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WORLD & NATION 9
Thursday, September 7,1989
Bush’s speech ignites congressional fight
over how to pay for renewed drug war
WASHINGTON (AP) — In Presi
dent Bush’s renewed war on drugs,
there’s no political argument about
the enemy, the objective or even the
weapons — but partisan skirmishes
already are flaring over priorities,
price and the way to pay for it.
Stripped to essentials, there really
is no Republican way to combat the
drug menace and no Democratic
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way. The argument between the
parties, which means between the
White House and Congress, is over
who can solve the problem fastest.
And it is over new taxes. Bush says
no; the Democrats say the cost of the
drug war means that new taxes must
at least be considered.
The Bush strategy points to a
guns and butter sort of a war, al
though the president said that there
would be hard times and high costs
ahead. He said he wants to add $2.2
billion to the war on drugs. In bud
get terms, all but $716 million al
ready is included in proposals the
administration has sent to Congress.
The White House would offset that
by cutting other programs, one at
the Pentagon, the rest on the do
mestic agenda.
“We can pay for this fight against
drugs without raising taxes or add
ing to the budget deficit,” Bush said.
Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware,
who delivered the Democrats’ tele
vised response, said the Bush plan
would wage a limited war. “We don’t
oppose the president’s plan,” said
Bic len, who as chairman of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee wields legis
lative power over major portions of
it. “All we want to do is strengthen
it.”
House Speaker Thomas Foley
said the drug war eventually will
lead to increasing pressure for a tax
increase. Even Rep. Robert H.
Michel, the Republican leader, said
there might have to be another look
at financing for the program after a
year.
That flowed into the debate over
the budget, the deficit and the new
taxes Bush ruled out in every speech
of his campaign for the presidency.
That continuing struggle may em
broil facets of the drug program just
as it threatened to snarl the legis
lation bailing out the shaken savings
and loan system.
Bush said Congress should offer
leadership and bipartisan support to
the strategy it asked the new presi
dent to prepare in the first place.
“And our citizens deserve cooper
ation, not competition; a national ef
fort, not a partisan bidding war,” he
said.
In his televised response, Biden
proposed sharp spending increases
m a half-dozen pieces of the drug
war Bush outlined. He didn’t give a
total price tag, nor did he suggest a
way to pay for it. He has suggested
higher liquor and cigarette taxes as a
source of drug-fighting revenues.
The drug debate this fall will be in
Congress.
Bush tries to fight war without new taxes
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush said
Wednesday that skeptics of his $7.9 billion drug war
were just “carping” and should “stop criticizing for par
tisan reasons.”
Democrats, meanwhile, said the government would
have to raise more revenue to mount an all-out Fight
against illegal drugs but conceded it would be impossi
ble to enact a tax increase for that purpose as long as
Bush opposes it.
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., chairman of the
House Ways and Means Committee, said, “Unless the
president supports the tax increases that will be nec
essary to Fight this war, the drug dealers are going to
win.”
House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash., said, “With
out the administration’s support, the idea of raising
taxes is futile.”
Bush emphatically rejected the notion of higher
taxes. “Every time you make a proposal,” he said, “you
have somebodyjump up and say, ‘Raise taxes.’ I am not
in a mode to raise taxes.”
Less than 24 hours after declaring a new war on
drugs, Bush and his critics sparred from a distance — in
speeches, on television shows and meetings with the
press.
Putting a human touch on the drug problem, Bush
visited a public hospital ward to see babies abandoned
by addicted mothers. Wearing a blue smock, Bush qui
eted one 4-month-old baby boy by cradling him against
his shoulder.
“You see these kids and you want to try harder,”
Bush told reporters later.
Navy says Iowa
blast probably
caused by mate
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Navy has concluded that the ex
plosion aboard the USS Iowa that
killed 47 sailors last April was
“probably caused by” gunner’s
mate Clayton Hartwig, who died
in the blast, congressional sources
said Wednesday.
The sources, who were briefed
by Pentagon ofFicials and who
spoke on condition of anonymity,
said the Navy investigation into
the April 19 explosion in the bat
tleship’s No. 2 gun turret found
foreign material in the immediate
area of the blast.
The sources declined to specify
the nature of the material.
Navy investigators had been
examining the possibility that sui-
dde or murder was involved in
the explosion which occurred
during exercises off Puerto Rico,
according to earlier reports.
The sources said “an unlawful
and illegal act” by Hartwig, which
they declined to specify, was pin
pointed as the probable cause of
the blast.
Members of Congress received
details on the Navy investigation
the day before the scheduled
public release of the 1,100-page
report.
The explosion occurred as the
No. 2 gun, the middle gun of
three in the second turret, was be
ing loaded for firing practice.
The guns and turret were de
signed in the late 1930s and use
powder and shells manufactured
more than 40 years ago in World
War II. There has been some
speculation that the powder
could have become unstable.
The Navy plans to release its
1,100-page report on the blast on
Thursday with three admirals, in
cluding the No. 2 officer of the
service, briefing reporters.
Judge rules Bakker mentally able
to stand trial on charges of fraud
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A
federal judge ruled Jim Bakker com
petent to stand trial on fraud
charges Wednesday after a govern
ment psychiatrist testified the PTL
founder was not going crazy when
he broke down last week.
Bakker’s trial was recessed and he
was sent to a federal prison in
Butner/ for psychiatric evaluation
last wdek after he was found in his
lawyer’s office hallucinating and hid
ing under a couch.
“For the first time in three years,
the whole situation came home to
him and he began to cry,” Sally
Johnson, chief of psychiatric services
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) —
Communications Minister Carlos
Lemos said Wednesday that his em
battled nation cannot successfully
fight narco-traffickers unless the
United States, the world’s biggest co
caine consumer, curbs its drug appe
tite.
The Defense Ministry meanwhile
said it has seized 880 properties,
some of them castle-like estates, and
nearly as many vehicles and aircraft
since its war on narcotics dealers be
gan.
Police in Medellin said they are
searching for a local couple sus
pected in the latest bombing in the
war, an explosion in a restaurant
that injured four people, including
two U.S. journalists.
Concert halls and theaters contin
ued Wednesday to cancel planned
performances by foreign artists as a
safety precaution. They included the
Greek-American outdoor sculptor
at the prison, told U.S. District Court
Judge Robert Potter on Wednesday.
“He is not going crazy,” Johnson
testified out of the presence of ju
rors. “He has no hidden mental ill
ness. The stress that he’s feeling is
normal. I can’t rule it out that it
won’t happen again, but I can’t rule
it in either.”
Potter asked Bakker, who was
brought to court in leg irons and
handcuffs, to stand and answer ques
tions.
“Do you understand what you are
on trial here for?” the judge asked
Bakker, who is accused of fleecing
followers of his PTL ministry.
Christo; Avante, a theater group
from Miami; U.S. pianist Lazar
Bergman; Uruguayan guitarist Er
nesto Bitetti; the Scottish Ballet; Fin
land’s Sibelius Quartet; Soviet pia
nist Shura Chereskaski; and
Argentine actress Nacha Guevara.
Guevara said in a statement read
on Colombian TV that she canceled
“for personal security reasons.”
Lemos, who is also acting justice
minister, commented on television
on President Bush’s Tuesday night
declaration of his own war on drugs.
“I hope the aid to be offered to
Colombia will be substantial,’’Lemos
said.
“The main thing is consumption,”
he added. “As long as drug use in
the United States isn’t suppressed,
the world never will succeed in effec
tively combating narcotics traffick
ing.”
“Yes sir,” Bakker responded qui
etly.
Asked if he was able to assist his
lawyers, Bakker said, “I’m very tired,
but I believe I can.”
Potter ordered Bakker released
from federal marshals’ custody.
Bakker, 49, showed little emotion,
sometimes hanging his head and
staring at the floor. He wore a suit
his wife, Tammy Faye, had brought
him.
Mrs. Bakker, who attended the
hearing with other family members,
has protested her husband’s treat
ment at the federal prison hospital.
“This should not be allowed in the
United States of America,” was her
only comment as she left the court
house.
Potter also denied defense law
yers’ motions for a continuance and
for a dismissal of the indictment
against Bakker after meeting in his
chambers with attorneys. He did not
rule on a motion for a mistrial.
Bakker, who resigned from the
PTL ministry in 198/ during a sex-
and-money scandal, went on trial
Aug. 28 on conspiracy and fraud
charges. Prosecutors said he used
nearly $4 million in ministry funds
to live in high style.
If convicted on all 24 counts
against him, he could could receive
120 years in prison and more than
$5 million in fines.
Johnson said her preliminary di
agnosis was that Bakker had suf
fered a panic attack last Wednesday
after a witness, former PTL Vice
President Steve Nelson, collapsed
during defense cross-examination.
Nelson had testified that he had told
Bakker someone could go to prison
because of the ministry’s financial
practices.
Bakker didn’t come to court the
next day, and lawyers told Potter he
was hallucinating and hiding his
head under a couch at their office.
Colombia urges U.S.
to curve drug appetite
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