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01a. Log
White House Telephone Log [President Bush] [redaction of
11/27/90
(b)(6)
personal information] (1 pp.)
01b. Log
White House Telephone Log [Signal Switchboard] [redaction of
11/27/90
(b)(6)
personal information] (1 pp.)
02. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with Neil [Bush] (1
11/27/90
C
pp.)
03a. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with John Major Re:
11/27/90
(b)(1)
Schedule (1 pp.)
03b. Talking Points Points to be Made for Call to New British Prime Minister
11/27/90
(b)(1)
(Designate) John Major (1 pp.)
04a. Index Cards
Points to be Made at the One-On-One Meeting with President
n.d.
(b)(1)
Salinas in Monterrey [Card 1 of 6 only] [double-sided with
George Bush handwriting on back] (1 pp.)
04b. Index Cards
Points to be Made at the Meeting with Full Delegation in
n.d.
(b)(1)
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Monterrey [Cards 2-8 and 10 of 12 are missing - all others are
double-sided with George Bush handwriting on back] (4 pp.)
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Points to be Made at the Meeting with President Salinas in
n.d.
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Agualeguas [4 cards are double-sided with George Bush
handwriting] (19 pp.)
05. Letter
From Sheldon B. Lubar to Newt Gingrich Re: Budget compromise
11/05/90
(b)(6)
[redaction of personal information] (1 pp.)
06. Note
From President Bush to Brent [Scowcroft] (1 pp.)
11/27/[90]
(b)(1)
07a. Memo
From Brent Scowcroft to President Bush (1 pp.)
11/27/90
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07b. Talking Points Points to be made for Meeting with President of the Freely
n.d.
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Associated States of Micronesia, John Haglelgam (2 pp.)
07c. Report
Government Report (1 pp.)
02/13/90
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07d. Briefing Paper Informal Visit of Federated States of Micronesia President John
n.d.
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R. Haglelgam (3 pp.)
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From Brent Scowcroft Re: Meeting with Vice President Ricardo
11/27/90
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Arias Caderon of Panama (2 pp.)
08b. Talking Points Points to be Made for Meeting with President Calderon (1 pp.)
n.d.
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Government Report (1 pp.)
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VC137C-27000 Passenger Seating Arrangement, Andrews AFB
11/26/90
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to Monterrey, Mexico (1 pp.)
09b. Diagram
VC137C-27000 Passenger Seating Arrangement, Monterrey,
11/27/90
(b)(7)(e)
Mexico to Andrews AFB (1 pp.)
09c. Diagram
Seating Diagram of VH-3D, South Lawn to Andrews AFB (1 pp.)
11/26/90
(b)(7)(e)
09d. Diagram
Seating Diagram of VH-3D, Monterrey, Mexico to Agualeguas,
11/26/90
(b)(7)(e)
Mexico (1 pp.)
09e. Diagram
Seating Diagram of VH-3D, Agualeguas, Mexico to Monterrey,
11/26/90
(b)(7)(e)
Mexico (1 pp.)
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Seating Diagram of VH-3D, Andrews AFB to South Lawn (1
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agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
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financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
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information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRAJ
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personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
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C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
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gift.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
PRESIDENT BUSH
NOVEMBER 27 th , 19 90
TIME
NAME
ACTION
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White House Telephone Log [Signal Switchboard] [redaction
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Office of the President
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File Location:
Tuesday, November 27, 1990
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Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
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(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
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PRM Removed as a personal record misfile
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SIGNAL SWITCHBOARD
November 27, 19.90
TIME
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PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
Monterrey, Mexico
LOCATION Washington, D.C.
DATE 27 November 1990
TIME
MOVEMENTS
0928
Depart Holiday Inn via Motorcade
0932
Arrive Museum de Nuevo Leon
1048
Depart Museum de Nuevo Leon via Motorcade
1050
Arrive Teatro de la Ciudad
1136
Depart Teatro de la Ciudad via Motorcade
1139
Arrive Casino Monterrey
1219
Depart Casino Monterrey via Motorcade
1222
Arrive Governor's Palace
1409
Depart Governor's Palace via Motorcade
1440
Arrive General Mariano Escobedo International Airport
1506
Depart General Mariano Escobedo International Airport
via Air Force One
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1855
Arrive Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland
1907
Depart Andrews Air Force Base via Marine One
1913
Arrive South Grounds
1918
Residence
1928
Doctor's Office
1932
Residence
WHCA FORM 15, OCTOBER 15, 1980
News Summary
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1990
5:00 A.M. MEXICO/6:00 A.M. EST EDITION
TRIP NEWS
BUSH VISITS SALINAS IN MEXICO -- President Bush Monday began a two-
day visit to Mexico that will focus on trade, drugs and other
issues, pledging to move rapidly to negotiate a free-trade
agreement that is a top priority of President Salinas.
(Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, USA Today,
(Washington Post, AP, Reuter)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
U.S. GAINS BACKING FOR USE OF FORCE -- The five permanent members
of the U.N. Security Council Monday appeared in agreement on a U.S.
call to authorize use of military force to end Iraq's occupation
of Kuwait, but there was disagreement about whether the draft
resolution should set a deadline of Jan. 1 or Jan. 15 for President
Saddam to withdraw his forces.
(Washington Post)
CHINA SAYS TRADE VICE MINISTER HAS BEEN INVITED TO WASHINGTON --
China announced Monday that it had been invited by the U.S. to send
a high-level trade official to Washington, signaling an easing of
the sanctions against China just as U.S. officials are lobbying for
China's vote in the U.N. Security Council to authorize the use of
force against Iraq.
(Washington Post)
NETWORK NEWS (Monday evening)
GULF -- The U.N. Security
Council appears ready to
TRIP NEWS
authorize the use of force in
A-1
ousting Iraq from Kuwait.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
A-5
MEXICO TRIP -- President Bush
NATIONAL NEWS
met with President Salinas on a
A-15
treaty to reduce trade
NETWORK NEWS
restrictions.
B-1
MCA BUYOUT -- The Japanese
company Matsushita is paying
more than $6 billion for MCA.
This Summary is prepared Monday through Friday by the White House News Summary Staff.
For complete stories or information, please call 456-2950.
White House News Summary
Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-1
TRIP NEWS
SALINAS HINTS EASING OF U.S. ACCESS TO OIL
MONTERREY -- President Salinas Monday for the first time gave
President Bush an optimistic reply on the thorny issue of U.S.
investment in Mexican oil.
A Bush Administration officials said Mr. Salinas changed his
centuries-old homestead
approach during "casual, rolled-up sleeve" talks at his family's
An old-line newspaper here, Porvenil, greeted Mr. Bush Monday
with a commentary calling for an end to anti-dumping laws that
prohibit selling for less than cost. Mexico has run afoul of them
on cement, glass, steel and textiles.
"For us, it is not dumping, wrote the author, Jose Roberto
Mendirichaga. "We're talking about free commerce and the United
States is putting embargos on Mexican tuna and cement."
If the oil report proves accurate, the Mexican president
virtually contradicted his own recent statements in seeking a way
to stimulate production of oil without violating Mexico's
constitution. "One of the things Mexico is doing is talking about
turn-key operations for offshore drilling," said the U.S. official
who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"He's been moving toward some kind of privatization, said the
delicate talks.
official, who declined to discuss details for fear of upsetting the
(Frank Murray, Washington Times, A3)
BUSH VISITS SALINAS IN MEXICO
MONTERREY, Mexico -- President Bush Monday began a two-day
visit to Mexico that will focus on trade, drugs and other issues,
pledging to move rapidly to negotiate a free-trade agreement that
is a top priority of President Salinas.
Arriving in this northern Mexican industrial city at midday,
Bush immediately flew by helicopter to Agualeguas, a town of about
5,000 people 30 miles from the Texas border, where Salinas's family
home is located. He and First Lady Barbara Bush attended a rodeo
with Salinas and his wife Cecilia, watched folk dancing in the town
plaza, and walked to Salinas's house for lunch and talks.
The two talked mostly about their joint desire for a free-
trade agreement, as well as about efforts to cooperate in the war
on drugs, Press Secretary Fitzwater said in a statement. They also
agreed to press for a cease-fire and a negotiated settlement to the
11-year-old civil war in El Salvador, which last week saw new
attacks by leftist rebels.
Bush returned to Monterrey Monday evening for a festive
reception and fireworks display at the Heroes' Plaza in front of
the Governor's Palace, where he hailed improved relations. "I
believe that U.S. -Mexican relations have never been better, Bush
said. Calling the relationship of "vital importance" to the U.S.,
he friends added, "We will never neglect it. We are neighbors and we are
"Our overall purpose can be expressed simply," Bush
said in an interview with the Mexican news agency Notimex last
week. people. " "We want to increase the economic well being of both our
Salinas are not expected to discuss oil as part of their trade
U.S. Trade Representative Hills said Monday Bush and
talks, although Mexico's oil industry will likely be part of the
eventual trade negotiations.
(Dan Balz, Washington Post, A14)
"more-
White House News Summary
Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-2
BUSH, SALINAS TRY TO PUT TRADE PACT ON FAST TRACK
MONTERREY -- President Bush and President Salinas on Monday
opened two days of meetings intended to put approaching
negotiations for a free-trade agreement on a fast track and to lay
the groundwork to head off potential opposition from special
interest groups.
Recognizing the possible roadblocks facing an agreement,
Salinas said in an interview with the Monterrey newspaper El Norte
that he is concerned "with some protectionist attitudes that are
arising in the United States," which, he said, could grow worse if
the U.S. economy weakens in a recession
White House officials made clear that in the view of the Bush
Administration, the journey is little more than a courtesy call
demonstrating leader." support for what they are calling "a new-generation
By turning the spotlight on trade, the visit reflects a recent
shift --perhaps on the surface, perhaps deeper -- in the political
dialogue between the U.S. and Mexico. Previous presidential
meetings, which occur as often as every six months, have focused
more on such sore points as unchecked Mexican immigration to the
U.S. and the flow of drugs northward across the border.
(James Gerstenzang and Marjorie Miller, Los Angeles Times, A1)
MEXICANS RECEIVE BUSH FOR SUMMIT WITH ENTHUSIASM, FESTIVITIES
MONTERREY -- Speaking to thousands of cheering Mexicans,
President Bush said Monday night a free-trade agreement between the
U.S. and Mexico was crucial to the economic welfare of both
countries.
"It is vital for the creation of jobs and enterprise," Bush
said in a brief speech that capped the first day of a two-day
summit with President Salinas.
Bush praised Salinas as "the architect of a breathtaking
transformation" of Mexico's economy. He called Salinas "a great
world leader" who has raised Mexico's standing. He closed his talk
with the traditional exhortation "Viva Mexico."
Salinas, who spoke before Bush, said the two countries now
found themselves on friendly terms after years of being
"distrustful neighbors.
"We invited you to Mexico, knowing that you value our home,
where you are held in high regard," Salinas said. "With us is a
president of the United States who respects Mexico. That is the
reason for this enormous and enthusiastic reception." He praised
Bush for being sensitive and knowledgeable about Mexican
culture
Bush did not speak publicly in Agualeguas before retiring to
Salinas' home for private discussions. But this was only a small
disappointment to the thousands who crammed the main plaza.
"He didn't come to make any declarations," said Victor
Villarreal, 70. "But for me, it's an honor, a satisfaction because
he was here. That's the most important thing. It's history."
(Maggie Rivas and Gregory Katz, Dallas Morning News)
White House News Summary
Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-3
BUSH HAILS CLOSE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN U.S., MEXICO
MONTERREY -- President Bush, buoyed by a cheering throng and
a fireworks welcome, says Mexico and the U.S. are embarking on "an
era more cooperative and more prosperous" than ever before.
"I've come to Mexico tonight with a message of respect, of
admiration and hope for a brighter future shared by our two
countries," Bush told tens of thousands packed into Heroes' Plaza
outside the Governor's Palace Monday evening.
"Viva Mexico," Bush shouted before he and his wife viewed an
plaza elaborate fireworks demonstration from a glassed-in stage on the
Following his one-on-one talks Monday with President Salinas,
Bush Tuesday was addressing a group of business leaders and holding
economic issues.
talks with Cabinet advisers on environmental, anti-drug and
Bush heralded the goal of reaching a free trade agreement with
Mexico even as Salinas sounded a cautionary note, citing Mexican
worries about what they see as U.S. protectionist sentiments.
(Rita Beamish, AP)
U.S., MEXICAN LEADERS STRESS COMMITMENT TO STRONG TIES
MONTERREY -- President Bush and President Salinas proclaimed
a new era of U.S. -Mexican cooperation Monday as they began a two-
day summit designed to spur negotiations on a free-trade pact.
"Let me tell you as President of the United States -- this
relationship is of vital importance to my country. We will never
neglect it!" Bush told tens of thousands at a tumultuous welcoming
ceremony in a center-city plaza.
"We want to work together toward the free and open trade so
he said.
vital to creating jobs and enterprise in your economy and our own;"
Salinas, calling Bush a man who respected Mexico, told the
cheering crowd: "Geography has forced us to be neighbors and
history has shaped us into distrustful neighbors. May our will and
progress." vision of the future now turn us into neighbors in respect and
While Bush was being feted with music and fireworks in
northern Mexico, thousands of anti-American demonstrators marched
on the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, chanting "Bush, Go Home" and
protesting a proposed North American free trade agreement.
Scores of riot police lined the fortress-like embassy building
while some 5,000 leftist demonstrators snarled rush-hour traffic
on the avenue outside, railing against Bush's two-day visit and the
"traitorous" welcome given him by Salinas
Saying that the U.S. and Mexico were at "a promising moment
in our shared history, the U.S. leader declared: "I believe that
our two peoples are now on the eve of an era more cooperative and
more prosperous than ever we have known before."
(Gene Gibbons, Reuter)
-erom-
White House News Summary
Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-4
MEXICO TRIP
AGUALEGUAS, Mexico -- President Bush Monday traveled to the
northern Mexico home of his counterpart, Carlos Salinas de Gortari,
mingling rodeos and folklore presentations with talks on a proposed
free-trade agreement between the countries.
With little more than a day's rest after his visit to Europe
and the Middle East, Bush hopped off Air Force One into the Mexican
industrial city of Monterrey. Shedding his jacket and tie, he
traveled to this town of 12, 000, Salinas' ancestral home, 65 miles
southwest of McAllen, Texas.
First he was treated to a festive rodeo; then there was a
folkloric dance in the town plaza. Later, the presidents and their
official parties walked down a narrow colonial street to the humble
house where Salinas grew up.
Bush and Salinas held a luncheon that officials said was
intended to be a working session on the economy
Bush called his visit with Salinas "a promising moment in our
shared history" and praised him as "the architect of a breathtaking
economic transformation.' Salinas praised Bush with the American
president's own words, calling him "a kinder, gentler
neighbor
sensitive to our traditions and knowledgeable about the
culture of Mexicans and of those Mexican-Americans who live beyond
the border.'
(Peter Eisner, Newsday)
'NEW ERA' FOR USA, MEXICO
MONTERREY -- President Bush affirmed Monday his commitment to
warmer relations between the U.S. and Mexico.
At meetings with President Salinas, Bush underscored his
support for a free-trade agreement between the two countries. He
also vowed cooperation in halting the flow of drugs from South
America, through Mexico and into the USA
Salinas, welcoming Bush, said the meetings symbolized a "new
era" stemming from changed attitudes.
"Geography has forced us to be neighbors, and history has
shaped us into distrustful neighbors," he said. "May our will and
vision of the future now turn us into neighbors in respect and
progress." Bush noted that he'd visited Mexico "more often than
any other country" and said he had "developed especially deep ties
and respect for its people." (Richard Benedetto, USA Today, 4A)
MEXICO LAUNCHES RAIDS TO CRACK DOWN ON RISING PRICES
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities Monday launched raids
across the capital to crack down on a recent wave of price
increases that has stymied the government's efforts to control
inflation and sparked outrage among consumers.
An army of some 200 clipboard-carrying price inspectors --
soon to be bolstered by 300 housewives -- swooped down on several
of the capital's largest markets and closed down businesses that
were overcharging for essential foods, consumer protection chief
Javier Coello Trejo told reporters. He said that over the weekend
some 600 businesses were shut down nationwide as part of the
crackdown on price violators.
(Reuter)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-5
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
U.S. GAINS BACKING FOR USE OF FORCE
Security Council Members Discuss Kuwait
Resolution With Possible January Deadline
U.N. -- The five permanent members of the U.N. Security
Council Monday appeared in agreement on a U.S. call to authorize
use of military force to end Iraq's occupation of Kuwait, but there
was disagreement about whether the draft resolution should set a
deadline forces. of Jan. 1 or Jan. 15 for President Saddam to withdraw his
Such a resolution, if passed, would not mean that allied
forces would attack Iraq immediately as the deadline for withdrawal
is passed. Rather, it would allow for the use of "all necessary
means, implying the use of force, to end Iraq's occupation of
Kuwait anytime thereafter.
The Bush Administration proposed Jan. 1 as the deadline. But
the Soviet Union countered with Jan. 15, and diplomatic sources
here said Monday night that the later date seemed more likely to
be chosen
U.S. officials said their primary goal is to get a U.N. stamp
of approval for military operations against Iraq, if that approach
appears unavoidable, and they are prepared to be flexible about the
question of a deadline. As of Monday night, the feeling among
diplomats here was that the Security Council either will abandon
the idea of a deadline or set one later than Jan. 1.
(John Goshko, Washington Post, A1)
SOVIET WARNS OF 'TOUGH RESOLUTION'
AT U.N. UNLESS IRAQ MEETS DEMANDS
MOSCOW -- President Gorbachev warned Monday that if Iraq does
not withdraw from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages, it would
face the consequences of a "tough resolutions" in the U.N.
Tass said Gorbachev told Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz
that Baghdad had to begin taking concrete steps to show that it
wanted to avoid war in the Persian Gulf.
Gorbachev told Aziz, Tass said, that "if Iraq really wants a
settlement in the entire region and is trying to avoid the worst,
it must now openly declare and show in its actions that it is
leaving Kuwait, freeing hostages and in general is not preventing
anyone from leaving Kuwait. Otherwise the U.N. resolution will be
adopted -- a tough resolution.
Gorbachev and Foreign Minister
Shevardnadze have signaled that they have grown so frustrated with
Iraq that they are prepared to vote for the resolution [to use "all
hesitation. means necessary" to oust Iraq from Kuwait] despite earlier
In a session of the Supreme Soviet Monday, Gorbachev told the
legislators that the Soviet Union must continue to cooperate with
the rest of the world to show President Saddam "that there is no
hope that he can break international unity. We should prove to
ourselves and to all nations that we can solve the most acute
conflicts by political means characteristic of this new ear."
(David Remnick, Washington Post, A16)
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-6
GORBACHEV NEARS FORCE ENDORSEMENT, BUT SOVIET TROOPS UNLIKELY
MOSCOW -- President Gorbachev may be moving toward endorsing
the use of force against iraq but seems unlikely to commit Soviet
troops to fight in the Persian Gulf.
Gorbachev told Iraqi Foreign Minister Aziz in the Kremlin
Monday that Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait or face the
consequences. His angry comments, reported by Soviet television,
showed his patience with Iraq was almost at an end
Gorbachev says he does not rule out force if sanctions fail.
But he could face strong opposition to any Soviet armed action from
within his country.
"This is not a war for the Soviet Union," said Yuri Blokhin,
a leading member of the biggest faction in the Soviet parliament,
the right-wing Soyuz (Union) group. "We have just emerged form a
war in Afghanistan and we will not allow ourselves to be drawn into
a senseless conflict again."
Foreign Minister Shevardnadze has said no troops would be sent
to a foreign war without parliament's backing
"I don't think any proposal to back force, still less to send
troops, would get through parliament," Blokhin said.
(Ralph Boulton, Reuter)
IRAQ VOWS NEVER TO BOW TO PRESSURE, BLASTS SECURITY COUNCIL
BAGHDAD -- Iraq denounced broad agreement by members of the
U.N. Security Council resolution to authorize the use of force to
dislodge it from Kuwait and declared it would never bow to
pressure.
The official Iraqi News Agency INA quoted Foreign Minister
Aziz as saying: "Iraq, which believes in peace and justice, will
never succumb to pressure and will continue to struggle to achieve
peace and justice in the region, especially the rights of the Arab
Palestinian people."
Aziz made the remarks on his return from Moscow Monday night
after President Gorbachev told him that Iraq must pull out from
Kuwait or face the consequences
Aziz said: "The successive resolutions issued by the Security
Council, including the one which the Americans are busy working on
to issue this week, confirm the double standard methods and
injustices practiced by the council under the influence of the
United States." He added: "These resolutions don't serve the cause
of peace."
(Reuter)
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-7
BRITISH MILITARY LEADERS PRAISE DEADLINE FOR SADDAM
RIYADH -- The overall British commander of gulf forces said
Monday an ultimatum warning Saddam Hussein that war could begin
after a given deadline "might help focus his attention. "
Such an ultimatum might be necessary because diplomatic
efforts so far have brought "no pressure on (Saddam) at all," said
the British officer, Air Chief, Marshal Sir Patrick Hine.
If the Iraqi leader became convinced that war was inevitable,
withdrawal from Kuwait, he said.
"we might see some movement," such as a full or partial Iraqi
While high-level U.S. commanders in the gulf have shied away
from predictions in recent weeks, Marshal Hine, who is stationed
in England, and Lt. Gen. Sir Peter de la Billiere, the top on-
scene British commander in the gulf, forecast a quick, decisive
victory over Iraq if war erupts.
They said detailed plans must be made now and more ground
forces sent in so that a swift and decisive war could be waged once
the politicians gave the go-ahead.
(Michael Hedges, Washington Times, A8)
GIVE EMBARGO TIME TO WORK, BUSH IS URGED
Three former high-ranking American diplomats Monday urged
President Bush to show patience in the Persian Gulf crisis and give
to a military solution.
the economic embargo of Iraq much more time to work before moving
Using force soon could inflict lasting damage on U.S.
strategic interests in the region, warned Richard Murphy, an
assistant secretary of state in the Reagan Administration, and
George Ball, undersecretary of state in the Kennedy Administration.
"We can outlast him, said Paul Nitze, retired arms control
adviser, referring to Saddam.
The statements were made at a Capitol Hill forum sponsored by
the Federation of American Scientists on the eve of separate Senate
and House hearings on Bush's recent decision to double the number
of U.S. troops in the gulf region
However, another participant in the forum, former Marine Lt.
Gen. Bernard Trainor, said it appears to him that the President has
decided to take the military option. "I don't believe he (Bush)
is bluffing. I think he's going straight at Saddam Hussein
I believe he's written off the embargo
"I wish that somebody in the U.S. government was giving one-
tenth of 1 percent of the time in writing the political scenario
that they have in giving him the military options,' said Harold
Ford and Carter
Saunders, an assistant secretary of state under both presidents
"The reason the President has enjoyed high popularity ratings
was because he was talking about defense and deterrence," Ball
said. "If we actually do get into a war, they (Bush's poll
ratings) would go to hell in a hurry."
(William Eaton, Los Angeles Times)
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-8
ULTIMATUM CUTS BOTH WAYS FOR U.S.
The Bush Administration, by calling on the U.N. to send an
ultimatum to Iraq, increases the pressure on Saddam but also
reduces U.S. ability to maneuver in the increasingly complex
Persian Gulf crisis.
From the U.S. standpoint, the ultimatum may get Saddam's
attention in a way that 10 pervious U.N. resolutions have failed
to do.
However, the strategy also gives Iraq assurances that it will
not be attacked until the deadline is reached, robs the anti-Iraq
coalition of strategic surprise and increases the pressure on
Washington and its allies to take action shortly after the deadline
passes.
For weeks, Secretary Baker tried to discourage talk about a
specific deadline because he was convinced that it would limit
American flexibility. However, according to a well-informed Saudi
support official, the U.S. agreed to include a deadline to win Soviet
"It's a terrible idea, said Judith Kipper, a guest scholar
at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "This is a person
(Saddam) who is paranoid. He is not familiar with the ways of the
world. There is a date and he will take that as a declaration of
war. Any date puts his back up against the wall."
William Quandt, a former National Security Council Middle East
expert, said that by setting a firm deadline, the Administration
virtually rules out the option of giving economic sanctions time
to work
I really do believe it will take something like an
ultimatum with a deadline to persuade Saddam to back down, he
said. "But I don't think the President can go down that road with
just an international resolution as his basis for support. He also
needs domestic support and I'm not sure he's got that now."
(Norman Kempster, news analysis, Los Angeles Times, A7)
ARIAS SAYS GULF WAR DISASTROUS FOR THIRD WORLD
MANAGUA -- A Persian Gulf war would bring unimaginable
consequences for the poorest countries of Latin American and
Africa, Nobel peace prize laureate and former Costa Rican president
Arias said Monday.
"As always, the poorest will pay the biggest price for this
war, " Arias told reporters upon arrival in Managua where Tuesday
he commission. will be named honorary member of a government disarmament
He said the world's poorest countries now struggling for
economic survival would be further burdened, not only by expected
higher oil prices, but also a new arms race which he said would
result from a war in the gulf.
"What would the consequences be for those countries?" Arias
asked. "They are unimaginable. We would be condemning them to
much more poverty." He said the countries involved should have
patience and put more energy into diplomatic solutions. (Reuter)
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-9
JUSTICE STRONGLY OPPOSES LAWSUIT TO BAR BUSH FROM GOING TO WAR
The Justice Department Monday night opposed a lawsuit by 45
House Democrats seeking to force President Bush to get approval
from Congress before going to war against Iraq.
The department, in a 50-page legal brief filed at the U.S.
courthouse just hours before the deadline, urged a judge to reject
the request for a court order that would bar Bush from attacking
Iraq without congressional approval
Department lawyers argued in a brief that the lawmakers lacked
legal standing to sue, partly because they were not representative
of the entire Congress.
They also said the case was brought prematurely, pointing out
that there is no certainty that the U.S. would attack Iraq. The
department lawyers also said the dispute was a political one
between the executive and legislative branches of government, a
dispute that falls outside the jurisdiction of the courts and that
judges are ill-equipped to decide.
(James Vicini, Reuter)
CAN U.S. RELY ON GULF ALLIES?
NORTHEASTERN SAUDI ARABIA -- Military experts with the
multinational force in Saudi Arabia hope for a quick victory if war
breaks out but have serious doubts about their Arab allies in a
long conflict
Few American generals are eager to take the political and
military risk of trying to take Baghdad or of occupying the whole
if Iraq, especially since Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the two most
important Arab countries in the alliance, oppose any military
campaign into the Iraqi heartland.
Western military analysts regard the Saudi army and national
guard as a. dire liability, should war break out. The division of
Saudi troops close to the Kuwaiti border is known mockingly as "the
doormat. "
"Either we walk over them or the Iraqis walk over them" en
route to the real battle, said one Western military expert.
Desert wars, runs the conventional wisdom, are fast and
furious. If no speedy result is achieved, the alliance could be
in deep trouble
In the Saudi military itself, "nepotism and tribalism are rife
-- they destroy the entire army, said one expert.
(Xan Smiley, Washington Times, A1)
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-10
CHINA SAYS TRADE VICE MINISTER HAS BEEN INVITED TO WASHINGTON
Announcement Made As U.S. Officials
Lobby For U.N. Gulf Resolution
China announced Monday that it had been invited by the U.S.
to send a high-level trade official to Washington, signaling an
easing of the sanctions against China just as U.S. officials are
lobbying for China's vote in the U.N. Security Council to authorize
the use of force against Iraq.
In an announcement in Beijing, China said its vice minister
for trade, Gu Yongjiang, had been invited to meet with Commerce
Undersecretary for International Trade Michael Farren to discuss
economic issues from Dec. 10-14. Gu would be one of the most
senior Chinese government officials to come to the U.S. since
President Bush ordered an end to high-level exchanges with China
following the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators
Although Chinese officials have not said how China intends to
vote [on the latest gulf resolution], they have suggested that it
would not veto a resolution [to use "all means necessary" to oust
Iraq from Kuwait]
Separately, a U.S. Embassy spokesman in
Beijing, Sheridan Bell, said China had notified the U.S. that it
would send Foreign Minister Qian Qichen to the U.N. to cast China's
vote, AP reported.
(David Hoffman, Washington Post, A16)
AMERICAN HOSTAGE FREED FROM IRAQ
AFTER SISTER, BROTHERS VISIT SADDAM
With harsh words for President Bush and warm praise for his
captor, President Saddam, John Stevenson said Monday in Baghdad
that he was "pleased and moved" that his brothers and twin sister,
Mary Trundy of Brockton, Mass., came to Iraq and secured his
release.
"We've had a real big day,' said an elated Stevenson,
recounting the whirlwind chain of events that began with an early
morning audience before Saddam Hussein with Trundy and who of his
brothers from Florida, and ended with negotiations for Stevenson's
exit visa.
Saddam, who smiled for Iraqi television during the audience,
said he would release the three hostages whose family members
journeyed to Baghdad for Thanksgiving. Iraqi television, however,
showed only Stevenson and Fred Harrington, 59, of Bellevue, Wash.,
whose son, Vala Fouroohi, has been seeking his release
In a 20-minute telephone interview that ranged in mood from
cautious to ecstatic, Stevenson described the American government
as "war-mongering" and emphasized that Iraq was open to peaceful
negotiation
He noted that the Iraqi leader told the three
prisoners and their families Monday: "We hope you will take to
American people our love and wish for peace."
As for the Bush Administration, Stevenson said: "We never got
a kind word. We never got anything but war, war, war."
(Elizabeth Neuffer and Peter Canellos, Boston Globe)
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-11
OIL PRICES SHOULD NOT CLIMB STEEPLY
IN EVENT OF WAR, ENERGY CHIEF SAYS
Worldwide supplies of oil have recovered to the point where
not even an outbreak of hostilities in the Persian Gulf would
justify another sharp increase in price, Secretary Watkins said
Monday.
Watkins, who is going to Saudi Arabia at the end of the week
to discuss the oil supply situation, told a group of reporters he
and other Administration officials will be "jawboning" traders in
an effort to break what he called "the self-fulfilling prophecy"
that war in the desert will send energy prices through the roof.
Noting that other nations have replaced the 4.3 million
barrels a day of oil that used to be shipped from Iraq and Kuwait,
Watkins said it is projected that by March 1, one million barrels
a day more will be available to world markets than when Iraq
invaded Kuwait Aug. 2.
(David Broder and Thomas Lippman, Washington Post, A16)
SOVIETS TO CUT AID OVERSEAS, DEFENSE
MOSCOW -- The Kremlin said Monday it wants to slash foreign
aid by 75 percent and defense spending by 10 percent in next year's
budget, which for the first time makes a distinction between
national and republic revenues.
Communist countries including Cuba, Vietnam, Ethiopia, North
Korea and Angola likely would be hard hit by the cutback.
"We have a crisis in the management system, instability is
besetting the economy in all republics and the country as a whole,"
First Deputy Premier Yuri Maslyukov told the Supreme Soviet
legislature, according to Tass.
(Thomas Ginsberg, Washington Times, A7)
MAZOWIECKI STEPS DOWN AS PREMIER
WARSAW -- Prime Minister Mazowiecki, forced by a political
unknown into a humiliating third place in the initial round of
Poland's first popular presidential election, announced the
resignation government. Monday night of his 15-month-old Solidarity-led
"Society has made a choice, and I have drawn a conclusion from
it," Mazowiecki said, adding that he and his ministers would remain
in office until the new president -- to be chosen in a runoff vote
in two weeks -- could appoint a successor. "We accomplished a
great deal over the past year, " Mazowiecki said, "the election
results showed, however, that the government's political line had
come into question."
(Blaine Harden, Washington Post, A1)
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-12
THATCHER BACKS MAJOR IN CONTEST TO BECOME NEXT PRIME MINISTER
LONDON -- As the three men contending to succeed Margaret
Thatcher wound up another round Monday in their battle for 10
Downing Street, much of Britain's attention remained focused on the
prime minister it is about to lose, not the one it will soon get.
John Major's chances got another boost as Thatcher's aides
made it known she would be voting for her chancellor of the
exchequer and former protege Tuesday when Conservative Party
legislators try again to choose her successor. Major's aggressive
campaign has produced a bandwagon effect that seems to have brought
him even with Michael Heseltine
Foreign Secretary Hurd is believed to be running third, and
some insiders say his campaign is fading.
(Glenn Frankel, Washington Post, A14)
MATSUSHITA TO ACQUIRE MCA FOR $7.5 BILLION
Another piece of the American entertainment business passed
to foreign ownership Monday as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
of Japan reached agreement on a $7.5 billion buyout of MCA Inc.,
the producer of movies, records and books and the owner of two huge
theme parks.
Matsushita, a consumer-electronics concern that ranks as
Japan's third-largest company, wrapped up details of its friendly
takeover of the Los Angeles-based company early Monday after an
all-day bargaining session in New York. By paying $6.13 billion
in cash, plus pledging stock and assuming debt valued at another
$1.45 billion, Matsushita's buyout of MCA ranks as the largest ever
by a Japanese concern of an American company, surpassing the $4.8
billion Sony Corp. paid last year to purchase another Hollywood
studio, Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc.
(Paul Farhi, Washington Post, A1)
SENATOR SAYS U.S. FLUBBED TRADE TALKS
The Bush Administration has failed to press hard enough in
[GATT] talks to draft new global trading rules, a key senator
complained Monday.
Sen. Baucus told reporters that Administration negotiators
could be "a little more fervent, active and aggressive" in the
current round of trade talks.
"That's partly because of their attention on the Persian
Gulf," said Mr. Baucus
Mr. Baucus told reporters that Congress has no intention of
extending fast-track authority to give the GATT talks additional
time, a message he intends to take to Brussels himself next week
[for the final GATT meetings].
(Karen Riley, Washington Times, C3)
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-13
COLOMBIAN REBELS KIDNAP 3 AMERICAN OIL WORKERS
BOGOTA -- Hard-line Marxist guerrillas have kidnapped one
Colombian and three American petroleum engineers, the state oil
company said Monday.
A spokesman for Ecopetrol, the Colombian state oil company,
said five engineers -- two Colombians and three Americans -- were
seized by three heavily armed guerrillas from the National
Liberation Army Sunday from a norther oil field near Venezuela.
One of the Colombians was freed Sunday night and provided the
information. No conditions for their release were made public.
The spokesman said the Americans worked for National Tank Co.
of Tulsa, Okla., under contract to steam-clean oil tanks.
(Douglas Farah, Washington Post, A14)
SPYING HEATS UP AS COLD WAR THAWS
The Cold War may have finally ended, but the vast network of
spies that decades of East-West tensions produced is still not out
of work.
FBI intelligence chief Douglas Gow, in an interview Monday,
says the KGB is now shifting its focus from military espionage to
U.S. economic and scientific secrets.
And, he says, as a result of communism's fall in Eastern
have aided spy rings.
Europe, "we do have some" investigations of U.S. citizens who may
The breakup of communist-controlled spy agencies --
particularly East Germany's Stasi -- is a "very serious blow to the
KGB," says Stanislaw Levchenko, ex-KGB major and author of "On the
Wrong Side."
(Sam Meddis, USA Today, 1A)
SINGAPORE'S PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS
SINGAPORE -- After 31 years in office, Prime Minister Lee Kuan
Yew Monday submitted his resignation in favor of a hand-picked
successor in a move he has described as a "changing of the guard"
to allow a younger generation of leaders to take over.
Lee, whose tenure makes him the world's longest-serving prime
minister, formally announced his resignation, effective Wednesday,
in a letter to Singapore's ceremonial president, Wee Kim Wee
Lee, who assumed the premiership of this former British colony
in 1959 and led Singapore to full independence in 1965, has been
perceived as grooming his son, Lee Hsien Loong, to eventually take
over his post. A retired brigadier general, the 37-year-old Lee
Hsien Loong currently serves as trade and industry minister in his
father's government.
(William Branigin, Washington Post, A14)
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-14
EFFORTS GROW IN ISRAEL TO BAR PALESTINIAN WORKERS
JERUSALEM -- Labor inspectors have been raiding businesses
throughout Israel this month, detaining thousands of illegal
Palestinian workers and fining their employers $250 for each of
them. Officials say the raids are meant to send a message: the
employment in Israel of an estimated 70,000 unlicensed Palestinians
from the occupied territories, tolerated and even encouraged by the
government for many years, must end.
In Jerusalem, an unofficial but more brutal kind of
enforcement is being practiced. Monday, police arrested at least
three Jews who were supporters of anti-Arab Rabbi Meir Kahane, who
was assassinated in New York last month, on suspicion of
involvement in a campaign by self-appointed vigilantes who have
been demanding that employers fire all their non-Jewish workers.
(Jackson Diehl, Washington Post, A1)
BULGARIANS STAGE FIRST PROTEST STRIKE
SOFIA -- Workers demanding the resignation of the fragile
socialist government took part Monday in a general strike in most
Bulgarian cities that was patchy in effect but marked the first
such protest in the country's history.
(Marc Champion, Washington Post, A14)
COMMUNICATOR' AWARD TO SOVIET SPOKESMAN
Gennadi Gerasimov, who has lauded Stalinism and glasnost
alike, is a great communicator.
That is, according to the National Association of Government
Communicators. It has chosen the former Soviet Foreign Ministry
spokesman as its "Communicator of the Year."
Mr. Gerasimov, 60, "gives credible and eloquent voice to
Soviet foreign policy changes which have had a profound effect on
the world, NAGC President Lewis Brodsky said in a statement
announcing his group's choice.
"His forthright, honest statements, which helped explain the
programs of Gorbachev and Shevardnadze to Western audiences, have
captured the respect and attention of a thankful world population,"
Mr. Brodsky said.
(Carleton Bryant, Washington Times, A4)
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- A-15
NATIONAL NEWS
CAVAZOS URGES COLLEGES TO CLARIFY
MISSION, CUT COSTS TO HOLD DOWN TUITION
Secretary Cavazos Monday urged every college in the nation to
clarify its educational mission and cut administrative costs in
order to hold down tuition charges, which rose faster than
inflation in the last decade.
Despite those increases, Cavazos said, a college education
remains affordable to qualified students, and cost-cutting on
campus could keep it that way in the 1990s. He cited a College
Board finding that almost half of all college students pay less
than $2,000 a year in tuition and fees.
The secretary criticized news media for focusing on tuition
charges at the most expensive schools while 80 percent of students
attended two-year of four-year public colleges where tuition
colleges. averages $1,800. The average is $9,400 at private four-year
"We need to be sure that future increases do not make
college unattainable,' Cavazos told reporters. "Colleges and
universities need not -- and must not -- try to do everything.
Instead, each institution must determine its mission and make the
necessary tradeoffs."
Cavazos
said he would even suggest that colleges eliminate
entire academic departments if they are tangential to a school's
central institutions. mission and the courses are available at nearby
(Kenneth Cooper, Washington Post, A9)
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN FIGHT ERUPTS
Another knife was unsheathed Monday in the bloody post-
elections war Republicans are fighting among themselves.
Rep. Carl Pursell of Michigan, billing himself as an anti-
tax conservative, announced he will challenge Rep. Jerry Lewis of
California for the chairmanship of the House Republican Conference
next week.
The Pursell-Lewis fight is not expected to get quite as nasty
-- or as potentially destructive for the Republican party itself -
- as the ones that have been raging for chairmanship of the NRCC
and for ideological control of the party.
(Ralph Hallow, Washington Times, A3)
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- B-1
NETWORK NEWS SUMMARY
(Monday evening, November 26)
GULF
ABC's PETER JENNINGS: We begin Monday night with an 11th and
probably the most important U.N. resolution on the Iraqi occupation
of Kuwait, one that could actually lead to fighting. Just hours
after Saddam Hussein's troops crossed into Kuwait, the Security
Council demanded they pull-out -- they did not. Three weeks later,
the U.N. authorized an economic embargo; it is yet to be effective.
Now, 16 weeks after the invasion and after furious lobbying by the
Bush administration, the Security Council appears ready to
authorize the use of military force to back up its demands.
ABC's JOHN MCWETHY reports that when asked if he had the votes to
pass a U.N. resolution authorizing use of force, the President
seemed confident.
(TV coverage: President giving thumbs-up on while walking to
Marine One.)
Behind closed doors Monday afternoon in New York, the U.S. formally
circulated a draft of what it wants the Security Council to pass.
The U.S. proposal would set a January 1 deadline for Iraq to pull
out of Kuwait. After that deadline passes, the resolution would
automatically authorize countries to "use all necessary means to
force Iraqi troops to leave." A January 1 deadline, U.S. officials
concede, is just an opening position and could well slip to January
15 or February 1 by the time the resolution is voted on later this
week.
(DOUGLAS HURD, British Foreign Secretary: "January 1, if that's
the deadline agreed, wouldn't be a date on which military action
started. It would be the date after which member states would, have
authority to use force if need be.")
In Moscow Monday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz got more bad
news: a first public warning from President Gorbachev that the
Soviet Union will vote for the toughest U.N. measure yet if Iraqi
troops don't get out of Kuwait immediately. Though U.S. officials
believe they have the votes to pass this resolution in the U.N.,
in order to make a stronger statement to Saddam Secretary Baker
wants the vote to be overwhelming. U.S. officials believe the
British and maybe the French will participate in initial fighting
if it is necessary. If the fighting doesn't go into Kuwait, they
believe both the Egyptians and Syrians will participate as well.
While there will be a deadline, it does not mean war will begin the
day after this thing is actually passed.
JENNINGS reports Saddam said hospital patients are dying for lack
of food and medicine due to the embargo.
ABC's DENNIS TROUTE reports from Baghdad three American hostages
were told they were free after their relatives had traveled to
Iraq. Saddam met with the hostages and their families and used the
moment to claim the embargo is killing hospital patients.
(SADDAM HUSSEIN: "If we were to go to hospitals and ask them to
provide us with lists, then we would discover the numbers are
tragically high.")
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- B-2
TROUTE continues: The Iraqi leader offered no proof of his charge
and diplomats doubt that it's true. Analysts say he's trying to
divide the West both by sowing a sense of guilt and by releasing
hostages to relatives who visit Baghdad. Iraq wants more Americans
traveling here to lessen the chance of a military invasion by the
West. The State Department has warned the relatives of hostages
to stay away from Iraq because they too might be taken captive.
Those who have come say governments have accomplished nothing and
now it's up to individuals.
(HOSTAGE'S WIFE: "Come, come as quick as you can. Don't leave
your man over here; he belongs home.")
That's a message that Washington will not like, but one that other
families will find difficult to resist.
ABC's JIM HICKEY reports from Saudi Arabia that Iraq is building
elaborate defenses around Kuwait. Britain's Royal Engineers
believe they will be leading the charge in order to help troops
thwart these defenses. Because of the confusion expected, there
will be no such thing as a surgical assault on the ground.
(ABC-Lead)
NBC's TOM BROKAW: Saddam Hussein Monday night appeared to be more
isolated than ever. He faces a U.N. vote that could lead to war
against Iraq. Soviet President Gorbachev told him Monday to shape
up or else. And yet, none of this seems to be having any effect.
NBC's JOHN DANCY reports from the State Department the Persian Gulf
crisis is about to enter a dramatic new phase with the U.N. vote
on Thursday. After three weeks of behind-the-scenes maneuvering
by his Secretary of State, George Bush was feeling buoyant Monday
about chances for the U.N. resolution.
One.) (TV coverage: President giving thumbs-up while walking to Marine
The U.S. expects to get at least 11 votes out of the 15 members on
the Security Council. More important, none of the permanent five
members with a veto are expected to vote no. The Soviet Union set
the stage for a yes vote Monday when President Gorbachev called in
Iraqi Foreign Minister Aziz and told him bluntly the fate of Iraq
is in its leaders hands -- time is running out. Soviet Foreign
Minister Shevardnadze demanded the release of Soviet hostages in
Iraq. Afterwards, Foreign Ministry spokesman Churkin said if Iraq
doesn't release the hostages --
(CHURKIN: "That would certainly help make our well-known
attitude towards the situation in the Persian Gulf even tougher
than it is now.")
Voices began rising against the use of force, however, on Capitol
Hill. Paul Nitze warned the U.S. should not be tempted to go it
alone against Saddam.
(NITZE: "Course B, which I obviously prefer, would be to exercise
patience.")
Saddam seemed to be telling the world Monday that the sanctions are
already working, why use force? There is little doubt the Security
Council will pass the resolution on Thursday. The last time the
War. Security Council passed such a resolution, it led to the Korean
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- B-3
BROKAW reports the British press believes a war with Iraq will be
over in days or weeks. At a new conference Monday, the top British
commander said allied air and naval power would quickly demoralize
Iraqi troops.
NBC's RICK DAVIS reports on the British Royal Engineers.
(PETER DE BILLIER, British general: "We would use all the
resources that we have to ensure that we won, that we won swiftly
and that we won decisively.")
Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti civilian militia graduated a new class
Monday; they are ready to sacrifice themselves for their country.
(NBC-Lead)
CBS's DAN RATHER: Iraq's Saddam Hussein added a new dimension
Monday to the complicated hostage dilemma as he rewarded relatives
of American hostages who came to Iraq against U.S. State Department
advice. At the same time, Saddam claim what he said are large
numbers of Iraqis have died as a result of food and medicine
shortages.
CBS's BILL WHITAKER reports from Baghdad on the release of three
Americans whose relatives came to get them out. The hostages say
they bear no grudges.
(JOHN STEVENSON, former hostage: "I have no anger or bitterness.
I was an innocent person working in a bank and I am in the middle
of a political problem and I was a victim of it.")
It's not clear whether this goodwill comes from the heart or out
of fear. A translator told another hostage not to say too much.
U.S. officials say Saddam is playing the hostages as pawns in a
high-stakes game of PR.
(JOHN WILSON, U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission: "I basically believe
that they're playing into the -- that this is sort of a propaganda
play that the Iraqis are trying to mount here.")
The Iraqis believe the concern for the hostages is weakening the
resolve of the international alliance; President Hussein is trying
to convince the allies that they can achieve more with diplomacy
than with threats of war.
(DENNIS CONBY [phonetic], brother-in-law of released hostage: "As
a private citizen, you do what you have to do."...)
(IN-LAW OF RELEASED HOSTAGE: "He let our father-in-law out. I'm
sure he did it on his terms, but, hey, if that's what it takes.
CBS's RICHARD THRELKELD reports the families of other American
hostages have begun to make their own travel plans to Baghdad.
Saddam seems to be saying that he will free the more than 700
Americans in Iraq and Kuwait if their American loved ones will just
come over and get them -- and that's just what they're doing. Jack
Van Bolley [phonetic] is leaving for Baghdad next week with 17
other Americans. In Texas, Linda Parker decided to go to Baghdad
too after hearing about Monday's release. The State Department is
meeting with some of the hostage wives in Houston to let them know
if they go to Baghdad, U.S. authorities can't be responsible for
their safety, to which more and more or the families seem to be
saying -- fine.
CBS's BILL PLANTE reports from the State Department officials
believe Saddam's release Monday was just more of the same cynical
manipulation.
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- B-4
PLANTE continues:
(RICHARD BOUCHER: "It's been clear all along that he's trying to
get the most mileage he can out of manipulating people and playing
with their lives, playing with their relatives and playing on all
our sympathies.")
President Bush's attention is elsewhere, fixed on the U.N. He
signalled thumbs-up Monday morning to the U.S. drive for a Security
Council resolution which would authorize the use of military action
against Iraq if it does not withdraw from Kuwait.
One) (TV coverage: President giving thumbs-up while walking to Marine
Yemen's ambassador to the U.N. said the U.S. should be talking
directly to Iraq.
(ABDULLAH AL-ASHTAL: "If it is possible to make it peacefully, why
do it after war? Why are we going to [bring on] a catastrophe?")
counter-productive. Some Middle East experts warn too much pressure on Saddam could be
(RICHARD MURPHY, former assistant secretary of state: "There is
a limit beyond which the man can be pushed into the corner. You
don't push the enemy against a locked door.")
Gorbachev publicly warned Saddam that there is no hope of breaking
international unity against Iraq. At the State Department,
officials admit that there is still almost no evidence that Saddam
believes that the U.S. is really willing to go to war to get him
out of Kuwait.
RATHER reports the Army said Monday its first combat reserves go
on active duty Friday for desert training in California. In
addition to these 10,000 troops, word that 15,000 more Marines are
heading for Saudi Arabia.
(CBS-Lead)
PRESIDENT'S TRIP
BROKAW: If President Bush has his way, Mexico and the United
States will have a much more active economic relationship in the
years ahead. Many American companies are already making enormous
investments in Mexico, and Monday President Bush was meeting with
President Salinas on a treaty to reduce trade restrictions. But
there is strong opposition.
NBC's JOHN COCHRAN: President Bush says he feels comfortable in
Mexico, and one big reason is President Salinas: a Harvard-
trained economist who has more in common with William Buckley than
with Fidel Castro.
(TV coverage: President and First Lady watching Mexican dancers.)
Salinas freely admits Mexico is a Third World country, but he has
a plan to change that. Not more government control over the
economy, but less. Not more trade barriers against American
products, but no barriers at all, which means the U.S. would also
open its markets to Mexican products. Salinas in convinced that
Mexicans have enough brains and talent to compete in a North
American free-trade market extending from the tundras of Alaska and
northern Canada to the jungles of southern Mexico. But many
Mexicans claim foreign companies would exploit Mexico even more
than they already do.
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- B-5
COCHRAN continues:
(PORFIRIO MUNOZ LEDO, Mexican senator: "We have the sensation, the
feeling, that we are governed by foreign people. It's true.")
Mexico is troubled by political violence as well as economic hard
times. Opponents of President Salinas say he should be spending
more time on social and political problems than in trying to get
a free trade agreement with his friend George Bush.
(JORGE CASTANEDA, Mexican writer: "I have the impression that
President Salinas is in a big, big rush to get his agreement very
quickly because he needs the money very badly.")
President Bush also wants to lift trade barriers, but the U.S.
Congress, worried about American jobs, may not be so eager to make
it easier for Mexicans to sell north of the border.
(TV coverage: President putting on sombrero.)
Mexico could win votes in Congress for a trade agreement if it
would permit Americans to invest in oil exploration, but that is
political dynamite here. Mexicans have an almost religious belief
that oil is special -- off-limits to foreigners. George Bush would
dearly love to win American access to Mexican oilfields, but so far
President Salinas has shown no willingness to commit what could be
political suicide.
(NBC-3)
JENNINGS: President Bush is in Mexico Monday discussing the state
of the world with President Salinas.
(TV coverage: President and First Lady standing with the Salinas
family.)
One of the more immediate questions: whether to open the border
to free trade. There is already a program in place that allows
U.S. companies to use low-cost Mexican labor without paying duty
on the products they manufacture. Mexican factory workers make an
average of one-tenth as much as workers in the U.S.
ABC's JOHN QUINONES reports from Mexico on the use of Mexican labor
by U.S. companies. While these Mexicans near the American border
have jobs, they still live in squalid squatter camps. Some want
American companies to share more of their profits with their
Mexican workers.
(ABC-3)
RATHER: For his part, President Bush shifted scenes and attention
[from the Gulf] to Mexico Monday.
(TV coverage: President and First Lady standing with Salinas
family.)
Mr. Bush opened two days of talks there with Mexico's President
Salinas. Main subject: progress toward a landmark U.S. -Mexico
free-trade agreement. Photo opportunities aside, there are serious
obstacles to free trade on both sides of the border.
(TV coverage: President trying on sombrero.)
Among them, Mexico's refusal to allow U.S. investment in its oil
industry and fears in the U.S. that free trade will mean more U.S.
jobs lost to lower-paid workers in Mexico.
(CBS-2)
BULGARIA
JENNINGS reports 500,000 Bulgarians are striking to demand that
their prime minister quit. They blame the socialist government for
growing shortages of food and consumer goods.
(ABC-8)
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- B-6
MCA-MATSUSHITA BUYOUT
ABC's BOB JAMIESON reports the Japanese company Matsushita is
paying more than $6 billion for MCA. It is the highest price ever
paid by a Japanese company for an American corporation. Analysts
say Hollywood has little to fear.
(HAROLD VOGEL, Merrill Lynch media analyst: "It will be a gradual
change and the immediate impact of these new managements on
American movie-making and television programming will be fairly
minimal.")
Matsushita's president insisted that creative decisions will still
be made in Hollywood, not Japan, but more and more of the profits
will now end up in Japan.
(ABC-2, NBC-2, CBS-3)
POLISH ELECTIONS
JENNINGS reports Prime Minister Mazowiecki has resigned after
finishing third in balloting to a political unknown.
ABC's JOHN DONVAN reports on Stanislaw Tyminski's second-place
finish in Poland. While he has no political experience and has no
specific program, Poles like the fact that Tyminski has made lot
of money outside Poland. Lech Walesa told reporters he might
withdraw from the run-off rather than face an opponent he does not
consider a serious man. In typical fashion, Walesa immediately
win. reversed himself and is back in the race, which he's expected to
(ABC-7, NBC-4, CBS-8)
SOUTH AFRICA
NBC's ROBIN LLOYD reports from South Africa that many blacks
dropped out of the school system to protest inferior schools for
blacks. Many believe liberation must come before education. This
struggle has left millions of young blacks undereducated and
unemployed. Many black leaders are worrying about the younger
generation and are realizing the cost of having placed the children
years. on the front lines in the fight against apartheid for so many
(NBC-11)
RURAL HEALTH CARE
ABC's GEORGE STRAIT reports nurse practitioners are filling the
void left by a dwindling number of rural doctors. Doctors want
strict controls on what the nurse practitioners can and cannot do.
In the new federal budget, Medicaid has been authorized to pay for
the services in the same direct way that physicians are paid,
although at a lower rate.
(ABC-9)
DENVER FIRE
JENNINGS reports a fire still burns out of control at Denver's
Stapleton Airport. Officials say the fire will burn for days. Air
traffic in and out of the airport is now back to normal.
WASHINGTON FLOODS
(ABC-5, NBC-8, CBS-6)
JENNINGS reports flood waters have begun to recede after more than
3,000 people were forced from their homes. (ABC-6, NBC-7, CBS-5)
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JOHN MAJOR
Although I know your selection will not be final until after
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the vote on Thursday I wanted to be one of the first to
call and congratulate you on your victory in the voting
needed.)
today.
:
I enjoyed meeting with you in September of last year, and
seeing you again in Houston this summer. I know you've done
a terrific job in handling the budget and financial issues
in Margaret's government, making tough choices when they
needed to be made.
--
I know you have a hundred things to think about. But, when
you get a bit of time, I hope we can find a way to get
together and talk about the issues we will be facing in the
coming weeks and months.
--
Let's try to meet sometime soon. Our staffs can be in touch
to work on the details.
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cooperation in tackling the hard problems like the Gulf, and
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- B-1
NETWORK NEWS SUMMARY
(Monday evening, November 26)
GULF
ABC's PETER JENNINGS: We begin Monday night with an 11th and
probably the most important U.N. resolution on the Iraqi occupation
of Kuwait, one that could actually lead to fighting. Just hours
after Saddam Hussein's troops crossed into Kuwait, the Security
Council demanded they pull-out -- they did not. Three weeks later,
the U.N. authorized an economic embargo; it is yet to be effective.
Now, 16 weeks after the invasion and after furious lobbying by the
Bush administration, the Security Council appears ready to
authorize the use of military force to back up its demands.
ABC's JOHN McWETHY reports that when asked if he had the votes to
pass a U.N. resolution authorizing use of force, the President
seemed confident.
(TV coverage: President giving thumbs-up on while walking to
Marine One.)
Behind closed doors Monday afternoon in New York, the U.S. formally
circulated a draft of what it wants the Security Council to pass.
The U.S. proposal would set a January 1 deadline for Iraq to pull
out of Kuwait. After that deadline passes, the resolution would
automatically authorize countries to "use all necessary means to
force Iraqi troops to leave." A January 1 deadline, U.S. officials
concede, is just an opening position and could well slip to January
15 or February I by the time the resolution is voted on later this
week.
(DOUGLAS HURD, British Foreign Secretary: "January 1, if that's
the deadline agreed, wouldn't be a date on which military action
started. It would be the date after which member states would have
authority to use force if need be.")
In Moscow Monday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz got more bad
news: a first public warning from President Gorbachev that the
Soviet Union will vote for the toughest U.N. measure yet if Iraqi
troops don't get out of Kuwait immediately. Though U.S. officials
believe they have the votes to pass this resolution in the U.N.,
in order to make a stronger statement to Saddam Secretary Baker
wants the vote to be overwhelming. U.S. officials believe the
British and maybe the French will participate in initial fighting
if it is necessary. If the fighting doesn't go into Kuwait, they
believe both the Egyptians and Syrians will participate as well.
While there will be a deadline, it does not Mean war will begin the
day after this thing is actually passed.
JENNINGS reports Saddam said hospital patients are dying for lack
of food and medicine due to the embargo.
ABC's DENNIS TROUTE reports from Baghdad three American hostages
were told they were free after their relatives had traveled to
Iraq. Saddam met with the hostages and their families and used the
moment to claim the embargo is killing hospital patients.
(SADDAM HUSSEIN: "If we were to go to hospitals and ask them to
provide us with lists, then we would discover the numbers are
tragically high.")
White House News Summary
Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- B-2
TROUTE continues: The Iraqi leader offered no proof of his charge
and diplomats doubt that it's true. Analysts say he's trying to
divide the West both by sowing a sense of guilt and by releasing
hostages to relatives who visit Baghdad. Iraq wants more Americans
traveling here to lessen the chance of a military invasion by the
West. The State Department has warned the relatives of hostages
to stay away from Iraq because they too might be taken captive.
Those who have come say governments have accomplished nothing and
now it's up to individuals.
(HOSTAGE'S WIFE: "Come, come as quick as you can. Don't leave
your man over here: he belongs home.")
That's a message that Washington will not like, but one that other
families will find difficult to resist.
ABC's JIM HICKEY reports from Saudi Arabia that Iraq is building
elaborate defenses around Kuwait. Britain's Royal Engineers
believe they will be leading the charge in order to help troops
thwart these defenses. Because of the confusion expected, there
will be no such thing as a surgical assault on the ground.
(ABC-Lead)
NBC's TOM BROKAW: Saddam Hussein Monday night appeared to be more
isolated than ever. He faces a U.N. vote that could lead to war
against Iraq. Soviet President Gorbachev told him Monday to shape
up or else. And yet, none of this seems to be having any effect.
NBC's JOHN DANCY reports from the State Department the Persian Gulf
crisis is about to enter a dramatic new phase with the U.N. vote
on Thursday. After three weeks of behind-the-scenes maneuvering
by his Secretary of State, George Bush was feeling buoyant Monday
about chances for the U.N. resolution.
(TV coverage: President giving thumbs-up while walking to Marine
One.)
The U.S. expects to get at least 11 votes out of the 15 members on
the Security Council. More important, none of the permanent five
members with a veto are expected to vote no. The Soviet Union set
the stage for a yes vote Monday when President Gorbachev called in
Iraqi Foreign Minister Aziz and told him bluntly the fate of Iraq
is in its leaders hands -- time is running out. Soviet Foreign
Minister Shevardnadze demanded the release of Soviet hostages in
Iraq. Afterwards, Foreign Ministry spokesman Churkin said if Iraq
doesn't release the hostages --
(CHURKIN: "That would certainly help make our well-known
attitude towards the situation in the Persian Gulf even tougher
than it is now.")
Voices began rising against the use of force, however, on Capitol
Hill. Paul Nitze warned the U.S. should not be tempted to go it
alone against Saddam.
(NITZE: "Course B, which I obviously prefer. would be to exercise
patience.")
Saddam seemed to be telling the world Monday that the sanctions are
already working, why use force? There is little doubt the Security
Council will pass the resolution on Thursday. The last time the
Security Council passed such a resolution, it led to the Korean
War.
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Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- B-3
BROKAW reports the British press believes a war with Iraq will be
over in days or weeks. At a new conference Monday, the top British
commander said allied air and naval power would quickly demoralize
Iraqi troops.
NBC's RICK DAVIS reports on the British Royal Engineers.
(PETER DE BILLIER, British general: "We would use all the
resources that we have to ensure that we won, that we won swiftly
and that we won decisively.")
Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti civilian militia graduated a new class
Monday: they are ready to sacrifice themselves for their country.
(NBC-Lead)
CBS's DAN RATHER: Iraq's Saddam Hussein added a new dimension
Monday to the complicated hostage dilemma as he rewarded relatives
of American hostages who came to Iraq against U.S. State Department
advice. At the same time, Saddam claim what he said are large
numbers of Iraqis have died as a result of food and medicine
shortages.
CBS's BILL WHITAKER reports from Baghdad on the release of three
Americans whose relatives came to get them out. The hostages say
they bear no grudges.
(JOHN STEVENSON, former hostage: "I have no anger or bitterness.
I was an innocent person working in a bank and I am in the middle
of a political problem and I was a victim of it.")
It's not clear whether this goodwill comes from the heart or out
of fear. A translator told another hostage not to say too much.
U.S. officials say Saddam is playing the hostages as pawns in a
high-stakes game of PR.
(JOHN WILSON, U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission: "I basically believe
that they're playing into the -- that this is sort of a propaganda
play that the Iraqis are trying to mount here.")
The Iraqis believe the concern for the hostages is weakening the
resolve of the international alliance: President Hussein is trying
to convince the allies that they can achieve more with diplomacy
than with threats of war.
(DENNIS CONBY [phonetic], brother-in-law of released hostage: "As
a private citizen, you do what you have to do."...)
(IN-LAW OF RELEASED HOSTAGE: "He let our father-in-law out. I'm
sure he did it on his terms, but, hey, if that's what it takes.")
CBS's RICHARD THRELKELD reports the families of other American
hostages have begun to make their own travel plans to Baghdad.
Saddam seems to be saying that he will free the more than 700
Americans in Iraq and Kuwait if their American loved ones will just
come over and get them -- and that's just what they're doing. Jack
Van Bolley [phonetic] is leaving for Baghdad next week with 17
other Americans. In Texas, Linda Parker decided to go to Baghdad
too after hearing about Monday's release. The State Department is
meeting with some of the hostage wives in Houston to let them know
if they go to Baghdad, U.S. authorities can't be responsible for
their safety, to which more and more or the families seem to be
saying fine.
CBS's BILL PLANTE reports from the State Department officials
believe Saddam's release Monday was just more of the same cynical
manipulation.
White House News Summary
Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- B-4
PLANTE continues:
(RICHARD BOUCHER: "It's been clear all along that he's trying to
get the most mileage he can out of manipulating people and playing
with their lives, playing with their relatives and playing on all
our sympathies.")
President Bush's attention is elsewhere, fixed on the U.N. He
signalled thumbs-up Monday morning to the U.S. drive for a Security
Council resolution which would authorize the use of military action
against Iraq if it does not withdraw from Kuwait.
(TV coverage: President giving thumbs-up while walking to Marine
One)
Yemen's ambassador to the U.N. said the U.S. should be talking
directly to Iraq.
(ABDULLAH AL-ASHTAL: "If it is possible to make it peacefully, why
do it after war? Why are we going to [bring on] a catastrophe?")
Some Middle East experts warn too much pressure on Saddam could be
counter-productive.
(RICHARD MURPHY, former assistant secretary of state: "There is
a limit beyond which the man can be pushed into the corner. You
don't push the enemy against a locked door.")
Gorbachev publicly warned Saddam that there is no hope of breaking
international unity against Iraq. At the State Department,
officials admit that there is still almost no evidence that Saddam
believes that the U.S. is really willing to go to war to get him
out of Kuwait.
RATHER reports the Army said Monday its first combat reserves go
on active duty Friday for desert training in California. In
addition to these 10,000 troops, word that 15,000 more Marines are
heading for Saudi Arabia.
(CBS-Lead)
PRESIDENT'S TRIP
BROKAW: If President Bush has his way, Mexico and the United
States will have a much more active economic relationship in the
years ahead. Many American companies are already making enormous
investments in Mexico, and Monday President Bush was meeting with
President Salinas on a treaty to reduce trade restrictions. But
there is strong opposition.
NBC's JOHN COCHRAN: President Bush says he feels comfortable in
Mexico, and one big reason is President Salinas: a Harvard-
trained economist who has more in common with William Buckley than
with Fidel Castro.
(TV coverage: President and First Lady watching Mexican dancers.)
Salinas freely admits Mexico is a Third World country, but he has
a plan to change that. Not more government control over the
economy, but less. Not more trade barriers against American
products, but no barriers at all, which means the U.S. would also
open its markets to Mexican products. Salinas in convinced that
Mexicans have enough brains and talent to compete in a North
American free-trade market extending from the tundras of Alaska and
northern Canada to the jungles of southern Mexico. But Many
Mexicans claim foreign companies would exploit Mexico even more
than they already do.
-More-
White House News Summary
Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- B-5
COCHRAN continues:
(PORFIRIO MUNOZ LEDO, Mexican senator: "We have the sensation, the
feeling, that we are governed by foreign people. It's true.")
Mexico is troubled by political violence as well as economic hard
times. Opponents of President Salinas say he should be spending
more time on social and political problems than in trying to get
a free trade agreement with his friend George Bush.
(JORGE CASTANEDA, Mexican writer: "I have the impression that
President Salinas is in a big, big rush to get his agreement very
quickly because he needs the money very badly.")
President Bush also wants to lift trade barriers, but the U.S.
Congress, worried about American jobs, may not be 50 eager to make
it easier for Mexicans to sell north of the border.
(TV coverage: President putting on sombrero.)
Mexico could win votes in Congress for a trade agreement if it
would permit Americans to invest in oil exploration, but that is
political dynamite here. Mexicans have an almost religious belief
that oil is special off-limits to foreigners. George Bush would
dearly love to win American access to Mexican oilfields, but 50 far
President Salinas has shown no willingness to commit what could be
political suicide.
(NBC-3)
JENNINGS: President Bush is in Mexico Monday discussing the state
of the world with President Salinas.
(TV coverage: President and First Lady standing with the Salinas
family.)
One of the more immediate questions: whether to open the border
to free trade. There is already a program in place that allows
U.S. companies to use low-cost Mexican labor without paying duty
on the products they manufacture. Mexican factory workers make an
average of one-tenth as much as workers in the U.S.
ABC's JOHN QUINONES reports from Mexico on the use of Mexican labor
by U.S. companies. While these Mexicans near the American border
have jobs, they still live in squalid squatter camps. Some want
American companies to share more of their profits with their
Mexican workers.
(ABC-3)
RATHER: For his part, President Bush shifted scenes and attention
[from the Gulfl to Mexico Monday.
(TV coverage: President and First Lady standing with Salinas
family.)
Mr. Bush opened two days of talks there with Mexico's President
Salinas. Main subject: progress toward a landmark U.S.-Mexico
free-trade agreement. Photo opportunities aside, there are serious
obstacles to free trade on both sides of the border.
(TV coverage: President trying on sombrero.)
Among them, Mexico's refusal to allow U.S. investment in its oil
industry and fears in the U.S. that free trade will mean more U.S.
jobs lost to lower-paid workers in Mexico.
(CBS-2)
BULGARIA
JENNINGS reports 500,000 Bulgarians are striking to demand that
their prime minister quit. They blame the socialist government for
growing shortages of food and consumer goods.
(ABC-8)
-more-
White House News Summary
Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- 8-6
MCA-MATSUSHITA BUYOUT
ABC's B08 JAMIESON reports the Japanese company Matsushita is
paying more than $6 billion for MCA. It is the highest price ever
paid by a Japanese company for an American corporation. Analysts
say Hollywood has little to fear.
(HAROLD VOGEL, Merrill Lynch media analyst: "It will be a gradual
change and the immediate impact of these new managements on
American movie-making and television programming will be fairly
minimal.")
Matsushita's president insisted that creative decisions will still
be made in Hollywood, not Japan, but more and more of the profits
will now end up in Japan.
(ABC-2, NBC-Z, CBS-3)
POLISH ELECTIONS
JENNINGS reports Prime Minister Mazowiecki has resigned after
finishing third in balloting to a political unknown.
ABC's JOHN DONVAN reports on Stanislaw Tyminski's second-place
finish in Poland. While he has no political experience and has no
specific program, Poles like the fact that Tyminski has made lot
of money outside Poland. Lech Walesa told reporters he might
withdraw from the run-off rather than face an opponent he does not
consider a serious man. In typical fashion, Walesa immediately
reversed himself and is back in the race, which he's expected to
win.
(ABC-7, NBC-4, CBS-8)
SOUTH AFRICA
NBC's ROBIN LLOYD reports from South Africa that many blacks
dropped out of the school system to protest inferior schools for
blacks. Many believe liberation must come before education. This
struggle has left millions of young blacks undereducated and
unemployed. Many black leaders are worrying about the younger
generation and are realizing the cost of having placed the children
on the front lines in the fight against apartheid for 50 many
years.
(NBC-11)
RURAL HEALTH CARE
ABC's GEORGE STRAIT reports nurse practitioners are filling the
void left by a dwindling number of rural doctors. Doctors want
strict controls on what the nurse practitioners can and cannot do.
In the new federal budget, Medicaid has been authorized to pay for
the services in the same direct way that physicians are paid,
although at a lower rate.
(ABC-9)
DENVER FIRE
JENNINGS reports a fire still burns out of control at Denver's
Stapleton Airport. Officials say the fire will burn for days. Air
traffic in and out of the airport is now back to normal.
(ABC-5, NBC-8, CBS-6)
WASHINGTON FLOODS
JENNINGS reports flood waters have begun to recede after more than
3,000 people were forced from their homes. (ABC-6, NBC-7, CBS-5)
-End of News Summary-
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STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY:
President Bush called John Major, the new head of the
Conservative Party in England, to congratulate him on his party
victory. Calling from Air Force One, the President said he
looked forward to working with Major and to maintaining the
special relationship with the U.K.
The President said Great Britain is a great ally, that
joins us in facing many opportunities and challenges in the
new East-West relationship. He said Mrs. Thatcher was a
great friend, and he looks forward to Mr. Major's leadership
and friendship.
The President and John Major Privartely met: in the Oval Office in
1989 when Major was Foreign Secretary.
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NOTE FOR THE DAILY FILES:
11/26/90 - Carla Hills asked to speak to the
President PRIVATELY aboard AF 1 enroute to Mexico,
thus, the above note which was handed directly
to Carl Hills on 11/27/90 (aboard AF 1-enroute to DC)
PRIVATE/PERSONAL
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS
November 27, 1990
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To:
The President
From:
Mike Boskin mor
Re:
Revised estimate of Third Quarter GNP
Growth and October Durable Goods
Orders
The second of the Commerce Department's
three estimates of real GNP growth for the
third quarter of 1990 is 1.7 percent, down
0.1 percent from the first estimate. Most
private analysts had expected a modest upward
revision. There was a slight upward revision
in the broad based measures of inflation
associated with the entire GNP, but they
still remain in the 4 percent range and show
no signs of accelerating.
The very preliminary data available thus
far for October suggest the fourth quarter is
likely to be negative unless there is an
unusually strong Christmas season.
Better news is that durable goods orders
increased 3.6 percent in October, following a
decline in September.
Michael J. Boskin
Chairman
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS
WASHINGTON
November 27, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
MICHAEL J. BOSKIN MD
SUBJECT:
Preliminary Estimate of Third-Quarter GNP,
Commerce Department Release, Tomorrow Morning,
8:30 a.m.
Real GNP grew 1.7 percent at an annual rate in the third
quarter, a slight downward revision from the 1.8 percent rate
estimated last month. Private forecasters had anticipated an
upward revision to 2.1 percent.
A downward revision to consumer spending on services
contributed most to the downward GNP revision, although fixed
investment, inventory change and government purchases were also
revised down. A substantial upward revision to net exports of
goods and services offset some of the downward revisions, as did
an upward revision to consumer purchases of nondurables.
The fixed-weighted GNP price index rose 4.2 percent in the
third quarter, a 0.1 percentage point upward revision from last
month's estimate.
Corporate profits fell 3.8 percent at a quarterly rate in
the third quarter, after a 3.3 percent increase in the second.
The decline in profits was widespread across nonfinancial
corporations, while profits in financial corporations rose
slightly.
Real GNP
Percent change from preceding quarter
6
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4
3.7*
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3.2°
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1.6
1.7
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THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS
WASHINGTON
November 27, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
MICHAEL J. BOSKIN MB
SUBJECT:
Advance Durable Goods in October, Commerce
Department Release, Tomorrow Morning, 8:30 a.m.
New orders for manufactured durable goods rose 3.6 percent
in October, after a 1.6 percent decline in September. October's
gain exceeded the median private forecast for no change.
Although the new orders series is volatile, October's rise to the
highest level this year is a mildly positive sign for the fourth
quarter.
The rise in orders in October was mainly due to a 14.8
percent increase in orders for transportation equipment (mostly
aircraft and motor vehicles). Excluding transportation
equipment, orders slipped 0.4 percent, led by a decline in office
and computing equipment orders.
New orders for nondefense capital goods were up 8.3 percent,
while new orders for defense capital goods fell 10 percent.
Shipments of durable goods rose 1.8 percent in October,
after a 3.3 percent decline in September. Gains were widespread
across major industries; however, shipments of capital goods
industries fell slightly, the second straight monthly decline.
DURABLE GOODS ORDERS & SHIPMENTS
136
134
132
130
New Orders
128
X
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
126
124
122
Shipments
120
118
116
114
112
110
OCT BB
JAN 89
APR 83
JUL DD
OCT 89
JAN 90
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JUL 90
OCT 90
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George Bush
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CONFIDENTIAL
POINTS TO BE MADE AT THE ONE-ON-ONE MEETING
WITH PRESIDENT SALINAS IN MONTERREY
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
WE REMAIN CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC THAT FAST
TRACK AUTHORITY WILL BE CONFERRED IN THE
SPRING, THOUGH SOME OPPOSITION IS COALESCING.
WE NEED TO RESOLVE OUTSTANDING TRADE FRICTIONS
TO AVOID GIVING AMMUNITION TO OPPONENTS OF A
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT.
AS I TOLD YOU IN SEPTEMBER, WE REMAIN
COMMITTED TO ACHIEVING AN AGREEMENT WITH
MEXICO AND HAVING IT APPROVED BY THE U.S.
CONGRESS BY THE TIME CONGRESS ADJOURNS IN
1992.
IF CANADIAN PARTICIPATION THREATENS TO DELAY
OUR SCHEDULE OR JEOPARDIZE CONGRESSIONAL
CONFIDENTIAL
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CC: John Sununu
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Lubar & Co.
3380 FIRST WISCONSIN CENTER
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 53202
TELEPHONE 414/291-9000
TELECOPIEE 414/291-9061
November 5, 1990
The Honorable Newt Gingrich
(b)(6)
General Chairman
GOPAC
440 First Street, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20001
Dear Newt:
I am writing in response to your invitation to join GOPAC and attend the November
meeting. Scheduling conflicts would not permit my attendance, but in addition I am not
comfortable with what I see.
I have listened to your tapes and they are agreeable, but your actions are not
tial Library Photocopy
consistent. You talk about spending cuts, but I see no evidence that you sponsor or step up
to cuts. In terms of fiscal policy we have long ago reached the point where rhetoric can
replace necessary action. What you have done is scuttle the first budget compromise and
pave the way for a result embodying even higher taxes and less spending cuts. In the
process you have humiliated the President and negatively impacted every Republican up for
election. Well, at least I have that off my chest.
Newt, I sense your intentions are in line with my thinking, but uncompromising
idealogues worry me. For the time being let's allow things to rest. Perhaps at a later date
I will reconsider.
Sincerely,
Sheldon B. Lubar
SBL:mbw
S&L Crisis Breeds Tough Group
of Regulatory Enforcers
By Jerry Knight
These new roles have made the
The Office of Thrift Supervision
Washington Post Staff Writer
issue of bank examinations and their
regulates 2,404 savings and loans in-
Nobody needs to tell Robert Lac-
effect on bank lending practices SO
cluding many that call themselves sav-
kovic how powerful federal banking
important that President Bush and
ings banks. The FDIC has responsibili-
members of his Cabinet have talked
ty for state banks that are not Federal
examiners have become.
about the topic four times in the last
Reserve members and examines all
For the better part of three
10 days as part of a broad review of
thrifts as well.
months the chairman of First
the economic slowdown.
Together, the agencies marshal
Nationwide Bank, based in San Fran-
After hearing complaints from
about 38,000 employees to watch over
cisco, watched as 30 examiners from
business executives that overzealous
the health and safety of more than
two government agencies pored
bank examiners are making it diffi-
$3.9 trillion of the nation's wealth.
over the thrift's financial records.
cult for businesses to get needed
At a basic level, the bank examin-
When they finished. the examin-
loans and may even be adding to the
er's job is simple: Examiners periodi-
ers demanded that $250 million in
likelihood of a recession, Bush ac-
cally visit banks to review records to
additional cash be pumped into First
knowledged that banks now are pay-
ensure that federal regulations are be-
ing followed and that the banks' public
Nationwide by its owner, Ford
ing the price of their "excesses" dur-
Motor Co.
ing the 1980s.
financial reports reflect what is hap-
Ford is no pushover when it
"We had kind of go-go lending pol-
pening at their loan desks and in their
Prendur
comes to dealing with bureaucrats,
icies in some of our financial institu-
boardrooms.
"tions," Bush said. "Loans were made
In the current climate, the clout of
having recently beaten back govern-
ment demands to improve the fuel
then that wouldn't be made now."
the four regulatory agencies has
grown to such proportions that a dark
M
efficiency of its cars. But when the
This newly recognized mission of
protecting the nation from impru-
joke made the rounds this past week at
page
examiners insisted on more capital
the convention of the U.S. League of
for First Nationwide. Ford promised
dent bankers has made major Wash-
the money without a protest.
ington players of government offi-
Savings Institutions, the trade group
for the S&L industry. Question:
N/A
cials who once settled for bit parts in
"They are much tougher," Lac-
"What's the difference between a bank
economic policy making:
kovic said. "They are examining peo-
regulator and a terrorist?" Answer:
ple in much more detail. They pored
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
"You can negotiate with a terrorist."
Chairman L William Seidman has
through the portfolio a lot more than
It the take-no-prisoners attitude
become so controversial and power-
they used to. Maybe if we had been
ful that White House Chief of Staff
shown by examiners that has provoked
the recent discussions at the White
examining institutions like this four
John Sununu tried to get rid of
House and Camp David.
years ago, we wouldn't have the
him-and failed.
Ford's First Nationwide, a chain of
problems we've got."
Comptroller of the Currency Rob-
thrifts operating in nine states, is one
Crises in the nation's savings and
ert L. Clarke is the first person hold-
of hundreds of financial institutions
loan and banking industries are cost-
ing that office ever to attract televi-
that as result of an examination were
ing taxpayers tens of billions of dol-
sion coverage to his press
forced to write off more bad loans, set
lars and are straining deposit insur-
conferences.
aside cash to cover expected losses
ance funds. In response, federal
Office of Thrift Supervision Direc-
and strengthen financial bases by rais-
bank examiners have cast off their
"tor T. Timothy Ryan has taken a job
ing new money from owners. First Na-
green eye shades and I-get-no-re-
"that President Reagan once gave to
tionwide added $115 million to its
spect demeanor to take up the most
-one of his public relations men and
loan-löss reserves and is still negotiat-
influential role they have ever played
turned it into a high-visibility post
ing with the FDIC over issues that
in shaping the economy.
that could earn him a shot at a Cabi-
Lackovie'said could lead to further
Once regarded as little more than
net office.
write-downs.
traffic cops for bookkeepers, bank
At the Federal Reserve Board,
Lackovic said his company dis-
where Chairman Alan Greenspan
examiners today make critical deci-
agreed with the examiners over "only
has long been a powerful figure, the
a handful" of loans, but the aggressive
sions that affect every American.
director of the Division of Banking
stance taken by regulators is leading
Bank examiners-many are rela-
Supervision and Regulation, William
tive newcomers in their twenties or
Taylor, has emerged from the ob-
bankers to change the way they do
early thirties-are deciding which
scurity of the Fed's bureaucracy to
business. "It's going to force people to
banks will survive and who will run
get a little more conservative than
earn President Bush's endorsement
them. what businesses will get loans
they might normally be because you're
to succeed Seidman at the FDIC.
afraid of being criticized," he said.
and what kind of loans they will re-
The four agencies share power over
When bankers are warned about
ceive. Ultimately these examiners
often-indistinguishable financial institu-
certain kinds of loans, Lackovic said,
could be a major factor in determin-
tions. The Office of the Comptroller of
"They just hunker back and say 'Well,
ing whether the nation will suffer a
Currency regulates 4,000 national
if you don't like this kind of loan, we
recession and how bad any recession
banks. The Federal Reserve oversees
won't make them anymore' and start
would be.
1,073 state-chartered banks that
to curtail their activity."
THE WASHINGTON POST
chose to belong to the Fed and all bank
holding companies.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1990
Page
AI
The central question in the White
House debate about examination prac-
questionable loans now are haunting
Historically the bank examiners'
the banks that made the loans.
power has been wielded with discre-
tices is whether the regulators are the
cause of a lending slowdown or merely
Lending standards were relaxed,
tion, even reluctance, but as the prob-
one federal regulator stationed in New
lems of the banking and thrift indus-
agents of reality, motivating bankers
to do what they already know they
England said, "because people wanted
tries have worsened, the banking
should be doing.
to take business away from some-
agencies have used all the tools at
Clarke, as currency comptroller and
one else."
their disposal.
Banking regulators bear some of
A When the Office of the Comptroller
a top banking regulator, said in a inter-
the responsibility for allowing the rules
of the Currency took over the National
view with Reuter: "We have to main-
to be relaxed, bankers and regulators
Bank of Washington earlier this year,
tain proper lending standards and
proper supervisory standards to keep
conceded, because the liberalization of
it used for the first time its power to
the banks in business." He dismissed
lending standards went on with their
seize a faltering financial institution be-
criticism that his tough policies are
full knowledge and approval.
fore it actually became insolvent. The
power came from the S&L cleanup
pushing the nation into a recession.
"The better time-and the harder
Commerce Secretary Robert Mos-
time-to do something about it was at
law. passed in 1989, when Congress
bacher and White House Chief of Staff
the beginning," one congressional
granted the regulators' request for ad-
Sununu lead the administration faction
banking expert said.
ditional authority.
But as the New England regulator
In the past few months, regulators
maintaining that regulators have gone
too far.
said: "It is hard for any regulatory au-
have demanded the firing of the presi-
On the other side of the issue are
thority to discipline a bank when it has
dent: of Perpetual Savings Bank, the
no obvious weaknesses."
Ergest thrift in the Washington area,
Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady,
A complaint often heard at the sav-
and ordered another local banking
Fed Chairman Greenspan and Michael
ings and loan convention last week was
company, James Madison Ltd., to
J. Boskin. chairman of the President's
Council of Economic Advisors, who
that regulators were overcompensat-
close branches and reduce operations.
said regulators have became scape-
ing for their past mistakes, particularly
1 Elveri tighter controls have been im-
goats for the economy's problems.
their failure to move quickly when
posed MNC Financial Corp., the
And a few experts outside the gov-
Southwest banks and thrifts got in
company that owns Maryland National
trouble five years ago.
Bank and American Security Bank.
ernment, led by California economist
"They're covering their backsides
The holding company has been given a
Dan Brumbaugh, said the regulators
SO much, they're going to get diaper
are not being tough enough.
March 31 deadline for raising new
rash," said Donald R. Shackelford, the
Bankers can be found on both sides
capital and has been ordered to sell its
new chairman of the U.S. League of
of the issue.
Savings Institutions.
prized credit-card business and to stop
In New England, about 20 percent
paying dividends to stockholders.
There is no question that banking
of the real estate problems stem from
Such orders often are issued in se-
regulators have extraordinary power
"overzealousness by regulators" and
over the institutions they oversee, in-
cret. While they theoretically can be
about 80 percent of the problems are
cluding regulatory tools that no other
appealed to a court, banks are reluctant
because of "overzealousness by bank-
federal agency is permitted to exer-
to publicly admit they are being disci-
ers" said Guilliaem Aertsen, who is in
cise. A frequent lament of beleaguered
plined and thus rarely put up a fight.
charge of New England real estate
executives is that "bank regulators are
When bankers do fight, they lose.
lending for the Bank of Boston.
God."
The FDIC has survived every court
"We in the bank rely heavily on sug
For example, Congress has given
challenge to its supervisory powers.
gestions from our regulator friends.
the FDIC authority to issue orders
Thrift regulators last summer won
We take most of them," he said
The
stopping "any specific activity which
landmark court decision when U.S.
fact is the real estate markets are
poses a serious threat" to the deposit
District Court Judge Stanley Sporkin
down. Banks need to review their
insurance fund. The Office of Thrift
threw out a challenge to its authority
practices."
Supervision can act as both prosecutor
brought by Charles H. Keating of the
As Bush pointed out last week, real
and judge and has accused several
failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Asso-
estate lending practices grew too
thrift executives of looting their insti-
cistion of Irvine, Calif.
loose during the past decade and the
tution and ordered them to give back
And even after a Kansas thrift won
the money.
a district court decision against the Of-
fice of Thrift Supervision a few months
ago, the agency used other powers to
keep management from regaining con-
trol of the institution.
another provine
Staff writers John M. Berry, Joel
Glenn Brenner and Robert J.
heard from
McCartncy contributed to this report.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DATE:
11-27
FROM THE PRESIDENT
To:
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National Security Affairs
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for East Asia and Pacific Affairs
Fred M. Zeder, II, President of OPEC
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Federated States of Micronesia
John R. Haglelgam, President
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CONFIDENTIAL attachments)
MEMORANDUM FOR BRENT SCOWCROFT
THE WHITE HOUSE
SUBJECT: Briefing Paper and Talking Points for the President's
Meeting with Federated States of Micronesia President
John R. Haglelgam, 10:45 AM, Friday, November 30, 1990
The President has agreed to see President John R.
Haglelgam of the Federated States of Micronesia for a 10-minute
meeting at 10:45 AM, on Friday, November 30, 1990. We attach a
briefing paper, talking points, and biographic sketch for use
in preparation for the meeting.
J. Stapleton Roy
Executive Secretary
Attachments:
Tab A - Briefing Paper
Tab B - Talking Points
Tab C - - Biographic Sketch
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
BRIEFING PAPER
CONFIDENTIAL
Informal Visit of Federated States of Micronesia
President John R. Haglelgam
I. WHAT IS THE STANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP?
o
Relations between the United States and the Federated
States of Micronesia (FSM) are generally excellent.
After 40 years of U.S. administration as a UN Trust
Territory, the Micronesians chose to enter into a
relationship of "free association" with the U.S.,
whereby we exercise defense responsibilities in return
for the right to foreclose FSM territory to any
third-country military force (strategic denial).
O
The Compact of Free Association, governing our relations
since November 3, 1986, is working quite satisfactorily
for both parties. Under its provisions, the FSM is a
sovereign and self-governing nation, responsible for the
conduct of its external as well as internal affairs,
obliged to consult with us only when its foreign policy
may interfere with our obligation to defend its
territory and its citizens.
O Over its 15-year life, the value of the Compact to the
FSM is estimated slightly in excess of $1.0 billion. In
Fiscal Year 1991 the United States will provide some $94
million in direct Compact-related payments, grants and
federal services.
II. WHAT DO WE WANT?
o We want to continue the policy of strategic denial, the
right to forbid access to the territory or territorial
waters of the FSM to potentially hostile third-country
military forces.
0
We want to reinforce political stability and commitment
to democracy and to the market economy in the FSM. We
wish to reassure the FSM that we are doing our best to
help it win international recognition as a sovereign
nation.
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III. WHAT DOES PRESIDENT HAGLELGAM WANT?
0
Haglelgam wants reassurances that the United states
continues to think of the FSM in special terms, as a
special relationship formed through free association.
The U.S. has maintained, in part, this special
relationship by assisting the FSM government in
obtaining international diplomatic recognition despite,
until recently, Soviet intransigence and UK and French
refusal of recognition owing to differing positions in
the UN regarding the FSM's legal status.
o
Haglelgam will raise, as he did at the October 27
Pacific Island Leaders lunch in Honolulu, the issue of
termination of the Trusteeship Agreement as it applies
to the FSM, the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
He wants this issue settled as soon as possible in
order that the FSM may enjoy recognition from the
greatest number of countries and economic assistance
from the broadest number of sources. We share these
aspirations and hope to introduce in the very near
future in the Security Council a resolution that the
Soviets will not oppose.
The FSM took a prominent early stance opposing the
shipment of chemical weapons from Germany to Johnston
Atoll. Haglelgam was reassured by the President's
reaffirmation that we plan to dispose of only chemical
weapons currently stored at Johnston, obsolete CW found
in the Pacific Islands, and the relatively small
quantity shipped from Germany. He may inquire about
the chemical weapons from Germany which did arrive
safely and were offloaded at Johnston without incident.
o
Haglelgam may mention a customs interpretation which
deprives the freely associated states of a duty-free
tuna import preference they thought they had under the
Compact of Free Association. We are currently
examining legislative history and congressional intent
to determine how best to restore this benefit.
o
Haglelgam may raise the FSM's request for logistical
support for the July 1991 meeting of the South Pacific
Forum the FSM is hosting, including communications,
medical support, and a Navy ship to berth and feed 200
to 300 reporters. Forward deployment needs in the
Persian Gulf make it unlikely we can oblige them with a
ship. We are currently suggesting a cruise ship.
CONF IDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
TALKING POINTS
We welcome you to Washington. Your visit is an
opportunity to reaffirm our special relationship in free
association. I am very pleased with the operation of the
Compact and trust you are as well.
I asked Aurelia Brazeal to be the first Ambassador to the
FSM because she is a talented, innovative foreign service
officer knowledgeable in the Pacific region. I hope you
are enjoying working with her as much as she is enjoying
her new tour.
As you know, we initiated discussions with the Soviets in
February of this year seeking their agreement not to
oppose a resolution in the Security Council to endorse
politically the termination of the Trusteeship Agreement
as it applies to the FSM, the Marshall Islands, and the
Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas. We took the
opportunity of my meeting with you and other leaders of
the Pacific to raise the issue with Shevardnadze and he
replied favorably to Secretary Baker. We have since
discussed a draft resolution with the Soviets which we
hope to present to the Security Council in the near future.
(If Raised) We will explore with you the question of your
membership in the United Nations once we have resolved the
issue of partial termination of the Trusteeship Agreement.
(If Raised) The U.S. chemical weapons left Germany on
September 22 enroute to Johnston Atoll and arrived there
safely on November 6, after a 45-day transit around Cape
Horn. Offloading of the CW commenced almost immediately
and was completed without incident on November 18.
(If Raised) Regarding your duty-free preference in tuna
imports, we are currently reexamining the legislative
history and congressional intent to determine how best to
assure that you receive this benefit.
(If Raised) We regret that the situation in the Persian
Gulf makes it difficult to commit a Navy ship to you for
the July 1991 meeting of the South Pacific Forum. As you
can understand, resolution of this issue must be my top
international priority. We share your desire that the
Forum meeting be a success. We understand you are
considering hiring a cruise ship and charging the
reporters reasonable sums for cabin and food.
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POINTS TO BE MADE FOR MEETING WITH
PRESIDENT CALDERON
--
We have admired your political courage, first in fighting to
reestablish democracy in Panama, and now in taking on the
tough job of restructuring the public security forces.
--
You have been instrumental in transforming the discredited
and corrupt PDF into a law enforcement body that is
responsive to civilian authority.
--
I understand that our joint patrols are to end soon, which
is an indicator of the improving security situation.
--
Of course, the Canal is at the centerpiece of our relations.
It was an historic moment when I was able to receive
Gilberto Guardia here last month, the first Panamanian to
head the Panama Canal.
--
We need your political leadership, Mr. Vice President, to
make common cause with us in obtaining a Mutual Legal
Assistance Agreement as quickly as possible.
--
I know this is a difficult issue because of the publicity
about alleged U.S. "pressure" on Panama and because of
misinformation about the agreement. But it is in our mutual
interest to get this behind us so we can improve our
cooperation on anti-narcotics and avoid any adverse impact
on our economic aid.
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Carnes Lord, National Security Adviser to the Vice President
William T. Pryce, Senior Director, Latin American and Caribbean
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tbbl oil
notes
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November
27
1990
B-5
COCHRAN continues:
(PORFIRIO MUNOZ LEDO, Mexican senator: "We have the:sensation the
from My 8AM Mexius MEXES us
feeling, that we are governed by foreign people. It's true.")
Mexico is troubled by political violance as well as economic hard
times. Opponents of President Salinas say he should be spending
more time on social and political problems than in trying to get
a free trade agreement with his friend George Bush.
Import
at Buppuss Mex
(JORGE CASTANEDA, Mexican writer: "I have the impression that
President Salinaseis in a big, big rush to get his agreement very
quickly because he needs the money very badly.")
President Bush also wants to lift trade barriers, but the U.S.
Congress, worried about American jobs, may not be 50 eager to make
it easier for Mexicans to sell north of the border.
(TV coverage: President putting on sombrero.)
Mexico could win votes in Congress for a trade agreement if it
would permit Americans to invest in oil exploration but that is
political dynamite here. Mexicans have an almost religious belief
CARLA
that oil is special off-limits to foreigners. George Bush would
dearly love to win American access to Mexican oilfields, but 50 far
President Salinas has shown no willingness to commit what could be
JENNINGS: President Bush is in Mexico Int Monda discussing Princep the state
Boichng
political suicide.
(NBC-3)
of the world with President Salinas.
(TV coverage: President and First Lady tanding with the Salinas
family.)
GATT
One of the more immediate questions: whether to open the border
to free trade. There is already a program in place that allows
U.S. companies to use low-cost Mexican labor without paying duty
on the products they manufacture. Mexican factory workers make an
average of one tenth as much as workers in the U.S.
BushPresidential Library 1 Photocopy,
ABC's JOHN QUINONES reports from Mexico on the use of Mexican labor
by U.S. companies. While these Mexicans near the American border
have jobs, they still live in squalid squatter camps. Some want
American companies to share more of their profits with their
Mexican workers.
(ABC-3)
RATHER: For his part, President Bush shifted scenes and attention
[from the Gulf] to Mexico Monday.
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(TV coverage: President and First Lady standing with Salinas
family.
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Mr. Bush opened two days of talks there with Mexico's President
Salinas. Main subject: progress toward a landmark U. S. Mexico
free-trade agreement. Photo opportunities aside there are serious
obstacles to free trade on both sides of the border.
Congress
(TV coverage: President trying on sombrero.)
Among them, Mexico's refusal to allow U.S. investment in its oil
industry and fears in the U.S. that free trade will mean more U.S.
jobs lost to lower-paid workers in Mexico.
(CBS-Z)
BULGARIA
down lead
JENNINGS reports 500, 000 Bulgarians are striking to demand that
their prime minister quit. They blame the socialist government for
growing shortages of food and consumer goods
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, November 27, 1990 -- B-6
MCA-MATSUSHITA' BUYOUT
ABC's BOB JAMIESON reports the Japanese company Matsushita is
paying more than $6 billion for MCA. It is the highest price ever
paid by a Japanese company for an American corporation. Analysts
say Hollywood has little to fear.
(HAROLD VOGEL, Merrill Lynch media analyst: "It will be a gradual
change and the immediate impact of these new managements on
American movie-making and television programming will be fairly
minimal."
Matsushita's president insisted that creative decisions will still
be made in Hollywood, not Japan, but more and more of the profits
will now end up in Japan.
(ABC-2, NBC-2, CBS-3)
POLISH ELECTIONS
JENNINGS reports Prime Minister Mazowiecki has resigned after
finishing third in balloting to a political unknown.
ABC's JOHN DONVAN reports on Stanislaw Tyminski's second-place
finish in Poland. While he has no political experience and has no
specific program, Poles like the fact that Tyminski has made lot
of money outside Poland. Lech Walesa told reporters he might
withdraw from the run-off rather than face an opponent he does not
consider a serious man. In typical fashion, Walesa immediately
reversed himself and is back in the race, which he's expected to
win.
(ABC-7, NBC-4, CBS-8)
SOUTH AFRICA
NBC's ROBIN LLOYD reports from South Africa that many blacks
dropped out of the school system to protest inferior schools for
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blacks. Many believe liberation must come before education. This
struggle has left millions of young blacks undereducated and
unemployed. Many black leaders are worrying about the younger
generation and are realizing the cost of having placed the children
on the front lines in the fight against apartheid for 50 many
years.
(NBC-11)
RURAL HEALTH CARE
ABC's GEORGE STRAIT reports nurse practitioners are filling the
void left by a dwindling number of rural doctors. Doctors want
strict controls on what the nurse practitioners can and cannot do.
In the new federal budget, Medicaid has been authorized to pay for
the services in the same direct way that physicians are paid,
although at a lower rate.
(ABC-9)
DENVER FIRE
JENNINGS reports a fire still burns out of control at Denver's
Stapleton Airport. Officials say the fire will burn for days. Air
traffic in and out of the airport is now back to normal.
ABC-5, NBC-8, CBS-6)
WASHINGTON FLOODS
JENNINGS reports flood waters have begun to recede after more than
3,000 people were forced from their homes. (ABC-6, NBC-7, CBS-5)
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Dear President Alwyn,
Dear President Menem
Dear President Lacalle
Dear President Collor
Dear PresidentPerez
I am really looking forward to next week's visit
to
.
There is much to talk about.
Regrettably, Mrs. Bush, after a grueling November of
travel, will not be able to make the trip. Though she
has nothing seriously wrong, her doctor has advised that
she should not travel with me. She is saddened
about this decision, since she and I have both been
looking forward to her seeing your lovely country.
( (again for Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina))
as
assest
I have asked our 30 year old daughter, Dorothy, to
accompany me as a member of our official delegation.
She is our only daughter. She certainly will require
no special arrangements. She works at the National
Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Once again, I look forward with great anticipation to
my visit.
Most sincerely,
George Bush
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Dear President Alwyn,
Dear President Menem
Dear President Lacalle
Dear President Collor
Dear PresidentPerez
I am really looking forward to next week's visit
to
.
There is much to talk about.
Regrettably, Mrs. Bush, after a grueling November of
travel, will not be able to make the trip. Though she
has nothing seriously wrong, her doctor has advised that
she should not travel with me. She is saddened
about this decision, since she and I have both been
looking forward to her seeing your lovely country.
( (again for Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina))
I have asked our 30 year old daughter, Dorothy, to
accompany me as a member of our official delegation.
She is our only daughter. She certainly will require
no special arrangements. She works at the National
Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Once again, I look forward with great anticipation to
my visit.
Most sincerely,
George Bush
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
NOVEMBER 25, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR BRUCE CAUGHMAN
FROM:
JAY PARMER
PRESIDENTIAL ADVANCE OFFICE
SUBJECT:
Guests traveling on the President's Trip to
Mexico, November 26-27, 1990
The following persons will travel aboard Air Force One as guests
of the President during November 26-27, 1990. All Guests willl
travel round trip. Additionally, Several guests will travel
aboard the back up aircraft. Legs traveled by each of these
guests are as indicated.
Andrews AFB to Monterrey, Mexico
Secretary Nicholas Brady
Attorney General Richard Thornburgh
Secretary Robert Mosbacher
Ambassador Carla Hills
- U. S. Trade Representative
Lawrence Eagleburger
- Deputy Secretary of State
Robert Zoellick
- Counselor,
Department of State
Bernard Aronson
- Assistant Secretary of State
for Inter-American Affairs
Joseph Verner Reed
- U.S Chief of Protecol
BACK UP AIRCRAFT #27000
David Mulford
- Under Secretary of the
Treasury for International
Affairs
(To Monterrey Only)
Charles E. Roh, Jr.
- Assistant U.S. Trade
Representative for North
America
(Round Trip)
Millie Leatherman
- Personal Assistant to the
Deputy Secretary of State
(Round Trip)
Carol Hallet
- Commissioner, U.S. Customs
Service
(Monterrey to Andrews Only)
Wayne Berman
- Counselor to the Secretary
of Commerce
(Monterrey to Andrews Only)
Jeannie Bull
- Chief of Presidential and
Vice Presidential Support,
Department of State
(Round Trip)
JOESPH AMBASSADOR VERNER REED
- U.S. CHIEF OF PROTOCOL
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gift.
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POOL REPORT A -- MRS. BUSH
November 27, 1990
Mrs. Bush Celebrates Education
Barbara Bush spent the morning celebrating Mexico's education
system from pre-schoolers tapping sticks to Celito Lindo to an
80-year-old man learning better ways to grow spinach. Shepherded
by Cecilia Salinas and accompanied by Cristina Trevino, wife of
Nuevo Leon's governor (John), Alma Rizzo, wife of Monterrey mayor
(Socrates), Diana Negroponte, wife of U.S. ambassador (John), and
Nicki Bennett, wife of U.S. consul in Monterrey (John), the most
popular Bush visited a federal DIF program (Desarolla Integral de
la Familia or National System for the Family Integral
Development), a teachers' training school (Miguel F. Martinez
Normal school) and the laboratory school the teachers practice in
(Professor Oziel Hinojosa Garcia Primary school). She then was
to go on to the State Central Library but your pool did not
accompany her on that mission.
Mrs. Bush wore a slate blue suit, with thin horizontal white
stripes, and a matching silk blouse with the V-neck collarless
jacket. She wore gray shoes and carried a small shoulder strap
purse with a snakeskin design which appeared to be simulated.
Also simulated, of course, were The Pearls and earrings. Mrs.
Salinas wore a teal-colored dress trimmed in black with the top
appearing to have a surplice of the same design over it, and
black shoes.
The DIF center, one of a network throughout Mexico under the
patronage of Mrs. Salinas, includes five separate programs: adult
education, handiccraft training to make items at home for sale, a
personal betterment program in "social and civic values" for
young women, a kitchen where volunteers prepare food for the
elderly, and a garden maintained by elderly DIF clients. In
order, the large party of women swept from one to another site:
* The adult center had 27 youngish looking adults who stood
when the guests entered. Mrs. Bush visited the three tables and
watched what they were doing, often leaning close and saying
"Very good" or "Wonderful." As she departed, Mrs. Bush waved and
said, "Adios. Gracias."
* The earn-money-at-home program had some beautiful table
linens -- placemats, doilies, tablecloths, etc. -- on display and
Mrs. Bush leaned close to inspect the women's crocheting
demonstration. "They're beautiful work,' she said. "Oh, they're
cocktail napkins." She looked at home-made Christmas decorations
displayed on a big tree in the corner and marveled at artificial
flowers, roses and geraniums. "I saw those in the governor's
palace. They weren't real?" she asked Mrs. Salinas. "I thought
they were real." Assured they were fake, Mrs. Bush moved on to a
display of dolls, Christmas cards and tree skirts. She held up a
Mrs. Santa doll for the Photo Dogs and asked, "Where are they
selling them?" "We have a special store, a bazaar, was the
reply. Her departing words: "Well, they are artists. They're
very saleable."
* The third group, which appeared to be volunteers who teach
the values classes, stood and applauded the Bush-Salinas party.
As she left, one of the women said something in Spanish and Mrs.
Bush told her escorts, "That's so sweet. They said they love me."
* Food preparation was working on cookies when the visitors
arrived. Mrs. Bush oohed and aahed and shook hands with one of
the elderly volunteer cooks. In the separate dining room, she
talked with elderly women holding tiny flags of Mexico and the
U.S. and discussed with them the menu which was spaghetti
bolognese, green soup and something called agua de Jamaica.
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* At the vegetable garden, one of the seven men lined up there
energetically declaimed to Mrs. Bush loudly and longly but
appeared only to be explaining he was 80 years old. Mrs. Bush
applauded him and said, "It's so nice, he's 80." She accepted a
basket laden with spinach and garnished with what appeared to be
dillweed.
At that point, Mrs. Bush was being escorted to the finale
musical concert and heard the distant strains of Deep in the
Heart of Texas. "Oh! Oh! There's my song. They're playing my
song," she said. By the time we reached the open-air concert
area about 100 kids in a string and recorder band were playing
her other "favorite song," the Yellow Rose of Texas. At a moment
when the music lulled, some little boys yelled in unison "Arriba!
Up with Miss Bush." "Please thank the children for playing my
songs," she said to her guide. She then accepted a gift basket
of needlework presented to her by Jesus Eduardo Gonzalez Jiminez,
9, one of six children living in central Monterrey with his
mother who is a nurse and father who works in a lamp factory. He
wore black slacks and a black sweater with a red tie. Jesus knew
he had seen Mrs. Bush on TV but nervously said he wasn't sure who
she was. When told she was the wife of the president, he backed
up a step and looked a bit bewildered. Mrs. Bush shook his hand
and patted a shoulder, asking his age. "Nueve," he replied.
"Big boy," she said. Carmen Mariana Valadez, 10, wearing the
school uniform plaid skirt, gave a similar gift to Mrs. Salinas.
The children's program brings 700 poor kids in 15 hours a week at
30 centers locally, encourages music and other cultural things.
Both Jesus and Carmen sing in the chorus and Jesus plays a flute.
Mrs. Bush went to stop two in a presidential-size motorcade
across town with a swarm of motorcycle escorts that surely was
the peak of motorcadism for someone who likes to travel low-key.
Among the vehicles blocked to the side for it to pass was a green
wagon pulled by a donkey in a poorer section of town filled with
tiny houses built of concrete block. Mrs. Bush's visit to the
teachers' school was a cacophony of music that started loud and
escalated. Several hundred kids in a courtyard serenaded her
with Celito Lindo and waved American and Mexican flags. "This is
a music fair," your pool heard as she went into a nearby
classroom where kids gave a recital on recorders. She waved both
hands in time. As the kids got tinier and tinier the music got
louder and louder. She walked back into the school square as the
kids hit their peak on "America the Beautiful.' A nice moment.
They applauded her and she reciprocated, then made a grand tour
around the square to shake hands, kiss and chat. She waved both
hands as if directing the music, clapped in time, and often held
her hands up and wiggled all 10 fingers at the kids. A football-
style card group was flashing the American and Mexican flags and
alternating a huge "Benvenidos" from one end of the square. She
accepted a heart-shaped arrangement of pecans with her photo at
the center and kissed several gift bearers. She then watched a
five-minute movie with English narration describing improvements
in Mexican education. hen to a class of 20 kids with computers,
working on geography, Spanish, and math lessons. Her escort at
the school was Luis Eugenio Todd, undersecretary of the federal
education system, who was sent for the chore because he is from
Nuevo Leon. "This is the best teacher training school probably
in the country," Mrs. Negroponte said. On her last stop, Mrs.
Bush joined in playing a tambourine-like instrument with a
traditional Mexican band.
Frank Murray, The Washington Times
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POOL REPORT # 4
NOVEMBER 27, 1990
MEXICAN-AMERICAN BUSINESS BREAKFAST
BUSH-SALINAS ONE-ON-ONE AND BILATERAL
Bush and Salinas met over breakfast with Mexican and
American business leaders, plus US and Mexican cabinet and
cabinet-level officers. (See your mini-sked for names of
attendees and seating arrangement.) This was 'at. the Crowne Plaza.
Your pool was ushered in for a photo op at the start. A
question re the Gulf resolution was shouted to Bush. "This is a
photo op at which I do not take questions, unless the president
of Mexico tells me to," Bush replied, to laughter around the
table. Salinas said nothing. Your pool was ushered out.
Then Bush departed at 9:30 (5 minutes behind schedule) for
his one-on-one and expanded bilateral. The only explanation for
the lateness was that the breakfast ran long (it looked like an
Eagles gathering) and Bush had to return to his room before
getting into the limo.
Uneventful motorcade (but then, Bush was always around the
next corner, so we never saw his limo).
At the Museo de Historia de Nuevo Leon, the photo op was in
the Salon of the 19th Century. The two presidents were posing
rather stiffly in carved wooden high-back chairs; no chit-chat
between them. Another shouted question re Gulf, again Bush
replied that this was a photo op. Salinas smiled, said nothing.
After an estimated 15 minutes alone, the two presidents
joined their cabinet officials in an adjacent room around a
rectangular table.
At the top of the session, Eagleburger and Education
Minister Manuel Bartlett signed an agreement establishing the US-
Mexico Commission for Education and Cultural Exchange. There is
supposed to be paper on this.
When the talks ended, the two presidents strolled to the
railing on the second floor overlooking the small museum's
courtyard and posed briefly for photographers.
Then another (presumably) uneventful motorcade to the Teatro
de la Ciudad.
Ben Shore
Copley News Service
POOL REPORT # 5
November 27, 1990
The Theater and the Casino
No news. You heard the words.
Event 1 was Bush's speech at Teatro de la Ciudad, a modern
theater along the Grand Plaza. The stage included an elongated,
oval desk, two lecterns, lovely yellow mums in big clay pots in
front of the lecterns and large U.S. and Mexican flags hanging in
the back.
Motorcade from the theater to the casino was uneventful,
save for the Indianapolis 500-style turns at the end of the
plaza.
Event 2 was Bush's brief speech to a group of business
types. This was held in the Casino Monterrey, described in one of
the brochures as the social center of the city. The event was
held in a room about the size of the White House East Room. It
had pale yellow walls, curtains covering the large windows and a
balcony. Bush stood on a stage below the balcony. Also on stage
with him were Carla Hills and Bob Mosbacher.
Crowd estimates of the virtually all-male audience vary from
several hundred to 1.25 million. Your pool urges that you go with
the more conservative estimate.
Motorcade from the casino to the Governor's Plaza was
uneventful.
Now how about a pool report on those cabinet briefings.
--Dan Balz. Washington Post.
White House News Summary
Tuesday, November 27, 1990
2:30 P.M. MEXICO/3:30 P.M. EST UPDATE
SADDAM/HOSTAGES (Baghdad/Reuter) -- Saddam Hussein said an
undisclosed number of Americans would be allowed to leave the
country with visiting Muhammad Ali. Saddam, on Baghdad television,
said: "We will not let Haji Muhammad Ali return without taking
with him a number of Americans who would be allowed to leave."
GULF RESOLUTION (Moscow/Reuter) -- The USSR will support a U.N.
Gulf force resolution if Baghdad fails to abide by a deadline for
withdrawing from Kuwait, President Gorbachev's spokesman Ignatenko
said. "With respect to that resolution, our country will vote for
language that will envisage a clear-cut deadline for withdrawal
from Kuwait and liberation of hostages," he told a news briefing.
"Otherwise, appropriate measures will be used."
(Moscow/Reuter) -- President Gorbachev said Tuesday Iraq has
no choice but to withdraw from Kuwait and could not evade action
undertaken by the world community. He told reporters he had made
the Kremlin's tough stance clear in acrimonious talks Monday with
Iraqi Foreign Minister Aziz
Gorbachev
described his meeting
with Aziz as "a difficult talk, sometimes downright tough." He
told Aziz the Soviet Union would not alter its view that Iraq's
annexation of Kuwait was unacceptable
"Yesterday I told them
again: You keep this in mind, we will not retreat here. This is
a matter of principle for us," Gorbachev said.
(Saudi Arabia/Reuter) -- Air Force personnel just arriving
from the U.S. generally agreed that the drive to give Iraq a Jan.
deadline to leave Kuwait or face attack has come at the right time.
KUWAITIS/TORTURE (U.N./AP) -- Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait have killed
children in front of their parents and tortured prisoners with
electric shocks and by beating the soles of their feet, Kuwait's
government-in-exile said today
"Individual and mass arrests
are
unabated brutal torture of Kuwaitis continues in Kuwait
itself" and in Iraqi prisons, U.N. Ambassador Abulhassan said.
IRAQI TROOPS (Reuter) -- Iraq has increased its troop strength in
occupied Kuwait and southern Iraq by 20,000 to 450,000, but the
move does not appear to be part of a major buildup announced by
Baghdad last week, the Pentagon said.
SOVIET WINTER (Geneva/AP) -- The Soviet Union and E. Europe are
likely to face the hardest winter since World War II as
recession
continues to deepen, U.N. economists said.
KEATING FIVE/GRAY (AP) -- Former banking regulator Edwin Gray said
today that Sen. DeConcini offered a deal in a 1987 meeting to have
a disputed regulation withdrawn on behalf of Lincoln S&L
Gray
said DeConcini said that, in return, Lincoln would be willing to
make more home mortgage loans
Gray said he told the senators
at the meeting he would not do that
He said DeConcini "was the
least passive" of the four senators in the meeting
"I
considered it to be improper," Gray said.
NORTH (AP) -- A federal appeals court today refused to reconsider
its decision setting aside Oliver North's Iran-contra convictions.
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