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Originally Processed With FOIA(s):
FOIA Number:
2009-0166-S
2009-0166-S
FOIA
MARKER
This is not a textual record. This is used as an
administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential
Library Staff.
Record Group/Collection:
George H.W. Bush Presidential Records
Collection/Office of Origin: Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
OA/ID Number:
90585
Folder ID Number:
90585-005
Folder Title:
Tuesday, February 26, 1991
Stack:
Row:
Section:
Shelf:
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Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Doc. No. / Type
Subject/Title
Date
Restriction
Classification
01. Schedule
Schedule of the President [redaction] (1 pp.)
02/26/91
(b)(3)
02a. Log
White House Telephone Log [President Bush] [redaction of
02/26/91
(b)(6)
personal information] (2 pp.)
02b. Log
White House Telephone Log [Signal Switchboard] [redaction of
02/26/91
(b)(6)
personal information] (1 pp.)
03. Note
Handwritten notes of Secure Presidential Phone call with [Colin]
02/26/[91
(b)(1)
Powell (3 pp.)
04. Note
Handwritten notes of Secure Presidential Phone call with [Dick]
02/25/[91]
(b)(1)
Cheney (1 pp.)
05. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with JAB [James A.
02/26/91
(b)(1)
Baker, III] (6:15) [double-sided] (1 pp.)
06. Note
Handwritten notes of Secure Presidential Phone call with JAB
02/25/[91]
(b)(1)
[James A. Baker, III] (6:20) (1 pp.)
07. Note
Handwritten notes Secure Presidential Phone call with JAB
02/26/[91]
(b)(1)
[James A. Baker, III] (11:35 A) [double-sided] (1 pp.)
08. Note
Handwritten notes of Secure Presidential Phone call with JAB
02/26/91
(b)(1)
[James A. Baker, III] (7:59) (2 pp.)
Page 1 of 3
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, February 26, 1991
Pinksheet Number:
dw1985
OA/ID Number:
90585-005
Date Closed:
6/28/2011
FOIA/Sys Case #:
2009-0166-S
Re-review Case #:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Doc. No. / Type
Subject/Title
Date
Restriction
Classification
09a. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with President
02/26/91
(b)(1)
Mubarak (1 pp.)
09b. Talking Points Points to be Made for Telephone Conversation with President
n.d.
(b)(1)
&
Mubarak (1 pp.)
10. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with President Ozal
02/26/91
(b)(1)
(1 pp.)
11a. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with Vaclav Havel
02/26/91
(b)(1)
(2 pp.)
11b. Talking Points Points to be Made for Telephone Conversation with President
n.d.
(b)(1)
S
Havel (2 pp.)
11c. Memo
From Brent Scowcroft to President Bush (1 pp.)
02/25/91
(b)(1)
S
12. Memo
From James A. Baker, III to President Bush (1 pp.)
02/26/91
(b)(1)
S
13a. Memo
From Brent Scowcroft to President Bush (1 pp.)
02/25/91
(b)(1)
S
13b. Talking Points Points to be Made for Telephone Conversation with President
n.d.
(b)(1)
S
Havel (2 pp.)
14. Q&A
Head of State Proposed Q&A (1 pp.)
02/26/91
(b)(1)
Page 2 of 3
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, February 26, 1991
Pinksheet Number:
dw1985
OA/ID Number:
90585-005
Date Closed:
6/28/2011
FOIA/Sys Case #:
2009-0166-S
Re-review Case #:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Doc. No. / Type
Subject/Title
Date
Restriction
Classification
15. Note
Handwritten notes of Secure Presidential Phone call with [no
n.d.
(b)(1)
person listed] (1 pp.)
16. Note
Handwritten notes of Presidential Phone call with Doro (1 pp.)
02/26/91
C
17. Talking Points
Points to be Made for Meeting with Colombian President Cesar
n.d.
(b)(1)
of
Gaviria (2 pp.)
18. Form
Request for Appointments [redaction of personal information] (1
02/26/91
(b)(6)
pp.)
19. Note
Re: Doro (1 pp.)
02/26/91
C
Page 3 of 3
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, February 26, 1991
Pinksheet Number:
dw1985
OA/ID Number:
90585-005
Date Closed:
6/28/2011
FOIA/Sys Case #:
2009-0166-S
Re-review Case #:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
01. Schedule
Schedule of the President [redaction] (1 pp.)
02/26/91
(b)(3)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, February 26, 1991
Date Closed:
6/28/2011
OA/ID Number:
90585-005
FOIA/SYS Case #:
2009-0166-S
Appeal Case #:
Re-review Case #:
Appeal Disposition:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Disposition Date:
AR Case #:
MR Case #:
AR Disposition:
MR Disposition:
AR Disposition Date:
MR Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile.
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
Tuesday, February 26, 1991
--
7:50 am
Coffee with Janelle McArthur
Oval Office
(10 min)
(Super)
(TAB A)
8:00 am
Intelligence Briefing
Oval Office
(15 min)
(Scowcroft/Sununu)
8:15 am
National Security Briefing
Oval Office
(30 min)
(Scowcroft/Sununu)
8:45 am
Meeting with Governor Sununu
Oval Office
(30 min)
9:15 am
Administrative Time
Oval Office
(45 min)
10:00 am
Meeting with Bipartisan
Cabinet Room
(45 min)
Congressional Leadership
(McClure)
(TAB B)
10:45 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(15 min)
11:00 am
Meeting with President Gaviria
Oval Office/
(60 min)
of Colombia
Cabinet Room
(Scowcroft) (Distributed Separately)
12:00 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(15 min)
12:15 pm
Luncheon with President Gaviria
State
(60 min)
(Scowcroft) (Distributed Separately & TAB C)Dining Room
1:15 pm
Departure Statements
South Lawn
(15 min)
(Scowcroft) (Distributed Separately & TAB C)
1:30 pm
Meeting with Secretary Cheney
Oval Office
(30 min)
and JCS Chairman Powell
2:00 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(15 min)
2:15 pm
Drop by Luncheon for GOP Members,
Indian Treaty
(10 min)
Freshman Class of 102nd Congress
Room
(McClure)
(TAB D)
UNP 02/25/91
6:00 pm
2:25 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(65 min)
3:30 pm
Drop by Business Coalition
Roosevelt Room
(5 min)
Meeting
(Demarest)
(TAB E)
3:45 pm
The President departs for Ft.
South Lawn
Myer for Retirement Ceremony
for General Thurman
(Scowcroft)
(TAB F)
4:30 pm
Arrives White House
South Lawn
4:30 pm
Meeting with Governor Sununu
Oval Office
(30 min)
5:15 pm
Haircut
West Basement
(45 min)
0701 POTUS IN OVAL 0708 ADD SCOWCROFT
0716 ADD FIRWATER 0721 FITZWATER out
0755 SCOWCROFT OUT/ADD JANELLE Mc ARTHUR
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
Bush Presidential Library Photoco
0.802 MCARTHUR OUT/ADD SCOWCROFT, GATES, SUNIENTLY
FITZWATER, DCI,
0806 FITZWATER OUT 0823 DCI,
(b)(3)
OUT
0824 ADD VP 0831 ADD DARMAN
0846 DARMAN OUT 0856 ADD FITZWATER
0900 FITZWATER, SCOWCROFT, GATES OUT
0908 VP OUT 0912 SUNUNU OUT
0917 FITZWATER IN (out
0938 ADD Suncence, SCOWCROFT, GATES, CHENEY, HAASS
FITZWATER, PHIL BRADY
0941 BRADY OUT/ADD VP
UNP 02/25/91
6:00 pm
0945 ALL our /EXCEPT VP
0948- POTUS TO ROSE GARDEN
0951 POTUS IN OVAL (ADD SUNUNU, SCOWCROFT, GATES,
0955 Sununa, FITZWATER, CHENEY out
0957 ADD Sunnuu
1000 ScowcRoFT, GATES, HAASS our
1001 POTUS IN CABINET Room
1048 POTUS IN OVAL /ADD SUNUNY
1049 Sunnnu OUT 1050 POTUS TO SOUTH GROUNDS
1058 POTUS IN OVAL
1100 ADD BAKER, SCOWCROFT, GATES, SUNCINCE
FITZWATER
1103 GAVIRIA ET AL IN (ONE-ON-ONE PARTICIPANTS)
1120 POTUS IN CABINET Room
1203 POTUS IN OVAL /ADD GAVIRIA
1210 POTUS TO STATE DINING Room
1312 POTUS ON SOUTH GROUNDS
1320 POTUS IN OVAL/ADD BAKER, SCOWCROFT, GATES
POWELL, SUNUNY
1330 ADD CHENRY, FITZWATER
1407 BAKER our
1413 POTUS TO INDIAN TREATY Room
1436 POTUS IN OVAL
1438 ADD GATES 1510 GATES our
1529 ADD DEMAREST, KILBERG
1530 POTUS TO ROOSEVELT Room
1537 POTUS IN OVAL
1546 POTUS TO SOUTH GROUNDS
(SEE SEPARATE SCHEDULE)
1624 POTUS IN OVAL
1631 ADD Sunnary, FIRESTONE 1654 FIRESTONE OUT
1700 POTUS TO BARBER SHOP 1736 Porus IN OVAL
1824 ADD MARIA $ ALEXANDRA SHEEHAN 1825 potus TO RESIDENCE
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
02a. Log
White House Telephone Log [President Bush] [redaction of
02/26/91
(b)(6)
personal information] (2 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, February 26, 1991
Date Closed:
6/28/2011
OA/ID Number:
90585-005
FOIA/SYS Case #:
2009-0166-S
Appeal Case #:
Re-review Case #:
Appeal Disposition:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Disposition Date:
AR Case #:
MR Case #:
AR Disposition:
MR Disposition:
AR Disposition Date:
MR Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
FEBRUARY 26
, 19 91
PRESIDENT BUSH
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
OUT
5:12 AM
5:18
MR. KEVIN O'CONNELL
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
XXNC
XXPM
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 659
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
MR. KEVIN O'CONNELL
5:47
5:48
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 659
TLKD-OK
INC
PM
XX
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
9:23 AM
9:30
MR. JOHN BUSH
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
XMNC
XX PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
9:23
9:32
MR. WILLIAM FARISH
(b)(6)
TLK-OK 9:30 A.M.
INC
PM
XX
X
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
9:36 AM
9:37
MRS. KATHERINE L. SUPER
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 645
TLKD-OK
XX INC
PM
XX
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
XX
MRS. DOROTHY LeBLOND
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK 3:20 P.M.
XX INC
3:19 PM
3:25
GPO : 1983 0 - 405-660 : QL 2
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
FEBRUARY 26
, 1991
PRESIDENT BUSH
TIME
NAME
ACTION
PLACED
DISC
OUT
XAM
MR. THOMAS LUDLOW ASHLEY
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
XINC
5:54 PM
6:02
202-393-1158
TLKD-OK
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
XAM
SECRETARY NICHOLAS F. BRADY
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 422
TLKD-OK
XXINC
6:02 PM
6:06
OUT
AM
INC
PM
XXOUT
XAM
SECRETARY JAMES A. BAKER III
OFC: WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHITE HOUSE ADMIN. EXT. 420
TLKD-OK 6:13 P.M.
INC
6:11 PM
6:20
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
XX
MR. WILLARD C. HEMINWAY
(b)(6)
TLKD-OK
INC
7:34
PM
XX
7:42
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
XX AM
MR. GEORGE W. BUSH
RES: DALLAS, TX.
214-692-6604
TLKD-OK
INC
9:28 PM
9:30
OUT
AM
INC
PM
OUT
AM
INC
PM
GPO : 1983 0 - 405-660 : QL 2
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
02b. Log
White House Telephone Log [Signal Switchboard] [redaction
02/26/91
(b)(6)
of personal information] (1 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Office of the President
Series:
Daily Files
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Tuesday, February 26, 1991
Date Closed:
6/28/2011
OA/ID Number:
90585-005
FOIA/SYS Case #:
2009-0166-S
Appeal Case #:
Re-review Case #:
Appeal Disposition:
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
Disposition Date:
AR Case #:
MR Case #:
AR Disposition:
MR Disposition:
AR Disposition Date:
MR Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion-of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
PRM. Removed as a personal record misfile
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE MEMORANDUM
SIGNAL SWITCHBOARD
February 26 , 19 91
TIME
PLACED
DISC
NAME
ACTION
OUT
7:15 AM
7:40
Conference Call:
Tlkd-ok
President Vaclav Havel
(b)(6)
7:23 AM
XINCX
PM
OUT
AM
Mr. Robert L. Hutchings
(b)(6)
INC
PM
OUT
AM
Mr. Radovan Pletka
White House Situation Room
INC
PM
White House Signal 2-2264
OUT
AM
Mr. Cornelius F. O'Leary
White House Situation Room
INC
PM
White House Signal 2-2264
OUT
AM
Conference Call:
Tlkd-ok
President Turgut Ozal
2:39 PM
INC
2:36PM
2:52
(b)(6)
OUT
AM
Mr. Cornelius F. O'Leary
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
White House Situation Room
INC
PM
White House Signal 2-2264
OUT
AM
Mr. R. Nicholas Burns
White House Situation Room
INC
PM
White House Signal 2-2264
OUT
AM
Conference Call:
Tlkd-ok
President Hosni Mubarak
3:03 PM
INC
2:55PM
3:09
(b)(6)
OUT
AM
Mr. Cornelius F. O'Leary
White House Situation Room
INC
PM
White House Signal 2-2264
OUT
AM
Mr. David C. Welch
Office, Washington, D.C.
INC
PM
395-3950
OUT
AM
INC
PM
GPO : 1983 0 - 405-660 : QL 2
PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
LOCATION Washington, D.C.
DATE 26 February 1991
TIME
MOVEMENTS
0700
South Grounds
0701
Oval Office
0947
Rose Garden
0951
Oval Office
1002
Cabinet Room
1049
Oval Office
1053
South Grounds
1059
Oval Office
1119
Cabinet Room
1203
Oval Office
1210
South Grounds
1213
State Floor
1311
South Grounds
1321
Oval Office
1417
Room 475, Old Executive Office Building
1435
Oval Office
1530
Roosevelt Room
1537
Oval Office
1545
South Grounds
1547
Depart South Grounds via Motorcade
1555
Arrive Fort Meyer, Virginia
1610
Depart Fort Meyer via Motorcade
1618
Arrive South Grounds
1624
Oval Office
WHCA FORM 15, OCTOBER 15, 1980
PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
LOCATION Washington, D.C.
DATE 26 February 1991
TIME
MOVEMENTS
1700
Barbershop
1736
Oval Office
1824
South Grounds
1826
Doctor's Office
1827
Residence
2010
Doctor's Office
2123
South Grounds
2126,
Residence
WHCA FORM 15, OCTOBER 15, 1980
News Summary
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1991
6:00 A.M. EST EDITION
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Iraqi Withdrawal -- Iraqi occupation troops have evacuated Kuwait
City, a senior Kuwaiti military official told Reuters in Riyadh
Tuesday.
(Reuter)
Saddam Says Iraq Will Complete Withdrawal Tuesday -- President
Saddam Hussein said in an address on Baghdad Radio that Iraqi
troops would complete their withdrawal from Kuwait Tuesday.
(AP, Reuter)
Iraqi Ambassador Presents Withdrawal Plan To U.N. -- Iraq's U.N.
ambassador told the Security Council early Tuesday that Iraq was
pulling out of Kuwait, but indicated Baghdad was rejecting 11 of
the 12 U.N. resolutions related to the seizure of Kuwait.
(AP, Reuter)
Soviets Asking For Cease-Fire In Gulf War -- The Soviet Union said
Tuesday it believes Iraq's announced withdrawal from Kuwait
satisfies "all interested parties" in the Gulf war, and urged the
U.N. to call an immediate cease-fire.
(AP)
Warsaw Pact Disbands Military Union -- The Warsaw Pact formally
agreed Monday to disband as a military alliance, effectively
terminating four decades of Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe.
(Washington Post)
NETWORK NEWS (Monday evening)
BAGHDAD RADIO -- Saddam ordered
his forces to withdraw from
Kuwait "in accordance with a
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
A-1
Soviet peace plan."
NATIONAL NEWS
A-14
'92 ELECTION -- Democrats' only
hope is that the war is over
NETWORK NEWS
B-1
quickly so that by next year
people are again worrying about
EDITORIALS
C-1
the domestic issues on which
the President Bush is more
vulnerable.
This Summary is prepared Monday through Friday by the White House News Summary Staff.
For complete stories or information, please call 456-2950.
INTERNA TIONAL NEWS
IRAQI WITHDRAWAL
RIYADH -- Iraqi occupation troops have evacuated Kuwait city,
a senior Kuwaiti military official told Reuters in Riyadh Tuesday.
The official, in contact with Kuwaiti resistance fighters in
the city, told Reuters: "The city has now been evacuated."
(Reuter)
IRAQI TROOPS SAID WITHDRAWING FROM KUWAIT CITY
RIYADH -- Iraqi troops have begun withdrawing from Kuwait City
and abandoning supplies, Kuwaiti military officials said in the
Saudi capital Tuesday
"A lot of troops are leaving the area. They are leaving lots
of things behind -- their weapons stores and even their helmets,"
a senior military official, who did not want to be identified, told
Reuters. "They are driving out in the hundreds, using any
available means of transportation," he said.
(Reuter)
Allies Fight On; Saddam Says He's Sincere
A U.S. military source said Tuesday there was no sign of
a pullout, but a British commander reported evidence of a
withdrawal
Allied ground operations remained ahead of schedule early
Tuesday and allied warplanes continued pounding Iraqi troops and
supply lines, a senior military source said at the U.S. Central
Command in Riyadh.
The source said, "We don't have any evidence of a withdrawal
at this period. There's still no indication of a significant
amount of movement in any direction, whether north or south.
There's some lateral repositioning of forces. I would speculate
that most of that movement is due to the attacks."
But Sen. Sir Peter de LaBilliere, commander of British forces
in the Gulf, said in Riyadh early Tuesday, "There are indications
that a withdrawal is taking place." However, he gave no other
details, such as whether the withdrawal involved all or a
significant part of the Iraqi forces. (Denholm Bernetson, UPI)
SADDAM SAYS IRAQ WILL COMPLETE WITHDRAWAL TUESDAY
NICOSIA -- President Saddam Hussein said in an address on
Baghdad Radio that Iraqi troops would complete their withdrawal
from Kuwait Tuesday.
"This day our great armed forces will continue its
withdrawal from Kuwait and complete it on this day," he said in a
speech to his nation, monitored in Cyprus
Saddam said that from Monday night, Kuwait was no longer a
part of Iraq.
"Iraqis remember that Kuwait on Aug. 2 became part of Iraq
constitutionally and actually became a part of Iraq
continued for
a period of time from August of 1990 to when the withdrawal started
(on Monday night)
"
"You have faced 30 countries and the evil they have brought
here you have faced the whole world brave Iraqis, he said.
"You have won
you ar victorious."
(Reuter)
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-2
Saddam Orders Withdrawal From Kuwait
Nicosia -- Saddam Hussein said Tuesday that he had ordered his
troops to leave Kuwait, which he said was part of Iraq "until last
night." He said the withdrawal would be complete by day's end.
The Iraqi president declared a moral victory in the six-week
resistance to the military onslaught of the U.S.-led coalition.
"Today we will complete the withdrawal of our forces, God
willing," Saddam said in a Baghdad Radio address.
In Washington and Saudi Arabia, U.S. commanders said they had
no indication that the Iraqis were indeed withdrawing.
A senior Pentagon official said Monday night allied
intelligence sources had reports of "some movement of (Iraqi) units
going north. It's too early to say whether it's repositioning or
withdrawal," said the official.
(AP)
SOVIETS ASKING FOR CEASE-FIRE IN GULF WAR
MOSCOW -- The Soviet Union said Tuesday it believes Iraq's
announced withdrawal from Kuwait satisfies "all interested parties"
in the Gulf war, and urged the U.N. to call an immediate cease-
fire
Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Belonogov said, "We hope
that wisdom, common sense and our conscience would tell us that
this chance should be duly used in order to put an end to
bloodshed. All the necessary prerequisites are thus created for
such an outcome.
Belonogov said the Soviet ambassador at the U.N. had been told
to propose "an immediate decision on the issue of a cease-fire.
He said Iraq "is not posing any pre-conditions" for its troop
pullout.
(Leslie Shephard, AP)
COUNCIL ADJOURNS WITHOUT ANY DECISION, RECONVENES LATER IN DAY
U.N. -- The U.N. Security Council adjourned early Tuesday
without coming to any decision on a cease-fire in the Gulf war.
Informal consultations will resume at about 11:00 a.m. EST on
Iraq's offer to withdraw from Kuwait.
(Reuter)
IRAQI AMBASSADOR PRESENTS WITHDRAWAL PLAN TO U.N.
U.N. -- Iraq's U.N. ambassador told the Security Council early
Tuesday that Iraq was pulling out of Kuwait, but indicated Baghdad
was rejecting 11 of the 12 U.N. resolutions related to the seizure
of Kuwait.
Soviet ambassador Yuli Vorontsov, meanwhile, said President
Gorbachev received a message from Saddam in which the Iraqi leaders
said he was withdrawing from Kuwait.
(AP)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-3
Soviet Envoy Reports Saddam In Touch with Gorbachev
U.N. -- Saddam Hussein has told President Gorbachev he was
prepared to withdraw his troops from Kuwait immediately, Soviet
Ambassador Yuli Vorontsov said Tuesday.
The envoy told a closed-door session of the Security Council
that Gorbachev had just received a message from Saddam which said
the Iraqi leadership had decided to withdraw all its troops
immediately from Kuwait, council sources said.
But U.S. and British officials apparently replied that an
Iraqi envoy had to inform the council directly, the sources said.
Vorontsov later told reporters: "We conveyed just not long
ago a message that has been sent by President Saddam Hussein to
President Gorbachev.
"They say that President Saddam Hussein already gave the order
for withdrawal of all forces of Iraq from Kuwait, that this is
being implemented right now, the troops are moving out and he asked
to convey to the Security Council his request for the cease-fire,"
Vorontsov said.
(Reuter)
BAGHDAD ANNOUNCES RETREAT; ALLIES ENCIRCLING IRAQI FORCES
Radio Baghdad Monday night announced that Saddam Hussein had
ordered his army to make a fighting withdrawal from occupied
Kuwait, a move the White House dismissed as insufficient to end
hostilities as allied forces drove to encircle the embattled Iraqis
before they could escape.
The retreat announcement, broadcast at 1:35 a.m. Monday (5:35
p.m. Tuesday EST), said the Iraqi armed forces had been ordered to
return to the position they occupied before the Aug. 2 invasion of
Kuwait but to fight forcefully any allied effort to stop them.
Late Monday night, after an evening meeting between President
Bush and his national security advisers, spokesman Fitzwater
brusquely dismissed the Iraqi radio announcement as inadequate and
challenged Saddam to "personally and publicly" announce his
willingness to comply with all U.N. resolutions.
Fitzwater said the allies would not attack unarmed Iraqi
soldiers but would continue to fire on forces "moving as a combat
unit." (Rick Atkinson & William Claiborne, Washington Post, A1)
U.S. won't Let Iraq Off Easy
WITH U.S. FORCES IN IRAQ -- Baghdad Radio called early Tuesday
for Iraq's hungry, battered and disorganized forces to give up the
occupation of Kuwait and return to the positions they held before
their Aug. 2 invasion.
But the White House said Iraqi troops must lay down their arms
and walk out of Kuwait if they expect to avoid allied fire
"On the way out of Kuwait, they may hit the U.S. Army, a U.S.
official at the U.N. said. "They lost their opportunity [to
withdraw.
A White House aide in Washington added: "If their troops are
coming up out of Kuwait, they're going to be running into U.S.
forces. They'd better not have weapons when they do."
NBC television said U.S. intelligence had intercepted
communications from Iraqi commanders pleading for Saddam to let
them retreat. The communications said at least seven divisions
could no longer fight.
(Michael Hedges, Washington Times, A1)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-4
IRAQ SAYS IT TROOPS ARE TO BEGIN PULLOUT FROM KUWAIT
Official Radio Says Regime Will Meet U.N. Demand For Withdrawal
AMMAN -- Iraq has ordered its troops to retreat from Kuwait,
in what it termed "practical compliance" with a U.N. resolution
that calls for an unconditional and immediate withdrawal from the
emirate, Baghdad Radio reported early Tuesday morning
The statement said the Iraqi leadership was ordering the
withdrawal on the basis of its earlier "acceptance to withdraw in
accordance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 660 when it agreed
to the Soviet peace proposal
This is regarded as a practical
compliance with Resolution 660.
It was not clear if this implied Iraq was still insisting on
the conditions
attached to the Soviet proposal, although there
were reports that Iraq was ready to comply with Washington's demand
for a rapid pullout.
The statement also made no mention of other U.N. resolutions,
which among other things call for restoration of the legitimate
government of Kuwait and warned Iraq that it was liable for damage
inflicted during its invasion and occupation of Kuwait.
Analysts said Iraq's eleventh-hour offer was aimed at
preserving Saddam Hussein's regime and protecting its elite
Republican Guard.
(Nora Boustany, Washington Post, A6)
PULLOUT ORDER CALLED TOO LATE
Even if it's true that Saddam Hussein wants to quit Kuwait,
allied forces intend to pursue Iraq's reluctant army until it is
disarmed or destroyed.
"The war goes on," White House spokesman Fitzwater said after
rejecting a Radio Baghdad announcement from Saddam telling his
troops to withdraw from Kuwait. Fitzwater warned that fleeing
Iraqi troops taking weapons to Iraq would be attacked "as if they
were in the heat of battle."
Later, after President Bush held an emergency meeting of his
National Security Council, Fitzwater went on national TV and
scoffed at the withdrawal report as the U.N. Security Council took
up a Soviet plea on Iraq's behalf
The no-nonsense public reply masked an
intense Bush
administration commitment not to lose the chance to defang the man
President Bush has called "the bully of the neighborhood."
(News Analysis, Frank Murray, Washington Times, A1)
27 KILLED, 98 WOUNDED IN SCUD ATTACK ON U.S. BARRACKS
RIYADH -- Iraq's deadliest Scud missile attack of the Gulf war
killed 27 American servicemen and wounded 98, a U.S. military
spokesman said Tuesday
The missile's warhead scored a direct hit on the building,
reducing it to a blackened shell of twisted steel girders and
chunks of concrete, witnesses said.
The central command of the U.S.-led military alliance said the
Iraqi rocket broke up in flight, making it unnecessary to fire
Patriots to intercept it
Two more Iraqi missiles were fired at the Gulf countries of
Bahrain and Qatar early Tuesday, but no casualties or damage were
reported.
(Reuter)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-5
ARAB SOLDIERS POISED TO STORM KUWAIT CITY
American-led allied troops reached the Euphrates River
opposite Nasiriyah early today and moved toward the key Iraqi
military city of Basra.
Kuwait City has been surrounded by Arab columns poised to
force their way into the capital, U.S. officials said.
The allies' lightning envelopment would clearly thwart Iraq's
reported order Monday to its forces to pull out of Kuwait -- a
belated "compliance" with the allied demands long since overtaken
by events
Far ahead of schedule and flushed with success, the allies now
expect to capture up to 500,000 prisoners of war as allied forces
seal off escape routes -- in military parlance, the Iraqis are in
the bottle and the allies have the stopper.
American officials say U.S. forces will remain on the
outskirts of both Kuwait City and Basra, to allow Arab soldiers
from Kuwait, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to take the city, and Basra
will remain surrounded both to neutralize it and to prevent it from
becoming a refuge for remnants of the Republican Guard.
(Paul Bedard, Washington Times, A1)
PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR WAR SURGES WITH START OF GROUND ASSAULT
Support for the war with Iraq as well as public confidence in
the way President Bush is handling the conflict surged following
reports of allied successes in the first hours of the ground
offensive, according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll.
Eight out of 10 persons interviewed Sunday backed Bush's
decision to begin the ground war, the survey found.
More than four of 10 persons questioned -- 44 percent -- said
the allies should not end the war until they have taken control of
all of Iraq, not just Kuwait, according to the poll
Overall support for the war with Iraq increased to 84 percent,
with 65 percent of those questioned saying they strongly back the
war effort
Nine out of 10 persons questioned said they approve of the way
Bush has handled the Gulf crisis, with more than seven out of 10
expressing strong support for the President's performance
The poll found that 85 percent of those questioned said the
U.S. did not make a mistake in sending troops to the Gulf, while
13 percent said it did.
(Richard Morin, Washington Post, A6)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-6
Public Shows Support For Land War
The initial reaction of the American public to the start of
the ground war against Iraq is strongly supportive, according to
the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Seventy-five percent of the 687 adults interviewed Sunday
evening said "the United States did the right thing in starting the
ground war against Iraq," while 19 percent said the U.S. should
have "waited longer to see if the bombing from the air worked," and
six percent expressed no opinion.
In looking back at the flurry of diplomacy that preceeded the
outbreak of ground fighting, 77 percent said President Bush had
"tried hard enough to find a diplomatic solution to avoid the
ground war," but 82 percent said Iraq and the U.S. were "so far
apart that a negotiated settlement was not possible."
Support for President Bush jumped after the onset of ground
fighting: 87 percent approved of the way Bush was handling his
job as president, up from 78 percent in a Times/CBS News poll taken
Feb 12-13 before the ground war began.
Concerning the goals of the war, 58 percent said the U.S.
should "continue fighting Iraq until Saddam Hussein is removed from
power," up from 46 percent who expressed that view in the mid-
February poll.
(Michael Kagay, New York Times, A17)
MAJOR PLUSES SEEN FOR BUSH
President Bush will reap major political, economic and foreign
policy dividends if the war against Iraq is won quickly and with
few American casualties, according to Democratic and Republican
analysts.
Some see the President emerging as a "war hero" who
demonstrated world leadership in a major crisis.
"Bush will be strengthened politically if we win this quickly
and it will give pause to a number of Democrats who might otherwise
be thinking of running against him," said Stuart Eizenstat, a
veteran Democratic Party adviser.
Eizenstat said a positive outcome to the war would also
"undercut any chances an opponent might have against Bush in the
GOP primaries."
"To the degree that the war has had a major political impact,
it has allowed Bush to act as commander in chief and show strong
leadership, and that will inure to his political benefit, " said
Democratic strategist Tom Donilon. "This was a guy who was in a
serious downslide in 1990 and his leadership in the Gulf war has
stopped that slide. And that will help him in 1992."
"I would say that the political landscape has already been
changed as a result of the war," said Democratic pollster Peter
Hart. "It has been the defining moment of Bush's presidency
Clearly, he'll be remembered for all time as the President who led
us in the Gulf war."
(Donald Lambro, Washington Times, A3)
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-7
SADDAM TRYING TO SHAPE TERMS OF HIS DOWNFALL
AMMAN -- Even as he was seemingly conceding defeat to the
massive allied ground assault, there were signs early Tuesday that
Saddam Hussein was trying to shape the terms of his downfall and
craftily manipulate his survival.
To be sure, a surprise statement issued on Baghdad Radio
declaring that Iraqi troops had been ordered to retreat from Kuwait
seemed like a bitter pill for Saddam. But the circumstances of the
offer showed efforts by the Iraqi president to make it sweeter.
For example, the broadcast attributed the announcement to an
official Iraqi spokesman, not Saddam himself. Such a distinction
would allow Saddam to put his own peculiar spin on exactly what the
statement meant.
It also linked the withdrawal to the aborted Soviet efforts
for diplomacy, a move probably designed to curry favor in the
Kremlin for isolated Iraq.
At the same time, it included a jab of Baghdad-style
belligerence: "Our armed forces, which have proven their ability
to fight and stand fast, will confront any attempt to harm them
while they are carrying out the withdrawal order."
(Carol Rosenberg, Knight-Ridder)
GRIP ON SOUTH IRAQ OFFERS LEVERAGE TO ALLIES
American-led armored columns pursuing the Republican Guard
expected to seize control of Iraq's strategic southern peninsula,
creating "a reality on the ground" that exerts postwar leverage on
Baghdad, senior administration officials said Monday
A senior Pentagon official said the U.S. expects to finish the
war "in possession of a large chunk of southeastern Iraq" and will
use its position to influence the terms of peace. Those terms
could include forcing Iraq to demilitarize and to allow intrusive
international inspection of its arms facilities.
Significantly, officials also said allied forces would cut off
the Guards' escape routes north and west of Basra and prevent them
from returning intact to the Iraqi heartland. By forcing the
Guards to surrender or fight, they said, the allies aim to break
the back of Saddam Hussein's military machine and strike directly
at his grip on the Baghdad government.
(Barton Gellman & David Hoffman, Washington Post, A6)
U.S. Could Hold Iraqi Territory Until Baghdad Agrees To Peace
If the Bush administration needs a club to dictate terms to
a defeated Saddam Hussein, the American troops now knifing across
vast stretches of Iraqi territory have provided it -- turf.
The administration has said it has no intention of carving up
Iraq after the war. But according to some senior officials,
American and allied forces may end up holding strategic areas of
Iraq that could be used as leverage if the Iraqi president refused
to negotiate an end to the war
"Not only will we be on Iraqi territory, but we'll have tens
of thousands of Iraqi troops bottled up in the south" along the
Kuwaiti border, said a State Department official who spoke on
condition of anonymity, "But if Saddam still sits in Baghdad
issuing belligerent statements, holding allied prisoners and
refusing to negotiate, that could be really messy."
(Michael Putzel, AP)
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-8
BUSH'S SPENDING REQUEST FOR WAR RAISES CONCERN ON HILL
At Issue Is Whether Congress or The Pentagon Should
Control Funds Contributed By Foreign Governments
The Bush administration's spending request for the Gulf war
has reignited the struggle between Congress and the White House
over control of the contributions foreign governments are making
to the U.S. war effort.
Lawmakers had thought they had settled the issue last fall
when they passed legislation specifying that the Pentagon could not
spend any of the donated funds without congressional approval.
But when Bush submitted his $15 billion supplemental spending
request Friday, OMB Director Darman proposed setting up an unusual
special account that would allow Secretary Cheney to spend money
contributed by foreign governments without a congressional
appropriation. The only oversight would be provided by Darman's
office
Some lawmakers view the administration's proposed arrangement
as an encroachment of Congress' constitutional role of overseeing
federal spending and they fear the administration could spend the
money on items not directly related to the war.
"There'll be some tightening up of the language" in the Bush
proposal to put restrictions on the President's freedom to direct
the funds, a Senate Appropriations Committee aide said Monday.
"There is some concern about control over things."
(John Yang, Washington Post, A15)
FRENCH-U.S. RELATIONS BLOSSOM AMID DESERT STORM
Bush's Popularity Soars In A Land Where Washington-Bashing
Once Was Favorite Pastime
PARIS -- Plagued by doubts' and suspicions before the combat
began, France's relations with the U.S. have flourished amid the
overwhelming battlefield success thus far in the Gulf war.
The government here has been showing uncustomary fealty toward
Washington, which is enjoying new-found popularity and admiration
among the French public. On the battlefield, the performance of
French troops has won the respect of their American peers
After disturbing the allies by seeking to negotiate a last-
minute deal for an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, France has been
what one diplomat called "an irreproachable team player" in joining
the U.S. and Britain to demand Iraq's unconditional pullout
A national survey published Monday revealed that 75 percent
of the population approves of George Bush's handling of the Gulf
crisis, an astounding result in a country where criticizing
American leadership is a popular pastime. French support for
Mitterrand's war policy and backing for the country's military role
earned even higher scores.
(William Drozdiak, Washington Post, A10)
"ПОТЭ"
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-9
SOVIET OFFICIAL GLOSSES OVER PROBLEMS WITH U.S. ON GULF WAR
A senior Soviet official said that the Soviet Union's
partnership with the U.S. remains intact despite open differences
over the issue of negotiating a cease-fire to the Gulf war.
Vlacheslav Matouzov, a Soviet embassy counselor specializing
in Middle East affairs, also said Moscow now favors limits on the
amount of outside arms going to the Middle East.
Speaking to the Overseas Writers, Matouzov said Monday those
limits should apply especially to "weapons of mass destruction,"
including ballistic missiles, chemical and biological and nuclear
weapons.
He said the Soviet Union, with its southern border only 100
miles from some of the Gulf ground battle sites, has legitimate and
lasting interests in the region and wants to maintain the "new
world order."
Geography aside, Matouzov said the Soviets have what he
described as demographic reasons for remaining involved in the
Middle East. One includes a large and growing Islamic population
in Soviet republics such as Uzbekistan.
(Jim Anderson, UPI)
STUDENT DEMONSTRATORS, POLICE CLASH IN CAIRO
CAIRO -- Thousands of Cairo University students protesting
against the Gulf war Monday chanted "death to America" and hurled
rocks and bricks at riot police, who responded with tear gas
The students, estimated by an Interior Ministry official to
number 8,000, burned American and Israeli flags and shouted,
"Saddam, you are our beloved; tomorrow you will enter Tel Aviv,"
and "Mubarak, you are a coward and an American agent."
(Washington Post, A10)
JAPAN'S KAIFU SAYS IRAQ MUST QUIT KUWAIT, ATTACKED ON AID
TOKYO -- Prime Minister Kaifu, signalling firm support for
Washington, said Tuesday any Iraqi offer to withdraw from Kuwait
must be unconditional.
Opposition party legislators lashed out at the prime minister
in parliament, saying he should have placed conditions on Japan's
offer of $9 billion to the J.S.-led Gulf force.
The only acceptable truce would be one that complied with all
U.N. resolutions to end the occupation of Kuwait, Kaifu told a
lower house committee.
"We can only expect a change (in the situation) if there is
an immediate and unconditional withdrawal," he said.
(Reuter)
CHINA SAYS IT'S READY TO HELP REBUILD THE GULF
BEIJING -- China, which had thousands of workers in the Middle
East before the Gulf crisis, is ready to help in post-war
reconstruction, the official China Daily reported Tuesday.
Yang Zhiyuan, a deputy director of the State Administration
of Building Material Industry, told the newspaper in an interview
that China was negotiating with a country in the Gulf for a
cooperative program to rebuild after the war.
He declined to identify the country, the newspaper said.
(Reuter)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-10
WORLD HEALTH OFFICIAL SEES THREAT OF EPIDEMIC IN IRAQ
Lack of Clean Drinking Water Judged the Worst Problem
The allied bombing of Iraq has left so much of the country
without safe water or sewage treatment facilities that intestinal
infections among children have quadrupled and the country is facing
the threat of typhoid and cholera outbreaks, according to a World
Health Organization official who returned from Iraq last week.
(Susan Okie, Washington Post, A12)
QUARTER OF KUWAIT'S POPULATION REPORTED TO BE CASUALTIES
LOS ANGELES -- As much as 25 percent of Kuwait's civilian
population may be dead, injured or suffering from diseases such as
cholera and dysentery by the time the Gulf war is over, the Los
Angeles Times said Tuesday, quoting an Army report.
The newspaper said the figures are contained in a detailed
analysis prepared by Army civilian affairs units to prepare allied
forces on what to expect in the aftermath of the war.
(Reuter)
REFUGEES DESCRIBE IRAQI ATROCITIES IN KUWAIT
RUWEISHED, Jordan -- Residents of Kuwait who fled before the
allied land offensive was launched Sunday are arriving here with
tales of murder, torture and mass disappearance at the hands of
Iraqi soldiers.
The reports from refugees here at the Iraqi-Jordanian border
lend credence to the allegations made in Riyadh Monday by allied
commanders that Iraqi soldiers were murdering, raping and
mutilating hundreds of civilians in Kuwait City.
(Nora Boustany, Washington Post, A12)
U.S. PLANES SIGHT HUGE NEW OIL SLICK BENEATH SMOKE CLOUD
BAHRAIN -- U.S. Coast Guard pilots have detected a huge new
Gulf oil slick, potentially the most damaging yet, beneath dense
smoke pouring from burning Kuwaiti oilfields.
Experts at the environmental conference in Bahrain Tuesday
said a slick tens of miles long was sighted Sunday by planes
searching for further pollution damage to the already ravaged Gulf
environment.
"This is new, Abdullah Baddagh, head of research at King Fahd
University of Petroleum and Minerals, announced to the meeting of
the Regional Organization for the Protection of the Environment.
The position of the slick, combined with Gulf wind and tidal
patterns, could create pollution for months to come over a much
wider area than other confirmed spills, he told Reuters. (Reuter)
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-11
QUICK WAR'S END A BOON TO CONSUMERS BUT RECESSION MAY LINGER
A speedy end to the Gulf war would be a boon for consumers
whose confidence has been so battered by war and job fears that
spending has nearly dried up, economists said Monday.
Peace would boost an economy largely fueled by consumer's
willingness to buy goods and services, but it won't necessarily
bring the country out of recession by itself
"Most of the expectations that arose with the start of the
war, like higher inflation because of the draining of resources and
higher oil prices, already have been discounted," noted Chris
Bedowski, an economist with Cahners Economics Inc. of Newton, Mass.
In other words, the worst fears about war's impact on a shaky
economy were not realized, so the benefits from ending the conflict
may be similarly less apparent
"There is more debt and interest burden by any measure [than
at any time] since the Depression," said Philip Braverman of DKB
Securities of New York.
(Glenn Somerville, Reuter)
WAR COSTLY ON THE HOME FRONT TOO
Bush Seeks Extra $89.8 Million
For Emergency Civilian Spending
The Gulf war has forced increased government spending on the
home front as well as the front lines.
President Bush has asked Congress for $89.8 million to pay for
additional war-related civilian costs ranging from increased
security at foreign embassies in the U.S. to the added expenses the
Voice of America has incurred covering the war. Quick
congressional approval is expected.
Bush designated the additional spending as emergency
requirements under last year's budget agreement that allows them
to be added without penalty to the federal budget deficit,
projected to be a record $318.1 billion.
(Gary Lee, Washington post, A19)
PENTAGON ORDERED TO EXPLAIN MEDIA RULES
IN GROUND ASSAULT
NEW YORK -- A federal judge ordered the Pentagon to explain
how the ground offensive affects rules governing media access in
the Persian Gulf. The demand by U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand
of Manhattan came early in the first business day after Secretary
Cheney announced a blackout on information about the war. The
blackout, imposed Saturday, has been eased. Sand gave the Pentagon
until noon Thursday to respond in writing to two questions:
-- Now that Operation Desert Storm has entered a new
operational stage, is there any intent to revise or lift the
regulations on media coverage previously furnished to this court?
If so, when and in what respect?
-- If the Pentagon answers no, Sand asked, "When, if ever, is
it intended that said regulations will be revised or lifted?"
Justice Department spokesman Joe Krovinsky said attorney Neil
Koslowe, who is the Pentagon's lawyer, is preparing a response to
Sand's questions. He would not comment further.
(Vera Haller, AP)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-12
JUDGE REFUSES TO OPEN BASE TO PRESS, PUBLIC
A federal judge refused to force the Pentagon to open an Air
Force base to the press and public when the bodies of American
soldiers are returned to the U.S. from the Gulf war.
The ACLU had sued, saying that the Bush Administration and the
Pentagon were unconstitutionally trying to hide some of the horrors
of war from the American public by closing Dover Air Force base
when dead soldiers are returned.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth indicated he would hear
additional arguments late next week.
(Dan Carmichael, UPI)
'WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN?'
RIYADH -- Among the Iraqi soldiers taken prisoner in the
allied ground attack was an unlikely warrior who spoke English with
a Chicago accent and was wearing Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt
bearing the name of the Windy City, a senior military source said
Tuesday.
"When we found him, he said, 'Where the hell have you guys
been?'" the source said.
The prisoner turned out to be a college student in the U.S.
who was drafted into Saddam's army while in Iraq visiting his
grandmother, the military source said.
The captured man told allied troops that he wore Bermuda
shorts and the Chicago T-shirt "to show that I don't have any part
in this," the source said.
(UPI)
WARSAW PACT DISBANDS MILITARY UNION
Soviet-Led Alliance That Crushed East European Reforms
Now An 'Empty Shell'
BUDAPEST -- The Warsaw Pact formally agreed Monday to disband
as a military alliance, effectively terminating four decades of
Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe.
"The military bloc system as such has come to an end today,"
said Hungarian Foreign Minister Jeszenszky, who hosted an event he
described as "a very important formality."
A declaration signed here by foreign and defense ministers
from the Soviet Union and five East European countries said the
"member states of the Warsaw Treaty, acting as sovereign states
with equal rights, decided that by March 31, 1991, they will
dismantle the military organs and structure of the treaty."
(Blaine Harden, Washington Post, A16)
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-13
ADMINISTRATION NOT UPSET AT COLUMBIA ON EXTRADITION ISSUE
Bush administration officials said they have no quarrel with
President Gaviria's efforts to get drug traffickers to surrender
by promising they will not be extradited to the U.S.
"Our interest and Colombia's interest is in putting narco-
traffickers behind bars," said one of two officials who briefed
reporters on the eve of Gaviria's visit to the White House. "The
most important issue is not whether those bars are manufactured and
located in the United States or Colombia," he said
Gaviria and Bush will discuss the war against drug traffickers
as well as trade, agricultural and other issues in talks in the
Oval Office and a working luncheon Tuesday. They may sign a
judicial cooperation agreement on sharing evidence.
(Christopher Connell, AP)
THAI MONARCHY LEGALIZES MILITARY TAKEOVER
BANGKOK -- King Bhumibol Adulyadej gave unprecedented official
approval Tuesday to the military junta that seized power and asked
all government officials to follow its instructions.
A proclamation from the revered monarch said Saturday's
military coup d'etat was justified "because it appears the
government of Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhaven failed to
administer the country in a way that earned the trust of the people
and failed to preserve good order."
(UPI)
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NATIONAL NEWS
BUSH CALLS MILITARY A PATH OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
President Bush Monday dismissed questions about the relatively
high proportion of blacks in the armed services, calling the
military "the greatest equal opportunity employer around."
Speaking to an East Room audience in honor of Black History
Month, Bush said those who enlisted in the services did so "because
they know it is a place of openness and true meritocracy and
because they know that every serviceman and women receives equal
training, and equal treatment every step of the way. "
Rep.
Conyers said the [higher percentage of blacks in the
military than in the general population] represents "economic
conscription, a turning to the military for lack of opportunity
in civilian life
Monday Bush ticked off the names of senior black military
officers
Gen. Powell, Bush said, "challenged the rest of this
country to create the same paths of opportunity which we have in
the military.
If
In his speech, Bush recounted stories of black Americans who
have served in all the nation's wars. He insisted that he is
"committed to civil rights and opportunity" and gave a sense of
what his theme will be this year when Congress and the White House
engage in another effort to pass new rights legislation.
"We must write a new chapter in the history of civil rights,"
Bush said, "a chapter that says opportunity must replace despair."
Opportunity, he said, means education, freedom from drugs, jobs,
home ownership, safety and social programs aimed at keeping
families together and healthy. (Ann Devroy, Washington Post, A17)
Blacks Are Hailed By Bush For Their Role In Military
Responding to complaints that there are a disproportionate
number of blacks in the Gulf forces, President Bush Monday called
the American military "the greatest equal opportunity employer
around" and praised black military heroes, living and dead.
"For two centuries, black soldiers have established a record
of pride in the face of incredible obstacles, " Bush said at a White
House ceremony marking February as "black history month.
During the ceremony, Bush hugged Gen. Powell
before a
battery of news cameras
Bush's speech drew loud applause from his audience, but mixed
reactions from civil rights organizations. Some lauded Bush's
sentiments, but argued that many blacks join the military because
it represents their only chance for advancement.
Wade Henderson, director of the Washington office of the
NAACP, called Bush's remarks "a tad simplistic."
Franklin Jennifer, president of Howard University in
Washington, applauded Bush's concerns but said the military "should
be one of the many options for African Americans, and it has not
been replicated by similar circumstances in industry and
government."
(Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times, A17)
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Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- A-15
GOVERNORS WANT MORE VOICE IN MEDICAID PLANNING
The nation's governors urged Congress to give states more
flexibility in any expansion of the Medicaid system to make health
care available to more uninsured Americans.
Gov. Castle, vice chairman of the National Governors' Task
Force on Health Care, told a congressional subcommittee that states
understand that the already strained Medicaid program will play a
key role in expanding care to the uninsured. But, he said, the
federal government must work with the governors as changes are made
in the program
"I would just ask for flexibility in that,' Castle told the
Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health for Families and the
Uninsured. "I'm not sure continuous expansions of Medicaid with
mandates is really the correct answer in terms of providing
universal health care coverage or even targeting it in the right
areas."
(Deborah Mesce, AP)
SLOW AIR TRAFFIC SYSTEM MODERNIZATION ASSAILED
AT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING
LOS ANGELES -- Slow modernization of the nation's air traffic
control system puts lives at risk in the air and on the ground,
federal safety officials said at a congressional hearing.
Testimony at the local hearing of the House Government
Activities and Transportation Subcommittee included criticism from
Mayor Tom Bradley, who said accidents like the Feb. 1 runway
collision at Los Angeles International Airport that killed 34
people could have been prevented.
The hearings, chaired by Rep. Boxer, targeted the Los Angeles
collision and a runway collision at Detroit Metropolitan Airport
on Dec. 3 that killed eight people
National Transportation Safety Board investigators said most
of the people who died in the USAir jet survived the impact but
died trying to escape smoke and fire in the cabin. The NTSB found
a 20-year-old ground radar system at the airport was not working
and that the USAir jet cabin was not equipped with advanced fire
retardant materials.
(Lee Siegel, AP)
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NETWORK NEWS
(Monday evening, February 25 -- all networks went one hour.)
IRAQI PULLOUT OFFER
ABC's Peter Jennings: We begin with what we believe is the latest
news: Late this evening, Baghdad Radio carried an announcement,
allegedly from Saddam, ordering his troops to withdraw from Kuwait.
He said they should do so in accordance with the Soviet Union's
plan for a political settlement of the war, which President Bush
turned down three days ago. At the time, the Iraqis had said they
would begin the pullout after the ceasefire, which the President
rejected. We're not quite sure exactly what all this means.
ABC's Brit Hume: The White House isn't quite sure what all this
means, either. The President was up on Capitol Hill playing
paddleball this afternoon when the wire service reports, which is
all that the White House says it has seen of these, hit, and he was
contacted about it. His press spokesman Fitzwater said after a
conversation with him, and I quote, "We have no contact about this
with our government, no authoritative contact with the U.N. We
don't think there is anything to respond to; the war goes on." As
it happens, I discussed this very kind of a scenario with a senior
Administration official a little earlier this afternoon. He told
me that if the Iraqis were suddenly to announce that they would
withdraw from Kuwait without conditions, the United States would
not agree to a cease-fire, but instead would either agree to talk
about it without stopping the fighting, or would set up some test
that the Iraqis would immediately have to meet to prove that this
was legitimate. Failing that, however, there's not going to be any
change at the White House.
Jennings reports the Iraqi ambassador to the U.N. said he did not
believe what he said people were hearing on Baghdad Radio, and the
Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. said as far as he was concerned, the
Iraqis in Kuwait would have to surrender.
(ABC-Lead)
CBS's Dan Rather: Saddam tonight ordered his forces to withdraw
from Kuwait. Baghdad Radio says the decision was made "in
accordance with a Soviet peace plan." That's a plan already
rejected by President Bush and the American allies. Baghdad Radio
quoted an official spokesman as saying that in compliance with
Saddam's decision, "orders were issued to the armed forces for an
organized withdrawal to the positions in which they were before the
first of August, 1990.' First reaction from the White House: the
war goes on.
CBS's Wyatt Andrews: As far as the White House is concerned, this
offer is going nowhere. Spokesman Fitzwater just moments ago said
that because this did not involve official contact between Iraq and
the U.N., "the war goes on." What came out of here is a very clear
signal that Iraq can surrender on Soviet terms all they like, but
it won't matter at the White House.
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Andrews continues: Fitzwater reiterated that the President's
ultimatum of last Friday is still on the table, but he interpreted
that to mean that Iraq must now publicly say yes to all 12 U.N.
resolutions in addition to pulling their troops out of Kuwait.
There's just a simple feeling here that now that the war has been
joined, that now that the Scud was launched today and 500 oil wells
are on fire, there will be no negotiations, no benefit of the
doubt.
(CBS-Lead)
NBC's John Cochran reports the President is not prepared to accept
the Iraqi proposal. They are very concerned in the Administration
about what will happen when Iraqi tanks, even if they are trying
to retreat, run across American forces. So we will continue to
attack them because we don't want these people to have their
firepower when they run across American troops. President Bush
received word of this news that the Iraqis said they would withdraw
on Capitol Hill, where he was engaged in a game of paddleball. A
short time ago, however, spokesman Fitzwater said, "We have not
received news of the Iraqi withdrawal from an authoritative source;
therefore, the war goes on."
NBC's Tom Brokaw: Do they see this as another card for the Soviet
Union? Gorbachev has been trying hard to keep his Soviet peace
plan alive, even going to the U.N.
Cochran: The Soviets were up to their elbows this afternoon. They
again were trying to advance a new peace initiative, some of the
details of which are unclear. Part of the problem is the White
House is saying that the way the Iraqis retreat is to have this
announced at the U.N. However, we're not sure the Iraqi ambassador
has communications to Baghdad. It's not clear he could announce
it if he wanted to.
(NBC-2)
Brokaw: It is a night of desperation from Baghdad, a night of
triumph for Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait and Iraq, and here in
Saudi Arabia it is a night of tragedy for 12 American Army
reservists killed in a Scud missile attack, and 40 others are
missing. That Scud attack came about five hours before Saddam
Hussein announced on Baghdad Radio that he was prepared to withdraw
his troops from Kuwait under provisions of the Soviet peace plan.
Will that fly with the U.S. military command and President Bush?
NBC's Fred Francis reports from the Pentagon that Iraqi troops will
not have safe passage. Under previously dictated policy by this
Administration, they have to leave their equipment in place if they
want to withdraw. Baghdad has almost no communications with its
troops in the field. Today, U.S. intelligence intercepted
communications from Iraqi commanders pleading with Baghdad to allow
them to retreat.
(NBC-Lead)
CBS's Bob Faw reports from the U.N. on the Baghdad report. The
President of the Security Council, when told of the report, said
it was welcome news indeed if it's true. He hinted the Security
Council would meet soon thereafter. But the Saudi ambassador said
it was too little, too late, and the Kuwaiti representative said
to not get too excited over something we hear over Baghdad Radio.
Earlier there was a great deal of activity when the USSR ambassador
said Iraq would favor the coalition proposals for a cease-fire.
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Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- B-3
Faw continues: But after a short informal session, it became clear
the government of Iraq could do no such thing and could only second
what had been worked out in Moscow.
(CBS-2)
CBS's David Martin reports from the Pentagon on the pullout offer.
The Iraqi army is not surrounded, and can still retreat, if it
wants to. Officials have said repeatedly that the U.S. is not
going to shoot retreating Iraqi soldiers in the back.
(CBS-3)
SCUD ATTACKS
Jennings: Although Iraq is fearing the pressure, President Bush
this morning said there are battles yet to come and casualties to
be borne. How right he was. The air raid sirens wailed in Saudi
Arabia after dark, and this time an Iraqi Scud did serious damage
when it plunged into a U.S. barracks. Twelve Americans were
killed, 40 are missing, and 25 are injured -- more confirmed dead
in Saudi Arabia than in the entire Kuwait theater, where four
Americans are known to have died. The Marine commander, Gen.
Walter Boomer, says the massive assault should be over in a matter
of days, not weeks. The military briefer in Saudi Arabia said this
morning that terrorism had been Iraq's only success.
ABC's Sam Donaldson reports on the Scud attack in Riyadh. A
portion of the missile, probably the warhead, crashed directly into
a two-story building housing U.S. service personnel. The U.S.
Command in Saudi Arabia said the missile was breaking up in the air
by itself, a common occurrence for Scuds these days, and therefore
no Patriot missiles were fired to intercept it. The command said
it was scattered debris that fell over the area.
CBS's Harry Smith: The U.S. military says it appeared the Scud may
have broken up in flight. Cearly, the results suggest otherwise.
Jennings reports Iraq fired two more Scuds at Israel today. Iraq
said it was aimed at the Israeli nuclear reactor at Danona in the
Negev Desert. Israel said both fell harmlessly. (ABC-2, CBS-4)
Andrews: The President gave what was, in effect, his first report
card to the nation today, reporting that things were going well.
But he spoke just hours before that Scud hit the Army barracks
outside of Dhahran. Almost as if he predicted or foresaw that
attack, Bush predicted that the allies would suffer some setbacks.
(President Bush: "The liberation of Kuwait is on course and on
schedule. We have the initiative, we intend to keep it. We must
guard against euphoria, and there are battles yet to come and
casualties to be borne.")
Despite his appeal for caution, the President is obviously
confident. He's already talking about what comes next.
(President Bush: "And our success in the Gulf will bring with it
not just a new opportunity for peace and stability in a critical
part of the world, but a chance to build a New World Order based
upon the principles of collective security and the rule of law.")
As it turned out, the entire national security team was briefing
the President at the very moment that the Scud attack on the army
barracks was launched. The White House later termed that attack
tragic, but saw it as a bit of luck that will not alter the outcome
of the war.
(CBS-8)
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- B-4
GROUND WAR/PENTAGON
Jennings reports the Pentagon believes now that 30 percent of the
Iraqi air force has either been destroyed or is out of commission
in Iran. Forty-five percent of Iraqi tanks deployed in Kuwait and
southern Iraq have been destroyed, as have 48 percent of the
artillery and 42 percent of the armored vehicles.
(ABC-5)
ABC's Bob Zelnick reports from the Pentagon. Pentagon sources say
that in the next 24 hours, the heavily armored allied Seventh Corps
is expected to move against Iraq's Republican Guard divisions to
prevent them from reinforcing units inside Kuwait. U.S. officials
say that when elements of the Seventh Corps made contact with
forward Guard units today, they destroyed 35 of the Guard's top-
of-the-line T-72 tanks as they tried to probe allied positions.
Pentagon sources say a second major battle is likely on the
outskirts of Kuwait city. Military sources say Iraq's heavily
armored Third Corps has formed a formidable defensive line south
of the city, and poses an especially strong threat to the left
flank of two Marine divisions advancing from the south. Saudi,
Egyptian and other Arab coalition forces are supposed to spearhead
the attack on Kuwait City, and privately Pentagon officials express
disappointment that the slow advance of Egyptian and Syrian forces
prevented the battle from beginning today, Kuwait's Independence
Day. Military strategists say a massive amphibious assault by more
than 20,000 Marines now positioned off the coast off Kuwait could
relieve pressure on the advancing allied forces.
(ABC-9)
Martin says the allied campaign is still about 12 hours ahead of
schedule. But today was a tougher day of fighting than Monday.
We're probably about 24 to 36 hours away from the great tank battle
everyone is anticipating between the U.S. armored forces and the
Republican Guards in southern Iraq.
(CBS-7)
AMPHIBIOUS LANDING
CBS's Juan Vasquez reports that the amphibious Marine landing has
been delayed because the sea lanes approaching Kuwait are densely
mined. A ranking naval officer said the Navy was surprised at the
extent and complexity of the minefields. There are unconfirmed
reports of fighting on Failaka Island, which may yet be a target
for the Marines because of its strategic location.
(CBS-15)
Jennings reports that at the beginning of the land war, there were
reports that allied forces had recaptured the island of Failaka,
which commands the entrance to Kuwait Bay. The reports appear to
have been premature. Today we were told that the island continues
to be occupied by Iraqi defense forces, but is being shelled by
allied ships offshore.
(ABC-12)
IRAQI POWs
ABC's Bill Redeker reports on the allied ground attack and the
flood of Iraqis being taken prisoner. The allied troops reported
meeting increased opposition as they pushed deeper into Iraqi
territory today. There is no information on how many Iraqis have
died. In some cases, U.S. forces performed quick burials for those
they just killed.
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Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- B-5
Jennings: The Pentagon is reporting isolated examples of Iraqis
putting down their weapons and going north to Iraq.
(ABC-3)
ABC's Barry Serafin reports on the Iraqi POWs. U.S. officials
acknowledge that the prisoners captured so far are mostly front-
line conscripts, and not the Republican Guard.
(ABC-11,
NBC-4)
CBS's Martha Tichener reports that there is a real danger that so
many prisoners will slow down the war. One advancing unit took a
look at an approaching procession of surrendering Iraqis and kept
right on going, telling them, "We don't have time for you now."
The prisoners taken so far represent almost 4 percent of the Iraqi
army, and the allies believe that by war's end, more than 20
percent will have been taken prisoner. The allies planned for
100,000 prisoners but can handle twice that, so there is no need
for forced marches on foot -- yet.
(CBS-14)
ABC's Forrest Sawyer reports from with the Arab allied forces.
(Iragi POW: "I tell you that the morale is not good. This is
important for any army.")
One U.S. source says huge caches of abandoned weapons were found
in Iraqi bunkers; enough, he said, to stop the attack if there had
been a will to fight. The prisoners said they simply didn't want
to fight their Arab brothers. All of the prisoners had chemical
weapons suits and gas masks, but several prisoners said there were
no chemical weapons on the Iraqi side; one said that it is up to
the division commander, but that he did not know himself. (ABC-4)
CBS's Bob McKeown reports from Kuwait with the allied force heading
for Kuwait City.
(CBS-6)
ABC's Linda Pattillo reports from with the Second Division Marines
in Kuwait. Second Division commanders are warning their Marines
that the worst fighting may be yet to come, and that they have yet
to confront Iraq's best troops. Incoming artillery is proving that
the Iraqis are not yet ready to stop fighting.
(ABC-10)
GROUND WAR/IRAQ
ABC's Bill Blakemore reports from Baghdad (cleared by Iraqui
censors) on the Iraqi view of the war. The wind was bringing into
Baghdad from the southwest today a thick, moist fog mixed with
black oil smoke, turning the afternoon into an oily-smelling
twilight. "Dark skies for dark days," some Iraqis told CBS.
Meanwhile, Iraqi newspapers had headlines like, "They've Advanced
and We're Mowing Them Down." Baghdad Radio said all new allied
advances have been driven back, inflicting heavy casualties.
Iraqis can also pick up the Voice of America and the BBC on their
radios, which give a very different account.
(ABC-7)
NBC's Tom Aspell, in a censored report, says from Baghdad that the
military communiques broadcast in Baghdad lifted spirits. There
was no mention of the large number of prisoners the allies claim
to have captured. Should the foreign forces enter southern Iraq,
Aspell says, we might be in for a different story. The Iraqis
might fight very hard to defend their own country.
(NBC-3)
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Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- B-6
GULF WAR/POLL
Rather reports a new poll shows overwhelming support holding up for
the ground war. The support for U.S. forces was strong going in,
and it continues for forcing Saddam out. These feelings run wide
and deep on the home front.
CBS's Bruce Morton reports on the results of a CBS News/New York
Times Poll taken Sunday night (687 respondents surveyed; plus or
minus 4% error). The poll asked: Even though the U.N. authorized
the use of force only to get Iraq out of Kuwait, should the U.S.
continue fighting until Saddam is removed from power? A solid
majority said yes (58% yes, 35% no.) Even if removing Saddam costs
several thousand additional American lives, those who want him out
said it would be worth that cost (66% yes, 21% no.) Three-
quarters of those sampled thought President Bush had done the right
thing in starting a ground war instead of waiting longer to see if
bombing alone would win (75% yes, 19% no.) By an even bigger
margin, the sample thought the U.S. and Iraq were so far apart a
negotiated settlement was not possible (82% no, 11% yes.) The
people think the war is going well so far. But a majority thought
the war would last weeks (51%) or months (18%) only about one in
five thought it would be over in just days (22%). Asked if the war
was worth several thousand American lives, the sample said yes (52%
yes, 34% no); men by better than two-to-one (65% yes, 25% no),
while women were evenly divided (40% yes, 42% no). With the war
going so well, it's not surprising our sample thinks President Bush
is doing well: 87% approve of the job he's doing as President.
That's the same approval rating Harry Truman got after VE-Day,
after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
(Man: "I think Bush is doing alright. I don't have any problems
with the man. I don't think there's any other way he could have
avoided the war.")
The people polled were less happy with President Gorbachev. Asked
if his efforts to negotiate a settlement were meant to bring about
peace or increase Soviet influence in the Gulf, the sample
lopsidedly said Gorbachev was seeking the power.
(CBS-10)
GULF WAR/DEMOCRATS
NBC's Andrea Mitchell: This is an image Democrats would love to
erase:
(TV Coverage of Gov. Dukakis riding in tank.)
And this:
(TV Coverage of President Carter with advisors seated on couches
in the Oval Office.)
And this:
(TV Coverage, still photo of Sen. McGovern.)
For two decades, Democrats have tried to shake off the perception
that they are weak on foreign policy and defense. And now just a
year before the first presidential caucuses, they face an incumbent
President whose popularity, at least for the moment, is soaring on
good news from the front.
(TV Coverage of the President being cheered at Patriot missile
plant.)
(Geoffrey Garin, Democratic strategist: "We've always had a burden
of proof. Now I think the burden's going to be a little bit
higher, and the Democrats are going to have to show that they're
up to the job.")
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Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- B-7
Mitchell continues: It's even a dilemma for Sam Nunn, who has a
strong record on defense. In Dallas today, he praised Bush's
handling of the crisis.
(Sen. Nunn: "At stake is much more than even the outcome of the
1992 presidential campaign. At stake is America's position in the
world.")
But Nunn's earlier opposition to the war prompted this billboard
back home, where Nunn's support among white male conservatives have
dropped 20 points.
(TV Coverage of billboard calling Nunn "Saddam's best friend.")
Mario Cuomo is also on the defensive, trying to explain his
suggestion last fall that we should negotiate with Iraq.
(Gov. Cuomo: "Well, if you want to talk about settlement as
compared to war, a settlement means you have to make compromises.
What that means is that you have to give something.")
Antiwar senators up for reelection are also trying to rewrite
history. Alan Dixon in January:
(Sen. Dixon before the war vote: "Mr. President, sanctions and
talks can work if we are diligent and we assiduously pursue that
course.")
Alan Dixon today:
(Sen. Dixon: "He had unanimous support in the Congress for
everything that's taken place since the day that this was
undertaken.")
Dixon has reason to worry. His support has taken a nosedive since
his antiwar vote. The same is true for Fritz Hollings and Terry
Sanford. Smelling blood, Sen. Gramm sent out this fundraising
letter calling for help to defeat wolves in sheeps' clothing.
(Sen. Gramm: "The Democrats who voted against the President at that
critical moment will be held accountable for that vote.")
The Democrats' only hope politically is that the war is over
quickly so that by next year people are again worrying about the
domestic issues on which Bush is more vulnerable.
(NBC-9)
GULF WAR/U.S. BLACKS
Jennings: This is Black History Month, which President Bush took
note of today when he talked about the black contribution to
American military history, and to answer those who say it is not
fair to have blacks serving in such disproportionate numbers.
(President Bush, in East Room: "To those who question the
proportion of blacks in the armed services today, my answer is
simple: the military of the United States is the greatest equal
opportunity employer around. Every soldier, sailor, airman, Coast
Guardsman and Marine have enlisted because they want to be a part
of the American armed services.")
As for their attitudes about the war, only about half the black
Americans in a recent ABC News/Washington Post Poll said they
support the war, compared to 84 percent of whites. Their
opposition has a lot to do with their feeling that the real war the
U.S. should be fighting is on the home front.
ABC's Carole Simpson reports on the black community's attitudes
toward the Gulf war. Blacks represent only 12% of the U.S.
population, but, according to the Pentagon, 13% of the Air Force,
17% of the Marines, 21% of the Navy, and 30% of the Army --
expected to suffer the highest casualties in a ground operation -
- in Operation Desert Storm. Of the 28,000 women in the Gulf,
almost half are black.
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- B-8
Simpson's report continues:
(Damu Smith, National African-American Network: "The reason we are
so disproportionately represented in the military is because of the
racist poverty draft which compels young African-American men and
women to often choose military service over civilian life, because
of the lack of equal opportunities in the civilian world.")
Anti-war feelings among black Americans are growing. Increasing
numbers are questioning not only the war itself, but their own
government's commitment to racial equality, citing President Bush's
veto of the Civil Rights Bill, the Education Department's
questioning of minority scholarships, and cuts in social welfare
programs. The Watts area of Los Angeles is represented by Rep.
Maxine Waters, among the members of the Congressional Black Caucus
who, with one exception, voted against escalation of the conflict.
(Rep. Waters (D-Ca.): "We're worried about them. Worried about
whether or not they're going to make it back, and if they do,
having fought to liberate Kuwait, and placed the emir back on the
throne, what's waiting for them on these streets of south central.
Will they be able to get a job? Will they be able to get
scholarships? Will they have decent housing?")
Of the estimated 2,000 military personnel who have refused to go,
the War Resisters' League says half are black. Cpl. Tahan Jones
refused to ship out to the Gulf with his Marine Reserves unit.
(Tahan Jones: "This war is white government ordering people of
color to fight for corporate interests. And that's wrong.")
Recently, a coalition of religious, civil rights and community
organizers from all over the country met in New York to develop a
national black strategy to help end the war. It encouraged support
for war resisters. But those who won't fight get little sympathy
from supporters of Desert Storm, roughly half the black population.
(Prof. Walter Williams, George Mason University: "These guys
volunteered for the army. Nobody came around and captured them.
When you volunteer for the army, you raise your hand up and take
an oath to defend the United States against its enemies, domestic
and abroad.")
Even in a poor city like East St. Louis, Ill., expressions of
support: (Black man: "I feel that it's a job that the United
States has to do, and they should do it and carry it out well.")
(Black woman: "My country has done a lot for me, and although I
don't believe in war, I would like to do something for my
country.")
The question is: How to reconcile black patriotism with promises
still unfulfilled at home?
(ABC-16)
GULF WAR/HOME FRONT
ABC's Tom Forman reports from Oakland, Kansas, on Americans'
reactions to Saddam. An ABC News Poll shows most Americans believe
this war should end only when the Iraqi leader is removed from
power. In this small town, people feel that Saddam stands against
everything they stand for: freedom, decency, law and order. The
President said this war is not a personal battle to overthrow
Saddam. But he has compared Saddam to Hitler, so for many here the
war has become very personal.
(ABC-19)
ABC's Judy Muller reports from the small farming town of
Porterville, Ca., on the reaction to the ground war. Nearly
everyone there knows someone in the Gulf.
(ABC-22)
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- B-9
ABC's Al Dale reports from Ft. Bragg, S.C., on the children of
soldiers on the front lines in the ground war. Daycare teachers
say the children are getting more restless as the war and
uncertainty drag on.
(ABC-8)
GULF WAR/STATE DEPT.
ABC's John McWethy reports on the possible scenarios for the post-
Gulf War world. Officials admit there is a good possibility that
even if Iraqi troops are driven out of Kuwait, the war will not be
over -- especially if Saddam is still in charge.
(State Dept. spokeswoman Tutwiler: "We do not have a crisp,
concise, definitive answer for you -- no one in the coalition does
-- on how the war ends.")
The coalition is, in effect, cutting off and occupying the southern
tip of Iraq. Officials say the U.S. and its partners have not yet
decided what to do with this newly-occupied territory. Some
suggest it might be used as a bargaining chip.
(Rep. Hamilton: "The leverage of the presence of American and
coalition forces in southern Iraq could be helpful as a way of
achieving a negotiated solution to the war.")
But Saddam's future is provoking the most heated debate.
(Rep. Hyde: "[Saddam] has to go. He cannot survive as head of
state with any authority at all.")
(Speaker Foley, on "Good Morning America": "But I think it would
be ill-advised at this point to make it a definite war aim to
topple him.")
(ABC-18)
SADDAM
CBS's Mark Phillips reports on Saddam and his miscalculations.
(Dr. Jerrold Post, George Washington University: "When he is
backed into a corner, he can become dangerous to the extreme and
really lash out heavily. He's now in that lash-out mode.")
This man who has been compared to Hitler may be capable of
Hitlerian actions.
(Geoffrey Kemp, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "I
almost see an analogy here with the closing days of World War II.
As the allies moved deeper into Germany and saw what Hitler had
done, the mood stiffened. I think when television finally gets
into Kuwait City and the world's press starts unearthing what this
army has done for the past six months, the mood is going to harden
even more.")
(Post: "Unlike Hitler, to whom he has been likened, who suicided
at the end, I believe Saddam desperately wants to survive, and
survive with a portion of his power base still retained.") (CBS-9)
POSTWAR KUWAIT
NBC's Jim Miklaszewski reports that a postwar reconstruction plan
drawn up by the U.S. military calls for some U.S. troop presence
in Kuwait for at least three months after the war and perhaps as
long as a year or more. The plan, written by the 352nd Civil
Affairs Command, is a worst-case scenario and assumes massive
losses. After caring for the injured, security is the primary
concern. The re-installed government of Kuwait would declare a
state of emergency and impose martial law for up to a year, a
precaution against postwar terrorism.
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- B-10
Miklaszewski continues: Under the plan, U.S. troops would help
enforce it for the first few months, maybe longer. But a prolonged
U.S. military presence in Kuwait could stir up anti-American
sentiment and political problems. The Bush Administration says it
wants U.S. troops as soon as possible.
(Gen. Scowcroft: "We are hopeful that the primary security role can
be played by Arab members of the coalition initially and that U.S.
forces very quickly after the operation is over can begin
withdrawing.")
But the plan calls for a major U.S. military role in Kuwait's
reconstruction, restoration of medical facilities and essential
human services. The plan would also temporarily restore some
repressive measures by the Kuwait government, like press
censorship. That means in effect U.S. troops would be defending
a non-democratic regime. Administration officials acknowledge that
could be a problem in the long run, but the short-term objective
is to get Kuwait back on its feet. After that, the U.S. can try
to push Kuwait toward democracy.
(NBC-7)
CBS's Bill Whitaker reports on the plans for Kuwaiti reconstruction
after the war. The pricetag: $50-$100 billion. The U.S. has
grabbed more than 70 percent of initial reconstruction contracts.
British businesses fear the U.S. is trying to squeeze them out.
They're fighting back, sending Foreign Secretary Hurd to Saudi
Arabia to promote British interests.
(Peter Lilley, British Trade Secretary: "Britain is playing a
leading role alongside the United States in the liberation of
Kuwait, and we want to play a leading role in the reconstruction
of Kuwait.'
Kuwait says there's enough to go around -- for those who fought on
the front lines.
(Sulaiman Mutawa, Kuwaiti Minister of Planning: "I don't want now
to say we're separating those who participated from those who
didn't. But definitely those who participated will be given due
consideration.")
The big losers could be the Germans and Japanese, who sat out the
war.
(CBS-16)
GROUND WAR/EGYPT
Jennings reports that in Cairo today, police used tear gas and
clubs to break up a protest by about 3,000 university students who
chanted, "Iraq will not die," and "We have sold Egypt for dollars."
(TV Coverage: Protests.)
(ABC-15, CBS-21)
GROUND WAR/SOVIETS
Jennings reports that Pravda had angry words for the U.S. today,
criticizing the decision to begin a ground war when "peaceful means
have clearly not been exhausted." The paper said the allies
preferred amputation to therapy.
(ABC-13)
GROUND WAR/U.N.
Jennings reports Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar said today that
the allied incursions into Iraq were necessary in order to free
Kuwait, and were justified under the Security Council resolutions.
(ABC-14)
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- B-11
OIL
NBC's Mike Jensen reports that six non-Arab OPEC ministers met in
Vienna. They want to jack prices up, but are not likely to succeed
with the current oil glut. The glut will get even bigger when Red
Adair starts putting out the fires in Kuwait. Increased buying
power as a result of this is exactly what the economy needs to help
it out of the recession. Some economists say the worst is already
behind us.
(NBC-2)
WARSAW PACT
Jennings reports that in Hungary today, defense and foreign
ministers from the Warsaw Pact countries signed an agreement ending
the military alliance's military functions.
(ABC-20)
TODOR ZHIVKOV
Jennings reports that for the first time, a former Communist boss
of an Eastern bloc country has been put on trial: Todor Zhivkov,
who ruled Bulgaria for 35 years until forced out of power in 1989.
His charge was misappropriating millions of dollars.
(ABC-21)
SALVADOR CRASH
Jennings reports five U.S. military advisers were killed when their
helicopter crashed in El Salvador. U.S. officials say it was
apparently a mechanical failure.
(ABC-17)
-End of B-Section-
EDITORIALS/COLUMNISTS
ENERGY POLICY
Energy: A Supply-Side Tilt -- "What we have in President Bush's
long-awaited energy program is a failure to communicate
Secretary Watkins, nobody's description of a card-carrying green,
included several major energy-saving plans in his recommendations,
but those were deleted in the White House's final proposals
[As for] what's left
Drilling for oil in marginal basins, or
prospecting for gas in environmentally sensitive areas, will not
be politically popular. And nuclear power carries its own baggage:
no new plants have been planned in a decade
It would have been
nice to see the President accept that demand-side incentives need
attention in the energy war as much as in the drug war."
(Baltimore Sun, 2/21)
Running On Empty -- " The thrust of the policy seems to be -- no
strategy at all. Instead, the Administration is offering more of
the same decade-old wishful thinking that led to the dangerous
dependence we are now fighting to protect in the Gulf
As a
strategy for energy independence, the Bush proposals are virtually
guaranteed to keep America running on empty well into the next
century."
(Baltimore Evening Sun, 2/22)
This Is A Policy? -- The President settled pretty much on the
status quo. A little stimulation of supply here and there, but
virtually no serious effort to conserve
Even modest federal
standards for lighting efficiency were stripped from the
President's final plan
The President shouldn't be expected to
do it all. But he should do his part. And he isn't even coming
close."
(Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/21)
Too Little, Too Late -- "President Bush enunciated a conservative,
relatively inoffensive series of measures billed as an energy
policy
What the Administration came up with after 18 months
of study was something that could amount to steps toward a good
starting point. But it falls far short of meeting the hard choices
that face the country. The worst criticism is that the measures,
if enacted as proposed, would leave us no better off by the year
2010 than we are now
True, it is hard to quarrel with any
measures aimed at increasing domestic oil production
The
nation has to make a commitment to reducing dependence on foreign
energy
This purported energy policy doesn't come close to
doing the job."
(Houston Post, 2/21)
An Energy Policy Without Policy -- " No one will buy the Bush
Administration's National Energy Strategy. It is the oil Drillers'
Invitational everyone had feared
President Bush's advisers
urged him to propose a strategy that showed balance and
fairness
Sadly, the President rejected wisdom and balance for
supply-side shortcuts with dubious long-term benefits and serious
short-term consequences
A wise energy policy includes a view
of conditions more than 20 years from now."
(Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2/24)
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- C-2
Half A Tank -- "President Bush's long-overdue proposal
is
disappointing: What he unveiled is half a plan. In fairness, the
package contains several worthwhile proposals
What is
conspicuously missing, though, are meaningful energy conservation
measures. U.S. oil imports would shrink under the plan, but a hike
in domestic production would more than offset the change. The
President continues to reject the most effective tool the
government has to encourage conservation and efficiency: higher
energy taxes
The President's recommendations for the auto
industry, too, are unsatisfying."
(Detroit Free Press, 2/23)
Energy Strategy -- "The U.S. has spent the last 20 years searching
for an energy policy that makes us less dependent on foreign oil.
The Bush Administration's new energy plan, which calls for more
domestic production but little in the way of real conservation,
would not do nearly enough to help the country reach that goal
Bush's answer to the transportation dilemma is to make greater use
of alternative fuels
That's sound policy, but it doesn't begin
to address the magnitude of the transportation-oil link. Even
slight reductions in transportation energy use can have a major
impact on oil consumption, and Bush's plan says little about
reducing consumption. If the White House were really serious about
tax reducing consumption, it would propose an increase in the gasoline
Other elements are more promising. Allowing electric
power suppliers to build, own and operate plants in more than one
area would increase competition and lower prices. Giving
independent power producers greater access to utility transmission
lines would have the same result."
(Journal of Commerce, 2/22)
Bush's Energy Flop -- "The 'comprehensive' energy policy that
President Bush announced turns out to be a limp mixture of
business-as-usual and wishful thinking. Biggest clunker: the plan
does oil nothing to curb America's dangerous appetite for foreign
There's little in the plan about conservation
Cars
guzzle two-thirds of U.S. oil. Yet Bush says nothing about
improved mileage standards -- much less something for super-
efficient mass transit
Whatever Congress produces, it's likely
to be an improvement."
(New York Daily News, 2/22)
A Plan For Energy --
"
President Bush's plan is more sensible and
modest than might have otherwise been expected
As a national
goal, energy independence is not only unrealistic but dangerous
Bush's plan also has a great positive virtue: It promotes needed
diversity in our energy future. Regulatory approval for a new
generation of nuclear plants would be streamlined. Domestically-
controlled oil drilling
would be expanded.
Natural gas
distribution would continue to be deregulated. And Bush would also
increase research into alternative energy sources
Our energy
future is more secure because President Bush has built his strategy
around the principle of diversity."
(Scripps Howard, 2/21)
-End of News Summary-
Today
CONGRESSIONAL
Floor Action: The Senate is sched-
uled to begin consideration this after-
MONITOR
noon of a measure (S 419) that would
provide $30 billion more for the Resolu-
tion Trust Corporation (RTC) to close
ailing thrifts.
Treasury Secretary Nicholas F.
C
Brady has warned that without new
money the bailout operation might be
Tuesday, February 26, 1991
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forced to close down in a matter of days.
The House will take up a resolution
(H J Res 100) under suspension of the
rules to mark the 200th anniversary of
News From the Hill
the establishment of diplomatic relations
between the United States and Portugal.
Banking Markup: The thrift
HEALTH-CARE reforms consid-
NUCLEAR REACTORS' restart
bailout will also be addressed by the
ered as costs spiral.
should be delayed, GAO says.
House Banking Committee today. The
Federal health-care programs have
The government should put off the
panel will mark up draft legislation that
become so expensive and hard to admin-
reopening of reactors that produce a key
would also provide $30 billion to enable
ister that legislation is needed to lower
component for nuclear warheads to pro-
the federal government to continue to
costs and increase coverage for the needy,
vide enough time to resolve environmen-
close failing S&Ls.
witnesses told the Senate Finance Sub-
tal and safety issues, according to a Gen-
Auditors from the General Account-
committee on Health for Families and
eral Accounting Office (GAO) report
ing Office told the committee last week
the Uninsured yesterday.
released yesterday.
that the RTC would need another $30
Delaware Republican Gov. Michael
Dexter Peach, assistant comptroller of
billion in fiscal 1991 to cover thrift losses.
N. Castle told the panel that years of
the GAO, told the Senate Governmental
The RTC has little remaining of the $50
"unrelenting federally mandated [health-
Affairs Committee that the timetable to
billion Congress provided the agency in
care] expansion has created a monstrous
restart the reactors that produce tritium
August 1989.
program that is next to impossible to ad-
could be slowed down without endangering
Panel members, who have concerns
minister or finance."
nuclear weapons development.
about the administration's handling of
Castle, who is vice chairman of the
"Sufficient tritium supplies will exist
the bailout, are expected to offer numer-
National Governors' Association's Health
to meet the anticipated needs of our nu-
ous amendments.
Care Task Force, said health-care reform
clear weapons stockpile for the near
One amendment would tie the avail-
"is the No. 1 priority" of governors this
term, the next several years," the GAO
ability of the additional funds to the
year. States could better manage health-
RTC's sale of assets. Members have criti-
report stated.
care costs, Castle said, if alternative state
Tritium is radioactive gas that is
cized the agency for failing to dispose of
health plans could take the place of fed-
used for the explosive force of a nuclear
assets quickly.
erally mandated programs.
weapon. Because it decays, tritium in nu-
The House is scheduled to take up
"Medicaid mandates are killers to
clear warheads must be replenished.
the bill on Thursday.
state budgets," Castle said.
Three reactors at the Savannah
Defense Production. The House
And subcommittee Chairman Donald
River complex in South Carolina pro-
Banking Committee will also mark up a
W. Riegle Jr., D-Mich., said, "We need to
duced tritium until 1988, when they were
bill (HR 991) to reauthorize the Defense
act now on both universal access to health
closed for repairs. The Department of
Production Act through Sept. 30, 1991.
care and rising health care costs. We have
Energy (DOE) plans to restart one of the
The 1950 act gives the president
done enough study of the issues."
reactors later this year and to restart a
But Bob Packwood, R-Ore., urged
second one possibly in 1992.
See TODAY on p. 2
members to be cautious: "I'm not sure the
The report also questioned whether
answer is in rushing toward a new federal
the government should go ahead with the
policy. There has yet to be a federal policy
construction of a new $4 billion reactor to
In This Issue
that costs what we thought it would."
produce tritium.
NEWS FROM THE HILL
1
Packwood cited an Oregon health
When operational, the GAO said, the
TODAY
plan that he said could be used as a
existing three reactors will be able to
Today in Congress
1
model by other states and would require
meet all tritium demands. But, DOE
Committee Listings
3
less federal intervention.
maintains that the new reactor is needed
News Events
5
The Oregon plan will reduce the
in case of future problems at the Savan-
FUTURE
number of uninsured Oregonians from 18
nah River reactors.
Senate Committees
7
percent to 2 percent of the state's popula-
But Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., dis-
House Committees
11
tion, Packwood said, by expanding Med-
agreed with the GAO report. In testi-
Joint Committees
17
icaid coverage to cover all those living
mony before the panel, Thurmond said
Other Events
18
below the federal poverty level.
"the United States is rapidly becoming a
STATUS CHARTS
The plan also requires that employ-
former nuclear power." He warned that
FY90 Appropriations
20
ers provide all their employees with
failure to continue tritium production
House Floor
21
health care benefits at least equivalent to
could put the United States behind the
Senate Floor
21
the Medicaid benefits package.
Soviet Union in nuclear development.
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Tuesday, February 26, 1991
TODAY from p. 1
seriously challenge Martinez's confirma-
Partnership Act would receive the bulk of
tion.
the remaining funds - $4 billion -
emergency procurement powers during
Martinez would replace William J.
roughly the same as in fiscal 1991.
wartime.
Bennett, who resigned last year.
One issue likely to come up at the
The Senate passed a multi-year re-
hearing is the president's request of $100
authorization bill last week, but the House
Keating Five: The Senate Ethics
million in fiscal 1991 supplemental funds
panel is not expected to take up a long-
Committee is expected to announce a de-
to cover administrative expenses of the
term reauthorization until later this year.
cision on the so-called Keating Five case.
federal unemployment insurance program.
The panel is reportedly close to an
State costs for administering the fed-
CFTC Reauthorization: The
agreement on how to treat the five sena-
eral program are covered by a federal
House Agriculture Committee will mark
tors - Donald W. Riegle Jr., D-Mich.;
unemployment tax levied on employers.
up legislation (HR 707) to reauthorize
John McCain, R-Ariz.; Dennis DeCon-
Each year, the Labor Department under-
the Commodity Futures Trading Com-
cini, D-Ariz.; John Glenn, D-Ohio; and
estimates how much will be needed to
mission (CFTC) for fiscal 1992 and 1993.
Alan Cranston, D-Calif. - accused of
cover these costs, and each year the ad-
The measure would stiffen controls
breaking Senate rules when they inter-
ministration asks for supplemental funds
on some futures trading practices, par-
vened with federal regulators on behalf of
to make up the shortfall.
ticularly by limiting the ability of floor
savings and loan operator Charles H.
Some have argued, however, that the
traders to act as brokers for their clients
Keating Jr.
$100 million Bush plans to request will
at the same time they are trading for
Keating contributed about $1.3 mil-
not be enough. They maintain that the
their own accounts.
lion to the senators' campaigns and po-
states will need at least $200 million dur-
A committee staff aide said that mem-
litical causes.
ing this time of high unemployment.
bers might consider amendments sought
The panel met on Friday and Mon-
by the agency, including one to allow the
day but some members did not attend,
Energy Strategy: The Senate En-
CFTC to impose monetary penalties on
preventing a vote. Today, all panel mem-
ergy Committee will kick off the first in a
traders. Another possible amendment
bers are expected to attend.
monthlong series of hearings on an ambi-
would establish a more uniform set of pen-
According to news reports, the panel
tious omnibus energy bill (S 341) aimed at
alties for trading infractions.
has reached a consensus to recommend
reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
At a Conservation, Credit and Rural
that Cranston receive a rebuke from the
The hearing comes in the wake of
Development Subcommittee markup last
full Senate. But, the outcome of the other
the release last week of President Bush's
week, members defeated an attempt to
four cases is uncertain.
national energy strategy, which contains
allow the CFTC to place additional re-
certain elements similar to S 341. The bill
straints on the trading of stock-index fu-
Gulf War Funding: Top Bush ad-
was crafted by J. Bennett Johnston, D-
tures contracts. Amendment sponsor
ministration officials will discuss the
La., and Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo., the
Jerry Huckaby, D-La., is not expected to
costs of the Persian Gulf War and the
chairman and ranking member of 'the
try again today, but he is likely to revisit
president's request for additional fund-
committee, respectively.
the matter during floor action.
ing to meet those costs with members of
Both plans would allow exploratory
the Senate Appropriations Committee.
drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Martinez Nomination: The Senate
President Bush last Friday asked
Refuge, streamline federal licensing pro-
Judiciary Committee will begin con-
Congress to appropriate $15 billion in
cedures for nuclear power plants and re-
firmation hearings today on the nomina-
supplemental funds for fiscal 1991 that,
write the Depression-era Public Utility
tion of former Gov. Bob Martinez, R-Fla.,
along with about $52.5 billion from U.S.
Holding Company Act to increase the
to be director of the Office of National
allies, would pay for the war through
generation of electricity.
Drug Control Policy.
March 31.
The morning session of the Senate
Martinez is known as an advocate of
Twenty-two of the 29 panel members
hearing will focus on energy efficiency
tough "law and order" remedies to the
have sent Bush a letter asking him to
and renewable energy - two areas that
drug problem. As governor of Florida
request additional funds to help Israel pay
the Senate plan emphasizes more than
from 1987-91, he stiffened penalties for
for increased security costs due to the war.
the president's strategy.
drug offenses and doubled the number of
On Friday, Israel asked the administration
In the House, Energy Secretary James
prison cells in the state.
for $1 billion for emergency assistance.
D. Watkins will pitch the administration's
Of particular concern to committee
Richard G. Darman, director of the
plan before the House Science Committee.
Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., will
Office of Management and Budget, and
be Martinez's views on funding for drug
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney will field
Countering Terrorism: The Sen-
education and treatment. The president's
questions from the panel.
ate Governmental Affairs Committee will
proposed $11.7 billion drug budget for fis-
hold a hearing today to explore the fed-
cal 1992 allocates roughly 70 percent of the
Labor Budget: Secretary of Labor
eral government's efforts to protect
funds to law enforcement and 30 percent to
Lynn Martin makes her first appeal to
Americans from terrorist activity.
treatment and education programs.
Congress today for her department's fis-
The committee will focus on an Of-
Biden has often criticized the admin-
cal 1992 budget. Appearing before her
fice of Technology Assessment (OTA) re-
istration for what he says is its emphasis
former House colleagues at the Appropri-
port that details recent developments in
on interdiction and punishment at the
ations Labor Subcommittee, Martin will
anti-terrorist technology, especially with
expense of programs for the treatment of
defend the Bush administration's request
regard to airline security.
hard-core addicts.
for $33.2 billion for labor programs in
The report also contains the results
Some members have said Martinez
fiscal 1992.
of an investigation by the OTA on the
was chosen because of his close ties to the
As in the past, most of Labor's budget
effectiveness of government programs es-
president - Jeb Bush, the president's
is relatively non-controversial. The vast
tablished to coordinate interagency
son, managed his unsuccessful re-election
majority of the department's spending -
counter-terrorism research and develop-
campaign last year - and that he is not
about 72 percent or $24 billion goes to
ment. Committee Chairman John Glenn,
qualified. Biden has openly questioned
mandatory income maintenance programs,
D-Ohio, has already revealed that the
the nominee's background.
such as federal unemployment insurance.
OTA has found both funding and coordi-
But Democrats are not expected to
Programs under the 1982 Job Training
nation problems with such programs.
Tuesday, February 26, 1991
Congressional Monitor
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Committee Meetings Scheduled Today
Senate Committees
Silkman director, Maine State Planning Office;
D-Texas) will mark up legislation (HR 707) to
David Conrad - National Wildlife Federation;
make changes in the regulation of futures
John Echeverria - American Rivers
trading markets and reauthorize the Commod-
FY91 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPS:
ity Futures Trading Commission.
OPERATION DESERT STORM
3pm 1300 Longworth Bldg. February 26
EFFORTS TO COUNTER
Senate Appropriations Committee
TERRORISM
The full committee (Chairman Byrd, D-
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
W.Va.) will hold a hearing on the administra-
FY92 TRADE REP APPROPS
The full committee (Chairman Glenn, D-
tion's request for fiscal 1991 supplemental
House Appropriations Committee
Ohio) will hold a hearing on the federal govern-
appropriations to cover the costs of Operation
Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary
ment's efforts to counter terrorism.
Desert Storm.
and Related Agencies Subcommittee (Chair-
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. February 26
9:30am SD-192 Dirksen Bldg. February 26
man Smith, D-Iowa) will hold hearings on
Witnesses scheduled:
Witnesses scheduled: Richard Darman director,
PANEL'1: Tony Fainberg Energy, Materials, and
FY92 appropriations for programs of the Of-
Office of Management and Budget; Dick Cheney
International Security Division, Congressional
fice of the U.S. Trade Representative.
secretary of Defense
Office of Technology Assessment
2pm H-310 Capitol Bldg. February 26
PANEL 2: Morris Busby - Coordinator for Counter-
Witness scheduled: Carla Hills - U.S. Trade Rep-
Terrorism, Department of State; Lynne Osmus
resentative
CURRENT TRENDS IN
acting director, Office of Civil Aviation Security,
THE SOVIET UNION
Federal Aviation Administration
Senate Armed Services Committee
PANEL 3: Ken Nimmich section chief, Scientific
FY92 DEFENSE APPROPS
The full committee (Chairman Nunn, D-
Analysis, Federal Bureau of Investigations
House Appropriations Committee
Ga.) will hold a hearing on current trends in the
Defense Subcommittee (Chairman Murtha,
Soviet Union.
D-Pa.) will hold hearings on FY92 appropria-
ETHICS AND PROCUREMENT
2:30pm SR-222 Russell Bldg. February 26
tions for programs under its jurisdiction.
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Witnesses scheduled: Richard Pipes history pro-
1:30pm H-140 Capitol closed February 26
fessor, Harvard University; Gail Lapidus politi-
Oversight of Government Management
Witnesses scheduled: Gen. Hansford Johnson
cal science professor, University of California at
Subcommittee (Chairman Levin, D-Mich.) will
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Transportation Com-
Berkeley; Stephen Meyer political science pro-
hold a hearing on provisions of the Procure-
mand
fessor, MIT; Lt. Gen. William Odom director,
ment Integrity Act of 1988 that regulate discus-
national security studies, the Hudson Institute
sions about employment at procurement meet-
ings between government employees and
employees of government contractors and
CONGRESSIONAL
FINANCIAL INDUSTRY
suppliers.
RESTRUCTURING
2:30pm SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. February 26
MONITOR
Senate Banking Committee
Witnesses scheduled: Rep. Bennett, D-Fla.; John
The full committee (Chairman Riegle, D-
Keeney Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
Mich.) will hold a hearing on the
Criminal Division, Department of Justice
Managing Editor: Brian Nutting
admininstration's proposal for deposit insur-
PANEL 1: Alan Burman administrator, Office of
Senior Editor: Robert Healy
ance reform and restructuring of the financial
Federal Procurement Policy; Stephen Potts
News Editors: Christine C. Lawrence, Amy
services industry.
director, Office of Government Ethics
Stern
PANEL 2: A.G.W. Biddle president, Computer
10am SD-538 Dirksen Bldg. February 26
and Communications Industry Association; Mark
Senior Reporters: Thomas Galvin, Richard
Witness scheduled: Nicholas Brady - secretary of
Schultz Professional Services Council; Richard
Sammon
the Treasury
Lombardi - vice president, AT&T Federal Sys-
Reporters: Elizabeth A. Palmer, Andrew
tems
Taylor, Sheldon P. Yett
Editorial Assistant: David Masci
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President: Richard R. Edmonds
Martinez to be director of the Office of Drug
oil and to provide for the energy security of the
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Witness scheduled: Joseph Andry commander,
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Public Buildings Service (2pm) Roger Daniero
EXON-FLORIO AMENDMENT
commissioner, Federal Supply Service; Earl
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Jones -commissioner - Federal Property Re-
Commerce, Consumer Protection and
FY92 ARMY ENGINEERS APPROPS
sources Services
Competitiveness Subcommittee (Chairman
House Appropriations Committee
Collins, D-Ill.) will hold a hearing on the
Energy and Water Subcommittee (Chair-
expiration of the Exon-Florio amendment,
man Bevill, D-Ala.) will hold hearings on fiscal
FY92 VA, HUD APPROPS
which allows the president to stop foreign
1992 appropriations for programs of the Army
House Appropriations Committee
acquisitions of domestic firms if national secu-
Corps of Engineers in the Lower Mississippi
VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Sub-
rity is threatened. The immediate focus of the
and South Atlantic Division.
committee (Chairman Traxler, D-Mich.) will
hearing will be security concerns raised by the
10am 2362 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
hold hearings on fiscal 1992 appropriations for
proposed sale of the Moore Special Tool Co., a
Witnesses scheduled: Army Corps of Engineers:
programs under its jurisdiction.
supplier to the U.S. nuclear weapons program,
Major Gen. John Sobke South Atlantic Divi-
10am H-143 Capitol February 26
to the Fanuc Machine Tool Corporation of
sion; Fred Bayley - interim director, Lower Mis-
Witnesses scheduled: George Knight executive
Japan.
sissippi Division; Maj. Gen. Patrick Kelly - direc-
director, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-
tor of civil works, Army Corps of Engineers.
10am 2123 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
tion; Roger Jepsen chairman, National Credit
Witnesses scheduled: Rep. Richard A. Gephardt,
Union Administration
D-Mo.; Charles Dallara assistant secretary, in-
ternational affairss, Treasury Department; Bar-
MIDDLE EAST SITUATION
bara McLellan - Commerce Department; Energy
House Appropriations Committee
FY92 AIR FORCE FUNDING
Department Representative; Alan Mendelowitz
Foreign Operations Subcommittee (Chmn
House Armed Services Committee
dir, trade, energy and finance, GAO; Kevin
Obey, D-Wis) will hold hearings on the current
The full committee (Chairman Aspin, D-
Kearns Economic Strategy Institute; Chris Wall
problems in the Middle East and how they
Wis.) will hold a hearing on the president's
- Winthrop, Stimson, Putnum & Roberts; Brad
fiscal 1992 defense authorization request, fo-
Larschan - Association for International Invest-
developed over the past few decades.
ment
10am 2360 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
cusing on funding for the Air Force.
Witnesses scheduled: Judith Kipper - Brookings
9:30am 2118 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
Institution; Michael Klare - Hampshire College;
Witnesses scheduled: Donald Rice - secretary of
William Quandt - Brookings Institution
the Air Force; Gen. Merrill McPeak - chief of
FY92 BUDGET:
staff, Air Force
INTERNATIONAL FOOD AID
House Foreign Affairs Committee
FY92 HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT
The full committee (Chairman Fascell, D-
House Appropriations Committee
BANKING COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Fla.) will hold a hearing on the president's
Interior Subcommittee (Chairman Yates,
House Banking Committee
fiscal 1992 budget request for food assistance
D-Ill.) will hold hearings on fiscal 1992 appro-
The full committee (Chmn Gonzalez, D-
and other international agricultural programs.
priations for programs of the National Endow-
Texas) will meet to consider pending business.
10am 2172 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
ment for the Humanities.
9:30am 2128 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
Witness scheduled: Richard Crowder - under sec-
10am B-308 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
Agenda:
retary of Agriculture
Witness scheduled: Lynne Cheney - chairman,
Organizational business
National Endowment for the Humanities
MARKUP:
HR 991 Defense Production Act Extension
HUMAN RIGHTS: COUNTRY REPORTS
HR- Resolution Trust Corporation funding au-
House Foreign Affairs Committee
thorization
FY92 LABOR APPROPS
Human Rights and International Organiza-
House Appropriations Committee
tions Subcommittee (Chairman Yatron, D-
Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu-
Pa.) will hold a hearing on the president's
IMPACT OF ENERGY PROBLEMS
cation and Related Agencies Subcommittee
annual report on the status of Human Rights
ON WORLD FINANCES & TRADE
(Chairman Natcher, D-Ky.) will hold hearings
in countries around the world.
House Banking Committee
on fiscal 1992 appropriations for programs
1:30pm 2255 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
International Development, Trade, Finance,
Witness scheduled: Richard Shifter - assistant
under its jurisdiction.
10am & 2pm 2358 Rayburn Bldg. February
and Monetary Policy Subcommittee (Chair-
secretary of State for Human Rights
man Oaker, D-Ohio) will hold a hearing on the
26
Witnesses scheduled: (10am) Lynn Martin sec-
implications of world energy problems for in-
retary of Labor (2pm) Janet Norwood commis-
ternational development, trade, finance and
ANDEAN DRUG STRATEGY
sioner Bureau of Labor Statistics
the multinational financial institutions.
House Foreign Affairs Committee
2pm 2128 Rayburn Bldg.February 26
Western Hemisphere Affairs Subcommit-
Witnesses scheduled: Peter Blair - energy and
tee (Chairman Torricelli, D-N.J.) will hold a
materials program manager, Office of Technol-
hearing on the president's Andean drug
FY92 MIL CON APPROPS
ogy Assessment; Robert Ebel - vice president,
strategy.
Enserch Corp.; Michael Totten senior associate,
House Appropriations Committee
2pm 2200 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
Institute for Energy Conservation
Military Construction Subcommittee
Witnesses scheduled: David Jordan former U.S.
(Chairman Hefner, D-N.C.) will hold hearings
ambassador to Peru; Alexander Wilde - executive
director, Washington Office on Latin America;
on fiscal 1992 appropriations for programs
Peter Reuter co-director, Drug Policy Research
under its jurisdiction.
SCHOOL LUNCH &
Center, the RAND Corp; Doug Poole - deputy
9:30am B-300 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
BREAKFAST PROGRAMS
director, agricultural and natural resources,
Agenda and witnesses scheduled: military con-
House Education and Labor Committee
Development Alternatives
struction overview and the costruction morato-
rium: Colin McMillan assistant secretary of
Elementary, Secondary and Vocational
Defense
Education Subcommittee (Chairman Kildee,
D-Mich.) will hold a hearing on programs to
COMMITTEE FUNDING
provide subsidized school breakfasts and
RESOLUTIONS
FY92 TREASURY-POSTAL APPROPS
lunches, including a review of nutritional con-
House Committee on
House Appropriations Committee
tent of meals.
House Administration
10am 2175 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
Accounts Subcommittee (Chairman Gay-
Treasury, Postal Service and General Gov-
ernment Subcommittee (Chairman Roybal, D-
Witnesses scheduled: Betty Jo Nelson adminis-
dos, D-Pa.) will hold a hearing on resolutions
trator, food and nutrition service, Agriculture
funding House committee operations for 1991.
Calif.) will hold hearings on fiscal 1992 appro-
Department; Anne Gennings president, Ameri-
10am H-328 Capitol Bldg. February 26
priations for programs under its jurisdiction.
can School Food Service Association; Dorothy
Agenda:
10am & 2pm H-164 Capitol Bldg. February
Pannell director of food services, Fairfax
House Committeee on House Administration;
26
County Schools; Victoria Leonard - Children's
House Information Systems; Education and La-
Agenda and witnesses scheduled:(10am) Rich-
Nutrition Project, Center for Science in the Pub-
bor Committee; Select Intelligence Committee;
ard Austin administrator, General Services Ad-
lic Interest; Charles Hughes president,
Standards of Official Conduct Committee; Judi-
ministration; William Coleman commissioner,
AFSCME Local 372
ciary Committee
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House continued
Engineering Societies; Richard Marsten vice
sion, focusing on the problem of long-term
chairman, Engineering and Research and, Devel-
unemployment.
opment Policy Committee, IEEE-USA
FY92 BUDGET:
1pm B-318 Rayburn Building February 26
INSULAR AREAS
Witnesses scheduled:
House Interior Committee
PANEL: Walter Corson - vice president,
VETERANS LEGISLATIVE AGENDAS
Mathematica Policy Reserach Inc., Princeton,
Insular and International Affairs: Sub-
House Veterans' Affairs Committee
N.J.; Michael Conte director, Center for Busi-
committee (Chairman de Lugo, D-VI) will
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
ness and Economic Studies, University of Balti-
hold a hearing on the fiscal 1992 budget for
The full House committee (Chairman
more; Isaac Shapiro senior research analyst,
the insular areas.
Montgomery, D-Miss.) and The full Senate
Center for budget and Policy Priorities
10am 2226 Rayburn Bldg. February 26.
PANEL: Lawrence Ball Baltimore Unemployed
committee (Chairman Cranston, D-Calif.) will
Witnesses scheduled: Stella Guerra assistant
Council; Charles Walker and William Buckheit -
secretary for territorial and international affairs,
hold joint hearings on the legislative agendas
unemployed workers from. Baltimore; Keith
Interior Department
of veterans' groups, focusing on the Disabled
Brooks coordinator, New York Unemployed
American Veterans.
Organizing Committee
9:30am 345 Cannon Bldg. February 26
FY92 BUDGET:
Witness scheduled: Joseph Andry commander,
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT AGENCIES
Disabled American Veterans
MISIDRECTED MEDICARE PAYMENTS
House Interior Committee
House Ways and Means Committee
Mining and Natural Resources Sub-
Oversight Subcommittee (Chairman,
committee (Chairman Rahall, D-W.Va.) will
LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT
Pickle, D-Texas) will hold a hearing on misdi-
hold a hearing on the fiscal 1992 budget for
House Ways and Means Committee
rected and unrecovered Medicare payments.
agencies within the Interior Department.
Human. Resources Subcommittee (Acting
9:30am 1100 Longworth Bldg. February 26
9:45am 1310A Longworth Bldg. February
Chairman Downey, D-N.Y.) will hold a hear-
Witnesses scheduled: Reps of General Accounting
26
ing on unemployment insurance and the reces-
Office and Health and Human Services Depart-
ment
Agenda:
February 26: Dallas Peck director,
U.S.Geological Survey; TS Ary. director, Bu-
reau of Mines; Barry Williamson director, Min-
erals Management Service
News Events Today
FY92 BUDGET:
FOREST SERVICE
--from Reuters
House Interior Committee
moting the association's objectives. The honor-
National Parks and Public Lands Sub-
The Monitor has received notice of the
ees are expected to deliver speeches when they
committee (Chairman Vento, D-Minn.) will
following events scheduled to take place in
receive awards. First of two days.
hold a hearing on the fiscal 1992 budget for
Washington. Associations, non-profit organiza-
7:30am to 8:30pm, Hyatt Regency Capitol
the U.S. Forest Service.
tions and public interest groups who wish to
Hotel, 400 New Jersey Ave. N.W. February 26
1:30pm 1324 Longworth Bldg. February 26
have events listed in the section should send
Contact: Berit Lakey, (202) 659-8008 or the
Witnesses scheduled: John Beuter deputy assis-
pertinent information to: The Congressional
hotel, (202) 737-1234
tant secretary of agriculture, Agriculture Depart-
Monitor, Other Events Editor, 1414 22nd St.
ment; James Duffus III director, Natural Re-
Highlights
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037. Notices must
source Management Issues, GAO
7:30am to 9am: Rep. Waxman, D-Calif., receives an
include a telephone number. Notices may be
award from the association. Ballroom.
PANEL 1: Michael Francis Wilderness Society;
Neil Sampson American Forestry Association;
transmitted by facsimile to 728-1862, attn:
6:30pm to 8:30pm: Sens. Kennedy, D-Mass., and
Max Peterson International Association of Fish
Robert Healy. Only events related to Congress
Domenici, R-N.M., and Reps. Hoyer, D-Md., and
and Wildlife Agencies; T Destry Jarvis Ameri-
can be listed. Deadline is Noon. For further
Towns, D-N.Y., accept awards from the associa-
can Hiking Society
information call (202) 887-8686.
tion. Regency A.
PANEL 2: Michael Cyr forester; Warren Doolittle
- International Society for Tropical Foresters;
Sadie Gwinn Blackburn Garden Clubs of Amer-
HMO CONFERENCE
EDUCATION SEMINAR
ica
Group Health Association of America will
The Association of Community College
continue its HMO policy conference to address
Trustees will hold its national legislative semi-
a number of issues, including HMOs and Medi-
nar to discuss issues affecting their schools and
ENERGY POLICY
care, effects of the budget deficit, the federal
to talk to lawmakers on how Congress can help
House Science Committee
The full committee (Chairman Brown, D-
employees health benefits program, states "ra-
resolve those issues. Third and final day.
tioning" of health care, coverage for new tech-
8am to 2pm, J:W. Marriott Hotel, 1331
Calif.) will hold hearings on energy policy
nologies, HMO opportunities in CHAMPUS
Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. (except where noted)
issues,
10:30am 2318 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
reform and pharmacy issues affecting Medicaid
February 26
Witness scheduled: James-Watkins secretary of
beneficiaries. Second and final day.
Contact: Sally Hutchins, (202) 347-1740 or
7:30am to 5:30pm, Grand Hyatt Hotel, 1000
the hotel, (202) 393-2000
energy
Highlights
H St. N.W. February 26
12:15pm to 2pm: Sen. Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman
Contact: Susan Pisano, (202) 778-3254 or the
of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Com-
FY92 BUDGET:
hotel's Latrobe Room, (202) 347-
mittee, addresses the ACCT luncheon for Demo-
TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION
9840/9841/9842
crats. Russell Building, room 325.
House Science Committee
Highlights
12:15pm to 2pm: Sen. Hatfield, R-Ore., delivers
8:45am: Keynote address by Health and Human
Technology and Competitiveness Sub-
remarks at the ACCT luncheon for Republicans.
Services Secretary Louis Sullivan
He is expected to discuss legislation to appoint an
committee (Chairman Valentine, D'-N.C.) will
10am to 11am: Rep. Wyden, R-Mo., joins a panel
assistant secretary for community colleges in the
hold hearings on the fiscal 1992 budget for the
discussion on the subject "Is Rationing of Care a
Education Department. Capitol Hill Club, 300
Commerce Department's Office of Technology
Viable Alternative?"
First St. SE.
Administration.
12:15pm: Luncheon remarks by Eleanor Cliff,
2:30pm 2318 Rayburn Bldg February 26
Newsweek political correspondent
Witnesses scheduled: Robert White undersec-
ENERGY ISSUES
retary of Commerce for technology; Areden
Rep. Sharp, D-Ind., will deliver remarks on
Bement TRW Corp.; John Morley president
HEALTH CONFERENCE
and CEO, Reliance Electric Co; Jean Mayhew
the National Energy Strategy before a meeting
National Association of Community Health
library and information service manager, United
of representatives of 34 associations of inde-
Centers will begin its 16th annual policy and
Technologies; Geraldine Cox chairman, Engi-
pendent oil and gas producers.
issues conference. The conference will honor
neers Affairs Council, American Association of
8am. Hyatt Regency Capitol, 400 New Jersey
members of Congress for their efforts in pro-
Ave. N.W. February 26
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News Events continued
a forum on "Toward a National Technology
Note: There is a charge for this event of $10 for
Strategy."
members and $14 for non-members. For reserva-
Contact: Elmer Hoehm, (202) 347-1844 or
9am to noon, ANA Hotel, 24th & M Sts.
tions call the number listed above.
N.W. February 26
Deadline is February 18.
the hotel, (202) 737-1234
Contact: Paul-Essex at (919) 541-9400
Participants: Rep. Brown, D-Calif., chairman,
PUBLIC-PRIVATE HOUSING
House Science, Space and Technology Commit-
TEXTILES CONFERENCE
tee; Rep. Valentine, D-N.C. chairman, Technol-
American Textile Manufacturers Institute
American Public Welfare Association will
ogy and Competitiveness Subcommittee of House
and the Northern Textile Association will hold
sponsor a seminar on public-private housing
Science Committee; John Armstrong vice presi-
the 1991 Joint Wool Meeting. First of two days.
initiatives.
dent of IBM for science and technology and
Noon, Sheraton-Carlton, 16th and K Sts.
8:30am. Ballroom A, Loews L;Enfant Plaza
chairman, Technology Committee, National Ad-
N.W. (except where noted) February 26
Hotel February 26
visory Committee on Semiconductors; Andrew
Contact: Kathy Patterson at (202) 682-0100
Procassini president, Semiconductor Industry
Contact: Deborah Anderson, (202) 862-0513
Highlights:
Association; Larry Sumney - president, SRC
or the hotel (202) 638-2626
Schedule
8:40am: Rep Carper, R-Del.
Note: There is no charge for this event.
Noon to 2pm: Business luncheon with an interna-
10:15am: Anna Kondratas assistant secretary of
tional trade discussion focusing on the GATT
Housing and Urban Development
Uruguay round negotiations. National Demo-
EL SALVADOR
cratic Club, 30 Ivy Street SE, third floor
NEWS CONFERENCE
6:30pm: Reception and dinner, featuring an address
JOB TRAINING CONFERENCE
Rep. Hunter, R-Calif., and other congress-
by Sen. William Cohen (D-Maine). Crystal Ball-
National Association of Private Industry
men discuss the introduction of legislation
room
Councils will continue its conference. Third
condemning the FMLN guerillas in El
and final day.
Salvador.
8:30am to 10am, Ramada Renaissance
9:30am, H-127 U.S. Capitol Bldg. February
Techworld, 999 Ninth St. N.W., Grand Ball-
26
ENERGY/DINGELL SPEECH
room February 26
Contact: Patrick Buechner (202) 225-5672
Rep. Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the
Contact: Robert Knight, (202) 289-2950 or
House Energy and Commerce Committee; will
the hotel, (202) 898-9000
speak on the national energy policy before the
Highlights
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
National Energy Resources Organization. Din-
8:30am: Remarks by Sen. Simon, D-Ill.
- An experts' panel assembled by the The
gell will answer questions from the press after
9am: Remarks by Rep. Ford, D-Mich.
9:30am: Remarks by Rep. Goodling, R-Pa.
Metropolitan Life Foundation holds a briefing
the speech.
concerning research on Alzheimer's disease.
12:15pm, B-338 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
Following the briefing the foundation will
Contact: (703) 739-0294
AMERICAN LEGION
honor Dr. Robert Terry, of the School of
CONFERENCE
Medicine, University of California at San
American Legion will continue its 31st an-
Diego, and Dr. Konrad Beyreuther of the
nual Washington Conference. Second of three
University of Heidelberg for their contribu-
SYRIAN JEWS
tions in Alzheimer's disease research.
days.
NEWS CONFERENCE
8:30am, Sheraton Washington, 2660
11am, ANA Hotel (formerly Westin Hotel),
Congressional Caucus for Syrian Jews and
Woodley Rd. N.W. February 26
2401 M St. N.W., Ballroom Two February 26
B'Nai B'rith International hold a news confer-
Contact: (202) 861-2700 or the hotel, (202)
Contact: Elane Wagner, 212-578-4072, or the
ence with Sens. Kasten, R-Wis., and
234-8409, -8416
hotel, 202-429-2400
Lieberman, D-Conn., and Rep. Schumer, D-
Highlights
Highlight
8:30am: Sen. Nunn, D-Ga., receives the Distin-
Noon: Sen. Pryor, D-Ark., chairman of the Senate
N.Y.
guished Public Service Award. Ballroom
Special Committee on Aging, delivers luncheon
2pm, SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. February 26
address.
Contact: Reva Price, (202) 857-6545
1:45 p.m.: Speech by Veterans Affairs Secretary
Edward Derwinski. Maryland Room
EXPORTS & U.S. ECONOMY
CHILD WELFARE CONFERENCE
Women in International Trade will sponsor
ROMANIAN ECONOMIC REFORM
Child Welfare League of America will hold a
a luncheon meeting on "The Economic Signifi-
Romanian-U.S. Economic Council of the
national conference titled, "Children '91: In
cance of Exports to the U.S. Economy." Ex-
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Our Hands." First of four days.
port-Import Bank President John Macomber
will sponsor a briefing with Romanian Minister
9am, Ramada Renaissance Techworld, 999
will be the speaker.
of Economic Orientation Eugen Dijmarescu on
Ninth St. N.W. February 26
Noon to 2pm, National Press Club, 524 14th
the current status of the economic reform
Contact: Joyce Johnson, (202) 638-2952, or
St. N.W. February 26
program in Romania.
the hotel, (202) 898-9000
Contact: Lisa Witt at (202) 395-4604
2:30pm to 5pm, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Highlights
Note: There is a charge for this event of $22 for
Bldg. February 26
11am: The National Family Foster Care Commis-
members and $32 for non-members. For reserva-
sion holds a news conference to release its report
tions call the number listed above.
Contact: Peter Wingate at (202) 463-5473
on ways to end the crisis in the foster care system.
The report is titled, "A Blueprint for Fostering
Infants, Children and Youth in the 1990s." Par-
NEW BUDGET PROCESS
ticipating in the news conference will be commis-
National Economists Club will sponsor a
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
sion members Reps. Matsui, D-Calif., and An-
luncheon meeting to hear Wendell Belew, at-
AND REPORTS
drews, D-Texas, and Child Welfare League of
torney and budget consultant and former chief
America Executive Director David Liederman
8:30am: The Commerce Department re-
7pm: Keynote address by author Jonathan Kozol
cousnel of the House Budget Committee, dis-
leases durable goods for January.
titled, "At the Mercy of America: The Homeless
cuss "The New Budget Enforcement Mecha-
10am: The Commerce Department releases
and Their Children."
nism: Where Do We Go From Here?"
merchandise trade on a balance of payments
Noon, Madison Building, Library of Con-
basis for the fourth quarter.
gress, 101 Independence Ave. S.E. February
4:30pm, approx.: The American Petroleum
NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
26
Institute releases weekly report on petroleum
Semiconductor Research Corp. will sponsor
Contact: (703) 532-9048.
inventories.
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Senate Committees Future Listings
March 5: Overview of the Joint Chiefs of staff:
10am and 2pm SD-192 Dirksen Bldg. March
Appropriations
Gen. Colin Powell Jr. - chairman
5,7,12
March 6: Army budget March 7: Air Force budget
10am and 1:30pm SD-192 Dirksen Bldg.
224-3471
March 12: Navy/Marine budget
March 14
March 14: manpower, personnel, health
9:30am SD-192 Dirksen Bldg. March 19, 20
FY92 AGRICULTURE APPROPS
March 19: Seawolf submarine
March 21: intelligence programs (NFIP, TIARA);
10am SD-192 Dirksen Bldg. March 21; April
Subcommittee Hearings
closed
16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25
Rural Development, Agriculture and Re-
April 9: National Guard and Reserve total force
Agenda:
lated Agencies Subcommittee (Chairman Bur-
concept
March 5: 10am: Office of secretary of Labor; Office
dick, D-N.D.) of Senate Appropriations Com-
April 11: B-2
of Inspector General, Labor Department
mittee will hold hearings on fiscal 1992
April 16: armored systems modernizations issues
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
appropriations for programs under its
April 18: TBA
DEPARTMENT
jurisdiction.
April 23: A-12 follow on issues
10am SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. March 1, 8, 15, 22,
April 25: classified programs; closed
March 5: 2pm: Office of Civil Rights and Policy
May 7: strategic programs, SDI closed/open
Research
April 10, 19, and 26
May 9. voluntary military service, women in the
March 7: 10am: Family Support Administration,
Agenda:
military, family life issues
Human Development Services; Office of Inspec-
March 1: Agricultural Research Service; Cooper-
May 14: NATO issues
tor General
ative State Research Service; Extension Service
May 16: TBA
2pm: Social Security Administration; Health Care
March 8: Agricultural Stabilization and Conserva-
May 21: Dick Cheney secretary of Defense
Financing Administration
tion Service; Foreign Agricultural Service, Gen-
May 23: Cheney (alternate date)
March 12: 10am: Office of Assistant Secretary of
eral Sales Manager; Soil Conservation Service
July 16: subcommittee markup
Health; Agency for Health Care Policy and Re-
March 15: Animal and Plant Health Inspection
July 18: committee markup
search; Centers for Disease Control
Service; Food Safety and Inspection Service;
2pm: Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health
Agricultural Marketing Service
Administration; Health Resources and Services
March 22: Food and Nutrition Service; Human
Administration
Nutrition Information Service
FY92 FOREIGN OPS APPROPS
March 14:
April 10: Farmers Home Administration; Federal
Subcommittee Hearings
10am: National Institutes of Health
Crop Insurance Corporation; Rural Electrifica-
Foreign Operations Subcommittee (Chairman
Office of the Director
tion Administration
Leahy, D-Vt.) of Senate Appropriations Com-
Buildings and facilities
April 19: Commodity Futures Trading Commis-
mittee will hold hearings on fiscal 1992 appro-
National Cancer Institute
sion; Food and Drug Administration; Farm Credit
priations for programs under jurisdiction.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Administration; Farm Credit System Assistance
National Dental Institute
Board
2:30pm SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. March 5, 12 &
National Allergy and Infectious Diseases Insti-
April 26: Secretary of Agriculture
19; April 9, 16 & 24; May 7, 14 & 21; June 4
tute
Agenda & witnesses Scheduled:
National Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Dis-
February 27: The hearing scheduled with secretary
eases Institute
of State James Baker is cancelled
FY92 COMMERCE, JUSTICE,
National Child Health and Human Development
March 5: Multilateral Assistance: Nicholas Brady
STATE APPROPS
Institute
secretary of the Treasury
National Environmental Health Institute
Subcommittee Hearings
March 12: Development Assistance Programs:
Fogarty International Center
Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and
Ronald Roskins administrator, AID
1:30pm: National Institutes of Health
Related Agencies Subcommittee (Chairman
March 19: Aid to Africa: Herman Cohen - assistant
National Neurology Institute
Hollings, D-S.C.) of Senate Appropriations
secretary of state for African Affairs; Scott
National Deafness Institute
Committee will hold hearings on fiscal 1992
Spangler assistant administrator, AID
General Medical Sciences
April 9: Aid to Latin America: Bernard Aronson
appropriations for programs under its
National Eye Institute
assistant secretary of state for Inter-American
jurisdiction.
Nation Aging, Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and
affairs; James Michel - assistant administrator,
Skin Institute
10am S-146 Capital Bldg. February 28
AID
Division of Research Resources
Agenda:
April 16: Aid to Eastern Europe: Robert Barry -
Supreme Court & The Judiciary; Federal Trade
Nursing Research
special advisor for eastern European assistance,
Commission
Human Genome project
State Department; David Merrill - deputy assis-
National Library of Medicine
tant administrator, AID
April 23: Security Assistance: Reginald Bartholo-
March 19: Office of Secretary of Education; Special
FY92 DEFENSE APPROPS
mew under secretary of state for international
Institutions, Education Department
Subcommittee Hearings
security affairs; Lt. Gen. Teddy Allen - director,
March 20: Office of Assistant Secretaries of Educa-
Defense Subcommittee (Chairman Inouye,
DSAA
tion, Office of Inspector General, Education De-
D-Hawaii) of Senate Appropriations Commit-
May 7: AID Management: Ronald Roskins admin-
partment
istrator, AID; Gen. Herbert Beckington - inspec-
March 21: 10am: ACTION, National Council on
tee will hold hearings on fiscal 1992 appropria-
tor general, AID
Disability; Federal Mediation and Conciliation
tions for programs under its jurisdiction.
May 14: Foreign Aid & U.S. Trade: Henrietta
Service; National Mediation Board; Railroad Re-
Time TBA SD-192 Dirksen Bldg. March 4 &
Holzman . assistant administrator, AID; John
tirement Board; Federal Mine Safety and Health
6
Macomber president, Export-Import Bank;
Review Commission; National Labor Relations
Time TBA SD-116 Dirksen Bldg. March 5
Fred Zeder - president, OPIC; Priscila Rabb-
Board; Occupational Safety and Health Review
Time TBA SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. March 7,
Ayres - director, U.S. Trade and Develpment
Commission
12 & 14
Program
2pm: Physician Payment Review Commission; Cor-
Time TBA SD-124 Dirksen Bldg. March 19
May 21:
poration for Public Broadcasting; National'C
2:30pm: International AIDS Crisis: Richard Bissell
Time TBA S-407 Capitol Bldg. March 21
mission on Libraries; U.S. Institute of Peace;
assistant administrator of AID
National Commission on AIDS; Prospective Pay-
Time TBA SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. April 9
3:45pm: Peace Corps: Paul Coverdell - director,
ment Assessment Commission; National Com-
Time TBA SD-192 Dirksen Bldg. April 11
Peace Corps
mission to Prevent Infant Mortality; Soldiers' and
Time TBA SD-124 Dirksen Bldg. April 16,
June 4: public witnesses
Airmen's Home
18 & 23
April 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 & 25: outside witnesses
Time TBA S-407 Capitol Bldg. April 25
Time TBA SD-124 Dirksen Bldg. May 7
FY92 LABOR-HHS APPROPS
Time TBA SD-192 Dirksen Bldg. May 9
Subcommittee Hearings
FY92 TRANSPORTATION APPROPS
Time TBA SD-124 Dirksen Bldg. May 14
Labor, Health and Human Services, Educa-
Subcommittee Hearings
Time TBA SD-192 Dirksen Bldg. May 16,
tion and Related Agencies Subcommittee
Transportation and Related Agencies Sub-
21 & 23
(Chairman Harkin, D-Iowa) of Senate Appro-
committee (Chairman Lautenberg, D-N.J.) of
Agenda & witnesses scheduled:
priations Committee will hold hearings on
Senate Appropriations Committee will hold
March 4: fiscal 1992 budget overview:
appropriations for programs under the sub-
hearings on fiscal 1992 appropriations for pro-
Donald Atwood Jr. deputy secretary of defense
committee's jurisdiction
grams under its jurisdiction.
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Senate continued
Services
Witnesses scheduled: Louis Sullivan secretary of
Health and Human Services; Robert Maxwell
president, American Association of Retired Per-
10am SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. February 28
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sons; Robert Blendon chairman, Department of
10am SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. March 6, 13, 20
Health Policy and Management, Harvard School
1pm SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. April 9
EASTERN EUROPE: CURRENT TRENDS
of Public Health; Jack Meyers : president, New
10am SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. April 11, 18, 25
Senate Armed Services Committee (Chair-
Directions for Policy
1pm SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. May 7 10am
man Nunn, D-Ga.) will hold a hearing on
SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. May 9, 16, 23
current trends in Eastern Europe:
Agenda:
2pm SR-222 Russell Bldg. February 27
FY92 BUDGET REVIEW
February 28: overview, Samuel Skinner secretary
Senate Budget Committee (Chairman Sas-
of Transportation
ser, D-Tenn.) will hold hearings in preparation
March 6: Amtrak; Federal Railroad Administra-
DESERT STORM FY91
for drafting a concurrent resolution on the
tion
SUPPLEMENTAL REQUEST
fiscal 1992 budget.
March 13: office of the secretary
March 20: Urban Mass Transportation Adminis-
Senate Armed Services Committee (Chair-
Time TBA SD-608 Dirksen Building date
tration; Washington Metro Area Transit Author-
man Nunn, D-Ga.) will hold a hearing on the
TBA
ity
president's supplemental funding request for
Witnesses scheduled:
Operation Desert Storm for fiscal 1991.
Date TBA: Alan Greenspan chairman, Board of
April 9. open
April 11: Research and Special Programs Adminis-
2pm SR-222 Russell Bldg. February 28
Governors, Federal Reserve System
tration; National Transportation Saftey Board
Witnesses scheduled: Sean O'Keefe comptroller,
April 18: Federal Highway Administration
Defense Department; Gen. Gordon Sullivan vice
April 25: U.S. Coast Guard
chief of staff, Army; Adm. Jerome Johnson vice
May 7: National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis-
chief of Naval operations; Gen. John Daily
Commerce,
tration
assistant commander, Marine Corps; Gen. John
May 9: Federal Aviation Administration
Loh vice chief, Air Force
May 16: General Accounting Office
Science &
May 23: open
Transportation
Banking, Housing
224-5115
FY92 TREASURY-POSTAL APPROPS
& Urban Affairs
INSURANCE INDUSTRY
Subcommittee Hearings
INSOLVENCY ISSUES
Treasury-Postal Service and General Gov-
224-7391
ernment Subcommittee (Chairman DeConcini,
Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta-
tion Committee (Chairman Hollings, D-S.C.)
D-Ariz.) of Senate Appropriations Committee
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
will hold hearings on fiscal 1992 appropriations
will hold a hearing on insurance company
REORGANIZATIONS
insolvencies.
for programs under its jurisdiction.
Subcommittee on Securities of Senate
9:30am SR-253 Russell Bldg. February 27
10am SD-124 Dirksen Bldg. March 6
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Commit-
Witnesses scheduled: Linda Powers deputy assis-
Witnesses scheduled: John Simpson director,
tee (Chairman Dodd, D-Conn.) will hold a
tant secretary for services, ommerce Department;
U.S. Secret Service; Carol Hallett- commissioner,
hearing on reorgainzations of limited partner-
Jack Nelson and James Barrese - College of
U.S. Customs Service
ships commonly referred to as "rollups."
Insurance of New York; Marty Leary Southern
9:30am SD-538 Dirksen Bldg: February 27
Finance Project; Orin Kramer Insurance In-
formation Institute; Earl Pomeroy and Bill
McCartney National Association of Insurance
MORTGAGE DISCRIMINATION
Commissioners; GAO representative; A.M. Best
FY92 VA, HUD APPROPRIATIONS
Co. represenative; Standard & Poors represen-
Subcommittee on Consumer and Regula-
tative
Subcommittee Hearings
tory Affairs of Senate Banking, Housing and
VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Sub-
Urban Affairs Committee (Chairman Dixon,
committee (Chairman Mikulski, D-Md.) of
D-III.) will hold an oversight hearing on the
ICC NOMINATION
Senate Appropriations Committee will hold
impact of the secondary market and private
Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta-
hearings on FY92 appropriations for programs
mortgage insurers on community reinvestment
under its jurisdiction.
tion Committee (Acting Chairman Exon, D-
lending and on mortgage discrimination.
1:30pm SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. March 6 & 13
Neb.) will hold a confirmation hearing on the
10am SD-538 Dirksen Bldg. February 28
9:30pm SD-116 Dirksen Bldg. March 20
nomination of J.J, Simmons III to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.
1:30pm SD-124 Dirksen Bldg. April 10
1:30pm SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. April 17
1:30pm SR-253 Russell Bldg. February 28
9:30am SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. April 23
9:30am SD-124 Dirksen Bldg. April 24
Budget
9:30am SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. May 8
224-0642
EXPANDED LOCAL TELEPHONE
COMPANY POWERS
1:30pm SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. May 15
9:30am SD-138 Dirksen Bldg. May 17-
FY92 BUDGET:
Communications Subcommittee (Chairman
Agenda:
SPENDING ON CHILDREN
Inouye, D-Hawaii) of Senate Commerce, Sci-
March 6: Federal Emergency Management Agency
Senate Budget Committee (Chairman Sas-
ence Transportation Committee will hold a
March 13: Council on Environmental Quality;
ser, D-Tenn.) will hold a hearing on spending
hearing on legislation (S 173)to permit the local
Environmental Protection Agency
for children's programs in the fiscal 1992
telephone operating companies, formed when
March 20: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;
Resolution Trust Corporation; Office of the In-
budget.
the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
10:30am SD-608 Dirksen Bldg: February 28
(AT&T) was broken up, to conduct research
spector General; National Credit Union Adminis-
tration
Witnesses scheduled: Marian Wright Edelman
on, design, and manufacture telecommunica-
April 10: Inter-Agency Council on the Homeless;
president, Children's Defense Fund; Robert
tions equipment. They are currently barred
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Greenstein director, Center on Budget and
from-such activities by the terms of the final
April 17: United States Court of Veterans Affairs;
Policy Priorities; Doug Besharov resident
judgement that authorized the break-up:
Department of Veterans Affairs
scholar, American Enterprise Institute
2pm SR-253 Russell Bldg:February 28
April 23: Science Education Programs of Various
Agencies
April 24: Office of Science and Technology Policy;
FY92 BUDGET:
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS
National Science Foundation
HEALTH CAREISSUES
Science, Technology and Space Sub-
May 8: National Space Council; National Aeronau-
Senate Budget Committee (Chairman Sas-
committee (Chairman Gore, D-Tenn.) of Sen-
tics and Space Administration
ser, D-Tenn.). will hold a hearing on the fiscal
May 15: Commission on National Service; Points of
ate Commerce, Science and Transportation
Light Foundation
1992 budget and health care issues
Committee will hold a hearing on legislation (S
May 17: Public Witness
10am SD-608 Dirksen Bldg., March 5
272) to provide for a coordinated federal re-
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Senate continued.
review to electric steam generation units
(WEPco)
mittee will hold a hearing on lender liability
March 20: Alternative fueled fleets
under the nation's superfund laws.
search program to ensure continued United
March 21: Nuclear waste
9:30am SD-406 Dirksen Bldg. April 10
States leadership in high-performance
computing.
2pm SR-253 Russell Bldg. March 5
PUERTO RICO
POLITICAL STATUS
Finance
Full Committee Markup
224-4515
MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Surface Transportation Subcommittee
Committee (Chairman Johnston, D-La.) will
BENEFITS FOR TROOPS
(Chairman Exon, D-Neb.) of Senate Com-
meet to consider pending business.
IN PERSIAN GULF
merce, Science and Transportation Committee
9:30am SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. February 27
Senate Finance Committee (Chairman
will hold a hearing on the reauthorization of the
Agenda:
motor carrier safety assistance program.
S 244 - to provide for a referendum on the political
Bentsen, D-Texas) will hold a hearing on pro-
2pm SR-253 Russell Bldg. March 13
status of Puerto Rico.
posals the increase benefits for military person-
nel serving in the Persian Gulf War.
10am SD-215 Dirksen Bldg. February 27
NHTSA REAUTHORIZATION
URANIUM ENRICHEMENT
Agenda:
Consumer Subcommittee (Chairman
Energy Research and Development Sub-
Proposals to be considered:
Raising the $500 per month exclusion for military
Bryan, D-Nev.) of Senate Commerce, Science
committee (Chairman Ford, D-Ky.) of Senate
pay to officers in a combat zone to $2000 per
and Transportation Committee will hold a
Energy and Natural Resources Committee will
month
hearing on the reauthorization of the National
hold a hearing on legislation (S 210) to estab-
Permitting Operation Desert Storm personnel to
Highway Traffic Administration (NHTSA).
lish the U.S. Enrichment Corporation to oper-
make penalty-free withdrawals for IRAs and
9:30am SR-253 Russell Bldg. March 14
ate the federal uranium enrichment program
employer-sponsored retirement plans
on a profitable and efficient basis.
Permitting states to issue mortgage revenue bonds
2pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. March 7
to finance home mortgage loans for veterans of
Operation Desert Storm
CABLE TV REREGULATION
Provide an exclusion from gross income for any
Communications Subcommittee (Chairman
compensation received from the armed services
Inouye, D-Hawaii) of Senate Commerce, Sci-
NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL
by Operation Desert Storm POWs and MIAs
ence and Transportation Committee will hold a
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Permit an employer to include an employee's
hearing on legislation (S 12) to reregulate the
Committee (Chairman Johnston, D-La.) will
Desert Storm service in calculations for qualified
cable television industry.
hold a hearing on the implementation of the
pension plans
2pm SR-253 Russell Bldg. March 14
Department of Energy's civilian nuclear waste
Allow an above-the-line deduction for certain ex-
program.
penses incurred by reservists and National
Guardsmen
9:30am SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. March 21
Permit military personnel stationed abroad to qual-
ify for the earned income tax credit
Energy & Natural
Remove certain restrictions on unemployment
benefits for ex-servicemen
Resources
Environment &
224-4971
Public Works
Foreign Relations
ENERGY EFFICIENCY &
224-6176
RENEWABLE ENERGY
224-4651
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
Committee (Chairman Johnston, D-La.) will
ORGANIZATION
FOREIGN ARMS SALES
hold a hearing on legislation (S 341) to reduce
Senate Environment and Public Works
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
the nation's dependence on imported oil and to
Committee (Chairman Burdick; D-N.D.) will
(Chairman Pell, D-R.I.) will hold a closed
provide for the energy security of the nation.
meet to organize for the 102nd Congress.
hearing on the Javits Report, the annual report
9:30am & 2pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. Febru-
9:30am SD-406 Dirksen Bldg. March 5
from the president that gives details and jus-
ary 26
tifications for U.S. arms sales to foreign coun-
9:30am SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. February 28
tries in the coming year.
9:30am SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. March 5
ADMINISTRATION HIGHWAY PLAN
5pm S-116 Capitol Bldg. closed February
9:30am SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. March 7
Senate Environment and Public Works
27
2pm SD-366-Dirksen Bldg. March 11
Committee (Chairman Burdick, D-N.D.) will
9:30am SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. March 12
hold a hearing the fiscal 1992 budget for
10am & 2pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. March
federal-aid highway programs and on the ad-
SOVIET DISUNION: U.S. RESPONSE
14
ministration's proposed "Surface Transporta-
European Affairs Subcommittee (Chairman
2pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. March 18
tion Assistance Act of 1991.
Biden, D-Del.) of Senate Foreign Relations
2pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. March 20
10am SD-406 Dirksen Bldg. March 5
Committee will hold a hearing on the possible
Witnesses scheduled: Samuel Skinner - secretary
dissolution of the Soviet Union and the U.S.
9:30am SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. March 21
Agenda:
of transportation
response.
February 26:
10am SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. February 28
9:30am: Energy efficiency; renewable energy
10am SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. open/will close
2pm: Hydropower
FY92 BUDGET:
March 6
February 28: Corporate Average Fuel Economy
EPA
(CAFE)
Senate Environment and Public Works
March 5: Advanced nuclear reactors; nuclear power
Committee (Chairman Burdick, D-N.D.) will
HUMAN RIGHTS: PROMOTION &
plant licensing
hold a hearing on the Environmental Protec-
PROTECTION
March 7: Natural gas regulation, research & devel-
opment and demonstration & commercialization
tion Agency's proposed budget for fiscal 1992.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
activities
9:30am SD-406 Dirksen Bldg. March 7
(Chairman Pell, D-R.I.) will hold a hearing on
March 11: Strategic Petroleum Reserve; Outer
human rights around the world, how to pro-
Continental Shelf Leases
mote and protect them.
March 12: Oil drilling in Alaska National Wildlife
LENDER LIABILITY
2pm SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. February 28
Refugee (ANWR)
SUPERFUND ISSUES
March 14: Public Utilities Holding Company Act
Superfund, Ocean and Water Protection
(PUHCA) Reform
Subcommittee (Chmn Lautenberg, D-N.J.) of
AMBASSADORIAL NOMINATION
March 18: Coal and the applicability of new source
Senate Environment and Public Works Com-
Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Act-
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BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT
S7 to increase competition and fairness in politics
Subcommittee Markup
S53 to provide for a voluntary system of spending
ing Chairman Dodd, D-Conn.) will hold a
Constitution Subcommittee (Chmn Simon,
limits and partial public financing of Senate
D-III) of Senate Judiciary Committee will mark
general election campaigns, to limit contributions
confirmation hearing on the nomination of Jon
David Glassman to be ambassador to the Re-
up legislation (S J Res 18) proposing a constitu-
by multi-candidate political committees
S 91 - to provide a comprehensive congressional
public of Paraguay.
tional amendment requiring a blanced federal
campaign financing reform to encourage grass-
10am SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. March 1
budget.
roots campaign giving, lessen the role of special
10am SD-226 Dirksen Bldg. March 8
economic interests, prohibit the use of soft
money, discourage candidate expenditures of per-
U.S. TRADE WITH MEXICO
sonal wealth, and other wise restore greater com-
Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Af-
petitive balance to the congressional electoral
fairs Subcommittee (Chairman Dodd, D-
Labor & Human
process
S 128 to exclude from gross income the value of
Conn.) of Senate Foreign Relations Committee
will hold a hearing on issues relating to a
Resources
certain transportation furnished by an employer
S 143 to reduce special interest influence on
bilateral free trade agreement with Mexico.
elections, to increase competition in politics, to
224-5375
2pm SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. March 5
reduce campaign costs
S 294 to exclude from the definition of "indepen-
OSHA CRIMINAL PENALTIES
dent expenditures" those expenditures that are
Labor Subcommittee (Chairman Metzen-
not truly independent of the legislative process
Governmental
baum, D-Ohio) of Senate Labor and Human
Resources Committee will hold a hearing on
Affairs
legislation (S 445) to amend the provisions of
the Occupational Safety and Health Act
224-4751
(OSHA) of 1970 relating to criminal penalties.
10am SD-430 Dirksen Bldg. February 28
GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Veterans' Affairs
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
224-9126
(Chairman Glenn, D-Ohio) will meet to orga-
Education, Arts and Humanities Sub-
nize for the 102nd Congress.
committee (Chairman Pell, D-R.I.) of Senate
VETERANS' LEGISLATIVE AGENDAS
9am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. February 27
Labor and Human Resources Committee will
Joint Hearings
hold a hearing on the reauthorization of the
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
1965 Higher Education Act.
(Chairman Cranston, D-Calif.) and House Vet-
MERCENARIES &
10am SD-430 Dirksen Bldg. March 18
erans' Affairs Committee (Chairman Mont-
DRUG CARTELS
gomery, D-Miss.) will hold joint hearings on the
Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga-
legislative agendas of veterans' groups.
tions (Chairman Nunn, D-Ga.) of Senate Gov-
9:30am 345 Cannon Bldg. February 26, 28,
ernmental Affairs Committee will hold-a hear-
March
5
ing on the connection between mercenaries and
Rules &
9am 345 Cannon Bldg. April 17
drug cartels.
Agenda:
10am SH-216 Hart Bldg. February 27
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. February 28
Administration
February 26:
Disabled American Veterans; See "Committee
Meetings Scheduled Today" section for wit-
224-6352
nesses
February 28:
Judiciary
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
Military Order of the Purple Heart
FUND SHORTFALL
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Senate Rules and Administration Commit-
Blind Veterans of America
224-5225
tee (Chairman Ford, D-Ky.) will hold a hearing
Vietnam-Veterans of America
DRUG POLICY NOMINATION
on the projected shortfall in the Presidential
Non-Commissioned Officers Association
March 5:
Senate Judiciary Committee (Chairman Bi-
Election Campaign Fund.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
den, D-Del.) will hold confirmation hearings on
9:30am SR-301 Russell Bldg. March 6
April 17:
the nomination of former Florida Governor
AMVETS
Bob Martinez to be director of the Office of
Ex-Prisoners of War
Jewish War Veterans
Drug Control Policy.
World War I Veterans
10am SD-226 Dirksen Bldg. February 26 &
additional dates TBA
CAMPAIGN FINANCE PROPOSALS
Witnesses scheduled:
Senate Rules and Administration Commit-
tee (Chairman Ford, D-Ky) will hold a hearing
on various congressional election campaign
SCHIZOPHRENIA DRUG
finance proposals.
RESTRICTIVE MARKETING
9:30am SR-301 Russell Bldg. March 7 & 14
Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights
Agenda:
FY92 BUDGET:
Subcommittee (Chairman Metzenbaum, D-
S3 to provide for a voluntary system of spending
VETERANS AFFAIRS
Ohio) of Senate Judiciary Committee will hold
limits for Senate election campaigns
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
S 6 to provide a voluntary system of flexible
a hearing on restrictive marketing practices by
fundraising targets for Senate elections, to in-
(Chairman Cranston, D-Calif.) will hold a hear-
the maker of clozaril, a drug to treat
crease public disclosure of activities of Senators,
ing on the fiscal 1992 Veterans programs
schizophrenia.
to reduce special interest influence in Senate
budget.
10am Room TBA March 5
elections, and to increase competition in politics
9am SR-418 Russell Bldg. February 27
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House Committees Future Listings
February 28:
Aging
TRADE NEGOTIATIONS
Secretary of the Interior; Bureau of Reclamation;
REVIEW
Delaware River Basin Commission; Susquehanna
Department Operations, Research and For-
River Basin Commission; Interstate Commission
AGING COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
eign Agriculture Subcommittee (Chairman
on the Potomac River Basin
House Select Aging Committee (Chairman
Rose, D-N.C.) of House Agriculture will hold a
Roybal, D-Calif.) will meet to organize for the
ENERGY DEPARTMENT
hearing on the Uruguay Round of Multi-lateral
102nd Congress.
March 4:
trade negotiations under the General Agree-
3:30pm 2237 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
Secretary of Energy
ment on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
March 5:
9:30pm 1300 Longworth Bldg. February 28
Solar and Renewables; Environment; Waste Man-
agement
OLDER AMERICANS ACT
March 6:
AND N.J. SENIORS
General Science; Basic Energy Sciences; Fusion;
Field Hearing
Appropriations
Supporting Technology
Retirement, Income and Employment Sub-
March 7:
committee (Chairman Hughes, D-N.J.) of
225-2771
Nuclear Fission; Uranium Supply and Enrichment
House Select Aging Committee will hold a field
Activities; Supporting Technology
March 11 & 12:
hearing on the Older Americans Act, focusing
FY92 COMMERCE, STATE,
JUSTICE APPROPS
Atomic Energy Defense Activities
on assistance to the growing senior population
March 13:
in New Jersey.
Subcommittee Hearings
Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Federal Energy .
9:30 Vineland City Hall, Vineland, N.J.
Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and
Regulatory Commission
March 1
Related Agencies Subcommittee (Chairman
March 14:
Smith, D-Iowa) of House Appropriations Com-
Power Marketing Administrations
mittee will hold hearings on FY92 appropria-
March 19, 20, 21, April 9, and 10
LONG-TERM CARE
tions for programs under its jurisdiction.
Members of Congress and Outside Witnesses
PERSONNEL TRAINING
10am & 2pm H-310 Capitol Bldg. February
House Select Aging Committee (Chairman
27
Roybal, D-Calif.) will hold a hearing on incen-
10am & 2:30pm H-310 Capitol Bldg. Febru-
FY92 FOREIGN OPS APPROPS
tives for training and career development
ary 28
Subcommittee Hearings
among long-term care personnel.
Agenda:
February 27: (10am) Federal Communications
Foreign Operations Subcommittee (Chmn
2pm 2218 Rayburn Bldg. March 4
Witnesses scheduled: Martin Gerry - Assistant
Commission
Obey, D-Wis) of House Appropriations Com-
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Depart-
(2pm) Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S.;
mittee will hold hearings on the fiscal 1992
ment of Health and Human Services; Pamela
Commission on Civil Rights; Marine Mammal
programs under the subcommittee's jurisdic-
Maraldo commissioner, Secretary's Commission
Commission
tion.
on National Nursing Shortages; Leopold Selker
February 28: (10am) Secretary of Commerce
10am 2360 Rayburn Bldg. February 26, 27,
American Society of Allied Health Care Profes-
(2:30) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
28
sionals; John Beck doctor, University of Califor-
tration
Agenda
nia, Los Angeles
10am 2360 Rayburn Bldg. March 5
10am room TBA March 4, 7, 13, 14
FY92 DEFENSE APPROPS
10am and 11:30am room TBA March 18
SENIOR EMPLOYMENT
Subcommittee Hearings
10am and 11:00am room TBA March 19
PROGRAM REDUCTIONS
Defense Subcommittee (Chairman Murtha,
10am room TBA March 20, April 10, April 11,
D-Pa.) of House Appropriations Committee
April 16
Human Services Subcommittee (Chairman
9am room TBA April 17
Downey, D-N.Y.) of House Select Aging Com-
will hold hearings on FY92 appropriations for
Agenda:
mittee will hold a hearing on the impact of the
programs under its jurisdiction.
February 27: Middle East: where do we go after
administration's proposed cuts in the Seniors
10am & 1:30pm H-140 Capitol February 27
the war
Community Service Employment Program.
9am & 1:30pm H-140 Capitol February 28
February 28: James A. Baker III - secretary of
9:30am B-318 Rayburn Bldg. March 5
Agenda:
State
February 27: Secretary of the Air Force, Air Force
March 4: international debt and environmental
chief of staff open/closed
issues
February 28: (9am) Desert Shield/Storm Supple-
March 5: Nicholas Brady secretary of the Trea-
mental closed
sury
Agriculture
(1:30) secretary of the Army, Army chief of staff
March 7: Agency for International Development
open/closed
March 13: Central and Latin America issues
March 14: Pakistan and Asian issues
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March 18: (10am) Children issues (11:30) Peace
FY92 ENERGY & WATER APPROPS
Corps
DESERT STORM EFFECTS
Subcommittee Hearings
March 19: (10am) international narcotics (11:00)
ON AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS
refugee programs
House Agriculture Committee (Chairman
Energy and Water Subcommittee (Chair-
March 20: trade and export issues
de la Garza, D-Texas) will hold a hearing on the
man Bevill, D-Ala.) of House Appropriations
April 10: post cold war world
effect of Operation Desert Storm on individ-
Committee will hold hearings on fiscal 1992
April 11: post cold war world and military assis-
uals served by Agriculture Department
appropriations for programs under its
tance issues
jurisdiction.
April 16: Eastern Europe and Soviet Union
programs.
Agenda:
April 17: outside witnesses
1pm 1300 Longworth Bldg. February 27
10am & 11am 2362 Rayburn Bldg. February
27
10am 2362 Rayburn Bldg. February 28,
FY92 INTERIOR APPROPS
March 4, 5, 6&7
FARM CREDIT SYSTEM
Subcommittee Hearings
10am 2362 Rayburn Bldg. closed March 11
Conservation, Credit and Rural Develop-
and 12
Interior Subcommittee (Chairman Yates,
ment Subcommittee (Chairman English, D-
10am & 1am 2362 Rayburn Bldg. March 13
D-III.) of House Appropriations Committee
Okla.) of House Agriculture Committee will
10am 2362 Rayburn Bldg. March 14
will hold hearings on fiscal 1992 appropriations
hold a hearing on the farm credit delivery
10am & 2pm 2362 Rayburn Bldg. March 19,
for programs under its jurisdiction.
system and on the credit needs of farmers and
20, 21, April 9 & 10
10am B-308 Rayburn Bldg. February 26, 27,
February 27:
ranchers.
28, March 5, &6
Appalachian Regional Commission; Defense Nu-
10am 1302 Longworth Bldg. February 27
10am & 1:30pm B-308 Rayburn Bldg. March
clear Facilities Saftey Board
7
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House continued.
Authority and Urban Mass Transportation Ad-
Education 1(2pm) secretary of Education; Em
ministration
ployment Standards Administration, Depart-
April 11: National Highway Traffic Administration
ment of Labor
10am B-308 Rayburn Bldg. March 12
April 16: Federal Aviataion Administration
March 6:(10am) Research Statistics and Improve-
10am & 1:30pm B-308 Rayburn Bldg. March
April 17: Federal Aviataion Administration
ment, Department of Education (2pm) Compen-
13 &14
April 18: Federal Aviataion Administration
satory Education for the Disadvantaged
April 23; Saint Lawrence Seaway. Development
10am B-308 Rayburn Bldg. March 19
Corporation
10am & 1:30pm B-308 Rayburn Bldg. March
April 24: Acquisation Policy and Process
20, 21, April 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, & 24
FY92 MIL CON APPROPS
April 25: Office of the Secretary
10am B-308 Rayburn Bldg. April 25 & 30
Subcommittee Hearings
April 30: outside witnesses
10am & 1:30pm B-308 Rayburn Bldg. May 1
Military Construction Subcommittee
May 1: outside witnesses
&2
(Chairman Hefner, D-N.C.) of House Appro-
May 2: outside witnesses
10am B-308 Rayburn Bldg. May 7
priations Committee will hold hearings on
10am & 1:30pm B-308 Rayburn Bldg. May 8
fiscal 1992 appropriations for programs under
10am B-308 Rayburn Bldg. May 9
its jurisdiction.
FY92 TREASURY-POSTAL APPROPS
Agenda:
9:30am B-300 Rayburn Bldg. February 27 &
Subcommittee Hearings
February 27: Outside Witnesses: Energy Program
28, March 6, 7, 12, 13, 20, 21
Treasury, Postal Service and General Gov-
(Department of Energy, Office of Surface Mining,
Agenda and witnesses scheduled:
ernment Subcommittee (Chairman Roybal, D-
Minerals Management Service, Bureau of Mines)
February 27: Navy military construction and fam-
Calif.) of House Appropriations Committee
February 28: Outside Witnesses: Natural Re-
ily housing: RADM. David Bottorff- Commander,
will hold hearings on fiscal 1992 appropriations
sources
Naval Facilities Engineering Command; Brig.
for programs under its jurisdiction.
March 5: Secretary of the Interior
Gen. John Arick; USMC, Facilities Services Divi-
March 6: Secretary of Energy
10am H-164 Capitol Bldg. February 27 &
sion
March 7: Mineral Management Service
28; March 5, 6, 7, 12 & 13
February 28: Army military construction and fam-
March 8: Energy Information Administration; Eco-
ily housing: Peter Offringa assistant chief of
10am & 2pm H-164 Capitol Bldg March 14
nomic Regulatory Administration; Emergency
engineers
Agenda
Preparedness; Office of Hearings and Appeals
March 6: Crotone issues and NATO
February 27: William Barton Inspector General,
March 13 & 14: Outside Witnesses: Indian Pro-
infrastrcture/European construction: Stephen
General Services Administration; Thomas
gram
Hadley assistant secretary of Defense; Gen.
Buckholtz commissioner, Information Re-
March 19: Indian Education Activities; Pennsylva-
John Galvin, CINCEUR; open/closed
sources Management Service; William Early Jr.
nia Avenue Development Corporation; Holocaust
March 7: Air Force military construction and
acting comptroller, General Management and
Memorial Council
Administration
family housing: James Boatright deputy assis-
March 20: NPS
tant secretary of the Air Force; Joseph Ahearn
February 28: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
March 21: Smithsonian
Firearms
USAF, director of engineering and services
April 9. GSA
March 5: Internal Revenue Service
March 12: base closures: David Berteau principal
April 10: Indian Health Services and Facilities
deputy secetary of Defense; Ben Rose deputy
March 6: Office of the Treasury secretary; Interna-
April 11: Bureau of Indian Affairs
assistant secretary of the Navy; James Boatright
tional Affairs; Financial Crimes Enforcement
April 16: Fish and Wildlife Service
deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force
Network; Federal Law Enforcement Training
April 17: Energy Conservation
March 13: Guard and Reserve. military construc-
Center; Inspector General
April 18: Outside Witnesses: NEA/NEH/IMS
tion: John Rosamond deputy assistant secretary
March 7: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; U.S.
April 23: (10am) Bureau of Mines: (1:30pm) Office
Mint
of Defense; Brig. Gen. John Araujo deputy
of Surface Mining
March 12: U.S. Customs Service
dierctor, Army National Guard; Brig. Gen. Roger
April 24: Forest Service
March 13: Bureau of the Public
Bultman, deputy chief, Army Reserve; RADM
April 25: Office of Secretary/Solicitor/IG
Wallace Guthrie deputy director, Naval Re-
Debt; Financial Management Services
April 30: Fossil Energy; Clean Coal; Strategic
serve; Brig. Gen. John Arick USMC Facilities
March 14:(10am) U.S. Secret Service; (2pm) Nich-
Petroleum Reserve; NPR+
Services Division; Brig. Gen. Donald Shepperd
olas Brady secretary of the Treasury
May 1: (10am) Navaho and Hopi Relocation Com-
assistant director, Air National Guard; Brig. Gen.
mission; Institute of American Indian and Alas-
Wallace Whaley deputy chief, Air Force Reserve
kan Native Culture; National Indian Gaming
March 20: quality of life in the military: Julius
FY92 VA, HUD APPROPS
Commission; (1:30pm) Institute of Museum Ser-
Gates sergeant of the Army; Duane
Subcommittee Hearings
vices
Bushey master chief petty officer of the Navy;
VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Sub-
May 7: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Com-
David Sommers sergeant. major of the Marine
mission; Commission of Fine Arts; National Gal-
committee (Chairman Traxler, D,-Mich.) of
Corps; Gary Pfingston "master sergeant of the Air
lery of Art
House Appropriations Committee, will hold
Force
May 8: Bureau of Land Management
March 21: outside witnesses
hearings on fiscal 1992 appropriations for pro-
May 9: Territories
grams under its jurisdiction.
10am H-143 Capitol February 26 & 27
FY92 TRANSPORTATIONAPPROPS
Agenda:
FY92 LABOR-HHS APPROPS
February 27: Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora-
Subcommittee Hearings
Subcommittee Hearings
tion; Resolution Trust Corporation
Transportation and Related Agencies Sub-
Labor, Health and Human Services, Educa-
committee (Chairman Lehman, D-Fla.) of
tion and Related Agencies Subcommittee
House Appropriations Committee will hold
(Chairman Natcher, D-Ky.) of House Appro-
hearings on FY92 appropriations for programs
Armed Services
priations Committee will hold hearings on
under its jurisdiction.
fiscal 1992 appropriations for programs under
10am & 2pm 2358 Rayburn Bldg. February
225-4151
its jurisdiction.
27; March 5, 6,7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 21; April 9,
10am & 2pm 2358 Rayburn Bldg. February
10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30; May 1 & 2
DESERT STORM SUPPLEMENTAL
26, 27 & 28
Agenda:
House Armed Services, Committee (Chair-
2pm 2358 Rayburn Bldg. March 4
February 27: Interstate Commerce Commission
man Aspin, D-Wis.) will hold a hearing on the
10am & 2pm 2358 Rayburn Bldg. March 5 &
March 5: Inspector General
president's fiscal 1991 supplemental spending
6
March 6: Coast Guard
request for the Persian Gulf War
Agenda:
March 7: Coast Guard
March 12: Research and Special Programs Admin-
2pm 2118 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
February 27: (10am) Employment and Training
Witnesses scheduled: Sean O'Keefe comptroller,
Administration
istration-
March 13: Panama Canal
Defense Department; I. Lewis Libby principal
(2pm) Employment Standards Administration;
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
March 14: Architectual and Transportation Barri-
under secretary of, Defense for Strategy and
Resources
February 28: (10am) Occupational Safety and
ers Compliance Board
Health Administration; Mine Safety and Health
March 19: Federal Railroad Administration
Administration
March 20: Amtrak and Federal Railroad Adminis-
(2pm) Office of Inspector General: Labor Man-
stration
FY92 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION:
agement Services
March 21: Federal Highway Administration
BASE CLOSINGS
March 4: Departmental Management; Pension
April 9: Urban Mass Transportation Administra-
Military Installations and Facilities Sub-
Benefit Guaranty Corporation
tion
committee (Chairman Schroeder, D-Colo.) of
March 5:(10am) Lamar Alexander secretary of
April 10: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
House Armed Services Committee will hold a
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MONEY LAUNDERING
hearing on on legislation (HR 2) to guarantee
Subcommittee Markup
unpaid leave for workers with newborn or
hearing on the president's fiscal 1992 defense
Financial Institutions Supervision, Regula-
adopted children or critically ill family
authorization request for military construction,
tion and Insurance Subcommittee (Chairman
members.
focusing on base closings.
Annunzio, D-Ill.) of House Banking, Finance
10am 2175 Rayburn Bldg. February 28
9:30am 2212 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
and Urban Affairs Committee will mark up
Witnesses scheduled:
Witnesses scheduled: David Berteau principal
Money Laundering Enforcement Amendments
PANEL 1: James Malone - chairman, Domestic
deputy assistant secretary of Defense for produc-
Policy Committee, U.S. Catholic Conference,
of 1991 (HR 26).
tion and logistics; Susan Livingstone - assistant
Youngstown, Ohio; Robert Dawkins employee,
3pm 2128 Rayburn Bldg. February 27,
secretary of the Army for installations, logistics
State of Georgia; Mary Wendy Roberts - commis-
and environment; Jacqueline Schafer - assistant
sioner of Labor, Oregon
secretary of the Navy for installations
PANEL 2: Thomas Kean - president, Drew Univer-
ronment; James Boatright - deputy assistant
FY92 BUDGET:
sity, Madison, N.J.
secretary of the Air Force for installations
HOUSING PROGRAMS
PANEI 3: Mary Tavenner Concerned Alliance of
Housing and Community Development
Responsible Employers; Martin Kosters - Ameri-
Subcommittee (Chairman Gonzalez, D-Texas)
can Enterprise Institute
FAIRNESS & SUSTAINABILITY OF
of House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE
Committee will hold a hearing on the fiscal
1992 budget request for housing and commu-
STRIKER REPLACEMENTS
House Armed Services Committee (Chair-
man Aspin, D-Wis.) will will hold a hearing on
nity development programs.
Labor-Management Relations Subcommit-
sustaining the all-volunteer force and military
9:30am 2128 Rayburn Bldg. March 1
tee (Chairman Williams, D-Mont.) of House
Education and Labor Committee will hold a
recruiting.
9:30am 2118 Rayburn Bldg. February 28
hearing on legislation (HR 5) to amend the
Witnesses scheduled:
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE
National Labor Relations Act and the Railway
PANEL: Christopher Jehn assistant secretary of
Subcommittee Markup
Labor Act to prevent discrimination based on
Defense for management and personnel; Stephen
Policy Research and Insurance Subcommit-
participation in labor disputes.
Duncan assistant secretary of Defense for re-
tee (Chairman Erdreich, D-Ala.) of House
Time & room TBA March 6
serve affairs
PANEL: Maj. Gen. Jack Wheeler commanding
Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Commit-
general, Army recruiting command; Brig. Gen.
tee will mark up draft legislation on the Na-
tional Flood Insurance Program.
PARENTAL LEAVE
Gary Brown director, personnel procurement
division, Marine Corps; Brig. Gen. John
1:30pm 2222 Rayburn Bldg. March 6
Subcommittee Markup
Salvadore commander, Air Force recruiting
Note: This markup was originally scheduled for
Labor-Management Relations Subcommit-
service; Rear Adm. Henry McKinney com-
Febraury 27
tee (Chairman Williams, D-Mont.) of House
mander, Navy recruiting command
Education and Labor Committee will mark up
legislation (HR 2) to guarantee unpaid leave for
workers with newborn or adopted children or
NUCLEAR WEAPONS SAFETY
Budget
critically ill family members.
Department of Energy Defense Nuclear
Time & room TBA March 7
Facilities Panel (Chairman Spratt, D-S.C.) of
225-7290
House Armed Services Committee will hold a
hearing on on the the response from the De-
BUDGET COST OF
NATIONAL LITERACY ACT OF 1991
partments of Energy and Defense to the report
PERSIAN GULF WAR
Subcommittee Markup
of the Nuclear Weapons Safety Panel.
House Budget Committee (Chairman Pa-
Elementary, Secondary and Vocational
1:30pm 2118 Rayburn Bldg. open/will close
netta, D-Calif.) will hold a hearing on the
Education Subcommittee (Chairman Kildee,
February 28
budget cost of the Persian Gulf War.
D-Mich.) of House Education and Labor Com-
9:30am 210 CAnnon Bldg. February 27
mittee will mark up legislation (HR 751) to
Witnesses scheduled:
improve adult literacy.
PANEL: Sean O'Keefe comptroller, Defense De-
Time & room TBA March 7
Banking, Finance
partment; I. Lewis Libby principal deputy
undersecretary of Defense for strategy and re-
sources; Eugene McAllister assistant secretary
& Urban Affairs
of State for economic and business affairs; repre-
EDUCATION COMMITTEE MARKUP
sentative of Treasury Department
House Education and Labor Committee
225-4247
PANEL: Charles Bowsher - comptroller general,
(Chairman Ford, D-Mich.) will mark up pend-
General Accountig Office; Robert Reischauer
ing legislation.
FINANCIAL INDUSTRY
director, Congressional Budget Office
Time & room TBA March 12 & 19
RESTRUCTURING
Agenda:
House Banking, Finance and Urban-Affairs
March 12;
Committee (Chmn Gonzalez, D-Texas) will
HR 751 - Improve adult literacy
hold a hearing on the administration's proposal
Education &
HR- technical amendments to the Higher Edu-
cation Act
for deposit insurance reform and restructuring
Labor
March 19:
of the financial services industry.
HR 2 - Guarantee unpaid leave for workers with
10:30am 2128 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
225-4527
newborn or adopted children or critically ill
Witness scheduled: Nicholas Brady secretary of
family members
the Treasury
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1991
House Education and Labor Committee
NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSESSMENT
FINANCIAL INDUSTRY
(Chairman Ford, D-Mich.) will hold a hearing
Elementary, Secondary and Vocational
RESTRUCTURING
on legislation (HR 1) to amend the Civil Rights
Education Subcommittee (Chairman Kildee,
Financial Institutions Supervision, Regula-
Act of 1964 to restore and strengthen civil
D-Mich.) of House Education and Labor Com-
tion and Insurance Subcommittee (Chairman
rights laws that ban discrimination in employ-
mittee will hold a hearing on the National
Annunzio, D-Ill.) of House Banking, Finance
ment, focusing on women's equity in
Assessment of Educational Progress.
and Urban Affairs Committee will hold a
employment.
Time & room TBA March 13
hearing on legislation (HR 192) to implement
9:30am 2175 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
the administration's proposal for restructuring
Time & room TBA March 5
of the financial services industry and for de-
NATIONAL STUDENT TESTING
posit insurance reform.
PARENTAL LEAVE
Elementary, Secondary and Vocational
10am 2128 Rayburn Bldg. February 28
Labor-Management Relations Subcommit-
Time & room TBA March 5, 7, 12, 14, 19 &
tee (Chairman Williams, D-Mont.) of House
Education Subcommittee (Chairman Kildee,
D-Mich.) of House Education and Labor Com-
21 (tentative)
Education and Labor Committee will hold a
mittee will hold a hearing on proposals for
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House continued
president's fiscal 1992 security assistance
FY92 AID FOR EAST
request.
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
national student testing to evaluate educa-
10am 2172 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee
Witnesses scheduled: Dick Cheney secretary of
(Chairman Solarz, D-N.Y.) of House Foreign
tional progress.
Defense; Gen. Colin Powell Jr. chairman, Joint
Time &room TBA March 14
Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the
Chiefs of Staff
president's request for fiscal 1992 for countries
in the east asian and pacific areas.
STRIKER REPLACEMENTS
2pm 2172 Rayburn Bldg. March 6
FY92 REQUEST FOR
Subcommittee Markup
U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS TO
Labor-Management Relations Subcommit-
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
tee (Chairman Williams, D-Mont.) of House
Human Rights and International Organiza-
Education and Labor Committee will mark up
House
tions Subcommittee (Chairman Yatron, D-Pa.)
legislation (HR 5) to amend the National Labor
of House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a
Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to
Administration
hearing on the president's request for fiscal
prevent discrimination based on participation
1992 contributions to international
225-2061
in labor disputes.
organizations.
Time & room TBA March 14
1:30pm Rayburn Bldg. February 27
COMMITTEE FUNDING
RESOLUTIONS
Accounts Subcommittee (Chairman Gay-
OFFICE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH
ENTERPRISE FOR THE
dos, D-Pa:) of House Committee on House
Select Education Subcommittee (Chairmar
AMERICAS INITIATIVE
Administration will. hold a hearing on resolu-
Owens, D-N.Y.) of House Education and Labor
Joint Hearing
tions funding House committee operations for
Committee will hold'a hearing on the Educa-
Western Hemisphere Affairs Subcommittee
1991.
tion Department's Office of Education Re-
(Chairman Torricelli, D-N.J.) and Interna-
10am H-328 Capitol Bldg. February 26, 27,
search and Improvement.
tional Economic Policy and Trade Subcommit-
28
Time & room TBA March 20
tee (Chairman Gejdenson, D-Conn.) of House
Agenda:
Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a joint
February 26: House Committeee on House Admin-
hearing on the progress of the Enterprise for
istration; House Information Systems; Education
the Americas Initiative, the plan by which the
and Labor Committee; Select Intelligence Com-
Energy &
U.S. offers incentives for environmental pro-
mittee; Standards of Official Conduct Committee;
Judiciary Committee
tection in some Latin American countries,
Commerce
February 27: Government Operations Committee;
including the reduction of their international
Veterans' Affairs Committee; Merchant Marine
debt.
225-2927
and Fisheries Committee; Small Business Com-
1pm 2200 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
mittee; Rules Committee; Science and Space
Technology Committee
NATIONAL ENERGY STRATEGY
February 28: Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
Energy and Power Subcommittee (Chair-
Committee; Interior and Insular Affairs Commit-
man Sharp, D-Ind.) of House Energy and
FY92 STATE DEPARTMENT BUDGET
tee; Energy and Commerce Committee; Post Of-
Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on
fice and Civil Service Committee; Public Works
International Operations Subcommittee
the National Energy Strategy.
and Transportation Committee; Foreign Affairs
(Chairman Berman, D-Calif.) of House Foreign
10am 2123 Rayburn Bldg. February 27& 28
Committee; Armed Services Committee
Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the
Agenda & witnesses scheduled:
February 27: Oil and petroleum issues
president's fiscal 1992 request for the State
February 28: James Watkins- - secretary of Energy
Department.
2pm 2172 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
Witness scheduled: Ivan Selin under secretary of
Intelligence
900 NUMBERS
State for management
225-4121
Telecommunications and Finance Sub-
committee (Chairman Markey, D-Mass.) of
INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION
House Energy and. Commerce Committee will
U.S. POST-WAR GULF POLICY
House Select Intelligence Committee
hold a hearingon legislation (HR 328) to pro-
Europe and the Middle East Subcommittee
(Chairman McCurdy, D-Okla.) will hold closed
vide for the regulation and oversight of the
development and application of the technology
(Chairman Hamilton, D-Ind.) and Arms Con-
hearings on intelligence organization.
known as audiotext (900 numbers).
trol, International Security and Science Sub-
10am H-405 Capitol Bldg. closed February
9:30am 2322 Rayburn Bldg. February 28
committee (Chairman Fascell, D-Fla.) of
27,28
House Foreign Affairs Committee will continue
Witnesses scheduled:
February 27: Adm. William Crowe former chair-
joint hearings on U.S. policy in the Persian
man, Joint Chiefs of Staff
RADIO SPECTRUM
Gulf after the war, focusing on relations with
February 28: Harold Brown former secretary of
FREQUENCY ASSIGNMENTS
Iran, Israel and Turkey.
Defense
Telecommunications and Finance Sub-
10am 2200 Rayburn Bldg. February 28
Note: Hearings began January 31.
committee (Chairman Markey, D-Mass.) of
House Energy and Commerce Committee will
hold a hearing on legislation (HR 531) to
establish procedures to improve the allocation
Interior &
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
and assignment to" the electromagnetic
AID'S MICRO-ENTERPRISE PROGRAM
spectrum.
Insular Affairs
9:30am room TBA March 6
International Operations Subcommittee
(Chairman Berman, D-Calif.) of House Foreign
225-2761
Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on draft
legislation authorizing the Agency for Interna-
FY92 BUDGET:
Foreign Affairs
tional Development's (AID) micro-enterprise
INSULAR AREAS
development program. Under that. program,
Insular and International Affairs Sub-
225-5021
AID works with private relief groups in aiding
committee (Chairman de Lugo, D-VI) of House
poor people in Third World countries in ob-
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
FY92 SECURITY
taining small loans (no) loan is larger than
hold a hearing on the fiscal 1992 budget for the
ASSISTANCE BUDGET
$300). Currently, there is no authorizing legis-
insular areas.
House Foreign Affairs Committee (Chair-
lation for the program.
10am 2226 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
man Fascell, D-Fla.) will hold a hearing on the
10am 2172 Rayburn Bldg. February 28
9:45am 2253 Rayburn Bldg. February 28
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House continued
plaintiffs to successfully sue in cases of job
OFFSHORE OIL ISSUES
discrimination.
NATIONAL ENERGY STRATEGY
FY92 BUDGET:
10am 2237 Rayburn Bldg. February 28
Oceanography, Great Lakes and the Outer
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT AGENCIES
Continental Shelf Subcommittee (Chairman
Mining and Natural Resources Subcommit-
Hertel, D-Mich.) of House Merchant Marine
tee (Chairman Rahall, D-W.Va.) of House
and Fisheries Committee will hold a hearing on
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
Merchant Marine
the role of offshore oil in the National Energy
hold a hearing on the fiscal 1992 budget for
Strategy and the proposed five-year outer con-
agencies within the Interior Department.
& Fisheries
tinental shelf lease program.
9:45am 1310A Longworth Bldg. February
2pm 1334 Longworth Bldg. March 6
26
225-4047
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg. February 28
Agenda:
FY92 BUDGET:
SEA GRANT COLLEGES
February 26: Dallas Peck director,
NOAA
Oceanography, Great Lakes and the Outer
Geological Survey; TS Ary. director, Bureau
Oceanography, Great Lakes and the Outer
Continental Shelf Subcommittee (Chairman
of Mines; Barry Williamson director, Minerals
Continental Shelf Subcommittee (Chairman
Hertel, D-Mich.) of House Merchant Marine
Management Service
Hertel, D-Mich.) of House Merchant Marine
and Fisheries Committee will hold a hearing on
February 28: Office of Surface Mining; energy and
and Fisheries Committee will hold a hearing on
the reauthorization of the National Sea Grant
minerals management program of Bureau of Land
the fiscal 1992 budget for National Oceanic and
Management
College Act.
Atmospheric Administration.
2pm 1334 Longworth Bldg. March 13
11am 1334 Longworth Bldg. February 27
MARKUP:
FY92 BUDGET:
INTERIOR COMMITTEE
FY92 BUDGET
ENVIROINMENTAL QUALITY
House Interior and Dular Affairs Commit-
MARITIME COMMISSION
Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and
tee (Chairman D-Ariz.) will mark up
Merchant Marine Subcommittee (Chmn
the Environment Subcommittee (Chairman
pending lc
Jones, D-N.C.) of House Merchant Marine and
Studds, D-Mass.) of House Merchant Marine
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg. February 27
Fisheries Committee will hold a hearing on the
and Fisheries Committee will hold a hearing on
fiscal 1992 budget for the Federal Maritime
the fiscal 1992 budget for the Council on
Commission.
Environmental Quality.
FY92 BUDGET: NRC
10am 1334 Longworth Bldg. February 28
2pm 1334 Longworth Bldg. March 14
Energy and the Environment Subcommit-
tee (Chairman, Kostmayer, D-Pa.) of House
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES
hold a hearing on the fiscal 1992 budget of the
FY92 BUDGET:
Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and
Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
COAST GUARD
the Environment Subcommittee (Chairman
2pm 1324 Longworth Bldg. February 28
Coast Guard and Navigation Subcommittee
Studds, D-Mass.) of House Merchant Marine
(Chmn Tauzin, D-La.) of House Merchant
and Fisheries Committee will hold a hearing on
Marine and Fisheries Committee will hold a
the national wildlife refuge system.
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
Water, Power and Offshore Energy Re-
hearing on the fiscal 1992 budget for the Coast
2pm 1334 Longworth Bldg. March 20
Guard.
sources Subcommittee (Chairman Miller, D-
Calif.) of House Interior and Insular Affairs
9:30am 1334 Longworth Bldg. March 5
Committee will hold a hearing on potential
Narcotics Abuse
health hazards of electromagnetic field
radiation.
Time & room TBA date TBA
ANTARCTICA ISSUES
& Control
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
Joint Hearing
226-3040
January 17, but was postponed because of devel-
Coast Guard and Navigation Subcommittee
opments in the Persian Gulf. No new date has
(Chmn Tauzin, D-La), Fisheries and Wildlife
been announced.
Conservation and the Environment Sub-
NARCOTICS COMMITTEE
ORGANIZATION
committee (Chairman Studds, D-Mass.) and
Oceanography and Great Lakes Subcommittee
House Select Narcotics Committee (Chair-
Judiciary
(Chmn Hertel, D-Mich.) of House Merchant
man Rangel, D-N.Y.) will meet to organize for
Marine and Fisheries Committee will hold a
the 102nd Congress.
225-3951
joint hearing on international negotiations for a
11:30am, 1129 Longworth Bldg. February
28
new protocol to the Antarctic Treaty on Envi-
ronmental Protection.
CHANGING HONORARIA
RULES
2pm 1334 Longworth Bldg. March 5
Witnesses scheduled: Curtis Bohlen assistant
Subcommittee Markup
secretary of state for oceans, international envi-
Post Office &
Administrative Law and Governmental Re-
ronment and scientific affairs
lations Subcommittee (Chairman Frank, D-
Civil Service
Mass.) of House Judiciary Committee will
mark up legislation to allow government work-
225-4054
ers to accept honoraria for outside work that is
FY92 BUDGET:
POSTAL SERVICE OVERSIGHT
in no way related to their duties or status as
FISH & WILDLIFE/NMFS
House Post Office and Civil Service Com-
federal employees.
Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and
mittee (Chairman Clay, D-Mo.) will hold an
10am 2226 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
the Environment Subcommittee (Chairman
oversight hearing on the U.S. Postal Service.
Agenda:
Studds, D-Mass.) of House Merchant Marine
11:30am 311 Cannon Bldg. March 5
HR 325 to allow government employees to accept
and Fisheries Committee will hold a hearing on
honoraria if unrelated to their duties or status.
the fiscal 1992 budget for the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fish-
1990 CENSUS
eries Service
Census and Population Subcommittee
CIVIL RIGHTS
Civil and Constitutional Rights Sub-
10am 1334 Longworth Bldg. March 6
(Chairman Sawyer, D-Ohio) of House Post
Witnesses scheduled: John Turner director, U.S.
Office and Civil Service Committee will hold a
committee (Chairman Edwards, D-Calif.) of
Fish and Wildlife Service; William Fox assistant
hearing on the accuracy and quality of the 1990
House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing
administrator, National Oceanic and Atmo-
census.
on legisition (HR 1) to make it easier for
spheric Administration
9:30am 311 Cannon Bldg. March 7
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House continued.
Committee (Chairman Roe, D-N.J.) will hold
1:30pm 2318 Rayburn Bldg. March 5
hearings on the development of counter-cycli-
9am 2318 Rayburn Bldg. March 6
cal and anti-recession public works projects.
Public Works
1:30pm 2318 Rayburn Bldg. March 12
Time and room TBA dates TBA
9am 2325 Rayburn Bldg. March 13
1:30pm 2318 Rayburn Bldg. March 19
& Transportation
2pm 2318 Rayburn Bldg. March 20
225-4472
Rules
Agenda:
March 5: Fossil energy
March 6: Advanced reactors; fast flux test facility
SUBCOMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
225-9486
March 12: Oil & gas
Investigations and Oversight Subcommit-
March 13: Fusion energy
tee (Chairman Borski, D-Pa.) of House Public
RULES FOR FLOOR DEBATE
March 19: Basic energy services
Works and Transportation Committee will
House Rules Committee (Chairman Moak-
March 20: Advanced/isotope laser; isotope separa-
hold an organizational meeting for the 102nd
ley, D-Mass.) will meet to consider a rule for
tion
Congress.
floor debate for pending legislation.
9:30am 2167 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
3pm H-313 Capitol Bldg. February 27
Agenda:
HR- Additional funding authorization for Reso-
Small Business
SUBCOMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
lution Trust Corporation
225-5821
Surface Transportation Subcommittee
(Chairman Mineta, D-Calif.) of House Public
OPERATION DESERT STORM
Works and Transportation Committee will
Science, Space &
Full Committee Markup
meet to organize for the 102nd Congress.
House Small Business Committee (Chair-
2pm 2167 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
Technology
man LaFalce, D-N.Y.) will mark up legislation
(HR 902) providing credit relief to small busi-
225-6371
ness owners serving in Operation Desert Storm.
RUNWAY INCURSIONS
9am 2359 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
Aviation Subcommittee (Chairman Ober-
ENERGY POLICY
star, D-Minn.) of House Public Works and
House Science, Space and Technology
Transportation Committee will hold a hearing
Committee (Chairman Brown, D-Calif.) will
SBA BUDGET
on airport runway incursions. A runway incur-
hold hearings on energy policy issues,
House Small Business Committee (Chair-
sion occurs when, for unknown reasons pilot
10:30am 2318 Rayburn Bldg. February 26
man LaFalce, D-N.Y.) will hold a hearing on
error, air traffic control error or accident, a
10am 2318 Rayburn Bldg. February 28
the Small Business Adminstration fiscal 1992
plane makes an unauthorized appearance on a
Agenda and witnesses scheduled:
budget.
runway that has already been assigned for use
February 26:
9:30 2359 Rayburn Bldg. February 27 & 28
to another plane.
Bush Administration National Energy Strategy:
9:30am 2167 Rayburn Bldg. February 28
Witness scheduled: James Watkins secretary of
energy
SMALL BUSINESS
February 28:
'CREDIT CRUNCH
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION
HR 560 Increase America's energy security in ways
House Small Business Committee (Chair-
PROGRAMS
that are environmentally desirable and economi-
cally affordable. Short title: National Energy
man LaFalce, D-N.Y.) will hold a hearing on
Field Hearing
the "credit crunch" for small businessmen.
Policy Act of 1991
Surface Transportation Subcommittee
Witness scheduled: Rep Panetta, D-Calif.
Time TBA 2359 Rayburn Bldg. March 5 & 6
(Chairman Mineta, D-Calif.) of House Public
Works and Transportation Committee will
hold a field hearing on the reauthorization of
FY92 BUDGET:
DRUGS IN WORKPLACE
surface transportation programs.
TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION
Regulation, Business Opportunities and
9:30am St. Louis, Mo., March 1
Technology and Competitiveness Sub-
Energy Subcommittee (Chairman Wyden, D-
committee (Chairman Valentine, D-N.C.) of
Ore.) of House Small Business Committee will
House Science, Space and Technology Com-
hold a hearing on drugs in the workplace,
INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS
mittee will hold hearings on the fiscal 1992
focusing on the shortage of programs designed
Field Hearing
budget for the Commerce Department's Office
to identify and treat employees.
House Public Works and Transportation
of Technology Administration.
10am 2359 Rayburn Bldg. March 8
Committee (Chairman Roe, D-N.J.) will hold
2:30pm 2318 Rayburn Bldg February 26
field hearings on the infrastructure needs of the
9:30am 2318 Rayburn Bldg February 27
Northwest.
Witnesses scheduled: See "Committee Meetings
Time TBA Seattle, Wash. March 27
Scheduled Today" section for witnesses
Time TBA Portland, Ore. March 28
FRANCHISING
House Small Business Committee (Chair-
FY92 BUDGET:
man LaFalce, D-N.Y.) will hold a hearing on
CLEAN WATER ACT
NASA SPACE SCIENCE
franchising.
House Public Works and Transportation
Space Subcommittee (Chairman Hall, D-
Time TBA 2359 Rayburn Bldg. March 13
Committee (Chairman Roe, D-N.J.) will hold
Texas) of House Science, Space and Technol-
hearings on the reauthorization of the Clean
ogy Committee will hold a hearing on the fiscal
Water Act.
1992 budget for NASA space science and appli-
Time & room TBA dates TBA
cations programs.
9:30am 2325 Rayburn Bldg. February 28
Standards of
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION
House Public Works and Transportation
FY92 BUDGET:
Official Conduct
Committee (Chairman Roe, D-N.J.) will hold
ENERGY DEPARTMENT
hearings on the reauthorization of surface
Energy, Research and Development Sub-
225-7103
transportation programs.
committee (Chairman Lloyd, D-Tenn.) of
Time & room TBA dates TBA
House Science, Space and Technology Com-
ETHICS ORGANIZATION
mittee will hold hearings on the fiscal 1992
House Standards of Official Conduct Com-
budget for the Department of energy.
mittee (Chairman Stokes, D-Ohio) will meet to
PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS
Note: These hearings are tentatively
organize for the 102nd Congress.
House Public Works and Transportation
scheduled.
2pm HT-2M Capitol Bldg. March 6
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Ways & Means
Agenda & witnesses scheduled:
March 5: Richard Darman director, Office of
Veterans' Affairs
225-3625
Management and Budget
March 6: (9:30am) Alan Greenspan chairman,
Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System;
225-3527
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
(2pm) Robert Reischauer director, Congres-
Human Resources Subcommittee (Acting
sional Budget Office
VETERANS' LEGISLATIVE AGENDAS
Chairman Downey, D-N.Y.) of House Ways
March 7: (10am) Lynn Martin- secretary of Labor;
Joint Hearings
and Means Committee will hold a hearing on
(2pm) invited expert witnesses
House Veterans' Affairs Committee (Chair-
unemployment insurance and the recession.
March 12: (9:30am) Louis Sullivan secretary of
1pm B-318 Rayburn Building February 26
Health and Human Services; (2pm) Nicholas
man Montgomery, D-Miss.) and Senate Veter-
ans' Affairs Committee (Chairman Cranston,
10:30am B-318 Rayburn Building February
Brady secretary of the Treasury
D-Calif.) will hold joint hearings on the legisla-
28
March 13: (9:30am) invited expert witnesses;
tive agendas of veterans' groups.
Agenda:
(2pm) invited expert witnesses
February 26: Long-term unemployment
March 14: (10am) administration witnesses on
9:30am 345 Cannon Bldg. February 26, 28,
February 28: Job search and re-employment assis-
burden sharing of Operation Desert Storm; (2pm)
March 5
tance
invited expert witnesses
9am 345 Cannon Bldg. April 17
Agenda:
February 26:
HOSPITAL PAYMENT
CHILD WELFARE
Disabled American Veterans; See "Committee
UNDER MEDICARE
Human Resources Subcommittee (Acting
Meetings Scheduled Today" section for wit-
nesses
Health Subcommittee (Chairman Stark, D-
chairman Downey, D-N.Y.) of House Ways and
Calif.) of House Ways and Means Committee
Means Committee will hold a hearing on the
February 28:
Military Order of the Purple Heart
will hold a hearing on hospital payment under
state of the nation's child welfare system.
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Medicare.
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. March 19
Blind Veterans of America
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. February 27
Vietnam Veterans of America
Non-Commissioned Officers Association
FY92 BUDGET:
March 5:
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
REVENUE & TAX PROVISIONS
Veterans of Foreign Wars
April 17:
AS NATIONAL ID
House Ways and Means Committee (Chair-
AMVETS
Social Security Subcommittee (Chairman
man Rostenkowski, D-III.) will hold hearings to
Ex-Prisoners of War
Jacobs, D-Ind.) of House Ways and Means
hear from public witnesses on the administra-
Jewish War Veterans
Committee will hold a hearing on the proposed
tion's revenue proposals and well as on all tax
World War I Veterans
use of the Social Security number as a national
provisions expiring in 1991.
identifier.
10am 1100 Longworth Building April 9 & 10
10am B-318 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
MARKUP:
FY92 VETERANS BUDGET
House Veterans' Affairs Committee (Chair-
U.S.-MEXICO FREE TRADE
man Montgomery, D-Miss.) will mark up legis-
Trade Subcommittee (Chairman Gibbons,
lation to authorize programs of the Veterans'
D-Fla.) of House Ways and Means Committee
Note
Department for fiscal 1992.
will hold hearings on proposed negotiation of a
9am 334 Cannon Bldg. March 6
free trade agreement with Mexico.
The offices of all members of Congress
9:30am 1100 Longworth Building February
and all congressional committees and sub-
28
committees may be reached by calling (202)
VETERANS REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS
224-3121.
Education, Training and Employment Sub-
committee (Chairman Penny, D-Minn.) of
SKILLED NURSING &
House Veterans' Affairs Committee will hold a
HOME HEALTH BENEFITS
hearing on the reemployment rights of
Health Subcommittee (Chairman Stark, D-
Veterans.
Calif.) of House Ways and Means Committee
9:30am 334 Cannon Bldg. March 7
will hold a hearing on long-term care and
proposals to improve Medicare's skilled nurs-
ing facility and home health care benefits.
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
1pm 1100 Longworth Bldg. March 4
House Veterans' Affairs Committee (Chair-
man Montgomery, D-Miss.) will hold a hearing
on the emergency preparedness plans of the
Joint Committees
Veterans Administration and the Defense
FY92 BUDGET:
Department.
WAYS & MEANS REVIEW
9am 334 Cannon Bldg. March 13
House Ways and Means Committee (Chair-
man Rostenkowski, D-III.) will hold a series of
QUALITY OF FEDERAL
hearings on the state of the U.S. economy,
ECONOMIC STATISTICS
VA MORTGAGE ASSUMPTION
federal budget policy, the president's budget
Joint Economic Committee (Chairman Sen.
BAD DEBTS
proposals for fiscal 1992 and beyond (including
Sarbanes, D-Md.) will hold a hearing to review
Housing and Memorial Affairs Subcommit-
estimated costs of Operation Desert Storm)
administration proposals to improve the qual-
tee (Chairman Staggers, D-W.Va.) of House
and expiring tax provisions.
ity of federal economic statistics.
Veterans' Affairs Committee will hold a hear-
2pm 1100 Longworth Building March 5
9:30am SD-628 Dirksen Bldg. March 1
ing on the implementation new VA regulations
9:30am & 2pm 1100 Longworth Building
Witnesses scheduled: Michael Boskin - chairman,
on the assumption of VA-insured mortgages by
March 6
Council of Economic Advisers; Michael Darby
non-veterans. In some cases, if an individual
10am & 2pm 1100 Longworth Building
under secretary of Commerce for economic af-
who assumes a VA-insured loan defaults, the
March 7
fairs; Janet Norwood commissioner, Bureau of
responsibility to pay reverts to the veteran who
Labor Statistics; Martin Fleming chariman,
9:30am & 2pm 1100 Longworth Building
Statistics Committee, National Association of
took the mortgage out to begin with. The new
March 12 & 13
Business Economists; William Hawkes vice
rules are designed to grant relief in such cases.
10am & 2pm 1100 Longworth Building
president and chief statistical officers, Nielsen
9:30am 224 Cannon Bldg. March 14
March 14
Marketing Research, A.C. Nielsen Company
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Other Events Future Listings
The Monitor has received notice of the
Development Assistance: Are We Helping the
HEALTH AGENDA
Poor or Ourselves?"
following events scheduled to take place in
FOR.102nd CONGRESS
7pm, Sumner School, 1201 17th St. N.W.
Washington. Associations, non-profit organiza-
Health Task Force of Women in Govern-
February 27
tions and public interest groups who wish to
ment Relations will sponsor a luncheon meet-
Contact: Jeff Ratcliffe at (202) 682-6592
have events listed in the section should send
ing to hear a discussion by key hill staff of the
pertinent information to: The Congressional
health policy agenda for the 102nd Congress.
Monitor, Other Events Editor, 1414 22nd St.
11:30am, Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St. S.E.
PROCUREMENT POLICY
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037. Notices must
February 28
Manufacturers' Alliance for Productivity
include a telephone number. Notices may be
Contact: Terri Gaffney at (202) 416-7699
and Innovation will hold a conference on "Re-
Participants: Karen Nelson staff director, Health
transmitted by facsimile to 728-1862, attn:
assessing Government Procurement Issues of
and the Environment Subcommittee; Mike Ste-
Robert Healy. Only events related to Congress
the 1990s."
phens staff assistant, Labor, HHS Appropria-
can be listed. Deadline is Noon. For further
Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel February 28,
tions Subcommittee; Chip Kahn - minority pro-
information call (202) 887-8686.
March 1
fessional staff, Health Subcommittee, House
Contact: Kathy Koval at (202) 331-8430
Ways and Means Committee; Nancy Taylor
Note: There is a charge for this event of $450 for
minority health policy director, Senate Labor and
RTC FUNDING
Human Resources Committee; Chris Jennings
members and $525 for non-members. For in-
Democratic Budget Study Group will spon-
formation or reservations call the number listed
deputy staff director, Special Aging Committee
sor a meeting to hear Rep. Vento, D-Minn.,
above.
discuss Resolution Trust Corporation funding.
8am 340 Cannon Bldg. February 27
SEN. SPECTER LUNCHEON
Contact: Joe Theissen (202) 2472
INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE
American League of Lobbyists will sponsor
COMPANIES
a luncheon meeting to hear a discussion by Sen.
Organization for the Protection and Ad-
Specter, R-Pa., on the issues that may come
MICKEY LELAND
vancement of Small Telephone Companies will
before the committees and subcommittees on
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
hold a legislative and regulatory conference.
which he serves (Appropriations, Judiciary,
USA Africa will sponsor a news conference
Quality Hotel Capitol Hill February 28,
Select Intelligence).
to announce a grant to establish fellowship
March 1
Noon, Hyatt Regency Hotel, 400 New Jersey
program honoring Mickey Lelad at the Carter
Contact: Suzanne Bagshaw at (202) 659-5990
Ave. N.W. February 28
Center of Emory University.
Participants: Sens. Sasser, D-Tenn.; Grassley, R-
Contact: Patti Jo Baber at (703) 960-3011
10:30am 1310 Laongworth Bldg. February
Iowa
Note: There is a charge for this event of $35 for
26
Rep. Markey, D-Mass. (tentative)
members by the February 26 deadline and $45 for
Contact: Jennifer Graham at (202) 387-6556
John Windhausen counsel, Senate Communica-
non-members and for members after the dead-
tions Subcommittee; Regina Keeney senior mi-
line. For reservations send a check, made payable
nority counsel, Senate Communications Sub-
to American League of Lobbyists, to:
committee; Paul Schlegel - senior legislative
Americant League of Lobbyists
ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE
assistant to Rep. Rinaldo
P.O: Box 30005
TRANSPORTATION
Alexandria, Va. 22310
Note: There is a $175 charge for this event. For
Environment and Energy Study Institute
reservations or information call the number listed
Deadline is February 26.
will sponsor a briefing on ideas for environmen-
above.
tally sustainable transportation.
Media inquiries should go to Linda Buckley or
2pm SD-192 Dirksen Bldg. February 27
Laura Shepherd at the same number.
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
& LOCAL TELEPHONE COMPANIES
Contact: Beth Nalker at (202) 628-1400
United States Telephone Association will
U.S.-JAPAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS
sponsor its annual government relations semi-
"FAST TRACK" FOR NORTH
Congressional Economic Leadership Insti-
nar to discuss legislative and regulatory issues
AMERICA FREE TRADE
tute will sponsor a breakfast meeting for mem-
that affect the local exchange industry.
Washington International Trade Associa-
bers of the Congressional Competitiveness
Capital Hilton Hotel, March 4, 5 & 6
tion will sponsor a discussion focusing on the
Caucus to hear a discussion by University of
Contact: Suzy Chambers at (202) 835-3245
California at San Diego Professor Chalmers
Note: There is a charge for this event of $350 for
use of congressional "fast track" procedures for
Johnson on the future of U.S.-Japan economic
members and $450 for non-members. For reserva-
consideration of a North American free-trade
agreement that might emerge from negotia-
relations in light of the Persian Gulf War and
tions contact Suzy Chambers at the number listed
above.
tions among the United States, Mexico and
recent trade talks.
Canada announced by President Bush on Feb-
8am, Rayburn Bldg. February 28
ruary-6.
Contact: Julia Teuscher (703) 276-5007
U.S-CHINA-TAIWAN
6pm, Embassy of Canada, 501 Pennsylvania
Note: This event is restricted to members only, but
Ave. N.W. February 27
news coverage is invited. For media invitations
National Economists Club will sponsor a
call Julia Teuscher at the number listed above.
luncheon meeting to hear Harvey Feldman, for
Contact: (202) 293-4193
director of the Office of Republic of China
Participants: Jonathan Fried first secretary, Ca-
Affairs of the State Department, discuss "The
nadian Embassy (moderator); Joshua Bolten
POLICY TOWARD CZECHOSLOVAKIA
U.S.-China-Taiwan Triangle in the 1990s.'
general counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Repre-
The Atlantic Council will sponsor a news
sentative; Miguel Leaman minister for commer-
briefing on U.S. policy toward Czechoslovakia.
Noon, Madison Building, Library of Con-
cial affairs, Embassy of Mexico; George Weiss
The briefing will focus on a report by the
gress, 101 Independence Ave. S.E. March 5
staff director, House Ways and Means Sub-
Contact: (703) 532-9048.
European Task Force of the Atlantic Council.
committee on International Trade
Note: There is a charge for this event of $10 for
8:30am to 9:45am 2105 Rayburn Bldg. Feb-
members and $14 for non-members. For reserva-
Note: There is a charge for this event, of $25 for
ruary 28
tions call the number listed above.
members and $30 for non-members. For reserva-
Contact: Laura Eakins at (202) 347-9353
Deadline is March 4
tions send a check to:
Note: Reservations are requested.
Washington International Trade Association
1900 St. N.W.
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Suite 250
PARENTAL LEAVE
University of California will sponsor a brief-
Washington, D.C. 20036
Concerned Alliance of Responsible Em-
ing for members and staff on emerging technol-
ployers will hold a news conference to discuss
ogies for environmental cleanup, energy effi-
the Family and Medical Leave Act (HR 2, 5)
ciency, biomedicine and industrial processing.
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
9:30am 2275 Rayburn Bldg. February 27
9am 2325 Rayburn Bldg. March 8
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Wash-
Contact: Melissa Marks (202) 872-0885 or
Contact: Kathleen Ritzman at (202) 785-
ington will sponsor a discussion on "Official
(202) 785-0586
2666
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Other continued
LOBBYING TECHNIQUES
9am, Congressional Quarterly, 1414 22nd St.
Congressional Quarterly will sponsor a sem-
N.W. March 15
SEANTE EDUCATION AGENDA
inar on "Lobbying Techniques for the '90s:
Contact: Irene Cuffy at (202) 887-8620
Education Task Force of Women in Gov-
Strategies, Coalitions and Grass Roots
Note: There is a $195 charge for this event. For
ernment Relations will sponsor a brown-bag
Campaigns."
reservations and information call the number
lunch roundtable discussion on the Senate
9am to 4:30pm, Grand Hyatt Hotel, 1000 H
listed above.
agenda for education.
ST. N.W. March 12
Noon, Dow Chemical Co., 1776 Eye St. N.W.,
Contact: Irene Cuffy at (202) 887-8620
Suite 575 March 8
Note: There is a $345 charge for this event (in-
WORKER'S COMPENSATION
Contact: Beth Keifer at (202) 342-7297
cluded lunch). For reservations and information
Manufacturers' Alliance for Productivity
call the number listed above.
Participant: David Evans staff director, Educa-
and Innovation (MAPI) will hold a conference
tion, Arts and Humanities Subcommittee, Senate
on "Worker's Compensation: Controlling Costs
Labor and Human Resources Committee
Within A Flawed System."
THE CEA & THE ECONOMY
Note: There is no charge for this event for members.
Park Hyatt Hotel March 25 & 26
For non-members there is a $10 charge. For
National Economists Club will sponsor a
Contact: Frederick Stocker at (202) 331-8430
reservations send a check, made payable to WGR,
luncheon meeting to hear Richard
Note: There is a charge for this event of $475 for
to:
Schmalensee, a member of the president's
members and $525 for non-members. For reserva-
Beth Keifer
Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), discuss
tions and information call the number listed
NATTS
the CEA and the U.S. economy.
above.
2251 Wisconsin Ave. N.W.
Noon, Madison Building, Library of Con-
Washington, D.C. 20007
gress, 101 Independence Ave. S.E. March 12
Contact: (703) 532-9048.
NATIONAL SECURITY &
Note: There is a charge for this event of $10 for
REALITIES OF 1990s
PTA LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE
members and $14 for non-members. For reserva-
Electronic Industries Association will hold
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
tions call the number listed above.
its annual conference on the subject of "Bal-
will sponsor a legislative conference.
Deadline is March 11
ancing National Security with the Realities of
Ramada Renaissance Techworld March 11,
the 1990s Research, Development, Testing
12, 13 & 14
and Evaluation, Challenges and Opportu
Contact: (312) 787-0977
nities."
IMPROVED WORKFORCE
Radisson Mark Plaza Hotel, Alexandria, Va.
PRODUCTIVITY
March 26, 27 & 28
EFFECT OF THE LAW
National Association of Manufacturers will
Contact: John Geron at (202) 457-4944
ON MEDICAL QUALITY
sponsor a one-day conference on "The High
Health Task Force of Women in Govern-
Performance Work Force."
ment Relations will sponsor a breakfast meet-
Mayflower Hotel March 14
ing to hear a discussion on who is responsible
Contact: Monica Gliva at (202) 637-3093
MYTH OF AMERICA'S DECLINE
for the assurance of high quality medical care
Note: There is a charge for this event of $325 for
National Economists Club will sponsor a
physicians, lawyers or Congress?
members and $425 for non-members. For reserva-
luncheon meeting to hear Henry Nau, professor
8:30am to 10am, Monocle Restaurant, 107 D
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Tuesday, February 26, 1991
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House Floor Action
Week of February 25
Wednesday, February 27:
Convenes at 2pm
HR 111
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Monday, February 25:
and the secretary of Defense to carry out a
No legislative business scheduled
joint program to make grants for the estab-
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medical schools begin consideration
Thursday, February 28:
Convenes at 11am
HR-
Tuesday, February 26:
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funding authorization begin consideration
Convenes at noon
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Under suspension of the rules
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Friday, March 1:
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Not in session
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Monday, February 25:
Not in session
Tuesday, February 26:
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that a member of the armed services may
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June 22, 1989. HRD-89-24
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Mint's Accounting and Control Problems
Teenage Smoking: Higher Excise Tax
Administration's Request for an Increase
Need Management Attention
Should Significantly Reduce the Number of
in the Public Debt Limit and on Additional
July 26, 1989. AFMD-89-88
Smokers
Financing Needs of the Resolution Trust
Financial. Audit: Senate Barber and
June 30, 1989. HRD-89-119
Corporation
Beauty Shops Revolving Fund for 1988
Child Care: Selected Bibliography
Full Committee. July 11, 1990. Serial No.
July 27, 1989. AFMD-89-86
July 11, 1989. HRD-89-98FS
101-122.
Budget Issues: State Practices for Financ-
Social Security: Status and Evaluation of
GPO Stock No. 552-070-09824-1
ing Capital Projects
Agency Management Improvement
Price: $3.75
July 1989. AFMD-89-64
Initiatives
Additional Financing Costs Associated
The US Mint's Accounting and Control
July 24, 1989. HRD-89-42
with Resolving Insolvent Savings and
Problems Need Management Attention
Social Security: Results of Required Re-
Loans Institutions
August 1, 1989. T-AFMD-89-12
views of Administrative Law Judge
Full Committee. September 19, 1990. Se-
GAO Audits of Accounting and Financial
Decisions
rial No. 101-125.
Management Systems at the Federal Hous-
July 13, 1989. HRD-89-48BR
GPO Stock No. 552-070-09845-3
ing Administration
Head Start: Information on Sponsoring
Price: $3.75
August 1, 1989. T-AFMD-89-13
Organizations and Center Facilities
Financial Audit: National Economic Com-
July 12, 1989. HRD-89-123FS
PRINT
mission's 1988 and 1989 Financial
Health Care: Children's Medical Services
Statements
Programs in 10 States
Manual of Rules of the Committee on
July 24, 1989. AFMD-89-82
July 14, 1989. HRD-89-81
Ways and Means for the One Hundred
Financial Audit: Export-Import Bank's
Second Congress
Health Care: Nine States' Experiences
1988 and 1987 Financial Statements
with Home Care Waivers
Full Committee. January 23, 1991. Serial
July 25, 1989. AFMD-89-94
July 14, 1989. HRD-89-95
No. 102-2.
Computer Security: Virus Highlights Need
GPO Stock No. 552-070-09832-1
Health Care: Initiatives in Hospital Risk
for Improved Internet Security
Management
Price: $2.00
June 12, 1989. IMTEC-89-57
July 18, 1989. HRD-89-79
Legislation to Modify DOD's Audit, Inves-
tigation, and Inspection Functions
Information, Management and
July 20, 1989. T-AFMD-89-11
JOINT COMMITTEE
Technology
Lease Refinancing: Observations on GSA's
Proposed Master Leasing and Army's
ADP Modernization: IRS' Automated
PUBLICATIONS
Lease Refinancing Programs
Examination System Troubled Past, Un-
August 2, 1989. T-AFMD-89-9
certain Future
June 22, 1989, IMTEC-89-54
General Government
ADP Systems: Better Control Over States'
Medicaid Systems Needed
JOINT ECONOMIC
Regulatory Review: Information on
August 2, 1989. IMTEC-89-19
OMB's Review Process
COMMITTEE
Air Traffic Control: Computer Capacity
July 14, 1989. GGD-89-101FS
Shortfalls May Impair Flight Safety
Troubled Thrifts: Use of Supervisory En-
July 6, 1989. IMTEC-89-63
HEARINGS
forcement Actions
November 1988 Internet Computer Virus
July 19, 1989. GGD-89-105BR
The Economic Status of African-
and the Vulnerability of National Telecom-
Information Dissemination: Cost of Mail-
Americans
munications Networks to computer Viruses
ing Environmental Impact Statement for
Investment, Jobs and Prices Subcommit-
July 20, 1989. T-IMTEC-89-10
Super Collider
tee. May 24, 1990.
July 28, 1989. GGD-89-104
GPO Stock No. 552-070-09803-8
National Security and
HR 2514: Federal Retirement Thrift Sav-
Price $4 00
International Affairs
ings Plan
July 25, 1989. T-GGD--89-35
Central America: Conditions of Guatema-
IRS Data on Investigations of Alleged
lan Refugees and Displaced Persons
ARMS OF CONGRESS
Employee Misconduct
July 31, 1989. NSIAD-89-150
July 27, 1989. T-GGD-89-38
Status Report on GAO's Review of the
PUBLICATIONS
Tax Administration: Statistics on IRS' Use
Export Enhancement Program
of Levies to Collect Delinquent Taxes
July 31, 1989. T-NSIAD-89-45
July 17, 1989. GGD-89-97FS
Investment in Foreign Aerospace Vehicle
Comments on Reauthorization of the Per-
Research and Technological Development
formance Management and Recognition
Efforts
GENERAL
System
August 2, 1989. T-NSIAD-89-43
July 18, 1989. T-GGD-89-36
Defense Management: Streamlining the
ACCOUNTING OFFICE
Acquisition Process
Human Resources
August 2, 1989. T-NSIAD-89-46
To obtain documents:
Tactical Airlift: Observations Concerning
VA Benefits: Law Allows Compensation
Note: GAO documents are available free to
European Distribution System Operations
for Disabilities Unrelated to Military
June 21, 1989. NSIAD-89-135
the general public, but they are $1.00 per
Service
copy for multiple orders.
Foreign Technologies: Federal Agencies'
July 31, 1989. HRD-89-60
By phone:
Efforts to Track Developments
Early Childhood Education: Information
275-6241
June 30, 1989. NSIAD-89-192
on Costs and Services at High-Quality
By mail:
Test and Evaluation: Reducing Risks to
Centers
Publications
Military Aircraft from Bird Collisions
July 21, 1989. HRD-89-130FS
General Accounting Office
July 13, 1989. NSIAD-89-127
Leveraged Buy-Out Funds: Investments of
Washington D.C. 20548
Peace Corps: A Statistical Profile
Selected Pension Plans
July 14, 1989. NSIAD-89-174FS
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House continued
tection and Enhancement Objectives Not
Achieved
CONGRESSIONAL
Budget Reporgramming: Opportunities to
June 23, 1989. RCED-89-171
BUDGET OFFICE
Improve DOD's Reprogramming Process
Airline Competition: DOTs Implementa-
July 24, 1989. NSIAD-89-138
tion of Airline Regulatory Authority
To obtain documents:
Contract Pricing: Defense Contractor Con-
June 28, 1989 RCED-89-93
By phone:
tributions to the Software Productivity
Federal Advertising: Federal Use of Small
226-2809
Consortium
Disadvantaged Subcontractors Is Minimal
By mail:
July 24, 1989. NSIAD-89-74
June 30, 1989. RCED-89-54
Congressional Budget Office
GAO Review of Economic Sanctions Im-
Uranium Enrichment: Some Impacts of
Washington, D.C. 20515
posed Against Panama
Proposed Legislation on DOE's Program
In person pick-up:
July 26, 1989. T-NSIAD-89-44
July 25, 1989. RCED-89-170BR
Fourth Floor, House Annex 2
Tank Recovery Vehicle: Status of Pro-
Food Safety and Inspection Service's Per-
3rd and D Streets, S.W.
gram Acquisition and Full-Scale Engineer-
formance-Based Inspection System
ing Development
July 31, 1989. T-RCED-89-53
The Economic and Budget Outlook: An
June 2, 1989. NSIAD-89-156
Project Developer Cash Flows under
Update
Weather Satellites: Cost Growth and
HUD's Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation
August 1989
Development Delays Jeopardize U.S. Fore-
Program
Policies for Reducing the Current-Account
casting Ability
August 2, 1989. T-RCED-89-58
Deficit
June 30, 1989. NSIAD-89-169
National Survey of Cable Television Rates
August 1989
Foreign Investment: Trends in Foreign
and Services
Alternative Compensation Plans for Im-
Ownership of US Farmland and Commer-
August 3, 1989. T-RCED-89-60
proving Retention of Air Force Pilots
cial Real Estate
Nuclear Regulation: NRC's Decommis-
August 1989
July 10, 1989. NSIAD-89-168FS
sioning Procedures and Criteria Need to Be
International Trade: The Health of the US
Strengthened
Steel Industry
May 26, 1989. RCED-89-119
July 12, 1989. NSIAD-89-193
Nuclear Nonproliferation: Better Controls
DOD Acquisition: Information on Joint
Needed over Weapons-Related Information
Major Programs
and Technology
OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY
July 17, 1989. NSIAD-89-158
June 19, 1989. RCED-89-116
ASSESSMENT
Defense Contracting: Costs, Schedule, and
Nuclear Waste: DOE's Management of
Performance to Develop a Ground Power
Single-Shell Tanks at Hanford, Washington
To obtain documents:
Generator System
July 18, 1989. RCED-89-157
By phone:
July 19, 1989. NSIAD-89-163FS
Observations on Infectious Waste
Subscribers with Government Printing Of-
Army Maintenance: General Support
Management
fice Accounts may call 783-3238; other orders
Maintenance Units Not Prepared to Per-
July 25; 1989. T-RCED-89-55
must be placed by mail unless otherwise
form Wartime-Missions,
Legislative Proposals Concerning DOE's
noted. Free summaries of OTA reports are
July 17, 1989. NSIAD-89-183
available from OTA. For further information
Adequacy of Official Information on the
Uranium Enrichment Program
about OTA documents call 224-8996.
US Defense Industrial Base
July 26, 1989. T-RCED-89-54
July 18, 1989. T-NSIAD-89-40
Air Traffic Control: FAA's Implementation
By mail:
OTA documents are available from the Gov-
of Modernization Projects in the Field
Program Evaluation and Methodology
June 28, 1989. RCED-89-92
ernment Printing Office. Orders to the GPO
must include title, stock number, and proper
Drug Utilization Review under Medicare
Air Traffic Control: FAA's Interim Actions
payment. The address is:
August 1, 1989. T-PEMD-89-4 Paper-
to Reduce Near Mid-Air Collisions
Superintendent of Documents
work Reduction: Little Real Burden
June 30, 1989. RCED-89-149
US Government Printing Office
Change in Recent Years
Synthetic Fuels: An Overview of DOE's
Washington, D.C. 20402.
June 14, 1989. PEMD-89-19FS
Ownership and Divestiture of the Great
Prescription Drugs: HCFA's Proposed
Plains Project
Adolescent Health Insurance Status:
Drug Utilization Review System Ignores
July 14, 1989. RCED-89-153
Analyses of Tends in Coverage and Pre-
quality of Care Issues
liminary Estimates of the Effects of An
July 13, 1989. PEMD-89-26BR
Dairy Imports: Issues Related to Choco-
Employer Mandate and Medicaid Expan-
late Products
sion on the Uninsured
Resources, Community and
July 18, 1989. RCED-89-159BR
$3.75. Serial No. 052-003-01160-3
Economic Development
NRC's Oversight of Licensees' Decommis-
Round Trip to Orbit: Human Spaceflight
sioning Practices Can Be Improved
Alternatives
California Desert: Planned Wildlife Pro-
August 3, 1989. T-RCED-89-57
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Opening Statement for President
Saddam's most recent speech is an
outrage, if possible a step backwards. He
is not withdrawing. His defeated forces
are retreating. He is trying to claim
victory in the midst of a rout. He is not volentarily
giving up Kuwait. He is trying to save the
remnants of power and control in the Middle
East by every means possible. Here, too,
Saddam will fail.
Saddam is not interested in peace, but
only to regroup and fight another day. He
does not renounce Iraq's claim to Kuwait
- 2 -
To the contrary, he makes clear that Iraq
continues to claim Kuwait. Nor is there
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
any evidence of remorse for Iraq's
aggression or any indication that Saddam is
prepared to accept the responsibility for
the awful consequences of that aggression.
He still does not accept the UN Security
Council resolutions or the coalition terms
of February 22nd, including the release of
POWs, third country detainees and an end to
the pathological destruction of Kuwait.
Bush Library Photocopy
George Bush Handwriting
- 3 -
The coalition will, therefore, continue
to prosecute the war with undiminished
intensity. As we announced last night, we
will not attack unarmed soldiers in
retreat; we have no choice but to consider
retreating combat units as a threat and
respond accordingly. Anything else would
risk additional U.S. and coalition
casualties. The best way to avoid further
casualties on both sides is for Iraqi
soldiers to lay down their arms as nearly
30,000 Iraqis already have. It is time for
all Iraqi forces in the theater of
- 4 -
Kuwait
Bush Presidential Library Photocopy
of operations -- those occupying and those
supporting the occupation of Kuwait -- to
lay down their arms. That will Stop the Bloodshed
From the beginning of the air operation
nearly 6 weeks ago, I have said that our
efforts are on course and on schedule.
This morning, I am pleased to say that
coalition efforts are ahead of schedule.
The liberation of Kuwait is close at hand.
I have shake your pride in the
magnifecent purposence of our and
forces. Mas God Bles S There 2 keep Their
Busn Library Photocopy
George Bush Handwriting
Card 1 of 4
THEMES FOR FEB. 26 LEADERSHIP MEETING
--
ALTHOUGH TODAY'S MEETING IS SUPPOSED TO
FOCUS ON OTHER ISSUES, I DID WANT TO TAKE
A FEW MINUTES AT THE OUTSET TO ADDRESS
THE GULF SITUATION. I JUST MADE A
STATEMENT ON WHERE THINGS STAND. WE WILL
;
GET YOU COPIES BEFORE YOU LEAVE.
--
MILITARILY, IT WOULD NOT BE TRUE TO SAY
WE ARE ON COURSE AND ON SCHEDULE. WE ARE
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. FOR SADDAM, THE
MOTHER OF BATTLES HAS BECOME THE MOTHER
OF DEFEATS.
Card 2 of 4
SADDAM HAS NOW DECLARED HIS INTENTION TO
WITHDRAW. IT IS TOO SOON TO KNOW WHETHER
THIS IS SINCERE. BUT WHAT WE DO KNOW IS
THAT HE HAS NOT ANNULLED HIS ANNEXATION
OF KUWAIT; NOR HAS HE ACCEPTED HIS
RESPONSIBILITY FOR REPARATIONS.
:
WE WILL THEREFORE CONTINUE TO PROSECUTE
THE WAR WITH UNDIMINISHED INTENSITY. AS
WE ANNOUNCED LAST NIGHT, WE WILL NOT
ATTACK UNARMED SOLDIERS IN RETREAT, BUT
WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO CONSIDER
RETREATING COMBAT UNITS AS A MOVEMENT
OF WAR AND RESPOND ACCORDINGLY. THE TIME
Card 3 of 4
HAS COME FOR IRAQ'S TROOPS TO LAY DOWN
THEIR ARMS. ANYTHING ELSE WOULD RISK
ADDITIONAL U.S. AND COALITION CASUALTIES.
--
WE WILL NOT ALLOW SADDAM TO TRANSFORM HIS
DEFEAT INTO VICTORY, TO ESCAPE THE
CONSEQUENCES OF HIS AGGRESSION AGAINST
KUWAIT AND ITS PEOPLE, OR TO POSITION
HIMSELF TO THREATEN THE REGION AGAIN.
LET ME END BY SAYING THAT WE ARE ON THE
THRESHOLD OF THE POST-WAR PERIOD. THIS
WILL RAISE A HOST OF IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
ABOUT REGIONAL SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS AND
THE MIDDLE EAST PROCESS. WE HAVE
CONSULTED CLOSELY ON ALL ASPECTS OF THE
Card 4 of 4
CRISIS SINCE LAST AUGUST, AND I WOULD
HOPE AND EXPECT THIS WILL CONTINUE.
:
WITH THAT, LET ME TURN IT OVER TO DICK
CHENEY.
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(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
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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
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SIR:
Baker is calling you
secure
do you want to call him back?????
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CONF IDENTIAL
POINTS TO BE MADE FOR
TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH
PRESIDENT MUBARAK
-- Hosni, I called to share views with you and get your
impressions of what Saddam is trying to do.
-- You heard my statement this morning (our time). Saddam is
playing games, trying to make a crushing defeat look like a
redeployment. At the same time, he still won't renounce his
annexation of Kuwait or admit his liablity for reparations.
--
We will not let up in the military effort until he agrees to
all of the U.N. Security Council resolutions and until his
forces lay down their arms. This is not the time for a
ceasefire, since there is still a large Iraqi military
capability just across the Kuwait border.
--- The coalition will set the terms, not Saddam The reality
is that a decisive defeat is staring him in the face, and we
should not let him off the hook.
-- Your troops are doing a terrific job. All Egyptians should
be proud of them.
-- How do you see things proceeding?
-- Have you been in touch with Assad? I note that the Syrians
are in Kuwait with your troops.
DECLASSIFIED
PER NSC WAIVER, 1500 2021-02
By 55 NARA, Date 11/1/24
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White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- 1
2:00 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
TANK BATTLE (Riyadh/Reuter) --- U.S. Marines and Iraqi troops
battled with tanks at Kuwait airport and allied forces pounded
President Saddam's retreating armies on all fronts, a U.S. military
spokesman said. "The war is not over and we're going to continue
to attack and attack and attack," Marine Brig. Gen. Neal told a
news briefing. He said allied forces had destroyed or rendered
ineffective 21 Iraqi army divisions. British troops destroyed 40
Iraqi tanks in a desert battle.
RETREATING IRAQIS/AIR ATTACKS (Dhahran/Reuter) -- American planes
swooped on Iraqi forces streaming "bumper to bumper" north from
Kuwait City, picking them off with cluster bombs and other weapons,
pilots on the U.S. aircraft carrier Ranger reported. "It looks
like the Iraqis are moving out and we're hitting them hard. It's
not going to take too many more days until there's nothing left of
them," Capt. Earnest Christensen told pool reporters aboard the
carrier.
IRAQI WITHDRAWAL/CONGRESS (AP) --
...
Sen. Leahy said President Bush
would "make a terrible mistake if he allowed Saddam Hussein to be
in the position where he could declare to his own people some sort
of victory. There's no sign President Bush intends to do that."
Rep. Fascell raised the issue of Saddam's future. "It certainly
would be easier in postwar if Saddam were not in power, he told
reporters at the White House. "But whether he's in power or not
in power, we're going to have to deal with that subject when this
war is over."
WAR FUNDING/SEN. BYRD (AP) -- Sen. Byrd said Congress would examine
closely President Bush's $15-billion request for financing the war
to make sure the money actually is needed. Byrd also complained
that America's allies were not delivering quickly enough on their
promises to support the war effort with money. "This
[appropriations] committee will do everything it can to see that
all necessary authority and funding are provided to the President
in a timely manner, to enable our military to carry out its
mission," Byrd said. But he said lawmakers want to make sure the
amounts requested were for the Pentagon's true war costs "over and
operations." above the amounts already provided for normal peacetime
SADDAM/REBEL IRAQI CLERIC (Athens/UPI) -- A rebel Iraqi cleric
based in Tehran called on President Saddam to step down and hand
over power to the Iraqi nation, Tehran radio said. Hojatoleslam
Mohammed Bakir Hakim, who heads the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic
Revolution of Iraq, condemned what he called the destructions of
the Iraqi economy.
DESERT STORM/FIRST LADY (Quantico, VA/AP) -- An exultant Barbara
Bush said the war is "very close to over" and the world will be a
better place because of the conflict. In a speech to 600 Marines
and their families at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command
here, the First Lady said her husband was "working night and day
to end this dreadful war honorably." She praised the public for
its show of patriotism, saying: "The country is really, truly
wrapped in yellow ribbons."
-erom-
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- 2
GAVIRIA VISIT (UPI) -- President Bush met with Colombian President
Gaviria, visiting at a time of resurging narcotics-related
terrorism in his country but determined to assure America of his
continued commitment to combatting drug trafficking. Taking time
out from the nearly round-the-clock developments in the war, Bush
met in the Oval Office with the Colombian for the third time since
he was inaugurated last August. "We have great confidence in
President Gaviria, I'll tell you, Bush told reporters at the start
of their meeting. "We have great confidence in his commitment."
(AP) -- President Bush opened talks with President Gaviria,
who is rejecting suggestions that his country has adopted a more
tolerant attitude toward drug traffickers. "We're fighting narco-
trafficking as hard as ever, Gaviria said on the eve of the White
House talks. "Our interest and Colombia's interest is in putting
narco-traffickers behind bars,' said a U.S. official, who briefed
reporters on condition of anonymity. "The most important issue is
not whether those bars are manufactured and located in the United
States or Colombia."
BANK REFORM/BRADY (Reuter) -- Secretary Brady said the Bush
Administration's banking reform proposals would prevent a repeat
of the S&L crisis. Brady, in testimony prepared for the Senate
Banking Committee, defended the sweeping reform plan and denied
that the Administration was repeating mistakes that contributed to
the S&L disaster. He said the Administration's proposal for banks
"represents sound and prudent regulation with badly needed reforms
to protect the taxpayer."
MARTINEZ/CONGRESS (AP) -- Senate Democrats criticized the drug-
fighting record of former Florida Gov. Martinez and questioned
whether he was selected to head the nation's anti-drug effort as
"a political payoff." But Republicans said that under Martinez,
Florida set high marks for spending on drug-treatment efforts.
RANDOM DRUG SEARCHES/BUSES & TRAINS (AP) -- The Bush Administration
defended the authority of police to conduct random drug searches
aboard buses and trains, saying such searches are increasingly
common and are made without intimidating passengers. Solicitor
General Kenneth Starr presented the Administration's argument at
a Supreme Court hearing on a case from Florida involving the search
of the luggage of a passenger on a bus from Miami to Atlanta.
"This is a tool that is employed more and more across the country,"
said Starr. "It is carried out in a reasonable and professional
and non-intimidating way."
###
White House News Summary
Monday, February 25, 1991 -- 1
11:30 A.M. NEWS UPDATE
DESERT STORM/PRESIDENT (Reuter) -- President Bush said that the
"liberation of Kuwait is on course and on schedule," and predicted
allied forces will prevail. "I'm glad to report the news
is
good. Coalition air and ground forces are advancing on their
objectives. The liberation of Kuwait is on course and on
schedule,' Bush told a ceremony for black history month at the
White House.
(Headline News) -- President Bush at the White House says he
is glad to report the news is good. He says coalition air and
ground forces are advancing on their objectives. The President,
speaking at a ceremony marking black history month, said things are
going very well but that we should not get lost in the good times.
President: "We have the initiative. We intend to keep it. We
must guard against euphoria. There are battles yet to come and
casualties to be borne, but make no mistake -- we will prevail.
Kuwait will soon be free, and America's men and women in uniform
will return home to the thanks and respect of a grateful nation.'
DESTROYED IRAQI TANKS (Riyadh/AP) -- More than 270 Iraqi tanks have
been destroyed since the allied ground onslaught began, Marine
Brig. Gen. Neal told reporters in Riyadh. Neal called the ground
battle a "tremendous success" thus far. "We are meeting the enemy
and defeating the enemy," Neal said.
(Dhahran/Reuter) -- Allied planes and Apache helicopters
pounded a convoy of 80 Republican Guard tanks as the elite Iraqi
unit moved to confront advancing allied ground forces, unidentified
Western military sources said. One source said the tanks were
within hours of making contact with allied ground forces unless
they were stopped from the air.
U.S. CASUALTIES (Riyadh/Reuter) -- Four U.S. servicemen have been
killed and 21 wounded in the ground assault on Iraqi forces in and
around Kuwait, Brig. Gen. Neal told a briefing in Riyadh. Neal
said the only Iraqi success was in what he called "terrorism," with
almost 600 fires burning in Kuwait, 517 of them at oil wells. He
said four U.S. aircraft had been lost in the past 48 hours but
three of the five aircrew had been rescued.
ARAB CASUALTIES (Riyadh/Reuter) -- Arab forces in the alliance lost
five dead and 20 wounded in the first two days of their ground
offensive against Iraqi forces, a Saudi military spokesman said.
Lt. Gen. Prince Khalid bin Sultan said 20,000 Iraqi POWs had been
taken. He told a military briefing in Riyadh that the offensive
was going "better than we planned."
GROUND OFFENSIVE/ARABS (S. Kuwait/AP) -- Saudi Arabian and other
allied Arab forces moved to within 40 miles of Kuwait City,
capturing more than 100 Iraqi soldiers and encountering only
sporadic artillery fire, Saudi Capt. Ali Al Anazi said.
White House News Summary
Monday, February 25, 1991 -- 2
IRAQI SILKWORM/ALLIED SHIPS (London/Reuter) -- An Iraqi Silkworm
missile was intercepted as it shot towards allied warships shelling
the Kuwait coast, Britain's Press Association reported. The
British destroyer Gloucester intercepted the Chinese-made anti-
ship missile seconds away from hitting another allied warship, the
news agency reported.
CNN/GALLUP POLL (Headline News) -- A new CNN/Gallup poll of 783:
Do you support the start of the ground war?
84% yes
12% no
The 12 percent said President Bush should have given diplomatic
efforts more time. Most (72 percent) say the war should continue
until Saddam Hussein is removed from power; 24 percent said they
want the war to stop after the allies free Kuwait. The President,
himself, also getting high marks: 86 percent say they approve of
the way he's handling the gulf crisis.
IRAQI TERRITORY/U.S. ARMY (Iraqi border/UPI) -- U.S. Army units
plan holding Iraqi territory for up to three weeks as part of their
plan to free Kuwait, "borrowing necessary food supplies from Iraqi
civilians during the brief stay, said Lt. Col. Kenneth Bisser, a
civil affairs officer who has planned the administration of the
occupied areas.
AID TO ISRAEL (Jerusalem/Reuter) -- Israel has asked Washington for
an extra billion dollars of military aid to cover higher, war-
related defense costs, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. The
ministry said the aid request did not cover economic losses by
Israel, such as the collapse of tourism and higher oil prices
during the crisis.
WARSAW PACT (Budapest/AP) -- Foreign and defense ministers of the
once mighty Warsaw Pact signed a historic agreement formalizing the
end of the alliance's defunct military functions by March 31,
Hungarian state radio said.
###
White House News Summary
Monday, February 25, 1991 -- 1
2:45 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
SCUD/U.S. CASUALTIES (Khobar City, Saudi Arabia/Reuter) -- At least
12 American soldiers were killed when an Iraqi Scud hit this city
in eastern Saudi Arabia, a U.S. military policeman at the scene
said. The missile hit a camp in which the soldiers were living
behind a shopping area on the seafront of Khobar City, the
policeman added.
WAR TIMETABLE/U.S. COMMANDER (Kuwait/Reuter) -- The commander of
all U.S. Marines in the war, Lt. Gen. Walter Boomer, predicted
allied victory within days. After being briefed by 2nd Division
commanders on the progress of the land offensive to drive Iraqi
forces from Kuwait, he told reporters, "It's not over 'til it's
over. There's nobody going around saying how great it was, how
great we are." But he predicted the massive allied assault would
be over "in a matter of days, not weeks."
IRAQI ARMY STATEMENT (Baghdad/Reuter) -- Iraq called its elite
Republican Guard to battle, urging them to "burn the ground under
the feet" of U.S. and allied forces. The Iraqi army reported U.S.
and allied attacks on all fronts through the night and into the
day. It said Iraqi troops had driven back offensives, blasting
American, Saudi and Egyptian soldiers into "fragments of flesh."
morning "In pitched fighting lasting eight hours last night and this
the 3rd Army Corps succeeded in expelling enemy forces
totally from all positions held before the attack and recaptured
them," said the first military communique issued Monday.
GORBACHEV APPEAL/GROUND OFFENSIVE (Moscow/Reuter) -- President
Gorbachev has appealed to President Bush to call off the ground
offensive in the war. Gorbachev spoke to Bush and "asked for
reconsideration of the latest decision," Vice President Gennady
Yanayev said in an interview with Moscow Radio's world service.
SADDAM/HURD (London/AP) -- Foreign Secretary Hurd said the allies
may have to deal with Saddam about reparations after the war, and
described the Iraqi president as a "bogus, puffed-up frog of a
man." Hurd commented guardedly in testimony to the House of
Commons Foreign Affairs Committee that postwar talks "would be much
less likely to be fruitful" if Saddam survived in power.
PENTAGON BRIEFINGS (Reuter) -- The Pentagon will resume daily war
press briefings after a two-day delay to protect sensitive military
information, an anonymous senior U.S. defense official said.
WARSAW PACT/STATE DEPT. (Reuter) -- The U.S. hailed an agreement
by the Warsaw Pact to scrap military cooperation as a big step
toward healing decades of division in Europe. "The decision to
dissolve the military structures of the Warsaw Pact is a
significant step in the efforts being made to reduce military
tensions and increase cooperation throughout Europe," said
spokeswoman Tutwiler.
U.S. COPTER CRASH/EL SALVADOR (San Salvador/AP) -- A U.S. Army
helicopter crashed into Lake Ilopango after experiencing mechanical
problems and all five American soldiers aboard were killed, U.S.
Embassy spokesman Ray Diaz said.
###
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- 1
5:00 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
KUWAIT CITY/U.S. CONTROL (New York/Reuter) -- A U.S. Marine in
Kuwait City told CBS that the American Embassy in the emirate's
capital was back under U.S. control. "Second force reconnaissance
company working in conjunction with the Kuwaiti resistance has
taken control of the United States Embassy and we have the U.S.
Embassy in American hands at this time," a Marine with CBS
correspondent Bob McKeown said.
REPUBLICAN GUARD/PENTAGON (Reuter) -- The Pentagon said allied
coalition armored units had beaten units of the Republican Guard
in some tank battles in the gulf but no major fight had yet
occurred with Guard troops dug in on the Kuwait-Iraq border. Army
Lt. Gen. Tom Kelly, director of operations for the JCS, said
coalition forces had not yet entered Kuwait City but "I think that
is going to occur shortly."
RESOLUTIONS/CEASE-FIRE (U.N./Reuter) -- The Security Council
suspended consultations without reaching any formal decisions on
a cease-fire or acceptance of Iraq's offer to withdraw from Kuwait.
Diplomats said they expected the session to resume but no date has
been set yet.
(U.N./AP) -- The U.S. and the Soviet Union insisted that Iraq
accept all 12 Security Council resolutions regarding Kuwait, and
the emirate said Iraq should put it in writing if it wants a cease-
fire. Ambassador Pickering, commenting before the council resumed
private consultations, indicated that acceptance of the resolutions
should precede a cease-fire. Soviet Ambassador Vorontsov also
insisted on Iraq's public acceptance of the 12 resolutions, but he
indicated that a cease-fire and acceptance were equally important.
(U.N./AP) -- Most Security Council members want Iraq to
promise in writing to honor all 12 council resolutions regarding
Kuwait before the body considers a cease-fire in the war,
unidentified officials said. However, Iraq's U.N. ambassador,
Abdul Amir al-Anbari, told CNN that some of the U.N. resolutions
"may be invalid." Noting that it took the Security Council five
months to pass them, he said: "The first step is to cease fire and
then negotiate."
"VISIT TO TROOPS"/BAGHDAD RADIO (Nicosia/Reuter) -- President
Saddam visited his troops to be briefed on preparations to "repel
any aggressive attempt aimed at undermining
Iraq," Baghdad Radio
reported.
SOVIETS/SEN. DOLE (UPI) -- Sen. Dole said it is time for the Soviet
Union to "butt out" of the gulf conflict and stop promoting peace
terms that could endanger American lives and save Saddam. In a
brief Senate speech, Dole said that while thousands of Americans
are risking their lives to drive Iraq out of Kuwait it is "time to
send a signal to Moscow: It's time for you to butt out -- we don't
need any more free advice."
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- 2
McGUIRE AFB/VICE PRESIDENT (New York/Reuter) -- Vice President
Quayle visited McGuire AFB in New Jersey to thank the families and
support workers of troops in the gulf. "On behalf of our
commander-in-chief, thank you for your bravery, thank you for your
courage and thank you for the sacrifices that you are making to
bring peace to the Persian Gulf region," he told a cheering crowd
at McGuire.
IRAQI ENVOY COMMENT/U.N. (U.N./Reuter) -- Iraq's U.N. ambassador
took time out from calling for a cease-fire in the Security Council
to answer a complaint from an African envoy that he had used the
word "pygmy" in a derogatory manner. Ambassador Abdul al-Anbari
said the correct translation of the Arabic word he used to belittle
Kuwait's representative was "dwarf." At an earlier meeting, Anbari
had scorned Kuwaiti envoy Mohammad Abulhasan as "the pygmy who sits
to my right." Anbari blamed what he called an inaccurate
translation.
ECONOMY (AP) -- An overwhelming majority of the nation's top
economic forecasters share the Bush Administration's expectation
that the current recession will be shorter and much less severe
than the average downturn since World War II. The National
Association of Business Economists survey showed that 49 percent
of the 54 forecasters participating in the poll, or 91 percent,
believe the recession will last nine months or less -- meaning it
should be over by mid-year.
TRADE DEFICIT (AP) -- The U.S. merchandise trade deficit shrank to
$108.68 billion last year, the smallest imbalance. since 1983, even
though imports of foreign oil hit a nine-year high, the Commerce
Department said. The department credited the 5.4 percent
improvement from 1989's deficit of $114.86 billion to further
growth in American export sales.
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Attachment A
The President
The Vice President
James Baker, Secretary of State
Robert Mosbacher, Secretar of Commerce
Carla Hills, United States Trade Representative
Congressional Participation - Senate
Senator George Mitchell (D-ME), Majority Leader
Senator Bob Dole (R-KS), Republican Leader
Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI), Chairman, Committee on Foreign
Relations
Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), Ranking Republican, Committee
on Foreign Relations
Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX), Chairman, Committee on Finance
Senator Bob Packwood (R-OR), Ranking Republican, Committee on
Finance
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman, Committee on Agriculture,
Nutrition, and Forestry
Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN); Ranking Republican, Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Senator John C. Danforth (R-MO), Ranking Republican, Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Congressional Participation - House
Congressman Thomas Foley (D-WA), Speaker of the House
Congressman Richard Gephardt (D-MO), Majority Leader
Congressman Bob Michel (R-IL), Republican Leader
Congressman Dante Fascell (D-FL), Chairman, Foreign Affairs
Committee
Congressman William Broomfield (R-MI), Ranking Republican,
Foreign Affairs Committee
Congressman Bill Archer (R-TX), Ranking Republican, Committee on
Ways and Means
Congressman Thomas Coleman (R-MO), Ranking Republican, Committee
on Agriculture
Congressman John Dingell (D-MI), Chairman, Committee on Energy
and Commerce
Congressman Norm Lent (R-NY), Ranking Republican, Committee on
Energy and Commerce
White House Staff
John Sununu, Chief of Staff
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs
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Phil Brady, Assistant to the Pre nt and Staff Secretary
Andrew H. Card, Assistant to the President and Deputy to the
Chief of Staff
David Demarest, Assistant to the resident for Communications
Marlin Fitzwater, Assistant to the President and Press Secretary
Robert Gates, Assistant to the President and Deputy for National
Security Affairs
C. Boyden Gray, Counsel to the President
Ede Holiday, Assistant to the President and Secretary of
the Cabinet
Fred McClure, Assistant to the President for Legislative
Affairs
Roger Porter, Assistant to the President for Economic
and Domestic Policy
Nick Calio, Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative
Affairs (House)
Rob Portman, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director,
Office of Legislative Affairs
Virginia Lampley, Special Assistant to the President and Senior
Director for Legislative Affairs, National Security
Council
Frances Norris, Special Assistant to the President for
Legislative Affairs (House)
Nell Payne, Special Assistant to the President for
Legislative Affairs (Senate)
Other
Bill Kristol, Chief of Staff to the Vice President
Janet Mullins, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative
Affairs
David Mulford, Under Secretary for International Affairs,
Department of Treasury
Jack Parnell, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
Joshua Bolten, General Counsel, United States Trade
Representative
Mary Tinsley, Assistant United States Trade Representative for
Congressional Affairs
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ANGER DISBELIEF DESPAIR SWEEP JORDAN AS IRAQIS LEAVE KUWAIT
By Ian CKenzie
AMMAN Jordan, Reuter - Angers disbeliefpand despair swept
Jerdanesesday Imagus Saddam announced-
the carmy-was palling out of Kuwait.
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it can be him saying the wants to withdt
Sairouth JondanianAwho phonedURedices seeking of
the news
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God be agains the conspirators; said a cleric leading
noon prayersiat Amman (big a1 -Husseir mosque. Bod be against
Americ Gud unite the Moslems
The Rood outside the mosque Lurned ugly when a man told
reporter Saddam has:destroved.us We backed him. but he
deserted US. We were willing to sacrifice Out lives. our
FOR him: but he deceived us
OLHE underated and angry worshippers tried silence the
man and cursed and Inreatened the reporter.
Popular feeling among Jordan in B million people has been
strongly pro Iraq since the Aug. 2 occupation of Kuwait.
The Amman government condemned the occupation, but bitterly
criticized the devastating allied air war on Inaq and the ground
offensive launched Sunday morning.
Jordan how.wanted an immediate cease-fire to give the
Iraqi army all possibilities for orderly withdrawal, said
Information Minister Ibrahim Izzedin.
The cabinet was to meet later Tuesday to discuss the
situation
There was also despair and feelings of abandonment amongst
Jordan S Palestinians. They had pinned their hopes on Saddam
after he linked Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait to an Israel
pullout rom the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza
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Within minutes of his withdrawal antiouncement on Baghdad
Radio, about a dozen people many sobbing phoned Reuters in
Amman asking if the news they heard sould be
very sad ILican L be true I can Delieve it. Why
did he do that? Why did he surrender? What benefit did he get
out OF All this demanded 22 Jordanian woman, Lena Azanah.
Thousands of people have been killed. Thousands have been
displaced. Whoris going to get the Palestinians and Jordantans
back to Kuwait? Their livelihood has been destroyed.
Gulf states, including Kuwait, had been home to hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians and Jordanishs.
For Jordan, the economic effects of the seven-month Bullf
crisis have been disastrous.
Prime Minister Hudar Badnan told Reuters over Lhe weekend it
had SD Far cost the country $8 billion -- twice the total value
of its arinual domestic output.
Foreign assistance since the undsis began Had been only a
fraction of what was needed, the said
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11:00 A.M. NEWS UPDATE
DESERT STORM/PRESIDENT (William Welch, AP) -- President Bush
declared that the U.S. and its partners "will continue to prosecute
the war with undiminished intensity" because President Saddam is
not yielding, only trying to regroup and preserve Iraqi power. "He
is trying to claim victory in the midst of a route, said Bush in
dismissing Saddam's announced withdrawal from Kuwait and calls for
a cease-fire. He added the Iraqi leader "is trying to save the
remnants of power." Bush said the way to end the war is for Iraqi
forces to lay down their arms. "That will stop the bloodshed,' he
said, reiterating there would be no attacks on unarmed soldiers
retreating from Kuwait.
(Reuter) -- President Bush said Saddam was merely trying to
cling to power with his order for Iraqi troops to withdraw from
Kuwait and the western-Arab allies would continue the war "with
undiminished intensity." Bush in effect rejected any notion of a
cease-fire and demanded virtual surrender from Saddam in a brief
statement replying to the withdrawal announcement from Baghdad.
Scoffing at any suggestion that Saddam had taken the initiative for
peace in the war, Bush said: "Saddam is not interested in peace
but only to regroup and fight another day."
(Helen Thomas, UPI) -- President Bush, calling Saddam
Hussein's speech an "outrage," said the coalition forces will
continue to "prosecute the war with undiminished intensity." In
a nationally broadcast statement from the Rose Garden, Bush said
Saddam "is not withdrawing. His defeated forces are retreating.
He is trying to claim victory in the midst of a rout. And he's not
voluntarily giving up Kuwait." The President said Saddam is
"trying to save the remnants of power and control in the Middle
East by every means possible. And here, too, Saddam will fail."
IRAQI WITHDRAWAL/PENTAGON (Reuter) -- The Pentagon has no reports
so far that Iraqi troops are withdrawing from Kuwait and U.S.
forces will continue to press the war until President Bush orders
them to stop, an unidentified Defense Department official said.
"I'm not saying there is no evidence of Iraqi withdrawals," he
said. "I'm saying here in Washington we have no reports. The
campaign continues," he said. "It would be very imprudent for any
battlefield commander to let down his guard on the basis of a radio
speech."
IRAQI WITHDRAWAL/ALLIED ATTACKS (Baghdad/Reuter) -- Iraq accused
the allies of attacking its forces as they retreat from Kuwait but
said it would continue to withdraw from the emirate. A military
spokesman said on Baghdad Radio that allied armor and planes were
attacking the withdrawing forces, describing the action as
"cowardly."
(Nicosia/Reuter) -- Allied aircraft blasted southern Iraq in
the fiercest raids of the war, causing panic in a string of cities
in neighboring Iran, the national Iranian news agency said.
-erom-
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- 2
SADDAM ANNOUNCEMENT/SOVIETS (Moscow/Reuter) -- A top Soviet
official said the nation's U.N. ambassador had proposed an
immediate Security Council meeting on a cease-fire in the gulf.
The official, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Belonogov, also
said he had no doubt President Saddam was sincere when he said he
was going to withdraw all Iraqi troops from Kuwait immediately.
SADDAM ANNOUNCEMENT/MAJOR (London/AP) -- Prime Minister Major's War
Cabinet rejected Saddam's announcement of immediate withdrawal from
Kuwait, saying it did not meet U.N. requirements, anonymous sources
said.
IRAQI ESCAPE ROUTES/ALLIES (Riyadh/Reuter) -- Allied forces deep
inside Iraq control the westward escape routes for all Iraqi troops
in the war zone, unidentified Western military sources said. They
said crack paratroopers and troops from the U.S. Army's 18th Corps,
backed by tank-killing helicopters and warplanes, were far enough
north to isolate the Iraqi army in Kuwait and elite Republican
Guard divisions in southern Iraq.
SOVIET-U.S. RELATIONS/GORBACHEV (Moscow/Reuter) -- President
Gorbachev said that progress in Soviet-U.S. relations was still
fragile and urged Washington not to destroy what had been achieved,
according to Tass. Gorbachev, speaking to workers in Minsk, said
the Middle East would remain a powder keg if there were no general
settlement of political conflicts there after the war.
GATT TALKS (Geneva/Reuter) -- GATT negotiators agreed to restart
the Uruguay Round of world trade talks. An unidentified spokesman
for GATT said the 108-nation Trade Negotiations Committee, which
oversees the round, approved a proposal from GATT Director-General
Arthur Dunkel on resuming work in all areas.
DURABLE GOODS (AP) -- Orders to U.S. factories for "big-ticket"
durable goods dropped 0.7 percent in January, the Commerce
Department reported.
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KUWAIT: AMIR DECLARES MARTIAL LAW
LD2602140491 LONDON KUNA IN ARABIC 1347 GMT 26 FEB 91
[TEXT] AL-TAEF, 26 FEB (KUNA) -- HIS HIGHNESS THE AMIR OF
KUWAIT HAS SIGNED A DECREE PROCLAIMING MARTIAL LAW IN ALL PARTS OF
KUWAIT FOR THREE MONTHS, STARTING TODAY.
26 FEB 1436Z CW
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10 a.m.
BIPARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
--
The Gulf War shows how much the world must
continue to look to the United States for
leadership. That's true in the economic sphere
as well Continuation of fast track authority is
crucial to U.S. leadership in the global economy.
Card 2
:
When fast track procedures were reenacted in the
1988 Trade Act, we all anticipated that an
extension beyond their upcoming expiration might
be needed. It is. I expect to be requesting a
two-year extension this week. I wanted to talk
with you today to get your counsel and to
underscore the importance I attach to the
continuation of fast track.
Card 3
:
Fast track is a partnership between us: It gives
me the same negotiating power as my counterparts;
and it gives you the assurance of meaningful
participation during trade negotiations. We need
to preserve this partnership.
Card 4
I
We need an extension of fast track to complete
the Uruguay Round negotiations, to negotiate a
North American Free Trade Agreement, to begin to
pursue our trade objectives in the Enterprise for
Americas Initiative.
Card 5
:
I am convinced that the success of these
initiatives is critical to our ability to compete
internationally and is overwhelmingly in our long
term economic interest. Without the fast track
guarantees of an up-or-down vote within a limited
time, trading partners won't negotiate seriously
with us.
Card 6
:
Your support for continuation of fast track does
not commit you in advance to support agreements
we bring home. But killing the fast track would
kill even the prospect of negotiating.
Card 7
:
I'm encouraged that the Uruguay Round
negotiations appear to be back on track. But
there is much hard bargaining ahead. We walked
away from a bad package in Brussels and we won't
hesitate to walk away again, if necessary. Our
standards have not changed.
Card 8
:
I know that many of you and your colleagues will
face strong constituent pressure, especially from
organized labor, concerned about our negotiations
with Mexico. I'm committed to close
consultations with you throughout the
negotiations to achieve an agreement of which we
can all be proud.
Card 9
-- The Salinas government has undertaken a dramatic
economic reform program. We must seize the
opportunity to lock in those reforms. Rejection
now of fast track - a rejection even of
negotiations -- would be a devastating blow.
:
At a time when export expansion is the shining
star of our economy, we cannot abandon efforts to
open markets abroad.
Card 10
:
Now, I'd like to go around the table and get your
views
TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 26, 1991
PRESIDENTIAL PHONE CALLS:
2:45 p.m. - Ozal
(confirmed)
3:00 p.m. - Mubarak
(tentative)
3:15 p.m. - Mitterand
(tentative)
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DATE:
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incoming/outgoing
WITH: Sec. Brady
SUBJECT: wants to talls about
Fed-
Greenspan
Lew Preston total Conable
he's 3 ready
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TROUP
UNITED STATES 1775 ARMY
RETIREMENT REVIEW
In Honor Of
General
Maxwell R. Thurman
WELL DEFEND OF THE
Fort Myer, Virginia
26 February 1991
UNITED STATES 1775 OF STERICA ARMY
RETIREMENT CEREMONY
for
General Maxwell R. Thurman
GENERAL MAXWELL R. THURMAN
United States Army
UNITED STATES ARMY
Host
General Carl E. Vuono
General Maxwell R. Thurman was born in High Point, N.C. on 18 February 1931. He received his degree in
Chief of Staff, United States Army
Chemical Engineering from N.C. State University at Raleigh in 1953 and was commissioned through ROTC.
General Thurman's military education included the Ordnance Basic Course, the Artillery Basic and Advanced
Courses, the Army Command and General Staff College, and the Army War College.
Commander of Troops
He has held a variety of Command and Staff positions both overseas and in the United States. In Europe, with
Colonel Barrie E. Zais, Commander
the 11th Airborne Division and the 24th Infantry Division, he commanded light artillery and rocket units and
3d United States Infantry (The Old Guard)
served as an intelligence officer. His unit deployed to the Middle East with other 11th Airborne elements during
the 1958 Lebanon crisis. He served twice in Vietnam, first as a Corps intelligence advisor and later as
Participating Units
Commander, 2d Battalion, 35th Field Artillery during the Tet Offensive. In the United States, General Thurman
3d United States Infantry (The Old Guard)
commanded the 82d Airborne Division Artillery and, from 1979-81, was Commander, U.S. Recruiting Command.
The United States Army Band (Pershing's Own)
In Panama, from 1989-90, General Thurman was assigned as the Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern
Command.
Sequence of Events
Other assignments have included duty as Hawk Missile instructor, Field Artillery School staff officer, tactical
officer/instructor at the U.S. Military Academy, Deputy Assistant Commandant for Combat and Training
Pre-Ceremony Concert
Development, Field Artillery School and Deputy Chief of Staff for Resource Management, U.S. Army Training
and Doctrine Command.
March On
In 1977, General Thurman was assigned to Washington as the Army's strategic programmer, the Director of
Honors
Program Analysis and Evaluation. This was followed by duty as the Army's chief recruiter as Commander, U.S.
Army Recruiting Command, Fort Sheridan, Illinois. In August 1981, General Thurman was promoted to the
Sound Off
rank of lieutenant general and became the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, U.S. Army. He was promoted
to his present rank of general and appointed as the Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army on 23 June 1983. He
Retreat
served as Vice Chief until June 1987 when he assumed command of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine
Command in Fort Monroe, Virginia. In September 1989, General Thurman became Commander in Chief of
Colors Advanced
the U.S. Southern Command. As CINC SOUTHCOM, General Thurman was responsible for all U.S. military
activities in Latin America and for implementing U.S. national security policy and strategy in the region. He was
Honors to the Nation
commander of U.S. forces during Operation "Just Cause" in Panama.
Presentation of Award
General Thurman's awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), Army
Distinguished Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), the Legion of Merit (with Oak Leaf Cluster), Bronze Star
Presentation of Retirement Certificate
Medal with V Device (with Oak Leaf Cluster), Meritorious Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), four Air
Medals, Army Commendation Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster) and the Joint Service Achievement Medal. He
Colors Posted
has been decorated by the governments of France, Germany, and Venezuela. He is a Master Parachutist and
Remarks
holds the Army General Staff and Joint Chiefs of Staff identification badges.
Pass in Review
Conclusion of Ceremony
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 26, 1991
by
Bridget:
The gifts received today from President
Gaviria of Columbia are:
For the President -
Bronze sculpture on marble base
(marble from Columbia). Sculpture
by Rodrigo Arenas, a famous
Columbian sculptor. It is a
reproduction of one of Simon Bolivar
in city where President Gaviria was
born.
For Mrs. Bush -
Bush Bush Presidential LibraryPhotocopy Library Photocopy
Necklace and earrings which are a Pre-
Columbian art reproduction.
Jany Gary Joy J Wallew J. Walters
CC: Gift Unit
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George Bush Handwriting
Presidential Phone Calls
DATE: 2-26-
TIME: 932
incoming/outgoing
WITH:
will Farish
SUBJECT:
Bill 15 interested in
"aide" job
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Presidential Phone Calls
DATE: 2-26-91
TIME:
925
incoming/outgoing
WITH:
18 Tan Bush
SUBJECT:
I called to that luin
for his wouds about
Neil
"Finest puson is The
world"
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young Jon marching "m
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D
STATE
net
MI
Luncheon
Honoring His Excellency
The President of the Republic of Colombia
Venison Consommé
Rissoles
Broiled Filet of Turbot
Fines Herbes Butter
New Potatoes
Choice Spring Vegetables
Boston Lettuce
Chives Dressing
Pear and Plum Brown Betty
Maple Cookies Ice Cream
SHAFER
Chardommay 1988
THE WHITE HOUSE
Tuesday. February 26,1991
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Zedn
WITH:
SUBJECT:
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Re Camp David
Theyne cours
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ROBERT S. STRAUSS
February 26, 1991
The President
G₂
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
I thank you very much for the marvelous chili
luncheon picture.
I know you appreciate candor, SO let me say
that it occurred to me that if you would spend a
little less time eating chili and having your picture
taken, we would be doing much better in the Middle
East. I'm quite certain Saddam Hussein has had
neither pictures taken nor chili in the last 72 hours
or SO.
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Your loyal friend
P.S. On a more serious vein, everyone takes pride
in the leadership you are giving -- even most of us
Democrats!
Bob
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The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Attention: Patty Presock
SUITE 400
1333 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036
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SUITE 400
1333 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20036
2:15
GOP FRESHMEN CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Patty
-- I Just wanted to drop by to say hello and welcome you to the
White House.
-- We are all glad you could come down today to learn firsthand
how the White House can help you.
- 2 -
--
Let me encourage you to work very closely with Fred [McClure]
and Dave [Carney] and their staffs. Although the situation in
the Gulf is on all of our minds right now, as it should be, it
won't be long before other issues -- tough legislative issues --
will be on the front burner again.
- 3 -
--
We have already heard that the Democrats are poised to push
legislation that they hope will divide Republicans: parental leave,
strike- breaker legislation and civil rights. In the wings are
campaign finance reform, energy and environmental bills and
others.
- 4 -
--
I can't tell you how important it is that we stick together on
these issues: with both houses controlled by the Democrats, we
can only prevail if we are unified and can send that strong
message.
--
Again, I thank you for coming and really look forward to
working with each and every one of you.
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
Fatty
POINTS TO BE MADE FOR MEETING WITH
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT CESAR GAVIRIA
COURTESY POINTS
--
This is our third meeting since last July. Despite Persian
Gulf developments, I am determined to show our continuing
interest and engagement with this hemisphere.
I want to reiterate my condolences over the murder of your
cousin by narco-terrorists.
PERSIAN GULF SITUATION
-- As you know, the ground campaign launched on Saturday
evening is going well and on schedule. Saddam is beginning
to realize that he is going to lose.
Colombia stood up and was counted last year when Resolution
678 was pending before the Security Council. I want to
thank you again for your principled support.
Our objectives in the region remain constant -- to get Iraqi
forces out of Kuwait immediately and restore the legitimate
government.
--
Our long-range goal is a safer and more stable Middle East
and Persian Gulf.
NARCOTICS
--
Some people say our positions are drifting apart. I'd like
to have your visit demonstrate that this isn't the case.
DECLASSIFIED
PER NSC WAIVER, 1500 2021-02
By SS NARA, Date 11/1/24
CONFIDENTIAL
Declassify on: OADR
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
2
Our agreement on judicial cooperation is an excellent
example of what we can do together. I'm sure Dick
Thornburgh would agree. You have my commitment to make our
part of the agreement work.
We support your efforts to strengthen the Colombian judicial
system. Over the long term, a judicial system that is
strong and capable of resisting intimidation or corruption
is indispensable for the drug fight. Our $7 million
judicial assistance grant is designed to help you succeed.
We have several very specific worries: first, we are
concerned that your counter-narcotics strategy depends too
heavily in the near term upon judicial reforms that will
take several years to implement.
Second, the loss of extradition through your constitutional
convention could deprive both of us of a key tool,
especially during the transition to a stronger judiciary.
Third, we worry that the narcos will bring pressure for
further adjustments in your plea bargaining decrees.
If we can convict and jail drug traffickers, separate them
from their businesses and their wealth for a long time, it
does not matter whose court tries them or whose jail they
sit in.
But if one escapes, or is lightly sentenced, or continues to
conduct business from behind bars, the concerns will be
heard more loudly, we will both be criticized, and we will
risk our public support. I have the same problem here.
CONF IDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
3:30pm
DROP BY BUSINESS COALITION MEETING
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 3:30PM
Patty
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
ASSOCIATION LEADERS
Bob Bannister, Senior Vice President
National Association of Homebuilders of the United States
Mike Baroody, Senior Vice President
National Association of Manufacturers
Bert Beatty, Executive Vice President
Associated General Contractors of America
Red Cavaney, President
American Paper Institute
Bruce Gates, Vice President
National-American Wholesale Grocers Association
Joe Gerard, President
American Furniture Manufacturers Association
Mark Gorman, Senior Vice President
National Association of Restaurants
Charlie Hawkins, Executive Vice President
Associated Builders and Contractors
Kip Hawley, Vice President
Union Pacific Corporation
Jeff Joseph, Vice President
Chamber of Commerce
Sam Maury, Executive Director
Business Roundtable
Todd McCracken, Government Affairs Director
National Small Business United
Jeffrey McGuiness, Director
Labor Policy Association
Mike Rousch, Senior Director
Senate Legislative Affairs
National Federation of Independent Business
John Runyan, Senior Vice President
Printing Industries of America
John Satagaj, President
Small Business Legislative Council
Bob Thompson, Partner
Thompson, Mann & Hudson
Dirk Van Dongen, President
National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors
DROP BY BUSINESS COALITION MEETING
DOOR
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 3:30PM
DOOR
Fred McClure
John Runyan
Boyden Gray
Bob Bannister
Kip Hawley
Bert Beatty
Bruce Gates
Bob Thompson
John Satagaj
Dirk Van Dongen
Red Cavaney
Joe Gerard
The Roosevelt Room
THE PRESIDENT
Charlie Hawkins
Mike Baroody
Jeff McGuiness
Sam Maury
Jeff Joseph
Mike Rousch
Mark Gorman
DOOR
Roger Porter
Ede Holiday
DOOR
Todd McCracken
Governor Sununu
PARTICIPANTS
U.S.
The President
James A. Baker III, Secretary of State
Richard Thornburgh, Attorney General
Carla A. Hills, United States Trade Representative
John Sununu, Chief of Staff
John Walters, Acting Director, Office of National Drug Control
Policy
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs
Robert M. Gates, Assistant to the President and Deputy for
National Security Affairs
Bernard W. Aronson, Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs
Thomas McNamara, U.S. Ambassador to Colombia
William T. Pryce, Senior Director for Latin American and
Caribbean Affairs, NSC Staff (Notetaker)
Alex Schiavo, Interpreter
Colombia
Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, President
Luis Fernando Jaramillo, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jaime Garcia-Parra, Colombian Ambassador to the U.S.
Jaime Giraldo, Minister of Justice
Rudolf Hommes, Minister of Finance
Luis Vergara, Minister of Mines and Energy
Carlos Gustavo Arrieta, Procurator-General
Gabriel Silva, Adviser to the President
DOOR
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 at 11:00 AM
DOOR
Mr Pryce
(NSC)
Mr G. Silva
(Adv to the Pres)
Mr Gates
Gen Scowcroft
Min Vergara
(Min of Mine &
Energy)
Gov Sununu
Min Giraldo
(Justice Min)
Atty Gen Thornburgh
The
Min Jaramillo
(Min of For Af)
The President
Cabinet
Pres Gaviria
Sec Baker
Room
Amb Garcia-Parra
(Amb to US)
Amb Hills
(USTR)
Min Hommes
(Finance Min)
Mr Walters
(NDCP)
Mr Arrieta
(Procurador-
General)
Mr Aronson
(State)
Amb Mcnamara (US Amb to Colombia)
DOOR
DOOR
Patty
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 at 11:00 AM
DOOR
Mr Pryce
(NSC)
Mr Gates
Mr Arrieta
(Procurador -
Gen Scowcroft
General)
Min Hommes
Gov Sununu
(Finance Min)
Min Jaramillo
Atty Gen Thornburgh
The
(Min of For Af)
Pres Gaviria
The President
Cabinet
Min Giraldo
(Justice Min)
Sec Baker
Room
Amb Garcia-Parra
(Amb to US)
Amb Hills
(USTR)
Mr G. Silva
(Adv to the Pres
Mr Walters
(NDCP)
Mr Aronson
Mr M. Silva
(State)
(Priv Sec to Pres G.
Amb Mcnamara (US Amb to Colombia)
DOOR
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 27, 1991
chron fale in
ATTN: Jackie Kennedy
Droppedice
FROM: Katie Baur in Nick Calio's Office
Governor The following Congressman will attend the 10:00 meeting in
Sununu's Off ice tomorrow:
Congressman Bob Walks
Congressman Bob Livingston
Congressman Don Sundguist
1030
Congressman Dennis Hastert
Congressman Steve Gunderson
Congressman John Kyl
Congressman Bill Paxor
Congressman Jerry Soltmon
Congressman Bob McEwen
Congressman Bill Zeliff
Congresswoman Nancy Johnson
thank As of this moment Fre McClure will not be attending
you for your help. It is only my third day on the Jackie, job.
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RETIREMENT FOR GENERAL THURMAN \ FORT MYER
B
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2b, 1991 \ 4:00 P.M.
THANK YOU, DICK [CHENEY]. WHAT AN OUTSTANDING JOB
THIS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE IS DOING. 11
CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMY, GENERAL CARL VUONO;
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. I'M SORRY I WON'T BE ABLE TO STAY
FOR THE CEREMONY -- BUT I HOPE YOU'LL UNDERSTAND.
To ALL OF YOU HERE TODAY -- THANK YOU. THROUGH
YOUR DEVOTION TO OUR COMMON DEFENSE, YOU SHOW THE SAME
SPIRIT AND COMMITMENT WE'RE NOW SEEING SHINE SO
BRILLIANTLY IN THE ACTIONS OF EVERY SINGLE MAN AND
WOMAN NOW SERVING IN THE PERSIAN GULF. 111
- 2 -
I've JUST RECEIVED AN UPDATE FROM SECRETARY CHENEY
ON OPERATION DESERT STORM. As I NOTED EARLIER TODAY,
WE ARE NOT ONLY ON SCHEDULE -- WE ARE AHEAD OF
SCHEDULE. No COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HAS EVER BEEN so PROUD
OF AMERICA'S MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM.
THEY SAY YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN -- AND THE
MAN WE HONOR THIS AFTERNOON PROVES IT.
- 3 -
A DISTINGUISHED OFFICER OF THE FIELD ARTILLERY; TWO
TOURS IN VIETNAM; FOUR STARS; COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE
SOUTHERN COMMAND -- A GENERAL WHO IS AS HUMAN AS HE IS
PROFESSIONAL, AS GENEROUS AS HE IS JUST. GENERAL
MAXWELL R. THURMAN. III
GENERAL THURMAN HAS DEVOTED HIS CAREER TO HELPING
ALL AROUND HIM REACH THEIR FULLEST POTENTIAL.
- 4 -
HIS LIFE AND WORK ARE A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF THE
INDIVIDUAL. AND HIS BRILLIANT ROLE IN THE LIBERATION
OF PANAMA WAS A FITTING GRACE NOTE TO A GREAT CAREER.
BY ASSURING THE FREEDOM OF THE PANAMANIAN PEOPLE,
GENERAL THURMAN HAS PLAYED A CRUCIAL. ROLE IN THE
REVIVAL OF DEMOCRACY IN THIS HEMISPHERE.
AT HOME AND ABROAD, AMERICA HAS BEEN FORTUNATE TO
HAVE MAXWELL THURMAN IN UNIFORM. HE HAS BEEN THE MAN
WHO NEVER SHIRKED RESPONSIBILITY.
- 5 -
I'VE BEEN TOLD, FOR INSTANCE, THAT GENERAL THURMAN WAS
STANDING OUTSIDE THE PAPAL NUNCIATURE, WHEN SOMEBODY
ASKED WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LOUD MUSIC.
HE IMMEDIATELY SAID, "I AM THE MUSIC MAN. CINC
MUSIC." 111
FROM ONE COMMANDER IN CHIEF TO ANOTHER -- WELL DONE.
III
BUT IF YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN, IT'S ALSO
TRUE THAT IT'S HARD TO SEE A GOOD MAN GO.
IT
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ESPECIALLY IN TIME OF WAR. GENERAL THURMAN, YOUR
RETIREMENT FROM SERVICE - -- AS WELL-EARNED AS IT IS --
LEAVES A GREAT VOID. SIMPLY STATED, THERE IS NO MORE
DEDICATED OFFICER IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY.
WE WILL MISS YOUR STRONG AND STEADY GUIDANCE. WE
WILL NEVER FORGET YOU -- BUT IN A VERY REAL SENSE WE
WILL NOT BE WITHOUT YOU.
- 7 -
A GENERATION OF SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN -- SOME OF
WHOM WILL RISE TO MATCH YOUR RANK -- NOW GO FORWARD
WITH YOUR LEADERSHIP IN THEIR MINDS, AND YOUR EXAMPLE
IN THEIR HEARTS.
YOUR DEVOTION TO SERVICE HAS BROUGHT HONOR TO YOUR
NATION. AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO AMERICA HAS INSPIRED
ADMIRATION IN US ALL. THANK YOU, SIR.
# # #
10:00
Attachment A
The President
The Vice President
James Baker, Secretary of State
Robert Mosbacher, Secretary of Commerce
Carla Hills, United States Trade Representative
Congressional Participation - Senate
Senator George Mitchell (D-ME), Majority Leader
Senator Bob Dole (R-KS), Republican Leader
Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI), Chairman, Committee on Foreign
Relations
Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), Ranking Republican, Committee
on Foreign Relations
Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX), Chairman, Committee on Finance
Senator Bob Packwood (R-OR), Ranking Republican, Committee on
Finance
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman, Committee on Agriculture,
Nutrition, and Forestry
Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), Ranking Republican, Committee ONE
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Senator John C. Danforth (R-MO), Ranking Republican, Committee OR
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Congressional Participation - House
Congressman Thomas Foley (D-WA), Speaker of the House
Congressman Richard Gephardt (D-MO), Majority Leader
Congressman Bob Michel (R-IL), Republican Leader
Congressman Dante Fascell (D-FL), Chairman, Foreign Affairs
Committee
Congressman William Broomfield (R-MI), Ranking Republican,
Foreign Affairs Committee
Congressman Bill Archer (R-TX), Ranking Republican, Committee on
Ways and Means
Congressman Thomas Coleman (R-MO), Ranking Republican, Committee
on Agriculture
Congressman John Dingell (D-MI), Chairman, Committee on Energy
and Commerce
Congressman Norm Lent (R-NY), Ranking Republican, Committee on
Energy and Commerce
White House Staff
John Sununu, Chief of Staff
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs
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Phil Brady, Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary
Andrew H. Card, Assistant to the President and Deputy, to the
Chief of Staff
David Demarest, Assistant to the President for Communications
Marlin Fitzwater, Assistant te the President and Press Secretary
Robert Gates, Assistant to the President and Deputy for National
Security Affairs
C. Boyden Gray, Counsel to the President
Ede Holiday, Assistant to the President and Secretary of
the Cabinet
Fred McClure, Assistant to the President for Legislative
Affairs
Roger Porter, Assistant to the President for Economic
and Domestic Policy
Nick Calio, Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative
Affairs (House)
Rob Portman, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director,
Office of Legislative Affairs
Virginia Lampley, Special Assistant to the President and Senior
Director for Legislative Affairs, National Security
Council
Frances Norris, Special Assistant to the President for
Legislative Affairs (House)
Nell Payne, Special Assistant to the President for
Legislative Affairs (Senate)
Other
Bill Kristol, Chief of Staff to the Vice President
Janet Mullins, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative:
Affairs
David Mulford, Under Secretary for International Affairs,
Department of Treasury
Jack Parnell, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
Joshua Bolten, General Counsel, United States Trade
Representative
Mary Tinsley, Assistant United States Trade Representative for
Congressional Affairs
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Lampley
Kristol
Parnell
Mulford
Gates
Mullins
Bolton
Tinsley
Vice
Danforth Sununu Mosbacher President
Baker
Hills
Scowcroft Coleman
Card
Lugar
Lent
Leahy
Archer
Packwood
Dingell
Cabinet Table
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Bentsen
field
Helms
Fascell
Fitzwater
Pell
Dole
Mitchell
President
Foley
Gephardt
Michel
Brady
Porter
Gray
Holiday
Demarest
McClure
Portman
Calio
Norris
Payne
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OVERNIGHT GUESTS AT THE RESIDENCE
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SECTION 1- W INDIVIDUAL
TOTALS
Expression of Feeling
Toward the President
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Expression of Feeling
Toward the First Lady
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Greeting Requests
Referrals (Govt/WH Offices)
Personal and Nonsubstantive
Jun
Questions
Miscellaneous Issues
SECTION 2 - ISSUES
POSITIVE
NEGATIVE
TOTALS
1 PRESIDENTS PRESS BRIEFING OF
Statement SPEECH OF 2/26/91
424
79
503
2 SUPPORT OPERATION DESERT STORM,
PRESIDENT'S POLICIES AND
GROUND WAR
Great
3 IRAO'S WITHDRAWAL FROM KUWAIT
LEGITIMATE ON SADDAN'S PART)
4
IRAQI TROOPS MUST LEAVE ALL
MILITARY EQUIPMENT BEHIND
5 SCUD ATTACK ON BARRACKS
6
MEDIA COVERAGE IS GIVING OUT
TOO MUCH INFORMATION AND
ENDANGERING OUR TROOPS
7
SOVIETS PEACE EFFORTS IN
MID EAST
(OVER)
COMMENTS OF FEBRUARY 6TH, 1991
9:00AM - 10:30AM
I AM ASHAMED TO BE AN AMERICAN. THE U.S. IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
DEATHS OF THE U.S. TROOPS YESTERDAY.
ALL HE IS IS A CIA TRAINED KILLER.
GOD BLESS THE PRESIDENT - HE'S DONE GOOD.
POTUS SHOWS MORE COURAGE AND INTEGRITY THAN ANYONE I COULD
IMAGINE. I'M A DEMOCRAT AND DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM - HOWEVER, I
SURE WILL THIS NEXT ELECTION.
HE NEEDS TO BE MORE DIPLOMATIC - LIGHTEN UP A BIT.
I WOULD LIKE POTUS TO REALLY TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHAT HE
WANTS. HE KEEPS CHANGING HIS AGENDA.
YOU WON - STOP THE KILLING.
ACCEPT IRAQ'S WITHDRAWAL AND GET OUT OF THE GULF.
VERY UPSET WITH THE PRESIDENT'S DECISION - WE ARE KILLING THEIR
SOLDIERS - WE NEED TO FIND AN ALTERNATIVE TO WAR. THERE ARE
OTHER WAYS TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS BESIDE WAR AND GUNS.
HE'S A GENIUS AND I DIDN'T EVEN VOTE FOR HIM - STAY THE COURSE.
I'M GLAD THAT THE PRESIDENT IS KEEPING FIRM - WE'RE NOT A WIMPISH
NATION.
TO
YOUR EFFORTS ARE GOING REOPEN THE COLD WAR.
OUR CREDIBILITY HAS BEEN REESTABLISHED.
KEEP THAT RATE IN HIS HOLE TIL HE CHOKES.
BAGHDAD OR BUST.
FIRST PRESIDENT IN 70 YEARS WHO HAS STOOD UP TO INTEREST GROUPS
AND BEEN FIRM. THIS IS ONE PRESIDENT I CAN TRUST - I'M PROUD TO
BE ANY AMERICAN.
CHASE THAT DEVIL ALL THE WAY TO BAGHDAD - DO NOT LET UP ON THIS
RASCAL - CUT OFF ALL AID TO JORDAN.
HE IS so STRONG - WE ARE BEHIND HIM - HE IS so BRAVE AND SMART -
I LOVE HIM.
WE MAY HAVE YELLOW RIBBONS ON OUR TREES BUT POTUS CERTAINLY
DOESN'T HAVE A YELLOW STRIPE DOWN HIS BACK.
THANK GOD FOR THE PRESIDENT. IF SOMEONE HAD ACTED THIS STRONGLY
IN 1939 WE MIGHT NOT HAVE HAD AN ADOLPH HITLER.
COMMENTS OF FEBRUARY 26TH, 1991
9:00AM TO 10:30AM
STAN FROM EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA SUGGESTS THAT ANOTHER PEACE
AGREEMENT BE SIGNED ON THE USS MISSOURI. AS THE MISSOURI WILL BE
DECOMMISSIONED, LET "BIG MO" -"MIGHTY MO" GO OUT IN A BLAZE OF
GLORY.
CRYING MOTHER FROM BOWIE, MARYLAND THANKS THE PRESIDENT FOR
STANDING STRONG - SHE HAS A SON ON A SHIP IN THE MID EAST.
ANOTHER CRYING LADY SAID SHE WAS IN COLLEGE WHEN POTUS RAN
AGAINST PRESIDENT REAGAN - SHE SUPPORTED POTUS AND ALL THE WAY
AND IS THANKFUL HE IS PRESIDENT NOW.
GOD BLESS OUR PRESIDENT FOR BEING so ASSERTIVE - WE MUST WIN
MILITARILY BEFORE WE SETTLE.
CONGRATULATIONS FROM AUSTRALIA, MR. PRESIDENT.
AN EGYPTIAN SAYS "IF YOU PUSH ARABS TOO FAR - OVERKILL WILL TURN
SOUR - BECAUSE OF THEIR DIGNITY THEY WILL NEVER GIVE UP. IF YOU
ASK NICELY THEY WILL GIVE YOU THE SHIRT OFF OF THEIR BACKS.
LEARN ARAB MENTALITY.
CONTINUE TO MARCH.
A NUMBER OF CALLERS SAID POTUS DOES NOT SPEAK FOR THE MAJORITY OF
THE AMERICANS - HE IS THE EVIL ONE.
GREAT LEADER, PRIDE IN THE PRESIDENT, RESTORED PATRIOTISM IN THIS
COUNTRY, WONDERFUL SPEECH, FANTASTIC JOB.
HE HAS DONE WHAT NO OTHER PRESIDENT HAS DONE - HE EMBARRASSED ME.
MR. BUSH IS OFF HIS ROCKER.
CONTINUE THE HARD LINE.
STOP THE KILLING - YOU DON'T SHOOT PEOPLE IN THE BACK.
HE HAS MADE ME S00000 PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN.
SADDAM CANNOT BE TRUSTED AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED AS A
REPUTABLE WORLD LEADER.
WE SHOULD SETTLE FOR NOTHING LESS THEN COMPLETE CAPITULATION OF
IRAQ - WHATEVER IT TAKES.
RUSSIA SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON TO ACT AS A PEACE AGENT DUE TO
IT'S OWN AGENDA IN THE GULF AREA.
BRAVO - RIGHT ON. PROUD OF THE PRESIDENT - 100% BEHIND THE
PRESIDENT - STICK TO IT so WE WON'T BE THERE IN TWO OR THREE
YEARS.
COMMENTS OF 2/26/91
9:00AM 10:30AM
MRS. MASTERS FROM OKLAHOMA CALLED TO EXPRESS FULL SUPPORT FOR
POTUS. HER FAMILY HAS 6 MEMBERS IN THE GULF.
OUTRAGED BY WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS DONE. RUSSIA IS THE PEACE
MAKER. I AM ASHAMED OF THE PRESIDENT. WE ARE USING NAKED
AGGRESSION.
STOP THE WAR BUSH THE BUTCHER.
CEASE FIRE - STOP BOMBING BAGHDAD - SAVE LIVES.
I FEEL HE'S GOING TOO FAR. SADDAM SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SAVE
FACE. WE SHOULD SHOW MORE CULTURAL SENSITIVITY.
DON'T LET HIM GET A WAY WITH ANYTHING. WE'RE BEHIND YOU 100% -
SADDAM IS CLEVER, YOU'RE SMART SMART WINS.
WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF THE RUSSIANS INTERFERING. A LEOPARD
DOESN'T CHANGE HIS SPOTS - HANG TALL AND GO ALL THE WAY - WE'RE
BEHIND YOU 100%.
I AM AGAINST POLICY OF REEKING VENGEANCE.
WE ARE THE WARMONGERS.
PEACE PERSECUTED BY WAR IS THE ISRAELI WAY, NOT AMERICAN.
SOME PEOPLE THINK POTUS IS A MASS MURDERER. I HOPE THEY END UP
WITH A WAR CRIMINAL TRIAL AND THAT BUSH IS THE ONE ON THE STAND.
IMMEDIATE CEASE FIRE TO STOP KILLING GEORGE BUSH IS INSANE.
CEASE FIRE - HOW MANY INNOCENT CIVILIANS ARE WE GOING TO KILL?
PRESIDENT HAS GRIT, GUTS AND GUSTO.
POTUS IS MISSING A BIG PUBLIC RELATIONS OPPORTUNITY BY NOT HAVING
PEACE.
PRESIDENT KEEPS ADDING CONDITIONS.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS
of
February PH 7:44
To:
The President
From:
Mike Boskin mp
Re:
Fourth Quarter GNP
The revision to the fourth quarter 1990
GNP data were minor. The revised estimate is
that GNP contracted at a 2.0 percent rate in
the fourth quarter, compared to the original
estimate of 2.1 percent. There were a
variety of revisions made in the components
of GNP, but they more or less offset each
other. I see no reason at this point to
change my basic view about the short-term
outlook. The success of the Gulf effort may
help consumer confidence rebound even earlier
than we had originally anticipated.
Michael J. Boskin
Chairman
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS
WASHINGTON
February 26, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
MICHAEL J. BOSKIN mys
SUBJECT:
Preliminary Estimate of Fourth-Quarter GNP,
Commerce Department Release, Tomorrow Morning,
8:30 a.m.
Real GNP fell 2 percent at an annual rate in the fourth
quarter, according to revised estimates. The previous estimate
of the fourth quarter decline was 2.1 percent. Private analysts
had expected a slight downward revision to real growth for the
fourth quarter.
The small overall revision was the result of offsetting
revisions among the GNP components. Components with upward
revisions included real business spending on new equipment and
consumer spending on services, and the trade balance improved due
to a downward revision in imports. Federal defense purchases and
the change in business inventories were revised down.
These revisions suggest that the demand for U.S. production
was slightly stronger than had previously been estimated. Real
final sales -- a measure of demand -- is now estimated to have
risen slightly, compared with a previously estimated slight
decline.
Inflation, measured by the fixed-weighted price index, was
revised up from the initial estimate of 4.1 percent to 4.7
percent, while the estimate of the implicit price deflator was
unchanged at 2.8 percent.
Real GNP
Percent change from preceding quarter
6
5.1
5
4.3°
4
3.7*
3.2*
3
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2
1.6
1.7
1.7
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me. President, dear George,
So incidentally - a date to remember this year) that it's hard to
much has happened since 17 January (my birthday
keep up.
and I have followed you as closely as possible, with a
Kate little help from CNN. You always look terrific and so does
Barbara.
friends at Bellerive admire your courage and
All resilience your during these most trying times. How do you do it?
Special super-Thalamus pills?. We pray for you every day.
the war nears its logical conclusion, we know George Bush
As will be magnanimous in victory. I feel sure that you will
no effort to work towards a solution of the politics Now of
despair spare which have plagued the Middle East for so long.
is the time.
We General Perez de Cuellar on 28 February. The question under
will be in New York for a meeting convened by Secretary-
review will be the UN's humanitarian and economic response to
the region's needs.
This is a two-day visit but I always let you know when we are
stateside, just in case. It would be nice to be able to touch
base on: "after the war, what?".
Kate joins dal in sending warmest thoughts
to you both and all the Bushes.
as ever,
Ladhi
The Hon. George Bush
President of the United States of America
The White House
Washington D.C. 20500
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Washington, D.C. 20520
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FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON D.C.
Mr. Eric M. Javits
1345 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10105
THE PRESIDENT
February 26, 1991
Dear Eric,
Your letter, written from the heart, reached me, and I am
grateful. A friend's kind words really count.
I especially appreciate your support for our Neil. This
has been tough on him, but he'll come through it okay --
often. as will you, my friend. We think of you and Margaretha
Thanks again for that wonderful letter. Barbara sends
warmest wishes to you both, too.
Sincerely,
GBl
Jan Burmeister
FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
The Honorable Timothy J. McBride
501 Slaters Lane
#122
Alexandria, VA 22314
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February 25
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I am of your handling of the sulf Was.
your leadership has drawn the nation
together in the cause of freedom and all pease. our
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FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Mr. Rick Oldach
Director of Sales Eastern Region
Lynx Precision Golf Equipment
25 Simmons Road
Hingham, MA 02043
THE PRESIDENT
2-26-91
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POOL REPORT
Feb. 26, 1991
Bush meets with Congressional Leaders
Bush said absolutely nothing, didn't even acknowledge
the pool questions but kept smiling for the cameras, signaling
thumbs up. However, when we asked if Saddam must go, Rep.
Michel turned and said yes.
For your information, this meeting was not onthe Gulf
War but to consider ways to keep the GATT negotiations going.
The administration must seek legislation to extend the "fast
track" provisions by March 1. See your localGATT expert for
an explanation.
Bush sat in his usual place, with Mitchell on one side
and Foley on the other. Accross from the president was Quayle.
Also there: Mosbacher, Hills, and Baker.
Julia Malone
Cox Newspapers
POOL REPORT
Feb. 26, 1991
PHOTO OP WITH GAVIRIA
The president again refused to answer questions about the
gulf war. Asked about the anti-drug war, he said, "I have great
confidence in President Gaviria. I tell you we have great confidence
in his commitment. We're going to talk about a lot of subjects."
Bush and Gaviria sat in the usual seats. Gaviria remained
silent, nodding pleasantly.
F.Y.I. Just before the meeting with Gaviria, the president
took a walk on the South Lawn with the dogs. John Herrick said the
walk was no more than five minutes long.
Julia Malone
Cox Newspapers
POOL REPORT
FEB. 26, 1991
TRIP TO FT. MYER
Bush took a brief, very brief, trip to speak at the
retirement review for Gen. Maxwell R. Thurman, the commander
of the invasion of Panama that ousted Noriega. There was very
little color at this rather solemn occasion. Before the president
came into the Ft. Myer Ceremonial Hall, the 01d Guard and the
Army band performed. The Old Guard includes a group in Revolutionary
War style uniforms. The honor guard wore blue coats and looked like a
painting of Washington's men.
You heard Bush's five-minute speech. He left after congratulating
Thurman, who stood at attention during the review of the troops. Also
there were Powell and Cheney.
The whole. event took less than 15 minutes.
Julia Malone
Cox Newspapers
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 26, 1991
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE NATION
The Rose Garden
9:48 A.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: I have a brief statement to make today.
Saddam's most recent speech is an outrage. He is not withdrawing.
His defeated forces are retreating. He is trying to claim victory in
the midst of a rout, and he is not voluntarily giving up Kuwait. He
is trying to save the remnants of power and control in the Middle
East by every means possible. And hereto Saddam Hussein will fail.
Saddam is not interested in peace, but only to regroup
and fight another day, and he does not renounce Iraq's claim to
Kuwait. To the contrary, he makes clear that Iraq continues to claim
Kuwait. Nor is there any evidence of remorse for Iraq's aggression
or any indication that Saddam is prepared to accept the
responsibility for the awful consequences of that aggression.
He still does not accept U.N. Security Council
resolutions or the coalition terms of February 22, including the
release of our POWs -- all POWs -- third-country detainees, and an
end to the pathological destruction of Kuwait. The coalition will
therefore continue to prosecute the war with undiminished intensity.
As we announced last night, we will not attack unarmed
soldiers in retreat. We have no choice but to consider retreating
combat units as a threat and respond accordingly. Anything else
would risk additional United States and coalition casualties.
The best way to avoid further casualties on both sides is
for the Iraqi soldiers to lay down their arms as nearly 30,000 Iraqis
already have. It is time for all Iraqi forces in the theater of
operation, those occupying Kuwait, those supporting the occupation of
Kuwait, to lay down their arms. And that will stop the bloodshed.
From the beginning of the air operation nearly six weeks
ago, I have said that our efforts are on course and on schedule.
This morning I am very pleased to say that coalition efforts are
ahead of schedule. The liberation of Kuwait is close at hand.
And let me just add that I share the pride of all of the
American people in the magnificent heroic performance of our armed
forces. May God bless them and keep them.
END
9:51 A.M. EST
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 26, 1991
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
The President met today with bipartisan Congressional leadership
to discuss the need for an extension of the fast-track procedure
for Congressional review of international trade agreements.
While the President has not yet sought an extension, he expressed
his intention to do so, heard the concerns of the leadership, and
asked for their support for an extension.
Background:
Under the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, March 1,
1991 is the deadline by which the President must transmit a
request for an extension of fast-track authority to Congress if
he intends to do SO.
Current fast-track authority, which was granted in the 1988 Trade
Act, expires June 1, 1991.
Once requested, a two year extension is automatically granted
unless either house of the Congress passes a disapproval
resolution within 90 days, or by June 1 in this instance.
Fast-track authority assures our negotiating partners that once
an agreement has been reached, under such authority, Congress is
committed to vote on implementing legislation within 90 days of
its submission by the President and that no amendments will be
made to that legislation. Without that assurance foreign
governments have proven to be reluctant to make tough
concessions, because they are not assured that the deals they
strike with us will be the ones voted on by the Congress.
Once a trade agreement is reached, the Administration works
closely with Congress to draft implementing legislation. The
Congress can reject the deal and the implementing legislation by
a majority vote in either house.
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POOL REPORT
Feb. 26, 1991
PHOTO OP WITH GAVIRIA
The president again refused to answer questions about the
gulf war. Asked about the anti-drug war, he said, "I have great
confidence in President Gaviria. I tell you we have great confidence
in his commitment. We're going to talk about a lot of subjects."
Bush and Gaviria sat in the usual seats. Gaviria remained
silent, nodding pleasantly.
F.Y.I. Just before the meeting with Gaviria, the president
took a walk on the South Lawn with the dogs. John Herrick said the
walk was no more than five minutes long.
Julia Malone
Cox Newspapers
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 26, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AND PRESIDENT TRUJILLO GAVIRIA OF COLOMBIA
UPON DEPARTURE
The South Portico
1:14 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. President, it has been a privilege to
meet with you and to share our thoughts on critical challenges that
our countries must face together. You're a man of courage -- the
worthy political heir of your nation's General Santander, who said,
"If the sword gave us independence, the law will give us liberty.
You're a man devoted to law and to liberty, and for that, you have
our admiration and respect.
Today, we held a thorough and frank discussion on a range
of issues of mutual concern, particularly the drug war and joint
economic matters. I view this as a vital meeting. For although
there is a crisis demanding our attention halfway around the world,
we will not neglect the very pressing needs and opportunities in our
own hemisphere.
One of the most urgent of these is the fierce battle that
we're waging against the scourge of drugs. President Gaviria talked
to me in great detail of the efforts, the heroic efforts that
Colombia is making in this fight. We honor him and his countrymen --
knowing they borne a very difficult burden in this war, and
knowing that it is their survival that's at stake every day.
Our hearts are with the Colombian people who have
suffered so much from drug-related outlaw violence. This has
included the murder of President Gaviria's own cousin only days ago
by these narco terrorists. We want to tell Colombians that they
inspire us by standing up -- despite intimidation, despite the costs
-- for justice and for law.
As we spoke today, I made it clear that Colombia is not
alone in this fight. Both our countries recognize that drug
production and drug use threaten our futures and our very lives. We
are determined to defeat this enemy. Together, I am more and more
convinced, especially after these talks, that we will win this war.
At the Cartagena summit, we said that we accepted our
responsibility to cut drug demand in the United States. I told the
President today that our work is succeeding -- drug use here in the
United States is on the decline. And also at that summit, we pledged
to help Colombia and her neighbors in their struggle to reduce
production and interrupt the transportation of drugs.
And we know that battling the drug war has indeed meant
high costs to the Colombian people. And so I'm glad to report that
on February 25th, our countries signed an agreement providing the
first $20 million of a total $41 million to help ease the financial
damage that the drug war has meant to his government's programs.
And second, we've signed an innovative agreement on
mutual judicial cooperation to more effectively prosecute the drug
traffickers. And I told the President that we will sign a
multimillion dollar, long-term agreement expanding our support for
his bold initiative to strengthen the Colombian judicial system.
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In addition, we know we need to offer the people of the
Andes viable economic alternatives to coca production. A team led by
Ambassador Ed Corr has just completed a report on how we can
strengthen our cooperation on agricultural issues and make our market
more accessible to legal exports.
Most importantly, we've proposed the Andean Trade
Initiative providing special and vitally important benefits for the
Colombian producers. And I hope Congress will pass this legislation
speedily.
As we look ahead to the coming century, President Gaviria
and I agree that we must also make trade and economic development
essential priorities.
Our hemisphere must see that its future lies with free
markets as well as free governments. And that's why we must forge a
genuine economic partnership for the future. Last year, we proposed
the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, offering the hope of
greater prosperity for all the Americas through greater international
investment, freer trade and greatly reduced debt burdens.
Colombia was the first nation to take up our offer to
negotiate bilateral trade and investment framework agreements. Well,
I told the President today that we are sending to Congress
legislation necessary to implement the investment, debt and
environmental aspects of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative.
And I assured him that I am absolutely committed to securing its
passage.
The people of our two nations are united as neighbors.
And we are united as societies threatened by the human misery brought
by drugs. But we're also united as people who believe in human
rights and in the creative power of liberty. We're members of what
is almost the world's first fully free hemisphere.
We're battling some powerful enemies: drugs, poverty,
forces opposed to democracy. But we have even more powerful
resources. Simon Bolivar wrote in exile: "The veil has been torn
asunder. We've already seen the light and it is not our desire to be
thrust back into darkness."
Well, our nations have seen the light. And our meeting
today was just one more joint step in the direction of that light. I
might add that we will always be grateful to Colombia for their role
at the United Nations as we formulated common opposition to the
forces of evil halfway around the world in the Gulf as we stood up to
the aggressor, Iraq.
But that proved to me that the goals are clear. Together
we will succeed. And so, may God bless your wonderful people, and
thank you for coming our way.
PRESIDENT GAVIRIA: Thank you, Mr. President. I want
first of all to express in the name of the Colombian people how glad
we are all because of the new order we're building with the
coalition, with the cooperation of the United Nations. We are very
happy for the success you have had in the Persian Gulf and the way we
have built in this new order that will help all the countries, all
humanity to fight poverty, to fight narco traffic and to fight the
new problems we really have in our agenda.
You have really told the journalists how we have talked
about our common problems. First of all, narco traffic, and the way
Colombia and the United States are committed against narco
trafficking in the world. We have been tracking the Cartagena
meeting you had with President Barco, and we are really aware of how
the United States have got results about reducing demand. That's
good news for Colombian people.
I have told you, and you have recognized how we have been
fighting narco trafficking, how we have improved this year the
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interdiction efforts Colombia is doing. We have told you about the
Colombian policy, the new Colombian -- judicial Colombian policy.
And we are very grateful for the cooperation you are giving us with
this mutual judicial agreement we have got in the day -- yesterday.
With all of the efforts, we will do -- I am sure we are
going to dismantle the cartels. We are going to fight narco traffic
as ever. We are really committed to that, and you can be sure that
this scourge of humanity will end someday with the kind of effort we
have been doing. We thank you for your offer to have, through this
Andean Initiative, and we hope, too, that someday very soon, Colombia
can have a free trade agreement with the United States of America.
Q
Mr. President, can Saddam survive, Mr. President?
Q
Is Kuwait City liberated?
Q
Have we taken Kuwait City, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: It's going very well.
END
1:22 P.M. EST
POOL REPORT
Feb. 26, 1991
Bush meets with Congressional Leaders'
Bush. said absolutely nothing, didn't even acknowledge
the pool questions but kept smiling for the cameras, signaling
thumbs up. However, when we asked if Saddam must go, Rep.
Michel turned and said yes.
For your information, this meeting was not onthe Gulf
War but to consider ways to keep the GATT negotiations going.
The administration must seek legislation to extend the "fast
track" provisions by March 1. See your localGATT expert for
an explanation.
Bush sat in his usual place, with Mitchell on one side
and Foley on the other. Accross from the president was Quayle.
Also there: Mosbacher, Hills, and Baker.
Julia Malone
Cox Newspapers
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 28, 1991
The President today named the volunteers of "The Elephant Men" of
Memphis, Tennessee, as the 391st "Daily Point of Light.' "The
Elephant Men" protect, guide, and teach Black inner city youth,
encouraging them "to put their best foot forward."
The volunteers of "The Elephant Men" realized that the young
people in the drug-infested, crime-ridden areas of their
community were in need of positive role models. They joined in
an effort to encourage young people in the 4th through 6th grades
to develop strong positive values, by exposing them to topics
such as morality, ethics, self-respect, respect for others, and
Black history and culture.
The men visit four area schools twice a week, where they offer
motivational lectures and seminars on real life issues. They
divide the students into three groups, speaking to each group
about a chosen topic. The subjects range from grooming, hygiene,
table manners, and sincere handshakes to issues such as teen
pregnancy, alternatives to using drugs, how to refuse someone who
offers drugs, and the importance of continuing their education.
They also lead field trips on the weekends and after school to
places where the youth would not normally visit. The volunteers
also plan on maintaining contact with the young people throughout
their high school and college years.
The President salutes the volunteers of "The Elephant Men" as the
391st "Daily Point of Light." Daily Point of Light recognition
is intended to call every individual, group, and organization in
America to claim society's problems as their own by taking direct
and consequential action; to identify, enlarge, and multiply
successful initiatives, like the efforts of the volunteers of
"The Elephant Men;" and to discover, encourage, and develop new
leaders in community service, reflecting the President's
conviction that, "From now on in America, any definition of a
successful life must include serving others.'
# # #
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracey Taylor or Jill Chodorov
(202) 456-6266
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
PRESS BRIEFING
BY
MARLIN FITZWATER
February 28, 1991
The Briefing Room
11:00 A.M. EST
INDEX
SUBJECT
PAGE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
President's Schedule
1-2
FOREIGN
Gulf War Developments
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
PRESS BRIEFING
BY
MARLIN FITZWATER
February 28, 1991
The Briefing Room
11:00 A.M. EST
MR. FITZWATER: Let's start briefly with the President's
schedule this morning. He called the Situation Room this morning at
5:02 a.m. for a first update of the situation during the night. He
arrived at his office around 7:00 a.m. and met soon after that with
General Scowcroft, Secretary Baker, Secretary Cheney and Governor
Sununu, again, primarily to discuss the situation after midnight and
to get a report that, in fact, the suspension of hostilities had been
for the most part observed through the night, although as General
Neal said today, there were sporadic cases of gunfire and exchanges.
Then at 7:30 a.m., General Scowcroft, Secretary Baker and
Secretary Cheney met in General Scowcroft's office to discuss the
many difficult issues that we have to face now in terms of the
suspension of hostilities and the United Nations and the other
political problems that exist in the region.
The President telephoned three heads of state this
morning -- Kaifu of Japan, Ozal of Turkey, and Salinas of Mexico --
also to discuss generally the situation. I don't have details on
those conversations.
&
That's an odd troika, Marlin. (Laughter.)
MR. FITZWATER: No, I don't have any more on that. But
they are three of the leaders that President Bush has talked to
continually throughout this process. He's made numerous calls to all
three of those leaders. But I don't have any specifics on the
conversations.
Q
Do you have to whom he talked on the phone
personally yesterday afternoon?
MR. FITZWATER: Yesterday he talked to Mitterrand of
France, Mulroney of Canada, and Major of Great Britain.
Q
The three M's.
MR. FITZWATER: Three M's.
Q
What about Mubarak? (Laughter.)
MR. FITZWATER: That's brings us up essentially to the
present time. And just a couple of -- at least to reemphasize that
last night the President of the United Nations Security Council
received a letter from Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz stating that
the government of Iraq agrees to comply fully with Security Council
Resolution 660 and all the other Security Council resolutions. This
letter, therefore, satisfies one of the coalition's terms for a
formal cease-fire. The letter was circulated last night to the other
members of the Security Council. I'm told that this delivery
occurred within a few hours after the President's speech.
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As the President stated in his Oval Office address last
night, the coalition has additional terms that must be met before a
formal cease-fire can be declared. And these are: that Iraq must
release immediately all coalition prisoners of war, third-country
nationals and the remains of all who have fallen. Iraq must release
all Kuwaiti detainees. Iraq must also inform Kuwaiti authorities of
the location and nature of all land and sea mines.
This morning representatives of the five permanent
members of the U.N. Security Council, which include, of course, the
U.S., the USSR, United Kingdom, France and China, were scheduled to
meet at 10:00 a.m. I haven't received any report on that meeting, so
I'm just assuming that it took place. And the full Security Council
is scheduled to meet in informal session at 10:30 a.m. Again, I
assume that that did start. And those meetings were to discuss the
situation generally and what kinds of issues they need to be
considering in the days ahead.
The State Department has announced Secretary Baker's trip
-- or will soon. I don't have all the details on that, but that is
available to you from the Department of State.
I guess that's all I have.
Q
Marlin, do we have -- or does the U.S. government
have information on whether there are Americans among the third
country nationals that are missing in and from Kuwait? And if so,
how many roughly? Any sense of that?
MR. FITZWATER: We don't have details on that. Of
course, the CBS crew would be the most prominent group that would be
in that category. There may be others as well. But we don't have
details at this point.
Q
Do you have indications that there are others beyond
"Simon of Arabia"?
MR. FITZWATER: We don't. I think the situation is, we
would expect an agreement to meet these terms prior to having the
commanders session. That is essentially the process that the
President laid out last night. And then the commanders, when they
met, would go into the specifics of the POW release and other aspects
of these terms.
2 Can I follow up for a second? Iraq hasn't exactly
been responding with skill and alacrity to the necessary demands that
have been made so far. It wouldn't seem unreasonable to imagine that
they're going to ball this up, too. What do we do if they do?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, we have in effect now a suspension
of hostilities. And essentially, that would just remain in effect as
we move forward. If we don't have a response, for example, within
the 48-hour period, the suspension would remain unless it was
violated by hostile action, and we would continue to press for
compliance with the U.N. resolutions. And the United Nations then
would begin consideration of what kinds of things they might be able
to do to get compliance as well.
Q Marlin, could you just spell out for us the process
that is supposed to take place over the next 48 hours or three days?
How do they notify; who do they notify?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, I don't have great detail in terms
of who notifies who, but essentially the process is that the
suspension is in place. We would expect notification either publicly
or to the United Nations that they are meeting the conditions, and
then we would schedule the meeting in the theater of operation
between the commanders. And then you have this action taking place
at the U.N. So that essentially is the scenario.
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2 On the other terms, among the other terms you forgot
-- is it still the case that there is reparation, the agreement in
principle for compensations?
MR. FITZWATER: All the U.N. resolutions, yes, still have
to be met.
Q
Are you indicating that if the American POWs are not
out and in American hands that Schwarzkopf will not agree to meet
with the Iraqi commanders?
MR. FITZWATER: No. The President's statement last night
said that they must agree to those things, and then the commanders
would meet to arrange to implement them.
Q
Marlin, there's no mention that Saddam must do
anything personally and publicly. Has that been dropped, and if so,
why?
MR. FITZWATER: The difference in the situation now is
that we won the war. At that time you will recall that that was the
terms of February 22 that we put forth for stopping the fighting and
meeting the resolutions. So we do have a situation now in a sense
that the war has been won. They have agreed to all of the U.N.
resolutions, so those terms of February 22 have been overtaken by
events.
Q
There's no feeling that the absence of his speaking
on the other terms of the coalition lacks authority? How is the
difference in authoritativeness dealt with between the acceptance by
Aziz and the acceptance by Saddam? And why do we --
MR. FITZWATER: We have the basic difference in
authoritativeness in the sense that the United States and the
coalition forces have won a very clear-cut victory. That's obvious
to the world that his forces have been vanquished. That's a major
difference. Secondly, that they have accepted all U.N. resolutions,
which they have refused to do up until this point, and they have done
it by direct communications to the United Nations so that the
situation is different in both of those significant ways.
Q
How long will U.S. forces stay in southern Iraq?
What do we have 100,000 allied troops there?
MR. FITZWATER: We don't have a timetable yet for the
pullout of our forces. The President has been clear that he wants to
get our troops out of the Gulf region as soon as possible. We, of
course, will maintain a force there -- a naval force, as we have
since 1949.
Q
No, I'm talking about in Iraq itself.
MR. FITZWATER: There's no way of knowing. For one
thing, they certainly would remain there for the duration of the
suspension of hostilities. But after that, it remains to be seen.
There's no way to put a timetable on it.
Q
Two things. First, to follow up on Terry's
question. In that interim period, however long it may be, who is in
charge of actually administering the territory, taking care that law
and order is maintained, that civilians are protected, et cetera? Is
there going to be some sort of allied temporary civil administration
set up?
MR. FITZWATER: You mean just in that area of southern
Iraq?
Q
Just in that area of southern Iraq, yes.
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MR. FITZWATER: I don't think there's any anticipation
that that area of the country deserves another government or
something. I mean, it's just -- I'm not sure that's a relevant
question. What do you mean?
Q
Well, under international law, troops that are
occupying territory have the responsibility to make sure that the
basic day-to-day running of the place takes -- is taken care of; that
civilians are protected, that --
MR. FITZWATER: We're not an occupying force there that's
taking care of civilians. I wouldn't expect them to be there that
long. I don't think that's really a relevant issue.
Q
The other thing I wanted to ask is that there are
reports that a lot of Iraqi POWs have already indicated that they
don't want to go back to Iraq. What's the U.S. policy with regard to
POWs who don't want to be repatriated?
MR. FITZWATER: The POWs, of course, will be processed
according to the Red Cross rules and the Geneva Convention rules and
so forth. And I don't, frankly, know what their choices are when
they get out. I don't know. We would not be directly involved in
that ourselves.
Q
Do I take it then that there's been no direct
response or contact between the Iraqi government and the U.S. at this
point, or the Iraqi military and the U.S.-led coalition forces?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't believe we've had any direct
response. I heard General Neal's briefing. I don't believe he
reported any in Riyadh and we've had none here.
Q
I was a little bit confused by what General Neal had
to say about weapons coming out now during the suspension. Will
Iraqi forces be permitted to leave with their weapons -- retreat back
into Iraq with their weapons? What's your understanding on that?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't have anything to add to what he
said. I'm not sure I heard his exact answer to that question. We
would expect them to lay down their arms and --
Q
We said that we would attack them with loudspeakers
or shout at them with loudspeakers and talk -- I couldn't figure out
what he meant by that.
MR. FITZWATER: I don't have anything to add to what he
said, although part of the President's statement last night as you'll
recall was, "The suspension of offensive combat operations is
contingent upon Iraq's not firing upon any coalition forces and not
launching Scud missiles against any other country." So we would
assume that there would not be any need for weapons on their part.
Q
What problems for the future are being taken up now
between Baker and Cheney? Can you give us a rough overview of --
MR. FITZWATER: Yes. I'd say there are four kind of
broad categories of interests that we are beginning to explore at
this point. Those are, first of all, security arrangements in the
region. And that's a matter that will be guided to a great extent by
the Kuwaiti government. They will have to begin considering with the
coalition and with the U.N. whatever the peace-keeping needs that
they may feel are necessary on the border or in other areas. The
second area is arms control and proliferation. We will be exploring
with our allies and with the United Nations appropriate policies and
actions with regard to arms control to prevent Iraq from rearming
itself. And I think this war has also made it clear that our arms
proliferation policies generally need to be examined. And so I'm
sure that the United States will lead a United Nations and a world
discussion of proliferation policies in general.
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The third category is the Arab-Israeli question. And
that is a matter that, in the first instance, has to be resolved by
the countries themselves. But as we have said in the past, we would
like to play a role and offer any help that we can in trying to solve
those problems.
And the fourth area is economic cooperation. And we will
be consulting with the allies and the coalition members about the
economic needs of the region and the economic opportunities that
exist there.
Now, Secretary Baker's trip that begins, I guess, Monday
or Tuesday of next week, will begin to focus on many of these issues.
But quite obviously, the initial discussions will focus on those
issues immediate to resolving the conflict -- particularly security
arrangements in the region and arms control.
Q
Marlin, will there be any lessening of the economic
sanctions now that the war is essentially over to allow certain
things to Iraq -- food or medicine or things that you have prevented
from going in up to now?
MR. FITZWATER: Those are matters that have to be taken
up by the U.N., and it depends to a great degree on the compliance
with the 12 U.N. resolutions. Those sanctions, you will recall, were
put in place by the U.N. as a means of enforcing the resolutions. We
now have an agreement from Iraq that they will be met. But I think
the U.N. will clearly want to take a look at the rate of compliance
and level of compliance and speed of compliance in determining how to
deal with the sanctions.
Q
Marlin, the European Community today voted or did
something to give $700,000 in emergency humanitarian aid to Iraq.
Are we considering any such move or gesture?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't believe we have anything specific
in the works, although we have provided medical supplies to Iraq in
the past. Medical assistance is something that we have participated
in and we're not having trouble with.
Q
And a logistical question. There's a couple of
contrary reports -- is Baker going to be in Kuwait on Monday or
Tuesday?
MR. FITZWATER: As I say, I don't know that exactly, but
I'm told the State Department will by early afternoon, if not sooner,
have a more specific schedule for him, but very soon.
I might just add that, again, State can be more specific,
but our Ambassador is in Dhahran at the moment with a country team,
and they are waiting to go back into Kuwait city. The Marines are
securing the embassy and they will probably go back in tomorrow,
although that could change depending upon what the Marines find there
in terms of security.
One of the problems, as I understand it, going back into
Kuwait City is booby traps, and that is that apparently they have
booby-trapped a lot of the buildings. And so there needs to be a
very careful inspection of certainly all the government buildings
before people start pouring back in there. So we're pretty cautious
in that area.
Q
What is his name -- the Ambassador? Or her name?
MR. FITZWATER: Skip Gnehm.
Q
What's his first name, Marlin? They call him Skip,
but what's his real name?
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MR. FITZWATER: They call him Skip. What's his formal
first - Edward.
2
Marlin, a few reported on the wires this morning as
saying it would be a few days, or it would take a few days or
something like that for the first withdrawals of Americans troops to
take place. Do you anticipate that any American troops will come
home before this suspension turns into a permanent cease-fire?
MR. FITZWATER: I can't give you any timetable for
withdrawal of troops. Everybody is trying. I said days. I think
the stories make that sound a little faster than it probably should.
I'm sure it's going to be double digits before we're able to see
troops come out. But it's clear that the President has indicated he
wants our forces to be coming out as soon as possible, and that's
what it will be. But on the same token, we won't be withdrawing
troops until it's fully realistic and fully examined that they'r not
needed there.
Q
Do you think it could happen during just the
suspension? Is that realistic?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't want to speculate. We'll wait
and let the military work this out.
Q Marlin, what is the anticipated impact on the search
for stability when a country with a controlled press and controlled
radio is being told the shooting stopped because we won -- meaning
Iraq? (Laughter.) And they're being told that the force was
defeated? (Laughter.) Are we going to do something to --
α
People aren't that dumb --
MR. FITZWATER: I mean, I don't really know how to judge
that. The facts of the situation remain. Virtually all the world
knows that. I don't know that that has much of an impact. At some
point, I'm sure that the people of Iraq will come to know the truth
just because I can't imagine an event of this magnitude going without
understanding for a very long period of time. For one thing, we've
got all those soldiers who are coming back in there. It doesn't take
very long to see those returning Iraqi troops to know that they're
going to spread the word that they were pretty soundly defeated.
Q
Marlin, can you give us a feel for the change in
mood? How has the President been over last 24 hours -- and a sense
or flavor of the discussion in today's national security meeting?
MR. FITZWATER: I'd say the President's mood is --
(laughter.) Here we go again. Where's Maureen when I need her?
(Laughter.) I think you all can see that there was some relief last
night in the sense of being able to stop the fighting. I think we
all feel that. There's a certain tension that's gone out of the
situation. That's very gratifying. The President certainly is
pleased by the performance of the military.
But by the same token, the President is very realistic
about the problems that we have to face. And they are going to be
very. difficult and, in some cases, trying and frustrating in the days
ahead. And so the President, as I talked to him this morning, seemed
like in a very businesslike mood in terms of planning the next steps,
talking to Secretary Baker about his trip, talking to Secretary
Cheney about the situation over there. So there's still so much work
going on that there hasn't been much time to really stop and reflect
on the good parts of this. And I don't think, frankly, we've reached
a point where there's -- there just hasn't been a recognition of --
well, I don't know how to put this, but --
&
Is there a sense of finality?
MR. FITZWATER: There is not a sense of finality because
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there is just too much left to be done. And as I said, it's a great
relief that the fighting has stopped and that we're over that kind of
hourly tension of what might happen. But still a great concern about
the next several days and the course this takes, and then the next
several weeks of planning.
Q
I arrived a few minutes late. Has President Bush
talked to President Gorbachev?
MR. FITZWATER: No, he has not.
Q
Marlin, speaking of things that have yet to be done,
we're getting an increasing number of reports of atrocities out of
Kuwait City. What's the status of any attempts to prosecute war
crimes?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know the exact status. Again, as
they said in Riyadh, our military is examining this question. We
have military authorities there who are interviewing the surrendering
troops from Iraq, interviewing residents in Kuwait, trying to gather
information and material. But there have been no new judgments at
this point about on how to proceed. But I'd characterize it as
collecting the evidence at this point.
Q
Is it still the administration's plan to propose an
international bank of some sort to aid in reconstruction for the
Middle East?
MR. FITZWATER: We've thrown that out as an idea of a way
to focus the economic efforts in the region, but there are still many
ideas to be worked out. Nothing concrete has been proposed.
Q
You say thrown that out, Marlin. What do you mean
exactly? (Laughter.)
MR. FITZWATER: No, I mean, it's been suggested.
Q
What about Jordan? What is the view of Jordan?
Might there be an effort of reconciliation, or not?
MR. FITZWATER: The President has been very clear about
that all along, that he hopes that we can reestablish better
relations with Jordan. And I'm sure there will be a time and a place
for that.
Q
There was a report about Jordanian weapons being
discovered.
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know.
Q
Marlin, following up on Frank's question, given the
boast in Iraq that they won and the self-delusion we're familiar
with, is it a good idea to drop the personally and publicly
requirement? Couldn't that feed Saddam's sense that, in fact, he has
come out pretty well?
MR. FITZWATER: I'm simply making the point that it has
been publicly shown that he lost the war. It's going to be in every
forum and every nook and cranny of the world for the next several
days. I don't think there will be any question anyplace about the
status of the war itself, or the status of his forces, or the way he
treated them or the way he conducted the war. That will all be
clearly known.
Q
Can I just follow up on something else? You didn't
make clear as to whether Schwarzkopf himself is intended to be the
commander who will meet with the Iraqi commander. Is that what you
envisage, or could Schwarzkopf delegate that to somebody?
MR. FITZWATER: We expect that he will, but it's not firm
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yet.
Q
The Iraqi news media is government-controlled,
though, and if they're claiming victory is it indicative in some way
of what the Iraqi government's attitude is, and does that speak
poorly about the cooperation we're looking for?
MR. FITZWATER: I can't speak for the Iraqi government.
Q
It seems that everybody is claiming victory. What
do you make of the statement by the President of the Soviet
Parliament saying that this outcome is a result of the great
diplomacy of Mikhail Gorbachev? (Laughter.) What do you make of
that?
Q
Go for it, Marlin.
Q
Which tank was he in?
MR. FITZWATER: I think Gerasimov must be advising him
again. (Laughter.) You know, victory has a lot of fathers and --
(laughter) --
Q
And defeat, a mother. (Laughter.)
2
The four broad categories of policy that we're
working on -- how much does our posture depend on whether or not
Saddam remains in power?
MR. FITZWATER: How much does our caution depend on it,
you say?
Q
Our posture?
MR. FITZWATER: Our posture in what?
Q
In these four broad categories.
MR. FITZWATER: It does have an impact. First of all, I
would say that the U.N. and the coalition have always assumed that he
would remain in power so that that's not an assumption that is new.
But it certainly is true that it is his record in this episode and
his history throughout the last several months and his conduct of the
war that causes us to want to be extremely conservative about things
like rearmament, arms control, economic assistance, et cetera. And
as the President has said quite clearly, it would be much easier to
look upon Iraq's problems with some sympathy if he were not in power.
2
If I could follow up, how could we generate that,
how could we get momentum towards that -- towards removing him?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, I mean, that's not our business. I
don't know.
Q
Marlin, speaking of Saddam's history --
MR. FITZWATER: Are you passing off, Toby? God, you
should never do that.
Q
You called on him first.
MR. FITZWATER: Oh, okay. John, go ahead.
Q
Speaking of Saddam's history, he has a record --
Iraq has a record of hanging on to prisoners for a lengthy period and
trying to use them as bargaining devices or even hanging on to them
without making specific demands. If Saddam does not comply with the
demand for the release of all U.S. prisoners and third country
prisoners, will the U.S. still plan on leaving southern Iraq? What
lever other than holding the territory?
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MR. FITZWATER: Well, the lever that the President laid
out last night was a cease-fire. And if there's not agreement and a
forthcoming attitude toward that, then we're still in this existing
condition where our forces are in place. We have a suspension of
hostilities, but essentially we're right there and prepared to
respond in any way we need to.
2
Can we assume that there is no plan to resume
offensive action to force release of the prisoners?
MR. FITZWATER: You can assume that we wouldn't have
declared a cease-fire -- not a cease-fire, but a suspension -- if we
had any intention of resuming it. But the President clearly laid out
all these reasons. There's no way I can speculate beyond that.
2
Marlin, on sanctions, two things. Is it fair to
assume that you wouldn't lift the sanctions against Iraq unless
there's some arrangement on reparations such as a lien of sorts on
oil profits?
MR. FITZWATER: The U.N. sanctions were designed to
enforce the resolutions, of which reparations was a key focus of the
need for sanctions, so those two are tied, yes.
Q
Secondly, may we assume that the U.S. sanctions
against Kuwait will come off quickly?
MR. FITZWATER: That the U.S. sanctions against Kuwait?
2
Frozen assets -- all that stuff.
Q
Against trade with Kuwait.
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know. I'd have to look into
that, Toby.
Q
You give the impression that if Saddam Hussein is
replaced by anyone, improvements will follow automatically. Is this
an assumption of the government? Is this the impression you want to
leave?
MR. FITZWATER: No. We don't make that assumption. We
make the assumption that if someone else were to follow Hussein we
would have to explore that relationship and make judgments about it
at the time. And quite frankly, we're not aware of any particular
individual in Iraq or regime that, at this point anyway, demonstrates
much of an attitude different than what Saddam has. But we would
have to take a look at that. But certainly we can't make any
assumptions.
2
Marlin, what is the President going to tell the
Business Council today about the war's impact on the economy and the
recession? Greenspan said a quick end would help the recovery.
MR. FITZWATER: Well, this is just a reception, and so
it's a very informal affair. The President may have a few remarks,
but I wouldn't expect an in-depth economic analysis to take place. I
assume he probably will say, as we have said before, that we expect
the recession to be relatively short-lived, and that the shortness of
the war should be a helpful fact in terms of keeping the recession
short. I think most economists have indicated that, the shorter the
war, the less the impact on the recession and the more we could
expect it to end over the next few months.
Q
Are we going to hear from the President about the
war today in broader terms?
MR. FITZWATER: We have a photo op with Foreign Minister
Dumas this afternoon, but he doesn't have any plans to say anything
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or any prepared speeches, no.
Q
Marlin, if the Iraqis should not release the POWs
and this 48-hour deadline passes, and as you say, you want to
continue the suspension of the fighting and, after all, there's
nobody left to fight, just what incentive does Saddam Hussein have to
release these POWs? He's proven that he can survive an embargo for
several months at a time.
MR. FITZWATER: He still has all the U.N. sanctions,
which he obviously wants out of. You remember it was Iraq who first
started this process of wanting to make an unconditional withdrawal
because they wanted to get out from under the burden of those
sanctions. So there are still those pressures there.
Q
Well, what he wanted to get out from was the war. I
mean, he wanted a cease-fire more than anything else. I mean, that's
pretty clear. There just doesn't seem to be any incentive for him to
release these POWs and all the incentive in the world to use them as
bargaining chips.
MR. FITZWATER: There still are a lot of incentives. We
still have all of those forces there. We have forces on his soil.
He can't really begin to do anything in his country until he resolves
this matter.
2
Could you walk us just briefly through the process
yesterday of making a decision, and in that --
Q
No, he did it last night.
Q
Nooo.
2
-- tell us if Bob Teeter or anybody else expressed
any concerns about a public backlash on wiping these guys up as they
ran away?
MR. FITZWATER: Never heard from Teeter.
Q
He was here yesterday. We saw him.
MR. FITZWATER: I never saw him.
Q
He didn't meet with the President?
MR. FITZWATER: Not to my knowledge.
Q
The administration has said all along it didn't want
this to end with an Iraq so weak that it can't defend itself. Given,
in your words, that there is no one left to fight, that the Iraqi
army is totally beaten into the ground, is there any concern that
Iran, with its fresh memories of the last Gulf war, might not now do
something, especially since they have a newly-invigorated air force?
(Laughter.)
MR. FITZWATER: I've not heard any speculation about
Iran.
Q
Are there any plans underway for Bush to resume his
traveling, and will he go to Europe to thank the allies and to visit
the newly-liberated Kuwaitis?
MR. FITZWATER: Nothing is scheduled at the moment.
Q
But, Marlin, are you guys planning for some trips?
MR. FITZWATER: Nothing is scheduled at the moment.
We 11 let you know.
Q
We know that Saddam most likely still has Scuds that
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he could use to hit Israel. I know the requirements say the
cease-fire ends if he fires them. But will the further stages
include some requirement to eliminate them so as to void the
possibility either that he might in the future fire at Israel or that
Israel might be tempted to go into Iraq and get them?
MR. FITZWATER: I can't speculate on the discussions that
will take place between commanders or at other levels.
Q
But do we have a determination to make sure that he
does not have Scud capacity to attack in the future?
MR. FITZWATER: We have the President's words last night
about Scud firing. Beyond that, I just can't comment at this point.
Q
All your Desert Storm budget estimates were based on
the war continuing through at least March 31. We're still in
February. Two questions. One, are you going to recalculate, and
number two, are you still holding all allies to their full pledges?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, there will be a final calculation
at some point when this is all over. And the allies made their
pledges voluntarily; there is nothing to hold them to. And we would
apply the funds to the costs when the final calculation is made. If
the war turns out to be much cheaper than we anticipated, why, then
we won't have the money -- we won't keep money that wasn't spent.
&
Well, I gather what you're saying is, you're not
going to make a profit out of this by (laughter.)
MR. FITZWATER: No, we're not going to make a profit out
of it.
Q Why not?
MR. FITZWATER: I love the capitalist spirit out here.
(Laughter.)
Q
Do you still expect Germany and Japan and the rest
to make good on their pledges?
MR. FITZWATER: They have certainly said they would,
sure.
2
You're not signaling that it is okay for them to
simply scale down some of their contribution?
MR. FITZWATER: They didn't commit the money with
conditions; they committed the money to the conflict. And we'll add
up the costs and that will be it.
Q
Marlin, I know that you said that U.S. troops are
collecting information, but tell us something about the policy now on
how serious you are on prosecuting war crimes?
MR. FITZWATER: There really isn't anything I can say
because that is a matter that has to be taken up by the coalition,
particularly by the Kuwaiti government as it returns and begins to
consider these matters. So that will all be taken care of in
discussions to come.
Q
Well, if I may, it was not in your four-part
tick-off earlier. Can we assume that that's on Secretary Baker's
agenda next week?
MR. FITZWATER: I'm sure that that will be discussed --
I'm sure it will
Q
Have there been some further investigations into the
structure that needs to be set? In other words, isn't there more
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internal activity on this war crimes thing just in the last couple of
days?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't really know. I did see in Riyadh
or someplace last night a televised interview with a military counsel
who was apparently in Kuwait or about to go to Kuwait city to do
interviews and so forth. And he talked about his team that was there
to conduct interviews and so forth. But other than really what you
know, I don't know about any special structures. We have always said
the Justice Department has attorneys who are investigating this
matter. The military has attorneys who are collecting evidence and
so forth. But I don't know of anything beyond that.
Q
Just to follow up, I think it's related, and that is
has our information improved on the condition of our POWs in the last
few days?
MR. FITZWATER: We have not received any information that
I'm aware of, and neither have the Red Cross representatives been
allowed in to see them.
Q
When we talk about the war crimes, Marlin, do we
know where this guy is -- where Saddam is? Have we eyeballed him?
And since not much can be done in this country that we don't know
about, do we know where he is so that if we need to see him for any
reason --
MR. FITZWATER: No.
Q
Marlin, you said sometime in the last week or
earlier this week that Saddam would certainly -- when we were talking
about war crimes -- he would certainly be held responsible for what
happened in this country. Does that stand?
MR. FITZWATER: Yes.
Q
Marlin, one of the conditions President Bush laid
out last night was that he must release all Kuwaiti detainees. We've
heard a lot of numbers of how many Kuwaitis have been taken away by
the Iraqis. Do you have any idea, any --
MR. FITZWATER: We don't have any reporting at this
point, no.
Q
That was basically what I was trying to get to.
We've got reports of up to 40,000. Do we have any indication that
they've taken in little bitty groups? Is there some large group of
-- why is it we can't seem to pin that down? And is it possible that
that number may be exaggerated?
MR. FITZWATER: We don't have any idea.
Q
Marlin, during the war, the United States urged
Israel to stay out. Now that the war is over, or the cease-fire or
cessation has happened, what is the advice of the United States to
Israel regarding their promise for retaliation?
MR. FITZWATER: We assume that they are following the
same policy today that they were yesterday, which is not to -- a
policy of restraint.
&
No, they have said that they will retaliate. What
is the advice of the United States regarding that?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't know what you mean. They have
been restrained to this point. We have praised that. We think
that's a correct course.
Q
No, no, they have said they will retaliate. And you
say they should never retaliate at this point? They should continue --
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MR. FITZWATER: We have always said that they have the
right to defend themselves and they always had a retaliation
policy. But I've not heard any new statements by Israel.
&
Two things. First off, the congressmen that were
here this morning, were they in to see the President or Governor
Sununu or --
MR. FITZWATER: They met with Governor Sununu concerning
domestic policy agenda and political matters. They were all
Republican congressmen. The President did stop by the Governor's
office and talked to them briefly.
Q
About what?
MR. FITZWATER: About how they're going to pursue the
agenda on the Hill and the opportunity plan.
Q
Has the President asked for or received any estimate
of Iraqi casualties in the war?
MR. FITZWATER: We don't have anything yet, no. The
military obviously would provide the President with whatever they
have, and General Schwarzkopf laid that out yesterday in some detail,
and that's the extent of our knowledge.
Q
When you were talking before about Arab-Israeli
questions, you said that has to be resolved by the countries
themselves and we'd like to play a role. A couple questions: Who
are the countries themselves, other than Israel? Is the PLO
encompassed in that area? And there's no mention of an international
peace conference. Does that mean we think now is not the time?
MR. FITZWATER: Our policy has not changed in this area.
The situation is the same, that we would like to be helpful, but
Israel and the Arab nations and the Palestinians have to deal with
this issue, and we will try to be as constructive as we can.
2
Do you see a PLO role, given the PLO activity during
this war?
MR. FITZWATER: No change in our position.
Q
The President obviously knew that the Iraqi
casualties were growing -- multiplying by the hour. How much did
that motivate his decision to call the suspended cease-fire?
MR. FITZWATER: The primary motivation was the one I
discussed last night, that the military informed us -- really General
Schwarzkopf informed the world yesterday afternoon that we were
nearing the completion of the liberation; that we were meeting our
military objectives; that the armament and the threat was just about
to the end. And the President did not want any more deaths than
would be necessary. He did want to limit Iraqi casualties and,
therefore, asked that he be able to order the suspension just as soon
as it was militarily feasible.
2
In that conversation, did he speak directly to
Schwarzkopf?
MR. FITZWATER: No. General Powell did.
Q
Do you have any encouragement or hints or anything
else from the Arabs that have been in the coalition that they might
want to make peace with Israel?
MR. FITZWATER: I haven't heard any discussion of this at
this point.
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Q
Does the President plan to make a speech to the
Congress or another more broad speech to the nation? And does he
plan to recognize General Schwarzkopf in any particular --
MR. FITZWATER: We haven't gotten into planning of that
kind at this point. There's still too many things to do and we're
still in the middle of this suspension of hostilities. I'm sure that
there will be plenty of time for speeches down the road, but we don't
have any ready on the plate or ready to announce at this point.
Q
Would there be some sort of a summit meeting of the
heads of state of the coalition?
MR. FITZWATER: Coalition countries? I'm sure there will
be some point at which they' all get together, but right now I
couldn't tell you when or where.
Q
Two things. One, do we support an international
conference on the Baltics? And then also, do we plan on using the $1
billion frozen Iraqi assets towards war reparations? And do you
think that the budget and our fight against burgeoning deficit can
withstand a substantial role of U.S. monies in reconstruction in the
Middle East?
MR. FITZWATER: Those are three excellent questions,
Kathleen. I don't have answers to any of them. I just don't, I'm
sorry.
Q
Marlin, reading the President's statements, one
thing is the military part -- military commanders will meet within 48
hours to arrange the military side of the cease-fire -- but the other
things -- the release of the prisoners, the Kuwaitis, the bodies,
that can take a long time, Marlin. Is the U.S. and the coalition
willing to just sit there until all these things are worked out?
MR. FITZWATER: Well, those are things that have to be
worked out in terms of the implementation. The first stage is for
them to agree to all those things. Then we have the meeting between
commanders and begin the process of working out implementation.
Q
Is the White House going to be open to tours anytime
soon?
MR. FITZWATER: Reopen what?
Q
For touring anytime soon.
MR. FITZWATER: I'm sure it will at some point, but I
don't know when yet.
Q Marlin, you said that the security arrangements
would depend on what the Kuwaitis want. Have there, in fact -- there
have been consultations. Have they, in fact, requested a continuing
American presence there?
MR. FITZWATER: Not to my knowledge, no.
Q
And beyond that, when you talk about moving troops
out, aren't you talking about some sort of early token force? That
there's going to be substantial number there for a substantial period
of time? I'm wondering if there's an illusion in this matter of
days.
MR. FITZWATER: We're talking about -- well, I mean
surely -- don't delude yourself. A matter of days means just for the
first troops to leave. But it took seven months to get in; it's
going to take a lot of months to get out. But the point is we will
start a steady withdrawal and that people can have the assurance that
our troops are coming out and they're coming home.
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Q
To follow on that. It's been reported that we had
to sign an agreement with the Saudis that we would leave as soon as
possible after -- or that we would leave on their request. Is there
anything in there about how long we have?
MR. FITZWATER: Is that true? I never heard of such
agreement. I don't know. I never heard of such a thing.
Q
That was for the press. (Laughter.)
Q
Whether or not there is an agreement, is there any
understanding with the Saudi government about how long we have to get
out once the war is over?
MR. FITZWATER: No.
Q
Are we rotating a lot of reservists over there so we
can bring the line troops home first and leave reservists?
MR. FITZWATER: I don't think they 've made decisions
about that yet.
THE PRESS: Thank you.
END
11:47 A.M. EST
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 28, 1991
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
In accordance with the Impoundment Control Act of
1974, I herewith report 26 proposed rescissions, totaling
$4.3 billion, and one revised deferral and one new deferral
of budget authority. Including the revised and new deferrals,
funds withheld in FY 1991 now total $9.3 billion.
The deferrals affect International Security Assistance
programs and the Department of Agriculture. The proposed
rescissions affect the Departments of Agriculture, Defense,
and Housing and Urban Development.
The details of the proposed rescissions and deferrals
are contained in the attached report.
GEORGE BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
February 28, 1991.
###
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 28, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY WITH
FRENCH MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS ROLAND DUMAS
The Oval Office
1:17 P.M. EST
2 Mr. President, do you still want to prosecute Saddam
Hussein for war crimes?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't want to take any questions here
in the Oval Office, but we have with us today the Foreign Minister
from one of our key fundamentally key coalition partners. And I
will take this opportunity to express my appreciation not only to
Minister Dumas, but to the President of the French Republic Francois
Mitterrand for the extraordinary and, I'd say, historic cooperation
we've had.
And I'm glad to have this opportunity, Roland, to tell
you how much we appreciate the closeness, the way in which you and
our Secretary of State have worked through a lot of ups and downs in
the road. And we valued your advice, your judgment, the courage of
your fighting people. And you've come here on an exciting day for
all Americans. It's most fitting that you be here, too.
FOREIGN MINISTER DUMAS: Let me say how glad I am to be
here today, especially, and to thank you for receiving me today. And
give to the American people the regards from France. And we have
been fighting together in this big, difficult period, and I hope now
we continue to work together to build peace.
THE PRESIDENT: We've got to, yes.
FOREIGN MINISTER DUMAS: A very good peaceful and stable
settlement in that region.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, that's what we all want to do. So
we'll have a chance to talk about the problems and the challenges
that lie ahead.
Thank you all very much.
FOREIGN MINISTER DUMAS: Thank you very much.
*****
THE PRESIDENT: May I simply repeat what I said a minute
ago to the first wave of journalists. I still will not take
questions in here, but this is a very special day. And it is most
fitting that Roland Dumas, a friend, Foreign Minister of France, be
here because it gives me a chance, on behalf of all the American
people, to thank the French government, the President, Francois
Mitterrand, and the Minister for the extraordinary cooperation we've
had, all of us, together working together since day one. And
there have been some bumps in the road and we've always valued the
counsel and the steadfast solidarity that we've had with France.
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And I want to take this opportunity, Mr. Minister, to
thank your courageous people in the military in the Gulf. They have
served with great distinction. I heard what General Schwarzkopf said
yesterday commending the French soldiers. And it brought tears to my
eyes. Because we've worked closely in the past, working closely in
present. And now we've got some big diplomatic problems that you and
Jim can talk about in detail. But we're very glad you're here --
very glad. - We're very grateful to you.
FOREIGN MINISTER DUMAS: Mr. President, I thank you very
much for your words. And I will repeat it to the French President.
And I appreciate very much what you said and the work we have done
together --
THE PRESIDENT: It's been good.
FOREIGN MINISTER DUMAS: --- American people and French
people in this difficult period of time. I'm sure we will continue
now to settle the peace for the future and to have good cooperation
together between ourselves and between our two people and to our
people - -- we work together in the --
THE PRESIDENT: We must do that.
FOREIGN MINISTER DUMAS: Thank you very much, Mr.
President.
END
1:21 P.M. EST
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 28, 1991
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
I transmit herewith the 1990 Annual Report on Alaska's
Mineral Resources, pursuant to section 1011 of the Alaska
National Interest Lands Conservation Act (Public Law 96-487;
16 U.S.C. 3151). This report, containing pertinent public
information relating to minerals in Alaska, was gathered by the
U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Mines, and other Federal
agencies. This report is significant because of the importance
of the mineral and energy resources of Alaska to the future
well-being of the Nation.
GEORGE BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
February 28, 1991.
# # #
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 28, 1991
The President today transmitted to the Congress the 1991 Trade
Policy Agenda and 1990 Annual Report on the Trade Agreements
Program. These reports are annually submitted in accordance with
section 163 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C.
2213).
# # #
PPool Report, Bush meeting with French F.M. Roland Dumas, 115 pm 2-28
Dumas talked of the need for and peaceful and stable settlementin the region.
Bush delined to take questions and talked about solidarity with France.
Bush, waring light grey wide pinstripes, brown W ing tips, blue shirt,
red tie with white polka dots, was asked at the outset whether he
still wanted to prosecute Saddam Hussein for war crimes
Replied Bush, "I don't want to take any questions
here in the Oval Office but we have with us one of our key , fundamentally
key coalition partners and I will take this opportunity to express my
appreciation, not only to Minister Dumas, but to the president of the
French republic, Francois Mitterrand, for the extraordinary and I'd
say historic cooperation we ve had. And I'm glad to have this
opportunity, Roland, to tell you how much we appreciate the closeness, the
way in which you and our secretary of state have worked through YOUR alot
of ups and downs in the road and we value your advice , you judgment
, the courage of your French people. And you come here on an exciting
day for all Americans. It's most fitting that you be here today. "
Dumas replied, in accented English: ""Let me say thathow happy I am to
be here today, especially and to thank you these for receiving me
today and to the American people, regards from France. We have been
fighting together in thisxman, big (cq) difficult period.
But I hope now we continue to work together to build peace, a very good
peaceful and stable settlement in that region. "
Bush replied: "That's TAR what we all want to do, so we 11 have
a chance to talk about the problems and the challenges that lie ahead. "
Bush and Dumas sat in the usual wing-backed chairs before a crackling
fire. On one side seated in a coush were Baker, Scowcroft, -
Quayle.
On the French side store thef French ambassador and two other officials
Sununu and Gates
the side.
As the pood 1 packed up to. ****** leave, Bush said, "Au revoir. If
Matt Quinn Hearst.
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- 1
5:00 P.M. NEWS UPDATE
KUWAIT CITY/U.S. CONTROL (New York/Reuter) -- A U.S. Marine in
Kuwait City told CBS that the American Embassy in the emirate's
capital was back under U.S. control. "Second force reconnaissance
company working in conjunction with the Kuwaiti resistance has
taken control of the United States Embassy and we have the U.S.
Embassy in American hands at this time," a Marine with CBS
correspondent Bob McKeown said.
REPUBLICAN GUARD/PENTAGON (Reuter) -- The Pentagon said allied
coalition armored units had beaten units of the Republican Guard
in some tank battles in the gulf but no major fight had yet
occurred with Guard troops dug in on the Kuwait-Iraq border. Army
Lt. Gen. Tom Kelly, director of operations for the JCS, said
coalition forces had not yet entered Kuwait City but "I think that
is going to occur shortly."
RESOLUTIONS/CEASE-FIRE (U.N./Reuter) -- The Security Council
suspended consultations without reaching any formal decisions on
a cease-fire or acceptance of Iraq's offer to withdraw from Kuwait.
Diplomats said they expected the session to resume but no date has
been set yet.
(U.N./AP) -- The U.S. and the Soviet Union insisted that Iraq
accept all 12 Security Council resolutions regarding Kuwait, and
the emirate said Iraq should put it in writing if it wants a cease-
fire. Ambassador Pickering, commenting before the council resumed
private consultations, indicated that acceptance of the resolutions
should precede a cease-fire. Soviet Ambassador Vorontsov also
insisted on Iraq's public acceptance of the 12 resolutions, but he
indicated that a cease-fire and acceptance were equally important.
(U.N./AP) -- Most Security Council members want Iraq to
promise in writing to honor all 12 council resolutions regarding
Kuwait before the body considers a cease-fire in the war,
unidentified officials said. However, Iraq's U.N. ambassador,
Abdul Amir al-Anbari, told CNN that some of the U.N. resolutions
"may be invalid." Noting that it took the Security Council five
months to pass them, he said: "The first step is to cease fire and
then negotiate."
"VISIT TO TROOPS"/BAGHDAD RADIO (Nicosia/Reuter) --- President
Saddam visited his troops to be briefed on preparations to "repel
any aggressive attempt aimed at undermining
Iraq," Baghdad Radio
reported.
SOVIETS/SEN. DOLE (UPI) -- Sen. Dole said it is time for the Soviet
Union to "butt out" of the gulf conflict and stop promoting peace
terms that could endanger American lives and save Saddam. In a
brief Senate speech, Dole said that while thousands of Americans
are risking their lives to drive Iraq out of Kuwait it is "time to
send a signal to Moscow: It's time for you to butt out -- we don't
need any more free advice."
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Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- 2
McGUIRE AFB/VICE PRESIDENT (New York/Reuter) -- Vice President
Quayle visited McGuire AFB in New Jersey to thank the families and
support workers of troops in the gulf. "On behalf of our
commander-in-chief, thank you for your bravery, thank you for your
courage and thank you for the sacrifices that you are making to
bring peace to the Persian Gulf region," he told a cheering crowd
at McGuire.
IRAQI ENVOY COMMENT/U.N. (U.N./Reuter) -- Iraq's U.N. ambassador
took time out from calling for a cease-fire in the Security Council
to answer a complaint from an African envoy that he had used the
word "pygmy" in a derogatory manner. Ambassador Abdul al-Anbari
said the correct translation of the Arabic word he used to belittle
Kuwait's representative was "dwarf." At an earlier meeting, Anbari
had scorned Kuwaiti envoy Mohammad Abulhasan as "the pygmy who sits
to my right." Anbari blamed what he called an inaccurate
translation.
ECONOMY (AP) -- An overwhelming majority of the nation's top
economic forecasters share the Bush Administration's expectation
that the current recession will be shorter and much less severe
than the average downturn since World War II. The National
Association of Business Economists survey showed that 49 percent
of the 54 forecasters participating in the poll, or 91 percent,
believe the recession will last nine months or less -- meaning it
should be over by mid-year.
TRADE DEFICIT (AP) -- The U.S. merchandise trade deficit shrank to
$108.68 billion last year, the smallest imbalance since 1983, even
though imports of foreign oil hit a nine-year high, the Commerce
Department said. The department credited the 5.4 percent
improvement from 1989's deficit of $114.86 billion to further
growth in American export sales.
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2:00 P.M. NEWS UPDATE.
TANK BATTLE (Riyadh/Reuter) -- U.S. Marines and Iraqi troops
battled with tanks at Kuwait airport and allied forces pounded
President Saddam's retreating armies on all fronts, a U.S. military
spokesman said. "The war is not over and we're going to continue
to attack and attack and attack," Marine Brig. Gen. Neal told a
news briefing. He said allied forces had destroyed or rendered
ineffective 21 Iraqi army divisions. British troops destroyed 40
Iraqi tanks in a desert battle.
RETREATING IRAQIS/AIR ATTACKS (Dhahran/Reuter) -- American planes
swooped on Iraqi forces streaming "bumper to bumper" north from
Kuwait City, picking them off with cluster bombs and other weapons,
pilots on the U.S. aircraft carrier Ranger reported. "It looks
like the Iraqis are moving out and we're hitting them hard. It's
not going to take too many more days until there's nothing left of
them," Capt. Earnest Christensen told pool reporters aboard the
carrier.
IRAQI WITHDRAWAL/CONGRESS (AP) -- Sen. Leahy said President Bush
would "make a terrible mistake if he allowed Saddam Hussein to be
in the position where he could declare to his own people some sort
of victory. There's no sign President Bush intends to do that.
Rep. Fascell raised the issue of Saddam's future. "It certainly
would be easier in postwar if Saddam were not in power, he told
reporters at the White House. "But whether he's in power or not
in power, we're going to have to deal with that subject when this
war is over."
WAR FUNDING/SEN. BYRD (AP) -- Sen. Byrd said Congress would examine
closely President Bush's $15-billion request for financing the war
to make sure the money actually is needed. Byrd also complained
that America's allies were not delivering quickly enough on their
promises to support the war effort with money. "This
[appropriations] committee will do everything it can to see that
all necessary authority and funding are provided to the President
in a timely manner, to enable our military to carry out its
mission,' Byrd said. But he said lawmakers want to make sure the
amounts requested were for the Pentagon's true war costs "over and
operations." above the amounts already provided for normal peacetime
SADDAM/REBEL IRAQI CLERIC (Athens/UPI) -- A rebel Iraqi cleric
based in Tehran called on President Saddam to step down and hand
over power to the Iraqi nation, Tehran radio said. Hojatoleslam
Mohammed Bakir Hakim, who heads the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic
Revolution of Iraq, condemned what he called the destructions of
the Iraqi economy.
DESERT STORM/FIRST LADY (Quantico, VA/AP) -- An exultant Barbara
Bush said the war is "very close to over" and the world will be a
better place because of the conflict. In a speech to 600 Marines
and their families at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command
here, the First Lady said her husband was "working night and day
to end this dreadful war honorably." She praised the public for
its show of patriotism, saying: "The country is really, truly
wrapped in yellow ribbons."
White House News Summary
Tuesday, February 26, 1991 -- 2
GAVIRIA VISIT (UPI) -- President Bush met with Colombian President
Gaviria, visiting at a time of resurging narcotics-related
terrorism in his country but determined to assure America of his
continued commitment to combatting drug trafficking. Taking time
out from the nearly round-the-clock developments in the war, Bush
met in the Oval Office with the Colombian for the third time since
he was inaugurated last August. "We have great confidence in
President Gaviria, I'll tell you," Bush told reporters at the start
of their meeting. "We have great confidence in his commitment."
(AP) -- President Bush opened talks with President Gaviria,
who is rejecting suggestions that his country has adopted a more
tolerant attitude toward drug traffickers. "We're fighting narco-
trafficking as hard as ever, " Gaviria said on the eve of the White
House talks. "Our interest and Colombia's interest is in putting
narco-traffickers behind bars, said a U.S. official, who briefed
reporters on condition of anonymity. "The most important issue is
not whether those bars are manufactured and located in the United
States or Colombia."
BANK REFORM/BRADY (Reuter) -- Secretary Brady said the Bush
Administration's banking reform proposals would prevent a repeat
of the S&L crisis. Brady, in testimony prepared for the Senate
Banking Committee, defended the sweeping reform plan and denied
that the Administration was repeating mistakes that contributed to
the S&L disaster. He said the Administration's proposal for banks
"represents sound and prudent regulation with badly needed reforms
to protect the taxpayer."
MARTINEZ/CONGRESS (AP) -- Senate Democrats criticized the drug-
fighting record of former Florida Gov. Martinez and questioned
whether he was selected to head the nation's anti-drug effort as
"a political payoff. But Republicans said that under Martinez,
Florida set high marks for spending on drug-treatment efforts.
RANDOM DRUG SEARCHES/BUSES & TRAINS (AP) -- The Bush Administration
defended the authority of police to conduct random drug searches
aboard buses and trains, saying such searches are increasingly
common and are made without intimidating passengers. Solicitor
General Kenneth Starr presented the Administration's argument at
a Supreme Court hearing on a case from Florida involving the search
of the luggage of a passenger on a bus from Miami to Atlanta.
"This is a tool that is employed more and more across the country,"
said Starr. "It is carried out in a reasonable and professional
and non-intimidating way."
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11:00 A.M. NEWS UPDATE
DESERT STORM/PRESIDENT (William Welch, AP) -- President Bush
declared that the U.S. and its partners "will continue to prosecute
the war with undiminished intensity" because President Saddam is
not yielding, only trying to regroup and preserve Iraqi power. "He
is trying to claim victory in the midst of a route, said Bush in
dismissing Saddam's announced withdrawal from Kuwait and calls for
a cease-fire. He added the Iraqi leader "is trying to save the
remnants of power." Bush said the way to end the war is for Iraqi
forces to lay down their arms. "That will stop the bloodshed, he
said, reiterating there would be no attacks on unarmed soldiers
retreating from Kuwait.
(Reuter) -- President Bush said Saddam was merely trying to
cling to power with his order for Iraqi troops to withdraw from
Kuwait and the western-Arab allies would continue the war "with
undiminished intensity." Bush in effect rejected any notion of a
cease-fire and demanded virtual surrender from Saddam in a brief
statement replying to the withdrawal announcement from Baghdad.
Scoffing at any suggestion that Saddam had taken the initiative for
peace in the war, Bush said: "Saddam is not interested in peace
but only to regroup and fight another day."
(Helen Thomas, UPI) -- President Bush, calling Saddam
Hussein's speech an "outrage," said the coalition forces will
continue to "prosecute the war with undiminished intensity." In
a nationally broadcast statement from the Rose Garden, Bush said
Saddam "is not withdrawing. His defeated forces are retreating.
He is trying to claim victory in the midst of a rout. And he's not
voluntarily giving up Kuwait." The President said Saddam is
"trying to save the remnants of power and control in the Middle
East by every means possible. And here, too, Saddam will fail."
IRAQI WITHDRAWAL/PENTAGON (Reuter) -- The Pentagon has no reports
so far that Iraqi troops are withdrawing from Kuwait and U.S.
forces will continue to press the war until President Bush orders
them to stop, an unidentified Defense Department official said.
"I'm not saying there is no evidence of Iraqi withdrawals," he
said. "I'm saying here in Washington we have no reports. The
campaign continues," he said. "It would be very imprudent for any
battlefield commander to let down his guard on the basis of a radio
speech.
IRAQI WITHDRAWAL/ALLIED ATTACKS (Baghdad/Reuter) -- Iraq accused
the allies of attacking its forces as they retreat from Kuwait but
said it would continue to withdraw from the emirate. A military
spokesman said on Baghdad Radio that allied armor and planes were
attacking the withdrawing forces, describing the action as
"cowardly."
(Nicosia/Reuter) -- Allied aircraft blasted southern Iraq in
the fiercest raids of the war, causing panic in a string of cities
in neighboring Iran, the national Iranian news agency said.
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SADDAM ANNOUNCEMENT/SOVIETS (Moscow/Reuter) -- A top Soviet
official said the nation's U.N. ambassador had proposed an
immediate Security Council meeting on a cease-fire in the gulf.
The official, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Belonogov, also
said he had no doubt President Saddam was sincere when he said he
was going to withdraw all Iraqi troops from Kuwait immediately.
SADDAM ANNOUNCEMENT/MAJOR (London/AP) -- Prime Minister Major's War
Cabinet rejected Saddam's announcement of immediate withdrawal from
Kuwait, saying it did not meet U.N. requirements, anonymous sources
said.
IRAQI ESCAPE ROUTES/ALLIES (Riyadh/Reuter) -- Allied forces deep
inside Iraq control the westward escape routes for all Iraqi troops
in the war zone, unidentified Western military sources said. They
said crack paratroopers and troops from the U.S. Army's 18th Corps,
backed by tank-killing helicopters and warplanes, were far enough
north to isolate the Iraqi army in Kuwait and elite Republican
Guard divisions in southern Iraq.
SOVIET-U.S. RELATIONS/GORBACHEV (Moscow/Reuter) -- President
Gorbachev said that progress in Soviet-U.S. relations was still
fragile and urged Washington not to destroy what had been achieved,
according to Tass. Gorbachev, speaking to workers in Minsk, said
the Middle East would remain a powder keg if there were no general
settlement of political conflicts there after the war.
GATT TALKS (Geneva/Reuter) -- GATT negotiators agreed to restart
the Uruguay Round of world trade talks. An unidentified spokesman
for GATT said the 108-nation Trade Negotiations Committee, which
oversees the round, approved a proposal from GATT Director-General
Arthur Dunkel on resuming work in all areas.
DURABLE GOODS (AP) -- Orders to U.S. factories for "big-ticket"
durable goods dropped 0.7 percent in January, the Commerce
Department reported.
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