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WORLD & NATION
11
Tuesday, March 7,1989
Tower gets much-needed boost
Democrat crosses party line, backs defense nominee
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen.
Howell Heflin of Alabama became
the first Democrat to swing behind
John Tower’s confirmation as de
fense secretary on Monday, deliv
ering a major boost to the troubled
nomination a few hours after Presi
dent Bush appealed for lawmakers
to “put aside partisanship” in the
struggle.
“I will rely on his pledge and give
him a chance to prove himself,” Hef
lin said in a speech on the Senate
floor, refering to Tower’s promise to
swear off drinking if he is confirmed
to head the Pentagon.
Republican Sen. John Warner of
Virginia walked to Heflin’s side mo
ments after the Dermocrat com
pleted his speech and thanked him.
Tower, in a statement, said he was
“grateful to Sen. Heflin for his ob
jectivity and for the clear and lucid
way in which he stated the argu
ments for my confirmation. He has
put the issue in its proper perspec
tive.”
Heflin, who had been courted by
the Bush administration, bucked the
growing list of Democrats who have
come out against the nomination.
He cited Tower’s qualifications; the
“uncertain state of the evidence”
against the nominee, specifically the
allegations included in an FBI re
port on the nominee; and the alco
hol promise as the reasons for his
decision.
Heflin’s announcement leaves 47
Democrats and Sen. Larry Pressler,
R-S.D., either solidly opposed or
leaning against confirmation and 40
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An angry President Bush
said Monday he’s fed up with innuendos against De
fense Secretary-designate John Tower — “this decent
man” — and called on lawmakers to approve the nomi
nation as bitter debate resumed in the Senate.
“I stand by this man,” Bush told a wildly cheering
Veterans of Foreign Wars audience. “I stand by him be
cause he is uniquely qualified as the right man to take
charge of the Pentagon.”
He asked senators to “use their own experience with
ohn Tower as an expert on def ense issues, as a former ^
colleague and as a tough, hard-nosed negotiator to
guide them.”
Hours after Bush spoke, Republicans and Demo
crats, ignoring Bush’s call to “put partisanship aside,”
clashed once more on the Senate floor.
Republican Whip Alan Simpson of Wyoming called
the accusations against l ower "so obviously flimsy” and
urged his colleagues not to base their decision on allega
tions recounted in the FBI report on Tower.
Simpson called on his fellow senators “to walk a mile
in John Tower’s shoes before they cast a vote against
him based upon the testimony I’ve seen.”
Sen. James Exon, D-Neb., retorted that while he had
voted with the president on other nominations, he
would not support Tower because of “the personal
qualifications of the nominee.”
Democratic opposition to Tower remained solid. An
Associated Press survey showed 47 Democrats and Sen.
Larry Pressler, R-S.D., either solidly against the nomi
nation or leaning against it, and 40 Republicans either
solidly committed or leaning toward confirming Tower.
Democrats hold a 55-45 majority in the Senate.
There remains the possibility Tower will be allowed
onto the Senate floor to answer the allegations against
him, which include excessive drinking, indiscreet be
havior toward women and his lucrative consulting con
tracts with defense contractors.
But a majority of the chamber would have to approve
the appearance and a vote was unlikely before Tuesday
at the earliest.
As he began his speech to the VFW, Bush said he
wanted to get something “off my chest.”
“I’m getting sick arid tired of the rumors and the in
nuendo that are used against this decent man,” Bush
said.
“You know John Tower is a fellow veteran,” he told
the VFW.
“Now, he and I are fighting for what I think are some
very important principles — principles that the Ameri
can people understand, like fairness and truth, and
principles like the prerogative of a president of the
United States to assemble the most talented and qual
ified team to guide this nation forward.”
Meanwhile, a conservative group said it had raised
$100,000 to finance an advertising campaign on Tow
er’s behalf in states with Democratic senators who con
servatives think might be persuaded to vote for Tower.
Brent Bozell III, chairman of the Conservative Vic
tory Committee, said the group’s lobbying campaign
came after Bush last week urged conservatives to gener
ate political heat for Tower.
In two days of Senate debate last week, Democrats ar
gued that the cumulative evidence made Tower an un
acceptable nominee. Republicans said that their col
leagues have given too much weight to unproved
allegations and that Bush was entitled to a Cabinet of
his choosing.
The Tower nomination has threatened to under
mine relations between the White House and Congress
at the outset of the Bush administration. The Senate
Armed Services Committee voted 11-9 along party lines
to recommend that the full Senate reject the nomi
nation.
Representative: Energy Department
earns ‘golden wastebasket’ formailout
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A New
Hampshire Republican gave
“golden wastebasket” honors Mon-
1 day to the Energy Department for
I mailing 17,000 copies of a 26-pound
environmental impact statement on
the superconducting super collider
at a cost approaching $ 1.5 million.
Rep. Chuck Douglas called the
mass mailing a “ridiculous waste of
taxpayer’s money” and an extrava
gant misuse of funds.
Douglas blasted the Energy De
partment for sending several sets of
the environmental impact statement,
which was so large it had to be bro
ken into 23 separate volumes, to
some Illinois households that had
not even requested the report.
“This, in my eyes, is a totally ab
surd waste of money and that’s why I
think trie DUE is a worthy recipient
of the first ‘golden wastebasket’
award for waste in government,”
Douglas told a news conference,
placing a copy of the 8,800-page re
port in the “official golden wastebas
ket.”
“It is appalling in this day of tight
budgets that such a ridiculous waste
of taxpayers’ money could have oc
curred, but it did,” Douglas said.
Douglas estimated the cost of the
mailing at $1.4 million, but Energy
Department spokesman Jeff Sher
wood said the cost was closer to $1.3
million.
Then-Energy Secretary John
Herrington acknowledged the mail
ing late last year was a mistake, but
said it was better to err on the side of
too much information rather than
not enough.
The final environmental impact
statement included 7,000 comments
from 5,700 people who addressed
the Energy Department’s draft im
pact statement on seven sites that
had been in the running for the su
perconducting super collider, Sher
wood said.
A site near Waxahachie was se
lected in November to house the gi
ant atom smasher, but Congress has
yet to approve construction of the
$5.9 billion high-energy physics pro-
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Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Michi
gan, North Carolina and Tennessee
had also been finalist states.
Douglas said Energy Secretary
James D. Watkins will be sent a rep
lica of the golden wastebasket.
Electronic part failure forces NASA to delay
launch of shuttle Discovery at least 2 days
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
— Failure of an electronic part
forced NASA on Monday to post
pone for at least two days Saturday’s
planned launch of space shuttle Dis
covery.
Liftoff was delayed at least until
Monday, space agency spokesman
Lisa Malone said. She said a firm
launch date would not be set until
Wednesday, after a new part had
been installed on the shuttle and
checked out.
The failed system is vital because
it separates the booster rockets and
fuel tank from the spaceship in
flight.
Malone said thunderstorms pre
dicted for overnight could keep
technicians from working on the
pad, causing additional delay.
The postponement is the fourth
for the Discovery launch since an
original target date of Feb. 18.
NASA has said if Discovery, which
is to carry five astronauts, could not
he launched by March 18, it might
have to yield the pad to Atlantis, set
for liftoff April 28.
Atlantis has priority because it is
to send the Magellan probe to Ve
nus. If Magellan can’t be launched
sometime from April 28 to May 23,
Venus will not in proper position
again until 1991.
Malone said routihe pre-launch
tests of Discovery turned up a failure
in a Master Events Controller, one of
two such shuttle systems that receive
separation commands from the
spaceship’s main computer.
The controllers arm and fire ex
plosive devices that separate the two
solid fuel rockets two minutes after
liftoff and the external fuel tank af
ter the main engines burn out about
8V2 minutes into a flight.
Engineers replaced the failed unit
with one borrowed from shuttle Co
lumbia,
Republicans and one Democrat ei
ther leaning for or supporting con
firmation, according to an Asso
ciated Press survey.
The Democrats hold a 55-45 edge
in the Senate.
In addition to Heflin, the Bush
administration has courted Sen.
Bennett Johnston, D-La., who la
beled the FBI report on Tower as
“unreliable” but said he has not
made a decision on the nomination.
Heflin said the FBI report was
“not conclusive as to whether he had
a drinking problem in the 1980s that
impaired his judgment on issues in
his official capacities.”
Heflin noted Tower’s no-drinking
pledge and said the “primaiy safe
guard against abuse or the breaking
of his pledge is the president him
self. I don’t believe that President
George Bush would allow a person
to serve as secretary of defense
whose conduct is a threat to national
security.”
As for Tower’s knowledge of de
fense issues, Heflin said, “I don’t be
lieve I’ve heard anyone question his
qualifications.”
Bush said as much in his own re
marks to an enthusiastic Veterans of
Foreign Wars audience.
Chinese police
fire on protesters
in 2nd day of riots
BEIJING (AP) — Police opened
fire on Tibetan protesters who
marched through Lhasa and burned
Chinese businesses Monday in a sec
ond straight day of violence. Four
Tibetans were reported killed.
Security forces moved into the
city’s Tibetan section and pulled
people from their homes, taking
some away in jeeps, American tour
ists said. Chinese troops also beat Ti
betans, said the travelers, who spoke
on condition of anonymity for fear
of police reprisal.
“One boy’s face was completely
bloodied,” a man from New Orleans
said. “He was no older than 10.
Blood was coming from his ears, his .
eyes.”
The Americans and other tourists
were contacted by telephone in the
Tibetan capital from Beijing. As
they spoke, automatic weapons fire
and exploding tear gas canisters
crackled in the background. Bon
fires burned in the streets, they said.
The official Xinhua News Agency
reported one Tibetan was killed and
eight others, including two po
liceman, injured in the violence
Monday.
Xinhua had said 10 Tibetans and
one Chinese policeman were killed
in anti-Chinese demonstrations Sun
day. Western travelers quoted Tibet
ans as saying that many more had
died on Sunday and that at least four
Tibetans had been slain Monday.
The U.S. State Department on
Monday deplored the use of weap
ons on pro-independence protesters
in Tibet and called for a restoration
of order.
Police in Lhasa fired from roof
tops near the city’s main square late
Monday afternoon, killing at least
two Tibetans, an American tourist
quoted Tibetans as saying.
Several hours later, security forces
fired on a group of 40 independence
activists as they threw rocks at a
building near the Jokhang Temple,
another tourist said. He quoted Ti
betans as saying at least two protes
ters were killed in that incident.
On Monday morning, thousands
of Tibetans flooded the old city,
breaking into the small Chinese- and
Moslem-run stores that fill the area,
pulling out their contents and burn
ing them in bonfires along the main
thoroughfare in the city.
The protests began Sunday when
13 Buddhist monks and nuns started
marching near the Jokhang, shout
ing “Independence for Tibet.” Po
lice opened fire. A crowd of Tibet
ans then began ransacking Chinese
buildings.
The bloodshed occurred days be
fore the 30th anniversary of a failed
Tibetan uprising against the Chinese
on March 10. It marks the fourth vi
olent outburst in 18 months against
Chinese rule. Scores have died in the
earlier protests.
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