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Michigan
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THIS RECENRY CAME
For A for A New Majority
ACROSS our DESK - you
may WANT TO GO THROUGN IT
AND INCORPORATE IT INTO THE
PRESIDENT'S SPEECH APRIL 3Rd.
THAMCS,
LANA TARROW
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Michigan Republicans
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STEPHANIE,
for A New Majority
WE MIGHT NEED
TO UPDATE AS WE
GET CLOSER TO THE EUENT.
THANKS -
1
LANA
en, and pregnant
ia
Week Ending Friday, April 21, 1989
-569
1
Remarks to Citizens of Hamtramck,
philosophers of freedom, whose ideals have
Michigan
been so fully realized in our great United
k-578
April 17, 1989
States of America. And Victor Hugo said:
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but
Cardinal Szoka, Your Eminence. Bob,
not an idea whose time has come." My
le U.S. national
thank you for the warm greeting to your
friends, liberty is an idea whose time has
wonderful community. Governor Blan-
come in Eastern Europe, and make no mis-
chard-it's an honor to have the Governor
take about it.
of the great State here. And I want to pay
For almost half a century, the suppression
en on board the
my respects to the members of the Michi-
of freedom in Eastern Europe, sustained by
gan congressional delegation that came out
the military power of the Soviet Union, has
Donor Awareness
here with me-Senator Riegle and several
kept nation from nation, neighbor from
distinguished Members of the House of
neighbor. And as East and West now seek
580
Representatives sitting over here-and also
to reduce arms, it must not be forgotten
to Senator John Engler, who is the majority
that arms are a symptom, not a source, of
Iren, and pregnant
leader of the Michigan State Senate, and to
tension. The true source of tension is the
other elected leaders not only from your
imposed and unnatural division of Europe.
community but in other parts of this State.
How can there be stability and security in
ential
I'm delighted to be here. Bread and salt
Europe and the world as long as nations
ames N. Rowe, USA,
are both of the Earth, an ancient symbol of
and peoples are denied the right to deter-
a life leavened by health and prosperity.
mine their own future, a right explicitly
And in this same spirit, I wish you all the
promised by agreements among the victori-
same. And now, if I may, I want to address,
ous powers at the end of World War II?
lent-601
at this important gathering, the health and
How can there be stability and security in
ress releases-601
prosperity of a whole nation: the proud
Europe as long as nations which once stood
e announcements-
people of Poland. You know, we Americans
proudly at the front rank of industrial
are not mildly sympathetic spectators of
he Senate-600
powers are impoverished by a discredited
events in Poland. We are bound to Poland
ideology and stifling authoritarianism? The
by a very special bond: a bond of blood, of
United States-and let's be clear on this—
culture, and shared values. And so, it is only
has never accepted the legitimacy of Eu-
natural that as dramatic change comes to
rope's division. We accept no spheres of in-
Poland we share the aspirations and excite-
fluence that deny the sovereign rights of
ment of the Polish people.
nations.
In my Inaugural Address, I spoke of the
And yet the winds of change are shap-
new breeze of freedom gaining strength
ping a new European destiny. Western
around the world. "In man's heart," I said,
Europe is resurgent, and Eastern Europe is
"if not in fact, the day of the dictator is
awakening to yearnings for democracy, in-
Committee of the Federal
over. The totalitarian era is passing; its old
37 FR 23607; 1 CFR Part
dependence, and prosperity. In the Soviet
ideas blown away like leaves from an an-
Union itself, we are encouraged by the
Superintendent of Docu-
cient leafless tree." I spoke of the spreading
sound of voices long silent and the sight of
Vashington, DC 20402. The
recognition that prosperity can only come
the rulers consulting the ruled. We see new
ocuments will be furnished
34.00 per year ($105.00 for
from a free market and the creative genius
thinking in some aspects of Soviet foreign
cribers for $80.00 per year,
of individuals. And I spoke of the new po-
policy. We are hopeful that these stirrings
uments, Government Print-
tency of democratic ideals: of free speech,
e charge for a single copy is
presage meaningful, lasting, and far more
free elections, and the exercise of free will.
reaching change. So, let no one doubt the
epublication of material ap-
And we should not be surprised that the
sincerity of the American people and their
Presidential Documents.
ideas of democracy are returning with re-
government in our desire to see reform suc-
newed force in Europe, the homeland of
ceed inside the Soviet Union. We welcome
563
Apr. 17 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
the changes that have taken place, and we
Poland faces, and will continue to face for
will continue to encourage greater recogni-
some time, severe economic problems. A
tion of human rights, market incentives,
modern French writer observed that com-
and free elections.
munism is not another form of economics:
East and West are now negotiating on a
It is the death of economics. In Poland, an
broad range of issues, from arms reductions
economic system crippled by the inefficien-
to the environment. But the Cold War
cies of central planning almost proved the
began in Eastern Europe, and if it is to end,
death of initiative and enterprise-almost.
it will end in this crucible of world conflict.
But economic reforms can still give free
And it must end. The American people
rein to the enterprising impulse and cre-
want to see east and central Europe free,
ative spirit of the great Polish people.
prosperous, and at peace. With prudence,
The Polish people understand the magni-
realism, and patience, we seek to promote
tude of this challenge. Democratic forces in
the evolution of freedom-the opportunities
Poland have asked for the moral, political;
sparked by the Helsinki accords and the
and economic support of the West. And the
deepening East-West contact. In recent
West will respond. My administration is
years, we have improved relations with
countries in the region, and in each case,
completing now a thorough review of our
we looked for progress in international pos-
policies toward Poland and all of Eastern
ture and internal practices: in human rights,
Europe, and I've carefully considered ways
cultural openness, emigration issues, opposi-
that the United States can help Poland. And
tion to international terror. While we want
we will not act unconditionally. We're not
relations to improve, there are certain acts
going to offer unsound credits. We're not
we will not condone or accept, behavior
going to offer aid without requiring sound
that can shift relations in the wrong direc-
economic practices in return. And we must
tion: human rights abuses, technology theft,
remember that Poland still is a member of
and hostile intelligence or foreign policy ac-
the Warsaw Pact. And I will take no steps
tions against us.
that compromise the security of the West.
Some regions are now seeking to win
The Congress, the Polish-American com-
popular legitimacy through reforms. In
munity-and I support, I endorse strongly
Hungary, a new leadership is experiment-
Ed Moskal [national president] and what he
ing with reforms that may permit a political
is doing in the Polish American Congress, I
pluralism that only a few years ago would
might say; and I'm delighted he's here,
have been absolutely unthinkable. And in
good Chicago boy right here in Ham-
Poland, on April 5th, Solidarity leader Lech
tramck-that the Congress, the Polish-
Walesa and Interior Minister Kiszczak
American community, the American labor
signed agreements that, if faithfully imple-
movement, our allies, and international fi-
mented, will be a watershed in the postwar
nancial institutions-our allies all must work
history of Eastern Europe.
in concert if Polish democracy is to take
Under the auspices of the roundtable
root anew and sustain itself. And we can
agreements, the free trade union Solidar-
and must answer this call to freedom. And
ność was today-this very day, under those
it is particularly appropriate here in Ham-
agreements-Solidarnośó was today formal-
tramck for me to salute the members and
ly restored. And the agreements also pro-
leaders of the American labor movement
vide that a free opposition press will be
for hanging tough with Solidarity through
legalized, independent political and other
its darkest days. Labor deserves great credit
free association will be permitted, and elec-
for that.
tions for a new Polish Senate will be held.
Now, the Poles are now taking steps that
These agreements testify to the realism of
deserve our active support. And I have de-
General Jaruzelski [Chairman of Poland's
cided as your President on specific steps to
Council of State] and his colleagues, and
be taken by the United States, carefully
they are inspiring testimony to the spiritual
chosen to recognize the reforms underway
guidance of the Catholic Church, the in-
and to encourage reforms yet to come now
domitable spirit of the Polish people, and
that Solidarność is legal. I will ask Congress
the strength and wisdom of Lech Walesa.
to join me in providing Poland access to our
564
Administration of George Bush, 1989 / Apr. 17
ntinue to face for
Generalized System of Preferences, which
the day when there will be no barriers to
mic problems. A
offers selective tariff relief to beneficiary
the free movement of peoples, goods, and
served that com-
countries. We will work with our allies and
ideas. We dream of the day when Eastern
rm of economics:
friends in the Paris Club to develop sustain-
European peoples will be free to choose
ics. In Poland, an
able new schedules for Poland to repay its
their system of government and to vote for
by the inefficien-
debt, easing a heavy burden so that a free
the party of their choice in regular, free,
Imost proved the
market can grow. I will also ask Congress to
contested elections. And we dream of the
nterprise-almost.
join me in authorizing the Overseas Private
day when Eastern European countries will
in still give free
Investment Corporation to operate in
be free to choose their own peaceful course
impulse and cre-
Poland, to the benefit of both Polish and
in the world, including closer ties with
lish people.
U.S. investors. We will propose negotiations
Western Europe. And we envision an East-
for a private business agreement with
rstand the magni-
ern Europe in which the Soviet Union has
Poland to encourage cooperation between
mocratic forces in
renounced military intervention as an in-
U.S. firms and Poland's private businesses.
e moral, political,
strument of its policy-on any pretext. We
Both sides can benefit. The United States
the West. And the
share an unwavering conviction that one
will continue to consider supporting, on
administration is
day all the peoples of Europe will live in
their merits, viable loans to the private
gh review of our
freedom. And make no mistake about that.
sector by the International Finance Corpo-
nd all of Eastern
ration. We believe that the roundtable
Next month, at a summit of the North
/ considered ways
agreements clear the way for Poland to be
Atlantic alliance, I will meet with the lead-
help Poland. And
able to work with International Monetary
ers of the Western democracies. The lead-
ionally. We're not
Fund on programs that support sound,
ers of the Western democracies will discuss
redits. We're not
market-oriented economic policies. We will
these concerns. And these are not bilateral
t requiring sound
encourage business and private nonprofit
issues just between the United States and
urn. And we must
groups to develop innovative programs to
the Soviet Union. They are, rather, the con-
ill is a member of
swap Polish debt for equity in Polish enter-
cern of all the Western allies, calling for
will take no steps
prises, and for charitable, humanitarian, and
common approaches. The Soviet Union
urity of the West.
environmental projects. We will support
should understand, in turn, that a free,
sh-American com-
imaginative educational, cultural, and train-
democratic Eastern Europe as we envision
endorse strongly
ing programs to help liberate the creative
it would threaten no one and no country.
dent] and what he
energies of the Polish people.
Such an evolution would imply and rein-
erican Congress, I
You know, when I visited Poland in Sep-
force the further improvement of East-West
ighted he's here,
tember of 1987, I was then Vice President,
relations in all dimensions-arms reduc-
it here in Ham-
and I told Chairman Jaruzelski and Lech
tions, political relations, trade-in ways that
ress, the Polish-
Walesa that the American people and Gov-
enhance the safety and well-being of all of
e American labor
ernment would respond quickly and imagi-
Europe. There is no other way.
d international fi-
natively to significant internal reform of the
What has brought us to this opening? The
lllies all must work
kind that we now see. Both of them valued
unity and strength of the democracies, yes,
iocracy is to take
that assurance. So, it is especially gratifying
and something else: the bold, new thinking
tself. And we can
for me today to witness the changes now
in the Soviet Union, the innate desire for
1 to freedom. And
taking place in Poland and to announce
freedom in the hearts of all men. We will
iate here in Ham-
these important changes in U.S. policy. The
not waver in our dedication to freedom
the members and
United States of America keeps its promises.
now. And if we're wise, united, and ready
1 labor movement
If Poland's experiment succeeds, other
to seize the moment, we will be remem-
Solidarity through
countries may follow. And while we must
bered as the generation that made all
serves great credit
still differentiate among the nations of East-
Europe free.
ern Europe, Poland offers two lessons for
Two centuries ago, a Polish patriot, Thad-
N taking steps that
all. First, there can be no progress without
deus Kosciusko, came to these American
rt. And I have de-
significant political and economic liberaliza-
shores to stand for freedom. Let us honor
on specific steps to
tion. And second, help from the West will
and remember this hero of our own strug-
d States, carefully
come in concert with liberalization. Our
gle for freedom by extending our hand to
reforms underway
friends and European allies share this phi-
those who work the shipyards of Gdansk
IS yet to come now
losophy.
and walk the cobbled streets of Warsaw.
I will ask Congress
?oland access to our
The West can now be bold in proposing a
Let us recall the words of the Poles who
vision of the European future. We dream of
struggled for independence: "For your free-
565
Apr. 17 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
dom and ours." Let us support the peaceful
room, I'm at an Italian-American dinner in
evolution of democracy in Poland. The
1984, sitting up here at the high-you
cause of liberty knows no limits; the friends
know, the big dais here and everything.
of freedom, no borders.
Georgine comes over-very pleasant to my
God bless Poland. God bless the United
wife, who could well be his campaign man-
States of America. Thank you all very
ager if he has higher aspirations. [Laughter]
much. Niech Zyje Polska! [Long live
And he says, "You've got to understand,
Poland!] Thank you very much.
George," he tells me, "you've got to under-
stand. Don't you realize Geraldine Ferraro
Note: The President spoke at 11:53 a.m. at
is an Italian? Don't you understand that?" I
Hamtramck City Hall. In his opening re-
said, "Yes, I understand, so I was waiting for
marks, he referred to Cardinal Edmund C.
1988." [Laughter] See him at the same
Szoka, the Archbishop of Detroit, and
dinner, same place, looking at him. "Hey,
Robert Kozaren, mayor of Hamtramck. Fol-
come on." And he says, "You've got to un-
lowing his remarks, the President attended
derstand." I looked at his nametag. I'm run-
a Polish-American community luncheon at
ning against Michael Dukakis, famous
the Eagle Restaurant. At the conclusion of
Greek-American. I see his name tag-Bob
the luncheon, he returned to Washington,
Georgapolis. [Laughter] Little much.
DC.
But look, here I am, and I appreciate
A fact sheet entitled "Support for Polish
very much the tone with which your out-
Reforms" was released by the Office of the
standing leader set the agenda here today
Press Secretary on April 17. In addition to
and the warm welcome that you gave me.
covering the material on this subject found
And I do have great respect for Bob Geor-
in these remarks, the fact sheet also con-
gine. I've told him this. The door will be
tained the following points concerning U.S.
open over there to him, to the leaders here,
policy toward Poland:
and to all of you, whom he represents so
"Once authorized, OPIC [Overseas Pri-
well. And he doesn't hide behind the differ-
vate Investment Corporation] and the
ences. We get them out there on the table.
Polish Government will negotiate an invest-
But there's a lot more to the relationship
ment incentives agreement detailing OPIC's
between the White House and the labor
rights and the GOP's [Government of Po-
organizations than one issue or another.
land's] responsibilities for OPIC-assisted in-
And I think of this group, and I think of
vestment.
patriotism. I think of love of country. I
"In the absence of GSP [Generalized
think of family and the values that have
System of Preferences], OPIC would make
always made this country great. And so, I
an independent determination that Poland
is taking steps to adopt and implement
came over here to salute you and to express
worker rights. We will work closely with
my great appreciation and to tell you a
Solidarity."
couple other things. The puppies are fine.
[Laughter] And even more important, my
wife's health is great, and I appreciate that.
So, I think we all have a lot to be grateful
for, and I'm honored by the presence of
Remarks at the National Conference of
many friends here today. I have great confi-
the Building and Construction Trades
dence in and respect for and obvious
Department of the AFL-CIO
friendship with our Secretary of Labor Eliz-
April 18, 1989
abeth Dole, who's with me here today and
who's going to speak in just a minute. And I
Thank you for that warm welcome.
appreciate the cooperation so many of you
Thank you, Bob Georgine, for that warm
have given her already. I want to salute
welcome. Since the election's over, the
Tom Ridge, a friend of mine of longstand-
story can now be told: a proud story about
ing, and I don't think labor has a better
all the help this guy gave me in the last two
friend in the Congress. Of course, there's
elections. [Laughter] No, here's the way it
others up here: the Teamsters president
worked, really. [Laughter] In this very
Billy McCarthy down there, a friend of
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how
head table
(Smith/Blessey)
March 29, 1990
11 A.M.
MICH
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: MICHIGAN FUNDRAISER
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
TUESDAY, APRIL B, 1990
P.M
Ackrawledgements
-
MichjChoir.
VP.
Dep.
Chief
Stoff
Spence Obrahion 7:00
Ladies and gentlemen, Honored guests. Thank you for that
Andy
introduction. -- and for the privilege of being here. // It's
good to be back in the State that produced this year's Miss USA
-- and this fall, will elect a Governor that will be Mr. GOP. //
This marks my first political trip to Michigan since
becoming President. ( (Although as a baseball fan, I feel like
I've been here before. // Maybe it goes back to the man I saw
on TV holding a sign before the recent lockout ended. It read,
"All I ask is a chance to work." // It was great to see Sparky
Anderson again. )) //
( (Michigan, of course, is also basketball country. And like
fans across America, I've marveled at the wizardry of your world
champion Pistons. // Actually, when I was younger I, too, could
dribble a ball with either hand, behind my back, and through my
legs. Which got me thrown out of a lot of bowling alleys. )) //
Sports is one reason it's a pleasure to return to the State
PAND
which was so kind to me in 1988. Politics is another. // And
let me take this chance to salute the entire Republican ticket.
Its candidates. And especially, those of you who toil so long
primarks
and hard at the grass-roots level. //
2
Yet the real reason I've come to Detroit tonight goes beyond
party to the very essence of this campaign. // Let me put it
straighter than even an Alan Trammell line drive: Your elections
this November will be among the most crucial in America. //
This election will decide whether Michigan chooses fiscal
sanity -- or liberal policies which measure progress made by
dollars spent.
This election will decide whether Michigan supports a war on
thugs and drug peddlers. Or whether Lansing is run by those who
soft-pedal the need to be hard on crime. //
Finally, this election will decide whether we keep control
of the State Senate. And gain control of the State House of
Hichights
Representatives. // And whether we have a Governor who will
ensure fair reapportionment. Some say reapportionment has been a
political gold mine for both parties. They may be right. //
The Democrats get the gold and we get the shaft. // //
This election can help change all that. It's that clear-
cut that important. Well, I know Michigan. First got to know
you during the 1980 Primary. 11 So tonight I make a prediction.
This fall, Michigan will make the right decision by supporting
Republican candidates. // The right decision means a vote for
Republicans at the local, county, and State level. And for
Michigan's next U.S. Senator. // Most of all, it means a vote
for the man who says we need new priorities, not new taxes. To
paraphrase a slogan, "Just think what this Republican can do."
Your next Governor: John Engler. // (the right mpn)
7
caught the cook washing my lettuce with Perrier. )) // So let me
leave you with the thought that opportunity can help us undertake
new priorities. And make those priorities come true. Priorities
like better schools and cleaner air. Priorities like safer
streets and better jobs.
Nationally, Americans have seen what Republicans can do.
Now, let's show them what we can do right here.
Let's win the State Senate and House of Representatives.
elect Republican Congressmen and a U.S. Senator.
And let's roll up our sléeves to elect John Engler Governor.
We know what he will do. 11 He'll make the great State of
Michigan even greater. //
Thank you for this evening. Good luck on Election Day.
And God bless our beloved land -- the United States of America.
#
#
#
THE WHITE HOUSE
washington
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
FOR
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
APRIL 3, 1990
EVENTS:
Major Donor Reception
Staff Photo
Fundraising Dinner for Michigan GOP
DRESS:
Men
- Business Suit
Women
- Day Dress
CONTACT:
Office of Presidential Advance
John G. Keller, Jr.
- 202/456-7565
Trip Coordinator
Peggy Hazelrigg
- 202/456-7565
Detriot, Michigan Signal
- 202/395-1511
313/336-8700
ADVANCE:
Craig Ray
- LEAD
Kim Fuller
- PRESS
Tim Strawman
- USSS
Sean Byrne
- MIL. AIDE
Rich Hange
- WHCA
Jim Blackwood
- AFI
WEATHER:
Partly Cloudy/mid 50's
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
FOR
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
APRIL 3, 1990
3:45 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Detroit Metropolitan Airport
and proceeds to Greetings.
Met by:
The Honorable Guy Vander Jagt
U. S. Representative (R-MI)
Mr. Max Fisher
Honorary Chairman, Michigan GOP Fundraiser
Mr. Heinz Prechter
Co-Chairman, Michigan GOP Fundraiser and
CEO, ASC Corporation
Mr. Randy Agley
Co-Chairman, Michigan GOP Fundraiser and
CEO, Talon Corporation
Mr. Spence Abraham
Chairman, Michigan GOP and
Assistant to the Vice President and Deputy Chief
of Staff
Mr. Chuck Yob
National Committeeman
Michigan GOP and President, Industrial Belting
and Supply
Mrs. Ronna Romney
National Committeewoman, Michigan GOP and Author
Mr. Clark Durant
Candidate for the U.S. Senate and Attorney,
Durant & Durant
Mr. Raymond Rizzo
Director
General Motors Air Transportation
Mr. John Boll
Chairman, Chateau Estates
Mr. Michael Timmis
Vice Chairman, Talon Corporation
3:47 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes Greetings and proceeds to
board Motorcade.
NOTE:
The following greeters are being honored
as part of the "Daily Point of Light"
program.
Met by:
Reverend and Mrs. Eddie Edwards (Mary)
Director, Joy of Jesus and
Vice President, Ravendale
Ms. Tiffany Edwards
Granddaughter of Rev. and Mrs. Edwards
Mr. Antonette (Toni) McIlwain
President, Ravendale
Mr. Art Vanelsander
Ravendale Financial Support and President, Art Van
Furniture
Mr. Frank Newman
Ravendale Financial Supporter
President, F & M Distributing Co.
Mr. John Morris
President, Joy of Jesus, Inc.
3:50 pm
THE PRESIDENT boards Motorcade and departs Detroit
Metropolitan Airport en route Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
MOTORCADE ASSIGNMENTS:
Lead
C. Ray
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Spare
T. McBride
Doctor
LIMO
THE PRESIDENT
Follow Up
Control
A. Card
R. Gates
Mil. Aide
Support
M. Fitzwater
J. Hagin
Official Photographer
J. Swift
Medic
Staff I
Camera I
Camera II
S. Geissinger
Wire I
Wire II
Staff Van
All Remaining Staff
Guest Van
All Remaining Guests
Press Van I
J. Allison
Press Van II
Press Van III
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
GUEST AND STAFF INSTRUCTIONS:
Upon arrival at Ritz-Carlton Hotel,
Guests and Staff will be escorted to
Staff Holding Area.
Page Three
4:10 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Ritz-Carlton Hotel and
proceeds to Suite.
Met by:
Mr. Horst Schultze
President and CEO, Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Mr. Paul Westbrook
General Manager, Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Ms. Karen DiMora
Assistant Director of Conference Services,
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
4:15 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Suite.
(PRIVATE TIME: 1 HOUR 55 MINUTES)
GUEST AND STAFF INSTRUCTIONS:
6:55 pm
Guests and Staff will be
escorted to Staff Viewing
Area at this time.
6:10 pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Suite and proceeds to Board
Room.
EVENT:
MAJOR DONOR RECEPTION
CLOSED PRESS
6:15 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Board Room and begins
participation in Major Donor Reception.
Page Four
6:30 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes participation in Major
Donor Reception, departs Board Room and
proceeds to Plaza Room A.
EVENT:
STAFF PHOTO
CLOSED PRESS
6:35 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Plaza Room A and begins
participation in Staff Photo.
6:55 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes participation in Staff
Photo, departs Plaza Room A, and proceeds to
the Holding Room for a brief hold.
6:56 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Holding Room and holds
briefly.
6:59 pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Holding Room and proceeds to
Off-Stage Announcement Area.
7:00 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Off-Stage Announcement Area
and holds briefly.
EVENT:
FUNDRAISING DINNER FOR MICHIGAN GOP
OPEN PRESS
RUFFLES AND FLOURISHES
OFF-STAGE ANNOUNCEMENT
HAIL TO THE CHIEF
REMARKS
TELEPROMPTER
Page Five
7:02 pm
THE PRESIDENT is announced into Grand Ballroom,
proceeds to Stage and takes his Seat.
7:05 pm
THE PRESIDENT is introduced for Remarks by Mr.
Max Fisher, Honorary Dinner Chairman.
7:07 pm
THE PRESIDENT Remarks.
7:19 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes Remarks, departs
Ballroom and proceeds to Holding Room.
7:21 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Holding Room and holds
briefly.
7:23 pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Holding Room and proceeds to
Motorcade.
7:25 pm
THE PRESIDENT boards Motorcade and departs Ritz-
Carlton Hotel en route Detroit Metropolitan
Airport.
MOTORCADE ASSIGNMENTS:
Same as on Arrival.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
7:45 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Detroit Metropolitan Airport
and proceeds to board Air Force One.
Page Six
7:50 pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Detroit, Michigan en route
Andrews Air Force Base.
(Flying Time: 1 Hour 5 Minutes)
(Interchange: No)
(Time Change: None)
(Food Service: Dinner)
8:55 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Andrews Air Force Base and
proceeds to board Marine One.
9:00 pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Andrews Air Force Base en
route White House.
MARINE ONE MANIFEST:
THE PRESIDENT
A. Card
R. Gates
M. Fitzwater
T. McBride
D. Valdez
Doctor
Mil. Aide
2 USSS
(Flying Time: 10 Minutes)
9:10 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives White House.
Page Seven
MIR
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MICHIGAN FUNDRAISER
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, mile.
7:00 P.M.
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THANK YOU, MAX. CONGRESSMAN SHUETTE, STATE
SENATOR ENGLER AND SPENCE ABRAHAM. LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN, HONORED GUESTS. THANK YOU FOR THAT
INTRODUCTION -- AND FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING HERE.
// IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK IN THE STATE THAT PRODUCED
THIS YEAR'S MISS USA -- AND THIS FALL, WILL ELECT A
GOVERNOR THAT WILL BE MR. GOP. //
THIS MARKS MY FIRST POLITICAL TRIP TO MICHIGAN
SINCE BECOMING PRESIDENT. ((ALTHOUGH AS A BASEBALL
PM
FAN, I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE. // MAYBE IT
GOES BACK TO THE MAN I SAW ON TV HOLDING A SIGN BEFORE
THE RECENT LOCKOUT ENDED. IT READ, "ALL I ASK IS A
CHANCE TO WORK." // IT WAS GREAT TO SEE SPARKY
ANDERSON AGAIN. )) //
- 2 -
((MICHIGAN, OF COURSE, IS ALSO BASKETBALL COUNTRY.
AND LIKE FANS ACROSS AMERICA, I'VE MARVELED AT THE
WIZARDRY OF YOUR WORLD CHAMPION PISTONS. // ACTUALLY,
WHEN I WAS YOUNGER I, Too, COULD DRIBBLE A BALL WITH
EITHER HAND, BEHIND MY BACK, AND THROUGH MY LEGS.
WHICH GOT ME THROWN OUT OF A LOT OF BOWLING ALLEYS. >>>/
SPORTS IS ONE REASON IT'S A PLEASURE TO RETURN TO
THE STATE WHICH WAS SO KIND TO ME IN 1988. POLITICS IS
ANOTHER. // AND LET ME TAKE THIS CHANCE TO SALUTE THE
ENTIRE REPUBLICAN TICKET. ITS CANDIDATES. AND
ESPECIALLY, THOSE OF YOU WHO TOIL so LONG AND HARD AT
THE GRASS-ROOTS LEVEL. //
YET THE REAL REASON I'VE COME TO DETROIT TONIGHT
GOES BEYOND PARTY TO THE VERY ESSENCE OF THIS CAMPAIGN.
// LET ME PUT IT STRAIGHTER THAN EVEN AN ALAN TRAMMELL
LINE DRIVE: YOUR ELECTIONS THIS NOVEMBER WILL BE AMONG
THE MOST CRUCIAL IN AMERICA. //
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THIS ELECTION WILL DECIDE WHETHER MICHIGAN CHOOSES
LIBERAL POLICIES WHICH MEASURE PROGRESS MADE BY DOLLARS
SPENT AND BUREAUCRACIES BUILT. // OR WHETHER IT
CHOOSES REPUBLICAN POLICIES WHICH HELP PEOPLE UP -- AND
KEEP BUREAUCRACIES DOWN. //
THIS ELECTION WILL DECIDE WHETHER MICHIGAN
SUPPORTS A WAR ON THUGS AND DRUG PEDDLERS. OR WHETHER
LANSING IS RUN BY THOSE WHO SOFT-PEDAL THE NEED TO BE
HARD ON CRIME. //
FINALLY, THIS ELECTION WILL DECIDE WHETHER WE KEEP
CONTROL OF THE STATE SENATE. AND GAIN CONTROL OF THE
STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. // AND WHETHER WE
HAVE A GOVERNOR WHO WILL ENSURE FAIR REAPPORTIONMENT.
SOME SAY REAPPORTIONMENT HAS BEEN A POLITICAL GOLD MINE
FOR BOTH PARTIES. THEY MAY BE RIGHT. // THE
DEMOCRATS WALK AWAY WITH THE GOLD AND WE HEAD FOR THE
HILLS. 11
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THIS ELECTION CAN HELP CHANGE ALL THAT. IT'S THAT
CLEAR-CUT - THAT IMPORTANT. WELL, I KNOW MICHIGAN.
FIRST GOT TO KNOW YOU DURING THE 1980 PRIMARY. // so
TONIGHT I MAKE A PREDICTION. THIS FALL, MICHIGAN WILL
MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION BY SUPPORTING REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATES. // THE RIGHT DECISION MEANS A VOTE FOR
REPUBLICANS AT THE LOCAL, COUNTY, AND STATE LEVEL. AND
FOR MICHIGAN'S NEXT U.S. SENATOR. // MOST OF ALL, IT
MEANS A VOTE FOR THE MAN WHO SAYS WE NEED repeat NEW
PRIORITIES, NOT NEW TAXES. TO PARAPHRASE A SLOGAN,
"JUST THINK WHAT THE RIGHT MAN CAN DO." YOUR NEXT
GOVERNOR: JOHN ENGLER. //
NOW, JOHN'S A PERSONAL FRIEND - -- AND I WANTED TO
COME HERE AND PERSONALLY SUPPORT HIM AND THE GREAT
PARTY HE REPRESENTS. I KNOW YOU WANTED TO HEAR A FEW
WORDS FROM A PROMINENT NATIONAL FIGURE WHO CAN REALLY
FIRE UP A CROWD AND GENERATE SOME EXCITEMENT. //
UNFORTUNATELY, BO SCHEMBECHLER'S STILL AT SPRING
TRAINING IN LAKELAND - -- so I'M HERE INSTEAD. //
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((I'M DELIGHTED. JUST AS I WAS A YEAR AGO, WHEN I
WELCOMED MICHIGAN'S BASKETBALL WOLVERINES TO THE WHITE
HOUSE. // I TOLD THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS, "YOU'RE
TRULY NUMBER ONE." // WELL, TONIGHT, WITH APOLOGIES
TO YOU SPARTAN FANS, LET ME SAY: THERE'S A SONG WE'LL
BE SOON BE SINGING ABOUT THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
// "HAIL TO THE VICTORS.")) //
THIS YEAR, REPUBLICANS WILL TRIUMPH BECAUSE OF THE
BEST OF REASONS. OPPORTUNITY. // THE OPPORTUNITY
THAT COMES FROM FISCAL SANITY, LESS GOVERNMENT, AND
FREEDOM FROM CRIME AND DRUGS. THE OPPORTUNITY WHICH
RISES FROM INCREASED PROSPERITY. AND FROM THE CHANCE
TO THINK, DREAM, AND WORSHIP AS ONE PLEASES NOT JUST IN
DETROIT AND DEARBORN - -- BUT ALSO BUDAPEST AND BERLIN.
//
- 6 -
YOU KNOW, IT WAS ONE YEAR AGO THIS MONTH THAT I
CAME TO HAMTRAMCK - -- ONLY 10 MILES AWAY. AND SPOKE OF
HOW "FREE SPEECH, FREE ELECTIONS, AND THE EXERCISE OF
FREE WILL" COULD CHANGE HISTORY, AND LIVES, IN ALL OF
EASTERN EUROPE. // SINCE THEN, OF COURSE, THAT'S COME
TO PASS -- WE'VE SEEN EVENTS EVEN RIPLEY WOULD NOT
BELIEVE. LOOK AT HUNGARY TEN DAYS AGO, HOLDING THAT
NATION'S FIRST MULTI-PARTY PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION SINCE
1945. LOOK AT NICARAGUA OR CZECHOSLOVAKIA OR, YES,
THAT CITADEL OF CONSCIENCE - -- POLAND. // NATIONS
WHOSE BRAVE PEOPLES ARE CHOOSING BALLOTS OVER BULLETS.
AND SHOWING HOW THE GREATEST PEACE DIVIDEND IS PEACE
ITSELF. //
- 7 -
so FAR I'VE TALKED OF OPPORTUNITY FOR OTHER
NATIONS. REPUBLICANS ALSO CAN -- AND HAVE --
STRENGTHENED OPPORTUNITY AT HOME. // TODAY, THOUSANDS
OF MICHIGAN MEN AND WOMEN ARE IN NEED OF OPPORTUNITY.
SOME SAY THE WAY TO HELP THEM IS THROUGH "TAX AND
SPEND." REPUBLICANS SAY THE BEST WAY IS BY ENACTING
LOCALLY POLICIES WHICH HAVE WORKED NATIONALLY. //
HERE'S AMERICA'S BOX SCORE: MORE THAN 20 MILLION NEW
JOBS CREATED SINCE 1982. INFLATION AT LESS THAN 5
PERCENT. AND REAL PER CAPITA INCOME AT RECORD LEVELS.
11 THESE STATISTICS AREN'T AN ACCIDENT. THEY STEM
FROM REPUBLICAN POLICIES THAT WORK. WE DON'T WANT
GOVERNMENT TO SPEND MORE MONEY -- WE WANT PEOPLE TO
HAVE MORE MONEY TO SPEND. 11
SO LET'S ELECT CANDIDATES LIKE JOHN ENGLER WHO
BELIEVE IN THOSE POLICIES. LET'S CONTINUE THE LONGEST
PEACETIME BOOM IN AMERICAN HISTORY -- AND BRING AN
ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE TO MICHIGAN. //
- 8 -
((YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITY MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS TO
DIFFERENT PEOPLE. FOR SOME, IT'S THE CHANCE TO INVEST.
WHICH REMINDS ME: IT'S TIME CONGRESS PASSED OUR
CAPITAL GAINS TAX CUT. // FOR OTHERS, IT'S THE
FREEDOM TO ROOT FOR THE TEAM OF YOUR CHOICE // TO
VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE OF YOUR CHOICE // OR, YES,
EVEN TO EAT THE VEGETABLE OF YOUR CHOICE. )) //
WELL, WHEN IT COMES TO DOMESTIC POLICY,
OPPORTUNITY MEANS MANY THINGS. // FOR INSTANCE, IN
CHILD CARE IT MEANS THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE. SO WE HAVE
PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO HELP LOW-INCOME WORKING
AMERICANS INCREASE CHOICE IN CHILD CARE THROUGH TAX
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INCENTIVES, NOT FEDERAL INTERVENTION. // LAST WEEK
THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP PASSED ITS CHILD CAR
BILL. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT IT'S BETTER THAN THEIR
PREVIOUS EFFORTS. THE BAD NEWS IS IT COSTS $20 BILL
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MORE THAN THE CHILD CARE BILL I SENT UP TO CONGRESS
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FOR MY PRINCIPLES, EVEN IF I HAVE TO END UP VETOING "
BILL LABELED "CHILD CARE." // CHILD CARE ISN'T A
SLOGAN: IT MEANS THE VERY FUTURE OF OUR KIDS.
- 9 -
NEXT, THERE'S THE ENVIRONMENT -- WHERE OPPORTUNITY
MEANS AN AMERICA THAT'S CLEAN AND SAFE. IN THAT
SPIRIT, LET ME NOTE THAT THIS VERY EVENING THE SENATE
WILL VOTE ON OUR CLEAN AIR LEGISLATION - THE FIRST
REWRITE OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT IN OVER A DECADE. IN THE
FINEST TRADITION OF AMERICAN POLITICS THIS BILL HAS BI-
PARTISAN SUPPORT - SENATOR MITCHEL AND SENATOR DOLE
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WORKING HAND IN HAND NOT TO WIN DEBATING POINTS, BUT TO
WIN CLEANER AIR FOR THE GENERATION TO COME. I AM PROUD
OF THIS PROPOSAL TO CUT SMOG, ACID RAIN, AND TOXIC
POLLUTION. WE CAN, AND MUST, ENSURE THE PURITY OF OUR
ENVIRONMENT. // TONIGHT MARKS AN HISTORIC VOTE. AND
I URGE THE SENATE TO ACT NOT MERELY FOR THIS GENERATION
BUT ALL THE GENERATIONS TO COME. // SOME THINK WE
MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN A SOUND ECOLOGY AND A SOUND
ECONOMY. REPUBLICANS SAY: WE NEED BOTH. AMERICA CAN
HAVE CLEAN AIR AND GOOD JOBS. //
FINALLY, WE CAN STRENGTHEN OPPORTUNITY THROUGH TWO
PRIORITIES WHERE STATE OFFICIALS - -- ESPECIALLY THE
GOVERNOR - PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE: EDUCATION AND CRIME
AND DRUGS. //
- 10 -
TEN WEEKS AGO, I ANNOUNCED PHASE II OF THE 1990
NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY THAT WE UNVEILED LAST
YEAR. // WE'RE ASKING CONGRESS TO SPEND OVER $10 AND
1/2 BILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 1991 FOR EDUCATION,
TREATMENT, INTERDICTION, AND ENFORCEMENT - -- ABOUT A 70
PERCENT INCREASE SINCE I TOOK OFFICE. // JOHN ENGLER
SUPPORTS THIS PROGRAM. AND HE'LL LEAD THE FIGHT TO
TOUGHEN CRIME LAWS AT THE STATE LEVEL - -- JUST AS WE ARE
DOING IN WASHINGTON. YOU IN DETROIT KNOW HOW BAD CRIME
CAN BE IN THE TOLL IT TAKES ON FAMILIES AND
COMMUNITIES. AND YOU KNOW HOW SOME SAY THERE'S ALWAYS
A REASON FOR CRIME AND DRUGS. REPUBLICANS SAY: THERE
MAY BE A REASON BUT THERE'S NEVER AN EXCUSE. so
LET'S ELECT CANDIDATES WHO WILL HELP US TAKE BACK THE
STREETS. //
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AT THE SAME TIME, WE MUST ALSO GIVE OUR KIDS THE
OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN. WHICH IS WHY LAST FALL I
CONVENED AN UNPRECEDENTED EVENT -- THIS NATION'S FIRST
EDUCATION SUMMIT. // FROM THAT SUMMIT AROSE SIX NEW
NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS THE GOVERNORS AND I ANNOUNCED
RECENTLY. AMONG THEM: WE MUST SEE THAT EVERY STUDENT
STARTS SCHOOL READY TO LEARN. AND THAT EACH SCHOOL HAS
AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE KIDS CAN LEARN. THAT MEANS MAKING
EVERY SCHOOL DRUG-FREE. // OUR GRADUATION RATE MUST
BE NO LESS THAN 90 PERCENT. AND WE WANT U.S. STUDENTS
TO BE FIRST IN THE WORLD IN MATH AND SCIENCE BY THE
YEAR 2000. //
- 12 -
WE REPUBLICANS KNOW THAT EDUCATION IS AMERICA'S
MOST ENDURING LEGACY, VITAL TO EVERYTHING WE CAN
BECOME. // AND THAT EXCELLENCE WILL BE OBTAINED NOT
BY SPENDING MORE AND MORE MONEY // BUT BY DEMANDING
HIGHER STANDARDS, GREATER ACCOUNTABILITY, BETTER
TEACHERS, AND GREATER INVOLVEMENT BY PARENTS AND
COMMUNITIES. AND BY GIVING PARENTS MORE CHOICE IN
WHERE THEIR KIDS GO TO SCHOOL. // EARLIER, I SPOKE OF
HOW LIBERAL DEMOCRATS MEASURE PROGRESS MADE BY DOLLARS
SPENT AND BUREAUCRACIES BUILT. AND HOW REPUBLICANS
VIEW PROGRESS AS HELPING PEOPLE UP -- AND KEEPING
BUREAUCRACIES DOWN. NOTHING SHOWS THE CONTRAST MORE
THAN EDUCATION. OURS IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE
AMERICAN EDUCATION NO. 1 AGAIN. WE MUST SEIZE IT --
FOR OURSELVES AND OUR KIDS. //
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((IN CLOSING, THERE'S ONLY ONE OPPORTUNITY I
HAVEN'T MENTIONED: THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY THIS
MARVELOUS MEAL. 11 ORDINARILY, I'D STAY WITH YOU.
IT'S JUST THAT THE SECRET SERVICE CAUGHT THE COOK
WASHING MY LETTUCE WITH PERRIER.)) // SO LET ME LEAVE
YOU WITH THE THOUGHT THAT OPPORTUNITY CAN HELP US
UNDERTAKE NEW PRIORITIES. AND MAKE THOSE PRIORITIES
COME TRUE. PRIORITIES LIKE BETTER SCHOOLS AND CLEANER
AIR. PRIORITIES LIKE SAFER STREETS AND BETTER JOBS.
NATIONALLY, AMERICANS HAVE SEEN WHAT REPUBLICANS
CAN DO. NOW, LET'S SHOW THEM WHAT WE CAN DO RIGHT
HERE.
LET'S WIN THE STATE SENATE AND HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES. LET'S ELECT REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN
AND A U.S. SENATOR.
AND LET'S ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES TO ELECT JOHN ENGLER
GOVERNOR. WE KNOW WHAT HE WILL DO. 11 HE'LL MAKE THE
GREAT STATE OF MICHIGAN EVEN GREATER. //
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THANK YOU FOR THIS EVENING. GOOD LUCK ON
ELECTION DAY. AND GOD BLESS OUR BELOVED LAND -- THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
# # #
Rec'd 2/16- DRW
NEWS
VAR
FROM THE
CATH
ENGLER FOR
GOVERNOR
FYI
COMMITTEE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: John Truscott
February 12, 1990
(517)485-1990
ENGLER FORMALLY ANNOUNCES CAMPAIGN FOR GOVERNOR
Senate Majority Leader John Engler (R-Mt. Pleasant) announced today that he
has received overwhelming support and encouragement to be Michigan's next governor
and that he is formally in the race. Engler made the announcement in Traverse City,
Grand Rapids, Midland, Detroit and Lansing.
"Today marks the official beginning of my campaign to become Michigan's 46th
governor," Engler said.
Engler's upbeat speech focused on what he will do for Michigan as governor. He
noted that his extensive travel in all 83 counties throughout the state has given him a
unique and personal perspective of the problems facing everyone in Michigan. The
historic trip also helped build what will be a grass roots and "back to basics" campaign.
Engler said he would be proposing a major property tax cut initiative in about a
week and reaffirmed his goal of dedicating a fixed percentage of the state budget for
education. He also pledged that as governor, he will visit every county, every year to
talk with and listen to the people to help them solve local and community problems.
"I have taken my message of lower taxes, better schools, safer neighborhoods, and
a cleaner environment to all 83 counties in our great state," Engler said. "I have toured
every courthouse, shared an evening with our farmers, walked Mainstreets, stayed over
night in the homes of old friends and new. And the people have responded."
Engler said that Michigan remains at the back of the pack when compared to other
states in the areas important to growth and prosperity. Specifically, he mentioned that
Michigan, at 8.4 percent, has the highest unemployment rate in the country, has one of
the highest tax burdens for individuals and businesses, and ranks dead last in the return
of tax dollars from the federal government.
"The simple truth is the comeback stories of 49 other states read better than
Michigan's," Engler said.
JOHN
ENGLER
FOR MICHIGAN
FOR GOVERNOR
Paid for by the ENGLER FOR GOVERNOR COMMITTEE 721 N. CAPITOL, SUITE 3 LANSING, MI 48906 517/485-1990
Engler commented on several poor statistics that continue to plague Michigan.
"Unemployment is up. New manufacturing jobs are down. Dropout rates are up.
Education test scores are down. Welfare spending is up. But the return on the tax
dollars we send to Washington is down. Violent crime and drug use are up Property
taxes are up. Way up to the fourth highest in America. Pollution is up Incompetence
and mismanagement in the administration are up. And business confidence in Michigan's
economy is down," he said.
"My friends, it seems to me that when what's up should be down, and when what's
down should be up, it's time for the governor who is in, to be out," Engler emphasized.
The announcement marks the end of Engler's "exploratory" phase of his campaign
which was kicked off on June 22, 1989. Since then, Engler has raised over $850,000
and recruited over 5,000 people for his committee.
The announcement was made at the county buildings in Traverse City, Grand
Rapids, Midland and Detroit, which Engler visited during his courthouse tour and
further emphasized the broad local people to people state partnerships he is building in
the campaign. He concluded the announcement tour on the steps of the State Capitol.
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Senate Majority Leader John Engler
Declaration of Candidacy for Governor
February 12, 1990
I am announcing today that I have filed an amendment with
the Secretary of State changing the name of the Engler for Governor
Exploratory Committee to the Engler for Governor Committee.
The exploratory phase of our effort is over.
Today marks the official beginning of my campaign to become
Michigan's 46th governor.
February 12th holds special meaning to all Republicans. For
today is the birthday of our party's founder and perhaps our nation's
greatest president, Abraham Lincoln.
And just as Abraham Lincoln did in his historic U.S. Senate
campaign against Stephen Douglas, I restate my challenge to Jim
Blanchard to stand shoulder to shoulder with me all across Michigan
and debate the tough issues facing our state.
Jim, as Lincoln and Douglas went town to town in Illinois
debating under the oaks, let's you and I go from Detroit to Lansing, to
Flint and the Tri-Cities, to Grand Rapids, to Traverse City, to
Alpena, and to Marquette and debate on television. We may not be
good for the local ratings, but it's the right thing to do, and we
should do it.
You know, the last seven and a half months have been the best
of my life, because I've spent them with you -- the people of
Michigan -- the finest people anywhere in America.
I have taken my message of lower taxes, better schools, safer
neighborhoods, and a cleaner environment to all 83 counties in our
great state.
I have toured every courthouse, shared an evening with our
farmers at 15 county farm bureau meetings and several ag
conferences, walked Mainstreets, stayed over night in the homes of
old friends and new. And the people have responded.
2
Over 3500 Michiganians have already contributed more than
$850,000 to our campaign for Michigan's future. Hundreds more
have volunteered to lick envelopes, staff phone banks, work out of
their homes, knock on doors.
The people of Michigan know that if we are to be strong and
competitive with the rest of America and the rest of the world, we
must be better than average. Our schools must be better than
average. The cars we build must be better than average. Every thing
we do, every thing we produce, everything we are must be better
than average.
This means we need a governor who's better than average.
But average is exactly what we have in Jim Blanchard. Just look at
his report card that was printed in the Detroit News, and you'll see a
great big "C."
That's right. The people who know Jim Blanchard best gave
him a "C" for his first seven years on the job. A "C." That's
mediocre, average, and that's not leadership.
I remember as a boy when I brought home a "C" on my report
card, my dad would tell me I could do better. He expected more of
me. He was right.
It seems to me we should hold our governor to the same
standard our parents held us to, and that we hold our children to.
My friends, it's time we reached for excellence again. It's time
we changed governors, and I'm ready for the job.
I believe we can do better than we have for the last seven
years. I believe we must do better.
And with your help, we will make our Great Lakes State the
great state of our dreams.
But this will take work. Much work.
It will take more than a cheerleader with a "C" average as
governor.
3
It will take strong, new leadership to seize the opportunities
that await us in the last decade of this century.
For while the year is new, the problems which face us as a
people are not. They are serious and growing more difficult with
each passing day.
That's because after almost eight years of national recovery,
Michigan remains at the end of the line, still playing catchup with
the rest of the nation. Indeed, we've fallen further behind in many
key areas.
And a recent study indicates there is "little indication that our
state is any better prepared to withstand a future recession than it
was in 1979."
The simple truth is the comeback stories of 49 other states
read better than Michigan's.
In fact, for too many struggling communities in our great
state, the Blanchard comeback story has been nothing more than a
grim fairy tale.
Unemployment is up.
(Michigan's jobless rate at 8.4% is now the highest in America.
It is 58% above the national average, and there are more people
unemployed in Michigan today than at any time since 1986.)
New manufacturing jobs are down.
(Michigan has lost 257,000 thousand such jobs in the 1980's.)
Dropout rates are up.
(Michigan ranks among the worst in the nation, and over half of
the students who enter the eighth grade in Detroit's public schools
will never get a diploma.)
Education test scores are down.
4
(Over half of the students in Detroit's public schools flunked
their mandated reading test and 89% of the eleventh graders failed a
basic science skills test.)
Welfare spending is up.
(One of every ten people in Michigan is on some kind of
welfare. The state spends $370 million a month on welfare or $87 a
month for every working man and woman.)
But the return on the tax dollars we send to
Washington is down.
(Statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Census indicate that
Michigan ranks last in the return on the tax dollars we send to
Washington. In fact, Michigan has ranked near the bottom in federal
spending since Blanchard has been in office, placing 47th in 1984,
48th in 1985 and 1986, and 49th in 1987.)
Violent crime and drug use are up.
(Murder is up 9.4% since 1983; Rape is up 39.9% since 1983;
Aggravated assault is up 24.1% since 1983. Since 1985, narcotic
arrests have doubled, treatment caseloads have tripled, and felony
trafficking and possession convictions have increased five fold.)
The number of Congressmen Michigan will send to
Washington in 1992 after reapportionment is down -- from
18 to 16, because more and more Americans are saying "No"
to Michigan.
Part of the reason is because property taxes are up. Way
up to fourth highest in America.
Indeed our entire tax burden is up to fifth highest in the
nation. And our working poor and middle class pay more in taxes
than in other state.
Pollution is up.
(Scientists tell us many of our Great Lakes fish are unsafe to
eat. Our groundwater is becoming unsafe to drink. Toxic chemicals
are filling up our lakes. And the Governor has stood by for seven
5
years unable to write rules to begin cleaning up our water, air and
land, while allowing Michigan to become a dump site for the
radioactive waste of six other states.)
Infant mortality and hospital closures are up.
(A black baby born in Detroit has a greater chance of dying
before his first birthday than a baby born in many third-world
nations and old East European dictatorships. 18 hospitals have
closed since 1982 risking the health of many Michiganians.)
While access to affordable health care for more and
more of our citizens is down.
(The cost of a hospital stay is up, and there are 18 fewer
hospitals to service patients.)
The number of state employees is up.
(There are 8,000 more employees on the state payroll since
Blanchard took office and thousands more on contracts -- including a
$32,000 contract to the former executive director of the Michigan
Democrats to throw together a 20 year anniversary for Earth Day,
and a $15,000 contract to teach state employees how to be more
polite on the telephone.)
But the efficiency of the state bureaucracy is down.
Incompetence and mismanagement in the
Administration are up.
(Blanchard's prison warden lost the jail house keys. A Social
Services Department employee embezzled over $625,000 intended
for children's day care. The Governor's welfare chief couldn't
account for a shortage of over $270 million. Blanchard's
Transportation Department can't tell us how many bridges or miles
of roads it's working on. The MESC spent $71 million on a computer
that still doesn't work and has delayed benefit payments to about
19,500 laid-off Michigan workers because of computer snafus.)
And business confidence in Michigan's economy is
down.
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(A recent report of Michigan's business leaders says that over
half will not be adding jobs in 1990 and that 16 percent will be
eliminating jobs.)
My friends, it seems to me that after serving for
almost eight years in Michigan's most important job, when
what's up should be down --and when what's down should be
up -- it's time for the governor who is in, to be out.
I believe it's time the Michigan comeback story had another
author, and I'm prepared to write the next chapter.
I believe it's time Michigan had a governor with an agenda for
action, a governor who can make a decision without having to look at
a poll first -- who can make a decision without first having to
appoint a fact finder, set up a task force or establish a commission
--a governor who will stand up before a group of people without a
script or handlers and answer any question they want to ask, a
governor who will visit a community because he genuinely wants to
meet with the people and listen to their ideas, hopes and dreams, not
just use them as a cynical public relations prop.
So, as I have done as a candidate for governor, I will, as
governor, visit each of our 83 counties at least once every year, to
meet with you, listen to you and talk to you about the problems
facing your local area, and how we can work together to solve them.
Real progress in the 1990's will require all of us to work
together -- the people, your legislature, and your governor --
partners for Michigan's future.
Which is why an Engler administration will be an open one,
where vigorous debate and discussion will be encouraged, not
suppressed. Where all opinions will be welcome, not snubbed.
Where, in the spirit of George Romney, I will hold regular office
hours to meet with the people of our great state -- in Lansing, and
throughout Michigan.
I will meet regularly with the Republican and Democratic
leaders of the House and Senate.
I will meet with committee chairmen from both chambers
when the legislature is in session as well.
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I will hold regular briefings with the capitol press corps and
press throughout Michigan.
And I intend to establish a regular bi-partisan meeting
schedule with our state's legislative leaders and our Congressional
delegation to strengthen our presence in Washington, D.C.
I call this my policy of "Operation Cooperation", and I believe
it will improve the way we do the people's business.
During our nation's most crucial hour, President Lincoln said
that ours is a government of the people, by the people and for the
people. We should live by those words again. We need to bring our
government and our governor closer to the people again. And I know I
can do a better job at this than Jim Blanchard can.
I can also do a better job than Jim Blanchard at creating
economic opportunity in every region of Michigan because I know you
don't bring jobs here by raising taxes.
You keep taxes low.
You make education the highest priority.
You make business feel welcome here with true reforms in our
workers and unemployment compensation systems, and by cutting
rules and regulations that strangle economic growth.
And you keep government out of the business of picking
winners and losers.
I can do a better job than Jim Blanchard at putting quality back
in our classrooms, because I'm prepared to fight for some
fundamental changes in how we teach our kids.
I want parents to have greater choice about which school they
send their children to in their local school district.
And I'm against Governor Blanchard's proposal to eliminate
over 400 school districts through consolidation.
I'm for giving our teachers the tools to teach and the power to
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discipline. Because no teacher should have to fear a lawsuit or
personal violence if he or she tries to keep order in the classroom.
I'm for giving local schools greater flexibility in rewarding
excellent teachers and dismissing incompetent ones.
At the same time, I'm for "Alternative Certification" that
allows the best and brightest in other professions to teach in our
schools.
I want every dime of the lottery that was meant for schools to
go to schools.
No more funny money executive budgets that use a lottery
dollar to replace a general fund dollar that's being spent on some
other program.
I want the state to become equal funding partners with local
school districts again. Fifty-fifty. We were once. We will be again.
And we'll do it by dedicating a fixed percentage of the state
budget for education.
We'd set that money aside up front, before we try to pay for
anything else -- just like your family sets aside the home mortgage
payment in your personal budget. After that, everything else is open
to negotiation.
Government can't pay for everything and shouldn't try.
I can do a better job than Jim Blanchard at holding taxes and
spending down because I will be led by my strong belief that the
people of Michigan are already taxed enough.
We don't need to raise taxes higher, we need to manage what
we have better.
And we need to do more than merely try and limit assessments
on some property.
When Michigan's property tax bill is almost $7 billion, the
people deserve more than a nickel a week in property tax relief --
which is all the Governor has proposed.
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You could save for a month and that wouldn't even buy you a
pack of gum.
We need to cut property taxes substantially for homeowner and
business owner alike. And in the next few days, I will be unveiling a
comprehensive property tax plan that does just that.
I can do a better job protecting our environment than Jim
Blanchard because, unlike the Governor, I know that lowa and
Missouri, indeed, no other state in America, is the environmental
equal of Michigan. We are special. We are blessed with natural
resources unlike any place in the nation, and we must dedicate
ourselves to preserving and protecting our water, air, and land with
every ounce of determination we have.
This is why I will require the DNR to finally set rules that
apply fairly to everyone.
I support restructuring the DNR into two divisions -- one for
the environment, and one for game and wildlife conservation.
I'll be tougher on those cities, corporations and on our own
state government agencies that continue to dump dangerous
pollutants into our air and water.
And I'll work vigorously to get Michigan out of the low level
radioactive waste compact which the Governor never should have
gotten us into in the first place. With our water, just one look at
the map should tell anyone that Michigan or any Great Lakes state
should not be a dump site for the radioactive waste of six other
states.
I can do a better job than Jim Blanchard at waging the war on
crime and drugs because I won't stand quietly by, as the Governor
has done, and let some liberal committee chairman kill vital anti-
crime and anti-drug legislation that can help our police and
prosecutors put away the punks and pushers who threaten our
neighborhoods.
I'll work closely with the Bush Administration to make certain
that any new federal drug money goes directly into the
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neighborhoods to fight our war against the drug pushers instead of
paying for more paper pushers in Lansing.
I want our most violent lawbreakers locked up, and kept locked
up.
But at the same time for those convicted of lesser, non-violent
crimes we need more creative alternative sentencing approaches.
And we need to understand that the long term solution to our
crime problem isn't in more jail cells, it's in better classrooms.
Because the lower our dropout rates are today, the lower our crime
rates will be tomorrow.
I can do a better job than Jim Blanchard at fighting infant
mortality, reforming our welfare system, and rebuilding our cities
because I will offer more than the status quo and the pursuit of
mediocrity. I'll be more than a cheerleader for Michigan. I'll provide
strong, hands-on leadership at every level.
As my campaign progresses, I will be issuing a series of
detailed "Action Agendas for Michigan's Future" outlining my
strategies on these and other issues.
Because I want every person in this state to know before the
election what John Engler intends to do after the election.
I ask the people of Michigan to watch me for the next eight
months.
You won't see Mr. Charisma or hear the best speaker, I know
that. But when all is said and done, I believe you'll agree that I can
provide stronger leadership for our future than Jim Blanchard has
given us in the past.
So, watch me and listen to the ideas I have to make our state a
better place to live and work and raise a family. Then give me your
vote, if I've earned it.
You know, when I first sought public office as a 21 year old
senior at Michigan State University, I did so because I believed one
person could make a difference. I still do.
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And no where in Michigan can one person have more of an
impact on the lives of others than in the office of governor.
The framers of our state constitution made the governor the
most powerful figure in state government.
For it is in the governor's office where the most critical
decisions must be made in the next four years -- tough decisions
that will shape Michigan's future into the next century.
Only through the strong leadership of the governor can new
priorities be set that will create opportunities for our people to
lead more vital, better quality lives.
I believe the governor's office should be where the tough
decisions are made -- not ignored -- where you work with the
legislature, not against it. Where you go before the people and the
press and lay it on the line. Where you take charge and state your
position. Where you're held accountable, where you take a stand and
lead.
You know, the governor is a lot like a football coach. He's the
head of the team, the leader. He develops the strategy, writes the
game plan.
If he can't coach a lick, it doesn't matter a bit how much he
touts his team to the community and the press, or how much
cheerleading or promotion he does on the sidelines.
When I was a junior at Beal City High School, we had a coach
who was a great cheerleader, but we had a pretty lousy team. We
didn't win a game. Didn't even score a point. In short, our coaching
was just awful.
But my senior year, we changed coaches. And we changed the
program. We began to score points. We broke our 19 game losing
streak and we began to win.
And over the years, Beal City has built one of the best Class D
football programs in the state.
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It was great coaching and teamwork, not great cheerleading
and self-promotion that made Beal City strong. And it will take a
strong leader, not a good cheerleader to get Michigan moving again.
For the 1990's are too important to accept rhetoric for action
and good feelings for hard choices.
It is a decade of challenge and opportunity that demands the
best from each of us -- especially the governor.
It will not be a time for the timid.
And those of you who know me know I've never been timid.
I welcome the challenge to lead a great state of more than nine
million people into the last ten years of this century and make them
the best they can be.
So, let us seize the 1990's with bold and daring.
I believe we're ready to take charge of our future and make the
1990's a Decade of Freedom for every man, woman and child.
I believe we're ready to change the comeback story from
fiction to fact.
I believe we're ready to get Michigan moving again.
And I'm ready to lead the way.
Manh 7.90
City fund has Krugerrands
Police, fire pension officials bought S. African coins
NOT So GLITTERING
BY BILL MCGRAW
for additional documentation.
"One owns a symbol of the South
AND JOHN GALLAGHER
The only readily available balance
African apartheid state when one owns
Who bought the
Free Press Staff Writers
a Krugerrand," said Randall Robinson
Krugerrands?
sheet lumped the value of the pension
Amid revelations that Mayor Cole-
fund's Krugerrands with another in-
of Washington-based TransAfrica,
Pension fund officials
vestment coin, Canadian Maple Leafs.
which lobbies on African issues.
couldn't say when the
man Young's private company sold
South African Krugerrands. an exami-
The police and fire pension fund is
investment was decided upon.
The total was $206,340.
nation of records Tuesday revealed
controlled by 11 trustees, including
So it could not be determined
Whatever the value of the Kruger-
rands, they make up an infinitesimal
Young, Police Chief William Hart, Fire
Tuesday who voted for it.
that a city pension fund also owns a
number of the controversial gold coins.
portion of the estimated $1.7-billion
Commissioner Melvin Jefferson, Trea-
The trustees are Coleman
The exact amount of the Kruger-
pension fund, but in the minds of
surer Virginia Sikora, City Councilman
Young, William Hart, Nicholas
rands held by the police and fire fight-
millions.- the coins stand for white-
Nicholas Hood, three police officers
Hood, the fire commissioner, the
city treasurer, three police
ers' pension fund could not be deter-
ruled South Africa's oppression of its
officers and three fire fighters.
mined as officials searched their files
majority black population.
See KRUGERRANDS, Page 8A
Police, fire pension fund holds S. African coins
KRUGERRANDS, from Page 1A
coins and precious metals account.
Krugerrands." but it was unclear if the
$170.000 in Krugerrands and other
which also contains hundreds of un-
and three fire fighters.
ordinance affects pension fund invest-
coins in 1988. according to Oakland
Young and Hart are usually repre-
specified coins and silver bars. The
ments.
County coin dealer Ernest Lush.
account's total value was listed as
sented at meetings by alternates. but it
Former President Ronald Reagan
could not be determined Tuesday who
$907,344.
People familiar with the investiga-
banned the importation of Kruger-
tion into possible police corruption say
voted on the purchase that included the
Hood called the fund ownership of
rands in 1985 after being pressured to
the mayor was unaware that Kruger-
Krugerrands. Pension fund officials
the Krugerrands unfortunate, and said,
impose sanctions on South Africa, but
rands were involved in the transac-
said they could not identify the date of
the board can vote to divest the fund of
thousands of coins - imported before
tions, which were engineered by Ken-
the vote.
the coins as it has divested stocks of
the ban - circulate legally.
neth Weiner, a mayoral associate who
Spokesman Bob Berg said the may-
companies doing business in South
Young and most members of the
is the central figure in the federal
or's office would have no comment. He
Africa.
council have been harshly critical of
probe.
noted that Young administration offi-
In March 1985, the City Council
South Africa's apartheid. government,
cials on the pension fund's board of
passed an ordinance that forbid the
which is why revelations that Young's
The police and fire fund is one of
trustees are outnumbered by the six
city's 'general funds. Ccumulated sur-
firm dealt in Krugerrands was such a
two city pension funds. Records show
police and fire representatives.
pluses. cash balances interest income
shock.
the other fund. for all other city em-
The Krugerrands and Maple Leafs
or earnings from these. funds to be used
Young's firm, Detroit Technology
ployees, does not include Krugerrands
are part of the pension fund's rare
towards the purchase of South African
and Investments Inc., sold nearly
among its $1.7 billion in investments.
Property tax revolt
sweeps across state
Politicans trot out reform plans
By Eric Freedman
Prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson and
Detroit News Lansing Bureau
Farmington Hills economist Patrick
L. Anderson.
LANSING - A smorgasbord of
Their amendment would cut
property tax reform proposals is sit-
property taxes by $550 million to
ting on the table in Lansing but the
$600 million. increase state aid for
issue may give politicians and voters
public schools and strengthen tax-
a bad case of indigestion before it is
payer rights. advocates said.
settled.
"Our proposal prevents the state
The tax-slash revolt was touched
from raising other taxes. which is a
off in part by last year's soaring
big protection for businesses and
property assessments. Now, three
residents who fear they may get a
rival ballot petitions in circulation
property tax cut and have the state
propose trimming property taxes.
turn around and raise the income or
both major gubernatorial candidates
sales tax." Anderson said.
are pushing their own plans and a
number of legislators are advocating
"Proposition 2 PLUS 2," which
ther alternatives.
would roll assessments back to 1988
Not surprisingly. the property tax
levels, cap property taxes at 2 percent
issue is interwoven with the 1990
of a property's market value and
cubernatorial and legislative elec-
increase the sales tax by 2 cents.
rions.
It was developed by lawyer Fran-
Last week. the Democratic-con-
cis Hughes and certified public ac-
trolled House passed a complex plan
countant John Toepel. both of Roch-
that would shift about $400 million
ester.
in tax deductions away from utility
Hughes said the proposal would
companies and large manufacturers
cut property taxes by $1.49 billion. or
to individual homeowners.
30 percent. and raise $1.6 billion in
sales taxes for use by schools and
ALSO UNDER that proposal.
local governments. Schools would
backed by Democratic Gov. James J.
end up ahead $400 million a year. he
Blanchard. future property tax as-
said.
sessments for schools would be limit-
"Ours is a permanent solution to
ed to the inflation rate.
the property tax problem." he said.
"This plan provides major, per-
"It addresses the real problem. which
manent property tax relief and in-
is annual assessment increases, not
creases the state's share of education
millage rates."
funding, which already is Michigan's
No. 1 budget priority." Blanchard
The third proposal is touted by
said.
Jim DeMar. a Utica barber and tax
cut activist
Meanwhile. Senate Majority
Leader John Engler. R-Mt. Pleasant.
He wants to cut assessments from
and House Minority Leader Paul
50 percent to 40 percent of market
Hillegonds. R-Holland. want to cut
value. allow voters to reduce that
whool property taxes by $448 million
percentage another 5 percent at ev-
including reductions for senior
ery gubernatorial election and re-
itizens and a higher ceiling on the
quire voter approval of all new and
increased taxes.
homestead property tax credit.
Under the Republican plan. the
In addition. homeowners would
get a state income tax credit if they
state would trim other government
pay more than 3 percent of their
programs to pav the schools for lost
household income for property taxes.
property taxes.
"Lansing is reeking with talk of
"It's not enough to talk about just
property tax reform," DeMar said.
apping property taxes or limiting
"After the election. Lansing will just
increases," said Engler. who is run-
reek."
ning against Blanchard. "The time
has come to actually cut taxes."
With the Legislature divided -
TO GET on the ballot. any of the
constitutional amendments needs
Democrats ruling the House. Repub-
licans the Senate - lawmakers are
239.657 valid signatures from regis-
tered voters.
almost certain to deadlock without
passing any proposal.
One of the individual, legislative
plans comes from Sen. Richard Fes-
THAT'S WHY many tax cut
sler. R-Union Lake, who said. "The
activists said the only way to change
system we have now is a system of
the current system is with a citizen
nonvoted hidden taxation that jumps
effort to amend the state Constitu-
out at us oner a vent "
ion. The three ballot- proposals
Fessler has introduced a constitu-
timed at doing that include:
tional amendment to cap future
property tax assessment increases at
The "Citizens" Tax Limitation"
5 percent or the rate of inflation.
drive. led be former Oakland County
whichever is lower.
Detroit
Engler promises
Taxes
From 1B
Earlier this week. Macomb
lagging
County Democratic Reps. Sharon
taxpayer relief
Gire and Ken DeBeaussaert intro-
duced a bill that limits a homeown-
er's school tax increase to the rate
of inflation. The state would make
on trade
up the difference to the schools.
By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN
"Before every election time. we routinely
Blanchard originally unveiled
Lansing State Journal
hear promises to cut the budget and make it
the tax cap in his January State of
up by making government more efficient,"
the State address. The Gire-De-
Republican gubernatorial candidate John
he said. "I've. grown skeptical of whether
Beaussaert bill also includes an al-
pact
Engler vowed Thursday to give Michigan
those savings are actually there."
ternative credit for homeowners
taxpayers a 20 percent school property tax
At Michigan State University, Economics
whose assessments do not increase
reduction by trimming state employment
Department Chairman Ronald Fisher said
beyond inflation.
and realigning the
CAMPAIGN
tax cuts can have a down side. "It simply is
Bowman said the Democratic
BY CONSTANCE C. PRATER
budget.
not realistic to believe that the state govern-
Democrats called
plan would save taxpayers $25 mil-
Free Press Staff Writer
ment can reduce its state revenues by $400
Engier's idea an empty
million to $600 million without there being
lion in its first year, while Engler
Thirteen months after the his-
said his would save $450 million.
toric U.S.-Canada Free Trade
campaign promise.
90
some severe consequences." he said.
'He doesn't have a
By 1992, Engler's plan would save
The Senate majority leader's plan would:
Agreement. Detroit is lagging be-
plan. It's just an election
Reduce how much of a home or busi-
$900 million a year.
hind other border cities in promot-
year tax cut that he has
ness's property value is taxed for schools.
To keep the budget balanced.
ing business opportunities. accord-
no way of paying for."
Currently; taxes are assessed on 50 percent
Engier said he would trim the
ing to a report presented Thursday
said Shelby Solomon,
GOVERNOR'S
of the value. Engler's plan would drop that
Commerce and Labor depart-
to the City Council.
state management and
RACE
to 45 percent this year. 42.5 percent in 1991
ments' budgets. outside consulting
Although several agencies and
budget director.
and 40 percent in 1992. The assessment
fees and state employment. He
groups have projects under way or
Added state Treasurer Robert Bowman:
would stay at 50 percent for property taxes
said some departments are violat-
planned. there's no central clear-
"It's a temporary cut that does nothing to
levied by local governments.
ing state Civil Service hiring rules
inghouse for information. accord-
provide permanent relief. It will be elimi-
Give homeowners 65 and older a 50
and that anyone hired illegally
ing to the preliminary findings of
nated in one or two years" as assessments
percent exemption from school taxes this
would be the first to go.
rise.
the Free Trade Agreement Task
year and a 75 percent break next year. By
Besides lowering taxes. Engler would ex-
1992, no senior citizens would pay school
He also said welfare grants
Force.
empt senior citizens from paying any school
taxes on their homes.
would not be cut to make up for the
The group, which held its third
taxes by 1992. cut business taxes and end
5 percent drop in state revenues.
Increase the Homestead Property Tax
meeting Thursday in the City Plan-
industrial property tax abatements.
Credit limit by $200 this year. to $1,400. The
Budget director Solomon said
ning Commission offices in Detroit,
'You've got people in this town who say
limit would rise gradually to $2,500 and then
Engler hasn't listed enough budget
was established last fall after a joint
this can't be done." Engler said. "I say on
be indexed to inflation.
cuts to pay for the tax reduction
Windsor-Detroit city council meet-
that score. just watch my pen."
Reduce the Single Business Tax by 19
and chided him for not being more
The tax-cut tussle was one of the first ma-
ing. Members include trade ex-
percent to 1.9 percent. To balance that.
specific.
jor skirmishes in the gubernatorial race be-
perts and public and private sector
Engler would eliminate the capital acquisi-
tween Engler. a Mount Pleasant Republi-
representatives from both sides of
tion deduction that businesses use to write
For the owner of a $100,000
can. and Democratic incumbent James
off the cost of equipment.
home paying 50 mills in school tax-
the border.
Blanchard.
Prohibit state and local governments
es. Engler's plan would drop the
The Free Trade agreement
John Jackson. a University of Michigan
from issuing new industrial property tax
annual school property tax bill
eliminates tariffs on most goods
political science and business administra-
abatements after Dec. 31, 1990.
from $2.500 now to $2,000 by 1992.
traded over the next 10 years. In
tion professor. said Engler's message isn't
provided assessments don't rise.
new.
See TAXES, Page 3B
1988. the two countries traded
But Bowman said the only real
about $193 billion in goods and
way to guarantee permanent prop-
erty tax relief is to stop assess-
services.
Trade experts said Detroit.
ments from rising. "If your home
value goes up 15 percent. it doesn't
separated by only a river from
do you any good." he said of
Windsor, has the prime location
Engler's plan.
imong large U.S. cities to take
advantage of the act. Buffalo. by.
House Republican Leader Paul
comparison. is about 100 miles-
Hillegonds of Holland said he's not
from a major Canadian trading
sure even the governor's modest
enter. Toronto.
tax relief plan will get through the
Democrat-controlled House.
Sull. since July 1987. when the
Chamber of Commerce be-
Republicans tried Thursday to
remoting a rive-county trade
he a tax cut to bill helping Derroit
FREE TRADE Page 2E
reinstate a laosed utility tax. but
their amendment was defeated 52-
18 The unlity tax measure passed
the House 58-49. largely along par-
Hean lines.
Metro Detroit assessments
Local property taxes surge again
Average résidential property assessments Increased again this year.
Here are average home prices for 1989 and assessment Increases for
state's Headler Amendment requires
proposals to cut property taxes.
Oakland, Macomb and Wayne countles for 1987-90.
By Jim Mitzelfeld
A list of Metro home prices,
governments to reduce tax rates 50
Several grass roots organizations
Detioit News Staff Writer
Oakland:
Macomb:
Wayne:
assessments 14A
collections don't increase more than
have begun circulating petitions call
$103,795
$72,500
Downriver: $62,986
Detroit: $26,000
John Haviland, 76, hopes to live
the inflation rate. But the law has
ing for constitutional amendments
in his lakefront home until he dies.
percent in Macomb and Oakland
not been working in favor of home
cut millage rates and limit the poten
But taxes could get him first.
counties and 7 percent in Wayne
owners.
tial growth of assessments.
The Orchard Lake house he built
County
slightly less than last
When home values grow laster
The assessment issue prompted
in 1954 for $30,000 is worth $345,200
year's increases but still higher than
than commercial and industrial
state Sen. Richard Fessler, R-West
today. His property tax bill is $8,919
the 5.4-percent inflation rate for
property. residential taxpayers end
Bloomfield. to suggest to his constit-
89
90
up from $6,877 A year ago.
Metro Detroit.
up contributing more to the tax
uents in Orchard Lake last month
"We can't keep on going like this."
Local communities are required
collections.
that they consider taking the State
3.1%
3.9%
said Haviland. who is considering
to revise assessments annually to
Tax Commission to court to chal-
enstire fair taxation. Under Michigan
THIS IS the third straight year
lenge the legality of a system that
5.9%
whether to sell.
Lakefront owners have been hit
law, assessments are 50 percent of a
of residential increases exceeding in
produces double digit assessment in-
7.6%
8.3%
8.2%
8.4%
home's market value. Therefore, if a
flation and homeowners are ready to
creases year after year.
9.1%
hardest by 1990 property assess-
ments. Many face increases three or
house has a market value of $100,000
fight back.
"There doesn't appear In be finan-
11.2%
Source: Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Detroit and downriver examples are
four times greater than the average
property taxes are based on an as-
In Lansing. the issue has drawn
cial room in Orchard Lake for a
provided because Wayne County does not provide a countywidb average sales price.
for other homeowners.
sessed value of $50,000.
the attention of the two likely candi-
On average, assessments rose 8
As assessments increase. the
dates for governor. Each has outlined
Please see Taxes/14A
SIDNEY JABLONSKI/The Detroit News
Taxes
time, reaching $103,700.
Here's how to appeal your assessment
The strong market led to assess
ment increases of more than 10
If you believe your property tax assessment is 100 high, you can appeal it by
Local property
percent for the Oakland County com
taking the following sleps
munities of Birmingham. Troy, Roy
Visit your local assessor's office to see il the city's records on your
al Oak, Clawson. Huntington Woods
assessments
property are accurate and up-lo-date If there's an error, il can be cor
and Berkley.
surge again
rected You also should compare your assessment with others in your
In Macomb County, home values
neighborhood to make sure they are uniform.
climbed as developers built subdivi-
If you're still not satisfied, make an appointment with your local three
sions in rural northern townships.
From page 1A
member Board of Review The hearings in most cities will be March
BUT EVEN as its population
person who is near retirement age,"
12-14 but you should call your local assessor's office to double check
shifted north. Macomb County's old
said Bob Newton, 70, who couldn't
At the hearings, homeowners have about 10 minutes to present evi
er. established communities experi
afford the $5,400 a year in taxes on
dence showing they believe their home is over assessed. This board
enced rising property values. Resi
his pension as a retired bank
can only change your assessment, not your taxes Homeowners are
dents in the blue-collar communities
vice-president. He and his wife sold
usually notified of the board's decision within 10 days after the hearing
of Warren and East Detroit received
the home they had lived in since 1951
If you're not happy with the board's decision, you have until June 30
assessment increases of 9' and H
and moved to a larger house in
each year to file a written appeal with the Michigan Tax Tribunal, PO
percent, respectively.
Livingston County that cost him far
Box 30232. Lansing, MI, 48909. The tribunal makes the final decision on
In Wayne County, Detroit's aver
less.
assessments
age assessment increase was only 0,5
Orchard Lake Assessor John Sail-
percent but residents in popular
er said he knows of several wealthy
neighborhoods such as Indian Vil
property owners who have bought
shots are building big homes around
United States rose by 4.2 percent to
lage. the Harbortown development.
homes as large as 4,000 square feet
here. They vote for every millage tha
$93,100 in 1989
Palmer r ++ nd Rosedale Park were
and then torn them down, only to
comes along and then they leave the
$77,500 in Metro Detroit, where
outraged because assessments
replace them with mansions three
MICHAEL S GREEN'The Detroit News
area because they transferred."
home values were up 6.3 percent,
climbed 40 percent in two years.
times the size.
Frank and Shirley Allen have lived in Orchard Lake for 27 years. He's 72 but
Debate over higher assessments is
according to the National Board of
Assessments in Detroit's neigh
"It's a status symbol," Sailer said.
his tax assessment keeps him from thinking about retirement.
likely to continue until the law is
Realtors and the Multiple Listing
boring communities of Hanitramck
"If you have a lot of money and want
changed or the real estate market
Service compiled by local Realtors.
and Dearborn rose 8 percent and 13
to show people. you buy a big house
million. By last year, the total assess-
Orchard Lake resident Frank Al-
softens in Metro Detroit. Local real
percent. respectively.
on a lake.
Assessors and real estate experts
ment rose to $119.7 million.
len, 72, said his tax bill keeps him
estate specialist said the market is
Northville and Grosse Pointe led
said buyers willing to shell out hig
THE EFFECT has been a dou-
"Because the area has become
unlikely to slow because home prices
Wayne County, with average assess
from retiring.
popular, people are forced to pay,
don't want to pay high taxes
in Metro Detroit still lag behind
bucks have helped generate record-
bling of the village's tax base in the
other big cities.
level home prices. The average price
ment increases of 16 percent
last decade. In 1980, the assessed
said Orchard Lake Village Clerk Ja.
account of this here big stuff being
for a home in Oakland Counts
Detroit News Staff Writer Rebecca
I
was
$51
?
not If Overhold Green
huilt all around us he said "The 1.1p
MEDIAN HOME prices in the
topped $100,000 last year for the first
Powers contributed to this report
2.15.90
ABORTION ISSUE: PARENTAL CONSENT
Senate OKs consent bill
Lansing State Journal/ROD SANFORD
Above, state Sen. Jack Welborn confers with
Sen. Lana Pollack during Wednesday' abor-
tion consent bill debate, while Sen. Jack
Faxon (at right) voices his opinion.
Senators consider petition drive to avoid Blanchard's veto pen
By CHRIS ANDREWS
about to let this issue die just because the
out a full-page ad in the Lansing State
Creek. supported the bill. Sen. William Se-
Lansing State Journal
governor vetoes it."
Journal.
derburg, R-East Lansing. voted against it.
Pro-life lawmakers have focused on the
The state Senate overwhelmingly passed
Before Wednesday's vote. state Sen.
The bill would require pregnant teens 17
parental consent issue since last summer's
Lana Pollack. D-Ann Arbor. and 43 other
egistation Wednesday requiring pregnant
and under to get a parent's permission for
U.S. Supreme Court decision. which gave
eens to get a parent's permission for abor-
legislators urged Michigan's congressional
an abortion. They could ask a judge to
states new power to restrict abortions.
ions. moving the pro-life dominated Legis-
delegation to cosponsor a pro-choice law.
waive the requirement.
Pro-life groups want to make abortion
ature a step closer to a showdown with
And the pro-choice People for the Ameri-
The Senate removed a House-passed
Gov. James Blanchard.
illegal. Pro-choice groups believe women
can Way announced its "heroes and ze-
amendment requiring judges to approve
But acknowledging they probably lack
should have the legal right to get an
roes," based on their voting records in
the waivers if a psychiatrist or psychologist
abortion.
he votes in the House to override Blan-
Congress.
believes a teenager is likely to commit sui-
chard's expected veto. leaders said they
The parental-consent issue will take cen-
The Senate debated the parental consent
cide rather than tell her parents she is
are considering a petition drive to put the
ter stage in the Capitol for the next few
legistation for more than three hours be-
pregnant. Pro-life lawmakers charged that
ssue before the voters.
weeks and could become dominant in the
fore passing it 29-8. It turned down amend-
it was a potentially gaping loophole.
"I think we've demonstrated over the
1990 elections.
ments by minority Democrats who called
"This bill restores parental rights to
ast three or four years on this issue that
On Monday. the National Abortion
the bill too harsh.
where they belong and should never have
ve we been very creative." said Sen. Fred
Rights Action League declared Michigan a
Among mid-Michigan legislators. Dil-
Dillingham. R-Fowlerville. "We're not
target state for its education efforts. taking
lingham and Sen. John Schwarz R-Battle
See ABORTION. Page 4A
Abortion
been taken away.' said Sen. Jack
Welborn, R-Kalamazoo.
But Pollack, the leading abor-
From 1A
tion-rights advocate in the Senate,
sind lawmakers can't legislate bet-
ter family communication any
more than they can legislate absti-
nence among teens.
"Let's face it. We're sending a
message of punishment.' she said.
"We're trying to mete out punish-
ment for an act that we don't ap-
The legislation now goes to the
House, which Is expected to up-
prove it next week. But it is doubl-
ful pro-life forces can muster the
two-thirds vote to override Blan-
The legislators have never been
able to override a veto on an abor-
they fall on the override,
foes could launch a peti-
grove of
chard's veto.
tion question.
tion drive get'around the veto. A
similar effort led to a voter-ap-
proved ban on Medicaid-funded
abortions in 1988.
Barbara Listing. president of
Right to Life of Michigan, said pro-
life groups are taking a harder
look at a petition drive.
"When the bill was introduced,
people didn't feel it would end up
being abortion vs. abortion rights,
that il really would be seen as pa-
rental rights," she said. "But the
lines are really drawn as an abor-
tion bill rather than a parental
consent bill."
The abortion debate appears
certain to spill over into the 1990
elections. Listing said pro-life
groups may focus efforts on elect-
ing enough pro-life legislators to
override a veto.
Listing said polls show three-
quarters of Michigan residents
support parental consent
But Carol King. executive direc-
legislation.
for of the Michigan Abortion
Rights Action League, said last
summer's Supreme Court decision
has awakened pro-choice voters.
'We've seen what happened in
gubernatorial races in Virginia
and New Jersey and the mayor's
race New York, and that going
10 happen in Michigan," she said.
"This going 10 be an Issue that
inspires people, that fires them up,
that gets them out to vote and gets
them to vote pro-choice
Senate passes abortion consent bill
JACQUELYNN BOYLE
"This legislation does one thing
for an act we don't approve of
regulating abortions. But Welborn
ney are also considering a petition
Linsing
Staff
it restores. the right that par-
teenage or preteen sex.
and other abortion foes said Wednes-
drive. similar to the successful 1988
LANSING The Senate on
ents have today for their young chil-
day they intend to concentrate on
effort that resulted in a ban on using
Under the bill. girls under 18
dnesday approved and sent to the
dren if it deals with a medical opera-
getting parental consent written into
Medicaid money to pay for poor
would need written permission from
use a bill requiring pregnant teens
tion or medical process. but they do
law and will not try to advance the
women's abortions.
one parent or guardian before they
0 want abortions to get parental
not have today regarding abortion.'
other legislation.
could get abortions. Teens who don't
The parental-consent bill passed
sent. in what IS likely to be the
said Sen. Jack Welborn, R-Kalama-
want to talk with their parents would.
aslature's only antiabortion effort
Pro-choice Gov. James Blanchard
the House in December but must be
zoo.
be required to get a waiver from-
year.
Countered Sen. Lana Pollack. D-
has vowed to veto any bill - includ-
returned there for approval of a
Senators approved the measure.
juventie court.
Ann Arbor: "It's not right to force
ing parental consent - that restricts
Senate change: removal of an exemp-
8. after three hours of debate
Several other antiabortion bills
a woman's access to abortion.
somebody else to become a parent
tion for pregnant teens deemed sui-
ng which pro-choice senators
against her will. Let's face it. we're
were introduced in the Legislature
If that happens, Welborn and Sen.
cidal by a psychiatrist or psycholo-
d unsuccessfully to add amend-
sending a message of punishment.
after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling
Fred Dillingham, R-Fowlerville. say
gist. The House could take up the bill
nts that would weaken its effect.
We trying to mete out punishment
last July gave states more leeway in
they will try to override the veto.
next week.
TH WEINER VERSION
THE PROBE
THE MONEY
THE CONTACT
THE TAPES
As a federal informant in 1986-
Federal authorities let him keep
He was never a fugitive. "He
He helped set up a corporation
88, he instigated the investigation
thousands of dollars that they
was in almost constant contact
with the consent of the Internal
of possible misuse of the Detroit
knew he was taking from the
with federal agents," said Robert
Revenue Service. He secretly
Police secret service
police fund. He gave federal
Harrison, his lawyer. "They
recorded more than 50
fund. He then began
agents copies of some checks and
knew he was flying overseas and
conversations as part of the
working secretly to
met with investigators more than
in fact urged him to get a new
investigation, making tapes first
uncover corruption in
100 times.
passport."
for the FBI and then the IRS.
the police department.
The double life of Ken Weiner
Young backers say revelation
FOLLOW-UP
Liar and informant, government says
is proof of federal vendetta
A Detroit pension
board that owns South
BY JOCELYNE ZABLIT
adroitly as they say he bilked investors
informant was not made public until
African Krugerrands
AND JIM FINKELSTEIN
in a multimillion dollar pyramid
Wednesday.
Free Press Staff Writers
scheme.
While attorney Robert Harrison
worth about $112,000
BY BILL MCGRAW
have been out to get the mayor and will
In a dramatic for freedom, Ken-
Lawyers for the imprisoned Weiner
provided an outline of Weiner's work
AND CONSTANCE C. PRATER
stop at little to achieve their goal.
is to be asked to unload
neth Weiner portrayed himself
said federal agents allowed the former
as an informant, people close to the
Free Press Staff Writers
"The real question here is why the
them. Details, Page
Wednesday as a globe-trotting federal
civilian deputy Detroit police chief to
federal investigation said Weiner's
For more than half of his life,
federal government would be about
5B.
informant who spent two years investi-
keep thousands of dollars from the
tapes included conversations with
stretching back to his days as a U.S.
such a mission in the first place," said
Notre Dame football
gating corruption in the Detroit police
police secret service fund after he
Mayor Coleman Young and other city
serviceman and union organizer, Cole-
Arthur Johnson, president of the De-
department.
instigated their investigation of the
and police officials from late 1986 to
troit chapter of the NAACP.
coach Lou Holtz flew
man Young has been dogged by federal
Federal authorities described Wei-
fund.
October 1988.
authorities.
Johnson said many black citizens
on the city's
ner, 44, as a con man and habitual liar,
Weiner made 55 secret tape re-
The tapes with Young are ambigu-
Wednesday's revelation that po-
don't trust federal authorities, saying
controversial jet to Las
although they confirmed that he had
cordings, set up a corporation and
ous, although one does indicate that
the FBI and IRS never have shown the
worked as an informant.
traveled as far as Switzerland for the
lice-probe figure Kenneth Weiner
Young knew Weiner was selling Kru-
Vegas last year after
spent more than two years as an FBI
same zeal in protecting blacks' civil
The picture that was drawn during
FBI and the IRS, his lawyers said.
gerrands, the South African gold coin,
informant gave credence to what
rights as they have in pursuing alleged
he spoke at a fund-
a 3½-hour bond hearing in U.S. Dis-
Although Weiner was known to
through Detroit Technology and In-
Young's aides, friends and supporters
raiser. See Page 5B,
trict Court in Detroit was one of
have cooperated with investigators,
have been saying for years: The feds
YOUNG, Page 7A
Weiner conning federal authorities as
the extent and length of his work as an
See WEINER, Page 7A
Young backers say FBI is out to get him
YOUNG, from Page 1A
Perhaps his most famous brush
wrongdoing by black elected officials.
with the government came in 1952,
Young declined to comment
when the House Committee on Un-
Wednesday on the revelations about
American Activities came to Detroit in
Weiner's role as an informant, but he
its notorious search for communists.
has said he believes he is the target in
The 34-year-old Young scolded a
the ongoing federal investigation into
committee lawyer for slurring the
alleged corruption in the police depart-
word "Negro" as "Niggra" and re-
ment and city government.
minded the committee that he would
As they have in the past, federal
refuse to inform on colleagues in the
officials on Wednesday insisted that
National Negro Labor Council.
their actions were totally appropriate.
"You have me mixed up with a stool
Civil rights activists have cited the
pigeon," said Young, whose defiance
well-documented FBI campaign
made him a hero in Detroit's growing
against Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and
black neighborhoods.
the recent sting operation that led to
In 1976, Young was considered by
the arrest of Washington Mayor Mar-
many as a target in a federal investiga-
ion Barry on narcotics charges as
tion into former Executive Deputy
examples of harassment of black lead-
Police Chief Frank Blount's alleged
ers.
acceptance of payoffs from drug deal-
Federal interest in the 71-year-old
ers. Another high-ranking police offi-
Young goes back to at least World War
cial, Reginald Harvel, committed sui-
II when the FBI, according to Young,
cide after his name arose in the probe.
sabotaged his budding career as a
Blount was never charged.
fighter pilot by spreading allegations
In July 1981, Young's conversa-
that he had been a radical union orga-
tions in his downtown townhouse were
nizer before the war.
bugged by federal investigators look-
According to government files,
ing into the so-called Vista-sludge haul-
court testimony and Young's recollec-
ing case, in which six people - includ-
tions, the FBI has, since then, ques-
ing the head of the city's Water and
tioned his family members and friends,
Sewerage Department - pleaded
kept track of his jobs and traffic tickets,
guilty or were convicted of crimes.
and bugged his home.
One of the investigators who lis-
Associates have said the IRS has
tened in on Young was the late Leonard
audited Young each of the 16 years he
Gilman, then the U.S. Attorney.
has been mayor.
"Lenny
was salivating at the
Despite the scrutiny, Young never
thought of getting my black ass,"
has been indicted.
Young was quoted as saying in 1985.
Weiner: 2 years as informant
WEINER, from Page 1A
least $72,000 from the fund over 10
said. "But, if it is true, I had no
vestments Inc., a private company
years.
knowledge of it."
Weiner set up for the mayor, the
Federal officials said Weiner was
Detroit police, in their own sepa-
sources said.
not being used to set up any city
rate investigation of Weiner, said they
Young had no comment on the
officials for federal prosecution.
have evidence that supports his work
latest revelations about Weiner. He
"This is definitely not a govern-
for the FBI and were waiting Wednes-
met Wednesday night at the Manoo-
ment sting," said Ben McMakin, head
day to detain him for questioning if he
gian mansion with Police Chief William
of the Detroit IRS office. U.S. Attorney
was released from federal custody.
Hart.
Stephen Markman and Hal Helterhoff,
A source close to the Detroit police
RICHARD LEE/Detroit Free Press
Harrison and U.S. attorneys said
Detroit FBI special agent in charge,
probe said that during one month in
Robert Harrison, left, and David
Weiner began cooperating with federal
said they were satisified with the integ-
1986, the mobile telephone in Wei-
Zacks, attorneys for Kenneth
authorities after they began investigat-
rity of the investigation.
ner's city-issued car was used "six or
Weiner, head to Weiner's federal
ing his role in 1986 in a multimillion
Arguing for Weiner's release on
seven" times to call the FBI in Wash-
court hearing Wednesday.
dollar investment scam.
bond from the federal prison in Milan,
ington, always in the early morning
To win leniency, according to a
Harrison said that far from being a risk
hours.
would be."
source close to the investigation, Wei-
to flee, Weiner is a longtime cooperat-
On the monthly bill, "one of the
Harrison said the government is
ner offered information about possible
ing witness with the government.
numbers that kept showing up consis-
trying to keep Weiner in prison be-
police corruption and took on an under-
"From 1986 to 1988 he was in
tently" was "registered to the FBI
cause they "want to squeeze him some
cover role.
almost constant contact with federal
wire room in Washington," the source
more to cooperate."
Federal attorneys said Weiner
agents," said Harrison. "They knew he
said.
Harrison acknowledged some peo-
backed out of the arrangement around
was flying overseas and in fact urged
Harrison said Weiner used the code
ple would say of Weiner, "Yeah, the
October 1988. He was one of three
him to get a new passport."
name of William Bagley, an acquaint-
guy's got a line a mile long," but said
people indicted last month in connec-
Harrison said Weiner made about
ance from Farmington Hills who died
harmless bragging is simply part of
tion with the investment scheme,
35 tapes for the FBI between late 1986
last year, for his contacts with the FBI.
Weiner's style.
which authorities charge involved
and February 1988, then made anoth-
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheldon
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Zat-
using money from new investors to pay
er 20 tapes of conversations at the
Light, arguing to keep Weiner in pris-
koff said he would decide the bond
phony dividends to earlier investors.
request of the Internal Revenue Ser-
on, said Weiner is not employed in the
issue after both sides file written briefs
He is in federal custody in connection
vice from February 1988 until October
area, and with his fiancee, Colleen
by Monday.
with those charges.
1988.
Bailey, on unpaid medical leave from
Free Press Staff Writers Jim
As an informant, Weiner "provided
"Weiner met with government
American Airlines, "there is no show-
Schaefer and Joe Swickard contributed
information that launched the secret
agents over 100 times from 1986 till
ing of what their source of income
to this report.
service probe," Harrison said.
late 1988," said Harrison. "He flew to
A federal grand jury is trying to
and from many parts of the country at
determine whether at least $1.4 mil-
the request of the federal govern-
lion from the fund, intended for police
ment."
undercover operations, was diverted
He said Weiner's destinations in-
to three dummy corporations set up by
cluded California, Florida and Georgia
Weiner, including one that paid rent on
and Geneva, Switzerland.
Hart's daughter's home in California.
Weiner attorney David Zacks said
Sources familiar with the investiga-
that while federal agents let Weiner
tion said Weiner was lying to both
keep his money from the Detroit po-
federal and Detroit police officials and
lice, the U.S. government did not pay
became "an informant out of control"
him for informing or travel.
until he was arrested in December at
Wayne County Prosecutor John
Metro Airport.
O'Hair, whose office is part of the
Weiner showed federal agents
federal investigation, said he did not
some checks he said he was paid from
know the extent of Weiner's involve-
the fund for consulting work, but not in
ment with federal officials and Detroit
amounts approaching the money De-
Technology when he joined forces with
troit police say is missing from the
the federal authorities to investigate
fund, the sources said.
the police fund.
O'Hair
COMMISSION ON THE GREENING OF DETROIT
100 Renaissance Center, Suite 1760
Detroit, MI 48243
March 9, 1990
Ms. Dorothy Brodie
Mayor's Office
1126 City-County Bldg.
Detroit, MI 48226
Dear Dorothy:
There is an exciting new project in Detroit which we believe President
Bush, our "Environment President" would enjoy knowing about. It's a
private, non-profit organization called the Commission on the Greening of
Detroit and it's mission is to reforest the City's neighborhoods,
boulevards and parks over the next 10-20 years.
As you know, Detroit was once known as the city of trees, with
beautiful tree-canopied boulevards and neighborhoods resplendent with
towering Elms. Sadly, hundreds of thousands of Detroit's most majestic
trees were lost during a devastating epidemic of Dutch Elm Disease and
were never replaced. Other trees were cut down during the years of
Detroit's rapid urban expansion and, if replaced, were frequently
replanted with species inadequate to withstand the harsh urban
environment.
The Commission's membership represents a diverse mix of metropolitan
Detroit's most powerful civic and business leaders, educators and
foresters (see attached list) and enjoys a strong base of community
support (see attached articles). The group has been working closely
with both State and City government as well as representatives from the
American Forestry Association, to ensure a well planned program of
reforestation.
While the goal of the Commission of the Greening of Detroit is to ensure
the reforestation of the City, it does not intend to single handedly
replant every tree. Rather, it will function as a catalyst inspiring and
guiding the process of City reforestation through a broad base of
innovative programs. Included among these will be Community Education
Programs (we are currently planning programs with the head of the
Science Curriculum for the Detroit Public Schools), demonstration
projects, and neighborhood and public area planting programs (we are
discussing the idea of creating a children's forest) which will be guided
by the professional forester's within our organization.
Ms. Dorothy Brodie
March 9, 1990
Page Two
With this in mind, the Commission has adopted two first year projects.
The first is a Blue Ribbon Tree Planting Project on Larned Boulevard in
Detroit which will begin on Earth Day, April 22 when Mayor Young and
Governor Blanchard will plant the first trees. This site was selected by
virtue of it's proximity to a large urban renewal neighborhood, it's
location as a gateway to the City, and it's State-of-the-Art sprinkling
system. This extensive project, which will take many months to
complete, has been planned pro bono by members of the Commission's
Tree Committee (which includes professional landscapers, foresters,
architects and utility representatives) and will be financed through a
broad base of private and public sector support.
Incidentally, we are pleased to have as one of our Commissioner's one of
the nation's leading tree experts, Dr. David Karnosky whose Elm research
(see attached article) has resulted in a hybrid of Elm tree which is
totally resistant to Dutch Elm Disease. We will be planting one of Dr.
Karnosky's prize specimens on April 22 and are currently discussing
plans with him to establish an experimental Elm Arboretum in Detroit.
The Commission's second project is a Tree Survey which we plan to
conduct this summer with funding from the Michigan Youth Corps
Program. The survey, which will note the location, condition, species
and maintenance needs of all Detroit trees, will be used as a basis for
developing a strategic plan of reforestation in the City over the next
decade.
The survey represents a unique partnership between the private and
public sector and will receive funding form both sources. For example,
GM, through a direct donation to the Commission, is providing specially
built vans for the survey crews; and the Commission will finance special
education activities and post-experience job interviews for the Youth
Corps Surveyors. Michigan State University has provided generous
planning help and will recruit survey crew leaders from among their
urban forestry students. Through the Michigan Department of Labor's
Youth Corps Program, the state will pay the salaries of the Youth Corps
workers and their crew leaders. Finally, the City of Detroit, in addition
to providing extensive planning assistance and the full time participation
of the City's Forester, has an extensive software program which will be
the basis for the survey's data collection and analysis.
I believe that President Bush would be interested to know that our tree
surveyors will be recruited by high school principals from among
disadvantaged, minority youth who live in the inner-city of Detroit. The
principals will select 18-21 year old candidates who have demonstrated
personal and academic excellence and who have an interest in forestry
and the environment. We are committed to increasing the number of
minority students who enroll in professional forestry programs.
Ms. Dorothy Brodie
March 9, 1990
Page Three
As you know, a member of President Bush's cabinet recently developed
the idea of the Earth Corps (article attached). Our program will be
working with precisely the kind of students the Earth Corps ultimately
intends to recruit, and we have been speaking with the Washington-based
Earth Corps staff about the possibility of sending our survey
participants, at the end of the summer, on to serve in the first class of
the Earth Corps Cadets Program.
When President Bush recently announced that he was committed to
planting 100 billion trees (see attached article), I believe he had
precisely our kind of grass-roots project in mind.
On April 3, the President is scheduled to appear in Detroit and it would
be a tremendous boost to our efforts and to the morale of the City of
Detroit if, during his upcoming visit he would comment on our
organization and our projects. If in addition to his remarks the
President would want to plant a tree during his visit, we would be
thrilled.
If there is any other information I might provide, or questions I might
answer, please do not hesitate to phone me at (313) 259-5400.
Sincerely,
Behn Salm
Elizabeth Sachs
President and Founder
ds
Enclosures
Essay
Lance Morrow
Forest of Dreams
W
ith the names of trees you can make a fine pagan bou-
points: the unused energy and gifts of young blacks, the real
quet of words: hornbeam, ginkgo, quickbeam, oak,
needs. of the environment, and the motivating focus of some
white willow, tamarind, Lombardy poplar, false cypress, elder,
parts of military life. Pinkerton wanted to remove the Earth
laburnum, larch. baobab, black gum, rowan, hazel, white-
Corps from direct Government (and therefore congressional/
beam, tree of heaven, ash
political) control and from the sort of bureaucratic and ideo-
At one time trees were sacred. Gods inhabited them and
logical overelaboration that came with the Great Society. Un-
took their forms. Trees were druidic. They rose out of the
like Franklin Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, which
earth, gesticulating, tossing their hair. They were the tender-
was run by the U.S. Army, the Earth Corps is to be not a Gov-
est life-form: cooling, sheltering, calming, enigmatic. Or else
ernment agency but a nonprofit corporation funded by private
they might harbor terrors: beasts and devils in the dark forest.
donations and perhaps eventually some Government grants.
They were, in either case. magic. Still are, of course, although
Its director and chief executive officer is John Wheeler, 45, an
they have also evolved into mere lumber.
intense, effective idealist who graduated from West Point in
The spiritual descendants of those who worshiped trees
1966, served in Viet Nam, took degrees from Harvard Busi-
may sentimentalize them now as some green sermon. Ronald
ness School and Yale Law School and among other things
Reagan did not. Once during the 1980 campaign, in a nuke-
headed the foundation that got the Vist Nam Veterans Me-
the-wimps frame of mind, Reagan claimed that no matter
morial installed on the Mall in Washington.
what environmentalists say, trees are a source of deadly pollu-
With a grant of $300,000 in seed money from the Annie
tion. On the campaign plane later, Reagan's
E. Casey Foundation and office space near
press secretary James Brady sighted forests be-
the White House donated by lawver Allan
low and shouted, "Killer trees! Killer trees!" It
Fox, Wheeler is developing plans to establish
seems that Reagan was confusing nitrous oxide
an Earth Corps Academy, probably in Vir-
with deadlier oxides of nitrogen. Never mind.
ginia, by next year. The corps will-recruit 500
The Republican President in the White
House now may not poeticize trees-he takes
FOR TIME
cadets for a two year tour of service that will?
start with three months of forestry, academic
a certain pride in not poeticizing anything-
and environmental training at the academy.
but he does have a fine secular appreciation of
The recruits will be young men-and wom-
what trees do. They hold the earth and scrub
en ages 16 to 21, with preference given to
the air. Chop them down, and the world be-
attracting the poor Recruits will: have to
comes a moonscape in a greenhouse. Egypt's
pass 2 qualifying examination and must be
eastern desert is a cautionary text: each tree in
drug free. Their main work will be reforest-:
the sparse landscape is under the protection of
ing the nation; starting with some 1.3 million
a Bedouin family. Sometimes the people build
acres of South Carolina that were torn apart
a wall around each tree to guard the leaves
by Hurricane Hugo. Eventually, Wheeler
from goats
hopes, the corps will attract 4,000 recruits a
George Bush, who said he wanted to:be an
year. By encouraging local and state conser-
environmental. President is making trees a
vation corps as well. the Earth Corps may be
kind of fetish of his Administration. In his bud-
able to double Bush's 10 billion trees by the
get submitted last week, Bush allotted $173
year 2000.
million to plant 1 billion trees this year. By the
Cadets will wear uniforms with the Earth
year 2000 there should be 10 billion new trees
Corps insignia (the earth seen from space and
that eventually should absorb 13 million tons of carbon diox-
the words TRUTH, DUTY, ONE EARTH.) They will receive food,
ide a year. or 5% of the nation's annual emissions of the gas.
shelter and the minimum wage, a portion to be set aside in sav-
The news is that a larger environmental ambition is in har-
ings. When a cadet leaves the corps, he will have technical
ness. John Kennedy launched the Peace Corps. There may be
skills and environmental training. The corps will work to find
some symmetry in the fact that a man in the Bush White
him a job or a path to higher education.
House has hatched the idea for something called the Earth
Pinkerton and Wheeler are concerned that the military
Corps, which will try to enact the spirit of the last line of Ken-
image might deter recruits. It is the military esprit they want,
nedy's Inaugural Address in 1961: "Here on earth God's work
not military coercion or rigidity. Wheeler is also steering
must truly be our own
10,000 miles clear of the welfare mentality. The corps will not
The Earth Corps.is the inspiration of James Pinkerton, the
be remedial, not mandatory, not a punishment, not an entitle-
31 year old Deputy Assistant to the President for Policy-Plan
ment, not cushy and not trivial. Excellence and dignity are
ning: Pinkerton did not begin by thinking about trees, but-
words that recur in Wheeler's conversation. Cadets will do
rather about the wreckage of America inner cities and the
hard, necessary work-reforestation. fire fighting, fire preven-
prospects that face young black males. Looking for an ap
tion, wetland protection, cleaning up oil spills and protecting
proach to the problem, he considered the way that the Army,
habitats for endangered species.
at its best, trains people-teaches them discipline, teamwork
The Earth Corps is still a seedling. But it is a daring idea.
and such values as courage, honor, strength, loyalty, pride.
From the first landfall. the logic of the American enterprise
The experience, when all goes well, can transform lives. The
was the ax, clearing the way west through wilderness. That was
welfare system institutionalizes an abject status quo and pro-
a way to make a civilization, as Brazil is now making a civiliza-
duces generations of angry, mired victims.
tion by burning itself down. The idea of the Earth Corps draws
Pinkerton made a triangular connection among these
a line that circles back to the sacred.
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TIME. FEBRUARY 12, 1990
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1990
Bush Wants Billions of Trees for War on Pollution
By PHILIP SHABECOFF
An idea for the
Mr. Bush will call for a major volun-
help temper the magnitude and speed
Special to The New York Times
teer effort to join in the tree-planting
of the greenhouse effect.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 - Aiming at
campaign. Aides said the President re-
Mark C. Trexler, director of the car-
both a greening of America and a cool-
greening of
gards voluntarism as an important
bon sequestration forestry project of
ing of the world, President Bush will
component of the program and hopes
the World Resources Institute, a non-
announce in his State of the Union Mes-
America.
to enlist groups like the Boy Scouts and
profit research and policy group here,
sage next week a program to increase
the Garden Clubs of America. He will
said planting an additional billion trees
the nation's tree cover by a billion trees
ask for private corporations to help
a year for 10 years could absorb about
a year for the next 10 years, Adminis-
his credentials as an environmentally
pay for the effort.
1 to 3 percent of the carbon dioxide
tration officials say.
minded President, in contrast to Presi-
produced by human activity in the
The reforestation program, whose
dent Ronald Reagan, who was widely
Reaction to Global Warming
United States. This country produces
cost over the next decade would ap-
criticized by environmental groups. On
In part, the program is intended as
1.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year,
proach $2 billion, is intended to help
Wednesday, for example, Mr. Bush an-
this nation's first significant policy re-
nearly 25 percent of the total that en-
ameliorate the global warming ex-
nounced that he would support the
sponse to the rapid warming of the
ters the global atmosphere.
pected to occur as a result of pollution.
elevation of the Environmental Protec-
Both the Environmental Protection
globe projected by scientists in the next
The program is to be run by the For-
tion Agency to Cabinet status, a goal of
century as a result of the accumulation
Agency and the Agriculture Depart-
est Service, and the President will pro-
most environmentalists for years.
ment had recommended more exten-
of carbon dioxide and other gases re-
pose- to Congress in his budget next
leased by human activity into the at-
sive programs. The E.P.A. last year
Polls and this year's Congressional
proposed a reforestation effort that
week that $175 million be devoted to it.
mosphere.
agenda, in which environmental issues
These gases trap infrared radiation
would cut 10 percent of the nation's an-
The program envisages annual outlays
will be an important theme, show that
of a similar amount for a decade.
from the Sun that would othewise be re-
nual carbon dioxide pollution, and the
environmental protection is a potent
flected back into space, causing the
Agriculture Department offered a plan
Conservationists said the program,
issue supported by a broad spectrum of
Earth's temperature to rise, in a pro-
for a 5 percent reduction. The White
by itself, would do little to combat
the public.
cess similar to what happens in a
House rejected the more ambitious ef-
pollution-caused global warming, but
Administration aides say Mr. Bush is
greenhouse. The current consensus
forts because they would have entailed
they welcomed it as an important sym-
genuinely concerned about global
renting land from farmers on which to
among scientists appears to be that the
bolic step.
warming, genuinely wants to beautify
average global temperature will rise
plant trees.
The program would entail not only
America and is genuinely fond of trees.
Conservationists emphasized that
by 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit or more by
the planting of new trees but also the
The aides said that in addition to
the middle of the next century.
planting trees alone would not make
improvement of land to enhance tree
any major reduction in the global
growth. It would be undertaken in na-
combating global warming linked to
Trees and other green vegetation ab-
warming trend. Substantial additional
tional forests, on privately owned rural
pollution, the program was intended to
sorb carbon dioxide and give off oxy-
efforts would be required, they insist-
property and in urban areas.
enhance the beauty of the countryside
gen during photosynthesis. Planting
ed, particularly a sizable reduction in
and cities, help conserve energy, pro-
more trees, therefore, would absorb
the consumption of oil and coal, which
The program is the latest of a series
tect soil and water quality, and contrib-
some of the carbon dioxide emitted by
emit large amounts of carbon dioxide
of initiatives by Mr. Bush to establish
ute to other enviromental goals.
human combustion of fossil fuels and
when burned.
C4
THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ENVIRONMENT TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1989
clone.
New Varieties of Elm
Mr. King plans to release 40,000
Chinese elms to nurseries this spring.
"We're just getting ready to explode
with this tree," he said.
Raise Hope of Rebirth
Test Tube' Elms
Another group, Night Hollow Nurs-
cry Laboratory in Madison, Wis., is
For Devastated Tree
cloning clin trees in tissue culture.
Working with Microplant Nurseries
in Gervais, Ore., this spring they will
spread as far north as Quebec and as
be introducing the first crop of "test
tube elm trees" to the American
Resistance to disease
far south as Kentucky, destroying
nursery market.
millions of trees. In New England, 75
"We're growing them in jars and
and cold are major
percent of the trees were lost. While
test tubes," said Gayle Suttle, the
at one time there were an estimated
general manager of Microplant Nurs-
qualities of hybrids.
77 million American elms, only a few
eries. "It's a very fast way of multi-
million have survived.
plying new varieties."
The diseased elms were replaced
Test tube propagation is done by
mostly with maples, sweetgums, hon-
taking a small cutting out of a field,
eylocusts and oaks, trees with an av-
sterilizing 11 and placing it into a test
FTER decades of research,
erage life span of 14 years in street
A
tube to grow in a nutrient gel.
scientists are on the verge
settings, as opposed to 50 to 70 years
Many cities, with the help of donat-
of introducing versions of
for the American elm.
ed saplings, are beginning to replant
the American elm and for-
A New Optimism
elms in large numbers. In New York,
eign hybrids that are resistant to
Dutch elm disease, which has wiped
"With the new resistant trees, the
a 102-year-old Chinese elm found
future of the elm looks bright," Mr.
near 72d Street in Central Park has
out tens of millions of trees around
the nation.
Hansel said. "We will start seeing
Some of the new trees are also able
some beautiful streets again in 10
to withstand the rigors of urban set-
years."
'We will start seeing
tings and cold weather.
By encouraging 300 mayors in 40
Researchers now identify 20 elm
states to sign up their communities as
some beautiful
cultivars, or clones, as being disease-
"municipal members" of the Elm
resistant. Three are American, while
Institute, Mr. Hansel has succeeded
streets again in 10
the others are hybrids from Europe
in placing 75,000 American liberty
elms since 1983. In 1990, using Boy
The 102-year-old Chinese elm in
and Asia, particularly China. The
years.
Scouts to plant them, the institute
Central Park in Manhattan, focus
true American elm, the soaring and
graceful Ulmus americana, still
plans to distribute 100,000 of the semi-
of a propagation project since
grows wild but IS rarely replanted
resistant trees, more than double the
1976. David Karnofsky, a profes-
been the tocus of a propagation
because of the risk of disease.
number of saplings it sent out this
project started in 1976 by the Arthur
year.
sor at Michigan Technological
Ross Foundation and carried out at
'A Thing of the Past'
"The American liberty is not as
University, with the tree, which
the School of Forestry and Wood
resistant as the Asian hybrids," said
"The stately, magnificent Ameri-
has produced 2,000 seedlings.
Products at Michigan Technological
Professor Smalley, who developed
University in Houghton.
can elm is a thing of the past," said
the tree. "But il still has the look of a
"The tree has survived many
John P. Hansel, director of the Elm
classic American elm."
stresses living in an urban area for a
Institute, a non-profit group based in
Mr. Hansel, a manufacturing exec-
very long time," said David Kar-
Harrisville, N.H., that is dedicated to
tree on the American urban scene
utive who has supported the institute
nofsky, a professor of forestry at the
replanting elms throughout the coun-
with private donations and proceeds
will be the Chinese elin," said MI-
university.
try. "The only regeneration will take
from his company's profits since
chael Dur, a professor of horticulture
Since 1980, 1,000 Chinese elm seed-
place in the wild."
1967, speaks with patriotic zeal about
at the University of Georgia in Ath-
hugs from the tree have been planted
Until the disease took hold in the
ens. "The Chinese elm looks good, has
in New York by the City Parks De-
1930's, the elm had been an American
exceptional foliage, offers good envi-
partment, and plans are under way to
tradition. Abundant in number, they
ronmental durability and can grow III
plant 1,000 more this spring.
stood cathedral-like in places named
Two American elm
almost any part of the U.S."
Scientists say that while Dutch elm
in veneration of them like Elm Grove,
While researchers say they have
disease IS on the wane, because of the
Wis.; Elmhurst, III., and New Haven,
hybrids should be
had better luck in developing disease.
rapid decline of susceptible trees, it
the "City of Elms."
resistant Asian and European hy-
will continue to ravage trees that
"The American elm tree has had a
brids, a few say they are months
Arthur Ross Foundation
available to nurseries
have been planted. Fungicides can
unique niche in American life," said
away from releasing a fully-resistant
prolong the life of an elm for three
Eugene Smalley, a plant pathologist
American elm.
this spring.
years or longer, but they are expen-
at the University of Wisconsin at
A 'Completely' Resistant Hybrid
nese-Siberian hybrid that will be re-
Tree Farms in Hampstead, Md.,
sive. Wild elms will crop up occasion-
Madison. "Before the disease, you
could find streets lined with elms in
This spring, researchers at the Na-
leased to nurseries in the spring.
found one day that a Chinese elm,
ally, but scientists say that most will
tional Arboretum in Washington plan
"It has the highest resistance and
Ulmus parvifolia, had grown twice as
eventually die of the disease.
almost every American town."
to release to nurseries two disease-
the toughest wood of any tree we've
high as the other trees in his grove
"The disease is still strong," Dr.
Spread by Beetles
the tree. "To promote a Chinese or
resistant American clm hybrids that
looked at," Mr. Thompson said.
and could withstand temperatures 18
Townsend said. "But because the
Japanese elm just isn't the same," he
will also be resistant to elm leaf bee-
The most encouraging news for the
degrees below zero.
number of trees is now smaller, the
Dutch elm disease, which was first
said.
ites, which cause skeletalization of
elm is the success Dr. Smalley and
In 1985, he obtained it patent for the
incidence of the disease is much
described in Holland in 1919, spread
Others are divided in their loyalties
the leaves.
his researchers have had in growing
tree, the king's choice elm, which
smaller than it was 40 years ago."
like a wave through Europe in the
to American and Asian elms, noting
"We're at the point where we're
a fully resistant American elm hy.
allows him a royalty for all reprodue-
Scientists and elm lovers say that
1920's and arrived in the United
that each has virtues. American
about to offer the American public
brid by injecting stronger Chinese
tions of the tree.
this forbidding news gives them im-
States in 1930 in logs imported for eim
elms, which flower in the spring and
the first completely disease-resistant
genes into susceptible American
I ike most elm growers with a pat
petus to continue their painstaking
veneer.
have a higher branching habit, are
American elm," said Alden Thomp-
elms. After further testing, the seed
ented uluvar, Mr King reproduces
development of substitutes for the
The disease IS caused by a fungus
faster-growing than their Asian coun-
son, a geneticist at the arboretum.
lings may be available 10 the public
the trees by cloning. which assures
American Elm.
spread by tiny elm bark beetles. The
terparts and reach a height of 80 to
Results of a 32-year-old project at
by the mid-1990's.
that every plant has the same genetic
"I grew up under elms," Mr. Han-
fungus develops in the water-conduct-
100 feet.
the University of Wisconsin's Depart
Growing numbers of tree farmers
pattern of the parent The process
sel said, "and when I saw them begin
ing vessels of the elm, clogging the
Chinese elms, which flower in the
flow of water and nutrients to the
ment of Plant Pathology could also
and nursery owners are also contrib
involves removing a five mch cutting
to die I figured there had to be some-
fall, are shorter, slower-growing
bode well for the elm's future R...
uting to the return of the elm. In 1982,
of the tree, dipping 11 into a growth
thing that somebody could do besides
tree
trees with a base-shaped crown that
searchers have been granted paten.s
after years of planting thousands of
hormone, then placing It in peat moss
SIT back and watch the chain saw at
The blight spread quickly from
is closer to the ground.
for several successful cultivars, 11.
elins in search of an unsusceptible
The hor mone, usually an acene acid,
work. Luckily, a lot of others felt the
Northeastern ports and by 1945 it had
"I'm convinced that the next great
cluding the new horizons clm. a Jap.
stimulates the cutting 10 know into a
"
variation, Ben King. owner of King's
same way
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IN OUR OPINION
TREES
Here's one effort that can bring new life to city streets
utch Elm disease did much to
D
years, they would like to plant tens of
eliminate the shady streets that
thousands of trees and, in the process,
were once so much a part of the
perhaps get young people interested in
Detroit cityscape. Beginning in
ecology and forestry.
the 1950s, the disease killed trees on block
The commission's effort deserves sup-
after block, neighborhood after neighbor-
port, and we hope it will inspire others to
hood.
band together to take on projects that
The private Greening of Detroit Com-
enhance the quality of life in the city.
mission would like to resurrect a bit of
For more information, call 259-5400,
the past, making Detroit the city of
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Tax-deductible
tree-lined boulevards it used to be. Mem-
contributions may be sent to the Greening
bers of the commission hope to raise funds
of Detroit Commission, 100 Renaissance
to begin planting trees in April along
Center, Suite 1760, Detroit, Mich. 48243-
Larned, east of I-75. Over the next 20
1066.
COMBAT
Qualified women should face fewer restrictions
hen is combat not combat?
ly served in Vietnam.
Re-greening of Detroit
'It was once beautiful and can be again
with trees'
y Pat McCaughan
neighborhood on Detroit's east. side.
Our deep-rooted love for trees
etroit News Staff Writer
goes back a long way/
EACH DAY, she woke to the
Dr. Lorna Thomas'. passion for
grinding of buzz saws as city work
replanted."
es probably sprang from the sum-
crews removed the dead and dying
Dr. Thomas, who admits to a
er that Burns Street turned
more trees yellowed.
secret passion for flowering dog-
loody hot."
until nearly 300,000 were dead.
woods and Japanese maples and to
Now she and a group of other
Within two years, Burns Street
her "own-little reforestation project"
ncerned Metro Detroiters want to
alone lost about 100, she said.
in her Palmer Woods neighborhood,
e the city some shade again ---
"The trees would just. die," Dr.
is part of the newly formed Greening
sh, cool and green - with a city-
Thomas said. "It would seem you
of Detroit Commission --- which
de tree planting effort.
walked out of your house each day
aims to put thousands of new trees in
The group hopes bringing back
and another one had died. All of a
the ground.
e trees will enhance Detroit's im-
sudden, a block that was very shady
e as well as its environment.
and cool in the summertime became
"I STARTED this project about
The trees went somewhere in the
hot. It was bloody hot all the time.
a year ago," said Beth Sachs, a
e 1950s, the Detroit dermatologist
"Almost the entire block was deci-
Palmer Woods psychologist who is
called. The Dutch Elm disease
mated," she recalled. "It looked na-
co-chairwoman of the commission.
GUS CHAN/The Detroit News
read slowly but surely through her
ked. It still does, because no one ever
Please see Green/2B
Dr. Lorna Thomas remembers streets lined with elms. "It would seem you
walked out of your house each day and another one had died."
Green
Trees may help
make Detroit
beautiful again
From page 1B
"Detroit is a city with a remark-
able history. It was once known as
the city of trees, with beautiful tree-
canopied boulevards," she said. "We
are entering a new period of growth
and renewal. It was once beautiful
and can be beautiful again. And more
trees can significantly contribute to
the environmental and esthetic
health of the city."
"The commission members feel
that
if we can get enough trees
planted in a grand enough fashion, it
will greatly enhance the attitude that
people outside the city have toward
Detroit," she said. "And, more impor-
tantly, it will impact the attitude of
people within the city and enhance
the quality of life."
Sachs hopes thousands of trees
will be planted over the next 20 years.
The group is made up of city and
state representatives, Michigan
State University forestry experts, lo-
cal scientists and other interested
parties, such as Dr. Thomas, who
just happen to love trees.
DETROIT'S DIRECTOR of
parks and recreation, Dan Krich-
baum. counts himself among the
latter.
KIRTHMON DOZIER/The Detroit News
"I have a beautiful maple and a
beautiful oak, and once in awhile
Beth Sachs: "Detroit is a city with a remarkable history. It was once known
when I get a free hour, one of my
as the city of trees, with beautiful tree-canopied boulevards."
favorite things is to take a book out
in the back yard and read one minute
SACHS SAID that the replant-
leading you to something. We have
and take a look the next," he said. "It
ing effort - the first trees will be
an opportunity to start at square one.
has a very calming effect."
rooted in soil on April 22, the com-
The re-greening of Detroit is the
Krichbaum applauded the com-
bined celebration of Arbor Day and
regaining of Detroit."
mission's efforts, adding that the city
Earth Day - may help revitalize
is cooperating with its goal to inven-
neighborhoods and inspire residents
THE COMMISSION also hopes
tory the number and condition of the
to do more of the same.
to enlist the aid of students and
city's trees and to boost the replant-
Michael Farrell, a University of.
possibly Youth Corps volunteers to
ing effort.
Windsor art history professor, said
assist with the citywide tree invento-
The city has replanted about
replanting worked wonders when he
ry.
120,000 trees in the last 12 years, he
purchased and restored an aban-
"We will start in the spring and
said.
doned home on Alfred Street.
will go block by block and count
The city also will plant trees in
"When I moved in the old Brush
trees
on every single street."
front of the homes of residents for a
Park area near downtown, I land-
Sachs said.
$25 fee, he said.
scaped," Farrell said. "The house was
The inventory also will determine
"In the long run, we've all come to
in dire need of restoration. But by
the condition of those trees and
understand in the last five years how
simply planting, people would stop
perhaps get students interested in
important trees are for the total
and say: 'It looks like something's
the ecology and forestry.
environment of the Earth," Krich-
happening.' Even in an abandoned
The city estimates that there are
baum said. "There is no reason why
neighborhood. Since then, 15 people
about 450,000 trees in Detroit.
people living in urban areas can't be a
have moved into the neighborhood.
Maintenance is another priority.
part of maintaining the ecology that
"Trees make it look like some-
"We will not plant any tree we
is SO important for people 25, 50, 100
thing's happening," he said. "When
cannot guarantee will be main-
years from now."
you see a row of trees, it looks like it's
tained," Sachs said.
March 19, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR CURT SMITH
FROM:
STEPHANIE BLESSEY
SUBJECT:
JOKE MATERIAL FOR MICHIGAN GOP FUNDRAISER
The following are some subjects that Doug Gamble could use
for jokes.
Miss USA is from Michigan
Detroit Pistons
Sports heros will be hosting tables i.e. Billy Symms
Crowd will be 1/2 MSU fans -- Spartans from Lansing
1/2 UM fans -- Wolverines from Ann Arbor
Some call MSU the "second university"
Hockey -- The Redlings are second to last in their
division
The phrase "Reagan Democrats" was coined in Macomb
County
N.Y. TIMES 03-25-90
A Democratically Evolving Hungary
1+2
Heads for Uncertainty at Polls Today
183
ine complicated election law has
By CELESTINE BOHLEN
added to the popular confusion created
Special to The New York Times
by the proliferation of parties. Al-
BUDAPEST, March 24 - As they
though the Gallup Poll showed that
vote on Sunday to elect a government
political apathy in Hungary has waned,
freely for the first time in more than
still 12 percent of those surveyed said
four decades, Hungarians will continue
they will not go to the polls, and 31 per-
a process that began here almost two
cent said they were not sure.
years ago, long before the political
Without the catharsis of a popular
whirlwind that swept through the rest
revolution, as in Romania, or the issue
of Eastern Europe last fall.
of unification that overwhelmed last
In recent months, changes have
Sunday's vote in East Germany, Hun-
come more gradually than in neighbor-
gary's first step toward democracy
ing countries, often with contradictory
has been relatively joyless.
results. Even the returns in Sunday's
City streets droop with political ban-
vote for a new 386-seat Parliament are
ners, posters line fences and walls, and
likely to be inconclusive, and require a
evening television is filled with round-
second round of balloting next month.
table debates. But popular participa-
Then, odds are that Hungary's new
tion - outside a few areas - has been
government will be a coalition, made
low, and on buses and in wine bars here
up of parties that have spent months
and in the provinces, people grumble
attacking each other.
that they do not know what it all means.
But one outcome of the vote is ex-
pected to be clear. In overwhelming
Life Getting Tougher
numbers, the 7.5 million Hungarians
Part of the dissatisfaction comes
likely to vote are considered certain to
from the timing of the election, which
reject any political choice that faintly
has coincided with a surge in inflation
resembles Communism, and to em-
and a drop in living standards. Faced
brace those candidates and parties
with a $21 billion foreign debt, the high-
that promise to lead them further to-
est per person in Europe, the departing
ward a Western-style economy.
Government, made up of former Com-
In the final days of the campaign,
munists, has had to cut subsidies and
political debate has been overshad-
take other steps that have clouded the
battleground in the election campaign.
owed by widespread emotional concern
future for many Hungarians.
over the fate of Hungarians in neigh-
But the Free Democrats' confronta-
And in Hungary, no personalities
boring Romania, where ethnic violence
tional tactics have backfired on occa-
have emerged to guide people through
broke out last week in Transylvania.
sion. Recently, they were blamed -
their choices. Imre Pozsgay, a leader
Some Hungarians say this may spur
of the Socialist Party, was a popular re-
they say unfairly - for having failed to
voters toward the more conservative,
agree with their political opponents on
former in the waning days of Commu-
traditional parties, as they seek refuge
how television should cover the cele-
nist rule, but since then, has lost much
from an outside world that suddenly
bration of March 15, a hallowed na-
of his appeal.
seems strange and uncertain.
tional holiday honoring Hungary's re-
Pictures of Jozsef Antall, the leader
volt against Austrian rule in 1848,
The Likely Front-Runners
of the Hungarian Democrats and their
which until last year had been sup-
Two parties are expected to domi-
pressed and celebrated only by dissi-
nate the voting, both newly formed but
dents.
each representing strong trends in
The quarrel over why a Government-
Hungarian political life.
There are 12
named board canceled live television
The Alliance of Free Democrats is a
coverage of the March 15 celebrations
party of liberals and free-market
economists whose radical tactics have
parties; the only
became a dominant theme of the last
days of the campaign, and was the sub-
won it support among both urban intel-
lectuals and disaffected workers. The
near-certainty is
ject of a two-hour televised debate and
long newspaper articles.
Hungarian Democratic Forum, a coali-
For many voters, this was only fur-
tion of center-right forces with a tinge
that Communists
ther proof that political freedom
of nationalism, is strong among the
means pointless debates about issues
country's professional middle classes.
will lose out.
that have little direct effect on their
In the month since the official cam-
lives. The fact that the parties' quarrel
paign began, a third party, the Inde-
was over the March 15 holiday, a na-
pendent Smallholders, which after the
tional symbol for Hungarians living in
war won 58 percent of the vote, has
candidate for Prime Minister, now
and outside the country, only irritated
ged too, buoyed by its promise to re-
hang from streetlamps around Buda-
them further.
turn land seized by the Communists.
pest, but his sober demeanor and long-
Since the beginning of the year, when
These three parties have dominated
winded speeches have won him little
events around Hungary proved that the
recent opinion polls, including one by
personal popularity.
Communism was dissolving fast, the
Gallup Budapest of 1,000 likely voters
The darlings of the election may be
opposition's fight to push the Commu-
between Feb. 18 and March 1, which
the Young Democrats, whose bright,
nists out of power turned increasengly
put the Free Democrats ahead with 23
articulate candidates, all under 35,
into a battle between the different op-
percent of the vote, followed by the
have brought a fresh, often humorous
position parties.
Democratic Forum with 21 percent
approach to the campaign.
But anti-Communism remains a
and the Smallholders with 17 percent.
compelling theme, and in the final
But after the failure of polls to fully
The Free Democrats, many of whom
weeks, all three leading parties have
predict elections in East Germany or
had been dissidents in the Communist
pledged that they will not form a coali-
Nicaragua, people here are reluctant to
era, have been the most vigorous and
tion with any wing of the former Com-
guess at the outcome. Some say other
visible politicians, pressing both the
munist Party.
smaller parties, including the Federa-
Government and its opponents on issue
tion of Young Democrats, several
after issue.
But because Hungarian reform Com-
small Christian parties and even the
In January, they and the Young
munists started on the road to demo-
Socialist Party, the successor to the
Democrats cracked upon a scandal
cratic change two years ago - first
Communists, could fare better than ex-
about the continued use of the secret
with the ouster of the longtime leader
pected in the current volatile atmos-
police by the governing Socialists to
Janos Kadar in May 1988, their leaders
phere.
spy on political opponents. They also
have proved more durable in office
What About Individuals?
have raised frequent portests about the
than their counterparts in Czechoslo-
A flaw in the polls is that they have
continued control of television, a bitter
vakia, East Germany or Romania.
tracked only party loyalities, and not
gauged people's views of individual
candidates including about 200 inde-
pendents running in the 176 parliamen-
tary constituencies. Here, name recog-
nition, or local ties, or local issues,
could overwhelm party affiliation.
The rest of Parliament's 386 seats
will be filled under a hybrid proportion-
al-representation arrangement, based
on party lists compiled in Budapest and
the country's 19 counties.
Free Democrats
WASH. 03-26-90
192
Ahead in Election in Hungary
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Foreign Service
BUDAPEST, March 26 (Mon-
day)-Early returns in Hungary's
Democratic Forum, which had
first free multi-party election in 45
based much of its campaign on ap-
years showed the Alliance of Free
peals to Hungarian nationalism.
Democratic Forum leaders fre-
Democrats, a party of former dis-
quently cited ill treatment of ethnic
sidents that advocates rapid free-
Hungarians forced to live in other
market reform, with a narrow lead
countries because of the divisions of
over the Hungarian Democratic
Europe following World War
Forum, which sought to appeal to
With no party apparently winning
nationalist emotions while urging
a substantial margin, it appeared
cautious economic change.
likely-a coalition government would
The Hungarian Socialist Party-
emerge after the election's second
the former Communist Party, which
round. On Friday, however, the lead-
renamed itself last fall-was run-
er of the Democratic Forum an-
ning third out of 11 parties compet-
nounced that his party would not join
a coalition with the Free Democrats.
ing nationwide, the results indi
cated.
"We have different styles and
mentality," said Jozsef Antall, Dem-
The Socialists appeared to have
ocratic Forum chairman. Leaders of
made a stronger showing than opin-
the Free Democrats also have ex-
ion polls had predicted. But the two
pressed distaste for a coalition with
leading parties have vowed to ex-
the Democratic Forum. Several
clude the former Communists from
Free Democrats said they would
what is expected to be a coalition
join in such a coalition only if they
government, and it appeared likely
had no choice.
that the Socialists would become an
Hungary was unique among East
opposition force in the new parlia-
European nations that underwent
ment.
political upheavals last year. Re
Reporting of election returns was
formers inside the Hungarian Com-
marred Sunday night and this morn-
munist Party, rather than demon-
ing by a nearly complete breakdown
strators in the streets, were the
in the computerized central report-
catalysts for democratic change
But results in Sunday's elections
ing system in Budapest, and defin-
showed that Imre Pozsgay, the
itive results were not expected until
best-known of the Communist re-
later today. Holton Isvert dec
formers, won relatively few votes in
However, officials at the national
his western Hungarian district.
election headquarters here said that
Pozsgay is considered likely, nev-
the "general tendency" in the voting
ertheless, to retain a seat in parlia-
gave the Free Democrats between
ment under Hungary's complex
election rules.
25 and 30 percent, the Democratic
Pozsgay, 56, who last fall was
Forum between 20 and 25 percent
regarded as the most popular pol-
and the Socialists between 10 and
itician in the country, ran a poor
15 percent. lidA ionod
second in his race for parliament in
In Hungary's complicated voting
the western city of Sopron. In 13
system, the parliamentary election
out of 15 polling places where votes
is to be held in two rounds. The
had been tabulated by late Sunday
second round is scheduled for April
night, Pozsgay trailed Jozsef Szajer,
8, and fewer than half of the 386
a 28-year-old law professor running
as a candidate of the Federation of
seats in parliament were expected
Young Democrats. Pozsgay had
to be decided in Sunday's voting.
about 20 percent compared to 30
In the week before the election,
percent for Szajer.
ethnic violence in the nearby Tran-
sylvanian region of Romania had
been viewed as a key factor in the
contest between the Free Demo-
crats and the Democratic Forum,
the two leading Hungarian parties.
At least SIX people were killed and
several hundred were injured ther
when Romanians attacked ethnic
Hungarians
Senior Free Democratic leaders
expressed concern that the violence
might swing the election to the
N.Y.TIMES:03-26-90
Returns Show 2 Parties Leading in Hungary's Election
183
pends on the success of the so-called
eastern district. He took 59 percent of
By CELESTINE BOHLEN
"nostalgia vote," or ballots cast for
the vote.
Special to The New York Times
older, historic parties that have re-
In Sopron, Imre Pozsgay, once the
BUDAPEST, March 25 - Early re-
emerged after decades of suppression
leading liberal in the Hungarian Com-
turns today in Hungary's first free par-
under Communism. A leading con-
munist Party and now a top-ranking
liamentary elections in more than four
tender is the Independent Smallhold-
member of the recently constituted So-
decades showed two leading opposition
ers' Party, which has strong support in
cialist Party, was reported losing to a
parties in a neck-and-neck race for
the countryside and is seen as a poten-
first place.
tial kingmaker should the two main
28-year-old opponent, Jozsef Szajer,
who belongs to the Federation of Young
Experts predicted that a final count
parties decide not to join forces in the
Democrats.
next government.
would take another day. Beginning at 5
Returns based on 38 percent of the
o'clock on a chilly spring morning,
In interviews today, a number of
vote in two districts in the eastern city
Hungarians turned out in large num-
voters said their excitement at having
of Miskolc showed the Hungarian
bers to take part in the election, which
a real political choice was tempered by
Democcratic Forum leading the Al-
for many marked the moment the
worry over whether the political par-
liance of Free Democrats, 35 percent to
country crossed the threshold to a
ties were capable of handling the tasks
20 percent.
democracy.
ahead. In most cases, people said they
In Budapest, several districts re-
had made. up their minds several
"We buried the past with these
ported Free Democratic candidates
weeks ago, with their decisions based
votes," said Erno Kun, a 57-year-old
leading over their Democratic Forum
on general impressions rather than
technician, who emerged smiling from
opponents.
specific programs.
the voting station in a working class
Hungary's complicated election law,
district of Budapest. "We could finally
"It was more emotional," said a 44-
which required voters to fill out two
vote for whatever party we wanted.
year-old librarian outside a polling
ballots, is expected to slow the count.
Unlike several of its Eastern Euro-
place in Budapest's 14th district, a
Regional computers are calculating
pean neighbors, which abruptly toppled
neighborhood of professionals and
votes cast for individual parliamentary
Communist rulers last fall, Hungary
working-class voters. "Everything now
candidates and for party lists entered
has been groping for a political trans-
is in such a stage of flux."
in the country's 20 counties. The com-
formation for more than a year, with
Although they were uncertain about
bined total will determine how the 386
contradictory results.
the future, all but one of two dozen
seats in Parliament are filled.
Turnout Near 65 Percent
voters interviewed were determined to
A leading Hungarian polling group
be done with 40 years of Communism.
predicted that only one-third of these
Reports on Hungarian television in-
"I decided that this Communist dicta-
seats will be determined in the first
dicated that the turnout hovered
torship must meet its death," said
round of voting, in which a candidate-
around 65 percent in many areas of the
Gyula Barna, a 55-year-old locksmith.
must receive more than 50 percent of
country. In one district in Budapest, it
"I lived through a few elections before,
the vote to win a seat. Because of this
was reportedly more than 80 percent.
but this is the only happy one."
requirement, said Adam Levendel, di-
In some areas, residents said voting
Prime Minister Apparently Wins
rector of the Institute for Public Opin-
turned into a community event as
ion Research, rematches will probably
neighbors joined one other on their way
After the polls closed at 6 P.M., view-
be held in more than 150 of the coun-
to the polls.
ers settled in for a night of television
try's 176 parliamentary districts.
Hungary is the second Eastern Euro-
election coverage, with a computer
In its latest poll, concluded on
pean country, after East Germany, to
command center staffed mostly by
Wednesday, the Hungarian Institute
hold elections this year. Three others,
sportscasters. A few glitches marred
for Public Opinion Research surveyed
Romania, Czechoslovakia and Bulgar-
the transmission of early returns -
7,000 people, asking 2,000 of them about
ia, will follow before the summer. The
one list of candidates ended up in the
their choice of individual candidates.
Hungarian elections are likely to go to
wrong district - and by 11 P.M., the
The strife between ethnic Hungar-
a second round and will probably
only certain result was the election of
ians and Romanians in the Transylva-
produce a coalition government, since
Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth as an
nia region of Romania, which has
no single party is expected to win
independent candidate in the north-
dominated the news in Hungary for the
enough seats in Parliament to form a
last week and is followed here with
government on its own.
deep emotion, did not appear to have
Although the chief goal of most of the
swayed people's votes,
parties was the defeat of the former
In its final poll, the Public Opinion
Communists, the main political compe-
Research Institute found a slight in-
tition in the final weeks of the cam-
crease in sympathy for the Federation
paign has been between two opposition
of Young Democrats, a party of young
parties: the Hungarian Democratic
radicals, and for the Christian Demo-
Forum, a center-right party with na-
crais, a small party to the right of cen-
tionalist overtones, and the Alliance of
ter. Tracking votes only by party list,
Free Democrats, a liberal party with
as opposed to candidate preferences,
roots in the old dissident movement.
the poll found that the Free Democrats
Although the differences between the
and the Hungarian Democratic Forum
groups seemed to widen during the
were even with 26 percent each, while
campaign, the two parties may end up
the Smallholders had 19 percent.
together in a "grand coalition," viewed
The Socialist Party, the successor to
by many political experts here as the
the former ruling Communists, was
only way of solving Hungary's mount-
shown to have slipped to fifth place, be-
ing problems.
hind the Young Democrats.
The shape of the coalition also de-
L.A. TIMES 03-26-90
Radical Reform Party
Takes Lead in Hungary
"There's a new situation emerg-
ing in Hungary," interim President
Matyas Szuros, another Socialist,
Elections: A technology gap delays returns. Former
told journalists at the national elec-
tion headquarters. "The population
Communists run third in the first free vote in 40 years.
wants to destroy, finally, the old
political system."
By CHARLES T. POWERS
cratic Forum opponents in most of
Communist reformers like Posz-
and CAROL, WILLIAMS
183
the districts that managed to file
gay helped midwife Hungary's
TIMES STAFF WRITERS
"revolution from above" last year,
reports before the late-night
breakdown of the computer sys-
but they had been expected to get
BUDAPEST, Hungary-Con-
tem, which was especially installed
little credit for instigating the
fronted with staggering debts and
to track the election.
democratic turnaround because of
a bleak economic future, Hungari-
The conservative Smallholders
a. nationwide backlash against
ans went to the polls Sunday for
their first free vote in 40 years and
Party, which has proposed restor-
communism.
appeared to favor the party with
ing private property according to
A Gallup poll released by the
the most radical reform program.
1947 ownership registers, and the
state news agency MTI after poll-
The liberal Alliance of Free
youth party Fidesz were not show-
ing stations closed at 8 p.m. pre-
Democrats showed a small but
ing as strongly in the early returns
dicted a virtual tie between the two
consistent edge over the center-
as pre-election polls had predicted.
front-running parties, the Demo-
right Hungarian Democratic Fo-
The vote will seat a 386-member
cratic Forum and the Free Demo-
rum in scattered early returns.
Parliament, with 176 of the depu-
crats, followed by the Smallhold-
ties to be decided in direct elections
Eastern Europe's infamous tech-
ers, Fidesz and then the Socialists.
nology gap-a persistent computer
and 152 chosen according to how
MTI said the poll of 5,000 "repre-
hang-up-overpowered the best of
their parties fare in a separate
sentative" eligible voters conduct-
intentions in reporting results of
nationwide popularity contest.
ed the week before the election
the ballot, with no nationwide
Another 58 seats are to be deter-
showed 23.5% support for the Free
totals available more than five
mined by the aggregate vote totals
Democrats, compared to 23.1% for
hours after the polls closed.
among the parties polling at least
Democratic Forum.
However, the Free Democrats
4%.
In an apparent act of enthusiasm
were running ahead of Democratic
for the first free vote in 40 years, a
Forum candidates in most of the
F
oreign and Hungarian opinion
Los Angeles businessman with
individual counties and districts
survey experts predicted that
Hungarian citizenship was report-
reporting partial results by the
seven of Hungary's more than 50
edly responsible for one of the rare
early hours of today. The former
political parties would win seats in
incidents of voting irregularities.
Parliament.
Communists, now the Hungarian
J. Ferenc Czene illegally crossed
Socialist Party, were running a
A second round of balloting is
into Hungary from Austria and
surprising third place, according to
scheduled April 8 to decide those
attempted to cast a ballot in the
contests in which no candidate won
the fragmentary returns.
town of Gyula, providing an identi-
an outright majority. Hungarian
ty card that he had taken with him
Voter turnout was relatively ro-
television predicted that about half
when he escaped to the West in
bust after a low-key campaign that
failed to stir much emotion after a
of the contests would require a
1956, MTI reported.
runoff.
The agency said that Czene fled
tumultuous year in which Hungar-
The Free Democrats had been
Hungary after participating in the
ians broke with four decades of
reported in a neck-and-neck race
1956 revolt and that he slipped
Soviet subservience. Budapest, the
with Democratic Forum on the eve
across the border without docu-
capital that is home to one in five
of the election.
ments because "he wanted to re-
Hungarians, reported a 75% turn-
Even in the conservative heart-
turn the same way he had left."
out, though the national average
land, the Free Democrats found
Czene was said to have fought
among the 7.8 million eligible vot-
favor with Hungarians fearful of a
Soviet troops at the Kilian Bar-
ers was expected to be slightly
reform path that promises higher
racks in Csepel, wellspring of the
lower.
prices and unemployment.
failed revolution 33 years ago.
The Free Democrats have advo-
In the town of Tiszafured, in the
cated stringent economic reforms
farm country of eastern Hungary's
that will likely result in layoffs and
V
oters in Csepel, still a grim
expanse of industry and Sovi-
continued double-digit inflation in
Hortabagy plain, 28-year-old
et-style prefabricated housing
the short term in order to chip
homemaker Piroska Molnar said
blocks, appeared uncertain which
away at Europe's largest per capita
she chose the Free Democrats
party held forth the best promise of
foreign debt-$20 billion. But even
because she likes their economic
easing the pain of transition.
program.
if the Free Democrats hold onto
"Everybody is fearful of the
"They know best what to do to
their lead, they will probably have
future, but that is the Hungarian
absolutely change the system,"
to put together a coalition with
way," observed Istvan Csire, a
Molnar said hopefully.
perhaps two other liberal parties in
Csepel smelter worker about to
Minister of State Imre Poszgay, a
order to form a government.
retire. "The Hungarian people re-
leading Communist reformer, was
By apparently choosing the par-
built the country within two years
headed for defeat in a race in the
ty with the most head-on approach
after World War II, so recovery is
Sopron region, where rival Joszef
to economic reform, Hungarians
possible. It's not so bleak."
Szajer had a sizable lead, with
showed their willingness to endure
Csire said he voted for Fidesz,
about 30% of the vote compared to
the hardships dictated by transi-
the youth party, "because it is the
Poszgay's 20% in early returns.
tion to a free-market system.
young people who need to build the
Szajer commented that the vot-
Free Democratic candidates
country."
were running about two to three
ers spoke out for radical change
Wilma Katona, a tired-looking
percentage points ahead of Demo-
and that Poszgay's poor showing
bank clerk and mother of four, said
illustrates "that reform commu-
she cast her ballot for the Free
nism in Eastern Europe has its
Democrats in hope that their more
limits."
realistic economic policies will
In contrast with Poszgay's trou-
shorten the hard period of transi-
bled bid, Prime Minister Miklos
tion,
Nemeth appeared headed for an
"But it will take at least five
easy win in his parliamentary dis-
years before Hungary is healthy
trict, with 59% of the vote with
again," Katona warned, rocking a
nearly half the ballots counted.
creaky pram to quiet her youngest
child.
WASHINGTON
March 6, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR PRE-ADVANCE PARTICIPANTS
FROM:
JOHN G. KELLER, JR.
JGK
SUBJECT:
PRE-ADVANCE TO DETROIT, MI; INDIANAPOLIS, IN;
CINCINNATI, OH; AND ATLANTA, GA
Attached for your information is a list of participants and an
outline schedule for the Pre-Advance to Detroit, Michigan;
Indianapolis, Indiana; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Atlanta, Georgia.
PRE-ADVANCE PARTICIPANTS
Office of Presidential Advance
Judd Swift, Deputy Director of Presidential Advance
Gary Fendler, Deputy Director of Presidential Advance for Press
Leo Tomeu, Lead Advance Representative
Kristin Goodwin, Trip Coordinator
United States Secret Service
Doug Cunningham, Assistant Special Agent in Charge
White House Communications Agency
Bob Risney, Operations Officer
Larry Landrum, Operations Officer
White House Military Office
David Bonwit, USMC Aide to the President
Rex Jordan, AFI Advance
Matt Fay, HMX Advance
Fred Anderson, HMX Advance
Office of Political Affairs
Andy Foster, Associate Director
Office of Communications
Stephanie Blessey, Researcher
Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
Kim Riley, Deputy to the Special Assistant
Office of Cabinet Affairs
Doug Adair, Associate Director
PRE-ADVANCE SCHEDULE
Wednesday, March 7, 1990
7:20 am
Van departs West Basement for those requiring
transportation to Andrews Air Force Base.
(Drive Time: 30 Minutes)
7:45 am
Those with own transportation should arrive
Andrews Air Force Base, Distinguished Visitors
Lounge, Base Operations Building at this
time for check-in.
7:50 am
Van arrives Andrews Air Force Base.
8:00 am
C-9 #1681 departs Andrews Air Force Base en route
(E.S.T.)
Detroit, Michigan.
(Flying Time: 1 Hour 20 Minutes)
(Time Change: None)
(Food Service: Breakfast)
9:20 am
Arrive Detroit Metropolitan/Wayne County Airport
and proceed to board vans.
Met by:
Mr. David Doyle
Executive Director
Michigan Republican Party
517/487-5413
NOTE:
C-9 will be parked at Butler Aviation.
313/942-3500
9:25 am
Depart Detroit Metropolitan Airport en
route Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Dearborn, Michigan.
(Drive Time: 30 Minutes)
9:55 am
Arrive Ritz-Carlton and begin Site Survey.
12:00 pm
Conclude Site Survey and depart Ritz-Carlton en
route TBD.
(Drive Time: TBD)
Arrive TBD and begin Site Survey.
Conclude Site Survey and depart TBD en route
Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
2:25 pm
Arrive Detroit Metropolitan Airport and proceed
to board C-9.
2:30 pm
C-9 departs Detroit, Michigan en route
Indianapolis, Indiana.
(Flying Time: 55 Minutes)
(Time Change: None)
(Food Service: Lunch)
3:25 pm
Arrive Indianapolis International Airport,
Indianapolis, Indiana and proceed to
board vans.
Met by:
Mr. Mike Laudick
Campaign Manager
Dan Coats Campaign
317/636-1990
Ms. Catherine Mossler
Dan Coats Campaign
317/636-1990
NOTE:
C-9 will be parked at Indianapolis
Beechcraft.
317/241-2893
3:30 pm
Depart Indianapolis Airport en route
Convention Center.
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
3:40 pm
Arrive Convention Center and begin Site
Survey.
5:00 pm
Conclude Site Survey and proceed to Conference
Room for Second Site Survey.
Met by:
Mr. Mark Goff
Mayor Hudnut's Office
317/236-3600
6:45 pm
Conclude survey and depart Convention Center
en route Indianapolis Airport.
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
6:55 pm
Arrive Indianapolis Airport and proceed to
board C-9.
7:00 pm
C-9 departs Indianapolis, Indiana en route
Cincinnati, Ohio.
(Flying Time: 35 Minutes)
(Time Change: None)
(Food Service: Hors d'oeuvres)
7:35 pm
Arrive Greater Cincinnati International
Airport, Cincinnati, Ohio and proceed to
board vans.
NOTE:
C-9 will be parked at CVG Aviation.
606/283-3500
7:40 pm
Depart Greater Cincinnati Airport en route
Westin Hotel.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
8:00 pm
Arrive Westin for RON.
NOTE:
Upon arrival at Westin Hotel, please
proceed to Front Desk for Room
Assignments and Keys.
Remainder of evening is free.
RON Hotel: Westin Hotel Cincinnati
At Fountain Square
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Contact: Steve Connock
513/852-2758
Thursday, March 8, 1990
8:00 am
Pre-advance participants proceed to Main Lobby
for Site Survey of Westin.
8:45 am
Conclude survey, board vans, and
depart Westin en route Riverfront Stadium.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
8:50 am
Arrive Riverfront Stadium (3rd level of the
Parking Garage, NW side) and begin Site Survey.
Met by:
Mr. Tim O'Connell
Director of Operations
Cincinnati Reds
513/421-4510
9:50 am
Conclude survey, board vans, and depart Riverfront
Stadium en route Convention Center.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
9:55 am
Arrive Convention Center and begin Site Survey.
Met by:
[
Mr. Nick Vehr
Voinovioh
Chairman
Hamilton County Republican Party
513/381-5454
11:35 am
Conclude survey, board vans, and depart Convention
Center en route Greater Cincinnati Airport.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
11:55 am
Arrive Greater Cincinnati Airport and proceed to
board C-9.
12:00 pm
Depart Cincinnati, Ohio en route Atlanta, Georgia.
(Flying Time: 1 Hour 10 Minutes)
(Time Change: None)
(Food Service: Lunch)
1:10 pm
Arrive Dobbins Air Force Base and proceed to
board vans.
Met by:
Mr. Hank Roder
Convention Manager
National Association of Broadcasters
NOTE:
C-9 will be parked at Base
Operations.
404/421-4903
1:15 pm
Depart Dobbins en route Georgia World Congress
Center.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
1:35 pm
Arrive World Congress Center, East Entrance and
begin survey (proceed to Marketing Board Room)
Met by:
Ms. Rory Benson
Senior Vice President
National Association of Broadcasters
202/429-5446
3:45 pm
Conclude survey and depart World Congress Center
en route Dobbins Air Force Base.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
4:05 pm
Arrive Dobbins and proceed to board C-9.
NOTE:
Four members from the National
Association of Broadcasters will
accompany the Pre-Advance Team
back to Washington, D.C.
4:10 pm
C-9 departs Atlanta, Georgia en route
Andrews Air Force Base.
(Flying Time: 1 Hour 25 Minutes)
(Time Change: None)
(Food Service: Snacks)
5:35 pm
Arrive Andrews Air Force Base and proceed
to board vans.
5:40 pm
Vans depart Andrews Air Force Base en route
West Basement.
(Drive Time: 30 Minutes)
6:10 pm
Vans arrive West Basement.
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April 2, 1990
TO:
Stephanie
FR:
Andy Foster
and
RE:
Acknowledgements - Detroit, MI
Please include the following names just to be surc. Lot mc know
if you have any questions. THANKS!
The Michigan Republican Congressional Delegation
Ms. Jeannie Austin - Co-Chairman of the Republican National
Committee
Mr. Spence Abraham - MI GOP Chairman & Deputy Chief of Staff to
the Vice President
Senator John Engler - GOP Gubernatorial Nominee and State Senate.
Majority Leader
Mr. Max Fisher - Honorary Dinner Chairman (will introduce POTUS)
Mr. Heinz Prechter - Dinner Co-Chairman
Mr. Randy Agley - Dinner Co-Chairman
Mrs. Ronna Romney - MI GOP National Committeewoman
Mr. Chuck Yob - MI GOP National Committeeman
Rev. Keith Butler - Detroit city Councilman (will do invocation)
Hon. George Romney - Former Governor of Michigan (R)
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PAQE. 02
April 2, 1990
TO:
Stephanie
FR:
Andy Foster
and
RE:
Acknowledgements - Detroit, MI
Please include the following names just to be sure. Let me know
if you have any questions. THANKS!
The Michigan Republican Congressional Delegation
Ms. Jeannie Austin - Co-Chairman of the Republican National
Committee
Mr. Spence Abraham - MI GOP Chairman & Deputy Chief of Staff to
the Vice President
Senator John Engler GOP Gubernatorial Nominee and State Senate
Majority Leader
Mr. Max Fisher - Honorary Dinner Chairman (will introduce POTUS)
Mr. Heinz Prechter - Dinner Co-Chairman
Mr. Randy Agley Dinner Co-Chairman
Mrs. Ronna Romney - MI GOP National Committeewoman daughter of
Mr. Chuck Yob - MI GOP National Committeeman
Rev. Keith Butler - Detroit City Councilman (will do invocation)
Hon. George Romney Former Governor of Michigan (R)
Frmr Gov. Bill Milliken
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