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Schedule of the President [redaction] (1 pp.)
06/27/89
(b)(3) [50 USC
403g, Sec 6]
02. Log
White House Telephone Log [E.D.T.] [redaction of personal
06/27/89
(b)(6)
information] (3 pp.)
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Collection:
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Office:
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Series:
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File Location:
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Date Closed:
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Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
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financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile.
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
Tuesday, June 27, 1989
8:00 am
Intelligence Briefing
Oval Office
(15 min)
(Scowcroft/Sununu)
8:15 am
National Security Briefing
Oval Office
(15 min)
(Scowcroft/Sununu)
8:30 am
Staff Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
(Fitzwater)
(TAB A)
9:00 am
News Conference
Briefing Room
(30 min)
(Fitzwater)
(TAB B)
9:30 am
Administrative Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
10:00 am
B Arrival Ceremony for Prime
South Lawn
(30 min)
Minister Hawke of Australia
(Scowcroft)
(TAB C)
10:30 am
Meeting with Prime Minister Hawke
Oval Office/
(60 min)
(Scowcroft)
Cabinet Room
(Distributed Previously & TAB C)
11:30 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(15 min)
11:45 am
Photo with Ambassador Edward Ney
Oval Office
(10 min)
(Scowcroft)
(TAB D)
12:00 pm
Lunch with Secretaries Brady
Oval Office
(60 min)
and Kemp, Governor Sununu and
Director Darman
(Sununu)
(TAB E)
1:00 pm
(Bt)
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(15 min)
1:15 pm
Drop by Reception in honor of
Indian Treaty
(15 min)
Connie Newman, Director of OPM
Room
(Bates)
(TAB F)
1:30 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(15 min)
UNP 06/26/89
5:00 pm
Cabinet
1:45 pm
Economic Policy Council Meeting
Room
(60 min)
(Bates)
(TAB G)
2:45 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(60 min) 3:00 SharonBude
3:45 pm
Drop by Briefing for Campaign
Roosevelt Room
(15 min)
Reform Group
(Demarest)
(TAB H)
4:00 pm
Administrative Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
4:30 pm
Meeting with Governor Sununu
Oval Office
(30 min)
7:30 pm
B Dinner for Prime Minister Hawke
State Floor
(Scowcroft) (Black Tie)
(TAB I)
7:36 Potus are Oval 8:00 add sununu
8:05 add Gate, Acour
(b)(3)
[50 USC 403g,
8:16
[50 USC 403g
out 8:21 rates & scoweroft out
Sec 6]
(b)(3)
8:22 add U.P.
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
8:32 Sec add 61 Fitzwater, Porter, Demarest, Gates, scowerft 8:37 add B. Gray
8:51 Dates out 8:53 Dates in 8:54 7 stywater out 8:56 Fitzivater into oval
9:00 all dptoval 9:01 Poters to Press Briefing Rm 9:03 Poters announced into
Press Briefing Room
9:44 dpt Briefing Rm 9:45 arr Qualofface 9:47 add Sect. Bakes
10:33 an Oval m/ P.M. Hawhe. join Dov. Aunune 10:34 suncenn out
10:42 37 add Acowerft to Oval 10:48 Potus, Hawke + Acowcroft
11:3
Hawhe + Potus to Oval Grounds. 11:43 Hawhe departs
11:47 add anb. Ed ney it al 11:49 add Girl scowerft
11:55 all ont. Aconcrift remains
UNP 06/26/89
5:00 pm
12.05 scowerftant i add Baber, Darmar, Kenp Annum + Firestone 12:08 Firestone out
1:12 Brady, Kenp, Darman + Summer out
1:14 add Bater 1:19 Bate & Potus out of Oval
1:23 an Andia Treaty Ru join Reception in progress - Consie human remarks
1:28 Potes remarks 1:32 Canclude remarks- mix and mingle
1:34 dpt Indian Treaty Rn 1:37 Potus, Bates + Lehman Li are Oval
1:39 Bates out 1:40 Bates in 1:43 Bates + Lehman Li out
1:48 add Brady 1:48 Brady out 1:50 Potus to Cabinet Room
2:56 Poten to Ovel w/ sect Mosbacher; join sharon Bush + children
2:59 all out except sect. Mosbacher 3:02 mosbacher out
3:25 add Fitzwater 3:29 7ntywater out 3:43 add Demarest
B:46 Potus + Demarest to Cabinet Room 4:12 Potus to Oval w/ Sunune +
Demarest
4:12 Demarest out, add sen. Dole, Date aidishiela "-, and mcClure
4:30 all out 4:33 scowcroft into Oval 4:40 scowerftant
4:42 andy Card in 4:43 Card out 4:52 add sunure 5:21 Sununu out
5:39 add Card & Hagin 5:41 Hagin of Card out
5:47 add Jerry Weintraul 5:48 add Summer, Card, Bates; Wintroub out
5:54 Card, Bates out 5:56 add weintraut & will Farrish
5:58 summer out
- Potus weintrant + Famile to Horseshoe pet
Poter to Residence alone 7:13 Poten + Mr. Burh to state 7lu
I
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White House Telephone Log [E.D.T.] [redaction of personal
06/27/89
(b)(6)
information] (3 pp.)
Collection:
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Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
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File Location:
Tuesday, June 27, 1989
Date Closed:
6/10/2009
OA/ID Number:
90515-001
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Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
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(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM Removed as a personal record misfile.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
E.D.T.PRESIDENT BUSH
JUNE 27th
19 89
TIME
DISC
NAME
PLACED
ACTION
out K6:48 AM
SECRETARY NICHOLAS BRADY
(b)(6)
INC
XXXX
6:50
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
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PM
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AM
GOVERNOR JOHN SUNUNU
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
XXX
INC
7:02
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 686
TLKD-OK
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SPOKE TO MISS
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
MALARDY. TLKD-OK
331-7552
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ALAN GREENSPAN
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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676-6000 FLOOR 2ND
TLKD -OK 9:00 AM.
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9:24 AM
GERALD FORD
VAIL, CO.
PRESUS WCB
INC
XXXM
9:24
303 949-0222
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INC
PM
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y:48
AM
9:51
CONGRESSMAN BOB MICHEL
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
INC
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 804
TLKD-OK
XRM
GPO : 1983 0 - 405-660 : QL 2
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
JUNE 27th
89
,
19
E. D. T. PRESIDENT BUSH
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
WCB
OUT
XXAM
GOVERNOR THOMAS KEAN
OFC: NEWARK, N.J.
TLKD-OK 12:41 PM.
XXXX
INC
12:15 PM
12:42
201 824-5900
OUT
AM
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SECRETARY JIM BAKER
WCB RETURNED CALL
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
TLKD-OK 3:01 PM.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT 420
INC
2:54
PM
3:09
OUT
AM
IN
PM
OUT
AM
FRED McCLURE
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
XIXICX
3:10 PM
3:13
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT 609
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
MRS. BARBARA BUSH
RES: WASHINGTON, D..C
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT 540
TLKD-OK
XNX
3:34
PM
3:35
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
SECRETARY JAMES BAKER
OFC: WASHINGTON, D. C.
XXXX
4:40
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 420
TLKD-OK
4:44
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
MS. ANN LYNCH
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK 4:47PM.
INC
4:45
PM
4:48
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
E. D. T. PRESIDENT BUSH
JUNE 27th
89
,
19
TIME
PLACED
DISC
NAME
ACTION
OUT
AMX
MRS. GEORGE BUSH
RES: WASHINGTON, D.C.
XXXX 5:32
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT 580
TLKD-OK 5:34 PM.
INC
PM
5:35
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
XXX
MR. JERRY WEINTRAUB
RES: WASHINGTON, D.C.
XINX
5:42
PM
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT 582
TLKD-OK
5:43
OUT
AM
IN
PM
OUT
AM
MR. WILL FARISH
RES: WASHINGTON, D.C.
XXXX 5:44
5:45
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
INC
PM
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 545
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
XXXX
5:49
CONGRESSMAN DANIEL ROSTENKOWSKI
5:57
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
INC
PM
225-0690
TLKD-OK 5:53 PM.
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
XXXXX
MIKE WEINTRAUB
XNEX
11:06 PM
11:07
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
GPO : 1983 o - 405-660 : QL 2
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SIGNAL SWITCHBOARD
June 27 , 1989
TIME
NAME
PLACED
DISC
ACTION
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GPO : 1982 0 - 370-008 : QL 2
Presidential Phone Calls
15
55
DATE:
6-27
TIME:
b.oming/outgoing
WITH:
Rosty -
SUBJECT:
trade mustu on trypo
view on trade move
promit she should go
with you.
Nich Cabo - - Vey high
Photocopy from George Bush Presidential Library
The Bert
Ander-
FOLLOW UP:
Sec. 89 contraversial due
nichlen . drives 'ya"
Bush Library Photocopy
George Bush Handwriting
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
THE WHITE HOUSE
wASHINGTon
Tuesday, June 27, 1989
PHONE CALL FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
LEWIS RUDIN
Called to say thank you to the President and
Mrs. Bush for attending the luncheon in
New York last Thursday. He thought it
was a "great success" and the New York
audience was favorable to the speech.
It is not necessary for the President to
return the call. Mr. Rudin just wanted
his message passed to the President and
Mrs. Bush.
Bridget
CC: The First Lady
Governor Sununu
Patty Presock
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Tuesday, June 27, 1989
PHONE CALL FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
LEWIS RUDIN
Called to say thank you to the President and
Mrs. Bush for attending the luncheon in
New York last Thursday. He thought it
was a "great success" and the New York
audience was favorable to the speech.
It is not necessary for the President to
return the call, Mr. Rudin just wanted
his message passed to the President and
Mrs. Bush.
Bridget
CC: The First Lady
Governor Sununu
Patty Presock
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
1939 JUN 27 AM 9: 07
RECOMMENDED TELEPHONE CALL
TO:
Ann Lynch
DATE:
RECOMMENDED BY:
David Q. Bates
Tuesday, June wr 27, 1989
PURPOSE:
To congratulate Ann Lynch on her election as
National President of the PTA.
BACKGROUND:
Last Tuesday Ann Lynch became the
National' President at PTA's convention.
Mrs. Lynch has been a member of the PTA for
21 years. She is currently serving as the
public relations director at Humana Hospital
in Las Vegas and is the first woman to hold a
full-time job and hold the position of
national president. See attached article.
Sig Rogich had called Governor Sununu to
recommend that you call Mrs. Lynch to
congratulate her. The Department of
Education also recommends this phone call.
DATE OF SUBMISSION: June 26, 1989
got lu 6-27
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
(702) 731-8012 office
4EPM
(702) 731-8018 direct line
(702) 870-2791 home
Pleased with your "gducation pres
I've nut See + Ted Sandur,
knows Sig- - strong opportur she
was a GB supporting - monthy
mtr sig- -
THE PRESIDENT
7-27-89
5PM
Dear Sig,
I had a nice chat
just wow with PTA's
Ann Lynch- offered to
help, very high on you!
All But my trued by
A NON-TRADITIONAL LEADER
A working woman goes to work on the PTA's image
Pat Ordovensky
SA TODAY
says. "They've been soldiers on
ATLANTA - Ann Lynch
Her plan for parents
tax dollars. "The happlest day
the battlefield a long time, and
of my life," she says, "will be
they're not going to give up."
when the PTA doesn't do any
ned the PTA 21 years ago to
Lynch stayed in the PTA af-
t her son's name on a bal-
As she takes over the 6.6-
well with local membership
more fund raising."
ter her only child, Ed, left
million-parent organization,
chairmen but, she says,
Lynch started volunteering
XL
school because "I got the rell-
"When he asked me the
Ann Lynch says she has
"They're going to have to
at Las Vegas' Humana Hospital
gion of public education
I
rd time to put my $2 in an
three major goals:
learn to live with It"
in 1972 because "I had played
owe a debt to the people who
To educate parents
"Most parents, when they
enough gin rummy and golf
velope and send It In," she
educated me."
calls, "he said be was the
about what's happening in
and bridge."
send in their $2, don't know
Ungar says the new era is
By 1978 she was director of
ly kid in the kindergarten
their schools so they can in-
what they've joined. It's
here despite some pockets of
lose parents hadn't joined.
telligently join the trend to
time for adults to start talk-
volunteers. Two years later,
resistance among local PTAs.
d the only one whose name
parent Involvement. "Most
she became PR director.
ing to adults about why you
She reels off a list of minorities
so't on the balloon."
people don't know anything
She can hold the PTA and
should be in PTA."
appointed to national leader-
about schools since the day
hospital jobs simultaneously,
1 year later, Lynch was PTA
To build the PTA's
ship posts the last two years.
sident at her son's school in
they left as a student," she
she says, because of "my cor-
credibility as a child advo-
"I don't think It was all emp-
I Vegas.
says. "And It's not the
poration's commitment to par-
cacy organization and to
ty rhetoric," she says. "Many of
same."
ent involvement in schools."
)n Tuesday, she'll become
shoot down the Image that it
us were just not aware of how
lonal president after her un-
To stop using children
Rarely at a loss for words,
is run by "blue-haired la-
very white, how very middle-
- by enticing them with re-
Lynch says she was speechless
tested election at the PTA's
dies" who do nothing more
class, how very suburban and
wards - to recruit mem-
when she got a call last month
vention here Sunday. She's
than "bake cookies and
how very female we were."
) public relations director
bers. This Idea is not sitting
informing her that the school
raise funds."
Lynch says It takes time for
board - accepting a recom-
a Las Vegas hospital, thus
new members to work their
mendation from her friends in
first woman with another
faced the problem head-on. At
way up through the hierarchy.
the PTA - put her name on a
time job to become Nation-
he says the PTA isn't changing
the 1987 convention that elect-
"Until the pipeline begins to
new school.
'TA president.
fast enough. He's dropping out
By Wayne Kodey
ed her, banners and buttons
work, It's very difficult just to
despite some colleagues' pleas
"It's a symbol of parent In-
ynch, 54, mother of a 26-
give somebody a job because
rold graduate student, also
MAKING HISTORY: Ann Lynch, a PR director in Las Vegas, is the
proclaimed "A New Era Be-
that he challenge Lynch for the
volvement," she says. "A per-
they're Mexican or because
be first PTA president for
first woman with a full-time job to be National PTA president.
gins." Ungar called It "Inclusi-
presidency.
manent reminder that you can
they're Puerto Rican or be-
m a school was named be-
vity," opening the door to non-
make a difference."
"There is a point when you
cause they're black," she says.
traditional PTA populations.
have to understand that some
But the Ann T. Lynch School
she took office.
Las Vegas.
slowly than I would like": un-
"That's symbolic. And I don't
be Clark County (Nev.)
Norman Thomas, an Atlanta
people are more entrenched
means one big change for Ann
As president, one of Lynch's
pol Board last month broke
derrepresentation of men, mi-
want a symbolic leadership at
school administrator who is
Lynch: "When I got out of PTA
than others," Thomas says.
major goals, she says, Is to
the National PTA."
norities and single parents.
black, embraced the new era
and for Ann T. Lynch Ele-
"Most people on the national
and my husband retired, I was
work on a PTA image problem
Lynch also opposes those
Outgoing president Manya
stary School just outside
In '87 as he ran successfully for
going to be a wild woman. Now
board have kids out of school
that is changing "much more
Ungar of Scotch Plains, N.J.,
who think PTA's prime pur-
national vice president. Now
I've got to be a good kid the rest
and are grandparents," he
pose is to supplement 8 school's
of my life."
A
NON-TRADITIONAL LEADER
A working woman goes to work on the PTA's image
By Pat Ordovensky
USA TODAY
says. "They've been soldiers on
Her plan for parents
tax dollars. "The happlest day
the battlefield a long time, and
of my life," she says, "will be
ATLANTA - Ann Lynch
they're not going to give up."
joined the PTA 21 years ago to
when the PTA doesn't do any
get her son's name on a bal-
As she takes over the 6.6-
Lynch stayed in the PTA af-
well with local membership
more fund raising"
million-parent organization,
ter her only child, Ed, left
chairmen but, she says,
Lynch started volunteering
loon.
Ann Lynch says she has
school because "I got the rell-
"They're going to have to
at Las Vegas' Humana Hospital
"When he asked me the
gion of public education
three major goals:
I
learn to live with It."
in 1972 because "I had played
third time to put my $2 in an
owe a debt to the people who
To educate parents
"Most parents, when they
enough gin rummy and golf
envelope and send It in," she
educated me."
about what's happening in
and bridge."
recalls, "he said he was the
send in their $2, don't know
Ungar says the new era is
By 1978 she was director of
only kid in the kindergarten
their schools so they can in-
what they've joined. It's
here despite some pockets of
whose parents hadn't joined.
telligently join the trend to
time for adults to start talk-
volunteers. Two years later,
resistance among local PTAs.
parent involvement. "Most
she became PR director.
And the only one whose name
Ing to adults about why you
She reels off a list of minorities
wasn't on the balloon."
people don't know anything
She can hold the PTA and
should be in PTA."
appointed to national leader-
A year later, Lynch was PTA
about schools since the day
To build the PTA's
hospital jobs simultaneously,
they left as a student," she
ship posts the last two years.
she says, because of "my cor-
president at her son's school in
credibility as a child advo-
"I don't think It was all emp-
Las Vegas.
says. "And it's not the
poration's commitment to par-
cacy organization and to
same."
ty rhetoric," she says. "Many of
ent involvement In schools."
On Tuesday, she'll become
shoot down the image that it
us were just not aware of how
To stop using children
is run by "blue-haired la-
Rarely at a loss for words,
national president after her un-
very white, how very middle-
contested election at the PTA's
- by enticing them with re-
Lynch says she was speechless
dies" who do nothing more
class, how very suburban and
wards - to recruit mem-
when she got a call last month
convention here Sunday. She's
than "bake cookies and
how very female we were."
bers. This Idea is not sitting
informing her that the school
also public relations director
raise funds."
Lynch says It takes time for
board - accepting a recom-
for a Las Vegas hospital, thus
new members to work their
mendation from her friends In
the first woman with another
full-time job to become Nation-
faced the problem head-on. At
way up through the hierarchy.
the PTA - put her name on a
he says the PTA isn't changing
the 1987 convention that elect-
"Until the pipeline begins to
new school.
al PTA president.
fast enough. He's dropping out
ed her, banners and buttons
work, it's very difficult just to
despite some colleagues' pleas
"It's a symbol of parent In-
Lynch, 54, mother of a 26-
By Wayne Kodey
give somebody a job because
year-old graduate student, also
MAKING HISTORY: Ann Lynch, a PR director in Las Vegas, is the
proclaimed "A New Era Be-
that he challenge Lynch for the
volvement," she says. "A per-
they're Mexican or because
is the first PTA president for
first woman with a full-time job to be National PTA president.
gins." Ungar called it "Inclusi-
presidency.
manent reminder that you can
they're Puerto Rican or be-
make a difference."
whom a school was named be-
vity," opening the door to non-
"There is a point when you
cause they're black," she says.
fore she took office.
traditional PTA populations.
have to understand that some
But the Ann T. Lynch School
Las Vegas.
slowly than I would like": un-
"That's symbolic. And I don't
The Clark County (Nev.)
Norman Thomas, an Atlanta
people are more entrenched
means one big change for Ann
As president, one of Lynch's
derrepresentation of men, mi-
want a symbolic leadership at
school administrator who is
Lynch: "When I got out of PTA
School Board last month broke
major goals, she says, is to
than others," Thomas says.
the National PTA."
norities and single parents.
black, embraced the new era
"Most people on the national
and my husband retired, I was
ground for Ann T. Lynch Ele-
work on a PTA image problem
Lynch also opposes those
Outgoing president Manya
going to be a wild woman. Now
mentary School just outside
In '87 as he ran successfully for
board have kids out of school
that is changing "much more
who think PTA's prime pur-
Ungar of Scotch Plains, N.J.,
national vice president. Now
I've got to be a good kid the rest
and are grandparents," he
pose is to supplement a school's
of my life."
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Tuesday, June 27
6:15 Breakfast for President and Mrs. Bush
6:19 Mrs. Bush to the South Grounds
6:26 Mrs, Bush to the Second Floor
7:38 The President to the South Grounds, to the Oval Office
8:00 Mrs. Bush to the Swimming pool
8:40 Mrs, Bush to the Second Floor
9:15 Yves and Nancy Graux to the Second Floor
10:40 down
9:50 Mrs. Bush to the South Grounds
9:55 The President to the South Grounds for State Arrival Ceremony
for Prime Minister and Mrs Hawke of Australia
10:25 President and Mrs. Bush, Prime Minister and Mrs. Hawke and
Dignitaries to the State Floor for Receiving Line
10:35 The President and Prime Minister to the Oval Office, Mrs. Bush
and Mrs. Hawke to the Green Room
11:05 Mrs. Hawke departs North Grounds
11:08 Mrs, Bush to the Second Floor
11:15 Dr. and Mrs. Walker, Mr. Wills depart via South Grounds
11:30 Sharon Bush and Family depart North Grounds, to the
Washington Monument
11:57 Mrs. Bush to the Flower Shop
12:05 Sharon Bush and Family arrive North Grounds, to the Swimming
Pool
12:10 Mrs. Bush to the State Dining Room
12:24 Mrs. Bush to the North Portico
12:35 Mrs. Bush to the Second Floor
1:00 Lunch for Mrs. Bush,
1:45 Mrs. Bush to the Flower Shop
1:55 Mrs. Bush, Sharon and Family to Second and Third Floors
2:00 Mrs. Bush and the Farrishs to the State Floor
2:16 Mrs. Bush to the Second Floor
3:55 Sharon Bush and Family departed the White House
4:30 Mrs. Weintraub to the Second Floor
5:05 Mr. and Mrs, Jonathan Bush to the Second Floor
6:58 The President to the Second Floor
7:15 President and Mrs. Bush to the North Portico
7:17 Prime Minister and Mrs. Hawke arrive North Portico
7:18 President and Mrs. Bush, Prime Minister and Mrs. Hawke to
the Second Floor
7:20 Official Party to the Second Floor
7:45 President and Mrs. Bush, Prime Minister and Mrs, Hawke to
the State Floor
7:47 President and Mrs, Bush, Prime Minister and Mrs. Hawke to
the East Room
8:05 Guests are seated in the State Dining Room dinner is served
(126 guests)
9:50 Toasts
10:00 After dinner guests arrive (27 guests)
10:07 The President and guests to the Parlors for coffee and Drink
10:30 Entertainment in the East Room - Leontyne Price (Opera Singer)
10:50 Entertainment. concludes
10:54 The President and Mrs. Bush bid fare well to Prime Minister and
Mrs. Hawke
10:58 The President and Mrs. bush lead the guests in dancing
11:10 The President and Mrs. Bush to the Second Floor
11:15 Mrs, Bush to the South Grounds
11:20 Mr. and Mrs. Farish to the Second Floor
11:27 Mrs. Bush to the Second Floor
11:30 Mr. and Mrs. Weintraub to the Second Floor
11:33 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Bush to the Second Floor
Houseguests
George P Bush - Room 214
Mr. and Mrs. Weintraub - Lincoln Bedroom
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Bush - Queens Room
Mr. and Mrs. Farish - 213
News Summary
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1989 -- 6 a.m. EDT EDITION
TODAY'S HEADLINES
NATIONAL NEWS
Bush Seeking Way To Circumvent Court's Decision On Flag Burning --
President Bush has asked the Attorney General and the White House chief
of staff to find ways to circumvent the recent Supreme Court ruling that
extends First Amendment protection to political protesters who burn the
American flag.
(New York Times)
Bush To Ask Campaign Curbs -- President Bush plans to announce this
week a broad package of proposals aimed at changing the way federal
campaigns are financed and limiting the advantages enjoyed by incumbents.
(Washington Post)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Bush Expects Relations With Iran To Be Unchanged - -- President Bush said
U.S. relations with Iran are not expected to substantially change despite
the death of Ayatollah Khomeini and it would be "counter-productive right
now" to seek to improve them.
(Reuter)
A German Concern Sold Chemicals To Iran, U.S. Says A West German
chemical company has arranged the sale to Iran of several hundred tons of
chemicals used in making poison gas, American officials say.
(New York Times)
NETWORK NEWS (Monday evening)
SUPREME COURT - Monday the court
expanded the reach of the death
penalty to include certain teenagers
and people who are retarded.
NATIONAL NEWS
A-1
STEALTH BOMBER - The Stealth bomber
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
A-6
is now in danger of disappearing from
the military budget.
NETWORK NEWS
B-1
HUD -- A top HUD official told CBS News
EDITORIALS
C-1
Monday that taxpayer liability for
defaulted loans on public housing
is much greater than previously
thought.
This Summary is prepared Monday through Friday by the White House News Summary Staff.
For complete stories or information, please call 456-2950.
NATIONAL NEWS
BUSH SEEKING WAY TO CIRCUMVENT
COURT'S DECISION ON FLAG BURNING
President Bush has asked the Attorney General and the White House
chief of staff to find ways to circumvent the recent Supreme Court ruling
that extends First Amendment protection to political protesters who burn
the American flag.
In an interview Monday that ranged over a number of domestic as well
as foreign policy issues, the President said he was "very, very troubled"
by the Court's decision last Wednesday
White House officials said later that, on Bush's instruction, the
administration was studying whether to offer legislation or seek an
amendment to the Constitution that would forbid destruction of the flag.
The officials said the administration was leaning toward proposing
legislation as the faster route. (Bernard Weinraub, New York Times, A1)
BUSH BLASTS ABUSE OF WOMEN
Speaking to a group of university women, President Bush Monday
deplored violent crimes against women as "evil acts that transcend racial
and class lines."
"I am angered and disgusted by the crimes against American women
and by the archaic and unacceptable attitudes that all too frequently
contribute to those crimes,' Bush told the American Association of
University Women.
The President's remarks were well-received
In the speech, Bush urged cities and states to step up their efforts
to combat violence against women and to treat victims with compassion and
respect. "Fundamentally," he said, "violence against women won't subside
until public attitudes change. We must continue to educate police and
prosecutors, judges and juries, and we must engender a climate where the
message our children get from television and films, from schools and
parents, is that violence against women is wrong."
Sharon Schuster, incoming president of the AAUW, said she was
impressed that Bush spoke out forcefully on violence against women.
"We're pleased to work with him on the issue," she said.
(John Mashek, Boston Globe)
DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR KILLERS IN MID-TEENS
A sharply divided Supreme Court Monday upheld the constitutionality
of executing convicted murderers who were 16 or 17 years old at the time
of the crime, ruling 5 to 4 that the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and
unusual punishments" does not bar states from imposing the death penalty
in such cases.
In a second ruling, the court, again by a 5 to 4 vote, said the
mentally retarded could be executed so long as judges or juries consider
their condition before imposing a death sentence
Justice Scalia wrote for the majority in the two cases
The Eighth Amendment's ban could be judged in terms of society's
be based not on "merely the subjective views of individual justices
"evolving standards of decency," Scalia said, but such judgments should but
the views of modern American society as a whole."
(Al Kamen, Washington Post, A1)
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- A-2
POLICE MAY CHANGE WORDING OF MIRANDA WARNING, COURT SAYS
The Supreme Court, rejecting dissenters' claims it was "making a
mockery" of the court's 1966 decision in Miranda vs. Arizona, ruled 5 to 4
Monday that police, when advising suspects of their rights, may depart
from the words set down in that ruling.
Chief Justice Rehnquist, writing for the court, said, "We have never
insisted that Miranda warnings be given in the exact form described in
that decision.'
Justice Marshall, in a sharply worded dissent, accused the majority of
"seriously mischaracterizing" Miranda. (Al Kamen, Washington Post, A5)
SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO LIMIT USE OF RICO STATUTE
Application Of Antiracketeering Law
To Business Fraud Cases Is Made Easier
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal law originally aimed
at gangsters could continue to be used against businesses, unanimously
deciding not to limit use of the RICO Act.
But four of the justices, in a concurring opinion, suggested that
despite Monday's ruling, the law is so ill-defined and vague that it might
not survive a direct constitutional challenge
Would-be reformers of the RICO statute called the court's opinion
murky and said it would have little impact on the existing use of civil
RICO.
(B.H. Lawrence & Al Kamen, Washington Post, C1)
EIGTH AMENDMENT DOESN'T PROTECT FIRMS
FROM LARGE DAMAGE AWARDS, JUSTICES RULE
The Supreme Court handed consumer advocates a victory Monday by
ruling 7 to 2 that the Eighth Amendment -- which protects criminal
defendents against excessive fines -- does not give businesses similar
protection against burdensome punitive damage awards in civil disputes.
But the victory for consumers may be limited, because four of the
justices strongly indicated that punitive damage awards may still be limited
under the Fourteenth Amendment.
(B.H. Lawrence & Al Kamen, Washington Post, C1)
CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATES AWAIT
BUSH ADMINISTRATION RESPONSE TO COURT RULINGS
Civil rights activists are awaiting Attorney General Thornburgh's
views on recent Supreme Court decisions for a signal of the Bush
administration's commitment to equal opportunity
Thornburgh was addressing the annual convention of Operation Push
Tuesday in Chicago
He was not expected to unveil any legislative
proposals
"President Bush has repeatedly stated his commitment to civil rights
and to minority outreach efforts. However, a decision to oppose legislation
to overturn the recent Supreme Court decisions would be completely
incompatible with such a commitment," said Ralph Neas, executive director
of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
(James Rowley, AP)
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- A-3
WHITE HOUSE EXASPERATED WITH OIL INDUSTRY MISHAPS
The White House is expressing unusual exasperation with the oil
industry, fearing the recent spate of oil spills and inadequate cleanup
methods could provoke a ban on exploration and development.
Although President Bush is a former oil man and sympathetic to the
industry, White House aides said displeasure with the industry is mounting
rapidly
Two White House aides, speaking on condition their names not be
used, said the administration fears the public's growing outrage could
result in a ban on exploration and development or tougher liability
legislation than Bush favors.
(Ann McFeatters, Scripps Howard)
LATEST OIL SPILLS RENEW PRESSURE ON WHITE HOUSE
While none of the nation's three most recent oil spills is having the
calamitous environmental impact of the Exxon Valdez accident, they are
likely to increase pressure on the Bush administration to toughen federal
rules governing spill prevention and cleanup.
At the same time, the oil industry's plans for drilling in
environmentally sensitive regions are coming under increased scrutiny, as
some in Congress argue that the spate of new accidents demonstrates the
need for drilling bans
While Congress and the White House both want to see changes to
existing laws, their agreement ends there. Since 1978, congressional
oil-spill legislation has been stalled over the question of whether it should
supercede state laws
The administration bill, in most instances, would not supercede state
laws. But that stance is drawing a mixed reaction from the environmental
community and Congress itself because some state regulations are
considered tougher than others.
(Tom Baden, Newhouse)
42 COMPANIES FINED AFTER EPA CHECK
The EPA Monday levied $1.65 million in fines against 42 polluters for
failing to report their toxic discharges under a new "community
right-to-know" law. The violators were discovered in a random check of
chemical and manufacturing companies.
the 42 companies failed to provide the EPA with reports on toxic
discharges to air, water and soil during 1987, EPA officials said
"These companies have a legal responsibility to provide the data,"
said EPA Administrator Reilly. "We will not allow non-reporting companies
to thwart the right of citizens to find out which toxic chemicals are being
released into their communities." (John Lancaster, Washington Post, A6)
HAMILTON URGES CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF 'HEADS OF STATE' FILE
Rep. Hamilton, former chairman of the select House committee that
investigated the Iran-contra affair, said Monday that Congress should
review a recently discovered Reagan White House "heads of state file" to
see if it can resolve unanswered questions from the 1987 congressional
probe
"One of the central questions was what was the President's
involvement. This file basically documents the President's personal
activities," said Hamilton.
(Joe Pichirallo & Walter Pincus, Washington Post, A9)
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- A-4
BUSH TO ASK CAMPAIGN CURBS
Package Would Limit Incumbents' Edge
President Bush plans to announce this week a broad package of
proposals aimed at changing the way federal campaigns are financed and
limiting the advantages enjoyed by incumbents.
The Bush proposals are expected to include new limits no political
action committee contributions, a ban on the retention of excess campaign
funds for use in the next election and tighter limits on free congressional
mailings to constituents.
Administration officials said Bush is meeting the next three days with
a variety of groups interested in campaign finance reform before he makes
final decisions on the package. But officials said most of the options he is
considering would tend to put limits on incumbents, a pattern that would
help Republicans
White House officials said that Bush is not considering the two major
changes proposed by many Democrats and some public interest groups --
public financing of elections and overall limits on the total House and
Senate candidates can spend.
(Ann Devroy, Washington Post, A1)
WRIGHT RESIGNING FRIDAY, WON'T TRY TO REGAIN SEAT
Running Again Would Be 'Vainglorious'
Former Speaker Wright, who had briefly flirted with the idea of
remaining in elective politics, said Monday he will resign his congressional
seat Friday and will not seek to return to Congress in a special election
later this year.
Wright
said it would be "vainglorious" to seek reelection
"As deeply as I appreciate the devoted friendship which impels these
sincere petitions (to run again), I must conclude that I was right in
announcing my retirement from Congress," Wright said Monday in a
statement released by his office
A poll published Sunday in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram showed that
65 percent of voters in the district would vote again for Wright.
(Tom Kenworthy, Washington Post, A4)
BUSH WELCOMES FORMER DEMOCRATS TO THE GOP
President Bush, welcoming five dozen state and local officials into the
GOP [in a Rose Garden ceremony], says the political converts are just
part of the "droves of voters" being shut out by a left-leaning Democratic
Party
"The Democratic party is leaving droves of voters behind as it moves
over onto the more liberal side, the left side of the political equation.
And now many of those stranded voters have made a move on their own to
the Republican Party, our party of family, faith and the future," Bush
said
Bush praised their political courage and promised to stand "shoulder
to shoulder" with them as they seek re-election as Republicans
GOP Chairman Atwater
called the event "absolutely the proudest
single moment I've had since taking office."
(Christopher Connell, AP)
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- A-5
BUSH 'NO NEW TAXES' PLEDGE DISARMED RIGHT WING,
ATWATER SAYS IN NEW BOOK
George Bush's pledge not to raise taxes during early jousting for the
1988 Republican presidential nomination was a key part of a strategy to
further divide the GOP's already weakened and factionalized right wing,
according to Lee Atwater, George Bush's campaign manager.
Atwater's description is part of a forthcoming book, "Campaign for
President: The Managers Look At '88" -- a wide-ranging examination of
the 1988 presidential campaign by key principals of all the major campaigns
and a number of reporters
"I felt strongly there were only two things that George Bush needed
to do -- other than stick with Reagan -- that would preempt anybody from
ever being able to get him on the right. One was to be hard-core on
taxes, which as you all know he was. Number two was to be hard-core on
the anti-communist cluster of issues," [said Atwater in the book].
(Thomas Edsall, Washington Post, A8)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "President Says Satisfaction Outweighs Job's
Frustration," by Maureen Dowd, appears in The New York Times, page
A21.
EXCERPTS FROM INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT ON FOREIGN AND
DOMESTIC ISSUES, appears in The New York Times, page A21.
"Bush Welcomes Ex-Democrats To 'Party Of Future," by Frank Murray,
appears in The Washington Times, page A3.
"Faint Praise For Bush's Political Appointees," by Bill McAllister & Paula
Yost, appears in The Washington Post, page A21.
"Nelson Quits As INS Commissioner After Audit," by Jerry Seper, appears
in The Washington Times, page A7.
###
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
BAKER ISSUES WARNING ON SANCTIONS
'Hasty Dismantling' Of Relations Feared
Secretary of State Baker, spearheading an administration drive
against new congressional action to penalize China, warned Monday night
against "hasty dismantling of a constructive U.S.-Chinese relationship"
that has been built up since the early 1970s.
Such punitive action, Baker said in an address prepared for delivery
to The Asia Society in New York, "would serve neither our interests nor
those of the Chinese people. He added it would not advance the
aspirations for democracy of "millions" of Chinese who marched to support
student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Baker's speech came as the administration and its allies geared up for
a House floor fight expected Wednesday or Thursday over proposed new
U.S. sanctions against China, including economic sanctions that President
Bush has so far opposed
A senior administration official said Bush is adamant that the White
House, rather than Congress, should establish U.S. policy on China
sanctions
A key administration official, however, said the move in the
House will not be easy to stop. If the administration can postpone a vote
on China until after the coming congressional recess when tempers may
have cooled, this would be a victory, the official said.
(Don Oberdorfer, Washington Post, A18)
Baker Proclaims U.S. Support Of Chinese 'Rendezvous With Freedom'
Secretary of State Baker, looking beyond the current wave of arrests
and executions, said Monday night the leaders of China cannot block
forever the country's "rendezvous with freedom."
Baker told 1,000 guests at a black-tie dinner of the Asia Society in
New York, "we will be there to help when the day follows the night."
"We and some other nations have suspended business as usual,"
Baker said. "But we and the rest of the world must not let our revulsion
at this repression blind us to pressure for reform."
He added: "China has suffered a tragic setback, but the story is
not over."
(AP)
11 U.S. MISSIONARIES ORDERED TO LEAVE CHINA
BEIJING -- China has ordered out of the country 11 U.S.
missionaries who were detained in the southwestern city of Kunming for
illegally distributing religious materials, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
The Americans arrived in China in mid-May on tourist visas, which
are generally valid for three months. The officials said Chinese
authorities reduced the validity of the visas and said the missionaries
would have to leave the country by Friday.
(UPI)
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- A-7
CHINA POSTPONES INAUGURATION OF KEY U.S. PROJECT
BEIJING -- In a move that could indicate a further worsening of
relations with the U.S, China has notified American officials that it wants
to postpone inauguration of a U.S. Peace Corps program that was
supposed to begin this fall
Western diplomats have been watching for any sign that the growing
chill in U.S.-Sino relations -- as well as in relations between China and
other Western countries -- might develop so far that the Soviet Union
could profit from it. Thus far, they said, they do not detect any major
shift in China in favor of Moscow
A senior U.S. Embassy official said Monday that the U.S. was
"disappointed" over the Chinese decision on the Peace Corps.
China's former President Li Xiannian Monday criticized "some Western
powers" for attempting "to impose political and economic pressures" on
China
An Eastern European source said the Chinese offered to expand
economic ties with the Soviets in a recent meeting between Chinese Vice
Premier Tian Jiyun and the Soviet ambassador to China, Oleg
Troyanovsky.
(Daniel Southerland, Washington Post, A1)
WORLD BANK REFUSES TO APPROVE
MORE LOANS TO CHINESE GOVERNMENT
The World Bank announced Monday it has suspended $780.2 million in
loans to China.
"In consultation with the Chinese authorities, it (the bank) has
decided to defer consideration of several loans pending before the board of
executive directors," the World Bank said in a statement. "The timing of
discussions of such loans will be kept under review and determined in
consultation with the Chinese authorities." (UPI, Washington Post, A18)
JAPAN DOES NOT WANT TRADE DISPUTES TO 'BECOME EMOTIONAL'
The Foreign Minister of Japan Monday told the U.S. the two countries
should resolve their commercial differences without "becoming emotional," a
spokesman said.
Japanese Foreign Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuki, in an Oval Office meeting
with President Bush, also announced Tokyo will give $600 million to the
world's poorest countries.
Mitsuzuki also met with Secretary of State Baker to discuss
U.S.-Japan cooperation and trade, said spokesman Koichi Haraguchi at a
news conference.
Mitsuzuki told Baker that Washington and Tokyo should discuss their
differences, such as a trade dispute involving telecommunications, in a
"quiet dialogue," he said. If both sides "become emotional, that hampers
solutions," Haraguchi said
The dispute over telecommunications will be resolved by Japanese
representatives "soon, in current discussions in Washington," Haraguchi
said.
(Carlos Brezina, UPI)
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- A-8
BAKER CALLS FOR NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH JAPAN
Secretary of State Baker said Monday the U.S. and Japan "must
recognize how interconnected we are" and forge a partnership to take more
responsibility for the economically growing Pacific Rim.
In a speech for the Asia Society in New York, Baker said that on a
journey to the East next week, he will talk with Asian leaders about a
"new mechanism to enhance economic cooperation" among the countries of
the Pacific Rim
Baker told the Asia Society, "The purpose of my trip is to establish
the framework for a new Pacific partnership.
"The time has arrived for Japan to translate its domestic and regional
successes more fully into a broader international role with increased
responsibility," he said.
(Jim Anderson, UPI)
BRITAIN POSITIVE ON EC MONETARY UNION COMPROMISE
MADRID -- Britain reacted positively Tuesday to a compromise
proposal on monetary union which could open the way for a deal between
Prime Minister Thatcher and her European Community partners at the end
of their summit
"There must be a prospect that there can be agreed conclusions
but
there are a number of important points the prime minister will want to
make," one British official said.
(Tony Carritt, Reuter)
AUSTRALIAN LEADER HOPEFUL ON U.S. TRADE DISPUTE
Australian Prime Minister Hawke came away empty-handed Monday in
talks aimed at gaining U.S. concessions in their dispute over export
subsidies, but Hawke said he was optimistic differences could be resolved.
Following morning talks with Agriculture Secretary Yeutter during a
four-day Washington visit, Hawke reaffirmed Australian opposition to the
U.S. Export Enhancement Program (EEP), which gives financial subsidies
to U.S. farmers
"I believe (Yeutter) will listen further to our side of the issue,"
Hawke said at a reception at the National Press Club. "But we are
disappointed that the United States does not yet accept that the EEP has
had harmful effects on Australia."
(Reuter)
Hawke Calls Farm Subsidies U.S. 'Politics Gone Crazy'
Australian Prime Minister Hawke, in unusually blunt language, Monday
criticized U.S. agricultural subsidies as "politics gone crazy" and said
price supports for American farmers are "a major problem" in relations
between Washington and Canberra
"I think there is a clear understanding that we in Australia are not
confecting some concern about this issue," he said, referring to the
meeting and talks Sunday with President Bush at Camp David
"Australia has its sets of figures and we have ours," a senior U.S.
official, briefing reporters on Hawke's visit, said last week.
(Warren Strobel, Washington Times, A9)
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B-2 BECOMES HILL TARGET
The B-2 "stealth" bomber, the most radical and expensive bomber
ever built, has emerged from its cocoon of secrecy to become a prime
target for a new type of budget axe, and members of Congress are
expected to start wielding it Tuesday.
Under a gentlemen's agreement holding up so far in the House and
Senate, lawmakers who add money to one part of President Bush's military
budget are obliged to take away an equal amount elsewhere. The
Stealth may lose money in this way to more prosaic military programs
The new bomber is also under challenge in the Senate, where Sen.
Glenn argues that B-2 production should be slowed until the
plane
proves itself in flight tests.
(George Wilson, Washington Post, A7)
SATELLITE LAUNCH BY U.S. FIRM DELAYED
A "very unfortunate" launch pad accident last week in Florida will
delay what was to have been the first major private-sector U.S. launch of
a satellite by at least several weeks and possibly many months, officials
said Monday
"There's a good chance the satellite will have to be sent back" to the
plant in California, said Susan Pearce of Ford Aerospace
Some sources said that finding a new launch slot might take longer
than repairing the satellite -- up to a year if the launch schedule isn't
juggled to make a new opening.
(Kathy Sawyer, Washington Post, A9)
SOVIET SUB LIMPS HOME AFTER NUCLEAR SHUTDOWN
MOSCOW -- A nuclear-powered Soviet submarine was reported
billowing smoke and limping toward its Arctic home port under auxiliary
power Monday after an underwater accident forced the shutdown of its
nuclear reactors off the north coast of Norway.
Soviet officials said there were no casualties aboard the aging Echo
II-class vessel, which normally carries a crew of about 90 and an arsenal
of both nuclear-armed torpedoes and short-range cruise missiles.
The commander of the stricken sub, Vladimir Chernavin, was quoted
on Soviet television as saying that his ship indeed had been carrying
nuclear weapons, but he insisted that "they were in a safe state" and had
not been affected by the accident in the ship's power unit
Chernavin also ruled out the danger of any release of radioactivity.
The incident also brought new criticism Monday from the Norwegian
government, which complained that Moscow had failed to report any of the
three [major Soviet maritime mishaps since mid-April] until they had
already been discovered by the Norwegian Coast Guard.
(Michael Dobbs, Washington Post, A10)
Crippled Soviet Nuclear Sub Limps Home
OSLO -- The atomic reactor accident on a Soviet submarine presents
no ecological threat and the nuclear weapons aboard are not endangered,
senior Soviet military officials said.
The reactor accident on the Soviet submarine Monday north of Norway
forced the vessel to limp home but Soviet authorities said there were no
casualties and no radioactive leak.
(Trond Borrehaug Hansen, UPI)
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- A-10
GREECE LOOKS HEADED FOR NEW ELECTIONS, COALITION BIDS FALTER
ATHENS -- Days after a bitterly fought national election, Greece
looks increasingly likely to face another vote as efforts to form a coaltition
government falter.
A representative of
Prime Minister Papandreou
was scheduled to
meet Communist Party leader Harilaos Florakis Tuesday to try again to
form a socialist-communist coalition.
But Florakis, who met Papandreou in his intensive care unit Monday,
told reporters his communist-led alliance would stand by its call for an
all-party government rather than a two-party coalition.
(Costas Paris, Reuter)
WHITE HOUSE ACCUSES BULGARIA OF BLATANT HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
The White House Monday accused Bulgaria of blatantly violating human
rights of its ethnic Turkish minority and called on the Sofia government to
halt the alleged abuses.
Its statement came as Bulgaria disclosed that an exodus of ethnic
Turks following clashes with security forces last month is likely to top
300,000
"This mass migration is the result of the Bulgarian government's
denial of basic human rights to its Turkish minority," the White House
said
"We deplore Bulgaria's blatant violations of the human rights of its
citizens, rights which Bulgaria has committed itself to protect as a
signatory of the Helsinki accords and other international agreements, the
White House said.
(Reuter)
BUSH EXPECTS RELATIONS WITH IRAN TO BE UNCHANGED
NEW YORK -- President Bush said U.S. relations with Iran are not
expected to substantially change despite the death of Ayatollah Khomeini
and it would be "counter-productive right now" to seek to improve them.
In a wide-ranging interview published in Tuesday's New York Times,
Bush said "Iran is just sorting out its internal leadership.
The Times quoted Bush saying it "causes me no problems at all" that
Iran's Speaker Rafsanjani recently signed economic and military
agreements with the Soviet Union.
He added that the possible Iranian involvement in terrorism and the
seizure of American hostages in Lebanon are "going to continue to plague
our relationship."
(Reuter)
A GERMAN CONCERN SOLD CHEMICALS TO IRAN, U.S. SAYS
A West German chemical company has arranged the sale to Iran of
several hundred tons of chemicals used in making poison gas, American
officials say.
The discovery of the deal prompted a diplomatic effort by the Bush
administration to head off the deliveries.
American concern about the deal was conveyed by Secretary of State
Baker in his meeting here with West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich
Genscher last Wednesday, American and German officials said.
(Michael Gordon & Stephen Engelberg, New York Times, A1)
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- A-11
SOVIET ENVOY PROPOSES AFGHAN TREATY WITH UNITED STATES
KABUL -- The Soviet ambassador in Kabul says his country is ready
to sign an agreement with the U.S. obliging both superpowers to stop
supplying arms for the Afghan war.
Yuli Vorontsov
told Reuters Moscow would propose the accord at
U.S. -Soviet talks on Afghanistan to be held in Moscow July 31 and August
1. "It's a very effective means of stopping the fighting
If we and
the Americans agree to stop now, the fighting will sudside immediately,"
he said
Vorontsov said the U.N. could monitor an arms agreement.
(Kathleen Callo, Reuter)
SOUTH AFRICAN CHURCHES ASK BUSH TO PROBE POISONING
JOHANNESBURG -- The South African Council of Churches said
Tuesday it had appealed to President Bush for help in investigating an
alleged bid to poison its general secretary, Rev. Frank Chikane
Chikane has been seriously ill several times in the past two months,
most recently during a visit to the U.S....
U.S. doctors treating Chikane said his clothing and baggage could
have been impregnated with a poison, usually found in pesticides, which
had been absorbed through the skin
The Council of Churches said in a statement they had written to
Bush asking him to arrange for U.S. forensic experts to test (Reuter) items of
Chikane's clothing still in the U.S.
39 SLAIN AT CHURCH, SAYS MANILA
Attack In Mindanao Laid To Communists
MANILA -- Gunmen on the strife-torn southern Philippine island of
Mindanao used assault rifles and machetes on Sunday to attack worshippers
in a remote Protestant church, killing 39, including women and infants,
according to military reports reaching here today
Military authorities accused the Communist New People's Army (NPA)
of staging the attack
"The villagers told us they believe their village was attacked because
they had formed [an anti-communist] vigilante force and had stopped
giving the rebels rice and money," Lt. Col. Jose Maneja, the constabulary
commander in the area, was quoted as telling Reuters.
(Keith Richburg, Washington Post, A10)
LEFTIST REBELS KILL COLONEL IN SAN SALVADOR
SAN SALVADOR -- Leftist rebels Monday shot and killed a senior
army officer with long ties to El Salvador's security forces as he left his
house for work.
Urban commandos of the Marxist-led FMLN took responsibility for
the machine-gun killing of Col. Roberto Armando Rivera, saying it was
part of a campaign "to reject new government terrorism."
"This latest killing shows the rebels have taken assassination as a
strategy," said Col. Orlando Zepreda, vice minister of defense.
(Douglas Farah, Washington Post, A17)
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- A-12
CUBAN GENERAL SAID TO ADMIT CRIMES;
RAUL CASTRO DESCRIBES 'STAB IN BACK'
MIAMI -- Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, a highly decorated Cuban
army officer accused of drug trafficking and corruption and now facing a
military tribunal in Havana, has "admitted to all charges and accepted his
responsibility for his grave crimes," the Cuban government reported
Monday
In a speech before the tribunal Sunday, Gen. Raul Castro, the
defense minister, called for an "exemplary" sentence for Ochoa, who he
said "slapped his country in the face and stabbed it in the back." Some
diplomats took this as a sign the governm, ent would seek the death
sentence.
(Julia Preston, Washington Post, A10)
EDITOR'S NOTE: "In U.S.-China Ties, Cordiality Is No Longer On The
Agenda," by Nicholas Kristof, appears in The New York Times, page A6.
"New Steps For The Military Budget Dance," by Andrew Rosenthal,
appears in The New York Times, page A20.
"Momentum Gathers To Give Special Trade Status To The Soviets As A
Reward For Jewish Emigration," by Robert Greenberger, appears in The
Wall Street Journal, page A18.
"Apartheid Foe Gets Passport And Is Expected To Meet Bush," by Jane
Perlez, appears in The New York Times, page A8.
"Kabul Residents Criticize U.S. For Continuation Of Fighting," news
analysis by James Rupert, appears in The Washington Post, page A11.
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NETWORK NEWS SUMMARY
(Monday Evening, June 26)
SUPREME COURT
ABC's Diane Sawyer: The Supreme Court leads the news tonight because
today the court expanded the reach of the death penalty to include
certain teenagers and people who are retarded. The court said there
is nothing in the Constitution which prohibits the execution of 16-
and 17-year-olds convicted of murder. The court also said that
retarded death row inmates may be executed. But as Tim O'Brien
reports, the court was also careful to say that mental capacity should
be considered during sentencing.
ABC's Tim O'Brien reports that Justice O'Connor agreed with the
court's liberals that mental retardation is a factor that must be
considered by the jury, but then sided with the court's conservatives
in ruling that those who are mentally retarded may still be executed.
The court's conservative majority said neither the Constitution itself
nor this country's evolving standards of decency justified a blanket
ban on executing retarded people. The court applied that same
principle today in another major ruling refusing to ban the execution
of 16- and 17-year-olds. The court was acting in the case of Kevin
Stanford, who at the age of 17, robbed, raped, and then shot to
death a young gas station attendant, the mother of two, and the case
of Heath Wilkins, who was 16 when he stabbed a liquor store clerk to
death. Justice Scalia, for a 5-4 majority upholding their death
sentences, said there is no national consensus against executing
juveniles -- that of the 37 states that have the death penalty, more
than half allow the execution of 16-year-olds. Today's rulings are a
double defeat for the opponents of capital punishment. Juries will
still be permitted to consider a defendant's age, and conservatives
approved holding youthful offenders responsible. A Harris Poll shows
that most Americans overwhelmingly oppose executing the mentally
retarded or those under 18. But the court today was unmoved --
saying while it may judge the constitutionality of such executions,
what's appropriate is a matter exclusively for the state legislatures.
Sawyer: In another ruling, the Supreme Court said police don't have
to use the exact words of the Miranda decision when reading suspects
their rights as long as the words they use reasonably convey the idea
that a suspect is entitled to a lawyer and that what he says can be
used against him. And in yet another case, the court declined to put
a ceiling on the amount of money that can be awarded in personal
injury lawsuits.
(ABC-Lead)
NBC's Mary Alice Williams: It is now legal in the United States to put
teenage murderers as young as 16-years-old to death and to execute
killers who are mentally retarded. Those two rulings today from the
Supreme Court in major decisions on just what is cruel (NBC-Lead) and unusual
punishment.
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- B-2
CBS's Dan Rather: Life and death U.S. Supreme Court decisions today.
Justices ruled 5-4 the Constitution permits execution of convicted
murderers who were as young as 16 when they killed. The justices
also ruled there is no flat-out prohibition either on executing mentally
retarded murderers
Business took a loss in a Supreme Court
decision today. Justices were unanimous in ruling a key federal
anti-racketeering law used to fight organized crime may also apply to
businesses accused of fraud.
(CBS-Lead)
STEALTH
NBC's Henry Champ reports that the Stealth bomber is now in danger of
disappearing entirely, shot down by exorbitant costs.
(Rep. Kasich: "Think about it. Just think about it: $600 million an
airplane. It's mind-boggling.")
And Kasich is a conservative Republican on the Armed Services
Committee who supported President Reagan's military buildup. But it
is not just the money, that concerns legislators. It is also the
reputation of the Northrop corporation, developer of the Stealth.
(Rep. Dingell: "Is Northrop incompetent, or is it corrupt? And as
you analyze the situation you are driven, I think, almost relentlessly
to the conclusion that Northrop is both incompetent and corrupt.")
The Stealth program has already been rocked by whistle-blowers
whose stories of scandal keep raising alarms. A company auditor
says he was demoted for calling attention to massive overcharges on
the Stealth. Other employees tell of work being double- and
triple-billed to the Defense Department. What whistle-blowers have
been saying about Northrop here in California is now supported by a
Pentagon official whose job was to oversee all weapons buying at the
Defense Department. When he quit last month, Robert Costello said
the B-2 program should be killed.
(Costello, former undersecretary of Defense: "As I looked at that,
and as I looked at the complexity of that program, the B-2 program,
I said, Mr. Secretary, I have concern, I'm raising those concerns
with you.")
Northrop has conducted its own investigation and found no
justification for these charges. Already, $221 billion has been spent,
and the B-2 bomber has never flown. Some congressmen want work
suspended until test flights are completed, a few others want it killed
altogether.
(NBC-4)
HUD
CBS's Terence Smith reports that a top HUD official told CBS News today
that taxpayer liability for defaulted loans on public housing is much
greater than previously thought. Of the $9 billion portfolio,
approximately $1 billion is in default under a scheme known to
developers as gold-plated. An 1,800-unit project in Houston,
mortgaged for $47 million, sold at auction after default for less than
$9 million. It was one of several HUD projects financed with inflated
mortgages put together by the DRG funding corporation, a
Georgetown-based lender now under criminal investigation.
(Rep. Schumer: "Just one firm had $530 million of liability. If there
were others who were just as dishonest as DRG, the number will
easily soar into the billions.")
A former HUD official told Congress last week that the agency's
mortgage portfolio was in a state of chaos.
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- B-3
Smith continues:
(Joseph Strauss, former HUD official: "It does boggle the mind.
Imagine this: There was no list that we were ever able to be made
aware of of what HUD owned. How could they have even asked for
payment? I mean, talk about open for fraud or abuse.")
To get the gold-plating scam under control, Secretary Kemp has
barred DRG from doing business with HUD, suspended two other
mortgage companies, and placed six more on probation for six (CBS-2) months.
CHINA
ABC's Ken Kashiwahara reports that in newspapers and on television today
the Chinese people were told that the Communist Party's house is in
order now that the leadership has chosen a new party chief and
ousted the old one. But while Zhao Ziyang was stripped of all his
party posts, he was not stripped of his party membership, nor was
the former party chairman accused of serious crimes -- just serious
mistakes. The new head of the party, Jiang Zemin, is considered a
compromise between the ultra conservatives and the moderates,
suggesting that the political struggle is not over. Still, he fits the
image the party wants to project -- an economic reformer and a
political hard-liner. He is believed to speak English, Russian and
Romanian, and as former mayor of Shanghai was credited with
attracting foreign investments and reviving the city's economy. Jiang
is credited with running China's massive propaganda campaign aimed
at convincing the Chinese people that the Beijing massacre never
happened. Today, for the first time in years, the government
broadcast the movie "East is Red", Mao Zedong's glorification of the
revolution, the Communist Party and the army.
(ABC-7, CBS-4)
Williams: The World Bank today extended its freeze on loans to China in
response to the continuing crackdown in that country. The bank
postponed approval of $330 million in credits for transportation
improvements. A total of $780 million in loans is now on hold.
(NBC-5)
AIDS
Sawyer: The FDA announced today that it would permit the use of two
new AIDS drugs -- one fights AIDS-related blindness. The other
treats a severe anemia suffered by many AIDS patients. It's a
change in policy for the FDA, and it comes amid new warnings that
more people may have the virus than previously thought.
ABC's George Strait reports that previously drugs had to be proven
safe and effective before they could be given. Now researchers only
have to show that they are safe. That could make drugs available
two to six months sooner.
(FDA Commissioner Young: "It's not going to shave a lot off, but
for some people that need them it's a big enough difference.")
This decision is especially important if new estimates of the extent of
the AIDS epidemic in America are correct. A new congressional study
says that in two years the number of AIDS victims could be almost
500,000.
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- B-4
Strait continues: The new study says many AIDS cases are never
reported because people fear discrimination -- also that the number of
heterosexual cases is a lot higher than expected. The Administration
stands by its numbers, but admits they are only estimates.
(James Allen, HHS: "The important thing is whether or not the
health care system is prepared to deal with an extremely large
number, and an increasing number of people living with AIDS in the
future."
Both sides agree that the new numbers confirm just how serious the
AIDS epidemic really is. And the new quicker drug approval process
confirms just how serious the government is in fighting it.
(ABC-2, CBS-8)
WIlliams reports that many AIDS activists are furious with the pace of the
FDA's drug approval process. Some activists have actually taken
matters into their own hands. They're conducting their own tests of
a powerful experimental drug.
NBC's Robert Bazell reports that the drug is called Compound Q.
The experiment, run by a group of AIDS activists, is using high
doses, skipping the usual test of low doses to determine whether the
drug is toxic. One patient in the experiment has died. But the trial
is continuing. The experiment is not run by a medical center, nor is
it approved by the FDA. Compound Q is a powerful extract of
Chinese cucumber. Doctors in China use it to induce abortions.
Whether the Compound Q is effective or not, those doing the
experiment hope that the fact they were able to carry out this study
will force the FDA to speed up trials of AIDS drugs in the future.
The FDA refused today to make any comment on the underground
Compound Q experiment. A spokesman said it is looking into the
matter. Doctors say they will have to observe Compound Q patients
for about three months to know whether the drug has any benefit as
an AIDS treatment.
Williams reports that the GAO has issued new higher figures on the
number of AIDS cases to expect in the next couple of years, and
they drew sharp comment from FDA Commissioner Young. He said
"it's time for Americans to roll up their sleeves to fight the epidemic
rather than quibble about numbers."
(NBC-2)
OIL SPILLS
Sawyer: In the wake of three major oil spills over the weekend, a
spokesman for President Bush today accused the oil industry of not
doing enough to find better ways to clean up after such disasters.
"Clearly," he said, "we could be better prepared."
ABC's Ned Potter reports that today the spill caused by the
Presidente Rivera kept spreading down the Delaware River, and to
control the mess the ship's owners hired an army. Three-hundred
members of the Delaware National Guard have been added to the
clean-up force. They have a messy, long job ahead of them, and
there are complaints that no matter what they will not be able to do it
very well.
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- B-5
Potter continues: The crews are reduced to working by hand,
shovelling the oil globs into garbage bags or wiping off rocks with
absorbant towels. Tough as the clean-up may be, wildlife experts
say the environmental damage here could be minor, because fish and
birds will avoid those obvious clumps of oil which eventually will wash
out to sea.
Sawyer reports that in the two other major oil spills, prevailing winds
blew the oil straight into vacuum pumps, and most of it has now been
scooped up. And off the coast of Rhode Island, bright sunshine has
evaporated more than 90% of the oil that spilled after a Greek tanker
ran aground Friday. There were some reports of sea birds killed,
but one official said this afternoon the worst is over.
(ABC-4, NBC-6)
DRIFT NETS
Sawyer reports that today South Korea, one of the remaining three nations
to use huge drift nets that stretch for miles and kill everything in
their path, said it would stop using them.
(ABC-5)
SOVIET NUCLEAR SUB
Sawyer: A Soviet nuclear-powered submarine is limping back to its home
base tonight after a break-down off the northern coast of Norway.
According to the Soviets, a pipe broke in the sub's nuclear reactor.
Norwegian authorities said there was a fire, but the Soviets say not
true -- that what looks like smoke was actually exhaust as the sub
switched to its back-up diesel engines. The Soviets say there was no
radiation leak and that no one was hurt.
(ABC-6, NBC-3, CBS-5)
CUBA DRUG TRIAL
CBS's Juan Vasquez reports that in the most sensational show trial in
communist Cuba in 25 years, Gen. Arnoldo Ochoa [phonetic], a
decorated war veteran, is accused of helping smuggle cocaine into the
United States. Seven prominent officers have been arrested so far.
U.S. officials say they've known for years that flights from Colombia
dropped their cocaine loads into protected Cuban waters. As if to
prove the point that other Cuban officials may be involved in drug
smuggling, U.S. sources say the latest drop of cocaine over (CBS-3) Cuban
waters occurred yesterday while Ochoa was in jail.
WRIGHT
Rather: Former Speaker Wright made it official tonight following his
recent resignation under the ethics attack. Wright has now ruled (CBS-7) out
another run for Congress or any other elective office.
REAGAN/BROADCASTING
Williams: Former President Reagan is going back to his old job --
broadcasting baseball. NBC Sports announced that during its
broadcast of the All-Star game on July 11, Mr. Reagan will join Vin
Scully and Tom Seaver in the booth and do one inning (NBC-8) of color
commentary.
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EDITORIALS/COLUMNISTS
FLAG BURNING
Do We Love The Flag Or Do We Love What It Stands For? -- "The Supreme
Court's rather surprising decision that free speech protects the
desecration of the American flag in a political protest makes a particularly
important point about symbolism in a free society, at a particularly critical
time
There also was an endless recitation of allegiance to American
'values' as symbolized by the flag, wherein Mr. Bush contended that he
and not Mr. Dukakis represented those values of flag, country and
family
Every step of the way in the calamity unfolding in China, Mr.
Bush has had to be coaxed or shamed into tougher words and actions from
Congress and editorial writers. Meanwhile, the voters, according to the
latest Washington Post/ ABC News poll, give a favorable rating of 73
percent, equaling Mr. Reagan's highest in office. Is anybody paying
attention, or are the atrocities in China just too far away?"
(Germond and Witcover, Baltimore Sun, 6/25)
Flag Burners Don't Win Friends And Influence People -- " Hasn't the
American political system already shown that it punishes those who
desecrate the flag far more cruelly, and for a longer length of time, than
any sentence that might be meted out by a court?
To a startlingly
large extent the Democratic Party is still in a box because of the fact that
it has become identified as the party of flag desecrators, while the
Republicans are perceived as the party of flag respecters. Episodes like
the one in Dallas in 1984 just help that perception alive. This perception
explains why George Bush in 1988, 16 years after George McGovern's
campaign had crashed in flames, could still have such easy success in
hitting Michael S. Dukakis for allegedly showing insufficient piety for the
flag, even though the charge didn't really hold water
"
(David R. Boldt, Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/25)
Saving By Allowing Destruction --
"
The American flag is a magnificently
powerful symbol
One of the great things it represents, as the
Supreme Court ruled this week, is the right of every American to speak
out, even upleasant pinheads who disgust most people with their freedom.
It creates the seeming riddle of protecting the values it represents by not
punishing the trashing of the symbol of those same values
If the flag
is not allowed to be a symbol for those who don't like what it represents,
it will lose its meaning for those of us who do. In this country,
disagreement -- even about the most important things -- is written into
the system. It's what makes things work
The case forced the court to
protect speech, as the Constitution requires
Because the court didn't
lose sight of the values the flag represents, it means even more. "
(Philadelphia Daily News, 6/23)
The Flag And 'The Thought We Hate' -- " The verdict will not be
popular, but it is the only one worthy of the ideals the flag
represents
The flag ought to be treated as a symbol, not an idol. If
the ideals if embodies may be abused, the flag itself can't be made
inviolable
Chief Justice Rehnquist
misses the point of the Bill of
Rights, which is precisely to deny the majority the right to legislate on
certain matters
The highest tribute we can make to Old Glory is the
faithful observance of our highest ideals. By upholding freedom, the
court honored the flag."
(Chicago Tribune, 6/23)
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- C-2
Supreme Court Flag Ruling Burns Twerps -- " If the court had upheld
[Gregory Johnson's] conviction, it would have confirmed the oppression he
imagines this country is guilty of. Johnson, you see, faces the dilemma
faced by all those who deny the existence of the freedoms that the
American flag represents. If he has no right to free expression, then
he's right about his being an oppressive society -- and he wouldn't be
able to express his views. But if he has a right to free expression, then
he can express them -- and he's wrong
For us to be free, we must
tolerate dopes like Johnson. Yes, the flag is our most precious symbol,
and it must be respected. But the flag, as a symbol of reality, must not
become more precious than the reality itself -- the liberties that make this
country vastly superior to any of the nightmares contrived by the likes of
Johnson. "
(Dennis Byrne, Chicago Sun-Times, 6/23)
How Much Violence?
"
The court may have gone too far this time
What intrigues us most about the high tribunal's outrageous ruling, which
blindly views the American flag as if it had no unique status among the
nation's symbols, is what the court may be viewed as saying, at least
inferentially, to those who are outraged by its ruling
We are not
advocating violence against flag-defilers, but the court majority's logic in
protecting anti-flag violence does cause one to wonder how much violence
against people and property it would sanction as 'symbolic' free
speech
"
(Jim Finnegan, Manchester Union Leader, 6/23)
Flag Burning -- It May Be Legal, But It Still Is Despicable -- " No,
the
of our nationhood and of all the principles that make us Americans
flag is not just a piece of cloth. It is the most powerful symbol we have It
is difficult to dispute the justices' argument. When Americans pay respect
to the flag, and fight for it, they also are paying homage to, and
defending, the fundamental principles it represents, one of which is the
freedom of expression. As Justice Kennedy noted, it is one of " our
nation's great ironies that the flag protects who hold it in contempt
(Dallas Morning News, 6/23)
Burning The Flag Is Not Speech -- "Rehnquist would have done well to
add that the First Amendment protects not expression but speech
Speech, unlike an expression such as flag-burning, is intrinsically
connected with the distinctive human capacity, reason, by which
individuals govern themselves and communities achieve self-government
Unfortunately, it is too late for reason to insinuate itself back into First
Amendment law."
(George F. Will, Houston Chronicle, 6/23)
Dishonoring America's Symbol -- "The Supreme Court's decision that
desecration of the American flag is a legitimate form of speech, entitled to
First Amendment protection, is profoundly misguided. Genuine freedom of
speech is not enhanced by granting the right to defile the symbol of a
nation which -- more than any other -- has protected and extended
freedom of speech
It will injure the sensibilities of millions of
Americans, particularly those who have fought -- and who have seen
comrades die -- for the very flag now freely subject to desecration. In
the end, the High Court's ruling is a rebuke to patriotic sensibilities, and
a blow to the one symbol that truly unites Americans, to the one symbol
that actually affords Americans a link to the generations that have come
before
"
(New York Post, 6/23)
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Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- C-3
Congress Must Overrule Supreme Court --
"
Congress should immediately
pass, and send to President Bush, a bill making desecration of the
American flag a federal crime. That bill should contain an amendment
stripping the court of its jurisdiction to decide any cases under the new
statute. If, after Wednesday's atrocity, Congress still lacks the courage
to take on his renegade tribunal -- which, for three decades, has been
doing to the Constitution what Gregory 'Joey' Johnson did to that flag --
then the people should get a new Congress
You have to sit on the
Supreme Court 30 years to be that dumb. When someone spits in your
mother's face, you don't sit them down and 'persuade them they are
wrong.' You put a fist in their face. Does anyone believe that when the
founding fathers produced their immortal document, 'to form a more perfect
Union,' they intented that its First Amendment protected defiling the very
symbol of that Union?
Well, if the Supreme Court says that, to hell
with the Supreme Court. The proper answer to the Brennan decision is
open defiance. Any American who steps in to stop a flag-burning should
be cheered, protected, defended, even if Bill Brennan thinks he just
'doesn't understand the First Amendment
The Supreme Court cannot
tell a man not to fight to protect his country's flag any more than it can
tell him not to fight for his family or defend his faith
The court has
taken sides in American's cultural and religious war, ruling that the
flag-burners are right, that those who interfere with this form of 'political
protest' do not understand what America is all about
Well, we are our
own rulers; and it is time we the people, through our chosen
representatives, delivered to 'that eminent tribunal' the national rebuke it
has richly earned."
(Patrick J. Buchanan, New York Post, 6/23)
The Flag-Burning Case -- "Gregory L. Johnson's act of burning the
American flag in 1984 was despicable. But the act was in the context of
expressing opposition to the U.S. government policies. So the U.S.
Supreme Court found that the act was protected by the First Amendment's
guarantee of freedom of expression. It was a necessary ruling
The
right of free expression cannot be limited by the sensibilities of those who
hold differing views. The sacrifices made by those in the military were to
preserve the rights that the flag symbolizes. The context of the case is
important. Johnson burned the flag while protesting American government
policies. The court in its majority opinion did not protect desecrating the
flag for the purpose of inciting a riot or as an act of pure vandalism. It
is the expression of a viewpoint -- however inelegantly articulated -- that
is protected. Freedom of expression is a right that belongs to everyone.
That is ultimately the message of this case
The America-blamers and
flag-burners have become an isolated and repeatedly defeated political
minority. If there is any comfort to be drawn from this ruling, it is from
the strength of the ideal of freedom of expression, and the knowledge that
the Gregory L. Johnsons are doomed to perpetual irrelevance."
(Detroit News, 6/23)
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In honor of
THE HONORABLE
R.J.L. HAWKE, A.C., M.P.
PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA
AND MRS. HAWKE
THE WHITE HOUSE
Tuesday, June 27, 1989
LEONTYNE PRICE
Soprano
LEONTYNE PRICE
DAVID GARVEY
Piano
A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music,
Leontyne Price made her Metropolitan Opera
debut in 1961 as Leonora in "Il Trovatore."
Described as the "Stradivarius of singers,"
PROGRAM
Miss Price has performed with symphonies and
orchestras throughout the United States, and
continues to appear internationally in recitals
Katharine Lee Bates
America The Beautiful
and concerts abroad. Her legendary repertoire
and Samuel A. Ward
always includes songs by American composers
and spirituals. A recipient of Emmy and Gram-
Selige Nacht
Joseph Marx
my awards, Miss Price was the first opera singer
to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Several of her notable performances include the
Hymne Au Soleil
Georges Hue
Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty signing ceremonies
and the welcoming ceremony for Pope John Paul
Vissi D'Arte
II. Leontyne Price's extraordinary talent has
Giacomo Puccini
earned her universal recognition as one of the
from Tosca
greatest artists of our time.
Summertime
from Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
Ride On King Jesus
Arranged by
Spiritual
Hall Johnson
DINNER
Honoring The Honorable
The Prime Minister of, Australia
and Mrs. Hawke
Alaska Salmon in Champagne Jelly
Sauce Verte.
Cheese Bow Ties
Roasted Saddle of Veal Périgourdine
Summer Garden Vegetables
Rosette Potatoes
Nasturtium and Green Salad
Thyme Vinaigrette
Native Chevre Cheese
Summer Bombe with Fresh Cherries
Petits Fours
KALIN Chardonnary 1987
IRON HORSE BrutRose 1985
THE WHITE HOUSE
Tuesday, June 27,1989
6/27/89
TALKING POINTS ON SUPREME COURT CIVIL RIGHTS
-- I AM STRONGLY COMMITTED TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FUR ALL AMERICANS.
NOTHING IN THESE DECISIONS JEOPARDIZES THAT PRINCIPLE, OR CALLS
INTO QUESTION AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND MINORITY OUTREACH EFFORTS.
-- THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ADVISES THAT THESE DECISIONS REFLECT
INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS BY THE SUPREME COURT
ON FAIRLY TECHNICAL SUBJECTS, SUCH AS BURDENS OF PROOF AND
STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS.
-- SHOULD THESE DECISIONS ACTUALLY TURN OUT TO HAMPER CIVIL RIGHTS
ENFORCEMENT OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT FEW YEARS, WE WILL TAKE
STEPS TO REMEDY THE SITUATION.
-- I JUST WANT TO MAKE ONE OVERRIDING POINT: THE MARCH FOR RACIAL
EQUALITY AND JUSTICE IN THIS COUNTRY WILL NOT BE STOPPED. WHETHER
IT'S EMPLOYMENT HOUSING OR ANY OTHER ASPECT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS
ISSUE, WE WL WILL AGGRESSIVELY ENFORCE THE LAWS. OUR NATION MUST
ALWAYS STAND FOR RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.
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PRESIDENT'S OPENING STATEMENT RE: FLAG BURNING
ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, THE SUPREME COURT ISSUED A
DECISION WHICH HELD THAT A PERSON COULD NOT BE
CONVICTED FOR DESECRATION OF THE UNITED Amuican STATES FLAG
BECAUSE TO DO SO WOULD INFRINGE UPON THE RIGHT TO
POLITICAL PROTEST. WE MUST BE VERY CAREFUL IN OUR
SOCIETY TO PRESERVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST GOVERNMENT
ACTION.
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HOWEVER, I BELIEVE THAT THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES
SHOULD NEVER BE THE OBJECT OF DESECRATION.
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FLAG
BURNING IS SIMPLY WRONG PROTECTION OF THE FLAG, A
UNIQUE NATIONAL SYMBOL, WILL IN NO WAY LIMIT THE
OPPORTUNITY NOR THE BREADTH OF PROTEST AVAILABLE IN THE
EXERCISE OF FREE SPEECH RIGHTS.
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I HAVE THE GREATEST RESPECT FOR THE SUPREME COURT, AND
INDEED FOR THE JUSTICES WHO INTERPRETED THE
CONSTITUTION AS THEY SAW FIT; BUT I BELIEVE THE
IMPORTANCE OF THIS ISSUE COMPELS ME TO CALL FOR A
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. SUPPORT FOR THE FIRST
AMENDMENT NEED NOT EXTEND TO DESECRATION OF THE FLAG.
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WE ARE REVIEWING PROPOSED LANGUAGE FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL
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AMENDMENT AND ARE CONSULTING WITH MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
WHO HOLD SIMILAR VIEWS. As PRESIDENT, I WILL UPHOLD
OUR PRECIOUS RIGHT TO DISSENT, BUT BURNING THE AMERICAN
FLAG GOES TOO FAR.
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TALKING POINTS
Meeting with Campaign Finance Reform Group
June 27, 1989 3:45 p.m.
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
-- Thank you for coming.
6/27/84
-- As you know, the White House will soon be
unveiling a major campaign finance reform
proposal.
-- Our objectives are to reduce the influence of
special economic interests, while enhancing the
role of the parties and individuals, and reducing
the advantages of incumbency.
-- I believe we can accomplish our goals without
resorting to public financing or overall spending
limits (a cap on campaign spending).
-- I urge you to support us in this major reform
initiative, and I urge you to work with Congress to
enact both ethics and campaign finance legislation.
-- I look forward to hearing your views on all these
issues, including:
- PACs
- Independent Expenditures
- Soft money
- Incumbency/Competitive Elections
-- While I have been reviewing these campaign
finance issues over the past several weeks,
views. I remain genuinely interested in hearing your
POTUS
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ANN MCBRIDE
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DAVID CARNEY
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ELLEN MILLER
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THE PRESIDENT
Jane 27,1989
Dear AI-
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and all of The Bush family
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Dear Cpl. Plousha,
Last night's drill
was very special. I want
to thank you and the
others in the platoon for
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our country's accomplishments in promoting and protecting human rights.*
Zaire, true to President Mobutu's guidelines and goal's, continues to demonstrate the
commitment of its government to the principles of Human Rights and Democracy:
We would like to take this opportunity to salute the cordial and long standing relations
between the United States of America and the Republic of Zaire.
H.E. Mushobekwa Kalimba wa Katana
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HELD ON 24 FEBRUARY 1989
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before it under Economic and Social Council resolution 1503 (XLVIII), including the report
of the Secretary-General on his direct contacts with the government of Zaire
(E/CN.4/1989/R.4),
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participation of Maître Nimy Mayidika Ngimbi, Commissaire d'Etat aux droits et libertés
du citoyen, to co-operate with the Commission by furnishing replies and observations relat-
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3. Requests the Government of Zaire to inform the Commission at is forty-sixth session, of the
results of the action already taken to this and at a special closed meeting;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to provide Zaire with all the assistance it desires under the
advisory services program in order to help that country in its efforts to strengthen the machinery
established for the purpose of protecting and promoting human rights;
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THE PRESIDENT
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Dear Cpl. Plousha,
Last night's drill
was very special. I want
to thank you and the
others in the platoon for
a super performance.
Col. Pace told me
that you were the
for that key inspection role_
guy selected by his peers
quita an honor, well diserved.
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THE PRESIDENT & MRS. BUSH
THE HONORABLE R.J.L. HAWKE, A.C., M.P., PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA
& MRS. HAWKE
HE The Ambassador of Australia & Mrs. Cook
Mr. Michael Codd
Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet
Mr. Richard Woolcott, A.O.
Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Mr. David A. Hollway
Principal Private Secretary
Mr. Geoff Walsh
Senior Advisor
Mr. John Bowan
Senior Advisor (International Relations)
Mr. Rod Sims
Senior Advisor (Economic)
Mr. Dennis Richardson
First Assistant Secretary, International Division, Department
of the Prime Minister & Cabinet
Mr. Barrie Cassidy
Press Secretary to the Prime Minister
Dr. Craig Emerson-
Advisor (Economic)
Mr. Graham Freudenberg
Consultant
Hon. (Rep.) & Mrs. Bill Archer (Sharon)
R/Texas
Mr. Roone Arledge & Hon. (Ms.) Joanna Bistany
President, ABC News
Mr. & Mrs. Francis J. ("Reds") Bagnell (JoAnne)
Philadelphia
The Secretary of State & Mrs. Baker (Susan)
Mr. & Mrs. John P. Birkelund (Constance - "Connie")
Chairman, Dillon, Read & Co., Inc.
The Secretary of the Treasury & Mrs. Brady (Katherine)
Bishop & Mrs. Edmund Browning (Patricia)
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of North & South America
Hon. & Mrs. Dean Burch (Patricia)
Maryland
Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Bush (Josephine - "Jody")
New York
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Houston
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Chairman, Wesray Capital Corporation
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Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near East & Asian Affairs
Mr. John Cochran & Ms. Barbara Cohen
White House Correspondent, NBC News/CBS Bureau Chief
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Dart (Iris)
California
The Governor of Rhode Island & Mrs. DiPrete (Patricia)
Hon. & Mrs. William H. Draper III (Phyllis)
Administrator, United Nations Development Program
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Kentucky
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Indiana
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Pianist
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Mr. & Mrs. William T. Graham (Kent)
Commissioner of Banks, North Carolina Department of Commerce
Mr. Joel Grey
Actor
General & Mrs. Robert T. Herres (Shirley)
Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Professor & Mrs. Samuel Hynes (Elizabeth)
Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Princeton University
Author, Flights of Passage
Hon. Kay C. James & Mrs. Charles James
Assistant Secretary of Health & Human Services
Hon. (Rep.) Norman F. Lent & Ms. Barbara Morris-Lent
R/New York
Mr. Carl H. Lindner & son, Mr. Carl Lindner III
Chairman of the Board & CEO, American Financial Corporation
Mr. & Mrs. Greg Norman (Laura)
Golfer
Mr. Chuck Norris & guest, Mr. Myron Emery
Actor
Mr. & Mrs. Paul O'Neill (Nancy)
Chairman, Aluminum Company of America
Hon. (Mayor) Donna Owens & Dr. Ronald Shapiro
Hon. Katherine D. Ortega & Mr. Lloyd Derrickson
Treasurer of the United States
Mr. Douglas H. Paal & Ms. Betsy Fitzgerald
Director of Asian Affairs, NSC
Mr. & Mrs. Heinz C. Prechter (Waltraud - "Wally")
Detroit
Miss Leontyne Price & brother, General George B. Price
Performing
The Vice President & Mrs. Quayle (Marilyn)
Mr. & Mrs. William Ray (Helen)
Brown Brothers Harriman, New York
The Chief of Protocol & Mrs. Joseph V. Reed, Jr. (Marie)
Hon. (Sen.) William V. Roth, Jr. & Judge Jane Roth
R/Delaware
Justice & Mrs. Scalia (Maureen)
The Supreme Court of the United States
Mr. & Mrs. Benno C. Schmidt, Sr. (Nancy)
New York
Hon. (General) Brent Scowcroft
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Mr. & Mrs. Melvin F. Sembler (Betty)
U.S. Ambassador-designate to Australia
Mr. Garry Shandling & Miss Linda Doucett
Comedian
Hon. (Sen.) & Mrs. Ted Stevens (Catherine)
R/Alaska
Mrs. Potter Stewart (Mary Ann - "Andy")
Mr. & Mrs. Dewey Stokes (Florence)
National President, Grand Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police
Hon. John H. Sununu
Chief of Staff to the President
Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Timken, Jr. (Suzanne)
Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Timken Company
Dr. John Tsu & Dr. Susan Tsu
Professor of Asian Pacific Studies, John F. Kennedy University
Mr. R. E. "Ted" Turner & Ms. J.J. Ebaugh
Chairman of the Board, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. David Weaver (Dorothy)
Intercap Investments Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Weintraub (Jane)
Producer
Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Williams (Evelyn - "Evie")
St. Louis
Ms. Oprah Winfrey & Mr. Stedman Graham
Television Show Hostess
The Secretary of Agriculture & Mrs. Yeutter (Jeanne)
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 27, 1989
PRESS CONFERENCE
BY THE PRESIDENT
The Briefing Room
9:04 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: I have a brief opening statement, and
then I'd be glad to take questions.
On Wednesday morning the Supreme Court issued a decision
which held that a person could not be convicted for desecration of
our flag -- the American flag -- because to do so would infringe upon
the right to political protest. Now, we've got to be very careful in
our society to preserve the right to protest government action.
However, I believe that the flag of the United States should never be
the object of desecration. Flag-burning is wrong. Protection of the
flag -- a unique national symbol -- will in no way limit the
opportunity nor the breadth of protest available in the exercise of
free speech rights.
And I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court,
and indeed, for the Justices who interpreted the Constitution as they
saw fit. But I believe the importance of this issue compels me to
call for a constitutional amendment. Support for the First Amendment
need not extend to desecration of the American flag.
And we are reviewing proposed language for a
constitutional amendment. We are beginning consultation with members
of the United States Congress who hold similar views, and as
President, I will uphold our precious right to dissent; but burning
the flag goes too far, and I want to see that matter remedied.
Q
Mr. President, when you were last with us, you said
that you had tried to contact the leaders of China and the line was
busy -- you were unable to get through. In light of the fact that
there is now a new party secretary, have you renewed that try, and
also, in light of what you just said, do you plan to ask Prime
Minister Li Peng to return the Texas cowboy boots with the American
flag on them that you gave him in China?
THE PRESIDENT: I have no such plans, but -- and I hope
he doesn't ask for his bicycles back, either. But in terms of
contacts, we are trying, through our embassy, to have contacts. We
have contact -- their ambassador has access to, and contact with, our
officials here, and so there has been some exchange of views. But I
have not, you know, renewed a phone call request, if that was your
question.
Q
As a follow-up, Mr. President, do you intend to go
ahead and send a Peace Corps team to China in the fall to teach
English, or will you go along with the Chinese request that that be
delayed?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, you have no choice, Tom. If the
Chinese say they're not welcome, they can't come in, and it's too
bad, because one of the things that moved forward the reforms was
contact with Americans, and I don't want to see those contacts cut
off, and I'm sorry that the Chinese have made that decision.
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I would like to have seen those young volunteers go to
China and help teach English to the Chinese, and I like these student
exchanges, and I don't want to hurt the Chinese people. Now, I have
expressed my concern about what went on in China. I reiterate my
concern here today, but I reiterate also my desire not to do damage
to the people themselves, because I believe that it was contact with
the United States and others in the West that have moved the process
of economic reform forward, and hopefully someday will move the
process of political reform forward.
Q
Mr. President, while you were Vice President,
millions were siphoned off from HUD through self-confessed
influence-peddlers, many of who were your friends. The homeless grew
by the thousands. I have not heard one word of outrage about this
from you. You seem to absolve Pierce, who sat on this gold mine,
permitted this kind of abuse for so many years, and -- not absolved
him, but you don't criticize him at all. Who was to blame? Where
did the buck stop?
THE PRESIDENT: That matter is being looked into by our
very able, dedicated Secretary of HUD. And we are going to do
everything we can to clean up any cronyism or see that matters of
that nature not recur. But you're always looking for winners and
losers, and I am not about to prejudge the Secretary himself. I
assume that he would accept responsibility for what happened -- past
tense -- in his department, just as I would have to assume
responsibility for something that goes on in my administration,
whether I know about it or not.
But let's not be trying to find winners and losers.
Let's guarantee the American people that we are not going to have
cronyism and special favors and giving contracts because of who you
know, but keep it on the merits.
Q
But the people were the losers in this.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
Q
And the Republican leaders, apparently, their
influence-peddlers and so forth, were the winners. Where were you in
eight years?
THE PRESIDENT: I wasn't handling HUD, Helen, in eight
years, and --
Q
I know you weren't handling HUD, but --
THE PRESIDENT: -- but if you want to assign -- look, if
this will give you a little relief, if you want to assign blame to
the Vice President for what happened over the past eight years, okay,
that's fine. I accept it. But what I want to do as President is see
that we don't have any recurrence. And I have total confidence that
Jack Kemp is working to see that this not happen again, and I hope
that the message has gone out loud and clear to every Cabinet officer
that we want the highest possible ethical standards.
Q
Well, were you aware of any atmosphere? That's all
I'm asking.
THE PRESIDENT: No.
Q
Mr. President, in light of your renewed concern
about the display of proper reverence for the flag, I wonder if you
think it helps the situation, sir, for you and other political
figures of both parties to make the flag the kind of instrument of
partisan politics that it was in your campaign last fall with a visit
to Flag City and the tour of flag factories and flags at all the
conventions and so on?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't view that as partisanship. I
think respect for the flag transcends political party and I think
what I've said here is American -- it isn't Republican or Democrat,
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it isn't liberal or conservative. And I just feel very, very
strongly about it, and perhaps I haven't been quite as emotional as I
feel about it. But I want to take this opportunity to say protest
should not extend to desecration of the unique symbol of America, and
that is our flag.
A follow-up?
Q
You wouldn't dispute, would you, sir, that your
visit to Flag City, USA, and your visit to the flag factory last year
were for the purpose of advancing your political campaign?
THE PRESIDENT: Everything I did last year was the
purpose of advancing my -- everything I did politically -- advancing
my election. And of course I'm not going to say that. But I'm not
-- I didn't put it on the basis that Republicans are for the flag and
Democrats are not.
or Mr. President, leaving aside the winners and losers
question in the HUD scandal, isn't it fair criticism, nevertheless,
that the laissez-faire sort of management exhibited by Sam Pierce
was, as a matter of fact, encouraged by the President himself, and
that they really didn't pay attention to what was going on over
there?
THE PRESIDENT: John, something might be happening in
some department today that I know nothing about. We've got an
enormous bureaucracy. We've got a tremendous bureaucracy that
extends all around the world. And there might well be some
corruption out there that's going on that I would be responsible for,
but that I don't know about. But I am not going to try to assign
blame; I want to look to the future. And that's the way I'm going to
handle that one.
Q
Mr. President, you've spoken out emotionally,
obviously, about the Supreme Court's decision on the flag. I wonder
if you'd like to take this chance to speak out emotionally on their
affirmative action decisions which make it harder for women and
minorities to sue for discrimination.
THE PRESIDENT: I'm not sure that I agree with your --
with the hypothesis of your question. As I said at a last press
conference -- formal press conference -- I was going to ask our
Attorney General and our General Counsel to look into this matter.
And I am strongly committed to equal opportunity for all Americans,
and I am advised that nothing in these decisions jeopardizes that
principle or calls into question affirmative action or minority
outreach efforts. This is the opinion of the Attorney General who I
understand will be speaking on this at 12:00 noon today.
The Justice Department has told me that the decision
reflects interpretation of the civil rights laws by the Court on
technical subjects, and we're talking about burdens of proof and
statutes of limitations. But that is the advice I am getting, and I
will certainly support the Attorney General.
Q
All right. Constitutional scholars say, for
instance, that if a minority student faces racial harassment at
school -- a private school -- they are no longer covered. There are
some situations where people cannot sue for racial harassment, for
instance, and there are other sort of niggling things. But it's
really the question of your emotional response, because you jump out
of the box on the flag.
THE PRESIDENT: I've just given it to you. Affirmative
action, I've -- you know my position on that. Commitment to equal
opportunity -- I hope people know my commitment on that. But we're
getting into a technicality that neither you or I are competent to
discuss, and I am going -- you're going on the advice of who you call
legal scholars, and I'm going on the advice of the Attorney General
and a very fine General Counsel. So I think we have a difference on
the interpretation of what this means, and I've seen that some of the
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civil rights leaders disagree. But I am committed. And if the
decisions actually turn out to hamper civil rights enforcement along
the lines you're talking about, obviously I would want to take steps
to remedy the situation.
OF
But are you saying you won't support legislation --
THE PRESIDENT: This is your third question. Come on,
Leslye.
Q
I'm sorry.
THE PRESIDENT: Go ahead.
Q
Are you saying you won't support legislation that --
THE PRESIDENT: I'm saying that my advice from the
Attorney General is that legislation isn't necessary.
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Mr. President, you've expressed your strong feelings
again on the Supreme Court decision on the flag-burning. But the
Supreme Court is expected to make a decision this week on the
abortion issue, which is among the most emotional in the country.
And I wonder, going into that decision, if you view your role as a
healer after this decision, as simply to enforce the law. What is
your view, going into that decision as the President, and this very
important emotional issue?
THE PRESIDENT: It is an emotional issue, and I am firmly
positioned in favor of overturn of Roe V. Wade. And that's my
position, and I'm not going to change that position. But I don't
want to see the divisiveness that that whole issue causes split this
country. And yet, the decision is going to be -- I don't know what
they're going to decide. But my position on it is very clear.
Q During the campaign, you came out many times for a
constitutional amendment to balance the budget; yet, I'm curious why
now you've moved so quickly to call for a constitutional amendment
concerning flag-burning, which is solely a symbolic issue, and yet
you haven't moved at all on balancing the budget in terms of a
constitutional amendment which is substantive and which a lot of
people in this country think would accomplish a lot more for the
economy. Can you explain that?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes -- oh, easily. Let me take this
opportunity to make a clarion call for a balanced budget amendment.
(Laughter.) Absolutely. It has to be phased in, but I'd like to see
it.
Q
Well, why do you have to be prompted to do that?
Why do you give such a high priority --
THE PRESIDENT: Because my position is so well known on
it, Owen.
Q Why do you give such a high priority to the issue of
flag-burning and you haven't said anything until now about a balanced
budget amendment?
THE PRESIDENT: I've said a lot about it all last year.
I thought you got tired of hearing it. (Laughter.) But I will
repeat it. But if you want to know -- I've got to confess, I do feel
viscerally about burning the American flag. And I don't -- and
therefore, I express it. And I feel viscerally about fiscal sanity,
also. But this decision just came down, and it is one that causes, I
think, the American people, and certainly this President, great
concern. And I think it can be remedied without doing violence to a
person's right to protest.
Q
Mr. President, you're going to Poland in a few
weeks, and I wonder -- a lot's happened since your Hamtramck speech.
We've had the free elections -- solidarity now may have a much bigger
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role in what happens in Poland. When you go, are you interested in
bringing some expanded debt relief, financial aid? Walesa has been
saying to the world that he really needs help now. Do you think you
are in a position to bring it?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I'm in a position to discuss it,
inasmuch as some of what I want to do will require legislation. That
will not have been completed. But I called Lloyd Bentsen, the
Chairman of the Finance Committee, to thank him over the weekend for
his stance in the Finance Committee in terms of support for Poland,
and so we will have a package that I'm not prepared to discuss now in
detail that I hope will help.
I know this will be a subject of great concern after the
visit to Poland in our economic summit meeting. But the problem is,
we would like very much to help Poland. I am very encouraged with
what's happened in Poland. But I want to be sure that when we do
offer the specifics and the specific plan to help Poland, that Poland
itself will have taken the steps necessary to have the money
well-spent. I don't want to just push money down the drain. So I
think along with what we can offer will have to come from their side
some reforms. And that, I want to talk to General Jarulzelski about,
and obviously Lech Walesa, and we'll see where we go.
Q
Let me follow on the Poland question. Both there
and in Hungary, you're entering countries that are in a transition
and in a very delicate situation politically, and vis-a-vis their own
allies. What cautions do you take and do you exercise going in there
so as not to be a negative catalyst?
THE PRESIDENT: I think being there is the significant
thing. It is important that the United States show its interest in
these countries that are undergoing change. You don't want to
overexhort, you don't want to overpromise. You don't want to rally
people to levels of political activity that might cause repression.
And so what I want to do is make clear where the United States stands
in terms of our respect for freedom, encourage reform as much as
possible, and then, back to David's question, offer some specifics
where we can help on the economy.
My views on differentiation have not changed over the
last few years. We will differentiate. We will support those that
move towards us -- economically, politically, and in terms of human
rights. And it's more on those general themes that I will be talking
to the Hungarian leaders and the Polish leaders.
Q If I could follow, do you send any signal at the
same time to the Soviet Union, or have you had any communication to
them about the purposes of your visit?
THE PRESIDENT: No, but I would not expect them to be
uptight about it. Mr. Gorbachev goes to Western Europe and is
well-received; and I will go to Eastern Europe and I will be
well-received, And I think it was a good thing, his trip to Germany.
I've talked to Chancellor Kohl about it personally, and I don't get
all -- into some state of competition when I see Mr. Gorbachev get a
good, warm response in Germany.
The NATO Alliance is together. One of the things that
came out of the Brussels-NATO summit meeting was the fact that there
is strong unity there. And so it's a good thing for him to go to
Western Europe, and it's a good thing for the President of the United
States to go to Eastern Europe. And I want to see us move beyond
containment. I want to see a much more open Europe. And I think --
so that the importance of the visit is along that line, and it's not
going to be we're going to solve the problem of the Hungarian economy
or the Polish economy.
Q Let me ask another question about abortion and Roe
V. Wade. We may get that decision this week. As I understand your
position, you're for a constitutional amendment regardless of which
way the Supreme Court rules. Is that right?
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THE PRESIDENT: Yes, of course.
Q
Is that right? Now, if the Supreme Court strikes
down Roe V. Wade and sends this back to the states, would it not be
less divisive to let the states decide this rather than go through
the whole long, tortuous process of constitutional amendment?
THE PRESIDENT: John, I'd hate to not respond to your
question. But the court is probably going to make a decision very
soon, and I would prefer to address myself to the question after the
court has decided.
Q
It is still your position, though, sir, that you
favor a constitutional amendment regardless?
THE PRESIDENT: My position on that abortion question has
not finished.
Q
Mr. President, you will soon be proposing some
campaign finance reforms. What is it about the current system of
campaign financing that makes you think some kind of broad reform is
required? And if broad reform is important, why not go ahead and go
all the way to public financing of campaigns or some kind of a limit
on overall spending on congressional campaigns.
THE PRESIDENT: I oppose public financing of these
campaigns. I think people should be able to attract private support,
and I think participation by individuals in the political process
through financially support is very, very important. I don't want to
see the eroding out of participation by Americans in the political
process. So I'm opposing -- I will oppose and have opposed -- the
public financing of all these campaigns. Now, there are proposals
that I am not prepared to discuss in detail, though I see others have
already started discussing what I might do on Thursday.
I will have specific proposals, but -- and I think
they'll be fairly far-reaching because I want to see reform -- real
reform -- and they'll be good proposals. But I'm not prepared to go
into what I am going to do now except to say I will not support
kicking the citizen out of the political process by saying that
citizen cannot financially support the candidate of his or her
choice.
Q Well, if I could follow up, if the broad outlines of
what you are going to do as reported are correct, there are going to
be some accusations that they help Republicans more than Democrats.
How are you going to respond?
THE PRESIDENT: Why would anyone make a charge like that
against me when I'm looking at it as objectively as I can? Let's
wait until you see what it -- what the proposals are. I mean, I
would be outraged by a suggestion of that nature.
Q. You and Mr. Gorbachev are touring each other's
backyards in Europe. Now that you've finished your foreign policy
reviews with regard to the Soviet Union, have you moved any closer to
perhaps meeting, with the General Secretary?
THE PRESIDENT: That -- I wouldn't say closer. That
matter will be discussed again its having been discussed once by
the Secretary and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze. But I -- SO I guess
I'd leave it right there. There will obviously at some point be a
meeting, but I would -- I still feel I'd like the meeting to be seen
as productive rather than just the meeting itself.
But let me say this -- I feel comfortable about the
wavelength we're on with the Soviet Union now, and I think they feel
comfortable in the sense that I think they know we want to move
forward with START. They know that we're prepared to move swiftly
forward with the conventional force -- rectifying the conventional
force imbalance. And, indeed, I got the feeling from talking to
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Chancellor Kohl that Mr. Gorbachev was not hung up on the timetable
that we set.
So we're coming closer on some of these broad-scale
objectives. And then there are some very nice, smaller things --
their help that Soviet ship helping with the cleanup, and our kids
from Brooke going over to help with the burn -- our specialized burn
unit really qualified people, the best in helping with burns going
to the Soviet Union. And then the outreach at the town of Yerevan.
So there are some atmospherics that I think are very,
very important and harmonious that will help when we sit down to
hammer out the details on the strategic arms talks or on these other
matters.
Q
Could I ask you -- to follow up to perhaps define
a little bit more what useful or progress would be in terms of a
meeting? Are you setting a precondition, as President Reagan did,
that you need something to sign, or is there --
THE PRESIDENT: No, I don't think it should be something
to sign, but I would like to think that the criterion -- the
governing criterion would be so that the world would see the
meeting as having been successful -- something good happening out of
it. And it doesn't have to be signing, necessarily, although I've
been around this track long enough to know that you can always whip
out something to sign -- a fishing agreement or something of this
nature. (Laughter.)
But -- so we could have that, but I'm not saying that we
-- that it should be hung up on a major treaty of some sort before I
would sit down with Mr. Gorbachev. Maybe we'll do it like this --
say hey, let's get together. And I'm interested in what he thinks
about it. And we've had some communication back and forth, but all I
want to say is, I think the relationship is going in the right
general direction, albeit we have tremendous differences with the
Soviet Union, still. And I still have -- guided by a certain sense
of caution.
Q
Mr. President, you made much during the campaign and
after your election of your relationship with China's leaders, and
yet, for the past several weeks you've been unable to contact them.
And China appears to have ignored our calls for clemency and for
dialogue. Sir, do you not think the relationship was oversold?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I don't think it was oversold.
Q⁻ Then tell us what benefit we've gained from it.
THE PRESIDENT: What we've gained is, China has a much
more open economic system than when the Shanghai communique was
signed quite a few years ago. What we've gained is 30,000 students
right this minute, I think the figure is, studying in the United
States -- Chinese kids that are going back there with a sense of what
freedom and democracy is all about. What we have gained is, helping
China move out of a period of cultural revolution isolation. And
this relationship is important, and I can continue to express my
outrage about what happened in Tiananmen Square, and I will. But I
am determined to do my level best to keep from injuring the very
people that we're trying to help. And I'm talking about the Chinese
people generally.
So we've gained a lot from this relationship, and so have
they, and I still think that it is in the strategic interests of the
United States -- I'm not talking about the old adage of playing the
China card or something of that nature -- playing the Soviet card.
But if you look at the world and you understand the dynamics of the
Pacific area, good relationships with China are in the national
interest of the United States. Now it's hard to have them. It's
impossible at this moment to have what I would say "normalized
relations" for very obvious reasons. But I am going to do my level
best to find a way to see improvement there that will help the
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Chinese people.
Q
If I could follow, sir, it's the personal
relationship with China's leaders that I'm speaking of. I'm looking
for the benefit when you cannot even complete a phone call to Deng
Xiaoping. I'm wondering if the personal --
THE PRESIDENT: The benefit is, I understand the
situation. That's the benefit. And leaders are changing all the
time over there. So -- I mean, recently. So we've got to deal with
who is there. We don't dictate to China about their leaders. We
express our concerns as other leaders have.
But let me be very clear: In my view, the United States
has been out front. We've been out front on the steps we've taken,
and I am very pleased that there has been broad support for the
position I've taken.
And I heard it just today from the Prime Minister of
Australia, one of the most knowledgeable men about China. The
Australians, you see, have always had a -- they've been a little
out-front. They've had relations before we did, and they have a
rather -- almost a unique standing in China. They've done a lot of
business with China. They've worked -- they've had a lot of
exchanges with China. Bob Hawke feels that he knows most of the
Chinese leaders -- the ones that we had been dealing with. And to
hear him say -- be as supportive as he was today was very reassuring
to me.
Q
Mr. President, how concerned are you that the
retreat -- the political retreat that we've seen in China in recent
weeks could be duplicated in the Soviet Union?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I did not predict what would happen
in Tiananmen Square, and I don't know of any China expert -- scholar
or otherwise -- who predicted that. And I guess the lesson is, go
forward as best you can, keep your eyes open, hold high the banner of
values that we believe in -- the United States. We have a special
responsibility around the world in terms of human rights and
democracy, freedom. But keep your eyes open. That's what I've
learned from this.
Q
Have you had any communcations with Secretary
Gorbachev on the situation in China?
THE PRESIDENT: Not on China. Maybe others in the
administration -- not Gorbachev personally, but I followed carefully
the statements out of there, and obviously the Soviet Union has tried
to, with Gorbachev's visit to China, tried to improve relations. But
I think that's on a little bit of a hold, although maybe they're more
accommodating than we are right now.
Q
Mr. President, women's groups have been very
pleasantly surprised and saluting you for your statements yesterday
about violent crimes against women and spousal abuse. And a couple
have asked the question whether you will be willing to take that
message to men's groups -- ones that -- those macho groups, such as
the NRA, the American Legion, the Police Chiefs of America, and ask
them to get the word out to stop beating their wives and stop beating
-- the generic "they," not specific.
THE PRESIDENT: Hey, listen, I'm a member of the NRA.
You're hurting my feelings, as they say in China.
Q And the question is whether you will take the
message to men's groups instead of to the American Association of
University Women.
THE PRESIDENT: Jessica, I hope that the message that --
because of the line of work you all are engaged in, I hope that
message got to every group. But I don't want to single out or.
acquiesce in the hypothesis here and say that NRA is against women or
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-- or, who were the other groups you singled out? Come on, Jessie.
Q
No, no, no, but you spoke --
THE PRESIDENT: Come on, Jessie.
Q
But you talked about it to women who are very well
aware of the problem. Your staffers here say they move their cars
closer to the White House after dark and have someone walk out with
them. So women know about the problem. My question is whether you
will go and take the message to the men's group and ask their help in
eradicating the problem.
THE PRESIDENT: I'm trying to take the message to the
whole country. That's what our whole crime package is about --
absolutely anybody that wants to listen.
Q
Now, you said also that you wanted --
THE PRESIDENT: This is the follow-up. Yes.
Q Please that you want to be sure that your seven
granddaughters have the same opportunities that your pride and joy
George P. has. George P. is the one whom you take on fishing trips,
and to the back rooms with the boys, and to the research camps at the
University of Nebraska and things like that. I wonder if you're
planning to take some of the granddaughters on some of these kinds of
excursions where you're doing the business of the nation to prepare
them to be president.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. When they get older than about
three -- (laughter) -- I will do that. Because, now -- I know, now,
don't you say it, I'll say it. Jenna and Barbara are about seven,
but that's a Iittle young to go fishing at Jackson Hole with their
grandfather and put up with Marlin Fitzwater and all these people.
(Laughter.) I mean, I want them prepared for the real world. I'm
serious I want them prepared, and I look forward to the day that
those they're the Noelle, who is just a couple years behind
George P., she came up here. We had her with us and she brought her
cousin and we had a wonderful time, and I want her to come back;
indeed, they'l be with us this summer.
So -- but, no, you raise a good point. And it isn't --
my affection for our oldest grandson is just that he's there and he's
ready and he plays ball and he does stuff and we're going to the
Orioles game tomorrow, I think it is. (Laughter.) And so but it
is not discriminatory. It is not discriminatory.
Q The secret's out.
Q
Yes.
Q
Mr. President, if I could ask one last question.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, wasn't I not supposed to say that?
(Laughter.) What, about the ballgame? (Laughter.) Come on.
Q
If I could ask one last question on the HUD scandal.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
Q
I think that many people would think it's unfair to
hold you responsible when you were Vice President for the things that
were going on at HUD. But some of the people who have been
implicated in this scandal are very close to you. I'm thinking of
Frederick Bush, who was your chief fundraiser in the campaign and
Paul Manafort, who was an adviser to your campaign and a partner of
Lee Atwater, your campaign manager. Have you made any effort to find
out exactly what these people who are close to you were doing with
HUD, or to express your views of it to them? Have you made any
efforts in those regards?
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THE PRESIDENT: I'm not singling out any -- you know,
going -- say, look for people that I know that may have done business
with HUD in the past. What I'm trying to do is, do it generically.
Say, to the degree there was any breaking of the law, obviously the
people should pay whatever the price is. To the degree, we can guard
against any abuse for the future, I want to go the extra mile to do
that.
And one of the first things I did as President -- unnoted
though it was -- was to meet with the Inspectors General in here and
encourage them towards independence and thorough investigation. And
so that's the way I'm trying to handle that matter.
Q
And to follow up, does this affect your relationship
with these people -- to know that they were involved, apparently, in
influenced-peddling?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, it doesn't improve things. But on
the other hand, I want to be fair. I want to be sure that I don't
jump at conclusions as to what guilt is and what it isn't -- whether
the law is broken or were people just out there doing what was
permitted. I want to have the standard higher, though. Even if it's
permitted, I want to have the highest possible standard. But
I
haven't put it on that kind of a personal basis yet.
Q
Mr. President, the Senate has just a passed a child
care bill that would spend almost $9 billion in federal funds for
child care.
THE PRESIDENT: I know it.
Q
Your spokesman says that bill is a candidate for a
veto. Do you intend to veto that bill, and what are your objections?
THE PRESIDENT: I want to see what comes down here. But
if there was one thing that was clear -- you've got to be careful of
these gestures, the way these -- Rich Little and these guys --
(laughter.) But if there was one thing that was clear, it was my
position on child care -- maximum choice through credits. And the
ABC bill does not fit what I think is the proper description for
child care. And to then -- for me to take the back seat and say I'm
less concerned about child care because I'm unenthusiastic about the
ABC bill, I don't accept that at all.
So I remain convinced that what I have proposed is the
right way to go about it. I would like to see what comes down here
before I make further statements about what action I will take or
won't take. I want to know the final piece of legislation that hits
this desk.
Q
But you would veto the bill as it stands now.
THE PRESIDENT: I've made my position clear on the ABC
bill.
Q
You say you don't want to prejudge Secretary Pierce,
but doesn't the evidence of mismanagement and influence-peddling make
it evident to you that there were major problems there at the very
top?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, yes.
Q
And what can be done about that?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, that's what the process that --
what the Secretary is trying to do right now -- is to make guarantees
and put out regulations to see that these kinds of abuses -- a woman
sitting in Maryland ripping off $5 million from the American
taxpayers, that's wrong. And I expect that's in the courts, I don't
know. That's where it should be, in my view.
Yes, Frank. Then I've got to go. We've got Bob Hawke
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appearing, about whom I spoke highly because of his support for our
policies.
Q
On the rescinding of the pay raise, you said that
action was necessary for judges and top federal officials. It's been
some time now. I'd like to ask what you're doing about that and when
you plan to propose some action? People are still quitting.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I know it, and I want to see that
remedied. I still would like to see the separation of consideration
for judges and other key Executive Branch posts -- I'm thinking of
some of the researchers in the NIH and people of this nature. And I,
want to see it separated out so it doesn't get caught on the question
of congressional pay.
Now, whether the Congress is willing to do what I've
suggested, I don't know. But I will have suggestions when we make
our announcements, I think, Thursday -- further announcements along
this line -- as to what I think needs to be done. And I am not
trying to dictate to the Legislative Branch, but I am going to have
to make some recommendations -- and maybe I can do that as a former
Member of Congress who is concerned -- about what the Legislative
Branch ought to do. This is a matter of considerable concern.
This is the last, and then one behind you. And then I've
got to go, because Bob Hawke is appearing.
Q
Mr. President, are you --
THE PRESIDENT: Next time, Sarah. I'm sorry. I've got
half -- I've got two-thirds back there. Yes?
Q
Your suggestions will be specific pay -- proposals,
and will they take the form of a proposed legislative bill?
THE PRESIDENT: Excuse me?
Q
Will your suggestions, when you mentioned them on
Thursday, be specific as to salary increases, and will they take the
form of a bill?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I think we will have specifics on
the -- I haven't gone over this with the final recommendations
internally, although I'm reading now what I've decided. (Laughter.)
And -- very clear. But there will be some specific recommendations
with amounts.
Q
Mr. President, a lot of Americans this summer are
talking about Pete Rose. And I wondered, without prejudging his
case, what you think about betting on baseball and whether you think
that that should be reviewed by the courts or the commissioner of
baseball?
THE PRESIDENT: I am not going to get into how that
matter should be resolved. Baseball -- a national pastime -- has
sound rules regarding betting on baseball games, and I simply am
going to -- I'm not going to get into that one.
Q
Mr. President, are you concerned that a
deterioration in the U.S. relations with China would disrupt the
strategic balance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union? And is that
of overriding importance in your reaction to events there?
THE PRESIDENT: It is a matter that, as you look at the
whole Pacific area, you have to consider that. I have never been one
who thinks that the relationship with China ought to be based on
playing the Soviet card, or, "playing the China card." But -- and it
is not -- I will not overlook fundamental abuse of the human rights
because of a strategic concern. But of course when you look at all
your relationships, a President must be concerned about the strategic
importance of the relationships. And not only is our relationship
with China of strategic importance, it has this whole cultural and
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educational and art, and hopefully someday human rights side of it.
So you look at it in what is right between China and the
United States, but of course, I'm concerned about the strategic
implications. And it's not just the strategic implications vis-a-vis
the Soviet Union. Take a look at what Deng Xiaoping used to call
encirclement, and look at what he means. Just take a look at China
on the map and you'll understand why the Chinese leaders still, as
recently as three months ago, talked about encirclement. And that
gets you into the questions of the ASEAN countries, it gets you into
the question of what's happening in Cambodia today. It gets you into
the question, of obviously, then, Vietnam, the Korean peninsula. And
there's a lot of strategic interests involved here.
2 Sir -- why don't you do something about it? Why
don't you let me have a question, then? (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: A real short one, and I'll go.
Q
All right. When you went out to see Claude Pepper
and he was dying, he rose up and said, Mr. President, when are we
going to get home health care? And you looked at him and you wanted
to cooperate with him, and I'm sure you are anxious to do something
about that. Will you tell us if you're going to do something about
it?
THE PRESIDENT: Regrettably, we can't go the route that
the late Claude Pepper wanted, but I hope we can have more emphasis
on care at home, and I think that would be a very good way to
approach the health care needs of this country.
Q
Thank you, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: But we can't go totally with what Claude
was suggesting
Q
You didn't explain why you went the constitutional
route instead of legislative on flag-burning.
THE PRESIDENT: Because I am told that legislation cannot
correct the, in my view, egregious offense -- burning the American
flag.
Q
How about the death penalty for teenagers and the
retarded?
THE PRESIDENT: I really do have to go.
THE PRESS: Thank you.
END
9:45 A.M. EDT
White House News Summary
Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- 1
11:30 A.M. NEWS UPDATE
PRESIDENT'S NEWS CONFERENCE (Thomas Ferraro, UPI) -- President
Bush said he will seek a constitutional amendment to counter a Supreme
Court decision allowing burning of the American flag in political protest.
"As president I will uphold our precious. right to protest, but burning the
flag goes too far," Bush said in a statement opening a hastily called news
conference at the White House. "Flag burning is wrong. Protection of the
flag, a unique national symbol, will in no way limit the opportunity nor the
breadth of protest available in the exercise of free speech rights," he
asserted. "I believe that the flag of the United States should never be
the object of desecration."
At his news conference, Bush took a far less alarmist view of
recent Supreme Court decisions viewed by civil rights leaders as setbacks
for affirmative action and other programs, characterizing the issues
addressed by those rulings as technical
The
president
sidestepped
questions about a pivotal Supreme Court decision on abortion expected
Thursday, reiterating his opposition to abortion but withholding further
comment.
(Tom Raum, AP) -- President Bush, reacting to a Supreme Court
decision that protects the right of protesters to burn the American flag,
called for a constitutional amendment that would prohibit desecration of the
flag. "Support of the First Amendment need not extend" to such
desecration, the president said in a statement in the White House briefing
room that turned into a lengthy and free-wheeling news conference. Bush
also said he will carry a package of economic aid when he travels to Poland
next month, but wants to first make sure that the Communist government
there will follow through on economic and political reform
Bush said it
was important to protect the free-speech guarantees of protest, but he
didn't want to extend that to the flag, which he referred to as "the
unique symbol of America.'
Bush also said he does not want to see contacts with the Chinese
government cut off, despite a continuing crackdown in Beijing against
leaders of a pro-democracy movement. "I'm going to do my level best to
find a way to see improvement there that will help the Chinese people, he
said. "I believe that it was contact with the United States and others in
the west that moved the process of economic reforms forward and hopefully
someday will move the process of political reform forward
He also vowed his administration would get to the bottom of scandals
at HUD. "We are going to do everything we can to clean up any cronyism
and see that matters of that nature do not recur," he said.
PRESIDENT'S NEWS CONFERENCE/CHINA (Barry Schweid, AP) --
President Bush said he would keep trying to get in touch with the leaders
of China but acknowledged he had not been able to make contact in the
last few weeks. Bush, at a White House news conference, said he had
still not received a telephone call from Beijing despite his efforts to
discuss the recent turmoil in the world's most populous nation. But Bush
said there have been "some exchange of views" at a lower level. And he
stressed that the Chinese ambassador here, Han Xu, has had easy access to
senior U.S officials
Bush again avoided any heavy denunciation of the
arrests and executions in China. "I reiterate my desire not to do damage
to the people themselves."
-more-
White House News Summary
Tuesday, June 27, 1989 -- 2
11:30 A.M. NEWS UPDATE (Continued)
CHINA (Beijing/AP) -- China has asked the U.S. to delay the start of the
Peace Corps program that was to begin sending American volunteers to
China this fall to teach English, a U.S. official said. Authorities also
ordered two Americans -- a teacher and a student -- to leave the country,
apparently for participating in the student-led pro-democracy movement,
the U.S. Embassy said
The Chinese gave no reason for their request
last week for the Peace Corps postponement, the U.S. official said, saying
they just wanted to put the program off "until a more appropriate
time.
"
But "we're not reading anything retaliatory into" the Peace
Corps postponement, the official said. "It's not by any means canceled."
(Beijing/UPI) -- China announced at least 15 new arrests in the
nationwide crackdown on democracy movement activists, and police in
Shanghai said they were investigating whether an explosion aboard a
train that killed 20 people was an act of sabotage
Western diplomats,
meanwhile, said 30 to 100 leading intellectuals associated with the
democracy movement or ousted Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang were
being sought for arrest, but at least five of them had escaped from China.
"These are key people. Of course, the lists go beyond these, said one
diplomat.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS (Geneva/UPI) -- The U.S. called for the same trial
inspections during negotiation of a ban on chemical weapons as it proposed
to Moscow at separate talks on reducing strategic nuclear arms.
Ambassador Friedersdorf said he "wanted to stress the personal
commitment" of President Bush to chemical arms control. But detailed and
effective verification is critical and "the building of confidence must begin
well before an agreement enters into forces," Friedersdorf told the
conference.
EC/CURRENCY (Madrid/AP) -- EC leaders agreed to gradually unite their
economies, but the timetable was left vague because of British fears that
the plan goes too far in blurring the boundaries between nations. Britain,
which had blocked French and West German moves to adopt a broader
economic agreement during the two-day EC summit, said the compromise
plan that was adopted was a victory. "The French were seen off
(defeated), said a British official on condition of anonymity.
EC/CHINA (Madrid/Reuter) -- EC leaders appealed to China to stop
executing pro-democracy demonstrators and imposed a ban on arms sales to
Beijing. In a statement issued at the end of a two-day summit, the 12
heads of government strongly condemned the "brutal repression" in China
that started when the army crushed protests for greater democracy early
this month. "(The summit) solemnly requests the Chinese authorities to
stop the executions and to put an end to the repressive actions against
those who legitimately claim their democratic rights," the leaders said.
OIL SPILLS CLEANUP (UPI) -- With cleanup progressing in three
separate oil spills in the nation's waterways, angry elected officials on
both coasts pledged their efforts to better protect the environment from
similar disasters in the future. In the worst of the 4 spills, a work crew
of 300 Delaware National Guardsmen and 255 civilians in 22 workboats
continued to gather blobs of oil that range in size from golf balls to trash
cans, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
-end-
Pool report of the president's meeting with Prime Minister Hawke
in the Oval Office on June 27.
Only the president and the prime minister were in the Oval Office
when the media came in. They were sitting in their usual seats.
The president invited the press to ask a question of the prime
minister. He was asked wether the western world should take
stronger action against China.
Hawke said:
The president and I have had the opportunity to have a
lengthy discussion on this issue, and I think it's fair to
say that our views are identical. While we completely, unequivocally
abhor and condemn the barbarism, the murder, the executions,
the supression of legitimate human aspirations, we also agree
for the very same XE4 reason that we want to ensure that those
interests in China have the opportunity of being
advanced ; that it would be counterproductive to end economic
relationships. We have that difficult fine line to walk of
condemnation, but at the same
ensuring that we assist the forces of economic reform because
it is only in that context that the politica that the legitimate
political aspirations for a freer society have any chance of
flourishing.
Gil Klein
Media General News Service
with many thanks to ABC Radio
THE PRESIDENT
6-27-89
Dear Mark,
I received your recent cable regarding your hospitality
to Digger Phelps and his wife. I expect you gave them
the thrill of their lives!
My sincere thanks and best wishes. I am looking forward
to my visit to Paris.
Sincerely,
CyBurl
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The Honorable Mark C. Lissfelt
Charge D'Affaires A.I.
American Embassy
Paris
VIA DIPLOMATIC POUCH
THE PRESIDENT
6-27-89
Rew Mr. Pearson,
Gary walters gave
me your wonderful letter
of may 12 the telling we A
that present you sent
to the White Home.
I in sorry for the
delay in suding you this
letter of heartfult thanks.
Backer a I
will sip and enjoy for
a long time. GyBurl So may thats
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
bcc: Rose Zamaria
Gary Walters
Gift Unit
Mr. Laurence R. Pearson
Pearson & Hawkins, Ltd.
1485 East Valley Road
Studio 6
Post Office Box 50547
Santa Barbara, CA 93150-0547
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
CPL Cullen Plousha
Company A
Marine Barricks
8th and I Streets, SE
Washington, D.C. 20390-5000
6-27-89
THE president
Personal
Dear Cpl. Plousha,
Last night's drill
was very special. I want
to thank you and the
others in the platoon for
a super performance.
Col. Pace told me
that you were the
guy selected by his peers
for that key inspection role_
quita an honor, well diserved.
Please that all involved
in the drill - sinculs, Cy Burch
R.S. Don't worry about augthing- - you did A-OR.
THE PRESIDENT
June 27,1989
Dear Amy,
"Antist of the Year"- -
may congratulations on I'm this
well deserved honor.
told its number 3 for you.
congratulations GS Burl
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Mrs. Gary Chapman
c/o Chas. Corzine
Blanton Harrell
2910 Poston Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
bcc: Jan Burmeister
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