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■BEIJING (AP) — China denounced the seven
donssiJleading industrialized nations Monday for their
staling (|“gross interference” in calling on Chinese au-
? timeythorities to stop the crackdown on participants in
and of i|pfo-democracy protests.
■ instead, the government made clear it plans to
ect am; continue rounding up anyone involved in the
s to thfj seven weeks of protests for freedom, democratic
rpron; reform and cleaner government. A report in the
Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily,
Hid those who surrender will get lenient treat-
lagerfc meat.
ontribyH “All hesitation is useless,” it said. “Surren-
r. dering, thoroughly confessing (and) doing mer-
H)rious work ... is the only way out for all crimi-
H The strongly worded message to the Group of
'^ftven echoed earlier Chinese reaction to sanc
tions individually imposed by some of the seven,
including the United States and France, after the
Chinese army crushed the protests June 3-4.
■ The Foreign Ministry expressed “great regret”
over the Paris summit’s statement, which it said
“violates the most basic criterion of diplomatic re
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“China absolutely cannot accept this,” the
statement read on state TV said.
A front-page editorial the People's Daily called
on the Group of Seven to consider China’s
“global strategic importance” and potential as a
market.
The Group of Seven statement, it said, made
“groundless charges, which only represent gross
interference in China’s internal affairs.”
The seven nations — the United States, Great
Britain, West Germany, Italy, France, Japan and
Canada — included their comments on China in
a communique issued at the end of their summit.
“We urge the Chinese authorities to cease ac
tion against those who have done no more than
claim their legitimate rights to democracy and
liberty,” it said. It also urged the World Bank to
postpone examining new loans to China.
More than 200 civilians were killed by official
count in the army attack on protesters and sup
porters. Western intelligence sources said up to
3,000 may have died. Thousands have been ar
rested nationwide and at least 12 have been exe
cuted.
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I CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
(AP) — The launch team Monday
legan a two-day practice count-
fpown for next month’s launching
what of space shuttle Columbia on a
efense Department flight.
The rehearsal concludes with
he five mission astronauts board-
ng the spacecraft for the final
two hours.
I The test covers the final 24
pours of an actual count, includ
ing planned hold periods, and
rovides training for both the as-
ronauts and the launch team.
NASA plans to launch Colum
bia during the first week in Au
gust, but shuttle managers won’t
set a firm date until they com
plete a flight readiness review on
July 26.
The astronauts checked their
space suit fits Monday and were
briefed on emergency proce
dures at the launch pad.
The all-military crew is com
manded by Air Force Col.
Brewster Shaw.
GOP points to slow turnover,
attacks 4 permanent Congress’
rimming
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republi
cans think they have a promising tar
get in challenging what they call the
permanent Congress — even though
the numbers show a turnover rate
that doesn’t match their description.
Those records of changing House
membership and high re-election
rates indicate that Republican prob
lems go deeper than the incumbent
re-election advantages now under
GOP fire.
It is true that House incumbents
have the advantage when they seek
new terms, and that they almost al
ways have.
Those odds confront the GOP mi
nority with a particular problem, but
it is not new business. House incum
bents usually have won, from the be
ginning. The incumbent return rate
was overwhelming 35 years ago, in
the last elections that awarded the
Republicans control of the House.
“Today, incumbents stay in office
for decades, amassing huge war
chests to scare off strong challenges
in election after election,” President
Bush said in proposing legislation to
overhaul campaign finance laws and
curb free congressional mailing priv
ileges. “This is not democracy at all.”
But Speaker Thomas S. Foley
counters with records showing the
shifting makeup of a House in which
55 percent of the seats are held by
people elected since 1980. Only 19
percent of House members were in
office 15 years ago.
Besides, he adds with a smile,
what’s wrong with incumbency and
experience in Congress? After all,
they’re valued in other lines of work.
The re-election rate for incum
bents is overwhelming, 98.3 percent
in 1988, 98 percent in 1986. But it
was 97 percent in the 1968 elections,
and it has been over 90 percent in
every election but one for the past 20
years, according to the Congressio
nal Research Service of the Library
of Congress.
Nor has the number of incum
bents seeking re-election changed
markedly; it has ranged between 85
and 95 percent in most 20th century
elections.
“As long as we retain 99 percent
re-election c/f inebmbents, we’re
going to have scoundrels, because
power does corrupt,” Rep. Newt
Gingrich of Georgia, the Republican
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Former HUD secretary defends role
in easing restrictions on company
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Housing Secretary
wi^arla Hills on Monday defended her role in helping
Rersuade a successor to ease restrictions on a client
Don'- company that eventually would cost the government
pi/War fn [||j ons 0 f dollars in bad loans.
S fl/ll 1 d° n ’ 1 disagree that the company had misbehaved
and was being spanked, . . . thrashed if you like, and
ou feel that it should be strung up,” Hills said of DRG
unding Corp., which hired her law firm in 1981 to
represent it in housing matters.
But Hills told a House subcommittee she was hired
ecause of her housing expertise and not because of
any influence she might still have at the Department of
Housing and Urban Development. Currently the U.S.
Rrade representative, Hills served as secretary at HUD
( during the Ford administration.
I She said DRG paid $33,500 for her representation,
■nduding a one-hour meeting with then-Secretary Sam-
nui s| Ue ] pi erce .
is an 1 1,, was t i le latest in a string of well-connected Re-
ra ? |tublicans to testify at congressional hearings into alle-
W , Rations of mismanagement and influence peddling at
^ f,! PUE* during Pierce’s eight years as secretary in the
°. pReagan administration.
icatiaw a j so was thg latest to describe her ability to inter-
sIcwRenc successfully with top-level HUD officials concern-
i teslE i ing the spending of millions of dollars in housing
; funds.
I Former Interior Secretary James Watt, for example,
testified in connection with a consultant’s fee in excess
o $300,000 he received to help a client win money
defiifS rorn to develop a housing project. Unlike Hills,
leSu h e dairned no special housing expertise or background,
catiofi Since leavin g the department in 1977, she told the
panel, her dealings with HUD have been “purely in my
capacity as a lawyer, representing clients to the best of
my ability on the merits of their cases.”
The housing agency, after determining that DRG did
not use sound financial practices in making loans, re
quired the firm beginning in 1984 to seek advance ap
proval for all loans made under the government pro
gram.
Hills said this imposed a “competitive burden” on
“I
I don’t disagree that the company had
misbehaved and was being spanked,...
thrashed if you like, and you feel that it
should be strung up.”
— Carla Hills,
former HUD secretary
DRG, which asked for her help in the matter.
After pleading her case before two political appoin
tees at HUD, both of whom turned down her requests
to ease up on the restrictions, Hills arranged a meeting
with Pierce.
“During this meeting of about one hour, I presented
DRG’s case in some detail, strictly on its merits,” Hills
said.
Pierce then lifted the restrictions, requiring that the
department review each loan after it had been made in
stead of in advance, and warning DRG in a nine-page
letter that it was to follow the rules.
whip, said in a speech on that GOP
theme.
“How many of you think the
founding fathers intended for Con
gress to be a lifetime event, unless
you’re incredibly corrupt or stupid
or you happen to die? Otherwise
you’re just re-elected automatically,”
he said.
Some of those founding fathers
were still around when the rate of
return for House incumbents seek
ing re-election hit its record high:
100 percent, in the elections of 1792.
In the 1952 elections, the last time
Republicans won control of the
House, 91 percent of the members
who sought re-election won new
terms. When they lost it in 1954, the
incumbent re-election rate was 93.1
percent.
The advantages of incumbency
have grown in the era of television,
political action committees and ex
ploding campaign costs. But the Li
brary of Congress numbers show
trends that have been fairly stable
since World War II.
The numbers do not dampen the
rhetoric.
“I think there’s a growing prairie
fire out there where people are
going to rise up and say ‘Hey, we’d
like these elections back in our
hands,’ ” said Rep. Guy Vander Jagt
of Michigan, who heads the Republi
can Congressional Campaign Com
mittee. “We’d like a House of the
people again instead of the house of
incumbents which it has become.”
“In 1989, you were 16 times more
likely to be defeated if you were a
provincial leader of the Communist
Party in the Soviet Union than if you
are an American congressman,”
Gingrich said.
Foley said the Republicans’ real
concern stems less from a perma
nent Congress than from frustration
at their seemingly permanent mi
nority status in the House.
The lineup now stands at 257
Democrats, 175 Republicans, with
special elections coming for three va
cant seats that were held by Demo
crats.
The speaker said incumbent ad
vantages can’t be the real reason be
cause Democrats hold their own or
better in contests for open seats, in
which no incumbent is involved.
In competition for open seats in
the last four elections, there has
been no net change in party
strength, he noted. In special elec
tions during that period, the Demo
crats made a net gain of one seat.
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The Foreign Ministry lodged a separate pro
test with France for having allowed Chinese stu
dents in Paris to march in Friday’s parade for the
bicentennial of the French Revolution. The stu
dents carried a large banner reading, “We Carry
On,” in implied support for their Beijing class
mates.
For years, China crafted its own foreign policy
with a heavy ideological content, but in the past
decade it has shifted to a more hard-nosed policy
based on practical interests. Foreign investment
and technology are now key to its modernization
program.
But the People’s Daily said foreign sanctions
would only encourage a spirit of self-reliance.
It also warned Hong Kong residents who try to
help the mainland democracy movement that
they should not “lift a rock only to crush their
own feet.” The British colony reverts to Chinese
rule in 1997.
In other developments, the party’s Central
Disciplinary Inspection Commission issued a
strong warning against corruption by party
members in state-run factories and businesses.
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