotics programs. The United
wants alternative development to succeed.
I am sure if there is an alternative besides starvation. of viable The
Peruvian and Bolivian peasants will stop growing
stick illegal of coca, law enforcement must have a carrot -- an offer
economic alternatives for poor peasants.
Third, we interdiction and law enforcement that have been will so
must continue and enhance our effectiveness in
eradication, to our success thus far. Just as demand reduction We
critical so also supply reduction will lessen demand.
have lower laid supply, this out in the "strategy for Action" that is part of
our Declaration. we must make it happen.
must look carefully and imaginatively at what strengthen might be
Fourth, called non-violent, we law enforcement measures. We must
our laws on money laundering, arms, exports,
and chemical harmonize controls, asset seizure, and in other areas. It the is here
that The anti-racketeering laws in the United states
the long arm of the law can fracture the power of
have traffickers. proven to be one of the strongest measures we have developed
in recent years.
our judicial systems need our attention. Many of us have
Fifth, legal reforms so that we can handle criminal cases
underway faster, more securely and more effectively. These are important
and should proceed. We must also cooperate by sharing
information about traffickers and their crimes so they can be
brought to justice.
sixth, our cooperation has developed in the past two years can and I
welcome coordinate strategy and understand each others' perspectives and
that. We need to keep in close touch 50 that we
needs. It will be the first review of how our "strategies
That makes the high-level follow-on meeting very
for important. Action" are progressing. We also must enlist the cooperation
of the Europeans and Asians. TO do that we should send a
delegation to those countries to talk to their leaders.
seventh, colombia are moving against with some success. This a
heroin production is a worrisome problem which Mexico is
and sign the traffickers believe the cocaine trade is declining. the We
cannot ignore this new threat or we risk a surprise in
future.
Eighth, we must do a better job educating our press and our
about our progress. In the United States, for example,
publics seeing a down turn in demand that was purchased at great the
we cost are in money and effort. Another example is the story of
drop in cultivation in the Chapare in Bolivia.
Ninth, as we take up the struggle within our own countries with
borders. We must respect sovereignty or our cooperation will not
renewed vigor, we must bear in mind that our efforts transcend
be sustained. But, as sovereign states we can agree to cooperate do
not work together, the traffickers will destroy us separately.
against the traffickers who trample on the sovereignty. If we
Finally, one more note of great importance. Everything we do
must conform to our democratic principles. None of us wants civil a
drug-free dictatorship. We must protect the human and
rights of our citizens. We are all committed to defending
democracy and its principles as we defeat the scourge of drugs.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 27, 1992
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY WITH
FOREIGN MINISTER ARMANDO DURAN OF VENEZUELA
Marriott Rivercenter
San Antonio, Texas
8:40 A.M. CST
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Mr. President, did you make any breakthroughs on
free trade this morning?
THE PRESIDENT: No. We had good discussions on that
with the President of Mexico. And we just reassured him that we want
an agreement, a good agreement as soon as possible. NO politics, no
nothing is going to stand in the way of our doing what is right and
what is best for the American people. And what's best is to get a
fair trade -- free trade agreement through as soon as possible.
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DO you think there will be one this year, Mr.
President?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we're hoping so, yes.
END
8:42 A.M. CST
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 27, 1992
The President today is transmitting to the Congress the 1992 Trade
Policy Agenda and 1991 Annual Report on the Trade Agreements
Program.
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White House News Summary
Thursday, February 27, 1992
11:30 A.M. CST/12:30 P.M. EST NEWS UPDATE
TRIP (San Antonio/Christopher Connell, AP) -- President Bush and
President Salinas met on anti-drug strategy before joining other
Latin American leaders in a summit seeking new unity against
smugglers' aircraft, money laundering and supply lines. Bush said
the two had a "good discussion" on the slow-moving free trade talks
between the two countries. Bush, asked about the trade issue
during a photo session with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Armando
Duran, said he hoped to meet the goal of finalizing the free trade
agreement by the end of the year. "No politics, no nothing is
going to stand in the way of our doing what is right and what is
best for the American people," he said in apparent reference to the
election-year volatility of the free trade agreement with Mexico.
CASTRO (Miami/Reuter) -- President Bush accused Fidel Castro of
brutally intimidating his people, and he challenged the longtime
Communist leader to hold free, democratic elections in the
Caribbean nation. In a guest column in The Miami Herald, Bush
wrote, "There will be no normal relations with Cuba so long as the
Castro dictatorship remains in place. We want to see a
democratically elected Cuban government that would legitimately
represent the Cuban people."
HAITI (Geneva/Reuter) -- Ousted President Aristide said that the
general who led last September's coup, General Cedras, must face
criminal charges despite a new accord which leaves him in charge
of the army.
JOBLESS CLAIMS (AP) -- Jobless claims climbed in mid-February for
a second straight week as 459,000 Americans made first-time trips
to the unemployment office, the Labor Department said. The Labor
Department reported that the seasonally adjusted total for the week
ending Feb. 15 represented an increase of 7,000 claim applications
from the previous week.
HOME SALES (AP) -- Sales of existing homes fell 1.5% in January,
the first decline in four months, the National Association of
Realtors said. The realtors attributed the drop to rising mortgage
rates and also said the beginning of the year is a slow time for
home sales.
YUGOSLAVIA (Belgrade/AP) -- President Milosevic of Serbia declared
that the civil war with Croatia is over. In a speech to the
Serbian parliament, he seemed to move away from previous insistence
that Serb-held regions in Croatia and other neighboring republics
be allowed to unite with Serbia. "Today we can say that most of
the agony of our country is over, and that conditions now exist for
the peaceful and democratic solution of the Yugoslav crisis, " he
told parliament.
AZERI-ARMENIAN TRUCE (Moscow/Reuter) -- Fighting between Armenians
and Azeris broke an hours-old cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh,
reviving a threat of full-scale war. Each side accused the other
of breaking the truce.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 27, 1992
PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE PRESIDENT
AND DELEGATION HEADS
McNay Art Museum
San Antonio, Texas
3:00 P.M. CST
PRESIDENT BUSH: As the President of the host country, I
will give a brief statement, and then we will respond under the plan
for responding to questions.
First, let me just say that is has been a privilege and
a pleasure to welcome six strong democratic leaders to San Antonio:
President Gaviria of Colombia, President Fujimori of Peru, President
Paz Zamora of Bolivia, President Borja of Ecuador, President Salinas
of Mexico, and then Foreign Minister Duran of Venezuela.
The United States is indeed fortunate to have these
leaders as allies in a cooperative fight against drugs. And this
cooperative venture is reflected as well in the cooperation that
permeates our bilateral relationships. For example, the recent
agreement between Peru and Bolivia on access to the sea, a wonderful
sign. agreement; growing rapport between Scuador and Peru, another good
Drug traffickers corrupt our young people. They bring
violence to our democracies and destroy our hemisphere's natural
environment. This 1s a new kind of transnational enemy, well-
financed, ruthless, well-organized, and well-armed; a foe who
respects no nation's sovereignty or borders. The struggle to defeat
the narco traffickers requires cooperation, commitment, and it will
not be won overnight. But make no mistake: Defeat the traffickers
we will.
Two years ago at Cartagena we formed a regional alliance
with Peru, Bolivia and Colombia to confront the narco trafficking.
cartels. Today three new allies Joined us -- Mexico, Scuador and
Venezuela. In the past years we've made significant progress. First
and most importantly, today in the United States there are one
million fewer cocaine users and two billion fewer marijuana users
today than in 1988. Drug use among our young people is down 25
percent -- a very good sign for the future.
of the Medellin Cartel, are now in prison or in their graves. And
And second, the so-called kings of cocaine, the leaders
dramatic also, last year, 203 tons of cocaine were seized in Latin America, a
fight. increase. We've shown law enforcement can work in the drug
Bolivia alternatives to the coca trade. Farmers who once grew in
Third, we are making progress in creating economic
beginning are exporting pineapples and bananas; Peru's coca
that United States under this new Andean Trade Preference expand Initiative trade
the to grow again; and the Andean states will economy is with
I signed into law last December.
people in the coca growing regions can earn a livelihood efforts growing so
We will expand our economic development that
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legal crops. And I hope the U.S. Congress will do its part by fully
funding my Enterprise for the Americas Initiative.
Let me highlight the most important elements of this
joint declaration that is about to be issued, if it hasn't already
been passed out. One, drug control and strengthening the
administration of justice includes programs to interdict trafficker
aircraft in the air and on the ground; to control essential chemicals
and money laundering; and to increase judicial cooperation.
Number two, economic and financial areas focuses on
investment, trade, debt, alternative development, and for the first
time, the environmental destruction that is caused by drug
trafficking.
And three, prevention and demand reduction, a critical
area, involves programs for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation,
scientific research and training.
We agree that the laws of all signatory countries will'
criminalize all activities that permit the laundering of drug money:
And we will exchange more financial information to investigate and to
prosecute money launderers and seize their illegal profits. We will
negotiate agreements that allow our countries to share the assets
that we seize from the drug traffickers. And finally, we will deny
traffickers the chemicals they need to produce their deadly drugs.
We will regulate sales of chemicals. We will press
producing nations to adopt strong controls. And we will increase our
own enforcement.
We call upon other nations in the Americas, in Europe
and in Asia, as well as international organizations and financial
institutions, to cooperate and to participate.
To continue our efforts, we're going to hold high-level
follow-on meeting -- a high-level follow-on meeting -- annually to
review progress and plan for the future.
The Declaration of San Antonio, building on the
Declaration of Cartagena, establishes an aggressive agenda for the
rest of the century. We believe it will be an important milestone in
the struggle against drug use and drug trafficking. We believe it
will contribute to democracy and economic stability in the Americas.
It's been a great pleasure to have these leaders here.
And may I take this opportunity to thank our hosts in San Antonio, in
the Museum, in the Theater and all across this great city -- the
Mayor and the other leaders of this community that have made all of
us feel so at home in wonderful San Antonio.
And now I understand that Marlin has indicated, so I
guess we just go -- Chris, do you want to go first, sir?
Q
Mr. President, while you attending the summit, the
House voted down your recovery program, passed the Democrats' tax
bill with Republican support. You've lost a third of the GOP votes
in the first two primaries. How do you plan to resurrect your
recovery plan, and how will you shore up your standing with American
voters?
PRESIDENT BUSH: well, let's hope that the Senate is a
little more -- a little wiser than the House. The American people
want stimulation to our economy. They're unhappy with the economy,
and that affects all politicians. I have won all three efforts 50
far -- Maine and New Hampshire and South Dakota -- and I will win
this nomination.
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But this is an international drug meeting; it has very
little to do with the primary system. But I think something that
does have something to do with what we are able to do is the American
economy, and I would just ask the United States Senate now to correct
the tax-and-spend policies of the House of Representatives that went
in almost on straight party lines. It was a predictable, sad, sorry
performance -- when I said let's set politics aside, go for these
specific growth initiatives, and then get on with all of this
politics later on. But the House decided not to do that, and so I
will just go forward and urge the Senate to take better action. But
I am not going to sign a bill like the one that came out of the
House. It won't become law. I won't sign it, but secondly, the next
hurdle is the Senate, and I don't believe the Senate will go for the
same kind of legislation.
a
Mr. President, following up, on the drug summit you
say that occasional drug use of cocaine is down by a million. Hard-
core use hasn't changed at all and drugs are still pouring into this
country.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I think the progress -- we've said
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If I can just say -- how will this summit make any
difference to that?
PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, the summit will make a difference
to that because we talked about at lunch the difference between the
spirit of Cartagena and the spirit of San Antonio. One, we have more
countries involved; secondly, there is a new optimism. A lot of the
talk was about the progress made by Colombia in jailing some of these
criminal elements. The spirit of cooperation in terms of judicial
reform and in terms of the approaches that I mentioned in this
declaration was outstanding.
You don't solve it overnight. When I say young people
in this country are using drugs substantially less -- down by 60
percent -- that is very encouraging to every family in this country.
But, yes, problems still remain here, and the demand in this country
has inflicted serious problems on the economies of the countries
represented by these Presidents here.
So the purpose of this meeting is to maximize
cooperation, and I think each leader -- and they can speak to it.
themselves -- will agree that that's exactly what happened as a
result of our discussions here. Now we go on to the next challenge,
and that is making more headway on interdiction, making more headway
on reduction of demand.
Now, I believe from Ecuador, the second -- he's plugged
into a different star there.
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Television Bolivia. This is a question for the
President of the United States. We have the impression that the U.S.
position is much more emphatic in the sense of interdiction than for
alternative development. In the case of Bolivia and Peru, this is a
very delicate subject. And the Peruvian position indicated that Peru
produces 60 percent of the coca used for producing cocaine later,
whereas the United States only invests five percent of the antidrug
budget in programs for these countries -- in this case, Peru. Why is
it that the United states continues to insist so strongly on the case
of interdiction and it has to be the pressure of the Andean countries
development? that attempt to balance this situation through alternative
PRESIDENT BUSH: One of the themes that I heard here
today was trade, the importance of trade. And one of the things
we've tried to do in the United States is facilitate trade with these
Andean countries. Therein lies a lot of the answer.
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We did have a good discussion here about interdiction,
and we did have a good discussion about alternative crops. And I
think it is for us to assign our own budgetary priorities, but I'll
tell you one thing that I learned out of this is the need to work
more cooperatively in alternative cropping.
So I'll just leave it very generally there, but we are
doing our level best. And everybody knows that these are not easy
financial times for the United States. Spending is up tremendously
in terms of our efforts, and I think there's more we can do to be of
assistance on alternative cropping. And we had some good suggestions
here today from the leaders.
So we will do our level best and we will continue to
listen to those who say the best answer to the economies down there
and to giving hope to the peasants who are locked into the coca
growing is expanded trade in other areas. And so we'll keep trying.
X Mr. President, I am from Mexico, from the Herald in
Mexico.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I know, but who do you want to ask the
question to? I'm over my quota already, but go ahead. (Laughter.)
X
I wanted to ask this of the President of the United
States and the President of Mexico. Mr. President, don't you think
that the certification or the statement made by the United states is
a way of having intervention in another country, because nobody is
carrying out certification of consumption in the U.S.?
Secondly, what guarantee do we have that the sovereignty
of Mexico will not be infringed upon in the fight against drugs, as
in the case we had in -- and third, I would like to have your
impressions of this morning's breakfast -- how about the NAFTA and
your commitment made last night to get NAFTA, to bring forward the
North American Free Trade Agreement and sending it on to Congress?
PRESIDENT BUSH: Is the last question for me or for
President Salinas? Okay. I just wanted to be sure.
The guarantee about our overstepping the bounds of the
sovereignty of Mexico is twofold: one, I wouldn't permit that to
happen; and secondly, Mexico has a very strong respected President
who would not permit that to happen. so there is no danger. The
relationship between Mexico and the United States has never been
better. And it is built on mutual respect and respect for each
other's sovereignty.
As to -- what was the first part of your question? I'm
sorry, I wrote down interdiction, but I'm not sure that --
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Certification that the United States carries out
annually on the progress made, because nobody is doing the same thing
to the United States.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, we try to level with our partners
here on the progress or lack of progress we're making in every area.
We presented to the leaders here today a thorough presentation as to
the progress that we're making on the demand. It is very important
that these leaders know that we are trying on the demand side.
I don't know that it has a meat stamp of certification,
but these figures will be looked at and reviewed by the United States
Congress. And I would be open for any suggestions that President
Salinas would make if he feels he needs more information. But the
relationship is so cooperative now in this field that I don't -- I
haven't heard any requests for more certification from the United
States.
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In terms of the free trade agreement, I will simply say
what I said this morning. We want it done. We are not going to be
dissuaded by political pressures in the United States. I remain
convinced that a good NAFTA agreement is in the interest of the
worker and of everybody in my country. And I believe President
Salinas is convinced it 1s in the interest of the Mexican people as
well. And already the very negotiations that we're having are
leading to agreements, such as our recent environmental agreement on
the border.
So there's nothing but cooperation here. There's some
problems that remain in bringing this to conclusion, but we both
agreed today that we would press our able negotiators to get this
agreement closed as quickly as possible.
And to those in Mexico who listened to some of the
peculiar reporting that flows across the border on politics, please
let me reassure them that we will press for an agreement. If we get.
an agreement, we're not going to hang back because of some special
:
interest that may be making a lot of noise as to whether this is in
the interest of the United states or not. It is in the United
States. We won't take to the Congress a bad agreement. And when we
get a good one, I'm confident that it will be ratified. so we will
push forward on that.
NOW, please, Mr. President.
PRESIDENT SALINAS: The responsibility of the fight
against drugs in Mexico will be left exclusively in the hands of
Mexicans; it is our responsibility. Therefore, there will be no hot
pursuit and no other modality that will go against what I have just
stated. We are going to strengthen and reinforce our fight against
drugs because it is in our own interest. It is in the interest and
for the benefit of all Mexicans to fight decisively, frankly, and
openly drug traffickers because they go against the health of our
families. They affect the health of our families, of our relatives.
And they also have the money to corrupt anywhere and in any country.
Therefore, we are going to continue waging this war against drug
traffickers.
And you have there the results and the evidence. Last
year we increased seizure of cocaine -- 50 tons of pure cocaine
seized in one single year with an equivalent value, street value, of
twice as much the total external debt of Mexico. And at the same
time we had the highest raise of eradication, the highest levels of
eradication in the world in 1990 and 1991 to destroy marijuana and
poppy crops. We are going to strengthen this, because even though a
lot OE progress has been made, we have to continue waging a war.
energetically.
And at the same time we are convinced in Mexico that no
country on its own is going to defeat drug traffickers; therefore
international cooperation is ever more important. Since we're going
to intensify our domestic action, we are also going to strengthen
international cooperation with dialogue, through communication --
through the level of communication and dialogue that was attained at
this meeting.
And finally, on the free trade agreement, negotiations
are going well, very well.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I think we'll finish this, and then
we'll try to get you in the next round, sir, if that's agreeable.
R
My question is, is there are any possibilities that
the United States, within the framework of this agreement, will lift
the bank reserve to investigate drug traffickers at the request of
Latin American countries which may ask for that in order to
investigate cases of money laundering?
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PRESIDENT BUSH: I'm embarrassed to say I don't quite
know how to answer your question. We did have a good discussion of
money laundering and pledged total cooperation. But beyond that, I'm
just not sure of what the question -- the technical aspects of that
question.
X Within the strategies put forth at this meeting,
did any initiative arise to lift that bank security act?
PRESIDENT BUSH: There was no discussion of that. There
was a lot of discussion of maximizing cooperation on money
laundering. But the technical part was not raised with me. Now,
maybe it came up in the working groups.
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I am from Peru, and my question is for President
George Bush. The optimistic tone that you express when speaking of
the reduction of consumption of various drugs in the U.S., up to 25
percent -- unfortunately, I think that this is not shared by the
producing countries, and they cannot say the same thing as far as
results are concerned because there is a very wide gap.
While the United States invests billions of dollars on
the drug war within the United states, it only devotes a small amount
to Peru for alternative development to combat drugs, et cetera. How
can you explain this, Mr. President? Can't you offer anything better
now? Do you plan to do something in the future? If you have the
security of being reelected, what will economic cooperation be like,
and what assistance are you going to give to Peru and Bolivia who
need help in alternative development?
PRESIDENT BUSH: I think it's fair to say that the
responsibility of the President of the United States first is the
people in the United States. I mean, I don't want to be here under
any false colors. We are spending a considerable amount of money.
Drug spending overall; antinarcotic spending in one way or another is
up tremendously, I think over -- close to 100 percent, 60-some
percent since I've been President. So I would say I have to look at
it that way. I hope it's not overly selfish.
we do have very strong aid programs and, hopefully,
antinarcotics programs that are effective with Peru. We are dealing,
and I think most people here that know our economy would tell you, at
a time of rather sparse resources. We are operating at enormous
deficits that concern the American people enormously -- I mean, they
are really concerned about the size of the deficit. So we don't have
all the money to spend on all the programs that we thing are
worthwhile and that we would like to spend it on.
I am determined to do everything I can in terms of
setting priorities to help Peru, to help Bolivia with this alternate
cropping and also with their own economies. And I think we've got a
fairly - maybe some there wouldn't think generous -- but a fairly
generous allocation of funds in terms of our overall expenditures to
these countries. And I expect that others wish there were more.
I've had a very frank discussion with the President of
Peru who was working hard and has made some wonderful financial
changes in that country. Progress has been rather dramatic. And
there's no question that he could use more funds, and we respect
that. But I have to tell him, and I have to set the priorities, and
I have to say, this is what we think we can do right now. so that's
the way I'd explain it.
Having said that, I don't want to end on a negative note
because I think the general feeling at this meeting was one of great
cooperation and understanding -- and frankness. Say, lay it out
there; what do you think you ought to have? You tell us whether
we're cooperating with your judicial system. And they tell us. And
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the it's got to be. It is a two-way street. And of I things think
that that's -- you way can't put a price tag on it, but that was one
that I found the most productive out of this summit.
Does anybody want to ask anybody else a question,
because this -- I'll take this row and then everybody else has to ask
else a question. I thought each one was to get two. Go
ahead. someone I don't want censor the press, though. I've learned to --
(laughter.)
been unfairly 0 excluded from tariff benefits which have been granted
My question is for President Bush. Venezuela has
to other countries. What specific economic measures is your
government planning to take to correct this?
PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, we did not discuss today
bilateral difficulties for the most part. That subject was not
raised by the Venezuelan Foreign Minister who was here. And I just.
can't give you an answer to it as to what -- how we're going to treat
it in the future.
Having said that, let me just simply express my
determination to give full support to Venezuela. We think of Carlos
Andres Perez, frankly, as one of the great democrats in this
hemisphere -- a man who has stood for democracy. And they are having
some difficult economic times. And so in a very general sense I say
I would like the United states to be as cooperative as possible with
Venezuela. It is essential that this relationship, which I consider
good, grow and be even better. But I want to keep it on a very
general basis.
Now -- oh, you've got one for -- you're not from the
foreign press corps, you don't look --
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We get two questions. (Laughter.)
PRESIDENT BUSH: Oh, you do? You're the second
American? All right, we're working down this row. This gentleman
and then you're next, okay? IS that fair?
Where's Marlin to do all this? (Laughter.)
Q
My question is for the President of Peru.
Yesterday you, Mr. Fujimori, were very clear in indicating that U.S.
aid in the fight against drugs, especially in Peru, has not been
sufficient. Peru is not asking for money to solve its problem, but
rather to solve the problem of drugs, which affects the population of
the entire world.
You said that you will not accept a timetable as long as
there is no financing for that schedule. We cannot speak of
objectives unless we speak of financing first. Are you satisfied
with the results of the summit meeting? Are you satisfied with the
figures? Are you willing to accept a schedule or a timetable?
PRESIDENT FUJIMORI: Precisely I have made comments to
this effect regarding the drug traffic in Peru. And that is how --
regarding financing for the reduction of this activity in Peru, there
have been serious problems. Perhaps not so much regarding the
amounts which the U.S. government has generously allocated to us, but
above all because of the long time it has taken and the cuts there
have been for reasons set forth by congressional committees to the
effect that there are violations of human rights in my country,
according to them, or because of the activity of the armed forces.
Therefore, that long time that it has taken to make
these disbursements has led to the problems. Although these
disbursements cannot cover all the areas of the fight against drug
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trafficking, when there is & reduction, when there are cutbacks, this
generates even more problems.
schedules establishing dates and deadlines. But I think that the in that
Today, we did not speak of timetables, specific
Presidents possible. But obviously, we all understand that this the
sense for this reduction in drug traffic to be carried out is as
there is agreement among all the countries and among
related soon as to the size of financial support in every sense and tools
that country has within its sphere of problems. That been 1s why
this every is the position reflected in the declaration which has
signed today.
Up to now there has been great emphasis made on the
producing countries; above all, for those which, like Peru, have a
subject of interdiction, and this is one of the concerns for
high number of farmers and peasants working in the drug traffic.
But today, too, similar emphasis has been placed on
alternative development. International cooperation and specifically
that of the United states, and President Bush particularly, I think,
is extremely important -- alternative development which will allow us
to have the support of 250,000 farmer peasants as allies, not as
enemies. And this will allow us to fight much more intensively.
The bilateral agreement that we have signed with the
United states precisely points in that direction. And that agreement
now stands, and fortunately, we have the full support of President
Bush. And I am sure that along the path of such development we will
be able to achieve important results.
PRESIDENT BUSH: May I say to Marlin, -- desperately
finding two questions -- but four of the leaders have not had
questions. So I would like to address questions, one each, to the
remaining four leaders here. And then, since the departures are
scheduled very tightly, we're going to have to conclude this press
conference.
Local question to one of these four. Yes, do you have a
question to the Colombian President?
There is a very controversial issue that has been
talked about Q very loudly during the San Antonio summit, and that is
your government has been very lenient and has come up with treaties
with the narco traffickers. If they give themselves up, they get a
very lenient sentence. What kind of example are you setting for
these people that are involved. in this business?
PRESIDENT GAVIRIA: You can be sure the men who have
submitted to justice, which were the leaders of the Medellin Cartel,
are going to have stiff sentences. I mean, there are some worries in
the media about the sentences they will get, but we have the
commitment with the international community, we have a new judicial
system, we have transformed the judicial system, fortified, and we
have received a lot of judicial cooperation from many countries,
including the United states. And we are building strong cases
against the narco traffickers, and we can be sure that these men will
get sentences that are proportionate to the kind of criminal activity
they developed before they were submitted to the Colombian judicial
system.
PRESIDENT BUSH: This is for one of the three
remainders, please.
&
Actually, it's to you, President Bush. The
question I have to ask is, over the last --
PRESIDENT BUSH: well, thank you, I'm not going to take
any more questions. I just told you. You didn't understand it.
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2 well, over the last few days --
PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes, this lady over here. Yes, please. his
You're dealing with somebody who has made up
mind. I'm very And sorry. we're trying to be courteous to everybody here. Otherwise, Now, if
you have a question for one of the other three, ask it.
sit down.
I'll be happy to ask it to one of the other three;
I would like 2 for you to answer it as well. I'll ask it. of the
President of Mexico.
PRESIDENT BUSH: He's already had a question. Sorry.
2 Well, he's only had one.
PRESIDENT BUSH: okay, you go ahead. We're not used to
this, but anyway, go ahead.
since the Harrison Narcotics Act was passed in the
United states, Q God knows at the beginning of this century, and since
the United States and Mexico have cooperated on drug interdiction
efforts for countless times since then, I spent some time with
narcotics agents over the last few days who made busts who tell us
that they're tired. They don't believe the war on drugs can be won.
They consider this summit a Joke, and they consider the Presidents
cooperating in this summit to be a joke as well. What do you tell
your people in the trenches, the people that are fighting it every
day, what do you give them as a morale booster to tell them it's not
a joke?
PRESIDENT SALINAS: The most important thing 1s not to
have impunity, for those who are acting as drug traffickers to know
that in Mexico we are going to punish them with all the energy as 1s
provided for in our law; and also with the conviction that by
punishing them we are protecting our families; and also by
acknowledging and being very much aware of the risk they' re involved
-- how much of their lives are at stake. Our action is completely
determined, and we will completely maintain it with full energy.
This is a true war in times of peace that we have decided to win
against drug traffickers.
impressions about & the summit and what are they expecting for the
I want to ask the President of Bolivia what are his
country.
PRESIDENT PAZ ZAMORA: What I take with me from this
summit -- I think that what part of the press felt that the summit
might be before coming here, in the sense that, from here we would
have. a multinational interventionist force going out, moving into our
countries, impinging on our sovereignty -- I think has been fully
cast aside by fact, by what has happened here. And, rather, what we
find here is a fraternal multinational effort of cooperation among
brethren to combat the same evil in a fully independent way,
respecting our rights and respecting our revindications, both
individual as well as national.
In that sense, I want to tell you that it's a summit
meeting in which I was satisfied, for example, to hear the report
that I needed to hear. As far as reduction in consumption in the
United States is concerned, it's a summit that has satisfied me in
the sense that I have been able to statistically witness that there
has been a reduction in the crops of excess coca leaf in the area --
a decrease which, by the way, coincides with what Bolivia has been
able to obtain in the last two years, which is precisely 12,000
hectares.
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Moreover, I believe that in this summit, the ideas put
forth in Cartagena thing is the cocaine-drug traffic duo, and confuse other
are better defined. And today, we see more the
clearly is the coca how one leaf farmer-peasant duo, and we must never, ever
the two in our strategies.
And finally, one impression that I want to give you: As
understanding always, of the problem. At this summit, too, I believe did not we have
President Bush has impressed us with his profound
included concrete, practical elements -- mechanisms that what
exist investment at should play -- what role it should have, both public drain and on
Cartagena. And we have specifically insisted on
private, U.S. taxpayers' pocket. We want to tell U.S. businessmen to
but noting that here we are not trying to place a and
the industrialized countries' businessmen that we can contribute and this
establishing fight alternative development thus for the farmer peasants.
by investing money in producing countries and investing
I think this is a very important step for this summit
And something specific to conclude: We have all taken on
meeting. the commitment. along with President Bush, to make an international in
offensive, an offensive we will carry out in Europe, in Japan,
Canada; and we've appointed a special group that will travel to get
in touch with all of these countries 50 that they will also become that
involved in the efforts of Cartagena I and San Antonio II, so
our efforts are truly global.
Yesterday, President Fujimori, you said that you're
concerned that & the drug war is may be headed towards a total failure,
and also noted that since Cartagena, the amount of drugs, the
supply you of drugs has not been diminished at all. As a result of the
agreements reached today, are you at all confident or at all assured
believe in two years from now that the supply of drugs in the world
that the drug war may turn around towards victory? And do you
will reduce, or do you think it will stay the same, or even increase?
Thank you. And if the President of Ecuador could comment, too, I'd
appreciate it.
PRESIDENT FUJIMORI: Today's meeting has been
characterized by the total honesty with which we have faced the
various subjects. And, thus, when we spoke about reduction, this was
studied based on statistical charts, for example, the subject of
demand and how that demand in the United states had been reduced
significantly.
AS far as supply is concerned, the production of coca
leaf, as far as the amount of hectares is concerned, we see a
reduction of approximately five percent to eight percent from 1989 to
1991.
Carrying out an even clearer analysis, this reduction is
due basically to what has been obtained in Bolivia -- 6,000 hectares.
In other words, in Peru there has not been any reduction as far as
the amount of hectares devoted to the cultivation of coca leaf.
Therefore, if we speak honestly, this program has not been as
successful in reducing the production of coca leaf.
Therefore, last year Peru presented a project which
finally was turned into a bilateral agreement to carry this out in a
different way. Unfortunately, the resources available are scarce. I
have stated, and I insist that this is a global problem. It involves
not only the countries that produce the coca leaf, the
commercializing countries, the consuming countries, it involves the
absolutely the whole world. And what our financing is devoted is not
simply for Peru. Therefore, too, we must point out the need for more
allocations.
For example, in the case of Peru, I'm not talking about
allocations for the Peruvian government, no. This is an allocation
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battlefield for the struggle which happens to be Peru. This is a global war. Part of
against drugs which would be applied in the
that war is being waged in Peru.
Therefore, we require greater resources, which I am sure
that international the community will consider in its appropriate dimension. in this
U.S. government and also the governments of the
I insist because we have had those cutbacks and those delays repeated. the
and I repeat that we have had serious difficulties in
past disbursements. year We hope that such obstacles will not be
Likewise, we should to say that on the supply side, Peru
world, and with the participation of 250,000 coca-producing much farmer
specifically, as the producer of 60 percent of coca leaf in the
peasants are willing to change lifestyle. And they can do the more.
Their contribution can be extremely noteworthy. And that is
potential that every government of the international community must
take full advantage of.
Therefore, I was also concerned by the allocations made
to the producing countries. I repeat, hopefully this can be
improved. And it is also necessary, and I must say this also that very
honestly, for the good of the struggle against the drug war,
cases such as Peru's will not be slanted exclusively towards
interdiction, that this will not be the bias -- that we study the
problem in an integral fashion, as we are doing it with aid from the
United States, for example, in our air control, and at the same time
development.
I have criticized the activities that have been carried
out in the last 10 years because this reduction has not come about.
In other words, what we want is more integral treatment, less police
treatment. I think that this 1s basic. And I think that in that we
are in full agreement as well.
President Borja, yesterday your spokesman told us
that you and R Ecuador do not have sufficient resources from the United
states to fight drugs. since now there are no specific timetables as
far as money is concerned, what do you take back to your country in
concrete terms?
PRESIDENT BORJA: I think that it should be made very
clear that, fortunately, Ecuador -- I repeat, it should be made very
clear that Ecuador is an underdeveloped country as far as drug
trafficking is concerned. we do not have coca cultivation. We do
not refine cocaine. Drugs are not part of our exports, nor is it
part of our economy. But naturally, that does not excuse us from our
responsibility of agreeing to efforts with other countries in
fighting in a united way against this modern scourge of drug
trafficking and drug consumption, behind which there is enormous
economic power. It is a plague that goes beyond any national
borders. And therefore, as a response, it must receive concerted
bilateral and multilateral action for that struggle to be successful.
I have spoken to President Bush bilaterally with regard
to the need to finance certain defensive actions, now that we have
the time to do 1t, so that my country can become -- to keep my
country from becoming a drug producer. UP to now, all our struggles
against the drug traffic basically have been financed with Ecuadorian
capital. But this financing is not sufficient.
The tax to be carried out is very large. In fact,
people have spoken of a war on the drug traffic. That implies a
multiplicity of battles that must be won in order to win the war.
That requires a lot of money. It requires great efforts. That is
why we are here.
As President Salinas was saying, we are here to defend
the things necessary for our countries in this battle against drugs.
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We struggle must must be the result of an international response a crime
concert our battle against the drug traffic. And to that
of international nature.
PRESIDENT BUSH: May I apologize for any violation of
Fitzwater ground rules. I wasn't able to control it quite here the
because way we had a little divergence there where it was got
the I would like to. And I apologize to the fellow Presidents -- it a
understand. little out And I hope those journalists from abroad who were denied
of the plan that we agreed upon. But I hope you
a question or two would understand, too.
Thank you very, very much.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 27, 1992
PRESS BRIEFING BY
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS BERNARD ARONSON
AND
NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS TED MCNAMARA
Henry Gonzalez Convention Center
San Antonio, Texas
4:30 P.M. CST
MR. POPADIUK: Can I have your attention, please? The
briefing is about to begin. Regular briefing rules are in effect.
This is an ON THE RECORD briefing, but not for sound or camera.
Today's briefers are: Assistant Secretary of state for Inter-
American Affairs Bernard Aronson; and for Latin American Affairs Ted
McNamara.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: what I will do is try to
just give a context for this final day of the summit and then
describe what I think was accomplished and then take questions.
I would just make one large point, which is that if you
look at the new challenges of the post-Cold War era, increasingly
they are what is called "transnational problems," or "global
problems" -- controlling weapons of mass destruction, global
environmental issues and narcotics trafficking. What the democratic
community has learned over recent years is that these new global
challenges cannot be confronted by any one country alone; they cross
borders, they require a new degree of regional cooperation and
multilateral cooperation.
I think that the summit declaration said it very well;
it said that the Cartagena declaration laid the foundation for the
development of a comprehensive and multilateral strategy to address
the problem of illegal drugs, and that here in San Antonio we've
moved beyond the achievements of Cartagena to adapt international
cooperation to the new challenges arising from worldwide changes in
the drug problem.
I'm going to go through briefly the conversation -- just
a few highlights of the discussion among the heads of state to give
you a sense of it. And then I would like to say what I think was
accomplished here.
One of the problems in the drug fight is that countries
waited too long. One of the positive results of the new regional
cooperation is that countries have learned that lesson. so, for
instance, President Borja made the point in the morning's discussion
that he saw a growing transit problem across Ecuador and he intended
to commit his government to stamp it out before it was too late. He
called drugs a transnational problem that requires joint action, and
he said that just in the last few weeks Ecuador had seized the
largest cocaine seizure in its history -- about 3.1 tons of cocaine
hydrochloride.
President Salinas made the same point. He said, the
power wielded by the drug traffickers makes them a threat to all our
governments. He said that Mexico was dramatically increasing its
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budget. He said that more than 25,000 soldiers, several thousand
police are committed to the drug fight, and over 56,000 hectares of
drug production have been destroyed; 1500 tons seized -- these are
over the last two years. He said the last two years they've seized
drugs valued at more than twice their external debt. He said they've
made 16,000 arrests, they've seized 20,000 weapons and 140 airplanes
from the drug traffickers. He said Mexico probably has the largest
air force in Latin America today because of the planes they've seized
from the traffickers.
The President of Bolivia noted his very strong sense
that, since Cartagena, enormous progress has been made on all
areas --trade, interdiction and eradication. He pointed to new.
investment by American companies as being helpful. He said, "If not
us, who; if not now, when?" in the drug fight.
And the reason I'm citing these quotes is, if you
remember back to Cartagena the issues then were: Is there a will to
fight? Will they cooperate? The whole spirit and tone and nature of
these conversations is really a quantum advance. Nobody's questioned
whether we need to fight this effort. Nobody's questioned whether =we
need to cooperate. Nobody's fighting between producers and
consumers.
Countries are learning the lessons as Ecuador clearly
has done by getting into this drug fight before it grows beyond
dimensions that they can't cope with.
President Gaviria went through the progress since
Cartagena. He said: "Two years have passed, we've gone beyond
headlines to commitment. Two years ago the cartels looked
invincible, they threatened our democracies; now their leaders are
dead and in jail." He said, "We're no longer pointing fingers of
guilt at the producers or the consumers." He says "There's been a
dramatic change in the position of international financial and
banking circles. It used to be that the dirty capital of the drug
traffickers was just accepted without question; now there's a new
multilateral commitment to stop it." But he said, "Drug traffickers
find it easy to adapt, and therefore we need to strengthen this
hemispheric effort to confront them."
President Fujimori thanked President Bush for the U.S.
effort that helped in what he said, "reinserting Peru into financial
relations with the IMF and World Bank and Inter-American Development
Bank and helping it carry out a stabilization program." He said that
drugs are destroying the Amazon Rain Forest. He talked strongly
about the need to build a regional effort to interdict trafficker
aircraft.
President Gaviria also, later in the conversation,
talked about the changes in the Colombian judicial system. He said
that they fundamentally have reformed their judicial system and moved
to a prosecutorial system. For those of you familiar with Latin
American judicial systems, they usually have the judge in the case do
the investigation and prosecution, which is a very weak system.
They've now gone to a system of prosecutors. He said they now have a
60-percent conviction rate. He said, "Today we feel capable of
trying the criminals who two years ago terrorized Colombia."
He thanked the U.S. for complying with the agreements on
controlling precursor chemicals. We said other countries are not
complying and we need to do more. President Salinas stressed the
need to involve Central America where transiting is going through.
I think those are the highlights. Now, what was done in
San Antonio I think was the following: First, this alliance was
broadened and strengthened by including three additional countries,
including very important countries like Mexico, Venezuela and
Ecuador. Secondly, it was broadened internationally. This summit is
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sending a delegation to Europe and Japan to enlist the support and
assistance of our allies in this new effort.
And finally, I think if you look at the annexes of the
agreement, you will see that there are strategies for drug control
and strengthening of administration of justice. we agreed to set up
regional training centers for police and administration of justice
training, strengthen intelligence-sharing. There was a major focus
on a regional effort, starting in the Andes but going all the way
down through Mexico, to control the air space and deny air space to
trafficker aircraft. And that means intelligence-sharing, sharing of
the monitoring of trafficker aircraft; it means a greater effort on
all the countries to have standardized markings and the line so it
will be known which aircraft are legitimate and which are not.
There was a similar effort to do more to control so-
called "free trade zones" and ports where drugs go out and chemicals
go in; a much greater strengthening of legal regimes to control
precursor chemicals. The countries committed to take appropriate
legal action against companies violating chemical control
regulations. There is going to be a follow-up effort to strengthen
intelligence-sharing, evidence-sharing and technical information to
control money laundering. And I would note, for instance, that the
raid Colombia just made on the Cali Cartel led to the seizure of 150
bank accounts in five different countries. That kind of an
international effort wasn't possible a couple of years ago.
There's a much greater effort, in part because of the
great success of Colombia, which is in part financed with about a
$25-million five-year program through AID, to strengthen judicial
systems. President Gaviria really felt that one of the key
accomplishments was creating a system of special courts where judges
have anonymity, you can get evidence without revealing the sources,
jurors have anonymity and safety and they can try drug trafficking
kingpins without fear.
Last year for the first time, I think, Ted, no judge in
Colombia was assassinated. They've lost in recent years over 200
judicial personnel, judges and others.
On the economic area, there was a lot of support and
appreciation for the Andean trade preference legislation which
already has passed. There was a commitment to go to the multilateral
lending institutions -- the World Bank, the IMF, the Inter-American
Development Bank -- and urge lending that was
counternarcotics-related to the producing countries.
And in addition, Secretary Baker signed some bilateral
agreements: One was on money laundering with Colombia, and the
second was a memorandum of understanding on public education on drugs
with Ecuador.
what am I leaving out, Ted? Anything?
AMBASSADOR MCNAMARA: No, I think that covers it.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: oh, and finally there will
be a yearly follow-up meeting annually.
AMBASSADOR MCNAMARA: And the groups will -- one from
each will go to the Europe.
& Do you have details on this delegation going to
Europe -- when, where -- and how much you asked Germany and Japan?
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: I don't know how quickly.
Do you know, Ted?
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AMBASSADOR MCNAMARA: It was decided that one from each
country would go, that there would be a meeting and they would decide
when to go and how to organize themselves. It was left to the
experts.
&
Can't hear back here.
AMBASSADOR MCNAMARA: I said it was decided one from
each country would go, that that group of seven would meet and would
decide the details of their trip -- where they would go, what they
would do, et cetera. The American nominated to go is Bob Martinez,
the Drug Czar.
2
DO you have a ballpark figure of how much those
countries have to contribute to the effort?
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: How much the countries
have contributed?
2
HOW much money Japan and Germany, for instance,
have to contribute?
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: I don't know that this
delegation is going to go with a specific dollar figure. It's not a
pledging conference, but they will try to enlist support from Europe
and Japan in all of these areas -- in the money laundering
information sharing, in the chemical controls, and I'm sure in
alternative economic development. But I can't give you a figure.
&
How much discussion was there of Fujimori's
comments about that the United states needs to give more aid and what
aid has been given doesn't seem to have been effective?
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: Well, if you listened to
President Fujimori at the press conference, what he was expressing
concern about were the restrictions that the Congress has placed on
Peru's aid that have held us back from disbursing it. As I said, he
specifically went out of his way to thank President Bush for the help
that the United States has provided to Peru in leading with Japan a
support group that has allowed Peru to clear its arrears, or is in
the process of clearing its arrears with the IMF and the World Bank.
They've already done so with the Inter-American Development Bank, and
the IDB has resumed lending. They thanked us for helping with
stabilization.
If you're asking if President Fujimori would he like
more assistance from the United States, clearly he would. I know
very few poor, impoverished countries would not, though I would note
that we provide about $100 million in food aid to Peru. The United
States is feeding one Peruvian in seven. In addition to that, we've
provided this past year about $60 million in balance in payments;
it's going to go up to $100 million next year, and security aid on
top of that.
X
What I meant was, was there any discussion of this
by him or the other countries, or did Bush make it clear -- look,
we're tapped out, you're not getting anything more -- so that closed
the subject?
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: Well, it wasn't that kind
of conversation to be honest with you. This was a multilateral
conversation. That was not a topic particularly -- President
Fujimori was making a larger point, which is they feel that it's
crucial to maintain the political support of 250,000 foreigners, and
want all concerned to keep that in mind, and we are very sensitive of
that.
&
In view of your comment about the traffickers'
ability -- rather, quoting the summit leaders' perception that the
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traffickers have the ability to adapt and adapt quickly to changing
circumstances, was there any discussion of expanding the membership
of the summit in this hemisphere to other Latin American nations,
possibly going to the Caribbean?
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: There was some discussion
of that privately, not in the group. And I don't want to predict,
but I would suspect that the next time these leaders meet there will
be others in the room. But no decisions were made on that.
identification 2 of trends of where the traffickers are going for
And could you also share whether there -- is it an
planting, for processing -- in other words, as Colombia begins to get
tougher and Bolivia --
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: I think you do see -- I'd
say two changes. One, you see some of the cocaine cartels of
Colombia going into poppy production. That, in fact, is an
indication that they recognize that the cocaine business is much more
dangerous and less profitable because of the enormous law enforcement
heat on it.
But one of the positive things that came out of these
discussions was President Gaviria made it clear they are going
forward already to spray to eradicate poppy production in Columbia.
And then you do see, as President Borja said, again as they're
driving some of the trafficking operations out of Colombia, you see
more transiting through countries and Ecuador.
money beyond & the $2.2 billion will now be needed to satisfy the
Has the U.S. changed its opinion on whether or not
concerns of Peru and actually advance this significantly?
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: At this point the Andean
strategy has a set of budget levels that have been agreed to. But as
I said, yesterday, alternative economic development can be promoted
in many ways. Direct assistance is one, but I would not
underestimate how important trade access is. We have now provided
duty-free access to Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia. In
addition, the President added about 67 products to the General System
of Preferences after Cartagena. We have signed bilateral framework
agreements on trade and investment with all of the countries at this
summit. And we are liberalizing trade that way. And the President,
as he made clear, is committed once we negotiate and ratify a North
American Free Trade Agreement to expand that to include others.
2
so you contemplate taking -- getting others to pay.
the bill, a la Desert Storm, with help from Europe and Asia because
their interests are --
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: I left out one other
point, which is that we do have a budget request before the Senate
Appropriations Committee right now for $310 million. If we get it we
can forgive debt of seven countries in Latin America. And that helps
in the drug fight. And we hope the Senate will do its part in the
drug fight by fully funding the Enterprise for the Americas
Initiative.
But the answer to that question is, yes, there needs to
be more burden-sharing. And that was a plea and a concern that the
Latins expressed that we agree with. Increasingly as we're reducing
demand in our own country, you see new markets opening up in Europe.
And this is a transnational problem.
I was pleased to hear President Gaviria say that the
Italian government had helped, as the United States had, in this
judicial reform that they'd carried out. But we do believe that
Europe and Asia need to do more across the board in controlling
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chemicals and in helping to support alternative development in
attacking money laundering.
money. Would 0 you say, Bernie, that the discussions about the money
I want to follow on the earlier question about the
-- U.S aid, more U.S. aid took place more in the bilateral sessions
than in this multilateral session? We've heard so much about it that
--
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: I'll be honest with you,
neither the bilaterals nor the multilateral sessions were consumed by
pleas for more aid. But there isn't a time when heads of state from
poor, underdeveloped countries don't meet with the President of the
United states where they don't at least somehow suggest or hint that
they would like more aid, to be honest with you.
X
Almost all of them mentioned it in their statements
here.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: No, I don't think that's
true, to be honest with you.
We've got to go to the motorcade.
MR. POPADIUK: Yes. We have to take a last question.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: okay, last question.
&
This is a follow-up on what you were saying
earlier. The President did say in the news conference that he had
learned about the importance of alternative cropping. He said, "I
think there's more we can do." was he referring to the sort of trade
liberalizations you were talking about in NAFTA?
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: He was referring to that
we sent a large interagency technical team to the Andean countries
about eight months ago, led by Ambassador Corr, which met with
farmers and growers to try to see what crops will work there. I
think we'll probably expand those sort of efforts. I think we'll try
to encourage investment, as the President of Bolivia said, with OPIC
missions. We're going to move very aggressively to certify countries
for the Andean Trade Preference Initiative.
Rita wanted to ask a question about NAFTA and then we've
got to go.
&
Can you just say what are the prospects on NAFTA?
What areas are still stumbling blocks after today? What happened?
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ARONSON: I don't want to get into a
blow-by-blow. I think both Presidents feel a lot of progress was
made in Dallas, but there are still some very important issues on our
side -- I'm sure there's some on Mexico -- that have to be resolved
in order to get a good agreement. But the two Presidents directed
that the negotiating schedule go forward at an accelerated rate. And
we still are committed to try to negotiate a good agreement and
ratify it this year.
Thank you.
AMBASSADOR MCNAMARA: I'll take one or two before the
President comes on, and then I've got to go.
Q
President Gaviria mentioned yesterday that about
$30 billion in military aid was going to be directed to the police in
his country and not used for military aid. what is the status now of
Colombian military aid? Is there no -- is the U.S. not going to
provide military aid?
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AMBASSADOR MCNAMARA: It all comes from the pie or
pocket, if you will. Over the course of the last couple of years, we
have been giving security assistance -- that's the official title --
and we have been dividing that according to the needs of the military
and the police. The planned distribution for this year, 1992, has
been adjusted to give more to the police and to give less to the
military. That's what he was referring to.
It is not either an increase in the total assistance
going to Colombia, nor is it a decrease in the actual equipment
coming in. It will be police who are going to get -- I don't have
the figures right here -- but the police were going to get "x"
percent and the military are going to get "y." The police will not
get "x-plus" and the military will now get "y-" as a result of a
decision by the Colombian government on how it wished to divide up
this amount of assistance.
to police in Bolivia? X And in general, what does this shift reflect,
Are you considering a similar shift from military
given that the centerpiece of the administration's strategy was the
idea of enlisting host country armies in the war on drugs?
AMBASSADOR MCNAMARA: The supposition is wrong. That
has never been the centerpiece of the administration's strategy.
Each country, in consultation with the United states, decides on how
it wishes its security assistance divided up and who ought to get how
much. And then we also sit down and talk with them about what
equipment, what services would be included in the assistance. That
will be done as it has been in the past, country by country. So
therefore, what happens in Colombia does not necessarily mean that
there will be any changes in any other country. But it doesn't mean
that there won't be either. Each country will do it on its own.
2 There were a couple -- President Fujimori yesterday
had been very critical of DEA operations in Peru and talked about how
they were violating all kinds of rights there. Was there any
discussion of that in the meetings today and any consideration of
curtailing those operations or changing them?
AMBASSADOR MCNAMARA: No. President Fujimori mentioned
some press stories having to do with DEA in which DEA was accused of
certain things, but there was no specific reference beyond a passing
notice in the course of a discussion, which actually was centered on
matters unrelated to DEA had to do with how the different police
organizations in different countries can cooperate.
R
Well, given his concerns as expressed, is there
going to be any follow-up on the U.S. side on these things?
AMBASSADOR MCNAMARA: I'm sure there will be follow-up
from both sides.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
February 27, 1992
For Immediate Release
EXCERPTS BY THE PRESIDENT
AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY
AT THE OPENING PLENARY SESSION OF
THE SAN ANTONIO SUMMIT
meeting, It in a historic city, in a historic state -- my home Summit state
is a great honor and pleasure to call to order an historic
of Texas. we are all here to make this San Antonio Drug two
successful as the first summit called by President Barco to
years this meeting with a warm tribute to the great, visionary
as ago in beautiful, "heroic" cartagena. It is fitting
begin man who first brought us together on this issue, Virgilio Barco.
as President Paz Zamora, who is also here today,
will In cartagena, recall, we faced a daunting, unprecedented -- some thought, of
hopeless -- challenge: How to unite against the scourge
violence, and corruption that was undermining our
drugs, democratic societies, our institutions, our economies, and our
environment.
That meeting gave birth to a new alliance to strengthen our
democracies by attacking the drug trafficking and consumption
with greater resolve than ever before. Cartagena was when we
cooperation, when we recognized that drugs are an international
stopped the finger-pointing and committed ourselves to
plague caused by both consumer and supplier.
Two years later the situation has markedly improved. We are
facing the challenge; we are united; we are resolute; we this are
prevailing. We are now seven, not four. we welcome to
Mexico, Venezuela, and Ecuador, all of whom have shown firm
group leadership and courage in this struggle. Others in the Americas
and Europe are with us, seeing the threat more clearly. Progress
is being made. We have courageously faced those who would
our societies, break our laws, and kill thousands of
subvert innocents. Top traffickers are dead or jailed; record levels of
cocaine and other drugs have been seized; cultivation has leveled
off; interdiction is up worldwide; we have cracked down on drug
users; consumption is declining as our people increasingly reject
drugs, especially our youth; our judicial institutions are
stronger, better able to meet the challenge; our efforts against
money laundering, chemical diversion, and illegal arms exports
are improving.
But, we are here today because the job is not yet done. We have
not yet won this fight. It is time to assess our accomplishments future.
and our plans -- to learn from the past and look to the
Let me mention what seems to me to be some priority areas.
First and foremost, we must reduce demand. All else will fail if
we do not do that. I know that task falls heaviest on the United
states; and we have made a good beginning. Since I came to
office, there has been a 35 percent decrease in current cocaine
users and 27 percent fewer young people are using drugs.
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we must continue the economic reform, economic
second, debt, trade and investment measures which States are so
assistance, important to our anti-narcotics programs. The United
wants alternative development to succeed.
Peruvian and Bolivian peasants will stop growing
I am sure if there is an alternative besides starvation. viable The
stick illegal of coca, law enforcement must have a carrot -- an offer of
economic alternatives for poor peasants.
Third, we must continue and enhance our effectiveness in
eradication, interdiction and law enforcement that have been SO
critical to our success thus far. Just as demand reduction will We
have lower laid this out in the "strategy for Action" that is part of
supply, SO also supply reduction will lessen demand.
our Declaration. We must make it happen.
we must look carefully and imaginatively at what might be
Fourth, called non-violent, law enforcement measures. We must strengthen
chemical and controls, asset seizure, and in other areas. It is here
harmonize our laws on money laundering, arms, exports,
that the long arm of the law can fracture the power of the
The anti-racketeering laws in the United States
traffickers. have proven to be one of the strongest measures we have developed
in recent years.
Fifth, our judicial systems need our attention. Many of us have
underway legal reforms SO that we can handle criminal cases
faster, more securely and more effectively. These are important
and should proceed. We must also cooperate by sharing
information about traffickers and their crimes so they can be
brought to justice.
sixth, our cooperation has developed in the past two years and I
welcome that. we need to keep in close touch so that we can
coordinate strategy and understand each others' perspectives and
needs. That makes the high-level follow-on meeting very
important. It will be the first review of how our "strategies
for Action" are progressing. We also must enlist the cooperation
of the Europeans and Asians. To do that we should send a
delegation to those countries to talk to their leaders.
Seventh, heroin production is a worrisome problem which Mexico
and Colombia are moving against with some success. This is a
sign the traffickers believe the cocaine trade is declining. We
cannot ignore this new threat or we risk a surprise in the
future.
Eighth, we must do a better job educating our press and our
publics about our progress. In the United States, for example,
we are seeing a down turn in demand that was purchased at great the
cost in money and effort. Another example is the story of
drop in cultivation in the Chapare in Bolivia.
Ninth, as we take up the struggle within our own countries with
renewed vigor, we must bear in mind that our efforts transcend
borders. We must respect sovereignty or our cooperation will not
be sustained. But, as sovereign states we can agree to cooperate
against the traffickers who trample on the sovereignty. If we do
not work together, the traffickers will destroy us separately.
Finally, one more note of great importance. Everything we do
must conform to our democratic principles. None of us wants a
drug-free dictatorship. we must protect the human and civil
rights of our citizens. We are all committed to defending
democracy and its principles as we defeat the scourge of drugs.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
February 27, 1992
For Immediate Release
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
The President is delighted that the United states Senate voted
overwhelmingly to confirm Barbara Franklin as Secretary of
Commerce. As Secretary of Commerce, Barbara Franklin will be a
leader in the Administration's drive to create jobs, increase
economic growth and keep America at her competitve best in the
global market place.
Secretary of Commerce Franklin will work closely with Congress,
business leaders and organizations to insure that the nation's
business and commerce needs are served in the most productive
manner as we move into the 21st century.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
February 27, 1992
For Immediate Release
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Barbara and I are saddened to hear about the death of former
Senator S. I. Hayakawa. Senator Hayakawa was a leading voice on
behalf of the people of California and the nation. His counsel
was always sound and welcome and his legacy will be well
remembered.
Barbara and I extend our sympathy to the family and friends of
Senator Hayakawa.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 27, 1992
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Democrats in the House of Representatives today took a turn down
a familiar path -- they voted to raise taxes. They voted against
creating jobs and stimulating the economy. Instead of voting to
provide greater opportunities for all Americans, they voted to
saddle the economy with a $100 billion tax increase.
In my state of the Union Address I asked Congress to put politics
aside and pass my economic growth plan by March 20th. It's a
plan that will create jobs and put Americans back to work
immediately.
Economists, Democrats and Republicans alike, agree that the
Democrat package that passed today does not create jobs or
stimulate the economy. The Democrat package gives typical
Americans only about 25 cents a day for two years. But it
increases taxes permanently. I believe a Congress that has
consistently shown it spends too much of hardworking Americans'
tax dollars should not be allowed to tax and spend any more.
I will not accept the Democrat tax increases. The American
people would want me to veto this latest Democratic tax increase.
And, let there be no question -- I will.
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POOL REPORT
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DINNER AND A NIGHT IN LA CASA CHAPTER 11
February 27, 1992
No news.
Field, ditto a Texas Air National Guard base, also uneventful, followed
Air Force One to Houston a little bumpy. Landing at Ellington
has frame Uneventful in by old front homes Bush traditional of friends chopper ranging motorcade the Fitches' Jack ride house from to and to $550,000-$1 that private home Delmar Bobbi the for Fitch. dinner landing couple the million. occasion. The at will zone the exclusive old soon in West Glory It West is Oaks subdivision Houston. was a white home and waving move of
into a brand-new brick house they're building next vacate door.
Mrs. Bush had an uneventful two-minute motorcade to the
After a leisurely 2-hour, 15-minute dinner, the President and
Houstonian Hotel, which, as you know, recently went into
residence since last Hallowe'en, when they cut short a planned
receivership. It is the Bushes' first visit to their Texas legal
home. long weekend here to view storm damage to their Kennebunkport
--Martin Kasindorf, Newsday
POOL REPORT #
13
FROM THE SUMMIT TO THE HOOPS
February 27, 1992
Motorcade from McNay Art Museum to San AntoMio's West End Community
Center uneventful. Then we have color and some Marlin Fitzwater quotes.
After closed briefing on what they were about to see, President and
Mrs. a Bush were escorted into the center's pine-paneled gymnasium of and
took seats in the bleachers. There they watched a six-minute quarter
play among nine-year-olds in the San Antonio Spurs Drug Free Basketball
League, which has 2,300 kids from 9 to 16 signed up.
Watching at the president's side was Red McCombs, owner of the NBA
basketball Spurs. David Robinson, the team's star
foot center,
sat next to Barbara Bush. Other Spurs players in the seats included
Sean Elliott, injured Willie Robinson (honorary Drug Free
Basketball League chairman) and Rod Strickland.
The game, interrupted at the 2:56 mark for a demonstration by blue-clad and
girl cheerleaders, was between the beige T-shirted West End team
South San Antonio. West End won, 12-6, though its kids were much shorter
than the other guys, who wore purple. All team T-shirts - sport the
were there, too. The two teams playing consisted of African-American
Spurs logo. About 100 kids from other league teams, and a few parents,
and Uspanic-American kids.
After the game, a group of kids came out of the stands to sit on the
floor (for visuals) as a lectern and mike were set up. Robinson for introduced helping
the physident, who praised the Spurs
youth steer clear of drugs. With that, he gave a plaque commemorating coach the
league as the White House's 705th Point of Light to Spurs assistant Bush
Gregg Popovich. "It is better to build children than repair adults,
said. Meanwhile, Fitzwater was doing some campaign spinning. He told reporters
in the gym, "I don't think there's any magic button. We just have to
tough it out, just gotta live through it. The campaign is going well. The
President looks good. His speeches look good. But we've got a level of
discontent in this country that's not going to change until the economy
does." Ensuing motorcade to Kelly AFB, and the sendoff by the base commander
and unidentified civilians, were uneventful. From the airfield in Houston
the First Couple were headed directly for dinner at a private residence.
--Martin Kasindorf, Newsday
--Clara Bingham, Newsweek
POOL REPORT #12
Motorcade from McNay to West End Community Center
Basketball Game and Motorcade to Kelly AFB
FEBRUARY 27, 1992
Motorcade to Community Center uneventful. After a closed
briefing, President and Mrs. Bush were escorted into the Center's
pine-pannelled gymnasium to view a 6-minute quarter of play in
the San Antonio Spurs Drug Free Basketball League. The Bushes
took seats in the bleachers. Seated beside the President Red
McCombs, owner of the NBA Basketball Spurs. Beside Barbara Bush
was the star center of the team 7 ft. tall David Robinson. Other
Spurs players in the seat were Sean Elliott, Antoine Carr,
Rod strickland
Phone went dead. Stand by for more in Houston
Marty Kassendorf
Newsday
THE WHITE HOUSE
Pool Report #11
Mr. Bush and Latin leaders posed for photos.
Photo Op eventful.
Mr. Bush, looking fit and rested in a dark blue suit and rep tie
spotted your pool lolling in the sun as he emerged from the art
museum with the Latin heads of state. "You guys have it easy,"
he said , smiling "great declaration coming out, wait and see."
Asked wheter it would contain surprises, the President shook his
head and said, "no."
Progress? "oh, yea. "
Michael Wines
New York Times
POOL REPORT #10
The Drug Summit Opens
February 27, 1992
After a 10-minute motorcade trip, Bush was the first of the
leaders to arrive at the McNay Art Museum, the sight of today's
summit. The Museum is a turn-of-the-century Spanish style
mansion, and Bush emerged from a foyer to greet each of the
leaders in turn on a patio surrounded by palm trees. He seemed
in good spirits, and joked with the pool and answered some
questions as he waited for each of the leaders to arrive. Asked
how he was feeling, Bush replied "Feeling alright." He said he
has "a slight cold," but added "I'm off the medicine I was
taking. It was more of an allergy, I think." Your pool tried in
vain to draw him on campaign questions, including a query about a
new Pat Buchanan commercial accusing Bush of having spent
taxpayers money on porn. But Bush said only "Not today" when
asked if he would care to comment.
Bush also declined to discuss in detail the declaration the
leaders will issue later today. But he said he hoped "to just
enhance the cooperation that we already have, to build on it, to
build on the Cartagena Agreement." But before issuing the
declaration, he noted, "We've got a few problems to work out."
Asked whether Peruvian President Fujimori opposed specific drug-
fighting targets, Bush said: "You'll have a chance to ask him
about that."
As Mexico's Salinas arrived, and posed for a photograph with
Bush, he was asked about the Free Trade Agreement. He answered,
"Despues," baffling some reporters until Bush translated: "That
means 'later'. Asked later however whether he was confident of
reaching a free trade agreement this year Bush referred to his
talks with Salinas, saying, "More so after our breakfast
meeting."
As the progression of visitors continued, Bush seemed to tire of
the questions and waited inside the doorway out of hearing from
the pool. At one point he jokingly closed an iron grate barring
the door, claiming "We have a barrier here." He emphasized
however that the purpose of the Summit was "to build on
cooperation that already exists. It's very good but we've got
lots to do." Asked if he were disappointed that the declaration
would not include specific goals, he said: "We're going to be
talking about all of that. We want to be as close together as
possible." But he got his revenge on his interrogators as the
final leader Bolivian President Paz Zamora arrived. "It's
lovely," Bush said gesturing from the Museum's patio. "No, not
the people. I'm talking about the Museum."
Inside, the leaders began their first plenary session in a
high-ceilinged room adorned with what appeared to be Spanish art.
They sat around a round table, with Bush flanked by Baker and
Martinez, with the Mexican and Ecuadoran delegations on either
side. Moving clockwise around the table the delegations were
positioned as follows: United States, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela,
Colombia, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
Doug Jehl
Los Angeles Times
Correction to Pool Report #9
February 27, 1992
Photo Op with Venezuelan Foreign Minister
The quote in pool report #9 should read as follows: "What is
best is to get a fair treed, a free trade agreement through a
soon as possible."
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(San Antonio, Texas)
For Immediate Release
February 27, 1992
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY WITH
FOREIGN MINISTER ARMANDO DURAN OF VENEZUELA
Marriott Rivercenter
San Antonio, Texas
8:40 A.M. CST
Q
Mr. President, did you make any breakthroughs on
free trade this morning?
THE PRESIDENT: No. We had good discussions on that
with the President of Mexico. And we just reassured him that we want
an agreement, a good agreement as soon as possible. No politics, no
nothing is going to stand in the way of our doing what is right and
what is best for the American people. And what's best is to get a
fair trade -- free trade agreement through as soon as possible.
Q
Do you think there will be one this year, Mr.
President?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we're hoping so, yes.
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8:42 A.M. CST
Pool Report #9
February 27, 1992
Photo Op with Venezuelan Foreign Minister
As your pool entered, Bush could be heard telling the Venezuelan
Foreign Minister Armando Duran to extend his regards to
President Perez "Let's give him our very best, and he's been so
helpful in the whole anti-narcotics effort. I'm sure you'll fill
him in on the details." This time, the American delegation
included Baker, Aronson, and an unidentifiable State Department
official.
Asked if he had reached any "break-throughs" on trade in his
earlier meeting with Salinas, Bush answered "No." But he quickly
added "We had a good discussion with the President of Mexico. We
just reassured him that we want an agreement, a good agreement,
as soon as possible. And no politics, no nothing is going to
stand in the way of our doing what is right and what is best for
the American people. What is best is to get a fair trade, a free
trade agreement through a soon as possible." Asked if it were
possible to reach agreement this year, Bush replied, "Well, we're
hoping so."
Bush later posed for a photograph with former Houston Oiler's
football great Earl Campbell. The photo op took place out of
your pool's sight but Michael Busch said that Campbell had given
the President a football.
Doug Jehl
Los Angeles Times
POOL REPORT #8
Salinas Photo-Op
February 27, 1992
No news. Bush and Salinas were seated side-by-side in arm chairs
as your pool walked in, with their aides arrayed in sofas on
either side. Baker, Hills, and Scowcroft composed the American
delegation. There was no breakfast in sight. The two leaders
proved obliging when the press called for a handshake, but proved
less obliging when a Mexican reporter asked Salinas a question in
Spanish. It was studiously ignored.
As your pool walked out, Bush could be heard saying: "Well, I
want to commend the Mexican delegation for staying awake through
the piano music last night, which I found very restful.' It was
unclear whether his jest was meant to be self-deprecating, but
Scowcroft seemed to take it personally. "Mr. President!" he said
in mock shock."
The last words your pool could hear were Bush telling Salinas
that "Barbara thought his speech was a little long but I thought
it was pretty good. It was unclear who Bush was referring to.
Doug Jehl
Los Angeles Times
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White House News Summary
Thursday, February 27, 1992 -- 1
2:30 P.M. CST/3:30 P.M. EST NEWS UPDATE
TRIP (San Antonio/Christopher Connell, AP) -- President Bush opened
a drug summit with leaders from six Latin American nations, saying
"we are united, we are resolute, we are prevailing" in the two-
front war to cut Andean supply lines and curb demand for drugs in
this country. But Bush, in opening remarks to the conference, also
stressed: "We are here today because the job is not yet done. We
have not yet won this fight."
He listed nine priorities for further action, headed by the
need to reduce demand. "I know the task falls heaviest on the
U.S., and we have made a good beginning,' he said, citing figures
of a 35% drop in cocaine users since he came to office.
(San Antonio/Jeff Franks, Reuter) -- President Bush and
leaders from five Latin American nations met in, a summit expected
to produce greater cooperation, but break little new ground in the
war on drugs. Bush, in comments to reporters while waiting to
greet his Latin American counterparts, appeared to downplay the
scope of the agreement they were expected to sign at the end of
their meeting. The accord would "just enhance the cooperation as
that already exists, to build on those Cartagena goals,' he said.
Other measures would include greater efforts to interdict drug
trafficking aircraft on the ground, more regional centers to train
anti-drug forces, further agreements to curb imports of cocaine-
processing chemicals and a pledge to study the environmental impact
of the drug war, The San Antonio Light said.
(San Antonio/Thomas Ferraro, UPI) -- President Bush opened a
largely symbolic meeting with six Latin American leaders, saying
he hoped the summit would resolve a "few problems" and "enhance the
cooperation" among the assembled nations. Bush, who brushed aside
pleas from South American leaders for more funding to battle drug
exporters, said he hoped the summit would produce "an agreement to
decide where we go from here, just enhance the cooperation that
already exists." One significant policy change was reached between
Colombia and the U.S., which agreed to shift U.S. financing of
about $75 million from the Colombian military to anti-narcotics
police.
BUSH TAX PLAN (AP) -- The House defeated, 264-166, President Bush's
short-term tax plan aimed at stimulating the economy and turned to
consideration of a rival Democratic plan providing a temporary tax
cut for wage earners.
GAO (AP) -- The Bush Administration appears to be setting policy
through secret national security directives that are supposed to
provide only guidance to top officials, congressional investigators
say. The GAO said it obtained five unclassified summaries of
directives issued by the NSC. Four of them established U.S. policy
on such diverse issues as Soviet immigration, space,
telecommunication security and sealift,' GAO said.
LINE ITEM VETO (UPI) -- The Senate rejected, 54-44, legislation
that would have given President Bush line item veto power over
appropriations, a move that opponents said would turn Congress into
a "rubber stamp" of the White House.
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We're seeing results. This year we've dramatically
the area affecting kids like You. The national goal was to reduce
exceeded many of the goals that we'd hoped to reach, particularly in
casual drug use by 30 percent. It's actually fallen 63 percent. And
that's something that we done together and something that
particularly proud of.
everyone here, the adults are working with these kids, should be
And so, I came here today to meet with Latin American
leaders for coordinating our nations' efforts to combat drugs. We
these Presidents, who were thrilled to be in San Antonio.
are going to win that Fight: we bad as very good meeting with all
We want to make life better for the kids in this
country. And as a nation, we have to celebrate the success stories,
and do good as well.
showing the good thatis being done inspires others to get out there
And so we're here to honor something special -- your
determination and your spirit. And you kids, and the 2,300 like you
drug-free can help you make your dreams come true.
across this city, are learning very important lessons here: staying
Today, in order to highlight for others the good work
that you are doing here, all of your young and old I recognize the
san Antonio Spurs Drug-Free Youth Basketball League as our nation $
705th Daily Point of Light. (Applause. ) You see, you prove that no
community has to accept things as they are. Drugs and other problems
can be driven from our backyards If leaders in every community are
like these guys -- if leaders in every community care enough to urge
people to become Points of Light
So congratulations to of you, who show us that it's
better to build children than repair adults. Keep making those hoops
against all odds. And may God bless each and every one of you.
And now: I: would like to ask Pop Gregg Popovich -- to
come up here and let me present him with the symbol honoring his
efforts your efforts, the team's efforts as the 705th Daily Point of
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Israelis Propose
Israelis Offer an Outlinelfor Palestinian Self-Rule
Some Self-Rule
Continued From Page Al
and taxation; health, industry, com-
select the administrators of the various
merce and tourism, labor and social
By Palestinians
proposed public service and regulatory
ability to lay the foundations for an
welfare, local police, courts and pris-
bodies - even though Mr. Shamir ad-
independent state and avoiding any
ons for purely non-political criminal
vocated such elections in his May 1989
transfer of control over land, water and
matters, local transportation and com-
peace plan. The latest Israeli proposal
munication, municipal affairs and reli-
security from Israel to the Arabs. The
simply says that "powers and respon-
By THOMAS L FRIEDMAN
glous affairs.
sibilities can be gradually delegated to
Specialite The New York Times
Israell plan makes no mention of elec-
The Palestinians could take over
the administrative organs" dealing
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 Israel has
tions for Palestinians.
those areas from the Israeli military
with the different spheres of Palestin-
offered the Palestinians an outline for
The gap between the two proposals
government and run them, but they
ian daily life, but does not define the
self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza
was 50 wide that Palestinian negotia-
would not have jurisdiction over the
mechanism for doing that.
Strip that would give Palestinians con-
tors today called on the Assistant Sec-
Jewish inhabitants of the territories,
The Israeli proposal makes clear
trol over many aspects of their daily
retary of State for Near Eastern Af-
who would continue to be governed by
that the Palestinians are being given
lives, but would maintain Israel's con-
fairs, Edward P. Djerejian, to say that
their own municipalities.
only responsibilities for certain as-
the Israell proposal did not treat them
pects of life, not geographical control
trol over security affairs and prevent
For instance, the Israell proposal
as "human beings" with national
over a specific territory and its inhabit-
the Palestinians from establishing any
states that Palestinians be granted
ants.
rights. The Israelis, for their part, as-
framework for an independent state.
"management of hospitals and clinics
serted publicly that the Palestinians
As Mr. Shamir had indicated in
The Israelis presented their draft
and other services related to public
were just interested In scoring propa-
recent weeks, the 10-page Israeli pro-
health.' On legal matters, It says that
proposals on Monday to Palestinian
ganda points and trying to draw the
posal also diverges from the autonomy
Palestinians be given "supervision of
negotiators at the Washington peace
Americans into the negotiations, In-
program that Israel agreed to as part
the administrative system of local
talks, and disclosed some of the con-
stead of talking about the substance of
of the 1978 Camp David accords in
courts in the areas dealing with pros-
tents today. The Palestinians pre-
the Israeli proposal.
several significant respects. Those ac-
ecutions and the registration of compa-
For all their complaining. though,
cords set forth the framework for
sented their plan for scif-rule during
nies and partnerships."
both sides resumed negotiations today.
Egyptian-Israeli peace and for Pales-
the previous round of talks last month.
While a comparison of the two pro-
According to the terms of reference
Conspicuously absent from the Is-
tinian self-rule.
of the Madrid peace conference, Israe-
raeli proposals is the creation of a
When asked about that today, an
posals shows them to be widely diver-
Hs and Palestinians are supposed to
single, overall Palestinian administra-
Israeli spokesman, Yossi Gal, said the
gent in philosophy and substance, the
negotiate a plan for autonomy for the
tive body that would integrate and su-
Palestinians rejected the Camp David
fact 15 that for the first time ever.
Palestinians living in the West Bank
pervise all of those areas, and serve as
accords in 1978 and still reject them
Associated Press
Israelis and Palestinians have pre-
and Gaza Strip, under continued Israeli
the effective Palestinian government.
today, so they cannot "have it both
Hanan Ashrawi, spokeswoman
ways" and hold Israel to a document
sented each other with concrete pro-
rule. Two years after that plan goes
Israeli officials said that they had
for the Palestinians, arriving at
posals for Palestinian self-rule in the
into effect, they are supposed to negoti-
not necessarily ruled out an overall
that they themselves opposed. After
session of the Middle East Peace
ate the final status of those territories,
Palestinian authority, but with Israel
the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian
occupied territories.
which would be put Into effect three
now in the grip of an election cam-
peace treaty in 1979, Egypt and Israel
talks yesterday in Washington.
Plan for Israell Pullout
years later.
paign, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
tried to work out an autonomy accord
The Israell proposal specifies about
felt that it would be too explosive to
for the West Bank, with Egypt talking
straints on Jewish settlements. saying
But the Palestinian autonomy pro-
a dozen areas where Israel is ready to
even hint at such an idea.
for the Palestinians.
that is a matter for the final status.
posal, titled "Model of the Palestinian
transfer control to Palestinians living
For the same political reason, the
Rise in Settlers
negotiations.
Interim Self-Government Authority,"
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: agri-
Israeli proposal also avoids mentioning
In the Camp David agreement,
The Palestinian plan would give Pal-
appears to be basically a plan for
culture, education and culture, budget
elections among the Palestinians to
which was worked out with American
estinians control over a distinct territo-
creating an independent Palestinian
mediation, Israel agreed that after free
rial unit and everything therein, not
state in the occupied territories be-
elections for a Palestinian self-govern-
just civil services. The territory would
cause it calls for the virtual total with-
consist of the West Bank, the Gaza
drawal of Israeli forces from those
High-Level U.S. Trip to Hanoi
ing authority. Israel's military govern-
Strip and East Jerusalem. A 180-mem-
ment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
areas, to be replaced by an elected
would be abolished, "a withdrawal of
ber parliament would be elected as the
Palestinian government, legislature
Israeli armed forces will take place
Palestinian legislative authority. It
By BARBARA CROSSETTE
and there will be a redeployment of the
would nominate a 20-member execu-.
and judiciary.
Special te The New York Times
remaining Israeli forces into specified
tive council and a judiciary.
The Israeli plan, titled "Ideas for
Peaceful Coexistence During the Inter-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 - The Bush
security locations."
"It is an entity whose authority ema-
American companies to set up offices
nates from the fact that it was elected
im Period," appears to be basically a
Administration is preparing to send the
and negotiate, but not sign, agreements
In addition, the Camp David accord
by the Palestinian people." the Pales-
proposal for giving Palestinians in the highest-level official delegation to Viel-
with the Vietnamese. The oil, commu-
stipulates that a "strong local police
force" will be established to fill the
tinian proposal says. "No outside
occupied territories greater control nam since the end of the war, led by
nications and consulting Industries
security void created by the withdraw.
source invests it with authority."
over regulatory agencies and civil
Assistant Secretary of State Richard
have been lobbying for openings, fear-
H. Solomon, diplomats and Congres-
al of Israell troops.
All "powers, responsibilities and ju-
services while depriving them of any
ful that they will lose out to Japanese,
The current Israeli plen does not
risdictions" now controlled by the Is-
sional aides say.
Korean, Singaporean and other Asian
competitors.
allow for any redeployment of Israeli
raeli military government in the West
Continued on Page A8, Column 3
The State Department declined to-
The final steps, not expected until
forces, and retains for Israel the right
Bank and Gaza Strip would be trans-
day to comment on the reports, but an
to control all aspects of internal securi-
ferred to the Palestinian legislature in
announcement of the mission is expect-
after the 1992 Presidential election,
their plan.
would be a lifting of the embargo and
ty. It stipulates that the "sole respon-
ed this week. The Administration team.
siblity for external and internal securi-
Since the Palestinians would assume
which is to leave on Saturday, is appar-
the establishment of diplomatic rela-
control over the allocation of water and
ently planning to visit Laos and Cam-
tions.
ty, as well as public order, will be that
Mr. Solomon met with the Vietnam-
of Israel." It continues, "In the area of
the zoning of land for development,
bodia as well as Vietnam.
ese Deputy Foreign Minister, Le Mai,
public order there will be 8 cooperation
they could bring a halt, in their plan, to
between the Israeli authorities and the
Jewish settlement building. The Pales-
There is speculation in Congress that
in New York in November, the first of
the United States may be moving to-
local police force."
tinian plan is unclear about how Jewish
what was described as a series of high-
ward a new phase In relations with
Israell officials said that departure
settlers would be governed.
level meetings made possible by the
was because when Israel agreed to
The Palestinian plan calls for Israeli
Hanoi. Under a "road map" presented
peace accord on Cambodia reached in
October with the help of Hanoi. In an
Camp David at the end of the 1970's.
troops to be withdrawn from populated
to the Vietnamese a year ago, faster
Arab areas before the election for the
progress on solving cases of missing
interview after that meeting, Mr. Mai
there were about 10,000 Jewish settlers
Americans would lead to a partial re-
in the West Bank, and it would have
Palestinian parliament and then to be
said he thought it might be possible to
redeployed "along the borders of the
laxation in an American embargo that
advance a stage this spring.
been relatively easy to redeploy Israeli
The visit of Mr. Solomon, head of the
forces in a way that would have cast a
occupied Palestinian territories" the
has frozen Vietnam out of trade and
blocked assistance from the World
bureau of East Asian and Pacific Af.
security umbrella over all of them.
West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jeru-
salem - by the time the Palestinian
Bank and International Monetary
fairs, follows the arrival in Hanol this
Today, there are 110,000 Jewish sel-
self-governing administration takes of-
Fund.
week of Brig. Gen. Thomas Needham,
tiers, spread out all over the territo-
fice. Internal security would be man-
The Bush Administration, which
who heads a new United States mili-
ries, so It is no longer possible for
aged by a combination of "strong local
eased travel restrictions for Ameri-
tary task force on the issue of the 2,267
Israel to redeploy its troops and still
Palestinian law enforcement force"
cans at the end of last year, has said
Americans still unaccounted for in
protect all of the Jewish residents of and United Nations peacekeeping
that the next step will be to allow
Indochina, including 1,656 in Vietnam.
the area. The Israeli plan puts no re- troops.
The New York Times
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1992
The Voters
South Dakota. Voters: Democrats
Warnings for Winners
In South Dakota Results
8%
By RICHARD L. BERKE
Speciales The New York Times
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Feb. 26 - There
state's dwindling farm population, Mr.
CANDIDATE QUALITIES THAT MATTERED MOST
was bad news all around after Tues-
Harkin came in second over all, a
day's South Dakota Presidential pri-
showing that could cripple his money-
mary, even for the winners.
hungry campaign. Only 21 percent of
While Democrats here handed Sena-
Mr. Harkin's supporters mentioned the
tor Bob Kerrey of Nebraska his first
regional factor, while the largest pro-
victory, with 40 percent of the vote, the
portion, one-third, credited him with
main reason people sold they voted for
caring about their issues.
him was because he "knows my state."
And though Mr. Harkin is considered
President Bush, who received 69 per-
closest to labor, Mr. Kerrey did equally
cent of the Republican vote, could hard-
ly be reassured, considering that 31
well among those with a union member
in their household. Both men each got
ISSUES THAT MATTERED MOST
percent voted for an uncommitted
about a third of the union vote. Al-
slate. And many disgruntled with the
President vowed to desert their party
though both candidates are veterans,
and vote for & Democrat in the fail.
Mr. Kerrey had made much of his
Vietnam War experience, and he won
A nagging minority of Democrats
also voiced doubts about the character
half of the veterans' vote.
and honesty of Gov. Bill Clinton of
Mixed Outcome for Clinton
OTHER FACTORS
Arkansas, and about the health of for-
mer Senator Paul E. Tsongas of Mas-
Mr. Clinton's third-place showing
was repsectable for an outsider who
sachusetts, Issues that could haunt
had little presence here until the final
them as the race turns south.
days of the campaign. But he might
Warnings From the People
have done better, perhaps overtaking
These warning signals came from a
Mr. Harkin, had voters not had misgiv-
survey of voters leaving polling sta-
Ings about accusations of marital Infl-
tions in South Dakota on Tuesday.
delities and disclosures that he tried to
While turnout was light in this sparse-
avoid the draft.
ly-populated state of just under 700,000
Asked If they were satisfied that Mr.
Clinton had the "honesty and integrity
to serve effectively as President," 32
percent said no and 61 percent said yes.
Support for the
Of the Democrate who voted for Mr.
Tsongas, 49 percent said they had
candidates seems
qualms about Mr. Clinton's integrity:
38 percent of the Kerrey and Harkin
tentative and
voters also were concerned.
Mr. Tsongas, the winner of the New
South Dakote Republicans
Hampshire primary, received 10 per-
thin.
cent of the vote here, a sign that his
strength in New England may not reso-
nate in other regions. Although Mr.
- only 58,608 Democrate and 44,664
Tsongas said he has been cured of
cancer, some voters are worried.
Republicans actually went to the polls
- the findings underscore the political
Twenty-six percent of the Democrat-
land mines faced by the Democratic
Ic voters said they were concerned that
field and an incumbent President.
his health "will interfere with his abili-
Mr. Kerrey scored a victory over
ty to serve effectively as President.
Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, who fin-
Nearly one-third of the Kerrey and
FAMILY'S FINANCIAL SITUATION
Ished second and with whom he was
Clinton supporters said they were con-
vying for pre-eminence as the farm
cerned about Mr. Tsongas's health, as
belt favorite. One-third of the Kerrey
were 24 percent of the Harkin backers.
backers cited his regional ties, while 25
Health Care the Issue
percent pointed to his ideas, and an-
other 25 percent said that he "cares
Karen Schreier, chairman of the
about people like me."
South Dakota Democratic Party, said
ISSUES THAT MATTERED MOST
While he was the clear favorite of the
Mr. Kerrey won for more reasons than
his local ties. "Kerrey campaigned
here more than Harkin, and organiza-
tion was a big part of it," she said.
As for health care, the polling by
How the Survey
Voter Research and Surveys, an organ-
budget
Ization created by the four major tele-
Was Conducted
vision networks in 1990, found that
OTHER FACTORS
more than any other issue, health care
The Election Day exit poll was based
mattered most to Mr. Kerrey's sup-
with
on questionnaires completed by voters as
porters. Perhaps that was because the
they left voting stations throughout South
largest pool of Democratic voters, 43
like
to
Dekota on Tuesday.
percent, were over the age of 60.
The poll was conducted by Voter Re-
Mr. Kerrey has made national health
search and Surveys, an organization cre-
Insurance the centerplece of his cam-
ated in 1090 by ABC News, CBS News,
CNN and NBC News.
paign, and 35 percent of his supporters
conducted
628
The results are based on 1,348 voters
cald the issue was critical to them,
voters 88 poling please throughout South
in the Democratic primary and 629 vot.
closely followed by 33 percent who
are in the Republican primary in 38 ran-
cited the economy and jobs. Among Mr.
domly aslected precincts around the
Harkin's backers, the biggest concern,
state.
In theory, in 10 cases out of 20 the
among 39 percent, was farm policy,
results from such polls should differ by
while 47 percent of Mr. Clinton's and
no more than a few percentage points
Mr. Tsongas's backers said the ocon-
from what would have been obtained by
omy and jobs.
University at Brookings, said the pro-
were less supportive of Mr. Bush than
seeking to Interview all primary election
The vote against Mr. Bush was also
test vote against Mr. Bush should not
women - a pattern that was apparent
voters in South Dakota on Tuesday. For
largely a protest over the sour state of
be underestimated: "When an incum-
in the New Hampshire primary. By 14
Democrats, the difference should be no
the economy. Fifty-four percent of
bent President cannot hold 70 percent
percentage points women were more
more than four percentage points in of-
those who rated the national economy
or more In a primary against an un-
supportive than men of Mr. Bush.
ther direction; for Republicans, It should
as poor backed the uncommitted slate.
committed state, It says there's real
be no more than five percentage points.
discontent in the ranks."
Mr. Bush's conservative opponent,
Results based on smaller subgroups
Patrick J. Buchanan, did not file in
have a targer potential sampling error.
'Still a Danger Sign'
Although they were answering the
time to get his name on the ballot here.
In addition to sampling arror, the practi-
While Mr. Bush retained the over-
poll in the heat of casting a primary
cal difficulties of conducting any survey
Today, Mr. Buchanan, a conservative
whelming loyalty of voters Identifying
ballot, more than 4 of 10 of those who
of voter optnion on Election Day may
columnist, said the President's per-
Introduce other sources of error into the
themselves as Republicans, the uncom-
voted uncommitted said they would
formance showed he was "politically
poil For example, refusal rates by voters
mitted slate got its biggest vote, 60
vote for Mr. Tsongas or Mr. Clinton If
as weak as a kitten."
leaving voting stations can be higher
either was the Democratic nominee
than those for other types of polls.
percent, among independents.
against Mr. Bush.
But Don Peterson, chairman of the
Bob Burns, head of the political scl-
South Dakota Republican Party, said
ence department at South Dakota State
The findings also showed that men
many Bush supporters stayed home.
The New York Times
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY r. 1992
Assessment
Democratic Free-for-All
Expectations of an Orderly Campaign Fade
Democratic Campaign
As Voters Choose One Man, Then Another
Turns into Free-for-All
By ROBIN TONER
Special to The New York Times
Continued From Page AI
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 - Forget
And Mr. Clinton, the Arkansas Gov-
about all the neat scripts for an orderly
The Primary Vote
ernor who was once expected to be well
ration that Mr. Clinton's draft record
Democratic primary campaign, from
on his way to the nomination by now,
would be an issue in the general elec-
the "Triumphant March of the Early
DEMOCRATS
has yet to win a primary or caucus.
tion.
Front-Runner," starring Bill Clinton,
Many Democrats continue to see
There Is clearly room for a Clinton
1,010 of 1,010 precincts, 100
to the "Unstoppable Surge
him as the front-runner. if only because
alternative in the race, but none of his
percent of the vote counted.
News
of the New Hampshire Un-
of the powerful advantage he gets from
rivals have fully capitalized on this
derdog.' featuring Paul E.
Analysis
the primary schedule: in the next 12
opening.
Kerrey
23,974
40%
Tsongas.
days, contests will be held in 10 South-
Mr. Kerrey's 40 percent victory tn
The voters are involved
Harkin
ern or border states. With Mr. Clinton's
South Dakota gives him a second
15,153
25
now. The plotlines are messy. And the
careful cultivation of the region, and
chance at filling this void. The Nebras-
Clinton
11,421
19
Democratic nomination is still very
his superior financial and organization.
ka Democrat won in a state that was as
much up for grabs. One sure sign was
al resources, he remains formidable.
much in his backyard as New Hamp-
Tsongas
5,756
10
the rough new attack mounted by Sena-
shire was In Mr. Tsongas's, but It will
Brown
Questions Linger
2,304
tor Bob Kerrey of Nebraska in Georgia
4
give Mr. Kerrey his time In the spot-
today, where he took aim at Gov. Bill
Still, as the voting in South Dakota
light, and, equally important, new cred-
Others
1,286
2
Clinton's draft record and his chances
suggested, Mr. Clinton now walks un-
Ibility to raise money. Some of Mr.
against President Bush in the fall.
der a cloud of doubts in the view of
Kerrey's sympathizers argue that the
In the boldest attack yet to try to
some primary voters. Surveys of vot-
freshman Senator, who seemed to suf-
weaken Mr. Clinton, Mr. Kerrey said of
ers leaving the polling places on Tues-
for more than most for his late entry
the Arkansas Governor, "I think he's
day found that 32 percent said they
Into the race, is finally hitting his
stride.
going to get opened up like a soft pea-
were not satisfied that he had "the
REPUBLICANS
nut in November of 1992." [Page A22]
Mr. Tsongas, who made an astonish-
honesty and integrity to serve effec-
ing leap forward In New Hampshire,
1,010 of 1,010 precincts, 100
New Competitiveness
tively as President," as against 61 per-
now needs all the more to prove that
South Dakota's primary on Tuesday
cent who said they thought he had those
percent of the vote counted.
his victory there was no fluke. Mary-
underscored this new competitiveness.
qualities.
land, which like Georgia votes next
Bush
30,948
69%
It resuscitated Senator Kerrey, who
The accusations of marital infidelity
Tuesday, is his best opportunity to do
and questions about whether he sought
so, in part because of its educated,
Uncommitted
13,716
31
was in danger of fading fast after his
to avoid the draft during the Vietnam
upper-Income suburbs, similar to those
sluggish performance in the earlier
War - matters that consumed the
that proved to be an Important part of
contests, and raised second thoughts
Clinton campaign for weeks in New
his support in New Hamphsire.
about Mr. Tsongas, whose vote total
Hampshire - may have moved off the
Some See Two-Man Race
Clinton has
barely broke into double digits after a
week of remarkably good press from
front pages, but they may be lingering
Dennis Kanin, his campaign man-
his win in New Hampshire. Coming
in the public's mind.
ager, contends the race for the nomina-
weakened, but no
Mr. Kerrey seems ready 10 probe at
tion is still "a race primarily between
after his squeaker of a victory in Sun-
Tongas and Clinton with some resus.
day's Maine caucuses over former
least some of these vulnerabilities In
citation value in South Dakota for Ker-
one has gained
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. of Califor-
Georgia, where the Medal of Honor
rey."
nia, Mr. Tsongas's showing in South
winner arrived today with a flat decla-
Still, the voters will not be heard on
from that, yet.
Dakota stoked the criticism that be
that assessment until next Tuesday,
was a one-state wonder.
Continued on Page A22. Column 5
when primaries or caucuses will be
held In Colorado, Georgia, Maryland,
Minnesota, Idaho, Utah and Washing-
drag at the top of the ticket. But this
ton.
year, there is an added edge of frustra-
Senator Tom Harkin of lowa, who
tion, because Mr. Bush seems so vul-
won his own state's caucuses but fin-
nerable to so many Democrats.
ished second in neighboring South Da.
"There's great news coming from
kots after a weak showing in New
the Republican side of the ledger,' said
Hampshire, Indicated he was staying in
a Democratic House member, who
the race. But life gets grim and money
spoke on condition that he not be Identi-
gets tight for candidates lagging be-
fied, "but not great news coming from
hind at this stage.
the Democratic side of the ledger."
After demonstrating with a virtual
tie with Mr. Tsongas in the Maine
caucuses on Sunday that an insurgent
Louisiana G.O.P. Chairman
can work wonders in a caucus Mr.
Brown, was far back In the single digits
In South Dakota.
Picks Buchanan Over Bush
'Awaiting Its Defining Moment'
All of this adds up to a murky race.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 26 (Reuters)
-
"It's a race that's headed toward a
Patrick J. Buchanan's challenge to
showdown, somewhere, I'm not sure
President Bush today picked up its
where," said James Carville, & strate-
first endorsement from a state Repub-
gist for Mr. Clinton. "It's a race that's
lican Party chairman.
In a surprise announcement at the
awaiting Its defining moment. There's
opening of Mr. Buchanan's state head.
yet to be a primary that's not connect-
ed to a state that a candidate lives in."
quarters In suburban Kenner, the
Geoffrey Garin, a Democratic poll
chairman of the Louisiana party, WII-
llam Nungesser, said, "If we don't
taker who Is uncommitted to any of the
stand behind Pat Buchanan, we will
candidates, said: "The question now Is,
how protracted will the process be?
lose the true conservative legacy of
Ronald Reagan.
And I'm not sure we'll have a very
"George Bush has let the conserva-
clear answer on that until we get to
Illinois or Michigan." Those primaries,
five line that separates us from the
on March 17, mark the return of the
Democrate cloud over, and If that does-
race to the battlegrounds of the North.
n't stop, we will lose the gains we have
As the race unfolds, many Demo-
made in Louisiana and this country."
cratic officials, on Capitol Hill and else-
While Mr. Nungesser is the first
state Republican chairman to endorse
where, watch and worry. The talk of
another candidate entering the race
Mr. Buchanan publicly, he said others
feel the way he does.
was suspended by New Hampshire,
where Mr. Clinion scored a respectable
"I call on them to stand up for our
enough second-place finish to declare
philosophy and we can win this thing
himself "the comeback kid," but the
with a real conservative Republican,
Mr. Nungester said.
fear remains that the party will
produce a fragile nominee. Some worry
about Mr. Tsongas's skills as a candi-
date, others about Mr. Clinton's bag.
gage.
Democratic officeholders have a
chronic anxlety, justified in five of the
last six Presidential elections, about a
The 1992 Campalgn
"I think he's going to get opened up like a soft peanut in November of 1992." SEN.
BOB KERREY
The New York Times
Democrats
Kerrey Brings Vietnam Issue to Georgia
NEW YORK, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1992
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
to accept responsibility for a decision
should respond to, the Bob Kerrey who
Specialio The New York Times
that was apparently based on con-
repeatedly told the people of New
ATLANTA, Feb. 26 - Senator Bob
science," Mr. Kerrey said. "I quibble
Hampshire that he did not want this
Kerrey marched into Georgia today
with a decision that was premeditative
issue discussed or the Bob Kerrey who
and brought the Vietnam War with
ly designed to further a political ca-
is trying to tell the people of Georgia
him. "I tell you today," he said, "Bill
reer, even then."
that this is an issue today," the Clinton
Clinton should not be the nominee of
For the first time today another
statement said.
the party because he will not be able to
Democratic aspirant, former Senator
win.'
Paul E. Tsongas of Massachusetts,
"It shows that Bob Kerrey and his
Speaking at Spelman College in At-
sounded critical of Mr. Clinton, a man
political consultants have a caricature
lants, fresh from his victory in South
he says he has developed a firm friend-
image of Southerners," the statement
Dakota, Mr. Kerrey, who won the Med-
ship with during the campaign.
continued. "They think something that
al of Honor in Vietnam, said Mr. Clin-
Some 'Electability' Problems
is not a worthy issue in New Hamp-
ton's avoidance of the draft in 1969
shire can be made into an Issue in
would be an issue in the general elec-
Clearly still angered over the re-
Georgia. That's an Insult to Southern
tion. "This is a truth that Is largely
marks a week ago of Gov. Zell Miller of
voters."
unspoken, but it is almost universally
Georgia, a Clinton supporter, that Mr.
believed by those who have been
Tsongas would lead the Democrats
Sharp Distinction Drawn
through this kind of thing before."
"back down that well worn path of
The Nebraska Senator did not refer
defeat,' Mr. Tsongas said for the first
Mr. Kerrey, in a sharp response to
to Mr. Clinton's decision not to serve in
time that he might have to attack Mr.
questions about what distinctions he
Clinton on the character issue.
Vietnam directly In his speech. He did-
drew between himself and Mr. Clinton
n't need to. He was introduced by State
since he, too, opposed the war after his
Representative Mabel Thomas of
return, said: "Let me tell you where I
Georgia, who said, "We want a Presi-
A bold attack on
go over the edge on this, it's this issue.
dent to be Commander in Chief, not
It should not surprise anyone to discov-
commander in chicken."
er that It was the men and women who
This was the boldest attack yet by
Clinton by a
went to Vietnam who suffered, and
Senator Kerrey to try to weaken Mr.
they particularly suffered when they
Clinton, who as Governor of Arkansas
decorated war
came home. And all of a sudden In this
York
is expected to do well in the South, and
campaign, all the sympathy is flowing
seemed designed to get some attention
hero.
to somebody who didn't go.
Senator Bob Kerrey talking to reporters yesterday after giving a speech at Spelman College in Atlanta.
and political capital in Georgia.
In New Hampshire, Mr. Kerrey
'A Soft Peanut In November
veered back and forth about making an
against George Bush, a veteran of
ry on Tuesday they settled on a more
World War 11; a businessman who cre-
cent of the vote.
At a news conference afterwards,
issue of Mr. Clinton's efforts to avoid
muscular-sounding strategy yhat they
ated jobs against a man from inherited
In April the Kerrey campaign hopes
Asked about whether the Arkansan's
flanked by half a dozen veterans wear-
the draft during the Vietnam War.
call "delegate accrual."
Georgia, a state with a sizeable num-
wealth. Clinton will have to explain for
to have raised enough money and sup-
ing garrison caps, Mr. Kerrey elabo-
problems with character would make
Kerrey aides said they did not expect
himself what he is going to do in the
port to win primaries in New York,
rated on his views. He said of Mr.
him less likely to be "electable," Mr.
ber of war veterans and people serving
to win in such closely watched prima-
Clinton, "I think he's going to get
Tsongas said tartly: "We all have our
in the armed forces, is also a state
general election."
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. "Those
ries as Georgia, Florida and Maryland,
are our battleground states," said Tad
opened up like a soft peanut In Novem-
electability problems. I'm not as tele-
where Mr. Clinton has wide support, a
A Survival Strategy
but that they will try to pick off as
Devine, Mr. Kerrey's campaign man-
ber of 1992." Though Mr. Kerrey said
genic as I should be, and he has his."
strong organization and a lot of money.
many delegates in as many states as
ager. "That's where we fight to win."
the Republicans would enflame the Is-
Mr. Clinton, campaigning in Colora-
Mr. Kerrey, who has little of any of
For the time being. Mr. Kerrey must
they can through "Super Tuesday" on
It is a survival strategy based in part
sue, he said he, too, had problems with
do this evening, initially brushed aside
that, decided to play his strongest suit.
explain how he expects to stay in the
March 10. Under a change in the Demo-
on the hope that-either Mr. Clinton or
Mr. Clinton's explanations on why he
questions about Senator Kerrey's re-
"Imagine the general election de-
race until the fall. Before South Dako-
cratic Party rules, no primaries are
Mr. Tsongas will stumble along the
chose not to serve.
marks, but later issued a hastily writ-
bate," Mr. Kerrey said In an Interview
ta, he and his advisers spoke in gloomy,
winner-take-all; delegates are award-
way and leave Mr. Kerrey an opportu-
"There is an apparent unwillingness
ten response to reporters:
shortly before delivering his speech.
vague terms about "survival." After
ed on a proportional basis to candi-
nity to establish himself as a credible,
"I don't know which Bob Kerrey II
'Bob Kerrey, a Vietnam veteran,
his victory in the South Dakota prima-
dates who reach a threshold of 15 per-
and more electable, alternative.
The New York Times
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1992
The Youngest, Cruelest Justice
Only four months after taking his oath as a
ers, human rights groups and the Bush Administra-
Justice, Clarence Thomas finds himself rebuked by
tion's Department of Justice in recognizing that this
NO seven-member majority of the Rehnquist Court
case turned on "contemporary standards of decen-
for disregarding humane standards of decency. The
cy." They know it is indisputably cruel when prison
withering reprimand, included in the Supreme
guards add brutally and recklessly to legally pre-
Court's majority opinion in a prison case Tuesday,
scribed punishment. They know it is up to the courts
is this:
to make sure such conduct remains unusual as well.
To deny, as the dissent does, the difference
between punching a prisoner in the face and serving
him unappetizing food is to ignore the concepts of
The Thomas dissent would be alarming coming
dignity, civilized standards, humanity, and decency
from any justice. Coming from him, it rings also
that animate the Eighth Amendment.
with crashing disappointment.
The Eighth Amendment forbids cruel and un-
He is, for one thing, the youngest Justice. He
Usual punishments. Only Justices Thomas and An-
might well serve until the year 2030 or beyond.
Although his voting record now is identical only to
tonin Scalia refused to apply it to the case of Keith
that of Justice Scalia, he could attract enough
Hudson, a Louisiana prisoner who was shackled and
support from future appointees to move the Court
beaten by two guards while their supervisor
still further to the right.
-watched, warning them only against having "too
A second disappointment concerns hope. Jus-
much fun."
tice Thomas rose from poverty and discrimination
:s The two dissenters likened the case to prisoner
gripes about inconveniences behind bars. They con-
in Pin Point, Ga., and his nomination won support
from prominent people sure he would bring to the
tended that since the prisoner suffered only a split
Court the understanding bred of hardship. Indeed,
Tip. loosened teeth and a broken dental plate, he had
he testified poignantly about watching busloads of
no constitutional complaint. They chided Justice
prisoners from his window. "I say to myself almost
Sandra Day O'Connor's majority opinion for turn.
every day, there but for the grace of God go I," he
ing the Bill of Rights into "a national code of prison
told senators eager to believe him.
regulation."
As a Justice, Clarence Thomas doesn't talk that
The seven Justices are joined by prison reform-
way anymore.
Don't Rush to Deploy ABM's
When Iraqi Scuds began slamming into Israel
billions more than any other Pentagon program in
and Saudi Arabia, they sent a shudder through
history.
Americans. How long would a new nuclear-armed
If Washington nevertheless decides that de-
"Iraq take to build missiles capable of reaching the
fenses are worth the price, it will need Moscow's
United States? Sensing the anxiety, Congress wants
consent. That's because an effective limited defense
to deploy anti-missile defenses on the ground, start-
can work only against a minimal offense. That
ing in 1996.
requires deep cuts in missiles. But Moscow might
But why rush into a costly deployment when
balk at such cuts because defenses could negate the
U.S. intelligence indicates that the danger from
retaliatory capability of remaining offenses, endan-
renegade third world nations is still on the distant
gering deterrence.
horizon? Further research is surely justified, but
Hard-liners in Washington want to take advan-
"there is no compelling reason now to Install anti-
tage of Moscow's weakness and deploy defenses
missile defenses.
unilaterally. But nothing would revive Moscow's
True, such defenses could also offer some pro-
military-industrial complex or restore hard-line
tection against an accidental or unauthorized
rule quicker than such a threat.
launch of missiles from Russia. But the quicker,
Some Star Wars enthusiasts see in recent state-
cheaper way to reduce that risk is to negotiate deep
ments by Boris Yeltsin, the Russian President, a
cuts in offensive missiles and take the rest off hair-
willingness to cooperate on defenses. He called for
trigger alert. Once that is done, the U.S. could try to
the U.S. and Russia "to develop, then create and
work out ways to deploy defenses in cooperation
jointly operate a global defense system."
with Moscow.
But their excitement seems premature. Mr.
Yeltsin's idea of cooperation is much more compre-
hensive than anything Washington seems ready to
Limited anti-missile defenses could protect the
embrace. Strategic Defense Initiative officials have
nation against only some dangers: They could de-
expressed interest in buying critical technologies
tect a few ICBM's traveling over the North Pole and
destroy them with ground-based anti-missile mis-
from the Russians. But the Administration has yet
to allow the sale even of personal computers to
siles. But far more elaborate and expensive de-
Russia, never mind sharing S.D.I. technology, subsi-
fenses would be needed to protect against missiles
dizing Russia's protection or consulting over use of
launched from a submarine offshore. And such
its own ABM's.
defenses would be useless against airplanes or
Mr. Yeltsin was also careful 10 insist that any
cruise missiles, or against bombs smuggled into the
U.S. in a suitcase.
defensive system "strengthen stability against a
background of sharp cuts in strategic offensive
Buying antiballistic missiles is like buying in-
arms." That condition won't be easy to satisfy. But
surance against lightning but not against fire or
theft. And even limited ABM defenses would cost
by deploying ABM's without satisfying it, Washing-
ton will endanger, not defend, the peace.
Republicans VS. Democracy in New York
Confronted with a chilling new round of ballot
bother to file the petition signatures he collected.
warfare, Saul Weprin, Speaker of the New York
Yet the Republican Ralph Marino, the Senate
State Assembly, is moving to restore democracy
majority leader, continues to defend this dismal
and common sense. Mr. Weprin, a Democrat, has
introduced legislation to insure a place on the
state of affairs. To change the rules now, he argues,
would be unfair to the candidates who fared better
state's April 7 Presidential primary ballot for all
the major contenders.
with their petitions. But that ignores the unfairness
That would spare New York a national embar-
to voters, who lose the chance to hear the principal
contenders offer their views in the context of New
rassment. Legal challenges brought by the fringe
York's problems.
New Alliance Party to enforce the state's nitpicking
It may be too much to ask that Mr. Marino, a
petition rules threaten to keep Paul Tsongas and
Jerry Brown off the Democratic ballot. And
Bush supporter, look past partisanship to give Mr.
the New York Republican primary has been can-
Buchanan access to New York's Republican voters.
celed because Patrick Buchanan, up against a state
But he should at least be able to support a compro-
party controlled by President Bush, didn't even
mise that allows the state's Democratic Party the
chance for a fair Presidential primary.
The New York Times
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1992
Shaping a Civilian Economy
Comeback Coming
WASHINGTON
demagoguery be the handmaiden of
To the question on the cover of U.S.
sound policy.
News - "How Weak Is Bush?" -
2. Bracketing the Democratic Con-
G.O.P. voters of South Dakota re-
vention. A President has this political
plied: weaker than any sitting Repub-
weapon: the ability to use his sched-
lican President since Hoover. With
ule to dominate the news.
nobody else on the ballot, Mr. Bush
In early July, he will focus our
was actively disdained by one-third of
attention on his use of foreign clout to
his own party's voters. That's not
create domestic jobs. Japan's
weakness; that's decrepitude.
Miyazawa will pay a state visit, con-
Here's the comeback scenario:
cessions in hand. Then they go off
1. The Unitateral Tax Cut. Mr. Bush
together to the economic summit in
proposed cutting the capital gains tax
Munich, where our major trading
by half. Democrats have called this
partners will want to help their friend
helping the rich at the expense of the
George get re-elected.
Then comes the Democratic Con-
ORGAN
poor; they see class war when what is
really being waged is generational
vention in New York, with highlights-
Jonathon Resen
war: cutting taxes on property prof-
only coverage by the broadcast net-
its helps older people; who have more
works, bracketed the following week
sons an Alternative Use Committee
unrealized profits, versus younger
by an all-stops-out state visit by Boris
composed of not less than eight mem-
people, who earn more but vote less.
Yeltsin to sign the historic S.D.I. Co-
bers with equal representation of the
When the Democrats pass a tax bill
operation Agreement. (A follow-up
By Seymour Melman
facility's management and labor."
that reduces middle-class taxes a pit-
with Ukraine's President Kravchuk
The composition of such commit-
tance and soaks the rich, Mr. Bush
would help shore up ethnic New Jer-
tees insures that the members are
will veto It and campaign against
sey if the visitor promises to forget
committed and knowledgeable. This
Mr. Bush's infamous "Chicken Kiev,"
raising anybody'sitaxes.
A 46 years of cold war, the
White House, Penta-
gives weight to people whose self-
Then, on March 20, the "deadline"
speech.)
gon, Congress and
interest is tied to long-term produc-
he gave Congress for a signable bill,
Democratic Convention? What con-
corporate managers
tion competence as against short-
vention?
he will zing in a smart bomb. He will
of defense production
term financial maneuvers that yield
reduce capital gains taxes the Presi-
3. The Springtime Surprise. Iraq's
are blocking every
quick profits but degrade the produc-
Saddam Hussein is the bone in Mr.
dential way - by unilaterally adjust-
proposal for planning conversion to a
tion competence of an industry.
ing the cost basis of computing prof-
Bush's throat, gaining strength forta
civilian economy. Federal and corpo-
David Prince's judgment that plan-
bloody comeback as a gulf power.
its.
rate managers fear a loss of decision-
ning must be done in advance is con-
The President has the power, by
Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi is
making power. Congress fears the
Military cuts
firmed by ordinary industrial experi-
penstroke, to adjust for inflation the
building mass-destruction facilities
disruption of political arrangements
as he harbors his killer terrorists.
call for a plan,
ence. This involves selecting new
cost of a taxpayer's property. Done
that enable members to bring income
And the North Korean dictator Kim
products, estimating their market,
prospectively, it would be a nice in-
and jobs to their constituents.
II Sung, we are warned by our Direc-
not a polemic.
retraining employees, altering the or-
centive to invest in companies or buy
This avoidance of planning for con-
tor of Central Intelligence (who does
ganization of production and rede-
property; done retroactively, indexa-
version blocks debate on the policy
not want to repeat the agency's mis-
signing plant facilities.
tion would slash taxes of longtime
and finances needed to repair Ameri-
take in Iraq), is only a few months
Bases are convertible to industrial
ca's industry and infrastructure.
away from producing a nuclear
parks, schools, hospitals, airports and
Major contractors like General Dy-
work." This would be delayed two
bomb. We cannot expose our 39,500
recreational facilities. In military
namics, Lockheed and United Tech-
years "unless some preliminary
laboratories, the. scientific staffs
How Bush can
troops in South Korea to a nuclear
nologies have begun large-scale lay-
steps are taken." They were. Plan.
strike; if plutonium production at
ning for reconversion was made na-
must match their knowledge with so-
offs. United is cutting its workforce
by 14,000; with 6,400 from its Connect-
ciety's technological needs like re-
beat decrepitude.
Yongbyon is not stopped, either we
tional policy as companies, unions
take our troops out, or take out the
Icut plants. The company's jet engine
and government named officials to
newable energy resources and pre.
new threat they face.
orders dropped from 700 In 1982 to 50
spur the program. For most compa-
venting pollution. The first-hand
Does It strain credulity to suggest
this year. Over the next six years,
nies, reconversion meant resuming
knowledge possessed by defense
that at least one of these three dicte-
under President Bush's plans, 1.3 mil-
the work interrupted by the war.
company employees is essential for
homeowners beyond the present
tors is going to get zapped? I think
lion people will lose jobs in defense
During the cold war, corporate and
conversion. Thus, conversion must be
$125,000 exemption, and would induce
not. Certainly the ground is being
industry and the military services.
Federal defense managers and engi-
done locally; no remote central office
holders of stock to sell, re-Invest and
prepared by the White House for deci-
At the close of World War II, U.S.
neers trained in the Pentagon's cost-
can possess the necessary knowledge
pay the reduced tax.
sive action to end threats of mass
planning for "reconversion" to a cl-
maximizing practices, the obverse of
of people, facilities and surroundings.
As Democrats confuse voters with
destruction. That non-political pdr-
vitian economy was already in place.
industrial efficiency. For them con-
What can converted factories
tax jiggering that goes nowhere, Mr.
pose is serious, but the political fall-
On April 28, 1943, David Prince, a
version means an end to subsidies as
produce? Products we now buy
Bush would say "no new taxes" and
out cannot be overlooked.
General Electric vice president,
well as retraining for unfamiliar cost-
abroad such as machine tools, elec-
take credit for having cut capital
How weak is Bush?
wrote the War Production Board,
minimizing skills and the technol-
tric locomotives, farm machinery,
gains taxes by himself. While Demo-
If he feels he must raise some taxes
"The very least time during which a
ogies of civilian products.
oilfield equipment and consumer
crats prattle about the middle class,
to mollify Congress; If he fritters
new product can be conceived, mod-
Conversion requires essential prep-
electronics. Besides, the modernizing
Republicans deliver results to the
away his power to control the sum-
els made and tested and pilot plant
arations: the planning must be or-
of America's Infrastructure will re-
middle-aged.
mer calendar, and if his stern warn-
production initiated is of the order of
dered by law, done in advance and
quire construction machinery and
As a result, no election-year tax bill
ings to three dictators about threat.
two years." With only a few months'
done locally In each defense factory,
capital goods of many kinds.
will be enacted, which is fine: the
ening the peace turn out to be empty
notice of the war's end, he said, "We
laboratory and military base.
In sum, conversion is crucial to
recession will be ended by low Inter-
posturing - then, and only then,
will find ourselves with a great many
The cornerstone of the comprehen-
creating a full-employment, produc.
rates and the huge deficit stimu-
would President Bush reveal himself
people whom we would like to put to
sive conversion law proposed by Rep-
tive U.S. economy.
lus now in place. Thus will sheer
too weak to deserve re-election.
resentative Ted Welss, Democrat of
Seymour Melman is chairman of the
New York, is this provision: "There
National Commission for Economic
shall be established at every defense
Conversion and Disarmament.
facility employing at least 100 per-
The New York Times
NEW YORK. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1992
Why Frohnmayer
Abroad at Home
Lost U.S. Arts Post
ANTHONY LEWIS
Republicans on the Senate Judicia-
ence at Louisiana State University
By WILLIAM H.HONAN
and a co-author of the book "Public
The Hunt
ry Committee blustered about disclo-
sure of "an F.B.I. report." Ms. Toten-
berg punctured that canard in her
Policy and the Arts, made the point
Shortly before the news broke last
when restifying before a Presidential
testimony this week. She had ob-
Friday that President Bush had de-
commission on arts policy. It would
posed John E. Frohnmayer as head of
be wong for the arts endowment to
For Red
tained not an F.B.I. report but a copy
of a sworn statement given by Profes-
the National Endowment for the Arts.
become an advocate of artists. said
sor Hill to the committee: a docu-
Mr. Frohnmayer had discreetly be-
Professor Mulcahy, just as it would
ment with no legal claim to secrecy.
gun looking for another job One of
be wrong for the Department of De-
the places where he ap-
fense 10 allow national security policy
October
The investigation is being conduct-
ed, at the Republicans' demand, to
plied was the Washing-
to become "the exclusive preserve of
find out who leaked the fact that
News
ton law firm of Dickstein.
defense contractors.'
Analysis
Shapiro & Morin. It
The analogy may not be perfect,
BOSTON
Professor Hill had made her charge.
seemed a good bei. His
but " seems to more than a few
It was last October when the coun-
To state the reason Is to explode it.
elder brother, David, the
observers of Federal cultural patron-
try heard the charge that Clarence
Investigate a leak in Washington?
former Attorney General of Oregon,
age that Mr. Frohnmayer's fatal mis-
Thomas had sexually harassed Anita
One might as well Investigate why the
once had been a roommate of one of
like was not his high-minded defense
Hill. The Senate confirmed Justice
sun rises in the East.
the partners.
of Irve expression but rather his fail-
Thomas, and he is sitting on the Su-
The serious question is why the
Mr. Frohnmayer offered his serv-
ure to grasp who his true constituen-
ices as "an arts advocate and First
cy was. thus infuriating and ultimate-
preme Court. But the issue is still
Judiciary Committee - in particular
Amendment lawyer,' a source at the
being pursued, in a way destructive of
its chairman, Senator Joseph Biden
ly alienating his natural allies in the
law firm said. He did not get a job
our political system.
tried to sweep the Hill charge
White House, on Capitol Hill and on
offer. but Mr. Frohnmay er charac-
the Presidentially appointed National
This week a Senate special counsel
under the rug. The possibility that a
terization of his professional interes:
Council on the Arts. His being at-
questioned Nina Totenberg of Nation-
Supreme Court nominee who had had
was revealing The First Amendment
tacked last week by Patrick J. Bu-
al Public Radio, who first broadcast a
the job of preventing sex discrimina-
is a field in which he had specialized
chanan. the President's conservative
report of Professor Hill's charge.
tion in fact practiced it demanded
before coming to Washington two and
challenger, was thus only the torpedo-
Two weeks ago the counsel, Peter E.
airing. Only the leak prevented its
a half years ago, but, according to his
Fleming. questioned the print report-
suppression.
own self-description in the Martin-
Everyone knows the real reason
dale-Hubbell law directory. "arts ad-
er who broke the story, Timothy
vocate" would be something new for
A crucial lesson:
Phelps of Newsday.
for the investigation. Conservative
his practice.
The two reporters refused to an-
Republicans were furious that the
This change provides a clue to the
swer questions about where they got
committee held its highly publicized
inner thoughts of a very private man.
The patrons are
their stories. They had promised ano-
hearings on Professor Hill's charge.
a suggestion as to where he went
wrong and a lesson on the nature of
the masters.
nymity to their sources, and they had
Winning. as they did, was not enough.
to keep their promises. To have done
They wanted revenge.
one of the trickiest jobs in Washing.
otherwise would have been to betray
The revenge is not just the special
ton today.
their professions and themselves.
counsel's leak investigation. The lu.
Shifting Under the Pressures
ing of a ship whose decks were al-
The reporters also claimed that the
natic right around the country is
Throughout most of his tenure. Mr.
ready awash.
First Amendment's guarantee of free
spreading the tale that there was a
So what IS needed in Mr. Frohn
conspiracy among Professor Hill and
Frohnmayer was anything but an
speech and press protected them
arts advocate. He repeatedly over.
mayer's stead at a time when artists
from having to name their sources.
other individuals and interest groups
ruled the decisions of grant-making
are in reasingly in-your-face con-
to sabotage the Thomas nomination.
peer panels, only to reverse himself
frontational, and the body politic IS'
The Supreme Court has held that
Reporters can stand up to this mis-
both financially straitened and politi-
reporters must respond when grand
on several occasions. Artists were
begotten hunt for villains easily
shocked and angered in June 1990
calls splintered? The answer, accord-
juries subpoena them to testify about
enough. They know that in the end
when he acknowledged (although be
ing to sume cultural officials and ob-
crimes they have witnessed. I think
Orrin Hatch and Arlen Specter are
later denied) that "political realities"
servers. IS less advocacy for those
that decision was correct, but the
not likely to be silly enough to try to
had motivated his veto of four grant
intent on poking tax dollars into the
First Amendment claim is stronger
eve. of taxpayers and more for the
put them in prison.
recommendations and again when he
here.
inststed that grant recipients sign d
patrons who foot the bill.
But the effect on the political pro-
The central meaning of the First
pledge that they would not use Fed.
BL how can 3 new chairman (or als
cess IS worrying. The investigation
Amendment is that all of us citi-
eral money to create obscen- or blas.
& hairman) became an advo-
and the right-wing propaganda are
zens, not just journalists have the
phemous works.
for the patron without seeming a
designed 10 terrorize the Judiciary
right to speak freely about govern-
It was only in recent months that ne
a high-handed culture czar or
Committee staff and all the citizens
a plain Philistine? It has been a
mental issues. And what could be a
became a fervent advocate of artists
and groups who had the nerve and
and began to treat the peer-panel
thorny question throughout the histo-
more important issue than the one
the constitutional right - to oppose
grant recommendations as sacred.
rv of the endowment. but never $0
the Thomas nomination.
Last November, for example. he told
much as today. Last Sunday on "This
We are familiar with such intimi-
a small group of reporters with evi-
Week" with David Brinkley, on ABC,
dent pride that he had approved
Sam Donaldson Cokie Roberts,
The Anita Hill
dation. At another time it was called
McCarthyism. There are no Reds this
grants for two of the four sexually
George Will and Mr. Brinkley -
explicit performance artists who
newscasters who represent a range
leak is still
time, but there is still the attempt to
were then suing the endowment for
of political opinion all surprisingly
paint legitimate political differences
having canceled their earlier granis.
agreed that the arts endowment was
being pursued,
as subversive conspiracy. By any
Asked to explain this decision by
a dead horse
name it is ugly. Senator Hatch knows
Leonard Garment, a former special
But others have proposed a num.
better, and he ought to call it off.
consultant on arts policy to President
be: of ways for the arts endowment to
destructively.
The right really should be content
Richard M. Nixon and an occasional
be ome a truly enlightened advocate
with having Justice Thomas on the
adviser to the Bush Administ ation,
for the patron. One suggestion comes
bench. In dissent this week he sug-
Mr. Frohnmayer said he thought the
from State Senator Roy Goodman, a
chairman of the endowment should
gested that the Eighth Amendment's
New York Republican and a member
keep hands off the judgments of peer
these reporters were covering, the
ban on cruel and unusual punishment
of the National Count il on the Arts.
panels and the National Council on
fitness of a nominee for a lifetime
Pointing to the fact that the most
had nothing to do with the way con-
the Arts. the 22-member body that
recent legislation to reauthorize the
position on the Supreme Court?
victs are treated in prison, however
advises the endowment chairman.
arts agency has greatly increased the
Moreover, the public interest on the
brutally or maliciously. He was
unless a recommendation "met a
power of the council, Mr. Goodman
other side of the balance - the Inter-
joined only by Justice Scalia. The
quasi-judicial standard of clear and
observed that It had begun for the
est in forcing testimony is weak in
Bush Administration had urged the
convincing error."
first time in a good many years to
this case. No one claims that a crime
Court to do what the majority did:
The next day, Mr. Garment said in
exercise this new strength when a
was committed when the news of
a recent interview. he learned that
uphold an assaulted prisoner's
relected two deliberately provocative
the endowment had been flooded with
Professor Hill's charge was pub-
Eighth Amendment claim.
applications at Its most recent meer-
calls from Capitol Hill asking. in ef-
lished.
ir.g earlier this month.
fect, "Has the chairman lost his
mind?"
"That wasn't censorship," said
"I had tried to explain to Frohn-
Senator Goodman. "It was the action
mayer," Mr. Garment said, "that his
of a mature council that no longer
Congress Advised to Limit Bailout Funds
real constituency was not the artists
sees itself as mandated by Congress
but the President, Congress and the
to be a rubber stamp."
public. But he held to his view."
Isaac Stern. who served on the first
By STEPHEN LABATON
the financing issue, in each case par-
National Council on the Arts in 1965,
ing down or rejecting the Administra-
hundreds of auditors hired by the
Special to The New York Tunes
tion's financing requests. Since the
trust corporation never did any work,
Mr. Frohnmayer had heard this
made 3 similar point about the job of
billion. summer of 1989 it has provided $105
and that officials violated Federain
argument before. Kevin V. Mulcahy.
the chairman "He must know the
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 - The
regulations by breaking the contract
an associate professor of political SCI-
society he serves,' he said.
General Accounting Office advised
into 92 parts in an attempt to get
Congress today to reject the Bush
Lawmakers Express Doubts
around Federal procurement rules.
Administration's request for an im.
A number of lawmakers in the
As for the $7 billion discrepancy, in--
mediate $55 billion to complete the
House and the Senate expressed seri-
vestigators are still trying to deter-
savings and loan bailout, saying Fed-
ous doubts about the Adminstration's
mine whether there was fraud OF
eral regulators were unable to keep
latest request after the accounting
merely ineptitude.
track of the billions of dollars in as-
sets they now oversee.
agency said in a report that the Reso-
The case has quickly become the-
lution Trust Corporation had re-
latest symbol In Washington of ing
Shortly before Treasury Secretary
Nicholas F. Brady conveyed the Ad-
mained unable to monitor thousands
competence and waste by the trust
of contractors and subcontractors
corporation. Its operations have been
ministration's request to the Senate
and keep track of billions of dollars in
in such disarray that the G.A.O. says.
Banking Committee, G.A.O. officials
loans, real estate and other assets
it has been unable to carry out its
recommended that Congress instead
seized from failed institutions "I
required annual audit of the agency.
offer just enough to continue the bai-
lout until the spring of next year.
don't see any fundamental reform in
Donald W Riegle Jr. the Michigai.
They cautioned that granting the full
the process,' said Representative
Democrat who heads the Senalt
land. Kweisi Mfume, Democrat of Mary.
Banking Committee, said the failure
amount would make the Administra-
to audit the agency adequately would
tion less accountable to Congress.
The recommendation by the ac.
In a separate report, the inspector
make it difficult for Congress to pro-
general of Resolution Trust said to
vide new money.
counting office, an investigative arm
of Congress, came in response to
day that its investigation had found
Testifying on behalf of the G.A.O.,
questioning from members of the
significant violations in the account-
Richard L. Fogel, an Assistant Comp-,
ing project commissioned by the
troller General, did not give the.
House Banking Committee's Subcom-
mittee on Financial Institutions and
agency to try to get a handle on the
House Banking Committee's Subcorty-
is expected to carry considerable
mysterious disappearance 01 5 (II).
mittee on Financial Institutions- yr.
lion in assets for its Jen-er uline
specific sum that could keep Reson
weight on Capitol Hill
The $20 million accounting project
tun rust in Dusiness d. may
It provides another Justifica 100 "
was supposed to figure out the reason
spring
vote against legislation that the Ad
for $7 billion in discrepancies be-
But Albert V. Casey, the R* P
ministration contends could be
tween the books of failed institutions
dent and chief executive 01 Result
enough to complete the bailout pro-
before and after they were seized in
tion Trust, said Congress muld ge.
gram. Congress has struggled four
the spring of 1990.
the agency through March 1993 by,
times in little more than a year with
The inspector general found that
providing $25 billion more and chang-
ing a deadline in the current law.
The New York Times
NEW YORK, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1992
Greenspan Backed for Another Term
sary pain."
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
On Tuesday, Mr. Greenspan told
Mr. D'Amato said that while the
the committee that the Fed's inter-
Specialio The New York Times
Fed had cut interest rates, though
est rate cuts were starting to work
less aggressively than he would
WASHINGTON Feb. 26 - De.
and that a recovery should begin in
have liked, the central bank had
the second quarter.
spite the complaints of many sena-
failed to end the tight credit situa-
tors that the Federal Reserve had
tion in which banks have been re-
moved too slowly to end the reces-
luctant to lend.
The Banking Committee's chair-
sion, the Senate Banking Commit-
man, Donald W. Riegle Jr., Demo-
tee voted overwhelmingly today to
"The intended result, to make
crat of Michigan, voted to confirm
confirm Alan Greenspan to a sec-
credit available, has not hap-
Mr. Greenspan. When the Fed
ond four-year term as chairman of
pened." Mr. D'Amato said. "That
chairman testified before the com-
the central bank.
has been failure by the regulators
mittee Tuesday, Mr. Riegle said
The vote was 20 to 1, with Sena-
and the Federal Reserve. This is
regarding Mr. Greenspan's recon-
for Alfonse M. D'Amato, Republi-
my way of sending a message.'
firmation: "If there were a public
can of New York, casting the vote
The full Senate still has to vote
referendum," the people "might
against.
on reconfirming Mr. Greenspan,
well vote you out, deservedly or
"I have been continually asking
and committee officials said no
not, and the Fed out because they
the Fed to lower rates," Mr. D'A-
date had yet been set for the vote.
don't see the policies working. Our
mato told reporters as senators
Today's Senate Banking Com-
obligation is to have policies that
entered the committee's hearing
mittee vote was also to confirm the
work, not policies that might work
room to cast their votes. "They
Fed chairman to his first full 14-
or policies that, you know, given
should have been lowered long ago.
year term on the Federal Reserve
enough time and patience, have the
There. has been a lot of unneces-
Board.
chance of working."
In the House, Taxes and Posturing
to 15:4 percent from 28, as a measure
credit for children.
By ADAM CLYMER
that would produce more jobs. "It
Because President Bush has insist:
will put Americans back to work and
ed he will veto any bill that includes
Specialto The New York Times
preserve the jobs of Americans al-
an increase in tax rates, and the
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 - The
ready working,' said Representative
Democrats have made that a price
election campaign came to the floor
Bill Archer of Texas
for a change in capital gains taxes,
of the House of Representatives to-
Democrats maintained that their
there is doubt on Capitol Hill that any
day as both parties used their tax
bill, with a tax credit of up to $400 a
new tax provisions will become law
bills to argue about who cared most
year for working couples, was essen-
this year.
about the middle class and who want-
tial to make the tax code fairer and
But before the question of whether
ed to stimulate economic growth.
help the middle class. "Vote for the
a bill will become law is joined, the
Republicans argued for President
working men and women of this coun-
House has to finish with the measure.
Bush's short-term agenda, featuring
try,' maintained Representative But-
Democrats expect to pass it, although
a reduction of taxes on capital gains
ler Derrick of South Carolina.
they have to contend with attacks
Back and Forth
from their own ranks that their capi:
Each side spent at least as much
tal gains proposal goes too far in
helping the rich, and by others who
energy attacking the other proposal
say both bills are political stunts.
as defending its own.
Either one is certain to make
Republicans said the tax increases
in the Democratic bill would retard or
things worse in the long run," con-
tended Representative Anthony C.
prevent economic recovery.
"Democrats destroy jobs," said
Beilenson, Democrat of California.
Representative Robert S. Walker, Re-
And Representative Jim Cooper,
publican of Pennsylvania. The sec-
Democrat of Tennessee, commented,
"Polisters wrote these bills, not busi-
ond- ranking House Republican, Rep-
nessmen or economists."
resentative Newt Gingrich of Geor-
gia, said Democrats were hoping the
A Gephardt Proposal
recession could be prolonged so their
The only vote taken today came on
candidates could prosper.
a political stunt, a version of Presi-
Democrats argued that the Repub-
dent Bush's overall tax proposal in'-
licans only wanted to help the rich
troduced by the Democratic floor
and were foolish to think that cutting
leader, Reprsentative Richard A.
their taxes would lead them to create
Gephard of Missouri.
jobs.
The Gephardt bill omitted the
"The President tells the middle
spending cuts in areas like Medicare
class to wait for the trickle-down to
and tax increases on such difficult
start," said Representative Dan Ros-
areas as annuities, which Mr. Bush
tenkowski, the Illinois Democrat who
had proposed to pay for changes like
heads the Ways and Means Commit-
an increase in tax exemptions for
tee. But, he said, "after a full decade
children. He introduced it to show
of waiting, they're not even damp."
that hardly anyone would back the
Senate Action Tuesday
sum of Mr. Bush's proposals, and the
Today was the day for debate,
House made his point today, voting
largely political and only incidentally
the bill down 427 to ).
The political point of the Democrat-
economic, and no important votes
were scheduled to be held before
ic measure was underscored today
Thursday. Mr. Bush's plan is sure to
when the Democratic Congressional
be defeated and the Democratic al-
Campaign Committee announced
ternative is very likely to be adopted.
that it was going to start running
The Senate Finance Committee is
television ads advocating its middle
scheduled to begin trying to write a
class tax cut in states with Presiden-
bill of its own next Tuesday. Senator
tial primaries coming up in the next
few weeks.
Lloyd Bentsen, the Texas Denmocrat
who heads that committee, said today
The ads show men in tuxedos, more
that he would seek to raise individual
or less passed out, while a voice pro-
income taxes, though not as much as
claims: "In the 1980's, Republicans
the House bill does, to pay for a tax
threw a big party. Only the rich were
invited."
The New York Times
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1992
Bush May Back Renewed Elephant Hunting
smuggling was rampant before the
current ban and the reopening of 'lim-
ited' trade would serve to rekindle the
widespread poaching and smuggling
By KEITH SCHNEIDER
before a final decision would be made
life groups as an embarrassing weak-
problems," the letter said.
Specialio The New York Times
ening of America's leadership in world
Steven Goldstein, the spokesman for
about allowing what he called "lim-
the Department of the Interior, said
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 - A week
ited" hunting of one of the world's most
conservation efforts.
today that allowing hunting in southern
before the United States and 111 other
admired and endangered animals.
They said the African elephant herd,
Africa would not affect the Administra-
nations are to meet in Japan to consid-
Mr. Turner, the head of the United
which has declined from 2.5 million
tion's ban on importing ivory into the
er protections for endangered animals
States delegation to the International
animals in 1970 to roughly 350,000, was
United States. "The President and the
and plants, the Bush Administration
conference in Japan, said that killing
going the way of the American bison
Secretary strongly support the continu-
said today that it was sympathetic to a
adult elephants in the "healthy" ele-
unless a total ban on international
ation of a ban on all ivory trade," Mr.
proposal by South Africa and other
phant herds in southern Africa for their
trade in elephant parts, including ivo-
Goldstein said.
African nations to relax protections
hides and meat would give the animals
ry. was preserved.
The dispute over preserving African
and open international trading in cle.
both an economic value and a larger
In a letter to President Bush that
elephants Is likely to be the most con-
phant hides and meal.
political constituency for managing
was signed by 25 Democrats and five
tentious that the 112 nations that are
John F. Turner, director of the Fed.
herds that are now competing with
Republicans, Senators said any relax-
signatories to the Convention on Inter-
eral Fish and Wildlife Service, said the
impoverished people for habitat, wa-
ation of restrictions on trading cle-
national Trade in Endangered Species
United States was awaiting the report
ter, and other resources.
phant parts would again make thou-
oif Wild Fauna and Flora will grapple,
of an international panel of scientists
The Administration's view was at-
sands of elephants largets of poachers
with next week. The treaty sets protec-
studying elephant populations in Africa
tacked today by 30 Senators and wild-
seeking Ivory instead of hides. "Ivory
tions for roughly 3,000 species of ani-1
mals and 30,000 species of plants and
U.S. and Colombia Expand
the 11-day conference that begins on
Tuesday in Kyoto, Japan, is the eighth
since the treaty was signed in 1973.
Top officials of several Federal envi-
Police's Role in Drug Battle
ronmental agencies, who insisted on
anonymity, said today that they did not
understand why the Administration ap-
peared to be ready to support a weak-
By JOSEPH B. TREASTER
ening of a ban on trading in elephant
Specialto The New York Times
parts that President Bush personally
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 26 - In a
goals for reducing drug production,
helped to establish.
In June 1989, Mr. Bush responded to
shift in strategy In the drug war, the
cultivation and consumption.
United States and Colombia have
growing concern over the steady loss of
agreed that Colombia's army will no
One proposal had called for a 50
African elephants by announcing a ban
percent reduction in coca production
on ivory imports 10 the United States.
longer play a major role in pursuing
traffickers, officials of both countries
by 2000. But, the official said, President
At a meeting in October that year in
said today.
Alberto Fujimori of Peru had argued
Switzerland, the Convention of Interna-
that a cut of that magnitude could not
tional Trade in Endangered Species
On the opening day of a seven-nation,
be achieved without serious disruption
agreed to ban ivory trade by designat-
anti-drug summit meeting. it was not
to an already weak economy.
ing the African elephant as an Appen-
clear whether it was the United States
dix 1 species, meaning all trade in any.
or Colombia that first requested the
Gustavo Fernandez, chief of staff of
policy change, which redirects $75 mil-
the cabinet of President Jaime Paz
elephant parts was banned.
Zamora of Bolivia, said in an interview
Last year. six southern African na-;
lion in United States assistance from
tions - South Africa, Zimbabwe, Bot-
Colombia's army to its police.
here that his country was requesting
that $70 million the United States had
swana, Zambia, Namibia and Malawi
But over the last three years the
designated for the army for 1992-93 be
- proposed relaxing the protections
United States sharply increased mili-
for elephants by changing the animal's
used instead to help the country's hun-
tary aid to Colombia and Bolivia, the
dreds of thousands of coca farmers
designation to Appendix II, which
source of much of the world's cocaine,
would allow trade in elephant parts,
move into legitimate crops.
and pressed the countries, along with
including ivory. Zambia has since with-
neighboring Peru, to expand the army
The Administration official said the
drawn from the proposal and environ-
role in the drug war.
United States was "willing to entertain
mentalists say Malawi may is recon-
adjustments in various aid accounts,"
sidering its position.
Officials from Bolivia said today
in Bolivia. "But there has to be an
Environmental groups described the
they were also moving to withdraw
effective plan," he said. "We do not
plan to relax the ban on trading in
their army from the drug war.
believe that alternative development
elephant hides as a "subterfuge."
A Question of Trust
alone is an effective tool to eliminate
"It's totally arresponsible," said Dr.
drug trafficking."
William J. Clark, a field biologist for
Friends of Animals, an environmental
In the past the South American coun-
A White House official said it was
group based in Norwalk, Conn. "Ele-
tries explained their reluctance to in-
likely the United States would agree to
phants are endangered and they need
volve their armies more fully in the
set up police training centers on com-
every protection the world can give
drug war by saying they feared that
batting drug trafficking and money
them.'
armies strengthened with anti-drug
laundering. and that a seven-nation del-
money might threaten civilian govern-
egation would go to Europe and Asia to
ments. Human rights groups have crit-
seek financial support of the anti-drug
icized funneling anti-drug aid to the
efforts. Both Europe and Asia face
armles because of their histories of
growing imports of cocaine.
abuse.
In a statement today, the United
Points of Contention
States Embassy in Bogotá said Wash-
The United States has portrayed the
ington had decided to stop financing
meeting here as further evidence of
the army because the money was being
cooperation by Latin American coun-
used to fight guerrillas rather than
tries with Washington. But Latin
drug traffickers.
But Colombian officals here said that
American officials and American drug
experts say the South American coun-
about a month ago, they asked Wash-
Ington to stop financing the army and
tries have developed increasingly Inde-
pendent positions in the drug war.
instead to give the $75 million to the
Several United States proposals for
anti-narcotics police. An Administra-
tion official here said most of the mon-
extended military activity in South
American were rejected at a prepara-
ey would, indeed, go to the police.
tory meeting earlier this month in Qui-
Police Working Harder
to, Ecuador.
"I don't know who initiated these
Furthermore, drug experts point out
talks, the Administration official said,
that Colombia has refused to extradite
"but both sides agreed the program
traffickers, and that both Colombia and
needed to be adjusted. The fact is, the
Bolivia have accepted plea bargains
money is not going to the army because
from leading traffickers under which
the army wasn't working on drugs. The
surrender is followed by lenient sen-
police were, and their tempo has in-
tences.
creased dramatically."
Bruce M. Bagley, a specialist on
President Bush arrived here early
drug trafficking and Latin America at
this afternoon for a banquet this
the University of Miami, noted that
evening with the presidents of Colom-
Washington had opposed plea bargain-
bia, Bolivia, Peru, Educador and Mexi-
ing with the traffickers but that the
CO and a delegation from Venezuela. He
plea bargains had greatly reduced vio-
had been campaigning in California
lence in Colombia.
and will continue campaigning in Tex-
"But the overriding reality is that
as after five hours of meetings with the
more drugs are coming in," he said.
South American leaders on Thursday.
"To improve the situation, we're going
A White House official said the seven
to have to move away from the supply
countries, at the insistence of Peru, had
side and military tactics to a stronger
agreed to abandon a plan to set specific
focus on demand in this country.
With All Its Complaints and Defiance, Detroit Still Relies Greatly on Japan
Continued From Page AI
cringe at Mr. lacocca's oratory, and in
many different models on the same
Detroit makes
Chrysler also supplies the plant by
been selling here since 1987," he said.
a subtle way they have begun to fight
production line, an idea that General
shipping transmissions to Nagoya for
"It is still pretty early." Moreover, he
back. In recent weeks, Mitsubishi's top
Motors and others in Detroit want to
and G.M., which owns a stake in
pickup trucks. With little prompting,
said, it would make little sense to put a
little effort to sell
American officer, Richard D. Recchia,
Isuzu Motors. Among the Big Three,
copy. Mitsubishl intersperses produc-
though, quality-control managers here
Stealth and its Mitsubishi equivalent
formerly of Chrysler, has done what
tion of Chrysler's Stealth with Mitsubi-
only the Ford Motor Company uses its
volunteer that there are frequent quali-
sold in Japan, the GTO, in the same
Japanese partner, Mazda Motor, to
its Japan-made
other Japanese auto makers have been
shi's own new luxury car, the $25,000
ty problems with the shipments. In
showroom. "That would have nothing
loath to try: he has taken Mr. lacocca
Diamante.
make cars for sale to Japanese con-
some batches, 1 percent of the trans-
going for it," he said.
head on. The conflict between the two
cars in Japan.
More important, the robots that do
missions are defective.
sumers rather than for export to Amer-
Ford, of course, has taken that
has stepped up since Mr. lacocca, re-
ica.
much of the assembly work reconfi-
"When we go back to the United
course, selling cars produced for it by
turning from Tokyo, declared that
Without question, the cars Japanese
gure themselves automatically to put
States and raise the issue," one engl-
Mazda at dealerships called Autorama,
The New Times
America was being transformed into
the steering wheel on the left side of
makers produce for the Big Three ac-
neer said, "the message comes back
partly owned by Ford. It sells about
an exploited colony, exporting raw ma-
count for a significant part of the
arrangement particularly noteworthy,
one car, the right side of the next. A
that they think ] percent defect ratios
70,000 units a year. But Chrysier and
though. is that by Chrysler's own de-
terials to Japan, and buying back ex-
American market. Last year Japanese
chart on the wall shows that even now,
are normal. Here, I percent is a big. big
General Motors, in an argument that
pensive manufactured goods.
cars accounted for a bit more than 30
scription it has been an overwhelming
with the plant operating well below
problem."
often seems a bit circular, say it makes
percent of the American market, up
success. "The Stealth is one of our
Attracting Attention
capacity, productivity gains are im-
The solution? Mitsubishi installs the
no sense to invest in new dealerships
from 27.8 percent the year before. But
hottest cars, even in a depressed mar-
Chrysler transmissions only in the
When Mr. Recchia told the National
until they first sell some more cars
if you include autos made for G.M. and
ket," said Luis Franco, who heads
trucks it ships back to Chrysler: Japa-
here..
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1992
Automobile Dealers Association re-
Chrysler here, and at Japanese or
Chrysler International's liaison office
Amid tough talk
nese models gel a Japanese transmis-
joint-venture "transplants" in Amer-
here.
cently that anti-Japanese feeling in De-
sion. Officially, the company says that
troit has "reached down to tap latent
ica, the true Japanese market share
"Obviously, we are very happy with
the arrangement makes sense because
racial prejudice," his comments were
exceeded 36 percent. In one way, the
Mitsubishi as a supplier and partner,'
on Japan, a hot
it would be difficult to get a Chrysler
India Is Cited by U.S.
prominently reported here. So was his
figure is even higher: by some esti-
he added: (Mitsubishi also provides
transmission serviced in Japan.
contention that legislation to limit Ja-
mates the Japanese share of retail auto
competition to Chrysler In the United
Chrysler car is
Indeed, Chrysier's presence in Japan
On Patent Protection
pan's American market presence pro-
sales in America - excluding Detroit's
States, offering a nearly identical car
is minuscule. Last year it sold roughly
posed by Richard A. Gephardt of Mis-
sales to the car rental fleets - is close
10 the Stealth, the Musubishl 3000 GT,
at American Mitsubishi dealers.)
souri, the House majority leader, and
made in Nagoya.
1,000 cars here, the worst sales record
to 50 percent.
of any of the Big Three, and even far
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (Reuters)
Senator Donald W. Riegle, Democrat of
What makes the Mitsubishi-Chryster
Still, Mitsubishi's executives openly
behind Honda of America, which
The United States trade represent-
Michigan, would cost thousands of
shipped thousands of its American-
ative, Carla A. Hills, cited India today
American jobs and "perpetuate funda-
pressive. In the last year, the number
made Accords to Japanese showrooms.
for lack of adequate patent protec-
mental problems in the U.S. economy."
of worker-hours required to produce a
"I can't help but believe that the
car has decreased by 15 percent. And
A List of Obstacles
tions and said she might take retalia-
tory trade action.
A Defiant Detroit Still Depends on Japan
emotional response we see today is in
many of the workers are not typical
Mr. lacocca, during his trip with
But Mrs. Hills said in a statement
some way attributable to coments
Japanese auto assemblers: 300 of the
President Bush, argued that the num-
that she would decide whether to take.
from politicians and U.S. executives
plant's 2,600 workers are Brazilians of
bers were so low because of the tre-
following that trip,' he said to the
action after giving India time to
By DAVID SANGER
Japanese ancestry. brought here to re-
mendous cost of meeting Japanese
change its position.
Specialto The New York Times
dealers who met for their annual con-
duce the severe shortage of workers
technical specifications, passing Japa-
A senior American trade official
vention in Dallas.
NAGOYA, Japan - When Lee A.
willing to do the dirty, noisy job of
nese car inspections, and shipping cars,
who insisted on anonymity said that
A senior Japanese executive of Mit-
lacocca, the outspoken chairman
making cars.
from America to Japan. On the sur-
subisht said of Mr. Recchia: "He is
while patent Issues between the two
of the Chrysler Corporation, de-
One Sensitive Issue
face, it would seem as if the Nagoya-
saying aloud what we can't say. It
countries remained unresolved, India,
plant would offer an easy solution: The
mands that America take a stand
means a lot more coming from an
One problem the plant's workers are
had met American requests for im-
plant is already tooled to produce cars
against Japanese car imports
American than from one of us." But
hesitant to talk about is the internation-
proved copyright and trademark pro-
for the Japanese market, even with the
surely he must not be talking about
others are not so sure. "It never helps
ally sensitive issue of auto parts. A
tection and for lifting import quotas'
steering wheel on the right side. But in
and distribution restrictions on for-
car No. 11AMRXML2D19W-C06.
to argue back," one senior executive at
walk through the plant suggested that
Toyota said recently.
Nagoya you cannot buy a Nagoya-,
an overwhelming number of compo-
eign films. India has announced a;
which rolled off the line here the
made Chrysler.
series of measures in recent months.
other day.
For Chryster, the Nagoya plant may
nents going into the Dodge Stealth are
Mr. Franco said that Mitsubishi and
be a place to learn some important
to protect foreign investment and in-
The car was produced by teams
not American. Mitsubishi officials say,
Chryster had periodically discussed
ventions.
manufacturing lessons. Though the
of Japanese workers all wearing
however, that they do buy catalytic
such an arrangement, but neither side
plant itself is among Mitsubishi Mo-
The United States action today fol-
converters, wheels, glass, carpeting
neat uniforms with "Mitsubishi
and air bags from the United States.
had taken the conversation very far.
lowed a nine-month investigation and
tors' oldest, it has been tooled to place
Motors" emblazoned on the back.
"You have to remember, we have only
negotiations with Indian authorities.
But the sporty. bright red model is
a Dodge Stealth, made by Mitsubi-
shi, and sold in America starting at
about $17,000. And the only thing
that makes it seem American is
the word "Dodge" etched in the
front bumper. Mr. lacocca made
no mention of Mitsubishi's Nagoya
plant when he visited Japan with
A Dodge Stealth being built at Mitsubishi plant in Nagoya, Japan.
President Bush in January. and
these days people at the plant say
as little as possible about Mr.
constitutes the more American car
facturing at a time when, for ex-
lacocca.
is it better to buy a Honda made
ample, the General Motors Corpo-
in Ohio, or a Ford mini-van also
Confused Feelings
ration is announcing plant closings
produced in Ohio in a joint venture
and the layoffs of thousands of
"We feel a little funny about
with Nissan? - there is little ques-
workers.
him," Kozo Naruse, the deputy
tion about the national origin of the
Moreover, many analysts point
general manager, conceded the
164,352 vehicles produced in Japan
out, the Japanese production
other day, shaking his head. "Here
last year and sold as Chryslers,
raises questions about how an obvi-
he is talking about keeping Japa-
Dodges and Chevrolets. They are
ous opportunity to break into the
nese cars out of America, and ev.
thoroughly Japanese.
Japanese auto market has been
ery day we come to work and make
But the fact that they keep pour-
largely squandered by Chrysler,
very good Chryslers."
ing off the production lines headed
which owns nearly 11 percent of
As a "buy American" move-
for American dealerships says a
the Mitsubishi Motors Corporation
ment in the United States provokes
101 about the Big Three's continu-
continuing confusion about what
ing dependence on Japanese manu-
Continued on Page A10. Column I
Tax Time in the House
HE RIVAL tax bills on which the House
income 2 or 3 percent of all taxpayers. They'd be
T
will be asked to vote today are all bumper-
paying for their own tax break; in the end, which
stickers-in-waiting that by reducing federal
is to say, after abandoning the cherished middle
revenue would likely do more long-term harm
class, the Democrats' proposal is circular, a
than good, and their supporters know it. They
nullity in both fiscal and distributional terms. A
themselves will tell you-many of them-that
few old-fashioned Democrats would rather nar-
they back the bills only to save political face, or
row the gains cut, narrow the middle-class bene-
to embarrass the other party or for fear of
fit as well by limiting it to needier families and,
confessing in an election year that they have
having made it affordable, make it permanent.
forfeited the leverage to affect a weak economy.
That would be a lasting accomplishment but less
The president is as guilty of playing the shallow
glitzy, and the party regulars won't hear of it.
game as are any of the Democrats. The great
The Republicans are if anything worse. They
implicit message is that the public is either too
would put their gains cut first, along with a
understand. The posturing is an expression of
They'd pay for the package by ignoring its
The Washington Post
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
self-absorbed to care or too easily fooled to
couple of costly temporary stimulative measures.
political contempt on the part of both parties-
long-range cost while claiming short-term sav-
for the voters.
ings from an accounting device that, if the
The parties are saying what they always seem
Democrats tried it, the Office of Management
to say in an election year: They can, too, be all
and Budget would rightly laugh out of court. In
things to all men without increasing the deficit.
the name of increasing savings and investment
The Democrats do it by sequencing the benefits
they would increase the deficit and reduce na-
they would grant; they would make the groups
tional savings. They say they would give a
whose support they seek take turns. First would
middle-class tax cut in a later bill that would be
come a broadly defined middle class; the Demo-
financed in part by cuts in Medicare and other
crats would finance their bill by raising tax rates
domestic spending programs that not even most
on the rich, and for the first two years use the
Republicans would likely support. In the alterna-
proceeds in the name of fairness to help defray a
tive they offer to finance it with defense cuts-
break for 80 percent of the population in the form
but that too would shrink the tax base and force
of a progressive credit against regressive Social
domestic cuts in turn. Not even the president has
Security taxes. Then that would stop-the suc-
cessor Congress, presumably less enamored of
been willing to say where such cuts might occur.
There are already $12 billion in unspecified
fairness and reelection, would be called upon to
let the credit lapse-and the flow would switch in
domestic spending cuts in his budget for fiscal
1994 and 1995; they're to be identified after the
the name of growth to a slow-developing cut in
election.
the capital gains tax.
When fully effective beyond the five-year peri-
The problem is the deficit. Both parties spent
od to which the budget rules apply, that would be
too much of the revenue of the 1990s in the
about as generous (and marginally useful in
1980s; now they have no room to maneuver. The
stimulating the economy) as the gains cut the
great need is to replenish the Treasury, not to
Democrats have made an industry of denouncing
deplete it. A country facing a $400 billion deficit
the president for proposing. As with his proposal,
and enormous unmet social needs can't afford a
by the way, some 80 percent of the billions a year
tax cut. These unhelpful bills are ridiculous on
in benefit from theirs would go to the highest-
their face; the House should vote them down.
Isabel Sawhill and Mark Condon
Bidding War-or Growth?
Now that the president and the House Demo-
American families grew from 43.7 to 47.1 percent
for IRAs and for the real estate industry would
crats have both produced tax packages, the politi-
between 1973 and 1989. This seemingly small in-
inefficiently reshuffle the nation's scarce pool of
cal bidding war has begun. What is being auctioned
crease in the richest fifth's share of the economic pie
saving toward tax-preferred forms. Worse, these
off is the country's economic future. But it is not
amounted to about $100 billion in 1990. If the federal
measures would simultaneously bloat the long-term
too late to call a truce. With Paul Tsongas's
government, through its tax and benefit programs,
deficit, requiring the government to borrow more and
victory in New Hampshire, there are even signs
were to redistribute this income more evenly, each
reducing the supply of saving available for private
that the public is beginning to understand that tax
family outside of the top fifth would have received
investment. Make no mistake about it. These are
cuts are no cure for the nation's ills. What the
about $1,800 of extra income in 1990.
special-interest or politically motivated proposals pa-
country needs is more growth. What it will get if
Though these figures are far from trivial, they are
rading under the banner of growth. If enacted, they
current proposals are enacted is just the opposite.
dwarfed by the costs of the stagnant productivity
will reduce, not improve, long-term living standards.
The problem is that slow economic growth is not
growth that has plagued the nation since the early
The election-year bidding war may win some votes,
something people can see. Its costs accrue over
1970s. Between 1973 and 1990, the hourly output of
but it mortgages our future. A more responsible
many years, like a slowly growing tumor, while the
an American worker grew only 0.7 percent per year.
approach is to develop an economic package focused
costs of other problems such as the recession and
This is a snail's pace compared with the 2.5 percent
growing income inequality are more immediate and
annual growth that took place between 1948 and
on growth. What should such a package include?
visible. To stop the election-year bidding war will
1973. If worker productivity-the basic determinant
Although no one is entirely sure why productivity
require convincing votes that long-term growth is
of wages-had continued to grow at the same rate
growth has slowed SO dramatically, low investment
more important to their living standards than the
after 1973 as it did before, the typical family's income
and saving rates are the primary suspects. We have
recession and must even take precedence over the
in 1990 would have been $47,600 instead of $35,300.
an opportunity to use a modest peace dividend and
issue of tax fairness.
Although these estimates are rough, they are of
any new revenues for two worthy objectives: deficit
Let's look at the effects of each of these three
the right magnitude. They suggest that proposals to
reduction and productivity-enhancing public invest-
problems-slow growth, recession and growing in-
provide short-term stimulus and middle-class tax
ments including spending on infrastructure, research,
equality-on the average American family. The cur-
cuts are misguided. The same resources would be
training, education and programs for children. Al-
rent recession has imposed an undeniable burden on
better used to improve the long-term performance
though deficit reduction and increased public invest-
most families. If the economy had not slipped into a
of the economy. We believe fairness is important no
ment cannot be expected to produce miracles, we
recession in the fourth quarter of 1990, disposable
matter what the long-term rate of growth, but it
don't need a miracle to improve long-term living
personal income would have been about $80 billion
requires targeting assistance on the country's needi-
standards. If we can raise productivity growth a
higher in 1991. On average, this represents $1,000 in
est citizens, not the middle class. And using any new
modest one-half of one percent per year, the average
lost income to each family in the United States. Some
revenues collected from the wealthy to fund a small
family can expect to earn an extra $2,000 more per
families lose more than this; others less. A well-de-
tax cut spread across the rest of the population is a
year by the year 2000. And that makes a $400 tax cut
signed and timely anti-recession package can limit or
waste of resources that could otherwise be devoted
today seem like a pittance.
cushion these losses. It cannot eliminate them.
to more pressing problems.
The increasing inequality of income since the early
Especially egregious are current proposals that
Isabel Sawhill is a senior fellow and Mark
1970s has also hurt all but the wealthiest Americans.
would, in the name of growth, have the opposite
Condon a research assistant at the Urban
The share of income accruing to the richest fifth of
effect. More favorable tax treatment for capital gains,
Institute.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
The Washington Post
$399 BILLION AND COUNTING
P
resident Bush recently proposed to take out a $399 billion loan to help
pay for federal spending in fiscal 1992-a step that would put the
nation further in hock for the biggest deficit the world has ever known-
and most of the country yawned.
It is often said, especially in Washington, that people appreciate
the difference between a million and a billion. If that's true, they certainly
don't have much of a grasp of 399 billion-of anything, let alone valuable
objects like dollars.
Just how big is 399 billion? If it
the Treasury. If you packed Bush's
doesn't seem to be much in money,
1992 deficit-in the form of $1
how about that other valuable
bills-into 50-foot-long boxcars,
commodity, time?
you could get about $63.5 million
Imagine the units as seconds
into each car. The train would have
ticking on the clock. One million
6,299 boxcars and be 66 miles
seconds flits by in a mere 11½
long.
days. One billion seconds is a
It would be a pretty heavy load—
thousand times longer-31.7 years.
399 billion dollar bills would weigh
And 399 billion seconds is 12,652
about 439,000 tons.
years-roughly the time it's been
Even if you met the proposed
since prehistoric peoples first gave
deficit by loading the boxcars with
up hunting and gathering and
$100 bills, you'd still need 63
learned to plant crops.
boxcars.
So, 399 billion is a big number.
But, of course, no financial angel
What if you're counting dollars
is likely to come forward. So let's
imagine that one typical American
family decides to devote itself to
paying this year's deficit.
The median family income in this
country is about $34,000 a year. If
that family gave every penny to the
government, it would not be able to
retire for 11.7 million years. (Of
course, with no money to spend on
itself, the family might not last that
long.) In other words, to eliminate
this year's deficit, that selfless
family would have had to start
contributing its entire before-taxes
income back in the Miocene. That's
"instead of seconds? What if the
the geological epoch when the
government borrowed all that
separate land masses of Africa,
money but instead of spending it on
Arabia and Asia drifted into contact.
the budget, simply gave $1 million
So, that's not too realistic either.
apiece to the poorest people in the
Let's say corporate America decided
country? There would be 399,000
to spare "the little guy" the burden
instant millionaires. Or, if the
and altruistically liquidated its
money were spread more widely,
assets to pay off this year's deficit.
there would be enough to give each
Starting with the biggest U.S.
of the 33.6 million Americans living
corporation (in terms of the total
below the official "poverty line"
market value of its stock), and
nearly $12,000 each-a step that
working down, the following
would instantly eliminate all poverty
companies would have to turn over
in the United States, at least as
their total assets: Exxon, General
officially defined.
Electric, IBM, AT&T, Philip Morris,
But that's not very realistic. So
Merck & Co., Coca-Cola Co.,
instead, let's say a financial angel
Bristol-Myers Squibb and E. I. du
comes through. and offers to pay off
Pont de Nemours.
the entire federal deficit for this year
Not likely. Which brings us to the
in bills. How long would it take
old standby of illustrating big
to count his contribution?
numbers-laying dollar bills end to
Laying down the bills at a rate of
end. How far would they reach?
$1 per second and working 24
One million dollar bills would
hours a day with not a wink of
stretch about 96.7 miles, enough to
sleep or even one federal holiday, it
go around the Beltway 1½ times.
would take one person 12,652
One billion dollar bills would, of
years (the same, obviously, as 399
course, go a thousand times as
billion seconds). That's about how
far-96,700 miles, enough to go
long it's been since the last Ice Age.
around the Earth four times. So
Of course, if you wanted to get
what about 399 billion greenbacks?
the job done faster, you could enlist
They'd reach more than 38.5
all 5.1 million federal employees
million miles. That's about 1,600
including military personnel and
times around the Earth or, along a
postal workers (more people,
less monotonous route, Bush's
incidentally, than there are in any of
deficit would be more than enough
35 states or, for that matter, 66
to reach from Earth's orbit to that of
countries) and divide the job
Venus.
equally among them. Counting the
Because it would be hard to keep
entire federal deficit one dollar at a
all those bills lined up, it might
time in this way would still take
make more sense simply to stack
nearly 22 hours. But, of course,
them. The stack would be 27,000
because the average federal worker
miles high. Make the stack out of
puts in shorter days than that, the
$1,000 bills instead and you'd still
job would run about 3 workdays.
have an appreciable 27-mile-high
Then there would be the job of
measure of the administration's
transporting all those dollar bills to
proposed deficit for 1992.
-Boyce Rensberger
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
The Washington Post
Michael Kinsley
Arts and Craft
George Bush as a performance artist.
There's nothing important George
would think that a large part of the fed-
Bush knew about John Frohnmayer
eral deficit could be eliminated if we
the day he fired him, Feb. 20, that he
would only stop paying people to take
didn't already know the day he hired
pictures of themselves with a bullwhip
Frohnmayer 2½ years ago. And in-
up their rectums.
deed, the unceremonious dumping of
Even some longtime supporters of gov-
the chairman of the Arts Endowment
emment arts subsidies are starting to
tells us nothing we didn't already
wonder if these battles are worth it. Other
know about George Bush. But it's a
rich countries manage to subsidize the
timely reminder.
arts far more generously than we do with-
In 1989, when Frohnmayer was ap-
out much fuss. But maybe our political cul-
pointed, Bush was just beginning his
ture just isn't up to it.
presidency. He had won the 1988 elec-
From a liberal point of view, the case
tion with a remarkable exercise of hate-
for government arts subsidies is not with-
ful demagoguery, but now he was eager
out flaws. The typical customer of the
to show that the real George Bush was
subsidized arts-museums, opera, public
classier than that.
television etc.-is more affluent than the
Politics, to George Bush, is perfor-
typical taxpayer. Movies, baseball games
mance art. Not unlike the notorious Karen
and rock concerts get no government sub-
Finley, he had smeared himself with sym-
sidy. Why should the customers of these
bolic excrement. Now the performance
entertainments help to finance the enter-
was over, and he wanted a shower.
tainments of those who are, on average,
So he picked John Frohnmayer, a
better heeled than themselves? And the
high-minded Oregon lawyer and certified
preening self-righteousness of the arts
artsy type, to head the controversial Na-
crowd can get on your nerves, as they in-
tional Endowment for the Arts. And
sist on this subsidy as a kind of right.
Frohnmayer did exactly what Bush
There is something irksome about people
wanted. He threaded the needle be-
wanting to be a counterculture on the ma-
tween right-wing arts bashers and the
jority's nickel.
arts establishment. His tenure was not
On the other hand, much of the art we
always an exercise in principle, but it
treasure from past centuries-paintings,
was a moderate Republican's earnest ap-
cathedrals, most classical music, even
proximation. It was, in short, George
some of Shakespeare's plays-was creat-
Bush's presidency on its best behavior.
ed under government (or official church)
Frohnmayer doled out his courage in
sponsorship. If our democratic society is
wisely calibrated amounts. But any dose
going to produce similar gifts for future
of political courage is apparently intoler-
generations-not to mention our own-
able to George Bush in election season.
we probably need some institutional sub-
With Pat Buchanan on the stump de-
stitute for the commissioning function of
nouncing the Arts Endowment as "the
kings and cardinals. The NEA is it.
upholstered playpen of the arts-and-
Furthermore, there is no way to sub-
crafts auxiliary of the Eastern liberal es-
sidize the creation of new art (as op-
tablishment," Frohnmayer had to go.
posed to repeat performances of Beetho-
The rise and fall of John Frohnmayer is
ven's Ninth Symphony again) without
thus a metaphor for George Bush as a
subsidizing art that gives offense to
person and as a president. He knows
someone. The latest fuss is typical in
what's right, and he'll do it-if there's no
that the actual connection between the
reason not to. He sincerely wants to be
offensive material and the NEA is indi-
virtuous. He just doesn't want it very bad-
rect. The fuss concerns a single passage
ly. If it's a choice between virtue and
in a single poem in a single publication of
something else he wants, like reelection,
a group that received a whopping $5,000
virtue is the first to go.
NEA grant for general purposes. To ex-
Bush doesn't even have the courage of
pect the NEA to inspect and warrant the
his lack of convictions. Look at the snak-
purity of every product of a grantee of a
ey way he let Frohnmayer go: pretend-
grantee is absurd. To expect politicians
ing he had quit, praising his "integrity
to show a bit of backbone when these
and decency," but adding that "some of
fusses are raised is not absurd, but if the
the art funded by the NEA does not have
politicians aren't up to that, we might as
my enthusiastic approval." What an art-
well forget the whole exercise.
fully qualified remark. Give that man a
Supporters of arts subsidies often make
grant. But does Bush share Buchanan's
the mistake of defending any item a
disapproval of Frohnmayer's NEA, or
Helms or a Wildmon attacks. That is fool-
does he not? Don't ask.
ish. Not only is it inevitable that an arts
In a country with real problems, this
agency will subsidize works that are offen-
question of arts subsidies plays an ab-
sive to a minority. It is inevitable that the
surdly overblown role in the public de-
agency will sometimes find itself subsidiz-
bate. For the Rev. Donald Wildmons
ing works that are rightly offensive to the
and Sen. Jesse Helmses, it's a valuable
majority of people-on moral grounds or
"hot button" issue to use in direct-mail
on political grounds or simply as bad art.
fund-raising. For them, and for a presi-
Arts funding is not a science. If the majori-
dential candidate like Buchanan, it's
ty itself isn't prepared to shrug off a few
junk-food populism: a high-calorie, low-
genuine mistakes every year, then it isn't
nutrition substitute for serious politics.
ready to be in the arts subsidy business.
To hear Helms and Buchanan, you
© 1992, UFS/The New Republic Inc.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
The Washington Post
fight another Persian Gulf war, as-
Aspin Seeks to Double
sist South Korea in repelling an in-
vasion by North Korea and support
"a simultaneous third contingency"
Bush's Defense Cuts
similar to, say, the 1989 invasion of
Panama.
The administration's plan calls
for reducing the armed forces to a
House Democratic Leaders Likely to Agree
"base force" of 12 active Army di-
visions, 15 active fighter wings, a
450-ship Navy and 1.6 million
By John Lancaster
savings that President Bush out-
troops.
lined last month in his revised,
Washington Post Staff Writer
Aspin's proposal has been en-
$281 billion defense spending plan
dorsed by House Speaker Thomas
House Armed Services Commit-
for 1993. Bush said in his State of
S. Foley (D-Wash.), who told re-
tee Chairman Les Aspin (D-Wis.)
the Union address that with the
porters Tuesday: "I think it will def-
yesterday proposed to cut the 1993
collapse of the Soviet Union, the
initely be part of our budget next
defense budget by about twice the
nation could achieve overall defense
week. I support his position."
amount called for by President
savings of $43 billion between now
Despite Foley's endorsement,
Bush, a position likely to be adopted
and 1997.
Aspin's proposal is by no means the
by the House Democratic leader-
But momentum is building in the
final word on the subject of defense
ship.
House for much deeper cuts. Aspin,
spending, which also will be deter-
Aspin recommended 1993 de-
who has called for a "threat-based"
mined by the Senate. Aspin's coun-
fense cuts of $12 to $15 billion in a
approach to sizing the defense bud-
terpart in the Senate, Sam Nunn
letter to Rep. Leon Panetta (D-
get, in recent weeks has outlined
(D-Ga.), has yet to offer his re-
Calif.), chairman of the House Bud-
four different force structures, each
sponse to the president's plan.
get Committee, who will include the
tailored to specific war scenarios.
Aspin noted in his letter to
The five-year savings associated
Panetta that the $12 billion $15
thrust of the recommendation in his
with each ranged from $38 billion
billion in his proposal does not pre-
proposal today on the overall size of
to $231 billion.
clude the possibility of even deeper
the 1993 federal budget, according
This week, Aspin indicated his
cuts in force structure if dictated by
to a well-placed source. Panetta's
support for an option that would
world events. But in a nod to law-
budget proposal, though non-
reduce the armed forces to nine
makers whose districts rise and fall
binding, reflects his consultations
active Army divisions, 10 active Air
on national defense budgets, he also
with key Democratic lawmakers
Force tactical fighter wings, 360
warned against cutting too deeply.
and will carry considerable weight
Navy ships and 1.4 million troops,
"This year, more than any in the
in the House.
for an overall savings of $91 billion.
recent past, there will be real pain,
The $12 billion to $15 billion fig-
Aspin said that option would allow
including pink slips, associated with
Jim Hoagland
ure is roughly twice the $7 billion
the nation, if ever necessary, to
cutting defense," he said.
Why Pick a Fight With Canada?
What is 2.5 percent among friends? Enough to
Customs Service, by tortured rewriting and twisting
tutional changes this spring that will induce Quebec
ignite a nasty trade dispute that undermines Canada's
of definitions, ruled this month that these Hondas,
to reject separatism in an October referendum. He
stumbling Conservative government and the chances
with engines manufactured (from North American
also faces new national elections within the next 15
for a North American Free Trade Area.
aluminum) in Anna, Ohio, do not qualify for duty-
months in which his handling of the economy and
Aiming at Japan, the U.S. Customs Service has
free treatment under the Free Trade Act.
trade will be as much a make-or-break issue as it is
sent an arrow straight into the heart of the Free
This strikes at one of the main incentives the
for Bush here.
Trade Agreement between the United States and
controversial Free Trade Act held for Canada.
Cavalier treatment of Canada did not begin with
Canada that was to be the cornerstone of a conti-
Mulroney and his party told voters that the accord
the Bush administration. It is an old American habit.
nental free-trade zone covering Canada, Mexico and
would attract Japanese and other foreign investors
The slings and arrows that Mulroney feels SO keenly
the United States. The arrow is a customs ruling
to Canada as a base for the North American market.
are not part of some large, calculated American
charging duty on Hondas made in Canada despite
The Honda Civic plant was precisely the kind of
strategy to embarrass him. They are the result of
the U.S.-Canada agreement.
benefit the Canadians thought they would get out of
individual small actions and decisions by officials not
Add that feat of misguided marksmanship to the
an integrated market that otherwise favors Ameri-
looking at a big picture.
gratuitous insults American officials have been heap-
can manufacturers.
That is the problem. Squabbles over Honda Civics
ing on Canada's national health system, and you
But the U.S. ruling that the Civics do not meet
take on such importance precisely because there is
understand why Prime Minister Brian Mulroney must
the "local origin" test has caused some Japanese to
no big picture. The Bush administration's failure to
be wondering what he has done to deserve this
shelve plans for new investment in Canada's severe-
give a convincing sense of direction and leadership
treatment by his chums in Washington.
ly depressed economy. This and other retaliatory
in world affairs means that minor irritants domi-
Mulroney has played the role of Best Friend for
actions against Canadian lumber and magnesium
nate-and eventually contaminate-relations with
Ronald Reagan and George Bush. When the Ameri-
exports cause Canadians to question the wisdom and
friendly nations.
cans said they wanted the Free Trade Agreement in
utility of going on to a broader free trade zone
And in their eagerness to keep themselves from
1988, Mulroney put his career on the line to get
including Mexico.
"It is necessary to recognize the corrosive effect
looking bad on national health care in this election
Canada to join. When Bush decided to go to war in
of all of these disputes and of the unilateral interpre-
season, Bush, his health and human services secre-
the Persian Gulf, Mulroney went to Kennebunkport
to applaud Bush's decision long before that was
tations made in the Honda case," says Derek
tary, Louis Sullivan, and others have been trashing
politically prudent.
Burney, Canada's ambassador to Washington. Nor-
Canada's taxpayer-financed health service with unsub-
mally affable and relaxed, Burney has smoke wisp-
stantiated anecdotes and misstatements.
The fact that Washington is now using the Free
Trade Agreement-in perverse fashion-to ham-
ing from his ears these days when he talks trade.
Although he will not discuss it publicly, Burney has
"People in Ottawa are wondering what the point is
asked administration officials to turn down the health
per Canadian exports does not help Mulroney im-
prove his current approval rating of 15 percent with
of negotiating something new if we can't successfully
care rhetoric or risk counterblasts from Ottawa.
his electorate. He risks going in Canadian eyes from
implement what we have," he adds. "No one is
Recessions and election campaigns make it nec-
First Chum to First Chump.
threatening, and no one wants a quarrel. But this is
essary for the Customs Service and other government
At issue in this new trade dispute is a 2.5 percent
serious. These matters impair the ability of the
agencies to pick some fights. But it is equally impor-
duty that the U.S. Customs Service plans to impose
Canadian government to run its national agenda at a
tant to avoid unnecessary, self-defeating fights. That
on about 75,000 Honda Civics manufactured annual-
time of constitutional discussion."
awareness seems to be missing in Washington's view
ly in Ontario and exported to the United States. The
Mulroney must put together a package of consti-
of Canada these days.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
The Washington Post
Reagan Gives Bush
Statement of Support
Remark on Election Prospects Is Denied
is "not true." He described the
By Lou Cannon
Washington Post Staff Writer
meeting as "just a private chat."
Administration officials and Re-
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26-For-
publican advisers to the Bush cam-
mer president Ronald Reagan is-
paign acknowledged today that the
sued a formal statement of support
Reagan-Bush meeting was mishan-
for President Bush today as White
dled amid a contentious GOP fight
House officials scrambled to repair
about whether Bush has abandoned
political damage after what ap-
Reagan's conservative mantle.
peared to be a snub of Bush when
"If we can't orchestrate a cam-
the two met Tuesday.
paign photo op with Reagan, we've
In a statement that administration
got worse problems than I thought,"
officials said they requested from
one official said. Another suggested
Reagan, the former president said he
that the new White House team has
"will do everything I can to see that
"dull antennas" for anticipating pub-
he is reelected as president."
lic relations traps and had not
Reagan's office issued the three-
thought that a meeting with no
paragraph statement here soon af-
statements by Reagan might be in-
ter Bush departed for the drug sum-
terpreted as a snub.
mit in San Antonio. The political
White House Chief of Staff Sam-
impact of Bush's visit was marred
uel K. Skinner said the Reagans had
by Reagan's absence at the $1,000-
invited the Bushes to "drop in"
a-plate dinner Tuesday at a hotel
more than two weeks ago but asked
one block from Reagan's office.
that no media coverage in or near
Bush and his wife, Barbara, visited
their home be allowed because they
Reagan and his wife, Nancy, at their
wanted to maintain their privacy.
home a few miles away, but report-
"Of course," that request was hon-
ers were not allowed to hear from
ored, said Skinner, adding that he
Reagan what they anticipated would
did not know why a possible prob-
be a standard endorsement and com-
lem was not foreseen.
plimentary words about Bush's pros-
Meanwhile, Gov. Pete Wilson (R)
pects among California voters.
led an all-out effort by state GOP
In the statement, Reagan took is-
leaders today to gather support for
sue with parts of a report Tuesday in
suspending a party rule and passing
The Washington Post, which quoted
a resolution giving Bush a pre-pri-
him as saying Bush faces reelection
mary endorsement at the state par-
difficulty "because he doesn't seem
ty convention this weekend.
to stand for anything." The remark
Wilson's involvement has raised
was attributed to "sources close to
concern that conservatives might
the former president."
try to expand the resolution in an
Today's statement said that "the
effort to embarrass him and Sen.
quote attributed to me in The
John Seymour (R), a fellow moder-
Washington Post is incorrect. Any-
ate appointed by Wilson to fill his
one close to me knows that I would
Senate seat.
not say and have never made any
A spokesman for Seymour's con-
such statement
servative opponent, Rep. William E.
"President Bush and I had an ex-
Dannemeyer (R-Calif.), said he was
cellent conversation yesterday. He
not contemplating such action.
and I share the same view that we
Ironically, the rule that Bush sup-
must turn the American economy
porters hope to suspend was backed
around and that the economic chal-
strongly by Reagan when he was
lenge can best be met by Re-
governor and has been a principal
publican leadership I support
instrument for preventing bitter
President Bush's candidacy to the
battles between the party's conser-
fullest
vative and moderate wings in past
White House press secretary
campaigns.
Marlin Fitzwater, speaking aboard
Air Force One before the flight to
Staff writers Ann Devroy in
Texas, dismissed the flap about the
Washington and John E. Yang in
Bush-Reagan visit as "just media
San Antonio contributed to this
mischief" that "means nothing" and
report.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
The Washington Post
Harkin Lowers His Sights,
Targeting 3 Caucus States
By David S. Broder
Clinton spokeswoman Dee Dee
and William Booth
Myers. But Harkin's Georgia po-
Washington Post Staff Writers
litical director, Joe Larche, de-
fended the spots as "Lee Atwa-
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, his
ter-type ads. If you're going to
Democratic presidential cam-
play politics in the South, you've
paign treasury drained by losing
got to play hardball politics."
efforts in New Hampshire,
Clinton reacted angrily yester-
Maine and South Dakota, yes-
day when he was erroneously
terday geared down his race: to
told at a television studio in Ar-
a last-ditch effort in the next
kansas that Jackson was support-
round of caucus states.
ing Harkin in the South. "It's an
Harkin announced a new
outrage; it's a dirty, double-
schedule for the next week that
crossing, back-stabbing thing to
gives short shrift to next Tues-
do. For him to do this to me
day's primaries in Maryland,
for me to hear it on a television
Georgia and Colorado and more
program is an act of dishonor,"
time to the caucuses being held
Clinton was quoted as saying on a
the same day in Minnesota,
tape supplied by station KTSP in
Washington and Idaho.
Phoenix. The Associated Press
"We're emphasizing the cau-
said KTSP broadcast a satellite
cuses," said campaign spokes-
interview in which Clinton's com-
woman Lorraine Voles, "because
ments were inadvertently picked
frankly we don't have the re-
up by an open microphone.
sources for television, and we
Clinton campaign manager
think we can do more with grass-
David Wilhelm called Clinton's
roots organization in the caucus
outburst at the surprising news
states."
"a very human reaction" and
Minnesota is particularly crit-
said Clinton was trying to con-
ical to Harkin's chances of sur-
tact Jackson to "clarify the sit-
vival, and early polls there show
uation." Jackson has told each
Harkin trailing former Massachu-
Democratic candidate he would
setts senator Paul E. Tsongas.
campaign with them at any
While Harkin was planning
time, the AP reported.
his end play, his campaign also
In Atlanta, Tsongas ignored
was scrambling yesterday to
the state Democratic establish-
disavow some Georgia radio
ment's support of Clinton and
commercials aimed at black au-
campaigned in the black neigh-
diences. One of the spots
borhoods of the inner city and in
charges that "Bill Clinton did his
the state capitol. He appeared to
own version of Willie Horton."
be gaining, if not exactly votes,
The ad, which Harkin cam-
at least some respect.
paign officials played for the
"I'm a lot closer to voting for
Atlanta Constitution, said the
him today than I was two weeks
Arkansas governor had, "made a
ago. And I never thought I'd
big deal of going home to Arkan-
hear myself say that about a
sas to oversee the execution of
senator from Massachusetts,"
Rickey Ray Rector, a brain-
said state Rep. Roger Byrd, af-
damaged man who didn't even
ter hearing Tsongas address the
know he was being executed.
Georgia House.
Bill Clinton used a black man's
Tsongas was endorsed by
death to boost his campaign."
state Rep. Ralph David Aber-
Voles said the ads were made
nathy III, who said, "Paul Tson-
by Harkin's southern political
gas reminds me a lot of my fa-
coordinator, Kevin Gray, but
ther," the civil rights leader.
"were never authorized by the
Abernathy said it was a myth
campaign. They have not aired
that all blacks in Georgia would
and will not air." She said Gray,
vote for Clinton the way they
a former staffer for Jesse L.
voted for Jackson. "It's a lot
Jackson's Rainbow Coalition,
more wide open than you would
had been reprimanded.
suspect," he said.
"This is just a cynical, manip-
ulative way to play the race card
Staff writer Howard Kurtz
from the left, and it's every bit as
contributed to this report. Booth
despicable as David Duke," said
reported from Atlanta.
WINNING THE DELEGATES
F
or Democratic candidates, this
vote in their states' caucuses or
cause none of them garnered more
year's magic number is 2,144.
primaries. But about 18 percent of
than 15 percent of the vote.
That is the number of national con-
the Democratic convention dele-
Republican Party rules differ from
vention delegate votes it will take to
gates will be governors, members
the Democrats': States may award
win the presidential nomination.
of Congress and party officials who
all their delegates to a single GOP
Primary elections in New
are not pledged to a candidate.
victor, a system permitting
Hampshire and South Dakota and
These are the "superdelegates," a
Republican candidates to sew up
party caucuses in lowa and Maine
power in the nomination process.
their party's nomination quicker
The Washington Post
this month have resulted in the
Because of their strength-36 per-
than Democrats. But New
THURSDAY, 27, 1992
awarding of 105 Democratic
cent of the delegates needed for
Hampshire is not a winner-take-all
National Convention delegates. On
nomination-and their unpledged
state, so President Bush and con-
Tuesday, a block of 383 additional
status, the superdelegates will be
servative commentator Patrick J.
delegates will be at stake with pri-
courted by candidates at the con-
Buchanan divided the delegates in
maries in Georgia, Maryland,
vention.
the Feb. 18 primary. Bush won 14
Colorado and Utah and caucuses in
Under Democratic Party rules,
delegates and Buchanan collected
Idaho, Minnesota, Washington and
candidates who receive more than
nine. With the South Dakota vote
American Samoa. Later that week,
15 percent of the vote in a state re-
this week, 87 GOP delegates
121 delegates will be on the line
ceive a proportional chunk of any
have been chosen.
when Democrats overseas and in
delegate slate elected in a primary.
Of the 2,209 delegates who will
four states vote. On March 10,
As a result, former
attend the Republican National
Super Tuesday, 783 delegates will
Massachusetts senator Paul E.
Convention in Houston next August,
be at issue with contests in 11 ad-
Tsongas and Arkansas Gov. Bill
60 to 65 percent will be pledged in
ditional states.
Clinton divided New Hampshire's
winner-take-all contests. The
When Super Tuesday is over,
18 pledged delegates with their 33
Republicans do not have superdele-
nearly a third of the 4,290 dele-
and 25 percent showings in the
gates.
gates who will attend the
state's primary. But Sen. Bob
Democratic National Convention in
Kerrey (Neb.), Sen. Tom Harkin
New York in July will have been
(lowa) and former California gover-
chosen. Most will be pledged to a
nor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr.
Compiled by Mark Stencel and Ralph Gaillard Jr.
particular candidate based on the
received no pledged delegates be-
Pledged delegates won to date:
DEMOCRATS
(Needed to win: 2,144)
Candidate
Iowa
New Hampshire
Maine
South Dakota
Total*
Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr.
0
0
7
0
7
Gov. Bill Clinton
0
8
3
3
13
Sen. Bob Kerrey
0
0
0
7
7
Sen. Tom Harkin
40
0
1
7
48
Paul E. Tsongas
0
10
8
0
18
REPUBLICANS
(Needed to win: 1,105)
Candidate
lowa
New Hampshire
Maine
South Dakota
Total*
Patrick J. Buchanan
0
9
0
0
9
George Bush
0
14
0
14
24
SOURCE: Associated Press
*Democratic totals do not include "superdelegates." Delegate allotment for both parties in these states is incomplete.
THE WASHINGTON POST
U.S. to Give Third World Environmental Aid
By Michael Weisskopf
gotiating obstacle, the administration
the administration is not expected
Washington Post Staff Writer
will continue to pose a more formi-
to satisfy demands of the European
The Bush administration decided
dable one, officials said. Under pres-
Community and Japan to join them
sure to set limits on emissions of
last night to grant $75 million in
in a pledge to stabilize emissions at
environmental- aid to the Third
global warming gases, Washington
1990 levels in the year 2000.
World, helping to meet a key de-
will remain opposed to firm commit-
Developing nations, such as China
ments.
mand of developing nations in on-
and India, which could become major
going negotiations of a global warm-
Instead, officials said, U.S. diplo-
polluters in coming years, say they
ing treaty, officials said.
mats will announce a series of new
will not forsake their rich coal re-
The decision, which is expected
energy efficiency measures, such as
sources unless the industrialized na-
to be announced at today's negoti-
longer-lasting light bulbs, capable of
tions go first.
ating session at the United Nations,
cutting emissions of carbon dioxide,
The Third World is seeking finan-
marks the first concrete action by
the principal warming gas believed to
cial assistance to help pay for costlier
the administration to solve a prob-
trap solar heat and raise the planet's
but less polluting sources of energy.
lem that until recently was belittled
temperature high enough in the next
The developing nations have de-
by the White House as scientifically
century to make oceans swell and dry
manded an independent fund free
unproven and unworthy of more
areas become deserts.
from the domination of donors in
than study.
Previously, the administration
such institutions as the World Bank.
Although the Third World is
had refused to consider remedies
But $50 million of the U.S. grant
seeking greater control over aid
based primarily on controls of car-
will go to the bank's Global Envi-
than the grants would permit, of-
bon dioxide because the pollutant
ronment Facility, a new program
ficials said, the U.S. contribution to
comes from the combustion of coal,
set up to encourage less pollution of
a projected $200 million climate
oil and natural gas-fuels that drive
international waters and air.
fund improves the chances of com-
U.S. industry.
Another $25 million will be
pleting a treaty in time for the
But because many of the mea-
awarded by U.S. officials to individ-
Earth Summit, a major U.N. con-
sures are voluntary and because
ual countries to help them identify
ference in June.
they will not be presented as guar-
ways to save energy and adopt con-
But in trying to clear away a ne-
antees of carbon dioxide reductions,
servation programs.
The Washington Post
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
Revived Kerrey Duels
With Clinton in South
Nebraskan Questions Rival's Responsibility
"I don't object if anybody who in
conscience said: 'The [Vietnam]
war- is wrong and I will not
serve,' Kerrey, a Medal of Honor
winner who lost part of his leg in
combat in Vietnam, said at a news
conference. "But that is not what
we have. There is an effort to say,
'Once again my draft board did
this,' or This was an honest mis-
take,' or 'Republicans were trying
to do this to me.' There is an eva-
sion of responsibility. And that is
the problem and difficulty I have."
Clinton responded with a sharp
attack of his own, calling Kerrey's
remarks "an, insult to Southern
voters," and comparing the re-
marks to the kind of tactics used
against Democrats by President
Bush and other Republicans.
"I don't know which Bob Kerrey
to respond to," Clinton said in a
hastily written statement released
by his campaign after he arrived in
Denver. "The Bob Kerrey who re-
peatedly told the people of New
Hampshire that he did not want this
issue discussed, or the Bob Kerrey
who's trying to tell the people of
Georgia this is an issue today."
See KERREY, A10, Col. 4
By Maralee Schwartz
and Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writers
ATLANTA, Feb. 26-His cam-
paign revived after winning the
South Dakota primary, Sen. Bob
Kerrey (D-Neb.) came to Arkansas.
Gov. Bill Clinton's southern
stronghold today and declared that
"Bill Clinton should not be the
nominee of our party because he
will not win in November."
Giving voice to doubts about
Clinton that have dogged the Ar-
kansas governor's campaign for
weeks in the wake of controversies
over his personal life and draft rec-
ord, Kerrey said that if Democrats
pick Clinton, "he is going to be
opened up like a soft peanut in No-
vember of 1992."
Kerrey sought to undermine a
key argument for Clinton's candi-
dacy: his asserted electability on
the basis of being a southern mod-
erate. But Kerrey went beyond
simply saying that Clinton would
be vulnerable to Republican at-
tacks to make the charge himself
that Clinton, is fundamentally irre-
sponsible.
camé home. And all of a sudden all
Kerrey's victory in South Dakota
KERREY, From A1
the sympathy in this campaign is
revived a campaign that had been
"It appears that Bob Kerrey, like
flowing to somebody who didn't go."
faltering after a disappointing per-
George Bush, would rather play pol-
Kerrey was introduced by anoth-
formance in New Hampshire and
itics with patriotism than address
er Vietnam War hero, Max Cleland,
the Iowa and Maine caucuses. Ker-
problems here at home," he said.
the Georgia secretary of state who
rey and his strategists said today
"That's what George Bush will do in
lost both legs and his right arm in
that their goal now is to prevent
November when he points out that
the war. Cleland said Kerrey "has
Clinton from regaining front-runner
Bob Kerrey opposed Operation
not one thing to apologize for in
status in the series of eight south-
Desert Storm even after the con-
serving in the war of his genera-
ern primaries starting here Tues-
flict began."
tion." Speaking before Cleland,
day, and continuing March 10, Su-
Clinton aides also distributed
State Rep. "Able" Mabel Thomas
per Tuesday.
quotations attributed to Kerrey
(D) declared that the country needs
when the draft issue arose before
Kerrey's speech was an attempt
"a commander in chief, not a com-
the New Hampshire primary in
to change the debate and put it on
mander in chicken."
turf favorable to the Nebraska sen-
which Kerrey said he did not think
In.an/interview on the way to At-
it should be a factor in the cam-
ator. Tad Devine, Kerrey's cam-
lanta from Sioux Falls, S.D., Kerrey
paign. In one of those statements,
paign director, said the aggressive
argued that Clinton's handling of
Kerrey reportedly said, "Let me say
strategy toward Clinton "is about
the draft issue undermines his abil-
in regard to my friend Gov. Clinton,
moving to our strength and if this
ity to present his own core message
the Vietnam War is over and we
of responsibility. "The whole idea of
strength happens to cut the other
should not refight that war again."
the 'new covenant' [Clinton's main
guy-all the better."
Later, Clinton told reporters that
Devine said that with the propor-
theme] is to say to Americans we
Kerrey had "very eloquently" said in
have a new responsibility. You can't
tional allotment of delegates man-
New Hampshire that the Vietnam
come to Americans with a shallow
dated by new party rules, Kerrey in
War should not be an issue. "I hope
definition of that
I believe Clin-
the next month "will win enough del-
that tomorrow he'll wake up as his
ton's actions at several turns of this
egates to allow us to build a founda-
old self, remind himself he came
home as an-opponent of the Vietnam
campaign demonstrate a willingness
tion for a nominating majority." He
to say, 'It's not my fault, somebody
contended this strategy will carry
War, remind himself of the facts of
else did it to me.' "
Kerrey through the March 17 con-
my case, that I did nothing dishon-
tests in Michigan and Illinois. After
orable or illegal," Clinton said.
Kerrey contended that Clinton's
Kerrey, Clinton said, had injected
response to criticisms of his envi-
that, he said, our goal is to "beat out-
the issue into the campaign again
ronmental record as governor of
right our opponents" in such battle-
for "reasons that are obvious and
Arkansas parallels his responses to
ground states as New York, Pennsyl-
the draft issue: "When you confront
vania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
highly political."
Kerrey made his remarks about
Bill Clinton with the evidence that
"I knew from the beginning what
Clinton's election prospects near the
he is last in the nation with environ-
may not have been obvious from the
end of a speech at Spelman College
mental quality, the answer is, 'Well,
outside," Kerrey said in the inter-
here. Flanked by members of veter-
that is the federal government's
view. "I begin with a rather small po-
ans organizations at a news confer-
problem, they made me do it.'
litical base and I have got to build
ence afterwards, he elaborated.
The environment, Kerrey said,
that political base and I am going to
"Let me tell you where I go over
also would make Clinton vulnerable
build it delegate by delegate. And
the edge on this thing
he said.
to Republicans in November. It
build it by saying to the voters: Imag-
"It should not surprise you that it
"was an enormous issue in 1988,
ine me going against George Bush."
was the men and women who went
and we saw what happened to
to Vietnam who suffered, and they
[Democratic presidential nominee]
Staff writer Dan Balz in Denver
particularly suffered when they
Mike Dukakis over Boston Harbor."
contributed to this report.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
The Washington Post
Big Questions for Fiscal Gurus
In Seeking Interpretation of the Budget, Even Agencies Turn to Experts
Office of Management and Bud-
Though critical of the deficit, she
By Steven Mufson
get Director Richard G. Darman
says a recession is not the right
Washington Post Staff Writer
calls many budget questions "ar-
time to attack it. But, she adds,
Only in the universe of govern-
cane," but the answers can deter-
"you don't want to do anything in
ment spending and taxation can a
mine the fate of government pro-
1993 that would make the long-run
simple question like "How big is the
grams, scotch popular tax breaks
problem worse. And I think this
and influence the direction of the
[Bush plan] would."
federal budget deficit?" turn into a
entire economy. So in search of
Stanley Collender says the new
cosmic mystery.
answers, befuddled members of
Bush spending plan is "one of the
Should the deficit be stated in
current dollars, 1982 dollars or
Congress, lobbyists and journalists
most difficult budgets I've ever had
turn to the experts. Even federal
to read. There is less information,
1987 dollars? Should it be measured
agencies have turned to outside
more words and more pages, than
as a percentage of GNP, GDP or
consultants such as Price Wa-
any budget I've seen in years."
federal spending? Should it be mea-
terhouse to help them figure out
A Capitol Hill staff aide in the late
sured on a cash basis or an accrual
what Congress and OMB have
1970s for two Democrats on budget
accounting basis? Should it include
planned for them.
and tax-writing committees, Col-
the surplus in the Social Security
Unlike much of Washington, this
lender has grown in stature since
trust funds or the cost of the sav-
field is populated more by "has-
his somewhat tangential involve-
ings and loan bailout?
beens" (to use a term suggested by
ment in the budget process. In
And what about the proposals in
former Congressional Budget Of-
1981, he began to publish his own
fice director Alice M. Rivlin) than
newsletter, the Federal Budget Re-
competing Democratic and Repub-
lican tax bills pending in Congress?-
by "wannabees." Perhaps that is
port, every two weeks from his
How much would they add to or
because nothing prepares anyone
basement. Today it is published by
for interpreting the federal budget
a Roslyn-based firm. In 1984 he
subtract from the deficit? Congres-
quite like trying to put it together.
joined the accounting firm of
sional and administration figures on
And unlike many in Washington
Touche Ross (now Deloitte &
one proposed tax cut alone, capital
politics, budget experts share a
Touche) and in 1988 he switched to
gains, are $25 billion apart.
bipartisan view of the budget's
Price Waterhouse. The vegetarian
Who knows the answers to these
most pressing problem-the def-
platter, "Stan's Favorite," at Joe
pressing questions, or can at least
icit.
and Moe's restaurant on Connec-
wax rhetorically on such subjects?
Here are some of the favorite
ticut Avenue is named after him.
Experts, of course. Budget experts.
analysts, many of them hardy per-
Collender says that his practice is
After all, these are matters too
ennials, and their views on the def-
"thriving" and that his clients range
complex and sensitive to be left to
icit, the budget and the tax propos-
from defense contractors to oil
ordinary civilians. The federal bud-
als pending on Capitol Hill, which
companies, from lobbyists to fed-
get alone is so difficult to decipher
many say may do more harm than
eral agencies.
He held a recent session with 30
that it inspired one budget expert,
good:
Alice Rivlin of the Brookings In-
to 40 defense contractors "just to
Stanley Collender, to write a book
with a chapter titled "The Federal
stitution says that rather than fo-
talk about what's happening on the
Budget as a Second Language."
cusing on tax breaks, the govern-
budget. Before, they just cut their
ment today should have as its top
deals and ignored the budget com-
And one congressional committee
priority the creation of national
mittees. Now they're desperate for
has issued a 300-plus-page a-
health insurance. "The health cost
information."
nalysis of President Bush's new
budget plan.
dividend is potentially much bigger
Carol Cox Wait, president of the
In the month since Bush weighed
than the peace dividend," Rivlin
Committee for a Responsible Bud-
in with his 6.1-pound spending
says. She says Bush's health plan is
get, has sounded a constant warn-
package for fiscal 1993 and law-
flawed because it does little to bring
ing note about the growing federal
makers began to enter their favor-
about cost control.
debt and the burden it places on the
Rivlin, who has a PhD in econom-
budget and on taxpayers.
ite tax measures, economists, ac-
ics from Harvard, served as assist-
Initially an expert on education
countants and ghosts of budgets
past have come crawling out of the
ant secretary in the Department of
and jobs for the National Associa-
Health, Education and Welfare in
tion of Counties, Wait worked for
woodwork of accounting firms,
think tanks and universities for the
the late 1960s. Later, at Brookings,
the ranking Republican on the Sen-
she helped write a series of books
ate Budget Committee in the late
annual rites of winter, pouring the
cold slush of numbers over the
called "Setting National Priorities."
1970s. Wait has been with the pri-
warm fuzzy ideals enunciated in the
She became the first director of
vate, bipartisan Committee for a
president's State of the Union ad-
the CBO, which was set up to give
Responsible Budget since it was
Congress advice independent from
formed in 1981.
dress.
OMB or the Treasury, both of
"Budgeting is the quintessential
"This is normally my busy time
which are beholden to the presi-
political activity," she says. "We
of year," says Collender, director
of federal budget policy at Price
dent. As CBO head from 1975
decide what we want our govern-
Waterhouse. "This is for me what
through 1983, she felt the enmity,
ment to be and do and how we want
a dry cleaner goes through in a
and earned the respect, of Demo-
to pay for that. You can't take the
change of seasons. I've never been
cratic and Republican administra-
politics out of that. So it is impor-
tions alike.
this busy."
tant to have people concerned
about sound economic outcomes."
George F. Will
Peep, Peep
news is that there is very little to
provide economic stimulus-or add
to the budget deficit."
James C. Miller III, chairman of
Citizens for a Sound Economy, was
one of President Ronald Reagan's
budget directors and remains a die-
hard proponent of tax cuts to stim-
ulate the economy. A defender of a
cut in the capital gains tax rate, he
recently attacked proponents of
"tax fairness" for fomenting "class
warfare and ignoring the truth
Rostenkowski represents what Paul Tsongas
about who the 'middle class' actu-
Rudolph G. Penner of the Urban
Institute followed Rivlin as CBO
director and holds "senior guru sta-
tus," according to a fellow budget
guru. Penner says he believes the
economy's true problems are low
productivity and a "severe lack of
savings." This year, "policies are
claimed to be stimulative when they
are largely irrelevant to our short-
run problems," he says. "The sus-
pension of disbelief reminds one of
1981, when Reagan's excessive
request for tax cuts was far ex-
ceeded by the Congress. We may be
heading for a similar bidding war.
Unless that temptation can be re-
sisted, our already gloomy pros-
pects for future economic growth
can only get gloomier."
The cast of budget experts grows
longer as the process grows more
The boom in experts may be an
inverse indicator of the public's in-
terest, though. "A lot of what's
wrong with the process is that it is
too arcane," says Rivlin. "The public
is SO closed out of this, people begin
to suspect something nefarious is
going on." And as this week's slow-
moving talks on tax proposals show,
even Congress may not understand
Like God, Dan Rostenkowski looked upon his
work and found it good.
thinks is wrong with Washington. Tsongas's rather
Rostenkowski, chairman of the tax-writing House
pastel wrath is aroused by politicians who have not
Ways and Means Committee, said, "We need fairness
had, as he has, a sojourn in the private sector.
in the tax code. Until now, there has been an
Tsongas says that if he were president, he would
imbalance in the code.
Until now.
veto Rostenkowski's bill.
The committee's tax bill brought the tax code to
Tsongas positioned himself in the crowded field of
Democratic candidates by contrasting his supposed
the brink of perfection.
Until now, Democrats say, what has been needed
"realism" with the unrealism of everyone else,
ally are."
confusing.
much of it.
to make the world safe for the persecuted middle
including his own congressional party. But if Rosten-
class was, it seems, this bill that cuts, temporarily,
kowski's bill is anything to go by-and there is
taxes by about a dollar a day for families in the
nothing better to go by-the Democrats' ideological
middle class. That class is defined to include almost
fires have been banked. For Democrats, trying to
everyone. (Two years from now, during, an election
sharpen the "fairness" issue with Rostenkowski's
year, this cut will be allowed to lapse. That, at any
mild and incoherent bill will be like stropping a razor
rate, is the theory.) Rostenkowski's bill also raises
on a slab of butter.
Over at the Center on Budget Bush's budget, he said, was
Eugene Steuerle, a senior fellow
at the Urban Institute, has gained
visibility as taxes have moved to the
center of Bush's economic policy.
Steuerle served as deputy assistant
Treasury secretary for tax analysis
from 1987 through 1989. In an ear-
lier post at Treasury, he helped de-
velop the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
He is the author of a new book en-
titled "The Tax Decade." Despite
the top personal income tax rate from 31 percent to
Tsongas is right that the bill is not serious either as
35 percent for individuals over $85,000 and couples
economic stimulus or distributive justice. It merely
scratches the legislative itch to have a tax bill every
and Policy Priorities, director Rob- "doomed from the start."
"This is normally
my busy time of
year. This is for me
what a dry cleaner
goes through in a
change of seasons.
I've never been this
-Stanley Collender,
Price Waterhouse
over $145,000 and puts a 10 percent surcharge on
"
busy."
his Republican credentials, he is
critical, of the Bush proposals.
Charles Schultze of the Brook-
ings Institution. who was budget
director under President Lyndon B.
Johnson and chairman of the Coun-
cil of Economic Advisers under
President Jimmy Carter, laments
that the Bush administration's pre-
sentation of the budget is hard to
read. In the old days, he says, the
budget was "dull, but usable."
Schultze says the administra-
tion's budget package contains good
news and bad news. "The bad news
is that there is very little economic
stimulus in the tax cuts. The good
incomes over $1 million.
year. If enacted, it would do more harm than good.
But the bill eliminates the "luxury" tax on yachts,
And by merely proposing it, Democrats harm them-
private airplanes, jewelry and furs. It indexes for
selves. They show how little they really have in mind
inflation the tax on capital gains and cuts the capital
when talking about the unfairness of the tax code
gains tax for certain investments. Furthermore,
"until now."
initially it would have cut by one percentage point
Suppose that during the 1980 presidential cam-
the corporate tax rate.
paign, when the top individual income tax rate was 50
Some House Democrats-the Bolshevik rem-
percent, conservatives had been told that in 1992
nant-staged a mini-revolt, forcing Rostenkowski to
Democrats would be proposing a top rate of just 35
drop the cut in the corporate tax rate. So now,
percent. Conservatives would have been content.
presumably, the bill delivers even more of the "bal-
Furthermore, in 1988 conservatives would not have
ance" that American taxation has lacked "until now."
dared to hope that in 1992 the liberal party would
For most of the "until now" during which the tax
collaborate with them in siphoning off, for private
ert Greenstein, who unabashedly
proclaims that he runs a progres-
sive policy center, attacks the Bush
administration for its failure to help
code was imbalanced, Congress, which wrote the
consumption, even more of the federal government's
children and for proposing lopsided
tax breaks that favor the wealthy.
A former administrator of the
Food and Nutrition Service in the
Agriculture Department, in 1991
he received a public service
achievement award from Common
"When poor people get subsidies,
they get them through spending,"
he said recently. "When wealthy
people get subsidies, they tend to
get them through the tax code."
Outside the Beltway, academics
such as Harvard economics profes-
sor Robert Reich also weigh in. An
unabashed liberal and an adviser to
1988 Democratic presidential nom-
inee Michael S. Dukakis, Reich is a
leading critic of Republican budget
policies. Reich falls into the cate-
gory of Big Think, concentrating.on
big issues like tax fairness, indus-
trial policy and social spending rath-
er than on line-by-line analyses of
individual programs. In a recent
issue of The New Republic, he
called for a budget "that reveals
how much we're borrowing from
the future compared with how
much we're investing in the future."
code, was controlled by Democrats. So it is not
dwindling revenue stream.
surprising that, in spite of their rhetorical ferocity,
Perhaps, when push comes to shove, the Demo-
Democrats prove by their new bill that they have no
crats' "congressional party" is not really all that far
really fundamental objections to the tax code.
from Tsongas's supposed rightwingery. But, then,
Democrats make much of "fairness" as the moral
Tsongas is not as far right as it has so far suited his
star by which they sail. And they have considered
political needs to appear.
Paul Tsongas retrograde because he does not talk
Tsongas says "we have counseling outside" for
much about "fairness." So it was a revealing moment
anyone who thinks a government-run health care
when Rostenkowski's committee cleared its throat
system would be a success, and he questions wheth-
Cause.
and uttered such a small peep of a bill.
er the words "government" and "efficiency" ever
Rostenkowski was elected to Congress in 1958,
belong in the same sentence. But Tsongas also says
before half the Americans now living were living.
government should be busy directing investment in
Before that, he was a foot soldier for the Democrat-
private industries.
ic Party in Chicago, as was his father before him.
If "efficient government" is an oxymoron, why will
There is only a faint Rostenkowski family memory
government be a prescient director of investment?
of the private sector, so long have the elders of the
Perhaps prescience is just something government
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
House of Rostenkowski toiled at politics.
has lacked "until now."
The Washington Post
Buchanan TV Spot
Assails Arts Agency
Bush Camp Calls Georgia Ad 'Demagoguery'
A "true conservative," he said,
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
would have supported Operation
Washington Post Staff Writer
Desert Storm, would not advance
ATLANTA, Feb. 26-Patrick J.
isolationist policies and "would not
The Washington Post
Buchanan today began airing a new
hide behind the ideas of protection-
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
ism."
attack advertisement in Georgia
featuring scenes of gay black men
In response to that line of crit-
in various states of undress. The
icism, Buchanan today waxed indig-
nant at a new advertisement the
pictures were taken from a PBS
documentary, "Tongues Untied,"
Bush campaign has placed on Geor-
that was partially subsidized by the
gia television in which retired Ma-
National Endowment for the Arts.
rine Corps Commandant P.X. Kel-
ley attacks Buchanan for having
The ad says "the Bush adminis-
opposed the gulf war last year.
tration has invested our tax dollars
"I think this is an attempt to im-
in pornographic and blasphemous
pugn my patriotism," he told report-
art too shocking to show. This so-
ers. "If Mr. Bush wants to do that,
called art has glorified homosexu-
why doesn't he come out of the
ality, exploited children and per-
White House and do it like a man
verted the image of Jesus Christ.
and face to face, instead of having it
Even after good people protested,
done by surrogates and shills in
Bush continued to fund this kind of
these attack ads."
art."
Buchanan also ridiculed Bush for
Bush campaign spokeswoman
his showing in South Dakota Tues-
Torie Clarke called the ad "dema-
day, arguing that the 31 percent of
goguery" and "a blatant distortion of
the vote cast for uncommitted del-
the truth. The kind of garbage Pat
egates against the incumbent
Buchanan has been putting on the
showed Bush to be "as weak as a
air is an insult to the people of
kitten."
Georgia."
The increasingly sharp tone that
Buchanan spokesman Jerry
Buchanan has taken in recent days
Woodruff said the ad "has nothing
appears to reflect genuine indigna-
to do with anti-gay prejudice. It has
tion, but also a sense in the Buchan-
to do with not spending people's tax
an campaign that it has an opening
dollars on values that insult them."
to do extremely well in Georgia.
Buchanan has repeatedly assailed
Buchanan and his aides interpret
the NEA in stump speeches over
the attacks on him as an indication
the last week. Today, he again
that Bush's polling shows the pres-
called it the "upholstered playpen"
ident increasingly weak.
of the "eastern liberal establish-
In Louisiana, Buchanan was re-
ment" and claimed the "scalp" of
peatedly confronted with questions
John Frohnmayer, who was forced
about whether he intended to ap-
to resign last week as Bush's NEA
peal for the votes that had gone to
director.
David Duke, the former Ku Klux
Buchanan, bolstered by the large
Klan leader who ran for governor
vote against President Bush in the
there last year and will be on the
South Dakota primary and angered
presidential ballot with Buchanan
by what he sees as attacks on his
and Bush in the March 10 primary.
patriotism by the Bush campaign,
Top Bush aides have said their
also said today that he planned to
"nightmare scenario" would involve
fight the president to the California
Buchanan running against Bush in
primary in June. He also ridiculed
delegate-rich California, a state
criticisms of him by Vice President
where the president's popularity is
Quayle.
low and where the Republican right
Speaking this evening at a news
to which Buchanan would appeal
conference in Atlanta, Buchanan
has a strong base.
said, "Dan Quayle says I'm not qual-
"Our friend Pat," Quayle said,
ified to be president of the United
"has embraced the foreign policy of
States? How would he know?"
George McGovern, the Middle East
Buchanan said he did not want to
policy of Jesse Jackson and the pro-
engage Quayle because "I don't
tectionist policy of Dick Gephardt."
want to be charged with child
The Quayle remarks, obtained
abuse." He called Quayle an "acces-
from a transcript provided by the
sory after the fact" to the Bush ad-
Savannah Morning News, were re-
ministration's failures.
peated several times in the state,
Even before Buchanan let loose
Quayle press secretary David Beck-
his latest blast, Quayle offered the
with said.
administration's most direct attack
Bush officials acknowledged that
on the conservative commentator's
the New Hampshire vote, the South
claim to lead the conservative wing
Dakota results and polls in Georgia
of the GOP.
indicate, as one official put it, "30
Quayle compared Buchanan's
percent of the Republicans in this
policies with those of a string of
country, at least, don't want to vote
liberal Democrats and suggested
for George Bush."
that Bush, not the challenger, is the
Bush's aides had argued that Bu-
"true conservative."
chanan's 37 percent showing in
Campaigning in Savannah, Quayle
New Hampshire stemmed from that
said, "Our opponent is masquerad-
state's unusually poor economic
ing as the leader of the conserva-
conditions. But the recession has
tive movement.'
not hit South Dakota nearly as hard.
Staff writers Ann Devroy and
Howard Kurtz in Washington
contributed to this report.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1992
The Washington Post
Clinton's Conduct a Major Factor in Georgia
Highly Personal Evaluation of Arkansan Taking Place as Kerrey Charges He Is Unelectable
By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
ATLANTA, Feb. 26
In findings published by the
But when they look at the Dem-
T
he Georgia Democratic prima-
Houston Chronicle that parallel pat-
ocrat making the strongest claim to
ry next Tuesday has become a
terns Clinton's pollsters are finding
the South, they are uneasy.
test of competing southern
in Georgia, Murray and Tedin said
"There's been too much about him
Christian values, a struggle be-
Clinton leads his closest opponent,
in them old magazines. It really hurt
former Massachusetts senator Paul
him," said Corey Evans.
tween redemption and damnation
and between forgiveness and dis-
E. Tsongas, by a wide margin-40
"If he womanizes, what else does
trust, with Arkansas Gov. Bill Clin-
to 9-with other candiates at 3 to 6
he do. I mean, you know, you've got
ton at the center of a political and
percentage points. Among Demo-
to be totally sure about someome,
religious storm.
catic voters, Clinton held a relative-
really believe him, for him to be
A highly personal evaluation of
ly healthy favorable-unfavorable
president of the United States,"
Clinton is taking place throughout
rating of 48-14, with the rest un-
said Kendra Evans. "If there is
Georgia as the primary approaches,
sure.
something, even a moral issue, that
But if he is to win in November,
kind of gives you doubts
an examination likely to become
Clinton must be competitive among
In Ellijay-an area of north Geor-
even more intense as a result of
independents and Republicans, and
gia that helped give inspiration to
Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey's charge
the poetry of "Deliverance" author
here today that allegations of draft
among these voters, it's a different
evasion and marital infidelity make
story.
James Dickey-Betty Pinson, who
Among all 800 registered voters,
owns and operates Pinson's gas sta-
the Arkansas governor unelectable.
Clinton gets a slight negative rat-
tion, is almost the perfect target of
"It bothers me. I just think a fel-
ing: 35-36. In the small part of the
the Clinton message of responsibil-
low, a leader, should lead by exam-
sample saying they were not sure
ity.
ple. If that stuff is true, that's not
they would vote in the primary,
A foster mother to nine children,
the best example for ourselves or
Clinton fell to 41-30 favorable. With
including five Mexican immigrants,
for our children," said state Rep.
Republicans voting in the GOP pri-
all of whom she brags are on school
Jim Tyson Griffin, a Democrat rep-
mary, he had a ratio of 21 favorable
honor rolls, Pinson increasingly
resenting rural Whitfield County in
to 60 unfavorable, and among inde-
must reach into her own pocket to
north Georgia. "My district, if there
pendents voting in the Republican
pay for dental and medical care. She
is a Bible Belt, it certainly comes
primary, he had a 15-52 negative
sees Bush, for whom she voted, as a
through there. I'm a Southern Bap-
rating.
politician who has allowed the
tist through and through. And I
Fred Steeper, who is polling for
"American people to do without,
don't believe that is the way you
the Bush campaign, said that if the
while they [the administration| take
ought to live."
overall 35-36 favorable-unfavorable
care of the foreign countries."
But a legislator from a district 60
ratings for Clinton in Texas "are
While more than ready to vote
miles east of here, Democratic
true, then we've got him. He has to
for a Democrat in November, she
state Rep. Alan T. Powell, said his
carry the South. The way to unlock
says about Clinton: "I don't think
constituents are willing to overlook
the South was with Clinton, but 35-
he's the man for the job. He doesn't
allegations about Clinton's mar-
36 are not numbers to carry the
have the intestinal fortitude. There
riage. "The people where I come
South."
is something that bothers me, faith-
from, we are a conservative peo-
"He [Clinton] is running well with
fulness and truthfulness and all this
ple," he said. "We are an ethical
the strong Democratic base, but af-
stuff. I can't exact put my finger on
people. He who is without sin, let
ter you get away from the Demo-
it, there is just something that
him cast the first stone. This is be-
cratic base, the weaker he gets,"
doesn't sit right with me." Asked
tween he [Clinton] and his wife [Hil-
said Tedin, chairman of the Hous-
about the draft, she said "he should
lary]. If his wife has forgiven him, it
ton political science department.
have done his duty like everybody
is not up to me to hold any grudges
"Clinton is really lucky there is not
else. If you have a duty to do, take
against him. Our voters are of a
a strong challenger. There really is
care of it.
I need somebody to
Christian nature. And if you can't
not anyone else."
vote for."
Conversations this week with
forgive, you can't be forgiven."
Richard Amann, who works for
Based on polling data and inter-
working and lower-middle-class
the Gilmer County Transportation
white voters, who in the past voted
views, those who vote in Democrat-
Republican in presidential elections
Department, said he is strongly in-
ic primaries in the state appear to
clined to vote for Clinton, dismiss-
but who are now ready to vote
be leaning far more toward redemp-
against President Bush, showed a
ing the charges against him. He
tion than damnation, with Clinton
voted for Bush in 1988, but "I like
currently holding a decisive lead.
strong mistrust of Clinton. Even
someone who is for the little
But there are a number of signs
worse for Clinton, the allegations of
man.
Bush-he's big business."
that Clinton's claim to be a Dem-
infidelity and draft evasion go di-
Standing next to him, co-worker
ocrat who can carry the South-the
rectly counter to the thrust of his
Jacky Morgan, a loyal Democrat,
basis of his electability argument-
message calling for raised levels of
agreed that Bush is "the big man's
has been badly damaged.
responsibility for everyone from
president" and will not vote for him.
The most damaging evidence is
welfare recipients to corporate
The issues of the draft and infidelity
the highly unfavorable ratings Clin-
CEOs.
are "a man's personal life, his own,"
ton gets when he moves outside the
Even since Bush took office,
Morgan said, "but it might bother
more sympathetic party members'
Corey Evans of Chatsworth, Ga., a
me to be perfectly honest.
It
who vote in Democratic primaries.
22-year-old machine fixer at a car-
bears on the mind, it's something to
Richard Murray and Kent Tedin,
pet plant, has faced winter layoffs of
mull over. You want someone you
for example, who run polling oper-
two months or more. He and his
think is a good, honest man. [ guess
ations at the University of Hous-
wife of a year and a half, Kendra,
maybe the personal life does reflect
ton's Center for Public Policy,
have relatives who periodically have
on it."
found in a study of 800 registered
to go without groceries, and Corey
voters in Texas that Clinton held a
Evans wants to repudiate the vote
decisive edge among those who say
he cast for Bush in 1988.
they will vote in the Democratic
primary.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
The Washington Times
Supply
is focus
of drug
'summit'
By Frank J. Murray
THE WASHINGT TIMES
SAN ANTONIO - President
Bush arrived in Texas yesterday to
convince five Latin American presi-
dents he has dented America's appe-
tite for the drug "monster" and to
prod the leaders into halting a rising
drug supply.
Colombian President Cesar Ga.
viria also arrived yesterday, saying
concrete goals were needed. He pro-
posed a commitment to end all drug
trafficking by the year 2010.
Diplomatic sources said the draft
agreement proposes a turn-of-the-
century target of halving drug sup-
plies, largely from South America,
and drug demand, much of it in
North America.
Last night, Mr. and Mrs. Bush
But a senior U.S. official said last
ert Storm. It is not going to be won
hosted a state dinner after Mr. Bush
In a California speech on Tuesday
in 100 hours."
night that Peruvian demands for
Mr. Bush said he will seek at the
met privately for a half-hour each
more aid would stalemate the issue
with the presidents of Peru, Colom-
The officials conceded the drug
international summit to "sharpen
and keep it from even being men-
bia, Ecuador and Bolivia. He was to
supply is rising despite the $2.2 bil-
our strategy to beat this scourge"
tioned in the final declaration.
have breakfast today with Mexican
lion five-year Andean strategy that
but said more changes are needed in
The presidents hold "summit"
President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
produced arrests and a growing
the United States as well.
sessions today to thrash out details
number of seizures throughout the
"We need stiffer sentences for
of that statement, but objections
Although the second "interna-
hemisphere. But the number of
drug dealers, courts that punish
were voiced yesterday by Peru's
tional drug summit" takes place in a
hard-core U.S. drug users, estimated
criminals, not (punish) honest cops
President Alberto Fujimori, who
city Mr. Bush was told is ravaged by
at 900,000, is not dropping.
trying to do their jobs, laws that
said he would not support compro-
narcotics, Bush administration offi-
The increased drug supply is
make life tougher on criminals than
mise on the objectives if there were
cials argue that major successes
no compromise on financial assis-
since 1988 are not being recognized.
blamed largely on corrupted offi-
on the victims of crime," Mr. Bush
cials in Latin America and bumper
said.
tance to combat the problem.
"All of us face a monster and it is
crops of coca and marijuana south
In the interview, given Monday at
"There's no blank checks any-
going to take days, months and years
of the border.
the White House and released en
more, for this or anything else," Mr.
of sustained struggle to confront
"We're Interdicting a lot more.
route, Mr. Bush said his goal in to-
Bush warned.
and defeat this monster," said Ber-
day's summit sessions is "to con-
All six presidents were to hold a
nard Aronson, assistant secretary of
The problem is they're producing a
lot, too," Mr. Bush said in an inter-
vince them - which I think will be
joint news conference today after
state for inter-American affairs.
view with the San Antonio Light
rather easy given the figures that
the final declaration is released.
"This war is not going to be like Des-
we are making progress on the de-
newspaper.
mand side."
Democrats seek wins on the road
By J. Jennings Moss
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Harkin said in a statement about the
South Dakota results.
Democratic presidential candi-
Here is the current breakdown of delegates to the Democratic
dates are entering unfamiliar but po-
and Republican national conventions that have been won
"The election has been side-
tentially decisive territory, with
in presidential primaries and caucuses.
tracked in these early contests by
discussions about electability
three touting regional victories and
100% of precincts reporting in South Dakota.
he said. "The Olympics may be over
another expected to make it a four-
DEMOCRATE
in Albertville, but here, in the Demo-
some next week.
Delegate count. Needed to nominate: 2,144.
cratic Party primaries, I say, Let the
After Tuesday's South Dakota pri-
games begin.
mary. which saw Nebraska Sen. Bob
lows
N.H.
Maine
S.D.
Total
In Georgia yesterday, Mr. Kerrey
Kerrey collect his first victory, the
Harkin
39
0
1
5
45
said, "I'm going to describe with no
candidates started the march to next
Tsongss
0
9
8
Tuesday's series of eight primaries
0
17
shame, with no need to defend my
Clinton
and caucuses.
0
own experience, my record and how
9
3
3
15
that relates to getting the job done.
Mr. Kerrey stressed his elect-
Kerrey
0
0
0
7
7
"Imagine me debating George
ability by giving his most pointed
Brown
0
0
7
0
7
Bush in the fall," he said. "He an-
critique of the difference between
Uncommitted
10
4
swered the call in World War II. I
his and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton's
0
14
records during the Vietnam War.
Voting percents gos:
answered the call in Vietnam
We
are going to be talking about duty to
"I have objected to some repre-
fowa
N.H.
Maine
S.D.
country here."
sentations Bill Clinton has made
Kerrey
2%
12%
3%
40%
A spokesman for Mr. Tsongas,
about the nature of what happened
Herkin
77%
10%
to him in the 1960s," Mr. Kerrey, who
5%
25%
who campaigned yesterday in Colo-
Clinton
lost half a leg in Vietnam, said on
3%
26%
rado, said the campaign is working
15%
19%
on the assumption that Mr. Clinton
CNN. Mr. Clinton denies allegations
Tsongsa
4%
35%
30%
10%
will win in his home region and that
that he improperly avoided the
Brown
2%
9%
29%
4%
Mr. Tsongas needs to win Maryland.
draft.
Others
"I think the Republican president
8%
"Then the race focuses on the in-
1%
2%
is going to open him up like a boiled
Uncommitted
12%
dustrial states where the message of
16%
0%
economic truth and long-term in-
peanut in November in a campaign
REPUBLICANS
vestment resonates deeply," spokes-
that will be reminiscent of what we
Delegate count. Needed to nominate: 1,105.
had in 1988," Mr. Kerrey said yester-
Voting percentages
man David Eichenbaum said.
day. adding that such a tactic would
N.H.
S.D.
Total
Mr. Clinton spent yesterday in Lit-
N.H.
S.D.
Bush
the Rock, Ark., spending most of his
obscure Mr. Clinton's views.
14
14
28
53%
69%
time on state business. A spokesman
Mr. Kerrey, who hopes his sagging
Buchanan
9
9
37%
.
did not return phone calls for com-
funding will be revived by his recent
Uncommitted
-
5
victory, joins those candidates who
5
31%
ment on Mr. Kerrey's remarks.
Others
The race could be over by April 7.
-
won at or near home but have not
10%
-
"Not on belief
when New York and Wisconsin hold
repeated their success elsewhere.
their primaries, said Paul Tully, po-
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin over-
litical director to the Democratic na.
whelmingly captured his state's cau-
The Washington Times
tional convention.
cuses Feb. 10, and former Massa-
get his first test in the South on Tues-
chusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas won the
in Georgia and is looking at Colo-
Thenext batch of primaries is sig-
New Hampshire primary Feb. 18
day in Georgia's primary.
rado. Mr. Harkin eyes Minnesota.
nificant because it tests voters
All four will be tested next week.
A week after Tuesday's contests
whose voices have not been heard
and Maine's caucuses last Sunday.
Though Mr. Clinton has yet to win,
Mr. Tsongas calls Maryland's pri-
mary "critical" and is working Colo-
comes Super Tuesday, a collection of
minorities, city dwellers and organ-
he is the best financed and best or-
11 mostly Southern and Northeast-
ized labor. "Now the full diversity of
rado and Washington state. Mr. Ker-
the party comes home," he said.
ganized of the candidates and will
em primaries and caucuses.
rey intends to challenge Mr. Clinton
"This is just the beginning," Mr.
. This story is based in part on
wire service reports.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
The Washington Times
GOP
takes
Bush foe
seriously
By Ralph Z. Hallow
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President Bush, with even his par-
tisans saying he is in trouble, tried
yesterday to put a happy face on op-
position by 31 percent of the GOP
voters in South Dakota's primary.
"It was a good victory 69 per-
cent - good victory great vic-
tory," Mr. Bush told reporters as he
arrived at Kelly Air Force Base in
San Antonio for an international
drug summit.
"You get 30 percent to vote against
church on Sunday or against day-
GOP
restive over the Bush ads and the
the South Dakota GOP primary, Mr.
light saving time," said press sec-
harsh things the White House and its
Bush lost 31 percent of the vote to a
retary Marlin Fitzwater. He blamed
surrogates say about Mr. Buchanan,
slate of undecided candidates eight
Mr. Bush's tired appearance and
From page Al
even though some Bush advisers ad-
days after he lost 47 percent of the
stumbling delivery of speeches in
servative candidate and disavow at.
mit privately they will need Mr. Bu-
vote to Mr. Buchanan, minor GOP
California on medication for a cold.
tacks on him," he said.
chanan and the conservative move-
candidates and Democratic write-
He did not identify the medicine.
Mr. O'Sullivan said his magazine
ment to help the president in
ins in the New Hampshire GOP pri-
It was a day in which former Pres-
"does not regard [Mr. Buchanan] as
November.
mary
ident Reagan rushed to Mr. Bush's
an anti-Semite, and we have said so
Former Reagan White House aide
am afraid the message is that a
defense, releasing a statement de-
several times," despite National Re-
Lyn Nofziger, considered a Republi-
lot of people are dissatisfied
nying The Washington Post's report
view founder William F. Buckley's
can loyalist to the core, echoed this
though in my opinion unfairly and.
that Mr. Reagan told friends Mr.
40,000-word essay that dominated a
concern when he referred to a Bush
our candidate could be in trouble,"
Bush "doesn't seem to stand for any-
recent issue and reached the oppo-
ad running in Georgia that claims
said Jack Londen, a Republican Na-
thing," an allegation often made by
site conclusion.
Mr. Buchanan was not supportive of
tional Committee member from Ari-
GOP challenger Pat Buchanan.
Mr. du Pont did not return several
Desert Storm once it got under way.
zona. "Some good can come out of all
Amid reports that Mr. Buchanan
phone calls yesterday.
"I don't think the [Guif] war 16
this, if it stirs him to some things he;
was close to receiving his first en-
Mr. Buchanan, meanwhile, blast-
worth a darn as an issue," Mr. Nof-
needs to do to win in November."
dorsement from a nationally promi-
ed Mr. Bush in Louisiana, saying,
ziger said on ABC-TV's "Nightline."
Morton Blackwell, former Reagan
nent Republican. 1988 presidential
"The only measage is 'Read my lips,
"Saddam Hussein is still sitting on
White House aide and an RNC mem-;
hopeful Pete du Pont, conservative
no second term.'
this throne over there." Mr. Bu-
ber from Virginia, said Mr. Bush will
leaders were softening their crit-
"We're being taken seriously," Mr.
chanan has been making that point
soon do things he needs to win, such,
icism of the challenger.
Buchanan said. "That's why Mr.
from the beginning of his campaign.
as using the line-item veto that con-:
"I've always taken Pat seriously,
Bush is beginning to run attack ads
Mr. Buchanan and his top advis-
servatives have long urged him to
and his candidacy has to be taken
over in Georgia."
ers used the president's South Da-
wield.
seriously." said former Bush admin-
In Georgia, which holds its pri-
kota showing to claim Mr. Buchanan
But Mr. Bennett said that Mr.
istration drug policy chief William
mary next Tuesday, the Buchanan
would actually have whipped the
Bush's campaign "lacks the defini-
Bennett.
campaign responded to Bush ads
president but for an alleged conniv-
tion it deserves. The president de-,
The night after Mr. Buchanan's
questioning his patriotism during
ance between the state party and the
serves better than he is getting."
strong showing in the Feb. 18 New
Operation Desert Storm with a 30-
White House.
By contrast, the "strength of Pat
Hampshire primary, Mr. Bennett
second television spot that blames
"If Pat hadn't been denied access
Buchanan's campaign is that it has
met with a group of conservatives in
the Bush administration for foster-
to that ballot, we could have beaten
clear definition and is strong," Mr.'
his office, syndicated columnists
ing pornography through its support
Bush there or at least won over 40
Bennett said, but he added, "It's also
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
of the National Endowment for the
percent of the vote," said Buchanan
wrong on some issues."
reported this week.
Artsi
pollster Frank Luntz.
Frank Murray contributed to
The purpose: to decide what to do
Conservatives are increasingly
Although running unopposed in
this report.
about Mr. Buchanan and whether a
Democratic victory in November
might put conservatives in a better
position to elect one of their own to
the White House in 1996.
National Review Editor John
O'Sullivan, who was at the meeting.
said the "conservative movement
should remain united and other
conservative leaders should offer in
various degrees support to Pat, in-
cluding [Housing and Urban Devel-
opment Secretary Jack) Kemp and
Bennett, who are tied to Bush."
"They should make it clear that
they regard him as a legitimate con-
see GOP, page A6
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
The Washington Times
HARRY SUMMERS
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Blinded
tained during the research on the
Everyone knows that quotas and
Selective Service System at George-
town University that he brags about
Liberal assaults on
reverse discrimination are illegal,
yet the federal government IS the
in his letter. is that Article I. Section
by bias
major perpetrator of the practice.
8 of the Constitution of the United
Why should anyone else respect U.S.
States specifically reserves the
the rule of law
Law when the federal government it-
power to raise armies to Congress
self violates it?
and
and Congress alone.
Mr. Clinton should have known
Determined to get "junk bond
that the focus for his "loathing"
king" Michael Milken at all costs.
should not have been the military.
O'
liver North's attorney. Bren-
saw an integrated society as another
federal officials violated federal law
dan Sullivan, astonished a
loathing?
but politicians such as his mentor.
case where the ends justified the
by leaking grand jury testimony to
Sen. J. William Fulbright. who voted
recent meeting here of
means. They winked at the Constitu-
help build momentum for their case.
the Federalist Society,
for passage of the Selective Service
tion and the 1964 Civil Rights Act
The practice of illegal leaking has
when he publicly stated for the first
Act, the enabling legislation for the
while an illegal policy of racial quo-
now spread to the U.S. Senate and to
time that he was forced to appear
Vietnam War draft. But then again.
tas was implemented. Today employ-
the federal judiciary. In an effort to
ill Clinton was right about one
before a grand jury for the purpose
after years "work[ing] to prepare
ers. who lack proportional represen-
stop the confirmation of Justice Cla.
B
thing. He had no business
of testifying against his client dur-
tation of minorities in their work
[himself] for a political life charac-
rence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
ing Independent Counsel Lawrence
in the ROTC program at the
terized by practical political abil-
force, are prosecuted regardless of
the Senate Judiciary Committee ille-
Walsh's prosecution of Col. North in
University of Arkansas, for
ity." Mr. Clinton knew that directing
any intent to discriminate.
gally leaked an FBI report. Ina simi-
the Iran-Contra affair. This at-
he obviously lacked the basic quali-
his wrath at Mr. Fulbright would
lar action. the D.C. Circuit Court of
fications for a military commission.
tempted perversion of the American
hardly have maintained his "politi-
Appeals leaked parts of an opinion
"There is a one-word key
legal process is shocking. Yet the
cal viability."
by Judge Thomas in an effort to hurt
among
the four lofty qualifications cited on
special prosecutor's office has en-
Adding to Mr. Clinton's rage was
By reversing their
his chances for Senate confirmation
every military officer's commis-
joyed the support of the organs of
evidently the fact that it was the
sion." wrote the distinguished mili-
position on ends
Many suspect it was Chief Judge Ab-
the liberal conscience - The Wash-
military that was fighting the war in
ner J. Mikva, a former Democratic
tary historian LA Marshall more
ington Post and the New York Times.
Vietnam that he held in such con.
and means, liberals
congressman. who has blocked an
than 40 years ago. "That word is fi-
tempt. Like many of his contempo-
Threatened with criminal con-
investigation of the leak.
delity. [B]ecause it comes of per-
raries, he perhaps felt that the mili-
tempt proceedings if he did not co-
have contributed
When I was a kid, liberals taught
sonal decision, [fidelity] is the jewel
tary should have refused to go there.
operate. Mr. Sellivan took along 30
within reach of every officer who
But blaming the military for follow-
copies of the U.S. Constitution to re-
greatly to the
that the ends don't justify the means.
Today, they willingly abandon any le-
has the will to possess it. It is the
ing the orders of their civilian lead-
mind the jury of his and his client's
epitome of character, and fortu-
ers is a slippery slope indeed, for it
rights, but he was not permitted to
lawlessness of U.S.
gal principle, no matter how critical
to a rule of law, in order to settle a
nately oother quality in the individ-
jeopardizes one of the basic tenets of
distribute them. In the face of Mr.
society and to the
political score or to serve a "higher
ual is more readily recognized and
American democracy - civilian
Sullivan's refusal to violate the
honored by one's military associ-
control of the military.
attorney-client privilege that is well-
corruption of its
cause." By reversing their position
on ends and means. liberals have
ates."
It was the politicians, not the mili-
established in U.S. case law, the spe-
Whatever his other virtues, fidel-
tary. that involved the United States
officials, both
contributed greatly to the lawless-
cial prosecutor backed off from his
ness of U.S. society and to the cor.
ity is not Bill Clinton's strong suit,
in the Vietnam War. Beginning with
effort to substitute Star Chamber
elected and
ruption of its officials, both elected
either in his solemn pledges to the
President Truman, who sent a mili-
procedures for the U.S. legal system.
and appointed.
military or in his sacred vows to his
tary advisory team there in 1950.
Liberals have not criticized the
appointed.
wife. On national television, his wife
five successive U.S. commanders in
The now routine abuse of its
criminalization of policy differences
stood pathetically by his side. But
chief - Truman, Eisenhower, Ken-
prosecutorial power by the U.S. gov.
those he had diddled at the Arkansas
that have led to this and other legal
nedy. Johnson and Nixon - ordered
emment reached Gestapo heights in
abuses by the special prosecutor's
ROTC were not so forgiving. They
military forces into Vietnam. And
the 1986 case of U.S. VS. Omni Inter-
chose to release his December 1969
office, and they have been quick to
from the 82nd Congress in 1950
national Corp., where the govern-
apologia for dodging the draft.
misuse the legal system to punish
through the 93rd Congress in 1973,
ment was found guilty of fabricating
their political opponents and to ad-
But draft dodging was not the
the national legislature, by over-
evidence. lying to the court. and a
vance their special causes.
worst of it. More damning was his
whelming margins. provided the au.
variety of other grievous crimes in
condescending fatuity that he was
thorization and the money for mili-
With the rapid development of
its effort to prosecute a defendant. In
writing "in the hope that (it) will help
tary operations there.
the government's power to pursue its
Maryland. U.S. District Court Judge
you to understand more clearly how
At a time when civics were still
targets, Mr. Sullivan's tactic is not
Walter E. Black Jr. declared: "The
so many fine people have come to
taught in the classrooms, anti-war
likely to suffice in the future to deter
government's conduct was patently
find themselves loathing the mili-
protesters were astute enough to
an aggressive state from abusing the
egregious and cannot be tolerated or
tary to which you and other good
separate war from the warriors. For
legal system. The disregard for the
condoned. Its manner of proceeding
men have devoted years, lifetimes, of
example, in 1899 the Anti-Imperial-
attorney-client privilege is already
shocks the court's conscience. The
the best service you could give."
ist League condemned the Spanish-
creeping into other areas of our le.
indictment must be dismissed as a
Mr. Clinton's abysmal ignorance
American War while at the same
gal system. and the logical outcome
prophylactic sanction for the consis-
of the role of the military in Amer-
time acknowledging "the sacrifices
is that we can look forward to having
tent course of entrenched and fla-
ican society reflected in those words
of our soldiers and sailors, whose
our lawyers testify against us. With
grant misconduct." Our corrupt gov-
has so far gone unremarked. But
bravery deserves admiration even in
the drive to get prosecutorial targets
ernment. however, was not
much more than his marital infidel-
an unjust war." But Mr. Clinton was
at all costs. the principle of attorney-
sufficiently embarrassed to indict
ity or his feckless efforts to evade
50 clearly unaware of the basic
client confidentiality is as expend-
its officials who had fabricated the
military service and protect himself
workings of the American govern-
able as the other protections in our
case.
from physical harm, Mr. Clinton's
mental system that he was unable to
legal system that are falling one by
Formerly. U.S. citizens could look
blind anti-military prejudice rep-
make the distinction.
one.
to a Congress that was accountable
resents a fundamental impediment
His loathing was not directed at
For example, liberals turned a
to the people to curtail abuses of
to his exercise of office as the na-
the succession of presidents who or-
blind eye when the government
power by the government. However,
tion's commander in chief.
dered the military into combat in
criminalized accidents in the case of
Congress has raised itself to impe-
Why did he loathe the military?
Vietnam or at the succession of Con-
the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Relishing
rial status and routinely exempts it-
Was it because he didn't want to be
gresses that provided the where-
the opportunity to ride their envi-
self from the law. In 1990, when Con-
drafted? But surely this "brilliant"
withal for the war. Instead, adding
ronmental high horse, they fur-
gress was debating what became
Rhodes scholar must have known
insult to injury, Mr. Clinton directed
thered the destruction of the legal
last year's so-called Civil Rights Act,
that in its entire history the military
his wrath at those who were serving
principle that there can be no crime
Sen. Warren Rudman, New Hamp-
had never drafted a single soul. And
in his stead, the uniformed men and
without intent. Similarly, liberals
shire Republican, candidly asserted
the reason, as he must have ascer-
women whom those politicians had
that the Senate is above the law:
ordered into battle. If he still har-
"This is the Senate, it is not subject
bors these views - and so far at
to the same rules and laws of a man-
Harry G. Summers Jr., a retired
Paul Craig Roberts, an economist
U.S. Army colonel. is a distinguished
least, he has not repudiated them
not only his moral fitness for high
at the Center for Strategic and Inter-
ufacturing plant in New Hampshire
or a farm inlowa
am not embar-
fellow of the Army War College and a
nationally syndicated columnist.
office but also his intellectual fitness
national Studies, is a columnist for
The Washington Times and is nation-
rassed to stand here tonight and say
is open to serious question.
ally syndicated
Lawrence Walsh
we are not exactly like everybody
else."
JOSEPH SOBRAN
MONA CHAREN
I
n the wake of the New Hamp-
shire primary, George Bush
and his inner circle of dazed
insiders are wondering how
Good-night call
and a sobering scenario
best to put their message across. In
vember. That's one kind of term limit
the process they may even decide
mollshing his own conservative po-
This is 8 short list, and it gets
"Frequently!" he beamed.
Republicans feel freer to vote on the
Dan Quayle does not favor.
what their message is.
shorter under inspection. Mr. Bush's
I
t's going to be a fascinating
litical base, without earning the es.
The lip-readers of New Hamp-
The real point was made in New
basis of conviction rather than ter-
presidential year with a
Accordingly. the vice president
teem of the Democrats - who are
judicial appointments are insepara-
Hampshire. From now on, no Repub-
ror.
number of contending heavy-
set out the pro-Bush case in his ad-
shire, meanwhile, have delivered
voting more conservatively them-
ble from the abortion issue, and even
dress to the CPAC convention. For
their own message. It was loud
selves. Only Mr. Bush seems to have
lican president will dare to double-
Mr. Bush should face it: Most of
weights hoping to galvanize
enough to be heard through this
Bill adds important qualifiers on the
cross conservatives who supported
his countrymen deem him a failure
the support of their party. 1 refer, of
those whose support of the presi-
been untouched by the Reagan-
other two.
president's car trumpet, but prob-
him.
or worse. Many in the core of hisown
course, to 1996.
dent is wobbly (a good Margaret
Yeltsin cra. This raises the question:
ably too late to do him any good. It
But the defense misses the point.
Mr. Bush has assumed he could
The grunting and panting you
Thatcher word). including this col-
If Ronald Reagan was such a Great
party won't vote for him again under
Communicator, why couldn't he get
Enumerating the issues on which
get away with it because he thought
any circumstances. In his four-year
hear from Republican ranks is the
umnist, the case is as strong as could
was not a wake-up call but a good-
night call. A year ago Mr. Bush
sound of 1996 maneuvering getting
be made.
through to his own vice president?
George Bush hasn't betrayed con-
conservatives had nowhere else to
spree, he has spent all the political
My friend Bill Buckley makes a
servatives is a little like listing all
capital Ronald Reagan amassed.
an early start. The most obvious en-
Mr. Quayle started. not surpris-
looked unbeatable. Now he looks
go. That kind of thinking had some
unre-electable.
the documents Alger Hiss neglected
trant into the sweepstakes is Patrick
ingly. with the Bush triumph in De-
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
certain defense of this president. but
plausibility during the Cold War,
If the Democrats can't beat him,
This president has points in com-
without much conviction. He lists
to turn over to Stalin. After all, you
when the sight of Michael Dukakis
it will be their own fault. He could
Buchanan, preparing the ground in
sert Storm. Wags have noted that.
the issues Mr. Bush has been sound
don't need to chase every single
in a tank could make anti-commun-
still win, if that's all he cares about.
New Hampshire. But looking on
Saddam Hussein now sits more se-
mon with Mike Tyson. The former
heavyweight champ got the idea he
ists shudder. But it doesn't work any-
But he should step aside now for the
with uneasy glances are former
curely on his throne than George
on, from A conservative point of
woman in town to be a philanderer.
could get away with anything: All he
view: judicial appointments, abor-
One thinks of the old joke about the
more. The fate of the world no longer
good of his own party, and devote his
drug czar William Bennett, Sen. Phil
Bush sits on his. but Mr. Quayle
Frenchman whose worried wife
seems to be at stake in every pres-
Gramm of Texas, Defense Secretary
made the necessary point that if a:
had to do was hire the best legal tal-
tion, the capital gains tax and inter-
last few months in office to redeem-
ent in the country to get him off the
nationalism.
asked him if he was faithful to her:
idential election, and conservative
ing what he can of his honor.
Dick Chency, Housing Secretary
liberal Democrat had been in office
Jack Kemp, and Vice President Dan
in 1990 and 1991. Saddam would al-
hook. He turned out to be out of
Quayle.
most certainly now be in control of
touch with reality. the reality of his
LOOKS LIKE A SHOT
The vice president made his first
40 percent of the world's oil and a
own record. The best lawyer on
ACROSS THE BOW.
BENEON'12
formal foray into the debate with Mr.
budding nuclear capacity to boot.
Earth couldn't make that go away.
MR. PRESIDENT
Buchanan at the Conservative Politi-,
Mr. Quayle next reminded con-
In the same way, Mr. Bush seems
cal Action Conference in Washing-
servatives that George Bush sent up
to think that no matter what he does,
ton last week. CPAC is always a gath-
solid nominees to the Supreme.
he can always get Peggy Noonan to
ering of the conservative faithful
Court. That hard-fought victory is
write another brilliant speech and
and a fairly good barometer of con
subject to the whims of nature
his record will be forgotten. But
servative sentiments. Mr. Quayle
that is, the health of human beings
there is a time when you are judged
- and thus cannot be counted as se-
by your promises, and there comes
cure.
another time when you are judged
by whether you have kept them. A
Mr. Quayle offers this
Fair enough. But then Mr. Quayle
switched gears. Knowing that the re-
great speechwriter could help him
guess: Jimmy Carter
mainder of the Bush presidency is
in 1988, but not in 1992.
basically a wasteland from the con-
His attitude was best expressed
as secretary of state.
servative point of view. Mr. Quayle
by his budget director, Richard Dar-
enlisted in his cause a parade of hor-
man. in a reply to complaints that
ribles - speculation about what a
Mr. Bush had broken a promise to
environmentalists. Mr. Darman ex-
had a dual mission. One aim was to
Democratic administration might
do.
plained: "He didn't say that. He read
position himself as conservative
standard-bearer for 1996 an CS.
The Democratic president, Mr.
what was given to him in a speech."
By implication, this president is
sential role for Mr. Quayle. If Mr.
Quayle only half-whimsically sug-
bound by nothing he says in a speech
Bush is re-elected in 1992, Mr.
gests, might announce a four-point
written by others. So it was Miss
Quayle will not enter the 1996 race
agenda to be administered by the
with the kind of halo Mr. Bush en-
new secretary of health and human
Noonan, not Mr. Bush, who promised
joyed in 1988. The second Bush ad-
services. Kate Michelman: cradle-
not to raise taxes. That tells you all
The Washington Times
you need to know about this admin-
ministration is likely to be even less
to-grave socialized medicine;
a
palatable to conservatives than the
"Compassion Bill of Rights" that for-
istration's sense of honor.
bids welfare reform in the states; a
With all the power of the presi-
first - and Mr. Quayle's loyal ser-
national condom distribution cam-
dency behind him, with the tug of
RELOAD!
vice may be more of an albatross
paign for grades seven and up; and a
party loyalty in his favor, boosted by
than anything.
federal right to abortion on demand.
the fear of helping the Democrats,
Mr. Quayle has other problems as
Continuing the chamber of hor-
against a challenger who has never
well, including - fair or unfair a
rors theme, Mr. Quayle asks conser-
held office and who provokes strong
reputation as a dim bulb. So if Mr.
vatives to imagine the Democratic
antipathies, Mr. Bush got barely half
BUCANNON
Quayle hopes to stand a chance at
Congress passing. and the Demo-
the nomination in 1996, he must be
the Republican vote in a deeply Re-
cratic president signing, a bill to inc.
seen as the conservative conscience
publican state. It was a miserable
within the Bush administration. So
crease the number of federal judges
showing.
by 25 percent (thus obliterating the
far. his record on that score has been
Mr. Bush has succeeded in de-
achievements of Presidents Reagan
good. On every major policy battle
and Bush). as well as legislation rais-
of the first term the budget deal.
ing the top income tax rate to 70 per-
Joseph Sobran. a senior editor of
Mikhail Gorbachev VS. Boris Yeltsin,
cent.
National Review. is a nationally syn-
quotas - Mr. Quayle has sided with
For the coup de grace, Mr. Quayle
dicated columnist.
conservatives. Even on the Gulf war,
offers this guess: Jimmy Carter as
it was Mr. Quayle, not Mr. Bush. who
secretary of state, and Ralph Nader
saw the need to adumbrate the ad.
as attorney general.
ministration's rationale for war,
The vice president allowed as
which he did in a series of speeches
how he was only exaggerating
in 1990.
slightly. And, in fact, you need only
But Mr. Quayle, like the other
believe in his scenario slightly to so-
nominee-wannahees, understands
bered up about November right
that Mr. Buchanan is a threat, not
quickly.
just in 1996, but right new. For if Mr.
Buchanan succeeds in weakening
Mr. Bush sufficiently, a Democrat
Mona Charen is a nationally syn.
may roll over the president in No.
dicated columnist.
The other leak
ast week, the Court of Appeals for the District of
prior to his Circuit Court assignment was examined
Columbia Circuit released a ing-awaited de-
thoroughly by his opponents during his confirmation
WANNISKI
cision. It was unconstitutional, so the court
for the D.C. Circuit, but to no avail. On the other hand,
JUDE WANNISKI
found, for the Federal Communications Com-
Judge Thomas' White House handlers saw to it that
From page GI
Tax authorities that rely on busi-
mission to give preference to women in awarding
during the first round of confirmation hearings for the
nesses for business taxes and work-
forehead with an "X" Throughout
broadcast licenses because it denied equal protection
How to
capital centers and found its way to
Supreme Court, Judge Thomas dodged every potential
crs for income taxes find these
under the laws to white men.
their lives. they carry this sign.
profit opportunities throughout the
bullet by revealing precious little about his approach
which makes it illegal for their fel-
sources drying up, and in order to
The legal and policy ramifications of the decision,
grass roots.
offset the losses are forced to raise
to controversial issues. Thus, the FCC decision was
low citizens to supply them with
As capital becomes scarce
Lamprecht VS. FCC, in themselves would be enough to
tax rates even higher and cut essen.
significant because it was seen as a smoking gun on
capital They must be denied loans
through high taxation. it becomes
make it noteworthy. However, the decision had been
tial public spending. Eliminating the
the question of affirmative action.
through banks, thrifts. credit
eagerly anticipated for other reasons as well. It was
un-cap
concentrated at the met tropoles, dry.
capital gains tax reverses the pro-
The disclosure in the Legal Times, based on a fairly
unions, insurance companies, stock
ing up opportunities in the country's
written by former Appeals Court Judge Clarence
unprecedented leak of a court's draft decision by some
markets and all other sources of
cess, creating business activity as
small towns. Japan, which taxes
the rewards are maximized for risk.
Thomas When the case was heard in January 1991,
person or persons at the court, marked a low point in
vital
debt or equity. They would have only
capital lightly or not at all. has be-
taking and enterprise. Tax revenues
Judge Thomas, now a member of the U.S. Supreme
the win-at-any cost campaign to defeat the Thomas
what they possess from birth, i.e.,
come a fountain of capital that
at every level of government
Court, sat on the D.C. Circuit Court.
nomination. (This, of course, was before Anita Hill was
their labor. It should be no surprise
spreads far beyond its own shores,
throughout the nation would imme-
Last September, the opinion became part of the
that these: babies would develop
seeking profit opportunities every
dragged into the proceedings). Fortunately, this
diately rise following the end of the
political tug-of-war between Judge Thomas and his
their potential as best they could
behind-the-scenes maneuver didn't succeed. Judge
capital
where. Indeed. Japanese capital in
without capital. and become the best
even finding its way to America's
federal capital gains tax Public
opponents, courtesy of the Legal Times, a weekly
Thomas was questioned by senators about the alleged
athletes and entertainers in the soci-
small lowns, which no longer find
works spending could rise to rebuild
Washington newspaper. Just prior to the Senate Judi-
delay in the release of the opinion, and he answered
ety. When Negro slaves were freed
capital available from American
America's aging infrastructure
ciary Committee vote on his nomination to the Su-
their questions satisfactorily In his concurring opinion
during the Civil War, they came into
sources.
(7) would aid the elderly. In sev-
preme Court, the Legal Times published an account of
eral ways, the nation's senior citi-
last week, Judge Buckley wrote that, in fact, the court's
leven arguments for eliminat-
the market without a scrap of capi-
Ending the tax on capital gains
the decision and disclosed, correctly. that the Circuit
opinion had not been completed and was not ready for
S
ing capital gains taxation:
would make American capital so
zens would enormously from
tal. Race prejudice, the equivalent
Court had decided on a 2-1 vote to strike down the FCC
Splentiful it would push much of this
an end to the capital g tax. As
release last fall. The Legal Times had based its report
(1) " will help labor.
of a bias against the "X". has kept
most capital assets are owned by
preference policy. (Judge James L Buckley joined
on an early draft of the decision, according to Judge
When you tax something.
black Americans starved for capital
Japanese capital in other directions,
Leo Asia, and Central and South Amer-
people over 55 years, and as the price
Judge Thomas' decision; Chief Judge Abner A. Mikva
Buckley.
you get less of that thing. When you
ever since. Eliminating the tax on
ica.
of these has been exaggerated
dissented). The Times reported that the final draft
But apart from the question of whether or not the
reduce taxation on that thing, you
capital would make it $0 abundant it
through the last generation of mon-
opinion had been completed for some time but was not
release of the opinion was delayed, there is the matter
get more of it. When you cut tax
would flow throughout society.
(5) II would create an economic
clary inflation, seniors are now un.
being released because it could potentially damage
rates on labor (ordinary income).
(3)11 would shots. When
of the disclosure itself, a serious ethical lapse on the
The Washington
brom without inflation. As all eco
able to enjoy the fruits of their past
Judge Thomas' chances for confirmation.
part of the politically motivated leaker or leakers. In
more people offer their labor in the
capital IS scarce. it is reserved for
nomic growth beyond simple pop-
investments without paying exorbi-
It was thought to be damaging for two reasons. On
the "sure things." The "credit
his opinion, Judge Buckley added the request for the
market as work becomes more at.
ulation growth is the result of risk-
tant taxes not on capital gains, but
the one hand, Judge Thomas had been on the Circuit
tractive. When this happens, capital
crunch" we speak of simply reflects
taking. innovation and enterprise,
court to begin a formal investigation into the matter,
on capital.
Court for less than two years when he was nominated
becomes relatively scarce. In the
the difficulty of enterprises that are
elimination of the tax on capital
saying that it is "essential that we prevent this disease
In the nation as a whole. taking
not established in
to the Supreme Court, and in that time, he had pro-
1980s. tax rates on
would maximize economic growth
account of inflation, there has been
from invading the judiciary" In this, Judge Buckley is
labor were cut
acquiring capital
through productivity increases,
duced few opinions on the sorts of hotly contested
nonet increase in the nation's capital
absolutely right, and the sooner such an inquiry gets
sharply and pro-
from the system.
Eliminating the capital
which do not involve inflationary
issues that can make political enemies. His paper trail
this past quarter century. Eliminat-
under way the better.
tected against in-
Imagine horse
price increases of goods. The price
ing the tax on capital gains would
flation by in-
dexation. Tax
gains tax entirely will
race. where the
of labor rises. of course. as capital
permit the seniors In unlock their
favorite goes off
abundance makes labor scarce. but
past investments instead of being
rates on capital
maximize the reward
at even money. the
as workers will have more capital
forced pass them, at death. to their
were cut briefly.
long shot at
available per man hour, they will he
heirs.
but increased
for risk-taking,
40-to-1. If the long
Death by government
able to produce more with less of
again 1987, and
shot wins, but the
innovation and
fort. Real growth rates of 5 percent
were not pro.
bettors find their
and percent a year for many years
he second way seniors would
the courts have now told the Bush administra-
Administration But it is also a rebuke to Mr. Skinner,
tected against in-
enterprise.
aftertax payoff is
on end are possible In this way. driv.
benefit would be in the future,
tion and Congress what safety experts have
who ultimately responsible for modifying the stan-
flation. Labor is
no better than if
ing unemployment rates down
as
as rapid economic growth pro-
long argued: Their fuel-economy standards
dard laid down by congressional statute.
now plentiful and
they had bet the
well as society costs for welfare.
vides the resources enabling society
are nothing more than a death warrant for
Numerous studies by Robert Crandall of the
capital IS scarce
favorite, they will
(6) It would balance federal, state
to take care of the health and retire-
unsuspecting automobile owners This time, however,
Brookings Institute and John Graham of Harvard Uni-
(the "credit crunch"). Capital can
henceforth only bet the favorites.
and local budgets. Government is
ment needs of the aging population.
people like former Transportation Secretary Sam Skin-
pick and choose selectively from an
The long shots will stop entering the
now experiencing fiscal crises at all
versity, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety,
The Japanese economy, with little or
ner, now Mr. Bush's chief of staff, and Nevada Sen.
army of unemployed. taking this
races. Racetracks will find it un-
levels. as the scarcity of capital has
even DOT itself, make clear the hazards government
no tax on capital, has been doubling
Richard Bryan can't ignore the finding.
worker here, that worker there. and
profitable to stage races and will
dried up new enterprise. Commer-
standards on fuel economy. But when Sam Kazman of
every 11 years. Were the U.S. econ-
Federal Appeals Court Judge Steven Williams and
sending the rest home. If capital
shut down. Capitalism. like race-
cial office space built or planned
omy to double between 1992 and
his former colleague on the bench, Clarence Thomas,
the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a plaintiff in the
were taxed at lower rate. it would
track, must provide for large re-
prior to the changes in the tax laws
2003. the economy would be produc-
decided case, approached Mr. Skinner, back in
become plentiful. and labor would
wards for large risks. Eliminating
remains empty The long-shot busi-
were blunt in assessing the administration's handling
ing 10 trillion of goods and services
1989 to suggest that the administration had "fudged"
become relatively scarce. If capital
the capital gains tax entirely will
nesses that would have occupied
instead of $5 trillion. Some portion
of the fuel-economy issue. Based on safety data, they
the safety issue, the DOT chief "exploded" and threat-
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
were not taxed at all. it would be.
maximize the reward for risk.
them. employing long shot workers.
of the extra $5 trillion would be
said, there is an "overwhelming likelihood" that the
ened to take him to court. Now that the appeals court
come abundant It would have to hire
taking, innovation and enterprise,
did not come into existence. The
available to both lower retirement
1990 model year standard of 27.5 miles per gallon
has used the very same word in connection with the
everyone in the unemployment lines
enabling capital to flow to 40-10-1
housing the long shot workers would
ages and increase retirement bene.
which is also the current standard - "reduces the
administration's stance on fuel economy, along with
in order to realize all profit opportu-
long shots, because only one need
be buying in unaffordable. and re.
fits.
supply of safe cars available to American consumers."
words like "specious," "lame claim," "disengenuously,"
nities. and then hire the homeless,
win in order to make the entire port-
mains vacant or unbuilt.
There are many other benefits
That's because the easiest way to make cars that go
"decisional evasion" and "bureaucratic mumbo-
derelicts, mentally retarded. etc. It
folio of bets worthwhile.
farther on a gallon of gas is to make them smaller. The
that new from eliminating the capi-
jumbo," one wonders whom Mr. Skinner will threaten
would pay for capital to improve the
(4) It would help small-town
tal gains tax. Not the least is the re-
laws of physics dictate that, all other things being
now
quality of their lives and train them,
America. Land, like labor, is factor
vival of entrepreneurial capitalism
equal. a small car that runs into a larger car is going
Safety is the most important issue related to fuel-
in order to realize profits.
of production. When capital is
in America, which holds out the
to be the worse for their meeting.
economy standards, but not the only one. In the wake
(2) It would help minorities. Con-
scarce, it is reserved for established
promise for economic advancement
The federal agency that Congress charged with
of massive General Motors layoffs, fuel-economy pro-
sider the following hypothetical sit-
enterprises, the highest quality
and personal fulfillment to Amer-
overseeing that standard, the National Highway Traf-
ponents in Congress and the administration need to
nation: Every tenth American born
management and labor, and the
ican citizens of every class and in
fic Safety Administration, could have responded to
at random is marked on his or her
consider its effect on employment. Fuel standards
choicest property. Throughout
every walk of life.
those data in several ways, said the judges: Ignoring
forced automakers away from - as a GM spokesman
America's history, with capital taxed
the fact that safety is its middle name, the agency
lightly or not at all, it spread from
put it "our bread-and-butter' large family cars in
Jude Wanniski is president and
could have argued that the law does not require it to
favor of smaller fuel-efficient models. Not only did that
founder of Polyconomics Inc., Mor-
take safety into account when its sets the standard. It
see WANNISKI, page G4
put American carmakers, who have problems enough,
ristown, NJ.
could have argued that the increased fuel savings jus-
at competitive disadvantage with Japanese manufac-
tify this blood-for-oil exchange. Or, finally, said the
turers and other small-car experts, it undoubtedly con-
judges, the agency "could have fudged the analysis,
tributed to the quality-control problems that sprang up
held the standard at 27.5 mpg. and, with the help of
as American carmakers began overhauling entire
statistical legerdemain, make conclusory assertions
fleets after fuel-economy standards went into effect in
that its decision had no safety cost at all. That is what
1975.
it chose." They ordered the agency to reconsider the
standard.
GM Chairman Robert Stempel said the other day
The ruling is an ironic pat on the back for NHTSA
that the fate of the surviving GM plant in Arlington,
chief Jerry Curry, whose unyielding opposition to rais-
Texas, depends in part on what the federal government
does about fuel standards What Mr. Skinner and the
ing the standard even further spurred fuel-economy
proponents Mr. Bryan and Sen. Howard Metzenbaum
rest of the Bush administration should do is campaign
to tie up his nomination to head the Federal Aviation
to eliminate fuel standards. Or they should face up to
longer unemployment lines and deadlier highways.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
The Washington Times
Japan,
U.S. get
Get tough
together
on
RTC's
on tuna
Capitol Hill
funding,
By Edward Neilan
THE WASHINGTON TAMES
TOKYO The United States and
awash with new
Japan may finally have found an is-
Hill urged
sue they can agree on the wish to
protect the international traffic in
bluefin tuna, the prime ingredient in
sushi.
tax proposals
By David R. Sands
The item will be on the menu of
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
delegates from 113 countries when
FROM COMBINED DISPATCHES
they gather in the ancient Japanese
tence that higher-income people pay
capital of Kyoto on Monday for the
The chairman of the Senate Fi-
more will make it difficult to enact
The General Accounting Office yester
eighth meeting of the Convention on
nance Committee outlined his ver-
any major tax changes this year.
day urged Congress not to give the sav-
International Trade in Endangered
sion of an election-year tax plan yes.
Treasury Secretary Nicholas
Species of Wild Flora and Fauna
terday, while House Democratic
Brady yesterday called the Demo-
ings and loan bailout agency a blank
(CITES).
leaders scurried to find enough
cratic plan "an elephant pit they are
check in cleaning up the thrift mess, but
Also to be discussed are Tibetan
votes to pass their own.
about to fall into;" saying it was a
tiger penises; the paws and galiblad-
More than 50 of the 268 House
support grew in Congress yesterday for
"classic bait and switch" two
ders of bears, owls and dogs; Afri-
Democrats were listed as undecided
years of tax cuts that will have to be
a more generous funding package.
nelephant tusks: endangered bird
as the House began debating the
financed in the end by permanent
GAO Assistant Comptroller Richard L.
species; and other animals that
party's tax plan, which is built
tax increases
some people like to include on their
around wage earner's tax credit of
Fogel told a House Banking Committee
Mr. Brady said the plan could lead
dinner menus or put in their medi-
up to $400 in each of the next two
to individual tax rates as high as 50
hearing that legislators should approve
cine chests
years. With Republicans solidly op-
percent for some upper-income pay.
only part of the Bush administration's
But the main battle will be fought
posed and at least two dozen Demo-
ers and said the Democrats would be
over sushi.
crats already lost, Democratic lead-
$55 billion funding request for the RTC
put on the defensive in the coming
The heavy in this scenario is Swe-
ers acknowledged they had their
election debate.
in order to pressure the much-criticized
work cut out for them.
den, which wants the bluefin tune to
"The Democrats who voted for
agency into improving operations.
be listed as an endangered species,
Republican leaders have con:
that program are going to have to go
barring or severely limiting interna-
ceded they have virtually no chance
home and explain in the fall of 1992
"Money is a very powerful leverage to
tional commerce in the fish
of winning House approval of a
why they raised taxes. why they
get people to come up and take more se-
trimmed version of President Bush's
"Americans, who were on the
were for raising taxes and not for
riously what the Congress is doing," said
other side from Japan in the car
proposal, which is aimed chiefly at
producing & program that finally
wars, will likely be on Japan's side in
boosting incentives for investment.
came to fruition," said Mr. Brady
Mr. Fogel, who recommended providing
the sushi wars." said Japanese tuna
Meanwhile, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen,
Mr. Bentsen said his plan also
enough money for the RTC to continue
industry spokesman. "Americans
Texas Democrat and chairman of
would include some kind of capital-
operations only through the spring of
have developed taste for sushi. It's
the Senate Finance Committee, said
gains tax cut on investment income,
even sold at the ballpark in San
the bill he will ask the committee to
but. apparently nothing like the
1993.
Diego."
approve next week will like House
broad reduction demanded by Mr.
But Senate Banking Committee Chair-
Many Japanese fishermen, not to
Democrats' proposal call for
Bush.
man Donald Riegle, Michigan Democrat,
mention sushi shop owners and cus-
higher taxes on the well-to-do. This
Mr. Bentsen said his bill will in-
will be done by raising the top in
said he was leaning toward making a
tomers from Nagoya to New York,
clude some of the investment incen-
are seeing red over Sweden's pro-
come tax rate above the current 31
tives recommended by Mr. Bush. ex-
larger appropriation once the RTC sub-
posal to include the bluefin tuna
percent and imposing a surtax on
panded individual retirement
mits completed financial statements for
from the western Atlantic in Apen-
taxable incomes above $1 million.
accounts, repeal of at least part of
1991. RTC Chief Executive Officer Al-
dix and those from the eastern At-
The money would pay for a new
the new luxury tax and tax credits to
lantic in Appendix H of CITES, both
tax credit for families with children,
help provide access to health care.
bert Casey and Treasury Secretary Nich-
restricted categories
with most of the benefits going to
Similar provisions though not
olas Brady have told lawmakers that
Appendix I includes 524 species
those broadly identified as the mid-
the health credits are included in
die class
the House bill. which was written by
piecemeal funding harms the agency's
that are regarded as "threatened
with extinction which are or may be
Mr. Bush has said repeatedly that
Democrats.
efficiencies and adds to the costs of the
affected by trade.' Commercial traf.
he would veto any such tax increase.
Staff writer David Sands con-
That resolve and Democrats insis-
S&L rescue operation.
ficking is banned and import and ex-
tributed to this report.
"I think we ought to respond and deal
port licenses must accompany
transactions for non-commercial
with the rest of the problem now," Mr.
purposes.
Riegle said.
Incorporated in Appendix II are
249 species that may be endangered
The RTC also felt pressure yesterday
unless trading is strictly regulated
Commercial trading is allowed with
women.
from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Dis-
trict's shadow senator. Mr. Jackson met
export permits issued by the coun-
try of export.
Sweden says the growing compe-
tition in the past decade by Japanese
buyers of the tuna, valued for its
fatty meat, has seriously depleted
the species in the western Atlantic
A Japanese Fisheries Agency of.
ficial insisted the tune stock is in no
danger of extinction because it is
managed by the quotas set by the
International Committee for the
minority contractor. By his count,
loosely defining who qualifies as a
tures involving minorities and by
contracts by including joint ven-
RTC numbers overstate minority
But Mr. Jackson argued that the
base is owned by minorities or
the agency's registered contractor
ity contractors; also, 12.2 percent of
fees, $354 million has gone to minor-
ities and women. Of $1.5 billion in
gone to businesses owned by minor-
From page C1
BAILOUT
yesterday morning with Mr. Casey to
complain about the lack of opportunities
for minority contractors in resolving the
savings and loan crisis.
Mr. Jackson complained that total fees
awarded to minority contractors are
"unacceptably low" and that RTC con-
tracting policies for legal work, real es-
Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
tate management and sales effectively
Earlier this month, group of Jap-
exclude minority-owned firms.
anese fishermen went to the Swedish
Embassy in Tokyo with a petition
RTC spokeswoman Felisa Neuringer
calling for the proposal to be with-
said the agency is keenly interested in
drawn.
increasing opportunities for minority
Lobbyists already are at work
here this week distributing leaflets
contractors, part of its mandate when it
to protect the world's dwindling pop-
ulation of bears, saying five of eight
$250,000.
the RTC.
was created. Contrary to Mr. Jackson's
claims, she said, the RTC has an internal
species face extinction
They also said U.S. and Canadian
losses instead of a smaller amount
billion to cover all anticipated S&L
gress to approve an additional $55
March. The Treasury is asking Con-
spend up to $25 billion by the end of
November authorized the RTC to
On the funding issue, Congress in
firms, the range was $20,000 to
million; for the top 25 minority law
work ranged from $2 million to $9
white-owned law firms doing RTC
review process for contractors who feel
bears were being hunted to meet
they have not been dealt with fairly.
Chinese demand for their gallblad-
The RTC reports that just under
ders, prized in Asian medicine and
cuisine. They are used for the treat-
Jackson said. Fees for the top 25
generally own smaller firms, Mr.
against minority contractors, who
Large-dollar contracts also work
of the contract dollars given out by
black men received only 3.9 percent
14,000 of the 52,300 contracts it has
ment of eye infections and diarrhea
awarded since its inception in 1989 have
as well fever. impossible to tell
if the gallbladder comes from an en-
dangered species.
see BAILOUT, page C3
this over and over again," he said.
S&L program.
year
political body that wants to vote on
"I don't understand the logic of a
votes on the politically unpopular
political wisdom of forcing multiple
ately and said he couldn't see the
pressed for the full funding immedi-
Sen. Jake Garn, Utah Republican,
at $160 billion.
from S&L losses to the government
authorization would put the cost
to spend the money. A full $55 billion
time
limit
on
the
RTC's
funding request but would put a two-
would meet the administration's
A House bill to be voted on today
turn for more money.
that would force the agency to re-
ability
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
The Washington Times
Kelly budget full
of 'Republicanism'
years - that's Republicanism. Lim-
By Jonetta Rose Barras
iting emergency assistance to only
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
elderly, that's Republicanism," he
Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly's bud-
added.
get proposals offer program
Aspects of Mrs. Kelly's budget
changes that are often associated
proposals, such as giving public
with the Republican Party's philos-
housing tenants maintenance and
ophy of government, political ob-
renovation responsibility, reflect a
conservative self-help philosophy.
servers and activists say.
They point to the Democratic
But that is not what distinguishes
mayor's proposal to make public
her budgets, observers say.
both the Administration Committee
Rep. Charlie Rose, chairman of
on the postal task force.
Thomas. one of three Republicans
each other in the past, said Mr.
two major parties have dealt with
and novel experience' in how the
"It [the task force) also is a new
House Administration Committee.
ranking minority member on the
Thomas. California Republican, the
institution itself." said Rep. Bill
"This is kind of an inquiry into the
support by its members.
with an unusual show of bipartisan
fice officially began work yesterday
management at the House Post Of-
ing charges of corruption and mis-
A congressional task force prob-
93rms NOIDNIHSWM
By Paul M. Rodriguez
housing residents responsible for
"It's not SO much the 'self-help'
maintenance repairs and renova-
programs as the emphasis of relying
tions. They also point to a proposed
on the private sector and business to
five-year limit on participation in a
do things people have traditionally
rent subsidy program and the plan
relied on the government to do," said
Kevin Chavous, Ward 7 political ac-
to privatize several government ser-
tivist and lawyer.
vices.
ginning Jan. 22.
"Her policies are clearly Republi-
"I think you are going to find more
canism," said Lawrence Guyot, an
and more Democratic urban may-
advisory neighborhood commis-
ors, caught in a financial crisis, go-
sioner in Ward 1. He said such low-
ing this way," he said.
income programs as the Tenant As-
Mr. Chavous noted that the lines
U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens
between Democratic and Republi-
ton Times in a series of articles be-
were first reported by The Washing-
Inspection Service audit report,
tained in a confidential U.S. Postal
Details of the allegations, con-
congressionally run postal facility.
free loans and embezzlement at the
cocaine sales, check kiting, interest
Feb. 5 to investigate allegations of
formed after the full House voted on
The six-member task force was
North Carolina Democrat.
mendations on how to fix it." said the
office and then make some recom-
management problems at the post
though, is to get to the bottom of the
"The first thing to do right now,
in the future.
institutional issues might work out
that a bipartisan approach to some
and the task force, agreed and said
sistance Program (TAP) and
emergency housing assistance, long
can political philosophies are blur-
viewed as unofficial entitlement pro-
ring. He pointed to the presidential
grams, have been targeted for cuts
campaign of Democrat Paul Tson-
and changes.
"Limiting TAP services for five
see KELLY, page B2
KELLY
in such key areas as day care, recre-
ation and housing.
"There are stark similarities," Mr.
From page B1
Ford said.
Mrs. Kelly is pushing in her re-
gas as an example of that shift. Mr.
made of senior House officials who
more secret tape recordings he
grand jury this week about one or
in protest, testified before a federal
took early retirement last summer
chief of the U.S. Capitol Police who
Frank A. Kerrigan, the former
Times has interviewed.
gressional officials whom The
federal law enforcement and con-
more House officials, said one of the
struction of justice against one or
tigation is potential charges of ob-
One aspect of the criminal inves-
tigation was ongoing.
$35,000. Mr. Stephens said the inves-
confessed to embezzling more than
had Indicted four postal clerks who
announced that a federal grand jury
Earlier this month, Mr. Stephens
tractor to the U.S. Postal Service.
office, which is an independent con-
is probing the allegations at the post
vised budget for fiscal 1992 and her
Tsongas, a former senator from
proposed budget for 1993 to reduce
Massachusetts, is campaigning on a
school funding by 10 percent. More-
pro-business platform.
over, she wants to shift about 30 per-
Mrs. Kelly has proposed privati-
cent of day care contracts to
open.
zing or contracting out 700 jobs in
vouchers, permitting parents to
the Department of Public Works, in-
postal facility.
Capitol.
have greater choice in selecting cen-
locations on the House side of the
the postal facility.
office.
cluding street cleaning and tree
ters. The budget also proposes clos-
trimmming. Last week Human Ser-
vices Director Vincent Gray served
ing 10 recreation centers and reduc-
notice to the D.C. Council that his
ing the number of indoor pools in
agency, the city's largest, would deal
operation during the summer.
"The mayor's background is cor-
less with the actual delivery of ser-
porate. The woman is a business-
force to operate completely in the
Mr. Rose said he expects the task
The Senate runs its own similar
tween 150 and 200 workers in five
from Congress and employs be
million-plu annual appropriation
The post office receives a $6
knowledge of alleged corruption at
reportedly testified about their
Postmaster Robert V. Rota, also have
jury in recent days, including House
Others called before the grand
has declined to be interviewed.
Mr. Kerrigan, who lives In Florida,
police probe last spring at the post
allegedly sought to derail an Initial
vices.
woman," said Terry Lynch, head of
"We are moving to a new delivery
the Downtown Cluster of Congrega-
strategy
with government in the
tions and onetime candidate for the
long term providing only services it
council. "She is not going to spend
cannot delegate or must provide as
money she doesn't have. There's no
a last resort," Mr. Gray said.
doubt her budget is a corporate bud-
During the Reagan administra-
tion, there was a massive reduction
get."
Mark Plotkin, political analyst for
in the services provided by the fed-
WAMU-FM radio, said Mrs. Kelly
eral government in such areas as
education, day care, housing and the
has protected herself "rhetorically"
As a result, bipartisan leaders
vestigation, according to sources.
the postal audit and the criminal in-
House counsel, to keep quiet about
Mrs. Foley and Steven R. Ross, the
leagues that he was instructed by
Mr. Rota has told friends and col-
Foley, Washington Democrat.
from the "harsh indictment" of hav-
chief of staff to Speaker Thomas S.
and Heather Foley, the wife and
according to Mr. Rose, are Mr. Rota
Among those scheduled to testify,
and the press," Mr. Roberts said.
all our hearings open to the public
"We plan to avoid that by having
anything about it until January.
House Post Office probe starts on bipartisan note
arts. Mr. Reagan advocated private
ing her policies and budget philos-
businesses and corporations step-
ducted in private and nobody knew
"The postal investigation was con-
vice chairman of the task force.
Pat Roberts, Kansas Republican and
from early spring to now," said Rep.
"That was one of the problems
ophies aligned with Republicans.
ping in to fill the void created by the
"She has said she is not going to
cuts in federal government support.
balance the budget on the back of
The Bush administration has
the poor and, except for TAP, she
pushed programs that would allow
hasn't done that," he said. That com-
tions by May 30.
week.
public housing residents to own
mitment, he noted, is very different
their own homes, and continues to
from last year when in her revised
advocate streamlining federal and
budget she cut funds for drug treat-
state governments while pushing for
ment, schools and some welfare pro-
greater involvement from busi-
grams.
nesses.
But recessions in the past decade
But some residents, like Ward 1
have made it difficult for businesses
activist Dorothy Brizill, haven't got-
to make its report and recommenda-
given that the task force is required
[the meeting takes place) the better,"
Mr. Thomas said that "the sooner
the task force meets sometime next
begin gathering information before
yesterday that staff members will.
Messrs. Rose and Roberts said
Appropriations Committee.
Administration Committee and the
bilities over the post office: the:
tees with direct oversight responsi-
publicans on the two House commit-
were the chairmen and ranking Re-
Among the angry lawmakers
Mr. Rota and other House officials.
they were not informed sooner by
Times and demanded to know why
allegations were reported in The
were caught by surprise when the
to fill the void.
ten as far as the discussion about
"The cornerstone of Reagan-
Republican VS. Democratic philos-
omics was the transfer of respon-
ophies. They said the mayor's budget
sibility from the federal government
"lacks focus" and is without "meat
to state and local governments," said-
and potatoes."
Jim Ford, staff director for the coun-
"I don't see anything in here to
cil's Committee on Education.
make it better; the budget doesn't
He said Reagan administration
reflect any innovation," said Mrs.
budgets, like Mrs. Kelly's, cut costs
Brizill.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1992
Presidential Race Promises Fewer Books
By TIMOTHY NOAH
Staff Reporter of THE WALLSTREET JOURNAL
WASHINGTON - Theodore H. White,
Campaign Books Through the Ages
rest in peace.
After trying for more than a decade to
TITLE
AUTHOR
PUBLISHER
HARDCOVER
SALES
exhume the spirit of the late Mr. White's
classic "Making of the President" series,
publishers seem resigned to a long-obvious
The Making of the
Theodore H. White
Atheneum
President 1960
153,000
truth: Campaign books almost never sell.
The 1992 campaign, which begins with a
The Making of the
Theodore H. White
Atheneum
sitting president struggling to win votes in
President 1964
111,000
his own Republican party and a wildly un-
predictable scramble among Democrats,
The Making of the
Theodore H. White
Atheneum
would seem to have all the dramatic twists
President 1968
65,000
and turns of a pulp thriller. But "pub-
lishers really are gun shy" about signing
The Selling of the
Joe McGinniss
Simon &
President 1968
150,000
up campaign books, says Raphael Sagalyn,
Schuster
a Washington-based agent.
The Making of the
Theodore H. White
Atheneum
The field isn't completely empty. As in
President 1972
60,000
1988, Warner Books has signed up a Teddy
White-style insider's narrative of the cur-
The Quest for the
Peter Goldman
Bantam
rent presidential contest, to be written by
Presidency ('84)
and Newsweek team
18,000
veteran political columnists Jack Germond
Whose Broad Stripes
Jack Germond
Warner Books
and Jules Witcover. In addition, Hyperion
has signed up Los Angeles Times reporter
and Bright Stars? ('88)
and Jules Witcover
25,000
Thomas Rosenstiel to write a book on me-
The Quest for the
Peter Goldman
Simon &
dia coverage of the election-though Mr.
Presidency ('88)
and Newsweek team
Schuster
16,000
Rosenstiel insists it is "not really a cam-
paign book." A third campaign volume will
See How They
Paul Taylor
Knopf
Run ('88)
18,000'
be cobbled together by a team of News-
week reporters but hasn't yet been sold to
a publishing house.
Estimate based on information from author, agent or publishing source
But that's far fewer campaign books
(official figures not available from publisher)
than in 1988, when a half-dozen political
porters on the trail signed up with publish-
cess" so much so that shortly after he
ing houses, including Thomas Oliphant of
Campaign books "don't on the whole
completed the book, Mr. Taylor abandoned
the Boston Globe, Paul Taylor of the Wash-
work," says Alice Mayhew, an editor at Si-
the political beat altogether.
ington Post and Sidney Blumenthal, now
mon & Schuster. As if to underscore her
with the New Republic.
Two of the more successful political
point, Ms. Mayhew asks whether Simon
books written by reporters who covered
& Schuster published Newsweek's 1988
Mr. Taylor's effort, "See How They
the 1988 presidential election weren't really
campaign volume in hardcover. The
Run," was a media-focused narrative pub-
about the campaign at all. E.J. Dionne, au-
book-which Ms. Mayhew herself ac-
lished by Knopf that sold, he says, nearly
thor of "Why Americans Hate Politics"
quired. according to the book's agent. Ro-
18,000 copies. Mr. Taylor says writing the
(Simon & Schuster), and Thomas Edsall,
sene Saal-was indeed published in hard-
book was "very satisfying.' But he can't
author with Mary Edsall of "Chain Reac-
cover, but only about 16,000 were report-
say the same for the campaign. Writing
tion" (W.W. Norton) instead provided an-
edly sold.
the book, he says, "crystallized some frus-
alyses of long-term political trends dating
Random House has much higher hopes
trations I feel about the electoral pro-
back to the 1960s.
Please Turn to Page B5, Column 3
book, "Heading Home," will be published
by Vintage in April.
Mr. White's groundbreaking first cam-
paign book about the election of President
Kennedy, "The Making of the President
1960," sold more than 150,000 hardcover
copies. (Mr. White died in 1986.) That's
roughly six times as many copies as any
book about the 1988 race published thus
far. The less-acclaimed successor volumes
in Mr. White's series, covering the elec-
tions of 1964, 1968 and 1972, never dipped
below 60,000 copies.
Mr. White's literary and financial suc-
cess encouraged other political reporters
to write books about presidential cam-
paigns. Some of these, such as Joe McGin-
niss's "The Selling of the President 1968"
on Richard Nixon's campaign and Timothy
Crouse's "The Boys on the Bus" about the
1972 race, enjoyed a popularity rivaling
Mr. White's own.
Today, however, campaign books are
less alluring. One reason is an increase in
campaign analysis in daily newspapers
and weekly newsmagazines. "Newspaper
and magazine journalists, not being com-
pletely stupid, began doing what Teddy
White had done," explains R. W. Apple of
the New York Times.
Another problem is a greater ruthless-
ness by campaigns in granting access. Af-
ter Newsweek published a cover story
about candidate George Bush and "the
wimp factor" in 1988, reporters on News-
week's campaign book were cut off by
Bush staffers. The freeze-out was SO effec-
tive that the magazine considered aban-
doning its book project.
Continued From Page B1
for Richard Ben Cramer's "What It
Takes," a group portrait of several candi-
dates in the 1988 race to be published in
June. But Mr. Cramer argues even more
strenuously than Mr. Rosenstiel that his
work shouldn't be mistaken for a cam-
paign book. "It's not a book about the
campaign, it's a book about the cam-
paigners,' he says. Editor David Ro-
senthal adds that the book has more in
common with Tom Wolfe's "The Right
Stuff" than with "The Making of the Presi-
When is a campaign book not a cam-
paign book? In the case of "What It
Takes," when it is a planned six-year proj-
ect whose execution costs several hundred
thousand dollars; has a Mylar cover; sells
for $28; and is more than 1,000 pages long.
"I certainly expect it to be a major best
seller," says Mr. Rosenthal.
Another campaign book not regarded as
such by its publisher is "Born to Run," a
biography of candidate Bob Kerrey due out
from St. Martin's Press in May. According
to editor Robert Weil, the book was signed
up last spring, before Mr. Kerrey declared
his candidacy for president. "I saw this
sort of as a Ron Kovic, 'Born on the Fourth
of July' kind of book," says Mr. Weil. Still,
he concedes that the fate of Mr. Kerrey's
campaign will strongly affect sales. "I
hear rumors he may be a vice presidential
candidate," says Mr. Well hopefully.
Other noncampaign books about Indi-
vidual candidates are scheduled or at least
being contemplated. A lengthy newspaper
profile of Vice President Dan Quayle by
Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward
and David Broder will be published as a
book by Simon & Schuster in August; a
less respectful entry by humorist Joe
Queenan, titled "Imperial Caddy," Is due
out from Hyperion in October. Simon &
Schuster will publish a biography of Mr.
Quayle's boss, President Bush, by Time
magazine reporters Michael Duffy and
Dan Goodgame that Ms. Mayhew says will-
be out before the election.
In addition, Paul Tsongas's surprise
surge has created a minor whirlpool of
book activity. Jon Sawyer, a reporter with
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has taken a
leave of absence to write a book about the
Tsongas campaign, though he has not yet
signed up a publisher. Meanwhile, agent
Esther Newberg is peddling to publishers
Mr. Tsongas's famous 85-page campaign
pamphlet, "A Call to Economic Arms." A
paperback edition of Mr. Tsongas's 1984
dent."
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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1992
Big Brother's New Weapon- - Rust V. Sullivan
Last year the Supreme Court issued a
sions about their reproductive options. But
reads Rust. In cases involving publicly
In a setting like medical or legal coun-
decision that. while mundly criticized by
the decision's implications potentially ex-
funded research. education and art. Jus.
seling, or any setting where captive audi-
liberals. pro-choice advocates and doctors,
tend much further. for its reasoning ap-
tice has taken the position that no First
ences are dependent upon the advice they
received scant attention from those who
pears to authorize the government to com-
Amendment concerns are raised when the
are given, the danger of indoctrination is
concern themselves with the perils of com-
mit unlimited resources to propagandizing
government restricts the content of the
especially acute. The strong public disap-
munism. Yet the case, Rust 1. Sullivan,
and indoctrinating its citizens. The court's
speech it funds. It is currently defending
proval of the court's Rust decision-715 of
may have set the stage for our government
rationale was straightforward: The First
requirements that funded academic re-
Americans thought it was wrong-may
to engage in activity the critics have long
Amendment does not affirmatively entitle
search not be discussed until the govern-
well be attributable to the court's failure to
decried in Communist regimes: indoctrina-
anyone to government support for speech.
ment approves the results: that subsidized
acknowledge this danger.
tion of the citizenry.
and therefore where the government is
AIDS education not be "offensive" to the
The First Amendment is designed to en-
Earlier this month. in a case charging
footing the bill it may decline to pay for
majority of U.S. adults. even if targeted to
sure a vigorous and uninhibited public de-
the National Endowment for the Arts with
speech without infringing speech rights.
a group that needs explicit instruction: and
bate. In today's world of widespread gov-
politically motivated censorship. the Jus.
If the court meant that government can
that art supported by the National Endow-
erninent funding. First Amendment doc-
tice Department relied on Rust to argue
control the content of any speech it pays
ment for the Arts not violate "general
trine cannot overlook the central role that
that government officials have untram-
for, its decision would have devastating
standards of decency.' A requirement that
public institutions play in maintaining that
meled discretion to dictate the content of
consequences for free expression as we
funded speech be inoffensive may not
debate. The constitutional issue is not
publicly funded art. Now the White House
know it. Government resources support
seem offensive. but empowering a govern-
whether speakers have a right to govern-
has forced NEA chair John Frohnmayer to
speech IN a vast array of settings. When
ment support for their speech. but whether
resign. reportedly because he was not suf-
the Post Office provides second mail-
ficiently eager to use his discretion to halt
ing privileges to the press, it subsidizes
If mailing privileges
audiences have any protection against gov-
ernment indoctrination. In the past, the
funding of controversial art. Nor has the
speech. Public universities, health facili-
were denied to the New
court has acknowledged that in some set-
ties. legal services and libraries offer gov-
tings. such as public parks and universi-
Counterpoint
ernment-subsidized speech. So do public
Republic because it criti-
ties. the fact that government IS supporting
broadcasting stations and municipal audi-
cized the administration,
speech does not mean it can control the
By David Cole
toriums. Indeed. every rally in a public
message. While the Rust court nodded to
park is supported by government funds.
it would have no claim-
these precedents. it failed to square them
Under the Supreme Court's reasoning.
with its reasoning. And now the Justice De-
administration limited this principle to
the government could control the content
the government merely
partment is urging the courts to extend
arts funding: It has also cited Rust to jus-
of speech in all of these settings. If, for ex.
tify unprecedented control over the content
ample. the postal service denied mailing
would be declining to sub-
Rust as far as possible.
If We are to be free from official indoc-
of publicly supported education and aca-
privileges to the New Republic because the
sidize its circulation.
trination. the government must be barred
demic research. spheres historically ac.
magazine criticized the administration. the
from using its funds to SKPW those spheres
corded substantial freedom from govern-
magazine would have no claim because the
ment official to define "offensive" is grant-
of speech that are central to our cultural
ment regulation.
government would be merely declining to
ing an unlimited license to censor.
and political life-the press. universities.
The Rust case itself involved a different
subsidize its circulation. If a state forbade
What the Supreme Court overlooked in
parks and streets. the arts and profes-
issue. pregnancy counseling. The court up-
the teaching of pro-choice philosophies in
Rust. and what the Justice Department ig-
sional counseling. These spheres flourish
held regulations that required doctors in
public university ethics classes, refused to
nores in its reading of the case. is pre-
only when free of the chilling oversight of
federally funded family-planning programs
stock its libraries with books critical of the
cisely what anti-Communist critics have
government officials. Yet all of these insti-
to inform pregnant women about the option
welfare state, barred legal-services law-
long denounced in the Soviet Union: the
tutions are dependent on public support.
of childbirth, barred them from talking
yers from advising clients about their right
danger of government indoctrination. If
The First Amendment must ensure that we
about abortion, and instructed them to pro-
to privacy. or limited public broadcasting
the government can freely allocate its vast
can collectively subsidize the arenas for
vide a one-sided referral list for prenatal
to pro-democratic programming. then stu-
resources to support one side of a contro-
public debate without getting tied up in the
care. The doctor could not even hand the
dents. book-borrowers. clients and Its.
versial issue in every forum that it funds.
strings of official censorship.
patient the Yellow Pages, because they list
teners would have no judicial recourse. be-
from the academy to the press to the
clinics that provide abortions.
cause they have no right to subsidized in-
streets. it can sharply skew public debate.
Mr. Cole is " professor at Georgetown
Most of the critical attention that Rust
formation in the first place.
It can turn government-funded art into
University Law Center and " colunteer
received focused on its effects on poor
These examples may seem far-fetched.
government art. as the thousands of now-
stuff attorney it the Center for Constitu-
women's ability to make autonomous deci-
but this is how the Justice Department
toppled busts of Lenin attest.
tronal Rights (Note York
Defiant Mood Emerges Among Israelis
Asks Japan in Talks
To Remove Trade Barriers
Over U.S. Demand for Settlement Freeze
By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter
WASHINGTON-The U.S. asked Ja-
By AMY DOCKSER MARCUS
Despite the Bush administration's long
Sta!! Reporter of THE JOURNAL
pan to make further efforts to remove
opposition to Israeli settlements. the Is.
JERUSALEM - Secretary of State
raelis had always assumed they could get
its entrenched trade barriers, including
James Baker's demand that Israel choose
the guarantees without having to alter
between settlements in the occupied terri-
the prevalence of Japanese corporate
their basic policy. says Dore Gold of the
tories or receiving $10 billion in U.S. loan
Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies. As late
networks that tend to exclude foreign
guarantees to help absorb new Immigrants
as Monday, Finance Minister Yitzhak
suppliers from Japan.
has left many Israelis shocked and angry.
Moda'i told foreign journalists that the
In the latest round of the so-called
"It's the Masada complex again." says
U.S. wasn't forcing Israel to choose be.
Susan Hattis Rolef. a Labor Party activist.
tween settlements and loan guarantees.
structural impediments trade talks, se-
referring to the besieged Jews who com-
Ehud Gol, spokesman for Prime Minis-
nior U.S. officials sought to follow up
mitted suicide rather than surrender to the
ter Yitzhak Shamir. said that while the Is.
Roman army in the first century A.D.
one of the proposals that President Bush
raeli government hasn't officially re-
"Peopie are ready to sit on a mountain.
sponded to Mr. Baker's remarks. "Mr.
presented to Prime Minister Kiichi
act glorious. and be very. very alone.
Shamir still opposes linking humanitarian
Miyazawa in Tokyo last month. The Jap-
The defiant mood is partly a matter of
assistance to a political issue and is com-
timing: the showdown comes just as the
anese made no firm promises yesterday.
mitted to reaching an agreement that will
latest round of peace talks open in Wash-
accommodate both sides."
insisting that some progress already has
ington and the Israeli election campaign
Influence on Elections
been made to dismantle these barriers.
gets under way. Moreover. Arab attacks
on civilians and soldiers. and the counter-
Mr. Shamir's allies argue that the U.S.
The two sides expect to meet again be-
attacks that followed. have left many Is.
is threatening to withhold the loan guaran-
fore producing a formal report in
raelis on edge.
tees as a way to boost the election chances
June.
"Under Slege'
of the new Labor Party leader. Yitzhak
Rabin. But Dan Pattir. executive director
Indicating areas of greatest concern,
"I think the U.S. wants to make a deal.
of a Tel Aviv University think tank. says
the U.S. team handed over case studies
but instead the message the Israell public
that if Israells view the U.S. action as an
is getting is that the Jewish state is under
attempt to influence the coming elections,
on several Japanese markets, including
siege and the enemy Is outside the gates."
it may have a boomerang effect. Mr. Ra-
those for feed grains, flat glass, auto
says er Schiff. defense editor of the Is.
bin told Israell television this week that he
raeli daily. Ha aretz.
parts and Insurance. U.S. officials said
Is opposed to any outside Interference In
The call to refuse to meet the U.S. con-
Israell domestic affairs.
this was the first time agricultural trade
ditions is spearheaded by the Israell right
But clearly Mr. Shamir faces a serious
was discussed in this forum.
wing. which fears that a demand for a set-
political dilemma. "Stopping the settle.
tiemer: freeze is the first step in an effort
The U.S. side also sought increased
to push Israel back to Its 1967 borders.
ments would be like committing political
suicide." says Yehoshafat Harkabi, an in-
Japanese efforts to liberalize their dis-
"We think Shamir should say, Thanks. but
ternational relations expert at Hebrew Uni-
tribution systems and pricing mecha-
no thanks.' says Bob Lang. spokesman
versity in Jerusalem. "And It would cause
for the Council of Jewish Communities in
nisms. For their part, the Japanese sub-
an ideological crisis for many Israelis who
Judea. Samaria & Gaza Israelis call the
believe withdrawal means the end of the
mitted case studies of foreign companies
West Bank by its ancient names. Judea
Zionist dream."
successfully establishing footholds in Ja-
and Samaria "The choice isn't between
Inan guarantees and the development of
Still. It isn't clear If Israelis are pre-
pan.
pared to live with the economic conse-
the Jewish communities but between loan
quences of turning down the loan guaran-
James Rill, assistant attorney gen-
guarantees and Israel's Independence.
tees. "For many people. It's still some-
eral for antitrust, conceded that Tokyo
Even those who don't support continued
thing abstract.' says Yael Dayan. an au-
settlements say they are uncomfortable
had made some improvements in its en-
with the notion of U.S. economic sanctions
thor and peace activist. "But when they re
confronted with higher taxes. a lower stan-
forcement of Japan's anti-monopoly law.
forcing changes in Israeli behavior. "Is-
dard of living. and more unemployment.
He added, however. that Japan should
raelis don't like the feeling of being bossed
around by the U.S.," says Ms. Rolef.
I'm not sure people are still going to be
50 anti-L.S."
do more to prevent close-knit corporate
relationships called keiretsu from un-
duly hindering foreign trade.
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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1992
Tsongas Struggles to Prove His National Appeal
In Maryland Race New Hampshire Cheers Fade
By DAVID SHRIBMAN
And though Maryland-with its steve.
poulos. a top aide in the Dukakis campaign
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
dores and steelworkers. its fishermen.
with strong links to Greek political circles.
LINTHICUM. Md. - Paul Tsongas is
farmers and factory workers- far more
"After the passion comes the money.
battling for another moment in the sun.
diverse than Chelmsford. Mr. Tsongas's
Just as this is happening. however,
Last week be was flush with triumph.
strategy here clearly will be to create the
comes the threat that Mr. Tsongas could
his New Hampshire victory transforming
image of succeeding in a border state by
go into a tallspin. As a dark-horse candi-
him from an innocu-
running strong in bedroom communities
date. Mr. Tsongas needs to keep up the
Fed Won't Seek
ous political curios-
CAMPAIGN
that are much like the Boston suburbs. He
momentum to keep the contributions flow.
ity into a formidable
located his state campaign headquarters
ing In. permitting him to continue the bat-
political force. Now
not in gritty Baltimore. but in a law office
the in the weeks ahead.
he faces the realiza-
in a professional building in Rockville.
Besides Maryland. Mr. Tsongas's quest
To Influence
tion that he may
which IS just outside Washington and is the
to broaden his appeal looks to places like
have to win Mary-
very model of the modern suburban-edge
Colorado. which also holds its primary-its
land's
primary
92
city.
first ever-on Tuesday. Analysts say his
Long Rates
Tuesday if he is to
"He's coming on as an outsider. kind of
prospects there depend largely on the na-
remain a serious
like the revenge of the nerds." says Frank
ture of the turnout.
contender for the Democratic presidential
DeFilippo. a Maryland political commenta-
"If the people who come out are on the
nomination.
tor. "He'll appeal to the college-educated.
upscale left. the politically attuned-and
GreenspanSaysGovernment
At the heart of his struggle in this state.
the wealthy and the good-government folks
that's a good bet-Tsongas can do very
however. is a broader challenge: Can a
in this state. He's the Mr. Clean of the
well." says Robert Loevy. a Colorado Col-
Lacks Tools to Lower
candidate who fared best among New
Democratic Party. making 'non-charisma'
lege political scientist. "But if it's the
chic."
Rates in Timely Fashion
Hampshire Democrats who have incomes
working-class left in Denver and Pueblo.
of more than $75,000. own a foreign auto-
At the start Mr. Tsongas. who had a
he won't do as well. He's coming across
mobile and did postgraduate study appeal
wan complexion and a laconic manner
here as the intellectual's candidate for
to working-class voters?
even before he was stricken with cancer,
president.
By PAULETTE THOMAS
Those sorts of questions didn't matter
tried to stoke interest in his campaign with
Nor is Mr. Tsongas generating much
Staff Reporter of THE WALL JOURNAL
much while Mr. Tsongas was a lonely fig-
esoteric proposals such as permitting pub-
blue-collar enthusiasm in Maryland. "Peo-
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve
ure on the periphery of the presidential
licly held companies to file semiannual
ple just don't like his looks and his sound,"
Chairman Alan Greenspan conceded that
race. a political evangelist waving a pro-
rather than quarterly earnings reports.
says Democratic state Delegate Paul Wei-
"long-term interest rates are higher than
growth manifesto. They matter now that
That never caught on. but in New Hamp-
sengoff. who represents a working-class
they should be." but said the Fed has no
the former Massachusetts senator. a major
shire his message of economic renewal and
south Baltimore district in the Maryland
immediate plans to try to bring them
contender for the next few weeks at least.
his relentless attacks on the president. and
Legislature.
down.
is out to prove that he can succeed beyond
even on Democratic orthodoxies. did.
AS a congressman. Mr. Tsongas picked
Speaking before the Senate Banking
his native New England.
But now that he has won a primary.
up Democratic votes In his home base of
Committee. Mr. Greenspan. who maintains
"The better I get known. the better [']l
he's discovering the rough side of presiden-
Lowell. Mass., but his real support was in
that rates will fall when financial markets
do." said Mr. Tsongas as he flew here
tial politics. He is no longer being treated
the suburbs. particularly the more liberal
believe inflation is firmly under control.
from Chicago. "What I have to do is live
induigently by rivals who see him as a
communities such as Lexington and Con-
said the government lacks the tools to
another day. The people will get comfort-
charming gadfly rather than a political
cord.
lower long-term rates quickly.
able with me.
threat: last week. his opponents bore in on
"There's a certain intellectual cadre be-
The Treasury is modestly reducing its
First. however. he has to adjust to the
his support for a gasoline tax and painted
hind him. but you can't win elections with
reliance on long-term debt. but the Fed
pace. rigors and demands of a national
him as an innocent on farm policy. wound-
that, especially if you're gloomy and a
continues to limit its attempts to directly
race. His campaign enjoyed its first suc-
Ing him in South Dakota.
sourpuss. says Richard Scher. a Univer-
influence interest rates to shorter-term se-
cess after months of trench warfare in a
For months he expected the support of
sity of Florida specialist on Southern poli-
curities. Despite some ambiguity in Mr.
single state. New Hampshire. and he was
Mayor Kurt Schmoke of Baltimore. who
tics.
Greenspan's responses to questions yester-
neither strategically nor tactically ready to
served with him on the Yale board of trust.
Mr. Tsongas insists his appeal will ex-
day. Fed officials said the chairman
take the campaign on the road. As a result.
ees and was on his private list of possible
tend far beyond intellectuals and profes-
wasn't signaling any change in Fed pol-
he was drawn into South Dakota and then
cabinet members: this week. Gov. Bill
sionals. "I'm going to get every scared
icy.
was embarrassed there with a fourth-place
Clinton of Arkansas stunned Mr. Tsongas
American-and that's more than 50% he
"I would not want to communicate to
finish.
by swooping into Maryland and coming
argues. though he says he has avoided fac-
you that we know that significant reduc-
Even a solid victory here won't allay
away with Mayor Schmoke's endorsement.
tory and union-hall events while Sen. Tom
tions in Treasury issuance or in our pur-
worries about Mr. Tsongas's durability in
Mr. Tsongas did, however. pick up the en-
Harkin of Iowa, who has close ties to labor.
chases will materially affect the interest
the race. One of his friends prompted a
dorsement of Gov. William Donald
remains in the race. "Americans aren't
rates." Mr. Greenspan said.
knowing laugh from him the other day
Schaefer.
just scared for their own jobs." Mr.
In a speech yesterday. the Fed's vice
when he jokingly suggested that Maryland
Even so, Mr. Tsongas now has the trap-
Tsongas says. "but for their children. for
chairman. David Mullins. said any attempt
was but a large version of Chelmsford.
pings of broad political support. if not the
the environment. for the right to
by the Fed to use its clout in the market-
Mass., a suburban, solidly middle-class.
reality. The cam-
choose."
place to bring down long-term interest
white-collar community in the congres-
paign now travels in
But now that he's a political survivor.
rates would produce "artificial rates." He
sional district Mr. Tsongas once repre-
a chartered DC-9.
Mr. Tsongas is getting increased scrutiny.
added. "I'm not very enthusiastic about
sented.
though 79 of the 90
He has had to answer questions. for exam-
the Fed trying to get into a discretionary
seats were vacant
ple. about his affiliation with the Vesper
policy of trying to manipulate long rates."
on one trip this
Country Club in Tyngsborough, Mass..
During the hearing. Sen. Alfonse
week. On Monday
which has no black members. Mr.
D'Amato .R.. N.Y. complained that high
alone. Mr. Tsongas
Tsongas. who borrowed from his daugh-
long-term rates and current bank capital
received $67,000 in
ters' college fund for his campaign. says
requirements are contributing to the credit
unsolicited cam-
he left the club recently for financial rea-
crunch by inducing banks to buy Treasury
paign contributions.
sons: he says Vesper has had an open ad-
securities rather than make loans.
along with $47,000
missions policy "since the last century"
Mr. Greenspan said the Fed is continu-
from a direct-mail
but has never had a black applicant.
ing to examine ways to alter bank and
appeal.
He told an audience in a dockside hotel
thrift capital requirements in a way that
Moreover. the
in Annapolis Tuesday afternoon that the
might address the issue. "We are looking
candidate is begin-
Paul Tsongas
examination he is getting is part of being
in that direction to try and solve this prob-
ning to attract money from Greek-Ameri-
in the "big leagues." He is wagering that,
lem." he said. "This is an issue that's at
can contributors. who held back because
with an unusual appeal. he still might
the forefront of our discussions" regarding
they still felt the sting from the defeat that
make the cut. "This combination of being
refinements to current bank capital re-
Michael Dukakis. the first Greek-American
aggressively pro-business and liberal on
quirements.
presidential nominee, suffered in 1986.
the social issues has never been presented
Mr. Greenspan didn't say how quickly
"The passions are starting to come
as one package." he says. "All bets are
or whether-an change might be imple
through for Tsongas." says Nicholas Mitro-
off."
mented, and he gave few details. A Fel
spokesman said after the hearing that no
proposal is imminent and that any change
would be part of efforts to protect banks
from losses due to sharp changes In inter-
est rates.
Yesterday's hearing was called to re-
view the status of the savings-and-loan
cleanup. but several senators. especially
Republicans. used the occasion to express
more alarm about the economic slump.
particularly about the lack of credit.
On the topic of S&Ls. the senators gave
a warmer welcome to the notion that regu-
lators could offer financial assistance to
banks and thrifts before they fail. in order
to save taxpayer costs from failures of
those institutions. Earlier this week. the
House Banking Committee roundly criti-
cized the idea as a bailout for sharehold-
ers.
"I hope this opportunity will not be
shelved before it has an opportunity to
work." said Sen. Christopher Dodd D.,
Conn.
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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1992
Japan Cultivates an Environmental Image
Government's Conversion to 'Green' Is Selective
By JACOB M. SCHLESINGER
"environniental ambassador" and may
and animals. making enforcement all but
Staff Reporter of THE WALLSTREETJOLRNAL
dispatch "green peacekeeping operations"
impossible.
TOKYO-Once the bane of environmen-
to help developing countries with environ-
In 1984. a special Asian meeting of the
tailsts as a major importer of goods from
mental problems.
convention in Malaysia condemned Ja-
endangered animal species. Japan has be-
In the Group of Seven industrialized na-
pan's attitude. and a world-wide confer-
gun to rack up green points with its chang-
tions the others are the U.S., Britain.
ence of the group in 1987 came close to do-
ing attitude toward wildlife trade. albeit
France. Italy. Germany and Canada Ja.
ing the same. The severe foreign criticism
slowly and at some
While most a
a a a top in atmosphere. en-
a and waste-disposal pol-
"was a great shock to the Japanese gov.
ernment. says Kunio Kikuchi, director of
tal agencies to monitor trade in wildlife.
icles. according to a recent survey of envi-
the Environment Agency's Wildlife Protec-
Japan chose its chief business promoter.
ronmentalists. The Japanese say they al-
tion division.
the Ministry of International Trade and In-
ready have the best record on perhaps the
In 1987. Japan enacted its first law reg-
dustry for that role. "Our thought was that
world's most pressing environmental prob-
ulating trade in endangered species. In
we should coordinate between protecting
lem. the emission of carbon gases that pro-
1959. it surprised environmentalists by en-
endangered species and keeping enough
mote the greenhouse effect. With high en.
dorsing a world-wide ban on trading ivory
material for the domestic industry. con-
ergy efficiency and strict industrial-pollu-
tusks of endangered African elephants.
cedes Tadashi Sagisaka of MITI. But. "we
tion controls. Japan releases less than half
Last year. Japan agreed to stop fishing for
have gradually understood the importance
of such gases per capita than the U.S.
squid with drift nets. called "walls of
of protecting the environment.' says Mr.
Still. many activists regard any aspira-
death" because they indiscriminately kill
Sagisaka. director of MITI'S import divi-
tions by Japan to eco-leadership as laugh-
most marine life in their path. and to stop
sion and one of Japan's point men on wild-
able. particularly when it continues to lead
importing hawksbill turtle shells. But both
life trade.
the world in such practices as whaling and
acts came only after the U.S. threatened
Japan has recently toughened laws and
rain-forest logging. The same survey of en-
economic sanctions.
stashed purchases. And to make sure the
vironmentalists placed Japan dead last
Tokyo also soon hopes to enact tough
world recognizes that metamorphosis. Ja.
among the major nations in "land use"
legislation to protect endangered species.
pan next week is to host the triennial con-
and "protection of species and habitat."
In fact. Japan will soon have eliminated all
ference of the 112-nation Convention on In-
Despite the traditional Japanese love
its endangered-species reservations except
ternational Trade in Endangered Species.
for nature. the country's postwar priority
for six species of whale. On this. the coun-
which Japan refused to join when the
try remains intransigent. It continues to
group was formed in 1975.
kill more than 100 whales a year as "scien-
Turnaround of Sorts
"Ionly as as a result of
do something
tific research," and engages in battles with
Environmentalists who long saw Japan
the Greenpeace environmental group.
as their biggest enemy now offer praise. In
pressure, the action won't
Japanese argue that whating is part of
many ways. "the situation seems to have
their culture. To stress the point. more
been ameliorated." says Hideomi Tokun-
stay forever,' says zoologist
than 300 government and business leaders
aga. an activist working on the endan-
gered-species issue. "The attitude of the
Hideo Obara, one of the
are expected to attend the Japan Whaling
Association banquet in April. and feast on
government officials has changed."
deans of Japanese
a variety of whale dishes. "We strongly be-
But there hasn't been a total shift in at-
titude. Government officials confess that
environmentalism.
lieve the scientific evidence" shows whales
aren't endangered. says Masayuki Ko-
their behavior marks less a conversion
matsu. a deputy director of the Fisheries
than a campaign by a country increasingly
has been rapid economic growth. often at
Agency.
worried about being an international out-
the expense of a long list of social con-
cast. Though it's the host. Japan's main
cerns. And Japanese society discourages
role at next week's conference in Kyoto is
grass roots political activism. which in
expected to be backing a call by African
other countries is the source of support for
countries to make some ivory trade legal
green movements: Japanese tax law dis-
again. and opposing a cut in bluefin-tuna
courages donating to such groups. The Na-
fishing. Japan still won't end its highly
ture Conservation Society of Japan re-
controversial whaling.
cently noted in its 40th anniversary report
"If you do something only as a result of
that it has only 17,000 members. compared
pressure. the action won't stay forever."
with 5.5 million members in the U.S.
says zoologist Hideo Obara. one of the
deans of Japanese environmentalism. "I
Shocked by Criticism
can't understand why Japan is hosting this
So foreign pressure IS the main force
[conference
for change. Such pressure forced Japan
Whatever the motivation. the change
into joining the endangered-species con-
comes amid a broader environmental
vention in 19S0. but It quickly became the
craze in Japan. Keidanren. Japan's main
group's biggest renegade. The convention
business organization. last year adopted an
advocates a total moratorium on trade in
"environmental charter. prompting many
several hundred species it considers on the
Japanese companies to create "environ-
brink of extinction. But the group's power
mental departments." MITI is drawing up
is weak, and members are allowed to "re-
arNew Earth 21" blueprint to try to vastly
serve" species they want to continue buy.
reduce Earth-warming carbon-dioxide
ing. By the mid-1980s. Japan had 14 reser-
emissions by the end of the next century.
vations. more than any other nation. rang-
and the agency is building a Research In-
ing from Himalayan musk deer to desert
stitute of Innovative Technology for the
monitor lizards. In addition. Japan didn't
Earth. The government has appointed an
require permits for imports of wild plants
to Give
$50 Million for Fund
On Global Warming
By a WALL Staff Reporter
Bushadministration
agreed to give $50 million to an Interna-
-tional fund designed to help developing na-
tions combat global warming.
The action, which will be announced at
the United Nations today by U.S. negotia-
tors at climate-change talks, marks a step
forward in international efforts to deal
with the problem. Third World nations
have contended that they can't afford to
take the steps needed to reduce emissions
of carbon dioxide and other so-called
greenhouse gasses without assurance of fi-
world. nancial support from the developed
The move also provides a new Indica-
tion that the U.S. is serious about trying to
seek an agreement on a treaty that would
call for a stabilization of greenhouse
gasses. Many scientists believe that the
buildup of these gasses threatens to cause
a disastrous warming of the Earth's cli-
mate. The U.S. is the only major Industrial
nation that hasn't pledged such a step,
which Is a major impediment to agreement
The money will go to the core fund of
on a treaty.
the Global Environmental Facility, which
will be affiliated with the World Bank. The
fund is eventually expected to total several
hundred million dollars and include contri-
butions from many countries. The $50 mll-
lion comes on top of $150 million the U.S.
plans to contribute to individual countries
over three years for environmental proj-
ects. However, environmentallsts have ar-
gued that this spending Isn't a real step to-
ward fighting global warming.
Administration officials said the negoti-
ators also will agree to contribute $25 mil-
lion over two years to help Third World na-
tions develop computer models to measure
emissions and better estimate the effect of
their policies.
THE
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© 1992 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1992
The Bookies Beat Mr. Gallup
By DAVID RANSON
on Aug. 18. a significant and permanent
margin in Reagan's favor became an over-
Opinion polls are the traditional instru-
Republican lead reappeared. As late as the
whelming 77% to 23% at election time.
ment for predicting election winners. But
second week of October, the Gallup poll
How could foreigners be SO accurate?
interpretation of polls hinges on many as-
placed Mr. Bush only six points ahead of
They are hardly well placed to give the
sumptions. and the interval between poll-
Mr. Dukakis. Betting odds reflected a two-
most informed assessment of domestic po-
ing and publication is sometimes long
to-one Bush advantage.
litical probabilities. But as with prices for
enough for the result to be obsolete by the
1984: Reagan US. Mondale. Polls sug-
any globally traded commodity, the odds
time the poll Is broadcast.
gested a close race early in the 1984 cam-
of a particular wager tend toward agree-
Luckily there's little-used but indepen-
paign, yet bettors had decisively favored
ment everywhere. Anytime betting odds
dent source of timely information: market
the Reagan team from the summer of 1983
differ materially between two localities,
judgments as reflected by betting odds. In
onward. For example, in a January Gallup
the difference can be converted to an arbi-
the markets, whatever the media say, Mr.
poll, Mr. Reagan had a minimal one per-
trage profit by a smart operator. So
there's no reason to expect the odds in
Bush is still above water-at least, so far.
centage point advantage, while betting
According to Ladbrooke's, a London book-
odds at the time gave him the nod by a
Britain to differ much from those in the il-
maker, the odds on a Republican presiden-
margin of 70% to 30%.
licit American market.
Polls reflect local opinion, while betting
tial victory in November are 4:9, and for a
odds reflect universal information. And
Democratic victory 13:8. This translates
Making Book
poll reliability Is hampered by many slip-
into probabilities of 64% and 35% for the
Odds on 1992 presidential candidates
pages, quite apart from the usual problems
respective parties.
of sampling size and technique:
Mr. Bush has slipped nonetheless: from
ODDS
PROBABILITY
Not all voters bother to respond;
odds of 1:4 at the beginning of September
Bush
4:9
58%
Not all respondents bother to vote;
(74% chance of a Republican victory) to
8:13 (58%) after New Hampshire. In the
Clinton
5:2
24
A given question may mean different
things to different people:
past few days he has been rebounding.
Tsongas
6:1
12
Polls do not give explicit estimates of
Betting is illegal in this country, al-
the probability of success; and, above all,
though quoting odds is not. Mike Rox-
Buchanan
33:1
2.5
The respondent has no vested interest
borough of Las Vegas, responding to the
Kerrey
50:1
2
in the consequences of his reply.
South Dakota primary, quotes Bill Clin-
ton's chances at winning the Democratic
50:1
2.
That is why different polls can widely
Harkin
disagree, even when the target population
nomination as 4:5 (44%), Paul Tsongas's
Brown
100:1
1
is the same. In October 1984, the Harris
as 2:1 (26%), Bob Kerrey's as 7:2 (18%),
Source: Ladbrooke's, London
poll estimated that Mr. Mondale was eight
Tom Harkin's as 7:1 (10%) and Jerry
percentage points behind Mr. Reagan in
Brown's as 40:1 (2%).
the presidential race. The Washington
Betting odds don't necessarily conflict
1980: Carter us. Reagan. Early in the
Post/ABC poll made it 11 points, the New
with the polls. But when they have dis-
year. both Gallup and Time magazine por-
York Times reported a 12 point gap. and
agreed. the odds have usually been right.
trayed Jimmy Carter as strongly ahead,
the NBC estimated 24 points! Such ambi-
And they give more timely notice of sud-
and nearly even through the rest of the
guities cannot survive in a market, where
den swings in opinion. Consider the record
campaign. Even the final Gallup poll, re-
arbitrage makes prices converge.
of the London bookmakers in the past
leased the day before the election, still sug-
Betting odds reflect the estimates of
three elections:
gested a result too close to call. The odds
people who are willing to back their fore-
1988: Bush US. Dukakis. The Gallup Poll
painted a different and more turbulent pic-
casts with capital, and have every reason
suggested two exciting turns in the candi-
ture. In March, Mr. Reagan was already
to predict with all the objectivity they can
dates' fortunes sometime in May, from
the market's frontrunner. By May 1, bet-
muster. There's a reward for being right,
George Bush to Michael Dukakis, and
tors had clearly identified Mr. Reagan as
and a penalty for being wrong. Which is
sometime in August from Mr. Dukakis
the probable victor (46% to 36%, with 18%
why one should trust in market estimates,
back to Mr. Bush. The odds in London also
for other candidates). The odds suddenly
wherever the market might be.
picked up these shifts, but provided more
narrowed in early September, and for a
specific information, identifying a dead
few weeks Mr. Carter was ahead again.
Mr. Ranson is president of Wainwright
heat on May 17 and again on Aug. 15. Then
But the tide turned one more time, and the
Economics in Boston.
Big Brother's New Weapon Rust V. Sullivan
sions about their reproductive options. But
reads Rast. In cases involving publicly
In a setting like medical or legal coun-
Last year the Supreme Court issued a
the decision's Implications potentially ex-
funded research. education and art. Jus-
seimg. or any setting where captive audi-
decision that. while roundly criticized by
tend much further. for its reasoning ap-
tice has taken the position that no First
cures are dependent upon the advice they
liberals. pro-choice advocates and doctors.
pears to authorize the government to com-
Amendment concerns are raised when the
are given, the danger of indoctrination is
received scant attention from those who
government restricts the content of the
especially acute. The strong public disap-
concern themselves with the perils of com-
mit unlimited resources to propagandizing
munism. Yet the case, Rust C. Sullivan,
and indoctrinating its citizens. The court's
speech it funds. It is currently defending
proval of the court's Rust decision-7157 of
rationale was straightforward: The First
requirements that funded academic re-
Americans thought it was wrong-may
may have set the stage for our government
search not be discussed until the govern.
well be attributable to the court's failure to
to engage in activity the critics have long
Amendment does not affirmatively entitle
ment approves the results: that subsidized
acknowledge this-danger.
decried in Communist regimes: indoctrina-
anyone to government support for speech.
and therefore where the government is
AIDS education not be "offensive" to the
The First Amendment is designed to en-
tion of the citizenry.
Earlier this month. in a case charging
footing the bill it may decline to pay for
majority of U.S. adults. even if targeted to
sure a vigorous and uninhibited public de-
speech without infringing speech rights.
a group that needs explicit instruction: and
bate. in today's world of widespread gov-
the National Endowment for the Arts with
ernment funding. First Amendment doc-
If the court meant that government can
that art supported by the National Endow-
politically motivated censorship. the Jus-
ment for the Arts not violate "general
trine cannot overlook the central role that
tice Department relied on Rust to argue
control the content of any speech it pays
for. its decision would have devastating
standards of decency." A requirement that
public institutions play in maintaining that
that government officials have untram-
funded speech be inoffensive may not
debate. The constitutional issue is not
meled discretion to dictate the content of
consequences for free expression as we
know it. Government resources support
seem offensive. but empowering a govern.
whether speakers have a right to govern-
publicly funded art. Now the White House
ment support for their speech. but whether
has forced NEA chair John Frohnmayer to
speech in a vast array of settings. When
anchences have any protection against gov.
resign. reportedly because he was not suf-
the Post Office provides second-class mail-
If mailing privileges
ernment indoctrination. In the past, the
ficiently eager to use his discretion to halt
Ing privileges to the press. It subsidizes
funding of controversial art. Nor has the
speech. Public universities, health facili-
were denied to the New
court has acknowledged that in some set.
tings. such as public parks and universi-
ties. legal services and libraries offer gov-
ernment-subsidized speech. So do public
Republic because it criti-
tws. the fact that government is supporting
Counterpoint
speech does not mean it can control the
broadcasting stations and municipal audi-
cized the administration,
message. While the Rust court nodded to
toriums. Indeed. every rally in a public
By David Cole
it would have no claim-
these precedents. it failed to square them
park is supported by government funds.
with its reasoning. And now the Justice De.
Under the Supreme Court's reasoning.
the government merely
partnent is orging the courts to extend
administration limited this principle to
the government could control the content
Rust as far as possible.
arts funding: It has also cited Rust to jus.
of speech in all of these settings. If. for ex-
would be declining to sub-
If WI' are to be free from official indoc-
tify unprecedented control over the content
ample. the postal service denied mailing
privileges to the New Republic because the
sidize its circulation.
trination. the government must be barred
of publicly supported education and aca-
from using its funds to skew those spheres
demic research. spheres historically ac-
magazine criticized the administration. the
ment official to define "offensive" is grant-
of speech that are central to our cultural
corded substantial freedom from govern
magazine would have no claim because the
ing an unlimited license to censor.
and political press. universities.
ment regulation.
government would be merely declining to
What the Supreme Court overlooked in
parks and streets. the atts and profes-
The Rust case itself involved a different
subsidize its circulation. If a state forbade
Rust. and what the Justice Department ig.
sional counseling. These spheres flourish
issue, pregnancy counseling. The court up-
the teaching of pro-choice philosophies in
public university ethics classes, refused to
nores in its reading of the case. IS pre-
only when free of the chilling oversight of
held regulations that required doctors in
cisely what anti-Communist critics have
government officials. Yet all of these insti-
federally funded family-planning programs
stock its libraries with books critical of the
welfare state, barred legal-services law-
long denounced in the Soviet Union: the
tutions are dependent on public support.
to inform pregnant women about the option
danger of government indoctrination. If
The First Amendment must ensure that WP
of childbirth. barred them from talking
yers from advising clients about their right
to privacy. or limited public broadcasting
the government can freely allocate its vast
can collectively subsidize the arenas for
about abortion. and instructed them to pro-
to pro-democratic programming. then stu-
resources to support one side of a contro-
public debate without getting tied up in the
vide a one-sided referral list for prenatal
versial issue In every forum that it funds.
strings of official censorship.
care. The doctor could not even hand the
dents. book-borrowers. clients and lis.
teners would have no judicial recourse. be.
from the academy to the press to the
patient the Yellow Pages. because they list
clinics that provide abortions.
cause they have no right 10 subsidized in-
streets. it can sharply skew public debate.
Mr. Cole IS " professor at Georgetown
CIII turn government funded an
Lane Center and If colunteer
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1992
Russia Reported Near Accord With IMF
That Would Help It Get Substantial Aid
By GERALD F. SEIB
two weeks more may be needed.
And DAVID WESSEL
Under an IMF agreement, a nation
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
agrees with fund experts on a program of
WASHINGTON-Russia and the Inter-
economic reform in return for eligibility
national Monetary Fund are close to an
for financing from the IMF and its sister
agreement on a preliminary economic pro-
institution, the World Bank. In the shadow
gram that would move Russia a significant
agreement being completed, said one offi-
step closer to receiving billions of dollars
cial familiar with its contents, Russia com-
in IMF assistance, U.S. and fund officials
mits itself to various kinds of steps to lib-
said.
eralize its centrally controlled economy,
The agreement is known in IMF par-
including raising subsidized energy prices
lance as a "shadow program" to distin-
closer to world-market rates. Russia also
guish it from a final IMF agreement,
officially promises to show fiscal re-
which couldn't be enacted until Russia be-
straint.
comes a full member of the IMF. But Rus-
sia is expected to be granted full member-
Issue of Ruble
ship in the spring. and the shadow program
But officials said the agreement doesn't
could be converted into an official agree-
resolve the important question of how to
ment quickly after Russia's membership is
stabilize the ruble. Russian and IMF offi-
complete, IMF and Bush administration of-
cials haven't decided on the best strategy
ficials said.
for supporting the ruble, officials said, and
The officials said negotiations on the
aren't sure that establishing a widely dis-
program have progressed far enough that
cussed, multibillion-dollar stabilization
John Odling-Smee, a former British Treas-
fund is the best course.
ury official heading the IMF delegation to
A shadow agreement would be signifi-
the former Soviet Union, has returned to
cant for Russia, because its officials could
Washington to consult with officials at IMF
use the existence of even a preliminary
headquarters here. One official said the
agreement with the IMF as a way of in-
shadow agreement could be finished in a
spiring confidence among potential private
matter of days, but others estimated that
investors. In addition, the completion of a
shadow agreement now, even though it
doesn't include all the details of a final
Bentsen to Offer Tax Package That Cuts
agreement, would shorten the time Russia
would have to wait before getting access to
Benefit for Children, Capital-Gains Levy
IMF financing. One U.S. Treasury official
estimated that IMF funds could begin flow-
By JACKIE CALMES
ing as soon as early summer.
the case. the president would totally con-
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
trol the legislative agenda."
Though the U.S. has cast a cloud over
WASHINGTON - Sen. Lloyd Bentsen
Sen. Bentsen said his package would be
long-term IMF assistance plans by refus-
will propose a tax package with a scaled-
back version of his tax credit for children.
smaller than the House Democrats' meas-
ing so far to approve a promised $12 billion
a capital-gains tax cut. expanded tax bene-
ure. which includes tax cuts valued at $79.5
increase in contributions to the IMF, offi-
fits for retirement accounts and variations
billion over SIX years and $93.5 billion in
higher taxes. The tax increases mostly
cials said that gap wouldn't interfere with
of President Bush's economic plan-paid
for with tax increases on the wealthiest
come from a new top rate of 35% and a
the early stages of an aid program for
Americans.
surtax on millionaires.
Russia.
Final details rest on cost considera-
The senator said his proposal also will
include a millionaires surtax. but a new
U.S. officials familiar with the IMF ne-
tions. The Texas Democrat. chairman of
the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee.
top rate will affect individuals of much
gotiations said they have been pleasantly
vows that his bill won't add to the deficit in
higher income than would be taxed by the
surprised by both the flexibility and sophis-
any year. With his panel scheduled to be-
House bill. While the House Democrats'
proposal would apply to individuals with
tication of economic advisers to Russian
gin voting Tuesday. Sen. Bentsen is strug.
gling to include popular tax cuts that he
taxable income of at least $85.000 a year.
President Boris Yeltsin.
and other senators want while limiting the
Sen. Bentsen indicated his proposal would
proposed tax increases enough to keep
start with individuals making well over
Timetable for Membership
skittish lawmakers on board.
$100,000.
U.S. officials hope to reach a consensus
Meanwhile yesterday. after hours of
Bush Predictions Dismissed
among IMF board members on granting
partisan bickering. the House voted 427-1
He dismissed Mr. Bush's recent predic-
against a package of Mr. Bush's tax pro-
tions that Democrats would end up taxing
Russia membership in the IMF in early
posals that Democrats had compiled and
everyone with income above $35,000. say-
April, with formal membership to follow
the administration had disavowed. The Re-
ing. "We're talking about a tax starting at
later in the spring. Several other former
publicans instead back a seven-point pack-
approximately four times as high as
age that includes Mr. Bush's proposed cap-
that."
Soviet republics also are likely to be ad-
ital-gains cut. but not his proposed middle-
Sen. Bentsen. who last fall proposed a
mitted to the IMF.
class tax cut. The Democrats wanted a
$300-a-child tax credit for all taxpayers.
The former Soviet republics are ex-
vote on Mr. Bush's overall tax proposals,
said he would limit such a credit to middle-
which include some business-tax increases
pected to receive a total stake of about
income families. That would help satisfy
anathema to GOP lawmakers, to drama-
Democratic critics. who complained that
4.25% in the IMF, with Russia getting a
tize the lack of support even in his own
Yachts and Airplanes
such tax relief shouldn't go to the rich.
2.5% interest. The size of a nation's stake
party. But Republicans voted as a bloc
It also would help hold down the proposal's
Sen. Bentsen also will propose to repeal
with Democrats in hopes of rendering the
cost. Sen. Bentsen's initial proposal would
a 10% luxury tax on yachts and private
in the IMF determines how much it can
tally meaningless. The sole supporter was
have cost $60 billion over five years. and
airplanes. A number of popular tax Incen-
borrow.
a Democrat. Bill Orton of Utah.
he is trying to cut it to something over $30
tives. such as credits for business research
Separately, the European Bank for Re-
In preparation for today's vote. House
billion.
and development and for low-income hous-
Democratic leaders continued to hustle for
ing. would be extended. although It's un-
construction and Development said it plans
He has resisted some Democrats' call:
support for their tax package. Private
to make the credit refundable. so that it
clear whether the extension would be tem-
to admit Russia and 10 other former Soviet
head counts showed them short of a sure
could benefit poor workers who pay little 11
porary or permanent given cost con-
republics as full members, in place of the
majority: most Republicans are expected
any taxes. Sen. Bentsen argues that past
straints.
Soviet Union. The bank's board has recom-
to oppose the Democratic plan. because it
legislation provided relief to the poorest
A major part of the package will be
taxes upper-income individuals to finance
taxpayers. and this year's bill is aimed at
Sen. Bentsen's personal priority, a liberal-
mended dividing the former Soviet Union's
tax cuts for other individuals and business.
the middle class.
ization of IRAS. He wants to restore the
6% share of the bank's capital among the
That means Democrats need support from
The chairman said his proposal will em-
full deduction to all taxpayers: now the
all but about 50 of their 268 members to
brace several provisions in Mr. Bush's
benefit is limited to lower-income families
republics, with Russia taking 4%. The pro-
pass the plan.
seven-point economic plan. with modifica-
and those without other retirement plans.
posal is subject to approval by the EBRD's
In any event. the vote is virtually cer-
tions.
Also. he would create a version of the IRA
board of governors.
tain to show that Congress couldn't over-
that gives taxpayers a break when their
The provisions include some investment
ride the president's threatened veto of any
money is withdrawn. instead of an up-front
incentive for businesses. limited restora-
bill that raises taxes. A statement from
deduction. And savers with existing IRAS
tion of "passive loss" deductions for real
Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady last
could roll over their accounts into the new
estate developers, a reduced tax rate on
night urged House Democrats to stop the
capital gains from the sale of assets, an al-
type. if they paid taxes on amounts pre-
"political shennanigans" and pass the
viously deducted. The revenues raised
lowance for early. penalty-free with-
president's economic plan. But House
from this last rollover provision would help
drawals from Individual Retirement Ac-
Speaker Thomas Foley (D., Wash. dis.
to offset some of the proposal's overall
counts. and perhaps a tax credit for first-
puted suggestions that Democrats were
cost. though the revenue loss to the govern.
time home buyers. The House Democrats'
playing politics. knowing their bill wasn't
ment in future years would be greater than
bill doesn't include a home buyers' credit,
likely to become law. Democrats can't "all
under current law.
an omission that Mr. Bush and Republi-
fall down and obey his injunction not to
-Jeffreu H. Birnbaum contributed to
cans have attacked.
to
said
"If
that
were
this article
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY
27.
1992
Continued from 1A
just have to walt every day and see how the next day plays out"
But the coming weeks should clarify whether the race heads in
one of two dramatically different directions:
Elther Clinton will sweep the South, along with one or two non-
southern states, producing an avalanche of support from party
leader "superdelegates" that makes him the putative nominee.
Or the candidates will continue posting regional victories, set-
ting up such a war of attrition that "this thing could go all the way
COVER STORY
to the convention," says Maryland Chairman Nathan Landow.
Democratic Chairman Ron Brown admits he's not as hopeful as
he once was that an early nominee could immediately start going
Critical mass
after President Bush, which "would be good for the party."
This race has become more difficult to chart than others in
recent years. The candidates are all comparatively short of mon-
ey and either not well-known or dogged by notoriety, such as the
of delegates
womanizing and draft-evasion allegations against Clinton. And no
single state contest has emerged as the defining event mandating
an all-out effort by the five top candidates, Including former Cali-
fornia Gov. Jerry Brown.
up for grabs
The stakes were raised here Wednesday when Kerrey - boost-
ed by his Impressive 40% victory in South Dakota - stepped into
Clinton country and warned that If Clinton Is nominated, Republi-
cans will "open him up like a soft peanut" because of the draft
Candidates
By Adam Nagourney
Kerrey, a Vietnam War hero, told Spelman College students: "I
and Bill Nichols
know an awful lot of people right now who are watching this race
jockey for
USA TODAY
who are afraid to tell the truth. Well, I'm here today to tell the
truth Bill Clinton Is a friend of mine and he's been a great
position;
ATLANTA - The Demo-
governor in the state of Arkansas. But If he is the nominee of the
cratic presidential race -
voters say
party, be will be the issue Bill Clinton should not be the nomi-
contested by an unwieldy cast
nee of our party because be will not be able to win."
Bush can't
of regional winners - has en-
Clinton deputy campaign manager George Stephanapoulos
tered a critical three weeks
shot back that the statement marked an about-face for Kerrey,
relate, 2A
that will determine how long
who just two weeks ago angrily dismissed his pollster for sending
the party waits for a nominee.
information on Clinton's draft status to news organizations.
A nominating process that
At just that moment, Clinton was launching a television ad cam-
was supposed to quickly pro-
paign attacking former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas as a pro-
duce a winner has created four top contenders who have
business candidate who supports cutting capital gains taxes, slash-
yet to win outside their backyards. The race is In such tur-
ing some benefit cost-of-living adjustments and raising the
moll that the first candidate who does well beyond his home
turf could rocket to the top.
gasoline tax 5 cents.
There are two critical, multiprimary dates to watch now. The
The candidates are sprinting through three of the zanlest
first is March 3, particularly for Maryland. This is a critical place
weeks on a political calendar. Twenty-four states, from
for Tsongas to demonstrate that he's more than a New England
New England to the Deep South to the Northwest, hold con-
hero who won New Hampshire.
tests that will determine 37% of convention delegates.
"Clinton has a leg up on the field organization here," said state
The stakes were demonstrated Wednesday when Ne-
Chairman Landow. "But my gut tells me that Tsongas is catching
braska Sen. Bob Kerrey landed here and immediately
on," because voters respond to his call for fiscal sacrifice.
launched an attack on Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton on an to
The second important state that day is Georgia. Clinton -
sue that Kerrey had just two weeks ago declared out-of-
whose advisors have managed to position him as a front-runner,
bounds: Clinton's avoidance of the draft during Vietnam.
although he has yet to win a single race - is portraying that as his
"This is one messed-up race," says Iowa Sen. Tom Har-
first big test. But It's hard to see how Clinton couldn't win. says
kin's spokeswoman Lorraine Voles. "It's been so wacky you
Hastings Wyman, publisher of the Southern Political Reporter.
Tsongas started late here. He has no paid staffers in Georgia
Please see COVER STORY next page
and a call to his headquarters got a recorded message: That might
be a mistake: "If he had started earlier, he would have given Clin-
ton a run for his money." says state Sen. Charles Walker.
Indeed, Tsongas, campaigning in Atlanta with Oklahoma Sen.
David Boren at his side, got a warm reception here even as he
joked about the Boston Red Sox with crowds more attuned to the
Atlanta Braves. "David said I don't have a southern accent, but I'd.
like for you to know I grew up in south Lowell." Tsongas said.
A third key state Is Colorado, where Kerrey, Clinton and Tson-
gas have all made major efforts. Clinton and Tsongas could use a
win to proclaim themselves the only candidate with national ap-
peal. But a Kerrey win might coalesce a budding "A.B.C.T." -
anybody-but-Clinton-or-Tsongas - movement behind him.
Finally, liberal Minnesota is holding caucuses that day, a fire
wall for Harkin who, in the view of many party leaders, Is living
on borrowed time after his poor second-place showing in South
Dakota. But Kerrey has begun making some moves here. His
aldes met Wednesday with labor leaders to W00 the foundation of
Harkin's support.
The second day to watch is March 10, "Super Tuesday" -
which includes seven southern and border states and explains
why Clinton is such a formidable presence, despite his lackluster
vote totals 90 far.
"I think Clinton is a front-runner in every southern state," says
University of South Carolina political scientist Earl Black. "If Clin-
ton can come out with a substantial delegate lead, as I think he
will after Super Tuesday, It will be very difficult for another Dem-
ocrat to stop him."
Kerrey and Tsongas have made small waves in Florida. But
Clinton advisors said that at the slightest sign of Tsongas taking off
they would begin airing TV ads portraying him as in favor of cuts
in cost-of-living increases for Medicare.
The Irony is that even though Clinton is poised to sweep here,
many analysts suggest that this is only because a strong candidate
didn't emerge sooner. "You've got Clinton, a neighbor and a
friend, versus a bunch of outsiders who no one knows," says Wy-
man. As a result, the real test of the draft and womanizing allega-
tions might not come until the fall.
"I think he would have a lot of problems In the general elec-
tion," says Black. "The Republicans would find a great deal of
ammunition, particularly in terms of questions of judgment and
character."
The primary calendar was set up to help the Democrats settle
early on a candidate. But the possible result has Irked some party
leaders who think Clinton is a potentially weak candidate.
"What state chairmen are interested in Is someone who can
show broad support," says New York State Democratic Chairman
John Marino said. "No one has come close to doing that No one
region should determine who the nominee is: I think the present
system stinks."
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY
27,
1992
'Woman troubles' haunting George Bush
COMMENT
The gender gap
Thomas thing. George Bush's lack-
eys roughed up Anita Hill while the
More women vote for the Democratic
administration gleefully jumped on
Republican women have
candidate and more men for the Republican,
Women
Men
"feminists" as the bogeywomen of
as shown in voting since 1980:
the confirmation hearings.
sent a clear signal:
62%
Add the constant pandering to the
53%
54%
Their vote is the
47%
50%
57%
42%
46%
49%
anti-abortion crowd, coupled with
35%
38%
42%
the certainty that Roe vs. Wade will
president's to lose.
be overturned, and the recipe for a
backlash is complete.
Bill Clinton may have his woman
Women are now 53% of the elec-
troubles. but they could turn out to be
Reagan
Carter
Reagan
Mondale
Bush
torate and turn out in greater num-
Dukakis
minuscule compared to those of
1980
bers than men. They have the power
1984
1988
George Bush.
to control any election. Republican
There was a significant gender
Source Center for the American Woman and Politics, Rutgers
By Marty Baumann. USA TODAY
women have sent George Bush a
gap in the New Hampshire primary.
clear signal that their vote is his to
the liberals he uses to scare desert-
Far fewer women than men voted as
There is a not-so-subtle ridiculing
lose. Will he read their lips?
ers back into the fold also happen to
Republicans, but those who did fa-
of women here that will not go unno-
be women.
ticed by female voters.
vored Bush over Patrick Buchanan
Cover story, 1A
Last week, he snidely suggested
by 6496-33%. Republican men gave
Women are already displeased
Kate Michelman, executive director
with George Bush's record. He ve-
the president a
of the National Abortion Rights Ac-
toed family and medical leave.
bare 51% plurali-
tion League, would become secre-
While signing a civil rights bill that
ty. The gender gap
tary of health and human services,
consigned women to second-class
in support for
and Rep. Patricia Schroeder, a se-
status in damage recovery for job
Bush was almost
nior member of the House Armed
discrimination, he tried to dismantle
identical In the
Services Committee, would be secre-
South Dakota pri-
affirmative action singlehandedly by
tary of defense, cutting the boy-war-
fiat
mary Tuesday.
toy budget by $150 billion.
Then there was the Clarence
why does this
spell "woman
By Martha Burk,
trouble" for Bush?
a political psy.
First, It means
chologist who
heads the Center
the party is losing
for Advancement
women's support,
N-power to charge up Dem race
of Public Policy in
and second, Bush
Washington.
couldn't have won
By Rae Tyson
without the worn-
USA TODAY
en's vote.
Nuclear issue in 4 states
This presents a dilemma: The
In a campaign relatively free - SO far - of environ-
campaign must become more con-
servative to answer Buchanan's chal-
mental issues, the politics of nuclear power await in the
The politics of nuclear power:
lenge. But if it also becomes more
thicket of primaries over the next two weeks
Calerade: Government's Rocky Flats plant near
anti-woman in the process of wooing
Most on the spot is Democrat Paul Tsongas, who gets
Denver an environmental nightmare for nearby
male conservatives, greater num-
praise from environmentalists for his overall record, but
residents; nuclear waste cleanup could take dec-
bers of women voters will be alienat-
loses points for his defense of nuclear power.
ades. Primary: Tuesday.
ed.
"His environmental record is outstanding except for
Washington: One of government's biggest puclear
one glaring example," says Reid Wilson, the Sierra Club's
reactor sites at Hanford, where radioactive waste
The dwindling ranks of GOP wom-
political director.
is handled. Primary: Tuesday.
en may have given the president a
Analysts say Tsongas' pro-nuclear position was a main
big majority because they feared Bu-
Seath Carollas: Host to East Coest's only low-level
factor among Maine voters last Sunday when Jerry
radioactive waste sites; also site of Savannah River
chanan's mad-dog conservatism
Brown nearly pulled an upset by exploiting the nuclear
more than the uncertain economy. If
issue. Brown says he would close all 112 of the nation's
reactor. Primary: March 7.
this is so, one would think Bush cam-
nuclear plants within a decade.
Novada: In legal battle over choice of Yucca Moun-
paign strategists would start paying
In contrast, Tsongas stood alone during a pre-New
tains as site for nationwide nuclear waste facility.
attention to women.
Hampshire debate when he defended nuclear power. "If
Democratic caucus: March 8.
Well they have, sort of.
you take out all your nuclear power plants, by definition
Vice President Dan Quayle is go-
you're going to have more fossil fuel and add to the
to California," said Thomas Doughtery of the National
ing around warning of a liberal Dem-
greenhouse effect," Tsongas sald.
Wildlife Federation in Boulder, Colo.
ocratic victory in November if Re-
Tsongas has served on the board of Boston Edison Co.
Despite their concerns, environmentalists credit Tson-
publicans stick with Buchanan. But
since 1985 and says he helped the utility improve its safe-
gas for the sincerity of his position, which calls for con-
ty record at the Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts.
servation and increased use of renewable energy
Nevertheless, some activists say the issue could haunt
sources. He favors construction of new nuclear plants
Tsongas again as it did in Maine. "If nothing else, the oth-
only after smaller, safer designs are developed.
er candidates will bring it up." said Wilson.
Energy America, a coalition of New England environ-
In Washington state - host to the government's trou-
mental groups, ranks two candidates higher than Tson-
blesome Hanford reactor - it could surface during
gas Brown and Gov. Bill Clinton.
Democratic caucuses next Tuesday. "Given the history
Despite the criticism, nuclear industry officials - un-
out here, people are going to evaluate (Tsongas) very,
able to build a new plant since the Three Mile Island ac-
very carefully," said Seattle activist Jim Beard.
cident in 1979 - welcome renewed interest in the issue.
Analysts also predict serious trouble for Tsongas in
Tsongas has "brought the nuclear issue into the de-
California - 8 state with a long history of opposition to
bate," says Scott Peters of the U.S. Council for Energy
nuclear power. "It's going to be a big issue when he gets
Awareness, a nuclear industry group.
Tax plan showdown is today
By Richard Wolf
votes short of the 218 needed to
le-down economics."
USA TODAY
pass their plan, the only one
The Democrats took the de-
with a chance of reaching the
Senate.
There's really
bate beyond Washington, pay-
The House began congres-
ing for TV ads in seven states
sional debate over tax cuts
"We will have the votes,"
only one question
that are to hold presidential
Wednesday by voting 427-1
said House Speaker Thomas
and congressional primary
against a plan disowned by
Foley, D-Wash.
worth asking:
elections soon.
Democrats and Republicans.
Senate Republicans,
smelling defeat, met with
'Whose side are
But Republicans charged
It was a fitting start to a
the Democratic bill would
flercely partisan struggle pit-
White House officials amid
ting President Bush's effort to
signs Bush's shelved middle-in-
you on?" "
eliminate jobs, increase taxes
and add $30 billion to the $400
boost an ailing economy
come tax cut plan - a $500-
billion deficit in two years.
against Democratic attempts to
per-child boost In the personal
cut taxes on the middle class
By John Duricks, AP
Rep. David Bonlor, D-Mich.
"The only thing that will
exemption - may be revived.
grow under the Democrats' bill
The rejected bill threw to-
"It would be all right by me
is more taxes," said House Re-
gether all of Bush's proposed
if we could pay for it, said Sen-
Senate plan would start at high-
growth and malaise.
publican Conference Chair-
tax cuts but excluded the
ate Minority Leader Robert
er incomes.
"When you strip away the
man Jerry Lewis, R-Calif.
spending cuts to pay for them.
Dole, R-Kan.
"I'm talking about a tax
rhetoric, there's really only
The lone lawmaker to vote
The showdown comes today:
Senate Democrats, aware
bracket that affects less than
one question worth asking:
for Wednesday's bill was Rep.
Bush's seven-point package of
they could have trouble pass-
1% of the people," said Senate
Whose side are you on?" said
Bill Orton, D-Utah. "If I could
business and Investment
Ing a tax-redistribution plan
Finance Chairman Lloyd Bent-
House Majority Whip David
write the bill. it wouldn't look
breaks against the Democrats'
similar to the House, said they
sen, D-Texas.
Bonior, D-Mich.
like any of these three," said
six-year, $93.5 billion plan, with
would push for a smaller chil-
The House debate resuming
House Ways and Means
Orton, a tax lawyer.
a two-year middle-income tax
dren's tax credit financed by
today broke down along party
Chairman Dan Rostenkowski,
He wasn't alone in ripping
cut of up to $800 total, and high-
tax hikes on the very rich.
lines: Democrats billed it as a
D-IIL, said Bush "showers the
the plans. Said Rep. Anthony
er rates on the rich.
The House Democratic plan
choice between helping the
wealthy with B flood of more
Beilenson, D-Calif: "We have
Both sides are wary:
would hit Individuals with tax-
middle class or the wealthy,
and more tax breaks" while
no business cutting taxes."
House Democrats late
able income above $85,000 and
while Republicans billed it as a
the middle class "are not even
Wednesday were about 30
couples above $145,000. The
choice between economic
damp" after a decade of "trick-
Opinion USA, 11A
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 27, 1992
Today's debate is about FIGHTING DRUGS, and whether
education or legalization makes the most sense.
Kids hold key to drug war
CAPITAL LINE
USA TODAY'S BRIEFING ON WASHINGTON
On the home front,
sive results.
OUR VIEW
winning the drug
Between 1987 and 1991:
Twenty percent fewer 9-12 year
Israel hasn't 'ruled
war Is a matter of winning over
olds agreed "popular kids use drugs,"
children's minds.
and 46% more agreed "smoking mari-
out a compromise'
President Bush and six Latin Ameri-
juana is okay sometimes."
Israel offered Palestinian Arabs
can presidents are meeting today in a
Nineteen percent more 13-17 year
control over much of their daily
quest for a common strategy to combat
olds said they "don't want to hang
lives on the West Bank and Gaza
drugs. While they grapple with the sup-
around people who use drugs," and 11%
but was accused Wednesday of try-
ply side of the world's drug problem.
more said. "People who use drugs are
Ing to "consolidate the occupation"
of the disputed territories. "We
some lower-profile U.S. efforts are scor-
boring"
start with the assumption that we
ing gains against home-grown demand.
Eleven percent more teens admit-
are human beings with rights, na-
Overall drug use has been declining
ted that taking drugs scares them.
tional rights and rights on the
steadily, with notable success among the
Much progress. But much remains to
ground," Hanan Ashrawi, the Pal-
estinian spokeswoman said, in re-
young. High school seniors saying they
be done.
USA TODAY
jecting the Israell offer. "They start
had used drugs dropped from 54% to
The USA remains home to the biggest
SHOVAL: Won't talk
with an assumption that they want
29% between 1979 and 1991 in a Uni-
drug demand in the world. There are
about ultimatum
to consolidate the occupation. Ob-
versity of Michigan survey.
900,000 frequent cocaine users, includ-
viously, we are working at cross
What works: Aiming anti-drug mes-
ing rising numbers of minorities and
they were getting down to the issues
met again at the State Department where a spokesman said
purposes." Even so, the two sides
sages at the smallest targets - young
low-income whites in large cities.
kids. By reaching them while they're
Keeping drugs illegal has to be part of
One of the goals of the talks, now in a fourth round, is to
forming opinions, education campaigns
the fight to change those numbers.
devise Interim arrangements for Palestinian self-rule. But
Israell proposals would not end Jewish settlements nor Isra-
are convincing kids drugs are dangerous
Knowing that society condemns drug
and unnecessary for social success.
use reinforces the anti-drug messages
ture through negotiations. Also Wednesday:
el's military control over the land the Arabs hope to recap-
According to the private consortium,
children get elsewhere.
Syrian delegate Bushra Kanafani sald there was no
The rest of the battle will be won by
progress In talks with Israet and she blamed the Impasse on
Partnership for a Drug Free America,
advertisements, classes and conversa-
helping children make up their minds
which Israel captured during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
Israell refusal to discuss the return of the Golan Heights,
tions with parents have an effect. Large
not to try drugs.
Israel still hopes to find a compromise with the Bush
majorities of children and teens have
administration over $10 billion In U.S. loan guarantees, Isra-
el's Ambassador Zalman Shoval said. Washington wants Is
been exposed to all three with impres-
Drug summit, 5A
rael to first stop Jewish settlements In the occupied lands.
- Lee Michael Katz
Quit war, legalize drugs
PENTAGON
CUTS:
Chairman Les Aspin, D-Wis., called Armed on Services his Democratic Committee col-
House
Ing than President Bush has proposed. The proposals, be
leagues to support his call for deeper cuts in military spend-
Using the
is huge and it's impossible to seal the
said, "take into account the fact that we've had two revolu-
OPPOSING VIEW
borders, interdiction can realistically re-
tions in the Soviet threat The first one marked the end of
criminal laws
the Warsaw Pact, the second the end of the Soviet Union
duce consumption only by imposing
to save people from themselves is
itself." Aspin said he endorses a five-year defense cut of $91
added costs on traffickers and thereby
billion Bush asked for $50 billion over six years.
no answer.
raising retail prices. But drugs are cheap
BILINGUAL ASSISTANCE:
An interesting thing happens when
to produce and easy to replace: most of
told Congress It supports a 15-year The extension Bush administration of a federal
drug warriors fight: They prove each
their ultimate cost is added during distri-
law requiring bilingual voting assistance in areas with large
other wrong.
bution. So seizing or destroying them
numbers of minorities that do not speak English well
Shortly before President Bush's drug
before they gel here is a very inefficient
sion for 15 years. It Is to expire In August
House and Senate bills would extend and expand the provi-
summit in San Anto-
way to increase prices.
nio, Rep. Charles
Instead of wasting so much money on
NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE: The
Schumer, D-N.Y., re-
a futile effort. drug-war "doves" like
wants lawmakers' permission to sell two-thirds of Pentagon its $9 bil-
leased a report that
Schumer want 10 spend more on "treat-
lion stockpile of materials stored In the event of war. Con-
ment and prevention." But as former
gress has ordered that the Pentagon maintain the stockpile,
noted the failure of ef-
but Pentagon officials say It contains unnecessary Items
forts to interdict and
drug czar William Bennett has pointed
and is much too large to maintain In the age of post-Cold
eradicate supplies of
out, there's very little evidence that con-
aluminum and lead. Also included: quinine, once used to
War budget cuts. It includes such basic materials as nickel,
illegal drugs. AI-
ventional drug-abuse treatment or anti-
battle malaria, and mica, once used in radios with vacuum
though spending on
drug "education" is effective. We might
tubes, an anachronism in the age of transistors.
such programs in-
By Jacob Sullum. as-
feel better about throwing money away
creased from $417
sociate editor of
on such milder programs, but we would
1992 WEAPONS SALE:
million in 1981 to
still be throwing it away.
lion this year, The Associated Press reported. Patriot air
Congress It's considering new weapons sales totaling $35 bil-
The Bush administration told
Reason magazine,
Los Angeles.
$2.9 billion this year,
Despite their tactical disagreements,
defense missiles make up $16 billion of the sales, AP sald.
"cocaine is as cheap, as potent and as
both the doves and the hawks want to
Requesting the missile systems: Kuwait, Bahrain, the Unit-
readily available on American streets as
continue sending Americans to jail for
ed Arab Emirates, Qatar and Turkey.
ever."
buying and selling certain mind-altering
Supply control is stymied by a few ba-
substances. They both want to use the
sic facts. Suppressing drug production or
power of the state to save people from
trafficking in one area simply pushes it
themselves. That's why they're both
elsewhere. Because the volume of drugs
wrong
TODAY
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY
27.
1992
Quayle chides
Buchanan for
Cowboy's
LOT
'liberal' views
STEAKS
By Richard Benedetto and Judy Keen
USA TODAY
ATLANTA - Vice President Quayle marched
through Georgia Wednesday trying to link conserva-
tive challenger Pat Buchanan to liberal Democrats, in-
cluding George McGovern and Jesse Jackson.
The Buchanan campaign fired back with a new TV
ad charging the Bush administration "has invested our
tax dollars in pernographic and blasphernous art, too
shocking to show. This so-called art has glorified ho-
mosexuality, exploited children and perverted the im-
age of Jesus Christ"
Tuesday's primary here - first in a series of South-
em contests - will determine the future of Buchan-
an's challenge. His political director, Paul Erickson,
sald the state is among those Buchanan needs to win.
Quayle, on stops in Savannah and suburban Atlanta,
accused Buchanan of "masquerading as a conserva-
tive" and espousing isolationist and protectionist
A.
Schwarz
causes that led him to oppose the president on the de-
BUSH SUPPORTERS: Restaurateurs Nancy and Tommy Bruce say President Bush is doing the best he can.
ployment of troops In the Persian Gulf.
"Our friend Pat," Quayle sald, "has embraced the
On Georgia's mind:
foreign policy of George McGovern, the Middle East
policy of Jesse Jackson and the protectionist policies
of Dick Gephardt No true conservative would do
that" McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential
candidate, opposed the Vietnam War. Jackson has ad-
Health care costs, jobs
vocated a pro-Palestinian Middle East policy, and
Gephardt, the House majority leader, has called for
restrictions on Imports to protect U.S. Industries.
Quayle visited the Port of Savannah to underscore
By Dennis Cauchon
the importance of free trade. Speaking to cargo han-
Take small-business owners Tommy and Nancy
USA TODAY
diers and other port workers, he said the Georgia ship-
Bruce, classic Bush supporters. They just created 35
ping industry accounts for 60,000 jobs, while $7 billion
jobs by opening Cowboy's Feed Lot Steaks & Stuff.
SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. - Truck driver Melvin Swim
In Georgia exports passed through the port last year.
"The president is doing a great job," says Tommy
is eating a $2.70 cheeseburger platter at a local Waffle
"Protectionism is a dead-end policy," be sald. "It
Bruce, in his restaurant with a sawdust-covered floor.
House as the jukebox plays The King Is Gone (And So
doesn't protect jobs. It loses jobs.'
But he is most worried as a businessman and per-
But Buchanan, who called Bush "weak as a kitten"
Are You) by country music legend George Jones.
sonally - about health care costs.
"Don't get me wrong 1 like George Bush," Swim
after the president lost 31% of the South Dakota GOP
Last week, he got a large bill for worker's compen-
says. "But the president, he don't know what's going on
vote Tuesday to an uncommitted state of delegates, is
sation and medical insurance. Then, his son needed
here in Georgia, in the real world." Fellow truck driv-
focusing on social Issues In the South.
five stitches that cost $500. Finally, his sister - cured
Buchanan's ad continues his assault on National En-
er Leroi Taylor adds: "And even if he did. his advisers
of cancer two years ago - had her medical insurance
wouldn't let him do anything about IL
dowment for the Arts funding for controversial art.
premium increased to more than $2,000 a month.
These tractor-trailer drivers from Macon, Ga., are
Bush has supported letting the courts, not the NEA,
"I like making money as much as anyone, but doc-
decide whether art is obscene.
typical: They like George Bush but fear he doesn't un-
tors and insurance companies need to be controlled."
derstand the problems of
Buchanan also was endorsed by Louisiana GOP
says Bruce. "It's a ripoff,"
working people.
Chairman Billy Nungesser the first state party chief
says Nancy Bruce.
to break with Bush.
The "out-of-touch" issue
Even business owners
could haunt the president,
Quayle used the dock visit to drum up Georgian
seemed unenthused about a
who received a message of
pride in the Persian Gulf war victory, noting that
capital gains tax cut. which
discontent from South Da-
14,000 troops of the 24th Army Division from nearby
is aimed at them.
kota voters Tuesday when
Fort Stewart embarked for the guif from that dock.
"If we do anything, It
31% of Republicans voted
He sald a solid Bush win here could stop Buchanan:
should be aimed at giving
for "uncommitted."
"Our opponent has sald this is his best state. His people
purchasing power back to
Patrick Buchanan is
are putting out the Idea he may win. He certainly
the middle class," says
counting on Georgia's con-
needsa win somewhere. We're going to win Georgia."
Ramsey, a Democrat who
Asked about losing nearly a third of South Dakota
servative voters to send the
voted for Bush in 1988.
Republicans, Quayle said, "People are fed up. fed up
strongest message yet in the
Like other voters, he
state's March 3 primary.
with Washington, fed up with high taxes, fed up with
thinks a capital gains tax cut
USA TODAY talked to 22
too much regulation, fed up with a bad economy. We
favors the rich.
people in several towns east
happen to agree with that message and we're doing
Voters loved Bush's role
of Atlanta to find out what's
something about It"
on voters' minds. It's a
in the gulf war, but stressing
Bush will do better when voters stop sending mes-
it could backfire.
method mastered by the
sages and "get serious about-electing a president"
"Desert Storm was
late Lee Atwater, Bush's for-
great," said Johnny Crow-
mer campaign manager,
who roamed bowling alleys
ley, 49, who works at an egg
and bars to find out what
processing plant. "But it's
was in the hearts of voters.
past. We've got to move on,
The 22 voters don't ex-
get the economy going"
Keneesha Thomas, 18, a
pect Bush to be a good of
boy. "Of course, he's out of
student at Emory's Oxford
College campus, complains:
touch!" exclaims waitress
"He doesn't know about
Karolyn Sommes, 27. "He
America because he's too
eats in the White House, not
the Waffle House!"
busy worrying about Iraq."
Ursula Carter, 19, still
But they say he's not even
By Michael A. Schwarz, USA TODAY
owes $1,000 to Emory. "The
talking the same issues. Ex-
CROWLEY: Manager at an egg-processing
cost of education is killing
ample: Bush's push for a
plant worries about health insurance costs.
me," says Carter, who wants
capital gains tax cut "What
is that?" asks mechanic Ralph Richey, 33, of Conyers.
to be a doctor and learn Jap-
anese. "Does George Bush care? I doubt IL'
What is on their mind: health care costs, jobs.
What's not: foreign policy, abortion.
But Phil Cohen. 58, who runs his family's 100-year-
old clothing store in Covington, is more generous
Don't get these people wrong They don't have the
"The president neglected the economy because we
rage and resentment of New Hampshire voters. The
were in an armed conflict" Now, Bush will make the
economy here isn't that bad. They're just worried.
"Tve never seen people as on edge as now." says
economy work: "The economy is like a great, big jet
Sam Ramsey, a furniture store owner in Covington,
airplane parked on the runway, ready to take off.
Voters don't seem to think the Democrats or Bu-
where TV's In The Heat Of The Night is filmed.
chanan are much better than Bush.
"Sometimes (Bush) seems more concerned with
the other side of the world." says Terry Williams, 32, a
Howard Stone, 58, believes "they ought to put Bi-
Republican truck driver.
bles, not condoms, in schools." But he stands by the
Williams, who likes Bush, is worried about losing
president, not Buchanan. As he paces his daughter's
work hours. A few months ago, his job hauling grass
used-furniture store, Bubba's Place. he growis that
seed slipped to 32 hours a week. He got a new job,
Congress blocks major changes: "If Pat Buchanan was
hauling insulation, and worked 60 hours last week.
elected today, he couldn't do anything different"
Dexter Garrison, 50, a farmer and service station
Many Bush loyalists say the president understands
their concerns. But when asked to list them, they men-
owner, taking a break from mending a fence, says:
tion issues that the Bush campaign is not emphasizing
"They're all crooks, but he's the best we goL"
By Jeff Sweeney, AP
QUAYLE: Buchanan is masquerading as a conserva-
He got on his tractor and drove away.
tive' by espousing protectionist, isolationist policies
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 27. 1992
Ex-chief:
NASA
in
By Paul Hoversten
'jeopardy'
USA TODAY
12 in a power struggle with the
National Space Council, head-
shuttle to safe flight
Outgoing NASA chief Rich-
ed by Vice President Quayle.
"I quickly discovered poli-
Bush. We can build on that"
Council reports have criti-
tics, budgets and a critical re-
Without solid funding for
ard Truly. who resurrected the
shuttle program after the 1986
cized NASA's space station pro-
examination of NASA, all sur-
NASA, "our space program is
Challenger tragedy, says "the
rounded by a media 200."
in jeopardy and it is not
gram and its "midlife crisis."
cheap shots must end" if the
Truly leaves April 1: no suc-
He said he "learned much in
helped by what passes in this
space program is to survive.
cessor has been named.
Washington," but "I'm not sure
town for analysis. The cheap
Truly's warning came
After Challenger, the former
where I could ever apply iL"
shots must end. Without team-
astronaut said, "I thought my
Other comments:
work, there is nothing"
Wednesday in a speech to the
National Space Club.
job was to discover the cause,
"Our space program is as
He also recited a poem by
He was forced to resign Feb.
Ox it, ensure future safety and
American as apple pie, Jack
Robert Frost: The Objection to
Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson,
Being Stepped On.
reliability and return the space
Ronald Reagan and George
The club, an industry group,
gave him a standing ovation.
17% receive
inadequate
health care
By Kevin Anderson
USA TODAY
The USA's health-care sys-
tem fails to serve more than
one person in six - and not
just because they can't get in-
surance, says a study out today.
"Health insurance is vital,
but it alone doesn't do the job,"
says Daniel Hawkins Jr. of the
National Association of Com-
munity Health Centers, which
authored the study.
About 43 million people,
17% of the U.S. population, are
not getting adequate health
care, the report says.
Most have no health insur-
ance at all. But at least 8 mil-
lion are covered by Medicare
or Medicaid and still can't get
adequate care. Cited:
Patients live in communi-
ties with high health risks, es-
pecially urban slums.
They can't find doctors to
take Medicare or Medicaid.
There aren't enough pri-
mary-care doctors, especially
in poor communities.
Doctors, hospitals and
clinics don't do enough to
break barriers of language, cul-
ture, poverty and ignorance.
About 51 million people are
either medically underserved
or at risk, says the study.
Of those underserved:
33% are children.
25% are disabled or se-
niors.
20% are women of child-
bearing age.
The study questions reform-
ers who focus on the 35 million
without insurance, rather than
the larger number without ade-
quate care.
"Real reform will not hap-
pen until every American has
access to basic health care re-
gardless of who they are or
where they live," he says.
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