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Schedule of the President [redaction] (1 pp.)
09/14/90
(b)(3)
02. Log
White House Telephone Log [Signal Switchboard] [redaction of
09/14/90
(b)(6)
personal information] (1 pp.)
03. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with JAB [James A.
09/15/[90]
(b)(1)
Baker, III] (1 pp.)
04. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with Prime Minister
09/14/[90]
(b)(1)
Thatcher (3 pp.)
05. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with President
09/14/90
(b)(1)
Mitterand (2 pp.)
06. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with James A. Baker,
09/14/90
(b)(1)
III (1 pp.)
07. Talking Points Points to be Made for Telephone Conversation with Prime
09/13/[90]
(b)(1)
Minister Toshiki Kaifu [double-sided] (1 pp.)
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SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
Friday, September 14, 1990
8:00 am
Intelligence Briefing
Oval Office
(15 min)
(Scowcroft/Sununu)
8:15 am
National Security Briefing
Oval Office
(30 min)
(Scowcroft/Sununu)
8:45 am
Meeting with Governor Sununu
Oval Office
(30 min)
9:15 am
Administrative Time
Oval Office
(45 min)
10:00 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
10:30 am
Transmittal to Congress of the
Roosevelt Room
(15 min)
Enterprise for the Americas
Initiative Act of 1990
(Holiday)
(TAB A)
10:45 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(45 min)
11:30 am
Address Attendees of the
East Room
(20 min)
International Appellate
Judges Conference
(Gray)
(TAB B)
12:00 pm
Lunch
Oval Office
(60 min)
1:00 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
1:30 pm
B Depart for Camp David
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SIGNAL SWITCHBOARD
September 14
, 19
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White House Situation Room
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Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:1970:O-375-347
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SEPTEMBER 14th
, 1990
PRESIDENT BUSH
TIME
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PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
Washington, D.C.
LOCATION
Camp David, Maryland
DATE 14 September 1990
TIME
MOVEMENTS
0713
South Grounds
0717
Oval Office
1036
Roosevelt Room
1044
Oval Office
1131
South Grounds
1134
State Floor
1149
Oval Office
1212
South Grounds
1222
Cabinet Room
1225
Navy Mess
1313
Oval Office
1329
South Grounds
1351
Depart South Grounds via Marine One
1413
Arrive Camp David, Maryland
WHCA FORM 15, OCTOBER 15, 1980
News Summary
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990 -- 6 A.M. EDT EDITION
TODAY'S HEADLINES
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
MILITARY ACTION OK IF SANCTIONS FAIL, POLL FINDS -- A majority of
Americans favor military action against Iraq if international
economic sanctions are not effective, and the level of support
rises among those who are following the Persian Gulf crisis
closely, according to survey results released Thursday.
(Los Angeles Times)
MEXICAN TRADE PACT PUSHED President Bush, acting more swiftly
than expected, will ask Congress next week for authority to
negotiate a comprehensive free trade agreement with Mexico,
Administration officials said Thursday. Though not the only
reason, the Persian Gulf crisis was a factor in the decision, they
said.
(New York Times)
NATIONAL NEWS
SOUTER WON'T REVEAL ABORTION VIEWS -- Supreme Court nominee David
Souter refused to say Thursday whether he believes the Constitution
protects abortion rights, saying it would be "inappropriate for me
to comment" on the "wisdom or the future" of the "one case which
has been on everyone's mind and everyone's lips since the moment
of my nomination."
(Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, AP)
NETWORK NEWS (Thursday evening)
GULF -- Iraq warned again that
the Arab masses might carry out
terrorist attacks against
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
A-1
American targets.
NATIONAL NEWS
A-10
ENERGY -- Secretary Watkins
rejected criticism that the
NETWORK NEWS
B-1
President has done little to
reduce U.S. reliance on foreign
EDITORIALS
C-1
oil.
FOREIGN MEDIA
C-3
SOUTER -- Judge Souter declined
to say where he stands on the
abortion issue.
This Summary is prepared Monday through Friday by the White House News Summary Staff.
For complete stories or information, please call 456-2950.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
MILITARY ACTION OK IF SANCTIONS FAIL, POLL FINDS
A majority of Americans favor military action against Iraq if
international economic sanctions are not effective, and the level
of support rises among those who are following the Persian Gulf
crisis closely, according to survey results released Thursday.
The monthly news interest poll by the Times Mirror Center for
the People & the Press also shows wide -- although somewhat
declining -- support for President Bush and the policies he is
pursuing is an effort to pressure Iraq to withdraw its forces from
Kuwait
President Bush received an approval rating of 63 percent in
the September survey, much lower than the 76 percent he had in
August but still high, the center reported.
The poll indicates many Americans would continue to support
Bush if he ordered military action in the gulf; 63 percent favored
a military response if the economic blockade fails to force Iraq
out of Kuwait, while 70 percent of those who closely followed the
news endorsed such action.
Slightly more than half of the respondents -- 52 percent --
said they have watched televised meetings between President Saddam
and groups of Western hostages. Of those who saw the meetings, 70
percent said the broadcasts made them more likely to back military
action against Iraq.
Although some newspaper editorialists and columnists have
decried what they characterize as confusion in the President's
goals, 55 percent of those polled said they believed that Bush had
sent the troops to Saudi Arabia to defend the supply of oil. Only
25 percent believed that the troops were there to defend the
independence of gulf countries.
(Stanley Meisler, Los Angeles Times)
BUSH TO SEEK EXTRA DOLLARS FOR PERSIAN GULF DEPLOYMENT
President Bush wants Congress to provide an additional $1.8
billion to cover the unexpected costs of Operation Desert Shield
through the end of this month, Administration and congressional
sources say.
Bush will formally ask Congress Friday for money in an
emergency spending package that also includes a request to forgive
$7 billion in past military debt owed the U.S. by Egypt, said the
sources, speaking only on condition of anonymity.
The request also includes a proposal to transfer $900 million
for the Persian Gulf deployment from unused accounts within the
Pentagon to make up the rest of the $2.7 billion additional costs
incurred in the operation, the sources said.
The 1990 fiscal year ends Sept. 30, and the White House hopes
that paying some of Operation Desert Shield's bills in the current
year will ease pressure at least slightly as the Administration and
Congress draft a Defense Department budget for 1991, according to
the sources.
"We want to get it up and done so there's not that budget
impact," said an Administration official.
(Jim Drinkard, AP)
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White House News Summary
Friday, September 14, 1990 -- A-2
U.S. EXPECTING SHORTAGES, PLANS TO TAP OIL RESERVES
The Bush Administration is expecting worldwide oil shortages
to hit as early as next month and is planning to tap the U.S.'s
strategic oil reserves for the first time, Secretary Watkins
disclosed Thursday.
Because of the impact of the Persian Gulf crisis, Watkins told
senators, private stocks of petroleum may be insufficient to cover
an anticipated shortage of 2.5 million barrels a day.
His testimony was the first indication that the gulf crisis
is about to be felt in the crucial area of oil supplies, despite
increased oil production by Saudi Arabia
Watkins, who offered an array of voluntary initiatives to
encourage fuel conservation and promote domestic oil production,
told a Senate committee that a projected oil shortfall this month
of nearly 4 million barrels a day could be covered by the large
stocks of oil accumulated by private companies. But he warned that
by next month those supplies might not cover the projected
shortfall of 2.5 million barrels daily.
(Oswald Johnston and James Gerstenzang, Los Angeles Times)
PETROLEUM RESERVE BILL SENT TO WHITE HOUSE
The Senate passed and sent to the White House Thursday a bill
giving the President new discretion to draw oil from the strategic
petroleum reserve in the event of a domestic energy crisis as well
as an oil import disruption.
Final congressional action on the measure came two days before
the Energy Department's authority under existing law to purchase
and store oil for the reserve was due to expire.
The legislation, a compromise that reconciles differing House
and Senate versions of the bill passed months ago, cleared the
House 391-0, and passed the Senate on a voice vote about an hour
later.
The White House had issued veto threats against both the
original House and Senate versions of the bill. However, a Senate
staff member who asked not to be identified said the Administration
signaled Thursday that President Bush would sign the compromise
measure into law.
(Steven Gorman, UPI)
U.S. UNVEILS PLAN FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION INCREASE PRODUCTION
Six weeks after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Bush Administration
announced its first significant energy-policy proposals Thursday,
a mix of production increases and voluntary conservation measures
that critics quickly attacked as inadequate.
Secretary Watkins said the Administration will try to increase
oil production in Alaska and California, expedite construction of
natural gas pipelines and encourage Americans to reduce their oil
consumption by voluntary efforts such as obeying speed limits.
If fully successful, those effort would cut U.S. oil imports
by more than 1.1 million barrels a day by December 1991, Watkins
told the Senate Energy Committee. The U.S. now imports 9 million
barrels of oil a day.
"The response that you're proposing today seems to me to be
woefully inadequate," said Sen. Bingaman.
Replied Watkins, "We do not think they are trivial."
(Robert Rankin, Knight-Ridder)
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White House News Summary
Friday, September 14, 1990 -- A-3
WHITE HOUSE, CONGRESS SPAR OVER ENERGY POLICY
For the third time in 17 years, Middle East instability has
energized Washington to talk about energy.
The current Persian Gulf crisis has spotlighted the importance
of reducing growing U.S. dependence on imported oil for almost half
of its energy.
From the White House to Capitol Hill everyone agrees a
reduction should be undertaken now, as both President Bush and Rep.
Gephardt indicated in their televised addresses this week.
But Congress and the President differ on what is most
important to do this year. Congress wants to mandate conservation,
the President seeks to encourage further oil and gas exploration.
each is skeptical of the other's approach. As a result, few
changes in U.S. energy policy may actually occur this year.
Proponents of change worry that the momentum for drawing up
a farsighted policy may slip away when world tensions ebb, without
the U.S. having acted.
"We need an energy strategy for the future that ensures that
we do not repeat the old mistakes of the early 1970s that saw
America paralyzed by the inability to articulate long-term
solutions," says Rep. Schneider, a longtime proponent of energy
efficiency.
(Robert Hey, Christian Science Monitor, p.1)
SECURITY COUNCIL APPROVES FOOD
AID, INT'L CHARITIES MUST HANDLE IT
U.N. -- The U.N. Security Council overwhelmingly voted late
Thursday to allow food shipments to Iraq and occupied Kuwait only
"to relieve human suffering" and said relief agencies must
distribute the aid.
The wording of the resolution, which passed 13-2, sought to
maintain the narrow restrictions under which aid could be sent, in
line with a resolution passed after Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug.
2
Cuba and Yemen voted against the resolution.
(Peter James Spielmann, AP)
JAPAN: WILL PROVIDE ANOTHER $3 BILLION TO FORCES, GULF REGION
TOKYO -- Japan will provide an additional $3 billion in aid
to international peacekeeping forces in the Persian Gulf and
nations suffering from the U.S.-sponsored embargo against Iraq, the
government announced Friday.
The Cabinet decision brings Japan's total aid in the gulf
crisis to more than $4 billion. Members of the U.S. Congress had
complained Japan was not doing more in the crisis, and had not
contributed enough in light of its high dependence on Middle East
oil.
Misoji Sakamoto, the chief government spokesman, said Prime
Minister Kaifu had telephoned President Bush to notify him of the
increase in contribution.
"President Bush expressed deep appreciation and told Kaifu
that he will tell his people that Japan is playing an active role
in the international effort in the gulf," Sakamoto told reporters.
(Tetsuo Jimbo, AP)
White House News Summary
Friday, September 14, 1990 -- A-4
TERRORISTS WILL AVENGE U.S. 'INSULT': BAGHDAD
Iraq Thursday accused the U.S. of looking for an excuse to
attack Baghdad and told American troops to be ready to face terror
attacks because their presence in Saudi Arabia insults Islamic
shrines.
The Iraqi warning came in an irate exchange of notes between
the U.S. charge d'affaires in Baghdad, Joseph Wilson, and Iraqi
Deputy Foreign Minister Nizar Hamdoun
Wilson told Hamdoun that the U.S. would hold Saddam
"personally responsible."
Hamdoun Thursday "categorically denied the American
allegations [of possible Iraqi terrorism],' calling them a "pretext
for aggression" and handed Wilson a message from Saddam saying:
"The American government and President Bush should expect that
the crimes the USA is committing against the Arab nation and the
insult it is directing to the Islamic shrines by occupying holy
lands will undoubtedly produce a natural reaction from the Arab and
Islamic masses."
(Barbara Rehm, New York Daily News)
U.S. WARNS IRAQ ABOUT TERRORISM
Iran Is Asked To Explain Call For 'Holy War'
The Bush Administration this week privately warned Iraq that
Washington will hold Baghdad responsible for any terrorist attacks
by pro-Iraqi terrorist groups against U.S. or allied targets and
the Iraqi regime responded by accusing the U.S. of seeking a
pretext for war.
U.S. officials also were seeking Thursday through unidentified
third parties for a clarification from Iran's revolutionary
leadership of remarks by the country's spiritual leader calling for
a "holy war" against The U.S. military presence in the Persian
Gulf.
The officials said the U.S. massage to Iran would reassure
the Tehran government that the U.S. is not planning a long-term
military presence in the Persian Gulf and would also seek to
ascertain whether Tehran had changed its commitment to adhere to
the U.N. trade embargo against Iraq
In Baghdad, the U.S. diplomatic warning against Iraqi-
inspired terrorism was issued Wednesday night by U.S. charge
d'affaires Joseph WIlson to an Iraqi foreign ministry official.
It followed a number of intelligence reports that pro-Iraqi
terrorist organizations have been detected "casing" U.S. facilities
and other potential targets in the Middle East, Europe, Latin
America and Asia, U.S. officials said
Thursday night, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher
said the Iraqis were told "we would hold Iraq accountable for
actions carried out by those who support or act on its behalf."
(Patrick Tyler and John Goshko, Washington Post, A1)
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White House News Summary
Friday, September 14, 1990 -- A-5
U.S. SEEKS NEW SANCTIONS
Baker Visits Soviets, Syrians To Press Policy
DAMASCUS -- Secretary Baker told the Soviet leadership
Thursday that the U.S. is considering asking for new U.N. sanctions
to plug leaks in the global economic embargo against Iraq, and
Baker responded sharply to Iran's call for a "holy war" against
American troops in the Persian Gulf.
Baker told Foreign Minister Shevardnadze that the U.S. may
seek U.N. approval for additional sanctions such as an air
interdiction effort to prevent material from being flown into Iraq,
according to State Department spokeswoman Tutwiler. He also
discussed possible sanctions against nations that week to break the
embargo, she said.
Baker arrived here Thursday night for the first high-level
meeting of a U.S. official in more than two years with Syrian
President Assad, whom the U.S. has sought to isolate because of his
past support for terrorism
Meeting in Moscow this morning with Shevardnadze and later
with President Gorbachev, Baker did not ask the Soviets to approve
any new measure on the gulf crisis, Tutwiler said, but he "said he
was thinking along these lines and there would be additional areas"
in the future.
(David Hoffman, Washington Post, A1)
SYRIANS WILL REPORTEDLY DEPLOY AN ARMORED DIVISION IN THE GULF
DAMASCUS -- Syria will send a 10,000-man, 300-tank armored
division to saudi Arabia, where 3,000 of its troops are already
deployed along with U.S., Egyptian and other forces, a Western
diplomat said Thursday.
The disclosure came on the eve of a meeting Friday between
Syrian President Assad and Secretary Baker.
It is expected here that the troops will be transported by the
Soviet Union, although this could not be officially confirmed.
Syria is willing to send even more forces if requested by the
Persian Gulf states, the Western diplomat said.
(Mark Matthews, Baltimore Sun, A1)
U.S.-SYRIAN TIES WARM A BIT
DAMASCUS -- The Persian Gulf crisis has accelerated a gradual
shift by President Assad that is ushering his traditionally hard-
line Syrian government into closer cooperation with the U.S. and
its main Arab allies.
Assad's transformation in U.S. eyes from shunned sponsor of
state terrorism into military ally against Iraq was dramatized by
Secretary Baker's arrival here Thursday night for talks with the
Syrian leaders
But despite tactical agreement that President Saddam's
annexation of Kuwait must be reversed, diplomatic sources
cautioned, longer term Syrian and U.S. objectives in the Middle
East remain at odds in a number of important areas, particularly
the Palestinian conflict and the Golan Heights, which Israel
annexed after capturing from Syria in 1967.
It remains to be seen, therefore, whether Syria's current
alignment with the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Egypt can be extended
into broader Middle East diplomacy after the Kuwait crisis
subsides.
(Edward Cody, Washington Post, A23)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- A-6
MISSILE WITH POISON GAS LOAD TESTED BY IRAQ
The government of President Saddam has successfully tested a
chemical warhead loaded on an intermediate-range ballistic missile,
adding a deadly new component to Baghdad's military capability in
the Mideast crisis, according to top U.S. and Arab officials.
The test provided the first demonstration that Iraq is capable
of mounting a missile-borne poison gas attack against distant
targets, including key U.S. and Saudi military installations as
well as vital oil facilities, ports and cities in the region, the
officials said. (Robin Wright and John Broder, Los Angeles Times)
POWELL: IRAQIS STILL HAVE ATTACK POWER
Top General Visits U.S. Troops In Gulf
DHAHRAN -- Iraqi forces in Kuwait have maintained a formidable
offensive capability, even though they have spent much of the past
five weeks digging into defensive positions, according to the U.S.
military's top commander.
"We have learned not just to look at their disposition on the
ground, said Gen. Powell. "They have a robust defense but they
have the capability of becoming offensive."
Powell spoke to reporters Thursday after his first visit to
U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia since the American military buildup
here began five weeks ago
The four-star Army general said he is "very satisfied with the
amount of force" now in the region.
(Molly Moore, Washington Post, A23)
IRAQ SAYS U.S. MUST BRING BUSH'S TAPE TO BAGHDAD
A government courier is en route to Baghdad Friday with
President Bush's eight-minute message to the people of Iraq
following a diplomatic minuet at the State Department in which the
Iraqi ambassador refused to accept the box of tapes during a made
for television exchange.
The eight minute film of Bush, made in the Oval Office
Wednesday, was to be given Thursday to Ambassador Mashat by Acting
Secretary of State Eagleburger. The news media were invited to
record the handoff.
With the cameras rolling, Mashat fended off the box of five
tapes and informed Eagleburger he should use the normal diplomatic
practice of having U.S. diplomats in Baghdad deliver the tapes to
Iraqi officials.
Eagleburger said Thursday the point of the exercise was to get
a public commitment from Mashat to show the unedited film, which
the White House has dubbed the "let him eat his words film," to the
Iraqi people. Mashat provided that commitment. "We are going to
broadcast it in prime time," he said, adding it would be broadcast
in "its entirety."
(Ann Devroy, Washington Post, A24)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- A-7
SENATE VOTES TO STRENGTHEN PENTAGON
ROLE IN REVIEWING SENSITIVE EXPORTS
The Senate voted Thursday to give the Defense Department an
enhanced role in reviewing shipments of military sensitive
equipment to four Middle Eastern states and to any country
implicated in transfers of nuclear, chemical, biological or missile
technology to those states.
The voice vote to let defense officials review future exports
to Iraq, Syria, Libya and Iran was intended to bolster the
Pentagon's authority to block decisions by the Commerce Department,
which both promotes exports and grants licenses for strategically
sensitive equipment and technology.
"This will ensure that the department of our government that
has the expertise and the primary responsibility for ensuring
national security is given a full voice in reviewing (export)
licenses," said Sen. Helms. (Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post, A23)
MOSLEM LEAGUE, IN MECCA, UNEASILY BACKS SAUDIS'
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- The Moslem World League, after three
days of heated debate among top Islamic scholars, has approved
Saudi Arabia's decision to call in U.S. troops to help defend the
kingdom but called for the creation of a pan-Islamic force to
replace them as quickly as possible.
Reporting on a special league meeting that ended Wednesday in
the Islamic holy city of Mecca, Secretary General Abdullah Omar
Naseef said the presence of non-Moslem, mainly American, forces
here had been "the main issue" among the 350 Islamic scholars,
thinkers and religious leaders attending.
The league found justification for a Moslem nation calling for
non-Moslem assistance in extreme circumstances such as Saudi Arabia
faced after Iraq's occupation of Kuwait Aug. 2, said Naseef.
(David Ottaway, Washington Post, A23)
MEXICAN TRADE PACT PUSHED
President Planning To Ask Congress To Authorize Talks
President Bush, acting more swiftly than expected, will ask
Congress next week for authority to negotiate a comprehensive free
trade agreement with Mexico, Administration officials said
Thursday. Though not the only reason, the Persian Gulf crisis was
a factor in the decision, they said.
They also said Canada
was likely to participate, giving an
accord hemispheric scope and clearing the way for common standards
and trading rules in all three countries by the end of the
century
"Acting at this time is a way of telling Mexico that we're
really serious," a senior Administration official said.
(Clyde Farnsworth, New York Times, D1)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- A-8
U.S. DRUG EFFORT RUNS INTO LATIN RESISTANCE
New Peruvian Government Turns Down $36 Million
In Military Aid, Seeks Economic help
BUENOS AIRES -- The Bush Administration's strategy to fight
cocaine in the Andean drug-producing nations with military aid is
running up against the producer nations' reluctance to commit their
armed forces to the antidrug effort and demands that the U.S.
provide more funds for economic development.
On Wednesday night, Peruvian President Fujimori said his
government had decided not to sign a pending agreement to receive
$35.9 million in military aid from Washington, indicating that he
wants development aid instead
In Bolivia, the other major source of coca, frustrated U.S.
diplomats are still waiting for the government of President Paz
Zamora to develop acceptable plans for the Bolivian army to spend
roughly $40 million in pending military aid.
And in Colombia
officials have also been unenthusiastic
about increasing military involvement in the drug fight. President
Gaviria has made clear that his emphasis is on ending the terrorist
violence of the drug barons and that he believes the trafficking
industry cannot be eliminated until the U.S. acts to curb demand.
(Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, A22)
U.S. TO START PHASING OUT MILITARY BASES IN PHILIPPINES
The Bush Administration is ready to begin phasing out the U.S.
military bases in the Philippines, acknowledging for the first time
that the end of the Cold War has lessened the need for the
facilities, informed Administration and congressional sources said
Thursday.
With negotiations on the bases scheduled to begin Tuesday in
Manila, U.S. negotiators will seek a phaseout period that could
last up to 10 years, followed by continued military access to the
facilities, perhaps on a commercial basis, after the last American
forces depart, according to officials familiar with the U.S.
negotiating stance.
They said it remains particularly important for the U.S. to
maintain access to the Crow Valley training range where U.S. pilots
and allied air forces now train.
(Keith Richburg, Washington Post, A1)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- A-9
WEST GERMANS, SOVIETS INITIAL 20-YEAR TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP
MOSCOW -- West Germany and the Soviet Union Thursday initialed
a 20-year friendship treaty, a document that is designed to create
the basis for a new political and economic relationship between the
two main European powers after decades of postwar animosity.
Thursdays friendship treaty and the agreement of the World War
II allied powers Wednesday to restore sovereignty to a united
germany marked a historic reordering of Europe. West German
Foreign Minister Genscher said, "Now we can say with justification
that the postwar period is over."
The Cold War friction between Bonn and Moscow was especially
intense, but the document says that it is now of great importance
"to finally be done with the past, and to use understanding and
reconciliation to achieve an important contribution toward the
overcoming of Europe's division.
The treaty says that neither side will use force against the
other and that both will "honor without reservation the territory
of all European states in their current borders."
(David Remnick, Washington Post, A18)
EDITOR'S NOTES: "U.S. Sent Skewed Signals To Iraq," by James
Dorsey, appears in the Washington Times, A1.
"Oil Deal With Iraq Denied In Iran, But Private Executives Confirm
It," by Youssef Ibrahim, appears in the New York Times, A10.
"Rights-Group Report Asserts Syria Tortures And Kills Political
Foes," by Clifford Krauss, appears in the New York Times, A10.
"Iran Uses Position To Turn Profit, Toys With U.S. And Iraq," a
news analysis by James Dorsey and Martin Sieff, appears in the
Washington Times, A9.
"Despite Bush Pledge, U.S. Firms Face Hurdles To Soviet Trade," by
Peter Gumbel and Walter Mossberg, appears in the Wall Street
Journal, A10.
NATIONAL NEWS
SOUTER WON'T REVEAL ABORTION VIEWS
Nominee Moves To Dispel Image As Judge Lacking Comparison
Supreme Court nominee David Souter refused to say Thursday
whether he believes the Constitution protects abortion rights,
saying it would be "inappropriate for me to comment" on the "wisdom
or the future" of the "one case which has been on everyone's mind
and everyone's lips since the moment of my nomination."
Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the first
day of his confirmation hearings, Souter refused to discuss his
views of Roe V. Wade, the court's 1973 abortion ruling, or even to
express a "specific opinion" on earlier cases that established a
constitutionally protected right to privacy and culminated in Roe.
Souter did say be believes there is a fundamental right of
privacy under the Constitution that protects the intimate acts of
married couples, including the decision to procreate. But under
questioning by Sen. Biden, he repeatedly declined to discuss
whether there was a constitutional protection for abortion, saying,
"Senator, that's the point at which I will have to exercise the
prerogative" not to respond.
Souter's first extended public statements since President Bush
nominated him July 23 to replace Justice Brennan, received a
generally friendly reception from the committee
Looking serious but also showing flashes of dry wit, Souter
seemed to be deliberately distinguishing himself in demeanor and
philosophy from Robert Bork whose nomination to the court was
defeated after a bitter fight three years ago
If the hearings -- what Souter described as "our dialogue
together" -- were in part a contest over whether the committee
would be able to obtain the "rather specific answers" Biden had
said the panel deserved, it was clear by day's end that Souter had
triumphed handily in the first round.
(Ruth Marcus and Michael Isikoff, Washington Post, A1)
Souter Avoids Controversy At Hearings
Supreme Court nominee David Souter told the senate Judiciary
Committee that the constitution protects an implicit right to
privacy, but he declined to spell out what the right encompasses.
On the first day of his Senate confirmation hearings, Judge
Souter responded to questions raised by Democratic senators and
some liberal groups by trying to demystify himself and to depict
himself as a humane, compassionate judge.
Judges must always remember, he said, that "at the end of our
task some human being is going to be affected, some human life is
going to be changed.'
Questioned by seven of the 14 committee members, his answers
appeared designed to project an image of moderation, of a judge who
is even-tempered and well-versed in constitutional law and Supreme
Court history. Throughout his four hours of testimony, he avoided
controversy. The hearings proceeded without rancor, even though
he generally declined to give his views on Supreme Court decisions,
including Roe V. Wade, the 1973 ruling that recognized the right
to abortion.
(Stephen Wermiel, Wall Street Journal, A16)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- A-11
Nominee Distances Himself From Bork In Style, Substance
Supreme Court nominee David Souter, in style and substance
early in his Senate confirmation hearings, is proving what he had
to: he's no Robert Bork.
Souter, who spent many hours watching videotapes of Bork's
1987 performance, is using his appearance before the Senate
Judiciary Committee to distance himself from the lingering memory
of Bork's defeated high court nomination.
To many, Bork the Senate witness seemed a bloodless academic
who talked about the "intellectual feast" Supreme Court service
would provide. He sometimes bristled at pointed questions and
ignored some softballs, pitched by sympathetic senators.
In contrast, many of Souter's responses Thursday were
embellished with personal anecdotes. And he has won praise from
two committee members for being "a listener.
II
Souter said constitutional provisions must be interpreted in
today's world -- a position more identified with retired Justice
Brennan, the liberal Souter seeks to replace.
As an example, Souter praised the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling
that outlawed racially segregated public schools. It was based on
a constitutional amendment adopted in 1868, when separation of the
races was strictly enforced by numerous laws.
Sen. DeConcini cited the nominee's comments on that 1954
ruling to "highlight the difference" between Souter and certain
unnamed past nominees. The senator clearly had concluded that no
clone of Robert Bork sat before him.
(Richard Carelli, AP)
GOP'S TAX PROPOSAL SAID TO FAVOR WEALTHY
Budget Talks Proceeding At 'Glacial' Pace
Bush Administration budget negotiators proposed a package of
tax increases that would cut the assessments for taxpayers with
annual incomes of more than $50,000 while raising taxes for those
with lower incomes, officials familiar with the proceedings said
Thursday.
A Democratic tax offer, on the other hand, would cut taxes for
those with incomes of less than $20,000 a year while raising them
for those with higher incomes, officials said.
It was not clear Thursday night where the competing proposals
stood as White House and congressional officials continued their
budget negotiations at Andrews AFB.
The Administration tax offer contains several controversial
elements, including plans to limit the federal deductibility of
state and local income taxes and to cut the capital gains tax rate,
the officials said.
It also includes such revenue-losing provisions as tax breaks
for oil and gas exploration and extending tax credits for research
and development activities, the officials said. Individual income
tax rates would not be changed
Speaker Foley said Thursday he was still optimistic that a
deal could be reached by the end of the week. Grinning, he quickly
added: "Sunday is the end of the week for me
Whatever we
think it is going to take, it is going to take longer." Bush
Administration officials said a conclusion of the negotiations was
not likely before next week.
(John Yang, Washington Post, A12)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- A-12
GOP Plan Would Cut Taxes For Wealthiest, Boost Taxes For Middle
Class
Republican budget negotiators have proposed tax cuts that
would benefit the wealthiest Americans and $4.1 billion in tax
hikes that would generally affect those with incomes of less than
$50,000, according to documents obtained Thursday.
The plan, given to news organizations on the condition that
they not identify the source, would reduce taxes for those with
incomes above $50,000, with the biggest break -- $7.4 billion --
going to taxpayers making more than $200,000, the documents show.
A source close to the budget talks said the proposal was made
Thursday and was analyzed by Congress' non-partisan Joint Tax
Committee.
(Elaine Povich, Chicago Tribune)
Budget Negotiators Look To Add Cent To Gas Tax
A penny-a-gallon increase in the tax on gasoline, heating oil
and aviation fuel and a levy on yachts and sports cars are among
the most likely new sources of revenue in the White House-
congressional budget negotiations.
Meanwhile Thursday, Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill were
questioning their negotiators' support for raising premiums paid
by the nation's 33 million Medicare recipients
The two sides reportedly have reached an agreement to raise
taxes by $25 billion in 1991 and $130 billion through 1995
On the Administration's behalf, Mr. Darman proposed the 1-
cent increase in the federal tax on gasoline and other refined
petroleum products in a four-part plan.
The other elements are a 10 percent excise tax on luxury
items, a tiny tax on ozone-depleting chemicals and "indexing"
excise taxes on alcohol and other goods, or tying their rates to
inflation
The Energy Tax Coalition sent a letter to President Bush
Thursday warning that energy taxes would "push the economy into
recession, or deepen the existing one," which would run contrary
to the standards he has set for any tax increase.
(Karen Riley and Major Garrett, Washington Times, A1)
States Fight Proposal To Hike Gas, Cigarette And Booze Taxes
Hiking federal taxes on gasoline, cigarettes and alcoholic
beverages could cost the 50 state governments more than $1 billion
a year in lost revenue, state officials warn
Those moves [to raise sin and taxes], according to estimates
released Thursday by the National Conference of State Legislatures,
would cost states $5.3 billion in revenues over the next five
years.
The conference study, by the Peat Warwick accounting firm,
said the cost would be high because past studies show that higher
prices discourage consumption slightly -- between 1 percent and 2
percent for the products. That will cut about 4 percent of states'
excise taxes because nearly all states base their excise taxes on
the sales of gasoline, cigarettes, hard liquor, beer and wine.
(James Brosnan, Scripps Howard)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- A-13
GOP ROLLS OUT BIG GUNS TO SUPPORT TURNER
President Bush and the RNC are using former District Police
Chief Maurice Turner's uphill mayoral campaign to dramatize a GOP
plan to attack minorities and disgruntled Democrats, according to
Republicans and Administration officials.
While conceding that Mr. Turner's chances of beating surprise
Democratic nominee Sharon Dixon are slim, party and White House
officials said their efforts on behalf of the former Democrat are
a signal of long-term GOP commitment to minorities and party
switchers.
In addition to Mr. Turner's campaign the Republican Party is
spending money and provisions support to other local candidates -
- including maryland 1st District House candidate Wayne Gilchrest -
- officials said.
For example, Vice President Quayle and several Cabinet
secretaries have held fund-raisers for the Turner campaign. Mr.
Bush has been penciled in as the host of a gala event Sept. 24 at
the Mayflower Hotel for the 54-year-old Mr. Turner.
(Paul Bedard, Washington Times, A1)
FAST PASSAGE OF CLEAN AIR BILLS URGED
White House Opposes Conservation Measure
Under pressure from Congress to confront impending oil
shortages with concrete action, the Bush Administration Thursday
called for prompt passage of amendments to the Clean Air Act but
ruled out legislation that would force oil conservation or
reestablish federal control over oil markets.
EPA Administrator Reilly said passage of acid rain and clean
fuels provisions of clean air legislation now in the House-Senate
conference would not only enhance air quality but also save 800,000
barrels a day of oil by 2005, approximately equaling U.S. imports
from Iraq and Kuwait prior to the Persian Gulf crisis.
"We have yet an added reason to accelerate action on clean air
and make sure it is on the President's desk by the time Congress
goes home, said Reilly, attempting to boost momentum of the slow-
moving conference.
(Michael Weisskopf and Thomas Lippman, Washington Post, A4)
GREENSPAN: BANKS ARE UNDER STRESS
BUT UNLIKELY TO REPEAT S&Ls' ERRORS
Fed Chief Cautions Against Excessive FDIC Levies
Fed Chairman Greenspan said Thursday that while the insurance
fund that protects bank depositors is under "severe stress" and
needs major reforms, a repeat of the S&L crisis is highly unlikely.
"The chance of having the type of problems with the banks that
we had with the thrifts is very significantly lower," Greenspan
told members of the House Banking Committee, citing the stronger
condition of the banking industry.
(Charles Green, Washington Post, G3)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- A-14
TRULY: NASA NEEDS MORE FLEXIBILITY
'All Is Not well,' Space Chief Says
NASA administrator Truly told a new panel of space program's
future Thursday that his agency has serious problems -- but they
are not what most outsiders think they are.
"All is not well," Truly told the Advisory Committee on the
Future of the U.S. Space Program. But he and his top lieutenants
vigorously defended NASA's recently overhauled management
structure, a primary focus of the new group.
Truly said the real problems, from his perspective, include
his need for more authority and flexibility to run the program and
"a better match" between NASA's programs and its resources. He
cited "government-wide management practices" that limit managers'
ability to move money and people and to procure services needed to
carry out programs.
(Kathy Sawyer, Washington Post, A17)
EDITOR'S NOTES: "Souter The Tutor, Putting The Senators In Their
Place," by Henry Allen, appears in the Washington Post, C1.
"study Doubles Estimate On Cost of Calif. Thrift's Rescue," by
Michelle Mittelstadt, appears in the Washington Post, G1.
"Audit Reports By FDIC Shows Wall's Estimates For Thrift Bailouts
In 1988 Were wildly Low," by Charles McCoy and Todd Mason, appears
in the Wall street Journal, A16.
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NETWORK NEWS
(Thursday Evening, September 13)
SOUTER HEARINGS
ABC's Peter Jennings: We begin tonight with the man sometimes
referred to as the "stealth nominee" to the Supreme Court. Two
months after he was nominated by President Bush, Judge David Souter
presented himself today before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Four hours after he began answering questions, his views on such
controversial issues as affirmative action and abortion are still
neither to be seen nor heard.
ABC's Tim O'Brien:
(TV Coverage: Judge Souter speaking with Sens. Biden, Thurmond and
Rudman prior to questioning.)
After a few brief pleasantries, Committee Chairman Biden wasted no
time in getting down to what some see as the sticking point to
Souter's confirmation -- his views on privacy and abortion.
(Judge Souter: "There is certainly, to begin with, a core of
privacy which is identified as marital privacy, and I believe it
can and should be regarded as fundamental.")
Souter gave an important insight to his thinking when he said the
right to privacy guarantees a married couple the right to practice
birth control. But he refused to get drawn into any discussion of
abortion.
(Sen. Biden: "Let's say that a woman and/or her mate uses such a
birth control device, and it fails. Does she still have a
constitutional right to choose not to become pregnant?" Judge
Souter: "I think for me to start answering that question in effect
is for me to start discussing the concept of Roe V. Wade. And I
would be glad, I don't think I have to do so for you, but I would
be glad to explain in some detail my reasons for believing that I
cannot do so.")
Sen. Metzenbaum, a pro-choice liberal Democrat, elicited a pledge
from Souter.
(Judge Souter: "I will ask you when these hearings are over to
make a judgment on me as to whether I will listen or not. I think
I have a record as a judge which indicates that I will.")
Sen. Kennedy said he was troubled by Souter's civil rights record
while attorney general of New Hampshire. For example, Souter
defended literacy tests, which have been used in some states to
keep minorities from voting.
(Judge Souter: "I was acting as an advocate, as a lawyer, in
asserting a position on behalf of a client.")
Although warmly received by the committee, Souter's testimony did
little to allay the fears of some civil rights leaders.
(Kate Michelman, NARAL: "He has not satisfied our concerns at all,
he has not acknowledged that there is a fundamental right to
privacy which includes the right to choose.")
There were a few sharp questions today, but Souter handled them
deftly and cautiously -- perhaps mindful that no Supreme Court
nominee has ever been rejected for saying too little. At least not
yet.
(ABC-Lead)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- B-2
CBS's Dan Rather: Opening day of U.S. Senate confirmation hearings
on President Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Questions
about where Judge David Souter stands on constitutional issues
dividing the nation and the court quickly crystallized around
abortion. Judge Souter acknowledged that where he stands on
abortion is what everyone wants to know -- but then he declined to
answer.
CBS's Rita Braver:
(TV Coverage: Judge Souter being sworn in.)
At long last, it was time to hear from Supreme Court nominee David
Souter, who quickly tried to transcend his reputation as a loner,
describing his belief that the most important function of all
judges is to protect people.
(Judge Souter: "At the end of our task, some human being is going
to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed in some way
by what we do.")
Souter's hearing started according to local custom -- several hours
of speeches by senators, punctuated by an outburst by gay rights
activists.
(TV Coverage: Demonstrators shouting, being led out of hearing
room.)
(Sen. Biden: "Welcome to Washington, judge." [Laughter])
When questions finally began, Sen. Biden promised not to press
Souter for how he'd rule on specific cases. still, Biden
immediately moved to a central question behind the right to
abortion and the right to privacy in decisions about birth control.
(Sen. Biden: "Do you agree that procreation is a fundamental
right?"
Souter: "I would assume that if we're going to have any core
concept of marital privacy, that would certainly have to rank at
its fundamental heart."
Sen. Biden: "Let's say that a woman and/or her mate uses such a
birth control device, and it fails. Does she still have a
constitutional right to choose not to become pregnant?"
Souter: "I think for me to start answering that question, in
effect, is for me to start discussing the concept of Roe V. Wade.
Biden, clearly not satisfied, said he'll return to the issue. Then
Sen. Kennedy hit Souter's civil rights record, focusing on his time
as New Hampshire attorney general when he defended the state's
refusal to report on minority employment and its right to use voter
literacy tests. Again, Souter avoided specifics, but said he was
merely representing the state and that he has a strong commitment
to civil rights.
(Souter: "Maybe the best place to start is with the fundamental
one, and that is about me today as opposed to me as an advocate in
a voting rights case 20 years ago.")
Kennedy did not seem reassured.
(Sen. Kennedy: "This country has experienced a lot of pain, a lot
of tears, a lot of blood. I don't think the American people want
to go back.")
Souter bobbed and weaved, but he did it humbly and there were no
fireworks. And though he refused to be pinned down on specifics,
he said he hopes that when it's all over senators will conclude
that he's open enough to listen to all sides of an issue.
(CBS-Lead)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- B-3
NBC's Tom Brokaw: The nation got its first extended look today at
the man President Bush wants to be on the Supreme Court, David
Souter of New Hampshire. But even in the spotlight of his
confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Souter
didn't volunteer much as he tried to avoid any discussion of
abortion.
NBC's Carl Stern:
(TV Coverage: Judge Souter being sworn in.)
The hearings opened with a sharp warning from committee members
that they wanted straight answers as to what kind of justice the
obscure New Hampshire judge would be.
(Sen. Heflin: "This committee will do a lot of peeling beneath
your veneer, for you are indeed a 'stealth nominee.
(Sen. Kohl: "Don't hedge. Don't give us prepared answers. Don't
hide behind the argument that you cannot talk about this or that.
Souter moved immediately to assure the committee that he generally
accepts past court decisions. He flatly endorsed the right to
privacy.
(Judge Souter: "I believe that the due process clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment does recognize and does protect an
unenumerated right of privacy.")
Souter said he agrees that states have no business trying to bar
couples from using birth control. But then he balked at going
further to discuss abortion rights.
(Sen. Biden: "Let's say that a woman and/or her mate uses such a
birth control device, and it fails. Does she still have a
constitutional right to choose not to become pregnant?"
Souter: "I think for me to start answering that question, in
effect, is for me to start discussing the concept of Roe V. Wade."
Sen. Metzenbaum demanded to know if Souter had sympathy for the
plight of an unmarried pregnant woman. Pausing, Souter recalled
how, as a student adviser at Harvard 24 years ago, he was asked to
help a pregnant student. He didn't say what advice he gave, but
responded --
(Souter: "I know what you were trying to tell me, because I
remember that afternoon.'
(Sen. Metzenbaum: "My concern is, do you have the same degree of
empathy for the woman who must make a difficult decision when faced
with an unwanted pregnancy?")
(Souter: "I learned that afternoon what was at stake. I hope I
have learned since that afternoon what is at stake on both sides
of this controversy.")
Souter indicated he could accept abortion being legal in some
states but not in others. That alarmed abortion-rights supporters,
since it would cut the very heart out of Roe V. Wade, which said
that abortion had to be permitted everywhere. There are bound to
be more questions on that tomorrow.
(NBC-5)
FROZEN EMBRYOS
Rather reports the Tennessee Court of Appeals today granted joint
custody of seven frozen embryos to a divorced couple. That
decision overturned last year's widely publicized landmark ruling
which gave custody to the ex-wife.
(CBS-8)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- B-4
ABORTION
NBC's Jim Cummins reports on the fight against abortion in Corpus
Christi, Texas, where anti-abortion activists have the support of
sheriff Jim Hickey, who marches alongside anti-abortion protesters
and says he personally will not arrest any demonstrator who
trespasses at an abortion clinic.
(Hickey: "I think it's a terrible insult to law enforcement to
expect us to help abortionists kill babies for money.")
They also have the blessing of the Roman Catholic Bishop, Rene
Gracida, who has begun excommunicating members of his flock for
their abortion-related activity. This week the Bishop warned city
police officers about arresting anti-abortion protesters in a
letter which accuses such police officers of "indirectly
participating in the killing."
(Hickey: "We have a responsibility to refuse to enforce that law
in much the same way that the Nazis had a responsibility to refrain
from killing the Jews who were innocent.")
(NBC-6)
BAKER/SYRIA
Brokaw: Whatever success the U.S. has against Saddam Hussein
depends in large part on maintaining the Arab alliance the
Administration has constructed against Iraq, another Arab nation.
This is a historic development. And to that end, the U.S. is now
in partnership with some old enemies.
NBC's John Dancy:
(TV Coverage: Secretary Baker shaking hands at Syrian airport.)
Baker arrived in Syria tonight to shore up the fragile alliance of
Arab nations surrounding Iraq. He meets with Syrian president
Hafez Assad tomorrow morning. The alliance is being threatened by
Iran's religious leader, who has called all Moslems to a holy war
against the U.S. because of its presence in Saudi Arabia, site of
Islam's holiest places. Assad is preparing even more troops to
oppose Saddam Hussein. Diplomatic sources in Syria here say Assad
will offer Baker up to 10,000 more troops and 300 tanks to be sent
to Saudi Arabia. Assad has already committed 4,000 soldiers to the
force. For Assad, the crisis in the Gulf offers a golden
opportunity to defeat Saddam Hussein and to move closer to the U.S.
Secretary Baker is aware of the contradictions of what he's doing
by courting Assad, leader of a country the State Department has
labeled terrorist. The State Department is clearly sensitive to
the possibility of criticism. Officials tonight passed out to
reporters on Baker's plane a list reminding them that other
secretaries of state had also visited Syria.
(NBC-Lead)
ABC's John McWethy reports that Secretary Baker gave Foreign
Minister Shevardnadze some new ideas on how to increase the
pressure on Iraq.
(TV Coverage: Secretary Baker shaking hands with Shevardnadze.)
One proposal is to impose U.N. sanctions on countries that break
the embargo against Iraq. Another idea would require all countries
to more closely police their airports so that all cargo heading to
Iraq by air is stopped on their ground -- also requiring U.N.
action. U.S. officials say Baker did not ask for a yes or no
answer at today's meeting, but he will be exploring the issue
further in two weeks when Shevardnadze comes to New York.
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- B-5
(TV Coverage: Baker seated with Gorbachev.)
McWethy's continues: When Baker met with President Gorbachev late
this afternoon, the Soviet leader made it clear going in that he
still had no appetite for sending Soviet troops to the Gulf.
(Gorbachev: "I don't think there is no need and there will be no
need to do that.")
(TV Coverage: Secretary Baker departing plane in Syria, shaking
hands.)
Late tonight, Baker arrived in Syria, Iraq's hated neighbor.
Baker's visit is meant to create uncertainty in the mind of Saddam
Hussein about what the U.S. and Syria might be up to -- even if in
reality it's very little.
(ABC-6)
IRAQ/TERRORISM
Jennings reports that the Iraqi government warned again today that
what it called the Arab masses might carry out terrorist attacks
against American targets to retaliate for so-called crimes against
Iraq. Iraq says it is responding to a private message received
from the U.S. Wednesday warning that Saddam Hussein would be held
personally responsible for any terrorist actions. (ABC-2, CBS-4)
ABC's Bill Redeker reports that during the past week, security has
been tightened at several U.S. military facilities in Saudi Arabia.
(Col. Tom Pack, Cmdr. Military Police: "Terrorism would probably
be our biggest enemy right now.")
Captain Lisa Christian is a senior security officer charged with
defending a major air base against ground attacks and terrorism.
(Question: "Has there been any terrorist threats to the facility
here?"
Christian:
"Um
I
really can't go into that right now."
Question: "Do you feel that the facility is secure?" Christian:
"I feel it is.")
still, it is difficult to convince soldiers that they are potential
targets.
(Soldier: "I don't think it's no big deal.") (Soldier: "You
know, we aren't really worried about stuff like that right now.")
(Soldier: "It's one of the things that we're not really
concentrating on.")
But the brass is concerned. Today, crews at a hotel where some
officers worked were finishing large concrete planters and a
fountain at the entrance to stop a possible suicide bomber.
(NBC-3)
IRAQ/EMBARGO, VIDEOTAPE
Jennings: The Bush Administration continues to believe that the
embargo on which it is counting on to force Iraq out of Kuwait for
now is having an effect.
ABC's Brit Hume: The President and his advisers now believe Iraq
is, in the words of one top aid, increasingly nervous about the
embargo.
(TV Coverage: President Bush walking up White House sidewalk.)
The same official said Iraq has tried to bribe a number of
countries into breaking it. As for Iran, whose Ayatollah Khamenei
has reopened relations with Iraq, called for holy war against the
embargo and said Iran would send food and medicine to Iraq, a
senior U.S. official said it was still unclear what Iran would
actually do and that it had so far made no deals with Iraq.
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- B-6
Hume continues: On another front in the war of nerves, it appeared
at the State Department today that the Iraqi Ambassador would take
the taped message by President Bush to the Iraqi people and send
it home for broadcast.
(TV Coverage: Deputy Secretary of State Eagleburger meeting with
Iraqi ambassador.)
Deputy Secretary Eagleburger said the U.S. expected the message to
appear in full during prime time.
(Eagleburger: "We would like to see it used within the next five
days or so, and at the end of that period of time if it hasn't been
used we will want to release it ourselves."
Ambassador Mohamed al-Mashat: "I can assure you that it will never
be edited or changed, and it will be on the time that you choose,
that you think it is the prime time."
But the ambassador then refused to accept the tape, insisting the
U.S. get it to Baghdad on its own.
(TV Coverage: al-Mashat refusing tape.)
A U.S. diplomatic courier leaves for Iraq with the tape tonight.
The Bush message is intended to assure the Iraqi people the U.S.
has no quarrel with them, only with their leader, of whom a top
official at the White House said today: "We wouldn't mind if he
cut himself shaving."
(ABC-7)
Rather: President Bush has taken up what he believed was Saddam
Hussein's offer to speak on Iraqi TV, but the videocassette turned
into a kind of international hot potato today.
CBS's Mark Phillips:
(TV Coverage: Deputy Secretary Eagleburger presenting tape to
Ambassador al-Mashat.)
It was to be a piece of diplomatic theater, but the players had
different ideas about the script.
(Eagleburger: "And we would, as well, expect, of course, it will
be used in its entirety and will not be edited.")
The videotape of President Bush's TV message to the Iraqi people.
Baghdad's ambassador had been called in to receive it; a public
presentation designed to challenge the Iraqis to make good on their
promise to air it. But Ambassador Mohamed al-Mashat refused to
take the tape.
(al-Mashat: "It would be better if you presented to your charge
d'affaires in Baghdad.")
Which is what the U.S. is now doing. Arrangements have been made
for diplomatic courier to take the tape to Baghdad. The Iraqis
still say they'll put it on TV.
(al-Mashat: "We are going to broadcast it in prime time.")
The U.S. is hoping that one of the Americans being held in Iraq,
Tom Ewald, won't be around to see the broadcast there. After a
letter from his mother to Saddam Hussein saying her son had a
severe asthma condition, Ewald has been turned over to the American
Embassy.
(Mrs. Ewald: "It was really on a humanitarian basis that I wrote
the letter, and I think President Saddam Hussein has responded on
a humanitarian level.
Another planeload of Americans who have gotten out arrived this
afternoon in North Carolina. The Iraqis are being paid about
$750,000 for charters the U.S. has arranged so far. It is a
technical violation of the economic sanctions, but one being
tolerated for what are being called mercy flights.
(CBS-5)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- B-7
Brokaw: Today, the Great Videotape Showdown, when the U.S. tried
to hand the Iraqi ambassador a video of President Bush's message
to the Iraqi people.
(TV Coverage: Deputy Secretary Eagleburger handing tape to
Ambassador al-Mashat).
Deputy Secretary of State Eagleburger was the President's agent,
but the Iraqi ambassador was a hard sell. He didn't want to be a
message boy for the eight-minute greeting.
(Ambassador al-Mashat: "I can guarantee you that it will not be
edited, and it will be broadcast in a broad, in a very good time,
or prime time, as you call it.")
Since the ambassador will only assure that the tape will be played,
and he won't deliver it, the U.S. will send it by diplomatic
courier.
(NBC-4)
GULF/MILITARY
CBS's David Martin reports that the commander of Operation Desert
Shield is falling behind schedule because of transport problems.
(Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf: "We're probably going to fall behind in
the next couple weeks because of the sea-lift problem. But does
that bother me? No, because the important time was that first four
weeks. Now the imminent danger has passed. I can afford some
slippage now and not have to worry about it.")
Problems with sea-lift will delay the time by which the Pentagon
could carry out any military options the President might have in
mind.
(Vice Adm. Francis Donovan, commander Military Sealift Committee:
"Today we have over fifty ships en route out to go, we have 20-
plus ships en route back to the United States after having off-
loaded to pick up second loads. There have been problems, no
question. There are a couple that have not answered the bell and
have not been able to come out.")
The weakest link appears to be the ready reserve fleet, cargo ships
kept in cold storage for just such a crisis. Of 41 activated for
Desert Shield, three have been unable to get under way and 11
others have experienced delays -- in part because Congress cut the
budget for the reserve fleet from $239 to $89 million.
(Robert Martinez, Deputy Administrator Maritime Administration:
"On many of our vessels we've had many delays, but what I do want
to stress, however, is that there are reasons for the delays, and
part of them are funding reasons.")
Another cause of delay: The Army is taking more equipment than
expected.
(CBS-2)
CBS's Bob Simon reports that Gen. Colin Powell dropped into the
desert today and toured the sands. It was a communications
mission. The message: This is a brave new world being born around
us; its survival depends on this operation.
(Gen. Powell: "This is a new era, it is a new world. The United
States and the Soviet Union are cooperating, the U.N. is working
again. But there are still bad people in the world. Mr. Hussein,
Saddam Hussein, is a bad person.")
(TV Coverage: Powell visiting soldiers in hospital, pinning
medals.)
Powell visited injured soldiers in a field hospital; he pinned
medals on others. It was almost as if the war was over. The
Chairman asked questions about meals and mail and phone calls.
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- B-8
Simon continues: The soldiers had a question for him too. One
question.
(Gen. Powell: "We'll get you home as quick as we can. But I can't
give you a precise date on it.")
It just wouldn't go away. The top guns of the First Tactical
Fighter Wing from Langley, VA:
(Gen. Powell: "And you want to go back to Langley?" Soldiers:
"Yes, sir!" [Laughter])
Powell marched through the desert and tiptoed around the questions.
He wouldn't say how many Americans are here or how many more are
coming or who's ultimately in command -- the Americans or the
Saudis. But when will all these forces be prepared to go on the
offensive?
(Gen. Powell: "The only mission I've been assigned is to deter and
defend the forces being structured for that purpose.")
Powell's message comes just a day after Gen. Schwarzkopf said U.S.
forces won't be prepared to attack for another two months. If it
all seems designed to make the Iraqis think they can relax for a
while, that is nonetheless the information -- or the disinformation
-- coming from Washington.
(CBS-3)
NBC's Rick Davis reports:
(TV Coverage: Gen. Powell visiting troops, presenting medals.)
Gen. Colin Powell presented medals to men of the 24th Mechanized
Infantry Division for getting to Saudi Arabia fast. Powell said
it took only three weeks to deploy more men and equipment than got
to Korea in three months. But the commander of U.S. forces in
Saudi Arabia, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, said the buildup would take
two more months due to transportation problems.
(TV Coverage: Gen. Powell speaking to troops inside tent.)
The general gave a history lesson on Iraqi aggression.
(Gen. Powell: "Mr. Hussein, Saddam Hussein, is a bad person. And
he's got to understand that that kind of aggression can't be
tolerated.")
Tonight, this was General Powell's comment on why U.S. troops came
and how long they'l stay.
(TV Coverage: Powell speaking at podium.)
(Gen. Powell: "We are here at the invitation of the government of
Saudi Arabia, and we will leave when they wish us to leave and
believe that our purpose in being here has been served.")
And today in Saudi Arabia, Islam's largest organization, the Muslim
World League, defended the presence of U.S. forces. Members of the
Muslim League prayed for peace in Mecca. They, too, want U.S.
forces out after the crisis ends. But the League says Iran's call
for a holy war is unjustified, and that if any nation has the right
to call for a Jihad it is Kuwait.
(NBC-2)
Jennings reports that Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Colin Powell
visited some of the troops in Saudi Arabia today. He told them he
would like to get them home as fast as possible, but he couldn't
give an exact date. "Bear with me," he said.
(TV Coverage: Gen. Powell shaking troops' hands.)
(ABC-3)
Jennings reports that the commander of the U.S. forces in the Gulf,
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, says breakdowns in ships and planes make
it likely that the full buildup of American strength needed to deal
with any Iraqi attack on Saudi Arabia would not be complete for
another two months.
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- B-9
ABC's Bob Zelnick reports that Pentagon sources say about 120,000
troops from Iraq's regular army are deployed in tiers north of the
Saudi border, while at least 1,600 tanks, backed by 40,000 troops,
face the coast to ward off a possible amphibious assault by U.S.
Marines. In addition, a brigade of nearly 10,000 Iraqi naval
infantry troops -- similar to the Marines -- has taken up positions
on the island of Bouvion. Sources say that Iraq's best pilots,
trained by the French and flying French-built Mirage jets, have
also been committed to the Kuwait area. Pentagon sources say at
least 70,000 of Iraq's best troops, the Republican Guard forces,
backed by advanced Soviet-made tanks and artillery, have now been
deployed south of Basra in order to counterattack any forces
penetrating toward their border with Kuwait. Assessing the Iraqi
forces, U.S. officials say they are well-trained and equipped to
defend against the sort of frontal infantry assault Iraq faced in
the war with Iran. Officials here say the U.S. could take control
of the skies within hours, and that the combination of U.S.
mobility and firepower would be more than a match for Iraq. Still,
officials at the Pentagon acknowledge that a direct assault on
Kuwait could result in thousands of American casualties, which is
why in the event of combat, military planners are working on other
ways of isolating Iraqi forces there.
(ABC-4)
Jennings reports that the head of the U.N. Committee on Economic
Sanctions accused Iraq today of using food as a weapon. Mario
Herazi [phonetic] of Finland said Iraq was deliberately withholding
food from foreign nationals stranded in Iraq and Kuwait. (ABC-5)
ENERGY POLICY/WATKINS
Rather: Energy Secretary Watkins rejected criticism today that
President Bush has done little to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign
oil. This came as Watkins estimated that oil shortage levels could
stay around one million barrels a day through the winter. He said
he believed that a combination of increased conservation and oil
production at home could make the shortfall manageable without
dipping into the Strategic Oil Reserves.
(CBS-11)
SOVIETS/COMMERCE
Jennings reports that in Moscow today, Commerce Secretary Mosbacher
and several U.S. businessmen announced a series of joint ventures
with Soviet partners.
(TV Coverage: Secretary Mosbacher, Secretary Baker meeting with
President Gorbachev.)
Easier said than done. Only 15 percent of foreign companies that
have tried to set up shop in the Soviet Union are actually
operating.
ABC's Jim Laurie reports that among Western firms in the Soviet
Union, less than a quarter of those who sign up to invest actually
end up doing business. And those who do persist must put up with
restrictive laws, inexperienced workers and a slow payoff for their
risks.
(ABC-10)
White House News Summary
Friday, September 14, 1990 -- B-10
SOUTH AFRICAN VIOLENCE
Jennings reports that at least 26 people were killed and more than
a hundred injured in South Africa in another outburst of black-
on-black violence. This time it was an attack on a commuter train
loaded with passengers on their way home to the black townships
outside Johannesburg.
ABC's Don Kladstrup reports that most of the recent violence has
been blamed on a power struggle between a Zulu organization and
Nelson Mandela's ANC. This evening, Mandela said the government
is also to blame.
(Mandela: "If the government wanted to stop this thing, they would
have stopped it long ago.")
(ABC-9, NBC-8)
CBS's Richard Wagner reports that there's an increasing belief that
radical white right-wingers are hiring black thugs to keep the
violence going, trying anything they can do to forestall the
inevitable political change.
(CBS-6)
ISRAELI ESPIONAGE BOOK
NBC's Bob Kur reports on the controversy over the non-fiction book
"By Way of Deception: An Insider's Portrait of the Mossad,"
Israel's intelligence agency. The Israeli government persuaded a
New York state Supreme Court Judge to block publication, arguing
the book would disseminate extremely confidential information and
could be detrimental to the government, endangering lives. Victor
Ostrovsky, the book's author, claims that he was in Israel's
intelligence agency for two years. Reports about the book's
contents suggest it could cause a major split in U.S.-Israeli
relations. It alleges Israel knew terrorists were planning a
suicide bombing attack in Lebanon shortly before the Marine
barracks bombing in 1983, but that Israel withheld details, hoping
to poison U.S.-Arab relations. It also alleges that an elite
Israeli spy network operates in the U.S. and illegally uses
Canadian passports to move spies around the world. A state appeals
court panel in New York tonight lifted the book ban. But Israel
intends to continue its attempts to prevent the sale of the book.
Legal experts, however, doubt the effort will succeed, partly
because so many copies are already in U.S. bookstores.
CBS's Richard Roth reports that Israeli experts claim the charge
about the withholding of terrorist information rings false.
(NBC-7, CBS-9, ABC-8)
BANKS/GREENSPAN
Rather: Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan today echoed the gloomy
assessment that commercial bank failures threaten to deplete the
whole federal deposit insurance fund. But Greenspan came out
against proposals to reduce the federal deposit insurance limit
from $100,000 or a major boost in the premiums banks pay for
deposit insurance. Greenspan said both proposals could only make
matters worse.
(CBS-12)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- B-11
IRS MISTAKE
Rather reports that IRS officials conceded today that their failure
to sign some 31 routine documents in tax cases could cost the U.S.
Treasury more than $22.5 million in lost tax collections. The IRS
admission came after a private watchdog group said the technical
goof could cost more than $13 billion in uncollected taxes.
(CBS-10)
ALCOHOLIC DRINK
NBC's Robert Hager reports that a new variation of the fortified
wines popular on skid row is stirring controversy because it is
packaged in bottles to resemble milder wine coolers. The wine,
called Cisco, is 20 percent alcohol and is as potent as five shots
of vodka, yet is often sold next to the five percent alcohol wine
coolers. Critics charge it is a deliberate attempt to expand sales
of fortified wines to a more mainstream market of young people,
women and blacks. The manufacturer calls these critics elitists
and neo-prohibitionists and turned aside a government plea to
voluntarily withdraw or repackage the drink.
(Dan Black, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: "We did say
to them, though, Just because you have the right to do it doesn't
make it right, in which case they said, 'that's your opinion, we're
going to continue to market our product. '")
But now, government sources told NBC News that both Secretary
Sullivan and the U.S. Surgeon General are also looking into Cisco.
(NBC-9)
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EDITORIALS/COLUMNISTS
GULF ADDRESS
Bush Earns The "Presidential' Seal -- "As he has exercised vigorous
leadership in the Persian Gulf crisis, a new, visibly more sure-
footed and confident George Bush has emerged
George Bush has
become -- well, presidential is the best word for it
In fact,
George Bush is doing what Americans for most of this century have
believed their president should do. He met wanton aggression in
an area where the U.S. and the world at large have a vital interest
in stability with a convincing show of force
The President did
not set a date by which the Iraqis must abandon their illicit
prize, but he did say adamantly that they will 'not be permitted
to annex Kuwait.' 'That's not a threat, or a boast, he added.
'That's just the way it's going to be. Saddam had better pull out
his 'High Noon' video and start thinking about what might come
next
For all the blunt, tough talk in his best speech as
President, George Bush also delivered some of his most eloquent
lines as he spoke of the 'new world order' he hopes will emerge
from this test of international unity." (Chicago Tribune, 9/13)
The Fifth Horseman -- "President Bush seemed to have little new to
say in his address to Congress Tuesday evening. He reiterated his
'four principles.
But in the midst of it all, he snuck in
something we haven't heard much about before: 'Our fifth objective
-- a new world order
The President's 'new order' sounds
suspiciously like the old song of 'one world.
The logical
extension of this kind of globalism is the actual extinction of
national sovereignty and the abolition of national identity
Americans ought to recall that their country was established to
distinguish us from the rest of the world."
(Washington Times, 9/13)
Bush's Warning
--
"
In very tough talk before a joint session of
Congress Tuesday night, the President said the things he needed to
say to keep the American people behind his adroit handling of the
Persian Gulf crisis so far and his policy objectives for the
region
Because [sanctions] may not be successful, the military
options offered thus far might have to be exercised, and the
President was right to lay out that possibility. President Bush
also was right in calling on U.S. allies to assume their fair share
of the burden in this crisis
President Bush's forthright
statements about circumstances in the Persian Gulf served as a
critical challenge to us and our allies -- and as a stern warning
to Saddam Hussein and others who support his naked aggression.'
(Dallas Morning News, 9/13)
A Finer Line In The Sand -- "What the President said to Congress
Tuesday was important. What he didn't say was just as
important
Where Bush went wrong was in devoting only two
sentences of his speech to the miserable failure of U.S. allies,
Germany and Japan in particular, to pull the weight in the Persian
Gulf
With that exception, Bush laid down a proper line on the
Persian Gulf crisis."
(New York Daily News, 9/13)
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- C-2
Bush: Clear On The Gulf -- "President Bush's Tuesday night speech
to a joint session of Congress was an eloquent tour de force on
foreign policy when he was addressing the Mideast crisis and its
larger context of global security. But Bush was disappointingly
vague in his few closing references to domestic policy and the
deficit. The President was almost resplendent as he forcefully
explained his rationale for deploying U.S. troops to the Persian
Gulf
Like a true world leader, Bush praised and examined the
new post-Cold War 'world order' that is now emerging. His own
diplomatic skills have contributed in no small measure to that
order and to strengthened .-Soviet ties." (Miami Herald, 9/13)
Bush Roots Gulf Policy In Realism -- "It was a grim but apt message
President Bush brought Congress and the nation in his Tuesday night
address
Americans are in for a period of severe sacrifice
Bush did not put challenge luridly but he did put it plainly
enough
The President's deft management of the crisis so far
gives encouragement he will not act rashly or without sufficient
international support to sustain any U.S. action politically. It
also, however, should give Saddam no illusion he can simply wait
out the crisis he created
Bush has made American goals clear.
They are just and reasonable."
(Atlanta Constitution, 9/13)
It's Not That Simple -- "President Bush's address to the Congress
Wednesday was as notable for what it didn't say about the Persian
Gulf crisis as for what it did
What he left out entirely was
any suggestion that Americans will have to sacrifice if the Gulf
policy is to succeed
The lack of focus on the risks ahead
could leave Americans emotionally unprepared for the bad turns this
crisis may take
If Bush wants Americans to back him for the
long haul, it makes more sense to start calling for some public
sacrifices to be made now
But not until mid-speech, almost in
passing, did the President even mention the word conservation."
(Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/13)
A Good Gulf Pep Rally -- "If Saddam Hussein believes the U.S.
Congress is about to walk away from the strong American commitment
in the Persian Gulf, he should think again, and again. President
Bush went before Congress and the nation Tuesday night
and
received resounding support. The Iraqi leader has been looking to
find and exploit divisions in the growing coalition against him
At each turn, Bush has gotten there before his adversary and forged
unity. The President has thus earned the confidence to say that
Iraqi aggression will be defeated
Bush has also chosen the
right strategy. He is tightening the world's embargo against
Iraq
Bush did well in his address before the nation. He
bought time for the noose to close around Iraq, and time to nurture
support for further action if need be. "
(New York Times, 9/13)
Foreign Policy Coherence
"
A Republican President and a
Congress controlled by Democrats stood together Tuesday night.
For those of us who have watched U.S. foreign policy degrade over
25 years into a recent condition of almost reflexive, corrosive
partisanship
Tuesday evening's display of solidarity was
extraordinary
It of course remains to be seen whether the
current entente on foreign policy is lasting
Yet there is
reason to hope that a workable bipartisan coherence on foreign
affairs may yet develop."
(Wall Street Journal, 9/13)
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FOREIGN MEDIA REACTION
GULF CRISIS/ADDRESS
"Bush Rules Out Any Compromise"
"[It was] a powerful speech
In terms of policy, the most
important statement of the speech was a passage which contained
three clear declarations; that the military program remains open,
that the U.S. would remain in the Gulf and that Iraq's weapons of
mass destruction would have to go."
(Guardian, Britain)
"Ahead of His Time"
"With his vision of a new world order, President Bush is
pointing in the right direction for the current efforts aimed at
diffusing the Gulf conflict. Since he is also in agreement with
Gorbachev, this vision transcends the Cold War that divided the
globe in two blocs for so long. This vision will have a future."
(Westdeutsche Allegemeine, Germany)
"Much Tougher Than Expected"
"It was a much tougher speech than expected, especially
compared to the Helsinki communique. For the first time, President
Bush said clearly that war with Iraq is possible, indeed likely,
and that it will mean the lives of many U.S. soldiers and
hostages
While the speech did not give the impression that the
search for a political solution is over, it undoubtedly was the
most explicit threat so far against Saddam Hussein and the most
passionate appeal to America that it stand united around the Stars
and Stripes."
(La Repubblica, Italy)
"New Chapter In Gulf Crisis"
"With his 30-minute live TV speech, President Bush opened a
new chapter in the Gulf crisis -- the chapter of a patient wait for
diplomatic developments, at the U.N. or elsewhere, which, sooner
or later, must produce concrete results." (Il Messaggero, Italy)
"Bush Relaunches America Against Saddam Hussein"
"
A speech overall well-received by U.S. political
circles
Never had Bush's popularity been so high, although he
left some questions unanswered in his speech
How to pay for
the cost of the military deployment and when will the troops be
able to come home?"
(Antenne-2 network, France)
"Gulf Crisis Compounds Need For U.S. Fiscal Reform"
"The Gulf crisis has compounded the greatest problem
confronting the U.S., which is the gap between its huge military
power and its declining economic strength. Long before Iraq's
invasion of Kuwait, we urged the U.S. to carry out fiscal reform
and establish sound fiscal conditions for the U.S. economy."
(Yomiuri, Japan)
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(William Marcy Tweed speaking of Thomas Nast, 1871)
WHITE HOUSE NEWS SUMMARY SPECIAL EDITION
VOLUME II ISSUE 36 -- September 14, 1990
MIKHAIL - I THINK WE SHOULD
RATHER THAN DWELLING ON
EMPHASIZE OUR AREAS
OUR DIFFERENCES
OF AGREEMENT
AS WE SAY IN AMERICA- HALF
You HAVE
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WHAT ABOUT YOUR MILITARY
THOSE ARE MY SENTIMENTS
ADVISERS IN IRAQ?
EXACTLY. CAN WE PICK UP
MTV ON THESE
THINGS?
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HERAW
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AGREEMENT AGREEMENT TROOD
BillDay
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Triburs Services
WHOEVER
SAID REAGAN
WAS
A
BETTER
ACTOR
George Herbert Walker Bush meets Soviet allies at Helsinki Summit
Persian Gulf.
Deficit.
Drugs.
Bread lines.
The two leaders have
S&L's
3003
Restive republics.
reached an accord-
Ethnic unrest.
"Lifes a bummer...
Crumbling
economy
Summit
MiKE Luckovich ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
By
KUWAIT
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saddam has united the globe
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against him in an unheard of
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way, order creating a new World
I got some credit
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REGRETTABLY
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GREAT SATAN'S
AUDIO PORTION.
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READ HIS
LIPS
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BUSH WANTS TO
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Dear George
$7 BILLION DEBT,
FOR BEING SUCH A
About my old
BIG HELP IN STANDING
student loan
UP TO IRAQ!
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DESERT SPIEL
MERIA
WHY HARASS AN OLD
FRIEND LIKE EGYPT OVER
A PALTRY $7 BILLION
DEBT. ESPECIALLY
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FOR HE'S A JOLLY
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HUSSEIN
we SHOULDN'T Be
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SADDAM He HAS IRAQ'S
WeLFARe TO CONSIDER, HISTORICAL
CLAIMS ON KUWAIT, AND WHILE
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SUCH A BAD GUY!
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IRAQ
REPORTS INDICATE KOPPEL
PENTAGON
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WAR
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ROOM
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2011
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htis
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an-NAJAF
HAS AGREED TO BAN IMPORTS
OF NIKE ATHLETIC SHOES, AND,
WORSE YET, RUMORS PLACE
OPRAH WINFREY SOMEWHERE
IN THE AREA!
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9/14 190 9/14/90
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
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REMOVAL OF CLASSIFIED
ATTAC MENTS
Du 10/7/10
Presidential Phone Calls
CD
DATE:
9-15
TIME: 44sp
incoming/outgoing
WITH:
JAB from Bown
SUBJECT:
(Inaq) H
FRG will give 2 bill
in 190
1/2 to econ and J,E, Twley
1/2 mutay
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treasport
$
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FOLLOW UP:
550 mult to EC includ
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850 mill - equin
260 - transport
150 - decortaniation
talks
3um Germany cam Through
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Presidential Phone Calls
C. David
DATE:
9-15-
TIME:
950 R
incoming/outgoing
WITH: Nich Brady
SUBJECT:
Budget Summit
Wants we to call
for "No Votes" until
Summit
Byrd made impassioned
plea- - then Brady made
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"move" -
FOLLOW UP: Point - Suspend
Business cutil sunit
Finished
No reason GB do
anything now-
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George Bush Handwriting
Presidential Phone Calls
130
30
DATE: 9-14-
TIME:
7
incoming/outgoing
WITH:
P.M Thatcher
SUBJECT:
congratulate on speech-
just purfect - "Coub not easy
"went will"
Amore
self support full amound brigade
120 toughs & infacting
+ copters C.
+ work Tornadors
7500 ground twen
FOLLOW UP: felt ought to comit
ground fores "wormois" 3 corpois.
whole brogade from
Gamery - -
Ash Kohl if can low Lly
"Desent Rats
Amount we 2 hous
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George Bush Handwriting
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DATE:
TIME:
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WITH:
-2-
SUBJECT:
1) eubazo an air trafic
2) Must here right to entone
it - 90 to WN to get it
but must have authority
Cet UN action
Kuwaiti Letter
military option +nud be
FOLLOW UP:
new la Strict Legal Term - -
Absolutely - -
Did not want Emin
to dash around til
we get text agreed
Must Get Letter -
should have all contingens
plamy done
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George Bush Handwriting
Presidential Phone Calls
DATE:
TIME:
incoming/outgoing
WITH:
-3- - 3 -
SUBJECT:
our people in touch
will be in torch on
a) embargo on are trabic
b) Emin Letter
Labou wants 90 bach
5 UN Sec Came to me
Foree-
That's why MT wants
FOLLOW UP:
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1 people expict you't
Rich Saddens
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IAQIS INVADE FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE IN KUWAIT, KIDNAPPING
FOUR FRENCH
WITH PM-GULF RDP, BJT
PARIS (AP) - IRAQI TROOPS FORCED THEIR WAY INTO THE FRENCH
AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE IN KUWAIT THIS MORNING ND TOOK AWAY FOUR
FRENCH CITIZENS, INCLUDING A DIPLOMAT, THE FOREIGN MINISTRY
ANNOUNCED.
THE MINISTRY SAID THE TROOPS ENTERED THE RESIDENCE AT 7 A.M.,
TAKING AWAY THE MILITARY ATTACHE AND THREE OTHERS TO AN UNKNOWN
DESTINATION. FRANCE DEMANDED IRAQ IMMEDIATELY FREE THEM.
IRAQI AUTHORITIES HAD EARLIER CUT OFF WATER AND ELECTRICITY TO
THE FRENCH EMBASSY IN KUWAIT AND AT ONE POINT KNOCKED DOWN PART OF
THE MISSION'S WALL. THE AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE AND THE EMBASSY ARE
SEPARATE FACILITIES.
THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR WAS OUT OF THE COUNTRY WHEN IRAQ INVADED
KUWAIT ON AUG. 2 AND ANNEXED THE OIL-RICH STATE.
THE CHARGE D'AFFAIRES WAS IN CHARGE OF A HALF DOZEN DIPLOMATS
STAFFING THE EMBASSY, WHICH ALONG WITH THE U.S. AND OTHER
DIPLOMATIC COMPOUNDS HAVE BEEN SURROUNDED BY IRAQI TROOPS TRYING TO
SHUT THEM DOWN.
'THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS VIOLATION OF THE VIENNA CONVENTION, A
MINISTRY SPOKESMAN SAID. 'THIS IS A NEW INTOLERABLE ATTACK TO
INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE PERSON.
THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE WAS SUMMONED
IMMEDIATELY TO HEAR A VIGOROUS PROTEST.
FRANCE DEMANDED '`THE IMMEDIATE LIBERATION OF THE PEOPLE
CONCERNED AND THEIR RESTITUTION TO FRENCH AUTHORITIES,' THE
MINISTRY SAID.
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This is the latest survey from Lubbock, Texas.
CNN has done a story on it which aired last night
and again this morning.
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Metro
A-J Photo/Jim Workins
From Lubbock to the world
Cable News Network (CNN) Dallas bureau chief
Lubbock residents about their attitudes concerning
Tony Clark, far left, and CNN cameraman Kurt
the Middle East standoff. CNN was in Lubbock
Long film Cameron Inman, telephone surveyor for
Wednesday to research e story that Is expected to
Southwest Research Associates, as he talks with
air on Cox Cable Channel 9 tonight.
CNN crew looks to Lubbock
for views on Mideast crisis
By JAY MILLER
"Another Interesting aspect
However, the survey also re-
Avalanche-Journal
that we at CNN recognize about
vealed that only 25 percent of the
Casting Lubbock into the role of
this story is that we hear reports
respondents favored "using the
a public opinion barometer for the
that (Iraqi leader) Saddam Hus-
military" in dealing with Iraq.
nation, a news crew from Cable
sein watches CNN regularly
so
Forty-five percent of the respon-
News Network (CNN) arrived
Hussein will find out what the peo-
dents favored a "sanction and
here Wednesday to gauge how res-
ple of Lubbock think about the sit-
blockade" to deal with the crisis,
Idents feel about the ongoing
uation," Clark said.
according to the survey.
standoff in the Middle East
The CNN report was sparked
Additionally, 17 percent of the
CNN reporter Tony Clark said
by President Bush's indication in
residents polled said they favored
the network, whose telecasts are
March 1989 that Lubbock serves as
"staying out of (the crisis).'
seen worldwide, had been plan-
one of his checkpoints on public
That survey was conducted
ring to come to Lubbock for a sto-
opinion, Clark said. He said the
Aug. 6-8, according to the poll-
ry on local opinions, "and the Mid-
story will include "man on the
sters. The September survey, con-
Extended Page
2.1
east situation seemed like the kind
street" interviews with local resi-
ducted on Tuesday and Wednes-
of issue which would facilitate
dents and Texas Tech ROTC ca-
day night, included 10 questions
such a story.' Clark said.
dets. It also will highlight the
dealing directly with the Middle
"We're here to get an idea of
"Pulse of America" telephone sur-
East crisis
how Middle America feels about
vey, a monthly poll of 400 random-
Jane Anne Stinnett and Lisa
the (Bush) administration's ac-
ly selected Lubbock residents. Re-
Nowlin, partners in the research
tions in the Middle East and to see
sults of the latest survey are
firm, said they doubt the feelings
how the public perceives the fu-
scheduled to be released today.
of local respondents will have
ture of the situation," Clark said.
The August "Pulse of Ameri-
changed significantly in the past
He said his perception of the
ca" poll, conducted and published
month.
Lubbock populace's attitude is in
by Southwest Research Associates
Clark said the CNN report
line with what he senses around
of Lubbock, revealed that 74 per-
probably. will air during the net-
the rest of the nation - general
cent of the respondents approved
work's Thursday-night newscasts
support of the president and the
of the president's decisions and
CNN can be seen in Lubbock on
action being taken.
actions" in regard to Iraq
Cox Cable Channel 9.
M
0
Lubbock residents show support for military act
By JAY MILLER
opment, is conducted by Southwest
pollster Jane Anne Stinnett.
from August's survey, when 64 per-
night address to a joint sessio
Avalanche-Joursel
Research Associates, an Austin-
The survey has an accuracy rat-
cent indicated support. The percent-
Congress seemed to cast doubt
More than 75 percent of Lubbock
based public opinion research firm.
ing of plus or minus 4 percent, ac-
age of respondents opposed to use of
the minds of respondents about
residents would support the use of
The poll is intended to gauge the
cording to the research firm.
military force dropped from 21 per-
administration's willingness to I
Z
American military force to restore
opinions of Lubbock residents on
"I think it (the poll results) is an
cent in August to 13 percent in Sep-
war.
A
the Kuwaiti government to power,
matters of state, national and inter-
indication that vie don't like a bully
tember's poll.
Asked if they felt "the UI
P
and more than half think the United
national interest.
going into a smaller country," Mrs.
Mrs. Stinnett said she believes the
States was more or less likely u
E
States is more likely to go to war now
The majority of this month's poll
Stinnett said of the results' showing
strong support for use of the military
into a shooting war than was the
o
than it was a month ago, according
dealt with the ongoing standoff in the
Lubbock citizens support use of the
is a result of the nature of this specif-
one month ago," 55 percent of th
to the most recent "Pulse of Ameri-
Persian Gulf. About 470 Lubbock res-
military. "Lubbock tends to support
ic conflict, rather than a militaristic
respondents surveyed prior to
0
ca" poll released Thursday.
idents were selected randomly. and
what it perceives'i to be right."
mind-set on the part of local resi-
1
speech indicated that they the
&
The monthly poll, commissioned
interviewed by telephone Tuesday
The percentage of respondents
dents.
war was imminent. After the sp:
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by the Lubbock Board of City Devel-
and Wednesday for the survey, said
supporting use of the military is up
President Bush's Wednesday-
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Soviet Union - that we are willing to
join forces with them on a matter
such as this," she said.
The majority of poll respondents
(51 percent) also indicated support
for a total blockade of Iraq, rather
than allowing food and medicine into
the country. Thirty-eight percent re-
sponded that food and medicine
should be allowed into Iraq.
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In domestic matters - perhaps
related to the Middle East crisis and
talk of a sagging U.S. economy - 25
percent of the respondents predicted
their families would be "worse off fi.
nancially in a year than they are
now." Twenty-five percent indicated
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they felt their families would be "fi-
nancially better off," and 39 percent
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predicted they would be "about the
same" financially.
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ion of
Other poll results revealed a ma-
bts in
jority of Lubbock citizens (77 per-
ut the
cent) believe having Soviet peace-
go to
keeping troops in the Middle East is
a "good idea." Mrs. Stinnett said the
United
response reflects the thawing of Cold
to get
War relations between the United
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States and Soviet Union.
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"For many years, we were so dis-
to the
trustful (of the Soviets). I think this
nought
is a strong indication of how far we
peech,
have come in our relations with the
ent.
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A Note To The Reader
By a five to three margin the people of Lubbock County
think the United States is now more likely to get in a
shooting war in the Mid-East than one month ago. And by an
overwhelming 76% they say they would support military action
by the United States to force Iraq out of Kuwait and place
the former government of Kuwait back in power.
One month ago, in a survey taken August 6-7, Sixty-four
percent said they would support military power to achieve the
aims set forth by President Bush and the UN resolution
dealing with the Mid-East crisis.
Those saying they would not support military force
declined from 21% in August to 13% in the current September
survey.
Another interesting aspect of the current survey is that
while it has long been U.S. policy to prevent the expansion
of Soviet influence in the Mid-East, Lubbock County
respondents say they now believe it is a "good idea" for the
Soviet Union to be brought into the peace keeping process in
that region. Seventy-seven percent of those polled say they
think this is a good idea, as opposed to only twelve percent
who say it is a bad idea.
But while Lubbock County citizens exhibit a decidedly
"hawkish" attitude relative to events in the Mid-East, nearly
60% say they think the United States does not "use the same
yardstick" in measuring the actions of countries in the
region. Fifty-eight percent take that position, while only
twenty two percent say they think the U.S. applies the same
yardstick to all countries in the region. Sixteen percent
were undecided on this question.
On the question of who should shoulder the cost of
military operations in the region, most respondents (58%) say
the burden should be shared by both the sellers and buyers of
mid-East oil, but 23% say it should be borne by those who
sell oil, while 10% say the burden should be shouldered by
those who buy oil.
Lubbock County respondents continue to give the
President high marks for the way he is handling his overall
job, as well as the way he is handling the crisis in the Mid-
East. On the Mid-East, 72% rate his performance as either
"excellent" or "good", while only 20% rate it "fair" or
"poor". On the question of the way he is handling the job of
President generally, 67% say they are either "pleased" or
"very pleased," while 24% say they are "somewhat pleased" and
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only 4% say they are "not at all pleased." This represents a
slight improvement in his overall standing, particularly in
the pleased and very pleased category, where his standing
climbed from 62% in August to 67% in the September survey,
and a decline of 4% among those who said in August that they
were " not at all pleased" with his handling of his job.
And in responses that might reflect their growing
expectation of war in the Mid-East and the attendant costs of
the operation, as well as growing anxiety over the state of
the U.S. economy, only 25% of Lubbock County respondents now
be better off one year from now. Two months ago, in the July
say they expect their own or family financial situation will
9-12 survey, 43% of those surveyed said they expected to be
better off one year later. In July 16% said they expected to
be worse off in a year. Now that figure has grown to 25%.
The percentage of those who expect their financial situation
to remain "about the same" grew from 36% to 39%
Readers of this report should be aware that roughly half
the survey was undertaken before or during the president's
address to Congress regarding the situation in the Mid-East,
and roughly half was conducted one day and night after the
address. statistically, in most categories, there was not
enough difference to be meaningful. Evidently the people had
made up their minds relative to the crisis, and were not much
swayed by the President's address one way or the other.
While 10% of the respondents indicated they were more
supportive of the President's position after the speech than
before, this was not borne out in their overall responses.
There was some slight improvement in his overall standing,
and some slight change in certain categories of the survey,
(including the question of whether war was likely, where
fewer people thought war was likely after hearing Bush than
before) but statistically (given a four percent plus or
minus error factor) changes in most other categories were
meaningless. The results given here are from a melding of
responses given before, during, and after the President's
address.
Ken Towery
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SURVEY OVERVIEW
Southwest Research Associates is pleased to present the
results of this survey. This report contains the results of
a telephone survey of 470 randomly regenerated telephone numbers
from throughout Lubbock County. Responses to the survey were
gathered on September 11, through September 12, 1990. As is
always the case, responses to a random sample may result in a
sample that is slightly at variance with the actual ethnic
population of the total audience. For instance, in this case the
number of respondents who identify themselves as Hispanic, while
closely representative of the U. S. Hispanic population as a
whole, is somewhat under-representated of that population in
Lubbock county. Effect upon the results is minimal in this case,
since a larger than necessary sample was taken. Sample size
should result in an accuracy level of plus or minus 4% with a
confidence level of 95 percent.
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A PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY
LUBBOCK COUNTY, TEXAS
September 11 - 12, 1990
1) How would you rate Mr. Bush's handling of his job up to this
point in his presidency?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Pleased
45%
44%
46%
Very pleased
22%
26%
18%
Somewhat pleased
24%
23%
-26%
Not at all pleased
5%
Undecided
3%
3%
No answer
1%
2) Now with specific attention to the matter in Iraq and the Mid-
East: How would you rate the President's handling of the
problem?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Excellent
27%
29%
26%
Good
45%
46%
43%
Fair
16%
14%
18%
Poor
Undecided
No answer
3) Aside from the way the President is handling the Mid-East
matter, do you think it is important to the national security
of the United States for the Iraqis' to leave Kuwait and for
the former rulers of Kuwait to be placed back in power, or do
you think this is not important to the long range security of
the United States?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Important
73%
74%
72%
Not important
12%
12%-
13%
Undecided
13%
-12%⁻
_14%_
No answer
__2%_
__2%_
_1%_
4) President Bush has said Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait, and the
government of Kuwait returned to power. Would you support the
use of American military power to achieve this end?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Support military use
76%
77%
75%
Not support use
-13%⁻
-11%⁻
14%
Undecided
10%
10%
10%
No answer
__1%]
_2%_
__1%_
5) Do you now feel the United States is more likely or less likely
to get in a shooting war in the Mid-East than was the case one
month ago?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
More likely
51%
46%
55%
Less likely
34%
36%
33%
Undecided
13%
16%
10%
No answer
__2%_
__2%_
_2%_
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LUBBOCK COUNTY, TEXAS
September 11 - 12, 1990
Page - 2
6) As you know, a naval blockade of Iraq is now being enforced in
accordance with a United Nations resolution. Some people say
the blockade should not include food and medicine. Others say
it should include everything. How do you feel? Do you feel
food and medicine should be allowed to go through, or do you
think food and medicines should be stopped, along with
everything else?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Blockade everything
51%
53%
50%
Allow food and medicine
38%
-37%-
-39%-
Undecided
- 9%-
-10%⁻
No answer
_2%_
_2%_
__1%_
7) President Bush has just returned from Helsinki, Finland, where
he conferred with Soviet President Gorbachev concerning the
situation in the Mid-East. How do you feel about this? Do you
think it is a good idea, or a bad idea, for the Soviet Union to
be brought into the Middle-East peace keeping process at this
time?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Good idea
77%
77%
77%
Bad idea
-12%-
-11%⁻
~14%
Undecided
- 9%-
- 9%⁻
- 8%⁻
No answer
_2%_
_3%_
8) News stories indicate the Middle-East operation is going to be
very expensive. Who do you think should shoulder the cost of
the operation, those countries who sell the oil, like Kuwait
and Saudi Arabia, or those countries who buy the oil, like
Japan, West Germany and the United States?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Countries who sell
23%
22%
25%
Countries who buy
10%
-10%
10%
Both
58%
-57%-
58%
Undecided
No answer
_2%_
_4%_
9) We would now like to ask you one general question concerning
American foreign policy in the Middle-East. Do you have the
feeling that the United States uses the same yardstick in
measuring the actions of countries in the Mid-East, or do you
believe our government uses a different yard stick for
different countries?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Same yardstick
22%
21%
22%
Different yardstick
-58%-
-59%-
58%
Undecided
16%
-15%-
16%
No answer
- 4%-
__5%_
__4%_
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LUBBOCK COUNTY, TEXAS
September 11 - 12, 1990
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10) Now one last question on the Mid-East matter. Do you feel you
have a good understanding of why we sent troops to the Mid-
East in the first place, or do you feel you need more
information on this?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Good understanding
73%
71%
75%
Need more information
23%
25%
22%
Undecided
2%
2%
2%
No answer
2%
2%
1%
11) Did you watch the President's speech last night or did you
read anything in the papers or hear anything about the speech?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Yes
31%
61%
0%
No
18%
37%
0%
No answer
1%
2%
0%
IF YES, ASK
Did not ask
_50%_
100%
12) Did you read or hear anything that makes you more supportive,
less supportive or did the speech not change your mind about
American involement in the Middle East?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
More Supportive
10%
20%
0%
Less Supportive
1%
2%
0%
Not change mind
19%
38%
0%
Undecided
1%⁻
- 2%-
0%
No answer
19%
38%
0%
Did not ask
50%
100%
13) How do you feel about the future? Do you think your own, or
family's financial situation will be better off one year from
now than it is now, or worse off, or about the same?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Better off
25%
26%
24%
Worse off
25%
23%
27%
About the same
39%
38%
41%
Undecided
8%-
9%
6%
No answer
3%
4%
2%
Looking on to the General election in November, if the election
were held to day for whom would you probably vote in the following
races?
14) Governor
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
The Democrat Ann Richards
25%
24%
25%
ROTATE)
The Republican Clayton Williams
51%
51%
51%
Undecided
16%
18%
15%
No answer
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LUBBOCK COUNTY, TEXAS
September 11 an 12, 1990
Page - 4
15) Lt. Governor
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
The Democrat Bob Bullock
33%
35%
30%
(ROTATE)
The Republica Rob Mosbacher
28%
-27%
-30%
Undecided
_818_
-32%-
31%
No answer
_8%_
__6%_
- 9%_
16) Attorney General
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
The Democrat Dan Morales
24%
24%
23%
(ROTATE)
The Republican Buster Brown
32%
36%
29%
Undecided
36%
-34%
-38%-
No answer
_8%_
__6%_
10%
17) State Treasurer
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
The Democrat Niki Van Hightower
25%
25%
23%
The Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison
28%
30%
28%
Undecided
39%
38%
40%-
No answer
_8%_
_7%_
___9%_
18) State Controller
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
The Democrat John Sharp
20%
20%
21%
(ROTATE) The Republican Warren G. Harding
34%
36%
33%
Undecided
38%
38%
37%
No answer
__8%_
_68_
_9%
19) State Agriculture Commissioner
ALL 400
DID
DIDN'T
After
Before
The Democrat Jim Hightower
37%
36%
38%
(ROTATE)
The Republican Rick Perry
30%
-32%
28%
Undecided
_27%_
28%
25%
No answer
_6%_
_4%_
__9%_
Now just a few final questions for statistical purposes only --
20) What is your age, please?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
18-24
17%
_17%_
17%
25-29
-13%-
12%
15%
30-34
55-64
--------
10%
10%
- 98-
(READ RESPONSES)
35-39
12%
- 98⁻
__14%_
40-44
- 7%⁻
45-54
10%
10%
11%
-15%-
17%
13%
65-over
_16%_
_17%_
[14%]
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September 11 - 12, 1990
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21) What do you consider your race or ethnic
background black, white, hispanic or what:
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Black
6%
8%
7%
White
80%
80%
78%
Hispanic
11%
10%
12%
Asian
1%⁻
1%
1%
Other
_2%_
1%
2%
22) What is your occupation?
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Retail
2%
1%
2%
Sales
3%
4%
4%
Banking
1%⁻
1%
1%
Attorney
1%
1%
Medical
6%
7%
5%
Housewife
10%
11%
10%
(CHECK ONE THAT
Insurance
1%
1%
1%
BEST FITS WHAT
Office
6%
7%
7%
THEY TELL YOU)
Farming
1%
1%
1%
oil & Gas
1%⁻
1%
Food
2%
3%
1%
Transporta
-tion
1%
1%
1%
Teacher
6%
6%
6%
Student
15%
14%
14%
Retired
-15%
15%
14%
Unemployed
1%
5%
Other
_26%_
27%
26%
23) Sex (by observation)
After
Before
ALL 400
Speech
Speech
Male
42%
38%
46%
Female
_58%_
_62%_
_54%_
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9-14
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White. House News Summary
Friday, September 14, 1990 -- 2
S&L/BANKING COMMITTEE (AP) -- The chairman of the House Banking
Committee today described some government sales of failed S&Ls in
late 1988 as "a giveaway" and said many of the deals should be
renegotiated. The administration's top banking official said the
government is considering ways to renegotiate some of the sale
contracts but does not intend to break them. In a report released
at the hearing, investigators for the banking committee said
outside investors in troubled thrifts received $78 in assets and
government-granted benefits for every $1 of capital they put up to
buy the institutions. "These so-called deals bear all the earmarks
of a giveaway -- with the recipients of the government largesse
being some of the fattest of the nation's financial fat cats, Rep.
Gonzalez said at a hearing. "We are hopeful that there can be
renegotiations that rectify some of the excesses." Gonzalez said
his committee will "haunt" the RTC "until we have hard evidence
that everything is being done to recover as many of the billions
as possible." William Seidman told the committee that the RTC's
efforts "are to minimize costs to the government within the
provisions of the contracts. We are not considering breaking the
government's agreements."
IRAQ/TRIAL OF PRESIDENT (Nicosia/Reuter) -- Iraq said Friday its
trial of President Bush for "crimes against the human race" would
open Oct. 14. The official Iraqi News Agency quoted the head of
Iraq's lawyers union Hamed Saleh al-Rawi as saying 60
representatives from Arab countries would attend the four-day
session of the popular court. Bush's crimes included "genocide
attempts against the human race in several parts of the world, most
recently the comprehensive blockade against Iraq," as well as
desecration of Moslem shrines by sending U.S. troops to Saudi
Arabia, INA quoted Rawi as saying.
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Fim
SYRIA/BAKER (Damascus/Reuter) -- Secretary Baker said Friday that
U.S. differences with Syria over terrorism would not prevent them
from cooperating in the Persian Gulf crisis, and diplomats said
Syria would contribute at least 15,000 troops to the effort. Baker
told reporters the U.S. intends to pull its ground forces out of
Saudi Arabia when the crisis is over but the Middle East needs a
long-term security arrangement which should include Israel. Baker
spoke after more than four hours of talks with the most unlikely
of allies, Syrian President Assad.
MEXICO/TRADE (AP) -- President Bush today sent Congress legislation
to forgive part of Latin America's debt and aides said he would
follow it by seeking authority for a free-trade pact with Mexico.
With the Persian Gulf situation focusing attention on world oil
supplies, a free-trade pact with Mexico could help spur production
in that country
Administration officials, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said Bush would like to have congressional
agreement to begin free-trade talks with Mexico ready when he goes
to Mexico City in November
The bill also seeks to make it
easier for U.S. companies to invest in Latin America. He called
the package "trade, not aid." "We believe these measures together
will boost trade, investment and growth in our hemisphere. This
legislation is good for our neighbors, it's good for the hemisphere
said. and I believe it is very good for the for the United States, If Bush
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DATE:
9.14 G. 14
FROM THE PRESIDENT
To:
Curt
I'd like to mention my
pride in ahving son George connected
with Major Leagu Ball as managing
partner (??? need exact title)
of Rangers
and my respect and admriation for
my friend Ted Williams. perhpas the
greatest hitter in baseball.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 13,
190° SEP 13 P5:23
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON cw
FROM:
CURT SMITH
SUBJECT:
WORLD SERIES ARTICLE
I. SUMMARY
Enclosed is the suggested text of a story, to be published
under your byline, that Major League Baseball has requested for its
official World Series program. There are several passages which
I have bracketed. They reflect what I hope are your views
regarding different aspects of your love of baseball.
MEMORIES IN THE FALL
By George Bush
It is said that you never forget your first love. For me, that
was, and is, Barbara. But a runner-up is baseball -- and more
specifically, America's grandest sports event, the World Series.
My first memories of baseball came as a boy, growing up in
Connecticut. I followed The Game, and memorized its box scores. Giants
Boston Red Sox - though I loved the
My favorite team was the New York Yankees, and my father would
My favorite player though was
take me to the big ballpark in the Bronx. There, I watched my
favorite player, the Pride of the Yankees. My Dael tooh use
w to to
His name was Lou Gehrig, and he was a Hall of Fame first
baseman. Moreover, he was a good and quiet man about whom
teammate Bill Dickey observed, "Every day, any day, he just goes
out and does his job." Half-a-century ago, the Iron Horse was
stricken by a form of paralysis which now bears his name -- yet
in a speech at Yankee Stadium, he said, "I consider myself the
luckiest man on the face of the earth." Lou Gehrig was, and
remains, my hero -- but we were lucky just to see him play,
especially in the World Series.
[[Even now, I remember my Dad and I listening to the radio
as Graham McNamee described the fabled No. 4 step to the plate,
swing his bat, and electrify America.]] Lou played in seven
World Series from 1926 through 1938 -- the Yankees winning six.
Lou blasted 10 home runs, had 34 runs batted in, and batted .361.
Last fall, presenting the Lou Gehrig memorial stamp to the Hall
of Fame, I thought of how he enriched the national pastime --
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much as baseball and the World Series enrich our national
character.
Since 1903, the Fall Classic has become a metaphor for
America's love affair with baseball. Millions watch it; millions
more listen to, read about, and even argue over it. For a few
golden days every October, each of us becomes a self-anointed
expert. After all, baseball is the most democratic of sports
(of course, it's also the most republican) -- and whether in the
major leagues, or in Little League, what counts is the size of
your heart, and of your dreams.
Babe Ruth, whom I met in 1948 when he presented his papers
to Yale University, spoke of this when he said, "Baseball comes
up from the youth. You've got to start from way down, when
you're six or seven years old. And if you try hard enough,
you're bound to come out on top.' He knew the World Series
enchants kids of every age. In the Babe's and, later, my
children's time that meant hiding a radio in class to catch'a few
innings before school recessed. Today, it means convincing
parents to let you watch a big game after bedtime. Whichever,
the Fall Classic evokes a continuum of memories. We mark
chapters of our lives by the World Series we recall.
Those memories often evoke a feeling of family. For
instance, after graduation Barbara and I packed up our red
Studebaker and left the Northeast for Texas. Our next decade was
marked by the sights and sounds of baseball. Nationally, I
remember three of the greatest announcers in baseball's tide of
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times -- Mel Allen, Red Barber, and Vin Scully -- airing the
1950s Subway Series with the Yankees of Stengel, Mantle, and
Berra V. the Dodgers of Robinson, Furillo, Hodges, and Reese.
Back in Texas, our my four boys all entered played Little League ball. I coached for It. awhite
As for Barbara, well, even then, tens of thousands of Texas kids
played Little League -- and there were times I thought she was
how to score a ball game along with the best of shur)
car-pooling all of them! Incidutally Banbara Bush knows
[[Next came the sixties, when our youngest child -- Doro --
too, learned the magic of baseball. Together, the Bush family
marveled at the Impossible Dream Red Sox, St. Louis' El Birdos,
Detroit's first Series title in twenty-three years, and, of
course, the Miracle Mets. In 1970, we watched as Brooks Robinson
devastated the Reds and received an automobile as the Classic's
Most Valuable Player. A defeated Johnny Bench said after the
Series: " If we'd known he'd wanted a car that bad, we'd have
bought him one." The next year evoked more heroics by Roberto
Clemente of the Pirates. Said Bowie Kuhn, accurately and
eloquently, "He had about him the touch of royalty."
Clemente's artistry touched more than just this country,
showing that the Series is not only an American institution.
It's a global affair. In 1975, the Red Sox and Reds staged what
has been called the greatest game ever played -- Game Six of the
World Series. Carlton Fisk smacked his twelfth-inning home run
at 12:34 A.M. Eastern Time, giving Boston a 7-6 triumph. [[I was
stationed in Beijing as Envoy to China at the time, and recall
how our Embassy's Red Sox fans -- nearly eleven thousand miles
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from Fenway Park -- were cheering Fisk's homer almost as soon as
it cleared the wall.]] Two years later, I was back in Washington
when another baseball event traveled far outside America. In
college, I had batted eighth -- or as I put it, second clean-up.
In Game Six of the 1977 Classic, a real clean-up hitter surfaced.
Reggie Jackson blasted three home runs to give the Yankees their
first world championship since 1962.
In the 1980s, the World Series added to its unique history
as stars like Mike Schmidt, Bret Saberhagen, Kirk Gibson, and
Dave Stewart showed why baseball is America's ambassador of
goodwill. Over the past year, I've been impressed, anew, by how
true that is -- whether greeting Little Leaguers on the South
Lawn of the White House, hailing the Oakland A's in the Rose
Garden, or telling Polish boys and girls in Warsaw, "Few things
show America's love like bringing our national pastime to you.'
The World Series embodies that love, and the teamwork,
generosity, and dedication which, every fall, brings the league
champions together in the biggest show in town.
Roy Campanella was the beloved catcher of the Brooklyn
Dodgers who played in five World Series. Once, he explained why
the Series -- like baseball itself -- is so special. "You have
to be a man to be a big-leaguer," he said," but you have to have
a lot of little boy in you, too." Campy knew, like all baseball
fans, why two of the most beautiful words in any language are,
simply, "Play ball."
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F.YI.
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President of the United States of America
9-14-
September 11, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
FROM:
DAVID CARNEY
SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
AND DIRECTOR OFFICE OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS
SUBJECT:
POLITICAL ACTIVITY REPORT
PRIMARY RESULTS:
Oklahoma-Republicans Vince Orza and Bill Price will face a run-
off on the 18th of this month while David Walters and Wes Watkins
will face one another in the Democrat run-off. It appears as if
the Republican nominee will have a good chance of winning in
November because of the divisive Democrat race.
Alaska-Republican Arliss Strugulewski will face Tony Knowles in
the race for Governor. Both Don Young and Ted Stevens are up for
re-election with no major opposition.
Florida-Lawton Chiles won the Democrat primary with an
overwhelming margin of 69% of the votes and will face Republican
Governor Bob Martinez.
Connecticut-Democrat Congressman Bruce Morrison defeated State
Representative William Cibes and will face Republican John
Rowland and Independent Lowell Weicker in the general election.
State Senator Tom Scott defeated Gerald Patton 65%-29% in the
third congressional district race.
District of Columbia-Sharon Pratt Dixon won the Democrat mayoral
primary to face Republican nominee Maurice Turner and statehood
Party candidate Alvin Frost in the general election. Republican
nominee Harry Singleton will face Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton
in the D.C. delegate race. Jesse Jackson was nominated
overwhelmingly to be a candidate for "Shadow U.S. Senator" for
the District of Columbia.
Maryland-Governor William Donald Schaefer defeated gun rights
advocate Fred Griiser. Former diplomat Bill Shepard and his
wife, Lois, won the nomination for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor. Shepard defeated perennial candidate Ross Pierpont.
Republican Congressman Roy Dyson (DC-1) defeated State Delegate
Barbara Kreamer for the right to face Wayne Gilchrest, Dyson's
1988 opponent, in the general election.
New Hampshire-Governor Judd Gregg defeated Bob Bonser with 82% of
the vote to win the Republican nomination. He will face either
former Democrat State Party Chairman Joe Grandmaison or State
Senator Bob Preston. Bob Smith defeated three other opponents by
garnering 64% of the vote. Smith will face former U.S. Senator
John Durkin in the race for Gordon Humphrey's open U.S. Senate
seat. Gordon Humphrey won the Republican nomination for the
State Senate race. Bill Zeliff, businessman and close Governor
Sununu ally, defeated Larry Brady by 276 votes to vy for
Congressman Smith's open 1st congressional district seat.
Rhode Island-Republican Governor Ed DiPrete will face businessman
Bruce Sundlun in the general election. DiPrete defeated radio
personality Steve White and Sundlun defeated Warwick Mayor Frank
Flaherty and Providence Mayor Joe Paolino. Environmentalist
Trudy Coxe defeated Party activist David Ginerella in the race to
succeed Claudine Schneider in Rhode Island's 2nd district.
Vermont-Republican incumbent Peter Smith defeated conservative
activist Timothy Philbin in the Republican congressional primary.
Smith will now face independent, Socialist Bernie Sanders and
Democrat Dolores Sandoval in the general election. 1988
gubernatorial candidate Mike Bernhardt defeated Vermont Utilities
Commissioner Luise McCarren in the Lieutenant Gubernatorial
primary.
Arizona-Real estate developer J. Fife Symington, III defeated
former Governor Evan Mecham, businessman Fred Koory, former
Congressman Sam Steiger, and school teacher Bob Barnes to win the
GOP nomination for Governor. Democrat Mayor Terry Goddard
defeated perennial candidate Dave Moss in the Democrat
gubernatorial primary. GOP Congressman Jay Rhodes defeated
challenger State Senator John Wrzsinski in the first
Congressional District.
Utah-Former state legislator and geologist Genevieve Atwood
defeated former state legislator Dan Marriot in the Utah's second
Congressional District. Former State Senator Karl Snow defeated
businessman John Harmer in the third Congressional District.
Snow will face Democrat nominee attorney Bill Orton.
Minnesota-Independent-Republican endorsed candidate John Grunseth
has defeated State Auditor Arne Carlson for the GOP Gubernatorial
nomination. He will defeat incumbent Governor Rudy Perpich who
defeated Democrat Farmer Labor candidate Mike Hatch.
POLLING DATA:
Texas-A Dallas Morning News poll, released August 26th, expresses
continued support for Clayton Williams with a 10% lead over
Democrat Ann Richards, if elections were held that day. The poll
also identified Williams having a 15% lead over Richards for
projecting a better image of Texas to the rest of the country.
Illinois-Chicago Tribune poll, 1,000 likely voters, 9/9/90, +/-3
Governor:
Jim Edgar
(R)
38%
Neil Hartigan
(D)
35%
Undecided
27%
US Senate:
Lynn Martin
(R)
27%
Paul Simon
(D)
52%
Undecided
21%
Ohio- Columbus Dispatch poll, 9/9/90, 1,581 registered voters
Governor:
George Voinovich (R) 53%
Tony Clelebrezze (D) 40%
Undecided
7%
Secretary of State:
Bob Taft
(R) 44%
Sherrod Brown
(D) 45%
Undecided
7%
Michigan-Detroit News poll, 9/9/90, with 800 registered voters,
+/-3.5%
US Senate:
Bill Schuette (R) 26%
Carl Levin
(D) 63%
Undecided
11%
Governor:
John Engler (R) 38%
Jim Blanchard (D) 50%
Undecided
13%
FUNDRAISING:
During the month of August, the President continued to vigorously
campaign for Republican candidates by participating in the
following fundraisers:
Rhode Island Republican Party
180,000
Jim Snelling for Governor
65,000
Governor McKernan's re-election campaign
300,000
Emery for Congress
65,000
Gregg for Governor
110,000
Total dollars raised for the month of August for Republican
candidates: $720,000
September had an impressive start with approximately $900,000
earned in one day in Kansas for Governor Hayden's re-election
campaign and in Florida for the Republican Party and Bill Grant
for Congress (FL-2).
OPINION DIGEST:
Also enclosed is the latest opinion digest from the Republican
National Committee. There is an overwhelming indication the
President has regained his record high job approval rating as a
result of the Iraqi crisis.
ARTICLE OF INTEREST:
"Quayle has earned a little respect" The News Courier, August 20,
1990
OPINION DIGEST
PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL
76% of Americans approve of the way President Bush is handling his job as
President and 15% disapprove. [CBS News/New York Times, 8/18-19]
0
His presidential approval rating is at its second highest point since he took office
(the highest point was 80% reported by the Gallup Poll in January 1990 after the
invasion of Panama.)
Bush's popularity is at the highest level ever recorded for a president at this point in
his term.
VICE PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL
According to a recent Gallup Poll (8/9-12), 47% of voters approve of Dan Quayle's
job as Vice President and 23% disapprove. His approval rating increased three
percentage points from a July Gallup Poll.
PUBLIC OPINION OF CONGRESS
Congress' Job Approval
Americans disapprove of the way the Democratic controlled Congress is handling
its job than approve by 44% to 40%.
-- Voters are more content with their own representatives. 60% surveyed do
approve of the job their individual congressman is doing, compared to 21% who
do not approve.
[New York Times/CBS News, 8/16-19]
Re-election Prospects
Although more than half of Americans approve of the way their representatives are
handling their jobs in Congress, according to the New York Times/CBS News poll
(8/16-19), voters are split about their own representatives' prospects for re-election.
43% said their representative should be re-elected and 40% said he should not.
Blame for Budget Problems
When the public was asked in a recent New York Times/CBS News poll (8/16-19)
who was to blame for the slow progress Congress has been making to find a
solution to our federal budget problem, 35% said the Democratic controlled
Congress is at fault (7% named President Bush and 14% named both).
59% surveyed said members of Congress have not been making a serious effort to
reduce the budget and 31% said they have been trying hard. [New York Times/CBS
News, 8/16-19]
Financial Corruption
46% said in the last ten years, the standards of ethics in government have gotten
worse. This is an increase from the 33% who said this in January 1989. [New York
Times/CBS News, 8/16-19]
42% of Americans think about half or more members of Congress are financially
corrupt and 51% believe Congress is more honest with "some or hardly any"
members who are financially corrupt. [New York Times/CBS News, 8/16-19]
-- Voters have more trust in their own congressman -- 62% believe their own
representative is honest compared to 19% who think he is financially crooked.
[New York Times/CBS News, 8/16-19]
GENERIC HOUSE BALLOT
When voters were asked who they would vote for in their district, the Republican
or Democrat candidate, if congressional elections were held tomorrow, 34% said
8/23-27] the Republican candidate and 40% said the Democrat. [Market Opinion Research,
ECONOMY
Bush Approval
Americans are evenly divided over Bush's handling of the economy -- 45% approve
and 44% disapprove. [CBS News/New York Times, 8/16-19]
Does a Recession Loom?
Although a recession is generally defined as two consecutive quarters of declining
national output and the U.S. has not even had one losing quarter, 60% of
Americans say the nation is in a recession. [CBS News/New York Times, 8/16-19]
-- There has been an increase in pessimism about the economy since Iraq's
invasion of Kuwait on August 2. In a CBS News poll six days after the
invasion, only 49% said the country was in a recession.
Economic Outlook
According to the most recent CBS News/ New York Times poll (8/16-19), 55% of
the public said the economy was growing worse, 40% said it was staying the same
and only 4% said it was getting better.
-- The last time Americans were so pessimistic about the economy was in 1981
and 1982 when the country began its worst recession since World War II.
-- Blacks and women are more pessimistic about the economy. 25% of blacks said
the economy was "very bad" compared to 14% of whites saying so. 60% of
women said the economy was getting worse compared to 49% of men saying
the economy was getting worse. [CBS News/ New York Times, 8/16-19]
4 in 10 are Feeling the "Squeeze"
43% of the public say compared to a year ago, it is harder to make ends meet, 47%
say it is about the same and 10% say it is easier. CBS News/ New York Times poll
(8/16-19).
GOP Holds Margin on Taxes and Deficit
o
Despite the changes in attitude toward the economy, Republicans are perceived by
the public as the best party to hold down taxes, 46% to 32%, and favored to reduce
the federal deficit, 37% to 36%. [Market Opinion Research, 7/26-8/3]
SAVINGS AND LOAN
Bush Disapproval Up
A recent CBS News/ New York Times poll (8/16-19) shows 51% of Americans
disapprove of the way President Bush is handling the savings and loan problem, an
increase of 9 percentage points from May when 42% disapproved.
Responsibility: Blame the Industry First
When asked to name who was more responsible for the savings and loan problem,
the owners and managers of the savings and loans were blamed by 55% of
respondents, President Reagan by 18%, Congress by 10% and President Bush by
3%. [CBS News/ New York Times, 8/16-19]
2:1 Blame GOP
When a poll asked specifically which party had more responsibility for the S&L
problem, 35% said the Republicans and 17% said the Democrats. [CBS News/
New York Times, 8/16-19]
It's Not Over Yet
59% think the worst of the S&L problem is yet to come. [CBS News/ New York
Time, 8/16-19]
IRAQ
Americans Support Bush's Decisions
Americans continue to support President Bush's handling of the conflict in the
Middle East by 82% to 13%. [Gordon S. Black Corp. for USA Today, 8/22]
According to theWall Street Journal (8/21), Americans approve of the President's
decision to send military forces to Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf by 72% to
16%.
-- Women and blacks are more equivocal about their support of the President's
handling of this crisis. 62% of women support sending troops to Saudi Arabia
and 41% of blacks approve (49% of blacks disapprove.) [NBC/Wall Street
Journal poll, 8/18-19]
Combat With Iraq?
Most Americans (76%) want the US to take all action necessary, including using
U.S. troops, to get Iraqi troops out of Kuwait, but 78% do not believe we should
attack Iraq first. [ABC poll, 8/17-20]
Americans are evenly split with 46% believing the conflict with Iraq will be
resolved peacefully and 46% thinking we will become engaged in conflict.
[KRC/Hotline, 8/26-28]
95% of those surveyed support military retaliation if Iraqi troops strike against U.S
troops. [Gallup Poll for Newsweek, 8/23-24]
70% approve of waging a war with Iraq if Iraqi troops invade Saudi Arabia and
84% support an attack if terrorists loyal to Iraq kill Americans in Kuwait and Iraq.
[Gallup Poll for Newsweek, 8/23-24]
Voters are more discriminating about going to war with Iraq over economic issues.
Only 39% believe we should take military action against Iraq if the U.S. develops a
major oil shortage that threatens an economic recession; only 27% of those
surveyed believe the U.S. should go to war with Iraq if the price of gasoline
increases over $2 per gallon. [NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 8/18-19]
Hostages
Protecting and freeing U.S. hostages was named by 52% of Americans as the top
U.S. goal in the Middle East (17% named getting Iraq out of Kuwait and 14%
named ensuring a sufficient oil supply). [Gordon S. Black Corp. for USA Today,
8/22]
77% said military action should be taken against Iraq if hostages are held (asked
before the word hostage was used by either side). [ABC poll, 8/17-20]
This support for the safety of the hostages is conditional. When asked, "Saddam
Hussien has reportedly placed some hostages at military institutions so we won't
bomb inside Iraq. Should we bomb those targets now, before he has had a chance
to move in more hostages, even though hostages will be killed?" 62% of
respondents said we should go ahead and bomb those targets. [Gordon S. Black
Corp. for USA Today, 8/20-21]
In The Long Run
57% of Americans believe the U.S. will be successful in getting the Iraqis out of
Kuwait and 23% think we will not. [Hotline/KRC poll, 8/12-14]
69% believe the worst is ahead for the United States in the Middle East crisis.
[Gordon S. Black for USA Today, 8/20-21]
Over three-quarters of those surveyed predict the American troops will remain in
Saudi Arabia for an extended period of time. 57% of those surveyed think the U.S.
troops will be in Saudi Arabia for up to one year and 19% believe they will remain
there even longer than one year. [Gordon S. Black for USA Today, 8/20-21]
According to John Mueller in the New York Times (8/27), if war breaks out in the
Middle East, "the experience from the Korean and Vietnam wars suggests there will
be substantial popular support first but this will be followed by declining support
as American casualties mount. In both Korea and Vietnam, support dropped fast at
first, slower later: a decline of some 15 percentage points in the polls when
casualties rose from 1,000 to 10,000 and another 15 points when they soared from
10,000 to 100,000."
Gas and Oil Price Increases
70% of those surveyed in a Penn & Schoen poll for Texaco (8/18-19) think gas
prices will be higher one month from now and 48% think the prices will remain
higher six months from now.
Voters are determined to make the ban on Iraqi oil effective. 49% of Americans
are willing to pay an additional 50 cents or more per gallon of gas to achieve this
ban. [Gordon S. Black Corp., 8/8]
Greed has been motivating oil suppliers to raise prices according to 93% of
Americans who are blaming the oil suppliers of using this situation with Iraq to
make more money. [Gallup Poll for Newsweek, 8/9-10]
9/5/90
1990 GOVERNORS RACES
TRIAL MATCH-UPS
State
GOP Advan.
Republican
Democrat
Poll Sponsor/Dates
AL
2
Guy Hunt
48%
Paul Hubbert
46%
Southern Opinion Research
6/19-23
AK
No polls
Arliss Sturgulewski
Tony Knowles
AR
-17
Sheffield Nelson
35%
Bill Clinton
52%
KTHV, 7/21-26
-24
Sheffield Nelson
29%
Bill Clinton
53%
Mason-Dixon 5/21-23
CA *
3
Pete Wilson
45%
Dianne Feinstein
42%
California Poll, 8/17-27
0
Pete Wilson
39%
Dianne Feinstein
39%
LA Times poll, 8/18-22
CO
-35
John Andrews
25%
Roy Romer
60%
KUS
A/Rocky Mountain News,
8/7-10
-39
John Andrews
17%
Roy Romer
56%
Political/Media Research
8/4-8
CT
3
John Rowland
20%
Bruce Morrison
17%
Gallup Poll, 8/17
-24
Lowell Weicker
44%
7
John Rowland
20%
Bruce Morrison
13%
"Connecticut Poll" 7/23-30
-17
Lowell Weicker
37%
FL *
-4
Bob Martinez
41%
Lawton Chiles
45%
Florida Opinion poll,
8/25-29
-7
Bob Martinez
42%
Lawton Chiles
49%
Mason-Dixon, 8/26-27
GA
-26
Johnny Isakson
28%
Zell Miller
54%
Mason-Dixon, 7/31-8/1
HI
-38
Fred Hemmings
25%
John Waihee
63%
Political/Media Research
7/25-29
ID
No polls
Roger Fairchild
Cecil Andrus
IL *
2
Jim Edgar
42%
Neil Hartigan
40%
WCIA-TV, 8/22-27
8
Jim Edgar
46%
Neil Hartigan
38%
Political/Media Research,
7/7-12
IA
11
Terry Branstad
48%
Donald Avenson
37%
Des Moines Register "Iowa
Poll" 7/16-25
3
Terry Branstad
44%
Donald Avenson
41%
Political/Media Research
7/9-13
KS
-2
Mike Hayden
40%
Joan Finney
42%
Market Shares Corp
7/12-15
ME
-8
John McKernan
37%
Joe Brennan
45%
Capitol News Service Poll
5/20-24
-1
John McKernan
39%
Joe Brennan
40%
Capitol News Service 10/89
MI
-5
John Engler
39%
James Blanchard
44%
WJBK-TV 8/2
-14
John Engler
34%
James Blanchard
48%
Market Opinion Research
7/27-8/1
NE *
-8
Kay Orr
36%
Ben Nelson
44%
Gallup Poll, 8/28-30
-11
Kay Orr
36%
Ben Nelson
47%
World Herlad/SRI-Gallup
5/9-11
NV
-33
Jim Gallaway
27%
Bob Miller
60%
Tarrance & Assoc. 8/14-15
NM
No polls
Frank Bond
Bruce King
NY
-32
Pierre Rinfret
21%
Mario Cuomo
53%
Wirthlin Group 7/8-9
OH *
11
George Voinovich
50%
Anthony Celebrezze
39%
Coldwater Corp., 8/8-12
8
George Voinovich
46%
Anthony Celebrezze
38%
Beacon Journal 6/13-17
OR *
7
Dave Frohnmayer
45%
Barbara Roberts
38%
The Oregonian, 8/22-27
12
Dave Frohnmayer
50%
Barbara Roberts
38%
The Oregonian, 4/23-5/1
9
Dave Frohnmayer
43%
Barbara Roberts
34%
Willamette Week 3/23-4/3
PA
-40
Barbara Hafer
26%
Bob Casey
66%
Donilon & Petts Research
7/22-26
-36
Barbara Hafer
25%
Bob Casey
61%
Bob Casey Campaign 1/9
SC
51
Carroll Campbell
65%
Theo Mitchell
14%
Metromark 12/4-10/89
SD
47
George Mickelson
63%
Bob Samuelson
16%
KELO-TV 5/28-30
TN
No polls
Dwight Henry
Ned McWherter
TX *
10
Clayton Williams
47%
Ann Richards
37%
"Texas Poll" 8/4-19
11
Clayton Williams
49%
Ann Richards
38%
Mason-Dixon 8/5-8
VT
29
Richard Snelling
48%
Peter Welch
19%
Burlington Free Press, 6/27-
7/1
WI *
25
Tommy Thompson
55%
Tom Loftus
30%
Chamberlain Research
Assoc. 7/17-29
WY
No polls
Mary Mead
Mike Sullivan
Bold=Incumbent
* = New Information
The following are states with upcoming primaries:
STATE PRIMARY
STATE
PRIMARY
AR
9/11
MN
9/11
MD
9/11
NH
9/11
1990 SENATE RACES
TRIAL MATCH-UPS
State
GOP
Republican
Democrat
Poll Sponsor/Dates
Advan.
AL
-45
Cabaniss
23%
Heflin
68%
Southern Opinion
Research 6/19-23
-48
Cabaniss
19%
Heflin
67%
Mason-Dixon 5/28-30
AK
No polling
Stevens
Beasley
CO
28
Brown
54%
Heath
26%
Rocky Mountain News
8/7-10
Brown
48%
Heath
28%
Political/Media
Research 8/4-8
DE
No polling
Brady
Biden
HI
1
Saiki
44%
Akaka
43%
Political/Media
Research 8/29-9/2
8
Saiki
43%
Akaka
35%
Honolulu Advertiser
7/26-8/1
ID
22
Craig
53%
Twilegar
31%
Greenberg-Lake,
7/26-29
IL *
-19
Martin
33%
Simon
52%
WCIA-TV 8/22-27
-12
Martin
39%
Simon
51%
Political/Media
Research 7/7-12
IN
34
Coats
60%
Hill
26%
Market Strategies
8/17-18
33
Coats
59%
Hill
26%
Market Strategies 7/16
IA
-13
Tauke
34%
Harkin
47%
"Iowa Poll". 7/16-25
-9
Tauke
37%
Harkin
46%
Political/Media
Research 5/25-28
KA
Kassebaum
State Party
Filling Spot
KY
9
McConnell
51%
Sloane
42%
Garin-Hart 6/10-14
5
McConnell
42%
Sloane
37%
Garin-Hart 5/31
LA
-45
Bagert
7%
Johnston
52%
WBRZ-TV
-28
Duke
24%
7/31-8/5
ME
60
Cohen
70%
Rolde
10%
Capitol News Service
5/20-24
MI
-29
Schuette
29%
Levin
58%
WJBK-TV, 8/1-3
-37
Schuette
24%
Levin
61%
Market Opinion
Research 7/27-8/1
MT
-14
Kolstad
38%
Baucus
52%
Political/Media
Research 7/23-26
-32
Kolstad
29%
Baucus
61%
Garin-Hart 6/18-20
NE *
-16
Daub
35%
Exon
51%
SRI/Gallup of Lincoln,
8/28-30
-9
Daub
41%
Exon
50%
Wirthlin Group
6/11-12
NJ
-47
Whitman
17%
Bradley
64%
The Star-Ledger 7/2-10
NM
No polling
Domenici
Benevidez
NC
-2
Helms
44%
Gantt
46%
Mason-Dixon 8/7-8
1
Helms
46 of
Gantt
45%
Hickman-Maslin
7/18-19
OK *
65
Jones
119
Boren
76%
Mason-Dixon, 8/21-23
OR *
36
Hatfield
63%
Lonsdale
27%
The Oregonian 8/22-27
27
Hatfield
54%
Lonsdale
27%
Morre Information
8/1-2
RI *
-6
Schneider
42%
Pell
48%
American Viewpoint
8/14-19
-6
Schneider
39%
Pell
45%
Alpha Research
,
8/14-19
SD
41
Pressler
62%
Muenster
21%
Wirthlin Group 7/1-2
17
Pressler
43%
Muenster
26%
Mellman & Lazarus
7/17-24
TN
No polling
Hawkins
Gore
TX
29
Gramm
58%
Parmer
29%
Mason-Dixon 8/5-8
VA
No polling
Warner
Spannus (I)
WV
No polling
Yoder
Rockefeller
WI
No polling
Simpson
Helling
Bold = Incumbent
* = New Information
Four incumbents are unopposed:
David Pryor (D-AR)
Sam Nunn (D-GA)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)
Four states have upcoming primaries:
STATE
REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRAT
PRIMARY DATE
LA
Ben Bagert, Jr.
Bennett Johnston
10/6
David Duke
MA
Dan Daly
John Kerry
9/18
James Rappaport
MN
Rudy Boschwitz
Paul Wellstone
9/11
Jim Nichols
NH
Bob Smith
John Durkin
9/11
Ted deWinter
Jim Donchess
Thomas Christo
John Rauh
Bold=Incumbent
Hug 20,90 12:13 No. 006 P
The News and Courier
BARBARA S. WILLIAMS, Editor
Founded Jan. 10, 1803
MICHAEL J. BONAFIELD, Associate Editor
ROBERT J. COX, Assistant Editor
CHARLES R. ROWE, Associate Editor
CHARLESTON, S.C. MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1990, PAGE 6-A
Quayle has earned a little respect
O
ne of the barbed jokes that Vice Presi-
was delivered last week in Port Au Prince,
dent Dan Quayle has had to deal with,
when the vice president told Haitian military
in his almost unceasing battle against
leaders there must be "no coup, no murders,
ridicule, concerns his involvement with Latin
no threat" to hinder elections scheduled for
America.
Nov. 4.
The joke that went the rounds claimed that
He told some 20 military commanders as-
Mr. Quayle, when told that his vice presiden-
sembled at the presidential palace that the
tial duties would take him frequently to Latin
United States expected the Haitian army to
America, said, "But I don't speak Latin."
respect elections, and he warned them
The vice president has probably spent even
against staging a coup. Before leaving, he
more time in Latin America than either the
underlined his message. If the Haitian gov-
president or he expected. Apart from trips
ernment and army are not democratic and
that were planned, like scheduled presiden-
are not respectful of human rights, "they are
tial inaugurations (no funerals, so far), Mr.
not going to be the recipients of American
Quayle was given the job of mending fences
taxpayers' money," he said.
after the invasion of Panama. In President
Mr. Quayle's Haitian stopover culminated
Bush's words, the vice president's job - no
a three-day journey that took in Colombia,
less - was "to assure all the countries of
Peru and Bolivia, where he conferred on
Latin America that United States policy re-
plans for hemispheric cooperation in the
Reactic
mains one of a friendly, supportive and re-
fight against drug trafficking. With the presi-
spectful neighbor."
dent increasingly occupied by the crisis in the
Mr. Quayle did well on that trip, as he had
Middle East, Mr. Quayle is going to find him-
Bush's
done on previous visits to Latin America. Of
self with even more responsibility for U.S.
By David S. Broder
course, the vice president has something go-
policy in Latin America. Mr. Bush has al-
ready said that he will have to call off a trip
WASHINGTON - Fo
ing for him that has nothing to do with U.S.
eight years of the 1980s,
policy toward the region. While he may look
to Latin America planned for next month. It
Ronald Reagan, an actor
like Robert Redford, he doesn't look a bit like
is, in part, thanks to Mr. Quayle that the pres-
What we now have, in Ge
is a reactor-president: Th
Richard Nixon, whose policies led to his be-
ident can postpone his long-promised visit
ing stoned by demonstrators.
without arousing ill feeling.
proves himself highly (
with the comeback, the IT
Politicians often benefit from jokes at
But the vice president has not avoided con-
dening is his reluctance
their expense. It's a way of helping to keep
first.
troversy by being merely a talking figure-
their feet on the ground. But Dan Quayle de-
A returning reporter
head. Mr. Quayle deserves credit for tackling
serves a little more respect - and a lot less
capital awash in admirati
prickly issues in Latin America. He has deliv-
malice - than he has been getting for his
energy, acumen and skill
ered some tough lectures to governments
displayed in marshaling a
efforts to improve relations with Latin
ble international milit
with poor records on human rights. The latest
America.
Iomatic-economic response
dam Hussein's move agai
wait. His reaction, one
Gorby: You can go home again
repeatedly, has been near p
That's how it looked in t!
Midwest states - Michigan
The Bolsheviks threw me out of my native
the Soviet Union's most popular poets, re-
and Indiana - through wh
country, cut me off from family graves, but
ceived the Nobel Prize in 1987, 15 years after
been traveling since this Gu
souls still fly about without their permission
he was expelled from his homeland. He is
down began. Yet, the politi
and appear to exiles in the vapors above the
poet-in-residence at the University of
those states, of both parties.
American soil.
ceptionally shaky about how
Michigan and resides in New York City.
will play out.
- Vassily Aksyonov, "In Search of Melan-
Also included in the Gorbachev decree, ac-
"My concern," said one I
choly Baby: A Russian in America" (1985)
cording to the Associated Press, were Rus-
can candidate, speaking
sian writers whose works are familiar to
grant of confidentiality, "is
ikhail S. Gorbachev's declaration
fore Election Day, the quest
M
many Americans, including the brilliant sati-
be not how well Bush reac
last week that could result in the
rists Vassily Aksyonov, whose 1984 satirical
whether we did all that w
restoration of Soviet citizenship to
masterpiece "The Burn" won worldwide ac-
have done to prevent the cris
who had been driven into
claim: Vladimir Voinovich; and Georgi
arising."
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Abrahamson, Shirley S. (Hon.)
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Browning, William D. (Hon.)
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Ahmed, Shahabuddin (Hon.)
A
Albuquerque, Evandy de (Mrs.)
A
Callow, Jean (Mrs.)
A
Albusaidi, Khadiji (Mrs.)
A
Callow, William G. (Hon.)
A
Albusaidi, Said Hilall (Hon.)
A
Camara, Ousmane (Hon.)
A
Alves, Jose Carlos M. (Hon.)
A
Canseco, Adan Doria Diez (Hon. (Dr.))
A
Ampiah, Alexander K. (Hon.)
A
Cat, Eloy Espinosa-Saldana (Hon. (Dr.))
A
Araki, Tomoo (Hon.)
A
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September 14, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
FREDERICK D. MCCLURE for
SUBJECT:
Weekly Legislative Report
THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 10 - 14
HOUSE AND SENATE FLOORS
HOUSE
The House convened at noon on Monday and passed eleven bills by
voice vote, under suspension of the rules, including: H.R. 5267,
the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act;
H.R. 3764, designating portions of the Delaware River as part of
the Wild and Scenic River System; H. Res. 402, designating the
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. and Gerald R. Ford House of
Representatives Office Buildings; H.R. 4773, the White House
Conference on Small Business Authorization Act; and H.R. 4632, to
impose penalties for inducing the Coast Guard to render aid under
false pretenses.
With respect to the Cable Television Consumer Protection and
Competition Act, your senior advisors have recommended a veto.
Given the strong bipartisan support for the bill in the House, we
believe it would be difficult to sustain a veto in that chamber.
We are working to stop the legislation in the Senate.
On Tuesday the House began consideration of H.R. 4739, the
Department of Defense Authorization Bill for FY 1991. Following
two hours of general debate, the House approved the Mavroules
(D-MA) amendment that establishes a separate corp of personnel
trained in acquisitions for DOD by a vote of 413 to 1. A Bennett
(D-FL) amendment calling for closure of a homeport at Staten
Island, New York, was offered; however, a Molinari (R-NY)
substitute to restrict closure until certain reports are
completed was approved 230 to 188. Bennett had chosen to attack
only one homeport in the nation, that located in the district of
freshman Republican Susan Molinari. Susan Molinari ably defended
her position and Republicans strongly supported her.
On Wednesday the House approved a second rule providing for
consideration of many of the remaining 130 amendments to the DOD
bill that had been filed with the Rules Committee. Votes were
taken on four amendments. Representative Martin (R-NY) offered
an amendment to remove the dual basing section of the bill and
language pertaining to relocation of troops to Crotone, Italy.
The Administration supported her amendment, which failed 174 to
249. A Bonior (D-MI) amendment to require Japan to pay all costs
of deploying U.S. forces in that country passed 370 to 53. A
Mrazek (D-NY) amendment opposed by the Administration which would
have placed a permanent ceiling of 30,000 on troops in Korea and
was defeated 157 to 265.
Although completion of the DOD bill was expected on Thursday, the
measure was pulled from the schedule before final passage pending
agreement on the budget and in order to avoid Budget Summit
negotiators missing key votes.
Instead of turning to final passage of the DOD bill, on Thursday
the House approved the Conference Report on H.R. 7, the Carl
Perkins Vocational Education and Applied Technology Amendments,
by voice vote.
The House then unexpectedly considered and passed by voice vote
H.R. 4330, the National Service Act, a $212 million grant and
loan cancellation program, the subject of a senior advisors' veto
message. Although Republicans on the Education and Labor
Committee were not supportive of this convoluted approach to
volunteer service, the bill was nonetheless reported from
Committee by voice vote. The Administration's veto signal was
not received by the Committee prior to markup, and there was not
adequate time to educate members and build opposition to the
bill. Representatives Bill Goodling (R-PA), Bob Walker (R-PA)
and Steve Gunderson (R-WI), among others, spoke against the bill.
The latter gave an interesting statement against the bill,
throwing crisp dollar bills in the air to express his view of
paying for volunteer service. Prior to final passage, Goodling
offered an amendment to strike the loan cancellation provisions
of the bill. It failed 200 to 212.
On Thursday the House passed the Conference Report on H.R. 2088,
the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. The bill as passed
earlier this year by the House generated a Secretary of Energy
veto threat. However, conferees worked out objectionable
provisions related to the size of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
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and the issue of Regional Petroleum Product Reserves to the
satisfaction of the Administration and the veto threat on the
Conference Report was dropped.
On Thursday the House also attempted to pass legislation allowing
free postage. for mail going to servicemen and women stationed in
Saudi Arabia. However, the measure became snarled when House
Republicans tried to cover the costs by taking them out of
Members' franked mail funds. The Democrats objected, preferring
to take the money from the general treasury. The bill may come
up again Tuesday.
SENATE
Tuesday the Senate passed HR 5241, the FY 1991 appropriations
bill for the Treasury Department, Postal Service, Executive
Office of the President and a number of independent government
agencies.
On Wednesday the Senate passed S. 2924, which establishes a
mandatory seafood inspection program. Under the bill, the
Agriculture Department would be responsible for conducting the
inspections and the Food and Drug Administration would establish
safety standards.
Also on Wednesday, Senator Mitchell filed cloture on the motion
to proceed to S. 1224, a bill to raise the Corporate Average Fuel
Economy (CAFE) standards by 40 percent by the year 2001. Despite
Administration opposition, Friday morning the Senate voted 68 to
28 to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed, thus permitting
Senator Mitchell to move to the bill next week. Although we are
not optimistic about being able to defeat this measure, we may be
able to beat cloture on the bill itself, and, at the least, we
would hope to demonstrate veto strength on final passage.
Following the filing of cloture on the motion to proceed to the
CAFE bill, Senator Mitchell vitiated a cloture vote on the motion
to proceed to S. 1511, the Older Workers' Benefit Protection Act
(Betts). The Administration opposes this relatively complicated
measure which the Senate is expected to begin considering on
Monday.
The Senate passed S. 2927, the Export Administration Act by voice
vote on Thursday.
THE BUDGET SUMMIT
The Budget Summit began deliberations at Andrews Air Force Base
on Friday, September 7, and is expected to continue through this
weekend. In the first few days, negotiators made good progress
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on many issues, driven largely by their anticipation of your
Tuesday night address to the joint session of Congress. Since
then, the pace has lagged somewhat. The participants have split
into two groups - one considering budget process reform and
changes to Gramm-Rudman, and the other working on tax and
entitlement issues. Areas of major disagreement include:
capital gains, medicare (and entitlements in general), and how to
enforce the summit agreement. Debate has been spirited, with
occasional lapses into finger-pointing over media leaks.
Although there is no deadline to force completion of an
agreement, the summit has already taken so long that most
acknowledge they must conclude this weekend to be able to draft
the legislation, move it through the committees, debate it on the
floor of each House, and conference likely differences before
Congress adjourns for the elections.
HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES
The Conference Committee on Clean Air continues to make slow but
steady progress toward reconciling differences between the two
versions of the Clean Air bill. Last weekend, the Senate receded
to the House on Title I (stationary source non-attainment and
ozone provisions).
We were disappointed with this development, as the Title I
provision of the underlying Senate bill was preferred by the
Administration. Conferees still predict an early October
completion date for final. House and Senate action on the Clean
Air Conference Report.
The Conference Committee on Agriculture is expected to begin
writing the final farm bill next week. The Senate will appoint
as conferees Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), David Pryor (D-AR),
David Boren (D-OK), Dick Lugar (R-IN), Robert Dole (R-KS), Thad
Cochran (R-MS) and Bob Kerrey (D-NE). The appointment of Senator
Kerrey is surprising. Senator Leahy passed over five more Senior
Democrats to select Senator Kerrey, the committee's most junior
Democrat.
HOUSE
The Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior was scheduled to mark
up FY 1991 Interior appropriations; however, the mark up has been
postponed indefinitely, pending the result of the Budget Summit.
There are also ongoing problems associated with funding
restrictions for the National Endowment for the Arts in the bill.
It is likely the Appropriations Committee will await action on
the NEA reauthorization before taking any further action on the
issue of funding.
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The Committee has dropped its intention to codify your OCS
leasing plan. Instead the Committee will likely implement
another one-year moratorium on OCS leasing off California. As a
practical matter, given the terms of your OCS decision, a one-
year moratorium with respect to California is largely a moot
issue since your policy extends to the year 2000.
The Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs met on
Tuesday to approve two bills to alleviate the effects of defense
cutbacks. H.R. 486, extending provisions of the Defense
Production Act of 1950 through September 30, 1995, was approved
by a vote of 39-8. H.R. 3999, which was approved on a 30-19
party line vote, would authorize $200 million to aid individuals
and communities adversely affected by defense spending cuts.
The Foreign Affairs Committee marked up H.R. 5567, the Narcotics
Control Act of 1990, on Tuesday. The bill caps the amount of
money that can be expended on our Andean Initiative and
conditions assistance on acceptable human rights practices.
This legislation is expected to be considered with the crime bill
on Tuesday, September 18.
On Thursday the Committee passed four bills by voice vote,
including H. J. Res. 418, legislation to encourage immediate
negotiations toward a new agreement among Antarctic Treaty
Consultative Parties, for full protection of Antarctica as global
ecological commons.
On Wednesday the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs met to
approve by voice vote a bill which negates a Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) policy instituted in July that would have
allowed the ordinary disposal of very low-level radioactive
materials used in nuclear plants, such as gloves.
SENATE
On Monday the Banking Committee held a hearing on the condition
of the banking industry. The Federal Reserve and the FDIC
testified in favor of a minimum three percent leverage ratio to
supplement the proposed risk-based capital standards. The
Comptroller of the Currency favors a modified version of the
leverage ratio. Security and Exchange Commission Chairman
Richard Breeden's testimony focused on how accounting mistakes
contributed to the S & L crisis.
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chairman Colin Powell testified before the Armed Services
Committee on Tuesday regarding the Persian Gulf crisis.
On Wednesday the Appropriations Labor/HHS/Education Subcommittee
approved their bill. The Subcommittee is expected to include
several entitlement changes (Medicaid, Child Support and Foster
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Care) in order to achieve about $800 million in outlay savings in
their bill. The Subcommittee is expected to include rape and
incest exceptions to the current Federal abortion limitation.
The Appropriations Commerce/Justice/State Subcommittee approved
their bill. The bill includes approximately $17.8 billion in
budget authority, $1.3 billion below the request. The
Subcommittee uses their entire 302 (b) allocation for outlays.
The subcommittee approved a separate $900 million title (not
included in these totals) that includes your requested increases
for crime and drug programs, United Nation arrearages, part of
the United Nations annual assessment, S&L investigations and
certain funds related to the Persian Gulf (Ready Reserve Force).
The Subcommittee intends to ask the Senate to waive the Budget
Act (in order to exceed their 302(b) limit for these programs).
On Wednesday the Labor and Human Resources Committee reported out
S. 2724, a bill to reauthorize the National Endowment for the
Arts, with an amendment. The bipartisan compromise amendment
would require any artist who received a grant from the NEA to
give back the NEA funds if a court found his work to be obscene.
The artist would also be suspended from further NEA funds for
three years.
Thursday the Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a
hearing on the implications of the crisis in the Persian Gulf for
the near-term and midterm supply of oil. Secretary of Energy
Watkins presented the Committee with a report on the
Administration's medium term energy measures.
The Judiciary Committee began hearings Thursday on the nomination
of David H. Souter to be Associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court. In two days of intense questioning, Judge Souter
impressed the Committee with his keen legal mind and stalwart but
respectful refusal to discuss specific matters which might come
before the Court. The hearings recommence on Monday, which is
likely to be the final day of Judge Souter's testimony. Hearings
will continue on Tuesday, and possibly Wednesday, with other
witnesses testifying on the nomination.
Also on Thursday the Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on
the role of the United Nations in the Persian Gulf crisis.
Hearings on the threshold nuclear test ban treaty (EX. N 94-2)
and verification protocols took place on Thursday afternoon.
The Appropriations Committee, Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban
Development and Independent Agencies approved their FY 1991 bill.
Funding for NASA totals $13.5 billion, $1.6 billion below the
request and $.8 billion below the House. No funding was provided
for Moon/Mars, the CRAFT (comet rendezvous) project and the Space
Station is funded at $1.6 billion, $.8 billion below the request
and $.6 billion below the House. A Mikulski amendment was
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adopted to provide additional funds for the Space Council and the
Science Advisor.
THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 17 - 21
HOUSE AND SENATE FLOORS
HOUSE
The House will meet at noon on Monday and will consider 23 bills
under suspension of the rules, including: H.R. 5610, to permit
the FDIC to increase deposit insurance premiums; H.J. Res. 431,
regarding support for Brazilian conservation efforts to protect
the Amazon; H. Con.Res. 248, sense of Congress regarding linkage
between the environment and national security; H. Res. 312,
regarding the convention for the protection of the natural
resources and environment of the South Pacific region; and H.R.
4739, the Department of Defense Authorization bill. The House
will resume consideration of the DOD bill on Monday, with votes
scheduled after 4:00 p.m. Key votes on SDI funding, SDI policy,
abortion, MX rail garrison, and other amendments will be taken.
On Monday the Rules Committee is expected to unveil a rule for
consideration of the crime bill. Over 100 amendments were filed
with the Committee, and the Democratic Leadership is attempting
to carve that number down to roughly 12 or 13 to be offered on
the floor.
The House is expected to begin consideration of the crime bill on
Tuesday. We are working to insure that the high priority items
included in your crime bill, such as broader death penalty
procedures and streamlined habeas corpus procedures, are allowed
to be offered as amendments to the Democrats' crime bill.
In order to enhance our chances of passing these amendments and
averting a possible Presidential veto, it is essential that every
available public opportunity be used to promote your proposals
and denounce the Democrats' crime bill as being weak on crime.
Your remarks delivered in the Rose Garden on Wednesday were very
well received by our supporters on the Hill. It is possible that
legislation banning the sale or production of domestically-
produced assault weapons could be offered as an amendment to the
crime bill. If that proposal is not made in order as an
amendment to the crime bill, it will be brought up as a separate
bill to be considered on Wednesday immediately following
disposition of the crime bill. There is also a chance that the
"Brady bill", which requires a seven-day waiting period for the
purchase of handguns, could be made in order as an amendment to
the crime bill. That, too, could be brought up as a separate
bill later.
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Also on Monday, conferees are expected to be appointed for the
conference on the Civil Rights Act of 1990. The conference could
begin late Monday or Tuesday.
On Tuesday the House will meet at 10:00 a.m. to consider
H.R. 4328, the Textile bill and H.R. 5269, the crime bill. On
Wednesday, the House will complete consideration of the crime
bill and debate H.R. 1154, the Assault Weapons Control Act,
subject to a rule being granted.
The House plans to adjourn at the close of business on Wednesday,
September 19, in observance of the Rosh Hashanah holiday.
SENATE
On Monday the Senate will consider S. 1511, the Older Workers'
Benefit Protection Act (Betts). Majority Leader Mitchell is
likely to file cloture to close debate on this bill sometime next
week. A senior advisors' veto threat has been issued on the
bill. Instead of a narrow and carefully crafted response to the
Betts decision, S. 1511 makes wholesale changes in the age
discrimination laws that would impose complicated and unworkable
rules on employers.
The Family Planning Act of 1990 will likely be debated on
Tuesday. The Administration also strongly opposes the bill, and
a senior advisors' veto threat has been issued because the bill
promotes abortion as a family planning program. White House
staff and HHS officials are working to muster enough votes to
sustain a threatened veto of the bill.
HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES
HOUSE
Depending on whether the crime bill is considered earlier or
later on Tuesday afternoon, the Judiciary Committee may meet
Thursday morning to mark up H.R. 5316, legislation expanding the
number of federal judges; S. 84, the Federal Debt Collection Act;
H.R. 469, the Intellectual Property Antitrust Protection Act; and
H.R. 5111, the RICO Amendments Act.
SENATE
Tuesday the Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on
unfunded liabilities, which include loans that are guaranteed by
the federal government but not backed by any capital. On
Wednesday the Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing
on proposals to establish the position of chief financial officer
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for the federal government and for each agency within the
executive branch.
The Finance Committee will hold hearings on foreign government
and corporation efforts to influence U.S. policy. It will also
hold hearings on the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
The Banking Committee will hold hearings on the financial
condition of the thrift industry and on the thrift takeover deals
the approved by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in December
1988.
CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE
Attached is a summary of selected Congressional mail for the week
of April 20 - 26.
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Presidential Log of Selected Congressional Mail
Week of September 7 - September 13, 1990
Member
Subject
Comments
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-
Chair and Ranking Member of the Armed
HI)
Services Committee and the Appropriations
Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA)
Subcommittee on Defense express their support
Sen. John Warner (R-
for your actions in the Gulf, but express
VA)
concern about the State Dept. decision to
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-
approve the export of rocket components to
AK)
Brazil, "a nation that has done much to assist
Iraq in developing its ballistic missile capacity."
"Should military action be required, American
forces should not have to face weapons
produced with the assistance of their
countrymen." Senators ask you to reverse this
decision.
Rep. Charles E. Bennett
Believes Congress should be asked to approve
(D-FL)
or disapprove of U.S. actions in opposing
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Saddam Hussein and to clearly state U.S. policy
objectives in the conflict. Also, feels U.S.
should lead the U.N. in establishing a police
force to help regain Kuwaiti independence.
Thinks Kuwaiti independence should not be a
U.S. initiative with limited allied support.
Disapproves of fighting a war for oil we do not
own.
Rep. Lamar Smith
Forwards his plan for deficit reduction, which
(R-TX)
calls for all federal departments and agencies
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to cut indirect costs by 10% in FY '91 and to
hold these expenditures at the inflation rate for
the following four years. Involves no program
cuts, only a reduction in administrative costs
and increased efficiency. Estimated savings are
$27 billion in the first year and $141 billion
over five years.
Rep. Frank Horton
Express grave concern about the threat to
(R-NY)
Israel posed by Iraqi armed forces and its
Also signed by 10 others.
intermediate-range missiles. Recommend that
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the U.S. make the Patriot defensive missile
systems available to Israel at the earliest
possible date.
Rep. Frank Horton
Members of the NY delegation urge you not to
(R-NY)
implement changes in the special occupational
Also signed by 12 others.
tax on wine which would be unfair to producers
and wholesalers. State that the '91 budget
proposal would shift the occupational tax
burden from retailers, producers and
wholesalers to producers and wholesalers
exclusively. State that this change would be
devastating to the NY wine industry.
Rep. Lynn Martin
State that there is "growing frustration that our
(R-IL)
failure to develop domestically-produced,
Rep. Tom Tauke
renewable sources of energy, such as ethanol,
(R-IA)
has once again held America hostage to
Rep. Bill Schuette
imported oil." Feel that the most cost-effective
(R-MI)
and environmentally responsible means of
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enhancing our energy security is to increase the
production and use of ethanol. Urge the
extension of the ethanol tax incentive program.
Rep. Edward J. Markey
Express concern that the Administration is
(D-MA)
considering a proposal to renege on an
Rep. Sam Gejdenson
agreement to relax multilateral export controls
(D-CT)
over certain fiber optics telecommunications
#173123
transmission equipment for the Soviets. Feel
that in light of Soviet support for the West re-
garding the Iraq situation, it would send a
wrong signal. Feel that further relaxation of
COCOM limits on exports of telecommuni-
cations equipment is warranted.
Rep. Hank Brown
Suggests that in addition to energy
(R-CO)
conservation, the Administration support 1)
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extending the ethanol fuels tax incentive; 2)
extending and expanding tax credits for solar
geothermal and wind energy; 3) extending
Section 29 tax credits for unconventional fuels;
and 4) reinstating the tight sands tax credit.
Sen. Richard Bryan
As we develop a national energy policy, they
(D-NV)
urge you to reconsider the Administration's
Sen. Slade Gorton
position on pending legislation to increase the
(R-WA)
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) of
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automobiles. Hopes the Administration will
consider the benefits of S. 1224 in reducing our
dependence on foreign oil as the Senate
prepares to debate this bill.
Rep. Vic Fazio
Members of the Federal Government Service
(D-CA)
Task Force encourage you to "move quickly
Rep. Brock Adams
and responsibly to reach a budget agreement
(D-WA)
before October 1." Are concerned about the
Also signed by 39 others.
proposed furloughs, and state that Federal
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employees have already been asked to bear
more than their fair share of federal deficit
cutting measures over the years.
Rep. Butler Derrick
Urges you not to let the budget summiteers
(D-SC)
reduce the deficit at the expense of older
#174000
Americans. Of particular concern are propo-
sals which target Social Security, the Older
Americans Act, and other essential programs.
States that "Social Security is not part of the
deficit problem -- it is technically off-budget
and should not be used to calculate the deficit
in other parts of government."
Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS)
Strongly urges you to accept the request from
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Dr. Franjo Tudjman, President of Croatia, to
meet with you during his visit to Washington
on September 24 and 25. States that in just a
few months, Dr. Tudjman has made great
progress in dismantling the communist system.
Dole was impressed with the progress the
Croatians are making in building democracy
and in moving toward a free market economy.
Office of Congressional Correspondence ext. 7500
Daily
for friday
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
I just want to say a few things before
heading off to Camp David. First, I would
like to publicly acknowledge and express my
appreciation for the decision by the
Japanese government to make additional
contributions to the effort we are all
making in the Gulf. Specifically, Japan
will be providing significant economic
assistance to key countries in the region
that are most severely affected by the
sanctions and higher energy prices.
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Japan is also increasing its support for
the multinational forces involved in the
collective defense effort. I gave my
personal thanks to Prime Minister Kaifu,
who was kind enough to telephone me last
evening to inform me of this news.
Second, and in a similar vein, I want to
say that Prime Minister Thatcher phoned me
this morning to give me the additional good
news of her country's latest contribution.
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She informed me that the UK would be
sending a full armored brigade along with
the additional helicopters and aircraft to
Saudi Arabia.
As I told the Prime Minister over the
phone, given all that the UK is already
doing, this truly comes as icing on the
cake.
I also called President Mitterrand a few
minutes ago to consult with him on the
outrageous Iraqi break-in of the French
Embassy residence in Kuwait.
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These developments not only underscore
the brutal behavior of Iraq but also the
international support that exists and is
marshalled against Iraq's occupation of
Kuwait.
I have often said that it is not the
United States against Iraq, but Iraq
against the world.
For our part, we will continue to do
everything possible to ensure that
sanctions work as intended and to deter and
if need be defend Saudi Arabia against an
armed attack.
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Here I just want to reiterate what I said
when I first ordered U. S. forces to Saudi
Arabia, namely, that U. S. forces were sent
to Saudi Arabia at the request of the Saudi
government, and these same U. S. forces
will depart as soon as they are no longer
needed or wanted. They will remain not a
day longer than is absolutely necessary.
White House News Summary
Friday, September 14, 1990 -- 1
1:15 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
SOUTER (UPI) -- Supreme Court nominee Souter Friday blamed a
decision-making "vacuum" by the political branches of government
for increasing the court's power in such vital issues as abortion.
Souter
said the failure of the executive and legislative branches
of government to resolve key issues put such matters on the agenda
of the Supreme Court, which has been criticized for activism in
such matters as abortion. "The Supreme Court is left to act alone
when the political branches do not act beforehand," Souter said
during questioning by Sen. Grassley. Souter cited a "disturbing
tendency" due to "a vacuum of response to the problems that Have
to be solved" that the nation assumes "the only guardians of the
Constitution are the judges" when the other political branches have
the same responsibility.
(AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Souter said today that he was
obligated as a state official to defend limits on the separation
of church and state, but that he probably would have ruled for the
opposite side had he been the judge. When in the New Hampshire
Attorney General's office, Souter defended former Gov. Thomson's
order that flags be lowered to half staff on Good Friday. he also
prosecuted two Jehovah's Witnesses for covering the state motto,
"Live Free or Die," on their license tags. Souter told the
Judiciary Committee today he was obligated to defend the state if
arguments could be made, and he maintained that he could in those
cases. But, he acknowledged, "If I were sitting as a judge today,
I probably would have ruled the same way" as the one who decided
the flag-lowering order was unconstitutional. As for the license
plate motto, he said the state did not have "a particularly
compelling interest" in keeping its slogan visible
But Souter
said it was important for him to pursue the cases. he said part
of the job of upholding the Constitution was to bring forth
arguments on issues.
BUDGET TALKS (AP) -- A GOP deficit-reduction plan being considered
by budget negotiators would raise taxes for people making less than
$50,000 a year but cut them for richer Americans, congressional
analysts say. The proposal would mean $4.1 billion a year in new
taxes for people with annual incomes under $50,000. Those at or
above $50,000 would get an $11 billion tax reduction. Disclosure
of the analysis -- which includes limits on the deductions for
state and local income taxes, increased levies on alcoholic
beverages and a cut in the capital gains tax -- drew angry
criticism today from GOP negotiators. Sen. Dole questioned whether
there is any reason to go on with negotiations when some Democrats
"continue to fax and leak and fax stuff to reporters all day long
with their point of view. Dole said the morning news was filled
with reports that "Republicans are out there trying to favor the
rich.' "That's the same old Democratic lie that's been out there
for 20, 30, 40 years, Dole said. Sen. Gramm called the leaks part
of a "systematic strategy to take the tough components of any
package and blame Republicans for those components." As
negotiators headed toward Andrews AFB for another session, Sen.
Domenici told reporters, "We're nowhere." "It's going to be a long
process," said Sen. Sasser.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date: 09/14/90
TO:
PATTY PRESOCK
FROM: JAMES W. CICCONI
Assistant to the President and
Deputy to the Chief of Staff
The attached has been forwarded
to the President. (on the early
a.m. run to Camp David)
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
90 SEP 14 PM 8: 27
September 14, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
FREDERICK D. MCCLURE 7m
SUBJECT:
Weekly Legislative Report
THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 10 - 14
HOUSE AND SENATE FLOORS
HOUSE
The House convened at noon on Monday and passed eleven bills by
voice vote, under suspension of the rules, including: H.R. 5267,
the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act;
H.R. 3764, designating portions of the Delaware River as part of
the Wild and Scenic River System; H. Res. 402, designating the
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. and Gerald R. Ford House of
Representatives Office Buildings; H.R. 4773, the White House
Conference on Small Business Authorization Act; and H.R. 4632, to
impose penalties for inducing the Coast Guard to render aid under
false pretenses.
With respect to the Cable Television Consumer Protection and
Competition Act, your senior advisors have recommended a veto.
Given the strong bipartisan support for the bill in the House, we
believe it would be difficult to sustain a veto in that chamber.
We are working to stop the legislation in the Senate.
On Tuesday the House began consideration of H.R. 4739, the
Department of Defense Authorization Bill for FY 1991. Following
two hours of general debate, the House approved the Mavroules
(D-MA) amendment that establishes a separate corp of personnel
trained in acquisitions for DOD by a vote of 413 to 1. A Bennett
(D-FL) amendment calling for closure of a homeport at Staten
Island, New York, was offered; however, a Molinari (R-NY)
substitute to restrict closure until certain reports are
completed was approved 230 to 188. Bennett had chosen to attack
only one homeport in the nation, that located in the district of
freshman Republican Susan Molinari. Susan Molinari ably defended
her position and Republicans strongly supported her.
On Wednesday the House approved a second rule providing for
consideration of many of the remaining 130 amendments to the DOD
bill that had been filed with the Rules Committee. Votes were
taken on four amendments. Representative Martin (R-NY) offered
an amendment to remove the dual basing section of the bill and
language pertaining to relocation of troops to Crotone, Italy.
The Administration supported her amendment, which failed 174 to
249. A Bonior (D-MI) amendment to require Japan to pay all costs
of deploying U.S. forces in that country passed 370 to 53. A
Mrazek (D-NY) amendment opposed by the Administration which would
have placed a permanent ceiling of 30,000 on troops in Korea and
was defeated 157 to 265.
Although completion of the DOD bill was expected on Thursday, the
measure was pulled from the schedule before final passage pending
agreement on the budget and in order to avoid Budget Summit
negotiators missing key votes.
Instead of turning to final passage of the DOD bill, on Thursday
the House approved the Conference Report on H.R. 7, the Carl
Perkins Vocational Education and Applied Technology Amendments,
by voice vote.
The House then unexpectedly considered and passed by voice vote
H.R. 4330, the National Service Act, a $212 million grant and
loan cancellation program, the subject of a senior advisors' veto
message. Although Republicans on the Education and Labor
Committee were not supportive of this convoluted approach to
volunteer service, the bill was nonetheless reported from
Committee by voice vote. The Administration's veto signal was
not received by the Committee prior to markup, and there was not
adequate time to educate members and build opposition to the
bill. Representatives Bill Goodling (R-PA), Bob Walker (R-PA)
and Steve Gunderson (R-WI), among others, spoke against the bill.
The latter gave an interesting statement against the bill,
throwing crisp dollar bills in the air to express his view of
paying for volunteer service. Prior to final passage, Goodling
offered an amendment to strike the loan cancellation provisions
of the bill. It failed 200 to 212.
On Thursday the House passed the Conference Report on H.R. 2088,
the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. The bill as passed
earlier this year by the House generated a Secretary of Energy
veto threat. However, conferees worked out objectionable
provisions related to the size of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
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and the issue of Regional Petroleum Product Reserves to the
satisfaction of the Administration and the veto threat on the
Conference Report was dropped.
On Thursday the House also attempted to pass legislation allowing
free postage for mail going to servicemen and women stationed in
Saudi Arabia. However, the measure became snarled when House
Republicans tried to cover the costs by taking them out of
Members' franked mail funds. The Democrats objected, preferring
to take the money from the general treasury. The bill may come
up again Tuesday.
SENATE
Tuesday the Senate passed HR 5241, the FY 1991 appropriations
bill for the Treasury Department, Postal Service, Executive
Office of the President and a number of independent government
agencies.
On Wednesday the Senate passed S. 2924, which establishes a
mandatory seafood inspection program. Under the bill, the
Agriculture Department would be responsible for conducting the
inspections and the Food and Drug Administration would establish
safety standards.
Also on Wednesday, Senator Mitchell filed cloture on the motion
to proceed to S. 1224, a bill to raise the Corporate Average Fuel
Economy (CAFE) standards by 40 percent by the year 2001. Despite
Administration opposition, Friday morning the Senate voted 68 to
28 to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed, thus permitting
Senator Mitchell to move to the bill next week. Although we are
not optimistic about being able to defeat this measure, we may be
able to beat cloture on the bill itself, and, at the least, we
would hope to demonstrate veto strength on final passage.
Following the filing of cloture on the motion to proceed to the
CAFE bill, Senator Mitchell vitiated a cloture vote on the motion
to proceed to S. 1511, the Older Workers' Benefit Protection Act
(Betts). The Administration opposes this relatively complicated
measure Monday. which the Senate is expected to begin considering on
The Senate passed S. 2927, the Export Administration Act by voice
vote on Thursday.
THE BUDGET SUMMIT
The Budget Summit began deliberations at Andrews Air Force Base
on Friday, September 7, and is expected to continue through this
weekend. In the first few days, negotiators made good progress
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on many issues, driven largely by their anticipation of your
Tuesday night address to the joint session of Congress. Since
then, the pace has lagged somewhat. The participants have split
into two groups - one considering budget process reform and
changes to Gramm-Rudman, and the other working on tax and
entitlement issues. Areas of major disagreement include:
capital gains, medicare (and entitlements in general), and how to
enforce the summit agreement. Debate has been spirited, with
occasional lapses into finger-pointing over media leaks.
Although there is no deadline to force completion of an
agreement, the summit has already taken so long that most
acknowledge they must conclude this weekend to be able to draft
the legislation, move it through the committees, debate it on the
floor of each House, and conference likely differences before
Congress adjourns for the elections.
HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES
The Conference Committee on Clean Air continues to make slow but
steady progress toward reconciling differences between the two
versions of the Clean Air bill. Last weekend, the Senate receded
to the House on Title I (stationary source non-attainment and
ozone provisions).
We were disappointed with this development, as the Title I
provision of the underlying Senate bill was preferred by the
Administration. Conferees still predict an early October
completion date for final House and Senate action on the Clean
Air Conference Report.
The Conference Committee on Agriculture is expected to begin
writing the final farm bill next week. The Senate will appoint
as conferees Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), David Pryor (D-AR),
David Boren (D-OK), Dick Lugar (R-IN), Robert Dole (R-KS), Thad
Cochran (R-MS) and Bob Kerrey (D-NE). The appointment of Senator
Kerrey is surprising. Senator Leahy passed over five more Senior
Democrats Democrat. to select Senator Kerrey, the committee's most junior
HOUSE
The Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior was scheduled to mark
up FY 1991 Interior appropriations; however, the mark up has been
postponed indefinitely, pending the result of the Budget Summit.
There are also ongoing problems associated with funding
restrictions for the National Endowment for the Arts in the bill.
It is likely the Appropriations Committee will await action on
the NEA reauthorization before taking any further action on the
issue of funding.
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The Committee has dropped its intention to codify your OCS
leasing plan. Instead the Committee will likely implement
another one-year moratorium on OCS leasing off California. As a
practical matter, given the terms of your OCS decision, a one-
year moratorium with respect to California is largely a moot
issue since your policy extends to the year 2000.
The Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs met on
Tuesday to approve two bills to alleviate the effects of defense
cutbacks. H.R. 486, extending provisions of the Defense
Production Act of 1950 through September 30, 1995, was approved
by a vote of 39-8. H.R. 3999, which was approved on a 30-19
party line vote, would authorize $200 million to aid individuals
and communities adversely affected by defense spending cuts.
The Foreign Affairs Committee marked up H.R. 5567, the Narcotics
Control Act of 1990, on Tuesday. The bill caps the amount of
money that can be expended on our Andean Initiative and
conditions assistance on acceptable human rights practices.
This legislation is expected to be considered with the crime bill
on Tuesday, September 18.
On Thursday the Committee passed four bills by voice vote,
including H. J. Res. 418, legislation to encourage immediate
negotiations toward a new agreement among Antarctic Treaty
Consultative Parties, for full protection of Antarctica as global
ecological commons.
On Wednesday the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs met to
approve by voice vote a bill which negates a Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) policy instituted in July that would have
allowed the ordinary disposal of very low-level radioactive
materials used in nuclear plants, such as gloves.
SENATE
On Monday the Banking Committee held a hearing on the condition
of the banking industry. The Federal Reserve and the FDIC
testified in favor of a minimum three percent leverage ratio to
supplement the proposed risk-based capital standards. The
Comptroller of the Currency favors a modified version of the
leverage ratio. Security and Exchange Commission Chairman
Richard Breeden's testimony focused on how accounting mistakes
contributed to the S & L crisis.
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chairman Colin Powell testified before the Armed Services
Committee on Tuesday regarding the Persian Gulf crisis.
On Wednesday the Appropriations Labor/HHS/Education Subcommittee
approved their bill. The Subcommittee is expected to include
several entitlement changes (Medicaid, Child Support and Foster
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Care) in order to achieve about $800 million in outlay savings in
their bill. The Subcommittee is expected to include rape and
incest exceptions to the current. Federal abortion limitation.
The Appropriations Commerce/Justice/State Subcommittee approved
their bill. The bill includes approximately $17.8 billion in
budget authority, $1.3 billion below the request. The
Subcommittee uses their entire 302(b) allocation for outlays.
The subcommittee approved a separate $900 million title (not
included in these totals) that includes your requested increases
for crime and drug programs, United Nation arrearages, part of
the United Nations annual assessment, S&L investigations and
certain funds related to the Persian Gulf (Ready Reserve Force).
The Subcommittee intends to ask the Senate to waive the Budget
Act (in order to exceed their 302 (b) limit for these programs).
On Wednesday the Labor and Human Resources Committee reported out
S. 2724, a bill to reauthorize the National Endowment for the
Arts, with an amendment. The bipartisan compromise amendment
would require any artist who received a grant from the NEA to
give back the NEA funds if a court found his work to be obscene.
The artist would also be suspended from further NEA funds for
three years.
Thursday the Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a
hearing on the implications of the crisis in the Persian Gulf for
the near-term and midterm supply of oil. Secretary of Energy
Watkins presented the Committee with a report on the
Administration's medium term energy measures.
The Judiciary Committee began hearings Thursday on the nomination
of David H. Souter to be Associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court. In two days of intense questioning, Judge Souter
impressed the Committee with his keen legal mind and stalwart but
respectful refusal to discuss specific matters which might come
before the Court. The hearings recommence on Monday, which is
likely to be the final day of Judge Souter's testimony. Hearings
will continue on Tuesday, and possibly Wednesday, with other
witnesses testifying on the nomination.
Also on Thursday the Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on
the role of the United Nations in the Persian Gulf crisis.
Hearings on the threshold nuclear test ban treaty (EX. N 94-2)
and verification protocols took place on Thursday afternoon.
The Appropriations Committee, Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban
Development and Independent Agencies approved their FY 1991 bill.
Funding for NASA totals $13.5 billion, $1.6 billion below the
request and $.8 billion below the House. No funding was provided
for Moon/Mars, the CRAFT (comet rendezvous) project and the Space
Station is funded at $1.6 billion, $.8 billion below the request
and $.6 billion below the House. A Mikulski amendment was
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adopted to provide additional funds for the Space Council and the
Science Advisor.
THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 17 - 21
HOUSE AND SENATE FLOORS
HOUSE
The House will meet at noon on Monday and will consider 23 bills
under suspension of the rules, including: H.R. 5610, to permit
the FDIC to increase deposit insurance premiums; H.J. Res. 431,
regarding support for Brazilian conservation efforts to protect
the Amazon; H. Con.Res. 248, sense of Congress regarding linkage
between the environment and national security; H. Res. 312,
regarding the convention for the protection of the natural
resources and environment of the South Pacific region; and H.R.
4739, the Department of Defense Authorization bill. The House
will resume consideration of the DOD bill on Monday, with votes
scheduled after 4:00 p.m. Key votes on SDI funding, SDI policy,
abortion, MX rail garrison, and other amendments will be taken.
On Monday the Rules Committee is expected to unveil a rule for
consideration of the crime bill. Over 100 amendments were filed
with the Committee, and the Democratic Leadership is attempting
to carve that number down to roughly 12 or 13 to be offered on
the floor.
The House is expected to begin consideration of the crime bill on
Tuesday. We are working to insure that the high priority items
included in your crime bill, such as broader death penalty
procedures and streamlined habeas corpus procedures, are allowed
to be offered as amendments to the Democrats' crime bill.
In order to enhance our chances of passing these amendments and
averting a possible Presidential veto, it is essential that every
available public opportunity be used to promote your proposals
and denounce the Democrats' crime bill as being weak on crime.
Your remarks delivered in the Rose Garden on Wednesday were very
well received by our supporters on the Hill. It is possible that
legislation banning the sale or production of domestically-
produced assault weapons could be offered as an amendment to the
crime bill. If that proposal is not made in order as an
amendment to the crime bill, it will be brought up as a separate
bill to be considered on Wednesday immediately following
disposition of the crime bill. There is also a chance that the
"Brady bill", which requires a seven-day waiting period for the
purchase of handguns, could be made in order as an amendment to
the crime bill. That, too, could be brought up as a separate
bill later.
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Also on Monday, conferees are expected to be appointed for the
conference on the Civil Rights Act of 1990. The conference could
begin late Monday or Tuesday.
On Tuesday the House will meet at 10:00 a.m. to consider
H.R. 4328, the Textile bill and H.R. 5269, the crime bill. On
Wednesday, the House will complete consideration of the crime
bill and debate H.R. 1154, the Assault Weapons Control Act,
subject to a rule being granted.
The House plans to adjourn at the close of business on Wednesday,
September 19, in observance of the Rosh Hashanah holiday.
SENATE
On Monday the Senate will consider S. 1511, the Older Workers'
Benefit Protection Act (Betts). Majority Leader Mitchell is
likely to file cloture to close debate on this bill sometime next
week. A senior advisors' veto threat has been issued on the
bill. Instead of a narrow and carefully crafted response to the
Betts decision, S. 1511 makes wholesale changes in the age
discrimination laws that would impose complicated and unworkable
rules on employers.
The Family Planning Act of 1990 will likely be debated on
Tuesday. The Administration also strongly opposes the bill, and
a senior advisors' veto threat has been issued because the bill
promotes abortion as a family planning program. White House
staff and HHS officials are working to muster enough votes to
sustain a threatened veto of the bill.
HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES
HOUSE
Depending on whether the crime bill is considered earlier or
later on Tuesday afternoon, the Judiciary Committee may meet
Thursday morning to mark up H.R. 5316, legislation expanding the
number of federal judges; S. 84, the Federal Debt Collection Act;
H.R. 469, the Intellectual Property Antitrust Protection Act; and
H.R. 5111, the RICO Amendments Act.
SENATE
Tuesday the Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on
unfunded liabilities, which include loans that are guaranteed by
the federal government but not backed by any capital. On
Wednesday the Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing
on proposals to establish the position of chief financial officer
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for the federal government and for each agency within the
executive branch.
The Finance Committee will hold hearings on foreign government
and corporation efforts to influence U.S. policy. It will also
hold hearings on the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
The Banking Committee will hold hearings on the financial
condition of the thrift industry and on the thrift takeover deals
the approved by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in December
1988.
CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE
Attached is a summary of selected Congressional mail for the week
of April 20 - 26.
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Presidential Log of Selected Congressional Mail
Week of September 7 - September 13, 1990
Member
Subject
Comments
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-
Chair and Ranking Member of the Armed
HI)
Services Committee and the Appropriations
Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA)
Subcommittee on Defense express their support
Sen. John Warner (R-
for your actions in the Gulf, but express
VA)
concern about the State Dept. decision to
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-
approve the export of rocket components to
AK)
Brazil, "a nation that has done much to assist
Iraq in developing its ballistic missile capacity."
"Should military action be required, American
forces should not have to face weapons
produced with the assistance of their
countrymen." Senators ask you to reverse this
decision.
Rep. Charles E. Bennett
Believes Congress should be asked to approve
(D-FL)
or disapprove of U.S. actions in opposing
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Saddam Hussein and to clearly state U.S. policy
objectives in the conflict. Also, feels U.S.
should lead the U.N. in establishing a police
force to help regain Kuwaiti independence.
Thinks Kuwaiti independence should not be a
U.S. initiative with limited allied support.
Disapproves of fighting a war for oil we do not
own.
Rep. Lamar Smith
Forwards his plan for deficit reduction, which
(R-TX)
calls for all federal departments and agencies
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to cut indirect costs by 10% in FY '91 and to
hold these expenditures at the inflation rate for
the following four years. Involves no program
cuts, only a reduction in administrative costs
and increased efficiency. Estimated savings are
$27 billion in the first year and $141 billion
over five years.
Rep. Frank Horton
Express grave concern about the threat to
(R-NY)
Israel posed by Iraqi armed forces and its
Also signed by 10 others.
intermediate-range missiles. Recommend that
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the U.S. make the Patriot defensive missile
systems available to Israel at the earliest
possible date.
Rep. Frank Horton
Members of the NY delegation urge you not to
(R-NY)
implement changes in the special occupational
Also signed by 12 others.
tax on wine which would be unfair to producers
and wholesalers. State that the '91 budget
proposal would shift the occupational tax
burden from retailers, producers and
wholesalers to producers and wholesalers
exclusively. State that this change would be
devastating to the NY wine industry.
Rep. Lynn Martin
State that there is "growing frustration that our
(R-IL)
failure to develop domestically-produced,
Rep. Tom Tauke
renewable sources of energy, such as ethanol,
(R-IA)
has once again held America hostage to
Rep. Bill Schuette
imported oil." Feel that the most cost-effective
(R-MI)
and environmentally responsible means of
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enhancing our energy security is to increase the
production and use of ethanol. Urge the
extension of the ethanol tax incentive program.
Rep. Edward J. Markey
Express concern that the Administration is
(D-MA)
considering a proposal to renege on an
Rep. Sam Gejdenson
agreement to relax multilateral export controls
(D-CT)
over certain fiber optics telecommunications
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transmission equipment for the Soviets. Feel
that in light of Soviet support for the West re-
garding the Iraq situation, it would send a
wrong signal. Feel that further relaxation of
COCOM limits on exports of telecommuni-
cations equipment is warranted.
Rep. Hank Brown
Suggests that in addition to energy
(R-CO)
conservation, the Administration support 1)
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extending the ethanol fuels tax incentive; 2)
extending and expanding tax credits for solar
geothermal and wind energy; 3) extending
Section 29 tax credits for unconventional fuels;
and 4) reinstating the tight sands tax credit.
Sen. Richard Bryan
As we develop a national energy policy, they
(D-NV)
urge you to reconsider the Administration's
Sen. Slade Gorton
position on pending legislation to increase the
(R-WA)
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) of
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automobiles. Hopes the Administration will
consider the benefits of S. 1224 in reducing our
dependence on foreign oil as the Senate
prepares to debate this bill.
Rep. Vic Fazio
Members of the Federal Government Service
(D-CA)
Task Force encourage you to "move quickly
Rep. Brock Adams
and responsibly to reach a budget agreement
(D-WA)
before October 1." Are concerned about the
Also signed by 39 others.
proposed furloughs, and state that Federal
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employees have already been asked to bear
more than their fair share of federal deficit
cutting measures over the years.
Rep. Butler Derrick
Urges you not to let the budget summiteers
(D-SC)
reduce the deficit at the expense of older
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Americans. Of particular concern are propo-
sals which target Social Security, the Older
Americans Act, and other essential programs.
States that "Social Security is not part of the
deficit problem -- it is technically off-budget
and should not be used to calculate the deficit
in other parts of government."
Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS)
Strongly urges you to accept the request from
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Dr. Franjo Tudjman, President of Croatia, to
meet with you during his visit to Washington
on September 24 and 25. States that in just a
few months, Dr. Tudjman has made great
progress in dismantling the communist system.
Dole was impressed with the progress the
Croatians are making in building democracy
and in moving toward a free market economy.
Office of Congressional Correspondence ext. 7500
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
9-14-90
Dear Mr. MacLean:
Many thanks for sending the wonderful photos of
your daughter, Rose. A picture is indeed worth
a thousand words. Rose's expression captures
exactly my sentiments about broccoli.
Best wishes to you and your family.
Sincerely,
GBl
Mr. John MacLean
Apartment 560
2109 Broadway
New York, New York 10023
Rear Rose- - Let's not
cat au broccoli, OK ??
Love as Bul
news
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
9-14-90
Dear Chandler:
I was delighted to learn from your mother that
you and your family have been keeping me in your
prayers. Your support is much appreciated.
The crisis caused by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
is very complicated, so I certainly understand
why you were a bit confused by names and events.
Nevertheless, as your mother has pointed out, the
good Lord hears and understands our prayers in any
case.
Mrs. Bush joins me in sending you our best wishes
for a bright and happy future.
Sincerely,
CyBl
Chandler Collins
1243 Montgomery Avenue
Muskegon, Michigan 49441
Dear Ruth
Thacks for your kind
wouds. Loved the auccdote GB -
To Chandler
9-14-9
This Bush will Try To Keep us From Getting
Caught Between Inaq and a Hand Place -
Good Luch as Bur
Sample
Ruth Collins
1243 Montgomery Avenue
Muskegon, MI 49441
(616) 755-6638
August 29, 1990
Dear Mr. Bush,
We think that you are doing a great job in the mist
of this Iraq situation! We love and Mrs. Bush
and pray for you. I just have to tell you what
my five year old said last week. After all even
the President should take time out for a smile,
and it is so evident that you love children.
We were getting ready for bed and it was time to
say our night time prayers. I told my son, Chandler
that we needed to pray for President Bush that he
would have wisdom on how to get the hostages out of
Iraq. After a minute of deep thinking, he asked,
"Mom, how is a bush going to get the people out of
the rock and how did they get in there in the first
place?!?" We laughed and laughed and the more I
said they are not in the rock but in Iraq the more
we laughed! It's a good thing the Lord knew what
he was praying for, because he sure didn' t!
I hope that this will be a bright spot in what must
be a very difficult day. I really don't know how
you do it and we thank you for directing our country.
Our prayers are with you.
Sincerely,
Ruth Collins
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
PRESS BRIEFING
BY
MARLIN FITZWATER
September 14, 1990
The Briefing Room
10:05 A.M. EDT
INDEX
SUBJECT
PAGE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The President's Schedule
1
DOMESTIC
Budget
1-2,6-7;10
Souter Hearings
12
FOREIGN
Persian Gulf Situation
1-11
Telephone Call from Prime Minister Kaifu
2
Telephone Conversation with Prime Minister
Thatcher
3
Embassy Intrusions
4-5;7-8;11
President's Message to Iraqi Citizens
8
Bridget Montagne
West Wing
10:40 A.M. EDT
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
PRESS BRIEFING
BY
MARLIN FITZWATER
September 14, 1990
The Briefing Room
10:05 A.M. EDT
MR. FITZWATER: Good morning. We have a 10:30 a.m. event
in the Roosevelt Room, open photo-writing pool, which is a
transmittal to Congress of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative
Act of 1990. And at 11:30 a.m. in the East Room we have another open
photo-writing pool event which is the President's address to the
International Appellate Judges Conference. So we've got two
back-to-back events.
Let me give you a couple quick statements here, and then
we'll go to questions.
First of all, the United Nations last night passed
Resolution 666 in the Security Council, establishing a framework for
delivery of foodstuffs to Iraq and Kuwait for humanitarian reasons.
The Secretary General and the sanctions committee will determine
humanitarian needs, and international organizations such as the Red
Cross will deliver food to the intended beneficiaries.
Iraq has continued to say that it has adequate food, but
its policy to feed its military first and its actual practice is to
create conditions of famine for foreign nationals trapped in occupied
Kuwait. Iraq wants us to accept its ruthless aggression against
Kuwait or accept the starvation of innocent children and civilians.
We will do neither.
Resolution 666 represents a fair procedure for allowing
food to be delivered to civilians in need, particularly children,
mothers, the sick, and the elderly. So that resolution passed last
night with the United States' support.
Secondly, the President is, today, sending to Congress a
request for Fiscal Year 1990 appropriations of $1.8885 billion in
support of the U.S. policy in the Gulf. This request consists of two
components: first, that it will provide for funding a portion of the
unexpected defense costs of the Gulf, and it would also provide legal
mechanisms for the United States to share the burden of these
extraordinary costs with our friends and allies.
Secondly, the President's proposal requests cancellation
of Egypt's foreign military sales debt to the United States, as
announced here on September 4.
As the President said on August 30, it is important that
a considerable burden of the effort in the Gulf crisis be shared by
those being defended and those benefiting from the free flow of oil.
The President is gratified at the international willingness to help,
including the $4 billion pledged by Japan. Today's requests to
Congress are required to fulfill America's leadership role. The
President is proud of the congressional and public support for U.S.
policy to meet our responsibilities, and we urge expeditious
congressional action on these requests.
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I might note that Prime Minister Kaifu called President
Bush last evening to let him know that they were going to be publicly
announcing the $4 billion pledge.
Specifically, just to give you a couple of numbers, the
additional costs include $1.8885 billion in new budget authority, as
the statement says, and the transfer of $175 million in existing
funds.
Q
What statement?
MR. FITZWATER: The one I just gave you.
The breakdown is: the Army, $837.2 million; Navy and
Marine Corps, $395.9 million; Air Force, $412.2 million; and defense
agencies, $418.2 million.
Q This is to see through the end of the year?
MR. FITZWATER: Right. So approximately two months, yes.
Q
And the Egyptian forgiveness is $7 billion?
MR. FITZWATER: Yes, that's right.
Q
But not this year?
Q
Marlin, could you does this come from somewhere,
this budget authority? How is this accommodated?
MR. FITZWATER: No, this is a legislative request for a
new budget authority in Fiscal Year 1990.
Q
Would this be a supplemental appropriation?
Q
For '90 or '91?
MR. FITZWATER: For '90. It would be new money to be
requested before the end of this fiscal year.
Q
It would be followed by a supplemental request?
Q
It is a supplemental.
Q
No, it's a budget authority request. It's a
different thing.
MR. FITZWATER: That's what it amounts to -- it is, yes.
We can go through more details on these numbers later, or
privately if you want to stop by later.
Q
Marlin, what about '91? Are you going to have
another request for '91 money?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, it will be a part of our '91 budget
which, of course, is the subject of the budget negotiations now
underway.
Q
But, Marlin, aren't the costs of the Persian Gulf
off the table as far as the negotiations go?
MR. FITZWATER: Everything's on the table. Defense cuts
are all part of the budget negotiations.
Q
Well, then why are you trying to take account of the
cost of the Persian Gulf in the negotiations?
MR. FITZWATER: The negotiations reflect the entire
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Defense Department budget including the Persian Gulf, yes.
Let's see if we have anything else. I believe that's
essentially it. The President talked to Prime Minister Thatcher this
morning. They discussed the situation in the Persian Gulf. Mrs.
Thatcher is announcing an increased commitment to the Gulf, although
I don't think they done. that yet, so I won't comment.
Q
Yes, they have.
MR. FITZWATER: Have they done that?
Q
It's on the wires.
Q
Six thousand troops.
Q
Ground troops?
MR. FITZWATER: Yes -- I don't have the details of it
here, but she's --
Q
Anything on the French and Canadian embassy?
MR. FITZWATER: Yes.
Q
American embassy?
MR. FITZWATER: How could I have walked off without that?
Q
How could you have done that?
MR. FITZWATER: Could you check on my desk?
Q
Just wing it, Marlin.
MR. FITZWATER: Pardon?
Q
What did the President tell Thatcher?
MR. FITZWATER: They just talked about the situation that
exists today and she discussed at some length her increased
commitment. But I don't have any other details of that.
Q
Is she sending some ground troops?
Q
Is this six thousand troops -- are these ground
forces, Marlin?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't have a description of her
commitment. That's why I say I was hoping her announcement was out
before this because --
Q
Apparently it is, but I missed it.
MR. FITZWATER: Yes.
Q
Did the President express appreciation?
MR. FITZWATER: Yes.
Well, this is very embarrassing. I had this fantastic
piece of work here.
Q
Can we help you?
MR. FITZWATER: And I don't what in the world I did. But
in any case, the status of the United States embassy is as follows:
that the State Department task force, which monitors the situation in
Kuwait and Iraq, did place calls to the embassy this morning and did
talk to our officials there. I understand that Deputy Secretary
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Eagleburger is talking to Ambassador Howell. The United States
embassy has not had any intrusion. The reports to that effect are
incorrect. Ambassador Howell is continuing to carry out his
functions there as best he can. We do have the ability to
communicate with him, obviously. Water and electricity are still cut
off in terms of the Iraqi control of outside sources. But they do
still have food and water supplies adequate at this time.
The reports of soldiers going in the French embassy we
have seen but don't have detailed information on and would want to
refer you to the French anyway for their own description of what the
situation there is.
We've also seen reports of troops entering the Dutch
embassy yesterday. But apparently, there was no one there and the
indications were that nothing was damaged to any degree in that
incident. We don't have any information on any other embassies. But
in any case, with regard to the United States embassy, there's been
no intrusion.
Q Marlin, there was some period of time this morning
when the United States government was not commenting on the reports
from the French TV, or whoever it was, because we had not yet had our
routine scheduled call to the embassy over there from Washington or
from the embassy to Washington. That being done at a certain time
each day because of limitations on the power that's somehow used for
that or something. And the question is, does this mean that the U.S.
embassy in Kuwait is only in touch with Washington at certain
specified periods each day?
MR. FITZWATER: No, that's not my understanding. My
understanding is that they can make contact with the embassy any
number of occasions. I had not heard that explanation. I don't know
whether there's anything to it or not.
Q
It may be wrong.
MR. FITZWATER: There may be special times when we call.
There may be special prearranged contact times and so forth because
the communications aren't great. But I don't think there's any
special points where we know we can't get through and that sort of
thing.
Q Marlin, can you tighten a loose end on this?
There's at least one wire report out, I believe, quoting a White
House official as saying the reports of the entry to the French
embassy are erroneous. You don't seem to indicate that. Is that
comment erroneous?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, I wouldn't say that's erroneous,
but let's just say we don't have any information to indicate
otherwise. I know how that comment came about; people running up and
down hallways yelling at each other. So it may not have been as
precise as it should have been. But the fact is that (laughter)
-- we don't have any information.
Now you know why I tell people in my hallway, wait until
the briefing.
Q
When you say no indication otherwise, you mean no
indication which way otherwise? I'm sorry, I'm just --
MR. FITZWATER: Call the French embassy. I'm not going
to comment on the French situation.
Q
The French Foreign Ministry officially say that
there was an entry. They issued a strong protest. The Ambassador
has been summoned. Any reaction to Iraqi forces entering embassies
in violation of the Vienna Convention?
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MR. FITZWATER: No, but we thank the distinguished
representative from AFP for that report. (Laughter.)
Q
To follow on that, just to get it on the record --
what is the U.S. policy as far as its diplomatic mission in Kuwait
City or anywhere? Do we consider that sovereign U.S. territory? And
what would be our reaction to a violation of that?
MR. FITZWATER: Absolutely. We consider our embassy to
be sovereign territory, covered by the international laws of
diplomacy. It is operating, and we expect the Iraqi government to
maintain an attitude towards the embassy consistent with all
international law.
Q
Would we consider it an act of war to violate them?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, we won't speculate on
hypotheticals.
Q Marlin, has there been any new demands or threats --
verbal demands -- from the Iraqis against the embassy, ordering them
to do anything that leads you to think maybe that entry or something
is possible? Has there been any new activity on a verbal front?
MR. FITZWATER: I'm not aware of any change, no.
Q
Marlin, back at the beginning of all of this, the
President was asked about sanctions. And he conceded that sanctions
in the past have not always worked very well and, though he was
hopeful this time, since then it's clear the administration puts most
of its eggs in the sanctions basket, as it were. Everything that's
been said says we think this is. going to force Saddam to withdraw.
What accounts for the change?
MR. FITZWATER: What change?
MR. FITZWATER: From the giving the notion that this was
-- in the past had not worked very well, the economic sanctions were
a very questionable way to go to the idea that it's --
MR. FITZWATER: I'm sorry, okay. The things that are --
is the comprehensive nature of the United Nations resolution and
implementation of the sanctions. It is true that the history of
sanctions has not been very successful, and primarily because they
have not been -- not had the kind of universal support that these
have. They have not been total, they have not had enforcement
abilities to back them up. So we believe that this one -- let's put
it this way -- that this one has a good chance of succeeding because
so many of the countries of the world are behind it, because the U.N.
does support enforcement of it, because there is a military presence
there to enforce it and see that it works.
That's the main reason why we think it's different.
Q
Yes, but given what Iran has done this week, isn't
there a danger that the longer this goes, that rather than more total
compliance, there will be less total compliance?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, it's working very well so far. We
hope it continues to work. We tend to -- there's nearly total cutoff
of oil going in or out of Iraq, total cutoff of ships delivering
goods in or out of the country, the ports are virtually cut off and
all the reports we have are that the embargo is near 100 percent
effective.
Q
Marlin, there continue to be more and more news
reports from newspapers across the country quoting various
administration sources which say the President is being told that the
chances are not likely, are not good that the sanctions are going to
work. And according to these various sources, they are telling him
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that they believe that he is going to be forced to take military
action. And they are suggesting that it occur within four to six
weeks, of course, when the U.S. mobilization is complete. Can you
confirm at least that he is being told this by outside sources or
from lawmakers on the Hill?
MR. FITZWATER: The reports are wrong, he's not being
told that.
Q
On the budget negotiations, according to the latest
analysis by the Joint Committee on Taxation --
MR. FITZWATER: You mean that bipartisan group?
Q
Ohhh.
Q
Bipartisan group. The latest Republican plan --
under the latest Republican plan, people earning more than $50,000 a
a year would pay less taxes over all the people earning less than
that amount, and that those earning between $20,000 and $40,000 a
year would bear the greatest tax burden of all. I was wondering how
this squares with the President's commitment to see that any revenue
increases in a package are distributed fairly among all income
groups.
MR. FITZWATER: We aren't going to comment on any
specific provisions of the budget negotiations. I would guide you
away from those partisan descriptions of any policies. I would not
attribute any of those to our administration.
Q
Isn't that standard Republican tax policy?
MR. FITZWATER: We're not going to comment on any
specific policies. And the short answer is, no, Carl.
Q
Do you have any response to the increase in producer
prices this morning?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't have any particular response.
The producer price increase this morning, of course, causes us
concern. It is the first specific kind of economic response we've
seen to the oil disruption. The gasoline prices rose 16.9 percent in
August and home heating oil rose a record 38.8 percent. So that is a
matter of concern. We are following it very closely and we'll see
how this stretches out over the months ahead. Hopefully, that as the
disruption levels out and we get some more stability back in the
market, that these will drop. But right now it's not the case.
Q
Do you believe these increases are justified?
MR. FITZWATER: Yes. Well, they're market increases.
They reflect the spot market. Are you asking me, is there gouging
going on? We do not believe there is.
Q
You don't see any element of profiteering in these
--
MR. FITZWATER: We can't speak for every retail operator
in America, but overall, we have not found indications of gouging.
Now, the Justice Department, of course, is always looking at
price-fixing cases and so forth, but we have not seen any gouging
evidence at this point.
Secretary Watkins testified at great length on this
yesterday on the Hill.
Q
On the budget, what's your present estimate as to
how soon or not how soon a deal could be cut? What do you expect
over the weekend?
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MR. FITZWATER: Well, it's hard to say. They're meeting
again today. I think most participants probably don't expect an
agreement today, but it's possible over the weekend or first of next
week. Now, there's still --
Q
Do they plan to keep negotiating during the weekend?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, it's still an open question. As of
this morning, it was not clear whether they were going to meet over
the weekend or not. Apparently, some participants had indicated they
would prefer not to and would rather adjourn this evening and then
start again Monday; some participants wanted to go on through the
weekend. So that's something they'll determine during the
day-to-day. We'll try to let you know as soon as possible. I'm sure
Congressman Gephardt's office will announce whatever the process is
this afternoon as soon as they decide.
Q
Foley also said that before a deal can be cut
there's going to have to be a meeting with the President. Has he
requested actually such a meeting. Is there any plan for such a
meeting?
MR. FITZWATER: I think everybody understands there will
be such a meeting, yes, that the final step in this whole process
would be a meeting between the President and leadership to sign on to
it, yes.
Q
Is there -- has that been scheduled?
MR. FITZWATER: Not yet, no. It depends on when they get
a deal.
Q
If Iraqi troops are moving against embassy residents
in Kuwait, what does that say about the situation over there?
MR. FITZWATER: They aren't moving against our embassy.
Q
Well, embassies.
MR. FITZWATER: Well, I don't have any comment on those
facts. We don't know for sure exactly what's happening. And at our
embassy there's been no change.
Q Any plans for the weekend at Camp David? And in
particular, what would Bush do if there was a budget agreement?
MR. FITZWATER: If they have a budget agreement I would
expect we'll have an announcement and a press conference here at some
point, and the President would probably come back for that.
0
Anybody meeting with him over the weekend, aside
from budget stuff?
MR. FITZWATER: No plans for any meetings, no.
Q
The Iraqis were quoted this morning as saying that
their justification for going into the French embassy was that Kuwait
was no longer a sovereign country. I was wondering what your
reaction to that was, number one. And number two, whether there are
any precautions being taken at the U.S. embassy to prevent anything
like that?
MR. FITZWATER: Well our reaction is the same as the
United Nations resolution that says it was illegal for them to annex
Kuwait and it is still a sovereign country. That is our feeling.
Q
Have you taken any precautions?
MR. FITZWATER: We have taken precautions from the
beginning, of course, to safeguard our citizens there, but we can't
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describe them for security reasons.
Q
I mean, can you say that, you know, this can't
happen at the U.S. embassy because of security measures or --
MR. FITZWATER: We've taken measures as best we can. We
know the risks. Our people there obviously know the risk and the
dangers involved and there are dangers involved. But it's not a
matter that is not planned for.
Q
So they wouldn't be evacuated because of this?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, we aren't prepared to say what
action we're going to take, again, for the safety of the people
there.
Q
Where's the tape?
Q
Has the tape hit Baghdad yet?
MR. FITZWATER: The tape is on its way to Baghdad. I
don't know if it's actually in their hands. It was supposed to be
there by this evening sometime. And we expect then the five days to
apply by next Wednesday night. so, hopefully, we'll see it --
Q
The Ambassador -- I mean the charge will hand it
over?
MR. FITZWATER: The charge, yes, John Wilson.
Q Certify again when this five-day clock started? Was
it when it was turned over?
MR. FITZWATER: Pardon?
Q
The tape -- the five-day clock on the tape.
MR. FITZWATER: Assuming it's turned over tonight, the
five days would be up Wednesday evening sometime.
Q Marlin, back to the French business. Since this is
a unified action on our part to mobilize troops into Saudi Arabia,
can you tell us what our policy is about how we would work with the
French if they do consider this some kind of a act of war on their
embassy? Do we have any obligation to come to their defense since
it's our forces that are over there? What is the role between us, in
other words?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, we, of course, are working with all
of our allies involved in this matter for the common defense and
planning related to the embassies. We will discuss these matters
with all the countries involved. Unfortunately, to speculate on how
we might respond with the French is no different than speculating on
how we might respond ourselves.
Q
Is it the same? That's the question.
MR. FITZWATER: We have the same attitude, certainly,
toward the sovereignty of the country and the sovereignty of the
embassies. But we won't comment on how we might work with the French
should there be any problem.
Q Are there consultations with the French going on
now? Is there any kind of allied conversation? Is the President --
nothing?
MR. FITZWATER: No.
Q
Nothing going on between us?
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MR. FITZWATER: We continue to talk to all the allies in
all the cases. But as I said, our embassy has not been intruded.
Pascal, you want to give the report again on the French embassy. I
don't think everybody heard it.
Q
I want to go back to the U.N. resolution on the
humanitarian food. You're saying we will do neither -- we will not
permit the Iraqis to starve people out. If Iraq doesn't let the Red
Cross in to deliver food or tries to divert supplies, does that mean
the U.S. is assuming obligation to protect the safety of the
refugees, the foreign nationals in Iraq no matter what?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, this is a United Nations
resolution, I would remind you again, and it would the Secretary
General and the sanctions committee that would determine where there
is a need and when humanitarian food is needed. It would also
determine the international organizations that would go in. Should
they not be allowed in, then the United Nations would consider
further actions. But it's impossible for me to speculate on what the
United Nations might choose to do.
Q
Marlin, the violation of an embassy is one of the
most fundamental breaches of international law. I don't understand
why we're not more outraged about this. Are we just trying to -- if
we don't say anything they may not go into ours?
MR. FITZWATER: We're always outraged about violation of
all embassies and any embassies. We have expressed this many times
from this podium, State Department and others. Let there be no
mistake: The embassies are sovereign territory. We hold the Iraqi
government responsible for treating them as they are supposed to be
under international law. However, our embassy has not been intruded
at this time.
Q
Last week you said no oil was going out and now we
have a nearly total cutoff. Where has the seepage developed?
MR. FITZWATER: As far as I know, it's total.
"Marlin, we are now leading the final escort for the
10:30 a.m. event in the Roosevelt Room. Thank you."
Q
Did we send a message to Iraq on terrorism -- a
warning?
MR. FITZWATER: Yes.
Q
Question?
MR. FITZWATER: Helen asked if we sent a message to Iraq
on terrorism. And I said, yes, that are charge did deliver a message
to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry yesterday, I believe it was, which let
them know that we would -- we have a cause for grave concern about
any links between Iraq and various terrorists organizations; that we
hold them responsible for any terrorists acts that might occur.
As you know, we have reported on a number of occasions
intelligence and other ways of indicating possible links between Iraq
and terrorists kinds of planning activities. We have not received
any threats that are specific or credible and, therefore, result in
any public warnings. But nevertheless, we have been concerned about
this and we have made that known to Saddam Hussein.
I
Marlin, given the murky nature of terrorism, how are
you going to know whether they really are the sponsors of the
terrorists acts --
MR. FITZWATER: Well, the same way you know under any
case like this. And as you -- the murky nature is probably a good
way to put it. But there are many kinds of intelligence ways of
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finding out information and to utilize all those. And you
investigate events as best you can.
Q
Well, what's our conclusion then on Pan Am? Do we
have the precise conclusion, since that's been the --
MR. FITZWATER: There is an extensive report that
concludes on Pan Am. I can get that for you. I have it in my
office, but I don't remember all the details.
Q
I don't recall precise blame being attached.
MR. FITZWATER: I'll have to check that for you, Gerry.
Q
You say we've not received threats -- specific
threats, but there are reports of members of terrorist organizations
casing U.S. military facilities. Can you confirm them?
MR. FITZWATER: Since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the
United States have received and analyzed numerous threats to U.S.
diplomatic and military facilities in regions throughout the world.
The Department of State issued terrorist threat notices on August 10
and September 7. The U.S. remains concerned about indications that
terrorist groups may be planning operations against U.S. nationals or
interests in response to U.S. participation in the multinational
effort. We repeat that the United States would view with the utmost
seriousness any Iraqi-sponsored terrorist attack.
Q
Is that my confirmation?
MR. FITZWATER: That's your answer.
Q
Marlin, back on the budget. On Tuesday, Governor
Sununu described the mood swing; and they went from pessimism in the
morning to optimism in the afternoon, and suggested that a deal was
within 48-hours reach. What's happened?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, the mood swing is continuing.
(Laughter.) And as often happens in these negotiations, some days we
end up pessimistic and some days optimistic. But I think the mood
swing is still at a fairly positive state and we believe there will
be a budget deal. But they drone on and on and on. (Laughter.) And
we'll probably continue to do so. But let me join Speaker Foley in
expressing my continued optimism they'll make a deal. (Laughter.)
Q
Marlin, the CPO is now saying that the budget
deficit could be even more that $230 billion, it could be more like
$263 billion. (Laughter.) So what's --
MR. FITZWATER: No. No, no. No, God, no, not more.
(Laughter.)
Q What's the value of a $50-billion deal when the
deficit is obviously out of control. And nobody is even close --
MR. FITZWATER: I've gone through a mood swing.
(Laughter.)
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Have you talked to Jerry Lewis?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, I tell you, here's the deal.
(Laughter.) You know, we've had estimates all over the place, but,
admittedly, most of them are going up. We haven't had a lot on the
down side. We keep trying to get as much reduction as possible. The
negotiators are working to try to balance the need to reduce the
deficit to a maximum degree and yet preserve the economic growth of
the country. Whether the number is $250 billion, $251 billion, or
$263 billion, or whatever, we all disagree on those numbers, but we
disagree it's big enough to keep at the job.
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Q
Very nicely done.
Q
There's one news report out which says that Iraq is
MR. FITZWATER: Where's Jim Brady? I heard he was back.
Is Jim here?
Q
He not that dumb. (Laughter.)
MR. FITZWATER: That's right. I need help. Give me Jim.
Q
Iraq is reportedly testing a poison-gas warhead
capable of striking long distances, i.e. troops, targets in Saudi
Arabia. Can you indeed confirm whether that's true, whether the
President has been advised and what his reaction is? Is he concerned
that if that is true it might complicate the situation?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, I don't have information on this
specific weapon, but obviously, we have great concern about the use
of chemical weapons. We have proposed to ban them in the world. The
President has worked tirelessly for this for several years. He
proposed the ban and reductions that we've been working on both at
Geneva as well as bilaterally with the Soviet Union. The use of
chemical weapons under any circumstances with any missile, with any
weapon against anyone is a heinous outrage against mankind and should
not occur.
Q
But you don't know anything specific to this
particular report? I believe it was in The L.A. Times today.
MR. FITZWATER: We don't comment on intelligence matters.
Q
I heard you in general terms discuss the
inviolability of embassies. But I still haven't heard you this
morning specifically condemn what happened to the French embassy.
MR. FITZWATER: Well, I don't know what happened to the
French embassy. So I'm taking Pascal's report here, but I don't have
information on what happened at the French embassy.
Q
So your reticence to condemn this is based strictly
on the fact you're not quite comfortable --
MR. FITZWATER: I condemn the entrance of any and all
embassies anywhere, anytime. They are sovereign territory, they are
covered by international laws and no country has a right to go into
any embassy.
Q
While you speak, you don't have independent
confirmation that the Iraqis have taken over the French embassy?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't have any information on it at
all, no.
Q
What does it mean that you don't have that? I mean,
if the French are saying publicly it happened, is it that you
personally weren't informed or the United States government has not
been officially informed?
MR. FITZWATER: It just means me. I don't know what our
State Department has about it.
Q
Since you knew that this was a big story as of about
7:00 a.m. this morning, how come you didn't bother to find out?
MR. FITZWATER: Because we think it's appropriate for the
French to describe the situation in their own embassy and not our
government.
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Q
Different subject. Did the President watch much of
Souter yesterday? If so, what did he think, particularly in regard
to Souter's support for --
(Jim Brady enters. Applause.)
Q
Help Marlin. Take over.
MR. BRADY: He's doing all right.
Q
What would you do with Saddam, Jim? (Laughter.)
MR. BRADY: I'd say hello to him. (Laughter.)
MR. FITZWATER: The President watched a little bit of the
Souter nomination yesterday. I don't know which parts.
Q
Is the President going to sign a bill today
regarding the use of the Reserves -- a conservation -- how do I
describe it? Conservation bill?
Q
Did you finish on Souter?
MR. FITZWATER: He's talked a number of times in recent
weeks, but I don't know whether he has anything planned today or not.
I don't think SO.
THE PRESS: Thank you.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 14, 1990
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE INTERNATIONAL APPELLATE JUDGES CONFERENCE
The East Room
11:35 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Welcome to the White House, everybody.
I'm delighted that you all are here and very pleased to be sharing
this platform, this stage, with two people for whom I have very high
regard: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice of our Supreme Court;
and then my own legal counsel in whom I have great confidence, Boyden
Gray.
I wanted to single out for special commendation, Judge
Cynthia Hall, for all the work that you have done, ma'am, on making
this a highly successful event and making this conference possible.
(Applause.)
And, of course, someone else I think we all should thank
for his role in the conference, and, of course, I'm talking about our
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
who regrettably could not be with us today. He wanted to be here.
Rarely has the White House been graced by such
distinguished talent. More than 100 chief judicial officers from
around the world, chief justices representing most of Americas 50
states and territories, and practically the entire leadership of the
Judicial Conference of the United States.
I heard that Judge Souter might invite some friends to
Washington for his hearing, but I never dreamed it would get out of
control like this. (Laughter.) Truly it is a great honor to welcome
this extraordinary assembly to Washington. And a great honor to
welcome you here at the White House.
It's an historic visit for many reasons, yours. Your
Washington gathering marks the first time this conference has been
held in the United States. But even more historic than the place are
the times. And your visit comes as the capstone of America's
celebration of 200 years of the world's oldest continuous
Constitution and independent judiciary. And with what I call the
Revolution of '89 just behind us, your conference also serves to
commemorate the emergence of some of the world's newest democracies.
And so I'm especially pleased to welcome and congratulate
those justices representing the new and more independent judiciaries
of Central Europe and Central America. And, yes, also our new
friends from the Soviet Union.
More than 200 years ago, 55 Americans met late into the
night during a sweltering hot Philadelphia summer, debating a
document that would be adopted by the American people as the supreme
law of the land. By common agreement, Americans chose to live not
under individual dictate, but according to the rule of law. It's
greatest innovation, an independent judiciary that protects
constitutional principles through judicial review of executive and
legislative actions. And truly, the U.S. Constitution stands as one
of the world's great experiments in freedom and diversity -- and one
of the world's great milestones in the effort to be free of tyranny,
to be just, and to be civilized.
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The American experience is a continuing one, and our
success as a nation that is ruled by law and not by men depends upon
our continuing commitment to an independent judiciary -- a judiciary
that is not subject to the political whims, to the nation's changing
political climate, but that will interpret fairly and impartially our
Constitution and the statures as adopted by the elected
representatives of our people.
And in the American tradition, the key to preserving a
truly independent judiciary is ensuring that the role of the
judiciary, like the role of the government itself, remains true to
its constitutional function. The role of our judiciary is not to set
policy, but to apply the law of the land as found in our Constitution
and in our statutes.
Our Supreme Court plays a role of referee; it does not
make up the rules, but rather applies the rules to the situation that
comes before it. And thus, our judiciary is not a substitute, you
see, is not a substitute for representative government -- rather it's
a limitation on it.
I mention the historic times, and of course, it's also an
historic week right here in Washington. Even as we speak, our
constitutional experiment is unfolding up the street in the United
States Senate, where America is engaged in the solemn process of the
confirmation of a very fine and decent judge. A judge who I hope and
believe will be our next -- our newest Supreme Court Justice.
My old friend and neighbor, and one who I think Sandra
Day O'Connor admires as well, was the late and beloved Justice Potter
Stewart. He was once asked to name the most important attributes in
a judge. And he fired back without hesitating, "Quality and
competence, temperament and character, and diligence.' Well, those
attributes are exactly the qualities that I believe describe Judge
Souter, my nominee to the Supreme Court. He's strong, incisive, has
an independent devotion to the Constitution that was demonstrated
during 12 years of distinguished service on the trial court, the U.S.
Court of Appeals, and in particular, on the Supreme Court of his
state, the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
And I understand that after the conference ends today
many of you are going to go out to observe our state supreme courts
in action. They are America's judicial laboratories. The court of
last resort for most of our citizens' cases. The proving grounds for
some of our most distinguished U.S. Supreme Court Justices. New
York's great jurist, Benjamin Cardozo; William Brennan, who has just
stepped down after 34 years on the Supreme Court; and, of course,
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
But as we gather to talk about the rule of law this week,
there's another subject that I'm sure is on everybody's mind, and
I've said many times in the past year that we've entered into a new
era in world affairs. And the international response to Iraq's naked
aggression against a tiny neighbor proves just how true that is. As
I said in Helsinki, just six days ago when I was over there to meet
with President Gorbachev, if the nations of the world acting together
continue to isolate Iraq and deny Saddam the fruits of aggression, we
will set in place the cornerstone of an international order, more
peaceful, stable and secure than any we have known.
One of the leaders of the world's last great unified
alliance before the chilly descent of the Cold War was Dwight David
Eisenhower, a man that occupied this house as President of the United
States. And Ike understood the stakes when he said, "The clearest
way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to
recall what is happened when there is no rule of law."
And as we stand here today commemorating more than 200
years of constitutional government in America, we look back with
pride on the justice that we've achieved as a nation and the promise
that has been offered the world through this one simple, magnificent
idea: the idea known as the rule of law. Because like many of the
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principal nations you represent, all today who embrace the rule of
law, stand as a powerful force for justice at home and as a powerful
example for justice abroad. I salute this great tradition, its rich
heritage, and all the fine men and women gathered here who are
dedicated to justice and the rule of law.
I want to thank you all once again for coming to the
White House. Congratulations on what I'm told has been a highly
successful conference. And Godspeed, all of you, in your service in
the cause of justice around the world. Thank you all very, very
much.
END
11:45 A.M. EDT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 14, 1990
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
UPON LEAVING FOR CAMP DAVID
The South Lawn
1:31 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I just wanted to say a couple of
things here, and be glad to take just a handful of questions.
First, I want to publicly acknowledge and express my
appreciation for the decision by the Japanese government to make
additional contributions to the effort that we're all making in the
Gulf. Specifically, Japan will be providing significant economic
assistance to key countries in the region that are most severely
affected by the sanctions and high energy prices. Japan is also
increasing its support for the multinational forces involved in the
collective defense effort.
And I gave my personal thanks to Prime Minister Kaifu
last night when he called me to tell me about this news. And we are
grateful to the Japanese significant contribution.
And second, and in a similar vein, I want to say that,
early this morning, Prime Minister Thatcher phoned to give me the
additional good news of her country's latest contribution. She
informed me that the United Kingdom would be sending a full armored
brigade, along with the additional helicopters and aircraft to Saudi
Arabia. Some Americans may remember the name, the Desert Rats. And
that's who will be going.
As I told the Prime Minister over the phone, given all
that the United Kingdom is already doing, this truly comes as the
icing on the cake -- a significant move by the Brits.
And I also called President Mitterrand a few minutes ago
to consult with him on the outrageous Iraqi break-in at the French
embassy residence in Kuwait. These developments not only underscore
the brutal behavior of Iraq, but also the international support that
exists and is marshaled against Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. I've
often said that it is not the United States against Iraq, but Iraq
against the world. And for our part, we will continue to do
everything possible to ensure that the sanctions work as intended,
attack. and to deter and, if need be, defend Saudi Arabia against armed
And here I just want to reiterate what I said when I
first ordered the U.S. forces to Saudi Arabia. Namely, that the
United States' forces were sent to Saudi Arabia at the request of the
Saudi government. And those same U.S. forces will depart as soon as
they are no longer needed or wanted. And they will remain not one
day longer than is absolutely necessary.
Q
Are we any closer to armed combat because of what
has happened at the French embassy? And also because a U.S. warship
apparently has now fired across the bow of an Iraqi tanker -- what do
you know about that, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: I wouldn't put it closer to a war
situation. I still hope that this matter can be peacefully resolved.
And the way for that to happen is for Iraq to comply with the
sanctions. Yes, an American vessel did, in accordance with United
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Nations resolutions and in accordance with the sanctions, cause
another Iraqi to heave to, and it has been boarded. And I expect
confidently that if it indeed is not carrying any contraband or
anything that will violate the sanctions, it will be permitted to go
on its way. But it did require a bit of a warning before the captain
pulled over and permitted the boarding party to have a look.
Q
Mr. President, what can you tell us about the U.S.
consul that was detained in the Canadian Ambassador's house? Any
protest or any action about that?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't have all the details on that one.
But again, I would lump that into the unacceptable action category.
I don't have the facts on that.
GENERAL SCOWCROFT: They've been released, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: They have been released.
But any of these incidents -- all of them add up to clear
violations of international law. And I think they do raise tensions,
they clearly do.
Q
Mr. President, how is Ambassador Howell, and would
the U.S. have to respond militarily if Iraq entered the United States
compound in Kuwait City?
THE PRESIDENT: That's too hypothetical, the last part of
the question. But I have no reason to believe that Ambassador Howell
is not in good shape. I haven't heard anything to the contrary.
Q
How long are you going to keep him there, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: I've not made a determination on that.
Q
Mr. President, gasoline prices are up dramatically,
and heating oil is at a record level in today's wholesale price
report. Does that send what kind of warning signals does that
send to you about the overall economic situation related to the Gulf
crisis?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think anytime you have price
inflation, sudden inflation, it is a matter of concern; given the
state of the economy. What it does is make me argue even more
vociferously for a budget agreement. But the shortages -- this
speculation we're talking about future market prices. We're
talking about futures. That speculative atmosphere belies the
reality, which is that there are sufficient petroleum products so
that the market should not be going for higher prices. In other
words, it's speculation. It's futures speculation.
Q
What's your reading on --
THE PRESIDENT: I believe you're talking about October
prices that are quoted on the crude market.
Yes.
Q
What's your reading on the budget negotiations as
the clock ticks out?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, kind of up and down like a roller
coaster. This morning, there was the feeling Dick Darman and John
Sununu, Secretary Brady felt that they were closing the gap. Last
night it was a little more pessimistic. So I can't tell you -- I
haven't talked to our negotiators in the last two hours.
I
Is France going to take action as a result of the
embassy incursion? Will the United States take action as a result of
that?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't know what France is going to do.
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But clearly, I will continue close consultation with Mr. Mitterrand
because I told him I view this as a matter that is of grave concern
to the United States. It happens to be the French Ambassador's
residence, but it is a matter that we look at as -- it concerns
everybody; and told him. that I would do anything I could to support
whatever he decides to do. And he will be back I found him in
Czechoslovakia, and he will be back, and I believe he has a Cabinet
meeting tomorrow. So we'll simply wait and see what they recommend.
Q
Does that include help militarily?
Q
Mr. President, you're suggesting that the Iraqis
are, in fact, tightening the screws in a number of areas. Is there
an escalation now required from you and your allies?
THE PRESIDENT: When an escalation is required from me,
Saddam Hussein will know it.
Q
What about the tape, Mr. President?
THE PRESIDENT: The tape? Haven't heard. I think it's
there now. Do we know if the tape has arrived?
MR. FITZWATER: It should be there tonight.
THE PRESIDENT: It got off to a slow start with that
Eagleburger handoff, but it should be there tonight. (Laughter.)
One of the classic scenes. (Laughter.)
Q
Mr. President, have you had a chance to see any of
Judge Souter's testimony, and do you have any kind of a feeling for
how it's going?
THE PRESIDENT: I have seen it and I think it has been
magnificent. I haven't seen it all, but I must confess, slight
confession -- and maybe it's because our budgeteers were out at the
summit doing all the heavy lifting -- I watched it for about an hour
and a half yesterday, and I watched it for about 20 minutes today.
And my admiration for Judge Souter, respect for him is even higher.
I really think he's conducted himself extraordinarily well.
Q
Do you believe the questioning has been fair?
THE PRESIDENT: What I've seen so far, yes. And a
senator has the right to ask any question he wants. And what I think
has been masterful is the way Judge Souter has gone as far as he
possibly can and yet has handled it with such intellect in such a
knowledgeable manner. I don't think anybody gets the feeling that he
is improperly avoiding things.
Q Senator Dole this morning said that if you can't get
the capital gains issue resolved, maybe you shouldn't continue with
the budget talks. Is it fair to hold the budget talks hostage to the
capital gains differential?
THE PRESIDENT: Listen, Senator Dole is doing a
magnificent job out there. I don't know in what context he placed
that. I think everybody in the summit knows of my commitment to it.
I am absolutely convinced that it would not even be a revenue loser,
although it's scored that way, and it is something that is
fundamentally important to the continued growth in the economy, a
growth that, frankly, is far too slow right now. So I hope it's put
into effect. But I'm not going to kind of go beyond that.
Q
But last November, on November 2nd, you issued a
statement to the effect that if you were ever going to get a deficit
cut deal arranged you should pursue capital gains as a separate
vehicle. Why don't you do that now if you're serious about --
THE PRESIDENT: Because we've got a strategy. And I
think it's working, and I think all our people are on the same side
on this issue.
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Rita, and then I've got to go.
Q
Mr. President, I couldn't hear what Charles asked,
but did you tell Mitterrand that you would back him with military
retaliation if that's the way he wants to go?
THE PRESIDENT: We didn't go into the details of the
backing, but I just told him he has the full support of the United
States. And he does.
Q
Have you talked to Ambassador Howell about what he
should do if Iraqi forces --
THE PRESIDENT: I haven't talked to Howell in the last
week.
Last one, John, and then I've really --
Q
Mr. President, is it different, sir, from the
American embassy being invaded, however?
THE PRESIDENT: I'm not sure I'd make that distinction.
Q
Well, are you rattling at least one saber? You talk
about --
THE PRESIDENT: No, I'm not rattling sabers. You're
trying to get me to sound like I'm rattling sabers. When I rattle a
saber, the man will know it.
Q
But you talked about grave concern, but you also
talked about the fact that you'll pull the troops back as soon as you
can. So we saw a mixed signal there.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, no, there should be no connection
between those at all. I mean, what I was trying to do is there's
been some speculation, some of it mischievous, in the Middle East
that the United States wants to remain there. And so what I want to
do is just reiterate what I think I said in the meeting to the Joint
Session, and that is that we want those people -- all of them -- out
as soon as possible. And so that should be separated from anything
I'm saying here. I'm glad you asked. Let me clarify that.
Q
Are the Saudis getting anxious about having so many
American troops there?
THE PRESIDENT: I haven't heard that at all, and I don't
think SO. I know I would have heard it if that were the case.
They're totally clued in on what our plans are. So there's no
disquiet on that at all.
Thank you all.
Q
Do you expect a budget agreement this weekend?
THE PRESIDENT: Expected one a week ago.
THE PRESS: Thank you.
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White House News Summary
Friday, September 14, 1990 -- 1
11:00 A.M. NEWS UPDATE
KUWAIT/FOREIGN EMBASSIES (Reuter) -- A White House official said
Friday that a French report that Iraqi troops had forced their way
into the U.S. ambassador's residence in Kuwait appeared to be
erroneous. "Our guys are fine. I don't think that's true, " the
official said when asked about a French TV report that Iraqi
soldiers had stormed the Kuwait diplomatic residence of the U.S.
and Britain as well as the home of the French ambassador. The
State Department also said it had no information that would confirm
the French report.
(UPI) -- Iraqi troops burst into the Canadian and French
ambassador's residences in Kuwait City Friday and detained several
diplomats, including the American consul stationed in Baghdad,
before releasing all but four French citizens, officials said.
Dutch officials said Iraqi troops also raided their ambassador's
residence Wednesday, but took no one
Canadian External Affairs
spokesman Moore said in a telephone interview the soldiers entered
the residence at 8 a.m., detaining the Canadian consul from
Baghdad
along with the American, Irish and Australian consuls
from Baghdad and six Irish nationals. All had been meeting at the
Canadian residence to make arrangements for the departure of
Western nationals from Kuwait later Friday. "They were released
after being detained for several hours when their identity as
diplomats stationed in Baghdad was established," Moore said
Moore said the Canadian embassy in Iraq has protested the action
and the Iraqi ambassador in Ottawa will be called into External
Affairs "and told of our deep distress over the unwarranted
detention."
(Paris/Reuter) -- Iraqi troops burst into the home of the
French ambassador in Kuwait Friday and took away four people,
including a military attache, the foreign ministry in Paris said.
French television said it had reports that the Iraqis also forced
their way into the Kuwait diplomatic residences of the U.S. and
Britain
"This is an intolerable breach of international
law
we consider it a grave violation of the Vienna convention,"
spokesman Bernard said
In another incident, the Netherlands
government protested to Iraq Friday after Iraqi troops invaded the
Dutch ambassador's residence in Kuwait Thursday. The soldiers
later withdrew without taking anyone with them. In Washington,
a spokesman for the State Department's Gulf Task Force said they
were aware of news reports but had no independent information on
whether Iraqi troops had forced their way into the U.S. diplomatic
residence. In London the Foreign Office also said it was aware of
the reports but could not confirm them
France immediately
summoned Iraq's ambassador to the foreign ministry to demand an
explanation and lodge "the most vigorous protest." "Identical
steps were taken by our charge d'affaires in Baghdad. We demanded
the immediate liberation of the four people and their return to
French authorities," Bernard said.
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(Paris/AP) -- Iraqi troops forced their way into the
ambassador's residences of France and Canada in Kuwait this morning
and took away four French citizens, including a diplomat, French
and Canadian officials said
The Canadian Embassy in Paris said
special Iraqi forces entered the ambassador's residence before
dawn. Spokesman Jacques Crete said the consul was briefly detained
but later released. He said he did not know whether the consul was
in the residence when he was seized, and did not have other details
on the forced entry
A British spokesman, speaking on condition
of anonymity, said that the Foreign Office was in contact with the
four diplomats in the British Embassy in Kuwait earlier today and
they seemed all right. "They said nothing about any break-in,"
said the spokesman.
(London/Reuter) -- The Foreign Office said Friday there had
been no Iraqi attack on the British embassy or the British
diplomatic residence in Kuwait. A Foreign Office spokesman,
commenting on French television reports that Iraqis had forced
their way into Britain's diplomatic residence, said this was not
the case. "We spoke with them a couple of minutes ago," said the
spokesman who said there had been no attack. "They are still
surrounded," he said, referring to Iraqi troops who have been
blockading the embassy.
GULF/BRITISH FORCES (London/Reuter) -- Prime Minister Thatcher
ordered troops and tanks to the Gulf Friday in the biggest movement
of heavy-armored British forces in decades. Defense Secretary King
told a news conference that the government would send an armored
brigade to Saudi Arabia with more than 6,000 troops.
JAPAN/GULF BURDEN SHARING (Tokyo/UPI) -- Japan, under pressure from
its allies to increase its support for multinational efforts to
confront Iraq, pledged an additional $3 billion Friday, bringing
its total commitment to $4 billion. Half of the money will go to
support the international forces sent to the Gulf and the other
half will be given as loans and other aid to front-line states
confronting Iraq, including Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, Japanese
officials announced following a Cabinet meeting Friday morning.
Officials also announced a fact-finding team of 17 Japanese medical
personnel will leave soon for Saudi Arabia but said a decision on
whether to send large numbers of Japanese to the Gulf for non-
combat duty is months away. Prime Minister Kaifu called President
Bush to inform him of the aid package, officials said. "Japan has
done the best it can in this situation," said Misoji Sakamoto,
Kaifu's chief spokesman. U.S. Ambassador Armacost termed the
commitment generous. "This decision clearly demonstrates that
Japan is a full partner in the ongoing efforts," Armacost said.
(Tokyo/Reuter) -- Japan will send a large non-military force
to the Gulf but Tokyo is still arguing over whether to send troops,
the Foreign Ministry said Friday. Spokesman Watanabe said the
government, under pressure from the would send non-
combatants to provide medical, technical and back-up services.
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Friday, September 14, 1990 -- 3
WEST GERMANY/GULF BURDEN SHARING (Bonn/Reuter) -- West Germany,
under increasing pressure from Washington
will offer U.S.
forces the use of transport planes and ships, a government source
said Friday. But the source declined to give further details of
what Bonn will offer when Secretary Baker visits the capital
Saturday
At the regular Friday government news conference,
Chancellor Kohl's spokesman Vogel denied Bonn felt under pressure
following criticism of Japan and West Germany in the U.S. Congress.
"Maybe some criticism will not die out but it could get a bit
quieter," he said, hinting that Kohl will offer more to Baker
Saturday.
GULF/SYRIA/BAKER (Damascus/Reuter) -- Syria is expected to receive
huge sums from rich Arab states for sending troops to the Persian
Gulf and the U.S. may also provide some compensation for Syrian
support, a Western diplomat said Friday. The diplomat, who asked
not to be named, spoke as Secretary Baker was meeting President
Assad on Friday morning. He also revised the level of Syria's
expected commitment to the U.S.-led military buildup against Iraq,
saying Damascus would provide at least 15,000 troops.
(Damascus/AP) -- President Assad
is likely to send another
15,000 troops to help defend Saudi Arabia, Western diplomatic
sources said today. The Syrians have about 3,00 soldiers in Saudi
and another 1,000 in the UAE
Secretary Baker
met with Assad
to plot further cooperation with Damascus
"The talks were
frank, clear and centered on the situation in the Gulf, the peace
process in the Middle East and bilateral issues, Assad spokesman
Kourieh said after the 4 1/2 hour-session.
IRAQ/RATIONING (Baghdad/Reuter) -- Iraq has tightened food
rationing only two weeks after introducing it in the face of a
global trade embargo
An announcement by the Iraqi trade
ministry, published in the government-controlled al-Thawra
newspaper, said each Iraqi would get three daily loaves of Arab-
style bread
Residents complained that apart from waiting up
to three hours in lines for bread in Baghdad's sweltering heat,
each loaf now weighed about 3.2 ounces compared with about 4.2
ounces before
Iraqis were also told in new circulars that
their monthly allowances of rice, sugar, cooking oil and other
foodstuffs were being cut by up to 50% from rationing quotas that
took force Sept. 1.
IRAN/JIHAD (Tehran/Reuter) -- Moslems will soon rise up against
American soldiers who drink and "party with semi-nude dancers" near
Islamic holy sites in Saudi Arabia, a senior Iranian cleric said
Friday. Ayatollah Ardebili's denunciation of the American military
buildup in the Gulf brought out chants of "Death to America" by
worshippers gathered at Tehran University for a mass prayer
meeting. "Now the Moslems are not dead, they will not just stand
by and watch (the Americans) come grab the region's oil, act
disgracefully and laugh at everyone," Ardebili said in the
sermon
Ardebili also said Iraq should withdraw its forces from
Kuwait, and let Kuwaitis decide about their future government in
a free election.
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U.S. TROOP LEVELS/CHENEY (Sacramento/Reuter) -- The Bush
administration has not yet decided on the ultimate size of the
military force it will send to the Gulf Secretary Cheney said
Thursday. Cheney, on a three-day speaking tour of military bases
in California, said at a news conference here that he expected the
troop buildup in the Gulf to continue for some time. "We haven't
specified the final troop level yet," he said.
SOUTER (AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Souter said today judges must
"guard constantly" against substituting their personal values for
the law. "We have not been placed upon the courts to impose our
will," Souter said as he began his second day answering questions
from members of the Judiciary Committee. A judge "has got to guard
constantly against substituting his values for the values he is
sworn to uphold," he told Sen. Grassley, an anti-abortion lawmaker
who quizzed the nominee about how far some judges have expanded
concepts of constitutional rights.
(AP) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee is learning about David
Souter the man, but its hearings are revealing far less than some
members of the panel had hoped about David Souter the potential
Supreme Court nominee. "I was touched by his sincerity, but I
don't think I learned what's in his mind with reference to the
issues that will be before the Supreme Court," said Sen.
Metzenbaum, who sought unsuccessfully to extract Souter's views on
Roe V Wade
Sen. DeConcini, an anti-abortion moderate, said he
was pleased with Souter's responses. "I don't know how he's going
to vote on Roe V Wade, but I can't ask for anything more, he said.
The committee vote "is heavily weighted in his favor, at least
after one day of hearings." Sen. Leahy said he planned to question
Souter more about the privacy issue and about his tough actions
against anti-nuclear demonstrations when he was New Hampshire
attorney general. Leahy said he thought Souter was revealing "a
little bit here and a little bit there. It's a good start."
ECONOMY (Reuter) -- An explosion in the cost of oil turned the
wholesale inflation picture ugly as producer prices surged 1.3% in
August, the Labor Department said. The climb was the largest since
a 1.9% rise in January
U.S. retail sales fell 0.6% in August,
the government said Friday in its first reading of consumer
behavior since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait sparked a surge in oil
prices
The August decrease was sharper than the 0.2% drop
expected by Wall Street economists.
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1:15 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
SOUTER (UPI) -- Supreme Court nominee Souter Friday blamed a
decision-making "vacuum" by the political branches of government
for increasing the court's power in such vital issues as abortion.
Souter
said the failure of the executive and legislative branches
of government to resolve key issues put such matters on the agenda
of the Supreme Court, which has been criticized for activism in
such matters as abortion. "The Supreme Court is left to act alone
when the political branches do not act beforehand," Souter said
during questioning by Sen. Grassley. Souter cited a "disturbing
tendency" due to "a vacuum of response to the problems that Have
to be solved" that the nation assumes "the only guardians of the
Constitution are the judges" when the other political branches have
the same responsibility.
(AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Souter said today that he was
obligated as a state official to defend limits on the separation
of church and state, but that he probably would have ruled for the
opposite side had he been the judge. When in the New Hampshire
Attorney General's office, Souter defended former Gov. Thomson's
order that flags be lowered to half staff on Good Friday. he also
prosecuted two Jehovah's Witnesses for covering the state motto,
"Live Free or Die," on their license tags. Souter told the
Judiciary Committee today he was obligated to defend the state if
arguments could be made, and he maintained that he could in those
cases. But, he acknowledged, "If I were sitting as a judge today,
I probably would have ruled the same way" as the one who decided
the flag-lowering order was unconstitutional. As for the license
plate motto, he said the state did not have "a particularly
compelling interest" in keeping its slogan visible
But Souter
said it was important for him to pursue the cases. he said part
of the job of upholding the Constitution was to bring forth
arguments on issues.
BUDGET TALKS (AP) -- A GOP deficit-reduction plan being considered
by budget negotiators would raise taxes for people making less than
$50,000 a year but cut them for richer Americans, congressional
analysts say. The proposal would mean $4.1 billion a year in new
taxes for people with annual incomes under $50,000. Those at or
above $50,000 would get an $11 billion tax reduction. Disclosure
of the analysis -- which includes limits on the deductions for
state and local income taxes, increased levies on alcoholic
beverages and a cut in the capital gains tax -- drew angry
criticism today from GOP negotiators. Sen. Dole questioned whether
there is any reason to go on with negotiations when some Democrats
"continue to fax and leak and fax stuff to reporters all day long
with their point of view." Dole said the morning news was filled
with reports that "Republicans are out there trying to favor the
rich.' "That's the same old Democratic lie that's been out there
for 20, 30, 40 years, Dole said. Sen. Gramm called the leaks part
of a "systematic strategy to take the tough components of any
package and blame Republicans for those components." As
negotiators headed toward Andrews AFB for another session, Sen.
Domenici told reporters, "We're nowhere.' "It's going to be a long
process," said Sen. Sasser.
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S&L/BANKING COMMITTEE (AP) -- The chairman of the House Banking
Committee today described some government sales of failed S&Ls in
late 1988 as "a giveaway" and said many of the deals should be
renegotiated. The administration's top banking official said the
government is considering ways to renegotiate some of the sale
contracts but does not intend to break them. In a report released
at the hearing, investigators for the banking committee said
outside investors in troubled thrifts received $78 in assets and
government-granted benefits for every $1 of capital they put up to
buy the institutions. "These so-called deals bear all the earmarks
of a giveaway -- with the recipients of the government largesse
being some of the fattest of the nation's financial fat cats, " Rep.
Gonzalez said at a hearing. "We are hopeful that there can be
renegotiations that rectify some of the excesses.' Gonzalez said
his committee will "haunt" the RTC "until we have hard evidence
that everything is being done to recover as many of the billions
as possible." William Seidman told the committee that the RTC's
efforts "are to minimize costs to the government within the
provisions of the contracts. We are not considering breaking the
government's agreements."
IRAQ/TRIAL OF PRESIDENT (Nicosia/Reuter) -- Iraq said Friday its
trial of President Bush for "crimes against the human race" would
open Oct. 14. The official Iraqi News Agency quoted the head of
Iraq's lawyers union Hamed Saleh al-Rawi as saying 60
representatives from Arab countries would attend the four-day
session of the popular court. Bush's crimes included "genocide
attempts against the human race in several parts of the world, most
recently
the comprehensive blockade against Iraq," as well as
desecration of Moslem shrines by sending U.S. troops to Saudi
Arabia, INA quoted Rawi as saying.
SYRIA/BAKER (Damascus/Reuter) -- Secretary Baker said Friday that
U.S. differences with Syria over terrorism would not prevent them
from cooperating in the Persian Gulf crisis, and diplomats said
Syria would contribute at least 15,000 troops to the effort. Baker
told reporters the U.S. intends to pull its ground forces out of
Saudi Arabia when the crisis is over but the Middle East needs a
long-term security arrangement which should include Israel. Baker
spoke after more than four hours of talks with the most unlikely
of allies, Syrian President Assad.
MEXICO/TRADE (AP) -- President Bush today sent Congress legislation
to forgive part of Latin America's debt and aides said he would
follow it by seeking authority for a free-trade pact with Mexico.
With the Persian Gulf situation focusing attention on world oil
supplies, a free-trade pact with Mexico could help spur production
in that country
Administration officials, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said Bush would like to have congressional
agreement to begin free-trade talks with Mexico ready when he goes
to Mexico City in November
The bill also seeks to make it
easier for U.S. companies to invest in Latin America. He called
the package "trade, not aid. "We believe these measures together
will boost trade, investment and growth in our hemisphere. This
legislation is good for our neighbors, it's good for the hemisphere
said. and I believe it is very good for the for the United States,' Bush
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