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News Summary
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
6:00 A.M. EDT EDITION
TRIP NEWS
PEROT, BUSH MAKE THEIR PITCH -- Beginning a campaign swing through
California, President Bush acknowledged Thursday that Ross Perot's
candidacy is a "hurricane blowing out there."
(San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, AP, Reuter)
NATIONAL NEWS
GOP SUPPORT IN ORANGE COUNTY WAVERING AT CRITICAL TIME FOR BUSH -
Republican loyalty in Orange County is wavering just when George
Bush needs it most because of the recession and the growing
popularity of Ross Perot.
(AP)
URBAN AID EASILY APPROVED; RUSSIAN AID STILL HOSTAGE --
Congress Thursday approved a scaled-back $1.1 billion urban aid
bill and edged closer to passing a new extension of unemployment
benefits.
(Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, AP,
Reuter)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
CONGRESS SET TO OK RUSSIAN AID PACKAGE -- The legislative obstacles
that stalled an aid package for the former Soviet Union disappeared
Thursday, and Congress appears ready to approve President Bush's
coveted proposal by the July 4th recess. (Washington Times, UPI)
NETWORK NEWS (Thursday evening)
PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS --
President Bush was campaigning
in California, including a
photo opportunity at an oil
TRIP NEWS
A-1
recycling plant.
NATIONAL NEWS
A-3
NEW AMERICA PLAN -- Boris
Yeltsin got a close-up look at
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
A-9
politics American style -- a
compromise between President
NETWORK NEWS
B-1
Bush and Democrats in Congress.
TRADE DEFICIT -- The trade
deficit has grown -- nearly
$7 billion in April.
This Summary is prepared Monday through Friday by the White House News Summary Staff.
For complete stories or information, please call 456-2950.
TRIP NEWS
PEROT, BUSH MAKE THEIR PITCH
President Takes Hard Questions In The East Bay
Beginning a campaign swing through California, President Bush
acknowledged Thursday that Ross Perot's candidacy is a "hurricane
blowing out there" as he answered questions on the environment,
homelessness and health issues from an East Bay audience.
The President began a three-day visit with an appearance at
the Evergreen oil recycling plant in Newark, where he acted as his
own television talk show host in a discussion with employees
broadcast live on CNN.
The audience did not pull punches. They asked Bush to explain
the popularity of Perot, who addressed a crowd of about 7,000
people in Sacramento while the President was in the East Bay.
Bush showed no reluctance in blaming Congress for blocking his
initiatives. When a woman asked whether he will hold true to his
promise "to be the education President," Bush said Democrats in
Congress have blocked his education plan, which includes a voucher
system for public schools. When a social worker asked about his
plans for expanding access to health insurance, Bush again laid the
blame on Capitol Hill for failing to enact a plan that would
involve issuing vouchers to cover insurance costs for Americans who
have no coverage.
After one questioner said, "We didn't look too well in Rio,"
the President gave a spirited defense of his appearance at the
Earth Summit.
(Robert Gunnison, San Francisco Chronicle, A1)
Bush Not Ready To Fight Yet; Clinton Works On Economics
NEWARK, Calif. -- Bragging about what he called his "really
historic" arms agreement with Boris Yeltsin, President Bush resumed
campaigning Thursday, vowing "I know how to fight" but insisting
that he still was not yet ready to directly attack either Ross
Perot or Bill Clinton.
II
Right now there's a hurricane blowing out there and all
I can do is run this country as best I can,' Bush told a group of
workers at a small oil recycling plant in the San Francisco Bay
Area. He acknowledged he was beset by widespread voter discontent,
triggered by an economy that has been "in the dregs."
Campaign aides earlier Thursday had suggested that Bush would
begin making veiled references to his opponents in a series of
speeches scheduled for Southern California and Texas this weekend.
But Bush went out of his way to point out that he had not
criticized either opponent and did not plan to any time soon.
Bush used his appearance to repeat his environmental
positions, and won polite applause, but appeared oblivious to
suggestions that his policies put the 200-employee oil company he
was visiting at a disadvantage -- and harm the environment.
Clinton, meanwhile, returned to Little Rock Thursday afternoon
after a quick stop in Washington that included a visit with Yeltsin
at Blair House. Before he left, he said that he is revising his
economic program, but hedged on whether he was giving up on a tax
cut for the middle class. (Bill McAllister, Washington Post, A24)
-
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- A-2
Bush, Flush With Summitry, Faces Questions On Domestic Issues
NEWARK, Calif. -- President Bush, fielding questions at an
outdoor forum, boasted Thursday about the outcome of his summit
with Boris Yeltsin but found that his audience wanted to talk
instead about the environment, schools, the economy and medical
costs.
Bush took a veiled shot at Bill Clinton , who made a pitch for
the rock 'n' roll vote with an appearance on the Arsenio Hall show
on the MTV cable channel. "I think in a campaign year you've got
to draw the line somewhere. I am not going to be out there trying
to be a teeney-bopper at 68," Bush said.
The President also sought to deny Perot exclusive claim on
being a successful businessman. Bush said he had been a
businessman for half his adult life and regarded that as a badge
of honor.
A woman asked Bush how he would redeem his pledge to be the
education President. The next questioner wanted to know if Bush
would follow Perot's and Clinton's example to appear on call-in
talk shows. Over more than a half hour, there was not a single
question on foreign policy or his summit with Yeltsin.
(Terence Hunt, AP)
Bush Promises Tough Election Fight
NEWARK, Calif. -- President Bush said Thursday that he would
not let himself be the constant target of attacks by the two
candidates trying to unseat him, vowing to come out fighting later
this summer
The President was met at the oil recycling plant by a couple
of hundred demonstrators protesting his environmental record with
signs that read "We want forests, not bushes" and "I am not a
criminal, I' am an environmentalist."
(Rich Miller, Reuter)
###
NATIONAL NEWS
GOP SUPPORT IN ORANGE COUNTY WAVERING
AT CRITICAL TIME FOR BUSH
IRVINE, Calif. -- Republican loyalty in Orange County, which
helped elect the last two GOP presidents, is wavering just when
George Bush needs it most because of the recession and the growing
popularity of Ross Perot.
A Perot rally Thursday, upstaging Bush's arrival here Friday,
drew 5,000 supporters, many of them dissatisfied Orange County
Republicans who see Bush as a business-as-usual insider and Perot
as the agent of change.
Although Bush got 62% of the Orange County GOP vote in the
June 2 primary, an exit poll for the Orange County Register found
that voters would prefer Perot over Bush in November by a margin
of 41% to 27%. Bill Clinton got 13%.
(Michael Fleeman, AP)
GOP PREPARES GOVERNMENT COMPLAINT
OVER CLINTON FUND-RAISING
Republicans want the government to cut off public funding to
Bill Clinton's presidential campaign, alleging he wrongly used
Democratic Party funds to pay for a national television broadcast,
documents show.
A complaint prepared by RNC lawyers alleges Clinton wrongly
used $395,000 in his party's general election money to help raise
money for his cash-strapped primary campaign. The money was used
for Clinton's half-hour TV appearance last Friday on NBC during
which his toll-free fund-raising number was flashed across the
screen several times, the complaint alleges.
"They used the money to underwrite and subsidize their effort
to get money from taxpayers in public funding to help their debt-
ridden primary campaign and that is illegal," said Ben Ginsberg,
the GOP's general counsel.
(John Solomon, AP)
TOP RTC LAWYER LINKED
TO FIRM IN AGENCY SUIT
Gerald Jacobs, general counsel of the RTC, formerly served as
real estate lawyer for a development company accused in a $1.3
billion RTC lawsuit last week of participating in "sham" land deals
with now-defunct Western Savings and Loan Association.
Transactions involving the development company, Dicor Inc. of
Phoenix, were described in the civil racketeering case filed
Saturday against some of Western's former owners and borrowers.
Dicor, which had defaulted on $39 million in loans to Western is
the subject of a separate bankruptcy proceeding in which the RTC
is trying to recover at least a portion of those funds. Dicor was
not named a defendant in the racketeering case.
Jacobs, who joined the RTC in September 1990, represented
Dicor and its wholly owned subsidiary, LTG Investments Inc., for
at least a decade, according to public records.
(Susan Schmidt, Washington Post, A1)
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- A-4
NAVY REQUESTS AID IN TAILHOOK SCANDAL
Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett Thursday asked the Defense
Department's top investigator to scrutinize the service's handling
of sexual assaults and misconduct at a convention of Navy and
Marine aviators in Las Vegas last year.
Garrett Thursday asked the Pentagon's inspector general to
examine how the investigations were conducted and look for any new
evidence of misconduct.
"Questions have been raised regarding the completeness of the
investigations," Garrett said in a memorandum to Deputy Inspector
General Derek Vander Schaaf. "Criticisms of the investigations,
along with rumor and innuendo of coverup, have eroded seriously the
Department of the Navy's credibility to investigate further the
Tailhook '91 matter."
(John Lancaster, Washington Post, A25)
HILL STUDY CHALLENGES MILITARY'S
EXCLUSION OF GAYS
A new congressional study strongly challenges the U.S.
military policy of excluding gay men and lesbians, estimating the
cost of replacing uniformed men and women kicked out of the
services for homosexuality at $27 million in 1990 alone.
The investigators found virtually no scientific or
sociological evidence to support the Pentagon's argument that the
gay ban is necessary to ensure "good order, morale and discipline."
The report said "many experts believe that the military's
policy is unsupported, unfair, and counterproductive; has no
validity according to current scientific research and opinions; and
appears to be based on the same type of prejudicial suppositions
that were used to discriminate against blacks and women before
these policies changed."
Christopher Jehn, the assistant defense secretary for
manpower, said in a written response to the GAO study that the ban
on gay service personnel is based on "military judgment (and)
that military judgments about overall combat effectiveness are
inherently subjective in nature." As a result, Jehn said,
"scientific or sociological analyses are unlikely" to affect the
policy.
(John Lancaster, Washington Post, A1)
FCC ALLOWS NETWORKS' CABLE ENTRY
The FCC voted Thursday to let television networks own and
operate cable TV systems, ending a 22-year-old ban. Consumer
advocates and some local affiliates of the networks opposed the 5-
0 FCC vote, saying it would strengthen the cable industry and mark
the beginning of the end of free television.
In an effort to prevent a return to the era of network
domination, the FCC ruled that cable systems owned by a network
cannot serve more than 10% of the nation's cable TV market or more
than 50% of a community's potential cable customers.
(Robert Trautman, Reuter, Washington Post, C1)
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- A-5
U.S. OFFICIALS' PERKS ON CHOPPING BLOCK
The menu at the Treasury Department's executive dining room
offers seafood bisque, shrimp and crabmeat pasta salad, fruit salad
and strawberry sundaes. The Treasury executives' tab: $4.75 each.
The taxpayers' tab this year for the Treasury executives' meals:
$126,048.
Sen. Deconcini Thursday became the latest lawmaker to take a
swipe at almost-free lunches. He introduced a bill that would
prohibit taxpayer subsidies for executive meals, fitness centers,
and on-site medical offices, which are available to all federal
workers.
The bill also calls for opening military golf courses to the
public and giving the Treasury profits from the fees, limiting
chauffeur-driven cars to assistant secretaries and above, cutting
the number of executive branch political appointees by 15% over
three years and, most contentious, prohibiting the use of
government aircraft for personal and "mixed" -- political and
official -- trips, except for the president.
The bill comes from a highly. partisan Democrat and is aimed
at the Republican-controlled executive branch. But since it is an
election year, even the Administration may end up supporting parts
of it. "There's an interest in looking at some of these things,"
an Administration official familiar with the bill admitted.
(Dana Priest, Washington Post, A1)
BYPASSED BY THE JOB MARKET?
Federal job recruiters tend to bypass the nation's 117
historically black colleges and universities, according to a recent
government report, and many students on these campuses say they
can't find information about government job opportunities in their
schools' career development offices.
An OPM study described the finding as a "tremendous void in
the federal recruiting pipeline." OPM Director Newman said the
pattern has emerged because federal recruiters tend to focus on
large campuses rather than small ones, and historically black
colleges and universities are relatively small. "I don't think it
was that agencies avoided" such schools, said Newman.
(Lynne Duke, Washington Post, A25)
-
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- A-6
URBAN AID EASILY APPROVED;
RUSSIAN AID STILL HOSTAGE
Congress Thursday approved a scaled-back $1.1 billion urban
aid bill and edged closer to passing a new extension of
unemployment benefits, clearing the way for Senate consideration
of a broad package of aid to Russia as early as Tuesday.
But, even after the House overwhelmingly approved the urban
aid bill and the Senate followed suit by voice vote several hours
later, the Senate remained mired in partisan squabble over
unrelated issues that threatened the timetable.
The dispute -- triggered by a maverick Republican effort to
revive anti-crime legislation and a proposed constitutional
amendment to balance the budget -- will have to be resolved before
the Senate can take up the Russian aid bill.
The "emergency" urban aid bill was approved in the House by
a vote of 249 to 168 after it was scaled back by half in order to
satisfy objections from President Bush to an earlier $2 billion
version.
Many who voted Thursday for the emergency package voiced
little enthusiasm for it. "Most of us on this floor think the
(bill) is either too much or too little," said Rep. Dixon. Rep.
Waters said the bill "does not begin to get at the problems."
(On Capitol Hill, Washington Post, A12)
Bush Compromises, Urban Aid Bill Passes
Congress passed an emergency aid bill for Los Angeles and
Chicago Thursday, funding a summer jobs program President Bush did
not request but cutting nearly $1 billion for social programs
Democrats wanted.
With the $1.1 billion compromise, Bush sacrificed two key
urban programs ballyhooed on the campaign trail while effectively
breaking his 1990 agreement with Congress to cap federal spending.
White House officials said they agreed to the plan to open the door
for Congress to act on aid to the former Soviet republics.
But the price for getting quick consideration on the Russian
aid package was giving up the "enterprise zone" proposal and the
tough-on-crime "weed and seed" program.
While several lawmakers praised Bush, one senior GOP House
member said the President made a "terrible mistake" by not
insisting on retaining his proposal for enterprise zones.
"I thought we gave away our best leverage," said Rep. Weber.
"The Administration should not have agreed to this It seriously
diminished our chances of passage of enterprise zones and other
things."
(Jennings Moss & Frank Murray, Washington Times, A1)
-
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- A-7
Congress OKS Scaled-Down Urban Aid Bill
Congress on Thursday approved a compromise $1.1 billion
emergency urban aid package keyed to the Los Angeles riots and sent
it to President Bush for his promised signature.
On Thursday, 117 Republicans and 51 Democrats voted against
the bill in the House, with some opponents contending that it was
a waste of money and Rep. James of Florida arguing that it would
reward "negligence" by the Los Angeles police during the riots in
late April. However, Rep. Bennett said, "This is only a scratch
on the surface compared to what we ought to be doing."
(William Eaton, Los Angeles Times, A1)
Congress Approves $1 Billion Urban Aid Compromise
Congress, breaking weeks of stalemate over its initial
response to the Los Angeles riots, Thursday approved a scaled-
down, $1 billion emergency urban aid bill that would provide summer
jobs for disadvantaged teenagers.
House and Senate Republican leaders pledged President Bush's
support for the revised version, but it still had to overcome
significant opposition from House Republicans.
Rep. Michel said the House Democratic leadership had promised
a House vote this summer on urban enterprise zones. Rep. Gephardt
said he hoped for a vote on a bill including enterprise zones
before the July 4th recess.
(William Welch, AP)
HOUSE PANEL VOTES TO CREATE SPOTTED OWL RESERVE
A House committee voted Thursday to create a 6.8 million acre
preserve in the Pacific Northwest to protect the rare spotted owl,
but the timber industry and conservationists vowed to fight for
changes in the bill.
Pacific Northwest lawmakers, worried about the loss of tens
of thousands of timber jobs, were also split on the measure, which
passed the House Agriculture Committee 27-15.
The committee also defeated a proposal to enact the so-called
owl preservation plan crafted by Secretary Lujan. The plan,
written outside the confines of the Endangered Species Act, would
protect about 2.8 million acres of Northwest forest.
(Sue Kirchoff, Reuter)
SHADOW OF BUDGET KNIFE
MAY FALL ON SPACE STATION
The House's vote to scrap the multibillion-dollar
Superconducting Super Collider signals new-found congressional
resolve to whittle away at the deficit, members said Thursday, that
could threaten other costly projects, such as the space station.
Thursday, several members pointed to the $2.2 billion in
proposed new space station funding as a likely target for attack
later this month in the House Appropriations Committee. "I think
any large program of that kind should be counted as probably being
facing a stiff challenge," Speaker Foley said. "I'm not going to
predict the results, but I think undoubtedly there are going to be
efforts to move against the space station."
(Eric Pianin, Washington Post, A21)
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White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- A-8
ON ONCE AND FUTURE
SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS
Sen. Biden has urged President Bush not to fill any vacancy
that might open up on the Supreme Court until after the November
election.
Warning that any election-year nominee "would become a victim"
of a "power struggle" over control of the Supreme Court, Biden said
he would also urge the Senate not to hold hearings on a nomination
if Bush decided to name someone.
(E.J. Dionne, Washington Post, A25)
NEW JOBLESS CLAIMS FALL
New applications for state unemployment benefits are down, the
Labor department said. In the week ended June 6, 407,000 people
filed initial claims, down from 409,000 the previous week. The
average for the latest four-week period was 406,500, the same as
a week earlier, which was a 19-month low. Economists say the
average is a more reliable indicator of labor market trends because
the weekly number is volatile.
(Moneyline, USA Today, B1)
BULLS HARDLY WAITING FOR
WHITE HOUSE CALL
The Chicago Bulls don't know if they'll be invited back to the
White House in recognition of their second straight NBA title, and
they frankly aren't sure they'll go even if they are asked.
"First of all, we haven't been invited," said spokeswoman
Joyce Szmanski. "And if and when we are invited, we'll decide then
what will happen."
While the White House said no decision had been made, Michael
Jordan indicated on Wednesday the team may already have decided a
return to Washington isn't feasible.
(Fanfare, Washington Post, F2)
###
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
CONGRESS SET TO OK RUSSIAN AID PACKAGE
The legislative obstacles that stalled an aid package for the
former Soviet Union disappeared Thursday, and Congress appears
ready to approve President Bush's coveted proposal by the July 4th
recess.
Sen. Mitchell told reporters Thursday a vote could be held on
the bill early next week. A key supporter of the package, Sen.
Lugar, said Congress is poised to embrace the aid package.
Sen. DeConcini has said he will offer an amendment to withhold
aid until soldiers with the CIS are removed from the Baltic
republics.
(Major Garrett, Washington Times, A3)
Mitchell Hopes For Quick Action On Russian Aid Measure
Sen. Mitchell said Thursday he hopes to begin considering an
aid package for Russia and the other former republics of the Soviet
Union next week, but almost immediately ran into an unrelated and
unexpected roadblock.
Mitchell said a specific timetable depended on agreement with
Sen. Dole to passage of key bills dealing with pressing domestic
needs and a pending financial measure. He said Dole was receptive
to the program but needed to check GOP senators.
Mitchell's schedule was upset by Sen. Phil Gramm who said he
would attempt to add a constitutional amendment to balance the
budget on the first bill -- a financial measure -- that was
expected to pass quickly. Mitchell changed the order after it
became clear Gramm was ready to tie up the Senate and prevent
action on the key domestic bills.
Mitchell said the stalemate would delay action on the disaster
package, the extension of jobless benefits and "it will delay for
a long time action on the Russian aid bill. II (Robert Shepard, UPI)
U.S. BACKS EASIER TERMS FOR RUSSIAN AID
The Bush Administration, in a shift of approach toward aid for
Moscow, has called on the IMF to ease some demands for harsh reform
and not delay an aid agreement once Russia commits itself to broad
economic changes.
Administration officials said Thursday that they now feared
that a delay in signing an accord with the IMF would block the flow
of economic assistance and destabilize the government of Boris
Yeltsin at a time when Western governments want nothing more than
to consolidate Moscow's fledgling democracy.
"The reason we have a sense of urgency on the economic side
is if Boris Yeltsin can't succeed on economic reform, he will have
a hard time staying as leader in Russia," a senior Administration
official said. "This could seriously threaten the democratic
reforms that are so much in our interest. The IMF agreement is key
to this."
(Steven Greenhouse, New York Times, A1)
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- A-10
U.S. CONSIDERS DEACTIVATING MORE STRATEGIC MISSILES
The Defense Department said Thursday night that it is
considering deactivating some additional U.S. strategic missiles
after Boris Yeltsin's pledge in Washington this week to render the
most threatening missiles in his nation's nuclear arsenal incapable
of being launched on short notice. The announcement reversed an
earlier statement Thursday by Pete Williams that the Bush
Administration was not considering taking strategic missiles such
as the MX off "alert" status.
(Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post, A33)
U.S., RUSSIA SAID TO SETTLE EMBASSY DISPUTE
The U.S. has agreed to drop claims totaling $30 million
against the former Soviet Union for "bugging" its new embassy in
Moscow as part of an accord with Russia, a U.S. official said.
He told Reuter that in exchange for dropping the claims
Washington will get a piece of land on which it can build a new
embassy building in Moscow and a long-term lease on the existing
U.S. embassy in Moscow valued at $45 million. As part of the deal,
the Russians will receive a piece of property in Washington near
Mt. Alto where a new embassy built by the former Soviet government
has been vacant for several years
(Carol Giacomo, Reuter)
U.S. TEAM STARTS SEARCH FOR
POWs IN RUSSIA
MOSCOW -- A delegation of Russian and U.S. officials flew to
an Arctic prison camp region Thursday to investigate a report that
an American serviceman missing since the Korean War might be there.
At the first camp they visited, they found no evidence of
American prisoners and officials there said there were none, AP
reported. The delegation is to visit more camps Friday.
Deborah DeYoung, a spokeswoman for the Senate Select Committee
on POW-MIA Affairs, said the mission was prompted by information
provided to a committee investigator working in Moscow. DeYoung
described the information as a "recent account" and said there is
"every reason to think this guy may be alive."
(Fred Hiatt, Washington Post, A34)
Prisons Yield No Yanks
LABOR CAMP PL-350-5 -- Russia-U.S. investigators came to this
remote Stalinist prison Thursday looking into reports that an
American POW was still alive. But all they found were freshly
painted walls, smiling prisoners and officials who insisted the
hunt was pointless
In Israel, meanwhile, Mikhail Gorbachev denied that he knew
American POWs from the Vietnam War were transferred to the Soviet
Union, as Boris Yeltsin claimed. "I know nothing of the existence
of such facts that Yeltsin was talking about," Gorbachev said at
a news conference.
Margaret Tutwiler said in Washington that the U.S.-Russia
commission had received information that an American POW might have
been at the camp "as recently as 18 months ago."
(Thomas Ginsberg, AP, Washington Times, A1)
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- A-11
BOTH SIDES EMBRACE 'NEW RELATIONSHIP'
FORGED DURING SUMMIT
In the wake of the first summit meeting between the U.S.
President and the elected president of a democratic Russia,
officials moved Thursday to make a reality of the "new
relationship" proclaimed by President Bush and President Yeltsin.
The best news for both leaders came from Capitol Hill. After
weeks of delay, Sen. Mitchell announced he plans to bring the U.S.
aid bill for Russia and the other states of the former Soviet Union
to the floor for Senate action as early as Tuesday.
Another piece of favorable news came from a meeting between
Russia's economic czar, Yegor Gaidar, and Managing Director Michel
Camdessus of the IMF. The IMF said the talks could lead to "early
agreement" on an economic program that the IMF would help finance.
The seven agreements signed by Bush and Yeltsin and more than
a dozen other accords signed by lower-ranking officials provide
many possibilities for eradicating some lingering barriers to
relations and moving on to normal ties. Among the expected
developments, according to Administration officials, are an end to
the seven-year logjam over a new U.S. embassy in Moscow; a start
on expanded military cooperation; broader security discussions and
expanded U.S.-Russian trade under MFN tariff arrangements
established Wednesday.
(Don Oberdorfer, Washington Post, A33)
BAKER SAYS NO FURTHER CUTS EXPECTED SOON
Secretary Baker said Thursday the latest agreement to cut U.S.
and Russian long-range nuclear missiles is likely to be the last
one between the two countries for several years. Baker said the
U.S. and Russia will be very busy implementing the cuts as well as
reductions under START.
"I would not anticipate that there would be substantial
negotiations within the next five to six years," he said on the
MacNeil-Lehrer program.
(AP)
EAGLEBURGER ANGUISHES OVER YUGOSLAV UPHEAVAL
Oldtimers call Larry Eagleburger "Lawrence of Macedonia,' an
allusion to his exploits 29 years ago as a diplomatic
troubleshooter handling American relief efforts after a major
earthquake in the southernmost republic of Yugoslavia.
The current Yugoslav crisis is an inter-ethnic war that has
resisted all diplomatic interventions, making this an agonizing
time for Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.
(David Binder, New York Times, A6)
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- A-12
WHITE HOUSE IS REFUSING TO ALLOW
TESTIMONY BY AIDES ON IRAQ POLICY
In a confrontation with Congress over its investigation of
Administration policy toward Iraq before the Persian Gulf War, the
White House has rejected a request to allow two presidential aides
to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
This rebuff is likely to lead the committee to request the
appointment of an independent counsel, who would also be asked to
investigate allegations of a coverup by the Administration of its
Iraq policy after the gulf war.
Nicholas Calio said the "longstanding practice" of the
executive branch was to deny requests for testimony by members of
the President's personal staff. Calio added, however, that the
Administration was prepared to make the two aides available to
members of the committee. This suggestion was likely to be viewed
as unsatisfactory by the committee, which seeks public testimony.
(Martin Tolchin, New York Times, A14)
U.S., TAIWAN REACH ACCORD ON IMPORTS
OF MACHINE TOOLS
Trade negotiators from the U.S. and Taiwan reached agreement
Thursday on a pact that will extend for two years voluntary caps
on the level of imports into the U.S. of machine tools made in
Taiwan.
Carla Hills said in a statement that the understanding will
provide a gradual return to full competition while allowing U.S.
companies time to complete efforts to finish modernizing their
production facilities.
(AP)
FRANCE CLOSES AIR SPACE
TO U-2S ON SARAJEVO MISSION
The French government has denied a U.S. request for permission
for U-2 reconnaissance flights to cross French airspace as part of
a mission to gather intelligence on Sarajevo, a senior U.S.
official said Thursday.
The U.S. official suggested that Washington and Moscow could
coordinate their strategies to help bring an end to the fighting
that has nearly annihilated Sarajevo.
In Sarajevo, hunger gripped parts of the blockaded city
Thursday, as some residents were reported eating grass. But the
fighting subsided, and an agreement appeared to be near on
reopening the airport to U.N. relief shipments.
(Combined Dispatches, Washington Times, A8)
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White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- A-13
U.S. REPORTS ITS APRIL TRADE DEFICIT
WAS LARGEST SINCE NOVEMBER 1990
The U.S. trade deficit widened in April to its worst showing
since November 1990 as exports slipped further and imports jumped
to the second-highest level on record, the Commerce Department said
Thursday.
The Bush Administration insisted that the deterioration was
temporary but private economists worried that weak overseas
economies will cut into export growth this year and act as a
further drag on an already-weak economy.
The Commerce Department said the $6.97 billion April trade gap
was 24.8% larger than a March deficit of $5.58 billion, reflecting
a 16% surge in oil imports and a decline in U.S. exports for a
second straight month, primarily because of a slump in aircraft
sales.
(Martin Crutsinger, AP, Washington Post, C1)
-End of A-Section-
NETWORK NEWS
(Thursday evening, June 18)
PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS
CBS's Dan Rather: President Bush was out and around campaigning
in California today, including a photo opportunity at an oil
recycling plant.
(TV coverage of President Bush touring plant.)
It turns out the plant owners are part of a group suing the Bush
Administration -- charging it with not enforcing environmental
rules on the oil industry.
(CBS-5)
ABC's Peter Jennings: We begin tonight with how each of the
presidential candidates was trying today to make a little progress
where one of the others thought he had the advantage. Translation:
Governor Clinton talking foreign policy, deemed to be the
President's strength; the President tying to soothe
environmentalists after having been ridiculed at the Earth Summit
last week; and Ross Perot just chipping away at those voters in
California who are all too eager to abandon either the Democrat or
the Republican candidate. We begin with Mr. Perot.
ABC's Mort Dean reports Perot came to California to say thank you
to his volunteers for getting enough signatures to place him on the
state's November ballot. Perot says he's having an impact on the
other candidates. His comments about them are filled with
ridicule.
(Perot: "Now hold your hat here. The President had a press
conference: Wow! Governor Clinton is on TV playing the sax. And
Vice President Quayle is trying to figure out how to spell
potato.")
Jennings: President Bush has also spent the day in California.
We remind you what a rich prize California is in the November
election: fifty-four electoral votes -- 20% of what a candidate
needs to be elected. Mr. Bush, the self-proclaimed environmental
president, set about today to repair his environmental image.
ABC's Brit Hume: In California mostly on a political fundraiser
expedition, the President took time to do a bit of the closest
thing he does these days to actual campaigning.
(TV coverage of President Bush deplaning Air Force One.)
In a display of concern for the environment, he toured a plant near
San Jose that recycles used oil.
(TV coverage of President touring plant.)
The company though is part of a group of firms suing the government
to get tighter environmental regulations, which would mean more
business for them. In a Q&A session with employees and guests, the
President didn't seem to know much about that controversy but
wanted everyone to know he approved of the company's work.
(President Bush: "I want to be identified with those who are
innovating and those who are conservation oriented and those who
are doing their part to clean up our environment and make us more
efficient, and that's what I think you're doing.")
-
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- B-2
Inevitably he got a question about Ross Perot and what he would do
about the public mood that has propelled such a newcomer into the
lead in the race. The people, he said, have yet to focus on his
achievements. But the President stuck to his policy of not taking
on either Perot or Bill Clinton directly. But he said the time for
that would come.
(President Bush: "Until maybe the middle of August. Because --
but then you are -- because I know how to fight, and I'm not going
to be their spear catcher for the rest of this year. I can tell
you that.")
The President's advisers think it would be unwise for him to attack
Perot at this time, believing that doing so might hurt Perot but
might also backfire on the President, leaving Bill Clinton the only
beneficiary.
ABC's Jackie Judd reports Bill Clinton asked for the meeting with
Yeltsin as a signal that he won't concede the foreign policy arena
to George Bush. Clinton endorsed the newly announced arms-control
agreement and said that Congress should join ranks across party
lines to pass a multi-billion aid package for Yeltsin's Russia.
Clinton refused to say if he discussed if American POWs are in
Russia. But he said it would be wrong to tie the aid package to
the resolution of that issue.
(TV coverage of Presidents Bush and Yeltsin and their wives on the
front steps of the White House.)
(ABC-Lead)
NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports Bill Clinton's meeting with President
Yeltsin was Clinton's big chance to show that a governor from
Arkansas can play on the world stage. Clinton's foreign policy
would be very different from George Bush's. What about his lack
of experience?
(Rep. Lee Hamilton: "President Bush didn't call it right on the
trip to Japan. He did not call it right on the trip to Panama.
He did not call it right with regard to the Rio de Janeiro treaty.
So experience doesn't necessarily mean you don't stumble.")
Lee Hamilton is a key adviser on foreign policy. So is former
deputy secretary of state Warren Christopher. But Clinton also
listens to more liberal Democrats like Anthony Lake, a former
Carter official. After 12 years of Republicans, a new cast of
characters.
(TV coverage of President Bush and Secretary Baker.)
(Michael Mandelbaum, Clinton adviser: "You have the same people
carrying out the same policies even though the world has undergone
one of the most dramatic revolutions in modern period.")
(CBS-6, NBC-2)
NBC's Lisa Myers says after weeks of praying Perot would fade, his
opponents temporarily have a strategy to cope: Clinton, by
reminding voters how little they know. Bush, by having surrogates
portray Perot as risky.
(TV coverage of President Bush shaking hands in a crowd.)
(Vice President Quayle: "It would be a serious mistake to replace
a genuine statesman with a temperamental tycoon who has contempt
for the Constitution of the U.S.")
A senior Perot adviser said Quayle's attacks aren't hurting, but
unflattering media accounts are. The campaign's top priority in
the next 3 weeks is a TV advertising blitz to counter those
negative images.
(NBC-3)
"Hore-
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- B-3
CBS's Bill Lagattuta says Perot was rallying them in ultra-
conservative Orange County. Voters here feel overtaxed and
overregulated and frustrated, so much so that one of George Bush's
biggest fundraisers [Kathryn Thompson] even invited Bill Clinton
in to speak.
(TV coverage of still photo of President and Thompson.)
Her secretary is supporting, guess who? [Perot.] Kathryn Thompson
still supports the President, however:
(Thompson: "If the elections were held today, I would predict that
Perot would win by a very large margin.")
But at the GOP here they think the Perot honeymoon is bound to come
to an end.
(Thomas Fuentes, Orange County Republican Party: "I think that
there will be an undressing of this Texas billionaire between now
and November.")
If anything, Ross Perot is proving that all points on the political
map are now fair game, so much so that when President Bush visits
Reagan country this week he'll find himself doing the unthinkable:
actually hustling for votes.
(CBS-4)
NEW AMERICA PLAN
NBC's Stone Phillips: Boris Yeltsin today got a close-up look at
politics American style -- a breakthrough compromise in the Cold
War between President Bush and Democrats in Congress: the
President giving ground on a billion dollar urban aid bill passed
by the House, and in return from Capitol Hill tonight, brighter
prospects for what the President wants -- more aid to Russia.
NBC's John Cochran: Only one day after Boris Yeltsin's stirring
plea for help, the House acted -- voted overwhelmingly to help
America's cities. The political reality was always that if
Congress was going to approve emergency help it would first help
American taxpayers and voters and them maybe get around to
foreigners.
(Rep. Flake: "We hear the term we must invest in Russia because
it guarantees for us peace abroad. I would say that we must invest
in America because it guarantees for us peace at home.")
(Rep. Boxer: "I will not vote to help Mr. Yeltsin in Russia,
although I would like to do that, until I can help the people of
the U.S.A.")
But even aid for American cities was scaled down. Immediately
after the L.A. riots Congress and the White House agreed to
cooperate on quick action. But lethargy and partisan bickering
slowed action. Democrats wanted $2 billion -- far more than the
White House wanted to spend on rebuilding L.A. and helping other
inner cities with loans and summer jobs.
(TV coverage of President touring L.A. after riots.)
Faced with a presidential veto, Democrats settled for half a loaf
-- $1 billion. Bush thinks the compromise will make it a lot
easier for Boris Yeltsin to get his aid package.
(TV coverage of Presidents Bush and Yeltsin walking from Marine One
behind White House.)
But after saying goodbye to Yeltsin today Bush was back on the
campaign trail trying to be the domestic president -- stopping at
a California oil recycling company which removes pollutants from
used oil.
(TV coverage of Bush touring plant.)
-
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- B-4
But when Bush's aides set up the visit recently they did not know
the company had joined in a lawsuit against the Bush Administration
-- a lawsuit aimed at forcing the government to crack down on the
burning of dirty fuel oil which still has lead in it. When a
worker asked Bush how he felt about it he seemed puzzled.
(President Bush: "I'll just have to say I don't know it.")
Bush promised more unrehearsed exchanges with the public but some
things he will not do.
(President Bush: "You got to draw the line somewhere. And I am
not going to out there kind of being a teeny-bopper at 68. I just
can't do it.")
And the President won't be playing a saxophone on the "Arsenio Hall
Show" either. Aides say Bush thinks that Bill Clinton's musical
appearance on the late-night TV show was undignified. (NBC-Lead)
Rather: A $1 billion overall urban aid package is headed for final
approval tonight in Congress. It's a scaled-down measure because
President Bush threatened to veto anything more. This election-
year help will go to many cities, including L.A. where civil unrest
erupted seven weeks ago. And as Ron Allen reports tonight, there
are some surprising facts about those troubled days and nights that
are just now coming out.
CBS's Ron Allen says the picture that emerged from the riot has
been mostly black and white: African-Americans venting rage at
the system. But a detailed study released today of who got
arrested during the violence adds another hue to the story.
(Joan Petersilia, Rand Criminal Justice Expert: "Blacks it appears
might have started the riots. But after that first day, in fact,
Hispanics took over in terms of their numbers and their arrests.")
The Rand report says of more than 5,600 arrests it looked at for
charges such as looting and curfew violations, 51% were Latino, 36%
black and 11% white.
(Petersilia: "It definitely was not a black riot. In fact, if you
look at the official numbers, it was a young-Hispanic riot.")
(CBS-Lead)
TEXAS SUPERCOLLIDER
NBC's John Chancellor asks did you ever think George Bush and Ann
Richards would be in agreement? Today they are allies in what may
be a losing cause. Last night the House cut off all funding for
a Texas atom smasher called a supercollider. On one side were the
Republican President, the Democratic Governor, a prestigious
science project and maybe 8,000 jobs. On the other side was a
desperate need to cut spending. The spending cut won. If this
catches on, we at last may see some budgeting backbone in the
Congress. At the same time it's a tragedy; other countries will
build it and America will be less important in the future. This
is the kind of penalty which must be paid when a government like
ours spends every day a billion dollars more than it takes in. We
know the deficits will hurt future generations, but they're hurting
all of us right now.
(NBC-12)
TRADE DEFICIT
Jennings reports the trade deficit has grown larger again -- nearly
$7 billion in April. It is the biggest deficit in a year-and-a-
half.
(ABC-6)
-
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- B-5
LOAN DELINQUENCIES
Jennings reports there is another indication of not enough money
available. Americans are having a hard time getting out of debt.
At the end of March nearly 3% of the people who owed money on
everything from credit cards to bank loans were at least 30 days
late in their payments. That's the highest level in 2.5
years.
Mr;
(ABC-5)
GORBACHEV
Jennings reports Mikhail Gorbachev said today he has no idea what
Boris Yeltsin is talking about on the question of U.S. POWs from
the Vietnam War in the Soviet Union. Gorbachev denies concealing
any information from the U.S., and he accuses Mr. Yeltsin of
defaming him.
(ABC-3)
U.S.-RUSSIAN TEAM OF POW INVESTIGATORS
Phillips says a joint U.S.-Russian team of investigators travelled
deep into Russia today searching and hoping [to find American
POWs].
NBC's Bob Abernathy reports at Camp P.L. 350 today in the northern
Ural mountains the U.S. and Russian investigators were told no
Americans are there. The team was following up a report that an
American had been seen there 18 months ago.
(NBC-4)
CBS's Anthony Mason reports Russian investigators have found
themselves chasing a mirage. In Moscow investigators say they've
combed their archives, studied thousands of documents and checked
hundreds of names. But despite President Yeltsin's comments they
have no solid leads. Retired KGB colonial Oleg Nitchaparenko
[phonetic] was sent to Vietnam in 1973 to interrogate an American
POW.
(Abernathy: "Did the KGB ever bring any American POWs from Vietnam
back to Russia?")
(Nitchaparenko: "No.
I think that it was impossible without
our knowledge..")
(CBS-3)
SARAJEVO
Jennings reports the U.N. convoy carrying tons of food and medicine
did make it safely to Sarajevo to today. It the first U.N. relief
shipment in nearly a month.
(NBC-10, ABC-11)
-End of B-Section-
Friday Follies
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WHITE HOUSE NEWS SUMMARY SPECIAL EDITION
VOLUME IV ISSUE 24 -- June 19, 1992
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White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992
12 P.M. EDT/9 A.M. PDT NEWS UPDATE
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS (AP) -- The Senate ignored objections by
President Bush and approved a Democratic bill extending soon-to-
expire extra benefits for Americans who have been out of work the
longest. The measure, approved on a voice vote, would keep the
current system of providing up to 33 extra weeks of coverage
running until as late as March 6, 1993. Sen. Dole predicted Bush
would reject the measure, saying, "The unemployment package is
just headed for another veto.' Although some Republicans supported
the Democratic plan, others rallied behind a Bush-endorsed
alternative that Dole presented.
CLINTON/FINANCING (AP) -- Republicans asked the government to cut
off public financing to Gov. Clinton's presidential campaign,
alleging he wrongly used Democratic Party funds to pay for a
national television broadcast. The complaint prepared by RNC
lawyers alleges Clinton wrongly used $395,000 of his party's
general-election money to help raise money for his cash-strapped
primary campaign. The money was used for Clinton's half-hour TV
appearance last Friday on NBC, the complaint alleges.
RUSSIA/POW (Moscow/UPI) -- Russian and U.S. investigators emerged
from a Siberian prison camp empty-handed after rushing to the far
north outpost at the suggestion that an American POW was being held
there. No trace was found at the Pechora camp, members of the
delegation said in Pechora and Russian Foreign Ministry officials
confirmed in Moscow.
(Hanoi/Reuter) -- U.S. experts searching for three years for
American servicemen missing from the Vietnam War have found no
evidence to back President Yeltsin's statement that some were sent
to the Soviet Union, Western diplomats said. But they did not rule
out the possibility that it had happened. A Russian diplomat in
Hanoi commented: "I really have no information on this. I can't
say whether it's true or not."
RUSSIA/EMBASSY (AP) -- The U.S. is dropping a $30 million claim for
the bugging of the new embassy in Moscow as part of a property deal
signed during President Yeltsin's visit, a U.S. official revealed.
The deal, struck at the summit but not made public, would drop the
U.S. claim for construction losses. In exchange, the U.S. would
get property and other considerations estimated to be worth $45
million -- an overall gain of $15 million, the official disclosed.
CHINA/TRADE (Beijing/AP) -- U.S. and Chinese teams have drafted an
agreement to keep Chinese prison products off American markets, the
U.S. embassy said, but the Beijing government said it would not
permit inspections of its prisons. Embassy spokeswoman Lorraine
Toly said the draft, reached Thursday at the end of two days of
talks, needs approval by both governments.
YUGOSLAVIA/GATT (Geneva/Reuter) -- GATT effectively suspended
Yugoslavia from its operations until it can be decided who should
represent the crumbled federation. The governing council of GATT
ruled that "the representative of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia should refrain from participating in the business of the
GATT Council."
###
White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- 1
4:30 P.M. EDT/1:30 P.M. PDT NEWS UPDATE
PRESIDENT'S TRIP (Newport Beach/AP) -- President Bush sought to
quell a potential storm in U.S.-Mexican relations by promising
there will be no "wave of kidnappings" of foreigners wanted by
American authorities. "We have made very, very clear to the
Mexican government that we will not be in the mode of reaching out
and taking back everybody who's offended the United States, Bush
said in an interview with Hispanic-American journalists.
DEFENSE/FEDERAL FEES (Reuter) -- In a move to aid the battered U.S.
defense industry, President Bush will eliminate federal fees paid
by firms on the sale of arms and commercial goods products
developed from military contracts, Administration officials said.
A draft of the announcement was obtained by Reuter and said the
move "will preserve tens of thousands of American jobs in high-
technology firms located throughout the country." Administration
officials said the announcement was expected shortly.
IRAQ/HOUSE PANEL (Reuter) -- The White House, in a letter made
public, refused to allow two presidential aides to testify to a
House panel considering naming a special prosecutor to investigate
U.S.-Iraq relations prior to the Gulf War. The two aides were
Boyden Gray and Nicholas Rostow. "It is the long-standing practice
of the executive branch to decline requests for testimony by
members of the President's personal staff," the letter, signed by
Nicholas Calio, said.
MIDEAST/PEACE TALKS (Reuter) -- The U.S. broke a five-week self-
imposed embargo on comments about the Middle East to complain about
a public meeting between the PLO and Palestinians involved in Arab-
Israeli peace negotiations. "While I intend to stick to our
position of not getting into a discussion of such issues, I will
make one brief comment," said State Department spokesman Richard
Boucher. "We've repeatedly stated that the PLO is not part of the
peace process that we have helped construct, and we're thus
troubled by the meeting and we have conveyed our concerns to the
Palestinians."
IRAQ/NUCLEAR (Vienna/Reuter) -- Iraq has slackened cooperation with
international experts destroying its nuclear facilities and is
refusing to disclose where it obtained its equipment, the
International Atomic Energy Agency said. Director-General Hans
Blix said that while Iraqi authorities had initially shown
cooperation, the latest inspection team reported a change in
attitude. "There were numerous instances involving attempts,
subsequently relinquished, to prohibit or limit the taking of
photographs and the placing of seals."
RUSSIA/FEDERAL RESERVE (New York/Reuter) -- The Fed announced that
it had set up a special unit to help advise Russia on how to build
a Western-style banking system. A group of public- and private-
sector bankers called the "Russian-American Bankers Forum" has been
formed to spearhead the effort, said E. Gerald Corrigan, president
of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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White House News Summary
Friday, June 19, 1992 -- 2
U.N./ARMED FORCES (U.N./UPI) -- Facing the possible spread of
small-scale conflicts around the world, Secretary-General Boutros
Ghali asked the Security Council to set up a permanent armed forces
to be used as a deterrent against aggression. Western diplomats
said the plan, if approved, would draw the U.N. closer to goals set
by its founders.
U.N./PICCO (U.N./AP) -- Assistant Secretary-General Giandomenico
Picco, who helped negotiate the release of the last Western
hostages in Lebanon, has resigned for personal reasons, U.N.
officials announced. Chief U.N. spokesman Francois Giuliani told
his daily press briefing that Picco was expected to leave his U.N.
post in late July.
WEINBERGER (AP) -- Caspar Weinberger pleaded innocent to charges
he lied to Congress and prosecutors about the Iran-Contra affair.
He was ordered by a federal judge to stand trial the day before
election day on five counts of perjury, making false statements and
obstruction of Congress. Weinberger requested a quick trial.
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provisions in the House-passed version of
the bill that would make permanent
changes to the federal unemployment
CONGRESSIONAL
system and to the inclusion of taxes on
employers that would help pay for the
measure.
GSE Bill. The Senate temporarily
put off consideration of legislation (S
MONITOR
2733) to establish a new oversight office
in the Department of Housing and Urban
Development to regulate the affairs of
government-sponsored entities (GSE).
C
The bill was pulled from consider-
ation after Texas Republican Phil
Gramm threatened to offer an amend-
Friday, June 19, 1992
Volume 28, Number 99
ment to S 2733 to require a constitutional
amendment to balance the budget.
Late Wednesday. The Senate gave
News From the Hill
voice vote approval to legislation (S 1623)
that would clear the way for widescale
introduction of blank digital audio tapes
in the United States. Because the tapes
allow those with digital recording equip-
URBAN AID bill cleared after
how the House and Senate could improve
ment to make extremely high quality
Democrats agree to cut funding.
operations and legislative procedures.
copies of music, the recording industry is
The Senate last night cleared legisla-
The Senate must also approve the
concerned that unrestricted tape-to-tape
tion (HR 5132) that would provide disas-
measure, however, for the Joint Commit-
copying would reduce sales and royalties.
ter aid to Los Angeles and Chicago, as
tee on the Organization of Congress to be
S 1623 would add a royalty fee to the
well as to other struggling cities.
authorized.
price of digital tapes and recording equip-
Senate action came one day after
The panel would be required to make
ment that would be used to compensate
House Democrats dropped a demand
its final recommendations by Dec. 31, 1993,
music publishers, recording companies and
that $925 million in additional aid be
but could make interim suggestions in time
artists for copyright infringement.
included in the fiscal 1992 supplemental
for the organization of the 103rd Congress
The bill would also require modifica-
appropriations bill.
after the November elections.
tions to be made to digital tapes and
Earlier yesterday, the House voted
Late Wednesday. In what could be
recording equipment to prevent tape-to-
249-168 to adopt a modified version of
a harbinger of future congressional cost-
tape copying.
the conference agreement.
cutting moves against big-ticket federal
Conferees had approved a $2 billion
projects, the House late Wednesday
FOREIGN AID bill sails through
measure that included $175 million more
voted, 232-181, to cancel funding for the
Appropriations Committee.
for a summer youth jobs program than
superconducting super collider.
The House Appropriations Commit-
President Bush would support. Bush
The action came as the House dealt
tee yesterday approved with little debate
threatened to veto the measure over the
with the first fiscal 1993 spending bill of
a bill (HR 5368) that would fund a vari-
extra funding for the jobs program and
the year - a $21.3 billion measure (HR
ety of foreign military and civilian aid
because of $750 million included in the
5373) for energy and water development
programs in fiscal 1993.
measure for the Head Start pre-school
and nuclear weapons. The House passed
Approved by voice vote, the measure
education program, a summer school pro-
the spending bill, 365-51.
would provide $13.8 billion in foreign aid,
gram and an anti-drug initiative. (See
The vote on the superconducting su-
about $1.3 billion less than requested by
chart, p. 2)
per collider came after a heated debate
the administration and $249 million less
Bush refused to support the addi-
over whether the United States can af-
than appropriated for fiscal 1992.
tional spending, and Democrats threat-
ford costly science projects. Nearly $1
The bill represents the lowest level
ened to place the president in the politi-
billion in federal funds have already been
of foreign aid since fiscal 1983, reflecting
cally risky position of rejecting a measure
committed to the super collider - a gi-
the decreased political support for for-
designed to help urban areas just months
ant atom smasher being built in Texas.
eign assistance in Congress this year.
after the Los Angeles riots. But Demo-
As approved last week by the Appro-
crats backed down.
priations Committee, the bill included
Besides $500 million for the summer
$484 million for the project, but the
youth jobs program, the measure would
House vote cut most of that funding.
In This Issue
also provide the Small Business Adminis-
About $34 million was left in the measure
tration with $169.7 million to subsidize
NEWS FROM THE HILL
1
to shut down production of the project.
about $500 million in loans for businesses
TODAY
in Los Angeles. The bill also includes
SENATE FLOOR: Jobless bene-
Committee & News Listings
6
$300 million for Federal Emergency
fits debated, GSE bill put aside.
FUTURE
Management Agency disaster payments,
At press time last night, the Senate
Senate Committees
7
mostly to businesses damaged by flood-
was debating its version of an unemploy-
House Committees
9
ing in Chicago.
ment benefits extension bill (HR 5260)
Conference Committees
13
that would provide 26 to 33 weeks of
Joint Committees
13
HOUSE FLOOR: Congressional
Other Events
benefits through March 6, 1993.
14
review panel gets approval.
Campaigns & Elections
15
As approved by the Senate Finance
House members voted 412-4 yester-
Committee, the bill would provide bene-
STATUS CHARTS
day to pass legislation (H Con Res 192)
fits as long as the national unemploy-
FY93 Appropriations
17
that would set up a 28-member joint
House Floor
18
ment rate is at least 7 percent.
Senate Floor
committee to make recommendations on
20
The Bush administration objects to
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Friday, June 19, 1992
Appropriators decided to allocate $691 million less than the
In one of the most significant decisions made, the sub-
4.2 billion sought by the president for military aid.
committee agreed to block the proposed sale of LTV Corp.'s
Many of the military aid reductions came from changing grant
missile division to a subsidiary of France's Thomson-CSF.
rograms for Greece, Turkey and Portugal to loan programs.
A federal bankruptcy court has already approved the sale of
the missile division to Thomson-CSF, a U.S. subsidiary of the
MILITARY BASE closing account gets funding hike.
state-owned French electronics firm of the same name.
In an effort to save money by spending money, the House
But opponents of the sale say a Defense Intelligence Agency
Appropriations Committee yesterday approved an $8.6 billion
report concluded U.S. missile secrets inevitably would be turned
military construction spending bill (HR 5428) for fiscal 1993 that
over to the French firm if the sale were approved.
would greatly boost funding to close or reorganize more than 100
Subcommittee Chairman John P. Murtha, D-Pa., disclosed
unneeded military bases.
to reporters few of the details of the markup, except to say of the
The bill would provide $2 billion for the base closing effort,
LTV missile division: "We blocked the sale."
almost $1.3 billion more than the current level.
As approved, the bill includes funding for four additional B-
Although the bill total of $8.6 billion is almost the same as
2 stealth bombers, which would bring the B-2 fleet to 20.
that provided for fiscal 1992, that amount is likely to slip lower:
The panel also agreed to language providing $1.1 billion for
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday allocated
the Navy's F/A 18 "E" and "F" advanced tactical combat fight-
$340 million less for its Military Construction Subcommittee.
ers, about the same funding level requested by the president.
The House panel yesterday approved the bill by voice vote
The defense authorization legislation (HR 5006), passed by
with no significant amendments.
the House, would limit funding of the advanced F/A 18s to $600
The emphasis on base closings comes at the expense base
million.
construction projects, which would be cut by $1.6 billion from the
$4.2 billion appropriation for fiscal 1992.
ABORTION RIGHTS bill wins panel approval.
The Defense Department estimates it needs $8 billion to
Legislation that would guarantee a woman's right to an
implement the base closings approved in 1991 and 1989. Another
abortion in all but the later stages of pregnancy won the ap-
base closing effort is expected next year. But the Pentagon must
proval of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Con-
first clean up significant environmental hazards before military
stitutional Rights by a vote of 5-3.
base property can be turned over to states and local govern-
The bill (HR 25) would prohibit states from restricting a
ments, or used for private development. Saying that administra-
woman's access to an abortion before fetal viability. In addition,
tion foot-dragging is delaying the transfer of bases to the public
the right to an abortion would be guaranteed regardless of the
or private sector, appropriators earmarked $444 million for envi-
state of the fetus if the woman's health or life were in danger.
ronmental restoration.
Supporters of the measure say that it codifies the 1973
The committee provided about $500 million more than re-
Supreme Court ruling in Roe D. Wade, which legalized abortion
quested by the administration for construction of bases in the
nationwide. The court is about to hand down a new abortion
United States.
decision that many say will overturn Roe.
About three-fifths of the unrequested money landed in states
Opponents contend that HR 25 would go beyond Roe, giv-
represented by members of the Military Construction Subcommit-
ing states even less latitude in regulating abortion.
tee, which approved the measure on June 11.
Ranking subcommittee member Henry Hyde, R-Ill., offered
amendments that would have required spousal notification and, in
LEGISLATIVE SPENDING measure advances.
the case of a person age 18 or under, parental consent before an
In a 15-minute markup yesterday, the House Appropria-
abortion could be performed. Both were defeated by voice vote.
tions Committee approved a $1.8 billion fiscal 1993 spending bill
(HR 5427) for the legislative branch. When the Senate adds
funding to the measure to pay for its operations, the bill's total is
expected to reach $2.3 billion.
Urban Supplemental
In approving the bill by voice vote, the full committee made
(budget authority, in millions of dollars)
no changes to the measure as approved by the Legislative
Initial
Modified
Branch Subcommittee.
Conference
Conference
The bill's spending cuts would require the elimination of
Agreement
Agreement
about 1,800 positions in the House and about 500 positions from
SBA
joint House-Senate staffs and other congressional agencies. Few
Disaster Loans
$169.7
$169.7
of these positions are currently filled.
Administrative Expenses
25.0
25.0
The spending bill also provides $53 million for free mailings
Business Loans
70.3
70.3
or House members. The fiscal 1992 spending bill provided $80
Administrative Expenses
2.0
2.0
aillion for House mailings, although a rescissions package en-
Microloans and Grants
9.0
9.0
cted June 4 cut $20 million from the fiscal 1992 mailing total.
FEMA
The legislative branch spending bill is expected to go to the
Disaster Relief
300.0
300.0
lules Committee on Monday, with House floor action scheduled
Urban Aid
for Tuesday.
Head Start Summer Program
250.0
Rules Committee Chairman Joe Moakley, D-Mass., is ex-
Summer School Program
250.0
pected to ask for a restrictive rule to prevent the bill from
Summer Youth Jobs Program
675.0
500.0
becoming a vehicle for Congress-bashing amendments.
Weed and Seed Program
250.0
Other
DEFENSE SPENDING bill gains; LTV sale blocked.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco &
The House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee yesterday
Firearms
5.5
5.5
approved a fiscal 1993 defense spending bill that would block the
Federal Law Enforcement
proposed sale of a U.S. company's missile division to a French
Training Center
1.5
1.5
corporation.
Rescissions
-7.5
-7.5
The subcommittee, working in closed session, approved the
draft bill with a total dollar figure of about $252 billion, accord-
TOTAL
$2,000.5
$1,075.5
ing to sources present at the markup.
Friday, June 19, 1992
Congressional Monitor
Page 3
Another Hyde amendment that
pressed concern that the OECD agree-
study of the industry.
would have allowed states to block abor-
ment will prevent the Export-Import
The measure, approved by voice
tion after the first three months of preg-
Bank from countering tied-aid practices
vote, would direct the Treasury secretary
nancy except in cases of rape, incest or
by U.S. competitors. He included lan-
to conduct a one-year study of the indus-
threat to the life of the mother was also
guage in the measure that would allow
try and to report recommendations to
rejected by voice vote.
the agency to offer tied-aid deals to coun-
Congress on how to promote the solvency
tries if it is in the United States' eco-
of insurance companies.
HOUSING BILL would boost
nomic interest.
The bill is designed to protect the
federal housing assistance.
Banking panel's jurisdiction over insur-
The Senate Banking Committee yes-
FAIR CREDIT measure would
ance issues should a measure overhauling
terday approved, by voice vote, a draft
pre-empt state consumer laws.
the industry be pushed by the Energy
two-year bill that would authorize federal
Legislation that would revise the na-
and Commerce Committee.
housing programs at a fiscal 1993 level of
tion's laws regulating consumer credit re-
$22 billion. The fiscal 1994 authorization
porting agencies won the voice vote ap-
COIN BILLS approved over
would be $800 million higher.
proval of the House Banking Committee
lawmakers' objections.
The measure includes elements of
yesterday, but Chairman Henry B. Gon-
The House Banking panel approved
Housing and Urban Development Secre-
zalez, D-Texas, is already planning to try
several commemorative coin bills over the
tary Jack F. Kemp's proposal for flexible
to amend the bill (HR 3596) when it
objections of some members who said Con-
housing subsidies, called RESTORE. It
reaches the floor.
gress would be flooding the coin market.
would also give residents of certain public
The 1970 Fair Credit Reporting Act
One measure (HR 3654), approved
housing complexes the right to choose ei-
would be amended to strengthen provi-
by voice vote, would authorize the U.S.
ther alternative management or owner-
sions on consumer privacy and speed the
Mint to produce a special set of coins
ship.
correction process for credit report inac-
memorializing the 1996 Olympic Games
The bill would reinstitute a require-
curacies. The bill would impose new
to be held in Atlanta. Members agreed,
ment that local housing groups match
regulations on the agencies, including re-
by voice vote, to an amendment that
federal money for the HOME project,
strictions on the use of credit reports by
would allow the Treasury secretary to
which provides grants to low-income as-
potential employers.
ban the sale in the United States of for-
sistance groups to acquire, renovate and
Gonzalez opposes a provision in the
eign coins commemorating the Atlanta
build housing. A matching requirement
measure that would pre-empt state credit
Olympics.
for HOME activities was removed by ap-
laws, prohibiting states from passing laws
Another bill (HR 2448), also ap-
propriators for fiscal 1992 because local
stricter than the federal statute. Gonza-
proved by voice vote, would authorize the
entities faced economic difficulties. The
lez said he would try to remove the provi-
minting of special commemorative med-
measure would require a 25 percent
sion during floor consideration.
als to mark the contribution of Benjamin
match and offer waivers to financially
Franklin to the advancement of science
distressed localities.
IMF AUTHORIZATION OK'd
and to American firefighters.
HOME would be authorized at $2.1
after amendments are rejected.
But two bills were OK'd over the
billion for fiscal 1993, $600 million above
The House Banking Committee yes-
protests of some members who said the
current appropriations.
terday approved by voice vote legislation
measures would hurt the sales of other
(HR 3428) that would provide an addi-
commemorative coins. One bill (HR
EXPORT-IMPORT authoriza-
tional $12 billion in U.S. contributions to
5126), approved 32-8, would commemo-
tion includes tied-aid funding.
the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
rate the 100th anniversary of the begin-
In a move designed to keep pressure
in part to help Russia stabilize its currency.
ning of the protection of Civil War bat-
on countries that place strings on their
The IMF increase is part of a broad
tlefields. The other (HR 1623), approved
foreign aid, the Senate Banking Commit-
international aid package for Russia.
39-5, would mark the 50th anniversary of
tee gave voice vote approval to a bill (S
The boost in the U.S. contribution
the allied invasion of Normandy.
2864) yesterday that would continue
would fulfill a 1990 agreement by IMF-
funding for a tied-aid war chest adminis-
member countries to raise their funding
ANCIENT FORESTS measure
tered by the Export-Import Bank.
by 50 percent.
emerges from House Agriculture.
The measure would authorize the
But lawmakers have been reluctant
After a bruising daylong markup, a
agency, which finances purchases of U.S.
to approve the increase, fearing election-
highly controversial bill to create an an-
goods by overseas companies, through
year attacks that they are helping other
cient forest preserve in the Pacific North-
fiscal 1997. Through direct loans and
countries while ignoring domestic prob-
west was approved by the House Agricul-
guarantees, the agency facilitates about
lems.
ture Committee.
$4 billion in export credits a year. It in-
Members rejected, 16-35, an amend-
The bill (HR 4899) aims to balance
sures another $5 billion in export credits.
ment by Republicans that would have
the protection of threatened species such
The tied-aid war chest was created
eliminated the IMF authorization from
as the northern spotted owl with the need
to combat the use of similar financing
the bill, which also would reauthorize
to preserve timber-related jobs.
deals by U.S. competitors. Under tied-aid
U.S. involvement in various other inter-
The Agriculture Committee's action
agreements, the United States provides
national organizations. Another amend-
came the day after Interior Committee
credit to a country on the condition that
ment, rejected 15-32, would have im-
Chairman George Miller, whose panel
the money be used to buy U.S. products.
posed collateral requirements on oil and
shares jurisdiction over the bill, abruptly
Although the Organization for Eco-
gas development loans to Russia.
pulled a more sweeping version - fa-
nomic Cooperation and Development
vored by environmentalists - from the
(OECD) reached an agreement in Febru-
INSURANCE STUDY bill ap-
committee's agenda.
ary to restrict the use of tied-aid, the
proved by House Banking panel.
The Agriculture panel approved the
panel voted to keep annual funding at
Concerned that the nation's insur-
measure on a 27-15 vote, generally split
$500 million through fiscal 1995.
ance industry is headed for tough eco-
along party lines. Republicans slammed
Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., chairman of
nomic times, the House Banking Com-
the bill, saying it would cost too many jobs.
the panel's International Finance and
mittee yesterday endorsed a bill (HR
The measure is a "terrible, horrible,
Monetary Policy Subcommittee, has ex-
4731) that would require a government
vicious blow" to the Northwest, said Bob
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Friday, June 19, 1992
Smith, R-Ore. The committee rejected
ment of 1.75 inches in diameter for balls
lation is non-English speaking, election
Smith's substitute amendment, similar to
intended for children under three years
officials must offer bilingual services to
an administration-backed proposal, on a
of age.
voters. The bill (S 2236) would expand
15-26 vote.
In addition, the measure would es-
these requirements to cover jurisdictions
But committee Chairman E. "Kika"
tablish new performance standards for
in which non-English speakers do not
de la Garza, D-Texas, said that the bill
bicycle helmets.
make up 5 percent of the population, but
strikes a good balance. "My hope is that
number more than 10,000.
no one will be entirely satisfied. That
YEW TREE bill gets House Ag-
The current authorization for these
means we have a good measure," he said.
riculture Committee's blessing.
provisions is due to expire on Aug. 6.
The Agriculture bill would create a
Legislation aimed at ensuring a con-
The committee defeated a number of
6.8-million-acre old-growth forest pre-
stant supply of a cancer-fighting agent
amendments offered by Alan K. Simp-
serve and allow timber harvests of 2.8
found in the bark of the Pacific Yew was
son, R-Wyo., who argued that the bilin-
billion board feet (bbf) in 1993. The level
approved by the House Agriculture Com-
gual provisions tend to divide, rather
would gradually be reduced to 1.9 bbf
mittee yesterday, clearing the way for
than unite, people in a community.
annually. In recent years, harvests have
House floor action.
One Simpson amendment, defeated
reached over 4 bbf per year.
By voice vote, the committee ap-
4-10, would have required that any for-
The Interior Committee must report
proved the bill (HR 3836), which would
eign-language voting assistance on a bal-
the bill before it can head to the floor.
require that yew trees be harvested from
lot include a warning that the English-
federal forests before the areas are
language version is the "accurate,
RCRA MARKUP starts, but
opened to commercial logging.
complete and official version."
work is put off.
Drug manufacturers remove from
Simpson also tried to limit the re-
The House Energy and Commerce
the bark of the tree the chemical com-
authorization to one year in order to have
Committee yesterday began marking up
pound taxol, which has been successful in
more time to study the requirement. This
legislation (HR 3865) that would rewrite
fighting certain types of cancer.
amendment was defeated, 4-10.
the nation's principal solid and hazard-
The measure would also require that
ous waste disposal law.
the yew trees be cut in such a way as to
CABLE OPERATORS must pur-
But after the committee approved two
allow for their regeneration.
chase local signals, says panel.
technical amendments concerning disposal
The legislation has been approved by
The House Judiciary Subcommittee
of used tires, opponents halted the markup
the Interior and Merchant Marine com-
on Intellectual Property and Judicial Ad-
through a procedural tactic. The markup is
mittees.
ministration approved amended legisla-
scheduled to resume next Tuesday.
tion (HR 4511) by voice vote yesterday
The bill would reauthorize the Re-
HAITIAN DEMOCRACY bill
that would alter the current copyright
source Conservation and Recovery Act
wins Foreign Affairs backing.
law allowing cable operators free use of
(RCRA), last amended in 1984, to place
The House Foreign Affairs Commit-
local broadcasting signals.
greater emphasis on recycling and to ad-
tee yesterday approved, by voice vote,
The substitute bill requires cable op-
dress the lack of landfill space faced by
legislation (HR 4761) that aims to help
erators to pay royalty fees every six
many municipalities.
restore democracy to Haiti, which is be-
months at a cost of 5 cents per subscriber
The measure would also put heavy
ing run by a military junta.
per month for each local channel and 12
pressure on states exporting their trash
The legislation would freeze U.S. as-
cents per subscriber per month for each
across state lines to adopt tougher gar-
sets of Haitians who assisted in the mili-
long-distance transmission.
bage management plans.
tary coup last September that overthrew
The royalties would be split equally
the democratically elected government of
between the local broadcasters and the
CHOKING WARNING labels for
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
producers of the retransmitted programs.
children part of CPSC bill.
The measure would also authorize
The bill sunsets, in six years, the
The House Energy and Commerce
funding for diplomatic missions of the
current requirement that cable operators
panel also approved a bill that would re-
Organization of American States to help
who pick up local signals and rebroadcast
quire new warning labels on products
restore democratic rule in Haiti. For that
them outside the region to more than
that might cause children to choke, after
task, the bill would allot $3 million in
2,500 subscribers pay copyright fees into
reducing authorized funding levels for
fiscal 1993, $5 million annually in fiscal
a shared pool. Under a 1976 law, after
consumer product safety programs.
1993 and 1994, and $6 million in fiscal
contributing to the pool, operators were
The committee passed the measure
1995. Funds would come from foreign aid
allowed to use the local signals for free.
(HR 4706), which would reauthorize the
money previously appropriated for Haiti
The bill aims to eventually allow
Consumer Product Safety Commission
but withheld after the coup.
each local broadcaster, program producer
through fiscal 1994, by a vote of 32-10.
Members agreed, by voice vote, to an
and cable operator to decide on retrans-
In a compromise offered by Jim
amendment by Robert G. Torricelli, D-
mission fees privately.
Slattery, D-Kan., the panel agreed, 26-17,
N.J., that would bar ships that use Hai-
The legislation also sets a flat dis-
to fund the agency at $42 million in fiscal
tian ports from entering U.S. ports for at
tance of 75 miles as the "local service
1993 and $44 million in fiscal 1994.
least 180 days. The amendment is in-
area" of a television broadcasting station.
The original bill would have set lev-
tended to strengthen the trade embargo
The definition is crucial to the assess-
els at $45 million for fiscal 1993 and $48
against Haiti, Torricelli said.
ment of fees on cable operators who re-
million for fiscal 1994. Alex McMillan, R-
transmit local signals.
N.C., had proposed even deeper cuts.
BILINGUAL VOTING aid con-
It is expected that the bill approved
Congress appropriated $40 million
tinued under Senate Judiciary bill.
yesterday will serve as a floor amend-
for the agency in fiscal 1992.
Provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights
ment to a cable reregulation bill (HR
The bill would require manufactur-
Act that guarantee bilingual assistance
4850) approved Wednesday by the House
ers to warn consumers of the possible
during elections would be extended for 15
Energy panel.
hazard to children of using any toy or
years under legislation approved, 12-2, by
game that contains small parts, balloons,
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
JOBS FUNDS to go to some
small balls or marbles. The measure
The act requires that in any jurisdic-
states, under Ways and Means bill.
would also set a minimum size require-
tion where at least 5 percent of the popu-
A House Ways and Means sub-
Friday, June 19, 1992
Congressional Monitor
Page 5
committee yesterday approved, by voice
send mail mimicking official correspon-
and grandfather provisions for existing
vote, a draft proposal that would help
dence from the Social Security Adminis-
voyages to nowhere.
financially strapped states draw federal
tration or the Health Care Financing Ad-
funds for JOBS, the welfare-to-work pro-
ministration. Bill supporters believe that
ABANDONED BARGE measure
gram created by the 1988 Family Support
lifting-the cap would allow the secretary
aims to prevent pollution.
Act. The recession has kept many states
of Health and Human Services to set
To better preserve the nation's
from claiming their full allotments for
fines high enough to deter future fraudu-
coastal and inland waterways and their
JOBS because they are required to put
lent mailings.
marine environments, a House Merchant
up matching funds.
Last month, the panel heard testi-
Marine subcommittee yesterday ap-
The proposal by Thomas J. Downey,
mony that some direct-mail marketers
proved yesterday legislation (HR 5397)
D-N.Y., acting chairman of the Human
have made a multimillion-dollar business
that would make it illegal to abandon
Resources Subcommittee, and full com-
of bilking money from Social Security re-
barges.
mittee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, D-
cipients through deceptive mail cam-
Under current law, it is not illegal to
Ill., who drafted the 1988 law, would
paigns.
abandon a barge. When barge owners feel
make unclaimed funds available to states
their vessels are no longer economically
without requiring that they be matched.
HOMELESS VETERANS `bill
viable, it is common practice for them to
It would also raise the rate at which
OK'd, funding prospects uncertain.
set their barges adrift or run them aground.
the federal government matches state ex-
The House Veterans Affairs Sub-
These abandoned vessels are often
penditures for the JOBS program. The
committee on Housing and Memorial Af-
used illegally as receptacles for hazardous
rate would be increased for funds states
fairs gave quick voice vote approval yes-
waste.
spend in fiscal 1992 and 1993 that exceed
terday to a measure that would expand
The legislation, approved by voice
the amount they claimed for fiscal 1991.
programs for homeless veterans.
vote by the Coast Guard and Navigation
The plan would cost an estimated $400
The legislation (HR 5400) would au-
Subcommittee, aims to prevent environ-
million over five years.
thorize the Veterans Affairs Department
mentally dangerous dumping before it
The package also includes some wel-
(VA) to establish up to four new compre-
occurs by giving the Coast Guard the au-
fare-reform proposals sought by the Bush
hensive homeless centers. It would also
thority to track down the owners of aban-
administration in its fiscal 1993 budget,
send veterans benefits counselors to 83
doned barges and require them to pay for
including one allowing current welfare re-
VA-run facilities providing readjustment
barge removal.
cipients to save up to $10,000 in an effort
counseling, shelter for homeless veterans
The legislation would also authorize
to become self-sufficient through work,
and assistance for mentally ill veterans.
the Department of Transportation to fine
training or education, without losing
The measure would authorize grants
violators, and it would require barges to
their welfare benefits.
to establish new outreach programs for
be numbered SO the Coast Guard can bet-
The panel adopted an amendment of-
homeless veterans. In addition, the VA
ter trace barge owners.
fered by Fred Grandy, R-Iowa, that in-
would make VA-properties available for
cludes the text of HR 3450, legislation
homeless veterans.
TAX-FREE MEDICAL plans re-
calling for a demonstration of
Total authorization levels would be
viewed by Senate Finance panel.
"microenterprise" programs that enable
$48 million each year for fiscal 1993, 1994
Continuing its review of America's
welfare recipients to start small businesses.
and 1995. "This is just a minimum step,"
health-care system, the Senate Finance
said subcommittee Chairman Harley O.
Committee yesterday explored how the
SOCIAL SECURITY Adminis-
Staggers Jr., D-W.Va. "Basically, we're
federal tax code could be revised to help
tration would be independent.
just laying the foundation here."
individuals pay medical expenses.
Under draft legislation approved by
Because funding for the veterans pro-
Daniel R. Coats, R-Ind., detailed his
a Ways and Means subcommittee yester-
grams still faces Appropriations panel
bill (S 2540), which would allow individ-
day, the Social Security Administration
scrutiny, Staggers said he is trying to be
uals to establish tax-free savings ac-
would be made an independent agency.
realistic about the chances for the funding
counts to pay for routine medical ex-
The Social Security Administration,
levels. Full committee action on the bill is
penses. In addition, employers would be
which maintains records and administers
expected during the week of July 20.
encouraged, through tax incentives, to of-
Social Security benefits, is currently a
fer health plans for employees that would
part of the Health and Human Services
PASSENGER VESSEL loophole
cover large medical expenses.
Department.
targeted by House panel.
Called Healthsave, Coats' plan
The Social Security Subcommittee
The House Merchant Marine and
would do away with restrictions imposed
approved the measure by voice vote.
Fisheries Coast Guard Subcommittee
by many health plans on which doctors
The subcommittee also agreed to a
yesterday approved by voice vote a bill
and health-care facilities can be used.
draft measure that would add a series of
(HR 5257) that aims to stop foreign-flag
J. Patrick Rooney, head of the Golden
miscellaneous and technical amendments
vessels from getting around a law that
Rule Insurance Company, supported
to the 1935 Social Security Act, including
forbids them from transporting passen-
Coats' plan, saying it would reduce out-of-
one provision that would facilitate en-
gers from one U.S. port to another.
pocket costs for workers. "We need to have
forcement of penalties for non-govern-
To circumvent the law, foreign ships
the employees asking about cost because
ment groups that imitate federal letter-
have sponsored "voyages to nowhere,"
it's their money," he said.
heads in mailings to Social Security
which leave from and return to the same
Rep. Michael A. Andrews, D-Texas,
recipients.
U.S. port. The measure would close that
said the main problem is that businesses
Under the provision, names, letters,
loophole.
receive practically unlimited tax breaks
symbols and emblems of the Department
Foreign-flag ships that sponsored
for health insurance, which does not en-
of Health and Human Services would be
voyages to nowhere before Jan. 1, 1992,
courage cost-effectiveness or efficiency.
designated as protected items. Disclaim-
would be allowed to continue, but the
His proposal would limit the tax deduc-
ers found on fraudulent mailings would
trips to nowhere would eventually be
tion for businesses to the cost of the least
not excuse violations of the act.
phased out.
expensive insurance plan in the compa-
The provision would also lift the
The panel approved, by voice vote, a
ny's area. If a business chose a more ex-
present cap of $100,000 on penalties that
substitute amendment that would clarify
pensive plan, it would have to pay all
could be levied against individuals who
the restrictions on foreign-flag vessels
other costs.
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In California
Environmental Protection Subcommittee
12:05pm: Boards motorcade and departs Four
(Chairman Baucus, D-Mont.) will hold a hear-
ALCOHOL & THE BRAIN
Seasons Hotel en route Hyatt Regency Irvine.
12:20pm: Arrives Hyatt Regency Irvine.
ing on the administration of the National
Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus
12:30pm to 1pm: Addresses Orange County busi-
Wildlife Refuge System by the U.S. Fish and
holds briefing on impact of alcohol abuse on the
ness community. Open press.
Wildlife-Service and on legislation (S 1862) to
brain, with speakers including Dr. Ivan F.
1:05pm: Boards motorcade and departs Hyatt
improve the management of the National
Diamond, Gallo Institute on Alcoholism, Uni-
Regency Irvine en route Four Seasons Hotel.
Wildlife Refuge System.
versity of California, San Francisco, and Dr.
1:20pm: Arrives Four Seasons Hotel.
10am SD-406 Dirksen Bldg. June 19
Steven M. Paul, director of Intramural Re-
2:35pm to 3:20pm: Attends Southern California
Witnesses scheduled: John Turner director, Fish
search Program, National Institute of Mental
Republican Party Leadership meeting. Closed
and Wildlife Service; David Harrison - Moses,
Health.
press.
Wittemyer, Harrison and Woodruff; William
RON Orange County, Calif.
Noon, B-338 Rayburn Bldg. June 19
Reffalt - consultant, Wilderness Society; Cather-
Contact: Brian Sansoni, Garth Fitzgerald,
ine Tollerton Defenders of Wildlife; Roland
202-225-4315
Sparrowe - president, Wildlife Management In-
INDEPENDENTS
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tion of Fish and Wildlife Agencies; John Grandy
Ross Perot
vice president, Humane Society; Lorrie Ann Mac-
HEALTH CARE FORUM
Contact: 214-716-6500
Donald Sierra Club; John Crider - Crystal River,
The Alliance for Health Care Reform, a
June 19
Fla., Chamber of Commerce
non-partisan policy organization founded by
In Denver, Colo.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., in 1991, holds a
Noon: Addresses a petition rally. Greek Amphi-
forum on "Health Care Costs: What's the
theater, Denver Civic Center, Broadway and Col-
CROW INDIAN COMPENSATION
Problem? Where's the Beef?" Participants in-
fax streets, Denver. Contact Diane Rees, 303-494-
Senate Indian Affairs Committee
clude Sens. Rockefeller and John Danforth, R-
4605.
The full committee (Chairman Inouye, D-
Mo.; Dr. Philip Lee, director of the Institute for
Hawaii) will hold a on legislation (S
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2833) to compense the Crow Indian Tribe of
Physician Payment Review Commission; and
Montana for Ond dispute.
G. Lawrence Atkins, director of employee
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Senate Committees Future Listings
Appropriations
hearing on maritime reform.
acquire by exchange lands in the Cuyahoga Na-
10am SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 25
tional Recreation Area that are owned by the
224-3471
state of Ohio
HR 2444 Revise the boundaries of the George
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
FEDERAL POLICY TOWARD
Washington Birthplace National Monument
HR 3519 - Authorize the establishment of the
FY93 DEFENSE APPROPS
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES
Steamtown National Historic Site
Defense Subcommittee (Chairman Inouye,
Science, Technology and Space Sub-
June 25:
D-Hawaii) of Senate Appropriations Commit-
committee (Chairman Gore, D-Tenn.) of Sen-
S 1879 - Authorize the adjustment of the bound-
tee will mark up fiscal 1993 appropriations for
ate Commerce, Science and Transportation
aries of the South Dakota portion of the Sioux
programs under its jurisdiction.
Committee will hold a hearing on new technol-
Ranger District of Custer National Forest
9am SD-192 Dirksen Bldg. date TBA
ogies for a sustainable world. The subcommit-
S 1990 Authorize the transfer of certain facilities
tee will release a World Resources Council
and lands in the Wenatchee National Forest,
report entitled: "Backs to the Future: U.S.
Washington
S 2392 - Establish a right-of-way corridor for
FY93 D.C. APPROPS
Government Policy toward Environmentally
electric power transmission lines in the Sunrise
District of Columbia Subcommittee (Chair-
Critical Technologies."
Mountain in the state of Nevada
man Adams, D-Wash.) of Senate Appropria-
9:30am SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 25
S 2397 - Expand the boundaries of Yucca House
tions Committee will hold hearings on fiscal
National Monument in Colorado, to authorize the
1993 appropriations the District of Columbia,
acquisition of certain lands within the boundaries
focusing on the court system.
PUBLIC B'CASTING NOMINATION
S 2606 - Further clarify authorities and duties of the
10am SD-192 Dirksen Bldg. June 24
Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta-
secretary of Agriculture in issuing ski area per-
Witnesses scheduled: Judith Rogers chief judge,
tion Committee (Acting Chairman Inouye, D-
mits on National Forest System lands
Court of Appeals; Fred Ugast - chief judge,
S 2749 - Grant a right of use and occupancy of a
Hawaii) will hold a confirmation hearing on the
Superior Court; Ulysses Hammond - executive
certain tract of land in Yosemite National Park to
nomination of Ritajean Hartung Butterworth
officer, D.C. Courts
George R. Lange and Lucille F. Lange
to be a member of the Board of Directors of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
FY93 LABOR APPROPS
10:30am SR-236 Russell Bldg. June 30
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP
Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Education Subcommittee (Chairman Harkin,
Committee (Chairman Johnston, D-La.) will
MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
D-Iowa) of Senate Appropriations Committee
mark-up pending legislation.
Communications Subcommittee (Chairman
will hold hearings on fiscal 1993 appropriations
9:30am SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. June 24
for programs under its jurisdiction.
Inouye, D-Hawaii) of Senate Commerce, Sci-
Agenda:
9:30am SD-192 Dirksen Bldg. July 21, 22,
ence and Transportation Committee will hold a
HR 2896 Minute Man National Historical Park
23, 28, 29, 30
hearing on mobile communications issues.
HR 3359 - Amend the Geothermal Steam Act of
9:30am SR-253 Russell Bldg. July 1
1970
Agenda & witnesses scheduled:
HR 2790 - Withdraw certain lands located in the
July 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30: Public witnesses
Coronado National Forest from the mining and
GRAND CANYON OVERFLIGHTS
mineral leasing laws of the U.S.
S 2725 Authorize extension of time limitations for
Field Hearing
a FERC-issued license
Commerce,
Aviation Subcommittee (Acting Chairman
HR 1514 Disclaim or relinquish all right, title, and
McCain, R-Ariz.) of Senate Commerce, Science
interest of the United States in and to certain
Science &
and Transportation Committee will hold a field
lands conditionally relinquished to the United
hearing on Grand Canyon overflights.
States under the act of June 4, 1897
Transportation
9am Flagstaff, Ariz. July 7
S 2321 - Increase the authorization for the War in
the Pacific National Historical Park, Guam, and
the American Memorial Park, Saipan
224-5115
S 2572 - Authorize an exchange of lands in the
Energy & Natural
states of Arkansas and Idaho
NTIA REAUTHORIZATION
Note: This markup was originally scheduled for
Communications Subcommittee (Chairman
June 17
Inouye, D-Hawaii) of Senate Commerce, Sci-
Resources
ence and Transportation Committee will hold a
224-4971
hearing on the reauthorization of the National
Telecommunications and Information
PACIFIC YEW
Administration.
PUBLIC LANDS
Public Lands, National Parks and Forests
9:30am SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 23
Public Lands, National Parks and Forests
Subcommittee (Chairman Bumpers, D-Ark.) of
Subcommittee (Chairman Bumpers, D-Ark.) of
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Com-
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Com-
mittee will hold a hearing on legislation (S
AUTOMOBILELABELING
mittee will hold hearings on pending
2851) to provide for the management of the
Consumer Subcommittee (Chairman
legislation.
Pacific Yew tree on federal lands to ensure a
Bryan, D-Nev.) of Senate Commerce, Science
2:30pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. June 23
steady supply of Taxol, a cancer-fighting drug
and Transportation Committee will hold a
2pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. June 25
derived from the yew.
Agenda:
hearing on legislation (S 2232) to make avail-
June 23:
2pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. June 24
able to consumers certain information regard-
S 225 - Expand the boundaries of the
ing automobiles. The bill would require that
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle-
manufacturers reveal how much of an automo-
fields Memorial National Military Park, Va.
bile was manufactured in the United States.
S 1925 Remove a restriction from a parcel of land
BLM REAUTHORIZATION
9:30am SR-253 Russell Bldg. June 24
owned by the city of North Charleston, S.C., in
order to permit a land exchange
Public Lands, National Parks and Forests
S 2563 Provide for the rehabilitation of historic
Subcommittee (Chairman Bumpers, D-Ark.) of
MARITIME REFORM
structures within the Sandy Hook Unit of Gate-
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Com-
way National Recreation Area in the state of N.J.
mittee will hold a hearing on legislation (HR
Merchant Marine Subcommittee (Chair-
S 2006 Establish the Fox River National Heritage
1096) to reauthorize the Bureau of Land Man-
man Breaux, D-La.) of Senate Commerce, Sci-
Corridor in Wisconsin
agement (BLM) for fiscal 1992-95.
ence and Transportation Committee will hold a
HR 2181 - Permit the secretary of the Interior to
2pm SD-366 Dirksen Bldg. July 1
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Senate continued
Agenda:
9:30am SR-485 Russell Bldg. July 2
June 23: William Clark Jr. to be assistant secretary
Agenda:
of State
Environment
&
Fractionated heirships, or land claim disputes by
June 24: Robert Barry to be ambassador to the
heirs
Republic of Indonesia; David Fields to be ambas-
Indian probate
Public Works
sador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Oil and gas royalty management
June 25: Alison Rosenberg to be assistant adminis-
Land consolidation demonstration programs
224-6176
trator for Africa, Agency for International Devel-
opment; Kenneth Brown to be ambassador to the
Republic of Ghana; Princeton Lyman to be am-
SUPERFUND
bassador to the Republic of South Africa; Joseph
CROW INDIAN COMPENSATION
Superfund, Ocean and Water Protection
Charles Wilson to be ambassador to the Gabonese
Senate Select Indian Affairs Committee
Subcommittee (Chairman Lautenberg, D-N.J.)
Republic and, concurrently to be ambassador to
(Chairman Inouye, D-Hawaii) will hold a hear-
of Senate Environment and Public Works
the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Prin-
ing on legislation (S 2833) to compensate the
Committee will hold an oversight hearing on
cipe; Joseph Monroe Segars to be ambassador to
Crow Indian Tribe of Montana for a land
the Superfund cleanup process.
the Republic of Cape Verde.
dispute.
9:30am SD-406 Dirksen Bldg. June 25
9:30am SR-485 Russell Bldg. July 23
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
June 19.
Governmental
Finance
Affairs
OPIC INDIAN ELIGIBILITY
224-4515
Senate Select Indian Affairs Committee
224-4751
(Chairman Inouye, D-Hawaii) will hold a hear-
COMPETITIVENESS
ing on legislation (S 2746) to extend the pur-
Senate Finance Committee (Chairman
HEALTH-CARE FRAUD
poses of the Overseas Private Investment Cor-
Bentsen, D-Texas) will continue a series of
Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
poration to include American Indian tribes and
hearings on ways to improve the competitive-
(Chairman Nunn, D-Ga.) of Senate Govern-
Alaska natives.
ness of U.S. industry.
mental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing
9:30am SR-485 Russell Bldg. August 4
Time TBA SD-215 Dirksen Bldg. addl dates
on fraud in the health-care industry.
TBA
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. June 23 & 24
Intelligence
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP
Foreign Relations
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
224-1700
(Chairman Glenn, D-Ohio) will mark up pend-
224-4651
ing legislation.
INTELLIGENCE MATTERS
10am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. June 25
Senate Intelligence Committee (Chairman
STARTTREATY
Note: This markup was originally scheduled for
Boren, D-Okla.) will hold a closed hearing on
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
June 17
pending intelligence matters.
(Chairman Pell, D-R.I.) will hold hearings on
2pm 219 Hart Bldg. closed June 24
the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
(START) between the United States and for-
PLANNING THE
mer Soviet Union (T Doc 102-20) signed in
NEXT CENSUS
Moscow 1991.
Government Information and Regulation
Judiciary
10am SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. June 23, 25 &
Subcommittee (Chairman Kohl, D-Wis.) of
26
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee will
224-5225
10am S-116 Capitol Bldg. June 30
hold a hearing on ways to better plan the next
LACK OF CONSUMER DISCLOSURE
Time TBA S-407 Capitol Bldg. closed June
census.
30
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. June 26
IN THE LIFE INSURANCE INDUSTRY
10am SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. July 1
Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights
Agenda & witnesses scheduled:
Subcommittee (Chairman Metzenbaum, D-
June 23: James A. Baker III - secretary of State
ARMY AUDIT
Ohio) of Senate Judiciary Committee will hold
June 25: Treaty Assessment
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
an oversight hearing on inadequate consumer
Ronald Lehman II - director, Arms Control and
(Chairman Glenn, D-Ohio) will hold a hearing
disclosure and fraudulent sales practices in the
Disarmament Agency; Linton Brooks chief
START negotiator, Delegation to the Nuclear
on a an audit of the Department of the Army as
life insurance industry.
and Space Talks
required by the Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
9:30am SD-226 Dirksen Bldg. June 23
June 26: Defense Implications and Military View
Act of 1990.
Richard Cheney secretary of Defense; Gen. Colin
9:30am SD-342 Dirksen Bldg. June 30
Powell - chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen.
Gordon Sullivan chief of staff, Army; Adm.
CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS
Frank Kelso II chief of naval operations, Navy;
Juvenile Justice Subcommittee (Chairman
Gen. Carl Mundy commandant, Marine Corps;
Indian Affairs
Kohl, D-Wis.) of Senate Judiciary Committee
Gen. Merrill McPeak chief of staff, Air Force
June 30: Intelligence Community
will hold hearings on legislation to impose a
224-2251
Robert Gates director, Central Intelligence
criminal penalty for flight to avoid payment of
Agency
arrearages in child support.
NATIONAL INDIAN
At the conclusion of the open session the commit-
10am SD-226 Dirksen Bldg. July 2
tee will move to room S-407 of the Capitol and go
POLICY CENTER
into closed session
Senate Select Indian Affairs Committee
July 1: Implementation of the START Treaty
(Chairman Inouye, D-Hawaii) will hold a hear-
Maj. Gen. Robert Parker director, On-Site
ing on draft legislation on the National Indian
Inspection Agency
Policy Center.
PREVENTING JUVENILE
9:30am SR-485 Russell Bldg. June 24
DELINQUENCY
Juvenile Justice Subcommittee (Chairman
FOREIGN RELATIONS NOMINATIONS
Kohl, D-Wis.) of Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
INDIAN ESTATE &
will hold hearings on preventing juvenile
(Chairman Pell, D-R.I.) will hold confirmation
FINANCIAL ISSUES OVERSIGHT
delinquency.
hearings on pending nominations.
Senate Select Indian Affairs Committee
Time & Room TBA date TBA
2:30pm SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. June 23 & 24
(Chairman Inouye, D-Hawaii) will hold an
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
4pm SD-419 Dirksen Bldg. June 25
oversight hearing on pending issues.
May 13.
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Senate continued.
pensation for the survivors of certain disabled
veterans
S- FY93 VA Medical Construction Project-
Labor & Human
S 2323 Revise the rates of dependency and
Approval Resolution
indemnity compensation payable to surviving
Note: This markup was originally schedule for June
spouses of certain service-disabled veterans, to
17.
Resources
provide supplemental service disabled veterans'
insurance for totally disabled veterans
224-5375
S 2512 Establish a program to provide certain
SEXUALLY ABUSED
housing assistance to homeless veterans and im-
WOMEN VETERANS
HARASSMENT ON CAMPUS
prove certain other programs that provide such
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
assistance
Senate Labor and Human Resources Com-
(Chairman Cranston, D-Calif.) will hold a hear-
S 2647 Revise and improve educational assistance
mittee (Chairman Kennedy, D-Mass.) will hold
programs for veterans and members of the armed
ing on needs of women veterans who were
a hearing on the response by universities to
forces, to improve certain vocational assistance
sexually abused during service.
racial and sexual harassment on campus.
programs for veterans
10am SD-G50 Dirksen Bldg. June 30
10am SD-430 Dirksen Bldg. date TBA
S 2528 Establish a pilot program for furnishing
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
housing loans to Native American veterans
June 16.
S 2515 Authorize the establishment of job training
WOMEN VETERANS HEALTH CARE
programs for unemployed veterans and persons
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
who have been recently separated from the armed
(Chairman Cranston, D-Calif.) will hold a hear-
forces, to pay certain assistance and benefits to
ing on legislation (S 2028) to improve and
POW/MIA Affai
employers of such veterans and persons, such
veterans, and such persons to defray certain costs
expand health care and health-care related
relating to the provision ofsuch training
services furnished to women veterans by the
224-2742
S 2575 Revise certain pay authorities that apply to
Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACCOUNTING FOR
nurses and other health care professionals
10am SR-418 Russell Bldg. July 2
POWs/MIAs
Senate Select POW/MIA Affairs Commit-
tee (Chairman Kerry, D-Mass.) will hold hear-
ings on efforts to account for military personnel
from the Vietnam War that are still missing.
9:30am SH-216 Hart Bldg. June 24, 25 & 30;
House Committees Future Listings
July 1
Rules &
Aging
SURPLUS FOOD
COMMODITIES
House Agriculture Committee (Chairman
Administration
POVERTY AND THE
de la Garza, D-Texas) will hold a hearing on
ELDERLY
foreign and domestic use of surplus domestic
224-6352
House Select Aging Committee (Chairman
commodities.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Roybal, D-Calif.) will hold a hearing on the
9:30am 1300 Longworth Bldg. June 24
Senate Rules and Administration Commit-
poverty among the elderly and the effective-
tee (Chairman Ford, D-KY) will hold a hearing
ness of current federal programs.
on legislation (S 2748) to establish a separate
9:30am B-318 Rayburn Bldg. June 24
HEALTH OF U.S. FORESTS
Witnesses scheduled: Arthur S. Flemming - chair-
revolving fund for the Library of Congress. The
Forests, Family Farms and Energy Sub-
man, Save Our Security; Ron Pollack executive
bill would update the library's authority to
committee (Chairman Volkmer, D-Mo.) of
director, Families USA Foundation; Samuel J.
House Agriculture Committee will hold hear-
provide bibliographic products and services to
Simmons president, National Caucus & Center
ings on the health of the trees in the National
the nation's libraries. It would clarify the
on Black Aged Inc.; Marta Sotomayor president,
authority to be compensated for such services
National Hispanic Council on Aging; A represen-
Forest System.
and set up a mechanism to administer the
tative from the General Accounting Office; Rose
10am 1302 Longworth Bldg. June 30;July 1
Taylor resident, Prince Georges County; other
Agenda:
services.
witnesses TBA
June 30: Forest health issues.
9:30am SR-301 Russell Bldg. July 22
July 1: HR 4980 Require an annual report from
the secretary of Agriculture evaluating the overall
health of trees in the National Forest System and
Veterans' Affairs
CORPORATE ELDERCARE
identifying opportunities to salvage dead and
Human Services Subcommittee (Chairman
dying trees and to provide expedited procedures
for conducting salvage sales and reforestation
224-9126
Downey, D-N.Y.) of House Select Aging Com-
activities that are consistent with land and re-
mittee will hold a hearing on state and local
source management plans
PENNSYLVANIA VETERANS
aging agencies and corporate funding for care
Field Hearing
of the elderly.
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
9:30am 345 Cannon Bldg. July 9
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
(Chairman Cranston, D-Calif.) will hold a field
FIFRA
hearing on the quality and timeliness of health
House Agriculture Committee (Chairman
care and benefits for Pennsylvania veterans.
de la Garza, D-Texas) will mark up legislation
10am Allegheny County Courthouse, Pitts-
Agriculture
(HR 3742) to improve the safety of pesticides.
burgh, Pa. June 19
Time TBA 1300 Longworth Bldg. date TBA
225-2171
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP
SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING & MARKUP:
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
WELFARE & FOOD STAMPS
Appropriations
(Chairman Cranston, D-Calif.) will mark up
Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations
pending legislation.
225-2771
and Nutrition Subcommittee (Chairman
10am SR-418 Russell Bldg. June 24
Tallon, D-S.C.) of House Agriculture Commit-
Agenda:
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
tee will hold a hearing and mark up legislation
S 2322 Increase the rates of compensation for
FY93 APPROPRIATIONS BILLS
(HR 4046) to provide for a "Welfare Simplifi-
veterans with service-connected disabilities and
cation Report.'
House Appropriations Committee (Chair-
the rates of dependency and indemnity com-
man Whitten, D-Miss.) will mark up fiscal 1993
9:30am 1302 Longworth Bldg. June 23
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9:30am 2128 Rayburn Bldg. June 23
(Chairman Perkins, D-Ky.) of House Educa-
Witnesses scheduled:
tion and Labor Committee will hold a hearing
jurisdiction.
PANEL: John P. LaWare board of governors,
on sexual harassment in non-traditional
Time & Room TBA June 25, 29; July 1
Federal Reserve System; William Taylor chair-
occupations.
Tentative Agenda:
man, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;
10am 2175 Rayburn Bldg. June 25
June 25:
Timothy Ryan director, Office of Thrift Super-
Witnesses scheduled:
Agriculture
vision; Stephen R. Steinbrink - acting comptroller
PANEL 1: Reps. Schroeder, D-Colo., Morella, R-
Treasury/Postal Service
of the currency
PANEL: Howard L. McMillian Jr. American
Md.
June 29:
Bankers Association; Robert Hawkins Indepen-
PANEL 2: Nancy C. Pease - Smithville, N.J.;
Interior
Jennifer Harrison Kensington, Calif.; Dawn
July 1:
dent Bankers Association of America; Adam A.
Transportation
Jahns chairman of the board, Cragin Federal
Munday Pasadena, Md.; Maureen Polsby
Bank for Savings; Robert J. Meuleman executive
Washington, D.C.
vice president, Amcore Financial; Tiney M.
PANEL 3: Linda Wilson president, Radcliffe
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
McComb - chairman, Heartland Bancorp
College; Catherine Didion executive director,
Association for Women in Science; Donna
FY93 COMMERCE APPROPS
Milgram - director, Nontraditional Employment
Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary
Training Project, Wider Opportunities for
RENT-TO-OWN AGREEMENTS
Subcommittee (Chairman Smith, D-Iowa) of
Women; Dottie Jones assistant director, Wom-
House Appropriations Committee will mark up
Consumer Affairs and Coinage Subcommit-
en's Department, United Auto Workers
tee (Chairman Torres, D-Calif.) of House
its fiscal 1993 spending bill.
Time & room TBA date TBA
Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Commit-
tee will hold a hearing on legislation (HR 4497)
TAFT INSTITUTE
to improve disclosures made by lessors to
Field Hearing
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
consumers in connection with lease-purchase
Labor-Management Relations Subcommit-
FY93 LABOR APPROPS
agreements.
tee (Chairman Williams, D-Mont.) of House
Labor, Health and Human Services, and
10am 2222 Rayburn Bldg. June 24
Education and Labor Committee will hold a
field hearing on oversight on the Robert A. Taft
Education Subcommittee (Chairman Natcher,
Institute of Government.
D-Ky.) of House Appropriations Committee
Time TBA Missoula, Mont. June 29
will mark up its fiscal 1993 spending bill.
District of
Time & room TBA date TBA
Columbia
SCHOOL-TO-WORK
TRANSITION
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP:
225-4457
Employment Opportunities Subcommittee
FY93 VA, HUD APPROPS
SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING & MARKUP:
(Chairman Perkins, D-Ky.) of House Educa-
Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban
D.C. JUDICIAL REVISION
tion and Labor Committee will hold a hearing
Development and Independent Agencies Sub-
Judiciary and Education Subcommittee
on state school-to-work transition.
committee (Chairman Traxler, D-Mich.) of
(Chairman Dymally, D-Calif.) of House Dis-
Time & room TBA date TBA
House Appropriations Committee will mark up
trict of Columbia Committee will hold a hear-
its fiscal 1993 spending bill.
ing on and mark up pending legislation.
Time & room TBA date TBA
9:30am 1310A Longworth Bldg. June 25
Agenda:
HR 4096 Increase the maximum monetary amount
Energy &
for cases under the jurisdiction of the Small
Armed Services
Claims and Conciliation Branch of the Superior
Commerce
Court of the District of Columbia. The bill also
225-4151
225-2927
would authorize the Corporation Counsel for the
District of Columbia to conduct criminal prosecu-
GOVERNMENT USE OF GASOHOL
tions of certain juvenile defendants.
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
Investigations Subcommittee (Chairman
HR 4396 Provide expanded penalties for individ-
RCRA
uals convicted of crimes of violence in the District
Mavroules, D-Mass.) of House Armed Services
House Energy and Commerce Committee
of Columbia or of distributing drugs in the
Committee will hold a hearing on the use of
(Chairman Dingell, D-Mich.) will mark up
vicinity of schools in the District of Columbia, to
gasohol by the federal government.
pending legislation.
revise standards for bail and pretrial detention in
10am and 2pm (if needed) 2212 Rayburn
10am 2123 Rayburn Bldg. June 23 & addl
the District of Columbia.
Bldg. June 24
HR 2694 - Amend title 11, District of Columbia
dates if needed
Code, to remove gender-specific references.
Agenda:
HR 3865 - National Waste Reduction Recycling
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
and Management Act
LTV MISSILE SALE
March 17.
Investigations Subcommittee (Chairman
NATURAL GAS REGULATIONS
Mavroules, D-Mass.) of House Armed Services
Energy and Power Subcommittee (Chair-
Committee will hold a hearing on the sale of the
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP:
man Sharp, D-Ind.) of House Energy and
LTV missile unit to a foreign company.
D.C. SUPREME COURT
Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on
10am & 2pm (if needed) 2118 Rayburn Bldg.
House District of Columbia Committee
the impact of new state and federal natural gas
June 25
(Chairman Dellums, D-Calif.) will mark up
legislation (HR 568) to create a Supreme Court
regulations.
10am room TBA July 1
of the District of Columbia.
Time & room TBA date TBA
Banking, Finance
Note: This legislation was originally scheduled for
LONG-TERM CARE
markup on April 2.
INSURANCE
& Urban Affairs
Commerce, Consumer Protection and Com-
petitiveness Subcommittee (Chairman Collins,
225-4247
Education &
D-Ill.) House Energy and Commerce Commit-
tee will hold a hearing on long-term care
REGULATORY BURDENS
Labor
insurance issues and on legislation (HR 5376)
Financial Institutions Supervision, Regula-
to establish federal standards for long-term
tion and Insurance Subcommittee (Chairman
225-4527
care insurance.
Annunzio, D-Ill.) of House Banking, Finance
Time & room TBA date TBA
and Urban Affairs Committee will hold a
SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
hearing on efforts to reduce the regulatory
NON-TRADITIONAL OCCUPATIONS
June 18, but was postponed due to the full
burden on well-run financial institutions.
Employment Opportunities Subcommittee
committee markup.
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and Technology Committee (Chairman Brown,
HR 4326 Improve the wilderness management and
D-Calif.) will hold an oversight hearing on the
wilderness research programs of the National
HOSPITAL OVERHEAD
United Nations Education, Cultural and Scien-
Park Service and Bureau of Land Management in
MEDICAID PROGRAM
tific Organization (UNESCO).
the Department of the Interior
Oversight and Investigations Subcommit-
9:30am 2172 Rayburn Bldg. June 25
HR 4327 Improve the wilderness management and
tee (Chairman Dingell, D-Mich.) of House
wilderness research programs of the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service in the Department of the Interior
Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a
POW/MIA OVERSIGHT
including better coordination with the National
hearing on hospital overhead charges to the
Park Service and Bureau of Land Management
Medicare program. The hearing will focus on a
Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee
June 30:
Department of Health and Human Services
(Chairman Solarz, D-N.Y.) of House Foreign
HR 3227 - Establish the Keweenaw National His-
audit of Hospitals.
Affairs Committee will hold an oversight hear-
torical Park
Time & room TBA date TBA
ing on American prisoners of war and service
HR 5021 - Determine the eligibility and suitability
personnel missing in action.
of designating a segment of the New River as a
Time & Room TBA date TBA
national wild and scenic river
FAILURE OF FIRST EXECUTIVE
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
CORP. INSURANCE COMPANY
June 17.
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP
Oversight and Investigations Subcommit-
House Interior and Insular Affairs Commit-
tee (Chairman Dingell, D-Mich.) of House
Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a
tee (Chairman Miller, D-Calif.) will mark up
hearing on insurance company insolvencies,
Government
pending legislation.
focusing on the First Executive Corp.
9:45am 1324 Longworth Bldg. June 24
Time & room TBA date TBA
Operations
225-5051
PUBLICLANDS
SAFE DRINKING WATER
SUBCOMMITTE BUSINESS
Health and the Environment Subcommit-
National Parks and Public Lands Sub-
BANKING AND FINANCE
tee (Chairman Waxman, D-Calif.) of House
committee (Chairman Vento, D-Minn.) of
Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a
Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Af-
House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
hearing on safe drinking water issues.
fairs Subcommittee (Chairman Barnard, D-
will meet to consider pending business.
Time & room TBA date TBA
Ga.) of House Government Operations Com-
10am 1324 Longworth Bldg. June 25
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
mittee will hold a hearing on the current
April9.
problems and prospects for the country's bank-
ing and finance system
9:30am 2247 Rayburn Bldg. June 23
Judiciary
Foreign Affairs
225-3951
REDUCING INTEREST PAYMENTS
225-5021
ON GOVERNMENT DEBT
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL TO
Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Af-
INVESTIGATE IRAQ AID
U.S. POLICY TOWARD
fairs Subcommittee (Chairman Barnard, D-
House Judiciary Committee (Chairman
KENYA & MALAWI
Ga.) of House Government Operations Com-
Brooks, D-Texas) will continue hearings to
Africa Subcommittee (Chairman Dymally,
mittee will hold a hearing on a plan to reduce
consider the appointment of an independent
D-Calif.) of House Foreign Affairs Committee
the cost of interest on government debt by
counsel in connection an investigation into the
will hold a hearing on U.S. policy toward Kenya
issuing long-term Treasury bonds that are
Bush Administration's assistance to Iraq prior
and Malawi.
indexed to inflation.
to the Gulf War.
1pm 2172 Rayburn Bldg. June 23
9:30am 2247 Rayburn Bldg.June 25
9:30am 2141 Rayburn Bldg. June 23
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
Witnesses scheduled: Michael Boskin chairman,
June 16.
Council of Economic Advisers; Jerome Powell
acting under secretary of Treasury for finance
Merchant Marine
DEVELOPMENTS IN EUROPE
Interior &
Europe and the Middle East Subcommittee
& Fisheries
(Chairman Hamilton, D-Ind.) of House For-
Insular Affairs
eign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on
225-4047
developments in Europe.
225-2761
10am 2172 Rayburn Bldg. June 23
CARGO LIABILITY
ENERGY SUBCOMMITTEE BUSINESS
Merchant Marine Subcommittee (Chair-
Energy and the Environment Subcommit-
man Jones, D-N.C.) of House Merchant Ma-
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
tee (Chairman Kostmayer, D-Pa.) of House
rine and Fisheries Committee will hold a hear-
MIDDLE EAST
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will
ing on cargo liability for ocean vessels.
Europe and the Middle East Subcommittee
meet to consider pending business.
10am 1334 Longworth Bldg. June 24
(Chairman Hamilton, D-Ind.) of House For-
9:30am 1324 Longworth Bldg. June 23
eign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on
developments in middle east.
FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE
10am 2200 Rayburn Bldg. June 24
PUBLIC LANDS
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP
Witness scheduled: Edward Djerejian assistant
National Parks and Public Lands Sub-
Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and
,
secretary of State
committee (Chairman Vento, D-Minn.) of
the Environment Subcommittee (Chairman
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Studds, D-Mass.) of House Merchant Marine
June 17.
will hold hearings on pending legislation.
and Fisheries Committee will mark up pending
10am room TBA June 23
legislation.
10am 1324 Longworth Bldg. June 30
10am 1334 Longworth Bldg. June 25
UNESCO PROGRAMS
Agenda:
Agenda:
Joint Hearing
June 23:
HR 5013 Promote the conservation of exotic wild
Human Rights and International Organiza-
HR 4325 - Improve the wilderness management,
birds
tions Subcommittee (Chairman Yatron, D-Pa.)
wilderness research, and special management
HR 1435 - Direct the secretary of the Army to
and International Operations Subcommittee
area programs of the Forest Service, including
transfer jurisdiction over the Rocky Mountain
(Chairman Berman, D-Calif.) of House Foreign
better coordination with the wilderness manage-
Arsenal, Colorado, to the secretary of the Interior
ment and research programs of the department of
HR 3418 - Regulate fishing and other maritime
Affairs Committee and House Science, Space
the Interior
activities in certain waters of Alaska
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FULL COMMITTEE BUSINESS
House Post Office and Civil Service Com-
Science, Space &
mittee (Chairman Clay, D-Mo.) will meet to
HR 3486 - Amend the Marine Mammal Protection
consider pending business.
Technology
Act of 1972 to provide for the examination of the
health of marine mammal populations and for
9:45am 311 Cannon Bldg. June 24
225-6371
coordinated response to strandings and cata-
strophic events involving marine mammals
SUBCOMMITTEE MARKUP
HR 5419 International Dolphin Conservation Act
DAY-CARE FACILITIES
of 1992
Technology and Competitiveness Sub-
Postal Personnel and Modernization Sub-
committee (Chairman Valentine, D-N.C.) of
committee (Chairman Hayes, D-III.) of House
House Science, Space and Technology Com-
Post Office and Civil Service Committee will
mittee will meet to consider pending business.
Narcotics Abuse
hold a hearing on daycare facilities for U.S.
10am 2318 Rayburn Bldg. June 24
Postal Service workers.
Agenda:
2pm 311 Cannon Bldg. June 30
HR 5231 - Amend the Stevenson-Wydler Technol-
& Control
ogy Innovation Act of 1980 to enhance manufac-
turing technology development and transfer, and
226-3040
CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRE
authorize appropriations for the Technology Ad-
Census and Population Subcommittee
ministration of the Department of Commerce,
DRUG PROBLEM FROM
(Chairman Sawyer, D-Ohio) of House Post
including the National Institute of Standards and
A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE
Office and Civil Service Committee willhold a
Technology
House Select Narcotics Abuse and Control
HR 4400 Provide the administrator of the Small
hearing on the possibility of changing the
Business Administration continued authority to
Committee (Chairman Rangel, D-N.Y.) will
census questionnaire.
administer the Small Business Innovation Re-
hold a hearing to hear local and city officials
Time and room TBA July 1
search Program
discuss their perspective on drug problems.
Note: This markup was originally scheduled for
11am 2226 Rayburn Bldg. June 30
June 17.
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
March 10.
POSTAL SERVICE
UNESCO PROGRAMS
FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
Joint Hearing
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES &
Postal Operations and Services Sub-
Human Rights and International Organiza-
MEDICAID FRAUD
committee (Chairman McCloskey, D-Ind.) of
tions Subcommittee (Chairman Yatron, D-Pa.)
House Select Narcotics Abuse and Control
House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
and International Operations Subcommittee
Committee (Chairman Rangel, D-N.Y.) will
will hold a hearing on the financial activities of
(Chairman Berman, D-Calif.) of House Foreign
hold a hearing on fraud in the prescription of
the United States Postal Service.
Affairs Committee and House Science, Space
controlled substances through Medicaid.
10am 311 Cannon Bldg. July 23
and Technology Committee (Chairman Brown,
10am Room TBA July 29
D-Calif.) will hold an oversight hearing on the
United Nations Education, Cultural and Scien-
tific Organization (UNESCO), focusing on cur-
Post Office &
rent UNESCO programs.
9:30 2172 Rayburn Bldg. June 25
Civil Service
Public Works
225-4054
& Transportation
ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF
TRANSPORTATION ENERGY
225-4472
Environment Subcommittee (Chairman
DIVISION DIFFICULTIES
Scheuer, D-N.Y.) of House Science, Space and
Field Hearing
APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT
Technology Committee will hold a hearing on a
Postal Operations and Services Sub-
committee (Chairman McCloskey, D-Ind.) of
Economic Development Subcommittee
General Accounting Office report on policy
House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
(Chairman Kolter, D-Pa.) of House Public
options to address the environmental costs of
will hold a field hearing to service problems in
Works and Transportation Committee will
energy use in the transportation sector. The
hold a hearing on legislation (HR 4157) to
hearing will preview the report and assess the
the Indianapolis division.
reauthorize the Economic Development Ad-
trade-offs in using economic incentives, regula-
7pm Monroe County Courthouse, Blooming-
ton, Indiana June 22
ministration and the Appalachian Regional
tion and other approaches to accelerate the use
Council.
of vehicle technologies with reduced emission
9:30am 2253 Rayburn Bldg. June 23 & 25
and improved fuel economy.
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
Time & room TBA date TBA
CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS
May 14.
Witnesses scheduled: Victor Rezendes - General
Census and Population Subcommittee
Accounting Office, other witnesses TBA
(Chairman Sawyer, D-Ohio) of House Post
Note: This hearing was originally scheduled for
Office and Civil Service Committee will con-
May 19.
tinue a series of hearings on demographic
changes and America's changing profile, focus-
Rules
ing on household and family structure, children
and income patterns.
225-9486
1pm 311 Cannon Bldg. June 23 & 24, July
28
RULES FOR FLOOR DEBATE
Small Business
10am 311 Cannon Bldg. July 29
House Rules Committee (Chairman Moak-
225-5821
Agenda & witnesses scheduled:
ley, D-Mass.) will meet to consider rules for
June 23: Frances K. Goldscheider - professor of
floor debate for pending legislation.
REFORESTATION
sociology, Brown University; Kristin A. Moore
Time TBA H-313 Capitol Bldg. tentative
director of research, Child Trends, Inc.; Clifford
Field Hearing
M. Johnson director of family support, Chil-
June 22 & addl dates TBA
Regulation, Business Opportunities and
dren's Defense Fund
Agenda:
Energy Subcommittee (Chairman Wyden, D-
June 24: Patricia Ruggles - senior research asso-
June 22:
Ore.) of House Small Business Committee will
ciate, The Urban Institute; Margaret C. Simms
HR 542 Legislative Branch Appropriations
director of research programs, Joint Center for
Dates TBA:
hold a hearing to discuss reforestation and
Political and Economic Studies
HR 5368 Foreign Operations Appropriations
forest improvement on public lands.
July 28 & 29: U.S. educational system, U.S.
HR 5428 Military Construction Appropriations
10am World Forestry Center, 4033 South-
workforce trends
HR 5095 - Intelligence Authorization
west Canyon Road, Portland, Oregon. June 22
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Conference Committees
Veterans' Affairs
225-3527
VETERANS HEALTH CARE
EXPORT ADMINISTRATION
Conferees will meet on legislation (S 2344)
COMPENSATING SURVIVORS
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR
to improve the provision of health care and
OF VETERANS
3489) to reauthorize the Export Administra-
other services to veterans by the department of
tion Act of 1979.
Compensation, Pension and Insurance Sub-
Veterans Affairs.
Time & room TBA date TBA
committee (Chairman Applegate, D-Ohio) of
Time & room TBA date TBA
Senate conferees: Riegle, Cranston, Sarbanes,
House Veterans' Affairs Committee will hold a
House conferees: Montgomery, Edwards, Row-
Garn, Mack
hearing on legislation (HR 5008) to reform the
land, Stump, Hammerschmidt
House conferees:
formula for payment of dependency and in-
From the Committee on Foreign Affairs for the
demnity compensation to survivors of veterans
consideration of the House bill and Senate
dying from service-connected causes.
JOB TRAINING
amendment: Fascell, Gejdenson, Wolpe, John-
9am 334 Cannon Bldg. June 24
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR
ston, Engel, Murphy, Orton, Broomfield, Roth,
3033) to amend the Job Training Partnership
Bereuter, Miller, R-Wash.
Act to improve the delivery of services to hard-
From the Committee on Armed Services, for con-
to-serve youth and adults.
sideration of sections 120 and 303 of the Senate
Ways & Means
Time
amendment: Mavroules, Hertel, Pickett, Hunter,
Kyl
& room TBA date TBA
From the Committee on Banking, Finance & Urban
225-3625
Senate conferees: Kennedy; Metzenbaum; Simon;
Affairs for consideration of sections 201(c), 205,
Hatch; Thurmond
and 207-210 of the Senate amendment: Oakar,
LEAD PAINT ABATEMENT
House conferees: Ford, Williams, Perkins, An-
Neal, LaFalce, Leach, McCandless
Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee
drews, Olver, Goodling, Gunderson, Henry
From the Committee on Judiciary for consideration
(Chairman Rangel, D-N.Y.) of House Ways
of sections 120, 123, 502, of the House bill, and
and Means Committee will hold a hearing on
sections 121, 124, 302, 305, and 306 of the Senate
legislation (HR 2922) to establish an entitle-
FAMILY PLANNING
amendment: Brooks, Schumer, Hugees,
ment of states and certain political subdi-
Conferees will meet on legislation (S 323) to
Sensenbernner, Gekas,
visions of states to receive grants for the
amend title X of the Public Health Service Act
abatement of health hazards associated with
to revise and extend the programs of assistance
for family planning services
HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
lead-based paint, and to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 to impose an excise tax
Time & room TBA date TBA
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR
and establish a trust fund to satisfy the federal
House conferees: TBA
3508) to revise and extend certain programs
obligations arising from such entitlement.
Senate conferees: Kennedy, Harkin, Adams,
relating to the education of individuals as
Hatch, Kassebaum
health professionals.
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. July 1
Time & room TBA date TBA
Senate conferees: Kennedy, Metzenbaum, Simon,
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT
Hatch, Kassebaum
FOREIGN INCOME TAX
Conferees will meet on legislation (S 347) to
House conferees: Dingell, Waxman, Richardson,
House Ways and Means Committee (Chair-
amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to
Lent, Bliley
man Rostenkowski, D-Ill.) will hold hearings
revitalize the defense industrial base of the
on the Foreign Income Tax Rationalization and
United States
Simplification Act of 1992 (HR 5270).
Time & room TBA date TBA
PREVENTIVE HEALTH
10am 1100 Longworth Bldg. July 21 & 22
House conferees:
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR
From the House Banking Committee: Carper, La-
3635) to revise and extend the program of block
Falce, Oakar, Vento, Kanjorski, Ridge, Paxon,
grants for preventive health and health services
Hancock
Time & room TBA date TBA
Note
From the House Armed Services Committee: Aspin,
Senate conferees: Kennedy, Metzenbaum, Har-
Mavroules, Sisisky, Dickinson, Bateman
kin, Hatch, Kassebaum
The offices of all members of Congress
Additional conferees from House Energy Commit-
House conferees: Dingell, Waxman, Rowland,
tee: Dingell, Markey, Collins of Ill., Lent, Rinaldo
and all congressional committees and sub-
Lent, Bliley
Additional conferees from House Government Op-
committees may be reached by calling (202)
erations Committee: Conyers, English, Wise, Hor-
224-3121.
ton, Kyl
OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Additional conferees from House Judiciary Com-
mittee: Brooks, Edwards of Calif., Fish, Moor-
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR
head
2967) to reauthorize the Older Americans Act.
Additional conferees from House Ways and Means
Time & room TBA date TBA
Committee: Rostenkowski, Gibbons, Jenkins, Ar-
Senate conferees
cher, Crane
From the Committee on Labor and Human Re-
Senate conferees: Riegle, Sarbanes, Dixon, Garn,
sources: Kennedy, Metzenbaum, Adams, Hatch,
Gramm.
and Cochran
Note: At the end of the first session of the 102nd
From the Committee on Finance (solely for the
Joint Committees
Congress the House passed a bill (HR 3919) to
Social Security retirement earnings provisions):
temporarily extend the Defense Production Act
Bentsen, Moynihan and Packwood
through March 1, 1992.
House conferees: TBA
FAMILY & CHILD SERVICES
FEDERAL FACILITIES COMPLIANCE
Joint Economic
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR
Conferees will meet on HR 2194, Federal
2720) to extend for one year the authorizations
Facilities Compliance Act of 1991.
HOSPITAL INDUSTRY
of appropriations for the programs under the
Time & room TBA date TBA
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
Senate conferees: Burdick, Baucus, Moynihan,
IN 21st CENTURY
and the Family Violence Prevention and Ser-
Mitchell, Lautenberg, Chafee, Simpson, Duren-
Investment Jobs and Prices Subcommittee
berger, Warner
(Chairman Stark, D-Calif.) of Joint Economic
vices Act, and for certain programs relating to
House conferees:
Committee will continuine hearings on the
adoption opportunities.
From the Energy and Commerce Committee for
hospital industry in the 21st century.
Time & room TBA date TBA
consideration of the House bill, and the Senate
10am room TBA June 24
Senate conferees: Dodd, Kennedy, Adams, Hatch,
amendment, and modifications committed to
Coats
Agenda: Hospital mergers and joint ventures
conference; Dingell, Swift, Eckart, Slattery, Si-
House conferees:
korski, Lent, Ritter, Schaefer
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Other Events
As additional conferees from the Armed Services
Committee, for consideration of section 113 of the
Senate amendments, and modifications commit-
The Monitor has received notice of the
9am to 5pm 2128 Rayburn Bldg. June 24
ted to conference: Ray, Hochbrueckner; Saxton
following events scheduled to take place in
9am to 5pm 345 Cannon Bldg. June 25
As additional conferees from the Judiciary Com-
Washington. Associations, non-profit organiza-
mittee, for consideration of section 2(a) of the
Contact: Carol Vargo at 202-225-3106
tions and public interest groups who wish to
House bill, and section 103(a) of the Senate
have events listed in the section should send
amendment, and modifications committed to
conference: Brooks, Frank of Mass., Gekas
pertinent information to: The Congressional
PROSPECTS FOR FREETRADE
As additional conferees from the Merchant Marine
Monitor, Other Events Editor, 1414 22nd St.
Citizens for a Sound Economy will sponsor
Committee, for consideration of section 304(a) of
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037. Notices must
a conference on the prospects for free trade in
the Senate amendments, and modifications com-
include a telephone number. Notices may be
an election year.
mitted to conference: Jones of N.C., Studds,
transmitted by facsimile to 202-728-1862, attn:
8am to 1:30pm, Hyatt Regency on Capitol
Davis
Robert Healy. Only events related to Congress
As additional conferees from the Public Works
Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave. N.W. June 23
can be listed. Deadline is noon two days before
Committee, for consideration of sections 102, 109,
Contact: Mary Beth Morris at 202-488-8200
the date of issue (i.e. Monday noon for Wednes-
and 115-119 of the Senate amendments, and
Note: There is a $50 charge for this event, there is
modifications committed to conference: Roe, No-
day issue). The editors reserve the right to edit
no charge for congressional staff, executive
or reject any submission. For further informa-
branch staff and the media
wak, Hammerschmidt
As additional conferees from the Public Works
tion call 202-887-8686.
Committee, for consideration of title IV of the
Senate amendments, and modifications commit-
FACING AMERICA'S FOREIGN
ted to conference: Roe, Savage, Norton, Nowak,
GENETIC RESEARCH
POLICY FUTURE
Borski, Hammerschmidt, Shuster, Inhofe
Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus
The Atlantic Council will sponsor a panel
will sponsor a briefing on genetic research.
discussion on reshaping the nation's foreign
Noon B-339 Rayburn Bldg. June 22
policy to reflect an altered world situation.
FIXING
Contact: Garth Fitzgerald at 202-225-4315
4pm, National Press Club, 524 14th St., N.W.
Conferees will meet on legislation (S 429) to
June 23
amend the Sherman Act to strengthen laws
Contact: 202-347-9353, ext. 6840
against vertical price-fixing
AGRICULTURE AND
Time & room TBA date TBA
RUNOFF POLLUTION
House conferees: Brooks, Edwards of Calif., Synar,
Environmental and Energy Study Confer-
HEALTH ISSUES
Fish, Campbell of Calif.
Senate conferees: Biden, Kennedy, Metzenbaum,
ence will sponsor a briefing on government
National Health Council will sponsor a
Thurmond, Hatch
programs designed to curb water pollution
breakfast meeting to hear Sen. Bob Dole, R-
form agricultural runoff, which carries pesti-
Kan., discuss various health-care issues.
cides, animal wastes and nutrient-rich sedi-
8am to 10am, Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill,
ments into lakes and streams.
400 New Jersey Ave. N.W. June 24
Noon H-137 Capitol Bldg. June 22
Contact: 202-785-3910
FOLLOW-THROUGH ACT
Contact: Brian Gardner at 202-226-3300
Note: There is a charge for this event of $20 for
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR
members and $30 for non-members. Pre-registra-
2312) to make certain technical and conform-
tion is required
ing amendments to the Follow Through Act
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES
and the Head Start Transition Project Act.
The Atlantic Council will sponsor the final
Time & room TBA date TBA
HEALTH FORUM
event in a series of discussions on the reshaping
Senate Conferees: Kennedy, Pell, Metzenbaum,
Health Task Force of Women in Govern-
of the foreign policy and international presence
Hatch and Kassebaum
of the United States. The session will focus on
ment Relations will sponsor a forum on health
House Conferees: TBA
"Facing America's Foreign Policy Future."
issues.
4pm National Press Club, 524 14th St., N.W.
8am to 10am, Washington Court Hotel, 525
June 22
New Jersey Ave. N.W. June 24
Contact: 202-347-9353, ext. 6840 (media in-
Contact: Terri Gaffney at 202-554-4444, ext.
CFTC REAUTHORIZATION
quiries to Rian Smith; ext. 32)
323
Conferees will meet on legislation (HR 707)
Note: There is a charge for this event of $15 for
to improve the regulation of futures trading
members, $25 for guests and $30 for all others. For
and authorize appropriations for the Commod-
reservations send a check, made payable to WGR,
ENERGY & COMMERCE ISSUES
to:
ity Futures Trading Commission.
Telecommunications, Health, Environ-
WGR
Time and room TBA addl dates TBA
ment, Energy and Banking Task Forces of
1325 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.
Note: Conference began November 6
Women in Government Relations will sponsor
Suite 510
Senate conferees: Leahy, Boren, Heflin, Conrad,
an informal meeting with staff members of the
Washington D.C. 20005-4171
Lugar, Dole, Cochran
House conferees:
House Energy and Commerce Committee.
From the Committee on Agriculture, for consider-
5:30pm to 7pm, Dutko & Associates court-
yard, 412 First St. S.E. June 22
TELECOMMUNICATIONS,
ation of the House bill, and the Senate amend-
ment, and modifications committed to confer-
Contact: Nancy McCabe at 202-789-1993
ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY ISSUES
ence: de la Garza, English, Staggers, Stallings,
Note: There is a charge for this event of $25 for
American League of Lobbyists will sponsor
Nagle, Sarpalius, Johnson, Huckaby, Glickman,
members and $40 for non-members. For reserva-
a luncheon meeting to hear Rep. Billy Tauzin,
Penny, Espy, Long, Stenholm, Tallon, Coleman,
tions send a check, made payable to WGR, to:
D-La., discuss telecommunications, environ-
Smith of Ore., Gunderson, Combest, Allard, Bar-
Janet Allen
mental and energy issues including the
rett, Nussle, Boehner, Roberts
Women in Government Relations
reauthorzation of the Resource Conservation
From the Committee on Banking, Finance and
1325 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.
and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the pending
Urban Affairs, for consideration of section 263
Suite 510
cable bill.
and title III of the Senate amendment, and
Washington, D.C. 20005
modifications committed to conference: Gonzalez,
Noon, Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, 400 New
Annunzio, Neal, Hubbard, LaFalce, Oakar, Wylie,
Jersey Ave. N.W. June 24
Leach, McCollum, Roukema
Contact: Patti Jo Baber at 703-960-3011
HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC
From the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for
Note: There is a charge for this event of $35 for
consideration of section 263 and title III of the
Congressional Task Force on International
members and $45 for non-members. For reserva-
Senate amendment, and modifications commit-
HIV/AIDS and the Human Rights Project will
tions send a check, made payable to ALL, to:
ted to conference: Dingell, Markey, Scheuer, Sy-
sponsor a three-day congressional forum on the
American League of Lobbyists
nar Eckart, Slattery, Lent, Moorhead, Rinaldo,
HIV/AIDS pandemic.
P.O. Box 30005
Ritter
8:50am to 5pm 2175 Rayburn Bldg. June 23
Alexandria, Va. 22310
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Other continued
for a Multilateral Steel Agreement."
advance and $35 at the door, for reservations call
Noon to 1:30pm, Montpelier dining room,
the number listed above.
TRADE ISSUES &
Library of Congress Madison Bldg., 101 Inde-
THE 92 CAMPAIGN
pendence Ave. S.E. June 30
Association of Women in International
Contact: 703-532-9048
SUPERFUND
Trade will sponsor a luncheon meeting to hear
Note: There is a charge for this event of $10 for
Natural Resources Committee of District of
members and $15 for non-members. For reserva-
U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills discuss
tions call the number listed above. Deadline for
Columbia Bar Association will sponsor a panel
"International Trade Issues in the '92 Cam-
reservations is noon the day before the luncheon
discussion on damage claims for injuries to
paign and Beyond."
is scheduled.
natural resources under the Superfund law.
Noon to 1:30pm, 1st Amendment room, Na-
Noon to 2pm, D.C. Bar Association meeting
tional Press Club, 529 14th St. N.W. June 24
rrom, 7th floor, 1707 ST. N.W. July 15
Contact: Trish Babyak at 202-783-2000
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Contact: 202-331-4364
Note: There is a charge for this event of $27.50 for
Washington Foundation for Psychiatry will
Note: There is a charge for this event of $18 for
members and $37.50 for non-members. For res-
ervations and information call the number listed
sponsor a panel discussion on sexual harass-
members, $23 for non-members and $10 for sec-
ment in the workplace.
tion government and public interest lawyers.
above.
For reservations send a check, made payable to D.C.
8:30an to 10:30am, Washington Foundation
Bar, to:
for Psychiatry, room 302, 1400 K St. N.W. July
Natural Resources Damage Claims Program
REVOLVING DOOR
9
D.C. Bar, Sections Office
Capitol Hill Chapter of the Federal Bar
Contact: Carole Berke at 202-789-0442
1707 LST. N.W., 6th Floor
Association will sponsor a program on The
Note: There is a charge for this event of $30 in
Washington, D.C. 20036-4203
Myth of the Revolving Door: Lawyering In and
Out of Government."
Noon to 2pm, SR-385 Russell Bldg. June 25
Contact: 202-862-4383
Note: There is a $10 charge for this event, which
includes a lunch sandwich. Call the number listed
Campaign Future Listings
above for reservations.
from Reuters
WHISTLE-BLOWERS
The Cavallo Foundation in association with
The Monitor has received notice of the
REPUBLICANS
the Fund for Constitutional Government, the
following congressional and presidential cam-
Government Accountability Project and the
paign events scheduled to take place in Wash-
Pat Buchanan
Project on Government Procurement will spon-
ington. Organizations that wish to have events
Contact: Chris Tremblay 703-790-9292
sor an event highlighting moral courage in the
listed in the section should send pertinent
June 19 (indefinitely)
workplace.
information to: The Congressional Monitor,
In Washington, D.C.
5:30pmm to 7:30pm, 122 Maryland Ave. N.E.
Other Events Editor, 1414 22nd St. N.W.,
No campaign-related events are scheduled.
June 25
Washington, D.C. 20037. Notices must include
Contact: Christy Law at 202-408-0034
a telephone number. Notices may be transmit-
Bush-Quayle
Congressional highlight: Rep. John Dingell, D-
ted by facsimile to 202-728-1862, attn: Robert
Contact: Torie Clarke or Devorah Goldberg,
Mich.
Healy. Fundraisers will not be listed. Deadline
202-336-7080
is noon two days before the date of issue (i.e.
June 19
WRITING EFFECTIVE
Monday noon for Wednesday issue). The edi-
PRESIDENT BUSH
tors reserve the right to edit or reject any
In California
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
submission. For further information call 202-
See "Meetings Scheduled Today" section for
Communications Skills and Congressional
887-8686.
schedule
Relations Committees of the Government Re-
June 20
lations Institute will sponsor a workshop on
PRESIDENT BUSH
writing effective congressional testimony.
In California and Dallas, Texas
2pm to 4pm, Bellcore, 2101 L St. N.W. June
7:30am: Boards motorcade and departs Four
26
Candidates
Seasons Hotel en route Tustin Marine Corps Air
Station.
Contact: Stephanie Mensh at 202-737-6662
7:45am: Arrives Tustin Marine Corps Air Station
or Mag Gottlieb at 202-347-1222
and boards Marine One.
Note: There is a charge for this event of $25 for
DEMOCRATS
7:50am: Departs Tustin Marine Corps Air Station
members and $40 for non-members. For reserva-
en route Universal City landing zone.
tions send a check, made payable to WGR, to:
Jerry Brown
8:15am: Arrives Universal City landing zone and
Janet Allen
Women in Government Relations
Contact: California, 310-449-1909
boards motorcade.
1325 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.
June 19-22
8:20am: Departs Universal City landing zone en
Washington, D.C. 20005
No campaign events are scheduled.
route Universal City Hilton & Towers.
8:25am: Arrives Universal City Hilton & Towers.
Deadline is June 18
8:30am to 8:55am: Attends roundtable discussion
Bill Clinton
with leadership of taxpayer organizations. Pool
coverage.
LOBBYING TECHNIQUES
Contact: Richard Mintz, Steven Cohen, or
9am to 9:25am: Addresses Howard Jarvis Taxpay-
Congressional Quarterly will hold a seminar
Julia Payne, 501-372-1992
ers Association. Open press.
on "Lobbying for the '90s: Strategic Planning
June 19
9:30am: Boards motorcade and departs Universal
)
for a Changing Environment.
In Little Rock, Ark.
City Hilton & Towers en route Universal City
9am to 4:30pm, Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza
See "Meetings Scheduled Today" section for
landing zone.
Metro Center, 775 12th St. N.W. June 30
schedule
9:35am: Arrives Universal City landing zone and
Note: There is a $345 charge for this event. For
June 20
boards Marine One.
reservations call 202-887-8620
In Conway, Ark.
9:40am: Departs Universal City landing zone en
10:45am: Gives a speech. Governor's School,
route El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.
Hendrix College, Staples Hall.
10:10am: Arrives El Toro Marine Corps Air Sta-
STEELTRADE POLICY
RON Little Rock, Ark.
tion and boards Air Force One.
10:20am: Departs Orange County, Calif., en route
National Economists Club will sponsor a
June 23
Dallas, Texas.
luncheon meeting to hear Joseph Papovich,
In New York City
3:15pm: Arrives Love Field, Dallas, Texas, and
deputy U.S. trade representive for industry,
7am to 8am: Appears on ABC's Good Morning
boards motorcade.
America program. Clinton will participate in a
discuss "U.S. Steel Trade Policy and Prospects
3:25pm: Departs Love Field en route Dallas
conversation with a undetermined panel.
Convention Center.
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3:45pm: Arrives Dallas Convention Center.
3:50pm to 4:20pm: Addresses Texas State Repub-
lican Convention. Open press.
4:25pm: Boards motorcade and departs Dallas
Convention Center en route Love Field.
4:45pm: Arrives Love Field and boards Air Force
One.
4:50pm: Departs Dallas en route Andrews AFB,
Md.
8:20pm: Arrives Andrews AFB, Md.
8:30pm: Departs Andrews AFB en route Camp
David, Md.
9:05pm: Arrives Camp David, Md.
INDEPENDENTS
Ross Perot
Contact: 214-716-6500
June 19
See "Meetings Scheduled Today" section for
schedule
June 20
In Boston, Mass.
1pm: Parade from City Hall Plaza to Boston
Common.
2:30pm: Rally. Contact Phillip Rierdan, 508-435-
0940.
June 24
In Annapolis, Md.
Noon: Meets 24 boats from throughout Mary-
land carry petitions. Annapolis City Dock.
Contact Anne Hallett, 410-263-8600
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Status of Appropriations — Fiscal 1993
Week of June 15
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 1
House subcmte markup completed:
June 12
FULL COMMITTEE
House full cmte markup completed:
June 18
House: 225-2771; Senate: 224-3471
House full cmte markup scheduled:
INTERIOR
Agenda (tentative):
House: 225-3081; Senate: 224-7233
Agriculture
June 25
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 27
Defense
date TBA
House subcmte markup completed:
June 16
Interior
June 29
Senate subcmte hearings scheduled:
June 18
Transportation
July 1
Treasury/Postal Service
June 25
LABOR/HHS/EDUC
House: 225-3508; Senate: 224-7283
AGRICULTURE
House: 225-2638; Senate: 224-7240
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 19
House subcmte hearings completed:
April 29
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
House subcmte markup completed:
June 10
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
April 7
House: 225-5338; Senate: 224-7338
Bill No:
HR 5427
COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE,
House subcmte hearings completed:
January 29
&THEJUDICIARY
House subcmte markup completed:
June 10
House: 225-3351; Senate: 224-7277
House full cmte markup completed:
June 18
H Rpt 102-579
House subcmte hearings completed:
April7
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
February 7
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
May 9
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
DEFENSE
House: 225-3047; Senate: 224-7255
House: 225-2847; Senate: 224-7255
Bill No:
HR 5428
House subcmte hearings completed:
May 7
House subcmte hearings completed:
March 25
House subcmte markup completed:
June 18
House subcmte markup completed:
June 11
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
June 3
House full cmte markup completed:
June 18
H Rpt 102-580
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
House: 225-5338; Senate: 224-7236
TRANSPORTATION
House subcmte markup completed:
June 17
House: 225-2141; Senate: 224-7245
House subcmte hearings completed:
April 30
ENERGY & WATER DEVELOPMENT
House subcmte markup completed:
June 11
House: 225-3421; Senate: 224-7260
Senate subcmte hearings completed:
May 14
Bill No:
HR 5373
TREASURY/POSTALSERVICE
House subcmte hearings completed:
March 31
House subcmte markup completed:
June 4
House: 225-5834; Senate: 224-6280
House full cmte markup completed:
June 11
House subcmte hearings completed:
April 9
H Rpt 102-556
House subcmte markup completed:
June 10
FOREIGN OPERATIONS
VA, HUD & INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
House: 225-2041; Senate: 224-7209
House: 225-3241; Senate: 224-7211
Bill No:
HR 5368
House subcmte hearings completed:
April 30
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Friday, June 19, 1992
House Floor Action
Week of June 15
SCHUMER, D-N.Y., amendment, to pro-
vide $4,300,000 for the Reduced Enrichment
Research Test Reactor Program for fuel devel-
opment and technical assistance, agreed to by
Monday, June 15:
voice vote
Under suspenson of the rules
WOLPE, D-Mich., amendment, to strike
HConRes 331 Authorizing use of Capitol Grounds for the
the funding for the advanced liquid metal reac-
Soapbox Derby passed by voice
tor, rejected by yea-nay vote: 141-282
HR 4548
Authorize Contributions to U.N. peacekeep-
WALKER, R-Pa., amendment, to provide
ing activities passed by voice
$6,000,000 for hydrogen research, agreed to by
HR 4999
Additional appropriations for implementation
voice vote
of the development plan for Pennsylvania
WOLPE, D-Mich., amendment, to strike
Avenue between the Capitol and the White
$26,000,000 for the SP-100 space reactor pro-
House passed by voice
gram, rejected by yea-nay vote: 189-233
BROWN, D-Calif., amendment, to provide
that no funds made available by the bill may be
obligated for the superconducting super collider
Tuesday, June 16:
after June 1, 1993, unless commitments for
S 250
National Voter Registration Act of 1991
contributions from international sources meet
Rule, H Res 480, providing for consider-
or exceed a total of $650,000,000 for fiscal years
ation of S 250, agreed to by yea-nay vote: 264-
1993, 1994 and 1995, agreed to by voice vote
157
ROEMER, D-Ind., amendment, to state
Earlier, the House agreed to order the
that no appropriated funds be used to allow any
previous question on the rule, by yea-nay vote:
country, with a financial obligation to the
256-163
United States, to be allowed to exchange or
SOLOMON, R-N.Y., point of order against
supplant, in any way, machinery, equipment,
consideration of the rule, H Res 480, on the
technology or other substitute in lieu of their
grounds that it violates both House rule XI,
monetary obligation, withdrawn by unanimous
clause 4(b) and House rule XLIII, overruled
consent
Subsequently a WHEAT, D-Mo., motion to
ECKART, D-Ohio, amendment, to elimi-
table the SOLOMON appeal of the ruling of
nate all funding for continuation of the
the Chair on the SOLOMON motion, was
superconducting super collider project, for
agreed to by yea-nay vote: 250-158
which the bill earmarks a total of $484 million,
THOMAS, R-Calif., substitute amendment,
agreed to by yea-nay vote: 232-181
to authorize a total of $25 million for fiscal years
PENNY, D-Minn., amendment, to reduce
1992 through 1994 for a block grant to states to
the Energy Department's departmental admin-
support, facilitate and enhance voter registra-
istration account by. 5 percent or about $21
tion, rejected by yea-nay vote: 133-290
million, agreed to by yea-nay vote: 404-12
S 250 passed in House by yea-nay vote: 268-
On a subsequent WALKER, R-Pa., de-
153.
mand for a separate vote, the above PENNY
S 250 is now cleared for the president.
amendment was agreed to by voice vote
HR 2660
Authorization of appropriations for the United
SKEEN, R-N.M., motion to recommit the
States Holocaust Memorial Council
bill to the Committee on Appropriations, re-
HR 2660, as amended, passed House by.
jected by voice vote
voice vote, under suspension of the rules (two-
HR 5373, as amended, passed in House by
thirds vote required). (title amended).
yea-nay vote: 365-51
HR 5099
Central Valley Project Improvement Act
Rule, H Res 486, providing for consider-
Wednesday, June 17:
ation of HR 5099, agreed to by voice vote
[Continued June 18]
HR 5373
Making appropriations for energy and water
HR 4996
Jobs Through Exports Act of 1992
development for the fiscal year ending Sep-
Rule, H Res 489, providing for consider-
tember 30, 1993
ation of HR 4996, agreed to by voice vote
Rule, H Res 485, waiving certain points of
FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE sub-
order during consideration of HR 5373, agreed
stitute amendment, pending at recess
to by yea-nay vote: 377-44
GEJDENSON, D-Conn., amendment, to
BURTON, R-Ind., amendment, to strike
the above FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
$110,000 from the preconstruction engineering
substitute amendment, to make technical
and design funds for the Casino Beach, III.,
changes and clarifications to allow the use of
project, rejected by yea-nay vote: 104-323
local currencies for direct loans and investments
BURTON, Ind., amendment, to strike
by the Overseas Private Investment Corpora-
$800,000 from the preconstruction engineering
tion, pending at recess
and design funds for the Chicago Shoreline, Ill.,
[Continued]
project, rejected by voice vote
BURTON, R-Ind., amendment, to strike
$2,800,000 from the preconstruction and design
Thursday, June 18:
for the Red River Waterway, between Shreve-
port, La., and Daingerfield, Texas, rejected by
HConRes 192 Establish a Joint Committee on the Organiza-
yea-nay vote: 105-319
tion of Congress passed 412-4
Friday, June 19, 1992
Congressional Monitor
Page 19
House continued.
HR 4771
Designate the facility of the U.S. Postal Ser-
vice being constructed at FM 1098 Loop in
Prairie View, Texas, as the "Esel D. Bell Post
Office Building" begin consideration
HR 4786
Designate the facility of the U.S. Postal Ser-
HR 5132
CONFERENCE REPORT: dire emergency
vice located at 20 South Main in Beaver City,
supplemental appropriations agreed to 249-
Utah, as the "Abe Murdock United States
168
Post Office Building" begin consideration
HR 4505
Designate the facility of the U.S. Postal Ser-
vice located at 20 South Montgomery Street
Friday, June 19:
in Trenton, NJ, as the "Arthur J. Holland
Not in session
United States Post Office Building" begin con-
sideration
Week of June 22
Tuesday, June 23:
HR 5427
Legislative branch appropriations begin con-
sideration
Monday, June 22:
Convenes at Noon
Wednesday, June 24:
HR 5055
Coast Guard reauthorization begin consider-
ation
HR 5368
Foreign operations appropriations begin con-
Under suspension of the rules:
sideration
HR 1624
Provide for the establishment of a memorial
HR 5428
Military Construction appropriations begin
on federal land within the District of Colum-
consideration
bia to honor members of the armed forces
HR 4996
Extend the authorities of the Overseas Pri-
who served in World War II, and to express
vate Investment Corporation continue consid-
the sense of congress concerning the U.S.
eration
participation in that conflict begin consider-
HR 5095
Authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1993
ation
for intelligence and intelligence-related ac-
HR 3711
Authorize grants to be made to state pro-
tivities of the U.S. government and the Cen-
grams designed to provide resources to per-
tral Intelligence Agency Retirement and Dis-
sons who are nutritionally at risk in the form
ability System begin consideration
of fresh nutritious unprepared foods begin
HR 3247
Establish a National Undersea Research
consideration
Program within the National Oceanic and
HR 5412
Authorize the transfer of certain naval ves-
Atmospheric Administration begin consider-
sels to Greece and Taiwan begin consideration
ation
HR
Designate Robert Roe federal building begin
HR 4310
Reauthorize and improve the national marine
consideration
sanctuaries program, and to establish the
HR
Designate John Paul Hammerschmidt fed-
Coastal Sanctuary Foundation begin consider-
eral building begin consideration
ation
S 2703
Authorize the president to appoint General
HR 2637
Transfer ownership of the Waste Isolation
Thomas C. Richards to the Office of Adminis-
Pilot Project (WIPP) in New Mexico from the
trator of the Federal Aviation Administration
Interior Department to the Energy Depart-
begin consideration
ment begin consideration
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Congressional Monitor
Friday, June 19, 1992
Senate Floor Action
Week of June 15
SJRes 310
Designate August 1, 1992, as "Helsinki Hu-
man Rights Day." passed by unanimous con-
sent
Monday, June 15:
S 55
Amend the National Labor Relations Act and
Wednesday, June 17:
the Railway Labor Act to prevent discrimi-
S 1985
National Bankruptcy Review Commission
nation based on participation in labor dis-
Act
putes
[Continued from June 16]
[Continued from June 14]
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE substitute
LABOR & HUMAN RESOURCES COM-
amendment, as amended, agreed to by voice
MITTEE modified substitute amendment,
vote
pending at recess.
SANFORD, D-N.C., amendment no. 2427,
[Continued June 16]
to the above JUDICIARY COMMITTEE sub-
stitute amendment, to make technical correc-
tions to section 205, relating to small business
Tuesday, June 16:
provisions, agreed to by voice vote
SRes 315
SANFORD, D-N.C., amendment no. 2428,
Congratulate the Chicago Bulls on winning
to the above JUDICIARY COMMITTEE sub-
the 1992 National Basketball Association
stitute amendment, to clarify the interpretation
Championship agreed to by voice vote
of section 206, which sets out the circumstances
S 55
Amend the National Labor Relations Act and
in which a bankruptcy judge can issue injunctive
the Railway Labor Act to prevent discrimi-
relief with respect to tort claims against the
nation based on participation in labor dis-
debtor in certain circumstances, agreed to by
putes
voice vote
[Continued from June 15]
HEFLIN, D-Ala., amendment no. 2429, to
LABOR & HUMAN RESOURCES COM-
the above JUDICIARY COMMITTEE substi-
MITTEE modified substitute amendment,
tute amendment, to strike section 206(g)(9), and
pending at recess
to make certain technical corrections, agreed to
MITCHELL, D-Maine, motion to close de-
by voice vote.
bate (cloture motion) on consideration of the
DANFORTH, R-Mo., modified amendment
LABOR & HUMAN RESOURCES COMMIT-
no. 2426, to the above JUDICIARY COMMIT-
TEE modified substitute amendment to S 55,
TEE substitute amendment, to express the
rejected by yea-nay vote: 57-42 (3/5's vote re-
sense of the Senate that public officials and
quired)
candidates for public office should make pro-
Cloture not having been invoked, S 55 was
posals and engage in discussion on reducing the
pulled from Senate consideration.
deficit, and that the candidates for president
S 1985
National Bankruptcy Review Commission
should agree to a formal discussion that focuses
Act
entirely on the federal budget deficit, as
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE substitute
amended, agreed to by yea-nay vote: 65-32
amendment, pending at recess
MITCHELL, D-Maine, substitute amend-
HEFLIN, D-Ala., substitute amendment
ment no. 2430, to the above DANFORTH
no. 2424, to the above JUDICIARY COMMIT-
amendment no. 2426, agreed to by voice vote
TEE substitute amendment, agreed to by voice
S 1985, as amended, passed in Senate by
vote
yea-nay vote: 97-0
GRAHAM, D-Fla., modified amendment
S 1623
Audio Home Recording Act of 1991
no. 2425, to the above JUDICIARY COMMIT-
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE substitute
TEE substitute amendment, to clarify the treat-
amendment, as amended, agreed to by voice
ment of employee-sponsored pension plans,
vote
agreed to by voice vote
RIEGLE, D-Mich. (for DECONCINI, D-
DANFORTH, R-Mo., modified amendment
Ariz., and HATCH, R-Utah), substitute amend-
no. 2426, to the above JUDICIARY COMMIT-
ment no. 2431, to the above JUDICIARY COM-
TEE substitute amendment, to express the
MITTEE substitute amendment, agreed to by
sense of the Senate that public officials and
voice vote.
candidates for public office should make pro-
S 1623, as amended, passed in Senate by
posals and engage in discussion on reducing the
voice vote.
deficit, and that the candidates for president
should agree to a formal discussion that focuses
entirely on the federal budget deficit, pending at
recess
Thursday, June 18:
HEFLIN, D-Ala., unanimous consent re-
HR 5132
CONFERENCE REPORT: dire emergency
quest providing for further consideration of the
supplemental appropriations began consider-
bill, the pending DANFORTH amendment and
ation
certain amendments to be proposed, on
Wednesday, June 17, 1992, agreed to by unani-
mous consent
Friday, June 19:
[Continued June 17]
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MEN OF THE PEOPLE
SPOTLIGHT
Bush comes out of White
House, Perot off TV screen to
MURPHY SOULJAH
CA events with live voters.
BUSH revives "Ask George
Two-party politics are a
Bush" at recycling firm. (#8)
battle for the middle. Is a
PEROT's "long on homilies but
three-way race the same?
short on substance" orations
Suddenly those with
give ralliers what they came
"nowhere else to go" have
for. Orange Co. hears message
somewhere else to go.
of racial healing. (#3)
Has Bill Clinton adopted
GUEST OF PRESIDENTS & KINGS
his own reverse version of
Clinton stages photo-op with
an unthinkable Murphy Brown
Russia's Boris. (#6) Chats up
strategy? And not just in
CNN's Larry. (#7)
getting press by singling
NO RELIEF: Jackson sees
out a target. When Quayle
Clinton "character flaw. " (#5)
attacked the TV anchor, was
he securing his base for a
"COMPLETE AND TOTAL IRRITATION"
3-way race while risking
Marilyn Quayle speaks out on
offense to the middle?
press and the Spud Scud. (#9)
When Clinton attacked
Sister Souljah, was he
PARTY CRASHERS
risking offense to his base
Heath on CO ballot. (#11)
while reaching out to the
IN Gov. nominee almost quits
great middle?
GOP ticket over AG nod. (#14)
Editorials back Clinton
12TH AMENDMENT FEARS GROW
(#10) -- but Jackson fumes
HOTLINE INDEX Panel projects
(#5) -- and Perot's stump
3-way race will go to the House
language holds door open
(#1). Pledge pressure for
(#3). Stay tuned.
Reps.; Const. convention? (#2)
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I came out of professional curiosity.
I've never seen a snake oil salesman before."
-- Dan Schnur, Communications Dir. for CA Gov. Pete Wilson (R),
at Perot's Sacramento event, N.Y. TIMES, 6/19. (#3)
THE APN BULLETIN BOARD
FROM TODAY'S GREENWIRE: AZ could be "national battle-zone"
if enviros get property rights measure on the ballot.
FROM TODAY'S DAILY REPORT CARD: Congress passes an urban aid
bill that would provide 360,000 summer jobs for youth.
FROM TODAY'S ABORTION REPORT: FOCA clears first hurdle --
passes House Judic. sbcmte, 5-3; full cmte vote next week.
FROM TODAY'S HEALTH LINE: House Dems may reach consensus on
reform; new compromise plan includes national spending cap.
HOTLINE/DATABASE INDEX
WHITE HOUSE '92
HOTLINE INDEX: Panel says it is headed for the House. (#1)
THE HOUSE PICKS THE PRESIDENT: What to do, what to do. (#2)
PEROT: Preaching to the faithful in California. (#3)
PEROT: Media buys, platform, statelines, etc. (#4)
CLINTON: Jackson says remarks show "character flaw." (#5)
CLINTON: "My what a young man you are." (#6)
CLINTON: Spends an hour at Perot's birthplace. (#7)
BUSH: California trip draws protest. (#8)
QUAYLE: Marilyn "irritated" over Spud Scud. (#9)
HOW'S IT PLAYIN'
CLINTON AND SISTER SOULJAH: Editorial sampler. (#10)
SENATE WATCH
CO: Heath qualifies as expected; criticizes Wirth. (#11)
ON THE HOUSE
REDISTRICTING UPDATE: MA. (#12)
HOUSE RACE BRIEFING: AZ, MD, ME, MA, SC. (#13)
GOVERNORS '92
IN: Pearson threat to drop off ticket not heeded. (#14)
TV MONITOR (#15)
???? OVERLOOKED ????
Perot's AZ finance chair, George Leonard, is former
Exec. VP of MeraBank, a failed S&L (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 6/19).
HITE HOUSE '92
*1 HOTLINE INDEX: PANEL SAYS IT IS HEADED FOR THE HOUSE
The INDEX is the HOTLINE's equivalent of the college
coaches' poll -- a periodic composite rating of the '92 race by a
bipartisan panel of 50 HOTLINE Contributing Analysts.
ELECTORAL COLLEGE PROJECTIONS: INDEX panelists this week
projected state-by-state showings of Bush, Clinton and Perot in
the Electoral College. The composite panel projected that Bush
will win 28 states with 222 Electors, Clinton will win 18 states
(and DC) with 214 Electors, and Perot will win 4 states with 102
Electors. That result would mean none of the three would win a
majority of 270 in the Electoral College and the president would
be chosen by the House of Representatives under the 12th
Amendment. The full panel projected the states as follows:
BUSH: AL, AK, AZ, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KS, ME, MS, MO, MT,
NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NC, ND, OH, SC, SD, UT, VT, VA, WY.
CLINTON: AR, DC, HI, IL, IA, KY, LA, MD, MA, MI, MN, NY, OR, PA,
RI, TN, WA, WV, WI.
PEROT: CA, CO, OK, TX.
Each group of party panelists also forecast that the race
would go into the House: The Dems thought it would be Bush 221
electors, Clinton 206, and Perot 111; the GOPers thought it would
be Bush 249, Clinton 195 and Perot 94. The first Electoral Map
of the INDEX Panel last month showed Bush winning outright with
318 Electors, Clinton 185 and Perot 35 (see HOTLINE 5/19).
VICE-PRESIDENT PICKS: Not one INDEX panelist thought Bush
would drop Quayle. Potential Clinton choices ranged widely, with
surprising strength for CA Treasurer/Jerry's sister Kathleen
Brown and TX Gov. Ann Richards (Jerry Austin: "Double schneid --
TX + women"). There was a widespread assumption that Jeane
Kirkpatrick would be Perot's VP. One new name mentioned for
Perot -- Walter Cronkite.
LABOR DAY TRIAL HEAT: The INDEX Panel was asked to predict
what the polls would look like on Labor Day -- and why. Most saw
a close 3-way race (E.g., Dem Karl Struble sees it 32%-30%-30%
with Perot ahead). Some in both parties saw Perot fading: Dem
Terry Michael saw him falling to 18% with the other two tied at
36%; Dick Dresner (R) saw Bush at 37%, Clinton at 35% and Perot
dropping to 16%. And some in both parties saw him continuing to
ride high: Dem Mark Squier saw it Perot 38%, Bush 32%, Clinton
23% ("because Perot's convention will be the most successful one
of the summer") ; GOP's Robert Goodman predicts Perot 43%, Bush
35%, Clinton 22% ("Bush will adopt 'fighting underdog' role
Clinton to be left playing sax at jazz club on NY's Upper West
Side").
NEW HOUSE: Panel estimates of new Members of the House of
Representatives in January 1993 range from 107 to 250 -- with the
average at 136 first-time Members.
*2 THE HOUSE PICKS A PRESIDENT: WHAT TO DO, WHAT TO DO
"WHAT IF" SCENARIOS: Daily accounts are appearing of what
Sen. David Pryor (D-AR) calls "a Constitutional calamity" ("GMA"
ABC, 6/19). The "calamity" could occur under the 12th Amendment
process of electing a president if no one gets an Electoral
College majority: The House picks the president from the top 3,
with one vote per state, and 26 votes to win; the Senate picks
the VP from the top 2, with one vote per Senator, and 51 votes to
win. BOSTON GLOBE's Robinson offers a scenario where neither the
House nor Senate can act by 1/20/93 and Speaker Tom Foley is
sworn in under the laws of succession (6/18). AP's Tom Raum's
version assumes Foley wouldn't want to resign from the House for
a temporary job, and sees next-in-line Sen. Pres. Pro-Tem Robert
Byrd (D-WV) sworn in (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 6/17). GREENVILLE
NEWS' Dan Hoover has a version that assumes the GOP wins a Senate
majority in November, making new Senate Pro-Tem Strom Thurmond
(R-SC), at age 90, sworn in as president (6/14).
ADVANCE PROMISES: House Members and candidates are far from
a uniform answer when pressed how they would vote under such a
circumstance. A poll of TX incumbents and challengers shows few
ready to make the call: Rep. Jack Fields (R-TX) promised to vote
as his congressional district voted but others hedged. Rep. Mike
Andrews (D-TX), for example, wouldn't "focus on unlikely
hypothetical electoral possibilities" (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 6/18).
A survey of SC members produces a range of answers: Rep. Robin
Tallon (D) and Rep. Arthur Ravenel (R) would vote as their CDs;
Rep. Liz Patterson (D) would "look at" all options; Rep. John
Spratt (D) "I don't think anybody can make that decision until
he's seen the outcome in November" (GREENVILLE NEWS, 6/14).
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) strongly advocates that everybody
vote for the winner of the nat'l popular vote ("GMA," ABC 6/19).
So does Rep. Tim Penny (D-MN), while Rep. Ron LaFalce (D-NY)
feels Members must be able to hear their own conscience (W.S.
JOURNAL, 6/19). A ROLL CALL editorial warns "any Member who
announces his intentions in advance
...
is making an enormous
mistake. The permutations are too numerous. Say, for example,
that you're a Democrat who has pledged to back the winner of a
plurality of the popular vote nationwide (in this case, presume
it's Bush), but in your own district Bush runs third with 10% of
the vote behind Clinton with 60% and Perot with 30% ...
or
consider a circumstance in which important new information comes
out about a candidate in the two months between the election and
the House balloting" (6/18). HOTLINE publisher Doug Bailey: "If
the public perceives that it might go to the House, then their
vote for Congress is going to be tied to their vote for president
If the Democrats play that wrong, they could lose the House"
("Charlie Rose Show, WNET-TV, 6/17; LEARNING CHANNEL, 6/18).
CHANGING RULES MID-GAME: S.F EXAMINER's Chris Matthews said
the House picking a president "is a doomsday scenario, when the
American people have their choice denied to them because of a
wrinkle in the Constitution" ("GMA," ABC, 6/19). GOP Senators
Gorton (WA), McConnell (KY), Bond (MO), Warner (VA), Stevens (AK)
and Seymour (CA) have introduced a Constitutional amendment to
set up a runoff election between the top two in the Electoral
College; the runoff would occur three weeks after the general
election. Rep. Paul Gilmour (R-OH) is sponsoring a similar bill
in the House. But "practically no one" thinks the Constitution
can be changed by election day (ROLL CALL, 6/18). McConnell
doesn't think "we ought to scrap the Electoral College itself,
because it guarantees that minorities and small states are still
part of the system" ("GMA," ABC, 6/19). But OH state Sen. Paul
Pfeifer (D) is launching a call for a constitutional convention
to do just that. While not wanting to have it be seen as a stop-
Perot act, he admits it could do that if it happened immediately.
He has introduced his amendment in OH, and 2/3 of the state
legislatures would have to adopt it before a national convention
could happen. Pfeifer anticipates using the July meeting of the
National Council of State Legislatures in Cincinnati to begin a
national movement (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 6/18).
*3 PEROT: PREACHING TO THE FAITHFUL IN CALIFORNIA
"In a tangy speech long on homilies but short on substance,
Ross Perot told thousands of supporters
they are about to
embark on a 'long, hot march' guided by the 'pioneer's creed' by
which 'the cowards never started, the weak died on the way, and
only the strong survived" (Trounstine, S.J. MERCURY NEWS, 6/19).
Addressing a crowd from the steps of the Capitol at Sacramento,
"Perot called for the nation to rebuild its industrial job base
and deteriorating public works systems. He did not put forth any
specific proposals for doing so, however, offering instead a
series of sometimes familiar sound-bite slogans, homilies and
home-spun wisdom" (Roberts, S.F. CHRONICLE, 6/19). The
"vagueness did not seem to bother the crowd, which cheered
lustily when he declared it is time to 'take out the trash and
clean out the barn'' (Lehigh, BOSTON GLOBE, 6/19). Perot told
crowds in both Sacramento and later in Irvine that a signature-
gathering drive to place his name on the CA ballot "has been a
striking success, with volunteers collecting ten times the number
of signatures needed.' While Perot and advisers have "promised
an unconventional campaign,' the CA rallies "had all the
trappings of off-the-shelf political rallies
Perot himself
dished up a heaping bowl of political oratory, and the crowds
loved it" (Broder/Cheevers, L.A. TIMES, 6/19). "For a moment,
anyway, the campaign looked almost conventional -- and sounded
like it as well -- the satiric jabs at opponents, the unmeasured
praise for supporters, the repeated punchlines of the stump
speech" (Von Drehle/Yang, W. POST, 6/19). Perot "mocked" Bush
and Clinton's efforts "to match his media-savvy, populist
appeal": "Both candidates have come up with ways to actually
communicate and talk directly with the people and listen to the
people over television talk shows. Fascinating. Now hold your
hat here -- the president had a press conference. Why? Governor
Clinton is on television playing the saxophone. And Vice
President Quayle is trying to figure out how to spell potato"
(S.F. CHRONICLE, 6/19). In Irvine, Perot joked about the
difficulty of adding petitions county-by-county: "I tried to get
Dan Quayle to come out and add it up. Now, you know, to his
credit, he wanted to do it. But he's still working on his
spelling and couldn't come" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 6/19). USA
TODAY reports the crowd of 6,000 in Sacramento "was the biggest
since President Reagan spoke on the Capitol grounds in 1984"
(6/19). Balto. SUN's Germond calls the rallies a "warning shot"
to Bush and Clinton of Perot's seriousness in CA (6/19). Perot
"was briefly flustered by a local group of protesters chanting
'talk about the issues.' He seemed to lose his place in his
remarks as they shouted, and failed to toss them a barb in his
usual manner" (Firestone, N.Y. NEWSDAY, 6/19).
RACIAL INCLUSION: N.Y. TIMES header: "Perot Makes Plea for
Racial Harmony." Steven Holmes writes before an "overwhelmingly
white crowd" in Orange Co., Perot "made his most explicit plea
for racial harmony since he first began flirting" with running.
Perot: "We're a nation of many races and many creeds. That is
a strength, not a weakness.
...
Every time we have an election we
turn it into a weakness" (6/19). Perot: "We've got to stay
together, we've got to stay united. We've got to get rid of
hate. We've got to get rid of stress between the races" (S.F.
CHRONICLE, 6/19). Perot CA media coordinator Jack Brodbeck said
the campaign is "trying to enlist more minority support": "We
know this is an important outreach we have to work on. The more
we interact with minority communities, the more they like the
idea of empowerment" (L.A. TIMES, 6/19). State Sen. Diane Watson
(D), from South Central L.A.: "We still don't feel comfortable
with guys with Southern twangs" (USA TODAY, 6/19).
PARTY POOPERS: CA Dem chair Phil Angelides and Dan Schnur,
communications dir. for Gov. Pete Wilson (R), both were present
at the Perot events. Angelides said "there were now 'two [GOP]
candidates in the race, calling Perot a "placeholder" for
voters tired of Bush but who "will eventually turn to Clinton":
"Notwithstanding the fact that Perot says he's a populist, he's a
corporate billionaire from Texas who spent 29 years around Reagan
and Nixon" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 6/19). Schnur: "I came out of
professional curiosity. I've never seen a snake oil salesman
before" (N.Y. TIMES, 6/19). One "high-ranking GOP strategist":
"Is 'Mussolini-esque" a word?" (MERCURY NEWS, 6/19).
KOPP'S PLEA: State Sen. Quentin Kopp (I), weighing an
independent bid against Rep. Barbara Boxer (D) and ex-TV
commentator Bruce Herschensohn (R) for the Senate "A" seat, "was
one of the few legislators to receive a personal audience" with
Perot. Kopp predicted Perot will carry CA "irrespective of
whether or not he wins the presidency. Kopp "said he talked to
Ed
Rollins
about how the two independent candidacies might
benefit each other. Kopp "said he is 'getting really close' to
a decision" (Roberts, S.F. CHRONICLE, 6/19).
TV: CBS' Bill Lagattuta: "Perot was wowing them in ultra-
conservative Orange County, which in this mixed up election year
may actually be up for grabs.
Perot is proving all points on
the political map are now fair game, so much so that when
Bush visits Reagan country this week, he'll find himself doing
the unthinkable, actually hustling for votes" (6/18). ABC's
Morton Dean: "It was obvious Perot is not listening to those who
criticize him for not saying enough about the issues. Today
there was less substance than usual" (6/18). NBC's Lisa Myers:
"Not since the days of Ronald Reagan has Sacramento seen this
kind of crowd at a political event, and Ross Perot did not
disappoint them. He ridiculed his opponents struggles to deal
with him and his rebellious supporters." Myers on the media: "A
senior Perot advisor says Quayle's attacks aren't hurting but
unflattering media accounts are." GOP strategist Steve Merksamer
on Perot: "He's the cowboy on the white horse who's going to get
all the bad guys out of town" (6/18).
*4 PEROT: "AGGRESSIVE" MEDIA BUY PLANNED; PLATFORM, STATELINES
CBS' Scott Pelley reported Perot will start an ad campaign
"in about three weeks. We are told that it will be a very
aggressive ad campaign.' Also, a Perot platform reportedly be
ready in "about two weeks. While Perot has been "a relative
recluse," the "real work of the campaign is going on behind the
scenes where Perot and a small team of specialists are drafting a
blueprint for America." Handgun Control's Charles Orasin, who
briefed the Perot camp last month: "My impression was they had
no real view of the world. They were frankly looking for a
comprehensive approach that could include a variety of options
that neither the Congress nor the White House have considered to
date." League of Conservation Voters' Jim Maddy, who briefed
them the environment 6/14: "They don't have the constituency in
the sense that they don't have party leaders that they're
reporting to and they don't have donors. They're free to seek
opinions from people on the basis of interest and expertise, not
necessarily on the basis of who can buy their way into an
audience with the candidate." Pelley noted that either Perot or
his campaign have received advice from Richard Nixon and Jesse
Jackson, the American Petroleum Institute and the Sierra Club,
the NRA and Handgun Control. Brookings' Stephen Hess: "As long
as he can keep it vague, everyone can read their own ideology
into Ross Perot. Soon we're going to find out what Ross Perot's
ideology is" ("CBS This Morning," 6/19).
ON BOARD? W. POST's Romano reports Dems "are buzzing (and a
bit stunned) that well-known partisan pollster Paul Maslin may be
hitching his star to Mr. Perot's" (6/19). Both W. POST and USA
TODAY report the hiring of ex-Carter appointments sec. Tim Kraft.
USA TODAY notes Kraft and ex-Quayle aide Joe Canzeri will both
report to co-manager Ed Rollins (6/19).
VEEP WATCH: Gov. Joan Finney (D-KS) "expressed surprise" at
Perot's strength in KS "and said she would not rule out becoming
[his] running mate if he formally entered the presidential race
and asked her. Finney: "I'll continue to watch the situation.
This is an extremely unusual year. What we're witnessing is
the reaction of the people, and I'm very pleased to see the
alertness of the public" (WICHITA EAGLE, 6/18).
STATELINES: AR -- Officials of Perot's campaign in Dallas
"ordered" the Perot office in Northwest AR closed "following
revelations that two volunteers have apparent ties to the white
supremacist movement." AR Perot chair John Arens "said the
campaign has 'no room' for white supremacist views" (Lemons,
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, 6/19) IL -- All petitions "have been recalled
by the campaign and the drive to gather signatures from
across the state might have to start all over again." IL
Citizens for Perot exec. dir. Ted Pincus said the recall was due
to "doubts about the loyalty of several electors whose names
appear on the documents." Under IL law, petitions must include
the 23 electors who would be Perot delegates to the Electoral
College. The original electors were appointed by ex-IL Perot
chair Ronald Scoma, who has since stepped down. Pincus said the
cmte wanted to replace four of the electors: "There is some
doubt in Dallas as to whether they can be trusted." Organizers
are required to submit 25,000 signatures by 8/3. Pincus said
already more than four times that amount have been collected in
the original drive, which began 5/5 (Murray, CHICAGO TRIBUNE,
6/18). MA -- "Militant gay-rights groups" ACT UP and Queer
Nation "are planning to stage counter-demonstrations" during
Perot's Boston visit tomorrow. In addition pro-life groups, led
by Operation Rescue and MA Citizens for Life are also planning
demonstrations on Boston Common. Perot organizers "doubt the
protests will cause a major disruption" of the parade and rally,
expected to draw 30,000 (Cafasso, BOSTON HERALD, 6/18). AZ -- At
the gathering at the opening of the Perot AZ HQ: "Overwhelmingly
white, mostly middle age or older, the crowd was a mix of
Republicans and Democrats. Many appeared fairly well off
financially." Some backers "were miffed" that AZ law bars Perot
petition signers from voting in the 8/8 primary. AZ Perot chair
Walter Peters announced the state finance chair, George Leonard,
ex-Exec. VP of MeraBank, a failed S&L (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 6/19).
TX -- TX GOPers opened their state convention "taking aim" at
Perot. TX GOP chair Fred Meyer: "There's other countries around
the world, during times of, perhaps, concern, have made decisions
to empower people like that -- much to their regret." Asked for
an examples, Meyer cited Mussolini (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 6/19).
HE'S EVERYWHERE: W.S. JOURNAL reports, "A Tex-Mex
restaurant sells a Perot Taco: 'Nobody's sure what's in it, but
everybody loves it anyway'" (6/19). MIAMI HERALD reports 7-year-
old Blake Ross won the kid's division of the 6th annual
Sensational Roach Art Contest by pasting a picture of Ross
Perot's head on a dead cockroach. Title: "Roach Perot." The
young Ross moves on to the nat'l competition in NYC (6/18).
L.A. TIMES reports the Mexican stock market "plunged" 6% on 6/17
-- "it's biggest drop in nearly three years" -- partially because
investors were "worried" about Perot's opposition to the free
trade agreement "could doom the pact" (6/18).
*5 CLINTON: JACKSON: SISTER REMARKS SHOW CHARACTER FLAW
Jesse Jackson charged "that in a clumsy bid for the backing
of alienated white voters" Clinton "again exposed a character
flaw": "He seems to have an obsession to prove what doesn't need
to be proved. They think they've won some kind of victory. But
you don't win by splitting your base, and this won't help them
win." While Jackson "did not directly accuse" Clinton of racism
he said the Sister Souljah incident was part of "a pattern of
incidents" and called Clinton's behavior "Machiavellian" --
designed "purely to appeal to conservative whites by containing
Jackson and isolating Jackson." Asked whether he would be
willing to meet with Clinton to make amends, as suggested by
Mario Cuomo, Jackson said he "saw no reason" to do SO. Clinton
communications dir. George Stephanopolous said Clinton has no
plans for such a meeting either (Apple, N.Y. TIMES, 6/19).
Dukakis '88 manager Susan Estrich: "There's an awareness now that
accommodation with Jackson doesn't work very well anyway." Dem
strategist Brian Lunde: "It's about time someone
...
is
challenging the myth that Jackson controls the black vote" (USA
TODAY, 6/19). L.A. SENTINEL's Mitchell reports Jackson "charged
Clinton with using the civil rights function as a springboard to
demonstrate to conservative White voters that he can be tough.
He chastised [Clinton] for erroneously quoting the singer and
taking the lyrics out of context" (6/18). WASHINGTON AFRO-
AMERICAN's Harris reports, "From snubbing the [black press' Nat'l
Newspaper Publishers Assn] in Baltimore to atttacking Sister
Souljah ... [Clinton] has created a schism in the Black
community" (6/20). "Among the highlights" of the black press'
Nat'l Newspapers Publisher Assn conventions was a "stern
denouncement" of Clinton (Shabazz, WASHINGTON AFRO-AMERICAN, 6/20
issue).
TV: Jimmy Carter responded to Jackson's assertion of a
Clinton character flaw: "Jackson is wrong, and so is Sister
Souljah
I don't blame Bill Clinton at all. I admire him for
being brave enough to say it in that particular forum." Carter
on whether Clinton is "pandering" to whites: "I don't see it that
way. Jesse Jackson has to be in the news
...
it's not helping
him or the people who look to him for leadership to be trying to
savage [Clinton]." On whether Clinton will be hurt by not trying
to "placate" Jackson: "I don't think so
...
Eventually, no matter
what
...
Jackson might say to get publicity, most of the African-
American citizens and voters and those of other minority groups
are very likely to vote Democratic" ("CBS This Morning, 6/19).
OPINIONS
...
EVERYONE'S GOT ONE: Wm F. Buckley writes,
"Probably Clinton will be proved correct in his stand, and the
measure of that correctness will be the extent to which he is
protested by the black community" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 6/19). USA
TODAY's Barbara Reynolds writes, "Clinton's act ignores that some
people feel when whites insult leaders like Jackson, America's
best, there is little mystery in what's in store for those on the
local rungs" (6/19). Columnist Armstrong Williams writes,
"Somebody's out of touch all right, but it wasn't Mr. Clinton.
Following a campaign in which he pandered to one special interest
group after the other, it was refreshing for him to inject a
little common sense into the Rainbow Coalition's program"
(WASHINGTON AFRO-AMERICAN, 6/20). NYC Mayor David Dinkins:
"Clinton chose the wrong forum and the wrong time to express his
views" (N.Y. NEWSDAY, 6/17). Balto. EVENING SUN's Wiley Hall 3rd
writes, "Clinton was mostly right, but not entirely. Jesse
Jackson was mostly wrong, but not egregiously SO. And Sister
Souljah may have made one or two good points but most of her
remarks were so silly and misinformed that anything good she may
have said was rendered entirely irrelevant" (6/18).
HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE: Sister Souljah appears on CNN's
"Larry King Live" and The Learning Channel's "The Charlie Rose
Show" tonight (aired on WNET-TV in NY last night). She will be
interviewed on BET's live "Teen Summit" 6/20 and 6/21 she will be
interviewed live on NBC's "Sunday Today. Clinton will be on
C-SPAN today at 2:00p while he hosts a talk radio show at KARN in
Little Rock (W. POST, 6/19).
WHERE THE SISTER STANDS: HARTFORD COURANT's Roger Catlin
looks at Souljah's "platform" as found on her album, "360
Degrees." On destruction of the white race: "If my survival
means your total destruction, then so be it." On white women:
"They try to say that they're different than their white men,
gain your sympathy and then want to sleep with your black man."
On the Peace Corps: "Honkies join the Peace Corps so they can spy
on other people's culture and make money off the things they
learn.' On her own racism: "Am I a black racist? No! Not
unless you believe the boogeyman. There is no such thing as a
black racist!" (Balto. SUN, 6/19).
*6 CLINTON: "MY WHAT A YOUNG MAN YOU ARE"
YELTSIN MEETING: "Trying to enhance his foreign policy
credentials and cut a presidential profile," Clinton briefly met
with Russia pres. Boris Yeltsin, "but Yeltsin's initial remarks
could not have been what Clinton was seeking. As the two greeted
and shook hands" Yeltsin "marveled" at Clinton's age (Feeney,
DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 6/19). Yeltsin, 61: "My what a young man
you are. Clinton, 45: "But I'm getting older every day."
Clinton "struck a bipartisan note" after the meeting saying, "We
should join ranks and cross party lines to pass" the Russian aid
package (Black, BOSTON GLOBE, 6/19). The meeting ran 10 minutes
longer than expected, "causing Yeltsin to run late at the [WH],
where the Bushes were kept waiting on the front steps" (Fulwood,
L.A. TIMES, 6/18). Bush "brushed off" Clinton's meeting "in
somewhat muddled Bushspeak, as part of the 'annual four-year
dance'" (Orin, N.Y. POST, 6/19). Clinton on Yeltsin: "He had a
pretty interesting, a pretty tough childhood and his political
obituary's been written several times. The same thing's happened
for me. So I admire him a lot" (N.Y. TIMES, 6/19).
MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT: "Political eyebrows rose when word
came out" the Dem platform doesn't include the middle class tax
cut "pushed strongly" by Clinton in the early primaries" (USA
TODAY, 6/19). Clinton: "I'm not backing away from the idea of
tax
fairness.
The press and my political opponents always
made more of the middle class tax cut than I ever did in my
speeches" (L.A. TIMES, 6/19). Clinton: "I'm going home to work
for the next two days on this revised plan on how we're going to
update and change it" (W. POST, 6/19).
CONVENTION MENTION: "Though still preaching unity,' Tsongas
platform rep. Ted Van Dyk said Tsongas delegates would "join
forces" with Brown "if necessary to force major [Dem] platform
concessions": "If Sen. Tsongas feels strongly that any redraft
does not meet his specification then we will attempt to bring a
minority plank to the floor." Tsongas and Brown together could
garner the 37 votes from the 186-member platform cmte to get such
a plank to the floor (Mathis, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 6/19). Clinton
convention floor chief John Hart said Tsongas is "fighting old
battles. Make no mistake about it. It's not going to be a
Tsongas platform" (N.Y. NEWSDAY, 6/19). Clinton "faces
unexpected diversions" at the convention including women
activists pressing for "unprecedented roles" showcasing the
female Senate nominees and Jesse Jackson "promises a huge New
York march" the Saturday before. Clinton aides "concede" their
plans for a "smooth convention" are "far behind." AIDS activists
plan a rally as well (W.S. JOURNAL, 6/19). N.Y. TIMES reports
Clinton plans to leave "his hotel suite" before the final night
of the convention to visit neighboring states and "boost his
visibility" (6/19).
MONEY PROBLEMS: N.Y. TIMES' Labaton reports the Clinton
campaign is $2.7 million in debt, and in addition to a "grueling
schedule of fundraisers this month, the shortage "prompted the
[DNC] to advance $400,000 to pay for" the TV appearance last
Friday. GOPers say the payment was "improper" because election
regulations "sharply restrict contributions during the
primaries." Clinton fundraiser/'88 DNC finance dir. Don Sweitzer
on fundraising: "The Perot phenomenon hurts" (6/19).
MTV: Germond & Witcover write, "Whether Clinton made
significant news in his MTV appearance
is almost beside the
point. He managed to reach a voting bloc that has been
conspicuously and increasingly absent at the voting booth.
The indication that these voters are not all that different from
the rest of the electorate
should be an inducement for all of
the candidates to start talking to them as Clinton did" (Balto.
EVENING SUN, 6/18).
*7 CLINTON: SPENDS AN HOUR AT PEROT'S BIRTHPLACE
Clinton on "Larry King Live" on the campaign: "We're doing
better. I think we've had a couple of very good weeks
During the primary process most people turned it off and didn't
know much about me after I won." On asking Cuomo to speak at the
convention: "He will certainly play a prominent role at this
convention if he's willing to do that
I couldn't believe
[Quayle] said that Mario Cuomo and I were in the cultural elite.
I guess that he put us there because we can both spell 'potato.'
On VP: "We're down to a shorter list, and I've done a lot of
work on it.' On Sen. Harris Wofford (D-PA) being on the VP list:
"He's the kind of person that we need in the forefront of
America. But I don't want to speculate on who's on the list."
On Perot debating: "He should be allowed to debate with us
because of his standings in the polls at this time. Whether I
agree with that standing or whether I think that it's
well-founded or not, that's all irrelevant." On his Sister
Souljah remarks: "If I had gone there and delivered a long
tirade against her or anybody else, I would have certainly have
told Jesse Jackson about it.
...
it's just what I've been saying
since I started this campaign
It was the perfect forum to
say it. I don't think I should have gone to some all-white civic
club and made that comment
I should have been there before a
group that is dedicated to racial unity and harmony. And I stand
by the remarks I made.' On the race being thrown into the House:
"I suppose each person in Congress will have to search his or her
own conscience
I honestly don't believe that's going to
happen
I'm focusing all my energy on trying to make sure it
doesn't happen" (CNN, 6/18).
*8 BUSH: CALIFORNIA TRIP DRAWS PROTEST
USA TODAY's Keene under header, "Summit success fades fast
for Bush," writes Bush traveled to CA "hoping to bask in the
afterglow of his summit. But those who questioned him ...
were
more concerned with issues closer to home" (6/19) "Beginning a
crucial campaign swing," Bush toured the Evergreen oil Co.
recycling plant, where he answered "tough questions," on the
environment, health care and the campaign. Bush, on Perot
leading in recent polls: "Look, I understand the discontent
that's out there.
Right now there's a hurricane blowing out
there, and all I can do is try to run this country the best I
can." Bush "noted that he has not been critical of his rivals,"
and showed "no reluctance" to "blame Congress for blocking his
initiatives." The visit was a response to Bush's poll standings
"sagging to record lows" in CA, and an "attempt to bolster his
image in the state, particularly on environmental issues"
(Gunnison, S.F. CHRONICLE, 6/19). During the "ask George Bush"
forum, the president "reminded" his audience of the '88 election:
"I would remind some that four years ago this very day I was 18
points behind my opponent," adding "I know how to fight and I'm
not going to be their spear catcher for the rest of this year, I
can tell you that" (Kranish, BOSTON GLOBE, 6/19). "Several
hundred raucous protesters" outside of the plant booed the WH
motorcade. The protest was organized by several enviro groups,
including Greenpeace which called the visit "a slick maneuver to
divert attention from the United State's increasing isolation as
the global environmental spoiler." Four people were arrested,
two for carrying a "sign that suggested Bush be assassinated."
Later, at a $10,000/couple dinner, about 300 "noisy protesters
blocked rush hour traffic" near the event. Bush "apparently
neither heard nor saw the protesters at either stop" (Ledesma,
S.F. CHRONICLE, 6/19).
MOSBACHER COMING AT YOU LIVE: Bush chair Robert Mosbacher
was interviewed on CNN. Bernard Shaw: "Compared to your man are
Clinton and Perot foreign policy midgets?" Mosbacher: "Oh, I'd
never say that about anyone, but I will say they certainly can't
be in the same league with a man with George Bush's experience."
On the campaign team: "I feel good about how the White House and
the campaign are working together, we've really gotten into
harness together.
we've seen a beginning of a resurgence of
the president's popularity. We see it in one of the new polls
where he is closing in on the, on the Perot phenomenon, and
as time goes on we'll see the president moving ahead and we'll
see the whole campaign come together very well." On Clinton's
record in AR: "In some ways that makes Dukakis's efforts in
Massachusetts look awfully good" (6/18).
MORE TV: ABC's Peter Jennings: "Bush the self-proclaimed
environmental president set about today to repair his
environmental image" (6/18). NBC's John Cochran: "After saying
goodbye to Yeltsin, Bush was back on the campaign trail trying to
be the domestic president" (6/18).
STAFFING: W.S. JOURNAL reports the campaign "still
sputters" following the summit and "memos and letters urging
drastic changes and firings pour into Bush from supporters."
Bush ex-aide Pete Teeley: "If we lose this thing, it is because
of complete ineptness." The latest rumors have Sec/Defense
Cheney "going to the White House" and media consultant Roger
Ailes joining the campaign. (6/19) N.Y. TIMES' Foltz
interviewed Bush media consultant Martin Puris on ad strategy.
Puris: "We have to make people understand that he [Bush] cares
very much about this country." On what types of ads they will
run: "We're going to avoid ads that attack candidates." Puris
added the campaign may run 30 minute "infomercials." Puris said
Bush would "come off better in lengthy ads where he would be more
relaxed and people got the chance to know the real man in the
oval office" (6/19).
URBAN AID: The House approved the "trimmed down" $1.3B
urban aid bill, and Bush gave up some of his urban plans in order
to get Congress to act on Russian aid. "But the price for
getting quick consideration" on aid "was giving up the
'enterprise zone' proposal and the tough-on-crime 'weed and
seed program." Bush spokesperson Torie Clarke: "It's best to get
results and relief to the area immediately and come back and
fight another day" (W. TIMES, 6/19).
1-800-NOT: During Bush's appearance at the Evergreen oil
Co., he sat in front of an oil storage tank with a 1-800 number
written in it. CNN viewers "began calling the number in droves,"
forcing anchor Bernie Shaw to ask them to stop. The number was
"simply connected to a oil company that owns the storage tank"
(Elvin, W. TIMES, 6/19).
*9 QUAYLE: MARILYN "IRRITATED" OVER SPUD SCUD
Marilyn Quayle appeared on CNN's "Crier and Co." Catherine
Crier: "When you hear the press take out after the [VP], whether
it be about spelling a word or making a speech, how do you feel?"
Quayle: "It depends on whether it's fair or not. You know, these
little incidents with spelling, I guarantee you anyone placed in
the same position as he was would have probably done the exact
same thing." Crier: "But how, personally how do you feel?"
Quayle: "I do get irritated. I think the point now it's just
complete and total irritation
Dan can give five speeches a
day for 25 months, never make a mistake, he makes one mistake,
it's aired and aired and aired and aired, and they've never aired
the other 1,000 speeches he's given with no error.' M. Quayle on
Perot: "This is a little bit too serious to go after a quixotic
character.
You need real leadership." M/ Quayle on family
values: "To see some of the comments in the press, I think there
are a few people who do disagree with the vice president. Most
people do feel that we have moved in the last 20 years from a
true value structure to lack of values." Crier: "Do you really
think that there's a cultural elite in this society?" M. Quayle:
"Well, yes" (6/18).
HOW'S IT PLAYING
*10 CLINTON AND SISTER SOULJAH
TWO FROM THE BLACK PRESS
MIAMI TIMES: "Since we vote largely as a bloc,
traditionally giving the Democrats our overwhelming support, it
is conceivable that Mr. Clinton could easily win with similar
endorsement from us. The question is whether he believes that he
now has us eating out of his hand and doesn't mind offending us,
if that will win him a few more white votes
There is no
reason why he could not have sounded off against Sister Souljah
and her harsh rap about violence at some other forum. That he
insulted the Rainbow Coalition and Rev. Jackson translates into
an insult. for all of us and others who support" Jackson (6/18)
WASHINGTON AFRO-AMERICAN: "First it was thumbing his nose
to the Black Press. That was followed by a postponement of his
meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus. And then came his
headline-grabbing slap as Sister Souljah
In the past couple
of weeks there have been too many pictures of Mr. Clinton with
Black people
and the contributions have dried up
So, Mr.
Clinton's handlers changed the strategy -- slap the Black Press,
ignore the Black politicians and find something to distance him
from Black folks.
We suggest that those men and women, who
were quick to endorse Mr. Clinton, call a summit meeting with
this man
and find out what other 'Willie Hortons' he. has in
his back pocket" (6/20 issue).
SAMPLER FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY
AKRON BEACON JOURNAL editorial writer Laura Ofobike: "Was
Bill Clinton wrong to condemn a black singer whose words
suggested that black gangs kill some whites for a change? I
think not
If we won't call a black person to answer when he
or she seems to promote racism and if we won't brook anybody else
talking it, what moral ground is left from which to erase this
blight, what superior claim?" (6/16).
ANNISTON STAR: "It was a slick political move and a just
one for Clinton to separate from the alienation exploitation of
the Sister
[but] It's not enough to show he can rap the
common political lyric of divide and conquer. Clinton has to
convince the nation his economic plan will bring us back as close
as grooves in a pop record" (6/17)
Binghamton PRESS & SUN-BULLETIN: "Clearly, Clinton picked
both his spot and his shot with a political purpose in mind:
distancing himself from the extreme left flank of his party in an
attempt to solidify his position in the political center. But it
is just as clear that his criticism of inflammatory racial
rhetoric was appropriate" (6/17).
CHARLESTON DAILY GAZETTE: "Clinton's new strategy of
telling audiences what they don't want to hear may or may not
gain him the presidency. But it does allow him to speak the
truth -- and the truth, as Boris Yeltsin has learned, shall set
you free. In Clinton's case it has freed him from the need to
kowtow to Jesse Jackson" (6/19).
Danbury NEWS-TIMES: "The focus here should not be on
whether Clinton was polite
The issue here is Sister Souljah's
racism.
Jackson should be the first to speak up. Since he
wasn't, Clinton deserves credit for doing it for him" (6/19)
HOUSTON CHRONICLE: "Clinton's criticism of
Souljah was
appropriate and well-deserved" (6/18)
McCOMB (MS) ENTERPRISE JOURNAL header: "Cheers for Clinton"
(6/16)
MERIDIAN (MS) STAR: "It is encouraging to see that many
black political figures, including Mississippi Congressman Mike
Espy, are refusing to take their cue from Jackson on this matter.
The Washington Post itself reported broad-based agreement among
black political leaders with Clinton's statements" (6/17)
MIAMI HERALD: "To refocus the spotlight on his overshadowed
campaign, Mr. Clinton, sad to say, pulled the race card from his
sleeve.
Nonetheless, Mr. Clinton's comments cloaked a
principle to which all should be willing to subscribe. Yes, he
blind-sided Mr. Jackson. But Mr. Jackson, playing the role of
sensitive, wounded host, then missed a chance to display the
leadership that he accuses Clinton of lacking" (6/18)
Monroe NEWS-STAR: "Thumbs up
[He] has said a couple of
things that make sense. He's probably driven strictly by
political desperation, but is nonetheless on record" (6/17)
N.Y. NEWSDAY: "Jackson & Co. ought to be disappointed that
Clinton beat them to the punch. Clinton's choice of venue for
criticizing Sister Souljah's bigotry -- the Rainbow Coalition
audience last weekend -- was clearly calculated. That fact of
political life doesn't detract one iota from the merits of his
observation" (6/18)
N.Y. POST: "It was altogether appropriate for
Clinton
to criticize" Souljah. "The question is how Clinton wound up
addressing the Rainbowers. Sister Souljah, after all, belongs to
Rainbow Coalition gatherings
Clinton does not" (6/16)
N.Y. TIMES: "Souljah is no Willie Horton. She's a rap
singer who has said things that were hateful when she said them
-- and still are" (6/17)
PHILA. INQUIRER: "Politics aside, what Clinton said was
right" (6/18)
WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Could it be the prospect of political
extinction is liberating Bill Clinton?
if he does still lose,
he'd at least go down with some dignity as his own man" (6/19)
WASHINGTON TIMES: "He took a barefoot walk onto the hot
coals with his criticism of Sister Souljah.
It was a journey
that had to be made" (6/18)
WATERBURY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN: "What makes Clinton's
remarks all the more stunning and courageous is that they come at
great political risk for himself.
It appears that the least-
likely winner of the presidential sweepstakes is the only
candidate exhibiting the strong leadership one would expect of a
contender for the White House" (6/20).
SENATE WATCH
*11 COLORADO: HEATH QUALIFIES AS EXPECTED; CRITICIZES WIRTH
'90 Sen. nominee/ex-Boulder Co. Commis. Josie Heath (D)
qualified for the 8/11 primary ballot as Sec/State Natalie Meyer
(R) certified her 6/15. Heath had failed to receive the 30% of
the delegate vote at the 5/30 Dem convention to automatically
qualify, which she had done in '90. Heath was then required to
collect 10,601 signatures and turned in 21,231 (Sanko, ROCKY
MOUNTAIN NEWS, 6/16). Heath "sharply criticized" retiring Sen.
Tim Wirth (D) and other "political insiders" for allegedly trying
to persuade her to quit the race. Heath said Wirth had called
and told her "it would be unwise for me to pursue" the race,
adding it would be a "hardball race if you stay in.' Wirth
"neither contradicted nor confirmed" the comment: "I have talked
to all three Senate candidates. I don't make public statements
about private conversations and would hope the other candidates
do the same." Other Dems in the 8/11 primary: Rep. Ben
Nighthorse Campbell (D-03), ex-Gov. Dick Lamm (D) The winner
faces ex-state Sen. Terry Considine (R) in the fall. Heath said
Lamm supporters "who she refused to name" had also contacted her
about dropping out, and told her, "if you want to have any role
in this state, back off, step aside, be a nice girl, get out of
the way." Although Wirth has not endorsed any candidate, "it is
widely assumed he favors Lamm." Lamm spokesperson Greg Diamond:
"Lamm has never played that insiders game" (Anderson, DENVER
POST, 6/17).
ON THE HOUSE
*12 REDISTRICTING UPDATE
MA (-1 or 0) : "Fearing the state will lose its case before
the U.S. Supreme Court," a legislative panel is planning to
release a 10-seat remap that throws Rep. Chet Atkins (D-05) and
Joe Early (D-03) into the same CD and Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-08)
into a 40% minority CD. The leg. has already passed a plan based
on the state keeping its 11 CDs. "Previous plans had cast" Rep.
Joe Moakley's (D) 9th CD as the minority seat. The plan will
"only be considered" if the Supreme Court cuts MA back to 10 CDs.
The Court's decision, weighing the claims of MA and WA to the
seat which was awarded to WA, is expected at any time. Dems
crafted the new plan "to thumb their noses" at Gov. Wm Weld (R)
by "ignoring his pleas for a Merrimack Valley seat and by
strengthening" Rep. Gerry Studd's (D-10) hand in southeastern MA.
"Unless the two sides cut a deal quickly, Republicans say they
will" ask federal judges to draw a new map. (Connolly, BOSTON
HERALD, 6/18).
*13 HOUSE RACE BRIEFING
AZ 06: State Sen. Karan English (D) has been endorsed by
EMILY's List, the Nat'l Women's Political Caucus and the Women's
Campaign Fund. As Senate Environment Cmte chair, English is also
expected to be backed by the League of Conservation Voters later
this month. Others: Sen. Majority Leader Alan Stephens (D), ex-
WH aide Doug Wead (R) and health-care consultant Mike Meyer (R).
Primary 7/8 (Yozwiak, ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 6/18).
MD 01: Marilyn Quayle was the keynote speaker at a $75-a-
person fund-raiser for Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R). Nearly 200
people attended. Asked if she had trouble backing abortion-
rights GOPers like Gilchrest, Quayle answered: "Not if they
support the administration at least half the time" (Thompson,
Balto. EVENING SUN, 6/16).
ME 01: Rep. Thomas Andrews (D) announced his re-election
bid 6/15, acknowledging a "difficult task in running against"
L.L. Bean heiress Linda Bean (R). Bean outspent her opponents
considerably in the GOP primary and "is expected to spend
lavishly in the general election." She began "targeting" Andrews
in TV ads early in her primary campaign. Andrews dismissed her
economic proposals as "echoes of the policies of the Reagan and
Bush administrations" and called for passage of the Freedom of
Choice Act. Bean has said she opposes "abortion on demand"
(Magin, PORTLAND PRESS HERALD, 6/16).
MA 06: Attorneys for Rep. Nick Mavroules (D) have asked the
DoJ to "investigate whether the U.S. attorney's office in Boston
is responsible for leaks to the news media about the ongoing
federal probe of Mavroules." In a letter to the DoJ, attorneys
Francis Bellotti and Tracy Minter suggested that "news reports
about the grand jury probe have been 'so vast and so detailed'
that they 'must have originated from a federal source close to
the investigation.' The two also note federal rules prohibit
gov't attys from "disclosing any matters before the grand jury
without the court's permission." Mavroules and Bellotti are
scheduled to hold a press conference on the probe in Salem 6/22
(Laidler, BOSTON GLOBE, 6/18). In another probe development,
federal investigators have questioned 3 MA defense companies
"about their practice of funding" summer intern positions for
Mavroules -- a House Armed Services cmte member. The funding by
General Electric, Ratheon Corp. and GTE Corp. ceased in '90 for
unknown reasons. House rules prohibit interns from working on
legislation that "relates to the firms that pay their salaries"
and most Capitol Hill intern programs are funded by universities
or non-profit organizations (B. HERALD, 6/17).
OTHER: EMILY's List and the Nat'l Women's Political Caucus
have endorsed state Rep. Barbara Hildt (D) (BOSTON GLOBE, 6/18).
On the GOP side, Alexander Tennant's (R) press release touting
the "personal endorsement" of Sec/HUD Jack Kemp "has been the
subject of some controversy" in his primary bid against ex-state
labor and business commiss. Peter Torkildsen (R) (BOSTON GLOBE,
6/16). According to the Torkildsen camp, Kemp, who is friends
with both men, did not want the endorsement published and
"offered it only after Tennant supporters," including LG Paul
Cellucci, "beseeched Kemp for some gesture to buttress Tennant's
long-standing endorsement claims." Tennant campaign chair Peter
Mazareas accused Torkildsen of trying to "take away from the
value and importance of the endorsement" (Connolly, BOSTON
HERALD, 6/18).
MA 11: Atty Jack Sheilds (D) "appears to have inadvertently
set off a competition for campaign finance reform that could
limit the amount of money he intends to spend." At a 6/17 press
conference, Sheilds called on his opponents to limit spending to
$600,000. State Sen. Paul Harold (D) called for $300,000 and
Eleanor LeCain, asst Sec/State under James Connolly, called for
$200,000. Sheilds also challenged his opponents to serve no more
than 4 terms (BOSTON GLOBE, 6/18).
SC 06: SC State University's Ken Mosely (D) filed his
candidacy for the new majority black CD, becoming the third
primary challenger to Rep. Robin Tallon (D). Tallon is expected
to announce 6/22. Other Dems: ex-state Human Affairs Commis.
Jim Clyburn and state Sen. Herb Fielding (Columbia STATE, 6/13).
GOVER
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*14 INDIANA: PEARSON THREAT TO DROP OFF TICKET NOT HEEDED
AG Linley Pearson (R) "privately told supporters that he
would resign from the ticket" if IN GOP convention delegates
chose Putnam Co. atty Timothy Bookwalter as their AG nominee over
Pearson's CoS, David Miller. After Bookwalter was picked by
nearly a 2-1 margin, Pearson "tried to squelch those
impressions." After the convention adjourned Pearson issued a
statement that he "intended to lead the [GOP] to victory" against
Gov. Evan Bayh (D). When the AG vote was announced, "to wild
cheers,' Pearson had already left. Upon his return he was asked
whether he'd stay on the ticket. Pearson: "I said today is the
day I would make a decision. I made it today to stay on the
ticket." Asked whether the decision "would hold the next day,"
Pearson "walked away without comment." Pearson spokesperson Jim
Poinsett, asked to elaborate: "I can't because I don't know."
Bookwalter's victory "was seen as delegates' frustration" with
Pearson and a "seemingly closed convention." Lester Alligood, a
convention delegate: "People took [Pearson's preference of
Miller] as if it were being crammed [down] their throat. People
aren't buying it." Pearson "later acknowledged" the message had
been received." Bookwalter won "despite allegations he solicited
a prostitute" in '85. Although never convicted, "the issue has
dogged him since" and was "reignited" when Pearson's campaign
distributed newspaper accounts of the case to county chairs
(Ketzenberger/Howey, FT. WAYNE JOURNAL-GAZETTE, 6/18).
DEM CONVENTION: Bayh used his keynote speech to "castigate"
the Republicans as "forces of darkness" who needed to be sent
back to "the caves underneath the rocks from which they came."
Bayh "bypassed a tradition" of standing with the Dem candidates
when he left the convention early. Ex-Gov. Otis Bowen (R) "I
resent those remarks." Sen. Dan Coats (R) "demanded a public
apology" and added, "It was more than bizarre. It was offensive"
(FORT-WAYNE JOURNAL-GAZETTE, 6/18).
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*15 THIS MORNING: ABC's "GMA" hosted S.F. Examiner's Chris
Matthews and Sens. David Pryor (D-AR) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
on the 12th Amendment and the electoral college. "CBS This
Morning" hosted Jimmy Carter from D.C. on Habitat for Humanity.
NBC's "Today" hosted Jerry Ford on his transition to the
presidency; House of Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd from London;
Child Support Activist Geraldine Jensen and National Organization
for Men's Sidney Sill on child support (6/19).
LAST NIGHT: CNN and ABC led with how the three presidential
candidates spent their day. NBC, CBS and PBS' "MacNeil/Lehrer"
led with the Urban Aid bill. "M/L" interviewed Sec/State James
Baker on the new Russian arms pact. CNN's "Crossfire" focused on
the Weinberger indictment. "Larry King Live" hosted Bill
Clinton. ABC's Nightline featured poetry (6/18).
LAUGHS: NBC's Jay Leno on the difficulty of finding twelve
jurors for Caspar Weinberger who had never heard of Iran-Contra:
"Actually they lucked out. Today they found two people who had
never heard of it -- Ronald Reagan and George Bush." Leno on On
Perot's concept of a "television president": "Make it like real
television. Give 'em thirteen weeks and if people don't like
him, you're out of here." On Bush's brother being sued by a
Japanese company: "Only a member of the Bush family could cause
a Japanese company to lose money" ("Tonight," 6/18). Dennis
Miller on Clinton/Yeltsin meeting: "Always interesting when you
can combine all seven deadly sins in just two guys" ("Show,"
6/18). Arsenio Hall on Perot: "He says he wants to get in
touch. He wants to keep an ear to the ground -- which shouldn't
be too hard with them ears" ("Show," 6/18).
YELTSIN'S TOP TEN FAUX PAS IN DC ("Late Night,' NBC, 6/19).
10. Repeatedly asking where he can go to get "hammered and
sickled."
9. After signing arms pact, kissing President Bush square on
the lips.
8. During state dinner, screaming "You call this Russian
dressing?!"
7. Accidentally calling senator from Massachusetts "Tubby
Kennedy."
6. Weeping like an infant when he was informed Big Bird was
just a guy in a suit.
5. On tour of White House, asking to see rooms where Jack
Kennedy nailed Marilyn.
4.
Constantly shouting "Feed me!" at top of his lungs.
3. Laughing hysterically when Bush suggested they meet again
in '94.
2.
Hugging Quayle a little too long.
1.
Kept calling Barbara "General Schwarzkopf."
TV SOUNDBITE
"It was obvious Perot is not listening to those
who criticize him for not saying enough about the issues.
Today there was less substance than usual."
-- ABC's Morton Dean, 6/18.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
(Newport Beach, California)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 19, 1992
The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State
of New Mexico and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local
recovery efforts in the area struck by severe thunderstorms, hail,
and flooding on May 22, 1992, through May 25, 1992.
The President's action makes Federal funding available to affected
individuals and local governments in the Lea County area.
Assistance can include temporary housing, grants, low-cost loans to
cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help
disaster. individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the
Federal funding also is available to eligible local governments on
a cost-sharing basis for the repair or replacement of public
facilities damaged by the storms, hail, and flooding.
Wallace E. Stickney, director of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA), named Graham Nance of FEMA's regional office in
Denton, Texas to coordinate Federal recovery operations in the
affected area.
The Agency said that damage surveys are continuing in other areas,
completed. and additional counties may be added after the assessments are
The Agency said that residents and business owners who sustained
losses in the designated counties can begin applying for assistance
immediately by calling 1-800-462-9029, or 1-800-462-7585 (TDD) for
the hearing and speech impaired. The toll-free telephone numbers
will operate from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (CST) seven days a week until
further notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: FEMA (202) 646-4600.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Newport Beach, California)
For Immediate Release
June 19, 1992
The President today announced his intention to nominate the
following individuals to be Associate Judges of the Superior
Court of the District of Columbia for terms of fifteen years:
BROOK HEDGE, of the District of Columbia. She would succeed
Emmet G. Sullivan.
Since 1982, Ms. Hedge has served as Branch Director of the Civil
Division, Federal Programs Branch, at the Department of Justice.
Prior to that, she served as Assistant Branch Director, 1980-
1982; a trial attorney, 1977-1980; a law clerk to U.S. District
Court Judge June L. Green, 1975-1976; and a law clerk to Sarah C.
Carey, 1974-1975.
Ms. Hedge received a B.A. degree (1970) from the University of
California at Santa Barbara and a J.D. degree (1974) from The
Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. Ms.
Hedge is 43 years old and resides in Washington, D.C.
LEE F. SATTERFIELD, of the District of Columbia. He would
succeed Robert McCance Scott.
Since April 1991, Mr. Satterfield has served as a trial attorney
with the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Organized
Crime and Racketeering Section. Prior to that he was a Senior
Litigation Associate with the law firm of Sachs & Tayler, 1988-
1991; an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of
Columbia, 1984-1988; and a law clerk to Judge Paul R. Webber,
III, of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1983-
1984.
Mr. Satterfield received a B.A. degree (1980) from the University
of Maryland, and a J.D. degree (1983) from George Washington
University Law School.
Mr. Satterfield is 33 years old and resides in Washington, D.C.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Newark, California)
For Immediate Release
June 18, 1992
The President today announced his intention to nominate Raymond
L. Finch, of the Virgin Islands, to be a Judge for the District
Court of the Virgin Islands for a term of ten years. He would
succeed David V. O'Brien.
Since 1977, Judge Finch has served on the Territorial Court of
the Virgin Islands. Prior to this, he served as a Judge on the
Municipal Court of the Virgin Islands, 1976-1977. Judge Finch
served with the law firm of Hodge & Sheen as: Partner, 1971-
1976; Associate, 1970-1971; and Law Clerk, 1969-1970.
Judge Finch was graduated from Howard University
(B.A. 1962; LL.B., 1965). He served in the United States Army
from 1966-1969. He was born October 4, 1940 in Christiansted,
St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Judge Finch currently resides in
Kingshill, St. Croix, Virgin Islands.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Newport Beach, California)
June 19, 1992
FACT SHEET ON DEFENSE PROCUREMENT REFORMS
As part of his continuing regulatory reform initiative, the
President today announced an important change in federal defense
procurement policy that will ease the transition by American
businesses and workers to the post-Cold War era. When fully
implemented, the new policy will enable American firms to compete
more effectively for billions of dollars additional business, and
will preserve tens of thousands of American jobs.
The end of the Cold War and the accompanying down-sizing of
the U.S. military have created dislocations in the American
economy. To excel in this new environment, and to avoid
significant layoffs, many defense-oriented companies have tried to
redirect their efforts toward commercial products -- for example,
by commercializing military technologies.
One obstacle to a successful transition is the Defense
Department's "recoupment of non-recurring costs" rule. This rule
was originally adopted in the early 1960s as a way of sharing
weapon development costs with U.S. allies. It requires contractors
to pay fees to the Government on non-Government sales of products
and technologies developed under Government contracts -- as well as
commercial spinoffs of those technologies. In today's environment,
the rule operates like a sales tax imposed only on U.S. companies:
it hurts American workers by making it more difficult for their
employers to compete for business, both in the U.S. and abroad.
This burden on American workers and businesses is no longer
justified in light of the historic political changes during the
past three years. Accordingly, the President today announced a new
policy that will result in the elimination of all recoupment fees
as expeditiously as possible.
1. The Policy. The new policy -- developed by the Department
of Defense and OMB's Office of Federal Procurement Policy, in
consultation with the Council on Competitiveness, the President's
Export Council, and the Department of State -- will be implemented
as follows:
o
By administrative action, the Department of Defense will
immediately abolish recoupment fees on all products other than
"major defense equipment" (MDE) exported for military uses.
-- This action will eliminate recoupment fees on all non-
military products, including spinoffs and derivatives of
military products. Recoupment would no longer be
required if, for example, a company decided to use
aircraft cockpit display technology in making dashboard
displays for automobiles.
-- It will also eliminate recoupment on military products
that are either not classified as MDE or not exported for
military uses. Thus, for example, recoupment will no
longer be required on the sale of aircraft engines for
use on commercial airliners.
-- The Department's action will eliminate recoupment under
all new non-MDE contracts and, to the extent permitted by
law, under all existing non-MDE contracts as well.
o
In addition, the Administration will work with Congress to
achieve the elimination of recoupment fees on MDE exported for
military uses.
-- The Arms Export Control Act currently requires the
Department of Defense to collect recoupment fees on sales
of MDE through the Foreign Military Sales Program, which
accounts for most MDE sales.
-- The Administration will work with Congress to lift this
requirement, and to find mutually acceptable budget
offsets.
2. Benefits of the New Policy. The new policy will produce
several important benefits:
O
It will make U.S. companies more competitive against foreign
suppliers, which typically are not subject to recoupment
requirements. The new policy will enhance the ability of
American firms to compete for billions of dollars of business
that they might otherwise lose. It will also eliminate
paperwork and administrative costs associated with the present
policy, which, according to industry estimates, exceed $40
million per year.
It will facilitate efforts by defense-oriented companies to
shift toward commercial activities. The new policy will give
defense contractors an incentive to develop products and
technologies with larger markets. It will also eliminate
costly tracking requirements that would otherwise discourage
contractors from consolidating military and commercial
operations. Such consolidation will facilitate the transfer
of technology and ideas within companies, and will allow
enhanced economies of scale and scope.
It will contribute to U.S. national security by strengthening
defense-oriented U.S. companies. The new policy will also
reduce defense costs by encouraging defense contractors to
incorporate commercial technologies into military products.
Eliminating recoupment will not affect national security
controls, such as export licensing requirements, which will
continue to ensure that sophisticated U.S. technologies do not
fall into the wrong hands.
It will preserve tens of thousands of American jobs in high-
technology firms located throughout the country.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Newport Beach, California)
For Immediate Release
June 19, 1992
The President today announced his intention to nominate Malcolm
S. Forbes, Jr., of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Board for
International Broadcasting for a term expiring April 28, 1995.
This is a reappointment. Since 1985, Mr. Forbes has served as
Chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting since 1985.
Currently, Mr. Forbes serves as Editor-in-Chief, President and
Chief Executive Officer of Forbes, Incorporated and FORBES
Magazine.
Mr. Forbes was graduated from Princeton University (B.A., 1970).
He was born July 18, 1947 in Morristown, New Jersey. Mr. Forbes
is married, has five children and resides in Bedminster, New
Jersey.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Newport Beach, California)
For Immediate Release
June 19, 1992
The President today announced his intention to nominate William
Harrison Courtney, of West Virginia, to be Ambassador of the
United States of America to Kazakhstan. This is a new position.
Dr. Courtney currently serves as the Charge d'Affaires in
Kazakhstan. Prior to this, he was Deputy United States
Negotiator for the U.S.-Soviet Defense and Space Talks, United
States Mission in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Courtney was Deputy
Executive Secretary for the National Security Council, 1987.
From 1984-1986, he was Special Assistant to the Under Secretary
of State for Political Affairs at the Department of State; and
Deputy Director of the Office of Strategic Nuclear Policy in the
Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs at the Department of State,
1983-1984.
Dr. Courtney was graduate from West Virginia University
(B.A., 1966) and Brown University (Ph.D., 1980). He was born
July 18, 1944 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is married and has two
children.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Newport Beach, California)
For Immediate Release
June 19, 1992
The President today announced his intention to nominate Patricia
Diaz Dennis, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for
Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. She would succeed Richard
Schifter.
Since 1991, Ms. Dennis has served as Vice President for
Government Affairs for Sprint in Washington, D.C. She has served
as Partner and Chair of the Communications Section of the law
firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, 1989-1991. From 1986-1989,
she served as Commissioner of the Federal Communications
Commission. She also served on the National Labor Relations
Board from 1983-1986. Prior to that appointment, Ms. Dennis
served as an attorney with the American Broadcasting Company in
Hollywood, California, 1978-1983.
Ms. Dennis was graduated from the University of California in Los
Angeles (A.B., 1970) and Loyola University of Los Angeles, School
of Law (J.D. 1973). She was born October 2, 1946 in Santa Rita,
New Mexico. Ms. Dennis is married, has three children and
resides in McLean, Virginia.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Newport Beach, California)
For Immediate Release
June 19, 1992
The President today announced his intention to nominate John
Stern Wolf, of Maryland, a Minister-Counselor in the Senior
Foreign Service, to be Ambassador of the United States of America
to Malayasia. He would succeed Paul Matthews Cleveland.
Since 1989, Mr. Wolf has served as Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs at the
Department of State. He has also served at the Department of
State as: Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for
Political Affairs, 1988-1989; and as Office Director of Regional
and Multilateral Force and Observers Affairs in the Bureau of
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 1987-1988. Mr. Wolf has
also served as Political Counselor at the American Embassy in
Islamabad, Pakistan, 1984-1987; Special Assistant to the Under
Secretary of State for Science and Technology at the State
Department, 1981-1984; and Financial Economist in the Bureau of
Economic and Business Affairs, 1979-1981.
Mr. Wolf was graduated from Dartmouth College (B.A, 1970) ; and
Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School (Mid-Career Fellow,
1978-79). He was born September 12, 1948 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Mr. Wolf is married, has two children and resides
in Bethesda, Maryland.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Newport Beach, California)
For Immediate Release
June 19, 1992
The President today announced his intention to appoint Edward J.
Melanson, Jr., of Virginia, to be accorded the personal rank of
Ambassador in his capacity as Chief Negotiator for Defense and
Space.
Since 1991, Mr. Melanson has served as Deputy Negotiator for
Defense and Space for the United States Delegation to the Nuclear
and Space Arms Negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland.
From 1989-1991, he served as Assistant for National Security in
the Office of Presidential Personnel at the White House. Mr.
Melanson served as Senior Defense Advisor for the United States
Delegation for the Nuclear and Space Arms Negotiations with the
Soviet Union in Geneva, 1985-1988. He served at the Department
of Defense as: Assistant for International Space Policy, 1982-
1985; Assistant for International Intelligence Policy, 1979-
1982; Defense Representative to the U.S.-USSR Anti-Satellite
Negotiations, 1978-1979; and Assistant for International
Negotiations Policy, 1975-1978.
Mr. Melanson was graduated from Tufts University (B.A., 1967) and
George Washington University (M.S., 1972). He served in the
United States Navy, 1957-1988. He was born December 14, 1935 in
Stoneham, Massachusetts. Mr. Melanson is married, has two
children and resides in Springfield, Virginia.
# # #
POOL REPORT # 3
June 19, 1992
(Newport Beach, California)
The President met separately this morning with Hispanic-American
and Asian-American journalists. The Asian group had left by the
time the pool arrived, but we heard a partial tape of the session
with Hispanic journalists. Much of the discussion was about
Monday's Supreme Court ruling upholding the legality of the 1985
kidnapping of a Mexican doctor accused of having a role in the
1985 torture death of U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena and his
pilot. Bush: "We have made very very clear to the Mexican
government that we will not be in the mode of reaching out and
taking back everybody who's offended the United States"
"This is not going to mean that there will be a whole wave of
kidnappings. I can understand the international furor."
"We've given (Mexican officials) assurances that I think have
them in a very understanding mode." Bush said people must
understand "the brutality of what happened down there
the
allegations that this man kept an American alive so he could be
tortured is pretty serious stuff."
In the motorcade in route to the event, Torie Clarke was asked
why Bush's sessions with GOP officials have all been closed. She
said "These are the people who carry the water for us. We want
to be as candid as possible with them."
Clarke was asked about the SEC complaint filed against Clinton
today by the RNC. She said "its a real sign of how much
Clinton's campaign is in trouble
but nobody's counting Clinton
out."
Judy Keen -- USA Today
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 19, 1992
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 2556, the "Los Padres
Condor Range and River Protection Act." This Act designates
seven new wilderness areas, encompassing 400, 450 acres, within
the Los Padres National Forest in California as components of
the National Wilderness Preservation System, more than doubling
the wilderness acreage set aside within the Los Padres National
Forest. The Act also designates segments of three rivers within
the National Forest, totaling 84 miles, as components of the
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
By signing this bill into law, we further the protection
of unique and sensitive lands within the National Forest System.
Our action here today is important for several reasons:
--
Much of this area includes habitat for the nearly
extinct California condor and preservation of this
habitat is critical to condor recovery efforts.
-- Nearly half of the Los Padres National Forest is
now designated for permanent protection under the
Wilderness Act, one of the highest percentages of
any national forest in the country.
--
It increases by 10 percent the amount of national
forest lands in California that are protected under
the Wilderness Act.
--
It protects segments of Sespe Creek and the Sisquoc
and Big Sur Rivers as wild, free-flowing rivers under
the Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
--
It provides for wild and scenic river studies on an
additional 110 miles of rivers within the National
Forest boundary, a few of the only free-flowing
streams left in southern California.
Wilderness designation of these areas means that they
will be managed to preserve their unique and natural character.
By signing this bill into law, we enhance the diversity and
beauty of the Nation's lands set aside for the enjoyment of
both present and future generations of Americans as part of
the National Wilderness Preservation and the National Wild
and Scenic Rivers Systems.
As President I remain deeply committed to preserving our
valuable natural resources. Since 1989, my budgets have doubled
funding for parks, wildlife, and outdoor recreation and have
tripled funds to States under the Land and Water Conservation
Fund. Moreover, the length of rivers designated as wild and
scenic has increased from 868 to 9,463 miles over the past
20 years. Finally, since 1982, the amount of lands protected as
part of the National Wilderness Preservation System has averaged
in excess of 1.5 million acres per year.
GEORGE BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 19, 1992
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Newport Beach, California)
For Immediate Release
June 19, 1992
TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES:
I am transmitting herewith, for the advice and consent of
the Senate to ratification, the Protocol to the Treaty Between
the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive
Arms (the Protocol) signed at Lisbon, Portugal, on May 23, 1992.
The Protocol is an integral part of the Treaty Between the
United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive
Arms (the START Treaty), which I transmitted for the advice and
consent of the Senate to ratification on November 25, 1991.
The Protocol is designed to enable implementation of the
START Treaty in the new international situation following the
dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Protocol constitutes an
amendment to the START Treaty, and I therefore request that it
be considered along with the START Treaty for advice and consent
to ratification.
I also transmit for the information of the Senate
documents that are associated with, but not integral parts of,
the Protocol or the START Treaty. These documents are letters
containing legally binding commitments from the heads of state
of the Republic of Byelarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, and
Ukraine concerning the removal of nuclear weapons and strategic
offensive arms from their territories. Although not submitted
for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification,
these documents are relevant to the consideration of the
START Treaty by the Senate. No new U.S. security assurances
or guarantees -- beyond the assurances previously extended to
all nonnuclear-weapon States Parties to the Non-Proliferation
Treaty -- are associated with any of these letters.
The START Treaty represents a nearly decade-long effort
by the United States and the former Soviet Union to address
the nature and magnitude of the threat that strategic nuclear
weapons pose to both countries and to the world in general.
As I indicated in transmitting that Treaty to the Senate, the
United States had several objectives in the START negotiations.
First, we consistently held the view that the START Treaty must
enhance stability in times of crisis. Second, we sought an
agreement that did not simply limit strategic arms, but that
reduced them significantly below current levels. Third, we
sought a treaty that would allow equality of U.S. strategic
forces relative to those of the former Soviet Union. Fourth,
we sought an agreement that would be effectively verifiable.
And, finally, the United States placed great emphasis during the
negotiations in seeking an agreement that would be supported by
the American and allied publics.
I was fully convinced in 1991 and I remain fully convinced
that the START Treaty achieves these objectives. In addition,
the Protocol transmitted herewith has allowed us to achieve
another important objective: ensuring that only one state
more
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emerging from the former Soviet Union will have nuclear weapons.
To gain the benefits of START in the new international situation
following the demise of the Soviet Union, it is necessary that
Byelarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine -- the four former
Soviet republics within whose territory all strategic offensive
arms are based and all declared START-related facilities are
located -- be legally bound by the START Treaty. The Protocol
accomplishes this, while recognizing the sovereign and
independent status of each of these four states.
Of equal importance, the Protocol obligates Byelarus,
Kazakhstan, and Ukraine to adhere to the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty as nonnuclear-weapon States
Parties in the shortest possible time. In addition, the
letters transmitted with the Protocol legally obligate
these three states to eliminate all nuclear weapons and all
strategic offensive arms located on their territories within
7 years following the date of entry into force of the START
Treaty. The Protocol and the associated letters thus further
one of our most fundamental non-proliferation objectives --
that the number of nuclear-weapon states shall not be increased.
Together with the START Treaty, the Protocol helps ensure that
nuclear weapons will not be used in the future.
The START Treaty serves the interest of the United States
and represents an important step in the stabilization of the
strategic nuclear balance. With the addition of the Protocol,
the START Treaty can be implemented in a manner consistent
with the changed political circumstances following the demise
of the Soviet Union and in a manner that achieves important
non-proliferation goals. I therefore urge the Senate to
give prompt and favorable consideration to the START Treaty,
including its Annexes, Protocols, Memorandum of Understanding,
and this new Protocol, and to give advice and consent to its
ratification.
GEORGE BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 19, 1992.
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DATE: June 19 92
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FRI./SAT./SUN.,
JUNE
19-21,
1992
U.S., Russia
settle feud
on embassies
By Juan J. Walte
USA TODAY
The battle of the embassies
may be over - apparently
doused by the friendship be-
tween President Bush and Rus-
sian President Boris Yeltsin.
The United States reportedly
has agreed to drop claims total-
ing $30 million against the Rus-
sians for bugging the new U.S.
Embassy in Moscow, news re-
ports said Thursday.
Secretary of State James
Baker and Russian Foreign
Minister Andrie Kozyrev did
sign an accord on the U.S. and
former Soviet embassies, said
the State Department's Marga-
ret Tutwiler.
But she refused to provide
details of the agreement.
Both men were in Washing-
ton for the Bush-Yeltsin sum-
mit, which ended Wednesday.
The deal apparently settles a
four-year feud triggered by
charges U.S. Marine guards in
Moscow traded sex for secrets
and when KGB bugs turned up
in the new U.S. Embassy.
The agreement means:
The United States will get
land in Moscow to build a bug-
free embassy and a long-term
lease on the existing facility in
Moscow, valued at $45 million.
to get embassy the Union The move a The Soviets 10-acre in United Russians of Washington into the tract from the States former will adjoining still-vacant using and be banned Soviet able will the it.
building after bugs were found
in its new Moscow facility.
Russia's embassy is 3 miles
from the White House.
Weinberger arraigned today
NATION'S NEWSPAPER
Reagan's role remains
USA
issue that looms large
TODAY
By Sam Vincent Meddis
USA TODAY
GANNETT
Caspar Weinberger faces ar-
raignment today on Iran-con-
tra charges - with ex-presi-
dent Ronald Reagan's role in
the scandal looming large over
the federal court proceeding.
The 31-page indictment
against the former Defense
secretary highlights Reagan's
actions "almost to the level of
an unindicted co-conspirator,"
says Georgetown University
law professor Paul Rothstein, a
specialist on criminal practice.
While Weinberger alone was
indicted Tuesday - on five
WEINBERGER: 'Relatively
counts including perjury, mak-
cryptic' writing style
ing false statements and ob-
struction of justice - some ob-
servers say the cover-up-
1,700 pages of
related charges point higher.
"I think everybody was in it
personal notes
including the president,"
says Thomas Polgar, a former
handed over
senior CIA official and analyst
for the Senate's Iran-contra
About 1,700 pages of per-
committee. "They all knew
sonal notes that helped in-
and they all kept silent."
dict former Defense secre-
Weinberger insists he's inno-
tary Caspar Weinberger
cent. Reagan has not been
were found in the Library
charged with any crime; his
of Congress.
lawyer, Theodore Olson, flatly
Weinberger placed the
denies any wrongdoing by the
documents at the library
former president.
after leaving office in 1987,
But Reagan is repeatedly de-
under an agreement that
picted in the indictment as dis-
gave him exclusive access
regarding warnings about the
while the library got val-
illegality of arms sales to Iran
ued custody of them.
and then attending high-level
Because the library is
meetings where the fact of the
part of Congress, its con-
shipments was kept hidden.
tents aren't covered by the
The indictment suggests that
Freedom of Information
the reason for keeping a lid on
Act.
the 1985 shipments, particu-
When Iran-contra prose-
lary one involving HAWK mis-
cutors learned of Weinber-
siles, was that many adminis-
ger's notes, he agreed to
tration officials had "expressed
hand them over voluntari-
repeated concern" that they
ly. But they could have
were illegal.
been subpoenaed.
"They were all scared to
How much the handwrit-
death of the illegality of the
ten notes reveal is unclear
Hawk shipments," agrees Pam-
Based on other already re-
ela Naughton, staff counsel to
leased examples, Weinber-
the House Iran-contra commit-
ger's notes may be "rela-
tee. Why the fear?
tively cryptic," says Tom
The possibility of impeach-
Blanton of the National Se-
ment, contends Tom Blanton of
curity Archive
the National Security Archive,
a non-profit research group.
"They knew that if Ronald
role in the 1985 shipments.
Reagan went down, they went
At a news conference a
down, too," says Blanton.
week later, Reagan denied ad-
According to the indictment:
ministration involvement in
At a Dec. 7, 1985, White
the shipment of arms to Iran
House meeting, former nation-
by third countries. He later ac-
al security adviser Robert
knowledged third-country in-
McFarlane reviewed two ship-
volvement, but did "not dis-
ments of U.S.-made missiles
close that
he had approved
from Israel to Iran. Weinber-
any of the 1985 shipments."
ger warned Reagan that the
At a Nov. 24, 1986, White
U.S. embargo on Iran made the
House meeting - attended by
shipments illegal.
Reagan and administration
At another White House
leaders - Attorney General
meeting, on Jan. 7, 1986, Rea-
Edwin Meese said the Novem-
gan favored another plan to
ber 1985 missile shipment may
sell missiles to Iran, through Is-
have been illegal, but that Rea-
rael, in exchange for hostages.
gan didn't know about it.
On Nov. 12, 1986, after the
"No one contradicted Mr.
scandal was exposed, national
Meese's incorrect statement
security adviser John Poin-
concerning President Reagan's
dexter briefed congressional
lack of knowledge, although
leaders, with Reagan present,
severalof those present
had
about the Iran operation but
contrary information," the in-
CMILLION
FRI./SAT./SUN.,
JUNE 19-21, 1992
EWSMAKERS
Yeltsin relaxes in heartland
By Marilyn Greene
USA TODAY
7.TREATIES
WICHITA, Kan. - Russian
President Bush and Rus-
President Boris Yeltsin shook
sian President Boris Yelt-
off two pomp-filled days of
sin signed seven treaties
statesmanship Thursday and
during their summit in
allowed himself the joys of a
Washington:
Kansas farm boy.
Nuclear reduction: Slash-
With a successful state visit
es arsenals by two-thirds to
to Washington accomplished,
3,500 warheads for United
Yeltsin made the most of five
States and 3,000 for Russia.
hours here, guest of Republi-
can Sen. Bob Dole. He arrived
Partnership, friendship:
aboard an Ilyushin-62 plane
Sets up wide-ranging eco-
emblazoned with "Russia" on
nomic, scientific and mili-
the side.
tary cooperation.
At Greg Rau's 2,000-acre
Global protection: Calls
wheat farm, Yeltsin took the
for study of joint missile
wheel of a glant combine and
By Colin Braley, Reuter
warning system based on
speed-slashed a half-dozen
IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT: Boris Yeltsin takes a John Deere com-
U.S. "star wars" idea.
swaths of ripe red wheat. Dark-
bine for a spin at Greg Rau's 2,000-acre wheat farm.
Nuclear weapons: Spells
suited Secret Service agents
out steps for curbing nucle-
scattered, disappearing from
be on alert"
Kansas in general," said music
ar, chemical and biological
view in a cloud of chaff, as
Then Yeltsin plunged into
student Sonja Wohlgemuth, 25.
weaponry; offers U.S.
Yeltsin charged by, waving
the crowd, grabbing 2-year-old
At the Rau farm - where
equipment to dismantle
and grinning
Brendan Lindsey from his fa-
two dozen farm organizations
Russian weapons.
"He looks great at it, like a
ther's arms and holding the
kicked in steaks, chops, wheat
Space cooperation:
little kid with a new toy," said
child close.
rolls and milkshakes for an old-
Opens U.S. space shuttle to
corn grower Don Lundquist
At the Hormel meatpack-
time barbecue - Yeltsin chat-
Russian cosmonaut by
There were other signs Yelt-
ing plant, Yeltsin shed his light
ted with wheat, corn, dairy and
1993 and Russian Mir
sin was in the mood to relax:
brown suit jacket, giving It to
beef people.
space station to U.S. astro-
At McConnell Air Force
the plant manager as a souve-
"Peace always starts with a
naut same year. Also calls
Base, where a crowd of about
nir. At Wichita State University
full stomach," sald Don Kees-
for a 1994-95 shuttle mis-
1,000 from military families
to deliver a speech about peace
ling, a wheat farmer who put
sion to dock with Mir for
and the media greeted him,
and the new U.S.-Russian
off his harvest to attend the do.
up to 13 days.
Yeltsin received the key to the
friendship, he told a cheering
"It's inconvenient, but timely.
Double taxation: Guaran-
city, and declared his first state
student audience, "At least I
This is a great customer."
tees that U.S. businesses in
visit to the USA "a great suc-
still have my pants."
Yeltsin and wife Naina left
cess." He vowed "there will
Russia won't pay income
Students forgave him for
Kansas for a state visit to Cana-
never be war between our two
taxes in both countries.
three times confusing their
da before their return home.
countries," and voiced the
school with the University of
Investment: Removes
hope that the line of B-1 bomb-
Kansas, in distant Lawrence.
obstacles for businesses to
Bugged embassy, 1A
ers parked on the field "never
"Everyone knows he meant
invest in Russia.
Yeltsin and Clinton, 4A
MILLIO
FRI./SAT./SUN.,
JUNE 19-21, 1992
Family turns to Yeltsin, hoping for answers
By Carol J. Castaneda
USA TODAY
POW hunters find no POW
Twenty-five years ago, in the
A U.S.-Russian team
that American servicemen
clouds above North Vietnam, a
tracking a report that an
were taken to the Soviet
missile hit the fighter plane
American pilot from the Ko-
Union and may still be
carrying Navy Lt. James Kelly
rean War may be in a Soviet
alive.
Patterson and Navy Capt. Eu-
gulag found freshly painted
In Israel Thursday, for-
gene "Red" McDaniel
prison walls but no U.S. ser-
mer Soviet leader Mikhall
The two were able to para-
viceman Thursday.
Gorbachev denied he knew
chute out, landing on opposite
Members of a joint U.S.-
that U.S. servicemen In
sides of a mountain.
Russian commission on
Vietnam were taken to the
McDaniel was captured and
POWs and MIAs traveled to
former Soviet Union. "This
held as a prisoner for six years.
the Stalin-era camp, about
indicates (Yeltsin) could
Patterson, who kept in radio
900 miles northeast of Mos-
not resist joining those who
contact with rescue crews for
cow. The team is expected
are working on defaming
days, has never been found.
to visit other camps in the
Gorbachev," he said.
But now Patterson's parents
area today.
The Pentagon has long
hope Boris Yeltsin can help.
The trip was quickly ar-
said the United States has
This week, Jo and Robert
ranged after Russian Presi-
no evidence servicemen
Patterson, of Templeton, Calif.,
By Wayne Nicholls, San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune
dent Boris Yeltsin ignited
were taken from Vietnam
wrote to the Russian president,
25-YEAR WAIT: Robert Patterson hopes Boris Yeltsin can locate
U.S. interest with the claim
to the Soviet Union.
pleading with him to find out if
his son, Navy Lt. James Kelly Patterson, missing since 1967.
their son is among the U.S. ser-
vicemen whom Yeltsin claims
during a visit here this week.
The Pattersons asked Yelt-
not aware of any response."
were taken from Vietnam to
were captured in Vietnam and
And despite serious doubts
sin to delve deeper into the ar-
POW-MIA activists long
the former Soviet Union.
other wars and taken to Soviet
raised by U.S. officials about
ticle that appeared in the Sovi-
have maintained that captured
Mary Backley of the Nation-
prison camps - where they
the claim, POW-MIA activists
et newspaper Kommersant.
U.S. servicemen with expertise
al League of POW-MIA Fam-
still might be alive.
and families have eagerly
"We have a saying here in
in weapons were shipped to the
illes said relatives of missing
"Anything you can do to re-
latched onto the hope that Yelt-
the United States, 'where there
Soviet Union, which provided
servicemen "are in a holding
lieve the anguish of not know-
sin's claim is true.
is smoke, there is fire,'' the
aid to Vietnam.
pattern. Seeing is believing"
ing his fate for the past 25
"We feel there's a break,"
Pattersons wrote. "It is hard
But officers from the U.S.
Jo Patterson is cautious
years will be sincerely appreci-
says Jo Patterson, 72.
for us to believe that the story
Embassy in Moscow dis-
about her hope that her oldest
ated," wrote the Pattersons.
The Pattersons' hopes were
was a figment of (the writ-
patched to the area after the
son might be coming home.
The Pattersons' hopes were
first raised last year, after a So-
er's) Imagination."
Russian article appeared Nov.
"We have been living with
raised - along with those of
vlet newspaper reported a pris-
Alexander Shelemekh, assis-
3, 1991, found no evidence that
this for SO long You can't get
families of thousands of ser-
on in Kazakhstan held a pilot
tant to the Russian ambassador
Patterson had ever lived there.
too excited, things come and
vicemen missing in World War
shot down over Vietnam on
in Washington, said letters like
The Pentagon has repeated-
they fade away. We get our
II, the Korean War and Viet-
May 19, 1967 - the same day
the Pattersons' are routinely
ly maintained there is "no evi-
hopes up, and then they're
nam - after Yelstin's remarks
Patterson's plane went down.
sent to Moscow and that, "I'm
dence" that U.S. servicemen
dashed," she says.
FRI./SAT./SUN., JUNE 19-21, 1992
IN WASHINGTON
CONGRESS OVERHAUL: The House voted 412-4
Thursday to create a special House/Senate panel on over-
hauling the way Congress conducts its business. The mea-
sure, which now goes to the Senate, calls for a thorough re-
view of everything from the huge congressional staff to the
turf battles between committees. "The aim is both to re-
store public confidence in Congress as well as to improve its
ability to respond to an increasingly complex agenda," said
Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., a co-sponsor. The bill was intro-
duced last July and lawmakers began to flock toward it this
year in reaction to legislative gridlock and House scandals.
GAY POLICY: The Pentagon spends at least $27 million
per year replacing gays and lesbians forced from the ser-
vice because of their sexual orientation, according to a Gen-
eral Accounting Office report due out today. The GAO, Con-
gress' investigative arm, found that the service branches
discharge an average of 1,500 people a year solely for being
gay, The Associated Press reported. Pentagon policy deems
homosexuality incompatible with military life and the
maintenance of "good order, morale and discipline."
CONTINGENCY CUTS: Defense Secretary Dick Che-
ney has given the military the go-ahead to prepare for the
possibility that fewer than 150,000 troops might one day be
stationed in Europe, The Associated Press said. But there
are no plans to order such reductions at this time. Current
plans call for the Army to maintain 92,000 troops in Europe
as part of the U.S. military's smaller base force. That's
down from a high of about 325,000 troops posted there in
recent years.
FRI./SAT./SUN.,
JUNE 19-21, 1992
QUICK-TAKES
I-R-R-I-T-A-T-E-D: Marilyn
Quayle voiced "complete and total
irritation" at those chortling over
her husband's potato-spelling
gaffe. "He gives five speeches a
day for 25 months, never makes a
mistake," she told CNN. "He
makes one mistake and they air,
air and air it. Human beings make
errors." Quayle gave late-night co-
medians new ammunition this
week when he told a sixth-grader
to add an "e" to the spelling of pota-
USA TODAY
to. "As the political season goes
QUAYLE: They air,
on," she said, "the realization is
air and air'
there that we are electing a presi-
dent and this is a little bit too serious to go on a Quixotic
character, that you need real leadership."
GOP COMPLAINT: Republicans today planned to file a
complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging
that the Clinton campaign illegally used $400,000 from the
Democratic National Committee to pay for a 30-minute
NBC special. The complaint will ask the FEC to deny feder-
al matching funds to Clinton's campaign because it tapped
party funds. Democrats say use of DNC funds was proper.
EARTH VOTERS: The effect of President Bush's trip to
the Rio Earth Summit remains unclear, but a poll for Times
Mirror Magazines shows a fifth of voters cast ballots in the
past based on environmental issues.
JOINING PEROT: Latest political Insiders joining the
Ross Perot campaign: Tim Craft, who helped Jimmy Carter
in 1980, and Joe Canzeri, aide to both President Reagan and
Vice President Quayle. Both will report to Ed Rollins.
WHERE CANDIDATES ARE
Democrat Bill Clinton: Today: Little Rock, talks by satellite
with Hispanic officials meeting in Santa Fe; Saturday: Little
Rock; Sunday: Atlanta, Houston, 30-minute campaign ad,
NBC, 7 p.m. EDT.
Republican George Bush: Today: Business speech and
meetings with GOP leaders in Orange County, Calif.; Satur-
day: speech to Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association at Uni-
versal City, Calif., speaks to GOP convention in Dallas; Sun-
day: Camp David, Md.
Independent Ross Perot: Today: Petition rally in Denver;
Saturday: Rally, parade in Boston; Sunday: Dallas.
Contributing: David Colton, Judy Keen.
USA TODAY FRIDAY. JUNE 19. 1992 3C
By Dennis Cook, AP
IN SAN FRANCISCO: Bush greets the crowd as he arrives at
the Alameda Naval Air Station in San Francisco Thursday.
Summit success
fades fast for Bush
By Judy Keen
out there."
USA TODAY
Bush's description of vot-
ers' mood: "Everybody in
NEWARK, Calif. - Presi-
ought to be out."
dent Bush came here Thurs-
But he added: "Right now, I
day hoping to bask in the af-
don't think it's in focus. I think
terglow of his summit with
what's in focus is a kind of dis-
Russian President Boris Yelt-
content.
I think what hap-
sin. But those who questioned
pens is we go through this pe-
him at an oil-recycling plant
riod now and then it gets in
were more concerned with is-
focus
Four years ago to
sues closer to home.
this very day, I was 18 points
Bush, in shirtsleeves under
behind the opponent."
a hot midday sun at Ever-
Bush didn't mention his
green Oil, said his talks with
new opponents, but ended the
Yeltsin will ensure a safer fu-
session with a warning:
ture and help create jobs as
"You haven't heard one
new export markets open.
negative comment. And
But the 13 people who
you're not going to hear one
questioned the president
until maybe the end of Au-
wanted to talk about their
gust, and then you are, be-
money worries, education,
cause I know how to fight and
the environment, the home-
I'm not going to be their
less and the shrinking de-
spear-catcher for the rest of
fense industry.
the year, I can tell you that."
Maybe the most difficult
Bush campaigns this week-
question came at the end of
end in California and Texas
the 30-minute session, when a
- crucial states where he
man asked Bush why so
trails Perot in the polls.
many people seem to be re-
One woman asked Bush
jecting him and supporting
why he hasn't appeared on
Ross Perot instead.
TV call-in shows as Perot and
"Look," Bush said. "I un-
Democrat Bill Clinton have in
derstand the discontent that's
recent weeks.
out there. This economy has
At that moment, CNN in-
been in the dregs."
terrupted a live broadcast of
As he has for the last
the Bush appearance to tell
month, Bush struggled to
voters that an 800-number on
make a case for his re-elec-
an Evergreen truck parked
tion. When people consider
behind the president was not
"who's doing something on
a number they could call to
the big painting" and "wheth-
ask him questions.
er it's a good thing kids can
"I've been doing it ever
sleep without fear of nuclear
since I've been in politics,"
weapons," Bush said, they
Bush said. "I just have a cer-
may rethink their support for
tain respect for the office,
his opponents.
and I don't want to turn it into
"I want to finish what
a call-in showplace," he said.
we've started," he said. "That
"I am not going to be out
alone is enough reason to ask
there being a teeny-bopper at
the people for their support
68. I just can't do it."
for four years, but right now
there's a hurricane blowing
Campaign index. 4A
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
U.S.-Mexican Talks on Free Trade Pact
Are Proving Tougher Than Expected
Despite a dispute over kidnapping and
The U.S. SO far has been able to
fear that Ross Perot will galvanize protec-
allay Mexican government fears over a
tionist sentiment, U.S. and Mexican offi-
loss of sovereignty. On Wednesday, Mex-
cials think they can complete a free-trade
ico temporarily lifted a ban on cooperation
agreement this summer.
with U.S. drug agents in Mexico that it had
But the negotiations, which are contin-
imposed Monday to protest the Supreme
uing in Washington today, are proving to
Court decision. The speed with which both
be tougher than either side anticipated.
governments smoothed relations struck
U.S. business groups complain that the
analysts as significant.
Mexicans are angling to keep outmoded
"The quick, effective response on both
restrictions that would limit U.S. industry.
sides of the border shows a desire to keep
The Mexicans counter that they need
this from retarding progress across the
more time to get their country used
whole range of bilateral issues," says
to the idea of surrendering big chunks
Delal Baer, director of the Mexico Project
of business to Americans. Meanwhile, both
at the Center for Strategic and Interna-
countries are trying to use the U.S. presi-
tional Studies.
'A Done Deal'
By Wall Street Journal staff re-
Among Mexican businesses, which
porters Bob Davis in Washington and
have the most to lose if the trade pact is
Matt Moffett in Mexico City.
derailed, there seems to be little fear that it
was in jeopardy.
dential election to their advantage - and
"We've been operating under the as-
could easily miscalculate in doing SO.
President Bush has instructed his trade
sumption that free trade is a done deal,
negotiators to try to finish a deal by the end
and we will continue to do so,' said Jorge
Vazquez Costilla, chief economist at
of next month, SO he can sign a North
Femsa, a giant beer and soft drink
American Free-Trade Agreement, or
maker.
NAFTA. with Canada and Mexico before
the November election. And the Mexicans
Jose Calvillo, finance manager for
sense that could give them leverage in
Controladora Comercial Mexicana S.A.,
the country's No. 3 retailer, concurred.
striking a deal more to their liking,
"No matter what happens to the stock
analysts say.
"The Mexicans have made a mistake in
market in Mexico or the opinion polls in the
putting all their eggs in Mr. Bush's
U.S., we view free trade as something
basket," says Daniel James, president of
that's inevitably going to happen," he
said.
the Mexican/American Free Trade As-
sociation. a Washington, D.C., group push-
But completing the pact won't be easy.
The three countries haven't scheduled an-
ing for an agreement. "They don't under-
other meeting of trade ministers, indicat-
stand the need for grass-roots organizing
ing that they haven't narrowed the issues
and influencing public opinion" in the
significantly in the past few weeks. Even if
U.S.
a pact is signed, it would face signifi-
Perot's Stance
cant opposition in the U.S. Congress.
With the rise of the independent Perot
And American consumer, environmental
candidacy, that reliance on the adminis-
and trade groups promise a campaign
tration seems all the more risky. Mr. Perot
against NAFTA, which they say will
has indicated he opposes a free-trade
weaken U.S. environmental standards and
agreement, and his remarks have been
cost jobs.
blamed for recent weakness in the Mexi-
The talks have also snagged on disputes
can stock market. And a recent Supreme
over financial services, automobiles, en-
Court ruling allowing the kidnapping by
ergy and agriculture. U.S. auto makers say
U.S. officials of a Mexican citizen sus-
Mexico is balking at dismembering regula-
pected of involvement in the murder of an
tions that limit sales of U.S. cars. U.S.
American drug agent only fueled Mexican
insurance companies complain that Mex-
fears that the trade pact would be just
ico's proposed limits on foreign ownership
another avenue for U.S. domination.
of financial institutions could force them to
But yesterday the Mexican stock mar-
divest themselves of stakes they already
ket began to rebound. even though inves-
hold.
tors remain skittish. "Just a month ago we
President Bush's authority to negotiate
hadn't received any calls from subscribers
a deal, which Congress would have to
in Mexico about Perot." says Mauro Leos,
consider on a straight yes-or-no vote, free
an economic consultant for CIEMEX-
of amendments, expires next June. And if
WEFA in Philadelphia. "Now people are
Mr. Perot winds up the winner in Novem-
calling up to ask: 'Who is that guy?'
ber. NAFTA could wind up a quick loser.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Israeli Politicians Vigorously Court
'Wild Card' Russian Immigrant Vote
By AMY DOCKSER MARCUS
main point is that the Likud has failed in
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
the absorption of the immigrants and that
KFAR SIRKIN, Israel-With less than a
we can do a better job," says Yoseph
week to go before the Israeli elections,
Genosar, who runs Labor's Russian cam-
politicans have been arriving several
paign.
times a day in this dusty caravan site,
The Likud has tried hard to con-
which houses recent Russian-Jewish im-
vince the Russians that unemployment
migrants. Cars drive down the narrow
will ease and that holding on to the territo-
rows of mobile homes blasting campaign
ries is crucial for Israel's survival. Prime
jingles through loudspeakers. Young vol-
Minister Yitzhak Shamir, in a television
unteers pass out pamphlets as political
appearance, even appealed to the immi-
aides go door-to-door cajoling people to
grants to consider Israel's security before
come to the square for a speech.
their personal problems. It hasn't been
"We've seen them all," says one Rus-
easy: Housing Minister Ariel Sharon re-
sian woman, ticking off the names of
portedly griped at a Likud meeting that the
people in the ruling Likud bloc, three
immigrants were "spoiled." "I miss the
immigrant parties, and the left-wing
past immigrants," he said, "those of the
Meretz coalition on her fingers as she
1950s."
waits patiently in the midday sun for yet
Despite the focus on the Russians,
another speech to begin. "I even hear that
not everyone in the immigrant community
tonight [Labor Party head) Yitzhak Rabin
is satisfied. Natan Sharansky. president of
is coming here."
the immigrant self-help group Soviet
Most of Kfar Sirkin's residents are
Jewry Zionist Forum, says neither party
unemployed and don't speak Hebrew yet,
has presented concrete programs for solv-
but the fact that they are being assiduously
ing the immigrants' unemployment, medi-
courted is a sign of the political clout
cal, and social problems. "The real prob-
wielded by the 200,000 new immigrants
lems of the immigrants have been com-
who will be voting in Israel for the first
pletely ignored in this campaign in favor of
time on Tuesday. Israeli pollsters predict
propaganda and personal attacks on the
that newly arrived Russian voters could
decide as many as seven seats in the
other side," says Mr. Sharansky. "Nobody
120-member Knesset, or parliament,
is talking about how we are going to help
enough to tilt the balance between Likud
400,000 immigrants find work and housing
or how we can get two million more Jews
and Labor and determine which party
who are now sitting on their suitcases to
takes power.
come here, and that is the biggest chal-
"The Russians," says Yuli Ko-
lenge facing Israel."
sharovskv. head of the Da immigrant
Still, the campaign has transformed the
party, "are this election's wild card."
community by giving the immigrants an
When Russian immigrants first began
awareness of their emerging clout. Some
streaming into Israel in 1989, most political
have already learned how to flex their
analysts assumed the arrivals would be
political muscle. "If you want our vote,"
automatic Likud supporters. After years of
one man at Kfar Sirkin called out to the
suffering under communism, the Labor
Da party's Mr. Kosharovsky at the end of
Party's red flag, socialist traditions, and
his speech, "get us cable TV here."
more moderate political views made many
immigrants uneasy. Aaron Fein, director
of the Tazpit Research Institute, a Jerusa-
Severn Trent PLC
Iem polling firm that monitors immigrant
voting patterns, says most new immi-
The British water utility Severn Trent
grants are still more comfortable with the
PLC in London said yesterday that its
Likud's hard-line security views. In a
pretax profit rose 7% in the year ended
recent Tazpit survey, more than two-thirds
March 31, helped by the first-time consoli-
of immigrants opposed returning the terri-
dation of its recently acquired Biffa waste
tories Israel occupied in the 1967 war.
management business.
But as unemployment among the new
The pretax profit rise to £265.4 million
immigrants continues to rise, reaching
($492.6 million), or 68.20 pence a share,
40% among highly educated professionals,
from £249 million, or 64.50 pence a share,
support for Likud has eroded. According to
was at the top end of previous market
Tazpit's latest figures, 43.8% of the immi-
expectations that had ranged from £262.5
grants say they intend to vote for Labor
million to £265 million. The full-year divi-
and only 10.5% for Likud. "I trust the Likud
dend boost by 10% to 19.30 pence from 17.55
more not to give back the territories," says
pence was slightly above the 19.20 pence
Mikhail Chervin, a 21-year-old unemployed
that many analysts had forecast.
xylophone player. "But I heard Labor is
Other key figures showed sales rising
going to build factories near Tel Aviv and
31% to £821.7 million, while operating profit
right now what I need most is a job."
climbed 32% to £260.8 million.
Both sides have made intense efforts to
Severn Trent said the advance included
court the immigrant vote. Campaign jin-
10.5 months of results from Biffa, which it
gles have been recorded in Russian and
acquired from BET PLC. It also cited its
television ads carry Cyrillic subtitles. La-
cautious expansion into other environmen-
bor dropped its red flag and toned down
tal activities as contributing to the ad-
the socialism, assuring immigrants it
vance and looked forward to future growth
will speed up economic reforms such
in this area.
as selling off state-owned companies and
promising to divert to job creation money
Philippine Jobless Rate Rises
currently being spent building settlements
in the occupied territories. Labor even
MANILA - The Philippine unemploy-
ment rate rose to 13.2% of the work force in
recruited 15 Russian performers, actors,
the second quarter of 1992 from 9.1% in the
and writers to appear in television and
first quarter, according to the latest labor
newspaper advertisements and at rallies
urging immigrants to vote Labor. "Our
survey conducted by the National Statis-
tics Office.
WALL STREET JOURNAL.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Waxmangate:
Why Americans
Mr. Waxman is fatter than most.
Though he has a safe seat himself (even
this year). he has still raised millions from
Hate Congress
PACs. (In 1991 alone, according to Com-
mon Cause, Mr. Waxman received more
PAC money, $348,950, than all but one
It's only fitting that Caspar Weinberger
other House member. Most of it is protec-
was indicted in the same week that Ross
tion money paid by the businesses he
Perot leads in the polls and Washington
regulates from his subcommittee.)
celebrates the twentieth anniversary of
Why? The answer goes back to those
Watergate. All three events are related, as
Democratic proxy votes. Mr. Waxman
Henry Waxman understands.
raises money to ladle it out to other
The diminutive Mr. Waxman is the
Democrats running in competitive seats.
Little Big Man of Congress's "Watergate
In 1989-90 alone, his office figures he
class" of 1974. Though virtually unknown
bestowed $220,000 on liberal colleagues.
outside Washington, the Los Angeles lib-
Those members don't forget who buttered
eral is one of the most important American
their permanent incumbency. It's no won-
politicians of the past 20 years.
der Mr. Waxman now rivals Chairman
The reforms, so-called. that Watergate
John Dingell in choosing who can sit on his
ushered into Congress help explain Mr.
Energy and Commerce Committee. Mr.
Waxman's brilliant career. His career
Waxman is assumed to be Mr. Dingell's
helps explain the "gridlock" in Washing-
heir apparent as well.
ton that has voters turning in desperation
Watergate's aftermath was supposed to
to Ross Perot.
humble an arrogant executive, and it did,
The 92 freshmen in the Class of '74 first
though at the cost of strengthening an
overturned discipline inside the Congress,
arrogant and un-
with Henry Waxman in the vanguard.
ruly Congress. Its
They deposed old barons and created mul-
staff has grown
tiple subcommittees to disperse power. In
with its ego, to 31,-
1978, just four years on the job, Mr.
000 now from 20,000
Waxman became the first member to
in 1972.
defeat a more senior colleague for a sub-
The nastiest ex-
pression of its arro-
committee chairmanship.
gance is the use of
In 1974, only a month before he re-
"independent coun-
signed. a besieged Richard Nixon signed a
sel" to terrorize ex-
landmark budget "reform." It diminished
ecutive branch offi-
a president's power to influence spending
cials, even those
choices, while handing new power to such
like Caspar Wein-
legislative entrepreneurs as Mr. Waxman.
berger who've long
Budgets could be assembled in one giant
ago left office. That
Henry Waxman
"reconciliation," typically at the last min-
law too was passed in the wake of Wa-
ute. A single shrewd operator with enough
tergate. Does anyone think a Henry Wax-
votes could suddenly make even a presi-
man would let such a law pass if it
dent blink.
also applied to him?
"Henry Waxman walks around this
All of this might be just another. story
place with proxies from 150 Democrats in
about how Washington works, except that
his pocket, explains California Rep. Wil-
voters are concluding it doesn't work.
While Mr. Waxman can pass his personal
Potomac Watch
agenda, his very success precludes Con-
gress as a whole from passing a sensible
By Paul A. Gigot
budget. And while voters have elected
Republican presidents, ingenious liberals
managed to exploit the Watergate reforms
liam Dannemeyer, the ranking (and ad-
and burrow into a tenured Congress that
seems unaccountable.
miring) Republican on Mr. Waxman's
Disgust with Congress suggests the
subcommittee. Congress's leaders may
public agrees with Gerald Ford. "All they
want to compromise, but Mr. Waxman can
did was screw it up," the former president
prevail by focusing those proxies on key
and House GOP leader recently said about
priorities. A budget director who wants a
the post-Watergate reformers. The House
broader deal at any cost (Dick Darman)
now, he added, is composed of "435 prima
is putty in his hands.
Little Big Henry has thus been able
donnas who have no allegiance to their
party or their leaders."
single-handedly, and all but invisibly, to
Mr. Waxman will still be in Congress in
turn Medicaid from a welfare supplement
into an entitlement cascading toward $100
1993, but perhaps SO will enough new
members to reform the House that Water-
billion a year. And because Medicaid is
gate Built. Term limits and redistricting
partly funded by state governments. Mr.
Waxman can personally take credit for
have already upset the stranglehold of
forcing many state tax increases. Even
Mr. Waxman's political operation in his
Bill Clinton, of all people, has accused Mr.
home of California. If we're lucky, 1992 will
Waxman of imposing national health care
be the beginning of the end of the Wax-
via Medicaid and using "the states' credit
mangate era.
cards as the financing mechanism."
Mr. Waxman's greatest genius,
though, has come in political finance, The
Watergate "reforms" were supposed to
purge private "fat cats" from politics.
Instead they created congressional fat
cats who learned how to exploit the politi-
cal-action committees (PACs) of special
STREET JOURNAL
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Congress Passes $1.1 Billion Aid Bill
To Help Los Angeles, Chicago Rebuild
By DAVID ROGERS
nearly $276 million allocated to the Small
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Business Administration would be used to
WASHINGTON - Congress approved a
$1.1 billion emergency urban aid bill to
leverage new disaster loans and greatly
help Los Angeles and Chicago recover
expand the value of loan guarantees avail-
from recent disasters and pump $500 mil-
able to smaller companies generally.
lion into expanded summer youth-employ-
Disaster loan levels, for example,
ment programs nationwide.
would nearly double to $1.1 billion in this
The action came as the House Appropri-
fiscal year, and SBA loan guarantees
ations Committee approved a $13.8 billion
would increase by an estimated $1.5 bil-
foreign aid measure incorporating deep
lion.
cuts from U.S. military assistance abroad
Role of Image and Cost
and providing a S417 million down payment
The plight of cities, and the image of
on promised humanitarian aid for the
riot-torn Los Angeles, are driving forces in
former Soviet Union.
this debate. But it also illustrates a
An additional $400 million would be
green-eyeshade struggle over budget num-
allocated for Eastern Europe in the fiscal
bers and what costs will be counted under
year beginning Oct. 1. But despite lobbying
spending ceilings. Liberals had hoped to
by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, the
use the crisis to escape these restrictions
panel rejected all of a $202 million debt-re-
and pump up appropriations for Head Start
lief plan sought by the administration for
and compensatory education assistance
Caribbean and Latin America nations.
for poor children. These programs will now
The urban aid package. which is ex-
find it that much harder to compete for
pected to be signed promptly by President
extra funds against other priorities.
Bush, cleared the Senate on a voice vote
after being adopted by the House by a
For example, even as the urban aid
249-168 margin. The action follows weeks
agreement was being worked out this
of maneuvering that is sure to reduce the
week, the Senate Appropriations Commit-
effectiveness of the promised youth jobs
tee chose to cut back on the funds available
funds. Even in the final hours of debate,
for the same health and education pro-
the Senate had to overcome a skirmish
grams in order to address perceived short-
over whether to incorporate aid for rural
falls in law enforcement and highway
Minnesota communities hit by tornadoes.
accounts. The $377 million reduction re-
The final measure reflects concessions
flects the priorities of committee Chair-
by Democrats who stripped out at least
man Robert Byrd (D., W.Va.) and under-
$750 million that the party leadership had
scores the gap between himself and the
hoped to include for a mix of education and
acting leader of the House panel, Rep.
urban law enforcement programs. Despite
William Natcher, who made clear that he
this compromise, rank-and-file House Re-
would prefer to see the money back in
publicans voted overwhelmingly against
health and education funding.
the bill, which is seen as only an interim
"If there is such a thing as a peace
step before another round of legislation
dividend, there is no question where it
comes to the floor before the Fourth of July
should go," Mr. Natcher said yesterday.
recess.
And as he exerts himself more in the
Breaks for Businessmen
committee, the Kentucky Democrat repre-
sents a potential counterweight to Mr.
Republicans are chafing for an opportu-
nity to take up the administration's initia-
Byrd's penchant for pork-barrel politics.
tive to provide tax breaks and regulatory
relief to businesses in urban enterprise
SouthTrust Corp.
zones. And while Democrats pledged yes-
terday to act on some version of this
Banking Concern to Acquire
proposal, liberals will demand that these
incentives be combined with some mix of
CK Federal in Stock Swap
more traditional job and education pro-
SouthTrust Corp. said it signed a letter
grams for poor families.
Under terms of yesterday's emergency
of intent to acquire CK Federal Savings
bill, the $500 million for summer jobs must
Bank, of Concord, N.C., in a stock swap
valued at $32 million.
be obligated by the Labor Department by
the end of this month and would supple-
Terms call for SouthTrust, of Birming-
ham, Ala., to swap 0.95 of a share of its
ment an estimated $682 million previously
common for each of the 1,349,036 shares of
appropriated for the fiscal year ending
CK Federal outstanding.
Sept. 30. The first $100 million would be
The transaction, announced after the
targeted to the nation's 75 largest cities,
and if fully implemented, the new money
close of trading Thursday, is subject to
could add as many as 300,000 to 400,000
the negotiation of a definitive agreement,
temporary jobs for teen-agers.
as well as regulatory and shareholder ap-
provals.
Elsewhere, the bill provides $300 mil-
lion to replenish accounts at the Federal
SouthTrust is a bank holding company
with assets of $10.4 billion and 340 offices in
Emergency Management Agency and as-
sist communities damaged in the Los
six states; CK Federal has about $435
million in assets and nine offices in North
Angeles riots and the Chicago flood. And
Carolina.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Washington Wire
CLINTON PLANS to issue an updated
A Special Weekly Report From
economic plan, perhaps as soon as next
week, while putting off a multi-issue agenda
The Wall Street Journal's
with Democratic leaders in Congress. But a
Capital Bureau
mutual agenda "isn't dead," says a top
Democratic aide. If Clinton can't set joint
action with Congress on key issues, his
BUSH'S CAMPAIGN still sputters. de-
campaign would be severely jeopardized.
spite a boost from Russian arms cuts.
Memos and letters urging drastic
QUAYLE CONTINUES to lead adminis-
changes and firings pour into Bush deliv- from
tration attacks on Clinton and Perot, despite
supporters; one old friend says he has more
a bad spell of potato embarrassments. He
ered six to Bush personally. "We need
will deliver a speech today at the American
creativity. more ideas, more energy." says we
Association of Talk Show Hosts and another
another Bush friend, Peter Teeley. "If
on family values early next month in Clin-
lose this thing, it is because of complete offi-
ton's home state of Arkansas.
ineptness," grouses one administration
cial. White House staffers point fingers at the
PEROT GAVE $100,000 to the American
campaign for the woes, but campaign people House
Jewish Committee last month, a few weeks
and many outsiders fault the White have
after revealing that he had belonged to a
officials. The latest shake-up rumors White
country club that excluded Jews. The com-
defense chief Cheney going to the cam-
mittee's Jamie Kelstein says the first-ever
House and ad-man Roger Ailes to the but
Perot donation to the group was a "sur-
paign. Talk grows that Baker will return. as
prise."
to secretary of state and face reconfirmation
do so he likely would have to quit If
BOOK ROYALTIES from "Made in
America," the new biography of Sam Wal-
Bush wins.
The campaign will use Yeltsin's
ton, will go to the nonprofit New American
agreement for nuclear cuts to promote
Schools Development Corp. created as part
Bush's foreign-policy image, but some
of Bush's America 2000 education program.
The idea was hatched in a meeting between
other foreign issues turn south.
Education Secretary Alexander and the Wal-
Mart founder before his death.
PROBLEMS GROW for Bush and the
U.S. in Latin American nations.
COSTS RISE for taxpayers as Trea-
Congressional conservatives push to hold of
sury's agenda stalls in Congress.
leftist U.S. Sandinistas there. In El Salvador. re
aid to Nicaragua due to the influence
Lawmakers from both parties balk at
approving money needed to sell or liquidate
Bush's leverage slips as government
insolvent savings and loans. The delay adds
stall and leftist guerrillas miss new a
as much as $2.5 million a day to the eventual
forms troop-cut deadline; but both sides set Haiti
price tag. "With the meter still running, the
dates. An embargo against from
delay has cost more than $150 million,"
target isn't succeeding in driving the military
says former Comptroller Robert Clarke.
House Democrats, annoyed by criticism
power. The U.S. dispatches senior military offi
from Treasury Undersecretary Mulford,
to Venezuela to warn about the conse- it
omit $200 million for his pet project - debt
cers of another coup attempt. But Haiti-
relief for Latin America - but earmark $75
quences be hard for Bush to call for a U.S.'S
million for a new hemispheric investment
would embargo there: Venezuela is the and
fund. Prospects for Treasury-backed
second-biggest like supplier of imported oil
changes to permit interstate banking also
second-largest Latin market for U.S. goods.
are slim.
Senate Banking Chairman Riegle
blames Treasury for the S&L delay,
CLINTON FACES unexpected diversions
accusing it of deliberately stalling to
at next month's Democratic convention.
Women activists press for unprecedented
preserve ailing California S&Ls until
after the election.
roles. showcasing Senate contenders Boxer
and Feinstein of California, Braun of Illinois
MINOR MEMOS: A Tex-Mex restaurant
and Yeakel of Pennsylvania. They want as
sells a Perot Taco: "Nobody's sure what's in
many candidates on the podium on the
as three dozen female congressional second
it. but everybody loves it anyway.
Led-
yard National Bank in Hanover, N.H., offers
night. Meantime, an angry Jackson prom-
customers "practically the same benefits
ises a huge New York march the Saturday
Imembers of Congress] received at the
before the convention.
House bank."
Convicted Watergate
Many Clinton aides concede that plan- be
conspirator G. Gordon Liddy not only does a
ning Platform fights loom on economic too
for a smooth convention is "far
radio show from the scene of the break-in 20
years later but rides in a limousine, courtesy
hind." planks: some regular Democrats see
of NBC. for an Interview a block away.
emphasis on "entrepreneurial" plans. New
-RONALD G. SHAFER
much AIDS activists plan a rally. Even the
site. with a potential strike and secu- to
York concerns. plays into GOP efforts urban
rity portray Democrats as the party of
chass.
Clinton stubbornly resists urgings by
ades to trim his multi-point plans
and USE yours on a simple message.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Bush Expected to Unveil Ways of Easing
The Conversion of Military Technology
By ANDY PASZTOR
well as spare parts, to recoup a portion of
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
its research investment when overseas
WASHINGTON-President Bush, seek-
sales are signed by U.S. defense firms.
ing to help U.S. defense contractors adjust
Similar payments are also required on
to the post-Cold War world, is expected to
commercial sales.
announce various policy changes making
Long advocated by leading defense
it easler to convert military technology to
contractors, the proposals are expected to
nonmilitary uses.
save defense companies hundreds of mil-
Mr. Bush, according to administration
lions of dollars in direct payments in future
and industry officials, will unveil a pack-
years, reduce paperwork and administra-
age of regulatory initiatives today in-
tive costs, and encourage the industry to
tended to eliminate payment of royalties
diversify into nondefense markets by
to the government when Pentagon-spon-
breaking down barriers between military
sored research is spun off to produce
research and commercial derivatives.
commercial products. The long-term goal;
In recent months, the Pentagon's
these officials said, is to combine the best
stepped up recoupment efforts on nonmili-
research from federal laboratories,
tary sales "sent the defense industry into a
weapon-makers and smaller private com-
frenzy," according to Joel Johnson of the
panies and harness it to develop products
Aerospace Industries Association. He said
that can compete more effectively with
the effort presented huge administrative
Japanese and European manufacturers.
problems and even potential criminal pen-
As part of the administration's broader
alties for contractors If "they can't track
regulatory efforts, the president is also
down technology that migrated" from de-
expected to call for legislative changes
fense to commercial projects.
eliminating similar royalty payments
Don Cassidy, vice president of con-
when defense companies land major
tracts for General Motors Corp.'s Hughes
weapons sales to foreign governments.
Aircraft unit, called the proposed changes
The Pentagon uses a sliding scale that
"a significant first step" to help defense
can exceed 5% of the contract price, and
companies diversify and "avoid all kinds
typically includes the weapons system as
of arguments and litigation" when com-
mercial spinoffs are marketed.
taxes. Potential buyers may calculate their
Hoping to get the maximum political
taxes before moving in. Justice Blackmun
boost from the announcement, the White
reasoned, and California may favor the
House called in some senior defense indus-
interests of longtime residents who wish to
try officials for briefings, and Mr. Bush
stay put.
has chosen to make his announcement in a
In a lone dissent, Justice John Stevens
speech to a business group in Orange
said Proposition 13 had created "severe
County, Calif., with strong ties to the
inequities" and a "tremendous windfall"
region's aerospace industry.
to longtime owners, whom he sarcastically
Most of the regulatory changes are
dubbed "the Squires." He singled out for
expected to go into effect immediately, and
particular ridicule an exception to the
the White House expects bipartisan con-
general rule that allows owners to avoid
gressional support for Mr. Bush's package
the increased assessment of their property
partly because existing export-license re-
if they transfer it to their children. rather
quirements won't be affected.
than to a new buyer. The exception "estab-
lishes a privilege of a medieval character,
Justice Stevens wrote.
It would require them to hold capital
equal to 2.5% of their assets and 0.45% of
their guarantees to purchase mortgages
and make payments on securities. That
compares with a 5%-of-assets minimum for
well-capitalized banks. G.E. Capital Corp.,
which operates without government bene-
fits, maintains 11.5% capital to keep its
AAA rating secure, according to public
documents.
Fannie Mae Chairman James Johnson
says the legislation. which has passed the
House, will "re-
move any cloud that
remains about our
governmental man-
date and allow
Fannie Mae to get
on with housing
Americans
and
making
more
money for Its share-
holders.'
One reason Fan-
nie Mae has been so
successful in pro-
tecting its privi-
James Johnson
leges is that it has
done just what Congress created It to do 11
1938: aid housing by helping lenders sup
ply credit at the lowest rate. The Institu-
tions also say they funnel money to the
lower end of the housing market. However,
a 1990 Federal Reserve study of mortgage
lending found that just 2.5% of the housing
loans Fannie Mae bought that year were in
predominately minority neighborhoods;
for Freddie Mac. the figure was 3.6%.
Another factor is Fannie Mae' unusual
dual public-private nature as a govern-
ment insider that can, for example, dis:
pense political-action committee money
"Their intelligence is so good." says Rep
Gerald Kleczka. a Wisconsin Democra
who sits on the House Banking Committee
"that one time I was drafting an amend
ment, and Fannie Mae had a rebuttal is
the hands of the Republicans before
spoke."
THE WALL
STREET
JOURNAL.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
race, takes voters from all demographic
Three- Way Race Forces Politicians to Rethink
groups. "Perot is taking different voters in
different places, and the two parties have
to throw out their whole plans," says
Strategies in States That Used to Be Sure Bets
Sandy Maisel, a member of the Dem-
ocratic platform committee from Maine.
"The Democrats have to worry about
places where they were confident and now
By DAVID SHRIBMAN
In the past month alone, the politi-
cal world has changed drastically. Mr.
Big Stakes in Big States
can mount a push in places where the
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Republicans were impregnable."
WASHINGTON-Democrats. who have
Perot isn't likely to pass from the scene like
The presence of Ross Perot in the
carried Alabama only once in a presiden-
a summer storm, and his presence has
New Issue for Candidates
presidential race has altered the political
altered the electoral environment, chang-
Meanwhile, candidates for Congress
tial race since John Kennedy ran. suddenly
equations in three big states. Below are June
are competitive in that state. Republicans,
ing both the mathematics and the geogra-
are struggling with how they would vote if
poll results in a race that includes only
phy of politics.
the election were thrown into the House.
who have lost West Virginia in six out of
President Bush and Bill Clinton, and for
the past eight presidential elections, sud-
Cautious by inclination, hidebound by
"This is a question that is going to be part
denly are in a position to win that state.
temperament. politicians nonetheless are
contrast, the poll findings with Perot added
of House races as long as Perot is a factor,
scrambling to adjust to a landscape trans-
to the race.
The new political order has arrived,
says Bert Rockman, a University of Pitts-
formed by the presence of Mr. Perot in the
2-WAY
3-WAY
and there's nothing orderly about it.
burgh political scientist.
The three-way
presidential race - and at the top of the
TEXAS
Lawmakers also are continuing to try to
polls. There are no landmarks, no road
tinker with the current electoral system.
presidential race is
BUSH
53
30
prompting politi-
CAMPAIGN
signs to guide the way, and there is
GOP Sen. Slade Gorton of Washington this
cians at all levels to
only one certainty: "If you stick to the old
CLINTON
32
21
week introduced legislation to hold a run-
rules." as Charles Campion, a veteran of
PEROT
41
off between the top two vote-getters in the
rethink not only
their strategies and
92
Democratic political struggles, puts it,
event that no candidate wins a majority of
"you're a loser, plain and simple.'
FLORIDA
the electoral college. But they are also
tactics but their en-
tire sense of the po-
Multiple Uncertainties
BUSH
50
31
juggling various approaches to deal with
CLINTON
34
22
the current system, which gives each state
litical terrain. The
Indeed, the established truths of a
one vote in a contest that includes the three
presidential cam-
two-way race have been replaced by
PEROT
34
candidates who attract the most support.
paigns are only now
the multiple uncertainties of a three-way
Although some say they will support the
coming to grips with the complexities of
race. In West Virginia. for example, a
CALIFORNIA
presidential candidate who wins their
running against two candidates. Congres-
dependably Democratic state that gave
sional candidates are discovering that,
BUSH
40
24
state or district. many of the congressional
Michael Dukakis his sixth-biggest margin
along with abortion rights, economic mat-
CLINTON
36
22
candidates are signaling that they will
of victory four years ago, Gov. Bill Clinton
ters and questions about perks, they now
PEROT
41
support the candidate who wins the most
holds a four-percentage point advantage
votes nationally. "We're not selecting
have to address how they would vote if no
over President Bush in a two-way race.
Source: Mason-Dixon Political/Media Research
someone to be president of Minnesota's
one got an electoral-vote majority and the
But with Mr. Perot in the contest, Mr. Bush
first district, or Minnesota or the Demo-
election of the president and vice president
holds a four-point lead over Mr. Clinton.
cratic Party," argues Democratic Rep.
were thrown to Capitol Hill.
In Ohio, meanwhile, President Bush
volatile, but with Perot in the race, Bush is
Tim Penney of Minnesota.
Defections From Clinton and Bush
would win by a big margin in a two-way
in better shape," says Lee Miringoff, di-
Some lawmakers, such as Rep. John
The complex dynamics of the 1992
race. But with three candidates in the race,
rector of the Marist Institute for Public
LaFalce of New York. chairman of the
campaign are underscored by the Пар
according to the latest Mason-Dixon poll,
Opinion in Poughkeepsie. N.Y. "Perot
House Small Business Committee, say it's
growing out of Gov. Clinton's criticism of
the president and Mr. Perot are tied for the
may even be ahead here - but at any rate,
too early to set any fixed rule. "We
rap singer Sister Souljah at a forum
lead with 34%. In Alabama, a safe GOP
he's pulled Clinton back to earth."
have to consider our conscience, our own
conducted by the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
state in an ordinary election, Mr. Bush's
The shifts in political support from
constituents, our state and the rules by
Mr. Jackson. who has relished disputes
17-point lead in a two-way race shrinks in a
state to state defy simple explanations,
which others intend to cast their votes,"
with Democratic nominees in the weeks
three-way race to only eight points over
largely because Mr. Perot. alone among
says Mr. LaFalce, who adds that "right
leading up to the past two national conven-
Mr. Clinton, who's thus clearly within
modern third entrants in a presidential
now, I could comfortably cast mv ballot
tions, now has a new outlet-and perhaps a
striking distance.
trump card. He has been having conversa-
The reason: GOP success in Alabama is
tions with Ross Perot this week. and
based on winning a huge margin of the
though there are no plans for an alliance
white vote and all but relinquishing the
between the two, those with ties to both
black vote to the Democrat. Even if Mr.
camps say a Jackson endorsement isn' out
Clinton doesn't attract as much of the
of the question.
black vote as previous Democratic con-
There are parallels in President Bush's
tenders, it's almost certain that Mr. Perot
campaign. Republicans. particularly con-
will peel off significant chunks of the white
servatives and Christian activists who are
vote that Mr. Bush counted on, seriously
troubled about the drift in the Bush admin-
endangering the president's majority in
istration and the president's campaign,
the state.
either for Mr. Clinton or Mr. Perot from the
because they worry their vote will go
suddenly also have an alternative. Some
"Perot could divide enough of the
to elect the candidate they like the least,"
white vote off from Bush and let Clinton
House."
leading Republicans believe Mr. Perot is
In any case, uncertainty rules the
says Tad Devine, who ran Sen. Bob Ker-
moving toward luring a number of well-
sneak in with a solid black base and with
some other Democrats," says Brad Coker,
political world right now - and more could
rey's Democratic presidential campaign.
known Reaganites to his cause. "The dam
follow. "Some people are not going to vote
"There could be unintended consequences
may break and make it socially acceptable
president of Mason-Dixon Political/Media
for the candidate they want the most
to all of that."
to be for Perot." says Marc Nuttle, the
Research.
former Pat Robertson campaign manager
That pattern, moreover, may repeat
who has talked with Perot aides, but
itself in such states as Mississippi, Geor-
because of his own longtime GOP ties, has
gia, Tennessee and Kentucky. As a result,
been struggling over whether to work for
Southern and border states. ordinarily
Mr. Perot.
considered part of the Republican base in a
"There are extra elements in this
presidential election, are now within reach
election that we haven't seen before." says
of the Democratic nominee. himself a
Stephen Wirls, a political scientist at
native Southerner.
Franklin & Marshall College. "The whole
By the same token, Mr. Clinton's
system IS in rebellion and is changing so
position is far less strong in states ordinar-
fast that politicians aren't keeping up with
ily considered part of the Democrats' base,
the changes. And that is making the con-
including such big states as New York,
fusion even greater."
which has 33 electoral votes. "It's all
Bush compromises, urban aid till passes
wanted.
tough-on-crime "weed and seed"
things." Mr. Weber, who is retiring
cities. Republicans in Congress who
approved by the House. Democratic
'Enterprise
With the $1.1 billion compromise,
program.
this year, has been part of the nego-
had taken part in the talks did not
leaders acknowledged they had
Mr. Bush sacrificed two key urban
Mr. Bush has touted both pro-
tiating team on urban aid issues.
agree to the compromise, Mr. Weber
been unable to secure enough sup-
programs ballyhooed on the cam-
grams on the campaign trail as the
The House voted 249-168 to ap-
said.
port to pass the $2 billion measure
zones
killed
paign trial while effectively break-
cornerstone of his domestic agenda.
prove the urban aid package, with
The bill provides $576 million for
the Senate first approved.
ing his 1990 agreement with Con-
While several lawmakers praised
205 Democrats, 43 Republicans and
disaster relief and recovery loans to
"This is a time to do something. It
gress to cap federal spending.
Mr. Bush, one senior GOP House
the one independent voting for the
help Los Angeles businesses and
means nothing to those young people
By J. Jennings Moss
White House officials said they
member said the president made a
bill while 51 Democrats and 117 Re-
residents recover from riots last
in Los Angeles or St. Louis or New
month and to assist Chicago busi-
and Frank J. Murray
agreed to the plan to open the door
"terrible mistake" by not insisting
publicans opposed it. The Senate ap-
York if we just continue to have a
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
for Congress to act on aid to the for-
on retaining his proposal for inner-
proved it by a voice vote.
nesses repair damage from sub-
good old argument," Mr. Gephardt
mer Soviet republics.
city investment enterprise zones.
House Majority Leader Richard
basement flooding caused by a tun-
said on the House floor.
Congress passed an emergency
But the price for getting quick
"I thought we gave away our best
Gephardt of Missouri and adminis-
nel rupture earlier this year. It also
The Bush administration issued a
aid bill for Los Angeles and Chicago
consideration on the Russian aid
leverage," said Vin Weber of Minne-
tration officials worked out the com-
includes $500 million to create an
written veto threat to Congress last
yesterday, funding a summer jobs
package was giving up the "enter-
sota. "The administration should not
promise Wednesday after nearly a
estimated 360,000 jobs for young
week that invoked objections to the
program President Bush did not re-
prise zone" proposal, which would
have agreed to this.
It
seriously
month of talks about short-term
people in 75 cities this summer.
lack of "fiscal discipline" implied in
quest but cutting nearly $1 billion
have given tax breaks to those who
diminished our chances of passage
emergency aid and more compre-
But the trimmed-down version
for social programs Democrats
invest in poor urban areas, and the
of enterprise zones and other
hensive programs to help America's
was still twice the amount originally
see URBAN, page A10
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
URBAN
there where it's needed."
the issue. He said Democrats al-
Added campaign press secretary
ready are in a "win-win" situation
Torie Clarke: "It's best to get results
with the passage of the urban aid
From page Al
and relief to the area immediately
compromise and had no reason to
emergency spending but he is now
and come back and fight another
fight for enterprise zones.
willing to declare such an emer-
day." Politically, she said, it is most
Other administration priorities,
important "to be seen to get results.
such as Mr. Bush's Education 2000
gency.
Mr. Bush and the Congress
If you get help to these people it's a
program, were set aside but will be
agreed in 1990 to set strict caps on
success."
considered in continuing long-term
government spending to keep the
Administration officials and some
urban aid talks.
deficit down but allowed an escape
congressional advocates of Russian
But the chances of any future
clause for extra spending. As part of
aid, which is a priority for Mr. Bush,
package that includes high-priced
the 1990 agreement, Mr. Bush re-
also said action on the urban aid bill
domestic programs are shaky in
neged on his 1988 campaign pledge
had to come first.
light of a budget-cutting fever on
of "Read my lips: No new taxes" -
U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Rob-
Capitol Hill. On Wednesday the
a reversal that brought howls from
ert Strauss told a few reporters at
House scrubbed nearly $500 million
congressional Republicans.
the White House on Wednesday that
for the superconducting super col-
The urban aid issue deeply split
"you can be absolutely assured" that
lider.
Republicans, with such economic
Mr. Bush will make sure urban aid
"It's going to be right difficult,"
hard-liners as Treasury Secretary
passes before bringing Russian aid
said acting House Appropriations
Nicholas Brady opposing compro-
to a vote.
Committee Chairman William H.
mise.
Mr. Gephardt and Senate Major-
Natcher, Kentucky Democrat. "We
"It became clear that everybody
ity Leader George Mitchell prom-
only have so many dollars, and if
couldn't agree," Judy Smith, deputy
ised the administration that Con-
they want to go in to add programs
White House press secretary, said
gress would consider enterprise
in additional cities, they're going to
yesterday. "We still want the rest of
zone legislation, possibly before the
have to do it one of two ways and the
our urban package but agreed to this
July 4 recess.
House is not prepared to do it one
because we want to get money out
Mr. Weber predicted a big fight on
way, by raising taxes."
The
FRIDAY,
JUNE
19,
1992
Prisons
yield no
JAILS
The entrance road was lined with
freshly planted pine saplings. The
crumbling concrete road winding
From page A1
around the camp had been swept
Yanks
clean, and the few prisoners allowed
Yeltsin claimed. "I know nothing of
outside were wearing clean, black
the existence of such facts that Yel-
uniforms.
tsin was talking about," Mr. Gorba-
Vladimir Alexandrov, a 38-year-
Search for POWs
chev said at a news conference.
old convicted burglar serving a four-
A private American group look-
year term, said camp officials or-
off to slow start
ing for POWs, the Ark Project, said
dered inmates to clean up the
it believed the man being sought at
grounds the previous two days, evi-
By Thomas Ginsberg
Camp No. 5 was 1st Lt. Robert Mar-
dently to put a good face forward.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
tin, who was taken prisoner by North
"Our conditions are pretty good
Korea during the Korean War. Fur-
anyway," Alexandrov said, managing
LABOR CAMP PL-350-5, Russia
ther information about him was not
a halfhearted smile as he cleaned
- U.S. investigators came to this re-
available.
potatoes at a kitchen outside the
mote Stalinist prison yesterday look-
The American investigators re-
compound.
ing into reports that an American
fused to speak with reporters. They
prisoner of war was still alive. But
filed from room to room in the pris-
Alexandrov, who has one year left
all they found were freshly painted
on's dilapidated, three-story admin-
on his term, said he had never seen
walls, smiling prisoners and offi-
istration building, its interior walls
an American during his time at the
cials who insisted the hunt was
freshly painted white, in search of
camp, "but I don't know about the
pointless.
information.
other places."
"We don't have any Americans
State Department spokeswoman
The delegation planned to visit
here," said Maj. Gen. Leonid Kham-
Margaret Tutwiler said in Washing-
other camps today before returning
luk, chief of the region, which in-
ton that the commission had re-
to Moscow.
cludes about 10 labor camps built
ceived information that an Amer-
before and during World War II.
ican POW might have been at the
The delegation of two civilians
camp "as recently as 18 months ago."
and one military investigator - part
Soldiers, inmates and prison of-
of a U.S.-Russian commission on
ficials all said there were no Amer-
POWs and MIAs - met local offi-
icans present.
cials in the morning and then drove
"We heard some rumors that
over rough gravel roads through for-
somebody was around here, but no-
ests to reach Camp No. 5 in the once-
body has ever seen him. And I don't
closed area known as PL-350.
believe them," said 18-year-old Alex-
The delegation came after getting
ander Babenko, one of a half-dozen
word that an American pilot was be-
young soldiers posted at a guard-
lieved to be at one of the camps here,
house overlooking the camp.
near the town of Pechora, 900 miles
The labor camp, home to more
northeast of Moscow.
than 200 prisoners, is surrounded by
The trip was quickly organized
a high brick-and-wood fence topped
after the remark by President Boris
by barbed wire. It is set in a clearing
Yeltsin that American POWs impris-
surrounded by birch trees for miles
oned in the Soviet Union during this
on all sides.
century might still be in Russia.
Journalists were not allowed in-
In Israel, meanwhile, former So-
side but could see several buildings
viet leader Mikhail Gorbachev de-
behind the fence, including a hos-
nied that he knew American POWs
pital, barracks and small factories
from the Vietnam War were trans-
where prisoners make wooden fur-
ferred to the Soviet Union, as Mr.
niture.
see JAILS, page A7
Mashington
Stitting
FRIDAY,
JUNE
19,
1992
Clinton urges Russian aid
after meeting with Yeltsin
critics cite foreign policy experience as his
By Ronald A. Taylor
weak suit as a presidential candidate.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The event allowed Mr. Clinton to strike a
Bill Clinton had an early-morning chat with
statesmanlike bipartisan pose, said Anthony
Boris Yeltsin yesterday and emerged to urge
Lake, one of four Clinton foreign policy advis-
ers who sat in on the meeting.
bipartisan support for aid to the Russian pres-
Mr. Clinton complimented Mr. Yeltsin on
ident's struggling nation.
The probable Democratic nominee stayed
his rousing address to Congress on Wednes-
up all night for a talk with the widely publi-
day and said the Russian president "speaks
our common language of freedom."
cized guest. The session began at 7:30 a.m. at
Blair House, across Pennsylvania Avenue
He suggested that he and Mr. Yeltsin had in
common "a pretty tough childhood, and his
from the White House.
Reappearing 30 minutes later, Mr. Clinton
political obituary has been written several
echoed the encouragement for the Russian
times. Same things happened to me. So I ad-
leader that had been voiced earlier by Pres-
mire him. He's a guy who doesn't quit."
Mr. Yeltsin welcomed Mr. Clinton's support
ident Bush and much of official Washington
for the American portion of the $24 billion
during the visit.
international aid proposal for Russia and
"Today is the day to emphasize that a very
brave and historically important figure is
avoided talking about the other issues they
here," Mr. Clinton said, endorsing a Russian
discussed.
aid package and a new arms-control agree-
"I am acquainted with his pre-election pro-
ment between the United States and Russia.
gram. I know he is in favor of active coopera-
The governor also urged a search for
tion with Russia," Mr. Yeltsin said. "I know
Russian-held U.S. POWs in response to Mr.
that he is a fighter against bureaucracy, and
Yeltsin's disclosure during his visit that grave
this is a real problem for us, too."
sites of American veterans have been kept
Mr. Clinton said he disagreed with the view
secret by past Soviet regimes.
among some Democratic congressmen that
Mr. Clinton said Mr. Yeltsin "made an in-
domestic economic needs should be tied to the
credible effort here to reach out to the United
Russian aid bill.
also believe we need action on the domes-
States."
tic front, but I don't think the linkage is nec-
"The arms-control agreement is very, very
essarily the best way to go. I think that these
good for this country and was embraced at
issues ought to stand on their own merits," Mr.
some risk to him in his country," the Arkansas
Clinton said.
governor said.
He avoided elaborating differences on for-
Mr. Clinton beamed despite a 4:30 a.m. arri-
eign policy with the White House but did note
val at Dulles International Airport after an
for reporters his opposition to Mr. Bush's poli-
overnight flight from an event in Las Vegas
cies on the Middle East, China, Haiti, Cuba
that netted $60,000 for his financially
and the just-concluded Rio Earth Summit.
strapped campaign.
"But today is the day to talk about some-
Yesterday's Blair House meeting provided
thing we agree on, which is the support pack-
Mr. Clinton with some scarce foreign policy
age and the arms-control agreement," Mr.
imagery, and he seemed clearly pleased as he
Clinton said.
reported on his talk with the Russian head of
"I would like if we could have a bipartisan
state.
policy on all major issues, but I certainly
Although the governor earned his under-
think that today is not the day to talk about our
graduate degree in international relations,
differences."
Perot is golden boy in the Golden State
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -
Perot will pay them visits over the
needed to rebuild its industrial job
Ross Perot took credit yesterday for
next week.
Most of the crowd
base and infrastructure but offering
forcing President Bush and Bill Clin-
Mr. Bush headed to California as
no details on how to do so.
ton to address key issues, drawing
well yesterday for several days of
was squarely in Mr.
At one point, Mr. Perot got flust-
rousing cheers for a slogan-rich
campaigning.
ered and stumbled over his words
speech that itself contained no de-
The Perot rally in Sacramento
Perot's corner and
when a small group of protesters be-
tailed policy proposals.
was replete with patriotic music,
flags and a child for Mr. Perot to hug
clearly displeased with
gan chanting, "Talk about the issues,
"These people have turned poli-
talk about the issues."
tics upside down. I don't think any-
- all trappings of traditional politi-
thing will ever be the same," Mr.
politics as usual.
But most of the crowd was
cal events for the candidate who
Perot told a crowd of thousands out-
squarely in Mr. Perot's corner-and
promises an unconventional cam-
side the state Capitol. Perot support-
clearly displeased with politics as
paign.
saxophone and Vice President
usual.
ers said they were turning in more
Mr. Perot, who has waged most of
Quayle is trying to figure out how to
"He's the guy for the job," said
than 1 million signatures to put him
his unannounced campaign by ap-
spell potato."
on the state's November ballot.
Gary Kitsman, an unemployed air
pearing on television shows, joked
Mr. Perot generally fires his crit-
Mr. Perot staged two triumphant
freight worker. "I just don't care for
that it was "fascinating" that Mr.
rallies in California as the drive to
icism at Mr. Bush and ignores Mr.
the direction the two parties are tak-
Bush and Mr. Clinton now were hit-
Clinton. But he veered from that
put him on ballots around the coun-
ing us."
ting the TV circuit and talking to
course a bit yesterday and said, "The
try moved forward. He apparently
Mr. Perot, in his speech, said he
voters about the deficit and other
Democratic candidate is now run-
has qualified for the ballot in 15
has spent just $1.4 million while Mr.
issues.
states so far.
ning as an outsider against his own
Bush and Mr. Clinton had spent a
"Now hold your hat," Mr. Perot
Supporters in California, Massa-
party. Only in America can you do
combined $34 million on the pres-
said. "The president held a press
that."
chusetts, Maryland and Connecticut
idential race so far. However, Mr.
conference WOW and Governor
were turning in signatures. Mr.
Mr. Perot offered no specific pol-
Perot - unlike Mr. Bush and Mr.
Clinton is on television playing the
icy proposals, saying the nation
Clinton-competed in no primaries.
Yeltsin and Gorbachev still slugging it out
By Martin Sieff
his first summit with President
rise again to challenge him.
when Mr. Gorbachev abruptly dis-
Mr. Gorbachev and other Soviet
Bush, Russian President Boris Yel-
"Yeltsin is very concerned with
missed Mr. Yeltsin, his one-time pro-
leaders "kept it secret."
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
tsin used the emotional issue of
what Gorbachev is (doing," said
tege, as Communist Party boss in
Mr. Gorbachev responded yester-
The image couldn't have been
American POWs to try to pound the
Dimitri Simes, a Russian affairs ana-
Moscow.
day, saying he knows "nothing of the
more upsetting: U.S. soldiers, some
final nails in the political coffin into
lyst at the Carnegie Endowment for
This week - even with both men
existence of such facts that Yeltsin
from as long ago as World War II,
which he has shoved the humbled
International Peace. "Gorbachev
traveling abroad, Mr. Yeltsin in the
was talking about."
languishing in Soviet prison camps.
Mr. Gorbachev.
has taken it upon himself to act as a
United States and Mr. Gorbachev in
"This indicates he could not resist
The culprits: Mi-
With his eye on a restive populace
'detached commentator' in a way
Israel - the sniping continued.
joining those who are working on
NEWS
khail Gorbachev
unaccustomed to the hardships ac-
that has been very damaging to Yel-
Mr. Yeltsin took the lead in the
defaming Gorbachev," Mr. Gorba-
and a cast of past
companying Russia's uncertain
tsin's effectiveness as Russian pres-
latest round, first hinting on his arri-
chev said before ending his five-day
ANALYSIS
Soviet strong-
transformation to a market economy,
ident."
val that Moscow might be holding
visit to Israel.
men.
Mr. Yeltsin seemed intent this week
The long-simmering feud be-
secrets about long-missing Amer-
In three hectic days that marked
to further weaken the man who could
tween the two men goes back to 1987,
ican POWs and later suggesting that
see YELTSIN, page A7
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Instead, Mr. Gorbachev is acting
Mr. Yeltsin's attempt to further
YELTSIN
like "a statesman who does not con-
tarnish Mr. Gorbachev's image -
sider himself a has-been," Mr. Simes
and possibly stymie any attempt at a
From page Al
said.
political comeback - comes as the
Mr. Gorbachev has maintained
Russian president faces new crit-
strong links with his old political al-
icism at home over his arms-control
Since his retirement as Soviet
lies, led by his former chief ideolo-
concessions in Washington.
gist Alexander Yakovlev, who have
Leaders of the hard-line Yedin-
president on Dec. 31, 1991, Mr. Gor-
bachev has set up a huge academic
set up a new political party, the
stvo, or Unity, faction vowed in Mos-
Movement for Democratic Reform.
cow yesterday to fight the new nu-
part
foundation, employing 600 persons.
He has toured widely in the West,
The effort is backed by a number of
clear arms accord by all means -
raising hard currency to finance his
Russian industrialists who are for-
including guerrilla war.
insured
activities.
mer senior Communist Party man-
Unity spokesman Nikolai Pavlov
The Russian Embassy in Wash-
said at a news conference that his
agers.
ington last month did little to mask
Mr. Gorbachev has been fiercely
supporters would do all they could to
its unhappiness with Mr. Gorba-
critical of his successor's policies
block further cuts in Moscow's stra-
chev's visit just a month before Mr.
both on his overseas visits and in
tegic arsenal.
Yeltsin's maiden voyage to Washing-
interviews in the Russian press.
"I am not calling for violations of
the constitution, but if the parlia-
ton as president.
"These remarks have gotten un-
Mr. Gorbachev summoned Rus-
der Yeltsin's skin. They have gotten
ment does not prevent Russia from
sia's ambassador to the United
him very irritated," said Helmut
coming under America's nuclear
States, Vladimir Lukin, to his hotel
Sonnenfeldt of the Brookings Insti-
umbrella, then clashes are inevita-
room and gave him an angry
tution, former chief Soviet analyst at
ble," Mr. Pavlov said.
dressing-down for not meeting his
the State Department.
"If the opposition by democratic
plane when it arrived, Russian
To add to Mr. Yeltsin's frustration,
means fail, then Russian Red Bri-
sources said.
he finds himself "still viewed by the
gades will emerge in the country," he
The former Soviet leader "is
establishment [in Washington] as far
said, referring to urban guerrilla
breaking his commitment" to Mr.
inferior to Gorbachev, and that's
cells that terrorized Western Europe
Yeltsin "and is engaging in politics
wrong," said Paul Goble, former
through the 1970s and 1980s.
again," Mr. Simes said. "It is not the
chief State Department analyst on
o This article is based in part on
performance of an academic."
the Soviet nationalities.
wire service reports.
Stephen S. Rosenfeld
Nuclear Forces of the Future
The huge nuclear arms cuts agreed to by
cause of nuclear nonproliferation is poorly
deniable flashing of a nuclear card in the gulf
10,000 or 7,000 or "even" 3,000 strategic
George Bush and Boris Yeltsin are bold and
served.
war to warn Saddam Hussein away from spe-
warheads in its pocket, make the point that
good and may meet the political possibilities
As the Cold War ended, the United States
cial-weapons adventures was a working exam-
one warhead in a Libya's or Iraq's pocket is
of the moment. But they contain weaknesses
had two broad nuclear choices. The one Presi-
ple.
one too many? It is so, and it is generally
and will be under stress over time.
dent Bush has taken allows him to satisfy
The road Bush has not taken, however, has
accepted that a Libya or Iraq is more danger-
These cuts register some of the major
important strategic, political and budgetary
its own logic. That way lies not merely a
ous. But it is not going to be easy to bring
strategic implications of the fading of the
needs by making deep cuts and by carving the
substantial reduction. but the near destruc-
along either the miscreants or the many other
Cold War. They greatly reduce the nuclear
first-strike heart out of the Soviet arsenal. He
tion of the nuclear apparatus assembled over
states whose political or economic cooperation
firepower that the two countries have on
preserves a formidable force against revival of
the last half-century. By apparatus I mean
in enforcing nonproliferation is required.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
a large Kremlin threat or appearance of some
the dismantling of weapons and of their
The now-gone Reagan and the now-
hand to train against each other or anyone
other threat. He also preserves the premise
component industrial parts and the altering
tarnished Gorbachev shared an odd emotional
else. They slow though they do not entirely
that nuclear power is what counts in interna-
of war plans and international politics alike to
attachment to the notion of nuclear abolition.
halt the march of technology related to weap-
tional politics. For Bush, the military contin-
write out the nuclear element in the current
They might have been better paired to work
ons. Their scope is dramatic-a necessity to
gencies in which nuclear arms might be fired
equation.
for truly deep nuclear cuts. Bush and Yeltsin
comfort democratic publics. Real savings in
or wielded may be hard to define, but the
Sometimes this approach comes wrapped in
are cooler and more pragmatic. But that
risk, tension and spending should follow.
political uses of nuclear power-in assigning
the scarcely hidden and off-putting idea that
doesn't mean they couldn't be drawn toward a
But the announced cuts do not rest on any
status, protecting national interests or manag-
the United States sinned by creating the bomb
nuclear force that serves deterrence at a
theory that would justify one level of arms or
ing crisis- are prized.
and remains an unworthy wielder of power.
reasonable level and nonproliferation too.
another. The current level of 10,000-plus
Don't dismiss this approach as merely the
Forget that. Still, there is a serious argument
What might that be? The hard-line hero of
warheads apiece is mindlessly high. The new
relic of a Cold War way of thinking. The
that the totalitarian threat that led the free
former Reagan Pentagon official Richard
numbers are dramatically (two-thirds) lower
premise of nuclear utility is all too appealing to
world to build the bomb has now been tamed.
Perle's new novel, "Hard Line," suggests that
but still mindlessly high and no better con-
some non-nuclear states. Still, a case can be
It is further and persuasively argued that the
in a disarmed world Moscow's squirreling
nected to military rationality or strategic pur-
made that in the new world disorder, the
new threat of proliferation, plus their treaty
away of "a few hundred, even a few dozen"
pose than the earlier set. They will invite
United States, as a great power tested and
obligations, compel the nuclear states to move
weapons would leave the United States "hope-
challenge on the twin bases that no country
accountable to a democratic electorate, has a
toward the nuclear exit, the better to keep
lessly vulnerable." And presumably vice versa.
can justify a need for 3,000 to 3,500 warheads
responsible role to play and must be suitably
others from entering by the other door.
A few hundred, a few dozen-is this the force
by the year 2003 and that meanwhile the
armed. The Bush administration's discreet and
How does the United States, with upward of
of the future?
Washington
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
Yeltsin's Sweet Summit
Boris Yeltsin's triumphant state visit
ment had ignored Yeltsin. It had also
was a reproachful message to George
played down Soviet murders of Baltic
Bush, ending the prolonged White
nationalists and other bloody demonstra-
House aloofness that made Russia's
tions of power intended to keep the
first democratically elected leader out
republics bottled up in the union. U.S.
to be a barroom brawler unfit to prac-
intelligence insists that these crackdowns
tice the drawing-room diplomacy of
had Gorbachev's express approval.
Mikhail Gorbachev.
That arouses concern here that links
On the nuts-and-bolts questions of
between Washington and the Kremlin's
reducing strategic nuclear arms and get-
crackdown might be traced. U.S. spe-
ting U.S. aid, President Yeltsin came out
cialists are warning the White House
marginally ahead of President Bush,
that Yeltsin's pledge to expose the
enough to prevent big trouble from his
blackest pages of Soviet perfidy con-
generals back in the Kremlin. But it was
tained in the archives of the KGB and
on the far more important political levels
the Communist Party, including infor-
of their historic encounter that Yeltsin
mation on possible American prisoners
achieved rare success and displayed the
of war, could be a two-edged sword.
mastery that brought him, against all
Yeltsin, these sources have told us,
odds, to power in Russia.
intends to release everything discovered
Making this performance particularly
in these files. That could include sugges-
memorable, Yeltsin had to sweep away a
tions of complicity between the Bush
garbage dump of Bush administration
administration and Gorbachev that Sovi-
insinuations. The campaign to discredit
et power to restrain the republics would
Yeltsin as a boor and cling to Gorbachev
be permissible.
as the man of the future would have
stopped a lesser politician.
On Capitol Hill, Yeltsin played Con-
The uproarious reception Yeltsin got
gress like a master pol. His promise that
the "unparalleled brutality" of commu-
from Congress showed his skill. By seiz-
nism is dead in Russia never to "rise
ing the initiative in pursuing the com-
mon goal of a new U.S.-Russia partner-
again in our land" and that the "dark
ship in peace, he turned the tables on
pages" of party archives will be opened
Bush. His tour de force psychologically
was a high card that Gorbachev could
elevated the president of Russia's im-
not play. Gorbachev has never de-
poverished masses over the president of
nounced the Communist Party.
the last superpower.
The playing of that card by Yeltsin
Part of the reason for this lies in the
will surely end any continued specula-
recent past. Last Aug. 1, Bush stunned
tion by Bush, who gave private citizen
the fragile democratic movement in
Gorbachev red-carpet treatment here
breakaway Soviet republics with his pro-
only last month, that the last Soviet
Soviet Union speech in the Ukrainian
leader might one day return to power.
capital of Kiev. He in effect damned the
Yeltsin's political skills were also in
independence movements by saying the
evidence behind closed doors with his
United States would "not aid those who
American negotiating partners. He broke
promote a suicidal nationalism based on
the Pentagon barrier against reducing
ethnic hatred."
strategic nuclear warheads below 4,700,
That line was denounced in every
insisting on 3,500. As assessed back in
republic seeking to get out of the col-
Moscow, that gain may be more formida-
lapsing Soviet Union and establish a
ble than his loss in agreeing to destroy all
democratic government-including
of Russia's SS-18s and SS-24s, and it may
Russia, where Yeltsin had just been
even keep his unhappy generals from
elected president. But it was not de-
claiming he sold out.
nounced by Gorbachev's ruling Com-
He was eloquent enough to dispel
munist Party, then still entrenched in
political fear in the White House that if
the Kremlin. Soviet President Gorba-
the president insisted on Congress ap-
chev is believed to have read the speech
proving emergency aid now it would
as a virtual invitation to do whatever
hurt the reelection campaign. By
necessary to keep the union intact.
Wednesday afternoon, Bush was making
Diplomatic sources close to the Yeltsin
the case for aid and making it hard.
administration have broadly hinted that
For the son of a Siberian peasant, the
the Kiev speech gave an unintended go-
summit was sweet. In a town that reeks
ahead for the attempted military putsch
of bad politics these days, he showed
launched 17 days later. For months be-
what a good politician can do.
fore the coup attempt, the U.S. govern-
© 1992, Creators Syndicate Inc.
The
Washington
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Frank A. Weil
The Perot I Knew
Should people give serious consid-
The rest is history and is now well
eration to Ross Perot as a possible
known. It appears he learned quite a bit
president? An intensive exposure almost
from that unhappy experience.
20 years ago suggests there are good
He gave signs of really getting into
reasons to look and listen carefully as he
public policy by hiring a real pro to be his
has moved in the past few weeks from
head of issues. John White, an economist
the pop art stage to being taken as a
by training, worked at Rand then served
legitimate candidate.
in the Carter Defense Department and
In the early 1970s, Perot was trying
OMB. Subsequently, White ran a soft-
to extricate himself and his company,
ware firm that was acquired by Kodak,
Electronic Data Systems, from duPont
from which he currently is on leave to
Glore Forgan. He took on that broker-
work for Perot. If White assembles a
age firm's back office as a client in the
representative team of people of his com-
late '60s and did an effective job. Still,
petence, Perot should be able in a matter
the brokerage firm continued to rot
of weeks to have a program for the
away because morale on the revenue
country to match or better anything on
side-stockbrokers-continued to
the table today.
erode. He then had EDS invest in du-
His reaching out to Hamilton Jordan
Pont and took charge-presumably to
and Ed Rollins to manage his campaign
protect his interest in his important
is only further evidence of rational
data-processing customer. Unfortunate-
professionalism that appears not to
ly, his efforts to make order out of chaos
have ideological blinders. He appears
by managing and leading the indepen-
to seek advice and help from all sorts
dent breed of stockbrokers made mat-
of people who he thinks can help him
ters worse by driving even more of
them away out of fear of his discipline.
better understand the world he is try-
ing to help.
At that point he began looking for some-
one else to take over his problem. What
The combination of a substantive pro-
he hadn't realized, apparently, was that
gram, Perot's natural leadership ability,
duPont probably was doomed before he
his homespun candor, plus his excellent
ever began to fix its back office.
political instincts (not to mention his
money sufficient to run a world-class
After several weeks of talking to peo-
ple in the securities industry about taking
campaign) gives this man the right to be
taken very seriously by all Americans
over duPont and finding no takers, he bit
the bullet and put that firm into receiver-
who want a change in the way our
government works.
ship and wrote off his very large invest-
ment. Had he not made that decision I
A serious three-way race gives the
doubt the world today would know of
voter who wants change 2½ chances in
Ross Perot. He probably would have
three. If Clinton ends up president, he
pumped more money into duPont and
and the Democratic Party will surely
ultimately might have gone down with it.
accommodate to the new realities. If
It was clear during that period that he
Perot is elected, both parties will be
forever different, and a new form of
was a man of absolute integrity. He never
shirked any form of disclosure. His word
coalition government will result. If Bush
was absolutely reliable. He clearly wanted
is reelected, his second term will be
to win in the worst way. At the end he did
informed by the Perot phenomenon. We
all win on all counts.
the most difficult thing for a man with a
large ego and a reputation for never
The writer was an assistant
giving up. He faced reality and did the
intelligent and rational thing.
secretary of commerce in the Carter
administration.
Washington
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
This refinement was made in response to opposi-
Don J. Pease
tion raised to previous conditionality bills. The as-
sumption here is that across-the-board revocation
would destabilize the very entrepreneurial forces
China, Trade
responsible for slowly bringing about economic and
political liberalization in China.
There are those who argue that using trade to
effect positive change in Beijing's policies would
And Human
prove counterproductive. It is thought that the
Chinese government would rather sacrifice its bilat-
eral trade relationship with the United States than
bow to pressure from another sovereign nation.
Rights
To me, this backlash scenario seems far-fetched.
One needs only to look at the U.S.-China merchan-
dise trade balance for the past few years to deter-
Read the bills, Mr. President.
mine that for China, there are billions of dollars of
trade at stake. After all, between 1990 and 1991,
President Bush has once again decided to extend
the PRC moved from a position of having the third
most-favored-nation status to China. Congress has
largest bilateral trade surplus with the United States
responded by introducing yet another conditional
($10.4 billion) to having the second largest trade
MFN proposal-the United States-China Act of 1992,
surplus ($12.7 billion). For 1991, China was second
H. R. 5318 in the House and S. 2808 in the Senate.
only to Japan. Projections for 1992 place the PRC's
Why the continued pressure from Congress on
trade surplus with the United States at approximate-
this matter? Simply put, there has been no significant
ly $19.9 billion.
improvement in the Chinese government's human
I think it would be prudent for Mr. Bush to take a
rights record since the debate on MFN extension
long, hard look at the latest China MFN bills coming
began a few years ago. Recent incidents, including
from Congress. Every attempt has been made on our
the harassment and detaining of a Post reporter in
part to play ball. Perhaps this year, the president
Beijing, provide evidence of the persistence of the
won't leave the field before the first pitch.
PRC's human rights problem. On the eve of the third
The writer, a Democratic representative from
anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre,
Ohio and member of the House Ways and
peaceful demonstrators and members of the press
Means Committee, has introduced legislation to
were brutalized.
condition future extensions of MFN for China
To make matters worse, State Department re-
ports recently indicated that at the end of May,
on improvements in human rights policies.
China conducted an underground nuclear test. This
test had 70 times the explosive power of the atomic
bomb dropped on Hiroshima and far exceeded the
150-kiloton limit observed by the United States and
the former Soviet Union under a 1990 treaty. Fears.
persist about China's trade with terrorist nations
such as Syria and Iran in M-9 and M-11 missiles and
in nuclear technology.
While the Bush administration seems to have no
difficulty understanding the motivation behind the bills
that link MFN extension to progress on human rights
and other policies, it is obvious from the president's
comments that he has trouble digesting the content of
such legislation. This is the only possible explanation
for his repeated assertion that these bills would result
in the revocation of MFN for China.
In both the H.R. 2212 conference report, which
passed the House and Senate earlier in the 102nd
Congress, and in H.R. 5318, which was introduced
early this month, the president is afforded a great
deal of discretion in determining whether the stated
conditions have been met. More specifically, the
president may extend MFN for China in 1993 as
long as he determines that Beijing (1) has provided
an acceptable accounting of and released political
prisoners; and (2) has made "overall significant
progress" in achieving specified human rights, trade.
and weapons nonproliferation objectives.
The key to maintaining the wiggle room the presi-
dent needs to continue MFN is the phrase "overall
significant progress." In short, the most recent condi-
tionality bills are designed so that they do not back the
president into a corner on the extension of MFN for
China. QUOTE?Perhaps the president and his staff
would feel more positively disposed toward these bills
if they would just read them.
In addition to discretion on conditions, H.R. 5318
offers the president even more room to maneuver.
This latest measure would target exports from
state-owned enterprises in China rather than exports
from China in general. Under the bill, if the president
determined that Beijing had not met the stated
conditions, Washington would apply non-MFN tariff
rates only to products being exported to the United
States from state-owned enterprises in China. Arti-
cles produced by foreign joint ventures or truly
private businesses in China would not be subject to
these higher tariff rates even if the stated conditions
were not met.
Richard Cohen
Send Demjanjuk Home to Cleveland
John Demjanjuk's ordeal-maybe
killers. A glance at the newspaper
tion in Israel were based on his being
of something: Either of being Ivan of
justified, maybe not-has gone on long
shows that some of them have not
a certain, particular man: Ivan the
Treblinka or merely a guard at Sobi-
enough. Stripped of his U.S. citizen-
lost their touch.
Terrible, the sadist of Treblinka. He
bor. "Unless you have proof beyond a
ship, extradited to Israel, held in soli-
But Demjanjuk was not arrested
cannot now turn out to be Ivan the
reasonable doubt that Demjanjuk was
tary confinement for eight years, con-
and deported from the United States
Less Terrible and still remain in the
at Treblinka, there is no point in
victed of genocide and sentenced to
as some sort of literary creation, a
same category as Adolf Eichmann:
proceeding," he said. Then there is no
death, there is now some doubt that he
vehicle to show the world how ordi-
the only person ever executed in Isra-
point in proceeding. Even the prose-
is the man he is accused of being: Ivan
nary the killer was and looked. His
el.
cutor has acknowledged doubt.
the Terrible, the sadistic operator of
round and open face, his perpetually
This is a sad case. Demjanjuk was
Only on television is a criminal case
the gas chamber at the Nazi extermi-
surprised look and even his prosaic
identified in Israel by five eyewit-
open-and-shut, usually concluding
nation camp of Treblinka. The Israelis
nesses. But we are approaching the
neatly with a confession. In reality,
might have the wrong man.
half-century mark of the liberation of
the evidence is sometimes contradic-
Trouble is, if there's doubt about
The reputation of
the last camps. It's been a long time,
tory, the witnesses not all that reli-
Demjanjuk's guilt, there's even more
and even the most terrible of memo-
able. That might be the case with
doubt about his innocence. If he is not
the notorious Ivan-if he is not the man
Israeli justice is on
ries have been coated by a patina of
Demjanjuk. But his is a capital case.
19, 1992
age and false recollections. Everyone
His life, not to mention the reputation
who bludgeoned Jews as they were
the line.
involved is older, SO much older. And
of Israel, is on the line.
forced into the gas chamber or who
then, too, newly released files from
mutilated his victims with a sword-
If, in fact, Demjanjuk was a guard;
the former Soviet Union indicate that
then he might be the John Demjanjuk
occupation as an auto worker-all
at Sobibor, then it will be wrenching
Ivan the Terrible was a man named
who was a guard at Sobibor, a more
these tend to make you think that he
for Israel to return him to the United
modest killing establishment, also in
is Hannah Arendt's invention: proof
Ivan Marchenko. Over and over, for-
States. (That case, though, has not
Poland. There, a total of 250,000 Jews
that evil is banal. Indeed, it always
mer Treblinka guards offered that
yet been proved.) But more important
were killed in 1942 and 1943. At Tre-
struck me as ironic that Patrick Bu-
name to their Soviet captors. These
than this single man is the law itself-
blinka, 850,000 Jews were killed.
chanan, whose defense of Demjanjuk
people, most of them Ukrainians, can-
U.S. law and the reasons for Demjan-
So we may not be talking about
may yet be vindicated, rested some of
not be re-interviewed. They were
juk's extradition and Israeli law as
moral innocence in any case. And it is
his case on the very ordinariness of
executed by the Soviets.
well. Too many doubts have been
good to have these names-Treblin-
the man: "A naturalized American
Demjanjuk's case is now before the
aired, both here and in Israel. Too
ka, Sobibor and even a more obscure
who came to the United States in
Israeli Supreme Court. It may rule
many current or former officials-in-
camp, Flossenburg-in print so that
1952, a church-going family man from
instantly, or it may wait months. At
cluding prosecutors-have suggested
we understand that the Holocaust was
Cleveland." Yes, precisely. In Europe
least one justice, Aharon Barak, has
that they no longer are sure that
not just one now famous place (Ausch-
at that time, genocide was the day job
indicated he has profound doubts that
Demjanjuk is Ivan the Terrible. It
witz) and one sort of people (German
of otherwise ordinary men.
the right man has been condemned.
would be a tragedy on top of an even
Nazis). It was many other camps,
But whatever Demjanjuk might be
He also has shown no patience with
greater tragedy if 50 years after the
many forest glades, many ravines
and whatever else he might have
the argument of the prosecutor, Mi-
fact, the Holocaust claimed yet anoth-
(like Babi Yar) and many sorts of
been, his extradition and his convic-
chael Shaked, that Demjanjuk is guilty
er innocent victim.
Washington
150rt
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Charles Krauthammer
Sanctions Fallacy
They are no alternative to military force.
Just a few weeks after the
gulf war, I was startled to hear
Martin Indyk of the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy
suggest that Saddam would be
in power longer than George
Bush. I am no great believer in
sanctions, but even I thought
that with Saddam's military and
economy already in ruins, sanc-
tions would finish him off.
And yet after almost a year
and a half of the most severe
sanctions in history, applied to
a country devastated by war,
U.S. intelligence agencies re-
port that Saddam is stronger
today than he was a year ago.
PAX
The ineffectiveness of post-
war sanctions makes risible
the contention of Democrats
and others (including Ross
BY OHLSSON
Perot) that prewar sanctions
would have bent Saddam to our will. But the
geois consumer is a particularly inapt description of
significance of the Iraqi sanctions failure goes far
the thugs who run Iraq, Haiti and Serbia. Thug
beyond Iraq. It goes to the very idea of sanctions.
regimes are interested in power above all else.
After all, our fancy for sanctions is being
They are dissuaded and deterred by power, not by
indulged in other places too. In Haiti, we are
the promise or denial of material comforts.
destroying an economy in order to change a
Power, specifically military power, has always
government. And in Yugoslavia, a total U.N.
been decisive in international relations and, de-
embargo, almost as severe as Iraq's, has been
spite the wish that we have now outgrown it as a
imposed to get Serbia out of Bosnia.
species, remains so.
Will these sanctions work any better than
Do we want to really help Haiti? Everyone
Iraq's? The Haitian regime seems quite prepared
knows that there is but one way: Send the
to see its population starve (or put out to sea)
Marines and take over the godforsaken place (as
before it relinquishes power. And the Serbian
we did, once upon a time and with somewhat more
regime shows no signs that economic privation
provocation, for Germany and Japan).
will deter it from seizing its historic chance to
Want to help Bosnia? The only real way is to do
realize its dream of Greater Serbia.
what the president of Bosnia has been pleading for
No surprise here. U.S. sanctions against Norie-
us to do: Send the Air Force.
ga all but destroyed Panama's dollar-denominated
As for Iraq, everyone now realizes that the way
economy-without dislodging Noriega. It took the
to get rid of Saddam was either to have gone
82nd Airborne to do that. The U.S. embargo of
ourselves to Baghdad or, more wisely, to have given
Cuba has seen seven presidents come, six go, and
decisive military assistance (including air cover) to
Castro endure. Halfhearted sanctions against the
the Shiite and the Kurdish rebellions that we
Soviet Union for Afghanistan and against China
encouraged and then betrayed after the war.
for Tiananmen amounted to nothing.
Some of these foreign crises warrant the risk of
Why are sanctions so ineffective? In Iraq, Haiti
military intervention. Some do not. But the ques-
and Serbia, the common objective is to effect a
tion of which and whether cannot be honestly
change in government. The idea is to so immiserate
approached until we are disabused, once and for
the people that they rise in desperation to throw off
all, of the notion that in sanctions we have a
the rulers who have caused them such distress.
cost-free, risk-free alternative. Sanctions may be
Unfortunately, things do not work that way.
(relatively) cost-free and risk-free. But they are
Immiserated populations do occasionally rise in
no alternative to military action.
revolution, but the timing and the cause of revolu-
Sanctions can make a point. And sometimes
tions are so mysterious that we rarely understand
making a point is all that we can do. Sanctions
them when they occur, let alone anticipate them.
against South Africa were justified not because
(See: the East European revolutions of '89 and the
they would work, but because it was important for
Soviet revolution of '91.) Revolution is a phenom-
the West to make plain its refusal to be complicit
enon we only dimly understand. The idea that we
with apartheid.
can produce one at will through external coercion
Sometimes, too, sanctions can keep bad from
is simple fantasy.
getting worse. The embargo on Iraq, coupled with
The fantasy is encouraged by a larger fantasy,
intrusive inspection, is making it harder for Sad-
namely, that now that the Cold War is over, the world
dam to rebuild his nuclear program.
has entered an era in which economic power counts
But that is as far as sanctions go. We are not in
for more than military power. The geo-economic
an era of geo-economics. We are in the same
fallacy assumes that in a post-ideological era the
force-dominated era that we were a hundred, a
whole world becomes like us, a sea of bourgeois
thousand years ago. If you want to stop an
consumers whose behavior is rationally modulated by
aggressor nation, or if you want to dislodge a
economic incentives and disincentives.
regime, there is only one reliable way to do it.
Alas, the whole world is not like us. And bour-
Everything else is evasion.
The Washington Post
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
For the Record
"CLINTON MAY NOT REALIZE HOW 1
From an address yesterday by Russian
COULD HELP HIM TOO"
President Boris Yeltsin at Wichita
State University in Kansas:
We signed a number of important
agreements [Wednesday]. These are
agreements that provide for expanded
cooperation between the two coun-
tries, including a very important
agreement concerning joint space ex-
ploration
projects between the
United States of America and Russia.
After all, what sense does it really
make to reinvent the bicycle? Why do
JESSE
we have to pursue parallel efforts do-
JESSE
ing exactly the same thing in Russia
JESSE
JACKSON
and in the United States?
JACKSON
I paid a visit to the Air and Space
JACKSON
FOR TWO
Museum a couple of days ago back in
CANDIDATES
Washington, D.C. And in my presenta-
FOR
tion there, I said that it is probably a
FOR
FOR MAYOR
MONDALE
DUKAKIS
OFCHICAGO
good idea to think in terms of estab-
SORT-OF
(BOTH DEFEATED)
lishing some sort of youth clubs or
SORT-OF
youth centers in both countries, or es-
tablishing some sort of joint centers,
where our young people who are inter-
ested in science and research and de-
velopment could join their efforts
in designing spacecraft and possibly
even in manning our future giant space
stations.
It is only by that common endeavor
that we can achieve meaningful re-
Jesse
sults.
for
We're also thinking about establish-
Jesse
ing a global monitoring space-based
system to provide assistance to other
spacecraft, to aircraft in the Earth's
atmosphere, to railroads and even to
privately owned cars. This is a realistic
prospect. This is something we can do,
©1992
I'm sure, and this is something that
our researchers and scientists are al-
ready giving thought to.
Mashington
Post
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Who Is Ross Perot?
Even Marilyn Berger is at a loss to
press will do it for him. Yes, the press
state exactly what H. Ross Perot
(Marilyn Berger's objective former co-
stands for (op-ed, June 3]. But this is to
workers) will focus their eyes, and
Mr. Perot's advantage. As long as he
mine, on the true colors of this man
keeps his stance on issues vague, Ross
Ross Perot. In ample time for the
Perot offers me the opportunity to
election, I will have to face the reality
imagine that he is the perfect candi-
that Ross Perot is not everything I
date. I can take the best that George
imagine him to be.
Bush and Bill Clinton have to offer and
JON W. STENTZ
mix them like a custom-blended can of
Burke
paint, for Mr. Perot's true colors are
not yet apparent. Once his policy posi-
First the media insisted that Ross
tions become clear, I fear that his now
Perot's presidential aspirations were
bright luster will quickly fade.
nothing to be taken seriously. Now
But for now, Ross Perot can be
they comb through the dialogue of
whatever we want him to be. I imagine
lengthy interviews searching for a
him to be a billionaire who is not afraid
phrase they can make into a headline
to progressively tax himself and reject
that can damage his credibility. Per-
the Republican's shortsighted tax
haps Mr. Perot's lack of concern for
breaks for the rich. I imagine that he's
media opinion and his electronic town
too wealthy to be a Democrat pander-
hall concept of communicating with the
ing to special interest groups. For now,
people directly means less importance
I can imagine that Ross Perot thinks
for political journalists.
like me. In fact, I imagine that he is an
Whatever the basis for the unfair
older and wiser and-oh, yes-wealth-
ier me.
treatment by the media, they continue
I can imagine that he'll speak plainly,
to grapple with various "knight in shin-
ing armor" theories on why support for
and call the Washington dead weights
Mr. Perot continues to swell. The
and deadbeats what they are: worth-
less, self-serving, egoistical and occa-
reason is much simpler: Ross Perot has
sionally unethical incompetents. I can
been one of the most remarkably suc-
imagine that he'll build a bipartisan
cessful and talented entrepreneurs this
coalition to address a staggering debt
country has ever known. He's done it
that was fostered by a Republican ad-
while maintaining a high moral stan-
ministration and (for the most part) a
dard, a fiery patriotism and a dedica-
Democratic Congress. Even though
tion to his employees-all of which are
he's a Texan, and a wealthy one at
rarely found in men of such accom-
that, I nevertheless imagine that he
plishment.
has the strength to impose a gas tax to
THOMAS GALDI
pay the debt and encourage fuel con-
Dunkirk, Md.
servation. Even though he is a "God
fearin' man," I want to believe that
The consensus seems to be that, as
he'll be pro-choice.
a nation, we are fed up with over-
I indulge myself further and imagine
privileged insiders running the govern-
that he'll push for longer terms for
ment, people who, with the exception
congressmen, so they may concentrate
of those you and I voted for, are out of
more on doing their jobs and less on
touch with the common citizen. As a
keeping their jobs. At the same time, I
people, we appear to be appalled by the
imagine he'll push for term limits so
excesses and lack of accountability on
the legislative system of seniority does
the part of officials put into office by
not stifle the democratic process. I
popular vote.
imagine that Mr. Perot would have
Our solution? Ross Perot. A Texas
more influence on the legislative
billionaire. A man whose wealth stems
branch than any president could. I even
from years of government contracts. A
imagine that he would cause this coun-
man who has demonstrated an excel-
try to "bite the bullet" and make a
lent ability to utilize his Washington
balanced budget a reality.
contacts. A man who has demonstrated
I imagine he'll be frugal in sending
an inability to follow through on his
our money overseas and into space, but
most visible social project to date,
not be too xenophobic or naive (i.e., too
Texas school reform. A man who glo-
Texan) in matters of foreign affairs. I
ries in his paramilitary exploits. A man
imagine he'll choose a running mate
who is willing to spend hundreds of
with domestic government and foreign
millions of dollars to gain the presiden-
policy experience, rather than a run-
cy. That is, if the people want him.
ning mate with Robert Redford's good
Perhaps I am cynical, but if this
looks or a running mate with a "Rain-
country really needs a change, maybe
bow" bloc of votes. I even imagine that
it should come from someone with an
he'll have the good sense to keep
agenda, a policy, or possibly even a
talented Republican Cabinet members
stance on at least one of the issues. It
and agency directors in place to ensure
may not be an original observation,
an orderly transition of government.
but, lookout, you just might get what
But in the end I suspect that Ross
you vote for.
Perot will burst my bubble, or the
MICHAEL NOONAN
Washington
The
Washington
POST
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Indifference and Somalia
HILE THE attention of the West re-
Somalis and the international community to reach
W
mains riveted on Russian appeals for aid
an accord among the warring parties so that
and the fighting in Bosnia-Hercegovina,
food deliveries and supplies and U.N. truce ob-
children are dying at a horrifying rate in Somalia.
servers can get to where they are desperately
"I've never seen a worse situation than in Soma-
needed.
lia," said the special United Nations envoy to
The indifference must give way to a concerted
Somalia, Ambassador Mohamed Sahnoun. To
international response. It is an outrage that an
give some scale to the appalling African tragedy,
appropriate amount of attention has not been
while close to 6,000 deaths have occurred in Bosnia
paid to the dimension of the human tragedy
since the vote for independence in March, the
Somalian death toll is running well into the tens of
befalling Somalia, not even paid, let alone sus-
tained, in a world that does respond to lesser
thousands, say U.S. Agency for International De-
suffering elsewhere. Nor will it be enough to play
velopment officials. And the children continue to
die daily by the hundreds, as they have since last
on the edges of the situation in Somalia, where a
fall. Why will the world not pay attention?
tenuous temporary cease-fire in the capital ex-
That there may be an estimated 4.5 million
ists. The United States seems content to play a
under threat of starvation is almost too mon-
supportive role in Somalia, backing the idea of
strous to contemplate, yet that is in Somalia's
U.N. truce observers and security forces and
future. That nightmare must be avoided. There
more humanitarian assistance. But that is not the
may not be a way known to mankind to end the
same as vigorous and visible leadership on a
drought that has wasted the fields and livestock
problem that cries out for help from the world's
of that country, but it is within the capacity of the
only remaining superpower.
Mayor Kelly's Money Concerns
T A TIME when the city government is
for union workers who have been denied raises.
A
eliminating jobs and denying raises to
Her press secretary said later that the mayor
thousands of employees, Mayor Kelly has
would not accept any raise until the city honors
said she is preparing legislation that would in-
collective bargaining and arbitration agreements
crease her salary and those of other top adminis-
with its workers. If this is a plug for those raises
tration officials. The explanation for this ill-timed
as well as one for herself, what are people to
proposal is that the extra money would be in
make of her campaign pledge to make dramatic
exchange for a ban on speaking fees, which the
cuts in the payroll?
mayor has been accepting along with expense
Mayor Kelly has complained in the past that
money for out-of-town trips. This is the kind of
she has had trouble attracting people to her
exchange Congress arranged for itself in 1989,
cabinet because of a salary scale that does not
which had merit as a way to end the acceptance
allow anyone to be paid more than the mayor,
of these speaking fees on the Hill. But now, in a
whose salary now is $90,000. It could be some
severely strapped city, the government has pay-
day that certain specialists in the executive
roll and pension pressures that won't abate for
branch will have to be paid more than the top
decades. In any case, a ban on taking speaking
elected officials, who after all, choose to run for
fees is a good idea in itself, without any raises
their jobs. But that is for another day, when
attached as a price.
payrolls have been pared in the name of efficien-
On WDCU's "Crosstalk" program, Mayor Kelly
cy as well as economy. For now, any proposals
said she didn't think that any raises for top
for salary increases at any level should be pigeon-
officials should be given "until we achieve parity"
holed.
The
Moshington
Post
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Getting Aboard in Cambodia
A
TENSE DRAMA is playing out in Cambo-
Akashi, is in place to move the plan forward and,
dia that will determine whether the brave
not least, to check on and report on Khmer
new United Nations peace plan will actual-
Rouge conduct. Prince Sihanouk, the father fig-
ly save this hapless Southeast Asian nation. The
ure of Cambodian politics, is by all reports in a
Khmer Rouge, the force of communist thugs that
welcome phase of trying to induce the Cambodian
was brought into the plan in an effort to turn
factions to work together in a political process
Cambodia's struggle from war to politics, is
that the Khmer Rouge boycott at the risk of
refusing to submit its troops to the plan's demo-
international isolation.
bilization and disarmament provisions. There is
The Chinese, who earlier did the most to
great anxiety about whether Khmer Rouge mili-
sustain the Khmer Rouge as a pawn in their
tary operations will spoil the peacemaking.
Certainly a criminal force that killed a million
traditional rivalry with Vietnam, have edged back
or two people in the 1970s cannot easily be
to what looks like a neutral role. That's not
brushed off now. The Khmer Rouge, though
enough. The Chinese will be judged on this issue,
reduced, are well armed as well as unprincipled,
and they will be judged on whether they-leave no
and they are striving for economic self-
doubt that they are committed to making the
sufficiency by selling off Cambodia's timber and
U.N. plan work.
gems in Thailand.
The Thais have their own particular responsi-
Still, there are grounds for thinking that the
bility. In the past they have tended to let their
international drafting and now the putting into
merchants and traders run their Cambodia poli-
effect of the peace plan has set in motion forces
cy. It is encouraging that the newly appointed
that are working to contain the Khmer Rouge.
Thai government this week urged a key Khmer
The (formerly communist) Russians and even the
Rouge leader to cooperate with the U.N. plan
(still-communist) Chinese are now formally on
for the sake of Cambodia: "Don't miss the
the side of peace. A large U.N. peace-keeping
boat," the foreign minister said. It's the right
presence with a vigorous Japanese chief, Yasushi
advice.
Special Delivery to Barcelona
OW MANY Americans were aware of the
real costs of the Olympic connection "will never
H
Olympian capabilities of the U.S. Postal
be known" because of the Postal Service's ac-
Service-which, in the face of a $1.5
counting system (and never mind what that may
billion deficit, can nevertheless deliver a gro-
say about the costs of moving mail).
tesquely fat package of 171 free five-day luxury
There's more craziness. When the Postal Ser-
visits to the Olympics in Barcelona for a select
vice found itself stuck with large blocks of luxury
group of its business clients and their spouses?
hotel rooms for the winter Olympics, it gave
This Barcelona bundle comes to $440,000 for
families of 86 U.S. team members free lodging in
hotel rooms, daily Olympics tickets, ground
exchange for personal appearances by the ath-
transportation, receptions, breakfast, lunch, din-
letes on behalf of the Postal Service. But there
ner and just about everything except airfare.
That's a heap of 29-cent stamps for a bash the
are many more athletes for the summer games,
which prompted the giveaway to business inter-
Postal Service has no business hosting.
ests instead. As a bit of postal window dressing,
The explanation for this first-class/priority
fling begins with the weird fact that the Postal
there is a symposium set in Barcelona for the
Service-along with the people who sell you
Mailers Technical Advisory Committee-whose
beer, sneakers and other essential items-is an
members meet periodically to talk about postal
official sponsor of the Olympics. This costs the
issues. The Barcelona symposium calls for a
Postal Service an estimated $122 million but is
grueling half-day session on a Friday and another
supposed to result in a a $55 million profit from
half-day on the following Monday.
increased use of its services and sales, according
The Postal Service has no business in this
to officials. In turn, the junkets for business
business. If the agency's officials want Olympic
clients are considered a marketing tool to im-
action, let them sponsor a nationwide trial heat to
prove business. What business? The General
see how mail delivery records can be broken.
Accounting Office, which audited the agency's
That would be a world-class event worth witness-
Olympic spending, concluded in April that the
ing.
Why Things Are
preme Court. We don't get to
language thing: that stuff has nev-
elect those people. Until 1916,
er made sense.
even U.S. senators weren't popu-
By the way, we are told that
larly elected. The government is
there is a township in Michigan
The College of Hard Knocks
still full of powerful people who
called Novi. Sounds pretty space-
never have their names on a bal-
age, right? Like it's named after
lot. Do you really want to vote for,
an exploding star? Not so. It was
say, the assistant undersecretary
founded in 1832, when it was
of commerce?
stagecoach stop "No. VI" on the
By Joel Achenbach
Yeah, my oldesT kid applied To
tories across many states can lead
(Sure. Quayle's the man.)
Plank Road route west from De-
Washington Post Staff Writer
to a comfortable Electoral College
Electoral College. He was in the
troit. True story
victory. This helps create the im-
Why is the president elect-
pression of a clear, incontrovert-
The Mailbag:
Steve Hagen, a physicist at the
ed by the Electoral Col-
gifted & Talented & big & Tall class
University of Maryland, writes,
ible victory, rather than a mud-
Dave B. of Miami asks, "Why is
in school.
"It's bad enough that you repeat-
lege, rather than by a di-
died result.
'No.' the abbreviation for 'num-
edly misspelled the name "Corio-
rect popular vote?
Kid's a
2. It forces candidates to cam-
ber,' even though there is no "o"
lis' in your column, but I really
to
paign on a national level. If there
in the word 'Number'?"
pistol!
wish you hadn't made the prepos-
The Constitution comes on like
SEARES
was a direct popular vote, it would
Dear Dave: We're glad you
terous claim that the Coriolis ef-
it's all in favor of The People, but
be possible for a candidate to win
BAD
asked that. Because it's easy. We
fect doesn't work on small scales."
when it comes down to the fine
have had a hard week and are
Dear Steve: We always get the
print, The People get shafted.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
When we go to the polls in No-
PERSTH
one state by a humongous margin,
lose the other 49 states, and still
tired of people sending us lists of
Coriolis effect confused with the
win the election.
25 questions and a self-addressed
Coriolanus effect-you know, the
vember, we're just play-acting,
PULL
3. It makes candidates pay at-
because the real vote is conducted
À
stamped envelope, saying, "Please
one that causes great playwrights
weeks later by the "Electoral Col-
HEAD
tention to minority constituencies
answer this personally because
to turn out mediocre work.
in the larger states. For example,
the only part of the paper I ever
lege," the membership of which is
As you readers recall, the Cori-
to win a state such as New York,
read is the horoscope and the
no doubt identical to that of the
olis effect is this weird thing
or California, candidates have to
Trilateral Commission.
Help Wanted ads."
caused by the motion of objects in
address the needs of blacks, Lati-
"No." stands for "Numero,"
a straight line over rotating
Make no mistake: This system
nos, and various religious and eth-
which is the Latin word for "num-
spheres. It causes missiles to
was created precisely because of
The confused American Voter.
nic minorities. But those groups
ber." You could legitimately ask
seem to veer to the right when
fears that The People can't be
make up a smaller percentage of
trusted. (Never mind for a second
why this word has a Latinate ab-
they're fired in the Northern
the electorate on a national level
(because of all those vast interior
breviation, but gee, it's just a
Hemisphere. It makes hurricanes
that The People really CAN'T be
be made by special kinds of peo-
president despite losing the popu-
rotate counterclockwise. Quasi-
trusted-let's maintain our sense
ple, those who were part of the
lar vote. Another fear is that if a
states where white bread is culti-
intelligent people have gotten the
of outrage for another sentence or
property classes," says Robert
candidate doesn't win a majority
vated), and in a direct popular
idea that it causes the water in
two.)
Katzmann, a visiting fellow of the
of the electoral votes, the election
vote a candidate might feel that
your bathtub or toilet to spin
In fact, many of the Founding
Brookings Institution. When the
is thrown into the House of Rep-
minorities could be ignored.
counterclockwise down the drain.
Fathers wanted the president
Constitution was written, he says,
resentatives, where it is then de-
More to the point: Democracy
Not so. We correctly pointed out
elected by the legislature. The
"There was not a feeling of popu-
voured like fish food sprinkled in-
doesn't mean "majority rule." In
that the Coriolis effect doesn't
Electoral College was a compro-
lism or majoritarianism that exists
to an aquarium.
fact, the brilliance of the Ameri-
work at that small a scale. The
mise, a sop thrown to those liber-
today, or the notion of universal
Could it happen again this year?
can form of democracy is that it is
normal turbuience in the water
als who favored a popular elec-
suffrage."
Don't be silly. Neither Adams,
designed to protect minority in-
overwhelms the force.
tion. The People get to vote, sure,
Now that universal suffering
Hayes or Harrison is even on the
terests. The Framers knew that
But Hagen is also right: The
but only through intermediaries,
has been achieved, the question
ballot. But if history does repeat
majority rule could turn into a
Coriolis effect still exists, even
who supposedly will keep us from
is, shouldn't we change this pre-
itself, we probably shouldn't pan-
kind of tyranny.
when it is overwhelmed. It's like
electing some pathetic geek (obvi-
posterous old thing?
ic. There are some good reasons
"We don't have a simple majori-
gravity, it permeates everything.
ously, the system hasn't worked
There's a noisy camp of people
why the Electoral College exists:
tarian democracy," says Katz-
It's in your coffee mug. It affects
perfectly).
who want it thrown out. They fear
1. It usually exaggerates, rath-
mann. "Sometimes we have to
the trajectory of a streamer of
"There was a lot of concern that
a repeat of what happened three
er than contradicts, the results of
limit the power of ordinary major-
spit. And if you hurl fine bone
popular election would mean elec-
times in the 1800s: John Quincy
the popular vote. A state's elec-
ities. The Electoral College can
china at a significant marital rela-
tion by the masses, and that the
Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes and
toral votes are awarded on a win-
be thought of as one such device."
election for the president should
Benjamin Harrison all became
ner-take-all basis, so narrow vic-
tion, aim slightly, very slightly, to
Another such device is the Su-
RICHARD THOMPSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
the left.
The Washington Post
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
U.S. Reports Its April Trade Deficit
Was Largest Since November 1990
By Martin Crutsinger
a 16 percent surge in oil imports and a decline
Associated Press
in U.S. exports for a second straight month,
primarily because of a slump in aircraft sales.
The U.S. trade deficit widened in April to its
Exports totaled $36.39 billion, down 1.9 per-
worst showing since November 1990 as ex-
cent from March, while imports jumped to
ports slipped further and imports jumped to the
$43.36 billion, the highest level since a record
second-highest level on record, the Commerce
$43.88 billion in products were imported in Oc-
Department said yesterday.
tober 1990.
The Bush administration insisted that the
Commerce Secretary Barbara Franklin said
deterioration was temporary but private econo-
trade figures for both oil and airliners can be
mists worried that weak overseas economies
very volatile from month to month.
will cut into export growth this year and act as
"April's performance cannot be viewed as in-
a further drag on an already-weak recovery.
dicative of a longer-term trend," she said. "Our
The Commerce Department said the $6.97
export picture is still very positive."
billion April trade gap was 24.8 percent larger
However, private analysts worried about the
than a March deficit of $5.58 billion, reflecting
See TRADE, C2, Col. 5
Trade Deficit Grew in April
TRADE, From C1
ly unchanged from the year before.
fact that exports were down for a sec-
For April, the deficit with Japan, as
ond straight month, saying it reflected
usual, was the largest of any country,
an imbalance of $4.21 billion that was
the fact that many of the United
up 5.6 percent from the March level
States' major overseas markets were
and that accounted for 60 percent of
either in recession or close to it.
the total April deficit.
"We are beginning to see the impact
The United States also ran higher
of slow economic growth among our
deficits with Canada and Germany and
major trading partners," said Steven
a smaller surplus with Western Eu-
Wood, a Bank of America economist in
rope.
San Francisco. "It is going to be very
America's foreign oil bill jumped by
difficult to get much growth in export
16 percent to $3.97 billion as the num-
activity for the rest of the year."
ber of barrels per day rose to 6.11 mil-
During the first four months of the
lion, up from 5.5 million in March. The
year, the trade deficit was running at
price per barrel climbed to $15.49, up
an annual rate of $64.9 billion, basical-
from $14.46 the previous month.
The
Washington
PUST
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Beer Flap Comes to a Head
GATT Ruling Would Cut U.S. Prices on Canadian Suds
wine that discriminate against foreign or out-
By Stuart Auerbach
of-state producers. Some laws set lower taxes
Washington Post Staff Writer
for beer or wine produced in the state or by
U.S. .-Canadian trade shootout over
small "boutique" breweries and vineyards,
beer has taken a constitutional turn
while others force out-of-state and foreign
and is providing new ammunition
producers to use distribution systems that
for activists who fear that interna-
add to their costs.
tional agreements on trade threaten Ameri-
U.S. trade officials said the dollar impact of
ca's environmental, health and safety laws.
those restriction are minimal-about $1 mil-
The issue comes to a head in Geneva to-
lion-and assert that the United States has
day, when the United States has to tell the
gained in the "beer wars" with Canada since
world trade body whether it will accept a rul-
an earlier ruling by another international pan-
ing that could bring down the price of Canadi-
el attacked Canadian curbs on sales of U.S.
an beer for American consumers.
beer and wine. That decision, they said, will
That ruling, made by a panel of internation-
mean increased sales for U.S. producers.
al trade specialists, is based largely on an in-
Canadian beer holds about 1 percent of the
terpretation of the U.S. Constitution saying
U.S market, with annual sales of about $200
the president can overrule state laws regulat-
million. U.S. brewers hold about 3 percent of
ing beer and wine sales if they conflict with in-
the vastly smaller Canadian market, with
ternational trade rules.
sales worth about $30 million a year.
At issue are laws in 41 states and Puerto
States. traditionally have taken the lead in
Rico on the taxing and distribution of beer and
See BEER, C3, Col. 1
GATT Ruling
grounds that some state practices do
discriminate against foreign firms. But
he said the United States would take
Challenges
strong exception to the right of the
panel to interpret the U.S. Constitu-
tion and would not correct practices
that GATT decided on the basis of the
Pricing Policy
constitutional interpretation.
"We clearly do not want the GATT
or any GATT panel to feel it can in-
BEER, From C1
trude in our domestic political pro-
passing strong environmental laws,
cess," the official said. "On the other
and activists fear that if an internation-
hand, we have to acknowledge our ob-
al body is allowed to overturn state
ligation to adhere to nondiscrimination
laws some of the earliest victims
[in trade laws] on both the federal and
would be stringent health, safely and
state level.
environmental rules.
"If we want to use GATT as a
Ira H. Goldman, a senior aide to
sword, we have to be prepared to fall
California Gov. Pete Wilson, said the
on it sometimes," the official added.
ruling, if accepted by the United
The United States, for instance, us-
States, "threatens greatly the ability of
es trade retaliation to force other na-
the state of California to protect the
tions to adopt GATT panel rulings that
environmental, health and economic
favor U.S. interests. Most recently,
needs of its citizens." He said the Unit-
Hills has threatened the European
ed States should not accept a "foreign"
Community with double tariffs on $1
interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
billion worth of imports because the
Aides to U.S. Trade Representative
EC has stalled for years over a panel
Carla Hills denied that the beer ruling,
ruling favoring U.S. soybean farmers.
by a panel convened under the Gener-
Lori Wallach, a staff attorney with
al Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,
Public Citizen-Congress Watch, said
will have any impact on state or feder-
the beer decision proves the point she
al environmental laws.
and other environmentalists have been
making about GATT."It is basically an
They also said GATT panel reports
attack on the whole federal system of
do not serve as precedents in future
government," she said. Allowing adop-
cases. But the report on the beer case
clearly cites past panel findings.
tion of the panel report "is a very dan-
gerous thing for the administration to
A senior U.S. trade official said the
do. It exposes a whole other level of
United States would not block adop-
U.S. law to challenge and ultimate pre-
tion of the panel report today on the
emption by GATT."
The Washington Post
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
WENEHEARD THAT
Beefy Bill Clinton stayed on his diet
Pretty boy Beatle Paul McCartney
during his overnight at the
turned 50 yesterday.
Sheraton-Carlton this week. Our spies
Bush campaign
tell us that for breakfast he had one
spokeswoman
banana, one glass of apple juice and one
Torie Clarke told
bagel. And not a soul saw the junk food
David Letterman
lover loitering at the Burger King across
that she has a hard
the street.
time relating to
Michael Jackson's narcissism is.
Ross Perot
getting out of control (as if it ever were
because his
in control). At the end of his world tour
"wingspan with his
dress rehearsal Wednesday in Los
ears is wider than
Angeles, Jackson, dressed in "an Evel
his total height."
Knievel" suit, strapped on a jet pack and
Not to worry:
flew around the sound stage, high above
There're still five
his audience.
campaign months
The lovely June Lockhart-who just
remaining to cover
Paul McCartney:
loves, loves Washington-is back in town
How old?
the substance.
after a stint in Hawaii, where she'd been
shooting a TV movie for ABC called "The
And Democrats all over town are
Island." "Sort of a 'Lost in Space' on
buzzing (and a bit stunned) that well-known
'Gilligan's Island' with "Terminator 2'
partisan pollster Paul Maslin may be
special effects," she tells us. Sounds like
hitching his star to Mr. Perot's. As of
something for everyone.
yesterday, Maslin was not returning calls.
Word was also circulating that Hamilton
BY BILL SNEAD-THE WASHINGTON POST
Torie Clarke: Did someone mention "Dumbo"?
Jordan had brought in another Carterite,
former White House appointments
Self-described film buff Sharon Pratt
secretary Tim Kraft.
Kelly and her husband, James, caught the
Perot's investigative paranoia has no
last half of the "Batman Returns" premiere
limit. The New Republic reports this week
Wednesday. Later, at the National Building
that the nonpresidential contender has had
his own children followed by spies and
Museum after-party, the mayor said she
even had their friends investigated.
liked what she saw, "except the scene with
The National Association of Talk Show
the 'Recall the Mayor' signs."
Hosts is seriously considering presenting
A pair of torn ears, ripped right from
keynoter Dan Quayle with his very own
Spock's skull, will be auctioned by
dictionary after his lunch speech
BY CLIFF OWEN FOR THE WASHINGTO POST
Sotheby's next week-for an estimated
today-courtesy of sponsor
June Lockhart: In her kind of town.
$3,500 to $4,000.
Merriam-Webster.
The Blonde, the Bond,
The Cook & His Fiancee
Won't Los Angeles model-actress
Anna Rhodes be surprised when she
reads in the New York Post that her
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
fiance (yes, the man she plans to marry),
playboy architect Peter Cook, was
Ashley Montana: Heartbreaker?
"building a real bond of affection" with
after she reportedly caught him more
Sports Illustrated swimsuit model
than in the arms of another.
Ashley Richardson Montana at a party
earlier this week.
The perpetually tanned and fit Cook
Blond, amazonian Ashley recently
met Rhodes this spring, and after a
split from her husband of
mere six weeks popped The Question.
not-a-very-long-time, Paul Montana,
His bachelorhood is supposed to end
owner of Manhattan's chic Whiskey Bar,
officially in September.
The Washington Post
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Spellbound by the Veep
Quirky Virginia Democratic Party
Spelling
Chairman Paul Goldman, whose topical
Quiz
telephone answering machine messages
often prompt laughs or censure,
depending on the target of his barbs, is
at it again. This time the target is
(surprise, surprise) Vice President Dan
Quayle, who erroneously instructed a
New Jersey elementary school pupil
earlier this week to add the letter "e" to
BY PETER HOEY-THE WASHINGTON POST
his spelling of "potato."
In our effort to provide current and
the potato head who's one heart, spelled
constant updates on the veep, we offer
h-a-r-t, beat, spelled b-e-e-t, away from
Goldman's taped reaction:
the presidency?' Zero. Spelled z-e-r-o-e.
"Excuse me, but your telephone call
Alternatively spelled Q-u-a-y-l-e. Leave
has been interrupted by the vice
a message."
president's spelling hot line. Today's
word-'zero,' as used in the sentence,
(Note to Dave Beckwith: Please call
'How would you rate the spelling IQ of
back. No hard feelings.)
On MTV, Pop Party Politics
Republican Party
pick to define their
Chairman Rich Bond
party. But we did find
apparently thinks he
out Brown's musical
may be able to win
preferences: pop star
this race on his
Mariah Carey,
party's hip music
jazzmen Earl Klugh
Ron Brown.
quotient. He's
Rich Bond.
and Branford
challenged
Democratic Party Chairman Ron Brown to
Marsalis, rapper Hammer, soulful crooner
a "video shootout" on MTV to make his
El DeBarge and blues rocker Bonnie
point in front of all those millions of 18- to
Raitt-particularly her latest album.
24-year-old viewers.
In an effort to maintain a political edge,
Looks like Brown will take the bait. The
however, Bond is playing his music very
chiefs won't let on what vids they'll
close to the vest.
DOONESBURY
By G.B. Trudeau
MR. BUTTS, WOULD YOU CARE TO
WOULD I? CONGRESSWOMAN
PASSIVE SMOKERS
COMMENT ON THE RECENT RE-
BY BEING PASSIVE!
DAVENPORT, AT THE RISK
REALLY BRING THEIR
HOW
PORT THAT PASSIVE SMOKING
OF SOUNDING
THEY SHOULD
SO
PROBLEMS ON THEM-
50?
CLAIMS 50,000 LIVES A YEAR?
HEARTLESS
SPEAK UP!
NOTED.
SELVES, DONCHA THINK?
HERE
been plausi-
Washington
Post
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
hel Column
which will be meeting at the Mayflower Hotel
By John Carmody
here (at least we'll finally find out what radio talk
Washington Post Staff Writer
show hosts talk about when they get togeth-
W
e should not be a bit surprised to
er)
learn that the biggest item on local
KARN (920 on your AM dial) is a statewide,
television Wednesday night was the
independent radio network. The Democratic
two-hour CBS News special "Watergate: The
presidential nomineee-to-be will spend two hours
Secret Story," which averaged a 14.9 Nielsen
on the station, fielding questions from a Latino
rating and a 26 percent audience share on
group via satellite as well as from Arkansas
Channel 9 between 9 and 11
listeners
The downfall of a president, so often retold in
And tomorrow, C-SPAN will provide live cov-
the past 20 years, is still a riveting, almost
erage of President Bush's address before the
unbelievable story, as the CBS News/Post-News-
Texas Republican Party convention in Dallas,
week co-production proved again
starting at 4:45 p.m.
As a bonus, Watergate aficionados even got a
new nominee for "Deep Throat," the mystery
More to Come
source for reporters Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein throughout the Watergate story. Nar-
NBC Entertainment yesterday announced
rator Mike Wallace suggested the name of L.
changes in its Friday night schedule-not the
Patrick Gray, who had been appointed acting
current one, the fall 1992-93 lineup
director of the FBI six weeks before the June 17,
Two sitcoms-including the holdover "The
1972, break-in at the Watergate
Powers That Be"-that were originally sched-
In his nominating speech, Wallace pointed out
uled to fill the 8 to 9 timeslot have been dropped
that Gray, now 76, "started out as a Nixon
in favor of two new reality series, "Final Appeal:
loyalist, but according to our sources, as Gray
From the Files of Unsolved Mysteries' and
was dragged into the Watergate scandal, he
"What Happened?"
became increasingly more disgusted with the
What happened? NBC Entertainment president
whole business"
Warren Littlefield said yesterday that the reality
Gray, who refused to talk to CBS during
shows will "improve dramatically the lead-in for
preparation of the special, also lived in an apart-
our two-hour dramatic block beginning with
ment building with an underground garage (made
'Round Table' and TIII Fly Away'
famous in "All the President's Men") where
Both "The Powers That Be" and "Glory Boys"
Woodward, who lived only four blocks away,
(announced in May as "In the Loop") will be
might have met him
available later in the season, the network said
"One more name in the pot" was all Woodward
"Final Appeal," based on a segment of "Un-
would say yesterday. He, Bernstein and former
solved Mysteries," "touches human dramas in-
executive editor Ben Bradlee have steadfastly
volving unexplained disappearances, medical mir-
refused to name "Deep Throat" or admit much
acles, lost loves and unclaimed fortunes." It also
more than that he's still alive
means more work for Bob Stack
After viewing the final product Wednesday,
"What Happened?" "examines and explores
Woodward said he thought the broadcast "un-
some of the most intriguing disasters and catas-
derscored that we protect our sources"
trophes and reveals the startling and fascinating
The mystery of Deep Throat was one of at
explanations behind them." Whaaaa?
least four "secrets" dealt with during the CBS
"The Round Table," in case you've forgotten,
program-which also asked why was there a
will be located in a Georgetown hangout where
break-in, what was the FBI doing, and when did
"young professionals socialize together while they
the coverup begin?
pursue careers in lawmaking and law enforce-
Executive producer Andrew Lack reported
ment in Washington"
yesterday that CBS Inc. chairman Laurence
The aggressive "Today" show climbed back
Tisch sent his staff congratulations, calling it "a
into the morning network lead again last week,
great two hours"
The show also drew praise from CBS Broad-
averaging a 3.9/20, compared with a 3.8/19 for
ABC's "Good Morning America" and a 2.2/11 for
cast Group president Howard Stringer (former
"CBS This Morning." for the week ending June
CBS News president) and the current News boss,
12"
Eric Ober
And Lack said that Maurice Murad, who was
After a long unchallenged run at the top by the
line producer for the special, told him yesterday
ABC show, "Today" has won four of the last
that he "had never gotten so many phone calls
seven weeks
from colleagues and friends." Murad is a 30-year
Now that WUSA's weathercasters can wan-
vet of CBS News, going back to the Ed Murrow
der outdoors amid the potted plants whenever
and Fred Friendly days
the spirit moves them, it was only a matter of
"Watergate: The Secret Story" averaged an
time before WRC figured out how to get Bob
11.6 national Nielsen rating and a 21 share
Ryan out of the studio too
The program proved most popular in Min-
Starting yesterday, with a visit to Fort Wash-
neapolis, where it averaged a 16.8/29 (including a
ington, the station will be dispatching Bob to
19.9/33 during the last half-hour when the specu-
different locations throughout the metro area
lation on Deep Throat and expressions of some
every Thursday for the 5 o'clock weather report
compassion for President Nixon were broadcast).
on Channel 4
Houston, San Francisco and Phoenix also out-
The Thursday visits will continue throughout
drew Washington. The program was least popu-
the summer
lar in L.A., where it averaged a 9.1/16, and
A tip of the ole rabbit ears, tastefully en-
Miami (8.3/13), where CBS doesn't have very
compassed in pink, to Cindy DiBiasi and Michael
good circulation
Hewins, proud parents of Erica Francis Hewins,
And it was good to see Dan Rather's sideburns
who arrived at Holy Cross Hospital Tuesday
again
weighing 6 pounds 12 ounces
Mom. of course, is the health beat reporter at
Now This
Channel 9; dad is an attorney. Erica Francis has a
Sister Souljah made the news last weekend
sister, Lauren, who will be 2 in August
when Gov. Bill Clinton attacked her incendiary
The Watergate special aside, NBC, with all
remarks about whites during an appearance be-
reruns, won primetime on Wednesday night,
fore Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, where
averaging a 10.1/19 national Nielsen count. "Un-
she had been warmly received. Starting tonight,
solved Mysteries" at 11.7/24, was tops
she is going to have another busy weekend
CBS averaged a 10.0/19. A special plugging
She will be interviewed tonight on CNN's
the new movie, "Batman Returns: The Bat, the
"Larry King Live," starting at 9
Cat and the Penguin," averaged a 7.8/16 in the
And at 11, Sister Souljah will be a featured
half-hour before the Watergate program
guest on The Learning Channel's "The Charlie
ABC averaged a 9.4/18. The conclusion of a
Rose Show," which was originally aired last night
repeat of "Scruples" did a 9.7/18
over WNET in New York
In Washington, the "Batman" special did a
Tomorrow, Sister Souljah will be interviewed
10.1/19 on Nine; "Scruples" did an 11.1/19 on
on BETs live "Teen Summit," starting at noon.
Seven
Lisa Johnson is host of the hour show
A national ratingzzz point represents 921,000
And on Sunday morning, she will be inter-
TV homes; a local point, 18,199 homes
viewed live on NBC's "Sunday Today" (WRC at
Jay Kernis, a senior producer for "CBS This
9)
Morning." has been named to the newly created
Clinton, meanwhile, can be seen live on C-
job of senior producer for entertainment, which
SPAN this afternoon between 2 and 3, as he
puts him in charge of all entertainment news
plays radio talk show host on KARN in Little
segments, interviews, reports on film, theater,
Rock, Ark.
dance TV, art, music as well as the Hollywood
During the hour he'll be questioned-via two-
report of Steve Kmetko, critic Gene Siskel's
way satellite-by members of the board of the
movie reviews and weatherman Mark McEwen's
Washington
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Communism's Last Resort
In Crimea, the Old Apparatchiks Desperately Cling to Their Perk
By Fred Hiatt
said sadly. "Now, anyone with mon-
Washington Post Foreign Service
dria in a vast "rehabilitation" com-
ey can come."
plex of mud baths and oxygen baths,
FOROS, Ukraine-The lilacs still
This was the secret preserve of
allergists and psychotherapists, den-
bloom and the sea breeze still rustles
the party apparatchiks, a white-
tists and exercise coaches and mas-
through swaying pines, but an un-
stone tower with overstated chande-
seuses.
kempt, end-of-season forlornness
liers and oversize balconies facing
pervades this seaside Crimean re-
the blue-green waters of the Black
"Everything was from Moscow,
Sea.
and everything was taken care of,"
sort where the communist barons of
Arutiunova said. "Food, furniture,
the Soviet Union once frolicked in
Here, regional first party secre-
whatever we needed, we ordered.
taries could sneak away from the
splendid privacy.
And whatever we ordered, we got."
drab workers paradise they had cre-
Now, Arutiunova and the other
"It was all so much more beautiful,
ated and loll in the huge indoor pool,
relax in the indoor or outdoor sum-
workers of Foros Sanatorium are,
so much more tended and cared for,
like everyone else, trying to adapt to
in the days of our party leaders," Ta-
mer movie theaters, party at the ca-
a new world without subsidies or
mara Arutiunova, a resort employee,
sino and the discotheque. Here, too,
they could indulge their hypochon-
certainties. Almost everything about
See FOROS, B2, Col. 1
The Crimean Jewel
FOROS, From B1
Now, the former communists who
control Crimea's Supreme Soviet have
Foros-who owns it, who runs it, even
claimed the vacation homes; the allure
what country it is in-is up for grabs.
of the sea-front property is said to be a
Only the natural beauty of the Crimean
prime motivation for Crimea's quest
coastline, with its plunging rocky cliffs
for sovereignty from Ukraine.
and sun-washed stately cypresses,
"It's really a fight over privatization,"
seems unchanged.
said Mikhail Kanafotski, an official with
Since Catherine the Great's soldiers
the Union of Ukrainian Students who
brought Crimea into the Russian em-
opposes Crimean independence. "The
pire two centuries ago, its semitropical
old Communists want to control the
coastline has been an object of dreams,
privatization of all the rest homes and
of poetry and of contention. After the
sanatoria."
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, indige-
"Of course, they are on our territo-
nous Crimean Tatars fought to estab-
ry, and it's natural that we should want
lish an autonomous republic-and local
to possess them," responded Gennadi
commissars argued to Lenin that they
K. Siunkov, chief editor of the Su-
should be denied so that Russia's prole-
preme Soviet newspaper. "It used to
tariat could preserve a vacation spot.
be that a Crimean couldn't even get
In the decades after, workers some-
through to the seashore, because of all
Foros, the former communist luxury getaway, sits in the cliffs above the Black Sea.
times were rewarded with summer holi-
those special preserves."
days on the increasingly crowded and
What to do with them remains a
At the Foros Sanatorium, the pri-
coon whose classical home with flag-
polluted beaches of Yalta and neighbor-
question, however. Gorbachev's dacha
vate Moscow-based firm Phoenix al-
stoned terrace was turned into a Li-
mg towns. But Foros, cleaner and more
remains shuttered, while various lead-
isolated, remained the preserve of the
ready has leased two floors from the
brary and ballroom for the apparat-
ers fight over it; a warship rides at an-
rulers, in three gradations: the private
chor offshore, keeping watch over its
Crimean parliament and is seeking to
chiks.
dacha with its escalator to the beach
quiet private beach.
replace apparatchiks with the new aris-
And it has its glorious view of Fo-
where General Secretary Mikhail Gor-
tocracy of Russia-entrepreneurs and
ros's blue-green waters.
The Southern Sanatorium is serving
enterprise directors and others who
foreigners. For 1,500 rubles-a huge
Georgy D. Dmitrienko, Phoenix's
bachev and his family were vacationing,
sum by Russian standards, but less
chief, acknowledged that, so far, his
and then under house arrest, during last
can pay in beef or furniture or other
summer's hard-line coup attempt; the
supplies to keep the hotel going, ac-
than $15 at current exchange rates-
firm is losing money here, and attract-
Southern Sanatorium, where Central
Phoenix will provide a seaside room
cording to director (and physician) Ar-
ing too few customers. But he said he
Committee members and Communist
kady P. Rogozhnikov. If the politicians
and three meals a day.
will keep the price relatively low, until
Party general secretaries from "friendly
would get out of the way, Rogozhnikov
Since the dining room remains out
word gets around of this hidden trea-
countries" like Syria and Romania were
added, the "workers' collective" would
of Phoenix's control, however, those
sure-and until attitudes of workers
take possession, find an outside inves-
meals remain something of a problem.
and customers alike can catch up to the
pampered; and the Main Sanatorium, for
cosmonauts and local first secretaries,
tor and turn the sanatorium into a
Although the hotel's few guests now
new economic realities.
the equivalent of mayors and governors.
world-class resort.
eat in a small side room, while the vast,
"For decades, people worked mor
chandeliered dining hall goes unused,
or less for free, and expected to get et
the kitchen has retained an uncanny
erything more or less for free," he sai
ability to prepare meals that taste as
one evening over a Crimean cognac i
though it is cooking for hundreds. A re-
the small "club" Phoenix has created
quest for beverage produces the famil-
a ninth-floor corner room.
iar Soviet choice: tea, or tea.
"Now we expect them to work f
Still, the sanatorium has sugar for
their money, and we expect them
the tea, which is more than every Rus-
pay for what they get," be said. "The
sian hotel can boast of. It has the glori-
attitudes will be the hardest thing
ous park and elegant estate of Count
change-much harder than rebuild
Kuznetsov, the prerevolutionary ty-
a hotel."
Clinton Lauds
From Russia, With Lower Tariffs
Yeltsin, Backs
supermarkets will be flooded with
signed Wednesday by Bush and Yelt-
By Stuart Auerbach
Washington Post Staff Writer
Russian products. The most obvious
sin will make it easier for U.S. com-
benefit to American consumers
panies to do business there, assure
Aid Package
As a result of a number of agree-
could be a reduction in the price of
nondiscriminatory treatment of U.S.
ments signed during the George
Russian vodka-if wholesalers pass
products and protect patents and
Bush-Boris Yeltsin summit this
on to the retail customer some of
copyrights on a range of products-
By Dan Balz and Maralee Schwartz
week, Russia for the first time in 41
the benefits of the old $1.25-a-fifth
including movies, recordings, ad-
Washington Post Staff Writer
years will be treated as a normal
duty.
vanced technology, jeans and books.
Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton met
trading partner of the United States.
While Russian factories and for-
The two leaders also signed a tax
with Russian President Boris Yelt-
Within days, its products will en-
ests don't produce a lot of things
treaty that avoids double taxation-
sin yesterday and praised him as a
ter the United States at the lowest
that Americans will want to buy,
something that U.S. business execu-
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
"brave and historically important
tariffs set for any country-drop-
some products are well made and in-
tives have complained about.
figure" who deserves American
ping to 3 percent of the total value
expensive. American logging compa-
They also signed a bilateral in-
moral and financial support.
from the 40 percent rate levied be-
nies and oil firms, for example, are
vestment treaty that allows U.S. in-
Clinton lauded Yeltsin for signing a
fore the two presidents did away
looking at powerful Russian-made
vestors to bring ruble profits home
dramatic nuclear arms reduction
with some of the last vestiges of the
Mil and Kamov helicopters, which
in hard currency, guarantees
treaty with President Bush that
Cold War.
would be an inexpensive way to
"prompt, adequate and effective
risked a military backlash at home,
This resulted from a trade agree-
move drilling equipment to potential
compensation" if property is expro-
described him as "a dramatic depar-
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ment that grants most-favored na-
oil wells and lift giant logs from for-
priated, and provides for third-party
ture from anything we've ever seen
Gov. Bill Clinton, left, called Borls Yeltsin "brave and historically important."
tion trading status to Russia, a privi-
ests.
international arbitration of disputes
from Russia" and called for bipartisan
lege enjoyed by most countries but
Leo Welt, a Washington-based
between U.S. investors and the Rus-
approval of the major aid package for
"But I'm getting older every day,"
denied to Moscow since the Korean
Russia and other former Soviet re-
should be no linkage between the
newsletter publisher and trade spe-
sian government.
publics stalled in Congress.
Clinton replied, a spokeswoman said.
War.
aid package and Yeltsin's stunning
cialist on Eastern Europe and the
As a result of the Russian govern-
The 30-minute meeting at Blair
"But you have a lot of experi-
revelation earlier this week that
The agreement originally was
former Soviet Union, listed a num-
ment completing the legal require-
House was largely a get-acquainted
ence," the 61-year-old Yeltsin said.
some American POWs from Viet-
signed by Bush and former Soviet
ber of other Russian-made products
ments, a previously signed agree-
session-and an opportunity for a
Yeltsin told reporters during a
nam and Korea had been moved to
President Mikhail Gorbachev two
Americans might buy, from bicycles
ment took effect that allows the
small-state governor with limited for-
photo opportunity he was familiar
the Soviet Union.
years ago and approved by Congress
to big specialty machine tools that
Overseas Private Investment Corp.
eign policy experience to stand side-
with Clinton's pro-aid position and
Clinton said that despite differ-
last year. It was ratified by Russia's
formerly served the Soviet military.
to insure U.S. investments in Russia
by-side with a major foreign leader-
called him "a fighter against bureau-
ences with Bush on some foreign
Supreme Soviet on Friday.
While Russia needs high-technology
against political risks and to make its
and it began with a bit of stock-
cracy." Then it was down to busi-
policy issues, "Today is the day to
"It's a big plus," said Robert D.
equipment for difficult mining opera-
financing and promotion programs
taking.
ness.
talk about something we agree on."
Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman
tions, it produces good, simple and
available to U.S. companies interest-
"My, what a young man you are,"
Clinton pledged to do what he
Sachs International. "It sweeps away
inexpensive mining machinery for
ed in investing in Russia. OPIC Pres-
Yeltsin said to 45-year-old Clinton
could to influence Congress to pass
Staff researcher Mark Stencel
all the Cold War baggage."
less complex operations.
ident Fred M. Zeder will lead a busi-
when the two were introduced.
the aid package. He also said there
contributed to this report.
But that doean't mean that local
Meanwhile, a trade agreement
ness mission to Moscow on Sunday.
The
Washington
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Beset Sarajevo Doubts Will of Blue Helmets
ernment of Bosnia, for the city air-
condition for the opening of the air-
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Foreign Service
port to be opened immediately to
port-a durable cease-fire-has
humanitarian flights. Hundreds of
yet to be fulfilled.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia, June 18-
tons of food and medicine are wait-
The leader of the Serbs in Bos-
Irked residents of this shell-
ing on the runways of nearby Eu-
nia, Radovan Karadzic, had an-
battered, hungry capital have
ropean airports for delivery.
nounced a "unilateral cease-fire"
coined a new name for the U.N.
When first announced by the
effective Monday morning. But it
peace-keeping force that is sup-
United Nations, the airport agree-
lasted less than a day and a half be-
posed to open the city airport and
ment was hailed here as the begin-
fore Serb forces opened up on the
rush in food.
ning of the end of suffering. Since
city with heavy artillery and seized
They call it the U.N. bungling
Bosnia's ethnic war began in April,
three strategic points around the
force, and they accuse it of playing
Serb shelling has killed more than
city.
into the hands of the besieging
1,000 Sarajevo residents and
In the western suburb of Do-
Serbs who are trying to starve
wounded about 6,000.
brinja, where some sealed-off res-
them.
The U.N. agreement to end all
idents say by phone that they now
The head of the primarily Muslim
this has proved, so far, a crushing
are eating grass, Serbian tanks and
Bosnian defense force called up
disappointment. In the last two
artillery fired continuously for more
U.N. headquarters here Wednesday
weeks, Sarajevo has been pounded
than 12 hours Wednesday.
night and accused its forces of pro-
as never before by Serbian artillery
The U.N. force, as it shuttles its
viding cover for Serbian tanks that
and tanks. Up to 50 people a day
personnel and supplies back and
shelled Sarajevo earlier in the day.
have been buried in city parks, as
forth between Sarajevo and Bel-
Angry questions were asked to-
the few inner-city cemeteries are
grade, the Serbian capital, has to
day on the front page of the Sara-
already full of the newly dead.
pass through nearly 150 miles of
jevo daily Oslobodzenje about why a
convoy of blue-helmeted U.N.
Western diplomats said today that
roads controlled by Serb forces.
Serb forces are managing to play the
When U.N. convoys arrive on the
troops stopped off for two nights
this week at a Serb military base in
airport agreement to their advan-
outskirts of Sarajevo, they have to
tage, never refusing to negotiate but
get the Serbs' permission to enter.
the suburbs before entering the
city.
delaying any loss of military position
This has made the peace keepers
A well-placed Western diplomat
and continuing to pound Sarajevo.
temporary captives of a military
in Belgrade said the patience of the
These sources repeatedly have at-
force that has been denounced by
tributed such tactics to forces under
the U.N. Security Council as the
U.S. State Department with the
the command of Serbian President
primary aggressor in Bosnia-
U.N. operation also "is beginning to
Slobodan Milosevic.
Hercegovina.
fray." He said Washington has
begun making contingency plans for
Milosevic, a Serb nationalist and
The last two Sarajevo-bound con-
the last Communist-era leader left
voys, one ferrying in specialists to
a military assault that would neu-
tralize Serbian artillery and allow
in Eastern Europe, has been singled
examine the airport and the second
humanitarian flights into the city.
out by the West as the primary
bringing in military specialists to
"There are more signals of U.S.
cause of the war in Bosnia, as well
deal with Serb artillery, have both
as for the collapse of Yugoslavia.
been directed to a Serbian army
military action than ever before, but
nothing at this point is imminent.
Three weeks ago, the United Na-
base.
The point is that Washington and
tions slapped tough economic sanc-
Last week's convoy spent one
other Western governments are
tions. on the new Serb-dominated
night there. This week a convoy
angry with the U.N.," the diplomat
Yugoslavia, an unrecognized state
spent two nights. During these
said.
run by Milosevic, for sponsoring
three evenings, Serb gunners at the
One indication of the mood is that
aggression in Bosnia.
same Lukavica barracks opened up
residents out scrounging for bread
"The delays suit certain people,"
on Sarajevo.
this morning said they believe U.N.
said U.N. spokesman Abdel Razek,
Thus, to some desperate people
Secretary General Boutros Bou-
refusing to name names. "But in our
of Sarajevo, U.N. peace keepers
tros-Ghali is taking bribes from the
conversations, we have not seen
were dining and sleeping with the
Serb forces that shell Sarajevo from
any attempts to actually stop the
Serbs who were killing the city.
the hills. They booed at the sight of
opening of the airport."
U.N. officials have tried to ex-
white U.N. armored personnel car-
Frustration and confusion have
plain to Bosnian officials that they
riers. They had cheered them two
dogged nearly every step of the
did not willingly spend the evening
weeks ago.
U.N. peace-keeping force as it has
with Serb fighters. "My [military]
"We have a public-relations head-
tried to bring in airport technicians
monitors spent two nights at Lu-
ache in Sarajevo," conceded U.N.
and take control of the hundreds of
kavica not as happy guests," Maj.
spokesman Adnan Abdel Razek.
big guns that are in range of the
Gen. Lew Mackenzie, chief of the
It was 13 days ago that U.N. ne-
airport runway. With the exception
U.N. mission here, told Sarajevo ra-
gotiators won approval from the
of a few captured guns, nearly all of
dio today.
Serb forces that surround Sarajevo,
the artillery is in Serb hands.
Fighting in the city, meanwhile,
as well as from the outgunned gov-
More fundamentally, the first
ebbed this morning.
U.S. Considers Deactivating More Strategic Missiles
based
By R. Jeffrey Smith
[multiple-warhead] mis-
the "Satan" by Western military an-
promptly remove 20 percent of such
Washington Post Staff Writer
siles" category that includes the
alysts, the SS-18 is "the single most
missiles from alert status as well as
MX and the Minuteman III. But of-
powerful
most destructive
40 strategic bombers.
The Defense Department said
ficials did not say when such a move
weapon in the world's nuclear ar-
Additionally, in his State of the
last night that it is considering de-
might be taken.
senal" and a "system
designed
Union address last January, Bush or-
activating some additional U.S.
Yeltsin, in a gesture underscoring
as a first-strike weapon to threaten"
dered that 160 missiles aboard 10
strategic missiles after Russian
improved U.S.-Russian relations,
U.S. land-based missiles, Williams
Poseidon submarines be rendered in-
President Boris Yeltsin's pledge in
told a joint session of Congress on
said. "Its elimination will contribute
capable of being launched on short
Washington this week to render the
Wednesday that his country had
greatly to global stability."
notice.
most threatening missiles in his na-
"begun taking off alert" SS-18 mis-
Yeltsin's public statement did not
The total number of U.S. war-
tion's nuclear arsenal incapable of
siles targeted on the United States.
make clear whether all of Russia's
heads thus removed from alert
being launched on short notice.
Williams said that Washington
SS-18 missiles, carrying 3,080 war-
since last year has been 2,690, ac-
The announcement reversed an
has no independent information to
heads, were immediately being ta-
cording to the Arms Control Asso-
earlier statement yesterday by Pen-
verify Yeltsin's claim. But Williams
ken off alert.
ciation, a private group here. Re-
hailed Yeltsin's commitment in a
During the Cold War, the United
ciprocal moves announced earlier
tagon spokesman Pete Williams
new arms agreement signed with
States and the former Soviet Union
this year by Yeltsin and last fall by
that the Bush administration was
President Bush on Wednesday to
kept most of their land-based missile
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorba-
not considering taking strategic
eliminate the entire force of 308
force on alert as a deterrent against
chev have led to the removal of a
missiles such as the 10-warhead
SS-18 missiles by the year 2003.
any surprise nuclear attack. But Bush
total of 1,186 strategic nuclear
MX off "alert" status.
U.S. analysts have long claimed
announced last September, following
warheads from alert status aboard
In a written statement, the de-
that the 10-warhead SS-18 missile
a sudden improvement in U.S.-Soviet
land-based and submarine-based
partment said "the U.S. is interest-
forms the backbone of Russia's nu-
relations after the failure of a coup
strategic missiles, according to as-
ed in early deactivation of all land-
clear strike force. Officially named
attempt in Moscow, that he would
sociation figures.
Washington
Post
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Khmer Rouge Charges Tilt Toward Phnom Penh
By William Branigin
THAILAND
LAOS
held concerns of Cambodians about
Washington Post Foreign Service
a large population-and growing
influx-of Vietnamese civilian set-
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia-Ef-
tlers. Hanoi says it withdrew all of
forts to get Cambodia's faltering
its forces in 1989, and no proof has
U.N.-sponsored peace process back
been produced that Vietnamese
on track are being complicated by
CAMBODIA
combat units are still in the coun-
the Khmer Rouge guerrilla group's
try. But the border with Vietnam
underlying fear of outside influence
remains open to undocumented mi-
and by an apparent U.N. tilt toward
Phnom
Penh
VIETNAM
grant workers, whose presence
its archenemy, the Phnom Penh
must be dealt with eventually when
government, according to analysts.
UNTAC registers voters for next
here.
year's election.
As bloodstained and reviled as
The Khmer Rouge also has de-
the Khmer Rouge is, diplomats and
manded greater powers for the Su-
some U.N. officials acknowledged,
preme National Council, a vaguely
the radical communist group has a
BY LARRY FOGEL-THE WASHINGTON POST
defined body formed under the
point in complaining that the United
peace plan to embody Cambodian
NEWS
Nations Transitional
toward the Khmer Rouge, he re-
sovereignty before a new govern-
ANALYSIS
Authority in Cambodia
plied: "Some people say we should
ment is elected. Although U.N. of-
(UNTAC) has not done
be more flexible. Other people say
ficials say it was never meant to
enough to address its concerns and
we should be harder. I think we are
substitute for Phnom Penh's exist-
has shown favoritism toward the
taking the right line."
ing administration, it does not ap-
Phnom Penh administration, one of
In an effort to resolve the prob-
pear to have evolved at all and, if
the four Cambodian parties to the
lem, the U.N. undersecretary gen-
anything, has become less relevant.
peace accord.
eral in charge of peace keeping,
But perhaps the greatest griev-
The peace process has bogged
Marrack Goulding, is flying to Cam-
ance of the Khmer Rouge is an ap-
down, with the Khmer Rouge refus-
bodia this week.
peal, issued by UNTAC in April, for
ing to let UNTAC into its areas or
The aim of the peace plan, signed
international contributions to a
participate in the accord's crucial
in Paris last October, was to use a
$595 million rehabilitation aid pack-
second phase, the grouping under
massive U.N. presence to demobi-
age for Cambodia, including $111.8
U.N. supervision and eventual de-
lize 70 percent of the warring
million in outright budgetary sup-
mobilization of combatants that os-
forces, run five key ministries and
port for the beleaguered Phnom
tensibly started Saturday.
create a "neutral political environ-
Penh administration. The language
If the process continues to de-
ment" so that the Cambodian people
of the document equates "Cambo-
generate, it could lead to more
could freely choose a new govern-
dia" with the Phnom Penh govern-
cease-fire violations and trigger
ment in elections by May 1993.
ment, fueling Khmer Rouge
calls for a change in the U.N. man-
The underlying hope of most of
charges of UNTAC "de facto rec-
the accord's international backers
date here, diplomats said. Among
ognition" of that party as the coun-
the possible options are sanctions
was that the Khmer Rouge, blamed
try's legitimate representative. A
for more than 1 million deaths dur-
against the Khmer Rouge or the
pledging conference is scheduled
ing its bloody 1975-79 rule, would
for next week in Tokyo, which
group's exclusion from the peace
be rejected at the polls and thus
Akashi is to attend.
process and outright international
sidelined in its efforts to recapture
When the Khmer Rouge objected
backing for the Vietnamese-in-
power. However, reaching that
to the budgetary support, intended
stalled government in partnership
point appeared to depend largely on
in part to pay Phnom Penh's civil
with two noncommunist guerrilla
Khmer Rouge acceptance of its own
servants, Akashi dismissed the
groups that had formerly fought
demise and on UNTAC's evenhand-
grievance and vowed to seek the
against it.
edness in ushering the group along.
funding anyway, diplomats said.
However, that would doom the
Instead, UNTAC has alienated
The Khmer Rouge may have re-
idea of "free and fair elections" en-
the Khmer Rouge on three key is-
neged on the accord anyway be-
visaged in the peace plan and al-
sues: the withdrawal of all "Viet-
cause of other, officially unstated
most certainly leadito a resumption
namese forces" from Cambodia, the
concerns, analysts said. But if that
of war with the still powerful, al-
strengthening of Cambodia's four-
is the case, UNTAC would appear
though now more isolated, Khmer
party Supreme National Council and
to have handed the group a conven-
Rouge.
the solicitation of budgetary sup-
ient pretext. Chief among these
The head of the peace-keeping
port for the Phnom Penh govern-
other concerns is a fear that the
operation, career U.N. diplomat
ment.
organization's tightly controlled
Yasushi Akashi of Japan, has made
Even diplomats implacably hos-
military and civilian base would be
clear that he thinks he is taking the
tile to the Khmer Rouge say
"corrupted" by outside influence if it
proper approach. When asked be-
UNTAC could do more to confirm
let UNTAC provide assistance and
fore he left for Tokyo on Tuesday
the pullout of Vietnamese occupa-
if it sent guerrillas into U.N.-super-
whether he should be more flexible
tion troops and address the widely
vised areas, called cantonments.
Post
FRIDAY, JUNE 19 1002
NATIONS, From A29
U.N. Seeks
The idea of a standing force was
suggested by French President Fran-
cois Mitterrand, who volunteered to
Permanent
have 1,000 soldiers available at all
times and to double this number
within 48 hours. It is unclear wheth-
Armed Force
er other world leaders, including
Bush, share his enthusiasm.
Response to the report could
serve as a test of whether the 15
Boutros-Ghali Presses
council nations and other U.N.
members share Boutros-Ghali's vi-
ventive diplomacy, he called for an
'Peace Enforcement'
sion of the organization in the post-
enhanced role for regional organ-
Cold War era.
izations, more fact-finding, an en-
The troops' function would be to
hanced U.N. presence-including,
repond to "outright aggression, im-
in exceptional circumstances, coun-
By Trevor Rowe
minent or actual." While the secre-
cil meetings away from New York
Special to The Washington Post
tary general recognized that these
headquarters to gather information
UNITED NATIONS, June 18-
forces are not likely to be available
and exercise authority.
Secretary General Boutros Boutros-
"for some time," he recommended
He also recommended "preven-
Ghali offered the Security Council
they be made available. He added
tive deployment" of U.N. peace
today a blueprint for a United Na-
that they would be more heavily
keepers in cases of national crisis or
tions that calls on member countries
armed than peace-keeping forces
inter-state disputes. This would be
to make armed forces available on
and would need extensive training
done with the consent of the gov-
an ad hoc and permanent basis.
within their national forces.
ernments or all the parties, but the
In his report, Boutros-Ghali ar-
Boutros-Ghali stressed preven-
council also would be able to dis-
gued that a military option "is essen-
tive diplomacy as well as what he
patch forces at the request of a sin-
tial" to the credibility of the United
called post-conflict peace-building,
gle government that feared aggres-
Nations as a guarantor of interna-
aimed at strengthening peaceful
sion by a neighbor.
tional security. He proposed that.
conditions.
Another idea is to use demilita-
separate "peace enforcement units"
Among his suggestions for pre-
rized zones before rather than after
be created to deal with potentially
conflicts. They would offer a means
high-risk situations.
operations exceed $800 million. He,
of separating potential belligerents
At present, the units volunteered
recommended that, as has been
or, at the request of one party, a way
by member states for U.N. peace-
proposed by some in the United
of removing a pretext for attack.
keeping missions are characterized
States, contributions be budgeted
The report called for greater re-
by such tight restraints against use
by defense ministries rather than
liance on the International Court of
of arms that the troops generally
foreign ministries.
Justice and proposed that all nations
have been discounted as a credible
"A chasm has developed between
join by 2000.
military force.
the tasks entrusted to this organ-
The secretary general noted that
The blueprint is the result of a
ization and the financial means pro-
the United Nations will not be able
Jan. 31 meeting of world leaders,
vided to it," the report said. "The
to play an enhanced role if it lacks
including President Bush, at the Se-
truth of the matter is that our vision
the financial resources. At present,
curity Council. They asked Boutros-
cannot really extend to the prospect
he said, arrears for peace-keeping
Ghali to report on "ways of
opening before us as long as our
strengthening and making more ef-
financing remains myopic."
ficient" the council's capacity for
Among some new financial solu-
preventive diplomacy, peace making
tions, it proposed a levy on inter-
and peace keeping.
national air travel, "which is depen-
The secretary general stressed
dent on international peace," gen-
that "the ready availability of armed
eral tax exemption for contributions
forces on call could serve, in itself,
to the United Nations and a levy on
arms sales.
as a means of deterring breaches of
the peace, since a potential aggres-
Boutros-Ghali noted that since
sor would know that the council had
the creation of the United Nations
at its disposal a means of response."
in 1945, more than 100 major con-
Boutros-Ghali noted that while
flicts around the world have left
the forces may never be sufficiently
some 20 million dead. He blamed
large or sophisticated enough to
this in part on the ideological strug-
face a threat from a major army,
gle between the United States and
"they would be useful
in meet-
Soviet Union and the use of 279
ing any threat posed by a military
vetoes in the council. "Never again
force of a lesser order."
must the Security Council lose the
collegiality that is essential to its
See NATIONS, A30, Col. 1
proper functioning," he said.
Washington
Post
FRIDAY, 19, 1992
U.S. Team Starts Search for POWs in Russia
Reported Sighting of American Prompts Trip to Arctic Camps; No Evidence at 1st
According to Yuzhin's organiza-
Alexander Strelkov, head ot the
tion, Ark Project, and the All-Union
By Fred Hiatt
main directorate of prison camps
television station here, which also
Washington Post Foreign Service
that includes the Pechora region,
investigated the case, Hamilton was
MOSCOW, May 18-A delega-
was quoted in the newspaper Izves-
a cryptoanalyst at the top-secret
tion of Russian and U.S. officials
tia today as saying, "We have ex-
National Security Agency until he
amined all lists and archives and
flew to an Arctic prison camp re-
was dismissed in 1959 for what Yu-
spoken to the guards, including the
gion today to investigate a report
zhin called "mental problems."
ones who are retired, and I am con-
that an American serviceman miss-
Hamilton, now 75, defected to the
fident that there are no American
ing since the Korean War might be
Soviet Union in 1962 and was used
prisoners in our colonies, nor have
there.
for propaganda and as a source of
At the first camp they visited,
there ever been any."
information, being kept in elite
Col. Gen. Dmitri Volkogonov, an
they found no evidence of American
Communist Party psychiatric clinics
adviser to Yeltsin, said in Washing-
prisoners and officials there said
in Moscow until 1971, Yuzhin said.
there were none, the Associated
ton on Wednesday that he believes
Press reported. The delegation is to
such reports contain a large ele-
He was then transferred to Hospital
visit more camps Friday.
ment of "mystification." He said any
No. 5, about 35 miles outside Mos-
Deborah DeYoung, a spokes-
American still alive would have
cow, where he has been since, Yu-
woman for the Senate Select Com-
been able to make his presence
zhin said.
mittee on POW-MIA Affairs, said
known to the world during the last
Hamilton was found after Yuzhin
the mission was prompted by infor-
five years of relative openness.
and a colleague, Mikhail Kazachkov,
mation provided to a committee
[Former Soviet president Mikhail
appealed in a March television in-
investigator working in Moscow.
Gorbachev, visiting in Israel,
terview for information on the
scoffed at Yeltsin's account, the
DeYoung described the information
whereabouts of U.S. prisoners. A
as a "recent account" and said there
Associated Press reported from Tel
doctor gave a tip that eventually led
Aviv. "I heard that the president of
is "every reason to think this guy
to Hamilton's discovery, Yuzhin
Russia delivered sensational news
said. But Yuzhin said Hamilton has
may be alive."
The committee, chaired by Sen.
that I know nothing about. Not only
lost his memory and SO remains, for
John Kerrey (D-Mass.), would not
me, but also unknown to others,"
the time being, in Hospital No. 5.
identify the prisoner or his alleged
Gorbachev said on Thursday, add-
U.S. Embassy officials here de-
location. Russian sources said he is
ing that Yeltsin appeared to have
clined to discuss today's mission to
in one of several camps near Pecho-
joined "those who are working on
Pechora, except to confirm that it is
defaming Gorbachev."
taking place.
Γa, 900 miles northeast of Moscow,
and identified the prisoner variously
[A spokeswoman for the Viet-
as David Martin or Markin. One
namese Foreign Ministry called
President Bush said he would
Yeltsin's statement "absolutely
send Malcolm Toon, former ambas-
Russian source, however, described
him as Navy pilot David Martin of
baseless" and said, "No American
sador to the Soviet Union, to Mos-
prisoners were taken from Vietnam
COW to conduct further inquiries
Orlando, Fla., born in 1942 and
to the Soviet Union during or after
into the fate of missing Americans.
missing since disappearing in Viet-
the war," Reuter reported from
The Associated Press added from
nam in 1967.
Labor Camp PL-350-5:
The Pentagon has said that a Da-
Hanoi.]
Investigations of other recent
U.S. investigators came to this
vid Martin was shot down but that
"sightings" of Americans have
remote prison today looking into
they had no reason to believe he
proved fruitless. But the recent dis-
reports that an American prisoner
was in a Soviet prison. A private
covery of U.S. defector Victor
of war is in this area. But all they
American group, the Ark Project,
Hamilton in a psychiatric hospital
found were freshly painted walls,
said it believed the man was Lt.
smiling prisoners and officials who
Robert Martin, who was taken pris-
outside Moscow has fueled specu-
lation that other Americans could
insisted the hunt was pointless. "We
oner during the Korean War, the
don't have any Americans here,"
Associated Press reported, but no
be held in isolation in camps or hos-
said Maj. Gen. Leonid Khamluk,
further information on him was
pitals in this vast country.
chief of the camps.
Boris Yuzhin, associate director
available.
The investigators filed through
The mission came after Russian
of a private U.S.-Russian organiza-
President Boris Yeltsin said in
tion that helped locate Hamilton,
the dilapidated administration build-
Washington that U.S. prisoners of
said he feels "pretty sure" other
ing, its interior walls freshly
war from the Korean and Vietnam-
Americans may still be living in psy-
painted. Soldiers, inmates and of-
ese conflicts had been imprisoned in
chiatric hospitals or the network of
ficials all said no Americans were
the former Soviet Union. Yeltsin
prison camps known as the gulag.
present.
promised, in an address to Con-
"I'm an expert on the gulag, and I
"We heard some rumors that
gress, to use all his resources to
know how it is possible to hide peo-
somebody was around here, but
discover whether any Americans
ple out there," Yuzhin, a former
nobody has ever seen him. And I
remain alive here and, if so, to re-
KGB officer, said in an interview
don't believe them," said Alexander
turn them to their families.
today. He said he was jailed for five
Babenko, 18, one of a half-dozen
Some Russian officials expressed
years for offering the FBI informa-
young soldiers posted at a guard-
skepticism that Americans might
tion on what he considered uneth-
house.
still be living in Siberia or else-
ical KGB operations.
The entrance road was lined with
freshly planted pine saplings and
where.
the road around the camp had been
swept clean. A convict said camp
officials ordered inmates to clean up
the grounds in the last two days.
Washington
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
said the IMF would probably release a first
Sources close to the Russian government
cial organization would help finance.
nomic program that the international finan-
could lead to "early agreement" on an eco-
Monetary Fund. The IMF said the talks
Michel Camdeasus of the International
czar, Yegor Gaidar, and Managing Director
from a meeting between Russia's economic
Another piece of favorable news came
Senate action as early as Tuesday.
of the former Soviet Union to the floor for
U.S. aid bill for Russia and the other states
Maine) announced he plans to bring the
ate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-
from Capitol Hill. After weeks of delay, Sen-
The best news for both leaders came
Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
"new relationship" proclaimed by President
moved yesterday to make a reality of the
president of a democratic Russia, officials
between the U.S. president and the elected
In the wake of the first summit meeting
Washington Post Staff Writer
By Don Oberdorfer
Russian Conservatives
new chancery building to replace the still-in-
ing the summit giving the United States the
signed a memorandum of understanding dur-
Both Sides Embrace New Relationship'
Hit Yeltsin Arms Cuts
Moderates Praise Agreement With U.S.
By Fred Hiatt
news conference today to denounce
Washington Post Foreign Service
the agreement, even hinting at
new U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Officials
An end to the seven-year logiam over a
istration officials, are:
armed struggle to stop the cuts.
right to work unrestricted in constructing a
MOSCOW, June 18-Russian
pected developments, according to admin-
moving on to normal ties. Among the ex-
some lingering barriers to relations and
provide many possibilities for eradicating
accords signed by lower-ranking officials
and Yeltsin and more than a dozen other
The seven agreements signed by Bush
stance on that framework.
rapidly the two sides can move to put sub-
question now," the official added, is how
place the Cold War confrontation. "The
relationship heralded here this week to re-
work is in place" for the new, cooperative
partment official said yesterday "the frame-
U.S.-Russian summit, a senior State De-
With the successful completion of the
seven leading industrialized democracies.
mit meeting in Munich next month of the
installment of support funds before a sum-
"I am not calling for violations of
conservatives opened a campaign
the constitution, but if the parlia-
today against what they consider
ment does not prevent Russia from
lopsided concessions by Boris Yelt-
coming under America's nuclear
sin in arms cuts, accusing the Rus-
umbrella, then clashes are inevita-
sian president of giving away the
ble," faction leader Nikolai Paviov
strength and parity that Soviet
said. "If the opposition by democrat-
leaders fought for decades to
ic means fails, then Russian Red
achieve.
Brigades will emerge in the coun-
Government leaders rejected the
try."
complaints, and middle-of-the-road
Sergei Baburin, another hard-line
analysts welcomed the agreement
leader, said Washington is support-
as a historic breakthrough that will
ing Yeltsin and his economic reform
benefit Russia's reeling economy.
program in gratitude for "the de-
Several analysts said they doubted
struction of Russia's defenses."
that the military or the military-in-
Even former Soviet president
dustrial complex would be united
Mikhail Gorbachev, who when in
the State and Defense departments, National
ly to involve senior U.S. representatives of
. Broader security discussions that are like-
as civilian control of the military.
and strong enough to undermine
power proposed the destruction of
sist the Russians in working on such issues
expected to be stationed in Moscow to as-
fense officials, military and civilian, are also
the agreement.
country under a U.S. aid program. U.S. de-
coming for training to service schools in this
Envisioned eventually are Russian officers
. A start on expanded military cooperation.
ment has not been formally announced.
from Congress, which is why the arrange-
Union. These terms will require cooperation
million claim against the now-extinct Soviet
deal, the United States would drop its $30
third acre plot nearby. Also as part of the
on Wisconsin Avenue and to occupy a one-
buildings the Soviet Union built at Mt. Alto
be permitted finally to move into the office
all nuclear weapons, criticized his
The Russians, in a reciprocal move, would
ed structure it has occupied in Moscow.
permitted a long-term lease on the antiquat-
Soviet KGB. The United States would be
complete structure that was bugged by the
Right-wing politicians and news-
rival Yeltsin. While claiming credit
papers angrily denounced Yeltsin
for the reductions as a logical out-
for agreeing, in his Washington
growth of his policy and giving them
talks with President Bush, to scrap
"my blessing," Gorbachev accused
the core of Russia's strategic ar-
Yeltsin of failing to take into ac-
senal, its land-based multi-warhead
count the needs of Russia's arms
missiles. They accused him of be-
industry.
traying the pledge he made to Rus-
"One should not act using a pop-
sian officers just before the summit
ulist approach just to make an im-
that he would not scrap all the SS-
pression on the world," Gorbachev
18s or allow the United States to
said during a visit to Israel. "One
seize a strategic advantage during
must take into account human be-
Russia's time of need.
ings
the military industries and
There also were widespread pre-
apparatus involved."
dictions that Russia's conservative
Arms control expert Andrei Kor-
parliament will seek to overturn the
tunov said Russia's military, preoc-
agreement. Even the liberal news-
cupied with problems of personnel
underpinning for the new relationship.
of the summit was to establish the political
paper Komsomolskaya Pravda said
or initiatives in the works, the central result
ate ratified the agreement last November.
ing through the ratification. The U.S. Sen-
chairman of the Supreme Soviet, for push-
ed States and former foreign relations
Lukin, the Russian ambassador to the Unit-
other U.S. officials gave credit to Vladimir
ratified the accord last Friday.
not take effect until the Russian legislature
Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990, but they could
signed by Bush and Soviet President
and conventional forces, will likely
Beyond these and many other exchanges
Secretary of State James A. Baker III and
were authorized in the trade agreement
established Wednesday. The trade benefits
most-favored-nation
tariff
. Expanded U.S.-Russian trade under
Department director of policy planning.
under the chairmanship of Dennis Ross, State
which are to begin within a month in Moscow
strategic dialogue would be in addition to
their Russian counterparts. This expanded
Security Council and other agencies with
the pact "will surely trigger a lot of
object less than some big arms fac-
emotions and passions in the par-
tories that will have to close, such
liament." It said Yeltsin's own del-
as missile and guidance system
egation in Washington was sharply
plants.
Forged During Summit
divided over the deal.
Kortunov said be believes Yeltsin
Pravda, former mouthpiece of
will seek to "self" the agreement at
the Communist Party and still a
home by pointing out that America
voice for hard-line Communists,
also agreed to trim the core of its
said the arms-cut agreement might
strategic arsenal, the submarine-
arrangements
joint discussions of missile defense issues,
be "a hasty, unjustified concession
based missiles.
to Washington-and the final loss of
A Russian Foreign Ministry of-
Russia's status and its significance
ficial insisted, in an interview with
as a superpower."
Interfax news agency, that the
"It is still unclear why it is pre-
agreement "does not in the least
cisely Russia that has to sacrifice its
weaken Russia's defense capabil-
this report.
most powerful weapons of deter-
Staff writer Steven Mufson contributed to
leaders declared.
ities," because the country would
rence," Pravda said.
retain a "fantastic" number of war-
tries in a cooperative relationship, both
placed it, the stakes are high for both coun-
lapsed and a fledgling democracy has re-
Now that communism in Russia has col-
II alliance of the two nations.
"They are pushing us to destroy
heads even after the agreed-upon
other." He harkened back to the World War
world history but have also influenced each
have always affected not only the course of
dinner Tuesday that "America and Russia
more historical basis, saying at the state
the best part of our stockpile," said
reductions.
Yeltain justified the new relationship on a
children. It means a future free from fear."
state or historians, but for parents and their
means-not for presidents, nor for heads of
Think for just a minute about what that
enhance the security of every American.
day. "Success for Russian democracy will
joint news conference with Yeltsin Wednes-
cause It is in our interest," said Bush In his
our support for Russis is unshakable be-
"Let me just say to the American people,
the conservative newspaper Sovet-
Similarly, Defense Minister Pavel
skaya Rossiya, which suggested
Grachev, traveling with Yeltsin,
that the U.S. military will now push
was quoted OR television here as
ahead with development of better
rejecting criticiam of unilateral con-
arms. "And they will do so while
cessions as "invalid" and saying
knowing full well that our military-
Russia will have the means to main-
industrial complex is agonizing in
tain a balance of forces.
convulsion of conversion," it added.
Russian disarmament expert Al-
Leaders of a sizable hard-line fac-
exander Savelyev told Irvestia that
tion in Russia's parliament held a
both countries will be better off.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Yeltsin Goes With the Grain in Kansas
'We Can Learn From Your Experience,' Ebullient Russian Tells Crowd
Foods President Dick Knolton into his jacket. "It's a
By Michael Dobbs
little on the large side," said Knolton, who later told
Washington Post Staff Writer
reporters that he normally wears a 44 long.
WICHITA, Kan., June 18-Russian President Bo-
Yeltsin's determination to match his American
ris Yeltsin lost his jacket during a barnstorming meet-
hosts gift for gift and promise for promise-even if it
the-people tour here today, but he appeared to win
meant giving away his own jacket-reflected his pug-
the hearts of Middle America with his announcement
nacious, ebullient mood as he dived into the American
that communism in Russia was dead and could never
heartland at the end of the first U.S.-Russian summit
be resurrected.
before heading for Canada.
The 61-year-old Russian leader demonstrated his
When the president of Wichita State University
flair for the dramatic, crowd-pleasing gesture by giv-
promised to create two scholarships worth $10,000
ing the top half of his tailor-made summer suit to the
each for visiting Russian students, Yeltsin countered
president of a Wichita meatpacking plant who had
with an off-the-cuff pledge to set up five scholarships
presented him with a black pigskin leather jacket.
worth $5,000 each for American students. The Rus-
Russian security men were seen frantically removing
Yeltsin's wallet and personal papers from the jacket
sian leader was SO impressed by his visit to a family
farm outside Wichita that he talked about creating 5
before handing it over.
"I would have given you the trousers, too, but there
million such farms back home in Russia.
are ladies present," said Yeltsin, as he helped Dold
See YELTSIN, A33, Col. 1
Hard-line Russian politicians and press open a campaign against Yeltsin's arms-cuts plan.
Page A33
Ebullient Russian Leader
Takes Kansas by Storm
"I have come to learn how you
YELTSIN, From A1
grow your crops, how you pack
Yeltsin's message-the Cold War
your meat, how you feed your cows,
is over, Russian missiles are no
because we can learn from your
longer being targeted on American
experience," Yeltsin told the crowd.
cities, a new Russia is rising from
The Russian leader had been in-
the debris of totalitarian rule-ap-
vited to Kansas by Senate Minority
peared to go down well with the
Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.),
Kansans who were listening. They
who was introduced by the mayor of
applauded him everywhere he
Wichita as "one of the greatest sta-
went. And when they didn't ap-
tesmen in the world today." Dole
plaud, Yeltsin provoked them into a
befriended Yeltsin when he came to
show of enthusiasm by asking blunt-
Washington last year at a time
ly: "Why aren't you clapping?" He
when the Bush administration was
frequently uses the same trick dur-
lavishing practically all its diplomat-
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ing his tours of the Russian prov-
ic attention on Soviet President
Yeltsin talks with workers at Wichita, Kan, meatpaching plant, about which be
inces.
Mikhail Gorbachev.
said, "If we could build 20 of these in Russia, we could feed 150 million people."
"I think this man is as straight as
"Dole was the only person who
you can get," said Don Peterson,
would meet Yeltsin at the airport,"
veled the Russian leader. "If we
ident that the wheat that provides
chairman of the Kansas Conserva-
the senator's press spokesman,
could build 20 of these in Russia,
Kansas with its modern-day pros-
tion Association, who waited for
Walt Riker, kept repeating to any-
we could feed 150 million people."
perity was brought to the state a
several hours in the 94-degree heat.
one who would listen. "No admin-
At Wichita State University,
century ago by Russian and Ukrai-
to catch a glimpse of Yeltsin at the
istration official was there to greet
Yeltsin threw away his prepared
nian immigrants. He mulled that
Rau family farm outside Wichita.
him. It wasn't politically correct
speech ("You would doze off," he
over as he drove a combine harvest-
"Serving 26 years in the Air Force
back then."
explained) to deliver an impas-
er for the benefit of photographers.
The meat-processing plant made
sioned appeal for cooperation be-
left me with some hostility to the
"Your wheat came from Rus-
tween Russia and America.
Russians. They breed it into you
a big impression on Yeltsin. As one
sia-and now you get yields that
there. But it's difficult for me to
visitor from Moscow remarked, the
"I have seen today the future of
are three times 28 high as ours,"
America," he told the students. "I
feel it anymore now."
plant seemed considerably more
he told farmers later. "This is the
want to create such a feeling of
The Russian president began his
hygienic than the average intensive
result of the fact that we lived un-
friendship that you will never again
trip to the Midwest by flying into
care ward back home in Russia.
der a communist system for 70
consider Russia your enemy."
McConnell Air Force Base where,
Yeltsin and the visiting press
As Yeltsin drove through fields
years. Before 1917, we were the
until a year ago, B-1 bombers were
corps were fitted out in white coats,
brimming with wheat and corn, he
number-one exporter of wheat to
on 24-hour standby to fly nuclear
white shoe covers, and white hair
was briefed by Dole on the history
the rest of the world. Now we
devastation to Russia in the event
nets-which gave them the appear-
of Kansas. By the time he reached
have to import it."
of war. Yeltsin drew some ironic
ance of surgeons touring a hospital.
the Rau family farm, he was churn-
"I think he made an excellent
cheers from the flight crews assem-
"GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST
ing out sound bites for the senator's
impression," said Kelly Lenz, the
bled on the tarmac when he sug-
TIME" proclaimed the capitalist-
reelection campagn. "First in free-
host of a farm radio call-in show.
gested that the B-1 bombers be
style slogans on the wall.
dom and first in bread," he told an
"He is less formal than Gorbachev,
converted from military use to
"I have visited more than 100
appreciative audience. "That's why
more grass-roots. He comes
transport "some kind of civilian car-
meatpacking plants in my life, but I
1 came to Kansas."
across as someone with the com-
have never seen one like this," mar-
Someone told the Russian pres-
mon touch."
go."
The
Washington
Post
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Ruling Bars
Race-Based
Criminal lawyers said the high
court's decision yesterday could
make it easier to avoid all-white
juries in racially charged cases,
Jury Picks
such as the retrial of a white Los
Angeles police officer charged in
the beating of motorist Rodney G.
High Court Extends
King.
But they said it could pose a
Anti-Bias Precedent
problem in the far more common
situation of minority defendants
excluding some white jurors to en-
To Criminal Trials
sure that minorities serve on the
jury.
Justice Clarence Thomas, the only
By Ruth Marcus
black justice, went along with the
Washington Post Staff Writer
majority decision in the case because
Criminal defendants cannot use
he said it was dictated by earlier rul-
race as a basis for keeping people
ings. But Thomas said he was "cer-
off juries, the Supreme Court ruled
tain that black criminal defendants
will rue the day that this court ven-
yesterday.
The court previously had ruled
See COURT, A16, Col. 1
that prosecutors were prohibited
from racial discrimination in jury
Biden warns against preelection
selection, and that neither side in
high court nominees
Page
A25
civil cases could exercise their jury
challenges in a discriminatory way.
Yesterday's ruling completes the
picture.
Justice Harry A. Blackmun, writ-
ing for the majority, said it is "an
affront to justice to argue that a fair
trial includes the right to discrim-
inate against a group of citizens
based on their race."
Supreme Court Expands
the ages-old right of criminal defen-
dants to exercise peremptory chal-
lenges as they wish, to secure a jury
Rules for Juror Selection
that they consider fair."
O'Connor expressed concerns
similar to those voiced by Thomas.
She noted that "conscious and un-
COURT, From A1
sault and beating of a black couple in
conscious racism can affect the way
the couple's dry cleaning store in Al-
white jurors perceive minority de-
tured down this road.
Simply
bany, Ga. Before trial, the prosecu-
fendants and the facts presented at
stated, securing representation of the
tor, contending that the defendants'
their trials, perhaps determining
defendant's race on the jury may help
lawyer had indicated his intention to
the verdict of guilt or innocence,"
to overcome racial bias and provide
use jury challenges to keep blacks off
and said "the distorting influence of
the defendant with a better chance of
the panel, asked the judge for an or-
race" can be minimized by allowing
having a fair trial."
der barring such discrimination.
use of peremptory challenges to
Many criminal defense lawyers
But the Georgia Supreme Court.
maintain a mixed-race jury.
believe minority jurors tend to be
said the rule against racial discrim-
In its 1986 ruling in Batson v.
more sympathetic to the situation
ination in jury selection did not ap-
Kentucky, the court threw a mon-
of minority defendants and more
ply to defense lawyers. The Bush
key wrench into the use of peremp-
skeptical of testimony by police.
administration entered the case on
tory challenges. It said that, if de-
In addition to potential jurors ex-
the side of Georgia.
fense lawyers can point to a pros-
cused by the judge because they are
The 7 to 2 vote in the case ob-
ecution pattern of using the chal-
not qualified to serve for a particular
scured a closer division among the
lenges to keep off jurors of one par-
reason, prosecutors and defense law-
justices. Two justices in the major-
ticular race, the prosecutor can be
yers each are allowed to exclude a
ity-Thomas and Chief Justice Wil-
required to put forward a legiti-
specified number of prospective ju-
liam H. Rehnquist-said they were
mate, non-discriminatory reason for
rors without giving a reason. In cases
going along only because of a ruling
the apparent bias. Under yester-
with minority defendants, defense
last year extending the prohibition
day's ruling, defense lawyers will be
lawyers may often use those chal-
against racial discrimination in jury
held to the same standards.
lenges to strike whites so that minor-
challenges to civil cases.
The basis for the court's ruling in
ities remain on the jury.
Blackmun said discrimination by
Batson was the equal protection
"It's good that race be purged from
either side in a criminal case was
clause, which prohibits state-sanc-
the criminal justice system," said
abhorrent and pointed to riots that
tioned discrimination. The issue in
Charles Stephen Ralston of the
have erupted in the wake of acquit-
the case decided yeterday, Georgia
NAACP Legal Defense and Educa-
tals by all-white juries in racially
v. McCollum, was whether defense
charged cases. "[I]f a court allows
tional Fund Inc. But, he said, "for the
lawyers could be deemed to be act-
jurors to be excluded because of
typical minority defendant faced with
ing for the state in exercising per-
group bias, it is a willing participant
what might be an all-white jury,
emptory challenges.
in a scheme that could only under-
they're taking away a tool that may
Blackmun said they were. "In ex-
mine the very foundation of our sys-
actually be able to get some blacks or
ercising a peremptory challenge, a
tem of justice-our citizens' con-
Hispanics on the jury, which is really
criminal defendant is wielding the
fidence in it," he wrote.
the game" for a minority defendant.
power to choose a quintessential
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and
governmental body-indeed, the
Yesterday's ruling came in a Geor-
Antonin Scalia filed separate dissent-
institution of government on which
gia case in which whites were
ing opinions. Scalia accused the court
our judicial system depends," he
The
Washington
Post
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Hill Study Challenges Military's Exclusion of Gay
countries allow nomosexuals to
ing to current scientific research
serve and that some police depart-
and opinions; and appears to be
By John Lancaster
ments in the United States have
based on the same type of prejudic-
Washington Post Staff Writer
reported a "positive impact" since
ial suppositions that were used-to
A new congressional study
they began hiring gays and lesbians.
discriminate against blacks and wo-
strongly challenges the U.S. mili-
tary policy of excluding gay men
The investigators found virtually
men before these policies were
and lesbians, estimating the cost of
no scientific or sociological evi-
changed." Efforts to repeal the ban have
replacing uniformed men and wo-
dence to support the Pentagon's
men kicked out of the services for
argument that the gay ban is nec-
been gathering steam, helped along
essary to ensure "good order, mo-
by the military's recent, highly pub-
homosexuality at $27 million in
licized expulsions of such model of-
1990 alone.
rale and discipline."
The report said "many experts
ficers as Army National Guard Col.
The General Accounting Office,
believe that the military's policy is
Margarethe Cammermeyer, a for-
reviewing the Pentagon's contro-
versial ban on homosexuals in uni-
unsupported, unfair, and counter-
mer chief nurse of the Washington
productive; has no validity accord-
National Guard who says she is a
form, found that several European
of the discharged gay men and les-
lesbian. A bill to repeal the prohi-
bition was introduced in Congress
Military Ban
bians would have left for other rea-
sons.
last month; the GAO is the inves-
GAO's look at policies toward gays
tigative arm of Congress.
The military is the only branch of
On Gays Hit
in 17 foreign countries, mostly U.S.
allies in Europe, turned up a mixed
government that explicitly prohibits
picture. Only four of the 17, or 24
the employment of homosexuals. A
percent, specifically banned homo-
copy of the GAO report, which is
GAYS, From A1
sexuals from military service, while
slated for release Saturday, was
the 13 others did not exclude homo-
obtained by The Washington Post.
vice personnel is based on "military
Christopher Jehn, the assistant
judgment
[and] that military
sexuals from at least entering the
armed forces.
defense secretary for manpower,
judgments about overall combat
said in a written response to the
effectiveness are inherently subjec-
However, several countries in the
tive in nature." As a result, Jehn
latter category "had policies requir-
GAO study that the ban on gay ser-
See GAYS, A12, Col. 5
said, "scientific or sociological an-
ing separation if an individual's ho-
alyses are unlikely" to affect the
mosexuality was disclosed later or if:
an individual's behavior was found to
policy.
Jehn also cited numerous federal
be aggressive
or disruptive," the
court rulings upholding the policy and
report said. Canada and Britain were
affirming that "the military concern
among the countries with strict ho-
about homosexuality has a basis in
mosexual bans; Denmark, France,
fact."
Belgium, Italy and Finland take a
The GAO study, which was re-
more relaxed attitude.
quested by House Government Op-
The report also examined the ex-
erations Committee Chairman John
perience of homosexuals in police and
Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), Rep. Gerry
fire departments, which are organ-
Studds (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ted
ized in similar fashion to the military
Weiss (D-N.Y.), challenges the policy
and are perhaps its closest organiza-
on a variety of grounds.
tional parallel in civilian life. In gen-
It notes, for example, that main-
eral, the report said, police and fire
stream psychiatric groups no longer
officials "stated that homosexuals and
consider homosexuality a disease;
heterosexuals appear to have accept-
that polls indicate widening public
able working relationships."
acceptance of homosexuals; and that
The Pentagon response disputed
the Defense Department's own in-
the relevance of the GAO's compar-
ternal studies largely have erased the
isons. "Military personnel policies in
notion that gays in uniform constitute
the United States are
based upon
a security risk. The latter finding also
the unique factors in our nation that
has been endorsed by Defense Sec-
go into the overall combat effective-
retary Richard B. Cheney.
ness equation," the department said.
The report also attacked the ban
"The U.S. must make its own policies
on fiscal grounds. The Pentagon
based upon what is best for the na-
spends $28,226 to recruit and train
tional security."
replacements for each enlisted per-
The Pentagon acknowledged
son and $120,772 for each officer it
"some organizational similarities" be-
kicks out of the service, the report
tween the armed forces and police
said. That works out to roughly $27
and fire departments. However, the
million for the approximately 1,000
Pentagon said, "There are some very
personnel discharged from all mili-
fundamental differences. The mission
tary services in 1990, the GAO said.
and related training, deployments,
The department said in its re-
work environment
and lack of
sponse that the cost estimate is ex-
personal privacy combine to make
cessive because it assumes that none
any such comparison misleading."
ON CAPITOL HILL
Urban Aid Easily Approved;
by the Los Angeles riots but delayed for near-
change in federal water policy in decades, the
ly two months by partisan bickering, was ap-
legislation faces an uncertain future. Though
Russian Aid Still Hostage
proved in the House by a vote of 249 to 168
agricultural interests and lawmakers repre-
after it was scaled back by half in order to sat-
senting the lush irrigated farmland of Califor-
Congress yesterday approved a scaled-back
isfy objections from President Bush to an ear-
nia's Central Valley had supported the bill in
$1.1 billion urban aid bill and edged closer to
lier $2 billion version.
committee, they opposed the legislation yes-
passing a new extension of unemployment
The bill included $500 million for summer
terday after last-minute negotiations broke
benefits, clearing the way for Senate consid-
jobs for young people, with the remainder des-
down.
eration of a broad package of aid to Russia as
ignated for small business loans and emergen-
Critics of the Central Valley Project-an
early as Tuesday.
cy assistance to riot victims in Los Angeles
elaborate system that annually moves about 7
But, even after the House overwhelmingly
and flood victims in Chicago.
million acre-feet of subsidized water per year
approved the urban aid bill and the Senate fol-
The larger package, including urban enter-
from northern California to primarily agricul-
lowed suit by voice vote several hours later,
prise zones and social and jobs programs in
tural users further south-say that it encour-
the Senate remained mired in partisan squab-
targeted areas, is bogged down in negotiations
ages wasteful farming practices, harms fish,
ble over unrelated issues that threatened the
between the White House and congressional
waterfowl and other wildlife, and short-
timetable.
leaders.
changes the state's thirsty municipal water
The dispute-triggered by a maverick Re-
Many who voted yesterday for the emer-
users.
publican effort to revive anti-crime legislation
gency package voiced little enthusiasm for it.
The system serves about 25,000 farms,
and a proposed constitutional amendment to
"Most of us on this floor think the [bill] is
which use about 90 percent of the project's
balance the budget-will have to be resolved
either too much or too little," said Rep. Julian
water. The project has contributed to the loss
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
before the Senate can take up the Russian aid
C. Dixon (D-Calif.). Rep. Maxine Waters (D-
of about 96 percent of the Central Valley's
bill.
Calif.), whose district was worst hit by the ri-
wetlands, and reduced salmon spawning hab-
Continued deadlock could delay the meas-
ots, said the bill "does not begin to get at the
itat from 6,000 miles of streams to just 300.
ure-sought by Russian President Boris Yelt-
problems."
The legislation approved yesterday on a
sin in his enthusiastically received speech to a
The GOP rebellion in the Senate was set off
voice vote would limit long-term water con-
joint session of Congress Wednesday-for "a
by Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), who threatened
tracts to 20 years from the current limit of 40
long time," an angry Senate Majority Leader
to try to attach Bush's anti-crime bill and the
years, and permit agricultural water users to
George J. Mitchell (D-Maine) told the rebel-
balanced-budget constitutional amendment to
sell their subsidized water at market rates to
lious Republicans.
a minor bill that the Senate was scheduled to
other users, including cities and towns. But it
The earlier logjam that was holding up the
consider before bringing up the urban aid and
bars any new contracts until conditions are
Russian aid bill was broken when Mitchell an-
unemployment measures.
met for improving fish and wildlife habitat.
nounced he had reached tentative agreement
Mitchell rejected an offer from Gramm to
Dropped from the bill were tougher provi-
with Minority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.)
drop the proposal in exchange for a guaran-
sions that would have guaranteed yearly di-
to bring the measure up Tuesday if the Senate
teed vote on the amendment at some future
versions of 1.5 million acre feet for wildlife.
completes action on the domestic bills by then.
date, saying he and Gramm had different ideas
Many Democrats, fearful of giving voters
of what constituted a compromise.
House Votes to Look at Itself
the impression that they were giving priority
to foreign aid over domestic needs, had been
Water Policy Revision Approved
The House also cast a vote yesterday aimed
at overhauling the way it goes about its busi-
reluctant to consider the Russian aid measure
The House yesterday approved legislation
ness. By 412 to 4, the House sent the Senate
before acting on short-term urban aid and un-
overhauling the federal government's largest
legislation to set up a wide-ranging, 18-month
employment benefits.
water project, but the measure falls short of
study that will include review of committee
The Russian aid bill includes a $12 billion
what environmentalists had sought in divert-
structure and staffing. "The aim," Rep. Lee H.
increase in the U.S. commitment to the Inter-
ing water from agricultural users of Califor-
Hamilton (D-Ind.) said, is "to restore public
national Monetary Fund and other assistance
nia's Central Valley Project to cities and wild-
confidence in Congress."
to republics of the former Soviet Union.
life.
-Helen Dewar, Tom Kenworthy
The "emergency" urban aid bill, prompted
Touted by some as the most significant
and Eric Pianin
The Washington Post
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
U.S. Officials' Perks on Chopping Block
Hill Belt-Tightening Bill Targets Meals, Cars, Fairways, Air Travel
In fiscal 1992, in fact, taxpayers
subsidize government employee
By Dana Priest
can expect to pay nearly
services for which nongovernment
Washington Post Staff Writer
$4 million to subsidize meals for
workers must pay full price is, to
The menu at the Treasury De-
high-ranking officials (including
say the least, not politically popular.
partment's executive dining room
those making over $100,000 a
Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.)
today offers seafood bisque, shrimp
year) at the major federal agencies:
yesterday became the latest lawmak-
and crabmeat pasta salad, fruit sal-
$18.7 million to subsidize health
er to take a swipe at almost-free
ad and strawberry sundaes. On an-
and fitness centers, $6.5 million to
lunches. He introduced a bill that
other Friday, it offered broiled lob-
support military golf courses and
would prohibit taxpayer subsidies for
ster tail, roasted "red bliss" pota-
about $5.7 million to provide fed-
executive meals, fitness centers, and
toes, asparagus and poached pear
eral executives with 288 cars and
on-site medical offices, which are
with chocolate and raspberry sauce.
190 chauffeurs, according to new
available to all federal workers.
The Treasury executives' tab:
figures provided by the Office of
The bill also calls for opening mil-
$4.75 each.
Management and Budget at Con-
itary golf courses to the public and
The taxpayers' tab this year for
gress's request.
giving the Treasury profits from
the Treasury executives' meals:
In the days of $400 billion annual
the fees, limiting chauffeur-driven
$126,048.
deficits, the idea that taxpayers
See PERKS, A9, Col. 4
Belt-Tightening Bill
Would Pinch Perks
PERKS, From A1
cars to assistant secretaries and above, cutting the num-
ber of executive branch political appointees by 15 percent
At Fort Belvoir, the annual fees are $158 to $422,
over three years and, most contentious, prohibiting the
depending on rank. Retired and active military must
use of government aircraft for personal and "mixed"-po-
pay another $4 to $13 to play a round, according to
litical and official-trips, except for the president.
Fort Belvoir officials. There are two beautifully man-
The bill comes from a highly partisan Democrat and
icured courses with a sports shop, snack bar and patio
is aimed at the Republican-controlled executive branch.
that resemble private clubs. The courses generated
But since it is an election year, even the administration
$250,000 in profits last year, money that was spent on
may end up supporting parts of it.
other recreational facilities on the post.
"There's an interest in looking at some of these
Golf Digest, which surveyed federally owned
things," an administration official familiar with the bill
courses, estimated that the government could reap
admitted.
$110 million in annual revenue if the greens were open
In a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing in
to the public:
April, OMB Director Richard G. Darman, answering
The OMB figures show the range of government ex-
DeConcini's questions about executive branch perks,
penditures on executive dining. At the departments of
said, "The public is rightly disturbed about some pat-
State, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Housing and
terns it observes in the Congress and in the executive
Urban Development, costs are covered by the meal price.
branch." He predicted it would be "a race between the
But the cost to taxpayers of Navy executive meals this
two of us as to who can propose to eliminate it first."
year is expected to be $1,014,328; for Defense secretary
Darman declined comment yesterday on the pro-
executives, it is $502,777; for the Army $403,171; for
posed legislation.
the Transportation Department $211,605 and for NASA
"This is not nit-picky stuff to the average taxpayer,"
$128,962.
said DeConcini. "They can't get a lobster lunch for
Treasury press secretary Desiree Tucker-Sorini said
$4.75. To me it's nothing to sneeze at."
the five employees who staff the executive dining room
In the wake of the House Bank scandal, House and
also cater important departmental functions and that it
Senate leaders in April eliminated most congressional
would cost Treasury more to hire caterers for events.
perks, including cut-rate gym dues, medical care, sta-
"It's disappointing to me," she said, "that Congress is
tionery items and free prescription drugs. Passing De-
spending its time on issues like this instead of the eco-
Concini's legislation is expected to be much more dif-
nomic problems facing our country."
ficult, in part because it would touch some sacred
cows-military golf courses, for example.
Information from OMB and Golf Digest magazine
helped DeConcini identify 280 golf courses owned or
operated by the Defense Department and the Veterans
Affairs Department and supported by $6 million in tax-
payers' money. In the Washington area, there are mil-
itary courses at Fort Belvoir, Fort McNair and An-
drews Air Force Base.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
from Pentagon officials, including
By Walter Pincus
Weinberger. Although the requests
and George Lardner Jr.
asked for all notes, diaries and tele-
Washington Post Staff Writers
phone logs, the note pads that sat
During two years of the Iran-
on Weinberger's desk throughout
contra affair, former defense sec-
the days of the affair and its after-
retary Caspar W. Weinberger
math were never delivered to in-
jotted down 1,700 pages of notes,
vestigators.
and about a tenth of them are rel-
In addition, on two occasions,
evant to investigations of the scan-
Weinberger denied to investigators
dal. But Weinberger's lawyers are
that he made records of any meet-
expected to claim that he did not
ings or took notes. In one case, ac-
have criminal intent when he failed
cording to the indictment, Weinber-
to give the notes to investigators,
ger objected to an FBI report of a
according to sources close to the
1988 interview with him because
defense.
he said "it infers that it was his hab-
"He may have made a mistake,"
it to make notes throughout his sev-
one source said, "but with his rec-
en years as secretary of defense,
ord, he certainly did not deserve to
which was not the case."
be indicted at this late date."
When told on Oct. 10, 1990, by
Weinberger, who strenuously
associate independent counsel
opposed the arms-for-hostages
Craig A. Gillen that someone had
dealings of the Reagan administra-
alleged that Weinberger had with-
To Weinberger Defense
Intent Likely to Be Key
tion, is scheduled to be arraigned
held some notes concerning the
today before U.S. District Judge
Iran-contra affair, "Weinberger
Thomas F. Hogan on a five-count
responded that the allegation is
indictment that charges him with
not true," according to the indict-
obstruction, perjury and making
ment.
false statements. Weinberger, the
Weinberger's lawyers, accord-
highest-ranking official in the Rea-
ing to sources, are expected to
gan administration to be charged
argue that his daily jotting down of
in independent counsel Lawrence
events, most of which were per-
E. Walsh's 51/2-year investigation,
sonal, was done so habitually that.
is expected to enter a not guilty
he forgot the events they de-
scribed. Therefore, the sources
plea.
Weinberger wrote each work-
said the lawyers will argue, the
notes could not be considered "of--
day on the 5-by-7-inch pages in
ficial" or relevant to any of the in-
notebooks as part of a habit devel-
oped when he was a young lawyer
quiries. A memory specialist hired
and had to fill out a daily time
by the defense to examine Wein-,
sheet, according to sources. As
berger may testify that the writ-
each notebook on top of his desk
ings were so routine that Weinber-
was filled, it was filed away and
ger did not link them to any re-
quests for Iran-contra material.
never read or referred to by Wein-
In addition, Weinberger turned
berger, these sources said.
over responsibility to Pentagon law-
Many of the two- and three-line
yers to fulfill any requests made to
notes that Weinberger made in the
him for documents and gave them
Iran-contra years concerned per-
authority to give whatever was re-
sonal matters that could range from
quired. His defense attorneys may
the health of his wife, to dinner,
argue that it was left to those law-
lunch or phone conversations with
yers to determine whether the daily
friends or to personal problems of
jottings had to have been turned:
employees.
over.
They also, however, contain brief
Weinberger's lawyers, according
fragments and occasional sentences
to sources, may argue that he was
describing some of the key events
not trying to hide the notes since
in which the prosecutors allege
the entire collection was turned
Weinberger gained knowledge of a
over to the Library of Congress in:
key arms shipment he subsequently
1988 along with 370,000 other
denied he knew about. The notes
Weinberger documents. Finally,
also reinforce Weinberger's oppo-
they may contend there was no at-
sition to the arms-for-hostages
tempt to obstruct any inquiry be-
deals, sources said.
cause Weinberger did not destroy
In addition, other notes, the pros-
the notes but rather granted the
ecutors believe, cover meetings
prosecutors authority to go through
during which an administration
his papers, where they eventually
coverup was being designed to hide
found the notes.
then-President Ronald Reagan's
As for the false statement and
role in potentially illegal actions
two counts of perjury in the indict-
supporting covert arms sales to
ment, the Weinberger defense is
Iran designed to gain release of
expected to be that the notes-on
U.S. hostages then held in Lebanon
which the charges appear to be.
by pro-Iranian militants.
based-are fragmentary, ambigu-:
After the Iran-contra scandal be-
ous and do not read as clearly as the
came public in November 1986,
information provided in the indict-
congressional investigators and lat-
ment. "They don't have the spin the
doc-
prosecution has put on them," one
Washington
Cost
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
House and other legislative opera-
Shadow of Budget Knife
tions by $295 million, or 14 percent.
The committee action will have
the effect of gradually eliminating
May Fall on Space Station
2,345 congressional staff positions
from the number currently author-
ized.
"This is going to be the tightest
By Eric Pianin
Since Congress and the White
bill we've ever presented," said Rep.
Washington Post Staff Writer
House reached agreement on a bud-
Vic Fazio (D-Calif.), chairman of Ap-
get and deficit-reduction package in
The House's vote to scrap the
propriation's legislative subcommit-
1990, the noose around congression-
multibillion-dollar Superconducting
tee.
al spending has gradually been tight-
Super Collider (SSC) signals new-
Not everyone is convinced that
ened. At the same time, funding
found congressional resolve to whit-
the vote Wednesday night to kill the
available for domestic programs has
tle away at the deficit, members said
super collider, a giant particle accel-
gradually shrunk and the govern-
yesterday, that could threaten other
erator under construction near
ment's interest on the national debt
costly projects, such as the space
Waxahachie, Tex., necessarily por-
and automatic spending on Medicare,
station.
tends the demise of the space sta-
Medicaid and other entitlement pro-
"Things will change here in a very
tion, a solid-rocket booster plant be-
grams have soared.
dramatic way," said Rep. Byron L.
The fiscal pressure increased ear-
ing built in northeastern Mississippi
Dorgan (D-N.D.), who voted against
lier this year when Congress re-
or other big-ticket projects.
the super collider. "Every big-ticket
jected proposals to alter the budget
The SSC, a pure science project
project that is controversial will face
with little economic benefit outside
agreement in the post-Cold War era
new scrutiny and a new challenge to
by allowing any "peace dividend" to
of Texas, was viewed as highly vul-
its funding."
The 232 to 181 vote Wednesday
be used to finance hard-pressed do-
nerable. The space station, by con-
mestic programs.
trast, has generated billions of dol-
night against the SSC, the most ex-
House and Senate appropriators
lars of contracts for companies
pensive scientific experiment ever
planned, reflected a disparate set of
have warned repeatedly that 1992
throughout the country and has a
forces on the House floor. They in-
would be the toughest year in mem-
much broader constituency in the
cluded lingering dismay among con-
ory, and now, with the appropria-
House.
servatives over the recent defeat of
tions process underway, Democrats
Some Democrats reportedly
a balanced-budget constitutional
and Republicans are declaring that
viewed the vote against the SSC as a
everything, including entitlement
fitting payback to the Texas House
amendment, frustration among Dem-
ocrats over the House's refusal to
programs and costly projects like the
members, especially Reps. Joe Bar-
space station, must be placed on the
ton (R) and Charles W. Stenholm
cut defense and shift the money to
bargaining table.
(D), who sharply criticized runaway
domestic programs, and many law-
makers' gnawing fear of voter ret-
"A lot of hard, difficult choices
congressional spending in advocating
ribution.
have to be made, and this will be the
the balanced-budget amendment.
most difficult year since I've been on
"A lot of Democrats said the
Once Election Day has passed
the committee," said Rep. William H.
Texans' enthusiasm for the bal-
there are no assurances that this
new fiscal austerity will continue to
Natcher (D-Ky.), the acting chair-
anced-budget amendment was a rea-
prevail, but budget pressures appear
man of the Appropriations Commit-
son to stick it to them," said Rep. Vin
almost certain to increase for the
tee.
Weber (R-Minn.).
short term.
To underscore the new austerity,
The SSC was further hurt by Re-
Yesterday, several members
the House yesterday agreed to cut
publican defections, despite an at-
pointed to the $2.2 billion in pro-
by half a proposed $2 billion short-
tempt by Minority Whip Newt Gin-
posed new space station funding as a
term urban aid spending bill, drop-
grich (R-Ga.) to salvage the project.
likely target for attack later this
ping from it millions for additional
Republicans were split, 79 to 79,
month in the House Appropriations
summer jobs and education for young
while the Democrats proportionately
Committee.
people, Head Start, and targeted
delivered far more support for a
"I think any large program of that
spending on policing and social ser-
Bush administration project.
kind should be counted as probably
vices.
"Everybody is dealing with the
being facing a stiff challenge," House
At the same time, the Appropri-
question of where can I cut spend-
Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.)
ations Committee, meeting to con-
ing," said Rep. Mickey Edwards
said. "I'm not going to predict the
sider three fiscal 1993 bills, voted to
(Okla.), a Republican leader who
results, but I think undoubtedly
cut $1.3 billion from the president's
voted against the SSC. "Here was an
there are going to be efforts to move
$15.1 billion request for foreign op-
easy target, a big sore thumb stick-
against the space station."
erations and reduce spending for the
ing out."
the
of
one
Navy Requests Aid
In Tailhook Scandal
Pentagon Official to Scrutinize
to
Handling of the Investigation
By John Lancaster
Washmaton Post Sulf Writer
The secretary of the Navy yesterday asked the De-
fense Department's top investigator to scrutinize the
service's handling of sexual assaults and misconduct at
a convention of Navy and Marine aviators in Las Vegas
The Navy already has conducted two investigations
into the Tailhook Association convention, by the Naval
Investigative Service (NIS) and by the Navy inspector
But Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III, re-
sponding to congressional and public pressure, yester-
day asked the Pentagon's inspector general to examine
how the investigations were conducted and look for any
new evidence of misconduct. The scandal threatens
scores of Navy and Marine Corps careers and has
ther the Tailhook '91 matter."
naval aviators. This year's event has been canceled.
entrance
caused turmoil throughout the service.
"Questions have been raised regarding the complete-
ness of the investigations," Garrett said in a memoran-
dum to Deputy Inspector General Derek J. Vander
Schaaf. "Criticisms of the investigations, along with ru-
mor and innuendo of coverup, have eroded seriously the
Department of the Navy's credibility to investigate fur-
Garrett noted in his memo that many officers refused
to cooperate with Navy investigators; that neither Navy.
investigation "fully developed facts regarding" the role
of senior officers at the convention; that the investiga-
tions focused primarily on reports of criminal assaults,
while reports of sexual and other forms of misconduct
went largely unexamined, and that the NIS withheld 55
pages of material from its final report in April, including
an eyewitness statement placing Garrett near one of
the hotel suites where some of the misconduct took
The convention was an annual event put on by the
Tailhook Association, a group of active-duty and retired
Garrett said through a spokesman this week that he
outdoor
an
by
stopped
suites to fetch a beer but saw no evidence of inappro-
priate behavior. Garrett, like other senior officials, at-
tended a large outdoor party on the last night of the
last year.
convention on the third floor patio.
The most egregious incidents occurred on a third-
floor hallway where junior officers are said to have sex-
ually molested at least 26 women-more than half of
them Navy officers-who passed their way. Nearby,
members of aircraft squadrons maintained "hospitality
suites" featuring strippers, pornographic movies and
general.
place.
briefly
excessive drinking.
The Tailhook scandal is more than just a public re-
lations nightmare, with Congress holding up nearly
5,000 officer promotions until the Navy determines
whether any of them were implicated in the miscon-
duct.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
High Court Upholds California's Restraint on Property Taxes
Said Iowa unconstitutionally dis-
criminated against foreign com-
merce when it taxed business div-
idends from foreign subsidiaries
By Ruth Marcus
bought homes later had to pay the
as the pre-1976 owner of a $2.1
"In short," Blackmun said, "the
fringement on the state's legislative
while granting an exemption to div-
Washington Post Staff Writer
same 1 percent tax-but on the
million Malibu beachfront home.
state may decide that it is worse to
powers."
idends from domestic companies.
new, higher price of their property.
While Nordlinger's tax bill came to
have owned and lost, than never to
The Supreme Court yesterday
In a caustic dissent, Justice John
The ruling in Kraft General Foods 2
Although other states have not
$1,701, a neighbor in an identical
have owned at all."
upheld California's Proposition 13
Paul Stevens referred repeatedly to
Iowa Department of Revenue and
followed Caliornia's lead, Michigan
house on a larger lot a block away
He said there was "some appeal"
property tax limit, saying it does
the property owners who benefited
Finance was 7 to 2.
has a similar measure on the ballot
paid just $358.
to the argument that Proposition 13
not unconstitutionally discriminate
from Proposition 13 as "the
this fall and another property tax
Overall, those people in homes
"frustrates the 'American dream' of
against recent home buyers forced
Squires" and said the law "estab-
limit is expected to be on the ballot
they owned at the time Proposition
to pay dramatically higher taxes.
home ownership for many younger
lishes a privilege of a medieval
in Florida.
13 was enacted account for 44 per-
TODAY IN CONGRESS
Adopted by California voters in a
and poorer California families." But,
character: Two families with equal
The change, as the court ac-
cent of state homeowners but pay
property tax revolt in 1978, the
he said, the provision "is not palpably
needs and equal resources are
knowledged yesterday in an opinion
only 25 percent of the $4 billion in
SENATE
state constitutional amendment
arbitrary and we must decline [Nor-
by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, "cre-
treated differently solely because of
Meets at 10 a.m.
residential property taxes.
adopted a new method-ironically
dlinger's request to upset the will of
their different heritage.
Committee:
ated dramatic disparities in the
Blackmun said the different
the people of California."
In other action yesterday, the
Environment & Public Works-10
dubbed the "welcome stranger" sys-
taxes paid by persons owning sim-
treatment did not violate the Con-
a.m. Environmental protection subc.
Justice Clarence Thomas con-
court:
tem-for calculating property
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's
ilar pieces of property." The vote
stitution because it "rationally fur-
curred separately in the case, Nor-
Ruled 5 to 4 that federal worker
administration of National Wildlife
taxes, which had skyrocketed along
was 8 to 1.
thers a legitimate state interest"-
dlinger V. Hahn. Not only did he
Refuge System & National Wildlife
with real estate values in the state.
safety laws prohibited Illinois from
Stephanie Nordlinger, whose
Refuge System Management and Policy
preserving neighborhood stability,
think the California measure was
adopting additional training require-
Act. 406 Dirksen Office Bkig.
The new system taxed existing
challenge to Proposition 13 was
and protecting existing homeown-
constitutional, Thomas said, a 1989
homeowners at 1 percent of the
ments for workers handling hazard-
rejected by the court yesterday,
HOUSE
ers who may be on limited budgets
ruling striking down a West Vir-
ous waste. The case is Gade v. Na-
Not in session.
assessed value of their property in
said she paid nearly as much in
that make them unable to cope with
ginia county's taxation plan was also
the 1975-76 tax year. Those who
tional Solid Wastes Management
Committees: None.
property tax on her $170,000 home
rising property tax rates.
a "needlessly intrusive judicial in-
Association.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
On Once and Future Supreme Court Nominations
dence were trying to use the court to limit Congress's
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
ability to legislate on matters ranging from the environ-
Washington Post Staff Writer
ment to labor law. He said that this "fundamental" issue
Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), chairman of the Ju-
of jurisprudence was often underplayed in judicial hear-
diciary Committee, has urged President Bush not to fill
ings because the issue of abortion aroused such passion-
any vacancy that might open up on the Supreme Court
ate feelings on both sides and tended to dominate judi-
until after the November election.
cial discussions.
Warning that any election-year nominee "would be-
Sensitive to criticism of his committee's handling of
come a victim" of a "power struggle" over control of the
the Thomas-Hill controversy, Biden insisted that "there
Supreme Court, Biden said he would also urge the Senate
is nothing that we could have further have investigated
not to hold hearings on a nomination if Bush decided to
that would have enlightened us any more than we al-
name someone.
ready knew."
In a two-hour interview on Wednesday in which he con-
Biden conceded that the committee might have
fessed to having regrets over last year's confrontation
halted the hearings to investigate whether there was 2
before his committee between Supreme Court nominee
"pattern of behavior" on Thomas's part that would have
Clarence Thomas and Prof. Anita F. Hill, Biden said his
shed light on Hill's charges of sexual harassment. But
main concern was that he had not "attacked the attack-
he said Republicans on the Judiciary Committee op
ers" of Hill "more frequently and consistently."
posed a postponement, and that had the hearings beer
But he said he could not have acted differently toward
stopped, the committee would have faced other prob
Thomas without violating "the basic values embodied in
lems.
our constitutional system."
"Had we announced we were holding up this hearing
"That's what makes me mad about the Republicans,"
in fairness to the nominee-who I don't think war
Biden said. "What they do is they put you in a position on
ranted a lot of fairness in retrospect, in terms of thei
so many matters of principle that in order to fight with
[Republicans'] activities and actions-in fairness to
them and have a chance of winning, you have to either
their positions, he would have been cannibalized.'
have the ability to go right above the issue, or you've got
A postponement, Biden said, would have unleashed
to do it the way they do it and disregard the rules."
flood of rumors against Thomas. "We did check ou
Biden also called for greater consultation between the
what were patterns of behavior," he said.
Senate and the president before an individual is named to
"It is also impossible to conduct in that circumstance
the court, including compromise over the judicial and con-
SEN. JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
at that point in the development of a nomination, an in
stitutional predispositions of a nominee. "That is the root,
vestigation relating to the character of an individua
that is the base, that is the essence of it," Biden said. He
with any remote hope of providing that person wit
added that if a nominee refused to answer questions
"That last hearing was not
some semblance of due process, some semblance of
about judicial philosophy, that alone should be grounds for
a senator to oppose the nomination.
about Clarence Thomas, it
fair chance to respond," Biden said.
If a New High Court Vacancy Occurs
was not about Anita Hill. It
If He Had to Do Thomas Hearing Over
Asked if he regretted that Democrats had not bee
The president, he said, should be prepared to com-
was about a massive power
more aggressive, Biden replied: "In my gut I regret i
promise with the Senate not only on the identity of a
in my intellect I don't. Because it would have made a 1
nominee but also on the question of what judicial phi-
struggle going on in this
of everything I say I believe."
losophy should be reflected on the court. sit down "Unless with and the
president is willing
to
country, a power struggle
"For example, I could have brought in the pornogr
actually
phy stuff," he went on, referring to assertions th
compromise with the Senate beforehand, it is bound,
guaranteed, that there will be a serious fight no matter
between women and men,
Thomas had watched pornographic films. "I could hav
decimated him with that. I could have raised-and wi
who is sent," Biden said.
and a power struggle
more legitimacy than what they [the Republicans] we
Biden said he had no knowledge of whether any mem-
doing-but it would make a lie of everything I foug
ber of the high court planned to resign this year and
between minorities and the
for
To go back and say because the guy was :
added that he hoped no one would. But if a vacancy OC-
years old and he watched pornography at Yale, that th
curred-three of the justices are over 70 years old-he
warned that any nominee would face a harrowing ex-
majority."
means that there's a nexis between that and whether
Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.
not he spoke of pornography 20 years later? It's 01
perience. "If someone steps down, 1 would highly recommend
rageous. But compelling."
Biden said the battle for control of the court had I
the president not name someone, not send a name up,"
come so bitter that liberals and conservatives seem
Biden said. "If he [Bush] did send someone up, I would
ask the Senate to seriously consider not having a hear-
more than the character of the two individuals involved
prepared to use any means necessary to win confirm
and that the bitterness of last year's hearings grew out
tion battles.
ing on that nominee."
of a battle over control of the court.
"Both sides are so self-righteous that it truly is 1
"Can you imagine dropping a nominee, after the three
or four or five decisions that are about to made by the
"That last hearing was not about Clarence Thomas, it
ends justify the means," Biden said.
was not about Anita Hill," Biden said. "It was about a
"I do not regret at all not having used the same t
Supreme Court, into that fight, into that cauldron in the
massive power struggle going on in this country, a pow-
tics," Biden said.
middle of a presidential year?" Biden went on. "I believe
there would be no bounds of propriety that would be
er struggle between women and men, and a power
Referring to the Republicans' treatment of F
The environment within
struggle between minorities'and the majority, and it's a
Biden said: "If [there's] any place that I've made a n
honored by either side.
reflection of the schizophrenic personality of the Amer-
take from my perspective-you asked what I regret
which such a hearing would be held would be so super-
ican public now with regard to both those issues, fem-
regret not having attacked the attackers more 1
charged and so prone to be able to be distorted."
quently and consistently
If anything. I thin
"Whomever the nominee was, good, bad or indiffer-
inism and race."
ent," he added, "would become a victim."
Biden also warned that judicial conservatives asso-
erred in not attacking the attackers, not in turning t]
Biden said the Thomas-Hill confrontation was about
ciated with the "law and economics" school of jurispru-
method on him."
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
MINORITY PARTICIPATION IN FEDERAL WORK FORCE
PERCENTAGE THAT ARE MINORITIES, BY AGENCY
50%
Asian/others
Hispanic
40
Black
30
20
10
0
Aericulture
Force
Army
Air
///
Energy
3
FDIC
GSA
HHS
HUD
Interior
Justice
Labor
NASA
Nay
Trensportation
State
Treasury
VA
SOURCE: General Accounting Office
THE WASHINGTON POST
Bypassed by the Job Market?
Federal Recruiters Overlook Black Colleges, Government Study Says
By Lynne Duke
dents and graduates recruited for
black recruiting effort so far in-
Washington Post Staff Writer
the federal work force.
clude:
The plan calls for federal and
A January 1991 OPM career ex-
Federal job recruiters tend to
school officials to work together
position in Atlanta, home of a clus-
bypass the nation's 117 historically
where necessary to ensure that the
ter of historically black institutions,
black colleges and universities, ac-
curriculum "includes the develop-
where about 4,000 students sub-
cording to a recent government
ment of knowledge, skills and abil-
mitted resumes to 60 federal agen-
report, and many students on these
ities which will be needed for jobs in
cies. OPM officials could not say
campuses say they can't find infor-
the future." Historically black col-
how many students actually were
mation about government job op-
leges and universities, which tra-
hired.
portunities in their schools' career
ditionally have received less funding
A talent bank of students at black
development offices.
and technical support from the gov-
schools who have grade point av-
An Office of Personnel Manage-
ernment, in many cases do not offer
erages of 3.0 and above, established
ment study described the finding as
the breadth of courses found at
by the National Association for
a "tremendous void in the federal
small, predominantly white institu-
Equal Opportunity in Higher Edu-
recruiting pipeline." OPM Director
tions. According to the American
cation.
Constance Berry Newman said the
Council on Education, 25 percent of
Expansion of summer internship
pattern has emerged because fed-
black college students are enrolled
programs, such as the one at the
eral recruiters tend to focus on
at historically black schools.
Agriculture Department, which has
large campuses rather than small
McClure, who also is a member
hired 1,400 students from black
ones, and historically black colleges
of the executive committee of col-
institutions nationwide.
and universities are relatively
lege representatives and federal
Federal officials are only begin-
small. "I don't think it was that
officials who are overseeing the re-
ning to collect statistics on the re-
agencies avoided" such schools, said
cruitment effort, praised OPM's
cruiting effort. Leonard Klein, as-
Newman.
plan, saying it is "not cosmetic in its
sociate director of OPM's career
But Wesley C. McClure, presi-
intent, not cosmetic in its possibil-
entry group and chair of the exec-
dent of Virginia State University,
ities." Five to 10 percent of Virginia
utive committee on historically
State's 4,500 students were re-
attributes the bypassing of black
black schools, said that of the
schools to "a general lack of aware-
cruited for federal jobs last year,
11,000 graduates hired into profes-
said McClure, who would like to see
ness of the resources that are avail-
sional positions throughout the gov-
able at our institutions" and "an in-
that proportion doubled. Virginia
ernment last year 25 percent were
State's student body is 13 percent
minorities. He could not say what
grained view that students at our
white.
proportion came from the black
institutions may not have been pre-
OPM based its strategy in part on
schools. Three years ago, minor-
pared for responsible positions in
the results of a survey conducted
ities constituted less than 10 per-
the federal government.
The
last year of 5,262 students at his-
cent of college hires, he said.
perception has been out there for a
torically black schools. Nearly 70
Blacks in 1990 made up about 17
long, long time and has been very
percent of all students-and 55
percent of the total federal work
difficult to change."
percent of seniors-said that either
force, up from 14.5 percent in 1976,
This week, in response to a 1989
federal recruiters had not visited
according to a General Accounting
presidential executive order intend-
their schools or they were unaware
Office study released in February.
ed to encourage the development of
of any such visits. About 75 percent
Blacks, Hispanics and other minor-
black colleges and universities,
of the students said they had never
ities together made up 27 percent of
Newman presented OPM's plan to
seen federal recruitment literature.
the federal work force, up from 21.5
increase the number of such stu-
The specific steps taken by the
percent in 1976.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Bush Not Ready to Fight Yet;
Clinton Works on Economics
By Bill McAllister
employee oil company he was
Washington Post Staff Writer
visiting at a disadvantage-and
harm the environment.
NEWARK, Calif., June 18-
Bragging about what he called
Company officials and environ-
his "really historic" arms agree-
mental groups charged that the
firm has been at odds with admin-
ment with Russian President
Boris Yeltsin, President Bush
istration policy that allows larger
resumed campaigning today,
competitors to use recycled mo-
tor oil as heating fuel without re-
vowing "I know how to fight"
but insisting that he still was not
moving the lead. The Evergreen
plant removes the lead while
yet ready to directly attack ei-
ther independent Ross Perot or
turning it into new motor oil, a
Democrat Bill Clinton.
more-costly procedure.
When asked about whether
Right now there's a hur-
ricane blowing out there and all I
federal rules were helping large
can do is run this country as best
refiners and hurting Evergreen,
Bush pleaded ignorance.
"
I can," Bush told a group of work-
.I
ers as a small oil recycling plant
guess it's all right as long as you
don't do it all the time."
in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He acknowledged he was beset
Officials of the Washington-
based Hazardous Waste Treat-
by widespread voter discontent,
triggered by an economy that has
ment Council, a group of 60 re-
been "in the dregs."
cycling companies, called the vis-
But he rejected a questioner's
it "a shameless display of photo-
op environmentalism."
suggestion that he respond to
Perot's criticisms in an effort to
Torie Clarke, spokeswoman
keep his supporters from desert-
for the Bush-Quayle campaign,
said the White House had been
ing. "I know how to fight and I'm
not going to be their spear car-
aware of the company's position
rier for the rest of this year."
when the trip was planned but
Bush also drew the line on
decided to come anyway be-
how far he would go in engaging
cause "it's a terrific company."
Clinton, meanwhile, returned
in the new campaign techniques
to Little Rock this afternoon after
of call-in shows and appearances
on MTV. He said he would not
a quick stop in Washington that
included a visit with Yeltsin at
turn the executive mansion "in-
to a call-in place" and added:
Blair House. Before he left, he
"I'll be honest with you. I think,
said that he is revising his eco-
in a campaign year, you've got to
nomic program, but hedged on
draw the line somewhere and I'm
whether he was giving up on a tax
cut for the middle class.
not going to be out there, trying
to be a teeny-bopper at 68. I just
"I'm not backing away from
can't do it."
the idea of tax fairness," he said,
Campaign aides earlier today
adding that "the press and my
had suggested that Bush would
political opponents always made
-begin making veiled references to
more of the middle-class tax cut
his opponents in a series of
than I did even in my speeches."
speeches scheduled for Southern
During the New Hampshire
California and Texas this week-
primary and later contests in
end. But Bush went out of his way
the South and Midwest, Clinton
to point out that he had not crit-
highlighted his support of mid-
dle-class tax cuts as one of the
icized either opponent and did not
plan to any time soon.
principal differences with for-
"I'm going to take that case
mer Massachusetts senator
[for reelection] to the American
Paul E. Tsongas, who called the
public, but right now I don't
proposal bad economics.
think it's in focus," he said dur-
Clinton said that "six or seven
ing a question-and-answer ses-
increases in Social Security taxes
sion with about 400 workers at
in 12 years" meant that some-
the tiny Evergreen Oil Co., a
thing "needs to be done" on the
company that reprocesses used
issue of tax fairness. But, he said,
motor oil into new oil.
"I'm going home to work for the
Bush used his appearance to
next two days on this revised plan
repeat his environmental posi-
on how we're going to update it
tions, and won polite applause,
and change it."
but appeared oblivious to sugges-
Staff writer Dan Balz in Little
tions that his policies put the 200-
Rock contributed to this report.
Washington
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Perot Begins Marching
Like True Campaigner
California Visit Launches Series of Rallies
By David Von Drehle
"Now just in case someone in the
and John E. Yang
audience is saying, 'You include
Washington Post Staff Writers
those people?' You bet. Everybody's
that here. One for all and all for one
IRVINE, Calif,, June 18-In Ross
otherwise we lose because we're
Perot's brief history of campaign-
divided."
ing, it was something of a first. To-
Perot's California appearances
day he entered the lion's den.
marked the beginning of his closest
On the first day of a three-day
pass so far at a campaign swing. To
schedule of rallies that will also take
date, the undeclared independent
him to Denver and Boston, Perot
has been content to pass long pe-
addressed an ethusiastic crowd of
riods of public silence broken by
several thousand on the grounds of
occasional bursts of television ban-
the former Lion Country Safari, a
ter. His rallies could be counted on
park where visitors used to be able
one hand.
to drive their cars through fields of
But after California he was head-
lions.
ed for a rally in Denver on Friday, a
The park also happens to be in
parade and rally in Boston on Sat-
Orange County, bastion of this
urday and next week, a visit to An-
state's conservative Republicans
napolis, where thousands of petition
and a place likely to test the Texas
signatures to qualify for the Mary-
billionaire's appeal in the state with
land ballot will be delivered by boat,
nearly one-fifth of the electoral
if all goes according to plan.
votes needed to win the presidency
For a moment, anyway, the cam-
in November.
paign looked almost conventional-
Perot appeared to do all right.
and sounded like it as well-the
Altough the crowd was not as large
satiric jabs at opponents, the un-
as one at an appearance in Sacra-
measured praise for supporters, the
mento earlier in the day, volunteers
repeated punchlines of the stump
collected 156,181 signatures in Or-
speech.
ange County alone for the still un-
Perot mixed all three when he
declared candidate, more than the
told his California congregations
134,781 need statewide to place his
that their grass-roots campaign to
name on the ballot. In the state,
get him on the ballot had already
Perot volunteers collected more
given the major party candidates a
than 1.4 million signatures.
jolt.
"They told me we would fail in
"Now, hold your hat here," he
California," Perot said. "When Or-
said in mock amazement to some
ange County popped up on the
6,000 people in Sacramento. "The
screen, everybody said, 'No, that's
president had a press conference!
Reagan country.'
Wow. Gov. Clinton is on TV playing
Perot arrived in the state Wed-
the saxophone! And Vice President
nesday for an unpublicized visit to
Quayle is trying to figure out how to
spell potato!"
Los Angeles neighborhoods where
Perot has been criticized for lack-
rioting occurred after the verdict in
ing specifics on major issues, and he
the Rodney G. King beating case.
He visited a youth center in East
did little in his public appearances
here to dispel the criticism.
Los Angeles, met with Asian-
On issues ranging from the econ-
American, black and business lead-
omy to crime to problems in the
ers downtown.
inner cities to collapsing roads and
For most of the day he avoided
bridges, his message was the same.
reporters but later told some who
Americans are great people, and
caught up with him, "We are all
once they make up their minds to
here together and we are all equal
fix something, it will get fixed.
and will either win or lose togeth-
"We can fix it, as long as you're
er."
sick of it," Perot said in Sacra-
It was a theme he returned to
mento.
here this afternoon, drawing per-
"If you're not really sick of it,
haps his least enthusiastic response
then we'll have to live with it." In
when he preached racial harmony
closing, he said, "It's time to just go
to the virtually all-white crowd.
out and do it"-although he did not
"One for all and all for one," he said.
say exactly what "it" might be.
Washington
pun
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
NASA, Russian Official
Sign Space Contract
Summit Pact Paves Way for Joint Missions
By Kathy Sawyer
footing." The leaders agreed to lay
Washington Post Staff Writer
the groundwork for flying Russian
The heads of the American and
cosmonauts aboard a space shuttle in
Russian space programs yesterday
October 1993. A senior administra-
signed their first commercial con-
tion official said the flight would in-
tract, part of a broader package
volve space fliers from both coun-
that could lead to the integration of
tries spacewalking together to prac-
Soviet and U.S. space systems, a
tice orbital construction techniques.
swap of astronauts and cosmonauts
The plan then calls for U.S. as-
on each other's spacecraft begin-
tronauts to visit the Russian space
ning in 1993, and a joint docking in
station Mir sometime in 1993 to
orbit.
carry out life-sciences research, the
official said.
NASA administrator Daniel Gol-
din and Yuri Koptev, director gen-
The astronaut-cosmonaut ex-
eral of the Russian Space Agency,
change was agreed to in principle at
signed the pact at an Air & Space
the previous summit but went no-
Museum ceremony here one day
where, in part because of the en-
after presidents Bush and Yeltsin
suing collapse of the former Soviet
signed a new bilateral agreement to
government. Now the swap is "no
increase cooperation in space.
longer just words," the senior offi-
cial said.
"Mr. Koptev and I have spent our
lives building weapons of war," said
Yeltsin and Bush also agreed to
Goldin, a former aerospace exec-
consider a "rendezvous [and] dock-
utive who worked on secret defense
ing mission between Mir and the
space shuttle in 1994 or 1995."
programs. "Now we will beat our
swords into plowshares" in order to
The summit agreements also
provided for:
explore space together.
The signing took place beneath
Possible U.S. participation in a
the Apollo and Soyuz vehicles which
Russian robot mission to Mars.
in 1975 carried out the only U.S.-
A U.S. delegation from some 20
Soviet joint exercise ever con-
aerospace companies to visit Rus-
ducted in space.
sia, probably next month, under the
sponsorship of the Commerce De-
The commercial contract pro-
vides for payments of up to $10
partment to investigate possible
million to the Russian aerospace
joint ventures and procurement op-
organization NPO Energia for de-
portunities. A Russian aerospace
delegation will also visit their coun-
tailed technical studies of Russian
terparts here.
hardware, particularly the Russian
U.S. support for the first launch
Soyuz-TM spacecraft for possible
of a U.S.-built satellite aboard a
use as an emergency "lifeboat" for
Russian Proton rocket, with assur-
the planned space station Freedom.
ances that the Russians will avoid
Officials said NASA will pay $1
million for the first year of studies
unfair trade practices in pricing
their launch services. Sensitive
and up to $9 million more for acqui-
U.S. technology will be safe-
sition of hardware models for test-
guarded, officials said.
ing.
Officials said civilian space activ-
In addition to the Soyuz-TM res-
ities drew a lower profile at the sum-
cue vehicle, NPO Energia will pro-
mit than expected because of the
vide information on: the automated
last-minute revival of a major arms
docking system used with the Rus-
control agreement and Yeltsin's
sian Mir space station in orbit, for
statements concerning American
possible use on American craft; the
POWs. But, said one official involved
Progress cargo transport space-
in the negotiations, the new agree-
craft, for possible use with the
ment "gives us a lot more latitude
space station Freedom; and Mir's
than we had" to make new deals.
potential "for long lead-time life
Sen. Albert Gore Jr. (D-Tenn.),
sciences experiments in support of"
who chairs a key space subcommit-
the space station Freedom.
tee, praised the new commercial
Yesterday's signing built on the
contract, saying, "For American
momentum of the Bush-Yeltsin
taxpayers, it represents a high-tech
agreement to put "space cooperation
bargain-basement sale where U.S.
between the two countries on a new
dollars will be saved."
The
Washington
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
"That Fiasco in Washington'
Takes a Toll on Waxahachie
ing to be here," said Caesar Rogers, 87,
By Elizabeth Hudson
born and raised in Waxahachie. "Those Rus-
Special to The Washington Post
sians were in town [Washington] yesterday
WAXAHACHIE, Tex., June 18-Since
to borrow money and throwing out their
1988, most of the 18,000 residents here
hard-luck story," he said. "But they'll still
have jubilantly anticipated the Supercon-
fuss and raise hell, and then the Senate will
ducting Super Collider, the 54-mile, atom-
pass it and the president will sign it. It's
smashing oval tunnel expected to bring
going to be okay."
prosperity, growth and recognition to this
Claudia Morris, who owns an antique and
small town south of Dallas.
gift shop across the street from the court-
But that was before "that fiasco in Wash-
house, said axing the collider "will be bad
ington," as some people today called Wed-
for business. A lot of my customers are pèo-
nesday night's House vote to slash funding
ple who have just moved in. It will really
for the massive scientific experiment that
affect them."
could be revived in Senate action.
Monnie Bratcher, 83, has refused to
"The saddest thing is not the dollars but
leave her house on land being cleared al-
what this has done to the people," City Man-
though the state has paid for her 44-acre
ager Bob Sokoll said. "A tremendous
ranch and ordered her off. She told the As-
amount have had to sell their land, and
sociated Press that she feels vindicated:
some of that land has been in the family for
"I just want to say, 'I told you so.' I didn't
100 years."
think the collider would help me a bit. I nev-
A ride today through much of the
er wanted it to happen."
16,000 acres being cleared for the collid-
Jordan, who said he would go to Wash-
er showed cement foundations where
ington before Senate consideration, said,
farmhouses stood. Land that recently pro-
"We're still optimistic. If we lose this, one
duced wheat, corn and cotton has been
thing can be said. Our bright, young phys-
idle since the state began land acquisition
icists and scientists will be gone to Japan or
two years ago. Some farmers have found
wherever they have to go to study. This'is
new livelihoods in town.
not a Texas pork-barrel project. Everyone
Waxahachie is a picturesque village in the
will be affected."
rich, blackland agricultural area of north-
The collider has powerful Senate friends,
central Texas. A turreted granite county
led by Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.), chairman of
courthouse dominates the the town, and the
the Finance Committee, and J. Bennett
annual tour of Victorian gingerbread houses
Johnston (D-La.), chairman of the Energy
is well-known statewide. Such movies as
and Natural Resources Committee and of
"Places in the Heart," "Tender Mercies"
the Appropriations subcommittee dealing
and "The Trip to Bountiful" were filmed in
with energy.
the area.
Johnston said today that he would try to
That some of this charm could be lost
preserve funding because "it would be trag-
with the arrival of the collider was a
ic for this country, long the world leader in
tradeoff that most residents appear will-
scientific research, to mindlessly begin
ing to accept as they watch real estate
burning our scientific seed corn." But he
sales boom and businesses feel new pros-
said it would be "an uphill fight."
perity. More than 1,000 people have
Noting that more than $1 billion has been
moved into the area to work on the mas-
spent on the collider project, Sokoll said,
sive project.
"We're a little bit in limbo. What's really
"We're pretty much devastated," said
bad is, say the Senate funds it anyway.
N.B. "Buck" Jordan, president of the Cham-
Think we won't be concerned about it next
ber of Commerce, who lobbied to bring the
year? They did it this year. Can't they do it
collider to his home town. "We expected it
again? It's like a roller coaster. Will it be
to pass. We really did. We never dreamed
built or not?"
we would lose that kind of support."
Sokoll echoed the feelings of many res-
Staff writer Thomas W. Lippman in
idents who said they are taking the brunt
Washington contributed to this report.
of the House's failure last week to ap-
prove a balanced-budget amendment.
"They said they didn't need the amend-
ment to control spending," he said. "Then
we're the first large project to come
along.
This is their way of saying,
'See? We told you.' "
Others have different ideas. "Aw, it's go-
The Haitians' Emotional Wake
For the Crew of the Coast Guard's Mohawk, a Sea of Sadness
lovely lines, a sailing vessel in an age of nuclear subma-
By William Booth
Washington Post Staff Writer
rines. Its name was Waiting on God.
The Coast Guardsmen took 189 people off the boat
KEY WEST, Fla.-Capt. Randy Beardsworth re-
that night. They brought them aboard the cutter. As
members the night his ship, the U.S. Coast Guard cut-
the Haitians climbed up the Mohawk's ladder, they left
ter Mohawk, intercepted its first boatload of Haitians.
the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and
The seas were calm in the Windward Passage, as
entered, if only for a few days, a floating outpost of the
calm as a table top, "flat-ass calm" as the Coasties like
richest.
to say, as if the waters were oiled and this was not the
At 4 a.m., Beardsworth gave the order. His crew
roaring Windward Passage, but a lakein a dream.
splashed fuel onto the Haitian boat. A flare was thrown.
The radar was the first to detect the boat's pres-
Though Beardsworth hated to do it, a vessel adrift in
ence, a ghostly blip hundreds of yards away in the dark-
the passage would be a hazard to other ships. He
ness, a shadow coming into the passage from the Gulf
turned his ship away, so the Haitians would not see
of Gonave, from between the claws of Haiti's out-
what had been done to Waiting on God.
stretched peninsulas.
"I remember it burning," says Beardsworth. "The
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
BY ROBBY RESSLER-U.S COAST GUARD
In the searchlights, the Haitian vessel looked beauti-
rigging in flames. The mast against the night, burning
Capt. Randy Beardsworth: very few boats would ever make it to Miami."
ful, a wide, beamy wooden sailboat, 50 feet long, with
See CUTTER, A21, Col. 1
Dashington
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
On the Cutter Mohawk,
Living With the Reality
Of the Haitians' Distress
CUTTER, From AI
Cheyney asks if there are weapons
aboard. Twice, there have been guns,
in the clear cold night. It was beautiful
carried by fleeing soldiers and police
but it was sad."
officers. The weapons are thrown into
And he knew then the Haitian oper-
the sea. The boarding officers, follow-
ation was going to be a very different
ing regulations, wear 9mm sidearms
mission, that it was going to change
and flak jackets and carry two sets of
him and his crew.
handcuffs. Many Coast Guard crew
members say the handcuffs and guns
Haitian refugees await processing aboard the Coast Guard cutter Mohawk.
are overkill.
Since November, the U.S. Coast
The master of the Haitian boat, if he
Guard has stopped, intercepted and
can be found, is asked where he is go-
the Coast Guard cutter is as stable as
The cutter has picked up some peo-
sometimes literally pulled from the
ing. He replies, "Miami."
a city sidewalk. As the refugees climb
ple more than once, and the crewmen
sea, 36,946 Haitians fleeing their
Which way is Miami? Cheyney asks.
the ladder into the Mohawk, a 270-
get to know them. "I want them to
homeland. It has returned to Port-au-
Sometimes the captain points north.
foot cutter, "you can see the desire to
look at the Haitians, to look into their
Prince 26,269, most of them against
As often, he points south or east or
live in their eyes. I've never seen any-
eyes, to notice details, to think of them
their will. No Haitians have been inter-
west. Many think that Miami is right
thing like it," says Tom Brown, 33, a
as individual human beings, not as
cepted since June 5, two weeks after
over the horizon, and not 600 miles
machine technician second class from
hordes," the captain says.
President Bush announced the United
away.
San Antonio, whose job it is to search
Beardsworth does this because it
States would return any Haitians in-
The boats carry no compass, no
the passengers when they come
keeps his men from resenting the Hai-
stead of taking them to Guantanamo
electronics, no lights. After four
aboard the cutter.
tians, who keep his crew at sea for
Bay to process their claims.
months in the Windward Passage,
"When they get aboard, many of
months, away from wives and girl-
The sad arithmetic, the tallies of
Cheyney has never seen a life preserv-
them collapse," Brown says. "They just
friends, away from birthdays and Little
people intercepted and returned, is all
fall to the deck."
er.
League games.
that most know about the Coast
Guard's Haitian operations. But
Sometimes, the boats are so small
He pats everyone down and looks
He confesses to being a romantic, a
and SO overloaded, there is only an
through their knapsacks and plastic
man who reads Joseph Conrad and
Beardsworth and his crew say there is
inch or two of freeboard between the
bags, their worldly possessions.
Jack London. He says it is comy, but
more.
sea and gunwale, and as the boat rides
The Coast Guard crew wear rubber
he believes that even though he can-
Since 1981, the United States and
in the swells, the men sitting on the
surgical gloves, which has been shown
not make their lives any better in Hai-
Haiti have operated under an agree-
ment whereby the Coast Guard would
edge of the rails are momentarily un-
in many photos and criticized. Beard-
ti, he can treat the Haitians with digni-
stop Haitian boats at sea and demand
derwater.
sworth says the gloves are not so
ty and kindness while they are aboard
"I can tell you as a sailor that very
much to protect his men from AIDS,
his ship.
to know where they were going. If it
few of these boats would ever make it
as many believe. The possibility of
was determined that a vessel carried
Chris Austin, 34, a first lieutenant
to Miami," Beardsworth says. "It
contacting the virus while touching
economic refugees, which is usually
and the man who steers the cutter,
would be a miracle."
someone is almost nil. But many of the
the case, the people would be returned
says, "It gives everybody real heart-
to Port-au-Prince.
Beardsworth thinks that the Coast
Haitians do have tuberculosis, malaria,
burn. You got 2,000 different emo-
Guard intercepts about 90 percent of
colds, sores, lice and pneumonia. They
In the 10 years before a coup top-
tions running through you." Austin re-
are also often covered with the filth of
pled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
the boats. Two or three a week, he be-
members he once was shown a picture
in October, the Coast Guard returned
lieves, slipped through at the height of
their rough passage.
of a Haitian man with his friends, par-
thousands of Haitians to their impov-
the operation in May. What happened
Many of the men carry straight ra-
erished island. But it was nothing like
to them? "They got to the Bahamas or
zors, which they use to shave. These
tying on the beach back home. "Man,
are taken. So is their remaining food.
that got to me," he says. "They'r just
the flood of humanity that poured into
Cuba or they founder and drown."
like us."
And so, too, are items used in the
the seas after the coup.
While still in their sailboats, the
At first, the boats were old. But as
Coast Guardsmen say, the Haitians
practice of voodoo.
quickly remove their tattered straw
"It looks like little bags of dirt. Little
those were confiscated, burned or set
bags with drawstrings and things in-
Since January, the Mohawk and her
adrift, the boats have become new.
hats and throw them into the sea.
You can smell the freshly cut wood,
Many try to change into their best
side," Brown says. "I've seen hair,
crew have returned 1,514 Haitians to
clothes, and to wash the sickness and
bones, vials. It upset me. It's like you
Port-au-Prince. It is a trip the men say
Beardsworth says; you can see the
filth from their bodies with saltwater.
know it's important to them, but we
they will not forget.
caulking still wet between the planks.
can't allow it on the ship. So we pitch
"I've been all over the world, in the
It is Cheyney's job to approach the
Cheyney shouts for them to sit down,
it overboard."
Philippines, Korea, all over," Beard-
Haitians and ask them where they are
sit down, sit down, in Creole.
Many carry big black or white Bi-
sworth says. "And I have never seen
going and what they are doing in the
"One of the first things they do is
bles. These they are allowed to keep,
the kind of poverty I saw in Port-au-
middle of the Windward Passage in an
eat. They start eating everything they
since unlike voodoo relics, a Bible is
Prince."
overcrowded boat.
have. Drinking cans of beer. Drinking
comprehensible to the Coast Guard.
Austin says steaming into the city is
Usually, they just sit there. It is of-
these little cans of condensed milk,"
The voodoo items are tossed, the
like coming into another world. The
ten hard to figure out who is the cap-
Cheyney says.
guard says, for fear of contamination
harbor is filled with abandoned boats,
tain. Until the Coast Guard got trans-
Sometimes, when the seas are
and to keep drugs off the ship.
the wrecks of coastal freighters. The
lators, it was almost impossible to
rough and waves rise to 10 feet or
While they are aboard, the Haitians
cutter is surrounded by small tenders
communicate. Cheyney used a little
higher, people panic. One boat flipped.
live on the helicopter pad at the rear of
and dinghies. Soldiers stand at the oily
book of Creole phrases.
At first, the Haitians were provided
the cutter. It is about the size of a bas-
dock with machine guns slung.
At first, Cheyney was poor at guess-
life preservers. But it took too long to
ketball court. At one point, the Mo-
From a distance, Port-au-Prince
ing how many people were aboard the
tell them how to put them on.
hawk had 750 passengers aboard.
looks like it could be pretty. But when
boats. He would tell the cutter, there
"I'll give you an example of total
They are not allowed to roam around
you look through binoculars, Austin
were 75 passengers, but 250 would be
mayhem," Cheyney says. It is late in
the ship; doors to the flight deck are
says, "the houses have no roofs, no
packed aboard. "They would just keep
the day, getting dark, the seas running
either sealed or guarded.
doors, no windows."
coming and coming," he says.
six to nine feet. There are several hun-
In the beginning, the crew feared ri-
What do the Haitians act like upon
Often, the Haitians have been at sea
dred passengers aboard a 35-foot boat
ots, but there has been little trouble.
their return? Well, they are not happy.
for several days. The bilges of the
and they fear a night at sea.
Sometimes, there are fights over food.
One man jumped into the water. Sev-
boats are filled with saltwater, which
The young men are trampling the
The menu is usually beans and rice,
mixes with the food, which then rots.
eral have covered their faces, perhaps
women and children in their rush to
with bits of chicken, beef or fish.
The boats do not have toilets. There
get off. Several people are in the wa-
because they were truly political refu-
Beardsworth bought tapes of Hai-
may be a bucket. The boats reek of fe-
ter. The seas pile up. anxious and
gees or criminals. Most just walk down
tian music on a trip to New York's Lit-
ces and urine and vomit. Even new
gray. The Haitian vessel and the Coast
the Haiti and he has his men play the
the gangway, resigned. Many of them,
boats have rats.
Guard surfboat are crashing together.
the crew says, shake their hands and
"The first thing you notice is how
People are screaming and yelling.
music over a loudspeaker. On many
nights, the crewmen say. the Haitians
say merci and God bless you.
packed they are with people." says
Cheyney and his men are trying to
dance. They also sing, at sunrise and
"It is all so tragic," Beardsworth
Richard Cheyney. 23. boatswain's
help the children. to keep them from
sunset. The crew can't understand the
says. "But if we weren't out there,
mate second class. "The second thing
falling between the boats.
you notice is the smell."
Compared with the Haitian boats,
songs, but they sound like hymns to
they wouldn't be able to go to Miami
them.
or home to Haiti, because they would
be dead."
White House
Bush Braces for a Political 'Hurricane'
Copyright © 1992 The York Times
not going to hear one negative thing
polls, Mr. Bush said "a lot of the prob
By RICHARD L. BERKE
Special to The New York Times
until maybe the middle of August. But
lems that Mace me politically" step
then you are, because I know how to
from a perception that "everybody
NEWARK, Calif., June 18 - Presi-
fight, and I'm not going to be their
ought to be out; everybody out ought
dent Bush today described the voter
spear-catcher for the rest of this year.
be in. But that's not the way it works
discontent that has swept both the na-
Already, on the first stop of a three-day
tion and his campaign as "a hurricane
The Bush campaign picked control
campaign swing in the battleground
blowing out there," but vowed to ride it
versial spot for his appearance
states of California and Texas, Mr.
out and to take on Gov. Bill Clinton and
cause Evergi een on has critistzed th
Bush indirectly took on Mr. Clinton, the
Administration's environmental poli
Ross Perot forcefully.
Arkansas Governor who is a Demo-
In a question-and-answer session at
cies. The company recycles used moto
crat, and Mr. Perot, who is preparing
an oil recycling company in this north-
oil and participated in a pending la
to run as an independent.
ern California city, workers and area
suit against the Environmental Prote
residents politely but firmly put Mr.
In an obvious jab at Mr. Clinton's
tion Agency accusing the Governmen
Bush on the defensive, questioning his
appearance this week on MTV, the
of not properly regulating big oil com
record on issues ranging from the envi-
music television network, Mr. Bush
panies that burn instead of recycle of
ronment to education to the economy.
drew laughter when he sald, "I think in
More than 100 protesters lined the mo
One asked him to explain why Mr.
a campaign year, you've got to draw
torcade route, with one holding a plac
the line somewhere. And I am not going
ard that declared: "George Bush.
Perot was drawing away his support-
ers, and another suggested that he had
to be out there kind of being a teeny-
America's Environmental Wimp."
been goaded by Mr. Clinton and Mr.
bopper at 68. I just can't do it."
Business VS. Environment
2.0
Perot Into holding the forum because of
While portraying himself as a pio-
neer of informal question-and-answer
their appearances on call-in programs.
Mr. Bush brushed aside the attacks
But throughout the session, Mr. Bush
sessions with voters, he said he will
but applauded Evergreen Oil as a cutard
pinned the blame on Congress for not
only go so far: "I just have a certain
Ung-edge company that is "committed
enacting his programs and said the
respect for the office that I don't want
to environmental sanity." And he took
roots of the political turmoil had been
to turn it into a call-in-show place."
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
an economy "In the dregs." As for Mr.
Mr. Bush also sought to dispel the
issue with a questioner who said, "Weat
didn't look real well in Rio."
Clinton and Mr. Perot, he made clear
notion that Mr. Perot, a billionaire
businessman, has far more business
Mr. Bush, who was criticized by envi-
that he will not hold his fire for long.
experience. He said he calculated that
ronmental groups for his stands at the
Will Not Play Spear-Catcher
half his career has been in business
Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro, said it
"You haven't heard one negative
and half Government. "I wear business
was important to balance the needs of
comment against either of the two peo-
as a badge of honor," he said, "because
business with those of the environment.
Associated Press
ple that want my job," Mr. Bush said
I think It gives me some feel for what it
"I am not going to go down here, sign
Bush greeted a young girl in the crowd at the naval
as he leaned on a stool and fielded
means to run something.
something away and then have on my
Whether or not they agree with his message, critics
air station in Alameda, Calif., after arriving for a
questions near the refineries of the
Asked specifically why Mr. Perot
conscience that a family doesn't have a
of President Bush say he has been anable to
one day campaign stop in the Bay Arean
Evergreen Oil Company. "And you're
was drawing support from him in the
job," he said.
communicate it or inspire followers. merday Mr.
Times
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Copyright o 1992 The New York Times
Bush Plans to Lower Fees Charged
To Foreigners for Military Goods
By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr.
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, June 18 - In a move
"It will be extremely helpful in en-
to support military contractors at a
couraging a greater flow of military
time of shrinking budgets in the post-
technology into the civilian sector,"
cold war era, the Bush Administration
said Joel Johnson, vice president-inter-
has decided to lower fees the Pentagon
national for the Aerospace Industries
charges foreigners for some products.
Association.
According to a White House official,
Anticipating criticism from some
President Bush will announce the elim-
quarters about an initiative that also
ination of the tax-like fee, known as
seeks to make American companies
recoupment, in an address Friday be-
more competitive in the world arms
fore the Industrial League of Orange
market, Mr. Johnson said the bulk of
County, Calif., an area with many aero-
American equipment goes to affluent
space concerns in a state where the
industrialized countries that would buy
President's political fortunes have
it elsewhere, not to the Third World.
been sagging.
The Defense Department has esti-
The official said the action would
mated that the fees now produce $200
save tens of thousands of jobs by mak-
million a year, a figure that would be
ing It easier to convert their military
reduced to $125 million under the new
production plants to the manufacture
policy. According to the industry, pa-
of civilian goods.
perwork and regulatory compliance
But the White House said the tax-like
cost an additional $200 million, with the
fees would not be eliminated for re-
fee also resulting in the loss of $1 billion
search and development costs of major
of annual business.
armaments like planes and tanks, a
Measure From 1960's
move that requires a change in the law.
The fee reduction would cover every-
The fees date from the early 1960's
thing else manufactured under mill-
when they were imposed as a way of
tary reduction, from ready-to-eat
sharing development costs of major
meals to electronic gear to small weap-
weapons systems sold to allied govern-
ments. Subsequently, the process was
ons.
broadened to apply the fee to sales to,
Administrative Burden
say, foreign airlines, then to spare
In addition to the fees themselves,
parts and finally even to commercial
which average about 5 percent but
products within the United States.
sometimes exceed 15 percent, the lev-
Thus, somebody must calculate what
ies are considered a significant admin-
an military aircraft maker owes the
istrative burden with requirements
Pentagon if it should lend three engi-
that, if not met, can subject executives
neers to General Motors to help de-
to fines and jail terms.
velop displays for Pontiac windshields.
Despite the large exception for ma-
Industry officials said they did not
jor equipment, industry officials heart-
expect the fee to be completely abol-
ily approved the impending move on
ished, suggesting that for major weap-
which C. Boyden Gray, the Presidential
ons systems it might be capped or
counsel, and other officials briefed
subject to a broader series of waivers
them late this afternoon.
than currently prevails.
Time
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Copyright © 1992 The New York Times
CONGRESS PASSES
Aiding Inner Cities
BILL TO AID CITIES
Highlights of the compromise urban aid package making
$1.3 billion available to cities:
$495 million appropriated to
$328 million for the Small
$1.3 Billion Measure Is Sent
replenish the coffers of the
Business Administration to
Small Business Administration
grant and subsidize business
to Bush for Signature -
and Federal Emergency
and disaster loans in Los
2d Aid Package Likely
Management Agency follow-
Angeles and Chicago
ing the distribution of disaster
$500 million for summer youth
rellef and lending for busi-
employment programs in
nesses and homes destroyed
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
more than 75 cities.
In Los Angeles riots. Some
Special 10 The New York Times
WASHINGTON, June 18 - The
aid will also go to Chicago to
$8 million for law-enforcement
House and Senate today passed a com-
repair damage from a
programs for Los Angeles.
promise $1.3 billion urban aid bill amid
downtown flood in April.
indications that White House and Con-
gressional negotiators are narrowing
differences on other measures to in-
crease private investment and law-en-
compromise bill, which they had
anonymity, said that the Democrats
forcement in inner cities.
worked out with the White House on
and the White House were narrowing
The House debate frequently split
Wednesday after a month of tough ne-
their differences on the kind of tax
gotiations. Now they hope to move for-
incentives to grant businesses that in-
urban and rural lawmakers. Some con-
servatives contended that Congress
ward on an additional aid package for
vest in inner-city neighborhoods, but
urban enterprise zones and the "weed
that some Democrats would like the
was poised to spend more money for
and seed" program. That program is
package to specify the number of zones
what they said were poorly conceived
social programs. But increasingly, law-
intended to coordinate the actions of
and their locations.
makers sense that there is an urban
special police operations to clear
The aide said the Democrats want to
neighborhoods of crime and drugs with
match the $2.5 billion the Administra-
crisis that they cannot ignore.
various education, health and employ-
tion expects enterprise zones to cost
The bill passed the House by a vote of
ment initiatives.
the Treasury over five years, with $2.5
249 to 168, with 205 Democrats joining
43 Republicans and one independent in
Administration officials shared the
billion more spent on the "weed and
favor of passage. About five hours lat-
new upbeat mood. "I'm cautiously opti-
seed" program in the same period.
er, the Senate passed the measure by a
mistic," said Housing Secretary Jack
In an interview on Wednesday, Mr.
voice vote, and it is expected to be
F. Kemp. A senior White House official
Gephardt, the chief House negotiator in
signed shortly by President Bush so the
agreed. "Certainly things over the last
the talks, said he wanted to spend 80
week are on a positive track, though a
percent of the money on the "seed," or
aid will be available this summer.
The aid package will provide $500
slow one," the official said. Asked if an
social programs, and the rest on
additional aid package could be agreed
"weed," or law-enforcement efforts,
million for 360,000 summer youth jobs
in more than 75 cities. It will also
upon, the official said, "We think this is
while the Administration would re-
doable."
verse that ratio. But he said he was
replenish the coffers of the Small Busi-
ness Administration and Federal
During the floor debate, Representa-
optimistic that a compromise could be
Emergency Management Agency with
tive Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri,
reached.
$495 million for loans they already
the House majority leader, said he
Representative Vin Weber of Minne-
hoped. to pass a second aid package
sota, a Republican negotiator in the
made to people and businesses whose
with White House support by the July 4
talks, said he was disappointed that
property was damaged in the Los An-
recess. Democrats are talking about a
Democrats would not formally agree to
geles riots and a flood in downtown
$5 billion program over five years that
the outlines of an urban enterprise plan
Chicago.
The bill will also provide $328 million
would combine incentives to business-
as part of the aid package passed to-
for new loans by the Small Business
es to move into inner-city areas, law-
day. But he added: "I think Dick Gep-
Administration to businesses in the twc
enforcement programs aimed at con-
hardt wants to accomplish something.
citles.
trolling drugs and gangs, and a wide
He has managed these negotiations in
Under the bill, New York State would
variety of social programs from immu-
good faith."
receive $46 million for the creation of
nizations to job training.
Predictably, conservatives thought
the bill was too costly while liberals
33,000 summer jobs, including $19.3
How to Spend the Money
thought it was not generous enough.
million for 14,000 summer jobs in New
Representative Robert S. Walker of
York City. New Jersey would receive
A senior Gephardt aide compliment-
Pennsylvania, the chief deputy Repub-
$11.6 million for 8,000 summer jobs,
ed the White House for "showing some
lican whip, complained that it was fool-
and Connecticut $3.4 million for 2,500
flexibility" in talks over the last week
ish to increase the deficit by $500 mil-
summer jobs.
aimed at merging Democratic and Re-
lion only a day after the House voted to
Second Urban Aid Bill
publican views on "weed and seed"
kill the huge Texas atom smasher
Democratic and Republican leaders
programs and urban enterprise zones.
called the super-collider. "Everything
said they were willing to build on the
The aide, who spoke on condition of
we saved last night, we're spending
today in one fell swoop," he said. "I'm
a little chagrined."
But Senator Edward M. Kennedy,
Democrat of Massachusetts, said the
bill should only be considered "one
small step" toward passing sweeping
new urban initiatives, including job-
creating public works projects, com-
munity programs for the aged, addi-
tional financing for Head Start and
remedial school programs for the dis-
advantaged. "We have had ample
warning of the consequences of past
neglect," he said.
New York Times
Copyright © 1992 The New York Times
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
White House Is Refusing to Allow
Testimony by Aides on Iraq Policy
By MARTIN TOLCHIN
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, June 18 - In a con-
tive branch was to deny requests for
frontation with Congress over its inves-
testimony by members of the Presi-
tigation of Administration policy to-
dent's personal staff. Mr. Calio added,
ward Iraq before the Persian Gulf war,
however, that the Administration was
the White House has rejected a request
prepared to make the two aides avail-
to allow two Presidential aides to tes-
able to members of the committee.
tify before the House Judiciary Com-
This suggestion, interpreted as an offer
mittee.
of an interview, was likely to be viewed
This rebuff is likely to lead the com-
as unsatisfactory by the committee,
mittee to request the appointment of an
which seeks public testimony.
independent counsel, who would also be
In requesting the testimony, Mr.
asked to investigate allegations of a
Brooks said the case for an independ-
coverup by the Administration of its
ent counsel would be "bolstered" by a
Iraq policy after the gulf war, including
White House denial. A White House
Congressional charges that the Admin-
spokesman declined to comment.
istration delayed the prosecution of of-
Although refusing to allow the testi-
ficials of the Atlanta branch of the
mony of the White House officials, the
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, which
Administration has indicated that it
made illegal loans of $5 billion to Iraq.
will produce some of the documents
Administration officials accuse
requested by Mr. Brooks, which are
Democrats of exploiting the Iraq inves-
believed to relate to altered documents
tigation for election-year purposes.
provided to the subcommittee of the
Democrats say that their investigation
Government Operations committee.
began more than two years ago and
Mr. Brooks also requested testimony
that it would have concluded long ago
from Robert A. Mosbacher, the former
had the Administration cooperated.
Secretary of Commerce who is chair-
Representative Jack Brooks, the
man of Mr. Bush's re-election cam-
Texas Democrat who is chairman of
paign; Frank Lemay, the State Depart-
the committee, has asked President
ment's legislative management offi-
Bush to direct C. Boyden Gray, the
cer, and Frank DeGeorge, the Com-
White House counsel, and Nicholas
merce Department's Inspector Gen-
Rostow of the National Security Coun-
eral. No decision has yet been made on
cil, to testify on Tuesday.
their appearance.
But responding for the President in a
letter to Mr. Brooks, Nicholas Calio, the
chief White House lobbyist, said the
SUMMER IS FOR CHÎLDREN:
"longstanding practice" of the execu-
GIVE TO THE FRESH AIR FUND
Cime
Copyright © 1992 The New York Times
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
I.M.F. Is Urged
Russian Package: The Lenders
To Relax Terms
Value, in billions, of bilateral credits to Russia in 1992. The figures
represent export credits money to buy products from the creditor
On Russian Aid
country that Russian officials say have been tapped or can be
tapped soon."
KEY
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Machinery
Other
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Germany
$5.4
$2.3
$3.1
in Washington, and it appears to have
solidified after the favorable impres-
U.S.
sion Mr. Yeltsin made from his conces-
1.2
0.3
$1.5
sions on arms control and his conversa-
tions at the White House and appear-
Italy
$1.4
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ance in the Congress.
Last year, the United States and the
Spain
0.4
other major Industrial nations making
$1.1
:0.75
up what is known as the Group of Seven
France
&
asked the I.M.F. to take the leading
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0.25
$1.0
role in coordinating aid for Russia be-
Canada
cause of the fund's experience in press-
0,510.15
$0.65
ing developing countries for reforms in
return for loans. But now some Ameri-
European
can officials worry that the I.M.F.'s
Community
0.62
hard-line bankers and economists
$0.62
might be prescribing medicine far
Japan
tougher than the Group of Seven doc-
$1.2
Breakdown unspecified
tors had ordered.
The American view on the I.M.F. had
Britain
been expressed in private by some
$0.5
Contingent on Russia signing I.M.F. agreement
officials in recent weeks, but during
Mr. Yeltsin's visit here, Russian and
Western and Persian Guff countries have promised other export credits, but
American officials engaged in rare
they are not included because they have not been negotiated and might not
public jawboning to press the I.M.F.
be used until 1993.
not to drive too hard a bargain.
"If there is such a thing as a Chevro-
Source: Russian Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations
let three-speed stick-shift agreement
with the I.M.F., as opposed to a Cadil-
The New York Times
lac agreement, and if we can get a
Chevrolet, then let's do it," a senior
market-oriented system."
budget deficit, keeping its money sup-
Administration official said.
Mr. Gaidar met with Mr. Camdessus
ply and credit under control, and mak-
in Washington for three hours today,
ing the ruble convertible - that is,
Ald Flow Tied to Pact
after a 40-minutes meeting Wednes-
allowing anyone possessing rubles out-
The Russians are eager for an agree-
day. Their statement said that "both
side Russia to exchange them for West-
ment because it will enable them to tap
sides were confident" that the negotia-
ern currencies- to help integrate Rus-
much of the $24 billion aid package for
tions "would lead to an early agree-
sia into the world economy.
1992 that the Industrial countries
ment on a program."
I.M.F. negotiators also want Russia
pledged in April. The package includes
American pressure on the I.M.F.
to move in these areas, but they have
$11 billion in bilateral aid from various
may not be easy, even though the Unit-
pressed Russia further, asking Moscow
participating countries, $6 billion for a
ed States is its biggest shareholder.
to remove controls on oil prices as soon
special multilateral fund to stabilize
I.M.F. officials assert, for example,
as possible. In recent months, Russia
the ruble and about $4.5 billion in loans
that if they show leniency to Russia in
has let oil prices more than quadruple,
from the I.M.F. and World Bank.
negotiating an agreement, then Afri-
causing huge discomfort in the coun-
One feature of the current situation
can and Latin nations will demand
try.
is that while monetary fund and Rus-
similar leniency when it is time for
"They've already had a dramatic
sian officials say there is broad agree-
them to sign new agreements with the
increase on prices," a senior Adminis-
ment on what reforms are needed, the
monetary fund.
tration official said today. "Clearly the
talks have become snarled over de-
Some of Russia's negotiators ex-
goal should be to liberalize energy
tails, some Russian negotiators say.
pressed fears that the I.M.F.'s techni-
prices as soon as possible, but whether
Marking the American shift in ap-
cal staff, in demanding tough commit-
that should be an absolute quid pro quo
proach, Secretary of State James A.
ments from Russia, would nullify the
for an I.M.F. agreement, I don't know.
Baker 3d said on Monday that if Russia
benefits of much of the $24 billion in aid
There is a limit to what the political
committed Itself to move forward in
the Group of Seven pledged to Russia in
traffic will bear right now."
several important areas, Washington
April.
would press the fund not to delay an
For example, according to negotia-
Urgency Is Expressed
agreement because of concerns about
tors for Russia, the monetary fund
On Monday, Treasury Under Secre-
minor details.
says that if Russia draws any money
from a $6 billion fund planned to stabil-
tary David C. Mulford, said the I.M.F.
In recent days, American officials
should be quick to negotiate an accord,
have said that while they would like the
ize the ruble, then Russia should pay
but should not rush itself into a weak
I.M.F. to sign an agreement with Rus-
back that money within 90 days.
sia as soon as possible, they would be
agreement.
Danger of Ruble Plan
willing to wait a few weeks if that was
"There has to be a sufficient quality
what it took to make sure the agree-
Such a demand, Russia's negotiators
there to establish credibility," he said.
ment was a solid one.
said, could render the ruble fund al-
"This may take time, and probably it is
In an apparent sign that the I.M.F.
most meaningless because it would
more important to get the quality in
also recognizes a need for urgency, the
force Russia, which is desperately
place even if it takes an extra few
fund's managing director, Michel
short of hard currency reserves, to be
weeks of negotiation."
Camdessus, and Yegor T. Gaidar, Rus-
the main country carrying the burden
sia's Acting Prime Minister, issued a
of underwriting the ruble - not the 11
One of the most difficult points in
joint statement today saying that they
wealthy countries that have promised
Russia's talks with the I.M.F. is that
are "In basic agreement on the crucial
to back the ruble fund.
the fund wants Moscow to coordinate
objectives of an economic strategy de-
Administration officials say Russia
its monetary policy with other former
vised to restore and sustain growth in
should commit itself to reforms in
Soviet republics that plan to use the
the Russian economy on the basis of al.
three essential areas: reining in its
ruble.
York
Times
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Copyright © 1992 The New York Times
U.S. Backs Easier Terms for Russian Aid
Presses I.M.F. to
Bolster Efforts
by Yeltsin
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Specialto The New York Times
WASHINGTON, June 18 - The Bush
Administration, in a shift of approach
toward aid for Moscow, has called on
the International Monetary Fund to
ease some demands for harsh reform
and not delay an aid agreement once
Russia commits itself to broad eco-
nomic changes.
Administration officials said today
that they now feared that a delay in
signing an accord with the I.M.F. would
block the flow of economic assistance
and destabilize the Government of
President Boris N. Yeltsin at a time
when Western governments want noth-
ing more than to consolidate Moscow's
fledgling democracy.
"The reason we have a sense of
urgency on the economic side is if
Boris Yeltsin can't succeed on econom-
ic reform, he will have a hard time
staying as leader in Russia," a senior
Administration official said. "This
could seriously threaten the democrat-
ic reforms that are so much in our
interest. The I.M.F. agreement is key
to this."
Reuters
Shift Is Linked to Reforms
The Administration's position this
Handshakes in the Heartland
week was in contrast to its statements
"There will never be a war between our two countries," President Boris
of a year ago. Last July, for example,
N. Yeltsin of Russia said at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kan.
at a meeting of the major industrial
He held an American flag as he greeted well-wishers. Page A8.
nations in London, President Bush was
less eager than several European lead-
ers to grant President Mikhail S. Gor-
bachev's request for extensive aid.
Administration officials said then
that technical aid was appropriate, as-
serting that economic aid would be
wasted because Russia had not yet
begun comprehensive reforms.
The Administration's view began to
change after the Soviet Union col-
lapsed in December and President Yel-
tsin spoke out in favor of radical
changes. Last winter, Washington took
a leading role in forging the industrial
nations' $24 billion aid package. With
Mr. Yeltsin's visit, the Administration
appears to be taking an even more
active role on Russia's behalf.
Changes Called Too Tough
Some Administration officials, for
example, argue specifically that I.M.F.
economists are demanding changes
that are too difficult to carry out. These
include requiring Russia to reduce its
budget deficit to zero and removing all
price controls on oil: changes that may
be so strict that Russia will balk at an
accord, which is essential for receiving
billions of dollars in new aid.
The Administration's decision to
pressure the I.M.F. began to emerge on
Monday as President Yeltsin arrived
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June 19, 1992
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MRS. BUSH'S PRESS OFFICE
DAILY PRESS CLIPPINGS
Friday, June 19, 1992
Mrs. Bush
(in folder)
Secretary Skinner
West Wing
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West Wing
Constance Horner
West Wing
Carol Powers
West Wing
Patty Presock
Residence
First Lady Detail
Staircase
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Room 58 OEOB
Shirley Green
Room 94 OEOB
Anne Griffith
Room 98 OEOB
Diana Kellogg
Room 157 OEOB
Gregg Petersmeyer
Room 100 OEOB
Marguerite Sullivan
Room 268 OEOB
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Benita Somerfield
hold one copy
Ann Brock
Julie Cooke
Joan DeCain
Laurie Firestone
Jane Moore
Susan Porter Rose
Sally Runion
Peggy Swift
Anna Perez
Sondra Haley
Jean Becker
Jay Suchan
(plus originals)
NEW YORK NEWSDAY, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1992
*
THE TALK of the town is the New
Republic's unprecedented attack on -
of all people - Barbara Bush, In a dis-
cussion titled "Sacred Cow" columnist
Andrew Sullivan discusses the pluses
and minuses of the candidate's wives.
But he describes Mrs. Bush as being far
more clever than her rivals, attributing
Machiavellian characteristics to the
most popular woman in America. He
says, "Ifshe is to play politics in this way
general." press about should [and "mastery he be the be lists entitled Sullivan of asked administration several frumpy in to claims ways], return ask do-goodery her the Mrs. is policies questions least that Bush's that the in
is,
of
course, modeled artfully on the Wind-
sors she's the American Queen
Mother, protected from private scruti-
ny, and the master politician, who is
never questioned on public policy."
The Washington Times
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
Photo by Ruth Fremson/The Washington Times
More mayo,
Naina Yeltsin and Barbara Bush
laugh while working Tuesday to
prepare some of the 2,300 sand-
anyone?
wiches made every day to feed the
homeless at Martha's Table in
Washington.
NEWSDAY, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1992
The First Ladies
Help the Homeless
REUTER
Washington - Departing from the high style of
superpower summitry, Barbara Bush and Naina
Yeltsin donned aprons yesterday to make cheese-
and-bologna sandwiches for the homeless.
The first ladies of the United States and Russia,
who toured Martha's Table soup kitchen as their
husbands talked of arms cuts and economic aid,
chatted and joked as they helped feed the hungry in
a poor northwestern neighborhood of the city.
"You're faster than I am," Bush told Yeltsin as
they slapped together about 35 sandwiches on the
opening day of the U.S.-Russia summit.
It was their third meeting, and both women
worked doggedly in matching red aprons.
Yeltsin was firmly in charge of the cheese; an
ebullient Bush took control of bologna and bread.
"She's much too fast," joked Bush, dressed in a
lilac suit and hallmark pearl choker. "I can't tear
her away.
Her Russian counterpart, who calls herself an
ordinary grandma, wore a beige dress patterned
with jewels, antique earrings and white slingback
shoes.
Yeltsin appeared relaxed as she took questions.
Was she shocked by the poverty level in the U.S.
capital?
"No, I'm not surprised. It can happen in any
system, even when the state is rich. Under any
system there will be poor people because people
work differently," said Yeltsin, a former engineer.
"We also understand your problems, but luckily,
you have far fewer problems than we do."
Local children taking lessons at the downtown
food and learning center gave both women hugs,
flowers and flags - stars and stripes for one, a
Russian tricolor for the other.
"Very nice," said an abashed 9-year-old when
asked about the Russian first lady.
Friday, June 19, 1992
The Philadelphia Inquirer
men and women, listening to
graduated there was no Soviet
Union, let alone Berlin Wall.
SmbH
The Scene
senior class.president Atiya Abney
describe what happened to the
The world as they know It
bigs
world during their four years in
appeared (see photo) on the front
NOTS
In Philadelphia and its suburbs
high school.
page of The Inquirer the morning
As I recall, there wasn't a single
they graduated. What parent of a
person named Atiya in Lower
child graduating high school
lineur
By CLARK DeLEON
Merion High School's Class of '67.
today could have ever imagined
Neither was there a LaTonya, a
such a photograph of the
630
BobbiJo, a Jermaine, a Konal, a
American and Russian presidents?
I took a year off from school
What a wonderful world
after graduating and worked in a
Shani, a Khary, a Chi-man, a
Yeltsin looks like Uncle Arnie at
his:
Bunthoeun, a Mohamed, a Shonda,
a picnic.
10
this could seem
gas station. It didn't help.
an Oshunbumi, a Kia, a Tyese, a
But Atiya did not speak of these
From the time I started high
By December 1967, a half million
Radeen, a Nakia, a Tysheia, an
events with hope as much as fear.
rent
school until the time I graduated
Americans were fighting in
Elayne, a Heang, a Troung, a Hanh,
She expressed the universal
(four years, in case you're
Southeast Asia; in January, the
a Hassan, a Thong, a Suon, a
trepidation of graduates about to
wondering). the world turned from
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese
Moriba, a Shaneka, a Faridha, a
step out into the real world, but it
bad to worse.
launched the Tet Offensive; in
Quang, a Hameya, a Wanny, a
was combined with a sense of awe
In ninth grade, the president of
April, Martin Luther King as
Saana or a Zhen-Yu.
about their entering a world that
the United States was assassinated
assassinated, and two months
There was one Michael, but not
seems to make less sense without
and 15,000 American troops were
later, Bobby Kennedy joined him in
a single Steven, Robert, Mary or
the threat of global holocáust than
sent to a country called Vietnam.
death.
Susan in the bunch.
it did during the Cold War.
In 10th grade, the Gulf of Tonkin
In September, I enrolled in
These are the names of Emily's
Peace looms over the world like
3002
Resolution passed the U.S. Senate
community college.
classmates, and they say as much
a huge question-mark.
50
and the Warren Commission told
In November, Richard M. Nixon
about the change in Philadelphia
What does it all mean? And why
Due
America that Lee Harvey Oswald
was elected president.
in my lifetime as did the
isn't their enough money?
was the only person involved in
I was 18 years old, and I didn't
monumental events of the world
Why does it feel like our side
the assassination of John F.
have a clue how bad my future
Atiya mentioned.
hasn't triumphed? It's more like
Kennedy.
looked from here.
What have they seen change,
their side threw up first in this
In 11th grade, 34 people died in
From here is a catbird seat in
these kids, since their freshman
thermonuclear ple-eating contest.
the Watts riots and 184,300
the auditorium of Drexel
year?
Why ask why?
American military personnel were
University's Mandell Theater
Oh, just the world as we knew it.
Fact is every generation enters a
stationed in South Vietnam.
Wednesday where the 1992 class of
During their freshman year, the
world as terrifying as anything any
In 12th grade, there were 385,300
Bodine High School for
big news was that the president of
18-year-old ever encountered for
U.S. troops in Vietnam, with an
International Affairs is seated on
the United States and the leader of
the first time. We just have
additional 60,000 offshore and
stage in caps and gowns.
the Soviet Union signed an
different names for the terrors.
33,000 in Thailand. During that long
There is an 18-year-old named
"unprecedented agreement" to
As scary as the world looks to
Associated
Press
/
hot summer, 26 died in riots in
Emily Sara Del son seated among
dismantle thousands of nuclear
the Class of 1992, it's inoked a lot
Newark and 40 died in Detroit riots.
the 88 boys and girls, now young
missiles. By the time, they
worse.
A graduation present to the Class of 1992: The world as we know US it.
The Washington Times
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992
INSIDE THE
D
Dirty tricks
So the question becomes: Was
this "potatoe" flashcard business
just another trick by the cultural
elite to make the administration's
designated conservative and
family-values defender, Dan
Quayle, look stupid? Trenton Mayor
Douglas Palmer said the flashcard
was "an honest mistake. There was
no intent to trip up anybody." He's a
Democrat.
Meanwhile, Marilyn Quavle is
mad. Dan "gives five speeches a
day for 25 months, never makes a
mistake," she told CNN. "He makes
one mistake and they air, air and
air it." Her reaction to the uproar is
"just complete and total irritation."
For his part, Mr. Quayle quoted
Mark Twain: "You should"
never trust a man who has only one
way to spell a word." The Associ-
ated Press immediately went to
work to determine if Twain ever
really said that, but, to its chagrin,
the quote turns up attributed to the
author in three different books.
NEW YORK NEWSDAY, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1992
The Family Quayle
By Karen Freifeld
Dan went to public schools, worked in the pressroom
she's still in charge, a chief adviser to her husband.
and Rita Giordano
of his father's paper and waited tables in college.
According to a 1987 Vanity Fair article, Marilyn
Contrary to speculation that Quayle inherited a
may be the architect of Dan's family-values fixation.
STAFF WRITERS
bundle from his grandfather, Beckwith said: "His
After a 1981 sex-for-votes scandal involving congress-
Imagine "Ozzie and Harriet" meets "Father
grandfather did not believe in inherited wealth." Pul-
men buzzed near but didn't sting Quayle, a family
Knows Best," add toothpaste-commercial smiles and
liam, he said, put his money in a trust that won't be
friend said Marilyn told her husband: "The way you
generations of power and - voila - you have the
collectible until more than two decades from now.
stay out of this is to make a real effort to go to the ball
Family Quayle.
While growing up, however, membership did have
game, to concentrate on the family."
Actually, it should come as no surprise that Dan
its privileges. Unlike Murphy Brown, who is not
Quayle's been going great guns on family value:
Quayle is 80 big on family values. Even before his size-
known to have blood media ties, Quayle was brought
ever since, at least publicly. There was that embar-
9½ feet touched the White House steps or he married
into the family business.
rassment last month when, after Quayle's tirade on
Marilyn, his brighter half, this Hoosier didn't have to
And, of course, there is the tale of how an unsu-
unwed mothers, it was learned the Quayles had
depend upon the kindness of strangers. He had his
specting Quayle was tapped in 1976 to run for Con-
leased their home in McLean, Va., an affluent Wash-
folks and their friends.
gress by Orvas Beers, then a district Republican big-
ington suburb, to an unwed couple.
The vice president was born into one of the Mid-
shot and golfing buddy of Quayle's father.
But, according to Beckwith and others, the Quayles
west's most powerful, far-right families. The father of
"You mean now?" Quayle asked.
regularly attend their children's sporting events and,
his mother, Corinne, was Eugene C. Pulliam, a self-
Yes, he was told.
in the past, coached them. Their children are Tucker,
made publishing tycoon who wielded political clout
Quayle said he had to ask his father first.
18, and Benjamin, 15, who attend Catholic high
via his chain of newspapers. Big Jim Quayle, Dan's
By that time, Quayle had already branched out to a
school. Daughter Corinne is 13. Marilyn Quayle has
dad, married into the Pulliam empire and political
family of his own making. In 1972, a friend intro-
worked with other congressional wives for legislation
powerbrokering.
duced him to fellow Indiana University law student
to give lawmakers more family time. She and Quayle
When Quayle's family moved from Indiana to Ari-
Marilyn Tucker, a brainy daughter of two physicians.
are Presbyterian and attend church regularly, Beck-
zona for several years during his youth, their home
Ten weeks later, they were wed. In 1974, they opened
with said.
was on a golf course. When they moved back to Indi-
a joint law practice, Quayle and Quayle, but Dan was
The Quayle family car is a 1986 Pontiac, Beckwith
ana, it was to Huntington - conservative, religious
mostly engaged in the family newspaper business. So
said. And, he said, about $300,000 was spent to spruce
and very, very white.
Marilyn ran the practice. Although Marilyn mostly
up the vice president's house. That-included a putting
Still, the family wasn't especially showy about its
gave up her career to boost her husband's and raise
green. In Quayle family history, it's the little house on
wealth. Quayle's spokesman David Beckwith said
her family, as did her mother before her, many say
the golf course revisited.
NEW YORK NEWSDAY, TUESDAY. JUNE 16. 1992
Fast Facts
BUILDING & LOAN: Former
president Jimmy Carter and former
first lady Rosalynn are in Washing-
ton this week as part of their annual
Habitat for Humanity project. At
7:30 a.m. yesterday, the Georgians
began building 10 homes in South-
east D.C. The Carters plan to finish
the homes within five days. Don't
worry though - they have over 500
I
volunteers working with them.
Thu 18-June-92 14:24 EDT
By Gene Gibbons
WASHINGTON, Reuter - Just when he needed a political lift,
George Bush turned his two-day summit with Boris Yeltsin into an
eye-catching diplomatic success -- although his guest may have
created some problems for Bush with his POW comments.
The crowning achievement of Bush's meeting with the Russian
president, who flew to Kansas Thursday morning, was a dramatic
agreement to slash U.S. and Russian stockpiles of strategic
nuclear weapons by about two-thirds.
After bidding farewell to Yeltsin, Bush headed to California
to begin a three-day campaign trip, and aides said he would
focus on summit accomplishments.
The arms accord was one of seven pacts signed at the summit,
during which many U.S. newspapers ran a remarkable front-page
photo -- reminiscent of old-time family portraits -- showing
Bush and his wife Barbara posed with their Russian guest by the
White House south portico. Mrs. Bush's dog Millie was at their
feet.
It looked ideal for an election campaign poster.
That imagery was an important political plus, said
Democratic political consultant Mike McCurry, because it wiped
away such negative images as Bush fleeing tear gas in Panama
last week and replaced them with one of peace-making.
"It reinforced his strongest credential for re-election --
his expertise in foreign policy," McCurry said.
Before Yeltsin left Washington, the president's men were
heralding the dawn of a new era in international affairs.
"We're now seeing, hopefully, the permanent end of the Cold
War and the beginning of what we're trying to do to build a
closer relationship, cooperative partnership with Russia. It's
indeed a watershed period," national security adviser Brent
Scrowcroft said in an NBC interview.
Bush campaign spokesman Tony Mitchell boasted that for the
first time in nearly 50 years, people "can go to bed at night
knowing that the threat of nuclear war is greatly reduced.
"That is a significant accomplishment and it is clearly an
asset in the re-election campaign,' Mitchell said.
But some analysts say the Bush-Yeltsin summit afterglow is
unlikely to last long because of public preoccupation with the
domestic decay reflected in last month's Los Angeles riots and
lingering economic problems.
Those events and trends have driven Bush's popularity to low
points and put him behind potential independent challenger Ross
Perot in many presidential preference polls.
In addition, Yeltsin's statements about possible Soviet
involvement in the disappearance of U.S. military personnel
unaccounted for since the Korean and Vietnam wars could
reverberate from now until voters go to the polls Nov. 3.
U.S. and Russian officials said there was little evidence to
support Yeltsin's claims that U.S. Vietnam War prisoners were
held in Russia and some may still be alive.
Some POW experts speculated that his comments were a cunning
142
effort to discredit former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev,
whom he has accused of covering up the truth. Gorbachev fired
back Thursday, casting doubt on the Vietnam POW claims and
accusing Yeltsin of defaming him.
Democratic consultant Bob Neuman said Bush could be damaged
if the statements raise false hopes on the volatile POW survivor
issue, only to be dashed before election day.
If he were a Republican strategist, Neuman said, "I would
be worried. "
The sensitivity of the issue was shown by the reaction of
the country's largest veterans' group to Yeltsin's statements.
American Legion national commander Dominic DiFrancesco
accused Washington of bungling a matter of the greatest
importance and said that if what Yeltsin said was true, it was
apparent some U.S. officials "have not lived up to the trust
placed in them by our government and the American people.'
More than 2,200 U.S. servicemen who fought in Vietnam are
still listed as missing. There have been persistent reports,
never proven, that Americans with advanced weapons knowledge
were held in the Soviet Union after the war.
Critics -- including Perot, a staunch supporter of efforts
to track down missing Vietnam servicemen -- have long accused
U.S. officials of failing to do enough to see if any POWs were
left behind.
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FRIDAY. JUNE 19, 1992
One on One: How a Devoted High-School Teacher
Helped a Tormented Miami Teen Make It Through
"I have given up on him SO many
times," Mr. Bryant says. Yet from the time
make a great English teacher," he says. "I
One on One
he first had Chris in class - on a noncredit
guess gradually I believed it." In college,
he switched to drafting from English, but
basis in summer school five years ago-
Mr. Bryant recognized talent in the boy
he never lost his desire to teach.
Miami Teacher Makes
that he thought could be honed. Mr.
"I'm not a teacher, I'm a guide." says
Bryant's efforts since then have been a
Mr. Bryant. an unassuming man with pale
Difference in the Life
lesson in what it means to be a teacher.
blue eyes, who speaks in a soft voice tinged
Two years ago today, Chris left Mr.
with a Kentucky drawl. "If you guide them
Bryant's drafting class, the last day of
just a little bit, they will do the rest."
Of a Tormented Kid.
school. to go home. When he reached the
In the midst of chaos, Mr. Bryant's
public-housing project where he lived, he
class is a calm place. The room is neat and
found police cars and a gawking crowd. As
clean. The atmosphere is informal - Mr.
Gil Bryant Teaches Drafting,
Chris moved closer, a TV camera zoomed
Bryant typically wears jeans and a knit
in on him, and a neighbor rushed forth to
shirt-and he banters easily with students.
To a Talented Chris Sao
tell him the news: His father had shot and
He is strict: If he hears students using foul
killed his mother. and had killed himself.
language, for instance, he throws them out
At Jackson Senior High
Miami Jackson is a raucous place.
of class for the day. But he respects his
About 60% of its students are Hispanic and
students.
39% black, with a
Earlier this year, another teacher
Violent Deaths in the Family
smattering of non-
wrote Mr. Bryant to solicit his help with an
Hispanic whites. A
unruly student who was disrupting her
majority is foreign
class. When the boy next came to drafting,
By ERIC MORGENTHALER
born. At hallway
Mr. Bryant took him aside and fold him
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
sign reading "Wel-
that if he misbehaved once more in the
MIAMI-On a drafting table in a high-
come
to
Your
other class, he would never again partici-
school classroom, 19-year-old Christian
School" is in Eng-
pate in an architectural-drawing competi-
Sao spreads out the drawings for his dream
lish, Spanish and
tion. A few weeks later, the other teacher
house.
Haitian
Creole.
reported to Mr. Bryant that the boy shaped
"I like this house because it's SO homey
Built for 1,800 stu-
up immediately.
and cozy," says Chris, a slim Latin in
dents, the school
"I have problems with students, yes,"
jeans and an oversized T-shirt, as he
has 3,100. Security
says Mr. Bryant, who is divorced and has
looks over his plans for a two-story Medi-
monitors with wal-
two daughters in college. "But I don't
terranean-style structure with four bed-
Gil Bryant
kie-talkies patrol
have problem students."
rooms and seven roof levels.
the halls.
"The bedrooms are almost next to
Challenge to Teachers
"Lots of times, high schools are lik-
(05/1)
each other, to keep the family together,"
ened to mini-societies,' says Jorge Claro,
Chris Sao is a student with whom many
he
explains.
a former drafting-class star who is now a
teachers have had problems
"There's a balcony
scholarship student at the University of
Although he did fine in junior high,
on the back, over-
Miami. "Jackson is an urban society, and
his grades tanked when he entered high
looking the pool.
it shows all the urban problems. There is
school and began running with an older.
That's so you can go
out on the balcony
the poverty, the environment, the delin-
wilder crowd. He failed his freshman year,
and look at your
quents, the dropouts. But there are also the
then was kicked out of summer school for
success stories."
not attending. In his second. freshman
kids when they' in
the pool, to know
The success stories can be surprising.
year, he skipped nearly a third of his
they OK. My
Teams of students from the school's Acad-
classes.
emy for International Business and Fl-
"I'd go to the beach," explains Chris,
mom would love a
nance, a magnet program that has among
who has quick eyes and a wispy mous-
house like
know
what
its directors the head of the local office of
tache. "I had the perfect tan."
I
mean?"
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Chris has so much energy he can't sit
Chris Sao has
recently won first, second and 10th place-
still. "His teachers used to send him to me
Chris Sao
never been in such a
out of 4,562 teams throughout Florida-in a
constantly because they couldn't control
house, much less lived in one. He is a child
contest for high schoolers to put together
him in class," says Ondina Fidalgo, a
the best $100,000 stock portfolio.
school counselor.
of the inner city, and the house is his senior
He claims not to care about his poor
project in drafting class at Miami Jackson
Then there is Mr. Bryant's drafting
grades. "Failing a class doesn't mean
Senior High School. a sprawling old institu-
class. "I think drafting is one of the easiest
I can't pass it," he says. "It doesn't mean I
tion in the Allapattah neighborhood, north-
ways to get to kids, because you're asking
failed because I am stupid. It means I
west of downtown.
them to dream," Chris Sao says. "Mr.
failed it because I didn't do the work. So
The class is taught by Maurice "Gil"
Bryant will tell you straight out: 'What is
what? I can pass it. Passing a class isn't
Bryant, who in more than two decades at
your dream house? Put it to paper.'
that hard."
Jackson has used the drafting pencil to
Mr. Bryant, who is 44, developed the
As he strides through the halls of
unlock the dreams, and the potential. of
drafting program on coming to Jackson
school, Chris blows kisses at girls. Riding
hundreds of students, many from deeply
in 1968, after graduating from the Univer-
down the street, he yells out the car
troubled backgrounds.
sity of Southern Mississippi. Mr. Bryant
window to a friend, "You are UGLY,
"Mr. Bryant is not just a teacher,"
was raised in rural Kentucky. His parents
were divorced when he was small, and he
bro."
says Chris. "He is like our dad in school.
Chris was born in Miami on Sept. 20,
He is the reason I am here now.
was raised by relatives. He doesn't know
1972. His father was Cuban, and his mother
No doubt. without Mr. Bryant, Chris
what his father did for a living.
Honduran. He has an older sister. Gri-
Sao wouldn't be in school. Though the lines
One of the pivotal figures in his life was
selda, and a younger sister, Yesenia.
of his dream house are sure and his
Nettie Belle Perkins, his English teacher
Chris's father worked in construction, and
drafting talent clear. his school record has
his senior year in high school. Miss
his mother was a Miami tour guide.
been shaky, not because he isn't bright.
Perkins had a fearsome reputation. but she
but because he has made a career of
gave him an A. "She started telling
cutting classes. His home life has been
me and the rest of the class that I would
tortured.
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During his last year 111 jumor 1116".
Chris went with his schoolmates on an
Chris Sao's latest house design
introductory tour of Miami Jackson.
Among the classes they visited was Gil
mother in her bed. "I told her I loved her."
Bryant. "I felt totally defeated. I had pt It so
Bryant's. As Mr. Bryant talked to the
he says. "And I told her I was sorry for
much into this one kid."
youngsters. Chris and a friend started
what I'd done. She said I didn't have to ask
A Dose of Truth
cutting up. Mr. Bryant stopped his talk,
her forgiveness.
eyed Chris and said: "We could start on
"I went to sleep that night with the
Yet a few months after dropping out of
biggest smile on my face. It's a smile you
school, Chris, on impulse, called his former
you today."
teacher. Mr. Bryant invited Chris to stop
These days. Mr. Bryant can't remem-
can only give your mom.
"The next day, she was dead."
by his classroom. where." says Chris,
ber when he really did start on Chris. "It
Griselda Sao was home when the
"He sat me down and told me the truth.
seems like he has always been with me-
always." he says, only half joking. "It's
tragedy occurred and says there had been
"He said, 'Look at yourself. What have
not just the time since we met. It's like we
no warning of trouble. Her father showed
you done? You've lost everything. What
were always together."
up at the door. pulled a gun and shot his
are you going to do? Are you going to be a
After Chris was kicked out of summer
wife. Griselda called 911. When Mr. Sao
drug dealer on the corner? Are you going to
school for truancy. Chris's mother begged
heard the sirens, he fired two more shots at
steal, rob, maybe kill somebody? And then
his wife, then turned the gun on himself.
where will you go - to jail?' Chris says,
Mr. Bryant. who had taught Griselda. to
"The last thing she said was, 'Jeho-
"I finally woke up."
admit Chris to his summer class. He
vah. forgive him,' Griselda says. No one
His awakening was temporary. Al-
agreed to let Chris sit in, though not for
credit.
is sure why he did it. Griselda thinks her
though he enrolled and did well in summer
school, by fall he was failing everything
:- "Mr. Bryant told me. 'You are going to
father had become deranged. "He looked
come in here every day, on time, from 7:30
like a monster," she says.
again. After more fits and starts and an
interlude at Miami Beach Senior High. to
until 11:30, and you are going to draw,'
Chris recalls. "And I did.
Some Solace
which he transferred briefly, Chris was
back this year at Jackson, thanks to Mr.
The 14-year-old showed a talent for
That summer, Mr. Bryant drove Chris
Bryant. Chris convinced him that, finally,
drafting. And Mr. Bryant moved him along
to the Social Security office to apply
he was serious. Enid Weisman, a vice
quickly. "He did an entire year's work
for benefits Chris hadn't realized he was
principal, agreed to readmit Chris but
that summer."
eligible for. Mr. Bryant often sat with
vowed to bounce him at the first sign of
Chris didn't take drafting again until
him for hours, in a glassed-in office in
trouble.
the fall of 1988. his sophomore year, and
the back of the classroom. Although Chris
Since Chris re-enrolled March 9, he
then earned the highest grade Mr. Bryant
put on a cheerful face around his class-
has been marked absent just twice (a
gives, an A-minus.
mates, he often would cry in front of Mr.
"miracle," says Mr. Bryant). one day to go
In the following summer, Chris began
designing his first house - a project that
Bryant.
to court over 21 unpaid traffic tickets.
Chris moved in with a friend of his
(Of course, everything is relative. One
students normally don't undertake until
mother's, who had a son his age. It was the
morning when Mr. Bryant thought Chris
their third or fourth year with Mr. Bryant.
first of several such living arrangements.
was seeing a counselor, he was scaling the
It was a mansion, with balconies, an
which usually ended in Chris moving out
school fence and heading across the street
atrium and a swimming pool, but only
after a fight. His sisters moved in with
to his favorite cafe. "Taking a break is
three bedrooms - Chris's mother had al-
another family friend, and Chris had
what I call it," he explains. "Don't tell Mr.
ways wanted a three-bedroom house.
little contact with them. Griselda objected
"I thought it was the best thing I had
Bryant.")
ever done in my life." Chris says. "I
to Chris's style of life - which, after the
In drafting class, Chris started his third
showed it to my mom. She loved it."
killings, got more out-of-control than
house, building on the lessons he learned
ever.
with the others. "This one is smaller,
Mr. Bryant entered Chris's house in the
"I literally flipped out," Chris says.
but I use the space better," he says.
Dade County Youth Fair, and it won a first
In the fall, he flunked everything, in-
Chris hopes to enter a local community
prize. "I felt great about it,' Chris says. "I
never thought I was going to be able to
cluding drafting. "I didn't try, he says. A
college this fall and wants eventually
few months later, in the spring of 1991, he
to teach drafting, like Mr. Bryant. "I
accomplish anything.'
dropped out of school altogether, ending
have seen what he has done for me, and
Today, the drawing, with blue rib-
whatever chances he had of graduating
I want to do it for others," he says. Just
bon attached, hangs with the work of other
with his class:
now' he would like to be working for an
top students on Mr. Bryant's classroom
When Chris turned 18, a few months
architect, but the job market is weak. He
wall.
"He gave me space, but not too much
after his parents died, he came into more
recently hired on as a dancer for a rap
space - you understand what I mean?"
than $20,000 that had been held in trust for
group called The Dogs.
him from the settlement of a lawsuit over
At times, Chris is giddy about his
Chris says of his teacher.
a dog attack when he was 14. Within
prospects. "The challenge is there, and I
Family Problems
three months, he had blown the money,
want to take it," he says. "I want to take it
mainly on a car that eventually got repos-
His father was an alcoholic, subject to
by the hand and just roll with it." He
sessed.
laughs and starts singing: "Just roll
wild mood-swings. "He hassled me," Chris
"You want to kick his butt, you want to
with it, baby.'
says. "Everything I did was wrong."
Chris had a different sort of conflict
hug him, you want to kick his butt - all at
His mentors are more measured in
the same time," Mr. Bryant says. "There
their predictions. "Christian has the abil-
with his mother: She was deeply reli-
gious - a Jehovah's Witness - and con-
was SO much self-destruction, and you
ity to go on and do whatever he wants,"
cerned about the life her son was leading.
could do nothing about it."
says Mrs. Weisman. "Does he have the
Yet in the midst of the turmoil, Chris
"He would. come in at 3 or 4 in the
discipline? It's a roll of the dice."
began drawing another house. By the end
*
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morning," recalls his 21-year-old sister
Griselda. "He wouldn't call, and we
of summer, he had completed a prelimi-
Gil Bryant muses about why he took
nary sketch. That fall and winter - despite
such an interest in Chris Sao. "There's a
wouldn't know where he was."
his dreadful academic performance and
lot of Chris in me." he says. "Maybe I
in April of 1990. Chris decided he was
chaotic personal life - he kept working on
projected some of myself in him and saw
tired of being hassled by his parents. Using
his earnings from a part-time job in a
the house, completing the drawing just in
some worth there."
watch shop. he rented an apartment
time for the Dade County Youth Fair. at
Chris Sao will graduate today from
and left home. A few days later, his father
which he won a first prize.
Miami Jackson. But while Mr. Bryant says
unexpectedly moved out, too.
A few weeks later, Chris dropped out of
that getting Chris through school will be
Soon. Chris and his mother started talk-
school. But when the yearbook came out in
"my greatest accomplishment this year,"
the spring, Chris the dropout was named
he won't be at the ceremonies.
ing on the phone. He would drop by to
"Most Talented" boy in what was sup-
"I hate graduations," Mr. Bryant says.
see her. then began spending nights at
nosed to have been his graduating class.
"When your kids graduate. a part of you
with a University of Miami T-shirt and
shorts and. that night, he slept with his