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Fielding questions for more than 40 minutes in the White House briefing room, he insisted that “there isn’t malaise” in his adminis tration because of the drawn-out fight over confirmation of Defense Secretary-designate John Tower. “A lot is happening,” the presi dent said. “Not all of it good, but a lot is happening. . . . We’re on track.” Bush defended his chief of staff, saying John Sununu, the former New Hampshire governor, knows his way around Washington and is doing his job well. Bush said he has “total confidence” in Sununu. Bush noted that Tower has news conference statement to “res tate my belief that free collective bar gaining is the best means of resolv ing” the strike. He exhorted Eastern manage ment, the Machinists union and other unions to conduct “head-on- head, man-to-man negotiation” and said he thought that would be “bet ter and more lasting . . . than an im posed government settlement, which could cause the airline to totally shut down.” On other subjects during the more than 40-minute question-and- answer sesion, Bush said he woult like to see Palestine Liberation Orp nization Chairman Yasser Arali: “speak out” against raids that han been carried out by Palestinian guei rillas against Israelis in souther; Lebanon. Bush said he hoped these inc dents would not jeapordize U.i talks with PLO representatives bt said he thought that Arafat shouii “forthrightly condemn any terra that might be perpetrated by the Pi estmians. President intends to replace immigration head, source says pledged not to drink a drop of liqi if he gets the job and told his natic juor gets the job and told fiis nation ally televised news confreence, “You’ll have 25,000 people in the Pentagon making sure that’s true.” The president said his backing of Tower against Democratic opposi tion in the Senate “isn’t iron-willed stubbornness; it’s a question of fun damental principle here.” The president had spare time in his schedule Tuesday because in clement weather forced him to cancel a planned trip to Lancaster, Pa., and Wilmington, Del., for speeches on his plans to attack drug abuse. House Speaker Jim Wright re sponded that Bush’s refusal to halt the strike by appointing an investiga tive panel “would be unprece dented,” noting that over the last half-century 33 such boards have been named in transportation dis putes. Bush, however, used his opening WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration will replace Alan C. Nelson as head of the Immi gration and Naturalization Service, an administration source said Tues day. Attorney General Dick Thorn burgh, who recently received a de partment audit that criticized man agement and operations of INS, is searching for someone to take over the agency, said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity. The source confirmed a report in Tuesday’s editions of the Los An geles Times that Nelson would be not be kept as INS commissioner in the Bush administration. It has been long presumed by de partment watchers that Nelson, along with most other political offi ceholders in the Justice Department, would be replaced. Nelson, a San Francisco lawyer close to former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, became INS com missioner in 1982. He was criticized by immigrant rights advocates for being slow to implement the provisions of the 1986 immigration reform law, whirl E rovided for massive amnesty fori rgal aliens. INS became embroiled in a runt her of lawsuits charging thatitwir improperly making it difficult fori legal aliens to obtain legal statusut der the new law. The Justice Department audn completed two weeks ago, cited I\ for its failure to conduct backgrounr checks on many applicants for rii izenship and found that 23,000vait able naturalization certificates hat been lost by the agency’s Miami re gional office. The special audit, conducted, Thornburgh’s request by thejustiri Department’s management division, raised “serious questions which an being reviewed now at the highes levels of the department,” spokes man David Runkel said last week. Besides losing naturalizationceti fications, which had a street valued up to $1 15 million, INS wascitedi the audit for failing to take acrid two years after investigators haddii covered that 61,500 naturalizeddc zens had not surrendered their pe: manent resident alien cards. Te: c WA lican I off rej defens night i firmat wheth< pledge Sen Mitche cerns consicf Dolt nomin drain ii ing it > mation Und con fir r W (TJ rculati< Premier: Soviet economic reform started 2 years before Gorbachev 0 DPI MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet reformers began planning their economic program two years before Mikhail S. Gorbachev came to power in 1985, Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov said Tuesday, and he implied that they molded communist ideology to fit. “We had to find theoretical foundations for all the actions that we wanted to pursue afterward,” Ryzhkov said. “We have to have a lot of patience to implement what we have decided, because the scale of the country is so vast,” he told 33 women journalists gathered in ornate St. Catherine’s Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace on the eve of International Women’s Day. Ryzhkov said planning for perestroika — Gorba chev’s program of economic and social reforms — be gan two years before Gorbachev was elected head of the Communist Party. That would be in 1983, about the time former KGB chief Yuri Andropov came to power. “Even at that time, we had forces who understood that everything was not healthy in our economy,” Ryzh kov said. For the first two years after Gorbachev took over in 1985, they worked on theory that would support their ideas, he said. Gorbachev has rejected many long-standing Soviet principles in his effort to revive a sickly economy. He is trying to do away with a system in which Moscow bu reaucrats decide what is produced throughout the country, and trying to transform the word “profit” from the height of capitalist evil to a measuremenl socialist success. Ryzhkov also promised to reveal the long-secret viet defense budget in 12 to 18 months, after aco tual re liana U.’s, NIONS tants have arranged it in a form comparable to U.S.fii ures, apparently for use in arms negotiations. As part of the plan to shift Soviet spending 'fro: swords to plowshares,” defense factories that prodn up to prom 60 percent military hardware and 40 percent consum goods will move to a 50-50 ratio by 1991 and 40-1 1995, he said. For example, the Moscow Aviation Fi tory soon will produce pasta, he said. j Ryzhkov, whose popularity soared in Decemlnl when he was seen nightly on Soviet TV commiserat£| with Armenian earthquake victims, said he found tl slow pace of economic reform the most upsetting of his job. “I like to see how the decisions we are taking in state bodies are implemented in the level of real lift he said. That’s why he enjoys visiting factories that mind him of the Ural Machine-Building Plant inSvei lovsk where his career began, “to feel the smell of chine parts being manufactured, the smell of work,” he said. beasl its can tun mannered ling to Pei erman. 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