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In Africa's Back-Street Clinics,
control, and legalizing it would make
people think that we were advocating
it as such, which is definitely not the
Illicit Abortions Take Heavy Toll
message we want to express," said
Dr. Robert Ezzo, a Health Ministry
official. "The ministry is far more
AI
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
concerned with prevention from the
Said Dr. Christiane Welflens, di-
outset, to avoid even the notion of
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, June 2 -
rector of obstetrics at Yopougon Uni-
unwanted pregnancies."
In a panic when she found herself
pregnant for the first time three
versity Hospital Center, one of Abi-
Pressed for statistics about what
years ago, Fernande Aka, a slender,
djan's largest public hospitals:
was being done to help women pre-
"Twenty percent of the women who
vent unwanted pregnancies through
soft-spoken high school senior, drank
die during pregnancy die from the
birth control or reproductive health
a concoction of nearly frozen Coca-
Cola and wine mixed with a heavy
consequences of clandestine abor-
education, officials acknowledged
tion. This represents the central dra-
that only 5 percent of the local, pub-
dose of sugar that her schoolmates
swore would make an unwanted
ma of reproductive health in Africa.
licly financed health clinics of the
And the women who do not die are
sort used by poor and working-class
pregnancy go away,
condemned to bear heavy conse-
When that didn't work, she felt she
had no choice but to approach her
quences for their health far into the
women in the country provide birth
future, from sterility to chronic pain,
control information or counseling.
mother, who took her to a public
to psychological scars."
Miss Aka spends much of her time
hospital and after hushed hallway
Despite this toll, because of per-
regretting that she had not been bet-
negotiations paid $60 for an abortion:
sistent inequalities between men and
ter informed about her choices be-
Last year, when Miss Aka got
women, widespread poverty and low
fore,her second pregnancy. After her
pregnant once again, she and her
literacy rates, the legal status of
first abortion, she said, she had taken
boyfriend decided to forgo the em-
abortion receives little of the public
birth control pills for a while, but
barrassment of dealing with parents
discussion in Africa that has made it
abandoned them and all other forms
and scraped together about $30,
a central political issue in the United
of contraception when she felt chest
which they took to an undercover
States. In fact, the reproductive
palpitations.
abortion clinic on a side street.
health care needs of women in gen-
These days, the shy but articulate
"The doctor took three of us at a
eral scarcely figure in the public
high school student is preparing for
time into his clinic, and we were all
policy debate.
the baccalaureate examination that
treated very quickly," Miss Aka
"In many of our countries abortion
will determine whether she will be
said. "There was no anesthétic, he
is treated as a symptom of moral
admitted to college next fall, allow-
just kept talking to me the whole
weakness, with a stigma of looseness
ing her, she hopes, to achieve her
while. Within 15 minutes we were on
attached to the woman who under-
dream of becoming a French lan-
our way."
That night, however, Miss Aka's
goes the procedure," said Dr. Pape
guage teacher some day.
Syr Diagne, director of the Center for
She is also desperately scraping
troubles began with heavy bleeding
Family Studies in Nairobi, Kenya, a
together money to determine the via-
and horrible abdominal pains that
non-profit organization that conducts
bility of another dream: eventually
still come and go, as do unusual
training and research in reproduc-
having children.
vaginal discharges. Worse, she sus-
tive health. "Abortion is a sensitive
At the clinic where her second
pects she is sterile.
topic in any country, but in much of
abortion was performed, the doctor
Throughout Africa, statistical in-
Africa, its public discussion is virtu-
told her the other day that she would
dications of the consequences of
ally taboo."
need to have three tests done to see if
In Ivory Coast, as in most former
she is still fertile. The tests cost a
clandestine procedures are appall-
French colonies in Africa, laws for-
total of $35, a sum she would have
ing. All but a handful of African
bidding abortion derive from French
difficulty raising without the help of
governments outlaw abortion, and in
legislation of the 1920's that punished
her mother, whom she was too afraid
one country after another, problems
to tell about her second abortion.
related to pregnancy are the leading
"incitement to abortion and the dis-
"While I was waiting to see the
cause of death for women of child-
tribution of contraceptives."
doctor I sat next to another couple of
bearing age, with complications
During his first three decades in
young students who were about to
power, Ivory Coast's founding father,
have an abortion," Miss Aka said. "I
Continued on Page A3
the late President Félix Houphouët-
told them about what had happened
Continued From Page Al
Boigny, encouraged people to have
to me and asked them if they were
large families and forbade Western
sure they wanted to go ahead. The
aid groups from organizing birth
girl didn't say anything, but the boy
from abortion consistently ranking
control or family-planning activities
turned to me and said: 'We don't
at the top of this list. In Ethiopia, for
in the country.
have the money to raise a child now.
example, 55 percent of maternal
Mr. Houphouët-Boigny's approach
It is too late to turn back.''
mortality stems from illegal abor-
grew out of the belief commonly held
tion. In Nigeria, fully half of the
in much of post-independence Africa
deaths among pregnant women can
that the continent was too underpop-
be traced to this same cause.
ulated to develop economically,
In a cruel sense, Miss Aka, who is
thanks to factors ranging from tropi-
now 19, is very lucky. She survived
cal disease to the slave trade.
her ordeal, but says she has seen
This policy combined with social
several classmates die from self-ad-
traditions that measure a family's
ministered abortions.
wealth by the number of children
*According to a recent World
and, in many places, with the influ-
Health Organization study, 58
Roman Catholic Church's
en are known to die each day on this
prohibition on artificial means of
continent from the consequences of
birth control, have severely impeded
attempting to end their pregnancies
any campaigns for modern family
using homemade "cures" or in un-
planning or legalized abortion.
safe underground clinics. Many pub-
"Things have relaxed here some-
lic health experts, however, say this
what since Houphouët," said an offi-
figure probably represents an infini-
cial at one major international aid
tesimal tip of the iceberg.
agency here who spoke on condition
"Forty percent of the women who
of anonymity. "But the Government
come to Treicheville hospital come
would still like us not to make too
The Times
WEDNESDA Y, JUNE 3, 1998
because of traditional or back-alley
much noise about birth control, and
abortions," said a doctor at one of
is certainly not interested in having a
this city's largest public hospitals
debate about abortion."
who spoke on the condition of ano-
At the Ministry of Health here,
nymity. "Between 16 and 18 percent
officials say flatly that the country is
of these women die without leaving
"just not ready" for legalized abor-
the hospital."
tion - and, in fact, may never be.
"Abortion is not a means of birth
PAGE
2
1ST STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format.
Copyright 1998 The Christian Science Publishing Society
The Christian Science Monitor
June 3, 1998, Wednesday
SECTION: INTERNATIONAL; Pg. 1
LENGTH: 1339 words
HEADLINE: Standing Up To Ancient Custom
BYLINE: David Hecht, Special to The Christian Science Monitor
DATELINE: NGERIN BAMBARA, SENEGAL
HIGHLIGHT:
African Women
BODY:
Oureye Sall was born into a caste in which men traditionally work iron and
women circumcise girls.
But 30 years ago Ms. Sall broke with tradition, as well as her sole source of
income, after her own daughter was nearly killed by the procedure. Sall never
performed the operation again.
Her action had little effect for decades. Other women in this poor village 70
miles south of Senegal's capital, merely took up her lucrative work, helping
perpetuate what opponents call female genital mutilation (FGM) In Senegal, the
practice has been seen as an essential rite of passage into adulthood.
But then in November, Sall's village, known as Ngerin Bambara, decided to stop
the ancient African practice. And in February, members of 12 other villages of
the Bambara tribe also renounced the practice in a formal declaration in the
village of Diabougou.
While individuals have tried to stop the practice in the past, this is the first
time villages have acted collectively to stop FGM, according to UNICEF. On June
1, 15 more villages in Senegal's southern region followed suit. The villagers'
decisions surprised activists who had been largely unsuccessful in their
anti-FGM campaign.
Some 100 million to 130 million African girls and women have undergone the
practice, UNICEF claims, and 6,000 more are subjected to it each day.
One explanation for the change is that in all the villages that have so far
ended the practice, women have undergone an 18-month education program run by an
African nongovernmental organization, Tostan, and funded by UNICEF, that had a
component on FGM.
Sall, now a leader of the women's group in Ngerin Bambara, told how the program
altered their lives. "Tostan taught us that it is OK to speak our mind," she
said. Other women said that with the program they now have a new role in their
communities and a sense of how they can effect change.
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3
The Christian Science Monitor, June 3, 1998
For Sall it meant that she was able to talk publicly for the first time about
what happened to her daughter. "I could say that I think our traditions need to
change," she says.
The women also learn principles of democracy and human rights, basic reading and
writing skills, hygiene, and women's health. But the core of the program, say
organizers, is problem solving, confidence building, self-awareness, and
assertiveness training.
Looking toward the future
"What do you hope your village will be like in 10 years time?" a Tostan
coordinator asks in Ngerin Bambara, sitting in the dust with a circle of 30
village women and their children under a neem tree. Some respond that they want
running water and electricity, others say they want their village to be more
like America. All hope that as women they can play a part in effecting change.
The program sounds more like an encounter group than a conventional class when
described by Molly Melching, Tostan's Texas-born director, who has lived in
Senegal for 23 years. "It is a nurturing space where villagers can think and
talk freely," she says.
She stresses that it is important not to judge, even when it comes to FGM. "We
don't even call it 'female genital mutilation' but 'female genital cutting, "
she says.
Melching complains that often anti-circumcision activists make assumptions about
FGM that undermine their credibility. "They assume that men are forcing the
women to do it or that it's because of Islam." Melching says that in Tostan "we
just explain what we know about the health risks for women associated with the
practice and create a forum for them to talk about it."
Letting go of tradition
Men as well as women come and talk. Many said they were torn between the
evidence and the need to maintain what they saw as an essential part of Bambara
identity. "It is a hard thing to admit that something you and your ancestors had
considered right all your life is in fact wrong," said one of the elders who had
participated in discussions.
The villagers lauded Ngerin Bambara's Islamic leader, Amadou Lamine Diang, for
his part in resolving their confusion. Mr. Diang explained that "our ancestors
knew why and how we performed the circumcision ritual, but now we must recognize
that we have forgotten their secrets and so it is no longer possible to keep
doing what they once did."
Diang also explained that FGM is not required by Islam. The decision, he said,
rested with the village.
The Tostan forum allowed villagers to decide for themselves that FGM must stop,
says Melching. She believes that "if only it were replicated throughout Africa
the practice could be abolished."
Yet Tostan forum was not the only reason the villagers here made their decision.
Sociologist Abdou Salim Fall says that as Bambara they are a minority in the
PAGE
4
The Christian Science Monitor, June 3, 1998
Thies region and that they have slowly been assimilating with the Wolof
majority, who do not practice FGM. The Bambara here all speak Wolof, and often
dance and dress in the distinctive Wolof style.
"Clearly circumcision is no longer central to their cultural identity,' he
notes.
The Bambara in Mali - where the tribe originally come from - show no signs of
stopping the practice. Miriam Troure, a women's leader from Malicounda, the
first of the villages in Senegal's Thies region to publicly ban FGM, admits that
persuading her relatives there to stop may be near impossible. "In Mali, they
may never change," she laments.
Selling out to the West?
It was also not easy to stop in Senegal. Some villagers question the motives of
the women, saying it was because they got money from UNICEF, something UNICEF
officials strongly denied. However, they admit some women did receive funds for
work missed while attending the program.
Melching says arguments that the women are selling out their Bambara traditions
to international organizations have at times come close to erupting into
violence. She also said that rumors of handouts motivated the chief of
Malicounda to recently demand his cut.
Villages that have not gone through the Tostan program were mostly cool to a
UNICEF-sponsored bus load of villagers who recently came there to persuade them
to stop FGM. In one meeting at the village of Tartin, one elder asked why, if
UNICEF was concerned about the health of his people, it didn't supply them with
basic medicine instead of interfering in their traditions.
At a meeting in Velingara, one man yelled out that such matters should not be
discussed in public in Bambara society. "This is a vulgarity that people do in
the West," he fumed. "Have you no shame!"
But Sall argued that real change only comes when people talk openly together.
For Melching "these women are like Rosa Parks," she said, referring to the
African-American woman whose action started the civil rights movement in the
United States. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton met the Malicounda women when
she visited Senegal in April.
Banning FGM
The women's actions are also resonating in the Senegalese government. Noting
that the Diabougou declaration demonstrates grass-roots support to stop FGM,
President Abdou Diouf has proposed a new law making the practice illegal.
Both parents and circumcisers could face five years in jail.
But while Melching is pleased that the government recognizes the women's
efforts, she is wary of criminalizing those who still do it. "It could drive the
practice underground." In Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Ivory Coast, FGM has been
illegal for years, but it continues unabated.
PAGE
5
The Christian Science Monitor, June 3, 1998
Some even question whether villages that have signed the Diabougou declaration
will really stop. "With the history of domination in Africa we have learned to
accommodate the wishes of outsiders, " said a Senegalese professional in Dakar
who asked that his name not be used.
"These villagers are doing exactly what the international organizations want
them to do. Let's see what will happen when they leave."
GRAPHIC: CHART: An Ancient Custom: Where It's Practiced. BY TOM BROWN - STAFF
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LOAD-DATE: June 02, 1998
AIHA DIRECTIONS
Press
US First Lady Discusses Her Trip to the NIS
In a February 17 speech at
the US State Department, US
TOWKENT АЁЛЛАРНИ Шавлат Ukkuhqu ТИББИЁТ институти
First Lady Hillary Rodham
Second Tashkent State Medical Institute
СОРЛОМЛАШ маркази
Women's Wellness Center
Clinton briefed about 400 rep-
resentatives of government,
non-governmental organiza-
tions and the media about her
November 1997 visit to the
NIS. During the trip, she helped
inaugurate AIHA Women's
Wellness Centers in Almaty,
Kazakstan and Tashkent,
US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton presented a slide show
Uzbekistan. She also visited the
about her trip to the NIS last fall, including her stop at the
Tashkent Women's Wellness Center.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
and Neonatal Resuscitation Training Center at L'viv Clinical Oblast Hospital in Ukraine.
"The wellness centers mean better health not only for the women they serve, but
for their children and the community," she said.
Clinton discussed each of her visits to partnership institutions during a slide show
about her trip. She noted that because of family planning services made available
through the Almaty-Tucson,Arizona partnership, the abortion rate has fallen 25 percent;
the infant mortality rate at L'viv Clinical Oblast Hospital has fallen by more than 30 per-
cent; and health professionals in Uzbekistan are utilizing the pharmaceuticals and oth-
er supplies 'sent via the Operation Provide Hope airlift last June.
"In my travels I have met many doctors and nurses at many hospitals throughout Rus-
sia, Ukraine, Kazakstan and Uzbekistan who are very well educated and extremely
dedicated, but do not at the moment have the resources to do the job that they know
they can be doing," she said."I am a very big supporter of these hospital partnerships
and wish we could do even more of them because I have seen first-hand the difference
they make."
Throughout her trip, Clinton said she "saw again and again how critical women
were to any efforts to build democracy, support economic reform and provide for
responsive social structures, particularly through the development of a strong NGO com-
munity."
Also participating in the presentation were US Secretary of State Madeleine AI-
bright, USAID Administrator J. Brian Atwood and Richard Morningstar, special adviser
to the president and secretary of state for assistance to the NIS.
"America is committed to helping the New Independent States assume their right-
ful positions within the growing circle of strong and successful free market democra-
cies," Albright said. "If we renew our promise to help the deserving in the NIS and
elsewhere, we can see more and more children everywhere become citizens and con-
tributors; more and more young people put down roots, build communities and become
participants in the global marketplace."
COMMONHEALTH SPRING 1992
1 30 1
Lunch with the first lady
Hillary focuses on her family, work
"Just the way she talked at
Awardees included Rosle
the table, I really believe her
O'Donnell and her founda-
when she says she doesn't let
tion for kids, but she was ab-
it bother her anymore and
sent, prepping for Sunday's
just enjoys what she's doing,"
Tony Awards hosting.
said Redbook editor Kate
Lunch was yellowtail snap-
White of her host, Hillary
per, but editor White's son,
Rodham Clinton.
Hunter Holbrook, 10, and
USA TODAY WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1998
White was referring to the
Black's daughter, Allison
continuing special prosecutor
Harvey, 6, asked for peanut
investigations, but that was
butter sandwiches instead.
not a topic of conversation at
Jeannie
Hunter pronounced the
Tuesday's White House lun-
White House version "the
cheon for the magazine's first
Williams
champion sandwich."
Mothers & Shakers awards.
News & Views
They honor women who have
made major efforts in child
This column
care, a favorite Clinton issue.
appears Tuesday
The first lady, who has
through Friday.
pushed for passage of child-
care and tobacco legislation, thanked the
awardees "for helping us to get the word
out."
Guests asked whether she knew yet
what she'd do post-White House, and she
said people don't realize that she loves
living there. She doesn't seem eager to
talk of when she won't.
The first lady hopes Chelsea, home
from college soon, will go on the presi-
dential trip to China at the end of June,
said Cathleen Black, Hearst magazines
chief, who was at the first lady's table.
The Clintons have yet to decide where
they'll vacation this summer, but the first
lady wishes they'd hurry up, said UPI's
Helen Thomas. The veteran White
House reporter said the first lady
"amazed me. She was just really 'up,'
amid her troubles.
A DOG'S LIFE: Life with Bud-
dy isn't always easy, President
Clinton told Democratic contribu-
tors in Houston. "About once a
day my dog comes into the White
House, to the Oval Office, and
he'll go to the back room - he
knows where all his toys are -
and he'll sort through his toys,
and he'll go get his ball, and he'll
come and throw the ball down at
my feet," Clinton said. Buddy isn't
By Gary Cameron, Reuters
dissuaded by affairs of state. "I
Buddy: Negative woof to the mas-
could be talking to (Russian Pres-
ter's affairs of state
ident) Boris Yeltsin on the phone
and he doesn't care; he just starts
barking. The whole federal budget could be at issue. Buddy doesn't
care; he just starts barking. And he'll keep right on barking until I go out
and throw that ball with him for a while."
- Susan Page
"Yes, by the grace of God."
Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan, when asked if Pakistan had carried out additional nuclear tests on Saturday.
Pakistan set off five test blasts last Thursday in response to India's detonations three weeks ago.
Newsw
RFK'S
DAYS
k
for misspelling "fodient," a burrowing animal
"New Jersey's place in history shouldn't be questioned by
anybody." Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, on the Supreme Court's
ruling that New Jersey, not New York, owns the landfill part
of Ellis Island-nearly 90 percent of the historic site
c 1998 DEERING-ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
"He'll be a chapter in American history; those of us who followed
him will be footnotes." Sen. John McCain, on former Arizona senator
Barry Goldwater, who died Friday at the age of 89
CAUTION
"I figured I'd come over and we'd complain about our husbands."
Andrea Diamond, on a call she received from Phil Hartman's wife,
MOBILE HOME ?! THAT'S
Brynn, to schedule a play date Thursday for their daughters.
STUCK BEHIND
FORDS NEWEST S.U.V!
Hartman and his wife were found dead that day in a suspected
AMOBILE! HOME
murder-suicide.
"Don't confuse having a career with having a life. They are not the
same." First Lady Hillary Clinton, delivering Howard University's
commencement speech
c 1998 MIKE LUCKOVICH-ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
[email protected].
"I don't care who it is, mate, rules are rules. Switch it off."
LUV2CHATMINDSPRING.COM.
An unnamed airplane pilot quoted by British Prime Minister
Tony Blair, who was ordered to hang up when he received a cell-
phone call from the queen just as his plane was about to take off
"No one has a monopoly on views of Jesus." Playwright
Craig Lucas, on death threats received by Terrence
McNally for his new play "Corpus Christi," which has been
characterized as depicting a Christ-like figure who has sex
with his disciples
"I'm just a singer, not some magical baseball genie who
GRADUATION
can make or break someone's game." Mariah Carey,
1998
responding to rumors that Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter
was warned by boss George Steinbrenner that his romance
with the singer was hurting his game
c 1998 WALT HANDELSMAN TIMES-PICATUNE
PM-IL--Art Donation, 1st Ld-Writethru, 360
Sara Lee donates its masterpieces to museums
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By F.N. D'ALESSIO= Associated Press Writer=
CHICAGO (AP) Sara Lee Corp. is giving major works by some of the art
world's modern masters to the Art Institute of Chicago and several other
museums in one of the largest corporate art donations in U.S. history.
This gift is a millennium gift to America from one of America's greatest
corporations,' first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said at an announcement
ceremony today.
The gifts, worth an estimated $100 million, are a way of preserving the
best of the past and giving it the widest possible audience, she said.
Sara Lee's collection, which includes works by Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas,
Paul Gauguin and Camille Pissarro, is considered one of the finest corporate
collections in the country. Eventually, nearly 40 paintings and sculptures
will be distributed.
The largest number of works will go to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Others receiving major works are the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
John Bryan, chief executive of Chicago-based Sara Lee, said 17 other
museums, many of them in the South, also will receive works. He said the
museums will be revealed later in the year, but that many of them are in
cities where Sara Lee has its operations.
The donated works are part of the personal collection of the late Nathan
Cummings, a philanthropist and chairman of Consolidated Foods Corp., which
eventually became Sara Lee.
In the first installment of the gift, the Art Institute will receive 10
paintings, one sculpture and one pastel drawing. The installment includes
works by Berthe Morisot, Henry Moore, Degas and Matisse including his
Lemons on a Pewter Plate.
Metropolitan Museum of Art will get a Claude Monet an 1872 oil of the
artist's son, Jean, on his mechanical horse. The National Gallery will receive
Roger de La Fresnaye's 1912 oil The Bathers.
A traveling exhibition of all the artworks will visit several museums
starting next spring and end at the Art Institute in 2000.
This gift to the nation goes beyond corporate philanthropy as we have
known it and defined it, said James N. Wood, director of the Art Institute.
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(UPI Focus)
Sara Lee donates art to museums
CHICAGO, June 3 (UPI) Sara Lee Corp. is giving away 14 masterworks from
its world-renowned fine art collection to the Art Institute of Chicago and
other museums.
The Chicago-based corporation is expected to donate about two dozen
additional works to some 20 museums by the turn of the century.
The Art Institute will receive most of the first donations, including 12
works by French Impressionists such as Henri Matisse and Edgar Degas. New
York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will get one painting by Claude Monet while
the National Gallery of Art in Washington will receive a work by Roger de La
Fresnaye.
Besides allowing public access to the art, Sara Lee says the gifts are
part of a company strategy to reduce assets. The move coincides with
a project run by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton called Save the
Treasures.
This is truly a millennium gift to the future, " said Mrs. Clinton, the
guest of honor at the Art Institute news conference today. In making this
gift, Sara Lee Corporation sets an example of involved citizenship that we
hope many others will emulate corporations and individuals alike.
Sara Lee's corporate collection was formed from artworks originally
assembled by the company's founder, Nathan Cummings. The donated art will go
on display as part of a traveling exhibition in the spring of 1999 that will
conclude in Chicago in 2000.
-
Copyright 1998 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
BC-ARTS-SARALEE 1STLD (SCHEDULED, PICTURE)
Chicago cheesecake company donates millions in art
(Adds details)
By Andrew Stern
CHICAGO, June 3 (Reuters) - A corporation known for its cheesecake
whipped up a gift of $100 million worth of 19th- and 20th-century art for U.S.
museums on Wednesday, a charitable act Hillary Rodham Clinton said she hoped
others would emulate.
At a time when several corporations have put their art collections on the
auction block to reap millions of dollars for their bottom line, Chicago-based
Sara Lee Corp. decided to make
a gift of the best of a collection featuring work by Monet, Degas, Leger,
Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Gauguin and Pissarro.
At a ceremony at the Art Institute of Chicago, which as the leading
beneficiary is to receive a dozen works, Sara Lee Chairman John Bryan said the
timing of the gift corresponded to
a prosperous business and art environment.
This is a moment when Sara Lee's fortunes are quite good, Bryan said
in the museum's reconstruction of the trading room of the Chicago Stock
Exchange. The art market is strong, so we can do it in a fiscally
responsible manner.
Last year the global company earned nearly $1 billion in profits on $20
billion in sales of frozen bakery items, Playtex bras, Hanes underwear and
other consumer products.
First lady Hillary Clinton, who is promoting a White House effort to
preserve the nation's treasures'' for of the next millennium, praised the
corporation's philanthropy.
You have set an extraordinary example of corporate citizenship and
support for the arts, Clinton said.
I hope and trust that others will follow in your footsteps in the
months and years ahead, she said, adding that even families could
participate in her effort to preserve the past, by showing children old
letters and photographs.
The company's paintings and sculptures -- placed in its Chicago
headquarters and other offices as a morale-building effort initiated by Sara
Lee founder Nathan Cummings -- will pass officially to the museums at the
turn of the millennium. At that time, the company will take a tax deduction
that a spokesman said might amount to $100 million based on the works' fair
market value.'
Five of the paintings to be given away were displayed at the ceremony,
including a shimmering 1906 fauve work by Georges Braque, Antwerp, showing
pale yellow rooftops set off by dark outlines and dabs of bright green in a
distant harbour.
A stark cubist work of 1922 by Fernand Leger, also to be donated to the
Art Institute, centred on a grim-faced nude on a blue-checked divan. A large
1883 painting by Berthe Morisot focused on a woman's pale face shaded from
rays of sun coming through a background of wild blue brush strokes that evoke
a lush garden.
Cummings, who died in 1985, began collecting art in 1945, choosing
largely French modern works by the smell,' he once said. The corporate
titan would give paintings away at parties and weddings and displayed them in
company offices. Eventually, his successor, Bryan, began buying selected works
for the company from Cummings' collection.
The Art Institute and two other notable museums, New York's Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, were allowed to
choose from the cream of Sara Lee's collection, with the Met and the National
Gallery getting one painting each.
The Met will receive Claude Monet's portrait of his son Jean around his
fifth birthday, an early work by the impressionist master that features
ightly woven brush strokes and a hint of red flowers. The National Gallery
chose Roger de La Fresnaye's buoyant cubist work The Bathers'' of 1912, once
he public's only image of the new style of abstraction before works by
icasso and Braque became widely known.
Chicago's Art Institute will also receive oil paintings by Alberto
Giacometti, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Camille Pissarro, two
others by Braque and Leger, one by Edouard Vuillard and a 5-foot-long Henry
Moore bronze, Falling Warrior.
Other works to be given away are by Picasso, Marc Chagall, Pierre Auguste
Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alfred Sisley, Eugene Boudin, Pierre
Bonnard, Chaim Soutine, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy and Georges Rouault.
Seventeen other American museums, many in the (U.S.) South, where Sara
Lee has offices, will each receive one painting. A few, as yet unnamed,
overseas museums, also in cities where the company has operations, will get
one work each.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1998
Sara Lee Is Donating Impressionist Art 1
By JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI
Like many American companies, the Sara
Lee Corporation has amassed an impressive
art collection over the years. But unlike its
peers, Sara Lee will soon be giving away the
cream of its Impressionist paintings and sculp-
tures, some 40 works worth about $100 million.
And in a departure from the usual pattern of
arts patronage, the company is splitting up the
collection and spreading the wealth among 20
museums around the country.
: Big institutions, from the Metropolitan Mu-
seum of Art in New York and the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, to small and mid-
size ones including the Lauren Rogers Museum
of Art in Laurel, Miss., and the Dixon Gallery in
Memphis, will each receive one work.
The Art Institute of Chicago, just a few
blocks from Sara Lee's headquarters in the
city's Loop, is the exception: it will gain 12
works by Matisse, Braque, Degas, Vuillard,
Gauguin and other artists.
The gift, which will allow Sara Lee to take a
sizable tax deduction, is to be announced this
morning by the chief executive, John H. Bryan,
at a news conference at the Art Institute with
Hillary Rodham Clinton in attendance.
Mr. Bryan is a longtime backer of the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Clinton, whose 50th birthday last
October was celebrated with a 300-pound Sara
Lee cake (pumpkin spice with cream cheese
filling).
Prince Maximilian of Germany, which was
that this would happen."
"It's a remarkable collection, and to put it in
valued at about $14 million.
But what of Sara Lee's shareholders, whose
the hands of the public like this is extraordi-
"I've never seen art spread around like
assets the company's directors are giving
nary," said Judith A. Jedlicka, the president of
this," said James N. Wood, president and direc-
away? Other corporations, including CBS,
the Business Committee for the Arts, a non-
tor of the Art Institute of Chicago. "It's a
I.B.M., Time-Warner, Alcoa, U.S. Steel and
profit group. She and other art experts could
wonderful list of museums, where the art will
Times-Mirror, have in recent years decided to
recall no other corporate donation of art on this
really make a lot of difference."
dispense with their collections. Mindful of
scale or of this quality.
The museum directors who knew of the gift
shareholders' concerns, they put the art on the
The closest and possibly the only parallel,
- some had not yet been told - seemed totally
block and added the cash to corporate coffers.
she said, was a 1986 Enron Corporation gift to a
surprised, even in Chicago, where Mr. Bryan is
I.B.M. alone raised $31 million in 1995, and CBS
single institution, the Joslyn Art Museum in
a trustee of the Art Institute. "One had always
took in $3.2 million last year.
Omaha, of watercolors, prints and archives
looked at that collection enviously," Mr. Wood
But Mr. Bryan wanted to set a different
from an 1832-34 Missouri River journey by
said, "but I was not creative enough to imagine
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Sara Lee Donates Impressionist Art to Museums
the subject. "Most offices are ho
Continued From First Arts Page
ble places," said Barbara Csa
who was then an executive assist
example, and Sara Lee's directors
but is no longer with the compa
agreed. "No one on the board argued
"But here, it's like a mini-museu
for a sale, and all the options were
It affects my mood - I can't help
presented," he said. "But when one
like to come to work."
looks at the data and the opportunity
Marcia Gettings, then and now
to keep the collection partly together
administrative assistant, said S
as a collection and to make a major
learned to see merit in some pai
contribution in other cities, it wasn't
a hard decision."
ings that she did not understand
Mr. Bryan said-that because of the
first - like a Leger - but not othe
tax deduction, the cost to the compa-
Referring to la Fresnaye, she
ny was "very modest - a few million
marked: "That abstract one, of nu
dollars," but declined to put an exact
bathers, that one is an orgy. 'Ju
number on it. "The cost is the differ-
walk down the hall and take a left
ence between the after-tax value of
the orgy.''
the collection if we sold it and the
Most employees will only lea
positive cash flow from the tax de-
today that these artworks will SO
duction we can take," he said, noting
be leaving the company. But M
hat it was impossible to predict how
Bryan said that Sara Lee never i:
nuch the art would fetch if sold.
tended to have an art collection. H
"For a very small amount of dif-
started buying the works in 198
erence, we can do something that
both to associate the company wit
as never been done before," Mr.
Geoffrey Clements and David Finn/From "An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of Sara Lee Corporation"
quality and as a tribute to the comp:
Bryan said. "If it's an inspiration to
The Art Institute of Chicago will receive 12 works from Sara Lee, which
ny's founder, Nathan Cumming
ociety at large and to the business
is based in Chicago. One is Braque's 1906 "Antwerp," above.
who died in 1985 and once owned a
ommunity, that would be great."
of them.
Sara Lee, which owns brands like
lanes hosiery, Jimmy Dean meats,
"We have no 1920's Matisse still
San Francisco Museum of Modern
The company has published a ca
ali bras and Coach leather goods as
life, and now we will have one that is
Art; the New Orleans Museum of
alogue of the collection and exhibite
ell as baked goods, has assets
a drop-dead painting," Mr. Wood
Art; the Norton Gallery of Art in
it several times. "We've done all th
orth $12 billion and annual sales of
said, referring to "Lemons on a Pew-
West Palm Beach, Fla.; the North
corporate identification work with
out $20 billion; its profit was just
ter Plate." "We have a great Fauve
Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh;
it," Mr. Bryan said. "Let's let th
ver $1 billion in its last fiscal year.
Braque from southern France, and
the Portland Art Museum in Oregon,
rest of the world have a chance to se
I an effort to please Wall Street,
now we will have a great Fauve
and the Virginia Museum of Fine
these paintings."
ara Lee last September began re-
Braque from the north, of Antwerp.
Arts in Richmond.
He also invoked an effort by th
icing its manufacturing assets and
One of our real problems was 20's
"In these communities, they don't
White House to stimulate program
ying back shares.
Legers, and now we will have two,
have very many things by these art-
marking the year 2000, which Mrs
"In a different way, this is consis-
which makes us very strong in one of
ists," Mr. Bryan said. "They don't
Clinton is expected to promote a
nt with that," Mr. Bryan said.
his important decades."
have a Giacometti in Minneapolis or
today's news conference.
Over the last several weeks, Mr.
In descending order of size, the
North Carolina. The 10th Giacometti
Sara Lee has plans to wring plenty
yan began calling the beneficia-
other museum recipients are making
at the Art Institute is not very excit-
of good will from the gifts. Mr. Bryan
S, beginning with the biggest, and
their choices. Among the possibilities
ing, but getting one to North Carolina
said the company would stage an
iting them to pick from the collec:
are Pissarro's "Young Woman Tend-
is pretty exciting."
event in each beneficiary community
n. The Metropolitan selected
ing Cows," Degas's "Russian Danc-
When those choices are all made,
to announce them. Before the mu
an Monet on his Mechanical
er," Toulouse-Lautrec's "Dancer
Mr. Bryan said a few works would be
seums receive the art, the collection
rse," an 1872 portrait by Monet of
Seated on a Pink Divan," and Giaco-
given to museums overseas, where
will make a tour to a few museums
first son. "It was a very easy
metti's "Venetian Woman."
Sara Lee also does a lot of business.
cision," said Philippe de Montebel-
Mr. Bryan said that the museums
Right now, the artworks hang in
as yet unselected, around the coun
the Metropolitan's director. "Mo-
were selected because they are in
Sara Lee's 47th-floor executive of-
try, concluding at the Art Institute in
adored his child and the figure is
fices. Mr. Bryan will be losing the
the spring of 2000.
cities where Sara Lee had a major
Matisse, a Degas, a Pissarro and a
Meanwhile, many in the art world
y prominent, not just a figure in a
business presence and because they
dscape, not the usual Monet. It's
already have some late 19th- and
Giacometti.
say, they will be dreaming of an ever
unforgettable picture."
early 20th-century European
But he is not the only one who liked
wider impact. "Hopefully," said Ms
he National Gallery, like the Met,
working among great works of art.
Jedlicka, "other corporations will
artworks. "And we wanted it spread
its first choice: a 1912 Cubist
geographically so it would look like a
In 1987, Art and Antiques magazine
pick up on this vision and do like
k, "The Bathers," its first paint-
gift to America, with a little more in
interviewed a dozen employees on
wise."
by Roger de la Fresnaye. "Early
the Southeast because of our strong
ism is an area we'd like to be
presence there," Mr. Bryan said.
to add to, and it's an almost
The other museums are the Cin-
ossible marketplace, so this is
cinnati Art Museum; the Columbia
ething special," said Earl A.
Museum of Art in Columbia, S.C.; the
A Fever Dream by Berlioz
ell 3d, the museum's director.
Dallas Museum of Art; the Detroit
oth of those works were on the
Art Institute; the High Museum of
Institute's list, but Mr. Wood said
Art in Atlanta; the Los Angeles
Reimagined on Wash Cycle
ould hardly complain since he
County Museum of Art; the Minne-
allowed to chose a dozen works
apolis Institute of Arts; the Museum
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SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE
t will really have an impact on
of Contemporary Art in Chicago; the
collection."
Museum of Fine Arts in Houston
gotd
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American companies with a history of
patronage in the arts often have called
themselves "modern Medicis," evoking
the munificence of the Italian family that
for more than three centuries dominated
the cultural life of Florence.
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Sara Lee takes its
Such a notion is, of course, extravagant.
art to new level
But the gift the Sara Lee Corp. will
June 03, 1998
announce Wednesday at the Art Institute
of Chicago is on a scale that helps us
"Young Woman in a Garden" (1883)
understand the comparison.
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of the finest corporate collections in
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art and
the National Gallery of Art will each get
a single painting -- a Claude Monet
going to New York, a Roger de La
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Seventeen other museums, including
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several American museums beginning
National Bank, LaSalle National Bank
next spring; the tour will end at the Art
and Sara Lee were known for assembling
Institute in 2000.
collections that on occasion were the
envy of museums.
Institute director James N. Wood called
the gift unprecedented. "This gift to the
"Sara Lee's art collection has made a
nation goes beyond corporate
statement -- a quality statement -- about
philanthropy as we have known it and
our company," said Bryan, who has
defined it," he said, "and is closer to the
received national and international
Greek origin of the word --
honors for supporting the visual arts.
philanthropos, or `love of humanity.''
"We are quite certain that the `brand
All the works came from the personal
names' of Monet and Degas have been
collection assembled for 40 years by
a great complement to Sara Lee," he
Nathan Cummings, philanthropist and
said.
chairman of Consolidated Foods Corp.
(which would become Sara Lee).
Corporate collections, large and small,
continue to be started, though the day is
Prior to Cummings' death in 1985, John
probably past when any will attempt the
H. Bryan, chairman and chief executive
comprehensiveness of the First National
officer of Sara Lee, began purchasing
Bank's -- 6,000 pieces in all media from
pieces from the collection to decorate
photography to African textiles and
corporate offices. Forty-nine paintings
Indian painting -- or the modern-master
and sculptures, from which the gifts have
focus of Sara Lee's, which gives a small
been chosen, were acknowledged
survey of modern French painting from
masterworks.
1870 to 1950.
Bryan bought about 750 pieces from
"It's an area that's going to grow
1980 to 1996. Most were minor
selectively," said John Neff, former
paintings by followers of Parisian
curator of the First National collection.
masters. Richard Brettell, formerly a
"All it takes is one CEO someplace to do
curator at the Art Institute, acted as chief
it. In mature industries the (profit)
adviser; he did not seek pieces from
margins are such that collections
sources other than Cummings. The Sara
probably will be maintained or let go or
Lee holdings thus were unusual in
greatly reduced. But new industries will
exclusively drawing upon a vision
begin collections of their own, and
formed by one man.
they'll have a different character and
focus."
Corporate art collecting in America was
fueled by the optimism of the late 1950s
The Sara Lee collection is different
and 1960s. The premise was simple:
because of how it apparently was
Employees would work more happily if
envisioned from the beginning of
surrounded by examples of high
Bryan's collecting.
imagination and craft.
"It never was our intent to establish a
Once the premise was tested, works of
permanent collection," said Theresa
art frequently began to creep into public
Herlevsen, executive director of
areas of the company, where they might
communications and public relations at
be shared with visitors from the
Sara Lee. "We always knew that one day
community. This extension of art beyond
the works would go to public institutions
the immediate workplace proved
to be properly cared for and presented to
excellent for public relations, and the
a wide audience."
1970s brought pieces further into the
community, particularly large-scale
The donation, being billed as a
outdoor sculptures.
"Millennium Gift to America," received
unanimous approval from 18 members of
The works thus became a measure of
the Sara Lee board earlier this year.
corporate pride. In Chicago, the First
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In 1963, however, Cummings looked to
Besides the publicity, the company also
New York. While still on the Art
benefits from timing the donation when
Institute's governing board and
prices for modern masterpieces are high.
committee on primitive art, he
complained that the museum had
"These are good times for Sara Lee, and
displayed few of his gifts and only then
the art market is very strong. So this just
in a basement gallery.
seemed to be the right moment,"
Herlevsen said. "There is a cash
Institute director John Maxon
deduction, of course, that will be taken.
acknowledged the complaint after the
It's for the fair-market value of the
Metropolitan Museum received 200 fine
collection
To be specific (about the
examples of pre-Columbian art that
deduction) we have to name a specific
might have complemented the pieces
value, which we're not."
already in Chicago. In the '70s,
Cummings gave works of art to the
The many secondary works from the
University of Chicago and Deerfield
Cummings collection will be retained by
Public Library but not the Art Institute.
the company in its offices across the
country.
After his death, the museum received a
bequest of an Arnaldo Pomodoro
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will
sculpture, and in 1986 Sara Lee donated
attend Wednesday's presentation, giving
Edouard Vuillard's "Portrait of Madame
support as an extension of her own
"White House Millennium Project,"
Guerin."
which recently began to encourage
The historical link between the museum
donations of artworks to American
and the Cummings collection will be
embassies. (Mrs. Clinton's presence is
strengthened Wednesday.
also a courtesy to Bryan, a key supporter
of President Clinton's 1992 campaign.)
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Looking for sunshine,
fortune. A painting commissioned of the
view from his apartment in Drake
palm trees and beaches?
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collecting. And Chicago is the corporate
headquarters of Sara Lee.
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1945, he generously gave artworks to
many Chicago-area institutions. Chief
beneficiary was the Art Institute, which
received, among other works, several
hundred pieces of pre-Columbian pottery
plus gold, silver and bronze objects.
Selections from the cache made up the
first exhibition from a Chicago
collection to appear at the Louvre
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Ann Gund, president of Friends of Art and Preservation in the Embassies, and Hillary Clinton unveil a Roy Lichtenstein portrait by Chuck Close, left.
Chronicles
For Friends of Art, a Welcome Home
By SARAH BOOTH CONROY
Huge peonies in Tiffany bowls decorated
a chance to live as God meant them to live.
Special to The Washington Post
the tables. Undaunted White House execu-
That is your ultimate gift and I'm very
tive chef Walter Scheib and pastry chef
grateful to you."
The dinner at the White House last week
Roland Mesnier with their staff prepared the
Mrs. Clinton said the time has come to
for Friends of Art and Preservation in the
dinner fit for heads and friends of state:
"honor the past-and give gifts to the future."
Embassies was an art form itself-and the
poached lobster, pepper-seared lamb, red and
She spoke of the White House Millennium
style should surely be preserved.
yellow tomato salad, and a "painter's palette"
Council's "Save American Treasures" pro-
Dresses were long, ties black, diamonds
dessert of ice cream encased in a thin white
gram, which aims to preserve such pieces of
glittering, hospitality warm, food magnifi-
chocolate.
the nation's historical and cultural heritage as
cent. East Executive Avenue opened for valet
Works by Chuck Close and Lichtenstein
the Star-Spangled Banner and Declaration of
parking for guests (including the grateful
shared the stage with the speakers. Close
Independence.
Chronicler and Chron), saving the usual hike.
presented the Friends with a limited-edition
Similarly, the new FAPE project "Gift to
The guests entered very grandly up the
linocut print portrait of Lichtenstein, saying it
the Nation" hopes to put 200 American
east steps and into the corridor, greeted
both celebrates the late artist and honors
paintings, sculptures, works on paper, deco-
cordially by a host of social secretary Capricia
Hillary Rodham Clinton's efforts to include
rative objects, crafts and folk art-chosen by
Marshall's staff. Through the windows, the
contemporary art, such as the sculpture
a board of art professionals-in U.S. chan-
Native American contemporary sculpture in
garden, at the White House. And, he said, he
ceries and ambassadorial residences by the
the garden loomed eerily alive. Displayed
is giving the 150 prints to be distributed
turn of the century. At the event, Dorothy
inside were two lithographs by Frank Stella
among U.S. embassies "because I'd like to see
Lichtenstein presented President Clinton
and Ellsworth Kelly as well as a silk-screen
pictures of artists in our federal buildings
with her husband's 1990 "Reflections on
print by Roy Lichtenstein-all contributors
instead of just officials."
Senorita" as the first gift in FAPE's millenni-
of art to the Friends. Lee Kimche McGrath, a
Close spoke of the role of federal officials in
um project.
founder and executive director of the non-
encouraging artists. "A few years ago, con-
The other artworks will be chosen by a
profit Friends foundation, said it had raised
gressional Republicans joined in bipartisan
board headed by Riva Castleman, former
$10 million in its 12 years to fund exhibits and
support to the arts," he said. "Now, freedom
Museum of Modern Art curator. FAPE
preservation at more than 87 embassies in
of expression in the visual arts is under
Chairman Jo Carole Lauder said that "a
cooperation with the State Department.
attack. The polarization is unfortunate-we
Because George Washington insisted that
need bipartisanship."
permanent collection of representative works
architect James Hoban keep the executive
President Clinton replied tactfully: "Td like
of great modern American masters is an
to thank all the members of Congress who are
extraordinary legacy of the art of our times—
mansion to a modest size befitting a young
here and to say to Chuck there still is, albeit
perhaps considered avant-garde now, but
holds
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smaller, a deep level of bipartisan support for
which we will be able to leave to future
$1,500 people. accepted nation, rented Chief the the Yet each Usher the State canvas 600 Clintons' for Gary FAPE Dining and the Walters members, invitation. aluminum Room seated explained: dinner, contributing What pavilion only to "We had do? in
the arts.
Those who are part of it should
generations of ambassadors."
be given even more credit, because it is
Before the evening's dancing began, Pres-
harder for them."
ident Clinton noted that "when Chuck paints
He quoted Franklin Roosevelt: "The arts
and he's feeling especially good about his
the South Lawn, as we have since the Nixon
cannot thrive except when men are free to be
work, he does it to the music of Aretha
administration for big crowds. The rent of
themselves and to be in charge of the
Franklin-which brings him into my ambit of
$200,000 until June 20 is divided among
discipline of their own energies and ardors."
the arts.
sponsors of seven unrelated events-not
To that Clinton added, "And if we can
"And judging by the energy of your work,"
taxpayers." The 20 multi-tiered chandeliers,
permeate the world with the sense of possibil-
he said to Close, "I may issue an executive
which added elegance and light to the dinner,
ity that was so manifest in that Irish election,
order instructing all agencies to play Aretha
are stored by the White House between such
then all over the world we'll be giving people
Franklin from 9 to 5 every day from here on
events, Walters said.
with and without the brilliance of artistic gifts
out."
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Yvonne Edwards of Salinas honored at White House
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By DAVID JUDSON
Gannett News Service
WASHINGTON Salinas child care expert Yvonne Edwards was honored by first
lady Hillary Clinton Tuesday as an Amazing Woman of 1998, and Edwards'
brainchild, a new daycare center soon to open in the city, was hailed as a
national model.
These are women who have made a very real difference in the lives of
their families and communities across the nation, Hillary Clinton said of
Edwards and seven other women selected by Redbook Magazine as the nation's
leaders on child care issues.
The Washington honors came as Redbook Magazine, the monthly aimed at women
and mothers founded in 1903, produced a special report on the state of the
nation's child care in its June issue and editors selected the issue's
leaders. Clinton, long a high-profile advocate for children, agreed to host a
luncheon in the White House State Dining Room for the winners and present the
awards.
Edwards said she was surprised when she learned she was being honored by
the first lady but overwhelmed that our specific center made national
news.
Monterey County's coordinator of child care services for the past decade,
Edwards, 36, caught attention when she began a campaign to make the newly
opened Natividad Medical Center an effective provider of a broad array of
child care services.
When the center's child care operation opens this summer, it will include
day care for county employees, drop-in day care for patients, parental
education facilities, breast cancer screening facilities and other services
that experts say will significantly improve both pre-natal and post-natal
care.
Kate White, Redbook's editor-in-chief, called Edwards the original gutsy
woman'' for working with local officials to make the new center the only one
like it in the United States.
Edwards said that while she appreciated the award, the center's creation
was the work of many, many people.
Folks really had to be willing to give up turf for this unique center to
happen, she said.
Other winners included actress and talk show host Rosie 'Donnell, honored
for her launch of the For All Kids Foundation, and Washington Democratic
Sen. Patty Murray for her legislative efforts on behalf of children.
Edwards, said while she had visited Washington before, it was her first
trip to the White House. She plans to return to the Central Coast on Saturday.
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BC-ARTS-SARALEE
Sara Lee donating $100 mln in art to museums
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Sara Lee Corp said Wednesday it will donate $100
million worth of paintings and sculptures from its corp
collection to
20 museums including the Art Institute of Chicago.
The donation will be announced Wednesday morning at the Art Institute by
Sara Lee chairman John Bryan and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton who is in
Chicago said. for her Save America's Treasures'' program, a Sara Lee spokesman
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of
Art in Washington are among the other museums that will receive works from the
collection.
The Chicago-based company, whose brands including Sara Lee, Hanes, and
Playtex generated sales of $20 billion last year, began purchasing art works
from the collection of its founder Nathan Cummings in 1980.
Sara Lee's decision to donate the art stems more from support of art in
general and involvement in the communities where we have a presence but is not
inconsistent with our overall strategy to reduce our asset base, the company
spokesman said.
REUTERS
AM-Mrs Clinton-Child Care, 360
First lady calls on Congress to pass child care initiative
By SARAH WYATT= Associated Press Writer=
WASHINGTON (AP) The Clinton administration wants to reinstill a sense
of urgency'' in the quest for quality child care, first lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton said Tuesday. She urged Congress to pass child care legislation.
Child care should not be a partisan issue, Mrs. Clinton said. We are
not talking about taking care of Democratic or Republican or Independent
children, we are talking about taking care of America's children.
In his State of the Union address, President Clinton advocated spending
$21.7 billion for a child care initiative, doubling to 2 million the number of
kids eligible for child care subsidies.
The first lady spoke at an event celebrating Redbook Magazine's `Mothers
and Shakers of 1998. She pointed to the eight honorees as examples of women
who are making a difference in American child care.
The women Redbook honored were:
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who has co-sponsored major child care
legislation in the past six years.
Harriett Trangucci, who established an emergency child care fund at the
Summit Child Care Centers in Summit, N.J.
Elaine Fersh, who founded Parents United for Child Care, a group that
lobbies for after-school programs in Boston.
Mary Beth Phillips of San Francisco, who successfully lobbied for the
creation of Trustline, a state service which allows California parents to
check whether a caregiver has a criminal or child-abuse record.
Elissa Bassler, director of public policy for the Day Care Action Council
of Illinois, who persuaded the Illinois legislature to allocate $100 million
for child care last year.
Yvonne Edwards, who developed the Natividad Medical Center Family Services
Center for children of parents who work for Monterey County in California.
Linda Mason, who helped launch the 160 Bright Horizons child development
centers that serve about 14,000 children at corporations across the United
States.
.
Talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell, who could not be at the event because she
was preparing for the Tony Awards, was honored as an exemplary mother and
philanthropist.
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{ The Washington Post }
June 1st, 1998
Hoya Heaven at the White House
The Righteous Brothers
rocked Saturday night. So
did Washington's own Lazy
Boys
And while the surf-and-
turf buffet was delicious and
the massive pavilion on the
White House south lawn
quite grand, the air was
about as fresh as dog breath.
Still, Washington's noto-
rious torpor could not keep
President Clinton from wax-
ing a tad nostalgic about
bright college days to fellow
members of Georgetown
University's Class of '68.
Indeed some 1,500 grads
and their guests-in
tuxedos, slinky gowns,
BY I. SCOTT APPLEWHITE-ASSOCIATED PRESS
kicky cocktail dresses and
fancy pantsuits-boogied and sweltered the night
away with their most famous classmate at their 30th
reunion. Revelers paid $175 each for the weekend.
The White House became a dorm as 17 FOBs
The First Alum
(unnamed, of course) slept over Friday and Saturday
and wife en
nights. Hillary Rodham CEnton who wore a white
route to a
sparkly trouser suit and matching headband to the
reunion lunch.
formal fete also joined her husband at Blair House,
where they hosted a buffet for 100 chums.
Five years ago, the Hoya-in-chief hosted the 25th
reunion at the White House, which naturally raised the
The Washington Post
FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1998
Mrs. Clinton's Senior Adviser
The rally, sponsored by the
Hillary Clinton believes everyone should
Boston-based Team Harmony Foundation
be equal: men and women, black and
and the AT&T Learning Network, also
white, Jew and Hispanic-even,
featured appearances by Olympians Carl
Lewis and Jair Lynch, and a performance by
apparently, the living and the dead.
Jewel, reports The Post's Sylvia Randall.
At a rally for diversity at George
(The first lady's late arrival spared her
Washington University yesterday, Clinton
from hearing the young pop star sing the
told several thousand area middle- and
word that rhymes with "witch.
high-schoolers: "Tve
been accused of
talking to Eleanor
Roosevelt, and
that's true-I talk to
her all the time. I
got a lot of good
advice from her.'
(This admission
that Eleanor
actually talks back
drew little reaction
from students, who
either admired
Clinton's brave
confession or didn't
have a clue who the
former first lady
was.)
Among the
tidbits our brave
first lady has
gleaned from Mrs.
Roosevelt: "It's
better to light one
candle than curse
BY TYLER MALLORY ASSOCIATED
the darkness."
Clinton with Amanda Pope, 5, at a post-rally town hall meeting.
The Washington Post
MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1998
Going Private Sector
Steven A. "Scoop" Cohen, deputy secretary to
first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and one of the
earliest campaign volunteers in Little Rock, is
going private sector, taking a job as
communications director for MRW Enterprises
and the Collis Warner Foundation, which is
launching a public-private partnership between
high-tech companies and historically black
colleges. MRW is also known as megabucks
Northern Virginia businessman Mark R. Warner,
who lost a 1996 Senate bid against Republican
Sen. John W. Warner.
Cohen got his nickname from former Clinton
aide George Stephanopoulos for his handling of an
earlycampaign bimbo eruption. He worked in the
White House press and communications offices
before moving over to the first lady's operation.
BC-RACE-HILLARY
First lady holds race discussion with children
(Note language in third paragraph)
By Randall Mikkelsen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton heard tales of
racism and discussed how to overcome it with school children and a kids'
television star on Thursday.
In an hour-long, nationally broadcast exchange, Mrs. Clinton, actor Alimi
Ballard and about two dozen children from around the country wrestled with
issues such as prejudiced family members, media stereotypes and schoolyard
taunts.
They actually called me a 'nigger, ... sixth grader Amber Blank said in
a halting voice, which made moderator Carole Simpson of ABC News wince and
urge others not to use racial epithets in the discussion.
Blank, the child of a white mother and African-American father, said she
reported the incident to her school principal. ''It really made me feel bad
I said that they need help. They need to be talked to so they know that
calling this name is not nice, she said.
She said the taunter later apologized. ``I'm over it, she said. ``I
know that
...
I'm the same as everybody else.
Mrs. Clinton said, I think you made a very smart choice in not
responding in kind, in not escalating the confrontation
...
and
trying
to
see
it as you described, as somebody who needs some education and some help.
Claudino Perera, 11, asked Mrs. Clinton how she would react if a member
of a racial minority became president. I would be pleased if someone were
elected of a different race, the first lady said. Or gender,' she added,
to the audience's laughter and applause.
Mrs. Clinton's appearance, which was broadcast on the Radio Disney
children's radio network, is part of a year-long Clinton administration effort
to promote racial healing in the United States. Earlier Thursday she also
took part in a racial discussion with a large group of teen-agers.
Toward the end of the hour, Simpson asked whether any of the children had
parents who were prejudiced, and Mrs. Clinton jumped in after the children
hesitated to respond.
I know what that means. My father ... started out being really
prejudiced about nearly any kind of person you can imagine. He was prejudiced
about every kind of group that wasn't his group,' Mrs. Clinton said. But
as he got to know people as individuals, it began to break down his
prejudices.'
A child in the audience, who said he has a Hispanic parent, recalled
hearing relatives use hurtful racial expressions in their conversations. My
parents aren't prejudiced, but some people in my family are, he said. ``I
feel ashamed of my family sometimes. I feel like they're actually talking
about me.
Ballard, a star of the ABC's Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' who described
his continuing experiences with racism, wrapped up the discussion by urging
the children to show courage.
Be brave enough to love one another, he said. 'It's through actually
talking to people of other races that you get to know other races. A
television is not going to teach you about it.''
The discussion revealed one thing nearly all the participants, including
the first lady, had in common -- Beanie Babies. Like most of the kids in the
audience, Mrs. Clinton acknowledged that she had a collection of the wildly
popular bean-bag toys. I've been given some wonderful ones,'' she said,
adding none of the really, really valuable ones.''
REUTERS
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1 WASHINGTON (AP) Despite differences in race, religion and background, Americans
"believe in the common values of freedom," a message carried throughout the world by American
art on display in U.S. embassies, President Clinton says.
1 The president and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton welcomed art advocates, museum curators
and contemporary American artists to a White House black-tie dinner Wednesday night, They
saluted the Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies for its work in bringing decorative arts to
many U.S embassies abroad.
1 This is "not only about putting beautiful works of art in our embassies and ambassadors'
residences, but making a statement about our values as a nation," said Mrs. Clinton, describing
her delight at seeing works in American posts in New Delhi and Pragne.
9 The Clintons also touched on the role of the arts, along the lines of their millennium theme, as
opening new creative possibilities for the future. To that end, the arts preservation group pledged
to collect 200 great American contemporary art works and install them in U.S. residences and
embassies abroad by 2000.
9 Artist Chuck Close unvelled the latest contribution to the embassies art program, 2 lino cut
print entitled "Roy," in tribute to the late Roy Lichtenstein. Close also thanked the Clintons for
backing the arts during a time when doing so "takes guts," he said.
1 "In 2 free and open society what speaks better than the freedom of expression and a willingness
to tolerate ideas other than your own?" Close asked under a tent pavilion on the South Lawn.
9 Clinton reassured Close that a deep level of bipartisan support still exists for the arts and
stressed how powerfully American art speaks to the nation's beliefs.
q "Every time someone walks Into an American embassy anywhere in the world, I want them to
see that in America we are many people, we are many religions, we are many races, we are many
backgrounds but we believe in the common values of freedom and ultimately we believe that
what unites us is far more important than what divides us," the president said.
1 Dorothy Lichtenstein, wife of the art legend who died in September at age 73, also donated a
work of her late husband's to the embassy foundation. Entitled "Reflection on Senorita 1990," the
Lichtenstein piece typifies his style as part of the American Pop Art movement.
9 Founded in 1986, Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies works in conjunction with the
State Department to display decorative art in many of the 171 U.S. embassies abroad
** TOTAL PAGE. **
Talking It Over
By Hillary Rodham Clinton
Insist on best, and even
bad schools get better
en years ago, nervous
steal them." Now, Du Sable prides
T
neighbors crossed the
itself on being the first public
street to avoid Chicago's
school in Chicago to be wired for
Du Sable High School,
Internet access.
where, in 1987, a student was fa-
Despite the restoration of or-
tally shot inside the building.
der, Du Sable's reading test
Now, people cross the street to
scores still lagged far behind na-
enjoy the school's gardens,
tional norms, so Mr. Mingo and
blooming with flowers and vege-
his staff set out to create a "cul-
tables, and to marvel at the pea-
ture of reading."
cocks, pheasants and macaws in
Teachers volunteer in after-
the courtyard atrium.
school and summer reading pro-
Down the hall, in teacher Emil
grams. Everyone learns a new vo-
Hamberlin's biology class, you'll
cabulary word each day: It's not
find more animals - boa con-
unusual to be quizzed by a secá-
strictors, pythons, a potbellied
rity guard on the "word of the
pig, an alligator, ferrets and even
day." And the daily curriculum
a badger. When Mr. Hamberlin,
now includes a 30-minute reading
who has taught at Du Sable for 35
class - almost unheard of in high
years, notices that students are
school.
having trouble getting to school,
Meanwhile, in 1995, the entire
he assigns them an animal.
Chicago system undertook a ma-
"We see a dramatic improve-
jor reform initiative. Mayor Rich-
ment in attendance when we give
ard M. Daley took control of the
the students responsibility," he
schools, imposing strict new stan-
explains. One ninth-grader,
dards and accountability. Schools
The Washington Times
THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1998
Charles Armstrong, loves feeding
that didn't perform on national
the animals; the peacocks are his
tests were placed on probation,
favorite. He's going to work with
and the worst schools were "re-
Mr. Hamberlin this summer and
constituted" - teachers and prin-
plans to major in biology in col-
cipals had to resign and reapply
lege.
for their jobs.
Now, the school wants to ren-
Two years ago, in a devastating
ovate the atrium as a memorial to
blow for a community that was
friends slain in the neighborhood.
trying so hard, Du Sable was re-
Last November, Du Sable's gospel
constituted. Mr. Mingo held onto
choir members joined their sub-
his job, but many teachers did
urban counterparts at the top-
not. He looks back now and calls
ranked New Trier High School for
the move a "blessing."
a fund-raising concert at Chica-
The school board assigned a
go's Orchestra Hall.
new associate principal, Kather-
Du Sable was once one of the
ine Owens-Smith, to deal solely
jewels of the Chicago school sys-
with academics. She marvels at
tem - not unlike New Trier -
the way the school - "everyone
boasting famous alumni, includ-
from the engineering staff to the
ing former Mayor Harold Wash-
cafeteria workers" - pulled to-
ington and singer Nat "King"
gether. And, now, their hard work
Cole. But when Principal Charles
is beginning to pay off.
Mingo arrived in 1988, the out-
Last year, only 4.9 percent of
look was bleak.
Du Sable students met national
It wasn't unusual to find more
standards in reading. On the
students hanging out in the hall-
latest test, the number climbed to
ways than in class, and on any
12.4 percent not enough to take
given day, only about 65 percent
the school off probation, but dem-
showed up at all. Mr. Mingo him-
onstrating they're moving in the
self bought alarm clocks for some
right direction, although they still
students, went to their homes and
have a long way to go.
knocked on doors to rouse them
out of bed. Nonetheless, he says,
The Chicago school system's
attendance is still his biggest
chief executive officer, Paul Val-
problem.
las, can't talk about Du Sable's
Mr. Mingo also rid the halls of
success without taking a moment
graffiti and declared Du Sable
to boast about the city's other
"neutral turf" in the gang wars
schools. He notes that every
that rage outside the door. He
school in the violent State Street
banned hats, coats, radios and
Corridor, which includes Du Sa-
sunglasses inside the building. He
ble, and in the area of the infa-
has to be strict, he explains, be-
mous Cabrini-Green public hous-
cause he's dealing with "kids
ing projects improved its scores.
who've grown up without a whole
The four Cabrini-Green elemen-
lot of order." Eighty percent of Du
tary schools are even eligible to
Sable students live in the Robert
come off probation now.
Taylor Homes, one of the nation's
He's right. When we celebrate
three poorest communities.
the success of Du Sable, let's also
It wasn't just the kids, though,
congratulate the students, teach-
who were underachieving. Some
ers, staff, parents and neighbors
teachers, disheartened and unin-
who are working every day in
spired, didn't issue books, claim-
schools all over Chicago to create
ing students would lose them.
safe havens of learning for our
And many locked up classroom
children. And let's spread the
computers so that students
word that even in our country's
couldn't use them. One teacher
toughest neighborhoods, we know
explained, "I don't want kids to
how to make our schools work.
ESERT SUN
5/27/98
First lady
hits the trail
with Boxer
By ANNE M. PETERSON
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - First lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton was greet-
ed by dozens of boisterous children
Tuesday at an elementary school
appearance in support of proposed
environmental legislation aimed at
kids.
Clinton was accompanied by
Sen Barbara Boxer, author of the
Children's Environmental Protec-
tion Act, which would require feder-
al environmental standards for pol-
lutants be set at levels to protect
children.
Upon her arrival at Sherman El-
ementary School, Clinton was sur-
rounded by excited children assem-
bled on the playground. Later, she
spoke to a group of fifth-graders
and invited guests about her sup-
port for Boxer's bill.
"If our children are outside like
we want them to be, if they're
rolling around on the ground like
we want them to be, if they're run-
ning so hard they have to take big
gulps of air - then we want the air,
the ground, the water to be as clean
as it can be." she said.
Clinton appeared with Boxer at
several events Tuesday, and was
scheduled to attend Boxer fundrais-
ers at San Francisco's Fairmont
Hotel and in Santa Monica.
San Bernardino Sun
5/27/1998
First lady
"I'm going to withhold com-
ment on my opponent until I
know who my opponent is." Box-
er said.
stumping
The fifth-graders on hand -
many wearing "Unsinkable Sher-
man Sharks" T-shirts - fidgeted
at times during the presentation,
in state
but loudly cheered the first lady.
Mrs. Clinton drew the kids
into her talk. asking them how
many had friends or family mem-
By ANNE M. PETERSON
bers with asthma - a condition
The Associated Press
that can be exacerbated by eart-
ronmental factors.
SAN FRANCISCO - First
"You can't help be reminded
lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was
when you look at a child. how
greeted by dozens of boisterous
children Tuesday at an elemen-
much that child is a part of the
tary school appearance In sup-
environment," she said.
port of proposed environmental
Dr. Burt Lubin, director of
legislation aimed at kids.
medical research at Children's
Mrs. Clinton was accompanied
Hospital Oakland Research In-
by Sen. Barbara Boxer, author of
stitute, said Boxer and the Clin-
the Children's Environmental
ton administration recognize the
Protection Act, which would re-
seriousness of the issue.
quire federal environmental
standards for pollutants be set at
"Every single day we see chil-
levels to protect children.
dren at Children's Hospital who
Upon her arrival at Sherman
are getting sicker and sicker
Elementary School, Mrs. Clinton
from environmental toxins," he
was surrounded by excited chil-
said.
dren assembled on the play-
Boxer said she introduced the
ground. Later. she spoke to a
legislation after meeting with a
group of fifth-graders and in-
couple, James and Nancy Chuda.
vited guests about her support
who lost their daughter Colette
for Boxer's bill.
to cancer. The Chudas believe
"If our children are outside
environmental toxins caused the
like we want them to be, if
illness.
they're rolling around "on" the
"When we set protected levels
ground like we want them to be,
for any type of pollution - it has
if they're running so hard they
to protect children." she said.
have to take big gulps of air -
Sherman Elementary was cho-
then we want the air, the ground,
sen for the event because of the
the water to be as clean as it сап
San Francisco Unified School
be," she said.
District's strict policies regard-
Boxer, D-Calif., said the prob-
ing hazardous materials, includ-
lem with current environmental
ing pesticides, in the schools.
standards is that they are set for
averaged-sized adults.
"Children are not little
adults." she said.
Mrs. Clinton appeared with
Boxer at several events Tuesday,
and was scheduled to attend
Boxer fundraisers at San Fran-
cisco's Fairmont Hotel and the
Santa Monica Museum of Flying
in Southern California.
Boxer. who is running unop-
posed for her Senate seat in the
upcoming June primary, said she
wasn't going to talk about the
election.
LAT 5/27/98
HEALTHY SCHOOLS
HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
HEALT KIDS
66
SHERMAN
Associated Press
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at Sherman, Elementary School in San Francisco at an appearance with Sen.
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to highlight Boxer's proposed Children's Environmental, Protection Act. The measure would
require that environmental standards for pollutants be set at a level that protects children in schools and on
playgrounds. Clinton also appeared Tuesday at Greenbrook School in Danville and at a fund-raising luncheon and dinner.
San Francisco Chronicle
5/27/98
Boxer Makes Most of Hillary
Clinton's Bay Area Visit
As rivals feud,
BOXER: Makes Political Hay
senator gets
From Page A15
issues in the campaign, said Fong,
who acknowledged that these
press, money
charges probably would be raised
alarm company.
again in his debate with Issa to-
"Since the story questions the
morrow in San Jose.
By John Wildermuth
very roots of his (business) success,
With Fong and Issa fighting
Chronicle Political Writer
he should stand before the voters
each other, Boxer has been able to
and explain every allegation,"
Fong said. "Is this the tip of the
enjoy the fruits of incumbency
Democratic Senator Barbara
while still raking in the money
Boxer joined Hillary Rodham Clin-
iceberg? I don't know."
she'll need to face the Republican
ton in San Francisco yesterday for
The car theft complaint against
winner in the fall.
some sotto voce campaigning and
Issa was dropped and no criminal
While the morning stop at
big-time fund-raising, while her
or civil charges were filed in con-
Sherman Elementary School in
GOP opponents raised the nasti-
nection with the fire, the newspa-
San Francisco was billed as a non-
ness level in their primary election
per reported. Issa said the com-
political event, Fong and Issa are
battle.
plaints about his business methods
paying tens of thousands of dollars
State Treasurer Matt Fong,
were nothing more than sour
for the type of press and television
who is locked in a tight primary
grapes from would-be competi-
coverage Boxer received for free.
battle with Darrell Issa, lashed out
tors, some of whom have since
faced criminal and financial prob-
The senator was at the school
at the San Diego area businessman
lems of their own.
with Clinton to tout her proposed
during a Los Angeles news confer-
Children's Environmental Protec-
ence he called to highlight charges
Fong's press conference "is the
tion Act, which would require the
made in Saturday's Los Angeles
sign of a desperate campaign try-
Times.
ing to turn the nomination in its
government to set maximum lev-
els for pollutants at levels safe for
The article described how Issa
own direction," said Matt Cunning-
children, rather than for 155-
was arrested in his hometown of
ham, a spokesman for Issa. While
Cleveland for car theft when he
the accusations "are not helping
pound adults, as it is now.
was 18 and was questioned by fire
(Issa's campaign), I don't think it's
While neither Boxer nor Clin-
investigators in 1982 after his Ohio
going to be a key to victory (for
ton ever mentioned the e-word,
manufacturing plant burned to
Fong)."
Boxer was obviously auditioning
the ground soon after the insur-
Fong, who said his only knowl-
themes for her election campaign
edge of Issa's actions came from
and enticed more than a half-doz-
the newspaper account, called Is-
en television cameras there to help
Hillary
sa's explanations "vague and con-
get that message out.
Rodham
tradictory" and refused to say
"We're getting to understand
whether he would endorse Issa if
that protecting children (from en-
Clinton's Bay
the businessman wins Tuesday.
vironmental pollution) is an abso-
Area visit was
"These charges are so serious I
lute must," she said, adding later,
a boon for
think they undermine (Issa's) abili-
"When we invest in our children,
Barbara Boxer
ty to talk about crime" and other
we win big."
ance on the property was more
than quadrupled. It also quoted
former business associates who ac-
cused Issa of intimidating employ-
ees and using hardball tactics to
build his multimillion-dollar car
San Francisco Chronicle
5/27/98
Page
of
Child care,
Francisco elementary school and a
lunch fund-raiser at the Fairmont
Hotel for Senator Barbara Boxer,
Contra Costa
kids' safety
ventured into largely Republican
territory in Danville to tour a mod-
Rep. Ellen
Tauscher is
topics of day
el child-care program and talk
with children's advocates.
sponsoring
child care
Hundreds of students, their
By Michael Hytha
legislation
parents and teachers at Green-
and John Wildermuth
brook Elementary School cheered
his Little League team.
Chronicle StaffWriters
as Clinton's motorcade pulled in
past Lawn signs and placards for
Third-grader Christina Ale-
Hillary Rodham Clinton rolled
two Republican congressional can-
mania proudly proclaimed that
into the Bay Area yesterday to talk
didates. Clinton shook the hands of
she got to shake Clinton's hand not
about caring for and protecting
eager students, hugged one girl
just once, but twice.
children.
and thanked a boy who handed
Fourth-grader Tiffany Mullins
Clinton, who stopped at a San
her baseball cards that pictured
CUNTON: Page A19 Col. 5
CLINTON: Visits to Schools
From Page A15
lation proposed by her host, Repre-
sentative Ellen Tauscher, D-Wal-
one-upped her. "I got to touch her
nut Creek, to mandate health in-
shoe," she shouted.
spections of child care sites and
Even eighth-grader Christine
training requirements for care-
Toth, who came over from nearby
givers.
Charlotte Wood Middle School,
Tauscher's proposal will proba-
had to admit, "It's a big deal for
bly be combined with other legisla-
Danville."
tion to create a single comprehen-
Meeting with child-care advo-
sive bill.
cates inside the Kids Country
After leaving Danville, Clinton
child-care center on the Green-
boarded a plane at the Oakland air-
brook campus, Clinton stressed the
port to fly to a Boxer fund-raiser in
importance of safe and affordable
Los Angeles.
child care.
"Child care is not a luxury. It's
The measure would require the
not something that can be taken
government to set health and safe-
care of today and forgotten about
ty standards now designed for
tomorrow. It's a real need," she
adults weighing 155 pounds at lev-
said.
els that protect children. It also
would create a list of "safer for
While emphasizing that par-
children" products that would be
ents are primarily responsible for
used at federal facilities and con-
raising their children, she repeat-
duct research on the effect envi-
ed the sometimes maligned title of
ronmental pollution has on chil-
her book on child-rearing.
dren.
"I do believe it takes a village to
raise a child," she said. She added
Speaking to children, parents
she plans to cite Kids Country as a
and teachers in the wood-and-tile
model for other communities.
auditorium of the 70-year-old
school, Clinton warned that envi-
The program was started in
ronmental pollution is especially
1985 by an alliance of parents and
dangerous to children.
now provides before- and after-
school care at 10 sites for 1,500 stu-
"Children breathe more air
dents. In addition to art and sci-
than adults, eat more dirt than
ence enrichment programs, the
adults and roll around and crawl
center holds sessions titled "Char-
on the floor than most adults,"
acter Quest" and "Adventures in
Clinton said. "Children are ex-
Peace Making."
posed to more chemicals when
Clinton urged support for legis-
they're growing and developing."
San Jose Mercury News
5/21/98
Senate
race gets
nasty on
GOP side
ment since the DavidDuke candida-
cy," Schmidt told reporters. Duke,
who no longer belongs to the KKK
but still advocates white separat-
ism. was a Republican state legisla-
tor in Louisiana and ran a number of
unsuccessful.campaigns.for.higher.
office, including two for U.S. Sen-
ate.
Ex-associate blasted
PAUL ASSOCIATED PRESS
Issa's campaign staffers count-
ered by releasing a barrage of dam-
Hillary Clinton speaks with students at Sherman Elementary School in
aging evidence of their own against
San Francisco; she was promoting an environmental measure.
Joey Adkins, a former business as-
sociate who says Issa stole a com-
Ex-bookkeeper accused
pany from him in 1982.
The Issa campaign also accused
Adkins, who couldn't be reached
Karen Brasdovich, Adkins' former
Tuesday, told the Los Angeles
bookkeeper, of entering Issa's busi-
Times that he blames Issa's aggres
ness in 1982 the day after a suspi-
sive actions for his own struggles
cious fire there. The campaign as-
with bankruptcy, drinking and a re-
serts that Brasdovich "cleaned out
cent jail stint for drunken driving
the company bank account" while
Adkins also was convicted of of-
Adkins stole more than $100,000 in
fering an undercover police officer
parts and inventory.
$20 for oral sex in 1994, and of mak-
Brasdovich, contacted by tele-
ing "harassing phone calls" in 1993,
phone in Ohio on Tuesday, said the
according to copies of Cleveland
accusation was "totally untrue."
Municipal Court documents that the
Brasdovich, who said she is a sin-
Issa campaign faxed to reporters.
gle mother of three children, said
Campaign staffers also played
she did enter the business the day of
two taped telephone messages to Is-
the fire and took the books home,
sa that they said Adkins left in early
but that she turned them over a day
May in an attempt to extort money
or two later to Adkins. "Tm flabber-
in exchange for not talking to the
gasted," she said of Issa's accusa
Los Angeles Times
tions. "I just can't believe someone
"Darrell, this is Joey," both mes-
could make up stories like that"
sages begin The caller tells Issa he
The 1982 fire was investigated as
has a "provisional patent applica-
a suspected arson A few weeks be-
tion" for a battery lock device and
fore the blaze, Issa increased the
says, "Um, actually my asking price
fire insurance, according to the re-
is somewhere in the neighborhood
port. No one was charged, and Issa
of 4 to 5 million dollars, and I have
said the fire was an accident His in-
an interested party who is planning
surance company contested the
to come in and talk about it Monday
claim, and Issa reached an out-of-
morning. So if you're interested, I
court settlement.
suggest you give me a buzz."
The message doesn't identify the
"interested party." According to
Gimbel, Adkins called a third time
and spoke to Issa, who told him, "I
don't do business that way."
San Jose Mercury News
5/27/98
HILLARY CLINTON TOUTS BOXER WHILE GOP CANDIDATES FEUD
Democrat gets partisan push
as Fong and Issa turn nasty
against democra-
BY SARAH LUBMAN
cy."
Boxer is run-
Mercury News Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Hillary Rodham Clinton
ning virtually un-
gave a fire-and-brimstone speech Tuesday in sup-
opposed in Tues-
port of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, saying Boxer's Re-
day's open prima-
publican opponents in the Senate race are "against
Γy
for
the
democracy" and must be beaten for the good of the
Democratic nomi-
nation to the Sen-
country.
ate. Her main GOP
As Boxer enjoyed a partisan push from Clinton,
Issa
the increasingly tight race between Boxer's GOP ri-
challengers are
vals, state Treasurer Matt Fong and Vista business-
Fong and Issa, a car-alarm tycoon
man Darrell Issa, turned nasty: In Los Angeles,
who has spent more than $8 million
financing his own campaign.
Fong's spokesman likened Issa to former Ku Klux
Before Clinton's 20-minute talk,
Klan leader and would-be senator David Duke.
Boxer thanked her listeners and
The insult followed a weekend of explosive
told them to expect a bruising, nas-
charges, reported in the Los Angeles Times, that Is-
ty campaign in the
sa's rags-to-riches success story includes an arrest
fall - and a very
for car theft at age 18, suspected arson, and intimi-
narrow margin of
dation of a former employee with a gun.
victory.
Lisa Gimbel, Issa's spokeswoman, called the re-
"Whoever the
port a "false, malicious, reckless disregard for the
Republican nomi-
truth." The campaign derided the story as a "Los
nee is, this will be
Slanderous Times hit piece."
a tough and a very
See SENATE, Page 14A
close race," Boxer
said. "It will be a
SENATE
Fong
two- to five-point
from Page 1A
race. You heard it
from me. And the important thing is
While Boxer's Republican rivals
that we want to be on the right side
for the U.S. Senate slugged it out,
of the two to five points."
Clinton used strong words of her
The most recent Senate race poll,
own to energize Boxer supporters
by the Los Angeles Times, found Is-
at a $250-a-plate fundraiser lunch
sa and Fong statistically dead-
for the Democratic incumbent.
locked among likely voters at 22
Clinton painted the Senate race
percent to 20 percent. Boxer had
as an apocalyptic fight between
support from 40 percent, with 18
right and wrong, with conspiratorial
percent undecided. But the poll also
forces at work.
showed her to be vulnerable, with
"We're engaged in
38 percent of likely voters disap-
a great struggle
proving of her performance in the
over which way
Senate.
we're going in the
Boxer told reporters she is not
21st century," she
participating in Thursday's debate
told more than 600
between Fong and Issa in San Jose
people in the ball-
because the invitation "came very
room of the Fair-
late in the game."
mont Hotel
At the same time that Boxer was
Boxer
Boxer's oppo-
delicately sidestepping the story
nents, Clinton con-
about Issa, Fong's campaign was
tinued, could win by depicting the
making political hay of it. At a 1:30
incumbent senator as an out-of-
news conference by Fong and U.S.
touch liberal or by making "politics
Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., in
as distasteful as possible - run as
downtown Los Angeles, Steve
hard as they can against politics,
Schmidt, Fong's spokesman, called
against government, against prob-
Issa's campaign "an obscenity."
lem solving, really
"It's the single biggest embarrass-
Los Angeles Daily News 5/27/1998
PROTECTING THE CHILDREN
Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with schoolchildren at Sherman Elementary School in
San,Francisco on Tuesday to promote the Children's Environmental Protection Act. The
bill would require environmental standards for pollutants to be set at a level that protects
children in schools and playgrounds.
Paul Sakuma / Associated Press
Marin Independent
May 27, 1998
WEDNESDAY
Journal Marin County, California
First lady pays
visit to S.F.
to help Boxer
By Lizette Wilson
Independent Journal reporter
SAN FRANCISCO - First lady Hilla-
ry Rodham Clinton led the brigade of
Barbara Boxer supporters yesterday,
helping the senator pack 750 into the
Fairmont Hotel's Grand Ballroom and
raise more than $187,000 in the process.
Clinton praised Boxer's political prior-
ities and urged the audience to convince
"everyone you can get to listen to you" to
back the articulate incumbent who
"drives her opponents crazy."
Although Clinton was to attend anoth-
er fund-raiser for Boxer in Santa Monica
and President Clinton is to be at a June
12 fund-raiser, Boxer said campaigning
for re-election is difficult.
IJ photo/Frankie Frost
"It's every day trying to figure out how
A FRIENDLY SQUEEZE: First lady Hillary Rodham
to get more money. It's depressing to go
Clinton hugs Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Greenbrae resident,
back time and time again to the same
during a campaign fund-raiser at the Fairmont Hotel in San
Francisco yesterday.
See Clinton, page A8
Clinton
From page Al
people," she said, adding if re-elect-
ed, her first fight would be to re-
form campaign finance laws.
Facing marginal opposition from
within her party, the former Marin
County supervisor said she'll dip
into her $3.36 million reserve when
her opponent is chosen June 2.
She has spent $1.7 million this
year, compared to hopeful Republi-
can nominees Darrell Issa's $7 mil-
lion and state Treasurer Matt
Fong's $3 million, according to re-
ports.
Boxer, D-Greenbrae, wouldn't
say which man she would prefer as
her opponent, and she shrugged off
the significance of recent polls.
"It'll be a two-to-five point
spread. One-third of Californians
hate you, one-third love you and
one-third don't care. That's how it
is," she said.
The most recent Public Policy
Institute of California poll reported
Boxer leading all candidates with
39 percent and Issa leading Fong 22
percent to 10 percent.
The poll has a margin of error of
three percentage points.
Boxer, fresh from nailing $18.1
billion for state transportation Sat-
AP photo
urday under a federal bill, said yes-
REACHING OUT: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton greets
terday she's ready to attack other
problems.
children from Greenbrook Elementary School in Danville during a
She said she will continue push-
campaign swing through California for Sen. Barbara Boxer.
ing for cheaper gas prices in Cali-
fornia and hound Federal Trade
Commission investigators over
why Californians pay 10 to 30 cents
more per gallon for gasoline than
the national average.
Increasing police, stricter gun
regulations, widespread health care
and healthier environment top her
list of spending priorities.
She wants to improve public edu-
cation by decreasing class size, en-
force tougher testing standards and
spend more on books and other in-
class materials, she said.
State Superintendent of Educa-
tion Delaine Eastin and other long-
time supporters lingered in the
Fairmont lobby following the
speeches.
Said Eastin: "She's one of the
people who helped me. I fully en-
dorse her. She's always extended
the ladder down and helped people"
climb up.
IJ photo/Frankie Frost
Although Fairmont officials said
STAR POWER: Actor Sean Penn, who lives in Ross, was at
hotel staff joined Secret Service,
yesterday's San Francisco rally.
San Francisco police and others to
provide security during the two-
exit doors, but entry into the room
od of operating.
hour luncheon, enforcement offi-
was not heavily checked.
"We have a close working rela-
cials were virtually invisible.
David Wiener, director of sales
tionship with the people in Wash-
One man strolled along the grand
and marketing for the hotel, de-
ington and we have events here like
ballroom's balcony during the
clined to state how many security
this all the time," he said. "At this
event and two others stood near the
officials were working or the meth-
point we have this down."
Associated Press
The Dalai Lama spoke at Emory Universi-
ty in Atlanta, and Oprah Winfrey at Wes-
leyan University in Middletown. Conn.
Emory University
Associated Press
Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke at Howard Univer-
sity in Washington, and the author Robert Ful-
ghum addressed graduates at Syracuse University.
Associated Press
- The New York Times
2/2
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1998
Words of Wisdom for the Nation's Graduates
EMORY UNIVERSITY
As students leave the cocoon of
STEVENSINSTITUTE
college for the so-called real world
OF TECHNOLOGY
DALAI LAMA
commencement speakers across the
Exiled leader of Tibet
country share their pearls of wis.
ANNA QUINDLEN
dom, lend earnest advice and pro-
Author
"If you have only education and
vide a pep talk for life. These ex.
knowledge and a lack of the other
"You walk off this campus this after-
cerpts from addresses were taker
side, then you may not be a happy
noon with only one thing that no one
from transcripts provided by the
person, but a person of mental un-
schools.
rest, of frustration. Not only that. bur
else has. There will be hundreds of
if you combine these two, your whole
FRANKLIN PIERCE COLLEGE
people out there with your same de-
life will be a constructive and happy
gree; there will be thousands of peo-
MARLIN FITZWATER
ple doing what you want to do for a
life. And certainly you can make
Reagan and Bush press secretary
living. But you will be the only person
immense benefit for society and the
alive who has sole custody of your
"I have one piece of bad news. Re-
betterment of humanity. That is one
life.
People don't talk about the
member those nightmares you have
of my fundamental beliefs: that a
soul very much anymore. It's so
about not remembering which class
good heart, a warm heart, a compas-
much easier to write a résumé than
to go to, or you do remember and
sionate heart, is still teachable."
then discover you missed so many
to craft a spirit. But a résumé is cold
classes they tore the building down.
comfort on a winter night, or when
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Those never go away."
you're sad, or broke, or lonely, or
when you've gotten back the test
OPRAH WINFREY
results and they're not so good.
Talk show host
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
Realize that life is the best thing
ever, and that you have no business
"For me greatness isn't determined
ROBERT FULGHUM
Author
taking it for granted."
by fame. I don't know if you want to
be famous. I don't know if you want
"I don't know how many of you have
to go to the bathroom and have peo-
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
ever looked up a waterspout, but it's
ple say, 'Is that you in there?' 'What
very dark and very dangerous-look-
HILLARY CLINTON
is she doing? That is the price of
ing up there, scary, but there's light
First Lady
fame - and then reading about it in
showing. And the song says disaster
the tabloids. I don't know if you want
occurred and washed the spider out,
"Don't confuse having a career with
that for yourselves, but I do believe
and down came the rain. The song
having a life. They are not the
that what you want is a sense of
does not say
'And the spider said
same."
greatness What Dr. King says.
to hell with that and did something
greatness is determined by service."
else.' Out came the sun - circum-
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY
stances changed, and the spider went
JUILLIARD
up the spout again. This is the fight
MAE C. JEMISON
song of the human race"
Astronaut
TERRENCE McNALLY
"Make sure you formulate the right
Playwright
MERRIMACK COLLEGE
questions. You're always going to
"Less than six months after I gradu-
hear people say a fool and their mon-
ated from Columbia the Great White
WENDY WA SSERSTEIN
ey are soon parted. But the real
Hope of American Playwritting was
Playwright
question that you want to ask your-
working at the Museum of Modern
"In 1998 we are looking directly at
self is, 'How does a fool and money
Art selling admission tickets. The
not only the millennium, but an infor-
get together in the first place?'
price was 95 cents. Most people paid
mation revolution. But when most
with a single. I had to make change.
people wake up in the morning they
COLLEGE OF WOOSTER
It was a nickel. Grueling work. I
don't generally sit with a cup of
don't know how I managed But what
coffee and think, 'How am I going to
THOMAS D. POLLARD
was really wrong with my time at
deal with this upcoming millenni-
President, Salk Institute for
MOMA? I didn't write. I whined
um?' Or, 'Oh, my God, there's an
Biomedical Research
about the lack of time to write. I told
information revolution, I better stock
myself how much I would write just
"Certainly in the world of science,
up on frozen veggies.' Mostly we
as soon as my first play made me
the questions are more important
think about 'How will I get through
rich and famous, which used to be
than the answers in many cases. But
this day?' Or 'Can I control where
the American Dream, but has since
I believe that is also true of life in
my life's going?'
become for artists the American
general.
Would the women in the
Nightmare as more and more people
confuse bank accounts and movie
UNIVERSITY OF TULSA
audience actually like to* know
deals and crossover albums with
KEITH E. BAILEY
whether or not they are at risk for
success as an artist"
Chairman, Williams Companies
breast cancer? The community AS
"The rate of change we are experi-
divided on whether this kind of infor-
encing IS remarkable in this knowl-
mation is desirable, whether people
edge age you are entering. If you
could live with that knowledge So
choose a career in the field of tech-
my big question with which I send
nology, you should expect to see 20
you home is this: Are you prepared
1/2
percent of your skills become obso-
to live with the knowledge about your
lete every 12 to 18 months."
genetic predisposition to disease?"
ROANOKE COLLEGE
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
FRANCIS W. LEE
JOSEPH M. McLAUGHLIN
Investment director, Hana Bank
Judge, United States Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit
"The Internet, E-mail, CNN, faxes,
voice mail, cell phones, pagers. each
"We urge you not to go off on an
of these things contributes to the
emotional drunk, or resign from the
illusion that we are capable of know-
human race, because Americans
ing intimately what it IS like to live in
have risen only halfway between the
another place am here to tell you
apes and the angel."
that we cannot, we do not, we will not
gain this understanding until we
URSINUS COLLEGE
The New Times
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1998
move away from our nests of 'virtual
reality' and get out into the world
CORNEL WEST
The world may seem to be shrinking.
Harvard professor
but that's just an illusion. Every im-
age we see excludes the thousands of
"Let us not forget that we are com-
others that have been edited out
ing to the end of a ghastly century. in
which this tradition of struggle has
pushed back indescribable evils. 200
TRINITY COLLEGE
million follow human beings mur.
JIMMY CARTER
dered in the name of some permicious
Former President
ideology. What a century. Unprece-
dented levels of brutality, of barbar-
"We're inclined to live in an encapsu-
ity - I would say bestiality, but
lated world of our own creation. We
that's being unfair to the beast."
like to be with people who are just
like us, with the same color, the same
kind of clothes, the same kind of
automobile, the same kind of houses,
who go to the same place to worship.
But there's a vast world out there -
not just in our own country but in
nations as well'
PM-CA- California News Digest, 1165
California AP News Digest
Wednesday PMs
Here are the top stories in sight at this hour for PMs of Wednesday, May
27, 1998. The supervisor in Los Angeles is Oscar Musibay, followed by Sue
Manning, and can be reached at (213) 626-1200. The supervisor in San Francisco
is Jim Clifford, followed by Mark Evans. For photos in Los Angeles, call (213)
626-2500. For technical problems, call Los Angeles at (213) 626-5833 or San
Francisco at (510) 463-9180. All times are Pacific unless otherwise noted.
MRS. CLINTON: First lady appears at schools on California trip
SAN FRANCISCO Cheered by dozens of excited children, first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton said more can be done to protect kids from pollution. That's
why she came out in support of Sen. Barbara Boxer's Children's Environmental
Protection Act, which would require federal environmental standards for
pollutants be set at levels to protect children.
Slug PM-WST--Mrs Clinton-Boxer.
By Anne M. Peterson.
BC-FOREIGN-GENDER-NNS
GENDER AND SEXUALITY BEAT
With sidebar, FOREIGN-PROGRAMS'
Women's Voices Now Heard in U.S. Foreign Policy
Optional trim at 1,100 words With two photos, of a Somali woman with
firewood (NNS1) and Albright with Afghan girls (NNS2)
By DELIA M. RIOS
c.1998 Newhouse News Service
WASHINGTON, D.C. Tradition and need forced women and girls among the
100, Somalis in refugee camps near the Kenyan village of Dadaab to walk
three to six miles for firewood.
As they foraged, they became sexual prey, subject to bandits, cross-border
attacks and clan conflicts. Forty rapes were reported in one month. A U.N.
official counted 400 rapes in a year's time. Desperate Somali women and U.N.
officials turned to Americans.
This may not be how most Americans think of U.S. foreign policy.
But it is why the United States gave $1.5 million to the Office of the
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to provide the women and girls of the
Dadaab camps with firewood.
Foreign policy by firewood, arising solely out of the needs of women and
girls, illustrates a shift within the State Department in attitude, style and
policy as women's issues work their way into U.S. diplomacy from Africa to
Eastern Europe to South Asia.
The Clinton administration, most noticeably through the voices of
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and first lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton, has declared that it intends to put women's issues into the
day-to-day workings of foreign policy. Opportunity for women and girls, as
the administration sees it, promotes economic development and political
stability that is in the broader interests of the United States.
Albright calls it a mission.
Yet a critical eye is being cast on the administration's avowed commitment
to women around the world. Observers of women's rights remain mindful of the
vagaries of foreign policy, of how volatile political and economic situations
can sabotage the best intentions and how other, more pragmatic demands may, in
the end, subjugate women's interests.
There is an opportunity for women's issues in the global restructuring
that has followed the end of the Cold War as the United States redefines its
role in the world.
Where will it have influence? What kind of influence?'' asks Linda S.
Jamison, an adjunct fellow with the Center for Strategic and International
Studies in Washington.
I think the Clinton administration is right when it tries to redefine
foreign policy, but I don't know if I would call them gender or women's issues
that's too limiting,' Jamison says. They are life-sustaining issues,
democracy issues, in order for people to feel safe in their countries, to have
safe water to drink, and safe food to eat. "
On the occasion of International Women's Day in March, the first lady,
joined in the East Room of the White House by President Clinton, offered her
personal litmus test of the mission she shares with Albright:
As we work to give voice to all women, let us judge ourselves not only
by what we choose to say, by not only what we choose to see, but by what we
choose to do in our nation and around the world.
To mark progress, as the first lady put it, one can look to the briefings
that U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson received on the plight of Afghan women
before a diplomatic mission there. Or to the face-to-face meeting here in
Washington between representatives of the Taliban one of the warring Afghan
factions that has imposed what Albright calls despicable conditions on women
and Theresa Loar, the State Department's point person on women's issues.
One can look, too, to Albright's private suggestion to Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States and Israel cooperate to
1002
combat trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and domestic servitude
into Israel, which produced a working agreement. Or to the more than $150
million provided since 1992 by the U.S. Agency for International Development
to teach women their legal rights and encourage them politically as voters and
candidates in, for example, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and
countries that were part of the former Soviet Union.
And also to the G-8 economic summit held in mid-May in Birmingham,
England, where the issue of trafficking in women and girls made it onto the
agenda with the support of, among others, the United States. Leaders of the
world's leading eight economies, including Clinton, agreed to pursue a
strategy to end trafficking in origin, transit and destination'' countries.
If you look at the way the secretary (of state), the first lady, the
president have been speaking on these issues, they have all been in a line,
says Loar, senior coordinator for international women's issues at the State
Department.
Madeleine Albright does not just give speeches on this issue to women's
groups, Loar says. She weaves this into her message in all forms, in her
travels and in one-on-one conversations with heads of other governments.'
But complications abound.
Regan Ralph of Human Rights Watch says Afghan women are looking warily
toward U.S. involvement in any peace negotiations, anxious that the United
States not back away from using its influence to help them regain their
freedom to go to school, seek health care and work, and move about in public
all activities severely restricted by the Taliban.
Jill Merrick of the International Center for Research on Women, meanwhile,
worries about the fate of a violence-against-women program in India as the
United States cuts aid there in retaliation for recent nuclear testing. She
sees the impact of global trade policies, which she believes are too often
ignored, leaving women vulnerable to exploitive working conditions in the
factories of multinational corporations.
There is, too, the matter of an international treaty on women's rights,
which 161 countries including America's European allies and major trading
partners have ratified, but the United States has not. The treaty the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women is
stalled in the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chaired by Sen. Jesse
Helms, R-N.C. Republican committee members objected to the treaty during its
last hearing in 1994, saying that it was unenforceable and risked `diluting
the moral suasion'' of the United States.
President Clinton publicly has called for its ratification by July
to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, which
launched the 19th century women's movement in America. Albright has attempted
to exert her own influence with Helms, but no new hearings are scheduled.
What encourages women's rights advocates is the sense that a critical mass
has been building globally since the 1995 U.N. Fourth World Conference on
Women in Beijing, China. Ambassador Nancy Rubin, the U.S. representative to
the United Nation's Commission on Human Rights, describes the United States as
one of numerous countries trying to effect change.
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Palestinians thank U.S. first lady
AMMAN, Jordan, May 25 (UPI) Forty prominent Palestinians living in Jordan
have sent a letter to U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, thanking her for
her recent statement in support of Palestinian statehood.
They wrote today that they are grateful'' for her statement, which they
described as courageous and wise.''
The first lady said in a recent interview with Arab and Israeli students,
via satellite, that it would be in the interest of peace in the Middle East
for Palestinians to have an independent state.
The White House later said the statement was her personal opinion and that
U.S. policy in the Middle East was the same.
The issue of statehood is one of the central disagreements of the
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which have been stalled for more than 14
months. Mrs. Clinton's remarks came as a surprise to many Palestinians, who
believe Washington opposes a separate Palestinian state.
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NATIONAL THE GENDER AND SEXUALITY BEAT
FOREIGN-GENDER: Women's Voices Now Heard in U.S. Foreign Policy (With
sidebar, FOREIGN-PROGRAMS')
(WASHINGTON) The Clinton administration, most noticeably through the
voices of Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton, has declared that it intends to put women's issues into the
day-to-day workings of foreign policy. Opportunity for women and girls, as the
administration sees it, promotes economic development and political stability
that is in the broader interests of the United States. Albright calls it a
mission. Yet, a critical eye is being cast on the administration's avowed
commitment to women around the world. Observers of women's rights remain
mindful of the vagaries of foreign policy, of how volatila political and
economic situations can sabotage the best intentions and how other, more
pragmatic demands may, in the end, subjugate women's interests. By Delia Rios.
With two photos. About 1,500 (``W'' category)
FOREIGN-PROGRAMS: How the United States Promotes Women's Issues (With
FOREIGN-GENDER'')
(WASHINGTON) While Madeleline K. Albright has been secretary of state, a
focus on women's issues has been propelled to the forefront of U.S. foreign
policy. A look at some of the Clinton administration's efforts to integrate
women's issues into U.S. diplomacy. By Delia M. Rios, 2nd story. About 700
(``W'' category)
First Ladies to the First Lady
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times (inset) -
Capricia Penavic Marshall, above, and a predecessor, Letitia Baldrige.
By ALEX WITCHEL
Continued From Page I
W
HITE HOUSE social secretary. Just
"
and a mouth of her own.
the sound of it conjures another time
Like Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Marshall is
- ballrooms dotted with décolletage
a lawyer. She is also a first genera-
and long white gloves. The social secretary
tion American (her mother is Mexi-
herself might be a tall, no-nonsense-type wom-
can, her father Croatian), raised in
an, her tiny black books holding the private
Cleveland. She joined the Clinton
numbers of all the right people, happy to be
campaign after graduating law
summoned at a moment's notice.
school at Case Western Reserve. Her
Letitia Baldrige still fits the bill. At a recent
organizational skills so impressed
lunch interview in New York at La Côte
the First Lady that she became her
Basque, the etiquette expert and author stood
executive assistant, a job she held
6-foot-1 in her suit, pearls and, yes, a pin. She
until last fall. Unlike Ms. Baldrige,
made her entrance with perfect carriage, per-
who went to Vassar, was the daugh-
fect makeup and the air about her that every-
ter of a Congressman and had served
thing will turn out just fine. Even at 72, her
as social secretary to Ambassador
voice sounds like bells, not the whisper she and
Clare Boothe Luce in Rome, Ms.
her classmates learned at Miss Porter's
Marshall has no social pedigree or
School. "Some people never got rid of it," she
international connections.
said, referring, of course, to Jacqueline Ken-
Which is just as well, since she
nedy, for whom Ms. Baldrige worked.
hasn't the time. The job she holds has
doubled in dimension from the Ken-
down to talk about her newest book (her 16th)
nedy days, when it was purely social.
called "In the Kennedy Style: Magical Eve-
Today, Ms. Marshall is the person
The New York Times
SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1998
She ordered a glass of white wine and settled
responsible for scheduling every
nings at the Kennedy White House" (Double-
event that happens in the Executive
day, $29.95). which includes menus from René
Mansion or on its grounds, from
Verdon, then the chef.
working breakfasts to press confer-
Ms. Baldrige does not have a difficult task.
ences.
President and Mrs. Kennedy, shrouded as they
Also unlike the Kennedy days, the
are in history's tragic glory, live on as the
Clinton White House co-exists with
young, glamorous couple who launched a mil-
live television,crews, ready to record
lion imitators - or at least Mrs. Kennedy did,
every detail as it happens. (Remem-
with the craze for pillbox hats and triple
ber the uproar over Mrs. Kennedy's
strands of pearls. And despite ensuing 'Ken-
tour of the White House? That was
nedy family antics, the Camelot myth endures.
taped and edited. You can only imag-
Ms. Baldrige not only was a part of it, but also
ine it live.)
organized it, and her tales wear the sheen that
"A much broader audience is look-
only 35 years can add.
ing at the White House today," Ms.
Capricia Penavic Marshall is not so lucky.
Marshall said. "During the Kenne-
At 33, she has been Hillary Rodham Clinton's
dys, it was more elitist. At a state
social secretary for all of eight months. Her
dinner, only 130 people got to see it.
predecessor, Ann Stock, who began with the
Now, my mom calls after the din-
Clintons in 1993, left last September to become
ner's been on C-Span and says, 'You
vice president for institutional affairs at the
looked great, honey.'
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
But that sort of scrutiny provides
Arts, leaving Ms. Marshall the ticklish task of
an additional strain, and sometimes,
it shows.
implementing the style of a First Lady like
Ms. Marshall's interview took
none before her - one with a career, a mind
place at the White House on what
Continued on Page 3
turned out to be the day after Mrs.
Clinton created a furor by advocat-
ing a Palestinian state. Ms. Marshall
entered with the aide who had set up
the interview, but in the wake of the
previous day's drama (the Adminis-
tration disavowed Mrs. Clinton's
comments), both women had seem-
ingly panicked and wanted to cancel.
They were accompanied by a third
aide, from Mrs. Clinton's press of-
fice, who apparently feared a report-
er might stray from gladioli to Gaza.
Finally, Ms. Marshall determined
she was in no immediate danger and
dispatched the press aide. She sat
down, summoned a smile and started
to chat. Though her manner veers
from clipped professional to girl-
next-door and back again, she man-
aged to banish the paranoid after-
taste with a show of friendliness and
of moving to another room for enter-
They enjoyed life so much. That's
common sense.
tainment. "I was so worried that it
what caught America's eye."
In all administrations, the social
wouldn't work," Ms. Marshall said,
Since Mrs. Kennedy, almost every
secretary must be so inside the head
"until I saw Prime Minister Prodi
First Lady has sought Ms. Baldrige's
of the First Lady that she can exe-
start singing the opera to Mrs. Clin-
counsel. She spent six weeks helping
cute her taste - the likes and dis-
ton. Suddenly, my hives calmed
Nancy Reagan settle in.
likes of the lady of the house, who is
down."
"With them, the White House was
also the lady of the nation.-
Unsurprisingly, Ms. Marshall
formal again," Ms. Baldrige said.
A look at a "typical" day tells the
rarely gets to see her husband, Rob-
"Nancy has her marvelous sense of
tale. Ms. Marshall begins each morn-
ert Marshall, a fellow in cardiology
fashion, and she was a marvelously
ing at 7:45 with a White House senior
at Georgetown Hospital. "For any
good hostess. But she was smart
staff meeting, a social office meeting
person at the White House, it's 24-7,"
enough to realize that a California
and a First Lady's office meeting.
she said, meaning 24 hours a day, 7
hostess is not a Washington hostess,
"By then it's 10, and we have an
days a week. "It's a moment in time,
so she got in touch with old Washing-
event," Ms. Marshall said. "We have
a slice of your life that you cherish. I
ton society people and made them
one coming up, for example, for Chil-
wouldn't want it any other way."
her friends. The Clintons thought do-
dren's Miracle Network, which
Neither did Ms. Bàldrige. Pointing
ing that was unnecessary, and it
raises money for sick children. That
out the famous murals on the walls
probably is. Old Washington society
will be 300 people for a program in
at La Côte Basque, painted by Ber-
doesn't count for much anymore.
the Rose Garden, then a receiving
nard Lamotte, she recalled that Jo-
Just to themselves."
line, then a reception."
seph Kennedy Sr. had commissioned-
She raised her drawn-in eyebrows
A luncheon comes next, for which
him to paint wraparound murals of
in mock horror. "The world has
she and Mrs. Clinton will already
the Virgin Islands for the White
changed. I'm sorry it has, but it has.
have approved both menu and pro-
House indoor swimming pool.
It behooves everyone to move for-
gram. News conferences are usually
"Bernard was very French," Ms.
ward, think forward."
Baldrige recalled, "and" always
She sipped her wine. "I know Mrs.
brought his own lunch. Mrs. Kennedy
Clinton and admire her greatly," she
The social secretary has
noticed that there were terrible
said. "What's different is that the
smells coming up into the main re-
Clintons have so many causes, and
gone from hidden asset to
ception room of the White House, and
they have all the people who run
we discovered that he was leaving
C-Span star in 35 years.
them. In our day the White House
his salami and cheeses in the fridge
was for the elite - heads of great
in the floral shop and the smell went
cultural and educational institutions,
into the flowers. When they were
in the afternoons. And evenings are
music and the arts. Now it's civil
brought up for parties and sat in the
for everything from white-tie din-
rights, health care, the aged. It's
hot air a while, they would let off the
ners to concerts to the frequent OC-
scent of Roquefort."
much more serious today."
currence, she said, of Mrs. Clinton's
The maître d'hôtel came to the
Ms. Baldrige left the White House
calling at 4 P.M. and telling her that
in June 1963 and married Robert
table to greet Ms. Baldrige. "I re-
50 people will be coming for dinner at
member you!" she exclaimed, while
Hollensteiner, a real estate develop-
6, followed by a movie. Though Mrs.
he muttered something about his
er, that December. "Every man who
Clinton has a reputation as a studi-
hair, or lack thereof. "But you look
asked me out had an agenda," she
ous, hard worker, both Ms. Marshall
the same, you really do," she persist-
said, "so I knew if I ever wanted to
and Ms. Stock, her predecessor, in-
ed. "There's the same smile in your
get married I would have to get out."
sist she's a party girl in her own
eyes." He blushed and bowed and
Ms. Baldrige and her husband had
right.
backed away from the table. A seć-
two children and lived in New York
"People make the mistake of try-
ond glass of wine appeared.
for 25 years, where she headed her
ing to pigeonhole her into one role,"
You could imagine that this inter-
own public-relations and marketing
Ms. Stock said. "Before coming to
change was one Mrs. Kennedy might
firm. They now live in Washington,
Washington she was the Governor's
have had, known as she was to re-
where she publishes Executive Ad-
wife for 12 years, and she loves to
member the little things, especially
vantage, a business newsletter,
entertain."
when they had to do with men.
writes a syndicated weekly column
When Mrs. Kennedy was First
Ms. Baldrige smiled. "Whenever
and lectures regularly to "bright
Lady, she placed her emphasis on
Jackie had to do all the, woman
young executives who are brilliant
the arts and on renovating and deco-
things, like teas, she would get sud-
with numbers and have not a clue
rating the White House. She liked all
den stomach distress and have to go
about social skills," she said. She
things French - food, wine, couture.
ride horses," she said. "Lady Bird
also tends her Web site, www.letitia
Hers was a rarefied world.
would always come and fill in. She
.com.
Mrs. Clinton's style is more infor-
was so much brighter and smoother
With all that, she said, "I'm still
mal, her choices more democratic.
and diplomatic than L. B. J. The Ken-
known as Jackie's chief of staff. And
"She has made the White House a
nedys got along with them better
that's all right. It was a moment in
showcase of all things American,"
than is portrayed in the books."
history, and to be part of it is incredi-
Ms. Stock said. She hired Walter
Ms. Baldrige has little use for most
ble."
Scheib, an American chef. And, she
books about the Kennedys. "They
Which is a sentiment Ms. Marshall
continued, "she showcases Ameri-
make up anything they want because
echoes. "My focus is on now," she
can regional cuisines, American
no one will deny it," just to give the
said earnestly. "I don't want to give
wines, the best in American design."
author more publicity, she said. "Be-
up a moment of now."
At a recent state dinner for Prime
fore the Kennedys were elected,
Maybe so. But both she and her
Minister Romano Prodi of Italy, Mrs.
there had been older Presidents.
employers might do well to take the
Clinton arranged for a surprise: 32
Then here was this devestatingly at-
longer view, as Ms. Baldrige has.
American singers performing Ital-
tractive young couple with two beau-
"When you pass 70," she declared,
ian opera while the guests were still
tiful children. They were so intelli-
"you forget your enemies. You think
at their tables, breaking the tradition
gent, graceful, gracious and funny.
about the nice people instead."
The New York Times
SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1998
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ATLANTA, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Boys & Girls Clubs of America (B&GCA) and
the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announce they have joined forces to introduce
a multi-faceted diversity program designed to reduce bigotry and prejudice.
Based upon ADL's highly successful A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE (R) program, which
has been used in public, private and parochial school systems around the
country for more than 12 years, the new ADL and B&GCA initiative will be
pilot tested in some 50 Boys & Girls Clubs over the next two years and then
rolled out nationally by the year 2000.
The concept for this far-reaching, innovative collaboration was developed
by Joel E. Smilow, the retired chairman and CEO of Playtex Products, Inc., and
a long-time leader in the Boys & Girls Club Movement. "In my mind one of our
nation's greatest needs is to help our young people understand the nature of
our diverse, pluralistic society, and to learn how to view our differences as
strengths so they can live, work and play together in an atmosphere of
respect, cooperation and harmony,' said Smilow. The Joel E. Smilow
Charitable Trust is underwriting the three-year program with a $2.4 million
grant, divided between B&GCA and ADL.
In April, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the Madison Square
Boys & Girls Club in New York to participate in the first pilot session of
this new initiative.
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2,000 neighborhood-based facilities serving some 2.8 million young people,
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Efforts to fight childhood asthma get boost from first lady
By Sarah Wyatt= Associated Press Writer=
WASHINGTON (AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton called for better education and
preventive measures against asthma, a disease that affects about five million
children in the United States.
While most children celebrate the freedom that comes with the dog days of
summer, others lament the smog, ozone and other allergens in the air that can
cause frightening asthma attacks. Cases of asthma among pre-schoolers rose 160
percent from 1980 to 1994, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala
said.
We know asthma is the most common medical threat to America's children
and the problem is getting worse. That is why we are trying to sound the
alarm, Mrs. Clinton said Thursday.
Asthma is a chronic lung disease that triggers episodes of wheezing,
breathlessness, tightness of the chest and coughing. People with asthma spend
almost 100 million days of restricted activity each year, and children who
suffer from asthma miss about twice as many school days as other children.
Mrs. Clinton announced efforts to educate parents and communities about
how to handle and prevent asthma attacks. A new National Ozone Map gives ozone
levels and forecasts daily and will be provided to local weather broadcasts
and on the Internet by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Clinton administration will also conduct a pilot program to identify
and prevent environmental risks to children in 11 communities. Local health
care providers, teachers, government officials and business owners will work
together to reduce children's health risks.
Sesame Street's Elmo and Luis joined Mrs. Clinton for the announcements at
Children's National Medical Center. Children's Television Workshop and the
American Lung Association have created
a multimedia packet called Sesame Street A is for Asthma,' a nationwide,
bilingual childhood asthma awareness project.
Luis sang The Breathing Song'' while the children and Mrs. Clinton
impersonated elephants to show the importance of breathing deeply.
Luis noted that the cast of Sesame Street sent their best wishes, with the
exception of the notorious Oscar the Grouch. Luis quoted him as saying: Try
to imagine how little I care.
Apparently, Oscar is not an asthma sufferer.
The National Ozone Map can be found on the Internet at
http://www.epa.gov/airnow.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced a campaign to
educate parents and communities about how to handle and prevent attacks from
asthma, which affects about five million children across the nation.
A new National Ozone Map gives ozone levels and forecasts daily and will
be provided to local weather broadcasts and on the Internet by the
Environmental Protection Agency.
The Clinton administration also will conduct a pilot program to identify
and prevent environmental risks to children in 11 communities. Health care
providers, teachers, government officials and business owners will work
together to reduce children's health risks.
Cases of asthma among pre-schoolers rose 160 percent from 1980 to 1994,
Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said.
We know asthma is the most common medical threat to America's children
and the problem is getting worse. That is why we are tryin to sound the
alarm, Mrs. Clinton said Thursday.
Asthma is a chronic lung disease that triggers episodes of wheezing,
breathlessness, tightness of the chest and coughing. People with asthma spend
almost 100 million days of restricted activity each year, and children who
suffer from asthma miss about twice as many school days as other children.
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THE RELIABLE SOURCE
By Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer
Chelsea Clinton's Flu Causes a Flurry of Questions
and "back at school." She caught the
flu, complained about stomach pains
and was hospitalized as a precaution.
C
iting privacy concerns, the first
hospitalized at Stanford University
that when you don't have answers
lady's press office compulsively
Hospital, reporters clamored for
According to the Mercury News,
people will leap to the worst
Chelsea spent the night in a VIP room
maintains a zipped-lip policy when it
details. Rumors swirled. For hours,
conclusions when it maybe is a simple
guarded by Secret Service agents. A
comes to Chelsea Clinton. Inflexibility
Hillary Rodham Clinton's press
conclusion, and they are aware of that,
nurse there told the paper: "I don't
can backfire in the the information
operatives refused to comment, and
but I don't have any information for
want to know anything about it and if I
business. Yesterday, it did.
reporters turned to White House press
you."
did I couldn't tell you."
When the San Jose Mercury News
secretary Mike McCurry for help.
Late yesterday afternoon, Marsha
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1998
The Washington Post
reported yesterday that Chelsea, a
During his daily media briefing, he
Berry, Hillary Clinton's press
freshman at Stanford, had been
said, "I advised the first lady's office
secretary, said that Chelsea was "fine"
McCurry, making a statement.
FILE PHOTO
Songs to Squirm To
with Clinton, and finally "Is This
the Thanks I Get After All I've
NOW YOU KNOW
The Congressional Club's
Done for You?"
annual First Lady's Luncheon is
Judy Collins is giving two free concerts here today-"a double-
Was there a message in the
usually a sedate affair. The 1,600
header-me and the Yankees!" the folk singer said yesterday.
music?
The first, at the Capitol at noon, kicks off the Kennedy Center's
attendees-including wives and
Luncheon chair Suzie Brewster,
summer concert series there, and at 6 she'll sing at the center as
daughters of past and present
lawmakers-don their. best frocks.
wife of former congressman Bill
part of its Millennium Stage series. Will "Chelsea Morning," the
So it went at yesterday's "denim
Brewster (D-Okla.), said no.
song that inspired the Clintons, be in the repertoire? "Oh, why
and diamonds" fete for Hillary
"Country songs are just country
not?" said Collins-and she'll throw in "The Battle Hymn of the
songs and I don't think you can say
Republic" for good measure. Collins says she has no political
Rodham Clinton at the Washington
Hilton
until country crooner
anything about them except that
agenda for her visit. "I was invited, and I'm an American!"
they are just country." Clinton
Bob Hope was too ill "with a little more than an upset stomach"
Lorrie Morgan opened her mouth.
She, of course, is the ex-sweetie of
spokeswoman Marsha Berry said
to attend his birthday bash Tuesday at the Library of Congress.
Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.),
she didn't know what the first lady
But Hope, 95 next week, was well enough yesterday to leave for
who ran the probe of White House
thought of the musical menu,
a few days of Chesapeake Bay fishing, said his publicist, Ward
which got mixed reviews.
Grant. And he felt fit enough to lead his party in singing "Happy
campaign fund-raising practices.
Said one invitee: "She was
Birthday" Monday night to a fellow diner at Goldoni restaurant.
Saying her songs are almost
always about men and women
singing what she always sings. I
Hope, meanwhile, will try to hook a few big ones today. When
he first tried the sport decades ago, he said he found it boring
leaving each other, Morgan
don't think it was deliberate. But
"because fish don't applaud."
delivered a medley of her
there is always a time when two
In the more-than-we-needed-to-know department: Carol Chan-
standards, starting with "You Ain't
people in the same room maybe
ning has filed for divorce rom her husband of 41 years, Charles
Woman Enough to Take My Man."
shouldn't be in the same room."
Lowe, claiming he had sex with her only twice in their entire mar-
The first lady-at the head table in
"This is a very old-world club,"
riage, "and it wasn't very catisfactory," she said yesterday, the
a peach trouser suit-guffawed.
noted a longtime GOP club
Associated Press reported. Channing, 77, best known as star of
Next came the Tammy Wynette
member. "There is a standard here
the eternal "Hello, Dolly!, filed papers Tuesday in Los Angeles,
tribute tune, "Stand by Your
that you leave politics at the door.
saying Lowe, 86, also humiliated and assaulted her.
Man," cheered by some
I'd have to say Hillary wasn't too
FILE PHOTO
"This is a major tragedy in my life and I've finally gathered up
Democrats in sisterly solidarity
pleased."
Morgan, left, singing to Mrs. Clinton?
enough courage to come forward," she told the New York Post.
The Washington Times
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1998
Chelsea fever
"You couldn't get any answers?"
Answered the spokesman: "I
The White House yesterday
was not successful in getting in-
again turned what should have
formation that I can share with
(been a simple story into a major
you, so therefore, I haven't."
Inside Politics
rumor firestorm.
Fully aware that secrecy on an
The simple story: Chelsea Clin-
issue such as this can fan into a
ton has caught the flu and spent
wildfire of rumors, he said he
Tuesday night in Stanford Univer-
pressured the first lady's office
sity Hospital.
for news but still failed.
No big deal, right? Well, tell
"I advised the first lady's office
that to White House Press Secre-
that when you don't have answers
Itary Michael McCurry, who tried
people will leap to the worst con-
'but failed to get any information
clusions when it maybe is a sim-
from the first lady's office, the
ple conclusion, and they are
holder of all Chelsea news.
aware of that, but I don't have any
"I don't have anything for you
information for you."
'on that," he said when asked
An hour later, Mrs. Clinton's
about a report that she was hos-
spokeswoman, Marsha Berry, is-
Compiled by Robert Stacy McCain
pitalized.
sued a 17-word statement. "Chel-
He told reporters to call the
sea caught the flu and as a pre-
first lady's office, which wasn't
cautionary measure she was
even answering its phone for a
hospitalized yesterday and re-
period yesterday.
leased this morning."
Asked how it was possible the
president's spokesman couldn't
get an answer from the first
Thanks, Hillary
lady's press office, Mr. McCurry
said, "I'm not brushing you off. I
"I thank her from deep inside
made - I had heard reports, you
my heart," Yasser Arafat said
know, had some inquiries from
Tuesday in an interview with the
news organizations concerning
Arab-language newspaper Al-
this matter, and I attempted to get
Hayat.
answers. I was not successful."
Mr. Arafat was expressing his
Asked UPI's Helen Thomas:
gratitude for Hillary Rodham
Clinton's recent declaration of
support for a Palestinian state,
Uri Dan of the New York Post re-
ported yesterday.
The PLO leader vowed that
when the Israeli peace process
"comes to an end in May 1999, it
will be my right to declare the
creation of a Palestinian state."
Mr. Arafat told Al-Hayat he
would not be deterred by Israeli
objections; he would establish an
independent Palestine "whether
they like it or not."
The New York Times
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1998
National News Briefs
Chelsea Clinton
Ailing With the Flu
STANFORD, Calif., May 20 (AP)
- Chelsea Clinton was recovering
today after a brief hospital stay and
a bout with flu, a White House
spokeswoman said.
The Stanford University fresh-
man, suffering from stomach pain,
spent Tuesday night at the university
medical center, said Marsha Berry,
the press secretary for Hillary Rod-
ham Clinton.
"Chelsea caught the flu and as a
precautionary measure she was hos-
pitalized yesterday and released this
morning," Ms. Berry said. "She's on
the mend. I don't have any more
information."
USA TODAY THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1998
CAPITAL ROUNDUP
CHELSEA CLINTON RECOVERING: Chelsea Clinton
was recovering Wednesday in Stanford, Calif., after an over-
night hospital stay and a bout with flu, a White House spokes-
woman said. The Stanford University freshman, suffering
from stomach pain, spent Tuesday night at the university
medical center, said Marsha Berry, first lady Hillary Rod-
ham Clinton's press secretary. The White House said that nei-
ther the president nor the first lady planned to go to Califor-
nia. "Chelsea caught the flu. and as a precautionary measure
she was hospitalized yesterday, Berry said.
falking It Over
By Hillary Rodham Clinton
Vouchers aren't answer
to public school woes
NO eternal
merica is facing a critical
vide funds to schools that are not
A
choice: whether to honor
accountable for what their stu-
privilege
and strengthen our com-
dents learn or how the schools
mitment to our public
manage their money.
schools or to retreat.
The evidence is mixed on
for clients,
A truly free public education
whether children who participate
is a cornerstone of our democ-
in voucher programs actually do
Γacy. Nearly 90 percent of the
better in school. The most recent
52.2 million students in this coun-
study of Cleveland's voucher pro-
Starr says
try are enrolled in public schools.
gram concludes that students
Expanding the commitment to
who use vouchers do no better
public schools is one of my hus-
than their counterparts in public
Seeks notes taken
band's highest priorities. He has
school.
proposed legislation that would
At a time in our nation's his-
reduce class size in the early
tory when it is critical for every
by Foster attorney
grades, modernize older schools
student to have better teachers,
and build new ones, implement
higher standards and more mod-
ASSOCIATED PRESS
high standards of achievement,
ern facilities, vouchers drain our
Whitewater independent coun-
and help every child read inde-
public schools. Giving a few stu-
sel Kenneth W. Starr argued yes-
pendently by the end of third
dents a ticket out of the public
terday that most people who deal
grade.
schools is the wrong approach.
with lawyers will not be affected if
It would also link every school
The right approach is to fix the
the Supreme Court rules that the
to the Internet, end the practice
schools that are failing and to of-
The Washington Times
attorney-client privilege of confi-
of automatically promoting every
fer choices within the public
dentiality does not extend beyond
student and give communities the
school system.
a client's death.
flexibility to decide what their
We know how to fix our
"Only the client who otherwise
schools need.
schools.
is planning to perjure himself
Some members of Congress,
More than 10 years ago, Chica-
would bc less candid to his at.
however, have chosen to reject
go's schools were singled out as
torney because of a rule that the
these meaningful improvements
the nation's worst. That's when
privilege does not apply after
in favor of political expediency.
the mayor, the business commu-
death," Mr. Starr said in a written
They want to take dollars away
nity and parents got serious about
brief.
from the public schools and use
fixing their schools. This week,
The justices are speeding up
them to pay for private-school
Mayor Richard M. Daley an-
their study of Mr. Starr's attempt
vouchers.
nounced that test scores in the
to obtain notes taken by the at+
One proposal that has passed
city have risen for the third
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1998
torney for White House Deputy
both houses of Congress would
straight year proof, he says, of
Counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. dur-
provide vouchers of up to $3,200
the success of tough reform ini-
ing a meeting shortly before Mr.
for private- or parochial-school
tiatives.
Foster's death in 1993.
tuition to approximately 2,000
The mayor singled out
The court will hear arguments
families in the District of Colum-
DuSable High School, which has
in the case June 8 and is expected
bia.
created a "culture of reading," in-
to announce a decision before end-
Many of you have read news
cluding a special summer reading
ing its 1997-98 term in late June or
reports about the dismal state of
program and security guards who
early July.
the D.C. public schools, sadly re-
quiz kids on vocabulary words in
Mr. Starr wants the notes to help
ferred to as among the worst in
the halls.
determine whether presidential
the nation. We must fix them, but
We also know how to provide
aides lied about whether Hillary
vouchers are not the solution.
meaningful choices for parents
Rodham Clinton had a role in a
Vouchers divert attention and
within the public schools such
White House purge of its travel of-
taxpayer dollars away from the
as charter schools. Charter
fice staff. Mrs. Clinton has said she
schools that serve the vast major-
schools are public schools that
had no role.
ity of our students just when they
give parents and teachers the op-
Lawyer James Hamilton took
need these resources to make
portunity to design their own pro-
three pages of notes on July 11,
fundamental changes. That's why
grams but are open to all students
1993, during a meeting with Mr.
my husband has promised to veto
and strictly accountable for the
Foster about the investigation of
the bill.
education of their students.
the travel office firings. Nine days
Recently, a new superinten-
When my husband was
later, Mr. Foster was found dead of
dent took over the reins of D.C.'s
elected, there was one charter
what authorities say was a self-
troubled schools and has already
school in the country. Today, un-
inflicted gunshot wound in Fort
begun to bring much-needed re-
der his leadership, there are al-
Marcy Park.
form to the system. Now is not
most 800.
Mr. Starr said most courts and
the time to siphon off desperately
Bill and I have visited charter
leading commentators that have
needed money for a program that
schools all over the country that
considered the issue "havc prop-
will affect at most 3 percent of
are leading the way in offering
erly concluded that the attorney-
the system's 70,000 students at a
important choices to public
client privilege should not apply
cost of more than $6 million.
school students and their parents.
when the client is deceased."
Vouchers will not bring one
Many of these schools are meet-
Mr. Hamilton has resisted sur-
more math teacher into the class-
ing the needs of students who had
rendering the notes, saying candid
room or repair one broken win-
trouble succeeding in more tradi-
communications would be chilled
dow. Vouchers will not restore
tional public schools.
by ending the privilege after a cli-
art, music or after-school activ-
As we prepare to enter the
ent's death. Mr. Starr said that "is
ities. And vouchers will not rekin-
new millennium, we can choose
not true for the client who plans to
dle a sense of pride in our public
to walk away from our public
invoke the Fifth Amendment or
schools.
schools or we can choose to roll
testify truthfully."
Vouchers raise fundamental
up our sleeves and make them
questions about whether the fed-
work again. Let's not opt to give
eral government can use taxpayer
just a few students a way out at
dollars to send children to reli-
the expense of giving every stu-
gious schools. And vouchers pro-
dent a way up.
Turner grant targets women, children
CARVING UP TURNER'S LARGESS
The foundation established to disburse Ted Turner's $1 billion gift to
the United Nations announced the first $22.1 million In grants
yesterday. The money will be allocated to 22 Individual projects as
follows:
A study of food security in
By Betsy Pisik
Human rights, refugees don't rate
Central and South America.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Environment/
Women/population
Repatriation of land-mine vic-
September.
campaign to defend the United Na-
tims in six nations.
climate change
42%
NEW YORK - Programs to
help women and children won
tions against criticism, much of it
Microcredit for female entre-
6%
$9.3 million
Sadako Ogata, the U.N. high
nearly half of the $22 million worth
commissioner for refugees, said
leveled by the U.S. Congress.
preneurs in South Asia.
$1.4 million
of grants announced yesterday by
earlier this week that given how
"We know the American public
In an effort to help the United
the United Nations Foundation,
the priorities of the fund had
has a good feeling about the U.N.,
Nations improve its relations with
Other
Children's health
created last year to give away Ted
shifted, she was not expecting ei-
but we have to get that feeling
the media, the fund will also un-
Turner's billion-dollar gift to the
ther of her agency's proposals to be
more sharply registered," said
derwrite press kits for the upcom-
22%
30%
United Nations.
funded.
Timothy E. Wirth, a former U.S.
ing drug summit in New York and
$4.9 million
$6.5 million
Foundation officials announced
"It is upsetting and disap-
senator who heads the Washing-
send reporters to study population
(land mines, food security,
funding for 22 projects, ranging
pointing," she said of the founda-
ton-based U.N. Foundation. "One
control initiatives in foreign coun-
drug control, poverty abatement)
from reproductive health pro-
tion's relatively recent emphasis
of the most important questions in
tries.
grams in Honduras, Comoros,
on public relations and population
any kind of public relations activ-
Lebanon and the Philippines to
issues.
ity is does that institution have
Mr. Wirth said the U.N. pop-
harvesting information about
"I don't know how the emphasis
relevance to my life? We have to
ulation agency was a natural
The Washington Times
greenhouse gases in China, to de-
tell them why the United Nations
choice.
shifted away from [Mr. Turn-
his gift, said funds would be given
ganizations will run to at least $6
mobilizing child soldiers in Sierra
er's] original ideas," Mrs. Ogata
cares about 260 million Amer-
"We're always influenced by the
away in 10 annual increments. A
million a year, including some $2
Leone.
told reporters and editors at The
icans, why is it important to 260
need to engage women more ag-
liaison office in New York, called
million a year for lobbying and
No money was earmarked for
Washington Times on Monday.
million Americans."
gressively. These grants are self-
the U.N. International Partnership
fund-raising activities. All of this
human rights or refugee assis-
In addition to the grants an-
Among the programs funded:
explanatory and track our inter-
Fund, will solicit and vet proposals
money is to come from Mr. Turn-
tance, two areas Mr. Turner speci-
nounced, roughly $2 million of the
Efforts to eradicate guinea
ests closely," Mr. Wirth said to
from U.N. agencies and monitor
er's gift and should have no impact
fied when he announced the
$100 million to be spent annually
worm in West and Central Africa
reporters.
their progress.
on the U.N. budget, which is paid
10-year, $1 billion gift of stock in
will go toward a public relations
and measles in Nigeria.
Mr. Turner, when announcing
The total overhead of these or-
by member states.
The Washington Times
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1998
PM-OK--Cherokee Grant, 160
Cherokee Nation receives grant to deal with water
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) The Cherokee Nation is one of 11 beneficiaries of a
new pilot program aimed at protecting children from environmental risks.
The tribe will receive $135,000 in federal funds over two years to educate
families about preventing health risks associated with polluted drinking
water.
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the grants today as part of
the new Child Health Champion campaign.
Many Cherokees rely on private water sources, some of which have shown
elevated levels of coliform and fecal coliform bacteria.
The grants, provided by the Environmental Protection Agency, are designed
to create a team of local health care providers, teachers, government
officials and business owners to identify children's health hazards and
develop plans to address them.
Other recipients will focus on widespread incidents of asthma, lead
poisoning and air and water pollutants.
**** filed by:APW-(OK) on 05/21/98 at 11:56EDT ****
**** printed by:WHPR (SCOH) on 05/21/98 at 14:35EDT ****
AM-CA--Chelsea Clinton-Hospital,260
President's daughter has flu, spends night in hospital as a precaution
AP Photo
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) Chelsea Clinton was recovering Wednesday after a
brief hospital stay and a bout with flu, a White House spokeswoman said.
The Stanford University freshman, suffering from stomach pain, spent the
night at the university medical center, said Marsha Berry, first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton's press secretary.
Chelsea caught the flu and as a precautionary measure she was
hospitalized yesterday and released this morning,' Ms. Berry said. She's
on the mend. I don't have any more information.'
The 18-year-old was admitted under an assumed name and spent the night in
a VIP room, the San Jose Mercury News reported on its Web site.
Stanford officials, who have pledged to guard Chelsea's privacy, said they
had nothing to report.
We have no Chelsea Clinton registered as a patient at Stanford Hospital
and haven't all week,' said Laurie Vaughan, associate director of
communications at the medical center. Asked to explain her remark after the
White House's acknowledgement that Chelsea had been hospitalized, Vaughan
said, Figure it out for yourself.'
Reporters trying to get information about the president's daughter didn't
get any further with the hospital's staff. Nurses referred inquiries to the
press information office.
Neither President or Mrs. Clinton planned to go to California, the White
House said. The Clintons visited their daughter earlier this month on a
fund-raising swing through California.
****
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**** printed by:WHPR(JMAS) on 05/21/98 at 10:06EDT ****
The best defense?
Or to shut up? No one. Whatever else was
true of the White House in the days follow-
ing the Lewinsky revelations, it's clear that
Mrs. Clinton quickly identified herself as the
key to her husband's defense.
W
That if Hillary Clinton had never
ident's job approval rating in a month's time
But to say that the counterattack came
uttered the phrase "vast right-wing
would be 70 percent or so, he was a prophet
naturally is not to say that the counterattack
conspiracy"? Which is to say, what
without honor in his own time.
was inevitable. It was a choice, and choices
if President Clinton's defenders had con-
Second, counterat-
sometimes have unforeseen consequences.
centrated solely on defense - instead of
tacking is one way to
For starters, how necessary was the coun-
devoting an equal if not greater amount of
change the subject. If the
terattack to the president's standing in the
their time and certainly a disproportionate
top priority is to get peo-
polls? It seems unlikely that his approval rat-
amount of their zeal to a counterattack on
ple to stop thinking about
ings today would be any worse had his
the president's enemies? The president just
the charges and the sub-
defenders stuck to something along the lines
might have been better off now had there
ject of the investigation,
of the following: This is no one's business.
been some early restraint.
a plausible waystation en
He denies it. His wife stands by him What
The temptation to counterattack, given
route to public indiffer-
else does anyone need to know? Who has
what the president faced, is certainly
ence is to turn people's
greater moral right than Hillary Clinton to
understandable. In thefirst place, the stakes
attention on the investi-
pass judgment on Bill Clinton? The presi-
were immense. In the early days of the
gator. As it happens, the
dent wants to get on with the job the Amer-
Monica Lewinsky affair, the Clinton presi-
Tod
Clinton team has had
ican people hired him to do. This is just a
dency was on the line. Under those cir-
Lindberg
some past success with
distraction.
cumstances, it makes sense to throw up
this strategy especial-
And then, once the poll numbers shore
everything you've got as quickly as you can.
ly in the Democratic
up: Who cares? No one cares. The American
If there was a soothsayer out there predict-
fundraising scandal, where Democrats
people want him to get on with the job they
ing the week the story broke that the pres-
stood united in the view that Republicans
hired him to do. Americans don't spend
were every bit as corrupt.
their time poking around people's personal
Third, what the heck: The first lady
lives - and there's no evidence for any of
Tod Lindberg is editorial page editor of
believes there is a vast right-wing conspir-
these prurient charges, anyway. Let the
The Washington Times. His column appears
acy out to get the president (and the first
man get back to doing the people's business.
Vednesdays.
lady, too). Who's going to tell her different?
The attack on the "vast right-wing con-
spiracy" - including independent counsel
been the political response. In the early
Kenneth Starr and Republicans on Capitol
days of the Lewinsky affair, Republicans
Hill -surely fired up the president's
stayed mum, mainly out of the view that that
staunchest partisans, and that was worth
was the safest course politically. But the
something to him. Equally clearly, Mr. Starr,
president's counterattack team eventually
the target of the fury, has emerged as a sin-
came to include most Democrats on Capi-
gularly unpopular figure. But there's no poll
tol Hill. The villains, once again, were
evidence suggesting that Mr. Clinton's cur-
Republicans.
rent popularity in office was driven by the
At that point, how could Republicans
counterattack his defenders mounted.
remain silent? House Speaker Newt Gingrich
If there isn't much to the upside of the
has let it be known that he is now on the
counterattack, has there been a downside
attack, for the duration. He will keep ham-
for the president? I think there has.
mering the Clinton White House, arguing not
First, there is a good bit of elite opinion of
the specifics of the charges in the various
the non-partisan to not-very-partisan stripe
scandals, but the general themes that this is
that is concerned about long-term damage to
a nation of laws, that no one is above the law,
the institution of the presidency being
not even the president, and that the presi-
wrought by the total-war Clinton defense.
dent's stonewalling is keeping Americans
Forcing court rulings on executive privilege
from the truth they have a right to know.
claims as part of your resistance to a prose-
Now, as it happens, more than a few
cutor you are painting as partisan will yield
Democrats are of the view that Mr. Gin-
outcomes that will bind your successors as
grich's emergence on point is the best thing
well. Even though practical politicians tend
Democrats have going for them. Maybe.
to gag at the self-importance of elite opinion,
On the other hand, do they really want to
in this case, the matter is serious.
spend their time between now and Novem-
More immediately, Mr. Starr has no rea-
ber defending the integrity of the Clinton
son now to take anything like a benevolent
White House?
view of those he is investigating. Maybe he
It's jujitsu, Washington-style. For better or
never did, but is it really wise to antagonize
worse, the Clinton counterattack on grounds
your prosecutor?
of partisan politics ensured a partisan polit-
But the most interesting response has
ical response from the GOP.
The Washington Times
WEDNESDAY. MAY 20, 1998
Hillary's PLO past
By Evan Gahr
mesh with the 1992 Clinton cam-
paign's centrist posture. And when
M
ind-reading is usually futile
Mrs. Clinton's PLO ties came to light
-unless you 're blessed with
in 1992, the campaign was long on
ESP. Washington is never-
lame explanations and short on
theless abuzz with speculation as to
accountability. Mrs. Clinton's press
why Hillary Clinton recently called
secretary Lisa Caputo told the For-
for a Palestinian state, thereby plac-
ward that Mrs. Clinton did not vote
ing the Clinton administration at
on the grant, and the money was
odds with Israel and aligned with
intended for Grassroots' anti-
Yasser Arafat on a matter intended
apartheid work in South Africa.
for future negotiations.
Picking up on that note, Mrs. Clin-
But folks eager to ascertain what
ton subsequently said, "Ifthe money
was going through Mrs. Clinton's
was diverted I knew nothing about
mind when she wrapped herself in
it."
the Palestinian flag May 8 may find
a close look at her record far more
instructive.
Indeed, no one should have been
True, President Clinton
surprised when Mrs. Clinton said,
"It would be in the long-term inter-
has a solid history of
The Washington Times
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1998
ests of peace in the Middle East for
support for the Jewish
there to be a state of Palestine."
True, President Clinton has a solid
state. But Mrs. Clinton,
history of support for the Jewish
state. But Mrs. Clinton, as everyone
as everyone knows, is
knows, is her own woman. She has
her own woman She
often made common cause with left-
ists who view America and Israel
has often made
with equal contempt. Indeed, Mrs.
Clinton has even managed to help
common cause with
fund PLO frontgroups a dubious
endeavor for which she has never
leftists who view
given an honest explanation.
America and Israel
In the late 1980s, Hillary Clinton
served as chairman of the New
with equal contempt.
World Foundation. During her
tenure, the New World Foundation
played Sugar Daddy to virtually
Not so fast. The Grassroots dona-
every ultra-left organization under
tion was a general purpose grant;
the sun - from the Committee in
Grassroots didn't have to divert any-
Solidarity with the People of El Sal-
thing. Moreover, the New World
vador (CISPES) to the National
Foundation, according to Grass-
Lawyers Guild, long thelegal arm of
roots, knew full well that the orga-
the American Communist Party.
nization supported West Bank
Under Chairman Hillary, the New
Palestinian groups.
World Foundation also donated
All of that was irrelevant to Clin-
$15,000 to the Boston-based Grass-
ton loyalists, such as Stuart Eizen-
roots International, which in turn
stat. The former Carter adminis-
funded two PLO-affiliated groups
tration official called the PLO story
on the West Bank.
an "erroneous, irrelevant and out-
It's well to note that the grant
rageous slander on Hillary Clinton."
came before Yasser Arafat
Quite a mouthful. But today, Mr.
renounced terrorism and accepted
Eizenstat, now an undersecretary of
Israel's right to exist Of course back
state, should eat his words. With the
in the late '80s, folks of Mrs. Clin-
Clinton administration increasing
ton's ilk were quite sympathetic with
the pressure on Israel thanks in
the PLO. Just as the United States
part to Mrs. Clinton's statement -
and the Soviet Union were deemed
earlier concerns regarding her sym-
morally equivalent in left-wing cir-
pathy for the Palestinian have
cles, the Jewish state was placed on
proved quite prescient.
much the same level as PLO terror-
To this day Mr. Clinton has yet
ists.
to say whether she approves or dis-
Of course, such views didn't quite
approves of the grant. Now is a good
time to press her. Of course,
"accountability" isn't quite this
Evan Gahr broke the Mrs. Clin-
administration's hallmark Getting a
ton-PLO story for Insight magazine.
straight answer from Mrs. Clinton
He now writes for The American
could be as daunting a challenge as
Enterprise magazine.
trying to read her mind.
THE KELIABLE SOUKCE
By Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer
Cense & De-Kitsch
Lc oks like Princess Drs protectors
L ing to shut down the cheese
For Arts Donors,
"I think it just an
actory. The late icon's estate sued
nklin Mint yesterday,
A Black-Tie Thanks
example of
ng the memorabilia
someone trying to
facturer was unlawfully
xplc ting Diana's name the way
H
ow do you thank more than 400 patrons and
be nasty and cute
vult res feed on the dead." The
matrons of the arts whose generosity
at the same time."
awsuit filed in U.S. District Court in
provides paintings, sculpture, furnishings and
restoration funds for U.S. embassies and
Rep. Emest Istook
os Angeles alleges the firm, known
diplomatic digs worldwide?
(R-Okla )-sponsor of the
its china dolls of Marilyn
Invite them to a black-tie White House dinner
Religious Freedom Amendment
Monroe and Elvis et al, deceptively
with President and Hillary Rodham Clinton May
to pave the way to restoring
dvertises its Di objects by stating
27, that's how.
school prayer-upon learning
proceeds go to Diana charities.
And for the 50 biggest donors to Friends of Art
yesterday he's the first recipient
In fact, defendants have never
and Preservation in Embassies-who give up to
of the Equine Posterior Award
lonated a penny to the fund," the
$100,000 a year or more in antiques, artwork or
given by Norman Lear, head of
awsuit states, according to Reuters.
money-you throw in a breakfast with Tipper
People for the American Way.
Among the items hawked since
Gore; a lunch with Secretary of State Madeleine
Diana's death last August are a
Albright at the State Department (Fed Chairman
Princess Diana Tribute Plate," a
Alan Greenspan will say a few words) and a
Diana Princess of Wales Porcelain
private tour of the Alexander Calder show at the
Portrait Doll," a "Diana, Queen of
National Gallery, led by exhibit curator Maria
Our Elected Ungrads
Hearts Jeweled Tribute Ring" and a
Prather.
. In this season of lofty commence-
Princess Diana Tlara Ring." The
Since its founding in 1986, FAPE has raised
ment speeches and tossed mortar-
state is demanding an injunction,
more than $9 million. Artists Robert
unspecified punitive damages and a
boards, we wanted to pause for a
Rauschenberg and Ellsworth Kelly, and Dorothy
ury trial.
Lichtenstein, widow of Roy Lichtenstein, will be at
minute to reflect that college isn't for
A Mint statement issued for
the dinner. So, too, will heavy-hitting collectors
everyone. You new graduates al-
wners Stewart and Lynda Resnick
Ronald Lauder, former U.S. envoy to Austria, and
ready anguishing over how many
aid, "We have pledged a substantial
his wife, jo Carole, who chairs FAPE; architect
decades it will take to repay your col-
mount of money to charity." The
Graham Gund and his wife, Ann, FAPE president;
lege loans might consider running
mount was unspecified, but the
former chief of protocol Leonore Annenberg; TV
for office. Plenty of members of the
Mint noted that "in 1997 we
producer Douglas Cramer and Dallas
105th Congress don't have college
upported the Princess Diana
businessman Ray Nasher.
degrees, yet they earn $136,700
Charity Auction by purchasing one
This year, artist Chuck Close, 57, who
year and all the rubber chicken they
her gowns for $151,000."
specializes in enormous portraits of friends and
can eat.
fellow artists, is donating 150 prints by Roy
The elected
Lichtenstein that are meant to be hung in the
ungrads, from
homes of U.S. ambassadors.
the George
"It's not a decorative print. It's a tough image,"
magazine Book
Close told the Source. "It's rather grim. I like it
BY ANNE GROER-THE WASHINGTON POST
of Political Lists
very much."
Close, contributing an Image that's "rather grim."
(and
fact-checked by
us), is as
Diana,
follows:
net for
In the Senate:
profit.
Conrad Burns
(R-Mont.),
The Washington Post
Lauch Faircloth
(R-N.C.),
Rod Grams
FILE PHOTO
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1998
(R-Minn.).
Burton, no B.A.
In the House:
Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.). Dan Burton
(R-Ind.), Sonny Callahan (R-Ala.),
Mac Collins (R-Ga.), Terry Everett
(R-Ala.), Mark Foley (R-Fla.), Elton
Gallegly (R-Calif.), William Hefner
(D-N.C.), William 0. Lipinsid (D-III),
Matthew G. Martinez (D-Calif.),
Solomon Ortiz (D-Tex.), Silvestre
Reyes (D-Tex.), Esteban E. Torres
(D-Calif.), Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.)
and C.W. Bill Young (R-Fla.).
BC-TRADE-WTO-CASTRO -2 GENEVA
Asked by reporters if Castro, whose communist policies have made him an
ideological foe for many Americans, would be present at the Clinton address,
spokesman Luis Ponce Caballero nodded his head and said: Yes.
Diplomats said the last time the two were together in the same room was
in New York in 1995 at celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the United
Nations.
Despite heightened tension between the two neighbours because of the
downing of Cuban exile planes by Cuba's air force in 1996, Castro has recently
indicated he feels Clinton may be trying for better relations.
Last Thursday, the Cuban leader warmly applauded U.S. First Lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton when they both attended a Geneva meeting of the World Health
Organisation (WHO) at which she argued that access to health services was a
basic human right. REUTERS
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